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An ARDL Approach in Food and Beverages Industry Growth Process in Malaysia
Kamaruddin, Rohana and Jusoff, Kamaruzaman (2009) An ARDL Approach in Food and Beverages Industry Growth Process in Malaysia. International Business Research, 2 (3). pp. 98-107. ISSN 1913-9004
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The study examines the process of growth in the value added of food and beverages industry in Malaysia. The per capita income, population, skill and export are likely to exhibit long run relationship with the value added growth of this industry. Using the newly developed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) by Pesaran et al, (1995,1997, 1999 and 2000), a long run steady state equilibrium relationship between the independent variables and the growth performances of food industries is detected. Specifically this study has shown that in addition to the size of the population and percapita income, export are closely related to the growth of the value added of food and beverages industry. This empirical result would help Malaysia aspiration of becoming a hub for the halal food industry a reality.
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Keyword: | Value added, Error correction model, Halal food, Food and beverages, Growth |
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1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. | 1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah--the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. |
2 Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. | 2 Hear, O peoples, all of you, listen, O earth and all who are in it, that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple. |
3 For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. | 3 Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads the high places of the earth. |
4 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place. | 4 The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope. |
5 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem? | 5 All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem? |
6 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations. | 6 "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations. |
7 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return. | 7 All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used." |
8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches. | 8 Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl. |
9 For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. | 9 For her wound is incurable; it has come to Judah. It has reached the very gate of my people, even to Jerusalem itself. |
10 Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust. | 10 Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah roll in the dust. |
11 Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place. | 11 Pass on in nakedness and shame, you who live in Shaphir. Those who live in Zaanan will not come out. Beth Ezel is in mourning; its protection is taken from you. |
12 For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem. | 12 Those who live in Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem. |
13 Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel. | 13 You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you. |
14 Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel. | 14 Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath. The town of Aczib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel. |
15 I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam. | 15 I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. |
16 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile. | 16 Shave your heads in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourselves as bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile. |
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wheeladeala Posts: 2Dealer invoice is $25,520 http://www.nadaguides.com/Cars/2014/Honda/CR-V/AWD-5dr-EX/Pricing
finderb Posts: 1Hi all,
We're shopping for a 2014 CRV in the DC area. The best price I've been offered so far is a hair over $26,000 OTD, which seems a little high based on some of the posts here. That breakdown was something like $23,700ish for the car (including destination/freight), $414 for the tailgate spoiler, and $300ish for MD tags, and 6% MD tax.
Is this a good price? Should I hold out a little longer?
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acuraprice Posts: 642014 CRV EX-L 2WD - White Diamond Pearl
MSRP $27,695 plus destination of $830 = total sticker $28,525
Dallas / Fort Worth Area Sales Manager verbally offered me the following:
Invoice - $26,830
Offer - $25,689 (includes destination charge of $830)
Tax of 6.25% - $1,605.56
Title fee and License fee - $105
Doc Fee - $150.00
Drive Out - $27,549.56
Used $500 Recent Grad Honda Incentive Cash
Assuming they are applying $500 "FLEX" cash
Using 36 Month 0.9% APR through Honda Financial
What do you guys think? I'm assuming this price is with no dealer adds (accessories). Sound Good? Maybe I can get them throw in some splash guards (mud flaps) and a trunk tray. -
acuraprice Posts: 64Hey Pop,
Sounds very good. Invoice is 26,830 - So you were $1,505 below invoice. But it looks like they shifted some of that discount over to the Doc Fee, $599 is outrageous! Either way, you got what looks like a very low price!
What accessories did they throw in with that price?
I am about to try for 4 accessories tomorrow on their offer of $25,689.
1. Tailgate Spoiler
2. Body Side Moldings
3. Mud Flaps
4. Trunk Tray -
acuraprice Posts: 64Closed today (Black Friday) - Here's the breakdown:
2014 CRV EX-L 2WD - White Diamond Pearl
MSRP plus Destination $28,525.00
Selling Price of Vehicle $26,296.48
Dealer Added Accessories: $ 599.00
Tailgate Spoiler, Body Side Moldings,
Splash Guards, Cargo Tray, Wheel Locks,
Window Tint, Zaktek Protective Paint Coating
Sub-Total $26,895.48
Sales Tax 6.25% $ 1,680.97
Dealer Inventory Tax $ 58.05
Doc Fees $ 150.00
Registration Fee $ 57.75
Title Fee $ 33.00
County Road & Bridge Fee $ 10.00
Inspection Fee $ 23.75
Total $28,909.00
Incentive Cash from Honda Motors:
$500 for Recent Grad - $250 FLEX Cash
Total Incentive Cash $ (750.00)
Final "Out The Door" Price $28,159.00
I (Dad) paid $159 cash, and my daughter (Recent Grad) financed $28,000 at 0.9% with Honda Financial for 36 Months - first payment due 1/12/14
I will be happy to share the paperwork with anyone, just send me your email address. We purchased at Vandergriff Honda in Arlington, TX. Sales staff was very courteous, but I noticed they purposely showed only one dealer added accessory on the settlement statement - "Zaktek Ultimate" for $599, and failed to list the other 6 added accessories. They also applied the Honda cash at the end but only labeled it "Cash on Delivery". It was very confusing and hard to follow, and frankly got in the way of our negotiation. Through it all however, I was able to stay below what I had predetermined I would pay if necessary. My daughter is ecstatic! I'm a happy Dad!!! I so hate the slimy and sneaky paperwork schemes to avoid people sharing what they paid. Ridiculous!! -
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thriller2 Posts: 7I wanted to buy CRV tried dealing with lots of Honda Dealer for a good deal since August this year.
I was looking for around $1500 below invoice but none of them were ready to do that. They will promise of phone & email and flip back to their price when I am at the dealership. So I ended up with RAV4 XLE . I am glad went with RAV4 as the ride so smooth , calm and awesome.
Past Monday I bought new 2013 RAV4 XLE FWD $22,000 + Tax Tag & title in Socal ( Greater LA area ). I think I got awesome deal. This was less than TrueCar price and almost $2k below factory invoice price -
phelps2 Posts: 12EX-L was pushing our budget, though the deal above looks good (what dealer, crvinboston?). So we went with an EX:
$24,293 Selling price
$134 Title/registration/inspection
$298 documentation
$24,717 total selling price
Plus sales tax of course
$26,265 total OTD
Happy enough and well under invoice -
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acuraprice Posts: 64Just to recap my deal.....
2014 CRV EX-L 2WD - White Diamond Pearl (NO NAVIGATION)
Dealer Adds Included at No Charge:
Tailgate Spoiler
Body Side Moldings
Splash Guards
Cargo Tray
Wheel Locks
Widow Tint
Zaktek "Clear-Coat" paint protection (free detail every 6 months for 3 years)
$26,145 Selling Price
$28,159 Out the Door (TT&L, $150 doc fee, and dealer inv tax of $58.05) -
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bayareacrv_buy Posts: 1
acuraprice Posts: 64Got the deal here in Arlington, Texas - Vandergriff Honda.
We did use Honda Incentive Cash of $750 ($500 Recent Grad program, and $250 Flex cash) towards final selling price. We thought we were only getting $500 recent grad cash, until we looked at the settlement papers after the sale where they showed $750 as "cash on delivery".
Selling Price: $26,145
Closing Costs:
Sales Tax here is 6.25% of selling price
Dealer Inv Tax $58.05
Doc Fees $150.00
Registration Fee $57.75
Title Fee $33.00
County Road and Bridge Fee $10.00
State Inspection Fee $23.75 -
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hannahr1 Posts: 4ok, emailed him back saying I didn't think that was the best price considering the new model has been out almost 6 months now, and that I would be going through Dallas, TX and Lafayette, LA after Christmas and was sure to find a great deal. He came down to 27,199.00 with OTD of 29,320 pro package included. Should I still hold out till end of December?
brian125 New york / S.C. myrtle beachPosts: 3,277How much below invoice price are you right now. what are dealerships doc fee charges.
By holding out til the end of this month will help you get the lowest price from all dealerships. Dec is like the superbowl of car buying with all dealerships looking to meet last quarter sales numbers and last month incentives..for 20132013 Genesis 5.0 R-spec, 2013 Accord EXL V-6, 2012 BMW x-5, 2012 ML350
hannahr1 Posts: 4I think invoice for a 2013 CRV EXL W/NAVI is 27,200. So none really, but he keeps insisting I'm getting the pro package for free.the doc fee is 449.00. The $500 he took off he said was my military discount Even though that is suppose to come off anyway if I finance through Honda in my opinion. I'm just not sure about it. Don't want to miss a good deal, but I'm starting to doubt if this is it.
brian125 New york / S.C. myrtle beachPosts: 3,277You should be looking at pricing starting no lower than
1800 to 3000 below dealers invoice pus any rebates and incentives that are due to you. Anything less than 1800 below invoice walk away its a bad deal.
Remember in 3 weeks your 2013 model is considered a 1 yr old model and has depreciated 3000 dollars already.. if your vehicle is stolen or totaled in that 1 year you are losing out. As soon as you take that new car off his lot you lost 10%.
If i'm buying a 2013 CrV i want at least 2000 below plus any incentives. Added accessories or not..
Hope this helps.. get more dealerships involved and wait til the end of this month for better pricing.2013 Genesis 5.0 R-spec, 2013 Accord EXL V-6, 2012 BMW x-5, 2012 ML350


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L/S of men sat at tables outside with a flying boat in the background. M/S of Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minister, telling Lord Tryon, Postmaster General, that he wants his letters to go to the Governor Generals of New Zealand and Australia. This is a new scheme where letters can be sent by air without extra charge. Major Tryon takes them and stamps them before putting them in a post bag, this is taken and presented to the captain of the flying boat. M/S as they go aboard. Various shots as it takes off and flies away.


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Reading the news lately, you may have been left with the impression that Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, is an information-age monster, destroying reputations like Godzilla batting away fighter jets. But if that's all you've heard, your impression is gravely mistaken.
The controversy began two weeks ago when John Seigenthaler, a former journalist and aide to Robert Kennedy, penned an op-ed in USA Today decrying Wikipedia for posting a maliciously inaccurate biography of him suggesting he had something to do with the assassination of both Kennedy brothers. Writing of his difficulty in tracking down the anonymous author of the biography (who this week apologized), Seigenthaler concluded, "I am interested in letting many people know that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool."
Meanwhile, a Web site is soliciting clients for a class action lawsuit against Wikimedia, the organization that hosts Wikipedia, "to change its current practices that permit anyone to post content to their website, without formal attribution and without recourse back to Wikimedia Foundation and or the author of the content" and "Recover substantial monetary damages, on behalf of those who have suffered as a direct result of Wikimedia's flawed business model."
And media organizations have begun to pile on with the sort of schadenfreude they reserve for other media outlets who have made a mistake. As Carolyn Said wrote in a front-page article for the San Francisco Chronicle, "critics say Wikipedia leaves the door open for anyone who wants to rewrite history, whether it's your neighbor with a grudge, a nut job floating a conspiracy theory or someone repeating an urban legend. As with other Web sources such as blogs, its accuracy can be hard to judge."
Fair enough, but one could just as easily substitute the word "publications" for "Web sources" and the word "newspapers" for blogs in the previous sentence and it would still hold up. In short, this is a tempest in a teacup. Wikipedia is actually a good thing — maybe not for media organizations and other with business models based on proprietary content, but for the public at large.
Most of the controversy stems from a misunderstanding of what Wikipedia is, and the nature of the Internet in general. Anyone expressing outrage over false and misleading information being posted online (You mean, people post things that aren't true on Web sites?) must not have been loading up their Web browsers for the last decade, let alone pointing them to the Drudge Report, bloggers with ideological axes to grind, or any of the innumerable semi-professional online conspiracy theorists.
Part of the argument against Wikipedia rests on the idea that users aren't able to assess the credibility of the information they're reading. In truth, however, Internet users are getting smarter about figuring out whether to believe information they find online (or, for that matter, in major news outlets). Google is a big part of this trend. The search engine produces results based on how many sites link to a given page; the more links to a page, the higher the result. Those links are generated by human beings, who are presumably doing so because they think the information they're linking to is credible (or, at the very least, interesting).
Try dropping "Swiffer Wetjet" into Google, for example. A rumor last year had it that the product, a floor cleaning system, was harmful to household pets. But the first Google results are pages debunking the myth, not propagating it. In other words, the more credible information has risen to the top,
The very nature of the Internet — the ability to link to sources readers can evaluate for themselves, the ability to quickly read multiple sources of information about the same subject — tends to make online readers much more critical consumers of information (witness the proliferation of blogs, like this one, devoted entirely to evaluating the news media).
Thus, the damage wrought by any single untruth temporarily floating around in the vast ocean of Wikipedia isn't likely to last long. Certainly, the Seigenthaler episode is a reminder that such information can be inaccurate, and he's right to complain about other sites scraping up Wikipedia content and presenting it as their own. But the general trend is away from the proliferation of such rumors.
More than that, however, what's been obscured in much of the coverage is that the Wikipedia model actually works. The English-language Wikipedia boasts over 800,000 articles, all generated for free, and freely available to anyone with Internet access. That's a tremendous amount of information being made far more accessible to far more people than print or broadcast can reach.


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What happened? Emotional anchors Andres Galarraga and Walt Weiss had slipped off to Atlanta. The team's most expensive free agent, pitcher Darryl Kile, went 13-17 and ran up a 6.22 earned run average at home. Clubhouse frictions erupted. In the end, it was manager Don Baylor, the one and only skipper since the Rox first took the field in 1993, who paid the price. He was replaced by Florida's Jim Leyland, a master tactician, who will have rookie-of-the-year runner-up Todd Helton and a cast of veterans to work with in 1999. But first he must re-sign disconsolate left-fielder Larry Walker--the league MVP in 1997 and a man who has noted the $80 and $90 million contracts top sluggers now command.
The best thing about the 1998 Rockies was that they were not the 1998 Denver Nuggets. You know. Basketball. Remember basketball? Before the current player lockout, or hostage crisis, or whatever they call the thing the NBA apparently learned from their baseball brethren, circa 1994, Bill Hanzlik's perfectly awful Nuggets managed to do what only two teams in the history of the game had ever done--lose 71 games. That means Anthony Goldwire and Priest Lauderdale and a lot of other tall guys who should be washing the windows of skyscrapers instead of playing pro sport won only eleven games--just two more than the infamous 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers. Surprise: Hanzlik was fired. Ditto general manager Allan Bristow.
Eager for the new NBA season to finally get under way? Not if you live here, you're not--despite the return of all-time Nugget fave Dan Issel, this time as new GM of the shattered club. Better the entire league should go the way of roller derby so that Issel can while away his retirement handicapping the daily double. By the way, that man wearing number 23 on the boob tube last spring was named Michael Jordan, and the 45 points he scored that night against the Utah Jazz earned him a sixth NBA championship ring. Better tell the grandchildren of such greatness, lest the world forget.
Need we recall that, in June, the Detroit Red Wings swept the Washington Caps to win another Stanley Cup? Or that the Colorado Avalanche continues to plummet from the giddy heights of 1996? Or that the Avs' coach--Marc Crawford--was fired, too? Didn't think so. Instead, consider the yin and yang of last winter's Olympic hockey: The U.S. men--all well-fed, cocky NHL stars--tanked on the ice, trashed a hotel suite and came home in disgrace; the U.S. women's team, unpaid but willing, played its collective heart out and not only won the gold medal but untold millions of fans for the women's version of a sport long held to be strictly male territory.
The men's gold went to upstart Czechoslovakia, which, led by impenetrable goaltender Dominik Hasek, beat the U.S., then Canada, then Russia--the power that had invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. In delirious Prague, they say, even six-year-olds were raising glasses of cold pilsner to "The Dominator" and his national-hero teammates.
Talk about nationalism. Soccer's quadrennial World Cup is watched on TV by one of every three people on the planet (including 512 Americans), and last summer it traveled to France, where they cook up a pretty nice bowl of soup, and the ticket scandals are rampant. To everyone's surprise but its own, the home team wound up beating favored Brazil 3-0 in the final. And Cháteau Margaux, friends say, ran red in the streets. But the high point of the proceedings, at least in terms of absurdity, had come earlier: Before underdog Iran faced a U.S. squad seeded eleventh in the 32-team field, the Iranian coach took his players to meditate at the grave of Ayatollah Khomeini. He gave them some pep talks about outscoring "The Great Satan." Fail, it was rumored, and things might not be so copacetic on the plane ride back to Tehran.
Whew! Iran 2, USA 1. The Americans, in athletic and emotional disarray, lost all of their games and finished dead last. The Iranians managed to keep their heads.
Not so the Tour de France bicyclists who stopped pedaling in a snit over drug allegations. Or Carolina Panther Kevin Greene, who attacked one of his defensive coaches on the sidelines a few Sundays back. Or the Western Athletic Conference, which grew top-heavy under the new weight of sixteen teams and simply blew apart in late May: Eight of the defecting schools, including longtime WAC members Colorado State, Air Force and Wyoming, will begin play in a new conference next year. Or eligible bachelor Dennis Rodman, he of the many hair colors, who got drunk in Las Vegas, married TV babe Carmen Electra, had the marriage annulled, then promptly declared dear Carmen his one and only. Between the romantic antics of Messrs. Rodman and Clinton, there's no need for minor entertainments like pro basketball.
Golf had its moments in 1998: Against a field of brilliant youngsters, Mark O'Meara, too, impersonated Elway by winning the Masters after thirteen years of futility; 58-year-old Jack Nicklaus gave everyone a thrill on Friday at Augusta by drawing near but winding up tying for sixth, just four strokes back. Rising player Casey Martin, who has a withered leg, won a case in court allowing him to use an electric cart on the big tour--despite opposition from Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and some of the game's other big names. On the women's tour, South Korea's emergent Se Ri Park was all the rage, especially after her stunning win in the U.S. Women's Open. Among the senior men, former Colorado University linebacker Hale Irwin had another career year--winning seven tournaments at $2.86 million; last year he won nine times, putting $2.3 million in the bank.


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Van Dyke Named Coach Of The Year
November 8, 2012
(Wednesday, November 7; Sioux Center, Iowa) Dordt College cross country coach Greg Van Dyke was named the Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year following the Great Plains Athletic Conference Championship Meet on Saturday, November 3.
Van Dyke was also named the men's conference coach of the year last year and has been the head coach of both the men's and women's teams at Dordt College since 2006 after serving as an assistant in 2005.
Van Dyke coached an NAIA all-American in 2007, 2008 and 2010. He also serves as an assistant coach in track and field and graduated from Dordt College in 2002. He ran both cross country and track while a student and is a Dordt College admissions counselor.
The 2012 Dordt women's cross country team claimed the GPAC title and earned a berth at the NAIA National Championship Meet to be held on November 17 in Vancouver, Washington.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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Pop Century or Wyndham Bonnet Creek?
We're planning our first family Disney trip for next June, with my DH and 2 girls who will be 5 and 6. I think I have narrowed down my resort choices to Pop Century in a preferred room onsite for 6 nights or Wyndham Bonnet Creek in a 2 bedroom offsite in for 7 nights. But I'm having a really hard time deciding whether or not to stay onsite or offsite. I think my girls would enjoy being immersed in Disney, so onsite would be great, but the accommodations in a tiny room can't compare to the accommodations at WBC, with 2 bedrooms, full kitchen, washer and dryer, several pools, mini golf, hot tubs, just to name a few. But I don't know if I want to be onsite for a first trip, while our girls are still young, and do an offsite later in a few years. When I added up all of the estimated expenses for both, taking into account driving and parking if offsite, the prices were just about the same. I could also do POFQ for $228 more than Pop.
We will have a car, so we wouldn't need transportation, though it would be nice to not drive. I do not need EMH, because I plan to avoid parks with EMH. Are the rooms onsite at Pop going to be unbearable because of their size? I don't know if we're going to stay in the parks all day, though I could see it possible that we may leave early in the afternoon and go back in the early evening, I just don't know, I'll have to play it by ear to see how my family reacts. Given all of this, do you think Pop or Wyndham Bonnet Creek would be a better choice for my family? |
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Well I can only speak on account of my experience at Pop last year. We too are a family of four, ages 5 & 3 at the time.
While the room IS smaller, it is still comfortable enough for the necessary things. The reality is that the amount of time you'll be spending in the room is minimal. Even though you won't be at the parks every day, you will be doing other things rather than sitting in your room watching TV. And even if you do, you will be fine. We each slept with one of the girls and were pleased when they brought us bed rails at our request to ensure their safety. Our goal was to immerse them in everything Disney and this did it. The attention and courtesy that was extended to us was outstanding, in addition to the comfort and convenience of their park buses. The resort itself is very nice, with each section showcasing characters from that era. They also have movies under the stars right by the food court, where you can sit by the lawn and enjoy dinner while you're at it. They have a small fridge that you can use for small items...we made sure to bring along a box of cereal for a nightly snack and bough a half gallon of milk at the food court. So it boils down to the full Disney experience versus comfort. We chose full Disney experience and extra money in our pockets for Bibbidi Boutique and gifts! Hope you have a wonderful time! |
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If it is your first trip, then I would go with POP. I think for a first trip it just offers more. You could also consider the All-Star resorts, as their icons are more "Disney" like ASMo.
Either way, I hope you have a really awesome trip! |
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We did two trips onsite (Pop and POFQ) and one at WBC. I wholeheartedly recommend Bonnet Creek. The only reason I'd stay at a value or mod again is for an amazing discount like free dining.
Bonnet Creek has water slides, two lazy rivers, all the pools, mini golf, an poolside restaurant, and it feels very "immersed in Disney" with the same Disney must do channel on the tv, and literally right across the street from Downtown Disney. It was much less travel time for us to drive back to WBC in the afternoons for a rest than it was to hop on a bus and bus back to Pop. We found the driving to be less stressful than the cattle call of busses at park closing, and having the privacy made it really peaceful and comfortable.
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There are rumors that starting in October, only people staying at Disney resorts will get to use Fastpasses. To me, that alone would be reason to stay at a Disney resort!
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That Chip and Co. rumor is complete crap.
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The Fastpass thing brings up something I did think of earlier, and that was whether or not Disney resort guests would get some advantage with the FPs with this new FP+ system (which I admit I know very little about, because everything I've read has just confused me). Would Disney resort guests be allowed more FPs? I am a pretty obsessive planner, so getting more FPs by staying at a Disney resort is very intriguing to me.
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minerva78, Most people here will recommend Pop Century; if you posted to the Orlando Attractions, you'd probably find more fans of Bonnet Creek. If you regularly vacation in hotel rooms for multiple days, then it may not be such a big deal staying at Pop. The rooms at Pop are often compared (in terms of size) to a Motel 6, if that helps any. We're fine with hotel rooms for a day or two; once past that point, we are a lot happier with a condo, and hubby and I want a king sized bed, and all the pixie dust in the world isn't going to change that. Other people happily cram four adults in a Pop Century room for ten days. You should also consider other comforts and how your family feels about them. My kids get tired of resort food after a while and crave something familiar, while I don't like eating breakfast in a restaurant every day. Even if we don't actually cook any meals, it's great to have a table and chairs and a place for the kids to sit down and have their morning cereal. But some people don't mind sitting in a motel room and having breakfast there. Some people are annoyed having to be quiet after "lights out" for the kids; others just happily bed down when the kids do. And so on. Only you know what'll work best for you. Hope you have a great time, whatever you pick. |
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Thanks. I posted about this on the other board too, and got a mix of answers here and there, so now I'm even more confused, lol. I did decide though that I actually didn't like the idea of our girls having a bedroom separate from us, that I would worry they would get up to some mischief, and I'd rather have them sleeping in the same room as us. I also think I'd like a hotel with housekeeping more than a condo type place.
So now I'm deciding between staying at the Homewood Suites Lake Buena Vista or at Pop. I like the free breakfast and dinner items at Homewood Suites, I like the separate bedroom and full kitchen. I like that it is still close to Disney. But I also like the idea of the dining plan and having transportation to and from the parks if we want to use it. Based on my calculations, we'd actually be spending more on food OOP than with the dining plan and with a AAA discount the package at Pop is a little cheaper. We've never been on a family vacation before, so I don't know how we'd be in one room together. I guess part of me thinks that we'd be so tired after a day in the parks, I might not want to stay up later anyhow. Since I'm the only night owl in our family, I suppose I could always hang around outside somewhere if I were awake and everyone else were asleep. That's what I would do when DH and I were on a cruise and he went to bed before me. With the AAA benefits, I think I am leaning towards Pop. I also got quotes for POFQ, but I kinda like the theming of Pop more for my kids, and I don't know if POFQ is worth $215 more. There is always something to decide! Lol |
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Once you sleep on the rock hard crappy awful value beds at POP you will definitely think POFQ is worth at least $200 more. Probably $500 more if you value sleep.
I have never slept in such hard beds as what they have in the Disney values. If you like REALLY REALLY firm beds it might not bother you. There is an off site hotel where you have a sep bedroom and full kitchen and free breakfast. Quality Suites Lake Buena Vista. You can get a one bedroom suite that sleeps 6 for about $70 a night if you book online and pre-pay. We have stayed there several times and it is clean, in a good area and they have daily housekeeping. You can get a one bedroom with 2 queens in the bedroom and a sleeper sofa or get the one with a king in the bedroom and a sleeper sofa. The King room sleeps 4 but the 2 Queens room sleeps 6. I think your children would have liked Bonnet Creek more. They just have so many activities for the kids every day.
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This would be a lot easier if my husband could just give an honest opinion about what he wants and what he thinks the girls would like more. I'll see if I can force him to help me decide between WBC, Homewood Suites, Pop, and POFQ. We'll see how that goes! Thanks for the info about the beds at POFQ compared to Pop. I was thinking maybe it would be worth it to stay at POFQ if we stay onsite, that maybe the Disney theming of Pop wouldn't be necessary if we're already getting Disney all over the place in the parks. I think I would like POFQ more, I think my girls would like Pop more, but we're the ones paying for the trip, so we'll see, lol. |
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We have done both and I prefer Pop over Bonnet Creek. I tried so hard to like Bonnet Creek, there are so many advantages, but I just prefer being on site! This was myself, DH, DS9 and DD7 at the time. Now I would prefer a mod for the extra space, but I would be happy with Pop.
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Well I finally got DH to help me make a decision. I explained all of the pros and cons of each of our options in details and showed him pictures. He said he didn't like Bonnet Creek because there was no housekeeping service, so he preferred Homewood Suites for offsite. He said he didn't care about the bigger room and bed or the theming of POFQ, he preferred Pop. And his reason for picking Pop? Because I showed him a picture of the giant big wheel and he said he had one just like that as a child. Every time I would ask him why he preferred Pop he kept saying it was because of the big wheel, good grief! But he did say that he loved the theming, he just wasn't into the theme of POFQ. He said since we sleep on a double bed at home, that shouldn't be a big deal. And he didn't care whether or not a resort had a ton of activities, like at Bonnet Creek, because he said we'd be spending so much time in the parks, we likely wouldn't be doing much at the resort anyway. He really wanted to do onsite and liked Pop Century the most, so there you go. . Unless I get a better quote from some of the online TA's I've requested quotes from, it looks like I may be booking a package through AAA when the TA is back in the office on Friday - yeah!
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We loved our stay at Pop last year but just be aware there are no water slides and not much else to do at the resort itself if you are planning to have some resort downtime. It is a great resort for the money if you plan on spending nearly all of your time in the parks (this is just my opinion). We did not plan on much downtime but ended up needing it to get away from the summer heat and crowds now and then and so ended up spending time in the arcade.. it was almost too hot to swim in August.. (NO shade at Pop).
We are staying at Port Orleans Riverside to get more resort/pool amenities (also queen beds!!) and are paying over $700 extra for that over POP this time.. I'm not trying to be tacky about the amount being spent, just to say how important I found that to be on our last trip! For $200ish to me it would SO be worth the upgrade to POFQ. We considered POFQ but found the pool slide to be a little small for my DS9. Can't offer advice on Bonnet Creek or elsewhere offsite, sorry! |
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Sorry to add a wrinkle, but I'm pretty sure the beds are the same (Sealy Posturepedic) between Pop and POFQ. My worst sleep ever at a Disney resort was at POFQ - the beds were so hard, I took all the bedspreads and doubled them over to sleep on so that I'd have a 4-layer mattress pad. Anyhow - opinions vary - just wouldn't want you to think that you might not get a hard bed wherever you go - it's always a possibility.
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Manager Ozzie Guillen was fired by the Miami Marlins after one season on the job, undone by too many losses and one too many ill-advised remarks.
MIAMI — The lingering backlash caused by Ozzie Guillen's praise of Fidel Castro contributed to another Miami Marlins managerial shake-up Tuesday.
Guillen was fired after one season with the team, undone by too many losses and one too many ill-advised remarks.
A promising season began to derail in April with his laudatory comments about Cuba's former leader in an interview. Six months later, the episode was a factor in the decision to fire Guillen, Marlins officials said.
"Let's face it: It was not a positive for the team; it was not a positive for Ozzie," president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said. "It was a disappointment, no doubt about it."
A lousy team didn't help. The Marlins took high hopes into their new ballpark after an offseason spending spree but finished last in the National League East at 69-93, their worst record since 1999.
On Twitter, the 48-year-old Guillen said the firing left him with "my head held up high, real high."
Miami's next manager will be the fifth for owner Jeffrey Loria since early 2010. The latest change comes even though ex-Chicago White Sox manager Guillen is owed $7.5 million for the three years left on his contract.
"We all felt we had a pretty good ballclub coming out of spring training, and we just didn't play well," Beinfest said. "We all share in this. This is not a fun day for me, certainly not for Ozzie or Jeffrey or anybody involved. This is an organizational failure. But we felt like we needed to make this change so we could move forward."
Bench coach Joey Cora, 47, an ex-Mariner, reportedly also was dismissed.
Farrell in 'epicenter'
BOSTON — John Farrell, previously Toronto's skipper, was introduced as manager of the Boston Red Sox at a news conference where he called Boston "the epicenter" of baseball.
Farrell, Boston's pitching coach from 2007 to 2010, replaces the fired Bobby Valentine, who was 69-93 in his only season on the job.
Farrell, 50, has a three-year contract. He said he won't take for granted his relationships with players.
"I will work my butt off to earn their trust, to earn their respect ... " he said.
• Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk faces charges of driving under the influence and other misdemeanors after being found asleep in his pickup truck in a cornfield, police in suburban Chicago said.
Robert Pawlisz, New Lenox deputy chief, said officers found Fisk, 64, behind the wheel late Monday with an open bottle of vodka on the truck's floor.


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Date of Incorporation: 1969
Franchising Since: 1974
Headquarters: Addison, Texas
Business Description: The franchisor, Jani-King, is in the business of franchising comprehensive commercial cleaning and maintenance businesses.
Franchise Offer: Jani-King grants franchises for the performance of cleaning and/or maintenance related services, including commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential cleaning and/or maintenance services and the distribution of related supplies and equipment under the name "Jani-King." The services the franchisee will offer include carpet cleaning, hard floor care, trash disposal, window washing, wall cleaning, and other specialty cleaning services on a daily, weekly, monthly schedule.
Financial Assistance: The franchisor does not offer financing for the Initial Franchise Fee. The franchisor provides optional lease arrangements for most of the equipment the franchisee will use through an affiliate, LEASING. LEASING determines all the terms and conditions of the leases offered by them, and they may be modified or changed without Jani-King's consent. Jani-King guarantees the franchisee's payment of the lease to LEASING, and LEASING pays Jani-King 7.5% of all lease payments.
Training and Assistance: The training program offered generally will consists of at least 13 training sessions, held usually in the evenings and on weekends over a three-week period, and includes approximately 40 hours of instruction including self-study. The program provides training in Jani-King methods and practices of professional cleaning services, management, sales and promotional techniques. The training program includes information about production procedures and rates, marketing, and management matters presented through classroom lectures and discussions, actual demonstrations, printed manuals, video presentations, formal instructions, and practical hands-on training. The home study materials include video training DVDs on cleaning techniques and safety that the franchisee may later use for personnel training. Jani-King will provide additional training, seminars, and refresher courses to the franchisee that may be attended at the franchisee's option, except in cases where the franchisee had an account transfer or cancel due to improper operation of the franchise.
Territory: : The franchisee will not receive an exclusive area or territory. He/she may face competition from other franchisees, from outlets that the franchisor owns, or from other competitive brands that the franchisor controls. The franchisee will be licensed and provided business pursuant to the agreement in a specific, non-exclusive, geographical territory to be designated in the Franchise Agreement.
Term of Agreement and Renewal: The length of the franchise term is 10 years. If the franchisee is in good standing, he/she can renew or extend the term on the franchisor's then current terms for three additional 10-year periods.
Obligations and Restrictions: The franchisee must participate personally in the direct operation of the franchise business. The direct, on-site supervision must be done by a person who owns at least 1/3 of the business equity that owns the franchise. The franchise will be responsible for the services performed at the customer locations where the franchisee provides service, and the franchisee must provide all labor, materials, tools, and supplies necessary to service those premises. The franchisee must perform all of those services in a good and workmanlike manner, to the satisfaction of the customer and in accordance with Jani-King's performance standards. The franchisee must also maintain an acceptable relationship with the customer contact person. The franchisee required to hire at least one employee for the business, other than himself/herself. The franchisee and employees may also be required to undergo background checks as a condition to being offered the right to provide service to some customer's locations. The franchisee must offer for sale all types of products, and perform all services, that are required for Jani-King businesses. The franchisee may not offer for sale any types of products or perform any services that have not been authorized.
Estimated Number of Units: 12,000 units.
Investment Tables:
Initial Investment
Name of Fee | Low | High |
Initial Franchise Fee | $16,250 | $142,750 |
Real Estate | $0 | $5,000 |
Supplies | $600 | $800 |
Equipment | $1,919 | $5,773 |
Security deposits, etc. | $100 | $1,000 |
Business Entity Establishment Fees | $100 | $1,000 |
Additional Funds (For initial 120 day period) | $800 | $8,500 |
Ongoing Fees
Type of Fee | Amount |
Royalty | 10% of monthly Gross Revenue |
Accounting | 2.5% of monthly Gross Revenue |
Finder's Fee (Optional) | % based formula for each category of account type listed in the FDD, calculated on the amount of additional business Jani-King offers to the franchisee. |
Business Protection Plan (Optional) | 4-7% of monthly Gross Revenue plus cost of Employee Administration Fee of $7/month or $14/month |
Lease Payments to LEASING (Optional) | Varies, depends on equipment leased, if any |
Charge Back | Varies, depends on outstanding receivables |
Operations Assistance/ Complaint | $50 |
Service | Currently $15 per labor hour plus expenses; may charge up to $50 per hour |
Advertising | 1% of monthly Gross Revenues |
Technology Licensing | 1.5% of monthly Gross Revenues |
Additional Training | $50/hour plus expenses |
Transfer of Franchise | The greater of $2,000 or 10% of the sales price or exchanged value |
Administrative | $250 (as incurred) |
Liquidated Damages | $500/day |
Costs and Attorneys' Fees | Will vary under circumstances |
Non-Reported Business Fee | $25 per day |
Indemnification | Will vary under circumstances |
Audit | All costs and expenses, i.e., reasonable accounting and attorney fees |
Replacement of Manual | $25 per copy |
Year of FDD: 2012
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Sat Yoga Village is being developed as a planned, intentional community of people who wish to live near an ashram—a meditation and spiritual retreat center—and participate in the vibrancy of its spiritual and cultural richness, but not be fully immersed in the absolute simplicity and purity of an ashramite's lifestyle. Sat Yoga Village is part of the Sat Yoga Ashram community, and yet separate.
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Instead of buying your favorite movie or a season of your favorite TV show, wouldn't it be cooler to make your own version of a famous car? Some people have actually attempted — and succeeded — in making awesome replicas, and in some cases, you can purchase mod kits and do them yourself! If you decide to revamp or mod your car, just be aware that modifications can result in a change in insurance rates. Whatever you decide to do, it's always fun to check out what others have accomplished. Here are some awesome TV/movie car replicas!
Starting with the simplest modification, this is one people can do at home pretty easily. If you're the proud owner of a Volkswagen Beetle that happens to be white, you have one obvious car mod available to you. Sure, it won't look exactly like the famous racing bug, but you can definitely make it look like the classic movie car in a few simple steps.
All you need is a few decals, and you've got yourself an iconic mode of transportation! In fact, there's an entire website dedicated to making Herbies. If you're going for that authentic look, just do a little research and you'll have a fun project on your hands. On the down side, your car still won't have a mind of its own.
The A-Team Van
This is a prime example of an awesome and probably relatively simple modification. The replica pictured here is a Chevrolet Cargo Van, and while the original was a GMC Vandura, the cars have similar structures, so it works! If your van has a boxy shape, you could give this mod a try, too. Someone with a mini even pulled it off.
This model goes the extra mile in that it has the gray color at the top (a lot of mods are all black),hand-painted turbine wheels, and features a pretty accurate interior. Wouldn't it be awesome to cruise around with a few of your buddies and burst out of your car to help people? Yes. Yes it would. People in the UK don't even have to build one themselves — you can rent the A-Team van for fun occasions!
The Starsky & Hutch Gran Torino
Due to the popularity of the show, Ford made about 1,000 replicas of the cool Gran Tornio used in the Starsky & Hutch series accodring to The New York Times. The replica viewed here takes it up a notch, though, because it started out as a general replica, but it was spruced up with a police siren, police radio, California license plate on the front, and more.
Of course, it's not legal to drive around in something like this pretending to be a cop, but any hardcore Starsky & Hutch fan or pop culture car collector would most likely love to add this to his or her collection.
According to IMDb, 7 Eleanor replicas were made for the 2000 version of Gone in 60 Seconds, but only two of them made it out unscathed from the movie shooting. Jerry Bruckheimer and Nicolas Cage got to keep the remaining cars!
Don't fear, though. If you want to make your Mustang look like the1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500, there are actually mod kits you can buy to accomplish this feat.
The DeLorean
This has to be one of the hardest cars to mod, simply because it requires a DeLorean with doors that open upward like the movie version's doors do. Someone managed to get this car and add a Flux Capacitor, "plutonium reactor," and various details that were super accurate based on the movie.
This particular car was listed on eBay back in 2008, and people were bidding thousands of dollars to bring the perfect duplicate of Back to the Future awesomeness home. Well, "perfect" might not be the right word as it can't travel in time, but you can't have everything, right?
If you manage to buy or create one of these babies, you'll be the something strange in the neighborhood…strange in a good way, of course. It's a decent possibility that it would make all of your neighbors' day to see you cruising around in the Ghostbusters car on the way to work.
According to the CarDomain Blog, companies like Mongoose Motorsports specialize in making replicas of movie vehicles. It's safe to assume that ghosts will have no involvement with the final product, but at the least the car probably won't need as much fixing up as the movie version did.
Who said movies couldn't be made into reality? All kinds of famous vehicles from movies and television have been recreated by fans and car enthusiasts around the world. Even if people can't replicate time travel or other supernatural abilities, they can sure make the cars look accurate and stylish.


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