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December 12th at 6:45pm at Faith United Methodist Chruch, 1616 Blue Ave in Zanesville. Bereaved parents are encouraged to bring a photo of their child for the slide-show, pictures are needed by 6pm to be included. You may also bring an unwrapped gift to donate to Toys-to-Tots in your child's memory.
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Salazar (0-3) brought up the possibility he was giving away his pitches following Monday night's loss to Kansas City. The right-hander was chased in the fifth inning, dropping him to 1-7 in 14 starts since he won his major league debut in July.
Francona said he was suprised to hear Salazar's comments and doesn't think Salazar is doing anything other than leaving some pitches over the plate.


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Quick Note On IsDate() vs. IsNumericDate()
After my post yesterday on date math, someone sent me a question about IsDate() vs. IsNumericDate(). I briefly touch on the use of IsNumericDate() to determine if you have a numeric date, but I was not clear on exactly how it works. IsDate() takes a date/time object. IsNumericDate() takes a number. There are some caveats here. Since IsNumericDate() requires a number, if you send it a date/time object, ColdFusion will automatically convert the date/time object to a number, therefore allowing it to work. IsDate(), on the other hand, takes a date/time object and will NOT be true if passed a number, even if that number represents a date.
Take a look at this example:
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- <!--- Output the numeric date and test methods. --->
- #DateFormat( flNow )# - #IsDate( flNow )# - #IsNumericDate( flNow )#
In that second line, just notice that I am multiplying the date by 1. This forces ColdFusion to convert the date/time object to a number. The code produces this output:
30-Aug-06 - YES - YES
30-Aug-06 - NO - YES
As you can see, a standard date/time object will return true for BOTH IsDate() and IsNumericDate(). A numeric date will return true for IsNumericDate(), but FALSE for IsDate(). Sorry if I was unclear about this before. As a safe guard, if you are working on a page where you might be working with numeric dates, I would recommend always using IsNumericDate() as it will give you the most useful responses.
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Ben, this article completely solved the issue I was having. Thanks for the great work, keep it up!
One note: am I misreading the CF :iveDocs, or does their note on the isDate() function specifically say it WILL work when passed a string, which obviously isn't the case since it needs a date object?
isDate() will work with a string - but, it won't work with a string that represents a number... is what I think they are saying. So, for example, this will return false:
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I'm running into a situation where isDate is returning true when being run against decimal numbers. Should 34.5 really equal 12/31/2013?


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The Imagination of Disaster
Saturday begins with its main character, Henry Perowne, getting out of bed because he's unable to sleep and going to stand by an open window. It is a chilly night, a Friday night, a few hours before dawn. Henry sees a plane heading toward Heathrow. Suddenly, the plane bursts into flames. Henry's attention is riveted on the descending aircraft. Almost two and a half years after the attacks on 9/11 gripped the public consciousness, this brilliant middle-aged neurosurgeon fears another upending of reality. But what has really happened is that public consciousness has finally caught up with Ian McEwan's vision of life.
McEwan is David Hume's novelistic heir. Hume held that what passes for rational certainty is actually an irrational belief based on customs or repeated experiences. As he wrote in his most famous example, we expect that the sun will rise tomorrow because our experience has been that the sun rises every day, but there is no way to prove that it will. We've simply gotten used to the custom of day following night. Watching the burning plane as it moves closer and closer to densely populated London, Henry finds himself occupying a place in life at which all McEwan's protagonists eventually arrive--usually within the opening pages of a novel. Their accustomed world is about to fall to pieces. For them, it's a long time before the sun rises with dependable regularity again, if it ever does.
An encounter with a stranger on a street in Venice twists the fate of a young couple in McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers. The main character in The Child in Time loses his daughter to a kidnapper during a visit to the supermarket. A pair of rabid canines brings down the curtain on routine habits of mind in Black Dogs. In Enduring Love, it's the crash of a hot-air balloon; in Amsterdam, a death that wreaks havoc on an old friendship; in Atonement, a rape followed by a false accusation and wrongful imprisonment. There is a shattering bolt from the blue in nearly all of McEwan's novels.
But this quietly spectacular writer is not only laying his finger on the fragile spine of mortality. He has captured an essential quality of the bourgeois, consumerist West. He has caught its obsession with the Transfiguring Event, an obsession that reaches its most intense degree in open, vulnerable, self-conscious societies, and especially in America, where so much cultural, commercial and psychological energy is spent maintaining the illusion of a secure and gratifying present that will never end.
Americans are fascinated by the positive effects of the sudden life-changing situation in the same way that we are enthralled by the chimera of self-transformation. Is there a culture in the world that has our almost eschatological expectation of the lucky (romantic, professional, financial) break? In boxing, there is the knockout; in reality television, the final decision. The fundamental psychology behind advertising strategy is to present a purchase as a revolutionary, life-changing act. American public life is full of sudden, sensational exposures of some kind of malfeasance as the key to a personality.
There is also the trial, before which Americans sit rapt because an actual courtroom drama is a life-changing event in the making, as well as the prolonged annotation of the life-changing event that caused it. Then there's the endless prescription-making, finger-pointing and trend-proclaiming in the aftermath of an isolated disaster, with the purpose of making calamity a stimulus toward positive change or at least "closure." The majority of Hollywood movies wouldn't exist without a decisive event. (Indeed, McEwan, many of whose novels have been made into films, has unassumingly revolutionized the novel by refining into art Hollywood's mythic immediacy, not only by finding a deeper imaginative place for the transfiguring event but by inventing a new kind of sentence--at once tactile and visual--and by creating paragraphs that have a unique, wandering, cinematic plenitude.)
But the underside of this fascination with good life-changing moments is terror that all our peace and comfort will be swept away by a bad life-changing moment. The religion of the transfiguring event cuts both ways. The amount of money and effort spent in this country on preserving the fantasy that peace and comfort will be with us forever is staggering. Yet we are surrounded by brute facts to the contrary. So we live between expectation of a sudden event producing happiness and expectation of a sudden event ruining our good fortune. We inhabit a space of restless disquiet, and into that space popular culture introduces cathartic visions of disruptions, destructions, calamities, betrayals, gratifications, fulfillments and healings. When the 9/11 attacks happened, they fell right into the waiting hands of a country obsessed with the dark and the bright sides of sudden change.
They also fell right into the waiting hands of McEwan, the reigning poet of the transfiguring event, and of the murky, contradictory psychology it engenders. Saturday's narrator reflects, "The government's counsel--that an attack in a European or American city is an inevitability--isn't only a disclaimer of responsibility, it's a heady promise. Everyone fears it, but there's also a darker longing in the collective mind, a sickening for self-punishment and a blasphemous curiosity." In America, the ambiguity behind the reaction to September 11 lacked a similar masochistic twinge. The events of that day were followed by ghoulish sighs of relief from some American commentators at the prospect of other Americans' liberation from narcissism, isolationism, incompetence at history and geography, etc. And now we've sublimated our zeal for and our terror of sudden change into an effort to transform distant lands through war.


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Two trios perform an evening of original jazz featuring the Ian Tordella Trio with Ian Tordella (saxophones), Justin Grinnell (bass), with L.A. drummer Brian McLaughlin. The Peter Sprague Trio will include Peter Sprague (guitar), Gunnar Biggs (bass), and Duncan Moore (drums).
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This is a monochrome of one of a series of images about abandoned industrial areas slowly being reclaimed by nature and that despite what we do to the planet it will eventually self heal when we've finished with it.
The artwork speaks about the current moral ambiguity and literal divide in economic, environmental and humanitarian choices we will be forced to make in our lifetime.
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So cool Yampi!! Reminds me of Giger!! :)
Thanks Keith, it does have a bit of a Gigeresque feel to it, so thats quite a compliment
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A M A Z I N G! Very Kiger-esc – An instant fave my friend….
Thanks Rhodna, sorry I meant Rhonda, thnacks for the kompliment
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I meant Giger-esc & I will try to spell my own name correctly LOL
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Speeling isn't my strang point oither, he he
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Well said………..nice work Yampimon!
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How are the Bruins beating the Blackhawks? Kind of the same way they beat the Penguins: by taking Chicago's top offensive players out of the equation.
Maybe it goes a bit unnoticed because the Blackhawks have scored 2 1/2 times as many goals the Penguins did in the conference finals, but the Bruins have limited Chicago's offensive difference-makers big-time, so much that Jonathan Toews, like many others, still is looking for his first point of the series.
"Tonight I thought we made it rather easy on him as far as traffic and finding and seeing pucks," Joel Quenneville said after Tuukka Rask's latest shutout, a 2-0 Game 3 win.
That wasn't just a "tonight" thing, though.
The Bruins -- most notably Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg -- limited the Blackhawks' scoring chances. They've kept them to the perimeter, where they might as well be engraving Rask's name on the Conn Smythe Trophy. Given how technically sound Rask is, you can't beat him if you aren't getting clean looks.
"I mean, they had shots, but most of them came from the outside," said Rask, who picked up his third shutout in seven games Monday. "We eliminated a lot of those rebound opportunities. I think that's something what every team likes to do, and we succeeded today."
Through three games in the Eastern Conference finals, the Penguins had one goal from their top two lines: a Chris Kunitz tally in Game 3. Through three games, the Blackhawks have gotten two goals from their top six -- none from anyone named Kane or Toews -- with Brandon Saad and Patrick Sharp the only two to get a puck past Rask while playing on a top line. Their power play is 0-for-11.
The Bruins' top scorers haven't blown the doors off like they did in the Penguins series, but the top six and power play have a combined four goals to Chicago's two. With the last two games, all the Bruins have had to do is break even in those areas (one goal allowed by Chicago's second line in Game 2 and a power-play goal scored in Game 3) and then let the battle of the bottom six be the difference-maker.
And that's not something the Bruins could have banked on. Earlier in the postseason, it was about hoping the Bruins' third line could break even -- basically not allow any goals, since they obviously wouldn't score -- and then let David Krejci and company handle the rest. With the emergence of the Paille-Kelly-Seguin line, the Bruins' top forwards can stand to not score for the sake of keeping the other guys off the board.
On Monday, the third-line play was a glaring difference between the teams. Kelly's line dominated Dave Bolland's line, scoring and drawing a pair of penalties from Bolland. Going back to Game 1, when the Blackhawks got three of their goals with a bottom-six line out there, it's clear that the game can be decided by the lesser names. It certainly isn't being decided by Chicago's big names.
"When you look at I guess the matchups, it just kind of seems to even itself out -- their top lines, our top lines," Claude Julien said after Game 3. "Our top lines haven't scored that much five-on-five either. It's the Kelly line that gives us that goal five-on-five. Right now it just seems that both teams are very aware of the other team's top players. [We're] playing a chess match right now."
Like the Penguins did, the Blackhawks have made adjustments to put themselves in a better position to break through the Chara-Seidenberg wall and actually find out what kind of goalie Rask is when he's really tested. Dan Bylsma moved Jarome Iginla out of his top six. Quinneville, partially due to Marian Hossa's injury, has mixed and matched as well. He even reunited Kane and Toews for a bit in third period Monday, but both Bylsma and Quenneville have had the same results: not much offense.
For example, remember when Bryan Bickell was a major story this postseason? The 6-foot-4, 233-pounder had eight goals -- one shy of his regular-season total -- and five assists for 13 points entering the Stanley Cup finals, which was one shy of the team lead. He was playing on the Blackhawks' top line and had everyone talking about how much money he was going to make in free agency.
Now? He's a fourth-liner. His 11:43 of ice time was one of his lowest total of the playoffs, and the only time he was noticeable was when he was getting into it late with Chara.
But that's what the Bruins are able to do. For all we know, Bickell was mad at Chara because he screwed up his payday by making him a non-factor in this series.
The idea of shutting down Crosby, Malkin, Letang and friends is a lot shinier than keeping the Blackhawks offense quiet, but if the B's keep up what they've done against Chicago's top scorers, they could be days away from the shiniest prize of all.
Greg and Chris talk with Mike Reiss from ESPN Boston in hour 2 of NFL Sunday to discuss a variety of offseason happenings with the Pats and throughout the league. Greg and Chris also get into the NFL Draft and where Mariota and Winston will go.
Mike Reiss calls the guys to talk about the offseason news for the Pats. He talks about the Pats/Jets tampoering fiasco, free agency, where he sees Ridley and Connolly ending up, if the Patriots would be interested in Reggie Wayne and more.
In the first hour of the show, Greg and Chris discuss the news coming out of the owners' meetings this week and rule changes. Belichick's blow-up over the league not wanting to spend on endzone cameras was well documented and the guys react. They also talk about the Jets ridiculous tampering charges, free agents still lingering out there, where Stevan Ridley will land and the RB position in New England. Dickerson and Price briefly discuss the adventures of Tom Brady before being joined by WEEI.com's Mike Petraglia to talk all things Pats in the offseason.
Brow Buff's Sam Packard and Ben Kichen break down Marcus Smart's unfortunate ball tap, debate leadership in the Celtics locker room, and rehash the great Kevin Love to Boston rumors.
Flannery joins Mut to break down the Isaiah Thomas trade to Boston and what it means for the Celtics this season and in the future. Paul also chats with Mut about the other deals that happened at the NBA's trading deadline
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Joe and Alex talked with the Sox AGM about the state of the team as Opening Day approaches.
Mut, Tomase, and Bradford kick things off talking about Shane Victorino taking offense to people reading into some comments he made about trading for Cole Hamels. They also discuss Blake Swihart and how soon he could be up if Christian Vazquez starts the season on the DL.
Joe Kelly joined the Hot Stove show where he talked about being ready for his next spring training start after a biceps ailment forced him out of his last outing, he talks about his NCAA brackets and how teammate Wade Miley has a perfect bracket still.
Peter Chiarelli joined the Sunday Skate crew to talk about the Bruins playoff push heading into the final handful of games of the regular season. Chiarelli talked about avoiding some of the overly negative feedback he gets while realizing that the team does have real issues. He discusses what went down at the trade deadline and if he was happy with the outcome, Lucic having a down year and underperforming, the salary cap and if he considers it as big of an issue as it's been made out to be and what the future holds for the team.
It's a big hour #2 for the Sunday Skate dudes - they talk about the B's defenseman and what the future looks like at that position, with both moves the team can make and younger guys in the AHL. They also get into the Bruins philosophy on bringing guys up and sending them back down and how players deal with that. Finally, the boys are joined by Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli to discuss EVERYTHING.
The Sunday Skate crew gets the show going discussing the Bruins big, impressive victory over the NY Rangers yesterday. What can you take from that game? According to LB - Lyndon Byers - who called the guys from the road, not a lot. LB drops a dime on what was going on with the Rangers yesterday. DJ and Joe discuss Claude's lines and groupings and the importance of Ryan Spooner. They also get into Lucic, his contributions this year and if he can turn things around.
The latest feud between Shank and Papi was discussed.
The top stories of the day as recounted by Kirk Minihane.
The guys discussed the disgusting protests at the scene of Officer Moynihan's shooting.
John Farrell has named Clay Buchholz the starter for Tuesday's opener. Koji and Christian Vasquez are already ruled out. Vasquez on the 60 day DL.
Wrestlemania was a trial run for Super Bowl 50. More Christian dog stuff. Superintendent in Chief William Gross of the BPD deals with some idiotic protesters after the fatal shooting in Roxbury on Friday night.
Shawn Thornton is now a member of the Panthers, who come to town tomorrow night. Thornton spoke about Claude Julien's control of the Bruins locker room, and his own team playing his former team on Tuesday night.
Dale, Michael and Jerry Thornton discuss David Ortiz's self-penned piece which took on such topics as steroids, the media, his contract and more. And we get into a back and forth about the fan perception of him in Boston, and why he can be so polarizing at times, even with the on-field track record he has.
Dale, Michael and Jerry Thornton discuss some of the testimony from Aaron Hernandez' fiancee, and try and judge how her words might change the outcome of this case.
Dale and Michael talk Bruins after they managed to snatch defeat from the claws of victory and blow a late game lead to the Anaheim Ducks. With the playoffs still in question, the Bruins need more efforts like that, and more luck.
Chris Price joins Mut to talk about how Revis will heat up the Jets-Pats rivalry next season
Mut opens his show talking about the New York Jets filing tampering charges on the Patriots
Mikey, Mut, and Lucy are talking about all things New England sports, the Red Sox spring training, more Darrelle Revis and Jets talk, and some Bruins mixed in.
Dino, Gerry and Kirk talk about Kirk's massage and crap all over Sausage.
Ben and Adam finish the odyssey that is the history of Wrestlemania. Wrestlemanias 21-30 are discussed and analyzed.
Mike Mulloy joins Chris in the studio to talk Raw and Wrestlemania.
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When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture, as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.During his thirty-four years of service, Allen became what the Independent described as a "discreet stagehand who for three decades helped keep the show running in the most important political theatre of all." While serving tea and supervising buffets, Allen was also a witness to history as decisions about America's most momentous events were being made. Here he is at the White House while Kennedy contemplates the Cuban missile crisis: here he is again when Kennedy's widow returns from that fateful day in Dallas. Here he is when Johnson and his cabinet debate Vietnam, and here he is again when Ronald Reagan is finally forced to get tough on apartheid. Perhaps hitting closest to home was the civil rights legislation that was developed, often with passions flaring, right in front of his eyes even as his own community of neighbors, friends, and family were contending with Jim Crow America. With a foreword by the Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels, The Butler also includes an essay, in the vein of James Baldwin's jewel The Devil Finds Work, that explores the story of black images on celluloid and in Hollywood, and fifty-seven pictures of Eugene Allen, his family, the presidents he served, and the remarkable cast of the movie.
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David Adair put his head on the block when he agreed to lead ISA, the group of Interflora florists who were against the sale of Interflora to 3i. A Chartered Accountant, who also happens to be a director of his Mum's flower shop, he felt the Interflora family silver was being sold at a knock down price and that members were being hoodwinked into accepting a price that did not reflect the true value of Interflora. Given just 15 months later Interflora was sold to FTD for nearly three times the original price and has now been sold for another huge profit, does he feel vindicated? We asked him how he saw the latest move. A sorry story where only florists lost out F&WB How do you feel about the latest sale, and do you think F&WB Do you accept the argument that United Online will bring this was all part of the plan? Internet/customer power given in the last quarter Soenen said David To be totally honest I don't think anything about it much. This is Internet promotion was getting tricky? simply one American corporation taking over another, which happens to David I'm sure there's some truth in what they say but on the other side include the Interflora UK business. The damage was done a long time ago of the coin I believe there is a steady exodus away from the Interflora and when the Interflora members agreed to the original deal. FTD brands. A combination of poor customer satisfaction and the fact that As to whether this is all part of one big plan I would be astonished if more customers are going direct to florists will result in a marked slowing FTD had not approached Interflora at the time of incorporation and been in growth and eventually a decline in order volumes. prepared to offer a lot more money than the members accepted from F&WB Do you regret not having a formal strategy/alternative the 3i deal. Of course, they would not have been offering the executives when incorporation was still not resolved? a quarter of the company and it was very simple to dismiss them as David Hindsight is a wonderful thing but yes I should have gone out and something the members would not like. got a better offer for the Interflora UK business and made my self a few The sad thing is that many millions of pounds of Interflora members' million in the process. However, Mike Hynan and I gave up a year of our money ended up in the hands of greedy executives and financiers both time and spent a lot of money in the belief that the value should stay with sides of the pond or those on the inside who knew of the overall strategy. the members who had worked so hard for it. We naively believed members Richards is now bailing out with his millions and others will follow. would see through the lies and spin but we were wrong. F&WB What impact will it have on Interflora florists and the Sadly, the Interflora hierarchy was full of unpleasant and greedy industry as a whole? individuals and most of the membership lived in fear for their businesses. David Interflora florists already find themselves in a position where Whatever we had come up with they would have found some spurious they have to produce better products for a lot less money. Given the grounds to reject it or claim we had our own agendas etc. They current economic climate and the competition in the marketplace I threatened to sue me a few times so I'm sure the legal attack would have predict that 20% of Interflora members reading this interview will not come as well, of course using members' money. be members in a year's time. Not because they have left Interflora but F&WB Is there anything a current Interflora member can do to because they have sold up or gone out of business. mitigate future problems? Industry wise I don't see it changing much in the short term. David The major problem is that too many florists are reliant on relay Interflora will have yet another owner but the strategy will remain orders and they have to reduce that reliance if they want to survive. It was the same; drive up order volumes, increase sales of gifts and centrally fine while the old business model existed – i.e. orders in and out of shops distribute products. Growth will be hard to come by particularly in the balanced the cost - but now the relay company takes most of the orders current economic climate so I believe things will remain tough for the so the money stays with them and isn't distributed around the florists. The poor florist. bottom line is if a business cannot stand on its own two feet without relay, F&WB Given Tesco has pulled out of flower delivery, do you in a few years time it will not be standing at all. think this bodes well for Interflora or is it a warning sign? I know it might sound like a broken record to many but there is really David I always maintained that supermarkets would do to flowers what only one relay of the future and that is the Internet. More and more they have done with other products. They identify a market to go into, consumers are becoming used to using the Internet and contacting put small traders out of business along the way and then once they find florists direct. Customers will order online or more likely, finding a it's not as easy to make money as they thought they pull out. Tesco is the website they like the look of and call the florist direct. And I know that first to pull out but others will definitely follow. Even Marks & Spencer works because it's what we do. and John Lewis, who I think will stay in the market, must be seriously We stopped executing Interflora orders in January 07. I'd done looking at their business model. calculations, similar to those mentioned by Leslie Nash in your last issue, At the same time, I don't believe it bodes well for Interflora. As the and decided there was little money to be made executing orders for supermarkets leave the market so others will take their place. The Interflora but a lot of grief and hard work, especially at peak periods. barriers to entry are so low that it is very simple to set up a flower We already had a successful web site and have built on it to the point delivery website and distribution service and try and take a piece of the whereby we have now basically replaced all the Interflora executing market. I could set up a business tomorrow and compete, its not rocket business with our own from the website at full margin. I know it is science, but the key is a reliable distribution system and this is where I difficult for the average florist to get their head around websites, the believe Tesco failed. The relay companies have the advantage in having a Internet and everything that goes with it, but I'm afraid it is something network of tame florists to carry out the same day deliveries and the ones they do have to learn. Simply signing on to something like Interflora's they don't want to do centrally. Florists Online is not enough. It's all very well having a website but if nobody can find it, it is no use to anyone. F&WB What advice would you give the industry as a whole? David I'm not sure anyone will listen but here goes! Start thinking about the small good florist and helping them stay in business because if the number of shop closures continues at the present rate the whole thing is going to come tumbling down. We will be left with a few large operators sourcing their own flowers in large quantities and sending everything out in boxes. Wholesalers, start giving a better service and prices to the small well established shop who pays you on the dot every week or month because they are your bread and butter. Keep chasing the new large player who is here today and gone tomorrow and they'll probably go to the wall owing you money which puts you at risk. Relay companies, without a network you die. There are already holes appearing in the coverage of the big players and without good same day coverage your USP has gone. So look at your model; more money to the executing florist guarantees a better product, customer satisfaction and hence improved customer retention. A short-term loss of profit will pay dividends in the long term. But overall I believe to survive the industry will need to consolidate. There are too many florists in some areas competing for a market already damaged by the large supermarket offerings. There are new wholesalers popping up every week online and offline and there is not room for them all. There are too many relay companies / order gatherers who have cost structures and profit targets they have to meet in an ever increasingly competitive market. F&WB Will you stay a sending member of Interflora and why? David Yes. We need to offer a relay service to our customers and at present Interflora is the best available. There are times when I question this as there are an increasing number of members letting down the system but there are still a large number who care about the image of Interflora/the industry and will bend over backwards to help. F&WB Is there room for another relay player in the market – would you support it David Relay as we know it is a thing of the past. Back in the good old days florists put as many orders in to the system as they took out and so your sending orders made up for the large commission being paid on the orders executed. Then the world started to change. Credit cards came along, orders could be placed over the phone and the smart florists realized that the money was in sending and not executing and so became order gatherers. The Internet took the game to a different level as relay companies realized they could gather the orders themselves and so started to compete with their members. There are now order gatherers and florists who do the work. The problem is that the game is skewed in the favour of the large order generating relays. Interflora was the last chance for a true member owned relay service. The extra money on centrally gathered orders could have been passed on to the executing florists but that wouldn't have paid for the large bureaucracy and gravy train for member directors that Headquarters became. Given the theoretical restrictions on dual membership, the problem for any new relay player is tempting members away from other relay services in order to get the coverage. Florists cannot risk losing relay orders, even in the short term. So any new player would need a huge marketing budget to convince prospective members that they can generate enough orders to replace those lost. We are in the lucky position of not needing relay orders but if we were to be tempted to start executing such orders we would need to have at least 80% of the money. If such a service was established with quality collections etc we would consider it. Will it happen? I doubt it but it would be good. "The sad thing is that many millions of pounds of Interflora members' money ended up in the hands of greedy executives and financiers both sides of the pond"
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each one contains: 40 cals, o fat, 0 sat fat, 15 mg cholest, 3g crbs, 1 sugar, and 6 protein.
i don't see "partially hydrogenated" in the ingrediants.
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