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RISMEDIA, June 27, 2009-(MCT)-Ever feel loyalty-card overload? It's not only groceries and drugstores that ask you to tote a loyalty card for sale prices and goodies. The free bar-coded cards are offered by retailers selling electronics, books, office supplies, sporting goods and pet-care products.
Good news: Now you can ditch those plastic cards and still obtain the discounts you want.
The cards, variously known as loyalty, club, membership and rewards cards, have been essential for frugal shoppers. For example, at many supermarkets, there's the sale price if you have a card and a higher price without one. Since 2000, membership in U.S. loyalty programs increased to more than 1.8 billion from less than 1 billion. And while American households on average belong to 14 loyalty programs, they don't use them regularly. On average, eight of those 14 hadn't been used in the past year, according to research firm Colloquy.
Savvy spenders view using the cards as receiving something for nothing. After all, you were going to buy the item anyway. Why not flash a card and obtain a discount or rack up points to get cash back?
Retailers figure that customers with club cards are more likely to shop at their store rather than a competitor. And retailers can use information collected from consumers for marketing – a fact that gives some consumers the privacy willies, including those at Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. With many programs, however, consumers can give fake personal information in their application and still receive a card.
Not all retailers require the physical cards. Some will credit a purchase to your loyalty account by asking for your name or phone number.
Other retailers, however, require the cards.
That leads to bulging wallets, purses and key rings.
What if you could combine those cards? That might be attractive to savvy shoppers.
Here are three resources to make those membership cards more manageable:
"It's to the point where people are turning down offers for new cards that could save them money just because of the annoyance of having to carry them," said Tim Jackoboice of Naples, Fla.
When Jackoboice became fed up with all the loyalty cards on his key ring, he took action. He cut out the bar codes and glued them to an old casino membership card, fitting five or six bar codes on a single card.
Thus, the idea was born for a service Jackoboice makes available at KeyRingThing.com. Instead of cutting and pasting bar codes, you visit the website, choose the retailers whose cards you have and enter bar-code numbers from your cards. Then, for free, you can print a paper version of a wallet card with up to six loyalty-card bar codes. For $3.97, Jackoboice will ship you a plastic version of your customized card. You can also download the bar codes to your computer and upload them to a phone as you would a photo.
When using the combo-card at checkout, direct the cashier to scan the appropriate bar code. Retailer names label each bar code.
Your local retailer's card not listed? The website provides instructions on how to easily create the right bar code to add to your combo card.
Just One Club Card
JustOneClubCard.com is a hobby site similar to KeyRingThing, without sponsors or ability to order a plastic card. It allows you to combine eight club cards into one.
"It just started out as a tool for me and my girlfriend," said creator Gregory Pinero of Elkridge, Md. "I figured I went through all this trouble to make it, why not share it with everyone?"
Pinero also has a site, Grocist.com, that helps you use a bar-code scanner to make a grocery list by scanning bar codes of product packages before you discard them. And, of course, your club card is printed at the top of the shopping list.
If you carry an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can combine your loyalty cards into a single software application on your device using Cardstar. In this case, you hand the cashier your device, which displays the bar code to scan. See MyCardstar.com or Apple's iTunes App Store. The company says it is working on versions for other smartphone platforms, such as BlackBerry, Android and Palm.
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'Tis the season to bake all things boozy, and I'm throwing myself in head first.
Yup the seasonal respite I was going to provide lasted all of .... well less than 24 hours. I just couldn't help myself.
I woke up this morning with twitchy fingers to start my Christmas baking, momentarily annoyed himself with crazy talk of all the things I had planned to bake before I gave in and started with Number 1 on my list. Kind of like Santa's lst only way yummier.
The Boozy Brigadeiro!!!!
Yeah that's right, I'm taking a Brazilian truffle/sweet/bonbon that's already amazing in its own right and giving it an awesome Irish spin.
Irish Cream Liqueur, mmmmm.
Brigadeiros are pretty darn popular in Brazil and are traditional served at childrens birthday parties.
You can do pretty much anything with these babies as I discovered. I originally was only going to cover them in chocolate flavoured sprinkles so that they looked reminiscent of a regular truffle but after running out of those (I used a whole tub) I used some cocoa powder, which to be honest made them alot easier to roll because my warm hands made the brigadeiros hard to handle pretty quickly. I also experimented with shredded coconut, Icing sugar and colourful sprinkles but i think my favourites are actually the cocoa powder dusted ones. It works so well with the sweetness of the brigadeiro and cuts through it.
You can also make so many different flavours, the choices are pretty limitless.
White Chocolate, Boozy, Coconut, Peanut Butter you name it I'd say you could probably do it.
And for me the hit of Irish Cream Liqueur in these really makes them something special. and really makes it feel like a festive sweetie. If you wanted to go all out you could even roll them in Christmas sprinkles like snowflakes, gingerbread men or green red and white sprinkles.
The only thing that limits you with these is your imagination.
Also with such a simple list of ingredients there no excuse not too give these a go.
1 Tin Condensed Milk (397g)
25g / 3 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
30g / 2 Tbsp Butter
100ml Irish Cream Liqueur
In a heavy bottomed saucepan mix all of your ingredients together, making sure you sift your cocoa powder or you'll be left with little lumps at the end.
Gently heat on a medium heat.
Keep stirring untill the mixture starts to show the bottom of the saucepan for a couple of seconds (2-3) before it levels of again.
When it does this remove it from the heat and pour the mixture into a glass/ceramic bowl and set aside until it reaches room temperature or you can pop it in the fridge until it reaches a rollable consistency.
It can last in the fridge for about 4 days.
Once ready to roll smear a very small amount of butter over the palms of your hands and roll a small piece of the brigadeiro mixture into a ball and coat in your chosen topping.
Then transfer to a small sweet case or mini cupcake case (Ido suggest this as these sweets are quite soft but if you don't have any don't worry to much,I didn't use them.
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i currently have a iphone activated with tmobile...i used anysims 1.2 and i need to hard reset it but if i do do anysim still stay in my iphone? after i reformat my iphone do i still need to do anysims or it got wipe out after the hard reset?
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can some1 please answer me? i just want to know if i hard reset it and reinstall 1.1.1 and jailbreak do i have to re activate the iphone if i already used anysims pleaseeeLast edited by bklynsoulja; 11-24-2007 at 03:39 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
If you completely restore your iPhone, you don't need to use anySIM again. I restored my iPhone a few times, and only used anySIM the very first time I unlocked it.
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NIB 1980 W. German PPK/S- What's it worth?
Original Box, manual, etc.. Imported by Interarms with the 1980 (IA) Date Code.
Just wondering how much this pistol is worth? Also, what is the reputation of this era of Interarms PPK/Ss? I know the later Interarms guns were rather hit-or-miss. I'll attach pics for your review. Thanks in advance, Vanguard.45
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That particular PPK is the probably one of the worse firearms ever produced. The value is slim to nothing, and not even worth owning. In the Christmas spirit I will be willing to donate $300 for it, just trying to help you out and don't want you to be stuck with such a useless paper weight. I hope you know by now I am kidding and wiping the drool off my keyboard!!! Not sure what you can get for it, estimating $550-$700 with NIB bringing a premium. I know a new S&W PPK is $450 at my local gun shop, I may be off but I am just guessing . You have a nice piece there and I am jealous, although if it were mine it wouldn't be NIB. I believe that is the 11th commandment, thou shalt shoot all guns that thou ownest!!
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The European made Walther PP series guns were always top quality.
Later on, due to the high cost of the import models, Interarms entered into a license agreement with Walther to make the PP series here in the US. These are the PPK and PPK/s American models. "Some" of these have a bad reputation, but I personally owned two of them and both were great guns. Due to the hype and the history of "bad" US made guns, the European made versions bring higher prices. One in excellent shape would probably bring "around" $500 to $700, depending on the actual condition, whether it had the original box and papers, and where it was for sale. |
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Star running back Dy'shawn Mobley is gone. So is standout quarterback Dustin McPhetridge and former head coach Matt Lowe.
But that doesn't mean Powell High School's football team is going away.
The new-look Panthers went through their first practice in full pads Monday – the first day allowed by TSSAA rules – and there was no shortage of enthusiasm on their practice field.
"Obviously, the first day, and a lot of mistakes," said Derek Rang, who left his position as West's defensive coordinator to take the Powell head coach's job. "The spirits were pretty high, but a lot of mistakes and a lot of stuff that's accustomed to the first day of putting the pads on."
Powell lost plenty of talent from the 2011 team that went 14-1 and reached the Class 5A state championship game, but none is more noticeably absent than Mobley and McPhetridge.
Mobley, who signed with Kentucky, set the state single-season rushing record with 3,068 yards and ran for 46 touchdowns, while McPhetridge guided the offense with pinpoint passing and some impressive running of his own.
They aren't the only 2011 Panthers who will be missed.
"There's a lot of holes to fill right now at Powell High School," Rang said, "but the kids have been pretty eager to jump in and try to compete for some spots."
There probably won't be much competition for the starting quarterback's job.
Junior Hagen Owenby will take over for McPhetridge, who signed with Austin Peay. Hagen is the younger brother of former Panther football/baseball player Drake Owenby, who signed to play baseball for Tennessee.
Hagen Owenby played wide receiver last year.
"I know he's eager to get in there and run and manage the offense," Rang said. "(Hagen) kind of does everything well. He throws the ball real well, very strong arm, a big athlete as well, too. He does all the things you look for from a good quarterback."
Competition for running back will be stiff during the preseason. It's between senior Montario Washington, juniors Ty'Shawn Garden and Drew Carter, and sophomore Brandon Barnes.
Washington has game experience at tailback behind Mobley and will be starting his third year at cornerback.
"Montario has played a lot on Friday nights and we expect him to take the next step and kind of be that mail man on offense, run the football, move the chains, but there's a lot of competition there," Rang said. " Ty'Shawn Garden's got tremendous speed. Brandon Barnes and Drew Carter are both hard-nosed runners, so there's a lot of options at running back we feel pretty comfortable with."
The Panthers had a full day of football on opening day in pads. After the morning practice (8:30 to 11), they showered, ate lunch at the school, and had defensive and offensive meetings. Some players went home for a short afternoon break before returning for a second practice from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
"Obviously it's good to get the pads on," Rang said. "It was good to knock some rust off."
Late Nighter: Karns coach Derek Witt didn't wait to put his team through a full-pads practice.
The Beavers practiced from 12:01 a.m. until about 2:30 a.m. Monday – then spent the first of three consecutive nights in the Karns gym.
They were awakened at 9 a.m. Monday for conditioning on the track and went through the second of three practices later Monday morning. They practiced again Monday night.
In between, the Beavers and coaches watched film and had meetings.
"They don't have time to think," Witt said. "They think football from the time they wake up until they go to sleep. When they lay their heads down, there won't be any chatter."
Witt and his staff put the wrestling mats down in the gym where players can sleep. Some players brought air mattresses.
This is the second year Witt has hunkered his team down at the school for three days of intense football to start full-pads practices. They huddled under a tent – complete with a water spraying mist -- beside the practice field during a late-morning break.
"It really helps the kids grow together and make that team bond," Witt said.
Nobody could argue with that plan. Karns was 6-5 in 2011, 5-3 in District 3-AAA, and lost in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs at Johnson City Science Hill, 41-32.
With 17 seniors returning, the Beavers are looking for another big year.
"It's going to take a lot of hard work out of these kids," Witt said. "Right now they're putting in the effort, but we won't know until we get on the field for the first time."
That will be Friday in a scrimmage at Gibbs.
Good Turf: Catholic went at its first full-pads practice on its new synthetic turf field on Monday morning.
"The biggest thing is we got out there and didn't worry about messing up the field," Catholic coach Scott Meadows said. "It was a lot of fun."
It was some work, too, for the Irish. After the morning practice, the Irish had meetings, worked on special teams in the afternoon, ate dinner, and had another full-pads practice Monday night.
"Everything went good," Meadows said after the morning practice. "This is an experienced team. They know what we expect and they did a good job."
Dave Link is a freelance contributor.


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Nestled along the banks of the Potomac River, amid the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, is a quiet and luxurious respite The Graham Georgetown. Our Georgetown hotel has 57 luxury guestrooms and suites, some with private decks and terraces. Timeless luxury accompanies guests throughout the seven-floor premises where Washington sophistication marries contemporary comfort. Two dining venues are available at the hotel. A.G.B., the lower level dining room, serves high quality breakfast and dinner options daily. From The Observatory, the rooftop bar and lounge, guests and visitors can take in panoramic views of the nation's capital. Reserve now and be among the first to experience Georgetown's newest boutique hotel.
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Often called the Crown Jewel of Pennsylvania Avenue, The Willard InterContinental is conveniently located just one block from the White House. Internationally known as one of the best hotels in Washington D.C., The Willard's unique blend of contemporary luxury, historic charm and sustainable hospitality subtly reflects the spirit of the city. Insiders and newcomers alike will delight in their stay at The Willard. The Willard InterContinental is the first choice of discerning travelers for exceptional accommodations. Our elegant and spacious guest rooms and suites tastefully combine the classic and the contemporary. Comfortable furnishings and timeless style unite with leading-edge technology to create the ideal luxury hotel for todays busy and connected travelers.
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St. Gregory Luxury Hotel & Suites - Washington DC
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The St. Gregory puts you in the heart of DC where you can walk to Georgetown and only minutes from it all. Since its opening, the St. Gregory Hotel & Suites has played host to heads of state, performing artists, diplomats and corporate executives who have become accustomed to gracious and welcoming hospitality. Winner of Trip Advisors Certificate of Excellence, the hotel's cosmopolitan ambience is supported by exceptional service and amenities, ideal for both leisure and business travelers. Guest accommodations feature spacious and smoke-free deluxe rooms, studios, and one-bedroom suites, many complete with pantry kitchens. The hotel is also within the central downtown business district and you are able to walk to The White House, Embassy Row, monuments, and the Smithsonian Museums, Corcoran or Phillips Galleries, or to theatres such as the Kennedy Center. Stroll to historic Georgetown for world class shopping and dining.
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Jason Bay has either been hurt, has stunk on ice or both since signing his $66 million deal before the 2010 season. And there is little if any chance, it seems, that he's going to miraculously be a good player in its final year in 2013. But the Mets have decided that the roster spot he occupies is not worth as much as having him around next season. Mike Puma of the New York Post reports:
As Jason Bay considers the various "scenarios" regarding his baseball future, he can eliminate the possibility the Mets will swallow the $19 million he is owed and release him this offseason.
According to a team source, there is "zero" chance the beleaguered outfielder will be released this winter or asked to compete for a job in spring training.
Bay is owed $16 million next year and is guaranteed another $3 million for the buyout the Mets will certainly exercise as opposed to that 2014 option. On the season he is hitting .155/.231/.294 in 67 games. Since joining the Mets he is hitting .233/.317/.369 with 26 homers and a .686 OPS in 285 games.
- kiwicricket - Sep 25, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Jason Bay is more likely to be a 4-letter word, than a 3-letter word.
- gammagammahey - Sep 25, 2012 at 9:54 AM
Not that I think there's any chance that any team will take him in a trade but who's going to even consider it if the Mets say, "We're releasing him at the start of spring training"?
- Joe - Sep 25, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Red Sox fans were mad when they didn't re-sign him.
- mazblast - Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM
Some Red Sox fans were mad. Most realized that the Mets were offering too much money and too many years. While they were right, no one except perhaps the most pessimistic Mets fan could have anticipated just how little he's been worth during the contract.
- fathersworkandfamily - Sep 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Sox offered 4 years $60M
Mets offered 4 years $66Mnot a big difference, and the exact same number of years
- 18thstreet - Sep 25, 2012 at 11:50 AM
$6 million isn't a big difference?
Are you Mitt Romney?
- hokiegajanisgod - Sep 25, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Not all Red Sox fans…dude wanted too much $$$.
Although if they did resign him they probably wouldn't have signed John Lackey…and definitely not Carl Crawford.
Wait, in retrospect I was mad the Sox didn't sign Bay…until Ben the Great dumped Crawford on the Dodgers!
- hk62 - Sep 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM
You're seriously going to under estimate a player going into his walk year? He'll be hurt again, but do enough to get something on top of that $3 mil buy out, just enough.
- dalucks - Sep 25, 2012 at 10:22 AM
All the Mets can do is hope he can find his swing and play well enough to create some trade value. The Mets need help in the bullpen so if they can get two decent pitchers for him then consider it a win.
- thebadguyswon - Sep 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Non story.
- forsch31 - Sep 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Non comment.
- sdelmonte - Sep 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM
ESPN's NY site has a list of players with toxic contracts that the Mets could conceivably trade for, just for a change of scenery. So it's not impossible they could move him.
The problem is not that he's awful. It's that he's awful and that the minors, despite having pretty good prospects at some positions, is bare of anyone in the outfield who would be much better.
- chc4 - Sep 25, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Bay is just the latest in a long line of disastrous NYM signings.
- kevinbnyc - Sep 25, 2012 at 1:14 PM
I knew his numbers were pretty bad, but its shocking to see them actually spelled out. Possibly worse than Mo Vaughn's time in a Mets uniform.


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By Michael Collins: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jrs immediate goal is to snatch the WBA junior middleweight title from champion Miguel Cotto next month on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, Mayweather says hes thinking of moving up another division after that to go after one of the middleweight titles. A fight between Mayweather and Sergio Martinez is something that Mayweather is eying. Hes not satisfied with camping at 154 to defend against all of the less than popular fighters in that weight class. If Mayweather moves up in weight anytime soon he could leave behind possible fights against Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan, both of which reportedly say theyre interested in fighting him. Mayweather has tried countless times to get a fight against Pacquiao, but its just never worked out and likely wont in the future as well. A between Mayweather and Khan might be interesting if Khan picks up some fans in the United States. Right now, Khan is too much of an unknown entity with casual boxing fans and he has an ugly fighting style that involves a great deal of running, pushing off and pulling down on his opponents neck. Mayweather already said he doesnt like the way that Khan fights, so that fight probably wont happen unless Khan stops running and fouling as much in his future fights. Mayweather has to get past Cotto on May 5th for him to have any serious chance of moving up in weight to fight for the middleweight title. Also, the fighter that Mayweather would like to take on for a title, Sergio Martinez, currently doesnt have a title belt. Hes been trying for ages to get WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight him but hes had no luck and the WBC hasnt been helping Martinez out by not forcing Chavez Jr. to fight him.
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Why Boston? Simply, there are some very strange advertising post cards using Boston library images as their base. They are odd, and interesting.
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Much history taken from the BPL web site.
Architect: Charles Follen McKim. Built in 1895. Expanded in 1972; the addition is called the Johnson building, and
holds the circulating collection. The McKim building houses the research collection.
This seems odd to me, as it would seem that climate control would be easier in a newer building.
The postcard is known as a 'Pioneer,' and was published in 1895 by the American Souvenir Company of Boston.
It was lithographed by Armstrong
& Company, also of Boston.
It also displays an art museum, Trinity Church, and the New Old South Church.
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Grand staircase | Delivery room | ||
Two views of the courtyard. The older (and cruder) in appearance was published by Valentine & Sons, the more refined card by Detroit Publishing in its 'Phostint' style. | |||
Exterior views |
Early card shows the library and a medal. | Newer, linen finish card displays the entirety of Copley Square. |
Metropolitan News Co. card. | Another Phostint view, showing a trolley car. |
Card mailed 1906, with horse cart and trolley. | 1933 Curt Teich linen card. | 1940s Colourpicture linen card. | |
History from card back: The Public Library in Copley Square is one of the world's largest. Students, literati and others throng its rooms and corridors to read and study, to see the statues and to hear the public lectures. It contains about one and three-quarters million volumes and has 34 branches in different parts of the city. |
Artist's rendition of the Library. | Chrome postcard from the 1950s or early 1960s. | ||
Advertising Post Cards |
Hugh C. Leighton Card advertises the McPhail Piano Company. Postmark: 1910. |
Shoe advertisement for a store in Muncie, IN. | This card is one of the originals which feature the beanpot logo of Boston's 1907 Old Home Week. This celebration resembled the Homecoming weeks of universities and small town America. |
The branch system began in 1870. Although the postcard above boasts of 34 branches, the current total is 26.
The sign over the door reads 'Boston Public Library
Codman Square Reading Room.'
The card's caption reads 'Public
Library and Reading Room, Dorchester, Mass.'
The library building
appears to be Dutch Revival, but has Tudor and Romanesque touches.
Monochrome German cards are scarce: this was produced for the Rotograph Co. of New York City.
Definitively Italianate building. Other postcards call the front section an 'overlook.'
Franklin Park itself was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Apparently the Library function ceased before 1988.
Opened as the Hyde Park Town Library in 1899: incorporated into
BPL in 1912, upon annexation.
Renovated and expanded in 1997-2000. Of course, it's still in use.
Card printed in Germany.
Burned in 1908: replaced in 1911.
This card was mailed in 1906, so may have been a rendering of Curtis Hall.


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The hurdles to a Frank Caprio political comeback are many: the "shove it" comment will be forever attached to his name and the progressive base of the state's Democratic Party seems unlikely to warm up to a candidate who essentially ran as a moderate Republican.
But if Caprio, the former state treasurer, runs for major office again - and I think he could, perhaps as a Republican - he could face another hurdle.
Dear readers, N4N will be out on a little mini-vacation for the next couple of days. But fear not. A new edition of the Phoenix drops tomorrow. My cover story looks at the winners and losers from the November elections - not the pols, but the interest groups. With a new governor set to take office and a new General Assembly in place, who will triumph? And who will not? Whither gay marriage, education reform, and the labor agenda?
The ProJo's Political Scene has a fun bit today on a recipe for "a new way forward" that governor-elect Lincoln Chafee doled out to legislative leaders at a recent reception. Among the ingredients: "a 10-pound satchel of honesty" and "a gallon of listening."
It's not an entirely new concoction, though. This reporter saw a very similar recipe from an earlier period in Chafee's career - a political ad from his days in Warwick city politics - posted on the wall in his gubernatorial campaign headquarters a couple of months back.
The Phoenix that hits newsstands today: our look back on the year that was. There is plenty on the best in local arts and a piece I penned on the most stunning - and underreported - political story of the year: Republican John Robitaille's near-victory in the gubernatorial race. How did he get so close? And why did the media catch on so late?
This is how it works for most politicians: promise the world during the election, then scale down expectations afterward and deliver on what you can. It is another measure of the quixotic nature of Lincoln Chafee's bid for governor that we are seeing something like the opposite: propose an enormously unpopular idea during the campaign - a one percent sales tax on exempt items like food, clothing, and medicine - and then signal afterward that you might drop it.
Lincoln Chafee made New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg a symbol of his push for an independent style of governance. But it was a two-way exchange: Bloomberg's endorsement of dozens of candidates across the country was widely viewed as an attempt to build a national brand in preparation for a possible presidential run, even if the mayor has said he is not weighing a White House bid.
I've got a piece in today's Phoenix about Governor-elect Lincoln Chafee's prospects on Smith Hill.
It should be interesting to watch: on the one hand, he takes the office with a rather weak mandate - just 36 percent of the vote and broad public opposition to his signature campaign proposal, an expansion of the sales tax.
And the shift from campaigning to governance begins. From the Chafee camp:
I have been informed that the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) has closed its financing package with 38 Studios. I would have preferred that the EDC honor my request to defer the closing so that I would have had a chance to formally contribute to the process.
I have been informed that the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) has closed its financing package with 38 Studios.
I would have preferred that the EDC honor my request to defer the closing so that I would have had a chance to formally contribute to the process.
There will, doubtless, be those who read some shift in local or national politics into Lincoln Chafee's election as Rhode Island's first independent governor. But Chafee was, for all intents and purposes, the Democratic candidate in this race. And the party swept the state's other major offices and gave up little ground in the General Assembly.
The split among Democratic voters in the gubernatorial race was, for the most of the campaign, viewed through the prism of the Chafee-Caprio clash: Could Caprio hold onto enough Democrats? How deeply could Chafee cut into the Democratic base. Now, just past 10 p.m. on election night, with GOP candidate John Robitaille neck-and-neck with Chafee, a different question: will the split propel a Republican into office?
In another sign of the national reach of Rhode Island's gubernatorial tilt, the New York Times has endorsed Lincoln Chafee for governor. Chafee is one of eight gubernatorial candidates outside of New York and Connecticut endorsed by the paper - and the only one who is not a Democrat. Among the others: Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, Ted Strickland of Ohio, and Jerry Brown of California.
The results of the recent WPRI-TV poll, when reviewed in detail, show just what a climb Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio faces on Election Day. The survey, most of it conducted before his "shove it" comment, showed him just a slight edge on independent Lincoln Chafee among Democrats - we've known that was a problem for awhile.
Rhode Island political observers are well acclimated, at this point, to Lincoln Chafee's appeal to the left. But in the long view, there is something remarkable about his transformation, in the space of a few years, from biggest name in the state GOP to progressive darling. That hit home when N4N saw this glowing talk out of lefty standardbearer The Nation:
The Phoenix endorses Lincoln Chafee for governor in the issue that hits stands today:
Many Rhode Islanders are still undecided about the governor's race. Until this week, the Phoenix, too, was torn. Democratic Treasurer Frank Caprio, an undeniably able official, offers a focused, business-based plan to revive the ailing state.
In-state, Frank Caprio has been seen as the aggressor for his "Shove It" remark. But outside the state, where the White House political operation is coming under the inevitable fire that accompanies a bad campaign season, the imbroglio is being pinned on the president. Witness this piece on Politico:
Amid the flap over President Barack Obama's nonendorsement of the Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate, a pollster for both politicians is defending the White House's political operation.


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In his visit next week, Obama plans to highlight the progress both automakers have made, citing higher employment and new models coming from the companies' factories, The Detroit News reported.
Going into midterm congressional elections in November, the White House is painting the controversial bailout as a tough, politically unpopular decision that in the end was justified, the newspaper said.
The president was right to save hundreds of thousands of jobs by rescuing the domestic automakers, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.
Republicans who opposed the bailout were on the wrong side of history, Gibbs said.
"They came down believing that, despite all of our economic problems, we ought to put a million more people in the unemployment line. The president didn't think that," he said. "The president's decision has -- only in a short period of time -- paid off for the workers and this country."


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Influence of Mode Loss on the Feasibility of Grating-Assisted Optical Fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance Refractive Index Sensors
Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 27, Issue 21, pp. 4804-4808 (2009)
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In this paper, the influence of mode loss on the feasibility of grating-assisted optical fiber surface plasmon resonance (SPR) refractive index (RI) sensors is investigated. The loss of surface plasmon polarition (SPP) mode plays a key role in the design and implementation of such sensors. It is demonstrated through simulation that the grating length should be smaller than or comparable with the propagation length of SPP mode in order to achieve effective coupling. The loss of SPP mode is the severe limiting factor for the implementation of the grating-assisted SPR-RI sensors. More generally, in order to achieve effective mode coupling with the help of waveguide grating, the grating length is bounded by the shortest propagation length of the modes in lossy waveguides.
Yu-Chun Lu, Wei-Ping Huang, and Shui-Sheng Jian, "Influence of Mode Loss on the Feasibility of Grating-Assisted Optical Fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance Refractive Index Sensors," J. Lightwave Technol. 27, 4804-4808 (2009)
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- G. Nemova, R. Kashyap, "Fiber-Bragg-grating-assisted surface plasmon-polariton sensor," Opt. Lett. 31, 2118-2120 (2006) http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-31-14-2118.
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Sure, the casual-cool Postino's (with three Valley locations) is good to go for vino and bruschetta, but it does a fine job with sandwiches and soup-of-the-moment offerings, too. Don't miss the Select Two special ($9.75), in which half a panini sandwich (think a veggie with white bean hummus or The Nine Iron with bacon and grilled chicken) can be had with a fresh-made soup like cheddar potato, tomato, and roasted pepper and Gorgonzola.
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Final Entrants List
- Applicants List - sorted by lottery number
- Applicants List - sorted by name
- Lottery Results
Entry Background
Entry Schedule
Application Opens | February 1, 2015 at 9 am |
Scholarship Applications Due | February 5, 2015 |
Application Closes | February 8, 2015 at 9 pm |
Lottery | February 11, 2015 |
Pay Entry Fee or Join Wait List Opens | February 12, 2015 at 9 am |
Deadline to Pay Entry Fee or Join Wait List (for initial entrants) | February 20, 2015 at 9 pm |
Entry Reopens to All | February 24, 2015 at 9 am |
First day wait listers may pay | March 1, 2015 |
First move from wait to entrants list | March 7, 2015 |
Last day for any refund | April 3, 2015 at 9 pm |
Entry Closed | April 3, 2015 at 9 pm |
Entry Fee: $95 Maximum Entrants: 350 |
Entry Updates
All entry is closed: Here is the final entrants list with bib numbers. Final briefing soon. It is too late to withdraw or to receive a refund.
Lottery: On February 11, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down at 17,862.14. That makes our starting number 214, and we count down. We allow the 350 lottery winners and the top 50 on the potential wait list to pay the entry fee now and join the entrants list. (We do this because we know that some lottery winners will not pay and complete the process. For the last few years, allowing 400 to pay has yielded an entry list of very close to 350, our race limit.)
The only people who can't pay and join the wait list now are the 35 people at the bottom of the potential wait list.
Here are the Lottery Results. Pay/join the wait list starting on February 12 at 9 a.m.
Entry is limited to 350. You must be at least 18 years old when you enter to run.
We will use the same system for entry as we have used for the last seven years. Entry is a two-step process. You fill out the application on one occasion, then you come back later to pay. If too many people apply, we will have a lottery to see who may pay to enter the race and who will have to apply for the wait list. (We did not need the lottery for 2009, but we have needed it ever since.) Prior entry data
Our system allows you to enter calmly without rushing to the post office or hitting the refresh button constantly. Our system does, however, require that you come to our Web site twice. Coming back a second time is your contribution to a fair, orderly system.
The entry schedule is at right. If you want to enter, you must register during the initial application period (February 1, to February 8, at 9 pm). Although we don't suggest leaving it until the last minute, there is no benefit for registering early within that period.
Entry, including joining the wait list is online. The registration fee is $95. The cost of processing your credit card payment is included in the entry fee. All payments are through PayPal where you can use a PayPal account or a credit card. There is no paper option to enter or pay.
Entry is not transferable. You may not sell or give your bib number to another runner. If you transfer your number, you and your replacement will be barred from participating in future Bull Run Runs. The "bandit" runner will be disqualified.
You may receive a refund of your entry fee if you withdraw by the deadline at right. We hold back $15 from any refund. Please see the important conditions on refunds.
Again this year, we continue the VHTRC tradition of offering entry fee scholarships to deserving runners. These scholarships are based on need, not speed. There will be four scholarships. The VHTRC will pay the base entry fee less $10 for scholarship recipients. (In effect, the scholarship is a credit of $85) Scholarship recipients must pay for any meals or lodging. Scholarship recipients receive no special treatment in the entry process other than the reduced entry fee. We do not disclose the names of scholarship recipients, and they are treated like all other entrants. To apply for a scholarship, contact the RD before February 5 . (Just let the RD know you are interested in applying. He will send you more information about how to apply.)
Before you Enter
This event is not for everyone. Before you enter the Bull Run Run, you should know that:
- Parking is difficult: Parking will require a ¼ mile to a ½ mile walk to the start and from the finish.
- Initial aid stations are low key: The first three stops at aid stations offer only fluids and limited food -- they aren't brunch buffets.
- Personal listening device use: We don't want you using personal listening devices on the first 16 miles of the course (and discourage them on all of the course). VHTRC Policy on use of personal listening devices.
- No pacers: You are not allowed to have anyone who is not entered in the event to accompany you on the course (i.e. no pacers).
- Time limits: There are both intermediate and overall time limits that are strictly enforced -- this is not a hike.
- No bathrooms on the course: You need to use the woods in an environmentally correct way (i.e. bury it). Your fellow runners will be using the woods also.
- Mud and High Water: Parts of the trail can be muddy if there has been rain before or on race day. Stream crossings could require fording. (See view from 2003.)
Runners crossing Little Rocky Run
(about 6 miles) in 2003.
Wait List Priorities: If we need to use a lottery, the initial field will be selected randomly. Each applicant has an equal chance of being in the initial starting field. We will, however, have priorities on the wait list. Given our experience with movement off the wait list, we expect that these priorities will be of significant value. In 2008, 2009, 2010, and again in 2014, everyone who participated in the initial entry process and stayed on the wait list was able eventually to run the event. In 2011 through 2013, however, the initial wait list was long, and some did not get off it.
Here are the priorities. (Within groups, ranking is by the random number that is assigned in the entry process. In the priority groups based on number of finishes, the sorting is first by finishes and then by random number. For example, all the people with three prior finishes will have a better priority than those with two.)
- Applicants who, on three prior occasions within the last five years, served as pre-committed volunteers at BRR on the day of the event and were not on the final entrants list for the last BRR.
- Prior overall winners of the men's or women's division of the BRR, or former BRR race directors.
- Finishers of five or more BRRs, ranked by number of finishes (21 down to 5)
- Prior Year Losers (formerly, "Two-time losers") Since no one was on the wait list at the end of the 2014 entry process, no one will qualify for this priority in 2015. You should understand the conditions for the priority, however, because they could apply for 2016 entry. Conditions
- All other applicants ordered by number of finishes (4 down to none)
At the end of the initial entry period, we may reopen the wait list for persons who did not apply in the initial lottery or who did, but did not complete the process in a timely manner. All people joining the list at that time will do so at the bottom, are far less likely to be able to run the event, and will not qualify for the prior loser priority in 2015.
The Bull Run Trail
Refunds: We will issue entry fee refunds to those who withdraw from the event subject to these conditions:
- The request to withdraw from the event must occur on or before the date noted in the entry schedule;
- There is someone on the wait list to fill the vacancy created by the withdrawal. (If there is no one on the wait list at the time of withdrawal, but someone joins the wait list later, we will issue refunds in the order requested); and
- We will withhold $15 from all refunds.
Historical Data
Here are data from 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. We don't guarantee that history will repeat itself.
In 2014, the maximum size of the field was 350 runners (as it is this year). Since some do not pay the entry fee even if they have "won" the lottery, we allowed 400 to pay and enter. Of those 400, the first 350 were chosen by the lottery, the next 50 were from the top of the wait list. We guessed about right -- 354 paid. We waited for withdrawals to reduce the list below 350 before we moved the first person off the wait list.
BRR Entrant Data | ||||||
Year | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Initial Application | ||||||
Applied for Lottery | 502 | 610 | 601 | 587 | 481 | 435 |
Lottery Results | ||||||
Eligible to Enter | 398 | 400 | 400 | 400 | 405 | 400 |
Eligible for Wait List with Priority | 104 | 210 | 201 | 187 | 76 | 35 |
At Deadline to Pay | ||||||
Paid to Join Entrants List | 355 | 348 | 357 | 350 | 355 | 366 |
Joined Wait List | 69 | 123 | 151 | 134 | 55 | 27 |
Didn't Act | 78 | 139 | 93 | 103 | 71 | 42 |
Race Day | ||||||
Entrants List | 353 | 358 | 341 | 350 | 349 | |
Wait List | 0 | 28 | 83 | 61 | 0 |
Withdrawal Reasons: In 2012, we asked people who withdrew to pick among a list of reasons for their action. Below is what people picked. These are people who withdrew from the entrants list. We did not request this information from those withdrawing from the wait list.
Withdrawal Reasons 2012 |
Injury | 32 |
Conflict - Personal | 11 |
Conflict - Work | 7 |
Other | 4 |
Out of Shape | 3 |
Did Not State | 1 |
Total | 58 |
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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The death toll from Nepal's earthquake soared past 3,300 Monday, and how much higher it would rise depended largely on the condition of vulnerable mountain villages that rescue workers were still struggling to reach two days after the disaster.
Hong Kong (AFP) - 04:15 GMT - Dharahara tower - The historic nine-storey Dharahara tower, a major tourist attraction, was among the buildings brought down in Kathmandu and police say around 150 people could have been inside at the time based on ticket sales. Right now, we are not in a position to estimate how many might be trapped," local police official Bishwa Raj Pokharel tells AFP. 04:09 GMT - "Finding survivors" - Rameshwor Dangal, who heads the home ministry's national disaster management division, has told AFP that emergency crews will also step up their efforts to rescue those trapped in high-rise buildings which pancaked on Saturday.


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Wood, G. D., 2001. Governance and the Common Man: Embedding Social Policy in the Search for Security. In: Mosley, P. and Dowler, E., eds. Poverty and Social Exclusion in North and South: Essays on Social Policy and Global poverty Reduction. London: Routledge, pp. 83-121.
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Here is an exclusive extended 4 minute clip for How to Lose Friends & Alienate People courtesy of Empire.
"The film is out on 3 October but to tide you over until then we have a full four minutes of footage to sink your canines into. To put the clip into context somewhat, Simon Pegg's Sidney Young has flown to New York to work for magazine giant , Sharps. Once there, however, he finds that you have to play ball to survive and, having initially turned his nose up at writing a puff piece for Hollywood publicist Eleanor Johnson (Gillian Anderson), he begins to realise that he must make a choice between journalistic integrity and career advancement. Enjoy."
- Posted: September 18, 2008
- Director: Robert B. Weide
- Writer: Peter Straughan
- Studio: MGM
- Release: October 3, 2008
- Cast: Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst
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