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Greetings! This is the first Explore Minnesota Winter Trails Report of the 2012-13 winter season! Explore Minnesota will report cross-country ski and snowmobile trail conditions each Thursday this winter, with updates as conditions warrant. Information used to compile the winter trails report is provided courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Three Rivers Park District, and communities throughout the state.
Currently, most trails remain closed for skiing and snowmobiling due to a lack of snow. Die-hard skiers looking for skiable trails will find a few in the far northeast region of the state, however, these are reported to be in poor condition. Snow is expected in the far northeast region of the state this Friday and Saturday, November 30 & December 1, which may result in enough accumulation for grooming operations to begin in earnest. Please remember that conditions can change on a daily basis--please call ahead for the most current conditions.
Please note that a Snowmobile State Trail sticker is required for all snowmobiles operating on state or grant-in-aid trails. All cross-country skiers on state park or forest ski trails, or on state or grant-in-aid trails, who are 16 years old or older must have a Minnesota Ski Pass. For further information, contact the Department of Natural Resources, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 1-888-646-6367. To order cross-country ski passes and snowmobile trail stickers, dial 1-888-665-4236 or access the DNR Online License Sales web site. To locate a license center in Minnesota to purchase ski passes and snowmobile stickers, check out DNR License Agents.
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Side Lake/N of Hibbing
The first skier of the season hit McCarthy Beach State Park ski trails on Sunday, November 25. Skiing remains possible with minimal snowcover due to the sandy soils, although extreme caution and old skis are recommended. Hiking is still an option on the snowmobile trails since the snow is fluffy. It's beautiful in the woods with the snow-covered pines. Overall, the ski trails are ungroomed and in poor condition. The snowmobile trails remain closed. Local snow depth measures 4 inches.
Bear Head Lake State Park received over 6 inches of fluffy snow over the past week. Staff are waiting for more snow to fall before they will begin grooming. While cross-country skiing is possible, rock skis are recommended. Consider extending your winter trip by staying at one of the camper cabins or in the guest house--accesses to the snowmobile and ski trails are just a few feet from the lodging doors! Wolves have been active on Bear Head Lake State Park Road.
Grand Marais/Gunflint Trail
In Cook County, just outside of Grand Marais up the Gunflint Trail, snow started falling on Thanksgiving evening and by Friday morning, November 23, accumulation measured anywhere from 3-10 inches. Since then snow has fallen nearly every day leaving roughly 8 inches of fluffy snow in the woods. Some cross-country ski trails in the Central Gunflint Trail vicinity are reported to have a decent base, with approximately 10 kilometers of trails now open. Between Grand Marais and Lutsen, Cascade River State Park is blanketed by roughly 3 inches of snow. Staff hope to begin grooming operations early next week. At this time the ski trails are in poor condition. Please note that snowshoe rentals are available on the weekends.
All other ski and snowmobile trails in the state of Minnesota remain closed due to a lack of snow.


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Tri-Valley Middle School Cheerleaders
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The Tri-Valley Middle School Cheerleaders participated in community service project at the beginning of November.
The girls volunteered at First Presbyterian Church of Newark by helping the Outreach Committee with Operation Christmas Child. A total of 186 shoe boxes were packed with items such as a small toy, a book, toothbrushes, soap, pillowcase dresses and T-shirts. In addition, school supplies were donated so the children of these countries may have the opportunity to attend school.
Many of the villages are not accessible by road and children in these villages are living in extreme poverty. Many of the kids have never ever received a present or have never owned a toy or a book.
The girls not only donated items for the shoe boxes but they gave their time. They each wrote personal notes to the children to let them know these kids are thought about throughout the world.

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2,517 apartments for rent near Hudson, NJ
Apartments in Hudson, NJ
The Hudson River flows along the eastern edge of Hudson County and separating this part of New Jersey from Manhattan. It is part of the New York Metro area and contains the iconic Ellis Island and Liberty Island. The largest city and the county seat of Hudson County is Jersey City.
Jersey City is an important port with 11 miles of waterfront. The Port of New York and New Jersey is the busiest port on the East Coast and the third busiest in the nation. Ferry services have been continuously operating since the 18th century and include the Staten Island Ferry, a free transport of over 75,000 people a day. Other important transportation hubs include the New Jersey Transit system, Penn Station, and PATH. The New York metro area is by far the most walkable area in the country with an extensive rail, subway, ferry, and bus system.
Liberty State Park is the country's largest park. It is located across the Upper New York Bay from the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The park is a nationally protected area that consists of 1,212 acres. Some of the features include a 36-acre nature preserve, the Liverty Science Center, and two memorials: a Holocaust memorial and a September 11 memorial. Concerts, events, and festivals are often held at the park. Ellis Island was an immigrant inspection station from 1892 to 1954. Most of the island is located in New Jersey with a small portion belonging to New York. The Immigration Museum is housed in the station's main building, which was built in 1900 after the original structure burned down. Liberty Island is home to the Statue of Liberty, a National Monument.
Hudson County contains several other parks, including Lincoln Park, Hudson County Park, and Mercer Park. Riverwalks, shops, restaurants, museums, theaters, bars, concert halls, Broadway shows, and countless businesses keep this area busy and thriving.
Cities in the county include Hoboken, Union City, and Bayonne. Towns include Guttenberg, Secaucus, West New York, Harrison, North Bergen, Weehawken, and Kearny. East Newark, a borough, is also located in Hudson County.


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Hand-washed dishes vs. machine-picked grapes
Our dishwasher broke down yesterday, therefore I have spent the last two nights hand-washing more dishes and glasses than I care to count, let alone remember. Hopefully, our dishwasher will be repaired tomorrow afternoon, whereupon I will be relieved of this manual, time-consuming task. In the meantime, I have a newfound appreciation for the benefits this machine has brought to our lives, let alone millions of other households around the world. This appliance has reduced what was once hours of manual scrubbing into a quick load of mechanized cleaning.
The dishwasher, and other appliances like it, are truly beneficial machines. Even still, not all tasks need to succumb to mechanization.
While scrubbing the umpteenth fork tonight, I recalled recent commentaries from Scott Wright and Vincent Fritzsche bemoaning the introduction of machine harvested Pinot noir in the eastern Willamette Valley. I share in Scott and Vincent's concerns here, which focus on the consequences of tender, thin-skinned Pinot noir grapes being aggressively handled by a machine versus the standard approach of picking by hand. Oregon is defined by producing high quality, hand-picked Pinot noir, which could easily be threatened by some pursuing a lower cost, mechanized model within the state.
That's the crux of this issue to me, which is the tendency of a business or industry to favor a low cost path while sacrificing quality in order to achieve certain economic gains. Here's how the machine harvested approach was characterized in The Oregonian's article:
His business model relies on efficiencies of scale to help keep long-term costs and consumer prices down.
I read that and was immediately reminded of the film, "Food, Inc.", where representatives from various large, agricultural companies touted the same "efficiencies of scale" about their approach, while turning a blind eye to the consequences of their actions. Beef, pork and poultry used to be of a higher quality and more expensive until the production of these food products was industrialized. If you have yet to understand the consequences of "long-term costs" being kept to a minimum, then please watch this film.
And lest we forget the downside of keeping "consumer prices down" such as those available with fast food. Sure, many Americans today can eat a cheaper breakfast, lunch or dinner, but there is a much larger price to be paid as a result of offering the lowest cost approach to consumers. If you're left wondering what the implications are from this industry sector, then please read Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" for insights on the social consequences this industry has generated for all of us.
Where was it mandated that certain wines become inexpensive enough for all consumers to afford? At what point do we just accept the fact that it's okay for some wines to remain expensive because of the quality provided?
I support capitalist enterprises, but I have a hard time embracing the notion of industrializing and mechanizing the cultivation of Pinot noir in Oregon. Will putting Pinot noir in a "feedlot" to minimize costs succeed? Probably so, but an effective cost model is meaningless unless large numbers of consumers buy these wines. Will this approach have a positive impact on Oregon's reputation for crafting high quality Pinot noir? Definitely not, as the evidence is clear that this grape cannot tolerate machine harvesting.
Where does that evidence exist? In every glass of high-priced (relatively speaking), hand-picked Oregon pinot noir I enjoy at my table.


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Don't do the same old thing for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day. If he/she expects dinner and flowers, spice it up. Try a holiday getaway to show you care.
Orbitz.com surveyed Americans and put together a list of the top ten Valentine's/Presidents Day Weekend travel destinations for 2013. On the list:
Jeanenne Tornatore is the Senior Editor with Orbitz.com. She said 80 percent of consumers don't get a romantic getaway and would prefer it over traditional gifts.
In the survey of top romantic destinations, Sante Fe, New Mexico led the pack:
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Fairfield U. program supports gay, lesbian students
- Posted on October 26th, 2010 filed in Newspaper
In previous years, several student groups and university departments organized their own separate programs in the month of October to coincide with LGBTQ History Month. "We wanted to centralize it," Meredith Marquez, associate director of student diversity programs, said of this year's effort. "It's important for students to know that they are supported by staff, faculty, everyone at the university," said David Gudelunas, an associate professor of communication, whose research focuses on the representations of gay men and lesbians. Gudelunas will introduce one of the films presented this month and facilitate a post-screening discussion.
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Purchasing Customers - Pointers needed
I have just been presented an opportunity to purchase about 200 fert & squirt customers from another local company who is closing down. At this point, I have almost no background data to go by (or give you here) - we will talk later today. What I can tell you is he is asking $40M for them and says they are all signed on for a 7-step program. He is also offering everything as turn-key for like $75 ( this I do not want, as I have my own already). I know there is a lot to consider and the quality of the customers in my biggest concern (along with why he is quitting). So can anyone give me pointers to setting up a deal like this? Is it common to pay part up front and the rest at the end of the season less customer drop-offs? Should you keep the company name active for the first year ( for the 200 anyway)? How? Thanks for any input
I can't tell you about your Market, I can only tell you a little about what is SOP here in SW Florida.
Accounts here sell on average for 100% of a years Gross income. Tighter routes in upscale areas with a high margin can go 125% or higher. Less desirable routes can go as low as 50% of a Years Gross. But 100% is the most common selling price given the accounts have a good margin.
Of course any time you see a company going out of business you want to ask WHY! Therefore I would want to take a hard look at the quality of those accounts. Pricing level for the same services jumps all over the place here in Florida. A simple insecticide spray on a 80 X 120 lot can vary in price from $ 30 to $ 90 from one company to the next.
I never purchased Pesticide Accounts, but I purchased a bunch of mowing accounts for 25% of a years gross or the normal price back then. My advantage there was to up sell the accounts Pest Control. But the rule of thumb is to plan for a 10% account loss simply because some people won't like change. I don't think I ever loss 10% (I culled 60%) but I have had people quit me before I started.
Any time you purchase accounts you are in fact purchasing future income. Therefore a whole set of valves and number can come into play. The size deal you are talking about, My best advice is to find a GOOD CPA to help you with those numbers.
it is one thing to do a off label applications. It is total stupidity to post it on the world wide web and expect people to approve.
You can lead a Donkey to water but you can't make the Jackass Drink
My People Skills are Fine. It is my Idiot Tolerance Skills That needs Work.
Thanks for the info, Ric. I have since spoken with them and have more detail. They started as landscapers and gradually moved into fert & squirt only for the past 5 years. He said they lost some customers due to the recession, but these 200 have been loyal the whole time. The route is a lot more spread out than my current lawns are..... I don't care to do business in a couple outlying cities that they have a few accounts in... but the majority are in my preferred areas. Here is the big catch - he said they do contracts and pre-pays at the beginning of the season. They didn't send out the pre-pay form to everyone this year, just some... and out of those 65 pre-paid. I asked how he intended to handle those and he said that after researching what he could sell his accounts for ($65-75 according to him)... he set his price to $40M to account for that (basically keeping the money). I think he is in some financial bad times and is keeping that money for whatever. I guess anyone that assumes the accounts is liable for any work not done on those pre-pays??? It just puts a damper on things to anticipate doing 65x7 apps @ no charge for a year! What do you think?
^ There is no way I would buy 65 accounts treat them 7 times and not get a penny for doing them. Maybe you deduct that from the purchase price but in my neck of the woods on the low end that's over $22k worth of work! Doesn't matter that you are getting the other accounts with them.
If I'm understanding this correctly you will acutally be buying this business for ---$40k + the gross of the 65 pre pays you don't get paid for
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A fert company did that here a couple years back 200 customers prepaid and the other 200 didnt the company gave it away and kept the other half. IDK if 40k would be worth it in my eyes for 40k you could prolly get 200 customers on your own in the spring.
just a thought in general. Seems a lot of people in this industry frown on or are afraid to buy up another business to grow theirs. The yard boys mentalilty. The biggest companies in this industry get achieve the most growth through the purchase of smaller companies. They buy em up all the time!!
So he has a few account in other towns, CULL THEM. If you can't sell them give them away. Take the Wheat and dump the hulls but work those numbers into your total cost per income purchased.
I am not quite understanding the prepayment thing in relation to the purchase price. Has he collected a total higher than the selling price?? If not then it should be deducted from the total purchase price and you will be responsible for servicing those accounts. Understand what you are purchasing. You are in fact purchasing OPPERTUNITY AND FUTURE INCOME.
it is one thing to do a off label applications. It is total stupidity to post it on the world wide web and expect people to approve.
You can lead a Donkey to water but you can't make the Jackass Drink
My People Skills are Fine. It is my Idiot Tolerance Skills That needs Work.
Thanks for the input. We all know that these types of customers are pricey to come by.... and I don't mind paying what is fair. But as some of you have said - the fairness is questionable. So lets do some math..... you have 200 customers x 7 apps a year @ average price of $58..... that's $81.2M plus aeration's/seeding, fungicides, and insect control for a good portion of them.... I'll estimate and round that part to $25M. Total is $106M per year gross. At that same average rate of $58 per app.... the 65 x 7 would be $26M. Year one less the pre-pays is still 106 - 26 = $80M gross. A lot of assumption here about retaining most of the customers, but do you think $40M for $80M in year one (50%) is reasonable for what i am told are very good and loyal customers (again - another assumption on my part)?
Read my first post. I said even poor margin account that were spread out went for 50% on a years Gross here in Florida. Premium account might go 125% or higher. I also said I can only tell you about MY market area not yours. I am trying to help you BUT the final decision is YOURS.
BTW Whether you purchase the accounts out right of sweat equity, be sure you have the cash flow to CYA.
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I always was happy to purchase accounts. First I looked at the cost of not only advertising but CHASING the TIRE KICKER. But some of those newly purchased accounts were also in Neighborhoods I might not have been in. After a few months of providing excellent service I would start to clover leaf the new neighborhood for more customers and of course up sells.
it is one thing to do a off label applications. It is total stupidity to post it on the world wide web and expect people to approve.
You can lead a Donkey to water but you can't make the Jackass Drink
My People Skills are Fine. It is my Idiot Tolerance Skills That needs Work.
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The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets
Online price: $18.00 (plus shipping)
With your purchase you'll make a donation to the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless and the Homeless Families Foundation.
From February 17 through April 4, 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived voluntarily on the streets of Columbus, Ohio. This period of time coincided with the Christian observance of Lent and Holy Week.
Phyllis and James didn't go out on the streets to satisfy idle curiosity or experience a strange new world. They didn't go out to find answers to questions or solutions to problems. They didn't go out to save anyone. They went out for one primary reason: to be as present as possible to everyone they met. In other words, they set out, in their own way, to love their neighbor as themselves. Doing so, they were reminded just how difficult the practice of compassion can be.
The Emptiness of Our Hands is a meditative narrative accompanied by nearly thirty black and white photographs, most of them shot by James on the streets using crude pinhole cameras he constructed from trash. The impressionistic photographs and strenuous text will together thrust you out the door of your comfortable home, not so you might experience the thrill of walking on the edge, or even find answers to your questions, but so you might better understand what being without a home can do to a person.
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Complex systems and networks
Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) or complex systems are characterized by the interactions between their numerous elements. The word 'complex' comes from the Latin plexus which means entwined. In other words, it is difficult to correlate global properties of complex systems with the properties of the individual constituent components. This is primarily because the interactions between these individual elements partly determine the future states of the system (Gershenson 2013). If these interactions are not included in the developed models, the models would not be an accurate reflection of the modelled phenomenon.
While numerous techniques and frameworks for modeling complex systems have previously been devised (Niazi 2011), clearly one of the most explicit and intuitive methodology is the modeling of interactions using networks (Niazi and Hussain 2012). Networks consist of nodes or vertices, which can be used to represent elements, and links or edges, which usually represent interactions or relations between the elements. In this context, networks represent the structure of complex systems; how elements interact. However, networks can also be used to represent the dynamics or function of complex systems, e.g. considering nodes as states and links as transitions. Thus, the same analysis can be applied to the structure and the function of networks. Understanding the relationship between structure and function is one of the major open questions across sciences, which can also be posed using networks: how do changes in the structural network affect the state network? (Boccaletti et al. 2006; Gershenson 2012). For example, what will be the effect of knocking out a gene in the behavior of a cell? Several systems change their structure over time, and their properties can be modelled with temporal networks (Holme and Saramäki 2012). Likewise, there are several instances when the structural changes are triggered by the state of the network, as has been studied in adaptive networks (Gross and Sayama 2009).
With not much more than a decade of network research, there are already numerous applications of networks in diverse areas, such as epidemiology (Colizza et al. 2007; Christakis and Fowler 2007; Pastor-Satorras and Vespignani 2001), human mobility (Gonzalez et al. 2008), social networks (Huberman et al. 2009; Niazi and Hussain 2011), artificial life (Gershenson and Prokopenko 2011), life sciences (Bullmore and Sporns 2009; Gershenson 2004; Guimera and Nunes Amaral 2005; Montoya et al. 2006), theory of computation (Gershenson 2010), and engineering (Broder et al. 2000; Helbing et al. 2006; Niazi and Hussain 2013a 2013b; Prehofer and Bettstetter 2005), just to mention a few. Some other examples of research in the area of networks include (Albert and Barabási 2002; Barabási 2002; Barrat et al. 2008; Caldarelli 2007; Motter and Albert 2012; Newman 2003; Newman et al. 2006; Newman 2010; Strogatz 2001).
Papers in the special issue
In the first paper "Penetration capacity of the wood-decay fungus Physisporinus vitreus", the authors Matthias Jörg Fuhr, Mark Schubert, Chris Stührk, Francis WMR Schwarze and Hans Jürg Herrmann propose the study of bioincising by means of a model considering many factors affecting the growth and effects of P. vitreus in Norway spruce (Fuhr et al. 2013).
In the next paper, "Information theoretical methods for complex network structure assessment", the authors Enrique Hernández-Lemus and Jesús M Siqueiros-García duscuss how information theory can provide effective means for structural assessment in domains such as biological and social network analysis (Hernandez-Lemus and Siqueiros-Garcia 2013).
In the paper "Information and Phase Transitions in Socio-Economic Systems", the authors Terry Bossomaier, Lionel Barnett and Michael Harré present an interesting study on the role of information-based measures in detecting and analysing phase transitions. They contend that phase transitions have general features and can be detected in diverse systems using information theory (Bossomaier et al. 2013).
In the next paper, "Clustering Datasets by Complex Networks Analysis" by Giuliano Armano and Marco Alberto Javarone, the authors propose a method based on complex network analysis which allows clustering on multidimensional datasets (Armano and Javarone 2013).
In the article "PyCX: a Python-based simulation code repository for complex systems education", Hiroki Sayama introduces PyCX, an online python-based code repository of simple, crude but easy-to-understand sample codes for various complex systems simulation, including iterative maps, cellular automata, dynamical networks and agent-based models (Sayama 2013).
In the article "Segregation mechanisms of tissue cells: from experimental data to models", Előd Méhes and Tamás Vicsek present a review of pattern formation by segregation of tissue cells. In addition, the authors present experimental observations, including some new results on various aspects of two and three dimensional segregation events and then summarize various computational modeling approaches (Méhes and Vicsek 2013).
In the final article, "Large-scale global optimization through consensus of opinions over complex networks" by Omid Askari-Sichani and Mahdi Jalili, the authors present a model based on consensus of opinions among agents interacting over a complex networked structure for a large-scale task optimization. They demonstrate how agents can solve such tasks using collaborations and forming consensus of opinions (Askari-Sichani and Jalili 2013).
The editors would like to acknowledge the continual support provided by Leslie De La Vega and Natalie Shon from SpringerOpen during the production of the special issue. C.G. was partially supported by SNI membership 47907 of CONACYT, Mexico.
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Southwest Minnesota State men's basketball coach Brad Bigler remains in stable condition Monday night in a Sioux Falls hospital after a car crash that killed his five-month-old son, Drake.
Bigler's wife, Heather, was driving the family back from a wedding Saturday night when their vehicle was hit head-on by a truck that swerved into the wrong lane on Highway 29 near Starbuck, Minnesota. Heather received some bumps and bruises, while her 74-year-old grandmother is in critical condition. The outpouring of support is coming from all over the area.
The driver of the other car, 38-year-old Dana Schoen of Starbuck, is charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and one count of DWI. This isn't his first run-in with the law either. Since the year 2000, Schoen has been convicted of two other DWIs. In both instances, his blood alcohol level was above .20, nearly three times the legal limit. But regardless of the circumstances, Southwest Minnesota State University is rallying to support its coach.
Brad Bigler became the SMSU men's basketball coach in September 2009. But he's been a part of the community for more than a decade.
"He's done it from the time he was a player here," SMSU athletic director Chris Hmielewski said. "He was a graduate assistant, an assistant coach and now our head coach. Brad Bigler is a Mustang and he embodies everything we're about."
Hmielewski visited Bigler in the hospital Monday morning. The coach is suffering from broken ribs, a broken shoulder blade and a punctured lung. But the physical recovery isn't nearly as difficult as the emotional one, knowing his five-month-old son, Drake, didn't survive.
"Today's a tough day because I think everything has slowed down and the realization of what's happened and the passing of their son Drake is starting to hit them," Hmielewski said.
Bigler's two other children were in a different car and unharmed. But sadly, this isn't the first time his family has dealt with some grueling circumstances. Bigler's mother passed away last year in a kayaking accident.
"As he proved last year in dealing with his mom's passing, you can make it through it," Hmielewski said.
And there's no doubt his players, his fans and his support staff will keep him in mind as he returns not only to the game he loves, but the family he loves as well.
"People here in Marshall and in southwest Minnesota will be there for them as they come home and as they continue the healing process," Hmielewski said.
Hmielewski says there's no timetable for when Bigler will leave the hospital. There's also no timetable for when he'll return to his duties as men's basketball coach, but his assistants took over for a period when he was mourning his mom's passing last year.


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Baseball might be a buffet line in Boston and New York. Here, we're always on a diet. If we're not strict about it, if we ditch the grilled salmon for the chocolate mousse, we'll never get the body we want.
The Reds can't trade two young arms for Scott Rolen, a 34-year-old third baseman due $11 million next year. No one outside the executive offices at Pretty Good American Ball Park will argue this point. Neither will some inside the executive offices.
The Big Man's paws are all over this one. Look: I love the guy. Bob Castellini's passion roars all over the ballpark. He wants to do right by the fans. But ...


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Officials gather before stepping in front of television cameras during a press conference concerning improperly stored explosives at the facility of Explo, a Camp Minden tenant, on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. / Jim Hudelson/The Times
DOYLINE - Doyline residents are being encouraged to leave their homes Friday night and stay away throughout the weekend as authorites will be moving 1 million pounds of an explosive propellant powder from Explo Systems, Inc., a munitions dismantling company at Camp Minden.
La. Hwy. 164, which paralells the southern perimeter of Camp Minden, will be closed from Amos Cutoff Road to East McKinley Ave. La. Hwy. 163, which runs from the south gate of Camp Minden south through Doyline, will be closed north from Amos Cutoff Road.
Doyline High School will be closed on Monday.
The National Guard will evacuate approximately 200 Youth Challenge Program cadets, possibly to the Minden Civic Center.
Webster Sheriff Gary Sexton said as of now, Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center will not be evacuated.
Authorities say the powder, an explosive propellant used in military ammunitions, is not an imminent threat, but should have been housed in a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives approved bunker and registered with the Louisiana State Police explosives division.
A criminal investigation into Explo is underway by state police.
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Top 10 Ways To Wrap A Bicycle For Christmas
- Use a Bike Bag, shown in the excellent demonstration video above (really? you need two guys to demonstrate it? : ). It's around 9$ online, but spend almost as much on shipping if in the US.
- Take a picture of the bike and wrap the picture up in a small box with directions on where to find the bike
- Give a gift certificate to your LBS so the recipient can enjoy picking out the bike at the shop.
- Put the bike on the roof, while unwrapping other presents act like you heard something outside, get recipient to go with you outside and act surprised when you see bike on roof and say: "Santa must've left it there when he couldn't fit it down the chimney!"
- Wrap the new helmet that goes with the bike with a note that the new bicycle to wear it with is in the garage.
- Wrap all the pieces to the bike separately so recipient has lots to unwrap on Christmas morning, since they won't be getting anything else as you spent all your money on the bike.
- Buy a bike case and put the bike inside and wrap that.
- Buy up all the wrapping paper at your child's school fund-raiser and piece it all together to cover the bike.
- Make a fabric bag. Buy some Christmas fabric at the fabric store and buy a length 2.5 times the length of the bike. Spread fabric out on floor, fold in half, sew one short side and one long side leaving one long side open. Place bike near tree and pull fabric bag over top of bike leaving the open side along the bottom of the bike. If you can't sew, use a stapler or duct tape.
- Don't wrap it, put a bow on it and set it up near the tree.
Either way, watch as the recipient gets the biggest grin on their face as they realize what they're getting for Christmas! Enjoy your holidays and don't keep that bike wrapped up for long – get out and ride! (PS- if you have any other ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments section.)


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I was beyond stoked for this tour when it was announced so it was a huge honor to actually be able to open it. I wish Napalm would've sounded better but it was still cool to see them and Exhumed was awesome, much better than last year's headlining set. I'm a firm believer that All Guts, No Glory is the best opener ever.
Weekend Nachos were also a lot of fun, it was cool to see them in an environment besides a basement where you couldn't hear anything. They were getting in arguments with the soundlady of that night (who was rather rude to us as well, but we were afraid to say anything), but John had no problem arguing during their set. It was awesome, and it was cool of them to send out a song to us for playing before them.
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Discover the rich history of ambient sounds via reviews, interviews & streaming music mixes. Ambient Music Guide's main focus is reviews of essential ambient and downtempo albums spanning the 1960's to the present day. Read more...
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From Eric Satie through to the Third Millenium, take a trip along the ambient timeline.
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Ambient Music Guide's main focus is reviews & recommendations of great ambient, downtempo and chillout albums from the 1960s to the present day.
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Local reggae-punk stars celebrate 15 years of skating, surfing and rocking out
Way back when they first started jamming with one another, the members of Santa Cruz reggae-punk outfit The Expendables used to joke that each member of the band could easily be replaced.
"We were all pretty bad at our instruments when we first started playing, and we would always call each other 'expendable,'" recalls Adam Patterson, the band's drummer and vocalist. But if The Expendables have proven anything over the course of the 15 years they've been writing and performing music, it's that they are anything but a throwaway band.


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Free Music Friday (03/16/12)
This week's installment of Free Music Friday can be found in the replies.
Please send any new submissions to email@example.com with "Free Music Friday" in the subject line.
Submissions should include your band's name, title of submission (and whether it is a full length, EP or single song), facebook or website link, and similar bands for the "recommended if you like" section. Please upload it to a downloading website such as mediafire or bandcamp and send that link. Links to bandcamp or other places where it can be downloaded for free are more than acceptable.
Full Lengths
Ofthesky - Sun Trails
RIYL: Circa Survive, The Appleseed Cast, Moving Mountains, As Tall As Lions
Robots! Everywhere!! - Robots! Everywhere!!
RIYL: Bomb the Music Industry!, LMFAO, every sweaty pop-punk show you've ever been to
Zak Smith - Zak Smith
RIYL: The Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty
Friends In Distraction - No Matter What Happens
RIYL: Against Me!, Bomb the Music Industry!, The Gaslight Anthem, Modest Mouse
I Used To Be A Sparrow - Life Is Good
RIYL: The Appleseed Cast, Mew, Wilco, Magenta Skycode
Talk To Angels - Enemies Closer
RIYL: Straylight Run, The Xcerts, The Dykeenies
Make The Years Last - The Cedars
RIYL: The Wonder Years, Hit The Lights, This Time Next Year, New Found Glory
Dominion - Last Month
RIYL: Lifetime, Descendants, The Bouncing Souls
cllhn - II
RIYL: Rise Against, Touche Amore, Millencolin, Have Heart
Innovations - Beginnings
RIYL: Of Mice and Men, Silverstein, Ten After Two, Memphis May Fire
Sofy Major / Membrane - Split
RIYL: Melvins, High on Fire
stǣger - Flights
RIYL: bedroom music, ambiance, chillwave
Leer / Cerce - Split EP
RIYL: L: At The Drive-In, Calculator, Matsuri, Snowing / C: Ceremony, Punch
Sharkfist!!! - Sharkfist!!! Likes to Party!!! (Drunk on the Internet)
RIYL: Off With Their Heads, The Fuck Off and Dies, Dear Landlord, Suicide Machines
Mick Malone - Beneath A Tree Of Wild Beasts
RIYL: spoken word, poetry, experimental
Samplers / Compilations / Demos
Single Songs
Deadhorse - "No Particular Night Or Morning"
RIYL: Sigur Ros, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai
The OC Supertones - "On The Downbeat"
RIYL: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Beastie Boys, Sublime, Five Iron Frenzy, Less Than Jake
The Plimptons - "Be Expected"
RIYL: DEVO, The Rezillos, The Buzzcocks
Pigs - "Give It"
RIYL: Unsane, Cherubs
Anomalie & the Speakeasy Earth - "Dire"
RIYL: St Vincent, Imogen Heap, Metric, Eisley
Kyle Cox - "How It Goes"
RIYL: The Damnwells, Ryan Adams, acoustic, folk, singer/songwriter
PerspektiWe - "Suicide Under Heroes"
RIYL: System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, Muse, Thrice
Almost There - "Look Alive"
RIYL: Bayside, Rx Bandits, Mayday Parade
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Checking out Innovations and PerspektiWe (RIYL System of a Down? I'm so curious).
The fuck is up with Robots Everywhere? RIYL makes me never wanna check em out.
You're wrong Caleb, man you're so wrong
Wow, PerspektiWe is quite awesome from what I have heard so far
hope you guys get to check our single, Almost There - "Look Alive." we're an up and coming NJ rock band (post-TBS, Senses Fail, Saves The Day). Appreciate any feedback you guys got, our full length "Abandon The Sinking Ship" is out next friday =]
i'm putting out a HUGE compilation of local/unsigned bands from all over the U.S. and so if anyone wants a chance to be on it, click the link for all the info on the project and how to submit a track: http://ynfbrecords.blogspot.com/2012...mpilation.html
This is incredibly, incredibly good. Thanks for the heads-up.
Ofthesky is really good. I was surprised. I definitely get the Appleseed Cast vibe.
Edit: And everyone who hasn't should check out the Barely Blind album, of course. So, so, so fucking good.
I like the name Sharkfist!
Barely Blind album has been confirmed to be awesome. nice pick up =]


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Since today marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and since some of my English Language Learners students are taking science classes, I thought I'd put together a quick list of accessible resources about Darwin.
Here are my choices for The Best Online Resources To Learn About Charles Darwin (and are accessible to English Language Learners);
The life and times of Charles Darwin is an audio slideshow from the British newspaper The Guardian.
Darwin's Brave New World looks like a fabulous resource from The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Darwin's Footsteps is an online game where you follow his travels around the world.
Here's a neat game about Darwin's theories.
Happy 200th Darwin Day! is a slideshow from TIME Magazine.
ESL Holiday Lessons has a lesson on Darwin.
Evolution of Life is a series of videos on Darwin and evolution.
The New York Times has an audio slideshow about the Galapagos Islands.
Darwin: A Naturalist's Voyage Around The World
Living Galapagos is an audio slideshow about the islands today.
Follow the voyage of the Beagle in this interactive from the Natural History Museum.
I'd certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
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Seven years ago, without even knowing of the sport, Emily Drew picked up a volleyball at the suggestion of a friend. What she found was the key to unlocking a bright future.
A guiding force with a natural instinct for the game, Drew has left an indelible mark on a girls volleyball program rich with talented players.
The 5-foot-6 senior setter for Hunterdon Central arrived from Texas her sophomore year and began compiling numbers at a staggering pace. Earlier this season, she surpassed 1,500 assists for her career, a number not surpassed by many in New Jersey. ...


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|Chronic lymphoid leukemia cells are highly sensitive to the combination of prednisolone and daunorubicin, but much less to doxorubicin or epirubicin.
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|PMID: 20837094 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVE: To generate a comprehensive map of the drug sensitivity of chronic lymphoid leukemia cells (CLL) using a newly developed in vitro drug-sensitivity assay based on automated evaluation of cell viability on single-cell level.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Primary CLL cells from 77 patients were tested using automated digital fluorescence microscopy. The effect of 27 frequently used chemotherapeutic agents was measured in short-term fluorescence survival assay. To avoid typical in vitro artifacts such as growth factor depletion and oxidative damage, the cell were cultured in a novel, total human blood lysate-based medium (OmniSanguine) in order to preserve the composition of growth factor flora and redox conditions of the in vivo environment.
RESULTS: CLL cells from different patients showed considerable heterogeneity in their drug-sensitivity patterns. This pattern was stable even after in vitro activation of cell proliferation. Half of the samples were sensitive to fludarabine and chlorambucil. Daunorubicin was the most potent drug. It was effective in 75 of 77 cases. In addition, daunorubicin and prednisolone showed a strong synergistic effect.
CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that the combination of low-dose daunorubicin and prednisolone might be an additional treatment option for therapy-resistant cases of CLL.
|Henriette Skribek; Rita Otvos; Emilie Flaberg; Noemi Nagy; Laszlo Markasz; Staffan Eksborg; Tamas Masszi; Andras Kozma; Emma Adam; Attila Miseta; Eva Klein; Laszlo Szekely
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-09-15
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|Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology and Center for Integrative Recognition in the Immune System, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell / drug therapy*, pathology
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Now that head coach Craig Robinson has broken the ice with his first hoops commitment from the Class of 2009, the question becomes this - who's next? The Beavers have formulated their top targets list and Givon Crump is smack dab in the middle of it. The staff followed the progress of the solid 6-foot-6, 210-pound wing currently at the Brewster Academy all summer long and are hoping to make his cut for an official visit this fall."I just finished up the AAU season and I'm getting rest, but other than that I've just been working in Arizona with my dad," Crump said. "I felt that the season went pretty well. I did really well at Reebok U All-American Camp and I think I continued to play pretty well the rest of the summer. I shot the ball very well at the beginning of July and that carried through the rest of the summer." ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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There's nothing quite like a vine-ripened tomato, bursting with juice, or a slow-simmered tomato sauce, thick and rich -- and now a new study suggests the red fruit and its products could be good for lowering the risk of stroke.
Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio found that men with the highest blood levels of lycopene were the least likely to have a stroke over 12 years.
Lycopene is an antioxidant that is found at high levels in fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, watermelons and guavas, according to the National Institutes of Health. For reference, a cup of tomato juice (240 milliliters) contains approximately 23 milligrams of lycopene.
"This study adds to the evidence that a diet high in fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of stroke," study researcher Jouni Karppi, Ph.D., said in a statement. "The results support the recommendation that people get more than five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, which would likely lead to a major reduction in the number of strokes worldwide, according to previous research."
The Neurology study included 1,031 men between the ages of 46 and 65 who lived in Finland. Researchers analyzed the lycopene levels in their blood at the beginning and the end of the study (which lasted, on average, for 12 years).
By the end of the study period, 67 men had had a stroke. Fewer men with the highest lycopene levels had strokes than men with the lowest lycopene levels: Of the 259 men with the highest levels of lycopene, 11 had a stroke; meanwhile, of the 258 men with the lowest levels of lycopene, 25 had a stroke.
And when the researchers analyzed strokes that were caused solely by blood clots, they found that the men who had the highest levels of lycopene had a 59 percent decreased stroke risk compared with those with the lowest levels of lycopene.
Tomatoes aren't the only food that have been linked with a lower stroke risk -- click through the slideshow for more:
A Swedish study in the journal Neurology showed that eating chocolate is linked with a lower risk of stroke in men. The study, which included 37,103 men, showed that men who ate the most chocolate in the 10-year study had a 17 percent lower risk of stroke, compared with those who didn't report eating any chocolate during that time period.
Eating lots of whole grains could help to lower risk of ischemic stroke for women, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings showed that women who ate the most whole grains in the study (like the amount you'd get by eating two or three whole grain bread slices every day) had a 30 to 40 percent lower stroke risk, compared with women who ate the fewest whole grains in the study (like the amount you'd get by eating just a half-slice of whole grain bread every day), according to ABC News.
An antioxidant found in citrus fruits could help to lower risk of stroke in women, according to a study of 70,000 women earlier this year in the journal Stroke. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital found that women who consumed the most flavonoids over a 14-year period had a 19 percent lower risk of stroke than the women who consumed the fewest flavonoids during that time period.
While antioxidants aren't exactly a food on their own, fruits, vegetables and whole grains that are rich in them are linked with a lower stroke risk for women. Research published in the journal Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association showed that women with no heart disease history who consumed the most antioxidants from food had a 17 percent lower risk of stroke, and women with a heart disease history who consumed the most antioxidants from food had a 57 percent decreased risk of hemorrhagic stroke. The researchers, from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, speculated that the protection comes from antioxidants' ability to stop inflammation and oxidative stress in the body by neutralizing harmful free radicals. Antioxidants can also help to reduce blood clots and lower blood pressure and decrease inflammation, according to the American Heart Association.
Consuming low-fat dairy could help to lower the risk of stroke, according to a Stroke study. The research showed that the adults who consumed the most low-fat dairy over a 10-year period had a 12 percent lower risk of stroke compared with those who consumed the least low-fat dairy over the time period. "It is possible that vitamin D in low-fat dairy foods may explain, in part, the observed lowered risk of stroke in this study because of its potential effect on blood pressure," study researcher Susanna Larsson, Ph.D., associate professor of nutritional epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet, said in a statement.
Foods loaded with magnesium -- like beans, nuts leafy greens and whole grains -- are linked with a lower risk of ischemic stroke, WebMD Reported. The findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, showed specifically that for each 100 milligrams of magnesium consumed each day, ischemic stroke risk went down by 9 percent.
Making sure to eat some fish every week could help to lower risk of stroke, according to a review of studies published in the journal Stroke. Reuters reported on the study, which showed that eating fish several times a week was linked with a lower risk of stroke, compared with non-fish eaters. "I think overall, fish does provide a beneficial package of nutrients, in particular the omega-3s, that could explain this lower risk," Dariush Mozaffarian, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, whose research was part of the Stroke analysis, told Reuters.
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Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 25 mins
1 handful fresh kale
½ tablespoon olive oil
Sea salt, black pepper, and chipotle powder to taste
Preheat oven to 325˚.
Remove the stems from the kale and toss with olive oil, sea salt, black pepper, and chipotle powder (I used ½ teaspoon of salt and ¼ teaspoon of the other two.)
Spread out onto a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until Kale is crispy.
Remove from oven and let cool slightly.
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The position, originally the city recorder position under the recently retired Jim Hines, has been vacant only a short while.
A group of government officials filled a Tennessee Department of Transportation bus almost to capacity during a tour of local roadway projects.
The Friday, Sept. 30, event, the last of the roadway project bus tours in Region 1, included the widening of state route 29A (Ruritan Road) to state route 61 (Roane Street) in Harriman and the Highway 70 widening project from Rockwood to Midtown.
Also discussed were plans to widen Hwy. 27 through Morgan County and eventually widening the winding roadway all the way to Scott County.
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The catastrophic dike failure that sent an ocean of toxic ash onto land around the Kingston Fossil Plant may have been long in building up but was sudden in its fury, an engineer testified last week.
"That failure was so dramatically powerful that it didn't shear off at the bottom of dike C," William Walton testified on Thursday. "It went 10, maybe 15 into the foundation of dike C."
A local painter believes Harriman, with its fresh focus on the arts, may be a perfect location for an artist cooperative.
Pam Fowler thinks it could go over well in the downtown area, where city leaders hope the renovation of the Princess Theater as a regional arts and education center will trigger greater revitalization. Fowler hopes other artists will agree.
Harriman city employees will be seeing the benefits of a 2-percent pay increase on their next paychecks.
The Harriman City Council approved the fiscal 2012 budget on Sept. 27, including raises that were to begin the first pay period after final passage.
In addition to the raises, the city property tax rate of $1.1933 was rounded up to $1.20 per $100 valuation.
Treasurer Charles Kerley said it would make little difference to property owners.\
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A huge depression from an infamous breeder reactor project that was scuttled in the 1980s is still visible today.
Another pit could be on the way at the same Roane County location along the Clinch River.
TVA is looking into putting small modular reactors at the site on the Oak Ridge Reservation.
"This whole project is in the exploratory, can-we-make-this-happen, can-we-really- make-this-work kind of deal," said Jeff Perry, senior project manager for the Clinch River project. "That's kind of where we're at."
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Nothing obviously wrong with connections on altenator or battery.
Took some battery voltages on Monday:
Off voltage: around 8.0 if the car has only just been turned off, rising to 10.2 when the car has been off for 30 mins
Idle voltage: starts around 7.2, dropping to around 6.7 over 5 minutes
Idle voltage with max load (lights, wipers, fan): wipers got slower, lights got dimmer, couldn't get back round to the battery to test voltage before it stalled.
Started the car this morning, battery light was on initially then turned off. I put on all the loads but nothing I could do would make the problem return. Lights are bright, wipers are fast and the battery light stays off.
Only things that have changed is that I parked the car the other way on the hill (nose down) and it has stopped raining. Is it possible that water had collected somewhere causing a short circuit?
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The invention is an environmentally-friendly way to control insect pests. The invention involves a process for the synthesis and application of sugar esters. The technology is a way to reduce the use of petrochemical pesticides for the control of soft-bodied arthropod pests. It is specifically effective against the sweet potato whitefly, greenhouse whitefly, tobacco aphids, and mites. The invention can be applied to target pests by growers using a liquid spray.Inventors:
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says that News Corp will start charging for online access to its newspapers within the next year.
August 6, 2009 2:49 by Aarti Nagraj
"The digital revolution has not made content free," said Rupert Murdoch. The chairman of News Corp was announcing plans to begin charging readers to access the online editions of all his newspapers and television channels, a move expected to take place within the next 12 months.
"An industry that gives away its content is cannibalizing its ability to do good reporting," Murdoch said. "Our policy is to win and we will make our content better and differentiate it from other people. If we're successful, we'll be followed by other media."
He made the announcement as News Corp declared a $203 million loss for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended June 30, with revenues during the period dropping around 11 percent. The loss was largely due to a $680 million write-down on its MySpace business. During the same period last year News Corp made a profit of $1.1 billion.
For the full financial year, the company made a net loss of $3.38 billion, compared to a profit of $5.4 billion in the previous year.
While Murdoch has not yet given any indication how much online users will be charged, the European online edition of The Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp's Dow Jones unit) currently charges $1.99 per week for some of its content.
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wow, this is bad news for all the people reading the news now…soon blogs will officially take over..
The digital revolution has offered and continues to offer tremendously high number of information and credible news sources. Rupert Murdoch may choose to charge for his online media sources, I choose not to pay and will move on to another online news provider that will not charge me. Sometime at the end of 1990s, a well known newspaper published in the USA that offered online news service started charging there readers for accessing their online services. The idea did not score will with people and this known news sources lost the mass majority of their online readers. Compotators who maintain offering their free access to online news services gain additional customers that caused additional hits which lead to additional ads to be places therefore, making more money. It easy to lose a customer, but it is hard to getting him back (if this customer ever comes back). Rupert Murdoch may choose to charges fees however, we have options. Oh, by the way, this known online newspaper services in the USA went back to free online services unfortunately, the damage has been done.
Sorry, Murdoch….Onliners are a different pysche-consumerts…You need to rethink, reinvent ur past strategies…Please do that lest another business empire, like many others in past, fade from glory…
All the Best !
What does Murdoch think? Just because there are high profile people who read say for example The Gaurdian or Bloomberg online does NOT mean they will pay for it. They will all go to other sources. No matter what you do to make your news agency look the best, people will ALWAYS find a way to use something other than a resource which was free!
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Last weekend I was washing my car windows and reached for a bottle of Windex. There was a good quarter-inch of it left in the bottle, but because the way the pump was designed I couldn't get it to spray. I had to open a new bottle. I ended up keeping the old bottle and will pour it into the new bottle once its contents go down enough that it won't spill.
This dilemma is not unique to Windex. I've had similar issues with a wide range of spray pump bottles, including Clean Shower, Fantastic and Lysol Mildew Remover. But in this age of environmental correctness, this seems to be a problem that could easily be solved by the boys in marketing. I notice that none of these containers have a perfectly flat bottom, but instead have dimpled edges. An easy way to rectify the problem of wasted liquid cleaners would be to create a little dimpled well in the middle of the bottom of the container in which a slightly longer spray tube could be placed. This would allow every last drop of cleaner to be used, forever ending the messy chore of unscrewing caps and trying to pour chemical solvents without spilling them. I also think it would help the environment because I'm sure a lot of people are not as environmentally concerned and when the bottle gets low they just toss it in the trash.
Perhaps a large supermarket retailer can step up to the plate on this one and request that their private label supplier create a container like I had mentioned. It could be played up with a "good to the last drop" message on a starburst on the label and in advertising. In an era where many people are pinching pennies actually being able to use an entire container of spray cleaner would be a godsend.


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Who will buy? Weyerhaeuser and Shapell Stakes Grow Steeper
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Although Fed taper angst and a couple of underwhelming late entrants in home building's initial public offering beauty pageant have cast a pall over equity investor enthusiasm in the waning days of August, all is not quiet in home building's dog days landscape.
Bidders are jockeying for advantage on two game-changing home building crown jewels–the five-piece Weyerhaeuser portfolio of home builders with a reported total of 27,000 lots and California-based Shapell Homes, with an estimated California lot pipeline of 5,000–as the race to lock in land supply for housing's continued recovery in the coming 12 to 36 months heightens the stakes.
We're hearing price tags of upwards of $3 billion for the Weyerhaeuser group, and from $1 billion to $1.5 billion for the Shapell package.
Top line, the competition to buy the Weyerhaeuser five-operator package and Shapell's Golden State goldmine will play out as a classic smack-down between strategic behemoths and global financial private equity and hedge fund giants.
Since the sellers in both cases–Weyerhaeuser's deal is being fronted by Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley and Shapell is working with Lazard Freres & Co.–are radio silent and locked into confidentiality clauses on the bidding, BUILDER PULSE will take a stab educated conjecture in identifying potential most-likely candidates among strategic and financial players for the two mega-deals.
First let's have a look at what the Weyerhaeuser group is all about, and what it would mean for a strategic acquirer. Of interest is the question of why the group may only be available as a package. Broken up into pieces, we believe, would probably fetch an even more impressive roster of potential bidders. Trendmaker Homes, for instance, would attract interest from a number of privately held Texas-based builders, as would any one of the other Weyerhaeuser regional powerhouses.


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Proceeds from the 16th annual Jacksonport Thanksgiving Parade will benefit 14-year-old Chris Lorona, a Gibraltar High School freshman who going through chemotherapy for a brain tumor.
Gray ribbons and wristbands are being distributed to support the Cure for Chris and brain tumor awareness. Chris has had two surgeries already, which removed approximately 70 percent of the tumor.
A banner-making party is scheduled 6:30 p.m. Thursday at JJ's of Jacksonport to prepare for the parade. Anyone wishing to donate for the raffle or benefit can contact Mary Witteborg at (920) 743-7216 or any GBay/DECA member at Gibraltar High School.


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Buy the 913! Ha, I'm sure that if you let Titleist know, they can take care of it for you. Just go to your local Titleist Rep, and have them take care of it for you.
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Depending on the shaft you buy............it may turn out to be cheaper to buy another 907D2
I saw a 3balls.com ad, you can get 909's for under $100. Their used club rating is very strict, if you buy a club from them it will be in better shape than you expect.
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Due date: 08/07/01
Robert and Lisa Jackson are having difficulties naming their first baby- a boy. Robert wants to name him Robert which would be the fourth generation of that name. His dad goes by Bob, and Robert goes by Rob, Robbie, and Robert. That leaves nothing to call the baby except initials which they dislike or calling him by his middle name. Lisa wants to name the baby other names and use Robert as the middle name.


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OHKURA Shunji
OHKURA Shunji 大倉 舜二 (1937.5.3-) Tokyo. Prominent photographer with diverse themes, from fashion to street photography.
Major themes Fashion, glamour, food, insects, ikebana flowers, stage performances, and commercial work.
Education Graduated Dokkyo High School.
Career Studied basic photography under TOMINARI Tadao, a botanical photographer. Apprenticed under MIKI Jun (3 days), and studied fashion photography under SATO Akira.
Turned freelance at age 22. Photographer of a wide variety of subjects including fashion, food, insects, ikebana flowers, stage performances, and commercial work. Photographed kabuki actor BANDO Tamasaburo. Photographer of MATSUZAKA Keiko nude photo book in 1984. Photo book Tokyo X in late 2000. (2001.6.24)
Awards Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, 1971; Photographic Society of Japan's Award of the Year, 1987.
Book reviews Tokyo X