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Women of Meridian and surrounding areas stood tall and strong Saturday. If they weren't doing so already, they took the opportunity to learn how to do so. Ladies of all ages were offered information on how to better their own lives during the Women's Empowerment Conference 2010.
"What's going on, is there are a lot of workshop classes going on about how to be a strong, feminine women, how to start your own business, how to keep yourself healthy while you do that and then staying emotionally stable," said Kimberly Tucker, one of the coordinators of the event.
Mother, daughter, wife, friend. Women play numerous roles in their lives and can often lose track of their own needs. This conference helped women focus on what is important for their own health.
"Our goal is to help women lead more productive lives, help them get out in their community and make some things happen, make some positive contributions to their communities, and really go after some things that are really in their hearts as far as their dreams and their aspirations," Tucker said.
Now dreams and aspirations are not limited to women of any specific age group. Women of all ages are being encouraged to lead the lives that make them most happy and bring them the best health. The conference did, however, offer a special segment for ladies ages twelve to twenty-one to focus on specific issues.
"And we're talking about things from dating violence to securing a financial future. We're talking a little bit about self-esteem, about coping skills and things of that sort. So we're really excited about that," explained Tucker.
She said another element to be excited about were the opportunities offered to women after the conference. For those who wish to seek more guidance the workshops, they can pursue that.
"There are some vendors that have partnered with us that are providing helpful information and resource information and even making some referrals for women who need additional assistance beyond this conference," said Tucker.
Organizers of the Women's Empowerment Conference 2010 say the turnout was successful. There were originally only 150 women registered for the symposium. It ended up that more than 200 women took advantage of this learning and growing experience.


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Due to computer cut off dates and the timing of the receipt of requests to add a family member, some families may not be charged a premium for a month prior to the regular roll month.
Example: A Form 243C is received on 09/14/10 to request the addition of a child to an All Kids Premium Level 2 case. The worker adds the child on 09/21/10. The child gets All Kids Premium for 10/10 but is not billed for that month. The family's premium increases in 11/10.
For a person to be added to a Rebate case, a new Rebate form must be completed. Add a person to a Rebate case for the current processing month, when the Rebate form is received.
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The Scots prop up the rest of Group A after taking just two points from their opening four games - a run of results that ultimately cost Craig Levein his job in November.
Speaking as the new national team boss was presented at a media conference at Hampden, Regan said: "Gordon has got a series of duties set out within his contract. It's not really appropriate to go into what they consist of but ultimately his challenge is to start to move Scotland up the group table for the Brazil 2014 campaign."
The national team's chances of defying the odds to book a place at Brazil in 2014 have been written off in most quarters, although Strachan's own response to that question on Tuesday was: "We'll give it a go."
He takes charge of his first match against Estonia in a friendly at Pittodrie on February 6, before Scotland face Wales and Serbia in a qualification double-header in March. And Regan has backed Strachan to make sure the campaign does not end in humiliation.
"We would like to avoid finishing last," Regan said. "He more than anyone wants to make sure that happens. Also, it's about preparing for France 2016. Gordon is keen to develop a format of play, a philosophy, if you like, for the Scotland team that works. We're backing him to do that."
Strachan has managerial experience at club level with Coventry, Southampton, Celtic and Middlesbrough. He also boasts a playing career that included spells at Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds and Coventry, as well as 50 caps for Scotland.
Regan added: "As a player, he experienced what every Scotland player wants to experience - participating in a major tournament. He can share those experiences with the squad as we prepare to qualify, hopefully, for France 2016.
"Gordon has had experience as a manager at club level and has experienced participation in the Champions League and has also experienced winning a major tournament, the FA Cup final, in England.
"Gordon's network in football is second to none. Finally, the single biggest factor that inspired the board, was Gordon's passion and his desire for the job. He made no secret of wanting this job. He's really worn his heart on his sleeve in terms of wanting to be Scotland manager."
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Southern Flavors, Spiked With Seoul
SEOUL — Philip Abowd slides a cocktail the color of honeydew across the copper-topped bar and ticks off the ingredients: gin, elderflower liqueur, fresh muddled cucumber, mint, simple syrup, a dash of orange bitters and something else that packs a punch and leaves your lips tingling.
Muddled chili pepper, known as gochu in Korean, is the mystery ingredient that gives the drink its playful zing. It's also an important feature in Korean cuisine. The cocktail is called Barton Springs, after a popular oasis in Austin, Texas, where locals go to cool off when the weather is too hot to bear.
The drink is just one of many that embodies southern flair at the Southside Parlor, a cozy bar and restaurant close to Seoul's Itaewon district, set to open its doors for the first time on Saturday. Its aim, Mr. Abowd says, is to make southern American ingredients "approachable to the Asian palate" by mixing and matching ingredients like persimmon, green tea and ginger with Texas staples like chipotle chilies and tequila for "off the wall" flavor combinations.
Founders Johnny Yu, Robbie Nguyen and Mr. Abowd are eager to show foreign and Korean patrons alike what drinks and cuisine would taste like if they were created by "three Texas boys who grew up in Asia instead of Texas"—a slot that remains wide open and ready to be filled in the city's dining and drinking culture, says Mr. Abowd. There is, for instance, a chain of bars in Seoul known as Texas, but, while they borrow U.S. iconography, they offer a standard beer-and-soju experience.
The three friends, who met in Seoul after moving to the city as English teachers, got their start in the food business by selling Tex-Mex from a pink truck they called "Trina." The endeavor, Mr. Nguyen says, "didn't go too well."
It did, however, propel them into the world of liquor. Last October they began guest-bartending at pop-up events around Seoul, dubbing themselves the "Southern Sons," a name they now use to describe their brand. The events were a success, and now the trio finally has a place to hang their hats, experiment with new recipes and dream up monikers for their southern-inspired creations.
Front Porch Fizz is a cheeky take on sweet tea, the signature refreshment of the South, and blends black tea-infused bourbon, Martini Bianco, Créme de Pêche and citrus soda. The East Indian Outlaw is a lighter take on traditional eggnog and contains bourbon, apricot brandy, ginger-cardamom syrup, lemon and whole egg for a spicy aroma and finish.
The Parlor also experiments with cuisine. Sriracha mayo is added to the smoked brisket, while the pulled pork is drizzled with miso-mustard and topped with a sesame leaf. Both are sandwiched in Chinese steam buns made of rice flour.
Purists may balk at the Parlor's methods, but the group maintains that integrating Asian flavors into their offerings is key to appealing to both foreign and Korean diners.
"We've never been ones to say the traditional style of barbecue is the best kind of barbecue," Mr. Abowd says. "There's ways to always make something better."
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What a quarter, and I love what the CEO had to say - my type of guy!!;
"We maintain a long-term perspective to building a premier business banking franchise in the diverse and attractive markets Xenith serves. We anticipate continued organic growth with an eye towards thoughtful and prudent acquisitions or other transactions where and when appropriate. The corporate culture we are building is an important consideration in acquisitive growth, as we look at potential merger or acquisition candidates and their respective shareholder bases as partners teaming with Xenith. We believe our future is bright and are cautiously optimistic as the economy continues to improve slowly."
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Vt. couple charged with drug distribution
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A Vermont couple is facing charges they distributed drugs in the Rutland area.
Federal prosecutors say 47-year-old Valentino Anderson and 29-year-old Crystal Hall Anderson both pleaded not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
Valentino Anderso also was charged with distributing heroin.
If convicted, they could each be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
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Local bands Jenny O., In the Valley Below, and Body Parts as well as sets by KCRW DJ Travis Holcombe, oversized games, live wild animals, cocktails, craft making, a balloon artist, nighttime activities in Noah's Ark, and screenings of Dr. Seuss' The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T—that is what we can offer if you join us Friday, August 30 for our end-of-the-summer extravaganza, Into the Night: The Wild Side! For a little insight into the three local bands who will be performing, members of our Programs Department discuss the band they're most excited about bringing to the Skirball:
When I saw Jenny O. perform at The Echo back in March of this year, along with Harriet (who performed at the Skirball on July 12), the chatting, mingling audience (including myself) was immediately captivated. Jenny has a surprisingly demure yet powerful stage presence, and her band has a warm, old-timey sound that is reminiscent of The Beach Boys and Harry Nilsson, whom Jenny O. cites as her greatest influences. Her latest album, Automechanic (featuring accompaniment by Jake Blanton of The Killers), is full of deeply personal lyrics and interesting harmonies that are a testament to her artistic growth since her 2011 EP, Home. I'm really excited to see the band perform at the Skirball, and am looking forward to hearing some of my favorites like "Automechanic" and "Well OK Honey" live!
—Kasia Gondek, Program Coordinator
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Case-Mate Announces New iPhone 5S and 5C Case Collections
That didn't take long. A few hours after Apple announced that the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C would be shipping on September 20, accessory maker Case-Mate announced its all new next-generation case collections... And there is something for everyone!
Since it has the same form factor as its predecessor, the now discontinued iPhone 5, Case-Mate has extended its Naked Tough collection to include the iPhone 5S. The Naked Tough case's smooth transparent finish and ultra slim design is perfect for protecting your new iPhone 5S, and showing off its new silver and gold colors.
Sony Officially Announces DSC-QX10 and DSC-QX100 Smartphone "Lens Cameras"
Out of all the products Sony announced today at IFA , the Sony lens cameras for both Android and iOS devices may be the most interesting and hardest to describe. The Sony DSC-QX10 and Sony DSC-QX100 are basically mini-cameras that attach to your smartphone to improve your device's picture taking capabilities. Both lens cameras connect to your mobile device via Wi-Fi/NFC, and allow you to access all their features using Sony's PlayMemories app. The cameras can also be used separately on their own to snap DSLR-quality pictures or capture 1080/30p HD video in MP4 format.
The DSC-QX10 transforms your smartphone into a 10x optical zoom camera, and features a back-illuminated 18MP 1 / 2.3" Exmor R CMOS sensor with image stabilization. The DSC-QX100 is equipped with a 20.2MP sensor and a Carl Zeiss f/1.8 lens. Sony promises that both lens cameras will work well in low light situations, and will help you to capture higher quality images and video with your smartphone. The lens cameras also support many popular iOS and Android photo applications.
Here's Another Leaked iPhone 5C Image, This Time in Blue
The rumored iPhone 5C may be one of the most leaked Apple products in recent memory. It has been leaked in numerous images and videos, and we have seen it in almost every available color. The latest iPhone 5C photo comes from Tactus, who claims the iPhone 5C will be available in black, white, pink, yellow, blue and red. A previous leak of the iPhone 5C's volume buttons suggested that the low budget device would be available in green, yellow, blue and red. Apple currently sells the iPod touch in black, white, pink, yellow, blue and red.
Apple to Manufacture an Entire Lineup of Macs in the US
Apple CEO Tim Cook told Brian Williams Apple will manufacture an entire lineup of Macs in the United States in 2013. When asked by Williams why Apple "can't be a made in America company" Cook replied that the engine and glass of the iPhone are produced in America, before adding ""we will do one of our existing Mac lines in the United States". Cook did not specify what lineup of Macs Apple will produce in the U.S. The entire interview will air on December 6, at 10 pm / 9c on NBC's Rock Center.
Apple to Fix iPhone Location Tracking in iOS 4.3.3
Two weeks ago a location tracking issue with iOS 4 GPS enabled devices came to light when data researchers discovered a file within the operating system that contained data about the phone's whereabouts. Not only did the file contain the phone's physical coordinates along with timestamps, but it was discovered that this information was transferred to iTunes every time a synch was performed. At the time Apple made no comments as to the purpose of the file or how to disable it. Most speculation leaned toward the file having something to do with future projects involving location based advertising. Whatever the case, there was a lot of media coverage and such Big Brother-ish activity raised concerns for consumers, so Apple has decided to address the issue with the next iOS update, iOS 4.3.3.
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Just like its predecessors, the announcement of the iPhone 5 has spawned no shortage of speculation and rumors. The good Frenchmen at Nowhere Else have gathered them all and displayed them in a chart along with probabilities for each rumor. Some of the rumors seem like definites, some seem more likely than others, some sound like plain crazy talk.
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A recent article on the iPad blog, The iPad Guide, details the contents of a recent letter to investors from Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek which reports that the launch of the Apple iPad will be either delayed up to a full month or limited to the United States only. Though unconfirmed, the letter from Misek warns investors that Apple may have less than a third of the 1 million unit iPad inventory it has announced it would have come the March iPad release date.
The source of the delay is an "unspecified production problem" leading to production bottlenecks that is greatly reducing the number of units being produced by
Bing to Become iPhone Default Search Engine?
As the rivalry heats up between Apple and Google, Apple has entered talks with Microsoft to replace Google with Bing as the iPhone's default search engine. With Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Apple's board the two companies have partnered in the past, but he is no longer on the board and there is now direct competition between the two giants.
Google's introduction of the Android OS was the first sign that a serious rivalry was in the making. Now Google has introduced the Nexus One, a mobile device that will directly compete with the iPhone in the smart phone market. Apple has pushed back by getting involved in ad placement on its mobile devices, which is Google ad-serving territory. Apple has also recently refused to approve two Google apps
Apple iPhone 2009 Arrives July 17th, Features OLED Display
Some new rumors about Apple's newest incarnation of the iPhone have surfaced in the past 24 hours concerning a release date and details on some of the new features. According to a source closely connected to Apple's hardware team the iPhone 2009 is set to launch on July 17th.
Although some are describing the upgrade as "minor," judge for yourself... The new iPhone will supposedly be equipped with an OLED screen, which in my opinion is pretty major. OLEDs emit light,
New iPhone Specs Leaked
It looks like some of the next generation iPhone's specs are beginning to show up around the web. Macrumors has apparently been monitoring the Chinese forum Weiphone and has found something of note - a screenshot and a list of some features and specs.
Earlier this month a forum poster on Weiphone.com uploaded what is claimed to be a screenshot from a next generation iPhone with a "MB717LL" model number. It appears to have 32 GB of storage. The original poster also made a few other claims... In addition to the 32 gigs of storage the new iPhone will have a 600MHz CPU Speed (up from 400MHz) and 256MB RAM (up from 128MB). The phone will also


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Posted 26 January 2008 - 21:02 PM
The capensis has died back fully and the flava is fully dormant. I would like to bring them back inside for the growing season as i am kinda doing a test on the dormancy out or in to see if it makes a difference . so i was wondering when it would be fine to move them back inside to a window sill.
It will not be much warmer as the room has the window open lots etc....
so anyway when should i do it? should i wait untill they start to grow or should i do it around the beginning of feb ?
ps, hope this aint a totally stupid question....
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Posted 26 January 2008 - 21:10 PM
Why did you feel the need to throw your D. capensis outside for a Scottish winter?
Posted 26 January 2008 - 21:14 PM
I wouldn't bring the flava inside though. It will try to grow with the increased temperature but end up growing floppy pitchers because of the low light.
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Posted 26 January 2008 - 21:17 PM
It doesn't need a dormancy, but I think it looks better with fresh new growth every spring coming back from the roots personally.
A pair of scissors can help
Edited by FredG, 26 January 2008 - 21:17 PM.
Posted 27 January 2008 - 11:33 AM
and ok so is there a time to bring the flava in? or just leave it out all year? :) maybe i should throw it in my little bog
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 14:43 PM
I put the capensis out for it to naturally die back
My point exactly........ why did you want it to die back?
It's not natural.
Posted 27 January 2008 - 18:47 PM
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 18:51 PM
becuase it was long and very ugly...and i was told that was a good idea on this forum.
You will be told many things on this forum.
You don't have to accept them all as being good advice.
Look upon it as panning for gold.
You have to sift a lot of rubbish to get a few useful grains.
Posted 27 January 2008 - 22:14 PM
naa i trust the people on here like Alexis and Sheila
Posted 27 January 2008 - 22:42 PM
Firstly I normally wouldn't leave any of my Flava's (or any other Sarracenia, apart from venosa) out in the Winter.
I've done it before and whilst the plants don't appear to suffer much, it means their season is considerably shortened (coz it takes them longer to wake up), leading to them over 3-5 years, a lot worse off than their 'grown in the greenhouse' bretheren. I've also found that those exposed to extremes, don't flower as well, sometimes not dropping pollen at all.
Also the weather this year has (IMHO) been a damm site milder than it normally is. All you need is a prolonged freeze (with wind) and the weather will freeze -dry your plant (and Winter ain't over yet not by a long chalk).
If you do bring the plant in shortly, then it will grow, but even in full light the growth will be weaker and it won't put up with you putting the plant out later in the year (unless you tie up the pitchers). If you leave it outside then the pitcher growth will be stronger (and shorter) and later, with possibly no seed production.
They are your choices- its up to you what you want to do!!!
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Posted 27 January 2008 - 23:41 PM
Posted 28 January 2008 - 13:22 PM
would that be ok
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Posted 28 January 2008 - 14:13 PM
i have a south facing green house ?
would that be ok
If you have, that's where the plants should have been in the first place
Posted 28 January 2008 - 16:11 PM
but if i moved it there now do u think it would notice and start growing weakly?
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Posted 28 January 2008 - 17:40 PM
Posted 28 January 2008 - 20:17 PM
my first shoot is appearing (inside)
#17 Guest_Sheila_*
Posted 29 January 2008 - 00:19 AM
Posted 29 January 2008 - 13:25 PM
if they stop growing over winter is that enough? or do u like them to be frozen or just cold ? my room didnt have heating for the first half of winter lol and the window is open all day
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Posted 29 January 2008 - 15:25 PM
i have done the same as the last like 3 - 4 years and every year my plants are getting better
If you have 3 - 4 years experience why are you asking for advice now?
Posted 29 January 2008 - 16:18 PM
of keeping the plant with the shoot (and a few more) inside
completely different thing.....please stop looking to big faults with me......geez


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Value of Journalism
Will newspapers survive? I think the physical form will survive for another 10 years at least at much lower valuation then eventually break into nich market fragments. The profession of journalism will, however, not only continue on but become more … Continue reading
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Monday, 30 October 2006
John has a basic problem as a Mysterian.
A man can say, I don't know God. But how does he say, I know that I can't know God?
Isn't the defining problem - how do I learn (or know) the Truth about anything and everything?
My experience is that people who sincerely want to know, hunger and thirst after righteousness, and can accept some guidance both temporal and supernatural, who seek to discover how to pray - these people make some progress.
I am also certain that you have to love truth more than life if you want to know the truth about anything and everything. You can certainly do that outside of religion (but not initially. Other people and discipline are important.), but you can't do it apart from God. You can't maintain a vague, unknowing, distrusting, or indifferent attitude and expect to ever get much truth out of him.
Also, consider the idea -- why should God trust you with the experience of him? You have earn God's trust just as you have to earn anyone's trust.
How can a man trust he knows anything if he can't know what truth is?
Affliction often makes humans reject faith in a fit of pique. "After all I did for you, God, and this is how you treat me!?"
I understand that very well, but what if God doesn't want good deeds, babbling petitions, and rote submission? What if he really does want to put you on a cross and murder every bit of ego, willfulness, and the Self you possess?
Isn't it more likely then that God isn't the one hiding from people, but that they are generally running away from him?
It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of a living God, indeed.
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their origins to the Champagne region of France, several West Coast vintners
offer a number of delicious sparkling wines at surprisingly affordable price
So long as they keep their distance from Internet-based startups,
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guests at your holiday gathering, they have the potential to lift your party
magic to new heights!
First, a few basics about bubbly. Technically speaking, Champagne
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wine that may be referred to as Champagne. The French ask that other regions
refer to their sparklers as sparkling wine, s'il vous plaît.
The bubbles in a sparkling wine happen because of a second
fermentation process that takes place when a winemaker starts with still wine
(usually Chardonnay and/or Pinot Noir and/or Pinot Meunier) and adds a little
bit of sugar plus a pinch of yeast. This combination creates billions of tiny
bubbles and, of course, alcohol. While this méthode champenoise was invented
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French Original: The Magic of Morlet!The wine: Pierre Morlet Brut Grand Reserve Premier Cru,
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Napa Valley winemaker Luc Morlet represents the fourth generation
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Greg worries about birds – the feathered ones he's now watching and the female… well, because they're female. Platonic to the point of frigidity, he may be running out of time for both as the world has a bird crisis too. Bird flu. Deadly pandemics sweep the globe.
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What were 10 largest wildfires in Calif?
Three of state's largest infernos scorched San Diego County
Flames in perspective
The Rim Fire burning in Yosemite National Park is one of the largest wildfires in modern California history, charring an area bigger than New York City and almost as big as Kansas City, Kan. It's an apocalyptic scene familiar to long-time San Diego County residents, who remember two larger fires burning the region in the last decade.
Here are the ten largest wildfires in California in the past 80 years, in reverse order.
Basin Complex
June 2008, Monterey County, 162,818 acres
A surprise storm in June 2008 unleashed lightning bolts that crashed down in Big Sur, spawning this blaze on June 21, it destroyed 26 homes and 32 other structures.
September 1970 San Diego County 175,425 acres
Santa Ana winds reaching 50 mph blew a tree against a power line, which fell into dry brush in the Cleveland National Forest near the Kitchen Creek area, not far from the community of Mount Laguna in the early morning of Sept. 26, 1970. In 24 hours the fire roared into the outskirts of El Cajon and Spring Valley. By the time it was contained on Oct. 3, the Laguna fire had burned almost 180,000 acres, killed at least five people and destroyed 382 homes.
Marble Cone
July 1977, Monterey County, 177,866 acres
A lightning strike in the Los Padres National Forest in Monterey County sparked an inferno that burned for three weeks in and around Big Sur.
Klamath Theater Complex
June 2008 Siskiyou County, 192,038 acres
Drought and a lightning storm June 2008 sparked a series of fires that burned for 98 days, scorching the Klamath and Six Rivers national forests between the Klamath River and the Oregon border. There were two fatalities: a Washington firefighter was killed while scouting the Panther Fire and contract equipment operator died as the result of a grader accident.
Witch Creek
October 2007, San Diego County, 197,990 acres
Arcing power lines, buffeted by Santa Ana winds, were blamed by investigators for the Oct. 21, 2007. Ignited near Santa Ysabel, the fire burned from Julian to Rancho Bernardo and was the largest of the many wildfires to ravage Southern California in 2007. It destroyed 1,125 residential structures. Suppression efforts cost more than $18 million. Forty-five firefighters were injured. Two people died.
September 1932, Ventura County, 220,000 acres
This wildfire long held the record as the largest in California history. It started on the morning of Sept. 7 in the Matilija canyon northeast of Ojai and swept over ridges covered with dense underbrush, scrub oak and pine. The fire burned thousands of acres of watershed and timberland in the what was then called the Santa Barbara National Forest in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
July 2007, Santa Barbara County, 240,207 acres
The Zaca fire burned over more than 375 square miles of wilderness in Los Padres National Forest after being ignited on July 4, 2007 by sparks from equipment used to repair a water pipe on a ranch about 15 miles north of Solvang. Felony charges were filed against two men and a cattle ranch in connection with the fire, which took nearly two months to put out at a cost of more than $120 million.
August 2013, Tuolumne County, 236,160 acres
The Rim Fire started Aug. 17, 2013, in the Stanislaus National Forest and burned 257,314 acres (more than 400 square miles) in and around Yosemite National Park over a period of 69 days. It destroyed 11 homes and more than 100 other buildings and cost $125 million to fight. The cause is believed to be an illegal campfire that burned out of control.
August 2012, Lassen County, 271,911 acres in California / 43,666 acres in Nevada
This lightning-sparked blaze charred more than 315,000 acres in eastern Lassen County and northwestern Nevada in August 2012. Despite the fire's enormous size, it damaged only a handful of buildings, burning mainly sagebrush, juniper and grasslands on Bureau of Land Management property along the California-Nevada border.
October 2003, San Diego County, 280,278 acres
Santa Ana Winds fanned a lost hunter's signal fire into the largest fire in recorded California history. It raged for ten days, destroyed 2,820 buildings (2,232 homes); and killed a firefighter and 14 others. It and two other simultaneous fires, Paradise and Otay, burned 376,237 acres — over 13 percent of all the land in the county — and caused 17 deaths. The hunter pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months of private confinement, community service and probation.
Historic fires
Cal Fire keeps a list of the largest California wildfires dating back to 1932. By some estimates, the Santiago Canyon Fire (also called the "Great Fire of 1889") burned more than 300,000 acres in the northern part of the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County in 1889, making it possibly the largest wildfire in state history. (Above U.S. Forest Service firefighters battle a blaze in an old-growth forest.)


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2016: Obama's America
Personally I'm not much into political based documentaries but this film seems to be garnering as much attention as anything Michael Moore has put out. What's your opinion on the politics of the film? The author? How the film itself was done and looks?
Member Comments
Wow conect , I didnt realize that buried in your brainfevered meanerings were the rights secret plans for righting our ship ! Stuff like "THE 'VICE' PRESIDENT SWIMS NUDE IN FRONT OF FEMALE SECRET SERVICE AGENTS!"and so on has demonstrated exactly what would happen if the republinutz ever come to power again ! But , yes reading back through was indeed an eye opener ! If anyone else wishes to do so may I suggest that you make yourself a tin foil hat before perusing these threads !
Posted 267 days ago.
I dont know there dum-dum , maybe it would have been like the time Dubya got elected and ruined our country !And now you "PEOPLE" wont let him try to fix it ! And who gives a flying rats arse about your screwed up youtube bullsh^t ? Im sure that all your right-wing whacko websites have tons of insight ! I mean YOU tell us , IF YOU KNOW !
Posted 267 days ago.
Why should I bother? You do nothing but s-uck the teat of the present Democratic status quo and whine around about it, apparently, not being socialistically ENOUGH for you. You show that tendency every time you suggest that the Republicans are "obstructionists".
Tell us, OHWISEONE, what would you have our federal government do if the OPPOSITION PARTY (which is what they are SUPPOSED to be) would step out of the way and let George Soro's BOY have his unencumbered way with us.
BTW - I HAVE continued to post proposals to counter the misguided trappings of that bumbling Fool that spoke from the WH last night. You're apparently to obtuse to catch or understand them.
By example; h ttps://w ww.youtube.c om/watch?v=pothHyqnIWM
Posted 267 days ago.
Please grace us all with your deep wisdom on what to do !
Posted 267 days ago.
And I reiterate " "How about instead of complaining, you post your sides ideas and answers and policies on how to do things so that way you can be held accountable ." I was wondering when we would hear the first whine and cry fest !
Posted 267 days ago.
Random - Glad you are one that IS aware. The Progressives know they'll not cripple the 2nd Amendment in wholesale fashion. They instead are maneuvering to do it piecemeal, one group of people denied or one type of armament or accessory at a time. Ask them to get busy enforcing are present gun laws, or immigration laws for that matter and it's, "Oh no, can't do that, might offend someone."
I'm already offended by these would-be Communists and I don't intend to lighten up any time soon.
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Posted 267 days ago.
"Judge Jeanine Pirro - Opening Statement" - 12/5/15
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Posted 267 days ago.
After the propaganda speech last night which changed nothing in the war against terror except to push for further gun control laws and put those on the government's lists on another list denying them the right to purchase firearms. Without due process, to ban unprosecuted or even arrested individuals from rightful transactions is surprisingly directly opposite of what the left has always believed. Banning firearms is their real agenda and any other thought is secondary. Who can say which names shall be added next at some bureaucrat's whim?
Posted 267 days ago.
Typically these righties here want no part of that !
Posted 267 days ago.
And notice this readers , there was still NO REPLY to the question "How about instead of complaining, you post your sides ideas and answers and policies on how to do things so that way you can be held accountable ."
Posted 267 days ago.
Oh and BTW there conect you selectively choose to omit the fact that there were others banished as well so as usual you palaver means exactly NADA !And yes , just like I said :I knew you couldnt just walk away . You would eventually get all riled up from some bullsh^t propaganda and just have to vent that crap on here or explode ! lol
Posted 267 days ago.
"Walk away" ??? That's a GOOD ONE!
Hey, anybody still reading these threads, notice my name and comments repeatedly posted under this particular forum and wonder whom I was writing/responding to. There's nobody there! That's because it was "ohwiseone", who had all of his commentary removed by the forum's administrators for, apparently, inappropriate content. THEN, ohwiseone reemerges as "slinky" and CONTINUES his drivel. WHO, does it demonstrate, REALLY can't "just walk away" ???
Posted 267 days ago.
Oh and BTW there conect , I knew you couldnt just walk away . You would eventually get all riled up from some bullsh^t propaganda and just have to vent that crap on here or explode !
Posted 267 days ago.
Whine , cry and bit ch is all you righties do . And it all goes back to you just didnt get your way and get your rich white guy elected ! How about instead of complaining, you post your sides ideas and answers and policies on how to do things so that way you can be held accountable . After all , hindsight is perfect , people are not !
Posted 268 days ago.
Funny thing about civil rights , they go out the window when theres a war on . Just ask the japanese americans during WWII ! Sure didnt hear a bunch of crying when that took place !
Posted 268 days ago.
Amid all this dust and confusion about "Gun control" and "Climate change", we still have an administration very Muslim-fixated.
Obama said, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Obama's Attorney General vows to "take aggressive action against anyone who used "anti-Muslim rhetoric" that "edges toward violence."
Seems like, in that respect, they are telling the American public to suspend their 1st Amendment rights and SHUTUP, similarly to what the two fanatics in California were symbolically demanding.
I wonder if we'll be able to describe Obama's upcoming, "very unusual Sunday Prime-time" address as being "The Declaration of The Goat-Humpers"?
Posted 268 days ago.
And more good news , The United Auto Workers union won its first organizing vote at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the U.S. South on Friday, in a groundbreaking victory after decades of failed attempts.
About 71 percent of skilled trades workers who cast ballots at Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to join the UAW, according to the company and the union.
Read more at Reuters........ Seems more are leaving the dark side !
Posted 269 days ago.
Starting to learn from the tiredbrain troll and its patented "bury em in bullsh^t" routine ! Thats just what we need , more idiocy !
Posted 297 days ago.
Are you trying to bury that with which YOU can not contend?
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of no importance?
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Exec education is hotting up with Asian institutes vying for a piece of the pie. A looks at where India stands
Move over MBA. It's the age of the e-MBA and executive education. Companies the world over now feel the need to continuously train middle and senior management professionals and institutes are only too happy to oblige. After all, it's big money.


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Hi Alan,
Since you point to the OpenJDK 7 feature list I assume these JDK 7 snapshots are derived from the OpenJDK sources. Could you post them under a more friendly license, preferably just GPL like the rest of us are using?
I tried to use them to compare to my own builds, but apparently the license doesn't allow me to :{ Error: License was not accepted.
This was the same issue pointed out some time ago:
Then Mark Reinhold actually published his builds under the GPL:
Could you please do the same?
Posted by Mark Wielaard on November 04, 2010 at 03:06 AM PDT #
I guess you know this already, but Oracle's binaries get built with some proprietary components such as the plug-in, web start, installers. Creating binaries from the OpenJDK repos would be nice but I personally don't have cycles to do that. In any case, this entry wasn't meant to highlight that hoary issue. Rather it's to coax developers into trying JDK 7 and sending feedback so that bugs/issues are caught as early as possible. JDK 7 might not be a large release (relatively speaking), but there are still several truck load of changes.
Posted by Alan Bateman on November 04, 2010 at 09:21 PM PDT #
Sure, you still have some proprietary blobs. But you can just use the GPL+exception for all the OpenJDK code. Only your proprietary add ons need to be covered by a closed license (thanks to the assembly exception). That way people would actually get the freedom to inspect the OpenJDK parts themselves and see what is different from the community builds. The current draconian proprietary license you are using basically forbids community members to inspect the free shared code. Using a license that forbids sending feedback to the OpenJDK communtiy really is not nice and unfair to all who contributed to the code.
Posted by Mark Wielaard on November 04, 2010 at 09:54 PM PDT #
Here is the relevant bug report, opened more than 6 (SIX!) years ago:
Posted by Dusty on November 09, 2010 at 10:16 PM PST #
My previous post has been lost, I was saying that a very basic bug on the JVM has been reported 6 years ago, the cause was found, but it's still unfixed..
Alan, can you, working at Oracle, raise the attention on it?
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The truth about farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh
A group of citizen journalists in Chhattisgarh is finding out why four farmers in the state are committing suicide every day, and why the government continues to deny this. They found that in a single district, Durg, 11 farmers had committed suicide due to debt, while 52 labourers took their lives for "economic reasons"
Why does India need a bunch of city-dwelling computerwallahs to discover that farmers in its villages are committing suicide in alarmingly high numbers? Does it tell us something about the health of our other institutions as well?
The journey that led to this discovery started at a Dream Chhattisgarh meet in December 2007. The Dream Chhattisgarh meet is an annual event of the Internet-based citizen's journalism group CGnet.
Generally, people connected to the Internet are city-dwellers with limited understanding of the world of farming. This is true for most members of our group too.
To dream of a better future for Chhattisgarh it is important to understand the issues surrounding the profession that sustains 80% of the state's population.
And so, at Dream Chhattisgarh meets, the first session is usually on agriculture; last year, farmers and agricultural experts were invited to inaugurate the meet at Champaran.
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This Champaran is a village in Chhattisgarh, around 60 km from the state capital Raipur.
Chhattisgarh is not Vidarbha
At the meet, farmers described their pathetic condition to CGnet members. "The situation of the farmer is so bad today that a labourer working for me can eat a cauliflower," one of them said, "but I must be satisfied with the stubs that we earlier used to feed to the animals."
The issue of farmer suicides also came up.
We wanted to invite a specialist from Vidarbha to speak about what Chhattisgarh could learn from Vidarbha about farmer distress, and, perhaps, avoid making the same mistakes. But no one was able to join us from Vidarbha.
During the discussion, experts told us that they had never heard of any farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh. They had read a few news items on farmer suicides in Madhya Pradesh and how that state was amongst the top five states with respect to this issue. The figures for Madhya Pradesh included Chhattisgarh.
Participants also discussed an article by P Sainath, published a few weeks before the meet. The article referred to a study by Professor K Nagaraj of the Madras Institute of Development Studies which states that over 2,000 farmers commit suicide in Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh) every year.
The meet concluded that most of these suicides were probably happening in the cash crop areas of Madhya Pradesh, as we had never heard of any farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh.
The agriculture sub-committee of CGnet decided to explore the matter further.
The investigation begins
A Google search with the words "farmer suicide" and "Chhattisgarh" yielded the same P Sainath article discussed at the meet which gives the farmer suicide figures for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh jointly.
Was there no separate data on farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh, I wondered.
A call to Professor Nagaraj revealed that the data was indeed available and could be obtained from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Nagaraj said: "There was no Chhattisgarh when I started the study in 1997. And after 2000, when the data for the three new states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand were made available, I simply added them to the parent states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for my convenience."
So, were the figures for Chhattisgarh never investigated on their own?
A visit to the NCRB showed that, contrary to our assumption at the Dream Chhattisgarh meet, out of the 2,000-odd farmers who had committed suicide in undivided Madhya Pradesh, more than 1,200 were from Chhattisgarh!
The next week, I expressed my shock over this revelation in my weekly column in a local Chhattisgarh newspaper: 'Four farmers commit suicide in Chhattisgarh every day, says the NCRB. Are the figures fudged?'
The next morning there was an article on the front page of the same paper ridiculing the figures. 'Everybody loves a good fraud: The untruth of farmer suicide figures in Chhattisgarh' was the title of the piece.
The article claimed that a survey done by the author had come across only six cases of farmer suicide in the state from the year 2000, when Chhattisgarh was formed. The author observed that many farmers had committed suicide but that the cause had nothing to do with livelihood.
Laughing at these claims, P Sainath told us: "If one farmer is committing suicide annually in Chhattisgarh, then the state must be a heaven! I would advise farmers from the US and Europe to shift to Chhattisgarh."
More articles debating the issue followed.
The arguments presented claimed that Chhattisgarh was not Vidarbha. Farmers did not grow cash crops here; paddy does not need that much investment. So, farmers were committing suicide for non-farming reasons.
Jacob Nellithanam, who has been working with farmers for a number of years, contradicts this argument by saying: "Paddy is a cash crop for the farmers of Chhattisgarh."
Meanwhile, the police chief of Chhattisgarh told the local press that the figures quoted were bogus and asked for proof.
The National Crime Records Bureau in Delhi responded: "If the figures are bogus then please ask the government of Chhattisgarh why they are sending bogus figures. We do not have any offices in the state; we publish what we get from the State Crime Records Bureaus."
Why are farmers so prone to suicide?
I found the figures too disturbing to let go of the matter.
Professor Nagaraj had gone as far as to say that, according to his study, police records show only landowners as farmers. In reality therefore the number of farmers committing suicide would be greater than that reflected in the data.
The number of landowning farmers in Chhattisgarh, according to the economic survey of 2008, is 32.55 lakhs, which is a little less than 15% of the state's total population. But farmers constitute 32.2% of the total number of suicides in Chhattisgarh.
What is it about a farmer's livelihood that makes him twice as vulnerable to suicide as any other profession?
CGnet decided to investigate some cases on the ground.
The three cases we picked up from the local newspapers had not been recorded as farmer suicide cases in the police records. But all were directly linked to farming distress.
Highest rate of farmer suicides
Dr Yuvraj Gajpal, a CGnet member and post-doctoral student in Canada, calculated the farmer suicide rate per 100,000 population for the states and found, to his astonishment, that Chhattisgarh tops the list every year!
Around 6.49 farmers committed suicide in Chhattisgarh per 100,000 population in 2006. Maharashtra is a distant second, with 4.28, and Kerala third with 3.37. After that comes Andhra Pradesh, with 3.24, and Karnataka with 2.57.
Dr Gajpal wrote an article asking why farmer suicides in Chhattisgarh were not getting the attention they deserved, despite the fact that the state has more farmer suicide deaths per 100,000 population than the four states that have received so much attention on the matter.
We linked up with Professor Srijit Mishra of the Mumbai-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research who has been asking the same question in his research papers for years.
Unlike Nagaraj and Gajpal, Mishra calculates the number of farmer suicides per 100,000 male farmers; he calls it 'suicide mortality rate'.
Mishra wrote: "Whichever way you calculate, Chhattisgarh remains in the top five states as far as farmer suicides is concerned. But it is puzzling why neither the media nor the politicians have taken note of it."
These articles managed to convince some leaders of the opposition Congress to raise the issue in the Vidhan Sabha.
The chief minister replied: "I have checked with all the collectors. No farmer has committed suicide in Chhattisgarh due to debt. Not the issue but the people writing about it need to be investigated."
Discussing agriculture is a dangerous business
These threatening words were just the start of the suppression of the right to know the truth.
Applications under the Right to Information Act with the police yielded no results. Instead, I began receiving calls to "stop politicking in the name of journalism". And my column was stopped on charges of writing "lies", though it was unclear how the editor suddenly discovered they were "lies" after two years of carrying my articles every week!
It only strengthened my resolve to get to the bottom of the matter.
We started working like detectives; a simple story was turning out to be a crash course in investigative journalism.
Finally, through a circuitous route, we managed to get some figures from the State Crime Records Bureau.
The figures tell us that farmer suicides are concentrated in the paddy-growing districts of central Chhattisgarh; the tribal districts of the north and south have less than half the number of farmer suicides compared to the central region.
Was additional income from the forests saving farmers in the tribal region?
Districts with a higher suicide rate were the same as districts with the greatest fertiliser use. Is there a connection?
We realised that much of the resistance to our investigation centred around the argument that linked our claims directly to Vidarbha and farmer suicides resulting out of large loans taken for cash crops. Since the farmer in Chhattisgarh had no large loans, he was not committing suicide!
We were in fact not claiming that the situation in Chhattisgarh was the same as in Vidarbha; we were only asking for deeper investigation. Our request was being buried in irrelevant arguments.
Farming: a loss-making business
Our understanding of the seriousness of the issue is based on our exchange with a paddy farmer in Chhattisgarh who said: "Economic deterioration is being measured against incomes. A farmer growing paddy in Chhattisgarh has hardly any income these days. Agriculture is a loss-making business and is being sustained by the sale of assets!"
Farm scientist Sanket Thakur explains: "If you calculate the cost of labour at a minimum wage, then the production cost of paddy should be at least double the current support price."
In most areas of Chhattisgarh, the wage rate is around Rs 30 per day. That is how the farmer saves some money. But with growing input costs, profits drop every year.
In places closer to cities, where one pays Rs 80 in labour costs, farmers make huge losses and survive only by selling bits of their land every year.
"This continuously decreasing income creates a feeling of hopelessness," Thakur says. "Many times, this translates to suicide. You may find random immediate causes for a farmer's suicide, but if you explore deeper, most of the time it is farming distress which is the main cause."
Who is lying, the CM or police records?
Meanwhile, a CGnet member was busy collecting the police records for 24 thanas in the district of Durg. We were shocked to find 11 cases of farmer suicide on this small list. The cause of suicide was "debt". Against the backdrop of the chief minister's statement that no farmer in Chhattisgarh was committing suicide due to debt, we had expected the police records to match this claim.
It may be noted here that:
- Durg is not the district with the highest number of suicides in the state.
- The list available with us for Durg district is not complete.
- The figures available are for 2004 only although the state has been in existence since 2000.
If this sample were extrapolated to the entire district, the figures for farmer suicides due to economic reasons would be higher.
Apart from the 11 farmers who committed suicide due to debt there are 21 cases on the list where cause of death has been listed as "economic reasons".
The list also has the names of 52 labourers who committed suicide due to "economic reasons". And, six labourers who committed suicide due to debt. It is indeed likely that, in rural areas, labourers are farm labourers who have taken land on lease from rich farmers; this is a common practice in Chhattisgarh. Many of the causes on this list are ambiguous and need to be examined by a competent agency. Mental and physical illness, tension, fights -– all could be linked to farm distress, says Sanket Thakur. Then there is the glaringly large number of cases where the cause has been listed as "unknown".
We are trying to collect similar data for other districts too. We understand that suicide is a complex issue, possibly beyond the analytical capabilities of a citizen journalism investigative team.
In search of Gandhi
The 1916 Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress passed a resolution demanding the appointment of a committee by the British government to enquire into the agrarian crisis in Champaran. But the Congress in Chhattisgarh is satisfied with a statement from the chief minister saying that "no farmer has committed suicide due to debt".
After the Lucknow Congress, Gandhi went to Champaran to lead the first satyagraha in India that resulted in the formation of the Frank Shy Committee to investigate the crisis. Gandhi was a member of that committee. The recommendation of the Shy Committee resulted in the passing of the Champaran Agrarian Law of 1918.
History tells us that what started in Champaran in Bihar resulted in India getting independence.
Will what's happening in Champaran in Chhattisgarh lead to a better life for the Chhattisgarhi farmer?
(Shubhranshu Choudhary is a founder-member of the Citizens Journalism initiative in Chhattisgarh, CGnet [www.cgnet.in])
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I usually ride on weekends. Some of the most convoluted roads are in California's San Diego County within 20 miles of where I live, and I can string together a 50-mile ride with these roads. The sportbike guys tend to avoid them because they're not "fast," and the cruiser guys tend to avoid them because they're too much work. I tend to ride my '56 Gold Star or my '67 Daytona — as you can see, we're not talking about being overpowered here. They're light, low, and work just fine on these roads. In any case, I'm not likely to see a lot of other motorcycles on any given weekend.
Not too long ago, a passenger in the car while my wife drove into San Diego's wine country.
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I remember in 1991 meeting up with a Kawasaki dealer I'd known for almost 20 years. This wasn't the bottom of the market, but damn close. We were at a consumer show when I asked him what kind of year he had. He glanced around the room as if to see if anyone else was listening, bent over and whispered, "Mike, I made so much $#$% money last year, I had to take it to the bank in boxes." This dealer is still in business and still doing well, though maybe not as well as three or four years ago. The point here is that it's possible to do well in a down market.
I would guess this dealer, like many of you, started by reassessing his organization, cutting here and there, tightening up processes, making the organization more efficient, and focusing on those things that offered additional potential to make money outside of the normal channel of new bike sales.
One opportunity that seems to need some development is used bike sales. A statistic that I see frequently, but have no way of documenting, is the volume of sales in the "used" category. I've heard estimates from one to two-million used motorcycles are sold each year, very few of which will ever see the inside of a dealership. Most used bikes are sold directly from one consumer to another.
According to the most recent MIC study of motorcycle owners, as of 2008 there were about 10.4 million motorcycles in use, with the average age of them being about 11 years old. We're talking '97 or '96 models at best. As we all know, during those 11 years there have been monumental changes and improvements in just about every category of motorcycle, including the addition of a couple of new categories. So aside from the need to replace a worn-out motorcycle or the owners' desire to simply change bikes, there are more choices these days and it's possible to buy a motorcycle that's tailored for the kind of riding you do or would like to do.
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Another store that comes to mind is WOW Motorcycles of Marietta, Ga. Wow is right. The place is stuffed with motorcycles of every make, type and color, and would definitely put some "franchised" outlets to shame. Whatever the secret to procuring and selling used bikes is, they've discovered it.
Here's my point: New motorcycle sales will always be a relevant factor in most dealerships. However, when those sales start to sag, there are other ways to supplement the lost income. Used bikes can be a significant boost, as can an emphasis on parts, accessories and service. Look at your store, most people aren't service techs, they want to take their mechanical problems to an expert — you. Make sure that you are known as Mr. Motorcycle in your market, whether it's new bikes, used bikes, service, or P&A. We won't be hitting the million units a year sales mark for a long time coming, but with some creativity and new thinking, at least you'll be around when comes around again.
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