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WATERTOWN, WI – The Maranatha football team matched the Macalester Scots in offensive yards, and first downs, but it was Macalester's efficiency in the red zone that bested the Crusaders on a breezy, overcast Saturday afternoon.
The Scots scored on four out of five trips to the end zone, but Maranatha's defense held Macalester on three different occasions to force a field goal in the first and second quarters and had 331 total yards of offense compared to Macalester's 361.
The visitor's backed the Crusasders up to their own 15-yard line on their first drive before settling on a field goal, but on the Scots' next drive; freshman linebacker Ryan Reed (Pinedale, WY) notched a sack to force a punt at the Macalester 34-yard line.
Macalester did score their first touchdown on a 27-yard strike and added a field goal late in the second quarter for a 16-0 lead that would hold until halftime.
On the first drive of the third quarter, the Scots had a big gain of 23 yards before the defense, led by junior linebacker Ethan Kennon (Raleigh, N.C.), halted Macalester's offense at their own 39-yard line.
Macalester would not be denied though, with touchdowns at one minute left in the third quarter and six minutes in the fourth quarter. Maranatha responded to the Scots' last score though with a five-play, 64-yard drive that culminated in a 24-yard touchdown completion to junior receiver Jordan DeLay (Flint, MI).
De Lay finished the game with 101 yards receiving and a touchdown while McCormick recorded 180 yards passing and a touchdown.
Kennon finished with a team-leading 16 tackles, one for loss, on defense while junior safety Josiah Brendemuehl (Mishicot, WI) notched 12 tackles.
The defense also received sacks from senior linebacker Shane Saxon (Watertown, WI) and Reed while freshman cornerback Clayton Morrison (Jefferson, WI) picked off his third pass of the season.
Maranatha faces Aurora University at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 5 in Aurora, IL with video coverage on Aurora's football schedule page.


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Will Shred Revolutionary Diet Help you Make your 2013 Resolutions a Reality?
Although I need to lose some weight, I am not a fan of dieting. This is mainly in part that I am a picky eater and simply can never stand any of the foods required in most diets. However, I came across a new diet that Dr. Ian K. Smith introduced on the 1/2/2013 episode of Dr. Oz called Shred: The Revolutionary Diet. My Shred Diet review will go over the concept, program basics, has a video interview with Dr. Ian, exercises and more. So read and leave your comments!
I have to admit that it really has caught my attention not only because of the fact that I can eat real food found at the grocery store, but I was also very much interested in the concept behind this diet plan. This plan is also designed to help you overcome that frustrating plateau.
The Shred Diet is based on diet confusion. You will be eating different foods each day to push your metabolism. Eating the same foods day in and day out including healthy foods balances your metabolism. While a balanced metabolism may seem to be your goal, it can actually sabotage your weight loss efforts. When your metabolism isn't challenged, fat tends to build up.
So what do you need to do? You need to eat different types and amounts of foods every day. The book tells you exactly what you need to eat. There is no guesswork involved. Diet confusion provides a seesaw effect on your metabolism allowing it to break up the fat.
While it is nice that the book provides the exact foods I need to eat, this is usually a red flag for us picky eaters! Great news! You will not be stuck eating only leafy green veggies. In fact, Dr. Smith mentioned lasagna, burgers, and pizza!
Below is a good video with radio interview with Dr. Ian on JHMS1390. Talks about do you starve? Are there tough weeks (btw, week 3 is tough). Talks about complaints and more. Worth watching!
Program Basics
This is a six-week fat shredder diet plan. You are allowed four meals and three optional snacks. Diet confusion is accomplished through meal spacing, cascading calories, and a natural food detox. The first week, you will eat a high amount of calories. Week three is the hardest for most people because it is the lowest amount of calories consumed in the entire program. In week four, calorie intake increases.
The food detox is actually in week five. It is not a fast. In fact, you will still consume your regular four meals and snacks. The detox consists of natural cleanse foods, such as:
- Cranberry juice
- Water with lemon juice and flaxseed
- Hibiscus Tea
- Beets
This is just a few options. Dr. Smith encourages you to bake the flaxseed into muffins if you don't think you can stand it in the water. There is no alcohol allowed in the fifth week.
Maintenance Plan
Because this is a cycle diet, you can simply start the diet again in a different order if you have not met your goal. The book tells you exactly what to do. However, if you do meet your goal then all you have to do is choose any week of the plan to follow every four weeks. Once you are able to maintain this goal for six months, you only have to do one week of the plan every 8 weeks.
Get Fit with these Four Simple Moves
The program only requires approximately five minutes of exercising per day. This is perfect for me. Who has an hour a day to spend on exercise? However, it is recommended that you gradually add in a few more minutes and reps as you progress. It is highly stressed that the intensity of the exercises is more important than how long you exercise.
There are four basic moves you will perform that combine cardio with resistance. They are simple and can be done right in your home. All you will need is a chair and a jump rope. These are the moves you will perform:
- Chair Sit – As you go to sit down, stop about one inch from the chair. Hold for five seconds.
- Chair Steps – Step up and down on the chair at a very fast pace. If a chair is too high for you, then start off with a step stool. Do 4 sets of 15 within 90 seconds.
- Side Straddle – This is a movement found at many football practices. Spread your legs apart as if you are straddling a horse. Move to the right four times as fast as you can, then move to the left. You should be able to do 10 in 15 seconds. Do as many as you can.
- Jump Rope – Simply get out your rope and jump as fast as you can. Do about 50 jumps. If you can't jump rope, put a piece of rope on the ground or even duct tape and jump back and forth as fast and as high as you can.
The idea is to get your heart rate into the fat burning zone. Intensity is the key with these exercises.
Helpful Tip
According to Dr. Smith, you do not want to focus on pounds alone. You want to also pay attention to your physiological changes. The plan is intended to help you not only lose 20 pounds in six weeks, but also 4 inches and two sizes!
Don't get frustrated if the scale is not descending as fast as you would like if you are losing the inches. Your scale may be reflecting muscle gain that is replacing the fat. I know I will notice when I slip into my jeans and they are too big. That will be a happier day for me then if the scale shows a few less pounds!
Bottom Line
I think this is a diet that is perfect for picky eaters. There may be a few things you may not like. However if you know that you will be able to eat a grilled cheese with that piece of cauliflower or broccoli, you may be more motivated to eat the healthy foods. The plan also has substitutes for people with diabetes and food allergies.
I think people will be successful with this diet plan because Dr. Smith recognizes that no one is perfect. You may drift off of the plan. The important thing is to keep trying to see results. This hardcover book costs approximately $15. I believe Shred: The Revolutionary Diet is definitely worth trying. Good luck!


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HONG KONG - NOVEMBER 16: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland during the UBS Press Conference at the International Finance Centre on November 16, 2010 in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images)
Rory McIlroy has represented Ireland at amateur and professional levels
One of the few times Rory MIlroy is in a bunker!
Rory and Caddie In Egypt
4 February 2009; Rory McIlroy meets the media to mark his first professional victory in the Dubai Desert Classic over the weekend. Holywood Golf Club, Holywood, Co.Down. Picture credit: Oliver McVeigh / SPORTSFILE
Rory McIlroy at the Ryder Cup
Rory McIlroy shows pride for his homeland
Rory McIlroy is fast becoming a golf superstar
Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods
CARDIFF, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 29: Holly Sweeney and Rory McIlroy attend the 2010 Ryder Cup Dinner at Cardiff Castle, on September 29, 2010 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Heathcliff O'Malley - WPA/Getty Images)
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CHARLOTTE, NC - MAY 02: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland reacts to making a birdie on the 18th green during the final round on his way to winning the Quail Hollow Championship at Quail Hollow Country Club on May 2, 2010 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
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ORAN -- Being led by a new head coach, the Oran Lady Eagles will try use an up tempo style offense this season to try and improve on last season's 13-12 record.
"We are very excited about this year," new Lady Eagle's coach Jeremy Brinkmeyer said. We are young, fast and work hard. This will translate into how we will try and play this year. We will try to push the ball up the floor and force turnovers."
Gone is last year's leading scoring Cheyanne King who averaged 20.8 points per game and 11.2 rebounds per game. Other key contributers from last season lost to graduation is Haley Glastetter and Halee Woodfin.
Returners include Chrissy Sauceda, Taylor Nenninger and Addie Keilhofner. They'll be joined by newcomers Allie Cummins, Anna Jones and Kaylen Glastetter.


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Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia: This Sounds Exciting and Not Sad At All! Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around Bridge to Terabithia? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What does Jess give Leslie for Christmas?
A necklace
The gift of knowing there's no Santa Claus
A crown
A puppy
Q. What do Leslie and Jess think may be grounds for going to Hell?
Lying to their parents
Using their imaginations
Not believing in the Bible
Not putting their dirty clothes into the laundry hamper
Q. Where does Miss Edmunds ask Jess to go?
To the principal's office
To a museum
To purgatory, because she is too much of a lady to ask him to go to hell
Q. What does Leslie do while trying to cross the creek in the rain?
Wait, I know this one - to get to the other side
She dies
She walks across water
She flies
Q. What does Jess feel that he's gotten from Leslie?
Some of her paranoia
Some of her optimism
Some of her courage
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If using fresh tomatoes peel them and coarsely chop them. If using canned, coarsely chop them. Trim both ends of the onion, peel it and cut it half lengthwise.
Put the tomatoes, butter, onion, and salt in a 4-to-5-quart saucepan and place over medium heat. When the tomatoes begin to bubble, lower the heat to a slow but steady simmer. Cook, stirring every 10 to 15 minutes until the tomatoes are no longer watery and the sauce has reduced, about 45 minutes, depending on the size and shape of the pot.
When the sauce is done the butter will have separated from the tomatoes and there should not be any liquid left. When you toss the pasta with the sauce, add freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano.
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The wedding will probably be the most important and romantic day for any couple, brides are so eager to make everything about their wedding perfect. Many brides are getting concerned about the style and design of flowers that they'll be using for their wedding.
Some brides may have already chosen and ordered her wedding gown but are still getting confused on what type and style of bouquet best fits their dress. Here are some wedding dress styles and some probable bouquet match options that brides would want to try out.
Dress Styles
A-line / Princess Dress
In an A-line or princess cut gown, the skirt shape looks like a triangle, giving the bride a very womanly look. Bouquets that would work well with this dress are round bouquets, oval bouquets, cascade bouquets, crescent bouquets and pomanders.
Ball gown Dress
This wedding dress has a full skirt shape, which looks so much like a fairytale princess gown. Matching bouquets are round bouquets, oval bouquets and pomanders
Empire Dress
The empire dress fits perfectly for a bride with slim slight build. Matching bouquets are arm bouquets, round bouquets, oval bouquets and cascade bouquets
Mermaid Dress
This wedding dress cut is slinky and form fitting, hugging and showing off your curves. It is a very sexy cut to achieve a feminine look. Matching bouquets are arm bouquets, round bouquets, oval bouquets and cascade bouquets.
Like the mermaid dress, this is also snug form fitting dress that shows off all of your curves. Most modern brides prefer this dress style. Matching bouquets are arm bouquets, round bouquets, oval bouquets, petite bouquets and single stems.
Some Bouquet Terms Defined
Cascade – one of the most formal and traditional types of bouquets. It is also known as fountain, shower or waterfall bouquets. They are rounded at the top with a flow of flowers "cascading" over the bride's hand. Almost any kind of flower can be used for this kind of bouquet.
Nosegay – can be for casual or formal wedding themes. Nosegays consist of small, rounded, thinly packed flowers. They incorporate more green to these bouquets that highlight the flowers petals and stems. Most common flowers in nosegays are irises, tulips, lilies and roses.
Arm sheaf – is a long stemmed bouquet that the bride cradles in her arm as she walks down the aisle. Modern ceremonies are using this type of bouquet. Flowers that work well with this arrangement are Orchids, long-stemmed roses, gladiolus, delphiniums and calla lilies.
Flower bracelet – Also known as wrist corsages or hand-tied bouquet. Flower bracelets include small combination of flowers that can be attached to the wrist with an elastic band. Most common flowers for flower bracelets are orchids or roses. This is perfect for brides who do not want to be bothered by having a bouquet that needs to be carried around. This bouquet is most commonly used for warm spring or summer weddings and looks perfect for short hemmed dresses.
Other Considerations
Simple Dress
Some brides choose simple styled dresses. They can opt to have an extravagant bouquet, to balance out their dresses' simplicity.
Petite Bride
Petite brides fit best with small bouquets, hand-tied bouquets, crescent without long tendrils and nosegay.
Tall Bride
Tall brides can go for cascade bouquets, arm bouquets, crescent bouquet with long tendrils.
Full figured Bride
Tall full figured bride best fits large bouquets and almost all bouquet styles except unnoticeable tiny bouquets.
In choosing the right bouquet, it is of course always best to consider the bride's personality. Her wedding flowers should above all reflect her and her style.


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New Birth-Order Study: Parents Spend More Time With First-Borns
Some of you have asked for more discussion on birth order, and commented on how your own kids' personalities seem to be shaped by it. I second that: My older child has both assets and challenges often linked to firstborn status.
For the first time, a 2008 study has produced empirical evidence about the possible causes. First-born children receive 20 to 30 more minutes of daily quality time from parents than second-born kids of the same age from similar families, says the research. Although many people have hypothesized that firstborns get more parental time, this study, by Joseph Price of Brigham Young University, is the first I've seen that has the data to prove it.
Most other studies have focused on outcomes – on children's personalities and traits later in life – and have found firstborns tend to have higher IQs and to be more high-achieving and conscientious; later-born children tend to be more rebellious, liberal and agreeable.
There's also a silver lining for later-born kids, however, as Sara noted here: Parents often discipline firstborns more harshly, and cut later-born children more slack to misbehave. Also, other studies have disagreed with conventional thinking on birth order; this research found little evidence that it affects social attitudes, challenging the notion that firstborns are more conservative, supportive of authority and "tough-minded."
The Brigham Young study rings true for me; I know, looking back, that my firstborn child benefited from more of her dad's and my playtime, walking and cuddling. My second baby, quieter by temperament, spent far more time sitting back in his infant seat, watching the family activity around him. The precise effects on him can never be known, but later, for a time, he was the needier of the two, requiring more attention as an early teen.
Readers, do your firstborns get more of the attention and resources in your family? Do you see other birth-order effects in your children? How about between you and your own siblings? Or are these generalizations overblown?


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Deploy war on WebLogic server by WebLogic console by Hemant Kurmi
By Juergenkress-Oracle on May 15, 2014
In this post we will see how to deploy a war on weblogic by using weblogic console.
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start the admin server of your weblogic server for this browse to the
path of domain of your weblogic server .it will be some what like
D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains here you will get all the
domains created so in
D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\Domain_name\bin you will get
startWebLogic.cmd or startWebLogic.sh depending on your OS Just run it
and you will see a cmd console
- Now If your weblogic server is started succssfully it will display running in console
- After starting weblogic server succssfully . Open the weblogic console from the below link Read the complete article here.
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Saturday was a scheduled "lights off" and as is our wont, when confronted with a hazy hot day stuck in our little house doing nothing but sweating, we decided to take a road trip. One of our favorite destinations is Atimpoku, about an hour's drive from our house in Tema. In a fit of tag team insanity (Sly suggesting, me agreeing), we invited an additional two kids to accompany us - Mike's buddy Mawuli and his brother Selasi. Four boys, one girl, one husband and me, thank God for my MP3 player.
Atimpoku is a small village which lies along the Volta River, just upstream (or downstream? I don't know, I always did poorly on the river questions on exams... guess I should have paid better attention in geography class) from the Adomi Bridge, which was built in 1954 and still as beautiful now as it was then. If you're interested, it costs 8 cents for our van to travel over it, free if you're walking.
We went to a riverfront resort called Akosombo Continental Hotel, and it's a nice place just to hang for the day. It's got a beautiful pool, friendly staff, all kinds of boats for hire, and a mini zoo with assorted wildlife: a couple of crocodiles, a dozen monkeys, lots of Grey parrots and other indigenous birds, some (wild?) turkeys, two cute little deer-like animals, and (major shocker!) two fairly large snakes, which is quite unusual here in the ophidiophobia capital of the world. The vast majority of Ghanaians apparently have a morbid fear of all snakes, big or small, venomous or not, dead or alive. Don't believe me? Ask one.
And the view from the riverside path doesn't put a strain on the eyes either.
The kids enjoyed the pool, even though the weather wasn't really cooperative with more clouds than sun. Nothing stops a kid, not clouds or rain or adults yelling (dozens of times, it seems) "Stop Running!" So, for the first two hours, all went well. Then, the hunger pangs began. Now, I like this place, but the fact is their food is mediocre at best, and for the dubious honor of eating it, you get to pay obroni prices. This would wind up being an expensive lunch, that no one would eat. But, within sight is our salvation. It's only a trudge up one hill and down another and we're there.
Aylos Bay is a smallish place, that builds itself up pretty big as offering lodging, food and drink, campgrounds, canoing and river swimming (our kids are desperate to swing the rope out over the river). We did stay there once, when we found ourselves shut out of all the "good" hotels. But for $25 a night, we got a single room, no A/C but at least a working ceiling fan. The shower area of the bathroom had no raised lip to separate the shower from the toilet, so when you showered, the water that didn't run down the drain, ran out the bathroom door and into the bedroom. Talk about soggy. We had to ask for extra towels to create a threshold, and while it didn't work perfectly, it kept the wading pool to the immediate area in front of the toilet bowl, so not terribly terrible.
The grounds at Aylos are lovely and wild; verdant would be the word that most aptly describes. And of course, my own little flower cannot help but to improve the scenery.
They've got some traditional masks and musical instruments hanging, and some of the most interesting wall carvings and statues that you'll see in Ghana. This is one of them.
Credit for the picture has to go to my friend Leann and it was "borrowed" from her blog (see the link for the Best Blog in Ghana to the right) .
But, as usual, I digress. The food and beer at Aylos Bay is pretty decent and cheap, so that is where we headed for lunch. The fare is the standard "continental" style food, meaning chicken and chips or rice, but since that's what the kids wanted (and isn't that what they ALWAYS want), that's what they got. I have become addicted to their battered shrimps, which are plucked fresh from the river (more on this later), and served with a spicy sauce. I keep suggesting they try adding beer to their batter. Jeez, I'd even sacrifice some of my own, but what do I know. So what that beer battered shrimp on the menu in an American restaurant would cost about $8 for a lousy half dozen or so shrimp. But, as I said, what do I know?
One of my pet peeves, and I find this in almost all the restaurants in Ghana, is that they bring out each entree as it is done, rather than all at once. Local foods like light soup and fufu come out fast, and any food that has chips with it comes out last. What that means is that Sly always eats first, kids always eat last. And these particular kids are hungry ("Mom, I'm Staaarrrving!"). Now I've been known to have the occasional mean streak, and I don't usually tend to feel guilty about a lot of things, but I really really feel bad when my food comes first and there are starving children in Africa. ;-) This particular day, it was worse than usual, poor Selasi didn't get his food until the rest of us were nearly finished with our meals. He kept appealing to the waitress with big brown sorrowful eyes, but no dice. Apparently, the cook had to go kill a chicken (sarcasm notwithstanding, this is more probable here in Ghana than elsewhere in the world). Whatever. It finally was served to the poor kid, hot and juicy, and Selasi ate every last morsel.
On our trudge back to the swimming pool next door (and you don't know how tempted I am to jump over the wall separating these two places), we stop and plucked a couple of berries from a shrub. I have no idea what you call it, so don't ask. But no, they're not poison.
Louisa, the owner of Aylos Bay introduced us to it about a year ago, giving each of us a single berry, just to taste, as we were leaving. It tasted alright, kinda sweet, only a tiny bit of meat to it with a pit in the center, but otherwise nothing special (or so we thought). The day was still early (remember, this is a while back), so we decided to go to another local restaurant, which we see all the time from the road (or from the river when we're on the boat) and which has intrigued me to no end. It just looks very "neat."
Abadi Idyll turns out to be a small, cute, well maintained lodge owned by a German man and his Ghanaian wife. We decide to sit at a table on a dock near the water's edge. As usual, we ordered a Star Beer. It was bubbly and cold, but, as we both agreed, it tasted really weird, too sweet, maybe it spoiled. I don't know. So we called the waitress over to bring another Star. Again. Yucch! It was like some evil Snapple worker sabotaging the Anheuser-Busch plant. "Yoo-hoo, Miss? Can you bring a different beer, a Guilder perhaps? Both of these Stars taste strange." Of course she could, but we could see the panic in her eyes (as in, are we gonna pay for these?). Not to worry, we assured her, we'd pay for all of them. So she carries our Guilder to us. For crying out loud. It's a conspiracy! Light bulb goes off. Duh. It must be those weird berries we ate. Sure enough, they did something weird to our taste buds. Everything we ate or drank for the next hour was soooo "different." The kids thought it was great, of course. Plain old sachet water tasted like the nectar of the gods! Kids.
Okay, back to the now. After lunch at Aylos, we went back to the hotel and spent another hour or so. While the kids played and splashed, Sly arranged with Kwame, the pool boy, to retrieve our shrimps. All 5-1/2 kilos of them, that's about 11 lbs worth. The last time we were at the hotel, during another day time lights off, we learned that some of the workers arrange for fresh shrimps for their customers. "How much," you wonder? How's about $2.50 a pound. Take a look at this big boy. Nice, huh?
With the car packed up, kids, wet swimsuits, goggles, towels, toys and shrimp, we head on out. One of the "things we do" when we leave this area, is stop in the village proper and get takeout (or take away, as they say here) for dinner, always assuming we'll (meaning, I'll) be too tired to even think about cooking, much less washing dishes.
The way you buy your take away is this: pull your car over on the side of the road, and wait. Within nano-seconds, a few dozen young girls "come a runnin." Each and every one of them carrying a huge plastic bowl or glass fish tank style box of food on their heads, and they run in flip flops, of all things, not even Nikes. The first one to cross the finish line doesn't get a medal, but she (hopefully) makes a sale.
We tend to attract a fair amount of attention when we pull over. Most of the hawkers assume that the driver, is well, the driver (rather than my husband) and they ignore him completely and head straight for the obroni in the passenger seat. When you are the one "trapped" in a car, what comes immediately to mind is: Shark Feeding Frenzy. Only we are the bait! I'm quick though, and my window is closed even before the first food-laden hand can be thrust through. Sly gets out of the van, and the swarm now senses that he's the intermediary, so they leave us alone.
What the girls sell is an assortment of local foodstuffs: Tiny fried fish sold in a skinny plastic bag, called onemanthousand, and yes, you have to write it like that. Cause that's how they look, a thousand little itty bitty fish crammed into a tiny bag. About the size of a fingernail cutting from your pinky. But they're crunchy and delicious - head, tails and everything in between get eaten by the handful, kind of like popcorn.
There's also two kinds of fermented corn dough -- abolo is a bit of sweet corn dough that is wrapped and flattened in a folded banana leaf then baked, and the other pure starch is white kenkey which is a similar dough wrapped in a corn husk and steamed. Another offering is shrimp that is salted and smoked and sold unshelled, skewered on a stick. Not nice, but since I've got my own fresh shrimp, who cares.
On the way home, it finally starts to rain in earnest, we expected it since it's been threatening all day. But the kids don't even notice, they're pooped and sleeping in the back but I'm stoked. I'm already thinking about my dinner. Let the kids have there onemanthousand or abolo or kenkey. For me, it's shrimp shrimp and more shrimp. Yummy.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Road Trip - Destination: Atimpoku
Saturday was a scheduled "lights off" and as is our wont, when confronted with a hazy hot day stuck in our little house doing nothing but sweating, we decided to take a road trip. One of our favorite destinations is Atimpoku, about an hour's drive from our house in Tema. In a fit of tag team insanity (Sly suggesting, me agreeing), we invited an additional two kids to accompany us - Mike's buddy Mawuli and his brother Selasi. Four boys, one girl, one husband and me, thank God for my MP3 player.
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- AnonymousAugust 21, 2007 at 8:09 PM
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Once again, I totally enjoyed reading your blog. You really do have a way with words! Africa sure makes New Jersey seem like quite a boring place, but we do have DUNKIN DONUTS!
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2007 at 1:53 PM
A real blow by blow account of a family outing in an environment all too familiar to me. The story of the sellers descending upon you - while ignoring Sly reminds me of a story I heard from an African American peace corps volunteer in Ghana. She went to the Kumasi market with a few 'obruni' volunteers. She didn't buy anything, but her fellow volunteers did. After wrapping the stuff the middle-aged seller looked at her said, "Now carry them carefully for them." She was not amused.ReplyDelete
One question about the toll bridge. Suppose your car stalls - a very common occurrence in Ghana - and you happen to push the car across the bridge, do you still have to pay the 10 cents?
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I read your blog often and I find it great!!I wanted to ask you something:we want to take our kids to a swimming pool in Accra,which one do you suggest?Thank you!
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Thanks for the compliments!
If your kids aren't too young, then the pool at La Palm is really nice, with a kiddie pool and a pool side bar for the adults. The reason I say not too young is they have a smallish water park -- it's nice, but looks really really slippery, and you know how little kids can be. If you've got water shoes, then go for it at least they'd have good traction in the water park.
Other nice pools are the one at Dutchotel in Nshonaa, it's got a nice waterfall in it.
Labadi Beach Hotel pool is also nice, no kiddy pool but it starts out shallow and gets deeper; not tiled but rocky rather. More sedate.
Have fun!
Good morning Barb!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the quick reply!Our boys are 7.5 and 5 years!Do you think it will be ok if we go to La palm royal?
Please can you give me direction to the Dutchhotel,I have never heard about it before?
What about the prices?
Thanks a lot!
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2007 at 12:42 AM
It should be okay at La Palm. If they were younger you'd have trouble controlling their speed and they wouldn't understand about the slipperiness. Most of the water park looked okay... my issue with it was the ladder rungs to an upper slide, but to be truthful, it was under construction at the time, so it may be better now. Perhaps you or your wife might want to take a peek before you let the kids look, that way you can say no with less guilt, if need be.
Dutchotel is easy to get to, continue on the Beach Road from La Palm towards Teshie, Nungua, etc. After you pass Teshie, you should see the signboard on the right side of the road at a main junction. The hotel is on the ocean front section of a U-shaped road, so if you miss the first sign board, you'll surely see the second one as you get closer to Nungua.
If I recall, the pool prices at La Palm were kind of expensive, maybe 100,000 for adults and 50,000 for kids, so you may want to call them and double check. Dutchotel prices were more like 45,000 for adults and 20,000 for kids.
Google Dutchotel Ghana and you can get to their website.
Thanks very much.We'll go to check to all the places you've mentioned.ReplyDelete
We called to the La palm royal and they said it costs 8GHC for adults and 5GHC for kids.
Great day!
That bit about the berries and the 'spoilt' beer had me in stitches! When we were kids, we used to eat oranges right after popping some of those berries. Talk about a sweet treat.ReplyDelete
I recently read an article in the New York Times about an American who charges people to come to his parties. He gives them what appears to be this berry. He then feeds them a plethora of different dishes, delighting them in this trick on their senses.ReplyDelete
Sarah, I've read about that, too. I think you can actually order the berries for about $1 each and have them overnighted to you. We're in the process of growing one of these plants, but it will likely be a few years before we see any berries from it. It's amazing how it affects your taste buds, and I'm told that, years ago, the "old timers" used it in place of sugar with their tea, etc.ReplyDelete


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- Diana Diane Teo said...
Saving money is one of the toughest things to do. But after you earn from all the hardwork, you will feel the satisfaction. I also saving my money for trips and vacation. Wish to go Japan again too.
- April 20, 2012 at 5:10 PM
- Stella Lee said...
thank you so much for your support!
Yes I am satisfied already, I'm looking for a cheap flight to there so can save some for shopping instead :D
Last time I paid for my Bali and KL Trip, it's relatively cheaper than Japan T_T So I work harder this time
go to japan! lets meet up there X)
- April 20, 2012 at 5:18 PM
- Isaac Tan said...
I want to be just like you.. :)
- April 21, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- Stella Lee said...
why u wanna be like me lol im stingy in so many things haha
- April 22, 2012 at 11:05 PM
- mada foe said...
STELLA, you got our full support!
Good luck, and every hard works will pay off. I PROMISE
- April 23, 2012 at 12:24 AM
- nacchu said...
Wah...akhirnya kebuka juga blog-nya :-D
Serius stell iri banget sama kamu, bisa konsisten biarpun sempet kegoyah iman nya *pantesan sering boke*. Aku mana sanggup nahan godaan sana sinis. Seumur hidup ga pernah serius bener-bener nabung, apalagi bisa konsisten ama yg dipengen. Thank you so many much for this post, like a wake up call :-))
- April 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Stella Lee said...
ahahahha.. xie xie, xie xie..
i am sure that i will be really satisfied when the trip has been done X) will update more!
- April 23, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Stella Lee said...
iya maaf kemarin web hostingku ada maintainence gitu T_T
hahahhaa... aku sering goyah juga kok sebenernya, apalagi kalo belanja pake paypal, karena gak berasa kluarin duit
so in order to avoid shopping online, i open sites that i usually shop [such as adambeauty and sasa], then i spend like 2 hours browsing it, make budget about what i want to buy, pretend as if i want to buy it and put everythings that i want to the shopping cart
when im done, guess what i do?
I close the tab and shut down my laptop LOL
it happens 2-3 times a month, really it works LOL
most of the time we do shopping not coz we need it lol
- April 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM
- Naomi said...
Kereen, duitnya bikin ngileer $_$ .
Hebaat stella, berusaha nabung dan kerja dgn jerih payah sendiri buat ke jpg, saluut. Good luck yaa, moga berhasil.
Aku jg mau ke jpg.
- April 23, 2012 at 9:31 PM
- Carryn said...
Di umur segitu lo udah bisa ngumpulin uang sebanyak itu hasil kerja keras, GREAT! Good luck Stella!!! Semoga bisa brangkat ke Jepang soon.. *siapa tau ada yg mau sponsorin =D
- April 23, 2012 at 10:12 PM
- Stella Lee said...
lol banyakan duit ce naomi kali kemana2 hahaha
ayo ce nabung jugaaa.. kan kemaren uda ke korea, next time honeymoon ama suami ke jepang >D
- April 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM
- Stella Lee said...
iya ayo dong ada gak yah yang mau sponsorin, misal tiket ato hotel gitu, biar meringankan biaya ahahaha *promosi diri*
siapa tau kantormu car? *kedap kedip*
- April 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM
- miharu jhulie said...
duitnya bikin ngiler *w*)~
salut banget bisa nabung sampe sebanyak itu >:D
good luck ke jepangnya
- April 24, 2012 at 6:31 AM
- Simple person said...
Orang kaya.....
I am sure u b able to visit Japan...
Yen exchange rate is very high.... So u need to work harder....
- April 25, 2012 at 6:08 AM
- Stella Lee said...
hahaha makasihhh :D smoga cepet nemu tiket yang oke haha
- April 25, 2012 at 8:05 AM
- Stella Lee said...
haha if i were rich, i would have visited japan since a loooonnggggg time ago LOL
yeap.. it's pretty difficult coz of the exchange rate. hopefully can make it T_T
- April 25, 2012 at 8:09 AM
- ras said...
Just set goal and be positive! I love this quote XDD
- April 25, 2012 at 4:14 PM
- Stella Lee said...
XDDD thank you! I was always a pessimistic one, but when I became positive, everything turns out better than what i expected :)
- April 25, 2012 at 11:34 PM
- Scott said...
Good luck with the saving! I wouldn't worry too much about food by the way. There are lots of good, affordable restaurants even in Tokyo.
- April 29, 2012 at 3:09 AM
- Stella Lee said...
but it's still considered expensive for me because food is cheap in indonesia hahaha, but thank you!
- April 29, 2012 at 3:05 PM


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I was wondering if anyone has noticed the absence, or the demise of many, many mosquitoes in the last three weeks. I would like to think it was the city's spray truck but in reality it was hormonal spray that the crop sprayers put on the cotton to stunt its growth. Even though it made half the people in town sick, it sure did get rid of the mosquitoes. I guess we have a choice, mosquitoes or perhaps everyone dying of cancer because everybody was sure bothered by it.
I'm a non-Catholic and would like to convert to the Catholic church. The closest one to me is in Benton but I don't know anything about it. If someone could put in Speakout the times of the services and how I can go about going to a Catholic church being non-Catholic if I want to convert. This would be very helpful.
This is about the person who wrote "Call in the answer" on Sunday, Sept. 11. About food stamps and cell phones. People have cell phones because of the fact they might not have a home phone. Most of them sometimes are pre-
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I'm calling in to answer the "Call in answer" where the lady is saying she works at a local grocery store and she doesn't understand how people can come in with food stamps and a cell phone. I work every day and I have food stamp card and I bust my butt to make ends meet too. It is not hard to have a cell phone and food stamp card. It might not be much on there. I don't get no $300 or $400 and I'm a black person. I'm not elderly and I have seen elderly get more than $10. I'm a black woman and I work every day and I don't get $300 or $400 in food stamps but I do have a food stamp card and a cell phone and I work for everything I have. Maybe if she budgeted her money a little better maybe she could have both too.
When we put out mother in a nursing facility in this town we were told that they had legal rights. Apparently they do not because they are not forced to get up at 5 a.m. in the morning. We would also like to know since when is it OK to cut a resident's hair when it is against their religion? The last time I checked you could not legally force anything upon anyone if it was against their religion. There is a lady in the facility and someone snuck up behind her and cut her hair. Now the owners of this facility need to do something because there is a thing, and I haven't agreed with it to this point, called the ACLU and they love to jump on cases like this. What we want to know what is the number where we can reach the ACLU. This is against people's personal religion and it is also that they have no legal rights.
I called because I just read Michael Jensen's editorial. I have never read anything that was so true before in my life as I have that editorial. I just think that they do have generation after generation after generation getting money when they are able to work. I also think these young girls that have these babies, three and four, I think anybody can make one mistake but after they have the first one then the taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for anymore. After all, there is birth control. After all there is a man involved so they should make him pay if they are going to have these babies, three and four at time out of wedlock.
I'm calling in reference to the Bradford pear trees that were along Interstate 55 in Miner. The article on the crape myrtles. I do believe that Sikeston has more billboards than almost any place I have ever seen. We have done a lot of traveling and so many of the towns and you drive into them and you do see flowering trees or flowers planted along at the beginning of the town. In Sikeston the first thing you see is billboards. I think Sikeston is really becoming billboard city. It is not just me who feels this way because we have guests from out-of-town come in and they mention, "Boy Sikeston has a lot of billboards don't they?" So I think Sikeston needs to take a look at its billboards and think about what our community looks like as people are coming into town.
Last night we went to the Cape Fair. We were amazed to find health inspectors inspecting each food vendor that were there. There were two. We can't understand why anything like that has ever been done in Sikeston. All the years we have been going to the Cotton Carnival and the carnivals coming through, we have never seen a health inspector. These were very visible, they had their badges on them telling them what they were. At first we didn't know what was going on then we got close enough where we could read. I really, really appreciate that and think that Cape County probably has their act together.


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LeBron has gotten the better of Rondo on a few fast breaks in the past with big blocks. I'd love to see Rajon get a little revenge.
Just once or twice to show that he's so much more intelligent.
Rondo looks either completely disinterested, irritated, or something. What's his deal?
LOL! Rajon is always like that, I love his interviews :) He is just very self confident, which will be necessary agains the Cavs
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The Department for Work and Pensions has published a new guide for social landlords to help them understand and plan for the direct payment of housing costs under universal credit.
Here are some of the key questions and answers, including details of telephone numbers that landlords can use for the new universal credit service centre:
What do landlords need to do to ensure that rent is paid?
A key aspect of Universal Credit is to encourage both personal responsibility and financial independence to help remove these as barriers into employment; therefore, where possible, claimants will be expected to arrange their own rent payments as they would if they were in full time work. Landlords need to think about how this will fit with their own payment calendars. If landlords have previously received a managed rent payment from the local authority, they will need to speak to their tenants to agree arrangements for collecting rent from them. In a minority of cases Alternative Payment Arrangements (APAs) can be put in place to support claimants.
Landlords may want to encourage tenants who do not have a bank account to open one. Having access to a transactional account will help claimants manage their rent payments through direct debits or standing orders.
When will a claimant get their first Universal Credit payment?
Universal Credit will be assessed monthly and will be paid monthly in arrears. A claimant will receive their first payment seven days after their initial assessment period has finished. For example, for an assessment period of 16 July to 15 August, the first payday will be 22 August. The claimant will then receive future payments on the 22nd day of each month.
If a claimant's payday falls on a weekend or a bank holiday, payment will be moved forward to the nearest working day.
If payments are made monthly, how will tenants pay their rent while they are waiting for their first payment of Universal Credit?
Many new claimants of Universal Credit will be coming from work and will be able to support themselves in the first month using their final payment of earnings. However, where needed, claimants will be able to ask for an advance in the first month of their claim to support them until their first payment is made. This will be a proportion of the full
payment and will be recovered over a period of time.
How will DWP check rent and tenancies under Universal Credit?
Where DWP decides that a check is needed, the claimant will be asked to provide evidence to support their Universal Credit claim.
If a tenant doesn't have a copy of their tenancy aagreement, will DWP accept other evidence as proof of a tenancy (e.g. letter from landlord)?
DWP may accept a landlord letter confirming the current rent and service charge but the evidence required will vary on a case by case basis.
How will annual rent increases be dealt with under Universal Credit?
Claimants should tell DWP of any changes that might affect their Universal Credit payment, including rent increases. DWP is looking at whether it is possible to automatically gather rent information from local authorities and large registered providers of housing. Further details will be provided once they are available.
Some social landlords verify Housing Benefit claims for local authorities. Will this continue when Universal Credit is introduced?
There are currently no plans to ask landlords to check Universal Credit claims.
How will monthly rent be calculated if a claimant's rent is paid weekly?
Universal Credit will be paid monthly. Weekly rents will be calculated using the following formula: weekly rent multiplied by 52 and divided by 12.
What about other payment frequencies, for example, four weekly?
Other payment frequencies will be calculated as follows:
• four-weekly payments are multiplied by 13 and divided by 12
• three-monthly payments are multiplied by four and divided by 12, and
• annual payments are divided by 12.
What will happen in 53 week years?
Universal Credit will always be calculated based on a 52-week year.
Some social landlords have rent free weeks – how will these be dealt with in Universal Credit?
If rent is charged over less than 52 weeks, the monthly payment will be worked out based on the number of weeks rent is charged for. For example, if rent is payable 48 weeks of the year, Universal Credit will be calculated as weekly rent multiplied by 48 and divided by 12.
Will service charges form part of Universal Credit and how will they be paid?
The eligible service charges will be paid directly to tenants as part of the housing costs element of Universal Credit.
Do landlords need to make their tenants aware what service charges are eligible/ineligible for Universal Credit?
Landlords in the social rented sector will be responsible for setting out clearly to the tenant allowable service charges. The claimant will report this as part of their claim. In the private rented sector, a tenant's total rent is usually made up of both rent and service charges, which are not separately identifiable. DWP will not need to collect separate service charge information for the private rented sector group as DWP will pay the lesser of the total rent or the appropriate Local Housing Allowance.
What happens if a tenant gets into arrears?
We would expect landlords to follow their usual rent collection practices. However, if the claimant is unable or unwilling to resolve payment issues, DWP will intervene.
Landlords should contact DWP on 0845 600 0723 when the tenant has accrued arrears to the value of one or two months rent.
• When arrears reach the equivalent of one month's rent, DWP will review the situation following notification from the landlord. At this point DWP can offer the claimant budgeting support and may decide to pay the rent directly to the landlord.
• When arrears reach an equivalent of two month's rent (the 'trigger point'), an Alternative Payment Arrangement will be put in place to allow a managed payment to the landlord.
These measures will help to avoid the build up of excess levels of rent arrears and to reduce the risks to landlords.
Will any claimants have their rent paid directly to their landlord from the start of their claim?
Yes, when a claim for Universal Credit is made it will be decided if a claimant needs support with budgeting and this may include putting in place an Alternative Payment Arrangement where significant support needs are identified. In these cases DWP staff will consider information from tenants and landlords before taking a decision.
If a tenant is already in arrears when they make a claim for Universal Credit, will their rent be paid to the landlord from the start?
This will depend on the claimant's circumstances. When a Universal Credit claim is made, DWP will work with the claimant and landlord to decide if budgeting support or Alternative Payment Arrangement is required, based on a number of factors. All cases will be looked at on an individual basis.
Under Local Housing Allowance, if a tenant currently gets a managed rent payment to their landlord, will this be the same when they move to Universal Credit?
All cases will be looked at on an individual basis. Universal Credit intends claimants to take responsibility for their own finances, but help will be provided for those who need it.
Can rent arrears be recovered from claimants through a deduction to their Universal Credit?
Yes, arrears of rent and service charges for the property the tenant is currently living in are included in the list of deductions that can be made from a Universal Credit payment. Furthermore, DWP is currently exploring increasing the rate at which deductions can be made.
Landlords can phone DWP (0845 600 0723) to request a 'third party deduction' for rent arrears when they reach the equivalent of two months rent. They will use the same phone number or address that is used for all Universal Credit enquiries. If they contact DWP and the claimant is claiming another working age benefit, they will be transferred to the
relevant department. Likewise, if they contact the current working age benefit departments and the claimant has claimed Universal Credit, they will be transferred to a Universal Credit agent.
Will landlords and other third parties be able to tell the DWP if they know a claimant is likely to need support (e.g. because they are in rent arrears)?
Yes. Information from third parties, including the claimant's landlord, will be considered when assessing a claimant's ability to manage their finances. To protect the claimant's home, a landlord can notify DWP asking for the housing costs element to be paid direct to them when a rent arrears 'trigger' has been reached.
In current UC areas, the landlord can contact the Universal Credit Service Centre by calling 0845 600 0723 to start the personal budgeting support process. If a claimant reaches their arrears trigger, they will need to show DWP they are in rent arrears.
What budgeting support will be available from DWP and how do claimants access this?
Personal budgeting support will be offered to anyone claiming Universal Credit or transferring from another benefit. Claimants needing help with monthly budgeting will be identified at their first Universal Credit appointment with the Jobcentre and will be referred for personal budgeting support
Many claimants will be able to help themselves through the online budgeting support services that are already available, and we will help people who have a clear need for more intensive support.
Money advice will be offered at a national and local level, and will include a mix of online, phone and face to face services. The face to face services will be offered through the Local Support Services framework when Universal Credit is rolled out nationally.
Can a claimant have their Universal Credit paid more frequently than once a month?
Yes, more frequent payments is one of the options that will be considered if a claimant is having difficulty budgeting. The claimant should contact DWP and they will be offered personal budgeting support.
Will budgeting or 'jam jar' accounts be available to Universal Credit claimants?
While the majority of Universal Credit claimants will continue to be paid through mainstream current or basic bank accounts, we are looking at ways to make accounts with budgeting functionality more widely available. We are consulting with financial providers across the private, social and third sectors and considering the best ways to make these
types of products more available.
What support will be available to those who are not able to make and manage a claim independently?
The Local Support Services framework sets out the approach to supporting claimants with additional needs to make and manage a claim under Universal Credit.
The aim of the framework is for DWP offices, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations, working in Local Delivery Groups, to plan and deliver support for these claimants. We know that claimants with the most complex needs usually have contact with many different types of support providers, so the framework encourages these providers to work together to offer joined-up support.
How will you decide which claimants need support?
Decisions will be taken locally based on the circumstances and needs of individuals. We will consider information from tenants and landlords before taking these decisions.
How can landlords become involved in local delivery partnerships?
DWP district managers and local authority managers have been asked to work together to create Local Delivery Groups for developing services for claimants with complex needs. Housing providers who are interested in becoming part of a Local Delivery Group should speak to their local authority about what's happening locally to plan for Universal Credit. Most local authorities have an individual who leads on planning for welfare reform. If this person can't be easily identified then landlords should contact the Revenues and Benefits teams in the local authority.
How will supported housing be dealt with under Universal Credit?
Residents of supported exempt accommodation will have help with their housing costs provided separately to Universal Credit in a similar way to Housing Benefit in the short term. However, DWP are also exploring the feasibility of a localised scheme that will be flexible enough to meet the needs of individual providers and their tenants.
How will temporary accommodation be dealt with under Universal Credit?
Claimants in temporary accommodation will not be affected by Universal Credit yet. Universal Credit claimants will be asked if they are homeless and living in temporary accommodation as part of the application process. If they say 'yes' they will be told that they cannot claim Universal Credit at this time and should apply for existing benefits (for example, Jobseeker's Allowance, Housing Benefit).
If the claimant is already claiming Universal Credit and then requires temporary accommodation they will receive the housing element of Universal Credit based on LHA rates for the household size including a shared accommodation rate.
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HD Supply Finding Believers in 'De-Leveraging' Story
High debt? No problem.
That was the sales pitch for building-supplies distributor HD Supply Holdings Inc.'s $1.1 billion initial public offering last June. It looks like investors are on board, given the stock's 46% rally since then, and the bullish pricing for a $780 million secondary offering by the HD Supply's private-equity backers last night.
After Thursday's close, HD Supply insiders such as Bain Capital LLC, Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice sold 30 million shares in the company for $26 apiece, just 2.5% below the stock's close on March 28, when the offering was disclosed.
By contrast, the so-called "file-to-offer discount" for secondary offerings of U.S.-listed shares year-to-date stands at 7.9%, according to Dealogic. Slim discounts indicate strong demand for an offering, showing investors needed little incentive to buy the shares.
Atlanta-based HD Supply's IPO, led by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, represented the high-water mark for leveraged debuts last year, coming out with net debts that were approximately 8 times bigger than its cash earnings. That followed the rather-leveraged IPOs of satellite-launcher Intelsat S.A. and realty franchiser Realogy Holdings, both above seven times at the time of their debuts.
At the time, the company and its bankers argued the company's heavy debt burden would actually a good thing for investors, because the company stood to juice its bottom line by repaying debt or refinancing at low rates.
Many investors would prefer a business that grows earnings by selling more products or services, rather than through financial engineering. But with the economy stuck in first gear, fund managers will take profit growth where they can get it.
HD Supply put virtually all of its IPO proceeds toward debt pay-down. Since the IPO, the company has reduced its long-term from $6.6 billion in May 2013 to $5.5 billion as of the beginning of February. Its cash position has grown from $88 million to $115 million.
All along, one risk to HD Supply's story has been that interest rates would rise, hampering its plans to reduce debt costs. Indeed, the company's IPO priced well below expectations, in part because investors were worried an impending tapering of the Federal Reserve's stimulus program might upset the low-interest-rate environment that has prevailed in recent years.
But as the Fed has started to taper, interest-rate volatility has picked up a bit but rates still remain near historic lows. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note is around 2.6%, virtually unchanged from last August.
Even at the reduced IPO price of $18 — well below its $22 to $25 range — investors were also betting on underwriters' aggressive forecasts for HD Supply's growth in a measure of pre-tax profits, according to a person familiar with the deal. The banks were expecting adjusted earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization of $960 million in 2014 and $1.2 billion in 2015, this person said. In fiscal year 2013, HD Supply saw adjusted Ebitda of $764 million.
The full-year results are yet to come, but the past two quarters, HD Supply has topped analysts' average estimates for revenue and its bottom line.


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Look at his two Labradors Tweedledum and tweedledummer running up to big bad Derek again!Stop yapping you mange ridden mutts, You won't get any more Bob Martins from john The Baptist, Lynda has eaten the lot!Now go on you slimy brown nosed sycophants, run back to John and show him how loyal you've been!HAhahahhhahahhaha Oh look, they both appear to be lame! It must be all that inbreeding out in the sticks!HAhahahahahaacheers, Derek
R.I.P Derek Martletts.He has finally left us.His ending was painful, but thankfully short.He will not be forgotten, for a few days at least.
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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:56:01 -0700, Robert Heiling wrote:
> I recently rescued a 1995-vintage pentium 233 from the back corner of my garage
> and returned the borrowed hardware to it - floppy, HD's 8.4GB, 6.4GB, & 1.6GB.
> FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed
> RH7.2. It seemed to be running Ok, but there was a problem when it was left
> unattended. I think the screen saver was taking effect and I'd find it frozen
> with a blank screen. Space bar and/or mouse movement would not get it to come
> back to life.
> So I fresh installed RH9.0 (everything) and it now freezes at the text "login:"
> prompt. This looks familiar, but I can't remember the problem.
> I've run memtest86 for a day and there were zero errors. Win98 has been
> installed on hdb-6.4GB (the 1.6GB is setup as linux swap) now and it runs
> without any problems, so I doubt that the freezing is any sort of hardware
> problem.
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
> Bob
I don't think that the resource requirements for FC5 are all that much
greater then they were for RH9. You might want to try it and see what
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Will Washington Get A Strong Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act?
Last Wednesday, the Senate voted on the Toxic-Free Kids and Families Act (ESHB 1294). Unfortunately, it passed a completely inadequate version of the bill that will not protect kids, fire fighters or the environment. But in good news, the House refused to accept the Senate's weak bill and has asked to negotiate with the Senate.
Last Wednesday, the Senate passed a completely inadequate version of the Toxic-Fee Kids and Families Act (ESHB 1294) that will not protect kids, fire fighters or the environment from toxic flame retardants.
But in good news, the House refused to accept the Senate's weak bill and has asked to negotiate with the Senate.
There are four days left for the Senate to strengthen the bill and adopt the House version.
The chemical industry, represented by the American Chemistry Council and the Association of Washington Business, is leading the charge to oppose protections that would impact the profits of out-of-state chemical manufacturers.
The House version of the bill bans two types of Tris flame retardants from children's products and home furniture and prevents manufacturers from using known toxic chemicals as replacements.
On the other hand, the Senate version of the bill only bans two Tris flame retardants (TCEP and TDCPP) in children's products. This approach fails to address the large quantities of flame retardants present in couches and other furniture. Also, it does nothing to prevent companies from switching out one harmful flame retardant for another, which recent disclosures by Graco show is already happening.
It's time to get companies off the toxic treadmill of simply substituting one harmful toxic chemical for another!
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Nacchio: All Hopes on Mahoney
With Joe Nacchio sentenced today to six years (out of a maximum seven and three months), the ex-Qwest CEO's hopes have to turn to his lawyer for the appeal, Maureen Mahoney of Latham & Watkins. The Denver Post earlier this week profiled Mahoney, a former clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist and one-time deputy solicitor general.
Most legal commentators say Nacchio's chances of winning on appeal are slim (the Journal's Dionne Searcey, in Denver today, explains the issues here), but with Mahoney by his side they're probably slightly better than that. The Latham partner, who is married to Bill Crispin of Crispin & Greenberg, is on the short list of superstar Supreme Court advocates, having lost just two of 18 arguments before high court, reports the Post. The article also notes that Mahoney's victories include landmark decisions overturning Arthur Andersen's criminal conviction and preserving the University of Michigan Law School's diversity program. She argued more cases before the high court during its latest term than any other private attorney.
Our favorite detail about Mahoney: She has something in common with Homer Simpson — a love for donuts. She ritualistically eats one before every oral argument. Her high school swimming coach told her the sugar would give her energy, and the habit stuck. Yes! We've accomplished our goal of mentioning "The Simpsons" today!
Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
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Reasons to use regular mail keep on dropping
The higher postal rates go, the less people will use regular mail. The less business the post office has, the higher it will have to raise their rates.
Does anyone see where this is headed? Soon, only one letter a year will be mailed (by Bill Gates or Warren Buffett) with a billion-dollar stamp on it.
Garrett Toren
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Use of executive orders is not unconstitutional
President Barack Obama, recognizing income inequality is getting broader and broader, has proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. However, Republicans in the House and Senate have opposed this, even though a recent CBS poll indicated 71 percent of American voters support raising the minimum wage (52 percent of Republicans agreed). Ten states have already done so. The president said he will issue an executive order to raise the minimum wage on all future federal contracts to $10.10 an hour. The Republican response? They called him an "Imperial King," "Kommandant in Chief" and even threatened to sue him for his use of executive orders.
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Boulder Creek
'Ticky tacky' indicates a failure of insight
As much as I admired Pete Seeger and what he stood for, both he and Malvina Reynolds overlooked the fact that those "ticky tacky" little houses (Letters, Jan. 30) were, and are, inhabited by a wide range of individuals. Contrary to the song, they might "all look the same", but each house is a home, and each resident is an individual. To brand an entire group of humans as "ticky tacky" indicated a failure to understand the diversity of humanity and the value of each and every member of society. Seeger will be missed, and we are all better for having experienced his music and his message.
Will Brecheen
San Jose
ABC News must have limited demographic
I would think it's a given that advertisers study the demographics of the evening news audience before they dole out their money for ads. Watching the ABC national evening news, I noticed the continuous stream of drug ads aimed at the elderly. Cialis, Nexium, Celebrex, Pradaxa, and every other cryptic drug ad the pharmaceuticals brewed up, usually ending with, "Ask your doctor if (Alphabet) is right for you." If ABC's audience is down to arthritic, depressed, impotent seniors, it won't be long until no one is watching. Which makes me wonder: Where are the rest of us getting the news? Google Glass?
Andreas Goedde
San Jose
Don't blame teachers for parents' failures
I feel sorry for Daniella Martinez, who could not read at the third-grade level ("Teacher rights getting needed court scrutiny," Page 18A, Jan. 26). However, I am disappointed that she blamed her illiteracy on her teacher. If her parents were concerned about her achievement, they would have noticed her failure in the first grade and contacted her teacher to learn about their child's failure and how to help her. The Alum Rock School District has Student Success Teams to help student achievement. The district's policy requires teachers to attend parent-teacher conferences at least three times per school year. Many parents have ignored notices about these conferences. Without the parents' help, the school cannot perform its duties.
Anhthao Bui
San Jose
Planned Parenthood offers many services
In response to Edward Donati (Letters, Jan. 27), I have to wonder what exactly he thinks Planned Parenthood does. He states "all facts and options should be presented" when considering terminating a pregnancy, and while Planned Parenthood will not force a woman to consider every alternative before terminating a pregnancy, they are certainly more than happy to and are also well-informed to discuss every alternative. From carrying the baby to term and keeping it, with the help of checkups, vitamins and medicines provided by Planned Parenthood, to carrying the baby to term and giving it up for adoption, to terminating the pregnancy, Planned Parenthood has all the information and resources women need to make an informed decision that is right for them. Planned Parenthood does much, much more than provide abortions, and Donati would be wise to remember it.
Zoë Mount
Palo Alto


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me to have an informal gathering with many of the Israeli designers who are
part of the IxDG community. No fancy presentations or anything like that.
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