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Celebrity Equinox Review - MediterraneanAuthor: Lorene Alston
Date of Trip: November 2012
We were on the Celebrity Equinox Cruise out of Rome to ports Santorini, Istanbul, Ephesus, Athens, Mykonos and Naples. The ship is beautiful and offered great live shows nightly with a very good variety. (comedians, majicians, Cirque Soleil type acrobats soaring from the ceiliing, violinists, singers and the show cast was absolutely amazing! No complaints on shows.
The Main Dining Room entrees were superb and enjoyed very much. The food is great and we feel no reason to eat elsewhere onboard. The staff in all areas was very frienly and accommodating.
The rooms are great with lots of storage space cupboards above the bed. Lots of hangers and can store luggage under the bed. There was even a keyboard to order items or photos on board with the tv.
Photography: Very expensive item. Overpriced for digital.
WIFI: Very expensive. Most people do not take the package. In this age, we don't understand the high price structure. Without any phone/internet communications from home, this gives guests a "trapped feeling". Not good. No WIFI is that expensive to offer its guests if MacDonald's and cafes can offer it - why not Celebrity? A Shame. We feel they are making a big mistake here...esp in Europe/Asia.
Weather: November trip with some luck - WARM most of the time. Lucky! (In fact, Santorini was closed the next day due to high winds, so we were very fortunate to be able to see it comfortably with sun).
Ports: This was a major port-intensive cruise. Only a couple of sea days, so if this is not your thing, decide if you want to do it. The ports were historical and absolutely awesome.
Guests: Mostly retired/elderly and not many children on board this trip.
Rome: We spent 3 days prior to cruise in Rome. We did Vatican Museum + Sistine Chapel (prepaid tickets internet), and Borghese Gallery (prepaid tickets internet) and walked most all else in Rome. Getting tickets ahead saved us long que lines! (by a time appointment). We stayed at Boccaccio Hotel near Trevi for 89 Eu in Hotel Petris building. Both are great locations-location! In most cases with hotels, tours, and transfers, we paid by PayPal before we left home. EZ.
Santorini: Awesome scenery esp at Oia. Don't miss this town - best of all. Photographers dream! Nice shops/cafe's. The only drawback here is the time ship is in port. 2:00 pm - 10pm is way too short turnaround. We would prefer longer here. Can see other things. We had
no time in Fira at all. The cable car is long line to get back to ship, so more time here would be much better choice. and people...Don't Ride the Donkey's! (poor things...) A Dung Mess to walk the zig zag of a climb/hill. (steep).
Istanbul: Awesome ! Very historical. We took the ship excursion on Bospherous Cruise boat, but recommend you do TurYol cruise on your own 90 min. cruise ($92 cheaper). Same boat, same schedule. Doing Mosques, Palace, Cistern on your own walking tour is EZ, so no need for private tour. Everything is close in proximity. Grand Bazaar can be a bit boring (same stuff) so other shoppping may be more interesting. Spice Market good but also has other shopping. Cistern is a "don't miss" site. Accept Euros here but in some cases (tram, taxi) they may want TLira or you need coins to get tram tokens. Cash is always preferred to credit card transactions all over most ports.
Ephesus: MAJOR ATTRACTION: This is not to be missed and a private tour is highly recommended here. We used Sea Spirit No Frills/No Shopping Tours. Very good @ $90pp USD for full day tour. Why come here to shop carpets when there is so much history?! This is a ruins that is being excavated with much more to find, (Ancient City ( but to see a 3 store Celsus Library building high up, is amazing to the eye..and great photograph memory! The Slope Terrace Houses a must see, and this whole tour needs guide explanation. The 25,000 seat Stadium where St. Paul preached is worth the climb to see it. Virgin Mary House of interest to some, not all. Sacred Shrine. Words cannot express how many people said they were absolutely "blown away" by Ephesus ruins. Trip of a lifetime...
Athens: ...somewhat of a dissapointment as Acropolis still has scaffolding construction all around it for the past 60 years, which ruins pictures. Not much to see here. Busy town. We took the Equinox Panaramic tour and were dissapointed (do not recommend) since it was just a ride around town with a couple stops. They did not wait for Changing of the Guard for us to see. (mistake). They added a shopping trip to jewelry store - not on schedule. They put in a boring stop at the end where no restaurant staff even tried to wait on anyone. Just sitting around - waste of time - DULL! At first stop, the guide lady left people on bus and walked fast and she nearly lost her group, majority of elderly. Bad guide.
Mykonos: What a surprise! This is like Santorini, but not as hilly. Windmills are a real treat. People fantastic in this town and NO PUSH to sell. Nice comfortable shops to look at without the pressure. Very artsy town - Gorgeous and relaxing, even in November. This is normally a beach community in summer, but we enjoyed the people and the restaurants.
Naples: We did the Amalfi Tour with Guemar Travel (without Pompeii) and it was great to go over the mountain on narrow roads, see views, Ravello, Positano and Sorrento for lunch and drive along the Amalfi coast. Lunch in a quaint old restaurant above the town had an interesting owner who really had good humor with us. Towns are unique as well as churches. It is the home of the "lemon groves" on terraced hills and homes perched on hilly terrain. Lemoncello is a liquor drink they make there (after dinner drink)... There are also boats to Sorrento and Capri in season. We did not do Pompeii due to mobility. Mount Vesuvius is in full view on this trip no matter where you are near Sorrento and enroute to Naples port.
Money: We used cash EU most of the time. Credit card has high charges for ATM use. Debit cards are best. Still the US made cards with magnetic strip are not always accepted, but Smartcard Chip cards are used there. Have a backup card(s). Beware of high feels for foreign exchange. We suggest TravelEx chip card, like a debit card, where you put your funds on card, get funds not used returned back to you...
Travel Insurance: Be sure to have it. You just never know. Again TravelEx has trip insurance plans for about $100 per person which covers medical as well as evac/death benefits. Trip delays/baggage loss also included.
This is a great trip for those wanting to explore and learn more about our biblical history, when Mary, John and Paul came here to teach and develop churches.
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Situated in Como, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia and Volta Temple. Villa Olmo and Cathedral of Como are also within 15 minutes.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - March 25, 1974, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 12 The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Men., Mar. 25, 1971 For Better Health One Doctor Calls Wine an Important Medical Agent By Dr. S.L. Andelman Wine and health are topics nowadays. In fact onej noted doctor has called wine "the most important medic agent in continuous use throug out the history of man." If it's that important, it cer tainly deserves a few column devoted to discussing the clinic First of a two-part series. value of wine in promoth health and preventing disease. Dr. Salvatore P. Lucia, tl doctor quoted above, is a emeritus professor of huma nutrition at the University California who urges doctors take to heart the public's co cern for more natural foods an medicines. He says that's wher table wine "can play an impo tant role." Relaxation Dr. Lucia says the ingredienl in wine make it a gentle vehic] for inducing relaxation and ten pering the tensions of everyda life. In fact, "there is evidenc that the regular daily additio of wine to meals may reduc the incidence of arteriosclerosis in man by as much as 50 per cent." Bioflavonoids in wine ar believed J-esponsible for reduc ing cholesterol. Minerals In the area of nutrition, win contributes more than jus empty calories to the diet. WIN AT BRIDGE By Oswald James Jacoby Jim: "How about some art! cles to show how bridge ha changed in the last 40 .0 s w a 1 d "The Culbertspn Suns match of 1935 might be worth using as an example. 0 course, expert 1935 bidding was a trifle better than that of Eh NORTH 10 VAQ10643 486 410732 WEST >'Q732 6Q532 VK9852 SOUTH 4AKJ97 VJ AKJ10954 4> Neither .vulnerable West North East South 26 Double Bouble.4f Pass Pass .Pass Opening and Jo Culbertson and. a lot bet- ter than that of Hal and Dorothy Sims. Dorothy had never learned any discipline in. bid- ding and both teams used honor tricks rather than .point count for hand evaluation." Jim: "Here's a hand where Dorothy's lack of discipline paid off. Her club opening was one of those gulpic bids. She had some cards but well below opening .strength." Oswald: "Ely's two. club bid was a game force in the Cul- bertson system. Hal doubled and Jo Culbertson went to two hearts. Dorothy doubled that on the theory that Jo had bid her best suit." Jim: "I see that Ely jumped to four diamonds and Jo passed. How do you explain that even in 1935 bidding." Oswald: "Ely blamed Jo but I blame Ely. If he had just bid three diamonds Jo would have recognized the continuing force and bid. However, when he jumped to four Jo decided that there was something wrong with the whole thing arid passed. For the record, Ely made six." The bidding has been: 23 West North East South You South, hold: What do you do now? You want your partner to bid. TODAY'S QUESTION You do double and your partner responds one spade. What do you do now? Answer Tomorrow For the; in Paints It has workable amounts of the B-group vitamins and of vi- tamin P and generally contains utiiizable amounts of the more important minerals, including potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium, iron and phosphorus. Dr. Lucia says wine is also an excellent source of iron in its easily absorbed ferrous form. As Dr. Lucia says: "Wine, in- telligently used, is important in maintaining the body at its maximum competence: It acts mundanely and poetically as a food and a medicine, and as a balm for the trials and tribula- tions of man, who doggedly pur- sues his finite existence in an infinite, turbulent, yet still hope- ful world." Dr. Lucia's view has been held by famous physicians in history. Louis Pasteur be- lieved wine- to be the most healthful, most hygienic dietary beverage of all. And' Hip- pocrates prescribed wine during convalescence and as a cooling agent in fever. In a future column we'll dis euss a report on the ways wine helps the elderly. 20 YEARS AGO An official announcement said the Egyptian military council would step down July 24 and the people would elect their own govern- ment. None of Contaminated Fowls Reached Public JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Leaders of broiler industry say the millions of con- taminated chickens which the federal government has ordered destroyed are still alive and none has reached consumers. They promised their coopera- tion in destroying the contami- nated birds. The government has estimat- ed that 22 million chickens are involved, but the industry says lie total is below eight million. At a meeting Sunday, lliC; jroiler industry leaders said hat they have found and stopped the source of the con- tamination. They said extensive federal and industry testing was under way on all chicken flocks in the state. EPA Refusal! The federal Environmental Protection Agency refused Sat- urday to allow the marketing of chickens of three poultry raisers after extensive testing showed birds from their flocks con- tained unacceptable levels of the pesticide dieldrin, known to cause cancer on prolonged ex- posure. T. H. Ktheridge, board chair- man of the National Broilers Assn., said the contamination source was pinpointed as an ingredient in chicken feed. Poultry-raiser H. F. McCarty said that, once the problem was found, all affected chickens were placed on "clean feed" and the birds involved Jere isolated. "-Million Loss McCarty said his loss, not including time and potential market profits, would be about million. Officials of Morton Broilers said they faced a simi- lar loss. The promised cooperation of the poultry Industry leaders came after the EPA turned down their request to raise the federal standard limiting the amount of pesticide residue in the chickens' fatty tissues. They claimed the current diel- drin cutoff level was well below minimum standards and the slaughtering process would re- move most of the tissue where the chemical was concentrated. After the EPA decision, how- ever, Etheridge said: "Our first priority is the consumer and we will protect him at all cost." Extra care in engineering...it makes a big difference in small cars. Have you ever wondered why most claims never mention the small cars from Chrysler Corporation? Only Chrysler Corporation reports its own small-cargas mileage against competition! It's one thing to test your cars, by themselves, under ideal quite another'thing to ask an independent testing organization to test your cars under normal driving conditions, with non-professional drivers, through traffic and on the include your competition. That's what the United States Auto Club did for Chrysler Corporation; and the results really mean something. 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Patrick Redmond '70 led an initiative to provide a list of past presidents and chairmen of AIGA Minnesota on the organization's website. With some 1,300 members, AIGA Minnesota has become one of the largest chapters of AIGA, "the professional association for design."
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text: To be eligible for a Haworth College of Business study abroad scholarship you must be a pre-business, B.B.A., M.S.A. or MBA student at Western Michigan University. By applying for the short-term (first or second summer session) business study abroad scholarship, you will also be considered for the Haenicke Institute for Global Education Study Abroad Scholarship offered by the WMU Study Abroad Office for WMU faculty-led programs. Please note that students may receive either a merit award from the Haenicke Institute or the college of business scholarship programs—but not both. Additionally, you may apply for a financial need-based award for a summer program.


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Missing Maries County woman found alive
VIENNA, Mo. - A woman who had been missing since tubing on the Gasconade River Monday has been found alive.
The Maries County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Penny D. Curtner was found Wednesday. She was able to walk to a campground after being lost in the woods.
"I'll be honest, I was water searching when dispatch contacted me and advised me that she was here. At that time we were more than likely expecting a body recovery rather than rescue," said Sheriff Chris Heitman.
The Sheriff's Office says Curtner had minor injuries that were treated before she was released to her family.
Her family had told authorities she was last seen around 3:30 p.m. Monday floating on the river alone in a black and green tube.
According to the Sheriff's office, her family and friends had not been able to contact her.
The Maries County Sheriff's Office, Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Vienna Fire Department were involved in the search for Curtner.


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|Dolls Gone Wilde
But you can't help staring at the doe-eyed redhead in the corner, trying to commune with the spiders (yeah, the party's that boring…). She sighs, turns and pirouettes on her totally rockin' peep-toe heels. And that was Miss Ellowyne Wilde. If you're thinking this doll is quite unlike any you've seen before, that's exactly what her creators at the Mullica Hill, NJ-based Wilde Imagination are hoping. "We wanted to bring something different to the doll world," says Debra DeForte, the newly formed company's marketing and sales director. The company also wanted a doll who is of the moment, and definitely in touch with the times. "Ellowyne was inspired by Japanese anime, the fashion illustrations of Ruben Toledo, Steve Madden shoe ads in which models had digitally enhanced heads and feet, and any number of other pop culture references," DeForte explains .A promising provenance, indeed. And it never hurts if you've engaged one of the doll world's brightest stars to design your first line.
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During the sculpting process, Tonner kept reference materials around all the time—fashion design illustrations, romantic references, looks from movies and magazines, with a little current Goth—to keep himself on the right track. "But the more I developed the woman she was becoming," he says, "the more her looks designed themselves. She more or less directed her own look."
As Ellowyne began to emerge, Tonner found his own personality giving way to his "inner Ellowyne." "When I sculpt a doll, I try to 'feel' the mood," he tells us. "Ellowyne was slouching the whole time I sculpted her—and her hands, for example, became especially expressive. This doll, more than any other, truly has a personality, and it made her very interesting for me to create."
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Besides, when you look that good, how bad can perpetual boredom and endless sighing possibly be?
The Jones Publishing Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon one recipient per year. This award was created in 2002 in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the teddy bear, with the first recipient being Steiff, a German-based plush toy company known for its high quality and prices.
The Lifetime Achievement recipient must be or have been involved in some aspect of the doll and/or teddy bear field for a minimum of 25 years. The recipient may be an individual, partnership, corporation, company, author, artist, marketer, historian or any other industry professional. Lifetime Achievement Award nominations may be made by previous recipients or members of the LAA committee.
To qualify as a nominee, entrants must meet the following criteria:
The Lifetime Achievement Award has been presented to the following individuals and companies since its inception:
2002 Steiff
2003 Hildegard Gunzel
2004 Alexander Doll Company
2005 R. John Wright
2006 Wendy Lawton
2007 Virginia Turner
2008 Toy Shoppe
2010 Helen Kish
2012 Maggie Iacono
2013 Heidi Plusczok
2014 Jack Johnston
2015 Kaye Wiggs
2016 Robert Tonner
One World Holdings, Inc. and Tonner Doll Company, Inc., announced Dec. 3, 2015, that their Boards of Directors have approved a definitive agreement for One World Holdings' subsidiary, The One World Doll Project, to merge with Tonner Doll. The agreement was entered into Dec. 2. Following the closing of the merger, the combined business will change its name to Tonner One World.
The 2015 DOLLS Awards of Excellence Industry's Choice winners (DAEs, also called the Diamond Awards) were announced at the International Doll & Teddy Bear Show in Asheville, N.C., June 6. The Industry's Choice winners will go on to become the nominee's in the Public's Choice voting, set to begin in late June.
Without further ado, here are the winners of this year's Industry's Choice Diamond Awards!
August 8, 2014 - Blackall Associates Inc. is proud to announce the winner of its Summer Heat Photo Contest. The contest drew entries from around the world. Masterpiece Doll collectors sent in a special photo showing how their Masterpiece Dolls were enjoying the summer heat.
You haven't seen a toy show until you've seen this one. Six buildings! Over six hundred exhibitors! Exclusively toys and dolls and children's playthings on display everywhere! This is the show everyone always says they intend to visit, and now is the time to do just that. Collectors say the Chicago Toy Show really is the largest in the entire world. They are correct. Collectors say they find toys at this show that are never seen anywhere else. Correct again.


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On a clock the three hands - the second, minute and hour hands - are on the same axis. How often in a 24 hour day will the second hand be parallel to either of the two other hands?
How good are you at estimating angles?
Explore patterns based on a rhombus. How can you enlarge the
pattern - or explode it?
Since $ABQ$ and $BCQ$ are equilateral, the angles $ABP$ and $CBQ$ are both $60^\circ$. So $$\angle{PBQ} = 360^\circ-90^\circ-60^\circ-60^\circ=150^\circ$$
PBQ is isosceles, so the angles $BPQ$ and $PQB$ are equal. So
$$2 \times \angle{PQB} = 180^\circ- 150^\circ = 30^\circ$$ So $$\angle{PQB} = 15^\circ$$
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In 1914 the Smith-Lever Act created the national system for Extension. Special events to mark this centennial anniversary have included:
- A video about Extension in Minnesota was created to celebrate the 100-year anniversary. Check it out: "Extending knowledge, changing lives."
- Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, director of USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), was in Minnesota to speak at an international conference on food and science. On April 30, Extension faculty and staff in northeast Minnesota hosted him at the Cloquet Forestry Center where he learned more about University of Minnesota Extension.
- On May 8, the date of the actual signing of the Smith Lever Act, a national centennial convocation was held in Washington, D.C. Bev Durgan, Dean; Aimee Viniard-Weideman, assistant dean of communications and public relations; and David Werner, chief financial officer, participated in the national celebration.
- Throughout 2014, National Cooperative Extension is celebrating the centennial with a project called "Extension Reconsidered." The project engages 13 land-grant universities, including University of Minnesota, to reflect on and envision Cooperative Extension's role and relevance in higher education across the U.S. In Minnesota, we will hold conversations in a variety of settings.


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What's That Nasty, Whispering Buzz?
By Ron Grover
Every summer, there are two key holidays for the studios: Memorial Day and July 4th. Both are usually long weekends, and moviegoers head to their local theater in droves.
The most important time for the studios isn't either of those weekends, however. It's actually sometime between the All American holidays. You see, June is when studios generally have their spin machines whirring at full speed. It's when studio executives start bad-mouthing the competition, spreading less-than-flattering stories about each other's films.
I guess it's an ideal time to do it: You can slam any movie that hasn't lived up to its prerelease hype (Pearl Harbor, anyone?), and maybe you can doom an unreleased film to a poor opening weekend. Granted, gossip -- including the less-than-flattering variety -- isn't exactly unknown in Tinseltown. But this year, the naysayers seem to be working overtime.
I recently had lunch, for example, with one movie executive who dissed two upcoming films: Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence for Warner Brothers, and Fox's Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes.
Before we get to those two movies, let's examine the heavy negative buzz that's going around town about Pearl Harbor, which is going to gross "only" $200 million at the U.S. box office. Disney's crime with that film? O.K., some critics say it's too long, too sappy, and not accurate. That's not what Hollywood cares about. As far as Hollywood is concerned, Pearl Harbor's real crime is that it isn't going to be the biggest film of 2001, as promised earlier this year by Disney Chairman Michael Eisner. Instead, it may merely be the second- or third-biggest film of the year, and will return a tidy -- if not spectacular -- profit.
Why does the Hollywood crowd so love to see someone else fail? I haven't been able to fathom that one, although that particular strain of bloodlust is as common as the Jags and Porsches that execs lease to impress each other. Best as I can see, the thinking goes like this: If studios can throw enough dirt at the competition, maybe -- just maybe -- the buzz will jump from the gossip mills (the Palm restaurant, say, and the trade publications) to the popular press. Perhaps, if the mainstream press takes notice, that bad buzz will influence folks who rely on People or US when choosing which movie to see. Toxic gossip also helps to deflect attention from the studio exec who's dishing the dirt, which, given many of their records, is definitely something they should want.
Back to Burton's Planet of the Apes, which has humans rocketing off to a world controlled by sentient simians. According to the buzz, Burton and crew holed up for more than a week in London's Pinewood Studios, where they hurriedly reshot the ending. That little tidbit was picked up from the film gossip site aint-it-cool-news.com and quickly made the rounds of the power-lunch set.
Reshoots usually mean trouble, but Burton is renowned for secrecy -- and for changing endings. Maybe the film is flawed. Maybe it isn't. But hey, is it such a bad thing to have the public think so? That depends on whether you're Fox and Tim Burton, or a rival studio and someone else.
In the early '90s, a similar buzz about a reshoots and a poorly conceived ending plagued Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which was produced by Francis Coppola. The result was a film that generated a meager $22 million at the box office and helped lead to a massive reshuffling of the deck at Sony.
The same thing happened to The Postman, the 1997 Kevin Costner film that was supposed to rescue him from Waterworld. Make no mistake, it really was a bad film. But the post-apocalyptic tale probably would have done more than its pathetic $18 million at the box office had Hollywood types not dished so much dirt to the press.
The movie getting most of the negative spin right now is A.I., the tale of a robotic boy "adopted" by a real family. Rumors insist it is a muddied mess, mostly because Spielberg, rather than make his own storyboard, chose to stick as close as possible to the one laid out by the late director Stanley Kubrick. I've also heard that Warner refused to screen the film for reporters other than those it considers friendly. And even then, reviews in some of the major outlets, including Newsweek and Time, were mixed -- nothing like the gushes that normally greet Spielberg's efforts.
We'll soon see if the movie has legs. I've got to believe that a Spielberg movie, even one that doesn't represent him at the top of his game, is going to have a decent opening and attract a loyal audience. Still, the movie is taking on a little water, thanks to the very loud anti-Dreamworks crowd in Hollywood.
Spielberg himself is sacrosanct, but Dreamworks' success with a string of films, including Gladiator, American Beauty, and Shrek, has set the tongues of some very powerful Hollywood executives to wagging. It wasn't so long ago that many of them were pitching unlikely stories about Dreamworks running out of cash. "Will you guys be writing about how bad Spielberg and Dreamworks are doing if that film tanks?" one Hollywood biggie asked me expectantly.
Probably not. Even if A.I. flops, I know it takes more than one failure to unravel a studio, especially one with as much muscle behind it as Dreamworks. (Heck, that same Hollywood biggie even told me that A.I. had to add the words Artificial Intelligence in some of its promotion material to avoid having the movie confused with A.1. steak sauce!)
I must say it's amusing to see the spin doctors at work in summer, right before they head off to Sun Valley, or Europe, or wherever else they go once the heavy lifting is over. It can be almost as good a show as some of the ones they put up on the screen. No, that's not right: Often, it's more entertaining -- and a whole lot cheaper.
Grover is Los Angeles bureau chief for BusinessWeek. Follow his weekly Power Lunch column, only on BW Online
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This spring, the Canadian government rolled out a new medical marijuana system, and VICE Canada decided to investigate how this new program is affecting smokers, growers, lawyers and corporations. They explain: "In this episode we visit two gigantic medical marijuana factories, Tweed and Medreleaf, and then head to a licensed home grower to compare their operations and quality of their medicine…aka weed." Damian Abraham, frontman of the band Fucked Up and a medical marijuana patient himself, guides them through enough strains of weed "to turn any punk frontman into an excitable child." Check out the fun below:


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Baby Name Poll Results
Lissy & Clara vs. Lissy & Klara
Twins. Partner is Dutch, Klara is commonly spelled like this. Thanks ~Joy and Pieter
The Top Baby Name is...
Lissy & Clara
Lissy & Klara
Poll created: Jul 05, 2014
Total Votes: 10
I voted Clara. but that name isn't what i'm worried about Lissy I am. Lissy seems like it should be a nickname for something.
posted by guest :: Jul 05, 2014 03:10 PM | report
I think Lissy is really sweet. And I like the fact that Klara honors your husbands heritage. GL!
posted by guest :: Jul 05, 2014 03:12 PM | report
Clara might be slightly more common, but Klara is familiar enough, that's fine.
posted by guest :: Jul 05, 2014 03:17 PM | report
Klara is great! I would suggest Elisabeth (Dutch spelling also) nn Lissy and Klara. Giver Klara a longer middle name and Elisabeth a shorter one.
Klara Maria & Elisabeth Rose
Klara Adriana & Elisabeth Rose
Klara Margareta & Elisabeth Anna
Klara Maria & Elisabeth Rose
Klara Adriana & Elisabeth Rose
Klara Margareta & Elisabeth Anna
posted by SeaMichelle :: Jul 05, 2014 03:19 PM | report
Not a fan of Lissy unless it is a nickname. Too cutesy for me.
posted by guest :: Jul 05, 2014 03:37 PM | report
Lissy, I don't find attractive at all. Clara is gorgeous, but only spelled this way.
posted by guest :: Jul 06, 2014 01:26 AM | report
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A quick Day 3 of the PokerStars LAPT Peru Main Event saw the remaining field of 24 players that took to the felt whittled down to just 8 players in less than 5 levels. The player that finished at the top of the rankings once the final table had been established was Maxence Debar who has built up a massive lead with 2,106,000 chips. His nearest challenger is Oscar Barriga who is almost 1 million behind on 1,250,000.
You may expect that there were a lot of early eliminations as a result of this days play being over so quickly, yet that wasn't the case. In fact there were no eliminations in the first level of play, despite that fact both Debar and Barriga had already started to build their stacks considerably.
After the first break is when the chaos began, with players being sent to the rails every few minutes it seemed. During this stage Debar was having the best of the action and started to build his lead over Barriga. Before we knew it we were down to just 10 players, then nine, which then just left the final table bubble boy to be found out.
Sebastian Miranda was the unfortunate player to have missed the final table by just one place; he was already the short stack and had to pick the right moment to go all in. He did so whilst holding the Ac-3c and was called to the tune of 200k by Jorge Gonzales who was holding the Ac-Jh.
The community cards then came out as Qh-Qd-6h-4c-5s to see Miranda sent home for a payout of $15,440 and the final table for tomorrow set.
One player on that final table that certainly cannot be discounted is PokerStars Team pro Jose "Nacho" Barbero. This is now his fourth LAPT final table whilst if he takes it down it will be the third one of them he has won.
He will start in 7th place on the final table with a stack of 583,000 when the event kicks back off at 12pm noon tomorrow. Each of the remaining players is guaranteed at least $20,130 but will all have ambitions of taking the top prize of $187,300 for the win.
The Final Table:
Maxence Debar – 2,106,000
Jose "Nacho" Barber – 583,000
Oscar Barriga – 1,250,000
Jorge Luis Gonzales – 868,000
Aramis Salvadori – 866,000
Roberto Vahlis – 663,000
Jordan Scott – 491,000
Brent Sheirbon – 727,000
To find out exactly who does take down the title and the bragging rights that go along with it, make sure you check back with us tomorrow when we bring you the full report on everything that goes down on the final table.


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Air traffic control (ATC) equipment provides flexible and adaptable operation of aircrafts in order to improve air traffic, safety, efficiency and capacity. Efficient air traffic management will require new traffic management equipment on planes in service and those in production.
The objective of this study is to find, analyze and provide growth forecasts for the air traffic control equipment market by type, by end user and geography. This research report provides a thorough analysis of the global air traffic control equipment market based on types of equipment, end users and geographies for the period 2013 to 2019. It provides a complete outlook of major drivers, restraints and opportunities behind the popularity and growth of air traffic control equipment.
The report covers company profiles of key players in the market, their recent developments and business strategies. Some of the major players profiled in the report are BAE Systems Plc, Harris Corp., Cobham Plc, NavAero Inc., Indra Sistemas SA, Lockheed Martin Corp., Searidge Technologies Inc., Northrop Grumman Corp., Thales Group and Raytheon Company.
The report assists in better understanding of the market with the help of various highlights on the competitive situation across different levels of the Porter's five forces analysis. Overall, the report provides detailed analysis of the global air traffic control equipment market, along with the forecast in terms of revenue (USD million) for all the segments from 2013 to 2019.
The global air traffic control equipment market is segmented into three main categories: type of equipment, by end users and geography.
Air Traffic Control Equipment Market, by type
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Air Traffic Control Equipment Market, by end user
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Air Traffic Control Equipment Market, by geography
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Ronnie Magro-Ortiz is cashing in. HollywoodLife.com can reveal that the reality star will have his own line of t-shirts called "Jersey Laundry" available for you in mid to late February! The shirts will have your favorite Jersey Shore catch phrases like: "Gym, tan, smush" and "I love single Ronnie."
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When you think about it, bakeries (or pastry shops) can't be beat. I have never met anyone with open hatred for bread. And the Lord knows how many people love sweet treats. So really… bakeries are kind of a no brainer. Mix that fact with a blind passion for slaving away in the kitchen all day and you've got a business you could love.
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Edmonton, AB (August 3/12) – The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is pleased to announce that Randall Stout Architects has been awarded the 2012 American Architecture Award for the design of the new Art Gallery of Alberta building. Awarded by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum, the American Architecture Awards are the highest and most prestigious awards to recognize international architectural achievement and new, cutting-edge design.
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Stout's design for the Art Gallery of Alberta was inspired by the forms of the aurora borealis and the Edmonton river valley – two sights familiar to most Albertans. AGA Executive Director, Catherine Crowston, congratulates Randall Stout Architects for this award and for creating a truly unique structure that is both awe-inspiring and welcoming.
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Does Romney Think McCain Lies?
Andrew Sullivan has a link up to video footage of Mitt Romney, posted a couple of days ago on YouTube, calling John McCain out as ...
Andrew Sullivan has a link up to video footage of Mitt Romney, posted a couple of days ago on YouTube, calling John McCain out as a liar and saying his tactics are a mistake. This seems like an amplification of current controversies about McCain and Sarah Palin lying about their positions and those of Barack Obama.
But I wonder. The footage isn't clearly dated and the remarks are short, without much context provided. Which made me think that this could be an old clip of Romney expressing anger at McCain back in the primary, when it was pretty clear they couldn't stand each other.
In the footage, Romney makes a reference to the NY Times, the Washington Post and Bill Bennett all having opined that McCain was wrong and should apologize. Bill Bennett? I haven't heard his name mentioned among those criticizing McCain lately.
Very quick Googling turned up this video of Bennett calling on McCain to apologize for hitting Romney "below the belt" back. That was back in January. Meanwhile, news of Romney calling McCain a liar -- which would be big news -- doesn't seem to have broken anywhere else.
I think Andrew Sullivan got played on this one.
Update: Commenter Benjamin points out that DailyKos confirms the Romney footage is from January.
Further update: Sullivan has taken down the video and posted a correction.
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|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
Now that's more like it. After splitting a pair of games in Boston, the Bruins beat the Red Wings soundly in Game 3 by a score of 3-0. Tuukka Rask, who was awarded the first star of the game, made 23 saves and got the shutout for the Black and Gold.
The Bruins got the jump on the Wings early in the game and didn't let up for a full sixty minutes. Dougie Hamilton opened the scoring with a powerplay goal in the first, making a nifty end-to-end rush and firing off a quick shot over the shoulder of Howard.
Later in the first, the B's took advantage of a bad line chance by the Red Wings and tallied another. Thornton took the puck hard to the net and Jordan Caron buried the rebound, putting the Bruins up by two heading into the locker room after the first period.
The Bruins put up a clinic on consistency and domination for the rest of the game: driving to the net, cycling the puck, back-checking, and of course stellar play from their netminder. The Wings pushed back a bit at times with some great shifts from their forwards, applying pressure and crashing the net but Rask answered their every move. The Wings even had a 35 second five-on-three powerplay but were only able to get off one shot.
The final ten or so minutes of the game had the feel and intensity of a Game 7. The Wings pulled their goalie and were throwing everything they had at the Bruins but couldn't get anything through. Patrice Bergeron finally put the nail in the coffin with an empty netter from the Bruins own blue line and that ended it for the Red Wings.
The Bruins continue to get great contributions from the younger players in the absence of their starters. Kelly and Paille are both still out with the flu, but Florek and Caron have been great surprises. Florek has good size and strength, not unlike our old friend Benoit Pouliot, and had a couple great shifts where he fore-checked hard and created offensive opportunities.
And where the heck did this Jordan Caron come from? He's basically been a non-factor since being drafted, unable to crack the lineup as a full time starter. However, in three games so far this playoffs he has played physical, gritty, smart, and even contributed a goal tonight. This is what we've been waiting a long time for.
The return of Bartkowski was also good news. He wasn't a huge factor tonight, but that's fine. Kevan Miller, on the other hand, continues to be a wrecking ball. I've already made my case for him being in our top six for years to come in that role.
For a glimpse of how our young kids have contributed so far this series, here's a fun fact for you: in three games, three players have scored their first playoff goals. Pretty cool.
Even though this series is only 2-1, you have to be very excited as a B's fan. Rask has allowed only two goals in three games and the Bruins have really been rolling four lines and kicking ass. It should also be noted that Monreal completed the sweep tonight. And who's not drooling over that matchup next round?
Tags: Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Dougie Hamilton, Jordan Caron, Tuukka Rask


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original recipe here, I just love to eat the skin and fill my arteries with all that wonderfrul lubricant... helps prevent heart attacks ya know
original recipe here, I just love to eat the skin and fill my arteries with all that wonderfrul lubricant... helps prevent heart attacks ya know
You guys and your KFC food. LOL! How about we go and eat fresh at Subway...you know those five dollar footlongs? -Wink, wink-
Anyway, went some soul searching on sites yesterday to search for a good size (yet affortable) Jango Fett helmet. Nothing has come up yet but hopefully today after class we will have something down and put the order in for a helmet.
Hey guys I've been pretty busy over the days; I guess it gave me a break of not having to worry about my mando armor. Anyway, about five or so days ago I worked with the cardboard stuff on what type of battle damage would be put into the armor when the sentra stuff arrives. It turned out really good counting that I used only a sharpie LOL! But here was the result of it all.
What made me mad during the whole process was when some of the Mod Podge was removed from the neck peace of the armor. I had to apply four more coats to get the shinness back. What really ticked me off was when there was a bunch bumps and lines from the removed Mod Podge. But as I thought about it more and looked at it I thought I'd give it a try with what it would look like with battle damage. It turned out really good and I was well impressed.
Right now my neck peace is my favorite because of how well it turned out.
okay I'm a newbie also but making a bucket for you costume really wouldn't be hard. i spent 10 bucks on a skater helmet for the dome and about 15 bucks on other supplies and this is what i came up with it's still a WIP but it's getting there.
Just don't forget to download wizards templates they are really awesome as for armor go the trash can route doesn't cost much at all.
seems like all of you are out west. =( anyone in Florida i want to go to an armor party and hang out. That would be a blast.
That really looks good there my friend. I actually have looked up ways to make a mando helmet. One way was with cardboard which is what the plates are that you see before you. But I am not sure if it would hold up. I'm looking in getting a rubies version from ebay or a site. But whatever comes up I'll post it.
Yeah I don't have the cutting materials for trash can armor. People have been telling to not use cardboard but so far it is coming out really nice and firm.
Commander come on, a cardboard bucket will be much MUCH better than a rubies, I made mine both from priority mail envelopes (same as cereal boxes) then resin and glass in stratigic areas then bondo... I know you've seen my buckets, and A'den's. We made ours from cardboard... PAPER and bondo, they are VERY sturdy, and MUCH EASIER TO MAKE THAN YOU THINK... I was very sceptical at first, and failed 1/2 through putting the first one together with paper, but then transferred the paper ON TO cardboard with a glue stick, then cut, tape, resin, glass, bondo, sand sand sand more bondo, more sand... well you get the drift..
Hope I dont sound like a butthead here, but IF I CAN DO IT ANYONE CAN
haha listen to adonian! he knows what he's doing and ya MAKE SURE YOU TRANSFER IT TO CARDBOARD! Its very hard to hold paper and bondo it at he same time! just a heads up if you decide to make your own, vod
Whatever you do dont try to use lexon! it'll snap then your going to huff and puff about the 20 bucks you just lost. trust me happen to me today. oh i was pissed lol so i made some trash can armor to calm down.
was really easy actually just took a bit. need to finish the cod, cut a new collar cause i melted part of it with my blowtorch and cut out the back need another trash can lol 10 bucks at wal-mart.
adonian, that might be true, however the $33.00 spent on a jango bucket and it looks top notch when done might be the better route for someone who does not have the facilities to fiberglass indoors or outdoors or due to parents, etc.
true, I have seen the rubies conversions and they have been nice, and technically that counts as diy since you do have to fix it to use it.
well you can use it as is with a coat of paint like i have done. no one can really tell.
Yeah, I got one, but I have one HUGE MELLON on top of my shoulders so it dont fit (well not with my glasses on anyway)
really? never had that happen!
hehe...I over mix the hardener so it dries faster... I hate waiting, so I get mine to dry in something like two minutes, then off to sand with it! but that makes it get really hot...
That is why I am searching through the sites for one of those rubies jango helmets. Seems a little better for me. LOL! I have a small head so it will work well
i have a site you can buy the 2 pc jango from for $33 to include shipping. comes from Florida.
PM me if you want the link.
$37.00 shipped
Ebay and a star wars costume site is where I have been looking up for my mando helmet. Prices are a little high espically for those collector edition helmets. But I rather have the traditional style that way I can add my own things into the helmet to make it look kick *****. LOL!
The rubies 2 piece is "almost" traditional style.
I would figure; I've heard from others of using the 2 piece style.
Sorry guys I have not been on to tell you all how everything is going. I have been busy over the days dealing with school stuff for college and all that. The armor is still in progress and I am hopping to get some stuff posted up. And plus my computer keyboard started messing up with sticky keys so I could barley type. Luckily, I was able to get a new keyboard and this one lights up LOL! But yeah more stuff is on the way.
aaaarghh!!! Sticky Keys!!! lol yeah I know the feeling... sticky keys ar evil! I wish my keyboard lit up... then I could actually see my keys while typing at night... oh well good thing I learned the keyboard young! Hey speaking of school how's that going? U're going for a comp sci degree of some kind right?
yeah my space bar doesn't work to well have to really whack it. lol my bucket is in the glass phase fun fun fun. need to bend some plastic today. next weekend going to make a vacuum form table. =D


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Originally Posted by 04'SLVRWRX
Traded tonight with tkiller. Thanks again!
This is a discussion on The Official Trunk Swap Thread within the Exterior & Appearance forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; Originally Posted by 04'SLVRWRX I have a PSM 04 WRX looking for 04 PSM STI trunk/wing. I'm in Sevierville Tn. ...
Originally Posted by 04'SLVRWRX
Traded tonight with tkiller. Thanks again!
long island, new york. wanted: wingless trunk. preferably 02C WRB but would be willing to repaint it. willing to travel a couple hours to pick it up also. somebody get at me, i'm dying to go wingless.
1) 02 wrb wrx
2) Long Island, New York
3) Swapping: Looking to purchase outright but if someone were interested, stock wrx trunk with wrx spoiler, debadged except for wrx emblem
4) Wanting: 02-05 wingless trunk (any color) or 04-05 STi trunk in 02C WRB
Last edited by psb02wrx; 06-15-2006 at 03:39 PM.
rumble young man, rumble...Originally Posted by Maccgyver
1. 05 PSM STi
2. In Colorado
3. Swapping: STi lid/spoiler
4. Wanting: Stock WRX lid/spoiler
1. 06 OBP STi
2. Ithaca, NY
3. Swapping: STi trunk/wing
4. Wanted: OBP wingless trunk/wing
1. Black 03 WRX
2. Ohio(Northeast)
3. SWAPPING: Stock Spoiler trunk lid...Subaru Letters removed.
4. WANTING: Spoilerless black trunk lid or spoilerless CF lid
I'll be in the Orlando, FL area June 23- June 26. Anyone up for a swap, I have a 2005 OBP oem spoiler, wanting a wingless OBP trunk. Shoot me a PM if interested. NO '06's please.
1) OBP 06 wrx
2) So cal. Riverside
3)Swapping: wingless trunk
4)Wanting: 06 OBP STi trunk
Wanted STI trunk lid/wing
have WRX trunk/wing
in zip 91745 willing to part with a little cash for a trade.
e-mail me email@example.com
P. S. why is it that everyone who has a blue STI is so d*mm far from me?
Last edited by qkninja; 06-25-2006 at 07:51 PM.
1.) White 2005 WRX
2.) Northern Cali, 95482 (Ukiah - few hours north of San Fran)
3.) Swapping: Stock wing/tunk (all badges)
4.) Wanting: STi wing/trunk (de-badged or not...)
Willing to drive long distances! (Well, not too long, but whatever...)
Please Dave, just drive.
Get us as far as far can be...
Get us away from tonight!
2) Miami, Fl
3) Swapping: Debadged trunk with spoiler
4) Wanting: STI trunk with spoiler
pm me if interested!
Last edited by njskatchmo; 07-30-2006 at 12:12 AM.
Where are you located? What year? I have blue 2005 WRX in southern California E-mail me if interested email@example.com Posted by njskatchmo
Last edited by qkninja; 06-28-2006 at 05:20 PM.
The originals are made by Zerosport. They come in fiberglass or CF. I have a set in WRB on my car.Originally Posted by WhiteMonkey
There are a few replicas around in the web though, (saves a few bucks).
Originally Posted by zoophagy
I posted a link for a pic of a car with the fiberglass ones on this same thread :
I updated my post for new location
Originally Posted by zoophagy
05 aspen white
have: sti wing trunk with all badges
want: wingless with badges / no badges
location: orange county, ca
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I'm looking to buy a tablet (non drugs ) and I don't want to spend the money that an iPad costs...I was going to go and get a Kindle Fire (heard good reports) but someone else said to get a Nexus 7....anyone here have either and which would you recommend....
I have an iPad....
definitely Nexus over Fire though. or if you want to spend a bit more the Nexus 10
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Very happy with the iPad, but if I was going to buy an Android equivalent it would be the Nexus rather than the Kindle. The Kindle is designed for consumption of Amazon content (books, films, music etc) whilst running Android, whereas the Nexus range are much more of an Android device that can also be used to consume Amazon content (as well as other vendors).
We have the iPad 2 and also iPad mini - the Mini is more portable and doesn't seem compromised by the smaller screen. So I'd expect the same to apply for the Nexus 7 and 10; if you expect to only use it in and around the house then the 10 is a bit nicer, but if you will be taking it out and about then the 7 may be a better choice.
I have the Nexus 7. I am really enjoying it. I can watch films, read books, surf the interweb and listen to music. The only thing I have found different with the iPad (my OH has one) is that although on the Nexus you can watch BBC iPlayer you need to be connected to the internet and not just download iPlayer programmes for later. I couldn't recommend the Nexus highly enough.
The iPad Mini is very nice, though I have the Nexus 7, which is also very nice.
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Bought the Nexus 7 couple of weeks ago for OH, after Tesco let him loose without hassle to play around with the different tablets. He's dead pleased with it, and I'm chuffed also as he likes to read a lot in bed, and can do so now without the bedside light on which used to keep me awake.
Ipad here. Got it from the Apple refurb site so was cheaper.
I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and get an iPad mini...
I have a samsung 10.1, and am very happy with it - But then I've not used the iPad
oh. i thought you meant the cardiac arrest-inducing Scottish confectionary.
carry on.
The thing with Android - no iTunes. You can also install apps remotely. I just installed Skype on my Nexus 7 which is currently three miles away, for example.
The Play store doesn't really vary that much from iTunes. I'm puzzled about why people struggle with it.


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They are everywhere. Nary a day goes by that I don't get an e-mail or a phone call from "them." Nor does a day go by that I don't hear or see "them" on over-the-air (OTA) or cable media. You know "them"; they are that ubiquitous sea of "experts" who think they have the corner on all the skinny about everything — including when the recession (oops…downturn) will end.
Sooner or later, the recession is going to end — That's a given. But as I write this around the end of February, things still look pretty bleak for a lot of companies. Overall business bankruptcies are at an all-time high. Leveraged debt and some long-term bonds that companies issued at the height of the stock market melee are looming on the horizon.
Even though visionaries like Greenspan and so many of the self-proclaimed stock market experts are telling us the "downturn" is over, I don't buy it. I think these pundits are simply leveraging market perturbations and marginal statistics to alter perception and jump-start consumer spending.
I believe it is difficult to predict when we will start a solid upward climb to better times, but I think I may have stumbled upon a clue as to what to look for — at least for the telecom industry.
I'm talking infrastructure. Despite all the hand-wringing about spectrum, buku bandwidth currently exists. Networks are underused. The predictions that broadband is going to hit the streets running haven't proven true — yet. Thus, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that, until we start using more of this bandwidth, we're not going to generate a lot of business in the support sectors (what we do).
Furthermore, consumers are tight-fisted right now — even though "they" say consumer confidence is up. When was the last time you heard how the wireless Web was expanding as fast as the big bang? When consumers get nervous, they shun superfluous technology. If you think they will run out and buy a Web phone when everyone around them is being laid off, think again.
Then there's a ripple effect — Most of the wireless design and development industry is at the end (or beginning, depending on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist) of the food chain. By that, I mean we are the infrastructure suppliers — hardware and systems. While there will continue to be a demand for products in the existing infrastructure, not a whole lot of 3G, broadband, multimedia, EDGE, IS-95, W-CDMA, wireless Web, etc. stuff will be sold until a 3G, broadband, multimedia, EDGE, IS-95, W-CDMA, wireless Web infrastructure exists (get my drift?). And, no 3G infrastructure will exist until the demand exists. (Read: killer applications/hardware, a high consumer confidence level and disposable income).
Statistics don't lie — If you look at the statistics, this makes sense. I just heard (as of this writing) that Sprint is down a whopping 61% from a year ago. It has scheduled a 3,000-person cut and is closing service centers (as if they had any "service" anyway). WorldCom's stock is off just about the same, and Verizon is wringing its hands in woe as well as it lays off another 1,000 people. Furthermore, even with maximum effort to control costs and sell something, these guys are keeping their fingers crossed that they can just maintain throughout all this.
Add to that Qwest and Level-3 stocks being at an all-time low, and the demise of Global Crossing and McLeodUSA, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for the immediate future.
This tells me a couple of things. First it tells me, and this isn't news, that parts of the telecom sector were way overbuilt to begin with (at the height of the craze, there were 140-odd competitive carriers, for example). Much of it was also undercapitalized in real dollars (not dot-com dollars). So, of course, when the consumer stopped spending, the debt burden and overhead became insurmountable. Now the industry will pay the price for a year or two.
Second, I don't think that predicting the end of the telecom industry's debacle is that difficult. Pinpointing it, yes, but knowing when it's going to happen, no. Last year I was optimistic about things turning around by the end of this year — wrong. Now, as I try to digest all of the current financial information from the left, right and middle, I have to think we may be as much as a good couple of years away from exhaling (although I'm hedging my bet by saying that under the best of circumstances, we could see things start to pop by early 2003). But even then, debt load and "aggressive" future income estimates from betting on the "come" at the height of the market will come back to haunt some of these companies — even if the economy is turning around.
The road map to recovery — For our segment of the telecom industry, I feel we just need to keep our ear to the track and wait for the recovery of the carriers. When I start to hear them whine about not having enough bandwidth, I'm calling my broker.
I'm putting my money on Nortel as my barometer. When its stock starts a solid climb, I'm in for the long run (just hope it doesn't turn into another Enron).