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ALLEN PARK, Mich. Since leading Boise State to 50 victories in four years to become college footballs all-time winningest quarterback, all Kellen Moore has heard is that he doesnt have the arm strength, height or athleticism to play in the NFL. His mission to prove otherwise began Friday afternoon when Moore, an undrafted free agent, took part in the Detroit Lions rookie mini-camp. For the first time since he started playing football in the third grade, Moore wasnt wearing No. 11 on the field. He chose that number as a kid because his favorite player on his fathers high-school team wore it, but 11 is taken by receiver Stefan Logan on the Lions. So Moore wore No. 17. It should have been No. 256. Why? Because there were 255 players selected in the NFL Draft, and he wasnt one of them. Shortly after that snub, Moore vowed that there would be no quarterback more motivated than him. Thats kind of past us, he said when asked Friday about what he has to prove since not being drafted. That really doesnt affect anything anymore. Bottom line is if you get an opportunity, youve just got to take advantage of it. Obviously, like any kid, your dream certainly is to be drafted. Things happen for a reason. Things come in goofy ways. Besides piling up all those victories at Boise, Moore completed 69.8 percent of his passes for 14,667 yards and 142 touchdowns with only 28 interceptions. He finished in the top-10 in the Heisman Trophy voting three times, including a fourth-place finish in 2010. Moore is considered a highly intelligent player with very good passing accuracy - exactly what youd expect from a coachs son. His father, Tom, won four state championships at Prosser (Wash.) High School. But when it came time to pick Moore in the NFLs seven-round draft, none of the 32 teams pulled the trigger. Some analysts have suggested that he has no chance to become a starter in the league because hes a little shorter than 6-foot, doesnt have the strongest arm and doesnt run that well. Basically, Moore is just a player. He just completes passes. He just competes. He just wins. At least thats who he was in college. Obviously, there are many who question (seriously doubt) whether his skills will translate to pro football. Moore is here to show otherwise. Its nice to get out there finally, he said after practicing. Were done with that whole scouting and combine process and now you can just play football, which is obviously what we love to do. Moore wasnt biting when reporters tried to get him to admit exactly how he felt about not getting drafted, and all the criticism he heard during the process leading up to the draft. He said he had shifted his focus to signing as a free agent even before the draft ended. Fortunately, wed kind of had some discussions, figured out we had a great opportunity up here in Detroit, was very excited about that by that time, said Moore, who also considered free-agent offers from St. Louis and San Diego. I kind of quit watching (the draft) toward the end. We were more doing phone conversations, just sorting it all out. Moore had a connection with the Lions. Offensive coordinator Scott Linehan grew up in Sunnyside, Wash., about 15 miles from Moores hometown. Linehan is familiar with Moores father through the coaching circles. They know each other, just a little bit, Moore said. Lions coach Jim Schwartz said hes impressed with Moores resume. He had a lot of success, Schwartz said. Those werent 50 wins against inferior opponents. Hes gone on the road and beat some big-time teams (including Georgia and Virginia Tech). Hes been consistent over that period of time. There were a lot of things we liked about him. When the opportunity arose, we really werent in the quarterback market so to speak, but his talent was there. We think hell fit in well with us. The Lions have an opening for a third-string quarterback behind Matthew Stafford and Shaun Hill after losing Drew Stanton in free agency. Schwartz, however, wouldnt commit Friday to keeping three quarterbacks on the 53-man roster. Well see how it shakes, Schwartz said. Were going to keep our best 53 players when we get out of training camp (in JulyAugust). Last year we kept three. That doesnt mean well keep three this year. It doesnt mean well keep two. Its really dependent on how it goes and who earns a spot on the 53-man roster. Once hes finished playing, Moore plans to get into coaching, just like his dad. But, first, he plans to show all those critics that theyre dead wrong about him as a player. EXTRA POINTS Cornerback Bill Bentley, the Lions third-round pick, signed a four-year deal shortly before taking the field. Of the Lions eight draft picks, only offensive tackle Riley Reiff, their first-round selection, remains unsigned. Reiff, however, is still participating in the mini-camp. I dont worry about that stuff, Reiff said of the contract negotiations. It will get taken care of. The sooner, the better. Receiver Ryan Broyles, a second-round pick, attended practice but will not take part in the three-day mini-camp. Broyles is still recovering from surgery about six months ago for a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Hes not ready to do any of this stuff yet, but he is working very well, Schwartz said. Hes better than when we saw him on his pro day. Hell be better tomorrow than he is today. Hes had a very, very good rehab, has made good progress. But he wont be competing in any of this stuff.
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I am delighted to welcome you to the 2012 Conservatives Abroad Conference, being held in London for the second year running.
There can be no better time to visit the UK than now, following what has been a momentous summer for our country. I am sure that from every corner of the world, delegates took as much delight as we did in celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee; and were, more recently, also cheering on Team GB and Paralympics GB during the sensational London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I am particularly pleased to be able to welcome Conservative delegates from so many different countries. I know that this year we have visiting representatives from Paris, Normandy, Brussels, Lu{xembourg, Mallorca, Madrid, Holland, and Costa del Sol. But also from much further afield: from Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Poland, South Africa, Washington, New York, Sydney and Canberra. Welcome, to you all! This autumn marks the half-way point of this Parliament; so as you gather together for your Conference, I hope that you can take pride in all our own achievements in Government. Above all, we are ensuring that Conservative values are at the heart of our work, changing our country to make it much more on the side of people who work hard and want to get on in life; and making our country more pro-enterprise, more pro-work, more pro-effort. With more than 30 Bills passed, we are delivering that change.
Throughout it all, we are taking the tough but necessary decisions in the long-term interest of the country. We are on an economic rescue mission, stopping Labour's dire deficit from crippling our economy. It is taking longer than anyone hoped to recover from the biggest debt crisis of our lifetime, but our plan is working. In the two and a half years since we came to office, we have cleared a quarter of the deficit left by Labour. Our credible fiscal plan has helped us maintain our top international credit rating and – in contrast to many other European countries – the UK has interest rates at near record lows.
But this government has always been about more than sound public finances and better spending – our values are also at work stopping Labour's something-for-nothing culture. We are capping benefits; radically reforming welfare to make work pay; controlling immigration; boosting business; improving standards in education; and cutting taxes for millions of hard working families. That is a record every Conservative should be proud of.
Of course, being in coalition will present challenges, but we must not take our eye off the bigger picture. We must remain entirely focussed on the big, long-term issues confronting our country and, being just half way into a five-year Parliament, there is no room for complacency. We want to see Britain competing on the world stage as a hub of enterprise and innovation. We want to put teachers firmly in control in the classroom. We want to get our immigration numbers down further. And we want to end Labour's something-for-nothing culture once and for all.
To do all these things, we will need your help. The part our supporters, activists and volunteers play is invaluable – and that is just as true of our supporters around the world, as it is of those at home. We could not have achieved all we have without you and your generosity, belief and support, and we will need that more than ever over the coming months as we work for an outright Conservative majority in 2015.
So a huge 'thank you' for all you continue to do for our Party. Let's keep up the hard work, and I send you my very best wishes for an enjoyable and successful annual Conference.

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Height: 5-7
Previous School: St Thomas Aquinas
Hometown: Brampton, Ontario
2009 (Jr.): Played in five matches, starting four … posted a 0.38 GAA and a .929 save percentage in 467:47 of action … recorded a 2-1-2 mark … posted three shutouts … made season-high seven saves in 1-0 win over UNC Asheville (10/30) … earned a spot on the Big South all-tournament squad for her performance against Winthrop in the quarterfinals of the Big South Championship (11/ 5) … named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll.
2008 (So.): Played in five matches, starting in all five … posted a 1.53 GAA and a .714 save percentage in 470:00 of action … recorded a 2-2-1 mark … made season-high five saves in Oct. 25 tie with Winthrop … recorded 20 saves on the year … named to Big South Presidential Honor Roll.
2007 (Fr.): Played in 13 matches with 11 starts … posted a 2.20 GAA and a .671 save percentage in 980:25 … recorded a 3-10 mark with two shutouts … made five saves in shutout of Presbyterian (9/30) ... made season-high seven saves in contests against Old Dominion (9/15) and at Virginia (9/21) ... earned Big South Presidential Honor Roll mention
Prep: Graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School … in her final season, posted the most shutouts in the Ontario Youth Soccer League … starting goalkeeper all four years for her high school soccer team …three-sport athlete in hgh school: soccer, volleyball and flag football … honors student throughout High School …played with U-18 on the Richmond Hill Raiders - the Canadian National Champions, Ontario Cup Champions, Ontario Youth Soccer League Champions ... had the least goals against and most shutouts in the Ontario Youth Soccer League ... U-17 Ontario Cup Finalists, Ontario Youth Soccer League Runner-Up, Most Shutouts in Ontario Youth Soccer League ... U-16 Member of the Ontario Provincial Team which won the Canadian National Championship Tournament ... U-16 Ontario Youth Soccer League Runner-Up ... U-15 least goals against in the Ontario Youth Soccer League ... U-14 Ontario Cup Finalists, Ontario Indoor Cup Champions ... Invited to attend National Training Centre of Ontario in 2004 and 2006
Personal: Daughter of Arnold and Connie Nyholt … twin sister Laura also plays for the Lady Flames … birthday is May 19.


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Are you looking forward to your favorite movie getting ready to hit theaters or release on DVD? With so many great movies getting ready to come out, it isn't too surprising that many people, especially children, are excited to see their favorite feature film in their own living room. Since so many people like the same movies, have you considered having your own movie premiere party in your own home? Many people think that red carpet parties are only reserved for the rich, but they are just as much fun to have with family and friend, especially when it means you can all enjoy a great movie in your own living room without high movie theater prices!
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ST bezel w/ SpeedHut gauge faces
My ST bezel arrived this week from Tousley so I slapped it on and snapped a few pictures while at the AZ Crew meet in Prescott. Originally I was gonna paint the inside black like an SVT bezel, but the silver is kinda growing on me, and it matches the rim of my tranny temp gauge and HVAC surrounds.
Whaddaya think? [poke]
How much did that cost you? I've been wanting one of those ever since I saw my roommates ST.
btw, me asking how much it costs implies that I want to buy one which implies that I think it is teh sex.
Looks good, and good choice on not painting it!
lol that's awesome i did the same thing a couple months ago got a ST bezel with speedhut gauges...love it good choice [8D]
heres mine
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Have you had an issue at all, incidentally, with the fuel needle sticking? Because I have. Although I just tap the front of the bezel and it springs into place. I'm considering dremeling the gauge ring a bit, but probably a better option would be to stick the needle in a bit further.
If AZ crew rocks so much, why weren't you at the White Spar run???? [thumb] You missed out, man!! It was GREAT! Esp. with our suspensions.
I say leave it silver too. Even though my entire interior is black, it's a nice contrast and the silver matches the SVT silver HVAC gauges and silver button on the SVT e-brake (if you ever do those).
Looks great though.
Does this have a new lens with it? For 20 bucks I may do it. I think it would look good with all my metal pieces on the interior.
I like it alot. I think it would look better with some darker faced gauges tho.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Since 2008, the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley has taken in more than 32,000 cats.
On Tuesday, the Board of Commissioners approved a plan to bring down the feral cat population.
Every year, the shelter takes in thousands of cats. Many of those animals have to be killed because there isn't enough space.
Commissioners hope a trap-neuter-release (TNR) program will fix the problem.
"It will happen over time. Given the opportunity to develop our program, get caretakers and coordinators together, we will have an impact on maintaining feral cat populations," one woman said at the county commission meeting.
The shelter killed 2,000 feral cats this year.
A single feral cat can produce three or four litters of kittens a year. Proponents of the TNR program said it's the key to reducing the cat population.
County commissioners included the program in a new animal control ordinance.
People in the community will capture feral cats. Then they will take them to the animal shelter where the cats will get spayed or neutered, vaccinated and released back into the community.
Commissioners hope this will bring down the amount of disease in the feral cat population. They also believe it will help local wildlife. Fewer feral cats means fewer attacks on birds and smaller animals.
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Commodities trader and miner Glencore International is in talks to combine with Swiss mining giant Xstrata, according to reports.
A deal between the two companies may come as early as this week, a Bloomberg report said, citing two people familiar with the plan. Xstrata is due to report its annual results next week.
"The companies are closer to a merger than [at] anytime in the last five years," a person familiar with discussions is quoted by the Financial Times saying. "Nothing is firm, however," the person said.
The Bloomberg report put the value of the combined companies in the order of £52 billion ($77 billion), excluding Glencore's 34 per cent stake in Xstrata.
Glencore, based in Zug, Switzerland, is the biggest shareholder in the diversified miner Xstrata. Glencore became a public company in May 2011 when it listed on the London Stock Exchange.
A deal "would reunite two groups which separated a decade ago when Xstrata bought Glencore's Australian and South African coal mines for $2.5 billion and went public in London", the report said, noting that the talks between the parties are "ongoing and an agreement could still fall apart".
The deal would combine Xstrata's large commodities production network with Glencore's trading system. Research by Credit Suisse in October 2011 said a deal may result in $US704 million in cost savings.
Credit Suisse said in the research that Glencore could afford to pay a premium of 42 per cent before eliminating synergy gains for its shareholders in an all-scrip deal, rising to 77 per cent with a 30 per cent cash component.
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From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn ("direct, prompt"), from Old Norse beinn ("straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen"), from Proto-Germanic *bainaz ("straight"), from Proto-Indo-European *bhei- ("to hit, beat"). Cognate with Scots bein, bien ("in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen"), Icelandic beinn ("straight, direct, hospitable"), Norwegian bein ("straight, direct, easy to deal with"). See also bein.
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bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Ready; willing.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Direct; near; short; gain.
- That is the bainest way.
- (Now chiefly dialectal) Limber; pliant; flexible.
bain (comparative more bain, superlative most bain)
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From Middle English bayne, baine, from Old French bain ("bath"), from Latin balneum ("bath, bath-house").
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bain (plural bains)
- (obsolete) A bath.
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- THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene / […] / So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber / and there whyles Gouernail and Heles attendyd vpon Tramtryst
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- "bain" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
From a conflation of Old Irish benaid ("beat, strike") and boingid ("break, cut").
bain (present analytic baineann, future analytic bainfidh, verbal noun baint, past participle bainte) (transitive, intransitive)
- extract from bed in ground, dig out; dig up (potatoes, etc.); mine (coal, etc.)
- separate from root, stem, etc.; reap, pick; cut (hay, turf, flowers, etc.), mow
- release from socket; open
- release from source; shed
- release sound; strike
- agitate
- release from hold; lift
- win
- become due
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† Dialect form
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possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
- "bain" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- "benaid" in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- "boingid" in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) well
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) beautifully
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) yes (used to disagree with a negative statement)
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bain m (plural bains)
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- (Sursilvan) bein
- (Rumantsch Grischun) bain puril, (Sursilvan) bein puril
- (Rumantsch Grischun) puraria, (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) purareia, (Vallader) pauraria
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Well I made some today but didn't have fresh horseradish... I did have garlic and onion from my garden and picked up ginger and pepper while I was out. I am going against the moon phase advice, oops. I though it smelled alright, after I stopped crying from the onion, lol, but we'll see how brave I am when the time comes to try it!
I'm confused about how to make this. What recipe is everyone using?
I'm excited to try it!
Hey, what do you think would happen if I used pure, but jarred, horseradish? I love horseradish, but haven't been able to find it fresh. If you couldn't find fresh, would you leave it out or go with the jarred?
So what is the moon phase advice?
Start it on the new and it's ready to drink on the full?
There's a link to the recipe on the first page of this thread
So funny to find this thread today when I've been reading the TF forum here forever, but heard about Master Tonic on another board about a month ago I made it and it was finished a couple of weeks ago. I took it to clear up my persistent sore throat/earache that I seem to have 8 months out of the year. I had to take it a few times a day for several days, but it eventually did the trick and I love the taste. :
Could you share some basic info or PM me some links? I have been researching adding plain raw acv to our chickens' water, but it never occured to me to give them the Master Tonic. I have tons of leftover ingredients from making it for us, so it would be no problem to make more for our ladies.
Ooh! I'd love to hear more about the honey pickled garlic cloves. Any idea how to do this? I googled but couldn't find any info...
This would still be beneficial with heated ACV, no? I'm going to assume so and try it out.. I've never seen raw here.. (Heinz isn't raw, right? I'm assuming not)..
raw acv will have active cultures in it. AFAIK Heinz isn't really acv...not sure if it's been heated to kill the culture OR if it's just flavored.
can you buy kombucha? maybe fermenting it in that would work since it has live cultures.
or buy acv from amazon? health food store?
you know, I was also thinking that acv has a lot of health benefits, but it's only ONE part of the master tonic. I'm sure that lacto-fermented peppers, onions, horseradish, ginger and garlic without acv would still have amazing healing properties! (I guess with a brine) Another poster left out one of the ingredients when she couldn't find it...maybe the acv could just be left out???
But what would you use to ferment it?
Also, how long do you all think the the honey and garlic will keep?
You can use a brine as the liquid and then the natural bacteria on the veggies will start the ferment...just like kim chi or saurkraut in Wild Fermentation. I actually make Jalapeno En Escabeche (I *think* that's what it's called...) that's fermented jalapenos, carrots, cauliflower, onions, and garlic that we eat as a condiment.
I've never done the garlic honey, but I would think that since there is very little water in the garlic it'd last a while...honey alone is very shelf stable.
I don't know a whole lot about Traditional Chinese Medicine, but this sounds like a seriously warming tonic, wouldn't it be considered very yang? If so, wouldn't there be contra-indications? Like someone already with excessive yang? Or during illnesses that are characterized by excessive yang? I see why its good for colds, but what about taking it daily (as it sounds some of you are doing??)
I really truly don't know much about TCM, just enough to ask this question. Anyone else know more?
I have a jar of ginger honey and a jar of garlic honey going right now. My house smells fantastic!
This is the basic idea, as I remember it. It was a really popular idea about... oh... 7 or 8 years ago. I am still friends with some of those herby women, so I'm going to ask them specifically what they did. If it's different, I'll post an update.
I know several of my herby friends made extra garlic-in-honey, for their own personal munching. The remedy is supposed to just be the garlic-infused honey... but they love munching the cloves themselves, once they've mellowed and softened in the honey for a while.
This really sounds so yummy. And I just filled up a jar of garlic cloves and poured honey over, and then had a terrible thought.
I don't know much about microbiology, but I remember reading in numerous sources that homemade garlic in oil preparations are a botulism risk because the toxin can grow when garlic is deprived of oxygen in oil. And we are told not to feed honey to babes because of the risk of infant botulism. Can garlic cloves in honey not be a botulism risk?
Can anyone reassure me?
Otherwise, I think I'll oven roast the garlic in honey, puree it, freeze it in cubes and add it to stir fries/chicken recipes. Which also sounds amazingly yummy....
So is this something you use as a daily supplement, or for treatment when you are coming down with something?
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WYTHEVILLE — A 58-year-old Ivanhoe man was killed and a 64-year-old Fries man was injured in a head-on collision on Ivanhoe Road Friday at 11:17 a.m.
Virginia State Police Trooper C.O. Brown identified the driver who was killed as Richard Jefferson Jr., who was driving a Suzuki SX4 hatchback at the time.
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Over 300 people attended Malibu's annual National Dealer Meeting on November 2-4 at the Horseshoe Bay Resort on Lake LBJ in Texas, to learn about the 2014 lineup, share best practices, plan for the future and have a great time on and off the water. We, at Malibu, hold our dealers in high regard and this meeting serves a purpose to equip the dealers with all the tools they need to provide our customers the best experience from finding the right boat, to getting value from their purchase and maintaining relationships with excellent customer service.
With Malibu Boats staff members on hand and dozens of vendors with products on display, the dealers learned about everything happening with both Malibu and Axis boats. They were also treated to five-star hospitality including entertainment and awards ceremonies. With this energetic, fun crew, there is never a dull moment.
On Saturday evening, the all-new Axis T22 was revealed to all. Using a unique, waterfall reveal, the dealer reception was exceptional. Well over an hour after the reveal, dealers were still crawling around the boat with excitement.
Malibu Boats CEO Jack Springer was thrilled with the outcome of the Dealer Meeting. "We had an incredible attendance with 50 more attendees and dealers than last year," Springer said. "The spirit of the meeting was fantastic -- the best I have seen. That is a credit to all of our staff members, the boats that are being built, the product being introduced and the manner in which we are taking care of our dealers. Plus, we couldn't do any of this without our dealers. They are an enthusiastic group of people who really help define Malibu as a brand."
Sunday consisted of education and preparation for our dealers. The sales team, in partnership with Charles White on video, created a very insightful and compelling production. In the afternoon, dealers took to the special sessions and vendor mall as well as on the water to experience the Axis T22, A24, SURF GATE®, Malibu WAKESETTER 23 LSV and other product. That evening, we hosted our CSI and supplier awards followed by casino game night, which went until late in the evening.
Monday morning involved more training and competitive analysis by the sales team. The afternoon included the same format as Sunday afternoon. Our semi-formal dinner and awards night began at 6:00 p.m. and turned out to be a fantastic evening. A very special, first time award was given away as the last award, called the "Hall of Fame Award." Minnesota Inboard has been a dealer for 21 years and is a great partner to Malibu and Axis and received the first induction. Malibu plans to set aside a special area at the factory to memorialize the Hall Of Fame inductees.
Top 10 Malibu Dealers
Wizard Lake Marine
Minnesota Inboard
SMG of Atlanta
SMG Wake of Houston
Waterski America
Texas Malibu
Skiers Pier
Taylor's Boats
Saskatoon Water Sports
Larson Marine
Aqua Sport Marine
Best Video
#1 SMG - All In Good Fun
#2 MN Inboard & EideCom Water Sports - Water Fun
#3 Tommy's - YouTube Content
Best Event
1.) SMG Mobile Demo Tour
2.) Tommy's Colorado Grand Opening
3.) MNInboard Lakes of MN tour
4.) TNT - Wakefest
Best Social Media
1.) Minnesota Inboard Water Sports
2.) Tilly's Marine
3.) Skiers Marine
Best Website
1.) Texas Malibu
2.) Minnesota Inboard Water Sports
3.) Singleton Marine Group
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 1
1.) Kris Gustafson - Valley Speed & Marine
2.) Brent Fosheim - Dave's Marine
3.) Roy Finney Jr - The Boat Shop
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 2
1.) George Burns - Mid-Indiana Marine
2.) Eric Smentek- Tilly's Marine
3.) Jimmy Wright - Pro Marine
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 3
1.) Gerry Oppliger - Active Water Sports
2.) Mike Hauer - Idaho Water Sports
3.) Matt Munson - Munson Ski & Marine
4.) Zach Whitehead - No Wake Marine
5.) Brian Roth - Tommy's Colorado
6.) Andy Palko - Chessie Marine Sales
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 4
1.) Johnathan Wright - Saskatoon Watersports
2.) Dan Witt - Taylor's Boats
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 5
1.) Ron Wiergowski - Skiers Pier
2.) Kevin Brown - Texas Malibu
2013 Salesman of the Year - Tier 6
1.) Matt Mueller - Minnesota Inboard
2.) Ron Quistberg - Wizard Lake Marine
3.) Frank Cvar - Waterski America
4.) Bryan Potzner - SMG Atlanta
Dealership Awards
2013 Rookie Axis Dealer Taylor's Boats
2013 Rookie Malibu Dealer Walloon Lake Village Marina
2013 Salesman of the Year
Ron Quistberg - Wizard Lake Marine
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 1 Valley Speed & Marine
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 2 Tilly's Marine
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 3 Tommy's Colorado
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 4 Aqua Sport Marine
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 5 Taylor's Boats
2013 Dealer of the Year - Tier 6 Wizard Lake Marine - Calmar
2013 Presidents Award
Tommy's Colorado, Michigan & Florida
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- The ka family of particles (hereafter KA) has to do with existential quantifiers (there is a x such that…)
- The mo family of particles (hereafter MO) has to do with universal quantifiers (for any x, it's true that…)
- The presence of KA marks a disjunction or union (OR operation).
- The presence of MO marks a conjunction or intersection (AND operation).
b) Please choose one of the possibilities. Notice that this definition, crucially, makes use of disjunction: one alternative OR the other. So it makes sense that KA particles are used for both straight disjunctions, and for yes-or-no questions. iii. Dare ka "Who-KA" = "Someone". The question word "who" works like a variable, since in principle any of the things (persons) under consideration may be the "value" of who (the whodunit). With "someone", we assert that one of those possibilities is true. So this is just like "there is an x in the set {Tanaka, Fujita, Takeda…} so that x", i.e. {Tanaka OR Fujita OR Takeda…} iv. Dare ga odorimasu ka. "Who dances?". This works much like a yes-or-no question (ii. above), except that "who" opens more alternatives to choose from (as in iii.): {Tanaka dances OR Fujita dances OR Takeda dances OR (Tanaka AND Fujita) dance OR (Tanaka AND Fujita AND Takeda) dance OR…}. Still disjunctions. v. Gakusei no dare-ka "Who-KA of the students" = "Some student" = "one of the students" = there is an x (who) in the set of students {Student1 OR Student2 OR…} vi. Jūnin to ka "Ten people and KA" = "approximately ten" = either ten OR eleven OR nine OR twelve OR… Now let's check out MO: vii. Tanaka mo odorimasu. "Tanaka, too, dances". This implies that 1) there is an unspecified someone who dances, and 2) Tanaka dances. In other words, someone (some x) dances AND Tanaka dances. viii. Tanaka mo Fujita mo odorimasu. "Both Tanaka and Fujita dance". This is just like vii., but this time each MO satisfies the other: Tanaka AND someone else (=Fujita) dance, Fujita AND someone else (=Tanaka) dance. ix. Dare mo odorimasu. "Who MO dances" = "Everybody dances". As one would expect, this is a conjunctive version of the general disjunction in iii above (dare ka). Equivalently, just generalize viii. to everyone in the set (because anyone can satisfy "who"): Tanaka dances AND someone else = Fujita dances AND someone else = Takeda dances AND… It makes sense! Japanese mo has a further, emphatic role as "even", "as many as"; this extra role is marked specifically by its own prosodic stress. Some (many?) MO-family particles in other languages also have this extra sense (like Hungarian is and Mandarin dōu), in addition to the equivalents of the above. The "even" relation can be thought of as a particular case of conjunction: "Even Tanaka dances" does imply that Tanaka dances AND someone else dances, plus the additional fact that Tanaka isn't expected to dance.
⁂The above discussion is a gross oversimplification of the following papers:
- Anna Szabolcsi, James Doh Whang, and Vera Zu. Quantifier Words and Their Multi-functional(?) Parts. 2013
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There's nothing Shane Creamer likes more than digging for buried treasure.
With his trusty metal detector at hand, Mr Creamer has spent hours combing the beach at Pilot Bay during his Christmas holiday this year.
On holiday from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, Mr Creamer never misses an opportunity to hit the beach.
"The women are out shopping and I'm out fossicking," he said.
"Any chance I can get I'm out there doing it."
Mr Creamer said he was hoping to find some old coins buried under the sand along Pilot Bay.
"If you find coins between 1800 and 1830, that's considered a pretty good find in our country. It's not as if you're finding Roman coins or anything, so that's what I'm looking for."
"I got 1967 on the first day, and then yesterday I scored it. I got a silver 1937 sixpence and a 1963 sixpence but it's not silver, they're copper nickels by that stage."
Mr Creamer spent about four hours fossicking along the beach on Christmas Day and was often approached by cruise ship passengers interested in seeing what he'd found.
A lot of the time, he finds ring-pulls from soft drink cans and other worthless junk but it's the possibility of uncovering a piece of history that keeps him coming back for more.
"Most people are looking for old coins, that's the buzz of the find, the older the better."
His best find ever was an 1834 silver sixpence, minted in England, he said.
Mr Creamer said he's planning to launch a magazine called New Zealand Fossickers and Collectors, targeting the increasing number of people buying metal detectors.
A basic unit, which can detect metal 15cm underground, costs about $500, he said.


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'Cloudy' Skies Ahead for Security Industry?
A new product release crossed my desk this week that particularly caught my attention as it touted "the world's first cloud platform security solution."
By Scott Goldfine · April 15, 2010
A new product release crossed my desk this week that particularly caught my attention as it touted "the world's first cloud platform security solution." For those unfamiliar, cloud computing, according to Wikipedia, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility. It is a paradigm shift following the shift from mainframe to client-server that preceded it in the early 1980s. Details are abstracted from the users who no longer have need of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them.
Ever since I became aware of this technology I pondered how it might be applied to security, in particular video surveillance and access control. The former applies to the release in question, which promotes the Cloud NVR. It certainly seems like it has potential to be quite appealing to end users growing evermore accustomed to pure, Web-delivered services. It also falls in line with the recent push toward the security/software as a service model that has been creating a stir due to its recurring revenue possibilities. So I believe this is something we will be seeing more of, but I was curious what others I respect thought about it. So I forwarded the release to SSI contributors Bob Grossman and Steve Payne.
"This isn't something my clients would look at; remoting the NVR is already pretty easy to do and it's likely cheaper to buy a computer than pay a monthly fee," Grossman told me. "So this, in my opinion, leaves the lower end market as the potential customer for this product. And if that's the case, you have to question whether the intended audience has upload bandwidth sufficient to support such a product, or the appetite for a monthly subscription. Now if the cable company offered something like this and added it to your bill, there would be a compelling product."
Payne contributed, "I've been looking at this concept for a while now. I wasn't aware of this company but have been observing another vendor for some time. I think the concept is good for the lower end of the market, as Bob said. It will need to be priced right for that market. Bandwidth is somewhat of an issue today, but it's only going to get better from here. I feel that it will be a major shift in our industry, and I think it demonstrates one aspect of true convergence. Bob's take on it becoming a cable/ISP provider service is interesting. I think there is some room for smaller, local integrators to establish a market before that happens. One application could be a local alarm company using systems such as this to offer video verification without investing in a lot of infrastructure."
It will be very interesting to see how this develops. You can read the actual release that stimulated this discussion below.
As always, thanks for reading ....
Scott Goldfine
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8:30-8:45 Chit-Chit book (Morning Message)...see end of post for more
8:45-9:30 Specials (art, music, p.e)-this is my planning time
9:40-10:10 Shared Reading and theme study
10:10-10:40 Writer's workshop
10:40-10:55 Read Aloud/Get ready for lunch
11:00-11:30 Lunch
11:40-12:30 Centers/Guided Reading- during this time I pull Guided Reading groups while my little sweeties are working on literacy centers. Many of the activities in my units are completed during this time. For example, the alligator chomps book from my zoo unit was completed during literacy center time. The dragonflies that are pictured above were done in a literacy center. At the writing center the kids made the dragonfly and then wrote about it.
12:30-1:00 Reader's Workshop/Strategy Groups-This is when the anchor chart above was completed. We read the story and then discussed the elements by writing them on the chart. After this lesson the kids read from their reading bags and then discussed story elements from one of their books with a partner.
1:00-1:30 Recess
1:40-2:40 Calendar/Math- Our math time starts with calendar, followed by a mini lesson and then math tubs. During math tubs they work on various activities including graphs, surveys, math journals, etc;
2:40-3:20 Theme study (this is where I do my projects that relate to my
theme...science projects, art projects, etc;)
3:20 Read aloud
3:35 Dismissal
**You will notice that there isn't a time built in when we go to restrooms and
that sort of thing. The kids go when they need to go UNLESS I'm doing direct
instruction. My transitions are fast and I don't waste any time. We literally
move from one activity to another. I start playing a movement song (such as The
Silly Pirate Song, My Mother is a Baker, etc;) and the kids clean up and get to
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The Engineering Division, in an effort to assist the City's retailers in the area of Sergeant Road and South Lakeport Street, have worked to develop a plan to suggest alternate routes to accommodate the anticipated traffic during this holiday shopping season.
The intersection at Sergeant Road and South Lakeport Street can handle the average daily peak traffic; however, traffic during the holiday shopping season is expected to exceed that amount. In past years holiday traffic exceeded the estimated traffic projections of 8,000 vehicles per hour during this peak season. It is expected, that along with the intersection of Sergeant Road & South Lakeport Street, the North Ramp & South Ramp intersections onto South Lakeport Street will experience delays due to congestion.
Therefore, the City recommends that shoppers consider alternate routes when visiting Lakeport Commons, Southern Hills Mall, Target, Lowes and the many other fine retailers in this area. This press release includes a map highlighting alternate routes from the major arterials located near these shopping centers, including US-20 and I-29 (via Singing Hills Boulevard) to the shopping destinations.
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HOW do you make a topic such as disability sexy? The obvious solution is to add some sex. In Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the paralysed hero (Mathieu Amalric) was rarely without a group of beautiful women hovering by his chair or bed.
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A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Full synopsis
By some standards, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) isn't doing too badly either, despite the polio that has forced him to spend most of his life in an iron lung. He's fully capable of arousal, particularly when he's being looked after by pretty young carers.
This film is a showcase for Hawkes, who conveys a wide range of emotions using minimal means - primarily, his face and his richly croaky voice, with its jerky, strained rhythm. It's the kind of technical achievement that often wins Oscars, yet not an obviously flashy, attention-grabbing performance. Quickly, we come to see Mark as a human being with ordinary quirks: he's deeply religious, fond of corny jokes, passionate by nature but, understandably, mostly preoccupied with himself.
Above all, he's lonely; it's not just sexual satisfaction but companionship that seems out of reach. Finally, in his 30s, he sets out to lose his virginity, with the blessing of his priest (William H. Macy), the kind of liberal-minded Catholic you might expect to find in 1980s San Francisco, where the film is set. With no immediate prospect of meeting a partner, Mark hires a ''sex surrogate'', Cheryl (Helen Hunt), to initiate him over the course of six sessions; the maximum number permitted, to limit emotional involvement.
O'Brien was a real person, and The Sessions is, roughly speaking, a ''true story''. Writer-director Ben Lewin, an industry veteran formerly based in Australia, treats the material in a gently humorous but earnest manner; the results recall the sort of old-fashioned telemovie that aims to raise consciousness about a worthy issue.
Still, to paraphrase Woody Allen, there's nothing ''worthy'' about sex, at least if you're doing it right.
Held back psychologically as well as physically, Mark inches towards release, guided by an all-forgiving woman who is lover, mother and therapist in one. Lewin doesn't shy away from the paradoxes of this intimate yet impersonal relationship. Hunt, with her brisk warmth, is wholly believable as a health professional with a knack for putting clients at ease. The provocative aspect stems precisely from how normal it all seems - from her refusal to play it sultry or coy.
Lewin's straightforward approach carries him a surprising distance, but not always far enough. Though it's acknowledged that Mark's desires have a kinky, masochistic side, the character is sentimentalised, particularly in an awkward epilogue. Cheryl, too, has moments when she seems more a plot device than a plausible person in her own right.
Other themes are left to the audience to mull over - in particular, the complex relationship between the physical and the spiritual, which is to say between sex and religion. Lewin avoids spelling out the obvious subtext of Mark's conversations with his priest, but we can assume that the two are equally familiar with the pressures of celibacy. In contrast, there's the curious subplot of Cheryl's conversion to Judaism, which parallels Mark's desire to become what he calls ''a made man'': two journeys of transformation, involving the body and the soul.


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NHL Draft Central | Michigan NHL Draft History
Incoming Freshman Larkin Selected in First Round of NHL Draft
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- University of Michigan ice hockey sophomore goaltender Zach Nagelvoort (Holland, Mich.) became the second Wolverine selected in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, going 111th overall to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday (June 28) at Wells Fargo Center, home of the Philadelphia Flyers.
In April, Nagelvoort was ranked 20th among North American goaltenders by the NHL's Central Scouting Service after a strong freshman campaign with the Wolverines in 2013-14. A four-time Big Ten weekly award winner, Nagelvoort excelled in his first season in net for the Wolverines. In 24 games, Nagelvoort went 11-9-3 with a 2.20 goals-against average (15th, NCAA) and a .929 save percentage (6th, NCAA). His save percentage was second to Shawn Hunwick's .932 mark in 2011-12 on the school single-season record list. In his postseason debut, Nagelvoort set a new school single-game record with 63 saves, breaking Robbie Moore's previous record of 61 saves set on Feb. 17, 1973, against Minnesota.
Nagelvoort is the grandson of Dr. Paul W. Gikas, U-M professor emeritus of pathology and a former faculty representative (1982-88) for the U-M Athletic Department. He shared the Deker Club Award for Rookie of the Year with JT Compher (Northbrook, Ill.).
Nagelvoort is the first Michigan goaltender to be selected in the NHL Draft since Billy Sauer was selected 201st overall in the 2006 NHL Draft by the Colorado Avalanche. He is the sixth U-M player or commit to be selected by the Edmonton Oilers.
Michigan Commits/Players Drafted by Edmonton Oilers
1999 Mike Comrie (3rd round, 91st overall)
2002 Dwight Helminen (8th round, 244th overall)
2003 David Rohlfs* (5th round, 154th overall)
2005 Andrew Cogliano* (1st round, 25th overall)
2014 Zach Nagelvoort (4th round, 111th overall)
* Drafted before starting freshman year at Michigan
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Mitchell I. Ginsberg, the city's Human Resources Administrator, said yesterday he feared Congress might attempt to "wipe out" the Neighborhood Youth Corps program because of "sensationalized" charges of fraud in the city's program.
October 12, 1968
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According to Japanese site, Asahi.com, a Japanese hacker was arrested for allegedly writing a computer virus that destroys all files on a victim's computer and replaces them with homemade manga images of sea creatures like squid, octopuses and sea urchins.
It is believed that the 27-year-old Masato Nakatsuji managed to infect between 20,000 and 50,000 computers with his Ika-tako (squid-octopus') virus. His virus was disguised as a music file and spread through the Japanese P2P file-sharing network, Winny. As if the squid-octopus virus had infectious tentacles, it reached into the hard drive, deleting files and replacing each with an image of a marine invertebrate.
"Manga" is a term that usually represents Japanese art turned into comics. According to Wikipedia, if the comic is successful enough, it can be turned into an animated film. Perhaps the hacker was shooting for fame on many levels?
This is not the first time Nakatsuji had a brush with The Law. In 2008, he was arrested in Japan for defamation and for violating copyright laws. Nakatsuji had created a trojan that replaced files with popular anime images which were embedded with weird warnings against using P2P. The warning messages, according to Zero Paid, included "Ah, I see you are using P2P again...if you don't stop in 0.5 seconds, I'm going to kill you." Another attached manga message was, "This is a visit from the prevealant Piro virus! Stop P2P! If you don't I'll tell the police!"
Zero Paid further reported what Nakatsuji said in his defense during the first trial. "If movies and animated films are illegally downloaded, TV networks will stop showing these programs in the future. My hobby is to watch recorded TV programs, so I was trying to stop that."
According to Asahi, Nakatsuji was serving a suspended sentence for his last trojan when he was arrested for his lastest squid-octupus manga virus. He reportedly told police that he believed he would not be arrested again; he had created the Ika-tako manga images and had not violated the copyright law.
If he was joking, the police must not have been amused. Asahi reported that this time, the police arrested Nakatsuji on charges of "property destruction." It was the first time Tokyo's police have arrested someone for property destruction in connection with malware.
Once a computer was infected, it was impossible to retrieve the original files, thus "property destruction." Before deleting files from an infected hard drive, the virus transmitted them to a server. The police believe the server belongs to Nakatsuji and holds data from 50,000 infected users. When a user tried to open a destroyed file, the user was only able to access a manga image of a squid or octopus.
Asahi.com reported that Masato Nakatsuji told police, "I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested."
This guy is orignal, but it seems his skills have not improved enough to keep from being caught. I think he might be better off not speaking. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."


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Blizzard forces show dog owners to change plans
At the Indiana State Fairgrounds The Indy Winter Classic is a big draw in the canine world, and for many, it's a stop on the way to Westminster in New York City.
This year, getting to one of the most renowned dog shows in the country could be a bit tricky since New York is covered in a thick blanket of snow.
"All of the handlers who are going on to Westminster have kept a close eye on the weather out east but some were so concerned, they've left early," explained Ryan Wolfe from Goshen Indiana and will head to New York City Sunday.
"My partners already there so she is already checked into the hotel," Wolfe said.
Holley Eldred was registered through Sunday here in Indianapolis but changed her plans.
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Nina Fetter also plans to head to Westminster, but she's not as concerned and plans on staying in Indy through Sunday. "The weather should be fine by tomorrow," said Fetter.
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Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a farce by by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Dario Fo.The play opens with Inspector Bertozzo interrogating The Maniac, a histrionic character, on the first floor of the police station. The Maniac, however, constantly outsmarts the dim-witted Bertozzo and, when Bertozzo leaves the room, intercepts a phone call from Inspector Pissani. The phone call lets the Maniac know that a judge is due at the police station to investigate the interrogation and death of the anarchist. The Maniac decides to impersonate the judge, and successfully does so. He gets the police to re-enact the events, in the actual fourth floor room, and also involves a woman journalist named Feletti who is trying to probe the events. The play ends with two alternative endings, one with Feletti leaving the four policemen to be bombed and in the second, Feletti uncuffs the men who in turn handcuff her to the window frame leaving her to die. The Maniac then leaves the audience to decide what ending is best.
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Although I'm primarily known as an Adobe After Effects user and motion graphics artist, my background is in the music industry. Over the years I've found a sympathy for sound to be a big benefit to video professionals: timing animations to your project's sound increases the impact of your visuals. Inversely, strictly focusing on the visual elements of your edits without serving the sound can distract the viewer, and dilute the overall impact.
I've recently distilled years of experience creating visuals to sound into a two-and-a-half-hour video course of exercises and real-world examples, Editing and Animating to Sound in Adobe After Effects. I start with the basics of learning how to "read" an audio waveform to spot the timing of beats in music, and then cut video, build animations, and even drive effects using the audio in your project. I also include a list of "magic tempos" you can hand to musicians so they can create a soundtrack at a speed that makes editing and animating easier.
One of the biggest advantages of syncing your visuals to sound is that it helps cure any "blank timeline" phobia at the start of the project; where you're wondering what to do, and when. I start by placing timeline markers to note when beats or longer divisions of music start, and where spoken phrases or instrumental parts start or stop. This provides you with an initial timing template to decide when your edits or animation events should occur. Additionally, the dynamics of music or speech—when it gets louder or softer—help develop the longer arcs of how graphics and animations build, and when to cut to the next scene.
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Steamboat Springs The Steamboat Springs City Council has spent $1.38 million on consultants since January 2006. That's a big number.
Is it too big, or are these studies setting a foundation for thoughtful growth and city planning that will ultimately save taxpayer dollars - and Steamboat's sense of community - in the future?
The answer depends on whom you ask.
City Manager Alan Lanning arrived at the number earlier this month after creating a list of consultants and associated costs at the request of City Councilman Paul Strong.
"I had people saying to me, 'Can you guys do anything without a consultant?'" Strong said Tuesday.
The council has hired at least 18 consultants in the past 15 months, to study topics including a new recreation center, uses of Steamboat Springs Airport, economic development, urban design standards, downtown streetscape improvements, historic structures, affordable housing, local open space, sustainability management and a regional sports complex.
Strong requested the full list of consultants at a council meeting May 1. Lanning handed it to the council May 3 during a noon meeting where the council convened as the city's Liquor License Authority.
The consulting issue most recently arose with the city's $439,000 hire of Britina Design for a downtown streetscape study and engineering plan.
Jim Weber, the city's director of public works, said the downtown streetscape will be "the bulk of his work" for the next two years. He said Britina was hired because of the firm's experience designing improvements for Erie, Arvada and Eagle - improvements that are portrayed in a massive binder on Weber's desk. In flipping through the pages, it's hard not to get excited for the future of Lincoln Avenue and Oak and Yampa streets.
This kind of input and foresight seems logical given the stakes, but the question is where to draw the line.
"It seems to me we've done a lot of studies and spent a lot of money: That's a complaint about government at all levels," Strong said. "Of course the reality is, if you don't have good information to make decisions, people will second-guess you later on. In some ways, it's the nature of the beast."
Maybe the beast is different for Routt County or Craig.
Dan Strnad, the county's finance director, had a hard time Tuesday finding comparable numbers for the county's consultant hires.
"Right now, I'm having a hard time thinking of anything we have that would even fall into that category," Strnad said.
While the county has spent heavily for engineering and architectural consultants on projects such as the Routt County Justice Center and terminal expansion at Yampa Valley Regional Airport in Hayden, the city of Steamboat also has spent for engineering studies - an additional $1.32 million since January 2006.
Lanning put those figures into another category in his list. Base area redevelopment studies, planning and legal counsel tally an additional $1.52 million for the city.
Adding the three categories means the city has spent more than $4.2 million on all kinds of consultants since January 2006.
Strnad said that in a quick, cursory look, he could not find any county-hired consultants that fell into what he called "the wishy-washy category" of future planning.
The only example Strnad found was Vision 2030, a public policy study funded by $38,500 each from the city and county. Vision 2030 is not on Lanning's list, likely because it is a group of local citizens rather than a non-local consultant.
In Craig, City Manager Jim Ferree said the city this year is funding an $80,000 transportation study, an $8,400 community survey and a $15,000 evaluation of the city's pool system.
Craig has spent more than $1 million since 2006 for consulting on upgrades to the Craig Wastewater Treatment Plant, but those funds fall into the engineering category.
Ferree noted that Craig's total budget is about $13 million, far less than Steamboat's projected 2007 expenditures of more than $47 million.
Strong said the studies are worthwhile if they are used for their intended purpose.
"To me, the issue isn't so much what the number is as (opposed to) what are you accomplishing," Strong said. "If you're going to commission a study, then you better know what you're going to do with it when the results come in."


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The L in IBD's CAN SLIM investing system stands for Leaders, as in the best growth stocks based on an analysis of fundamental, technical and institutional sponsorship criteria.
Stocks that meet the criteria of a leader — such as strong sales and profit growth and competition-beating products or services — have the best chance of racking up big gains.
Cisco Systems (CSCO), Dell, Google (GOOGL) and Apple (AAPL) were among past leaders that became big market winners. Cisco's hardware revolutionized computer networking; Dell beat rivals by selling built-to-order computers at low prices; and Apple dominated the consumer electronics industry with its fashionable and easy-to-use mobile devices.
A more recent example of a true Leader? FleetCor Technologies (FLT) commands the top shelf in the business of providing fuel cards to commercial vehicle fleets, trucking companies and other firms. The cards help companies track and control costs.
FleetCor was ranked No. 22 in the IBD 50 list of top stocks on Aug. 15, 2012 (1), when it cleared a 41.40 buy point of a first-stage cup base. At the time, the stock boasted a Composite Rating of 98, just shy of the best-possible 99. Its Earnings Per Share Rating was 97 and its Relative Price Strength Rating was 90.
FleetCor's breakout satisfied another key requirement of a leading stock: institutional support. Its Accumulation/Distribution Rating was A- at the time, indicating strong demand for the shares.
Crucially, volume was more than double the stock's daily average as FleetCor cleared the buy point, indicating that mutual funds and big sponsors were behind the stock's move up. Stocks that don't have the backing of deep-pocketed fund managers can't continue to rise for long.
At the time of its breakout, FleetCor was the leading stock in the Finance-Credit Card Payment Processor industry group, ahead of such stalwarts as Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA).
Its closest rival is Maine-based WEX (WEX), formerly called Wright Express. But FleetCor has become the biggest player in its niche thanks to its aggressive and well-executed expansion into Brazil, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. WEX's operations have focused mostly on the U.S.
FleetCor's expansion showed up in its earnings reports leading up to its breakout. Profit rose 28% in the second quarter of 2012, beating expectations, and the company raised its full-year profit outlook. Its annual pretax margin was 50% and return on equity was 25%, both representative of the best stocks.
Though the Finance-Credit Card Payment Processor industry group had fallen to No. 57 from No. 15 in just three weeks, that's still a decent rank. FleetCor still had the characteristics of a winner. The stock went on to triple in 16 months.