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Joined: 04 Jan 2005
Posts: 22932
Location: Reynoldsburg, OH
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:14 pm
Post subject: The DAWG POUND Sign In... WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!
Alright folks...
Just a little template for a simple introduction...
We've got A LOT of newbies on the boards, with Webby eclipsing the 10,000 member mark, we're only going to get bigger... More Browns fans=more Browns posts...
So who the heck are you?
Reynoldsburg, Ohio
School (If applicable):
Ohio Dominican University
Political Science (emphasis on Pre-Law)
Skeeter, Keeter, Keeterpup, DB41 (on the forums)
Caribou Coffee, Shift Supervisor
Favorite Pasttimes:
Football... Soccer... Sports in general... I will watch any football game... I love the game...
Favorite Food:
Jeez... Gotta be Mac and Cheese
Favorite Movie(s):
Any Given Sunday, Jerry Maguire, The Program, Saw (1,2)... I have a lot of favorites... Any type of horror or football movie...
Favorite Female:
Oh goodness... I love Rachel Mcadams...
Favorite type of music:
Anything... I've been big on Emo and punk lately...
Favorite Cleveland Brown:
Terrelle Smith, I just love the guy... Also Charlie Frye...
Goal(s) in life:
To marry only once and to be a great husband and be an especially great father... To graduate from ODU, go to Law School, and become a Sports Agent... To provide for a family and be the man of the house...
Feel free to add whatever else you'd like to talk about!
School (If applicable):
Favorite Pasttimes:
Favorite Food:
Favorite Movie(s):
Favorite Female:
Favorite type of music:
Favorite Cleveland Brown:
Goal(s) in life:
This isn't just for Browns fans... Anybody who visits the forum should feel more than welcome to sign it!
This is called TRUTH!
Rest In Peace David, Renee and Joe (Crakburn)
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Posts: 6421
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:51 pm
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Name: Micah
Location: Cedarville, Ohio
School (If applicable): Cedarville University...hey DaBrowns, you're in our conference! The good ol' AMC!
Major: History Education
Nicknames: MWil, Slash (Catcher/3rd baseman/Pitcher) (Catcher SLASH pitcher SLASH 3rd baseman), MiGa with a G (our baseball coach has an accent and pronounces my name MiGa instead of Micah)
Job(s): Full time student athlete
Favorite Pasttimes: Baseball of course! Football, especially college though I love my Browns! NCAA Basketball and Cavs basketball, Fishing, Tennis, Volleyball...pretty much anything requiring physical activity.
Favorite Food: Anything...I'll eat anything except rice...I was pretty easy to please growing up.
Favorite Movie(s): Saving Private Ryan
Favorite Female: TBD
Favorite type of music: Rock N' Roll...Guns N' Roses, Metallica, etc.
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Andra Davis, love the guy...offensively Charlie Frye (DaBrowns will laugh because of our debates, but I'm critical of him because I expect more because I KNOW that he's capable of being "THE GUY")
Goal(s) in life: To be all conference and an All American baseball player this year and most importantly to honor God in all that I do...which I fall short of so many times.
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Joined: 13 Feb 2005
Posts: 1434
Location: Austinburg, OH
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:54 pm
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Name: Michael
Location: Austinburg, Ohio
School (If applicable): Kent State University- Ashtabula
Major: Undecided
Nicknames: Mike
Job(s): None right now
Favorite Pasttimes: Watching Cleveland sports. Golfing, playing football, playing video games, among other things
Favorite Food: Steak, potato soup from Quaker Steak and Lube.
Favorite Movie(s): Tenacious D in the pick of destiny, 40 year old virgin, others.
Favorite Female: Jessica Alba
Favorite type of music: I like almost everything.
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Joe Thomas, Josh Cribbs, and Eric Wright.
Goal(s) in life: Just become successful in life
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Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Posts: 4481
Location: Switzerland
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:19 am
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Name: Gerard
Location: In Bed With Butchy
Major: P-Chem
Nicknames: Zuback, SwissMiss, Butch's nephew, Savage's nemesis
Job(s): chemist
Favorite Pasttimes: NFL and NCAA football, MLB, playing softball, fanatsy league, weekends with my family, smoking cigarettes, every moment with my daughter,...
Favorite Food: indian food (chicken tikka masala !), roast duck with mango salsa
Favorite Movie(s): Goodfellas, Memento, Schindler's List, Top Secret, Life of Brian,...
Favorite Female: ex-Browns QBs wives
Favorite type of music: Led Zep, Yes, Genesis (< 1978), Marillion, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd,...
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Andra Davis
Goal(s) in life: 1 or 2 more childs and getting the green card
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Joined: 15 Nov 2005
Posts: 2842
Location: Minot AFB, North Dakota
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:06 am
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Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
School (If applicable):
Liberty University (Distance Learning)
Associates in General Studies (No I have NO idea what Im going to major in.
"Debo" // "L-Man" // "Sloth" (Dont ask)
United States Air Force Fuels controller / accountant
Favorite Pasttimes:
Reading (Bible mainly) // talking on here // PS2 // running // sports
Favorite Food:
Well I guess I would have to say cereal
Favorite Movie(s):
Left Behind Series and We were Soldiers
Favorite Female:
N/A (Sorry guys the Big Boss (up stairs) kind of frowns on us doing that. ) (But if I had to say who the most attractive is I would say Sara Even followed up very closely by my wife......LOL)
Favorite type of music:
Christian Contemporary, Country, 80's
Favorite Cleveland Brown:
KWII on offense (you cant have enough guys with his fire on the team) and Andra Davis on defense.
Goal(s) in life:
To complete my college work and go whereever Im lead by my Father (I know it sounds cheesy but that where my life is now guys)
Eliptic Dawg on the sig..... thanks dawg!
He is the TRUTH the LIFE and the WAY -- Kutless
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Joined: 15 Nov 2005
Posts: 2842
Location: Minot AFB, North Dakota
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:10 am
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MWil23 wrote:
Goal(s) in life: To be all conference and an All American baseball player this year and
most importantly to honor God in all that I do...which I fall short of so many times
Dont worry bro He knows that your trying and He smiles each time you get back up.....
Eliptic Dawg on the sig..... thanks dawg!
He is the TRUTH the LIFE and the WAY -- Kutless
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Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 254
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:15 am
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Name:Bobby Alves
Location: Pasadena, Ca
School (If applicable): La Canada High School
Major: N/A
Nicknames: Bob
Job(s): Usher at the Hollywood Bowl
Favorite Pasttimes: Chilin wit friends doing whatever
Favorite Food: Hamburgers
Favorite Movie(s): Super Troopers
Favorite Female: Any chick who is hot or is cool is got to be up there but i dont have a fav
Favorite type of music: AC/DC type rock
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Andra Davis/K2
Goal(s) in life: me a gopd girl and have a family while have a good job as an engineer.
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Joined: 20 Jan 2006
Posts: 158
Location: NE ohio
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:54 am
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Name: Markus Burton
Location: akron, ohio
School (If applicable): East High School, Akron University
Major: Accounting
Nicknames: Nighte, Reecie, Butter
Job(s): Inventory Clerk
Favorite Pasttimes: Right here, playing football, video games, outdoors, and cooking
Favorite Food: Fried chicken
Favorite Movie(s): Football movies, star wars, harry potter, gangsta movies
Favorite Female: my lovely girlfriend (she is waving a knife at me...lol)
Favorite type of music: Give me that hip hop, All types of R&B
Favorite Cleveland Brown: current brown is K2, old school is MDP
Goal(s) in life: To be a great dad, get rich, and for one moment be able to get in a 3 point stance on cleveland browns field.
My blood pumps orange and brown...... Go Dawgs.
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Joined: 20 Jan 2005
Posts: 2792
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:55 am
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good idea
Name: Jon
Location: Brooklyn, NY
School (If applicable): graduated from Kent State 1995
Major: Education
Nicknames: Jagdish
Job(s): manager @ intellectual property services company
Favorite Pasttimes: producing music, djing, drinking Scotch
Favorite Food: Indian food, the spicier the better
Favorite Movie(s): Lost Highway, Pulp Fiction
Favorite Female: Natalie Portman, Kiera Knightley, Scarlett Johanson
Favorite type of music: hip hop, drum & bass
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Andra Davis
Goal(s) in life: win the lotto
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Joined: 04 May 2006
Posts: 596
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:42 am
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Name: Hilmi
Age: 21
Location: Cleveland, ohio
School (If applicable): Cleveland State University
Major: Electrical Engineering
Nicknames: Browns_83
Job(s):engineer's assistant
Favorite Pasttimes: having nothing to do and playing soccer for my high school
Favorite Food: arabic and italian
Favorite Movie(s): godfather
Favorite Female: angelina jolie
Favorite type of music: Techno and arabic
Favorite Cleveland Brown: KWII & B.E
Goal(s) in life: to get a good job somewhere warm and my dream is to win the lotto
Go Browns, Cavs.
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Posts: 2156
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:17 pm
Post subject: Re: Browns Forum Sign In... WHO THE HECK ARE YOU?!
Akron Ohio
School (If applicable):
University of Akron (Go Zips!!!)
Political Science (Pre-law, I graduate in May!!!)
Speedy, Victoryman
Student Assistant at the UA Law School, Semi-proffessional Racecar Driver.
Favorite Pasttimes:
Auto Racing, Football
Favorite Food:
Anything Italian, Steak
Favorite Movie(s):
Wedding Crashers, Days of Thunder
Favorite Female:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Favorite type of music:
I'm a good ole country boy
Favorite Cleveland Brown:
Charlie Frye
Goal(s) in life:
See the Browns win a Superbowl, be successful in my own personal life.
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006
Posts: 4620
Location: amherst
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:34 pm
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Name: max
Location: athens, oh (amherst, oh-hometown)
School (If applicable): ohio university
Major: marketing
Nicknames: cornbread
Job(s): nothing at the moment
Favorite Pasttimes: sleeping, sports, music, movies
Favorite Food: cant pick
Favorite Movie(s): boondock saints, blues brothers, friday night lights
Favorite Female: Scarlett Johanson
Favorite type of music: classic rock
Favorite Cleveland Brown: kellen winslow
Goal(s) in life: to be happy and successful, in that order
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Posts: 6179
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:15 pm
Post subject:
Excellent idea.
Name: Shaun
Location: Maryland, down the street from College Park
School (If applicable): Benedict college (BA), Strayer Univ. (MS)
Major: Accouting w\ minor in Finanace (BA), Info. Systems (MS)
Nicknames: Buddy Lee, Deadbolt, Dugmo......so many LOL
Job(s): Computer Network Engineer (currently babysiting a help desk)
Favorite Pasttimes: Sleeping, comunity service and activities with the Fraternity (Phi Beta Sigma) and Church, playing Madden, Shadowrun, Hittin movies, Happy hour, Training in the Martial arts, and
Favorite Food: BBQ, Seafood and Soul food.
Favorite Movie(s): the Godfather, Scarface, Human Traffic, Half baked, Gladiator, Braveheart, U571, Old School, the 40 year old Virgin and a couple of others
Favorite Female: Alice J. (momma), Nikki (GF), Skyy Black and Courtney Devine (Porn Starletts)
Favorite type of music: Hip Hop, Rap, R&B, Classical, Old school
Favorite Cleveland Brown: Currently A.D., growing up Kevin Mack, All time- Jim Brown
Goal(s) in life: To get better and improve everyday, to make my mom and dad proud of me, to one day take on the responsibility of a wife and lil ones, to be successfull, and most importantly, to keep the Big Man Upstairs pleased with my actions and direction that my life takes\is going in, so when I take that Big Nap in the Brown box with Orange lining, everything will be all good ya dig?
-A team is built through the Draft.
Second Ballot Cleveland Browns Forum Hall of Fame Inductee.
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Joined: 04 Jan 2005
Posts: 22932
Location: Reynoldsburg, OH
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:32 pm
Post subject:
Great to see you guys posting in here!
Keep it up!
This is called TRUTH!
Rest In Peace David, Renee and Joe (Crakburn)
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Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 1260
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:42 pm
Post subject:
Name: David
Location: Columbus
School (If applicable): University of Dayton (graduated a few years back)
Major: Fine Arts
Job(s): Self-employed web developer, but until my some-what recent move back to Ohio from NYC I was a children's book editor.
Favorite Pasttimes: sports (I pretty much like following all sports), watching The Office and Lost, thinking, eating, museums, hanging out with my wife and getting together with friends.
Favorite Food: Anything Italian...I'm a vegetarian, which is kind of rare for a sports nut.
Favorite Movie(s): Anything with a lot of heart that's made well
Favorite Female: My wife
Favorite type of music: Weezer, Ben Folds, Radiohead and similar stuff.
Favorite Cleveland Brown: All of our Linebackers
Goal(s) in life: To be a good person in every aspect of my life and to fully realize my talents and abilities.
Go Browns!
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problem with car not seeming to get enough fuel to accelerate,and when in idle seems to want to go,and then takes more time to get speed up and check engine light flashes as this is all happening!
Q: when car is in idle seems to run rough and takes more time to speed up! on 2001 Volvo V40
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If you haven't changed the spark plugs for 25,000 miles or so, replace them with new Volvo plugs. Other than that you'll need to have the codes pulled from the engine control module and perform the troubleshooting for the codes retrieved.
If you've replaced the plugs and still have the same problem, then replace the ignition leads too. This worked on my 1998 V40. Be careful you connect the correct lead to the correct plug.
i do think the problem could be one of the coil packs as i had same trouble when i over tightend one and cracked it when i changed the plugs

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Time, maybe, for a message to any pensive Englishmen and women, particularly if they are Londoners, who fear that any day now they will be hauled off the street and into a dark place if they don't make some gesture in support of the Olympics.
Perhaps, if they are desperate enough for inspiration, they could daub the five rings of the old Olympic circus on their foreheads. The advice here, though, is simple enough. Don't do it. Time is short, admittedly, now that we're one whole day and part of another short of a year before the start of London 2012, but experience gleaned from every summer Games since Montreal in 1976 insists there can be only one grown-up response to their third visit to these shores.
It is of ambivalence, great oodles of it. It is the knowing of what the Olympics can bring but also what they threaten.
Pride, yes, if London can match the performances of, say, Barcelona in 1992 and Sydney eight years later in celebrating both the style and beauty of their environments while also embracing with appropriate maturity the inevitable excitement which comes when the world's great athletes gather in vast numbers and you know the world is gazing in your direction.
But not, surely, if there is a legacy as bitter as those that came to Montreal, whose taxpayers still bemoan the cost, poor, maxed-out Athens and Atlanta, whose Games were described by the not notably unpatriotic Sports Illustrated magazine as no more than a shoddy bazaar.
London may come through beautifully, as Lord Coe, who rescued the Olympic bid out of deep and naive chaos, did in 1980 and 1984, when he was described by Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times as the "young Lord Byron of the track".
Yet whose heart doesn't sink at least to some degree when Coe bombards us wherever we turn with his belief that "sport" is bringing some kind of sublime deliverance to a run-down section of a great old city and the spirit of a jaded nation?
This is not Byronic. It is the purest hype, as are the inflated claims on behalf of the anticipated London legacy by such as the former Olympic minister Tessa Jowell.
Listen to Ms Jowell, as we will have to do with increasing frequency no doubt over the next 365 days, and you would never guess that many of the ratepayers of the Olympic borough of Newham, from the mayor down, are beginning to see the Olympics not as a saviour but a usurping monster.
Or that the promise of meaningful work apprenticeships is proving illusory. Or that crash-coaching courses for local youngsters will, in the opinion of youth workers, be without lasting significance. All this, of course, set against the question that is unlikely to go away: can a financially embattled nation really afford a £12bn diversion, especially when it is told at ever decreasing intervals that this is not a burden but a gift.
While the potentially heroic cyclist Victoria Pendleton tells us that nothing, absolutely nothing, matters to her more than a successful performance, some take a wider view. Unfortunately, though, this throws up the possibility of a collision with something bound to burrow down deeply against the accelerating hoopla.
It is the fact that London's winning bid, however we dress it, was essentially a fraud. It came with the claim that it would be a gift to youth, an opportunity to enhance its horizons and its physical health, and that somehow London was uniquely equippedfor the task.
Such Blair rhetoric came awkwardly from the prime minister of a government which, no less than its Conservative predecessors, had shamefully neglected the young people it now championed so enthusiastically in the glare of the television cameras. Thousands of volunteer coaches and their helpers across the land must have winced at the scale of the hypocrisy.
Paris, let's not forget, should have won the Olympic nomination by the length of the Champs Elysées. Why? Because while New Labour continued the scandal of selling off school playing fields, as English kids rose steadily in the world obesity league, France continued to invest in its young people.
It is why we should remember that in all the preening over the meeting of Olympic building schedules and the frenzy of investment in the Beijing British team after the successful 2012 bid, we remain so far below the standards of care and vision set by France and other leading European nations.
Drive through any town in France and the chances are you will see an Olympic sized swimming pool or running track. It is part of the culture, a right, an assumption still beyond the dreams of most young people here. When that changes, truly, we can talk of the glory of the London Olympics. Meanwhile, whatever Tessa and her mates say, we have no obligation to jump up and down.
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Rangers' Yu Darvish set for MLB debut
Yu Darvish's spring has been focused on adapting to baseball in the major leagues.
But he'll have to deal with a cornerstone of Japanese baseball tonight in Darvish's anticipated first start for the Texas Rangers.
When the Rangers put Darvish, their $107.7 million investment, in the fourth spot in their rotation, it matched him with Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners— as if Darvish's debut weren't a big enough event in Japan.
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It's plenty big in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where the American League champions anticipate a sellout after filling their ballpark for the opening three-game series against the Chicago White Sox.
What the fans in the stadium and the millions watching over breakfast in Japan will see is that country's undisputed top pitcher easing into a new culture and new season still in a fine-tuning mode.
Darvish has not faced Suzuki, who left for the USA before Darvish turned pro, except for some intrasquad preparations for Japan's World Baseball Classic team. But in Japan's Pacific League, Darvish regularly faced Munenori Kawasaki, who could play shortstop tonight for Seattle because starter Brendan Ryan has been dealing with a stiff neck. "I'm not in perfect shape," Darvish says. "But I'm starting to feel ready to go."
He comes advertised with an arsenal of six or seven pitches — depending on who's counting — with which has compiled a 93-38 record and 1.99 ERA the past seven seasons.
Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux says Darvish's two-seam fastball is the one that translates best to the major leagues. They've spent much of the spring discussing pitch sequences that might be different from his patterns in Japan.
That's one of a series of adaptations that are likely to determine Darvish's success. Japanese pitchers often find the major league ball slicker than the one used in Japan. Darvish began experimenting with the U.S. ball last year, just as he attempted to get used to the major league norm of pitching every fifth day rather than the extra day of rest Japanese pitchers get.
He's worked his way through a spring training that is several weeks shorter than the Japanese version, changing his preparation routine. He even waited until his third spring start to pitch from a windup.
Rangers manager Ron Washington says he'll be watching especially closely as Darvish works in the Texas heat this summer. He pitched his home games in a dome in Japan.
Tonight, he'll pitch under a microscope.
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Lots of big companies are known for their big wallets: McDonald's uses some of its profits from burgers and fries to fund more than 270 Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provide free housing to families with children in the hospital. And last year, Wal-Mart pledged to donate a whopping $2 billion over a five-year period to hunger relief charities. But you don't need to be a multinational corporation to make a difference — and boost your brand name — through corporate philanthropy. Here's how small businesses can get involved in corporate giving.
Go local. Especially if you have a brick-and-mortar business, sponsoring events in your local community is the best way to raise your profile and make a positive impression with your community. You might consider sponsoring a local baseball team's uniforms (and getting your business name prominently displayed on the team members' backs), or donating items to a local fundraising auction or raffle. Check in with your local chamber of commerce to find out about available sponsorship opportunities. Charities are constantly looking for donations they can resell.
Give within your niche. Build goodwill and brand recognition by creating a philanthropy program focused around your specialty: for instance, Charlotte Street Computers in Asheville, North Carolina has created a program in which they refurbish their customers' unwanted computers and other electronics and donate them to people and organizations in need. Similarly, Planet Dog, a Portland, Maine-based company that manufactures and sells eco-friendly dog products, has established a connected foundation that provides grants to programs that train, place, and support therapy dogs and other types of working dogs. You may not have the budget for a large-scale effort like this at this point, but focusing on philanthropic efforts within your field even in a small way is likely to lead to increased media interest — followed by plenty of impressed new customers.
Align your company with a complementary non-profit. Most non-profit groups don't have much money, but they have plenty of goodwill and media-savvy, as well as a dedicated base of supporters. By finding a group in a similar sphere to your business and discussing their needs, as well as their ability to promote your brand, you could establish a long-term partnership that will be beneficial to both parties and help you grow your consumer base. Learn more about the specific steps involved in "cause marketing" from the SBA.
Join 1% for the Planet. If you want to show that your business has a true dedication to the environment, consider joining nearly 1,500 other companies in 1% for the Planet, and pledging to donate 1% of your sales to a network of environmental organizations around the world. You'll be able to add the 1% FTP member logo to your website, which will give your green credentials a serious boost.
Hold a paid "volunteering day." Look for local opportunities to get involved in specific non-profit projects, such as building a house for Habitat for Humanity, and ask your employees to join you for a (fully paid) day of volunteer work. Take plenty of photos of your employees volunteering — they'll be great additions to your website and email newsletters. If you need help developing a workplace volunteer program, check in with your local United Way for suggestions.
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Tough Pigs News Extra
November 15, 2002
The Late Late Frog
Kermit's appearance on
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2002 -- CBS
Here's a transcript of Kermit's appearance on The Late Late Show... sorry I'm a few days late on posting this, but listening to Craig Kilborn speak even once is bad enough. Listening to him over and over again and writing down everything he says is quite a job for a sensitive flower like myself. Craig, as you'll notice here, is not a man who is overly burdened with talent. He's not a very good interviewer, he's not particularly scrupulous with the facts, and occasionally, he just loses track of his tongue completely and says precisely the wrong word. Kermit, on the other hand, is a class act all the way.
Later on in the show, Kermit appeared on a lame game-show segment called "Yambo," but it was entirely pointless and unfunny, so I'm not going to bother. Not even for the Frog. You can't make me, you can't make me.
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Well guys, I have a rear wheel bearing that is making alot of noise. Do you guys know the best way to replace these and the cheapest place to get them? Also, can I just buy the bearings or do I have to buy the whole bearing assembly?
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Oscar Alvarez; Craig Anderson; Fredy Deza; Rosman Garcia; David Haehnel; Beau Hale; James Hoey; Rommie Lewis; Radhames Liz; Jim Miller; Cory Morris; Felix Romero; Chris Waters
Highlights- Radhames Liz will look to build off a promising 2006. After a promotion to double-A Bowie, Liz finally learned that he can't throw his fastball by advanced hitters if it is all he throws. He has a promising curveball that Pitching Coach Scott McGregor will make him throw more often, but he'll need to show more with his slider and changeup to remain a starter long-term. Jim Hoey will also start back at double-A Bowie, which is the highest level of the minors he has pitched at. With less than 20 inning above A-ball, it won't hurt him to get more exposure against competition his age, but don't expect him to struggle.
Sleepers- David Haehnel will hope a return to the bullpen outweighs his first exposure to the upper minors. BaseballHQ's Deric McKamey told ITW "I think you'll see a much better season out of David Haehnel if the Orioles return him to the bullpen. With his deceptive delivery and ability to change speeds, he could dominate like he did in 2005. Watch his command and strikeout ability improve with a return to relief." Jim Miller will join him to form a formidable back end of the bullpen. Part of the haul for Rodrigo Lopez, Miller has an outstanding fastball, but flyball tendencies that didn't bode well for a future in Colorado. Beau Hale hopes to continue his Cinderella story back to prospectdom. Finally healthy at 29 years old, time is running out. Fredy Deza has a solid fastball/slider combo out of the bullpen and might be a solid middle reliever in time. Chris Waters is a player that ITW Contributor John Kazlo likens to Eric DuBose. Cory Morris has always missed bats, but he only seems to find his control every other year. Rommie Lewis keeps the ball on the ground, but off-the-field issues have led to doubts about his commitment to the game.
Highlights- Whiteside has a great arm and good pop but little idea of the strike zone. No matter how many baserunners he throws out, a .220 hitter who doesn't take walks just doesn't play… unless he is guaranteed $900,000…
Sleepers- Hubele was once thought of as a potential major league reserve, but his career has stalled out in the upper minors.
Gera Alvarez; Bryan Bass; Paco Figueroa; Luis Hernandez; Oscar Salazar; Brandon Sing
Highlights- Brandon Sing has legitimate power and knows how to take a walk. Once a top prospect, he suffered through a tumultuous 2006 that was largely brought on by an allergy condition that affected his eyesight. It is not out of the question that he still emerges as a legitimate big league first baseman. Figueroa will continue being groomed for a utility role, though he continues to develop as a table-setter. Hernandez has excellent defensive chops and does all the little things that old school types like to see out of a shortstop. At 23 years old, he still has plenty of time to reclaim his once highly regarded prospect status.
Sleepers- Bryan Bass is a former first round pick that the Orioles sent to the AFL, but he hasn't resembled a prospect since 2001. His swing is long and upper level pitchers have had little problem exploiting it, but he is an athletic defender.
Matt Cepicky; Jeff Fiorentino; Val Majewski; Nolan Reimold
Highlights- It is surprising that both Fiorentino and Majewski will start the season in double-A Bowie in deference to the multitude of minor league free agents brought in this year. Due to his premature call-up in 2005, Fiorentino has to stick on the O's 25-man roster next season or be passed through waivers. After getting healthy and dominating the Eastern League at the end of 2006, it is hard to believe that the organization feels he will be best prepared for the jump in some place other than triple-A. The lone silver lining is that, without Adam Stern to contend with, he will continue his impressive defensive development by remaining in centerfield. Majewski showed some improvement after a very rocky start returning from labrum surgery last season. With his reputation as an extremely hard worker, I'll be surprised if he doesn't make this particular decision look silly in short order. Nolan Reimold, on the other hand, is right on pace in his development schedule and should provide the Baysox with a third offensive force in the outfield.
Sleepers- Matt Cepicky is a former 4th round pick that has served as triple-A insurance for various clubs in the past few years. He has some speed, some pop, and can take a walk; however, the most telling part of his resume is that he failed to crack the Florida Marlins' outfield experiment of 2006.
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Shrewley Parish
Shrewley Parish, in the Forest of Arden in rural Warwickshire, lies about five miles
north-west of Warwick and consists of Shrewley Common, Little Shrewley, Hatton Station,
Five Ways Road and part of Case Lane.
Chiltern Railways stop at Hatton Station with connections to London Marylebone, Birmingham
and Stratford upon Avon, and the M40 motorway runs close to the western boundary.
The Grand Union Canal also passes through a tunnel under Shrewley Common and there
is a marina at Hatton Station.
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30th June - Social Club Film Night - 'A United Kingdom'
8th July - Shrewley Parish Parents: 'Messy Stay & Play'
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The Ferncumbe News covers Shrewley and adjoining Parishes and includes all commmunity
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Community Email will also let you know what's going on in the Parish
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The Parish also has The Case is Altered in Case Lane, a welcoming unspoilt pub with
great character, which has been a regular entry in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide for
many years.
The pub hosts regular Cribbage evenings and Shove Ha'penny nights and a very successful
annual Beer Festival, which takes place this year over the weekend of 3rd / 4th
Shrewley Common has a thriving Village Shop and Post Office, and The Durham Ox, a
traditional 18th century inn and restaurant with large gardens
The cutting on the approach to the tunnel on the north side is a designated site
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Cracker Barrel adopts poison pill to thwart takeover
LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) – Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has adopted a shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill," to keep investment firm Biglari Holdings or anyone else from acquiring control of the restaurant chain without offering a premium to all its shareholders.
Cracker Barrel (CBRL) said Biglari Holdings (BH), which owns the Steak 'n Shake and Western Sizzlin restaurant chains, currently owns a stake of more than 16% in the company and obtained clearance in September to buy up to just under 50% of Cracker Barrel's stock.
"The shareholder rights plan is designed to assure that all of Cracker Barrel's shareholders receive fair and equal treatment in the event of any proposed takeover of the company and to guard against any attempt to gain control of Cracker Barrel without paying all shareholders a premium for that control," President and CEO Sandra Cochran said Tuesday in a statement.
San Antonio, Texas-based Biglari began buying Cracker Barrel shares in June 2011. In December, its chairman and CEO, Sardar Biglari, tried to join Cracker Barrel's board, but was defeated in an election at the annual shareholders meeting.
Biglari Holdings has complained that Cracker Barrel isn't living up to its potential. It also has said that the restaurant chain, which also operates retail stores that sell a variety of items including gifts and souvenirs, should provide more detailed disclosures about its individual business units and that the directors should invest more of their own money in the company.
Cracker Barrel said it adopted a shareholder rights plan with a 10% triggering threshold in September, but that expired after shareholders voted against the plan at its 2011 annual meeting.
It said the new shareholder rights plan has a 20% triggering threshold and does not apply to all-cash, fully financed tender offers open for at least 60 business days.
Under the new plan, if a person or group buys 20% or more of Cracker Barrel's outstanding stock, each right will allow its holder to buy, for $200, a certain amount Cracker Barrel's stock having a market value of twice such price. Once the 20% threshold is crossed, Cracker Barrel's board would also be allowed to exchange one Cracker Barrel share for each outstanding right. That could make an unwanted takeover prohibitively expensive.
Cracker Barrel said the shareholder rights plan is effective immediately and will expire April 9, 2015, if approved by shareholders. The plan will end if it is not approved by shareholders at the company's annual meeting.
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New Alzheimer's Treatment Showing Promise
A potential Alzheimer's Disease treatment is showing much promise.
UC Irvine professor Matthew Blurton-Jones said specially-bred mice showed great improvement when treated with genetically-modified stem cells.
"We specifically were focused on the pathology ... and what we saw was a very dramatic reduction in that pathology when the animals received these cells," he said.
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According to an annual survey by the American Lung Association, California cities have the worst air quality in the United States. What do you think?
"Yeah, but that's only if you measure 'quality' by the amount of harmful particulate matter and pollution in the air."Leslie Calvert Systems Analyst
"Sure, if you focus on the negative. I prefer to think California has the best pollution!"Fabrizio Dugmore Tenter-Frame Operator
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There is nothing particularly unusual about conservative Catholics arguing with liberal Catholics, especially when it comes to hot-button issues such as abortion.It is unusual, however, for the IRS to jump into these pew wars.Catholic sociologist Anne Hendershott is convinced that's what happened to her in 2010. This was during the time when IRS leaders, according to their own testimony, were inappropriately targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny, especially those with … [Read more...]
Call it church-state espionage
September 29, 2004 by
Call it church-state espionage.Unitarians and other activists on the religious left have been slipping into evangelical pews to endure altar calls, praise songs and sermons against gay marriage. The Kansas-based Mainstream Coalition has a simple reason for doing this. If preachers openly endorse President Bush, its agents can report these crimes to the IRS.Reacting to these watchdogs on the left, the Religious Freedom Action Coalition promptly launched Big Brother Church Watch -- … [Read more...]


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Here's the way to get people talking about an aging, animated TV series that's not the pop-culture phenomenon it once was.
Kill the dog.
That's exactly what happened on "Family Guy" this past Sunday, when Brian the dog was run over by a car and killed.
And if it sounds cynical to suggest this was all about getting attention for a show that could use a boost in the ratings, well, remember that "Family Guy" just might be the most cynical show on television.
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Posted by Ted Schadler on February 28, 2011
Your workforce is mobile and loving it. They love it because they can get things done anywhere, anytime, on any device. You can almost see happy tails wagging as they check their email. But they haver no idea how disruptive mobile devices are to the IT status quo. Sure, mobile email is a small dog to train. But what about mobile business apps? That dog is bigger than a rhinoceros.
To keep your workforce loving your business applications as they go mobile, you will have to redesign the fundamental architecture for delivering apps. The architecture of Client-Server (and Browser-Server) is inadequate. You will need to build from an architecture of devices and services. The mobile app Internet is that architecture: local apps (including HTML5 browsers) on smart mobile devices and cloud-hosted interactions and data.
My friend and colleague John McCarthy has written a seminal report for Forrester clients sizing the market for the mobile app Internet. In this report, he lays out the growth model for mobile apps (six drivers of growth), segments the market for mobile apps+services (mobile apps, application development, mobile management, and process reinvention), and sizes the total mobile apps+services market ($54.6B by 2015).
This is an important report. Everybody should read it. Here's my take on what it means for content and collaboration professionals:
Posted by Ted Schadler on February 24, 2011
With Cisco's shuttering of Cisco Mail, multitenant cloud email is now (as my colleague Chris Voce called it) a battle royale between Microsoft, Google, and IBM, where the winner will have products, scale, sales channels, and big ecosystems of support.
I am not surprised that Cisco bailed on cloud email. All the signs were there:
Posted by Ted Schadler on February 11, 2011
Make no mistake about Nokia's global power. They are still the dominant handset maker globally. But Nokia somehow missed the shift to the handheld computers we call smartphones and tablets.
Make no mistake about Microsoft's tenacity. They will drop a cool billion to enter a market. But they have tried and tried and tried again to build an operating system that can work on the handheld computes we call smartphones and tablets.
Well, Windows Phone 7 (now where did the "7" come from?) is a good mobile OS, at least on smartphones. No idea whether it will work on tablets. (We know Windows 7 itself won't.)
And Nokia's smartphone platforms like the E7 are a decent piece of hardware.
Now that these two megaliths are partnering up, Microsoft's mobile OS has a chance for relevance. I and my colleagues have predicted and urged you, our enterprise customers, to focus on three mobile platforms: Apple's iOS, Google's Android, and RIM's QNX. Well, it's time to take a flier on Microsoft as well.
It's way too early to tell if this partnership will be successful or if anybody, particularly your US and European employees, will care about Nokia smartphones or tablets running Windows Phone 7. But if they nail the product experience. If they sign up the carriers. If they quickly roll out a good, competitively-priced tablet running the same Windows Phone OS. If they port Word and PowerPoint and OneNote and Excel and SharePoint Workspace to that tablet and phones. If they attract ISVs. If they attract independent developers. If they build a decent app store. If they sign up the mobile device management vendors. If they execute brilliantly. Then they could be relevant.
Posted by Ted Schadler on February 3, 2011
I just got back from Lotusphere after waiting out the sixth blizzard of this "snowmaggedon" Boston winter. The venerable Notes developer and administrator conference received an injection of business relevance on Monday when Lotus GM Alistair Rennie announced IBM's Social Business strategy. The conference motto was "Get Social. Do Business." In a private conversation, Rennie called Monday "day one" for social business.
The importance of Rennie's announcement was reinforced by the IBM brand presence and by presentations from IBM senior vice president Mike Rhodin and IBM senior vice president of marketing and communications, Jon Iwata. I believe that for IBM, social business is a strategy on par with its e-business strategy in importance and transformational potential. This will be clearer to everybody once IBM's advertising and product engines get cranking.
As for us, well, we're an easy sell on the strategy's transformational potential because what IBM calls social business, we call Empowered, and we wrote a book about it. Here are some charts to help make the connections clear.
The first picture is a diagram that captures the technology dynamic of the empowered era and indicates the organizational response that will be required. In a nutshell, companies will need to respond to the demands and expectations of empowered customers by:


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En route from the metropolitan delights of Montreal to the concrete jungle of Toronto lies the National Capital Region. A region where lies the city of Ottawa, a place we call home.
If you're planning to visit Ottawa, we highly recommend you visit the official Ottawa Tourism website for details on what's going on in the city throughout the year.
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An excellent online resource to the popular restaurants in Ottawa's downtown core.
Welcome to Ottawa, Canada.
This dynamic city of one million residents is home to tens of thousands of government workers and their five hour work day (10 AM - 3 PM not including coffee breaks), high tech workers of which half have become 'consultants' after the industry bust, and the ever present Lexus SUV driving soccer moms with million dollar grow-ops and swingers clubs in the heart of suburbia. To put it simply: Ottawa is a distinct society.
As Ottawa has the highest educated work force in Canada, we have great debates at town hall meetings and form committees to address current issues and in effect construct councils of committee members who can then debate why they created a council in the first place. And then, maybe, just maybe, take a decision on something. But we should bring that issue to committee before addressing council on the issue.
Now that we have your attention, Life is Ottawa is a blessing in disguise. The crime rate is based on the number of bicycles stolen, traffic is when it takes you thirty minutes to get to work instead of twenty, and cottage country is just a hop, skip, and jump outside the downtown core. So, what's not to like? There isn't much not to like in Ottawa, and herin lies the problem. People are bored. Really bored. So we decided to create this web site in an effort to spice up the lives of fellow Ottawans.
If you've found this website haphazardly through google. Come visit Ottawa!
You'll have a great time visiting the city. Living here is the challenge.
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L.A. NAACP "Inexcusable" Relationship with Sterling Forces Change
The interim president of the NAACP's Los Angeles chapter says change will come to the organization in the wake of its relationship with Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Lorraine Miller says it was "inexcusable" that the L.A. NAACP was planning to give a humanitarian award to Sterling, who was banned from the NBA for life this week after he was caught on tape making racist remarks about African-Americans.
Former L.A. NAACP President Leon Jenkins resigned yesterday over questions about he and the organization's ties with Sterling. Miller says she plans to investigate the chapter and "determine the shortcomings that enabled Donald Sterling to receive or be considered for any awards."
The decisions made re: Donald Sterling remain disturbing. We are committed to developing more stringent guidelines for our branches.
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I'm a sucker for anything Kaufmanesque, that special brand of weirdness with a metaphysical edge. I am not, however, a sucker for Hong Kong style melodrama. How about a Hong Kong Style melodrama with a metaphysical edge? Now you've got my attention.
Written By is the most recent directorial offering from Johnnie To collaborator Wai Ka-fai. It is a Russian doll story within a story within a story about a family that loses its patriarch in a tragic car accident. The man's daughter, now blind, decides to write a story in which the rest of the family died and the father survived. He, in turn, begins to write a story in which his family is reincarnated, they live in the cemetery together, and his daughter is Death's apprentice. Confused? Don't feel bad. Even the character of Death (Meng Po) has trouble figuring it all out.
Usually a film like this is worth the extra effort, but I had a hard time with this one. I can't figure out whether it was meant to be a serious melodrama with metaphysical overtones or an exercise in the genre, ala Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven. Either way, I did not enjoy that aspect of the film. Plus, it had a weird Harry Potter thing going on. In fact, if it weren't for all the horrible deaths, I'd say this played very much like a kid's movie. If this is what mainstream Hong Kong cinema has to offer, I'm not interested.
What started out as a potential, "you got your chocolate in my peanut butter" type of experience turned out to be more of a "you got your pickle in my peanut butter" experience, and I hate pickles. This left me with very mixed emotions. Take out the post-modern elements of the film and you're left with a giant, dill pickle. Even if the sappy, emotional content of the film was tongue-in-cheek, it is still hard to sit through. It's like in an attempt to emulate the tone and style of a bad movie, they were so successful they actually made a bad movie.
That's really all I have to say about this one. If you can deal with the melodramatic elements, there is plenty to like here. If you go in expecting the Hong Kong version of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you might be disappointed.


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"Like Dionysus himself, Thaddeus is twice-born. Seems the first time, in the a.m., he managed to bring the womb along with him. So they stuffed him back in, separated him from the uterine lining, &, in the p.m., re-delivered him. All on a Halloween day in New Orleans. And since the good padre couldn't very well name our protagonist after the dithyrambic god of tantric intoxication, he went with (Jude) Thaddeus, the flame-headed patron of desperate cases & lost causes. In lieu of/en route to being thrice-born, he aspires to leave behind- in tubs of Tupperware- ten thousand x-fine pen-&-ink line drawings. As for a price tag, well, he'd rather give you a drawing gratis, for, were he to charge what it cost him, you couldn't begin to afford it, Cap'n."
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However, if you are a serious daily commuter, you need to choose a town with good-value homes that is a bearable travelling distance from London.
Here, we shine the spotlight on three of the best...
Thame: for strongest price growth
A study of eight key locations by estate agents Knight Frank reveals the town of Thame has enjoyed the strongest price growth over the past year, with a 14.3 per cent rise to an average £310,665.
At least Thame has, by Oxfordshire market town standards, a pain-free journey to London. Trains take from 38 minutes to Marylebone from Haddenham & Thame Parkway station, which is two-and-a-half miles from the town. An annual season ticket costs £4,632. The M40 is also close by.
Oxfordshire's schools are generally good and Thame is no exception, led by Lord Williams's School, rated "outstanding" by Ofsted.
Thame is the traditional good-looker with an annual show, a Tuesday market, great cafés and restaurants, a cinema and a theatre. Cuttle Brook nature reserve is a perfect place to get away from it all, and there is a leisure centre. "Thame is a wonderful place to live and it has kerb appeal," says Stephen Rutledge, a partner at rural estate agents Fisher German.
Thame's property is mainly Victorian and Georgian terraces. A two-bedroom house would cost from about £300,000, and you could pick up a four-bedroom property for about £500,000. For an edge-of-town manor house with an acre or two, you could easily spend £1.5 million.
- Search homes for sale in Thame
READ MORE: Find the hot Cotswolds homes for sale, and discover the 10 most affordable commuter towns within an hour of London:
Cotswolds cottages PLUS the top 10 most affordable commuter towns within an hour of London
Cotswolds cottages PLUS the top 10 most affordable commuter towns within an hour of London
1/13 Thame, OX9
£495,000: a substantial three double-bedroom Victorian town house in a popular location and within easy reach of Thame's historic High Street. It offers with two bath/shower rooms, a tanked cellar providing ample storage and a generous rear garden.
2/13 Watlington, OX49
£575,000: this three-bedroom bungalow has rear views over the Chilterns and is offered to the market with no onward chain.
3/13 Wallingford, OX10
£395,000: a four-bedroom detached property with off-street parking, a garage, sun room, cloakroom and sizable lounge/diner. It's offered with no onward chain and is located in close proximity to the village primary school and parkland.
4/13 UK's 10 top affordable towns within an hour of London...
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
Average house price: £160,425 (four times the average London salary)
Daily commuting time: 52 mins
Annual travelcard: £6,708
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5/13 Kettering, Northamptonshire
Average house price: £177,584
Daily commuting time: 60 minutes
Annual travelcard: £7,376
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.5 times the average London salary
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6/13 Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Average house price: £182,114
Daily commuting time: 51 minutes
Annual travelcard: £7,380
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.6 times the average London salary
7/13 Chatham, Kent
Average house price: £183,140
Daily commuting time: 47 minutes
Annual travelcard: £4,532
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.3 times the average London salary
8/13 Luton, Bedfordshire
Average house price: £186,752
Daily commuting time: 47 minutes
Annual travelcard: £4,936
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.4 times the average London salary
9/13 Basildon, Essex
Average house price: £194,260
Daily commuting time: 36 minutes
Annual travelcard: £3,840
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.5 times the average London salary
10/13 Swindon, Wiltshire
Average house price: £195,212
Daily commuting time: 58 minutes
Annual travelcard: £8,864
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 5.1 times the average London salary
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11/13 Sittingbourne, Kent
Average house price: £202,915
Daily commuting time: 60 minutes
Annual travelcard: £4,752
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 4.8 times the average London salary
12/13 Northampton, Northamptonshire
Average house price: £206,087
Daily commuting time: 59 minutes
Annual travelcard: £6,180
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 5 times the average London salary
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13/13 Rugby, Warwickshire
Average house price: £209,320
Daily commuting time: 60 minutes
Annual travelcard: £7,840
You can buy a home - and cover commuting costs - for 5.3 times the average London salary
Watlington: best for the long-term
Beyond Chipping Norton, the market town that has seen the strongest long-term growth according to the study — and the best recovery since the recession — is Watlington.
Prices rose just 0.5 per cent last year, suggesting a slight plateau, to an average £393,924. But this is a hefty 36 per cent above 2008 values.
The nearest station is Henley-on-Thames, a 10-mile drive away, where services to Paddington take from 65 minutes. An annual season ticket costs from £4,356.
Another transport option is to take the "Oxford Tube" coach service to Victoria. An annual season ticket, from Lewknor, costs just £1,193, although the journey takes between an hour and 40 minutes and two hours.
If a town is to be judged by the quality of its pubs, then Watlington is doing well. The Fat Fox Inn gastropub, with a modern British menu including such dishes as eight-hour cider-braised pork belly, is a favourite.
Education is also excellent, with an "outstanding" rating for Watlington Primary School, while for seniors, Icknield Community College gets a "good" report.
"Watlington is easy to sell because it is very pretty and only a couple of miles from the M40. It is also very close to the beautiful Chilterns," says Nick Sherston, director of Robinson Sherston estate agents.
"It is a small town with only about 3,500 people, so it also has a real village-y feel."
About 20 per cent of his buyers are from London, often first- and second-timers attracted by Watlington's beauty and affordability.
A two-bedroom terrace house would cost about £250,000 and a five-bedroom house with a really good garden is about £750,000.
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Wallingford: for unspoilt charm
Another market town that has put on a good property recovery is Wallingford. Prices fell 0.7 per cent last year, but are still up 14 per cent on 2008, and stand at an average £308,033. Commuter trains from Cholsey, three miles away, take from 54 minutes to Paddington. An annual season ticket costs £4,976.
Wallingford School (seniors) is rated "good", and there is a clutch of primaries with similarly high standards.
Thames-side towns tend to be lovely to look at and Wallingford is no exception, with its ancient stone bridge, market square, lovely walks along the Thames Path, outdoor lido, a cinema and theatre, and a good range of independent shops and pubs.
"It is a beautiful location, with a nice thriving shopping centre and lovely villages nearby," adds Guy Glover, a director of Thomas Merrifield estate agents.
A two-bedroom Victorian or Edwardian cottage in town would cost about £350,000, while a five-bedroom house would be priced at about £650,000 to £700,000.
Glover suspects that this value-for-money versus the London suburbs and commuter dormitory towns is one reason why buyers are willing to accept the slightly longer commute.
"It is proper country out here, picturesque, with some lovely villages close by," he says. "It has a lot of charm — and it hasn't been spoiled."
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