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A COUPLE of weeks ago we took a look at the early history of the Co-op in Wycombe from its formation in the town in 1896 to the 1920s. We now continue that story.
1920 was a very important year for the Wycombe Co-op. It had been struggling for some years and in 1920 it was merged with the Chesham Co-operative Society.
Chesham Co-operative had been founded in 1875 when a group of eight working people agreed to each subscribe a 'golden sovereign' to launch the first local co-operative society.
A shop was opened in a cottage in Germain Street. Initially this had weekly sales of less than £2. The group soon moved to another cottage in Church Street opposite the Squire's Gates, which was rented for 2/6 per week. Weekly turnover was increased to £20, so that in the first year total trade amounted to £104.
A butcher's department was added and it was not long before the Church St premises became too small, so the move was made to a shop at the bottom of Station Road.
The opening hours were increased from 2 hours each evening and Saturday mornings, to normal shop hours including evenings. The society soon outgrew even these premises and purchased at auction a much larger shop in The Broadway, near where the Baptist Church now stands.
Around 1898 property became available in Blucher Street and this was purchased on the society's behalf. A purpose-designed shop was built on this site and opened on May 4 1899. That same evening nearly 1,000 people attended a Co-operative Society meeting in the Gospel Hall, Station Road.
This heralded a great expansion in the activities of the co-operative movement in the town. A Penny Bank was started, 80 people joining in the first week.
An Education Committee was established and a co-operative boot society set up. This subsequently became Chesham Boot & Shoe Manufacturers Ltd in Higham Road, primarily making army boots.
By 1900 membership was 620 and annual trade £10,608. The new Blucher Street site was considerably developed over the next few years, with stables, garages, warehouses, a slaughter house, offices and a function room, Equity Hall, on the first floor.
It was to remain the Central Premises for some 36 years. In 1906 a cottage was rented in the Berkhamsted Road, at the Newtown end of town, and began business as Branch No.1.
This soon outgrew the premises and in 1912 a piece of ground was secured at the junction of Berkhamsted Road and Essex Road. Here a two storey building was erected with two houses adjoining. It embraced a grocery store, a butcher's at the rear and a function room on the first floor.
The 'Divi' became an important part of the benefits to members. Typically 7-10% of purchase values was returned to them each year. In 1911 an exhibition was held to show the achievements and extent of cooperative productions.
This was held in the Equity Hall and lasted for three days. It is estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 people attended.
As a result many new members joined the movement and sales increased rapidly.
By 1915 membership was 1181 and annual trade £30,784. Another co-operative business was established in 1919, the Chesham Builders and Decorators of Bellingdon Road.
The Merged Chesham and Wycombe Co-operative Society
In October 1920 the Chesham Society agreed to take over the engagements of the Wycombe Society. The combined membership of the Chesham and Wycombe Co-operative Society was 3,400 and the annual trade £150,000.
A vigorous expansion programme followed. In High Wycombe the Paul's Row premises were rebuilt and the adjoining premises purchased.
A new department store was opened in Wycombe High Street and a dairy, producing 4000 gallons per week, was built on the corner of West Wycombe Road and Desborough Road.
New confectionary, bake house and ovens were installed in 1922 and a new branch opened at Wycombe Marsh in 1925, Branch No.5.
By that time membership had grown to 4,915. The society employed 100 people and owned 17 horses, 22 horse vehicles and seven petrol driven vehicles. It was the year of the society's fiftieth anniversary and was marked by some grand celebrations.
To be continued I am greatly indebted to Keith Fletcher for allowing me to use his book The Chesham Co-operators in preparing this article. I have quoted extensively from the book, which is now out of print.
It can be loaned through the County Library service or a copy can be consulted at Chesham Museum. Keith can be contacted by email firstname.lastname@example.com
International Stores released 2,000 men for military service as we considered last week, women showed during the Great War that they could very capably undertake jobs which hitherto had been the preserve of men.
This is illustrated very graphically in a short article published in the Bucks Free Press edition of August 11th 1916, under the heading '2,000 Heroes'.
The article reads: 'We hear so much of the enormous difficulties that our Tommies overcome, that we are apt to overlook the trials of those working at home, and who have every right to the glories and sympathies given to our brave men at the front.
We refer particularly to the burden which our women folk have shouldered with such patriotism. The International Stores tell us that the women now employed by them have enabled them to release nearly 2,000 men for military service.
An experienced grocer would have told you in June 1914, that a few years must elapse before a youth entering a grocer's shop as an apprentice can consider himself qualified to 'take charge'.
Bearing this in mind, it is really remarkable that the lady grocers should step in and fill the positions vacated by the heroes at the Front in such a capable manner. Their untiring energy, adaptability, and strong will, whilst working under the most trying conditions, calls for the very heartiest support and consideration from the shopping public.'
I am sure that many of our more elderly lady readers will remember the International Stores with great fondness. I myself can well remember that my mother used to get all her groceries from the store in Church Street.
What eventually developed into one of the first modern grocery supermarket chains was founded by H E Kearley and G A Tonge, with their first branch opening in 1878 in Brentford. By 1883 they had opened a branch in White Hart Street in High Wycombe.
More branches soon followed so that by 1889 the company had 200 stores. In 1895 the company changed its name to the International Tea Company's Stores Limited.
The company diversified by establishing wholesale and manufacturing operations. A new large bakery was built in Bethnal Green, London, with production starting in 1906. The brand became simply The International Stores, and moved in Wycombe to Church Street in the mid-1920s.
As a result of take-overs and rebranding in the 1960/70s the name is little known today.


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- Nancy Schwartzman is the filmmaker and the founder of the THE LINE Campaign
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- Kelly McBride, of the Poynter Institute, is one of the leading voice in American journalism on how the media covers sexual assault.
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BUSINESSES across Worcestershire which suffered in the recent floods have been given two more weeks to apply for special grants.
Grants of up to £3,000 will be awarded from funds supplied by central government and supplemented by a total of £200,000 from Worcestershire County Council.
The original deadline for applications was on Friday, March 21, but it has now been extended to Friday, April 4.
Businesses which has water enter their premises can apply for up to £3,000, and ones indirectly affected by flooding of the roads where they trade could get up to £1,500.
County councillor Simon Geraghty said: "We are working hard to ensure the funding put in place gets to the businesses affected as quickly as possible.
"Applications submitted early have already been processed and approved, so I urge any business that has been significantly affected but have not yet submitted an application form to do so as soon as possible."
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In the United States, 30 percent of adults or about 60 million people, are clinically obese –weighing 30 pounds or more over their ideal body weight (Body Mass Index or BMI > 30kg/m2). Obesity has become a major health problem for the United States and especially in New York City. Ten percent of all healthcare expenditures in this country are now spent on managing or treating obesity and its many complications. In the borough of Queens 20-30 percent of residents, depending on the neighborhood, are clinically obese.
Bariatric Surgery (Weight Loss Surgery) is offered to motivated individuals who have been unable to lose weight through diet and exercise and who are at least 75 to 100 pounds over their ideal body weight. Long-term studies have shown that bariatric surgery for these individuals results in significant, and more importantly, sustained weight loss. In addition, it can bring about dramatic improvement and sometimes resolution in patients suffering from diabetes, hypertension and a number of other obesity related complications. Studies have shown that patients who undergo obesity surgery live longer lives (because of the weight loss and improvement in obesity related medical problems) when compared to a group of individuals who do not have surgery and remain obese.
An experienced, multidisciplinary team provides bariatric care (or obesity surgery) to patients at NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens. The surgeons – Drs. Stephen Merola and Armando Castro – offer the full range of bariatric procedures currently available in the United States and they perform these procedures using minimally invasive or laparoscopic techniques. The surgeons are also aided by a bariatric coordinator who helps patients navigate their way through the various testing that is required before surgery in order to make certain the procedure can be performed safely. Additionally, this coordinator serves as a resource to help each patient with their weight loss journey after surgery so that they can obtain their best results possible. The NYP/Queens team also includes a group of nutritionists, psychologists and exercise specialists.
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Google needs to drastically change the way it calcs website PR and serp placement.
I've been all about seo lately. Which is good. Gives me something else to write about other than code. I also created a forum for my own website. And I also have been doing a lot of posts myself to PR 8 and 9 forums and blogs for good backlinks. I wouldn't call it spamming though. I at least add good relavant conversations to the forum in the process. Then in return I get a backlink. That I have no problem with. Morally or in my own forum.
All this has led me to believe that google needs to drastically change the way it calcs PR and serp placement. Lets take an example... if your girlfriend constantly flirts with other men, is it your fault that you become a jealous person? No, she created the green monster. Cause and effect. Much like its not the spammers fault. Google has created their monsters. Because of cause and effect, spammers have completely - not just a little - changed the landscape of the web. Spammer sites, forum, and blog posts are like web advertising. We have just began to accept their presence.
It's beyond stupid that I and billions of others have to go around creating backlinks in order to get placed.
Google has grown in a very short time no doubt because of their policies. I am curious to know if you think their growth is because of their original policies or the new trend is to change their policies for their own benefit.
Have you any suggestions as to how Google should change their calculation ranking policies?
Yeah I had one suggestion I wrote about here http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/seo/googles-new-pagerank-seo-indexing-algorithm.php
I would copy and paste it into here but then google would cry duplicate. And then this forum would be the one showing up in SERPS for said keyword.
So I get your frustration... but how would you recommend Google rank sites then? I'm not fan of Google, but they need some measurable metrics to rank results. If everyone perfectly implements an onsite and offsite SEO strategy, Google would be forced to return random results, right?
I know its far from perfect but they could use traffic as a measure for one like Alexa does. In order for Alexa to measure traffic the end user has to have a spammy type toolbar. And the developer can embed its traffic measure code. Not many do this and Alexa still manages to be a strong metric of importance. People would be much more inclined to embed some google code. Aka google analytics. I added the toolbar and embedded the code in my site and my Alex score drops by 20,000 a day.
Plus the suggestion I made in my link above. Plus if i was a smarty smart nerd and google was paying me 200,000 grand a year im sure I could come up with some better ideas.
lol. I was not arguing so much as pointing out that in my mind, there is no real good answer. I personally like Alexa, but it is SO easy to game that I'm sure the SEO industry would just alter their strategy to meet that game too. I try to build links in a reasonable amount and try to have good content, and just generally try to give people a reason to come back for my clients. Because no matter how Google (or Bing) alter their algorithm, a person who bookmarks my client sites is going to make it back.
Its clear that a change in G's algorithm would be good, and its true it forced people to spam to attract traffic. I hate the SEO competition that makes people work harder and harder to rank some websites, instead of Google showing the real relevant results. But, i think they are trying to improve every day, and today's results are far better than 3 years ago when there was some sites that automatically generated some spammy pages based on what consumer would want to search for in Google. You couldn`t find a real result, first 2 pages were all same site with spammy pages.
s clear that a change in G's algorithm would be good, and it
In a nutshell, the problem is that WHATEVER algorithm Google used, people would find ways to subvert and abuse it. Google has got better and better at ignoring spammy and seeded links (so I think your strategy of sowing links on random high-PR pages is unlikely to be effective, especially in the longer term), because it knows that the vast majority of links in user-generated content are self-promotional and therefore worthless. Popularity by hit-rate would be even easier to fake through robots and proxy servers and so on, with the additional downside that it would require people to install Google software. And while Google is going for world domination, ut would prefer to get there by fair means rather than exploiting its monopoly position. in other words, it wants to succeed because it is the best search engine for returning the most relevant results for a prrson's queries, which it CAN'T do if it is semi-arbitrarily excluding any sites that aren't running Google Analytics.
Another good way would be to somehow track how many people bookmark it. That would probably be the most true way. I wrote another good one about googles new socialism method here http://www.websitecodetutorials.com/code/seo/googles-2013-socialism-update.php. While the results are definitely more diverse they are socialist in nature. After the update free .blogspots were performing better than my sites. That is until I went seo crazy for a few months. FYI that did fix my placement so proof to me seo is not dead.
Google has gotten very good at detecting Spam and sorting sites by authority (I would argue much better than Alexa, if Google was to list sites in order of popularity). I try to stay somewhat active amongst the blackhat community (old friends and entertainment only), and I know many more people who lost their livelihood than are still able to rank their sites. Most of the people spamming nowadays are the equivalent of a quarterback throwing a hail mary; they are doing it because they are hopeless and don't know of another way, and most of them are not capable of speaking good enough English to write enticing content. Just because people are still spamming doesn't mean their sites are ranking well. If you need proof, do a quick search for the term "viagra" (one of the most commonly spammed keywords) and see how many of the top sites look like they spam the web to get their backlinks.
I believe that Google already implements many other factors that show positive user experience like unique visitors, bounce rate, pages viewed per visit, length of visit, load speed, etc. I would even be willing to bet that conversion rate from an Adwords campaign plays a factor. They have said many times that they want to make legitimate popularity and user experience the main factors that determine a site's authority, and they have spent many years working towards this goal.
Try thinking from Google's perspective: who is most likely to read the documentation they put out regarding the specifics of their algorithm? People who are trying to rip off their algorithm to start their own search engine and people who are trying to learn how to exploit their algorithm to make their sites rank higher. What is Google's incentive to put out 100% accurate information? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to only broadcast what they want people to think? Plus, their algorithm changes every day, they could say something publicly honestly and in good conscience and then change the code the next day to better fight the people who are trying to abuse it.
Their goal is to provide a better experience for their users, and I'm sure they have at least considered using all the information they get through Analytics (why would they have bothered to make their Analytics system if it did not help their core business in some way?). Google has employed some really sharp guys over the past few years, and I am confident that there is nothing we could suggest that hasn't already been thought of in-house. I'm not saying its impossible, just highly unlikely.
It should also be noted that Page Rank is a completely separate algorithm than their search algorithm. They publicly claim that PR does play a roll in their ranking algorithm, but it is certainly not the most important attribute. Page Rank is more of a trophy than anything. There is a good chance that they want spammers to have low search rankings and high PR so that they will continue wasting their time on tactics that won't work.
I like your article relating Google and Obama haha
SEO is far from dead, honestly its easier now than it ever has been. There are ways to spend those countless hours promoting your site effectively. My favorite method is targeting reporters. I have even flown reporters in to have a hands on experience in the industry to encourage them to write about their trip and reference our site with a link. The result of this? Several positive articles in several authoritative newspapers, and the next day many bloggers and other newspapers ran with the story giving us even more links. We took this site from ranking on page 3 to number 1 for two of the most competitive "jobs" keywords in the industry in 6 weeks.
Even if you don't have the budget to fly reporters out to your office, there are many creative ways to generate content that will draw their attention. If you spend your hours working in the right direction and not just trying to see how many backlinks you can get, you will be rewarded in time.
I did some work at G..and i can tell you the guys there are so smart...there are all sorts of stuff they are playing with like --personalised search (which has brought out the SEO doom sayers). unfortunately links still remain the ultimate juice.
IMHO links from commercial sites will soon count for nothing and the only links that will matter will be from .edu or .gov sites ..and when i say count for nothing ..i mean count for very little.
Just my IMHHO...= Crystal ball..LOL
Let me first say that I know NOTHING of the inner workings of the G algo, but I believe they already discount heavily things like comment spam, forum signatures, forum profile spam, "article directories" that are created for nothing more than self-linking. etc...
Unfortunately, there are tens of thousands of so-called SEO experts who are using methods that have virtually no benefit and may even hurt a site's search engine position. Why? Reason #3: they don't know any better. Reason #2: it can be easily automated and takes essentially no effort. Reason #1: there are hundreds of thousands of website owners who don't know that it doesn't work and are willing to pay money because the so-called experts have guaranteed to "get them on the first page of Google."
Definitely a Southern California outlook on life...
I like the way Google does it, a) it keeps AdWords Managers like myself busy & b) it keeps people who can't afford backlinks, comments, blog writers etc off the serps. The idea is, its a lot of hard manual work to rank for competitive keywords.
If that were the case I wouldn't mind so much either I guess. At least it paid. But now I got every Tom dick and Harry right there next to me. Most of them not even taking the time to create a google places page.
when ever google change their policy it helps them who are use to in white hat SEO, have good unique contain and natural traffic. So I think its cool.
Just keep your head up, when you have all the pieces (Facebook, Google+, social) and others don't you will win assuming you do all the rest. Content, links, comments, citations, videos...
Yes I too agree with your point of view and according to my knowledge soon Google is going to announce author ranking where ranking would be made from the authorship made by google to the respective website.This prevents from spam content and avoids duplication.
While I agree with this article, we also need to take into account whether SEO types are actually benefiting their website or not.
Yes, there are spammers all across the web, and Google have effectively created an entire industry of idiots spamming the web, chanting "content is king". However, I'm willing to bet that 90-95% of all SEO work done by ANYONE is largely a wasted effort.
My reasons for believing this is my first-hand experience on this forum, and in the wide world of SEO. The sheer amount of crap I've read and heard from people that take blogs from nobodies as gospel, and the level on inaccurate or largely dated information coming from cheap SEO sweat shops in India makes me largely believe that any benefits these SEO analysts actually get are a natural effect of the web at large.
They are much like rain dancers. They dance in the sun all day, and when it rains they claim success. They tell others that if you dance in a certain way that they can make rain too. These idiots will then copy the first dancer, and when it rains again the cycle continues.
Google's search algorithm is a black box, and anyone with even half a brain would realise that trying to decipher a complicated algorithm behind a black box is a near impossible feat. The only real thing to know about SEO is to do your own research, and to lay the groundwork for a successful website. Anyone with any knowledge of machine learning or web parsing will know that no computer can read a web page and know 100% that content is "good". Google runs from back-links, and over time Google has become very good at sifting through SEO spam and genuine quality. It's why we see so many people on here complaining about the "panda update".
In my mind, the smart people continue to do the same thing they've always done. They treat SEO as a subset of a successful online marketing campaign, and build a brand. What we experience is the aftermath of a bunch of rain dancers thinking they can make it rain.


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A three-year campaign to preserve an historic court house that "opens a window to Barnet's past" could be concluded on Wednesday evening.
Campaigners fighting the demolition of the Barnet Court House, in High Barnet High Street, say their protests will be vindicated if plans to convert the building rather than destroy it are approved.
Developers were blocked in their attempts to bulldoze the stand-out Victorian structure last year but have since come back with proposals to convert the empty building into nine flats and two shops.
The historic façade of the former court house, built in 1916, will be preserved under the plans, along with much of the original building.
The application has been recommended for approval by council officers and the authority's planning committee will assess the plans at Hendon Town Hall on Wednesday evening.
Barnet Residents' Association has fought numerous applications to destroy the building over the past few years with the help of campaign group The Barnet Society.
The society's planning and environment officer Derek Epstein said: "This building is the gateway to the town centre. It is important to preserve all of the historic assets in the town and this is one of them."
The court house was recently listed as a building of local importance and BRA member Elizabeth Butt, who lives opposite the building, is credited with spearheading the campaign for its survival.
The campaign included a petition that gathered 79 signatures and was submitted to the committee assessing last year's plans to demolish the building.
BRA chairman Gordon Massey said: "That would have been disastrous for the area but we are realistic – once a building has served its purpose you can't preserve everything.
"The battle was to protect what you can see from the High Street and if these plans are approved we would have done that."
Members of the council's current planning committee carried out a site visit to the building this morning in preparation for tomorrow's meeting.
Some neighbours remain unhappy with the current plans over fears the development will cause congested parking in surrounding roads.
Eight submitted written complaints to the council and two are due to speak at the meeting on Wednesday night, which begins at 7pm.


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TAMPA, Fla. — Thousands of produce industry buyers, growers, marketers and others in the supply chain found new products and services on display at the Southeast Produce Council's Southern Exposure show in Tampa.
The Packer's Eastern Editor Doug Ohlemeier gathered the following news items March 3 on the expo floor.
Ayco Farms
Ayco Farms Inc., Deerfield Beach, Fla., is introducing specialty melons.
The piel de sapo, Spanish for its frog skin texture, and juan canary melons contain high brix and high sugars, said Chris Horrell, salesman.
Ayco began shipping the melons in December.
Horrell said the grower-shipper, importer and distributor of melons, watermelon, asparagus and baby artichokes is receiving strong retailer response to the specialty melons.
"Especially with what has been happening with the shaky cantaloupe market," he said. "Cantaloupe sales continue to be sluggish."
Central American Produce
Central American Produce Inc. is entering the cucumber, squash and okra deals.
The Pompano Beach, Fla.-based grower-shipper and importer of cantaloupe, vegetables and tropicals is importing Guatemalan cucumbers and zucchini and yellow squash and Honduran okra.
Central American Produce began shipping the vegetables in January.
In early March, it began importing Honduran galia and Italian specialty melons and watermelon.
"We are expanding our categories and distribution," said Michael Warren, president.
"While we are well-known for cantaloupe, we are diversifying into other items."
Central American is increasing its partnerships with Georgia and North Carolina melon growers, Warren said.
Colorful Harvest
Hoping to lift strawberry sales through cross-merchandising, Colorful Harvest LLC is introducing a tall display.
The three-foot-high "Strawberry Parking Garage" display is designed to attract shopper attention, said Doug Ranno, chief operating officer and managing partner of the Salinas, Calif.-based Colorful Harvest.
Featuring a rear clip that allows it to hook onto center racks, the display allows for eye-level viewing, Ranno said.
Designed for placement in cereal, dairy and bakery areas of supermarkets, the secondary display should help boost sales.
"This is the same principal of placing bananas in (the) cereal aisle," Ranno said.
"This is a good way for Colorful Harvest partners and other retailers willing to explore how such displays can incrementally grow strawberry sales."
Ranno cited research and said he expects the secondary displays to yield up to 20% increases in sales.
Flavor-Pic Tomato
Flavor-Pic Tomato Co. Inc., Birmingham, Ala., is introducing convenience-sized grape tomato cups.
The 4-ounce biodegradable "Handy Candy" cups are designed to appeal to shoppers looking for convenience items, said Rick Murrah, marketing director.
"The retailers are always looking for you to do something different," Murrah said.
"We address the packaging as a means of capturing market share."
Murrah said Flavor-Pic is setting up U.S. and Canadian distributors to handle the convenience product, which he said should work well with healthy eating initiatives.
Pero Family Farms
Pero Family Farms, Delray Beach, Fla., is adding quick-response codes to miniature sweet pepper bags.
The codes include information on recipes for grilling, salads, side dishes and entrees, said Scott Seddon, marketing and advertising specialist.
He said the codes are affixed to 8-ounce, 1-pound and 2-pound bags.
Seddon said the upgrade follows consumer requests for recipes.
Pero began adding the codes in early March.
Walter P Rawl & Sons
Walter P Rawl & Sons Inc., Pelion, S.C., is expanding its Versatile Veggies line.
The leafy greens grower-shipper is adding 8-ounce bags of English peas, french beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas and 10-ounce bags of select stem broccoli.
The packaging promotes the products' use in salads, baking, boiling, stir-frying and microwave preparation.
Also, Rawl & Sons is shipping organic 8-ounce clamshells of collard greens and 7-ounce clamshells of kale under the Natures Green label.
Rawl plans to increase shipments of the products in April, said Chad James, buyer and salesman.
Supreme Cuts
Supreme Cuts LLC, Mahwah, N.J., is adding to its line of fresh-cut vegetables for retail and foodservice.
In November, the fresh-cut processor introduced 20-ounce plastic packs with lids holding chunks of butternut squash, rutabaga and sweet potato.
Supreme Cuts is releasing two-count 5-pound and two-count 10-pound bags of rutabaga, butternut squash and sweet potatoes and two-count 5-pound bags and 20-ounce clamshells of the autumn medley of carrots, rutabaga and butternut squash chunks.
In early March, Supreme Cuts began shipping 16-ounce microwaveable bags of rainbow fingerling and petite gold potatoes as well as 11-ounce clamshells of brussels sprouts, said Merle Axelrod, president.
Wayne E. Bailey
Trying to help shoppers bake more sweet potatoes, Wayne E. Bailey Produce Co., Chadbourn, N.C., is selling sweet potatoes in tray packs.
The grower-shipper is packing four-count sweet potatoes in microwaveable overwrapped packs similar to white potato tray packs, said George Wooten, president and owner.
Wayne E. Bailey is marketing the washed potatoes under the "Sweet Potatoes Made Simple" slogan.The trays come 12 per case and feature consistent-sized sweet potatoes that individually average 9 ounces, he said.
"These are like baked potatoes for grilling," Wooten said. "We had to set up a special packing line to run the correct sizes."
Wayne E. Bailey began shipping the packs in January.


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Personalized, heirloom-quality blanket
This blanket is the perfect wedding gift. Originally starting as a maker of baby blankets, the Blanket Lady found a great niche in the wedding shower, graduation market. People order blankets in coordinating college colors (Go Maize & Blue!) for the high school graduate, warm tones for Grandma or Grandpa or pick out neutrals for a newlywed couple. Repeat the couple's name all over the blanket and add the wedding date at the bottom. Know someone "who has everything"? Get them their own personalized blanket and stun them with your originality.


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From Orange Coast magazine's "Best of Orange County" edition, July, 2008.
"A Certified O.C. Original"
Orange County needs nothing so much as a reliable narrator, and at long last it has found one in the Register's Frank Mickadeit.
For years, the county's two major dailies and other publications have offered local commentators who lacked that rare combination of reportorial savvy, life experience, and storytelling ability. Some of those columnists have been little more than provocateurs, or muckrakers, or bleak imitations of old-school newspaper curmudgeons; others have been too young to be credible or just comically cliche.
Mickadeit, though, knows the county's players, has mature opinions, and doesn't mind sharing them. A reporter and editor at the Reg since 1987, he has been its five-day-a-week metro columnist since 2004. Mickadeit, 49, roams the local geography like a nosy neighbor, reporter's notebook, laptop, and BlackBerry, in hand—the precise opposite of a stay-at-home blogger. As he moves, he leads his readers through the backrooms of local government, into the halls of justice and sporting venues, into the daily lives of the county's most intriguing characters. Sometimes, you can almost smell the cigar smoke. Other times, the column can be self-consciously Frank-o-centric. But mostly, his is an informed and dependable voice in the Orange County mediascape.
"What makes Frank the best?" asked Jean O. Pasco, director of the Orange County Archives, who worked for 25 years as a political reporter for the Register and the Los Angeles Times. "Frank just brings it. He lays out what's really a very artful mix of casual acceptance, wry commentary with just the right dose of titillation, and he gets properly outraged on occasion about what goes on here. He not only opines about what happens—he makes things happen, and he doesn't lose one minute of sleep over butting in." Pasco calls Mickadeit's column "a backstage pass with color commentary" and says "whether it's measuring beachfront lot lines in Newport, garage-sale crawls with Tom Fuentes, or smoking stogies with GOP power couple Mike and Susan Schroeder, he's in the middle of things, and brings readers there, too."
Which was Mickadeit's intention from the start.
"I felt that there wasn't really a column that captured the sense of the county the way I felt when I read Herb Caen in San Francisco, or Tom Blair and Neil Morgan in San Diego," he says, noting how those columnists could make even their big cities feel small. "Part of it is the diffuse nature of the county's governmental structure. There's no one big city or government agency, or singular politician like Willie Brown, so it's hard for journalists to get their arms around."[But]I wanted to make people feel like OrangeCountywas a place with heroes and villains, and everything in between. I always thought you could go back and read a sampling of Caen's columns—and nothing else—and get a sense of what it felt like to be a San Franciscan in the second half of the 20th century. I want mine to be like that, so people can feel what it's like to be in Orange County in the first half of the 21st century."
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Dove Award winning artist, Bebo Norman, is set to release his newest project entitled Ocean this September. Bebo has sold over 600,000 albums and continues to stretch the musical arrangements to his often worshipful melodies. "You can't understand light unless you understand darkness, because that's where life is most often lived – somewhere between the two. It's messy and it's beautiful all at the same time," says Bebo Norman.


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He was really a sweet guy, very polite and kind hearted. It was such a shock to hear that he had been killed in Feb. of 1968 after only being in Vietnam for 6 months. Very sad. His family was from Blaine, MI., a very small community that is a mere crossroad with a general store, or at least was back in the '60's. It is located halfway between Yale, MI. and Lakeport, MI. in Grant Twp. Dennis' family lived only a few houses east from the main corner in Blaine heading towards Lakeport
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This is the first time in 73 years that the Rangers have played a game after one that lasted as long as 114:41.
Ya boys are expected to dress the same lineup. I saw Stu Bickel getting loose, so I anticipate no changes. Nobody had anything to ask John Tortorella today, so we gave him the morning off.
The Rangers have now won four of their last five playoff games.
Let's get this one done in the original 60 minutes, OK?
Let's Go Tony!
(Update: Bickel's in. Same lineup as Game 3).
See last night's thread for the announcement of the first-round predictions contest winners (Headzo and tf).


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Lee Collects Team-High 16 Points
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's basketball team concluded its 2010-11 road slate with a 74-45 loss to the Eckerd College Tritons, Wednesday evening from the McArthur Center.
On the night the Lions were led by Lauren Lee and her 16-point, seven rebound effort. Meanwhile, two other Lions, Alyssa Viscomi and Elyse Clyburn, posted a pair of six-point games while Chelsea Connelly chipped in five points.
Eckerd controlled the pace of play both offensively and defensively, forcing the Lions into 18 turnovers over the course of the game. The Tritons turned those 18 turnovers into 22 points while outscoring the Lions 34-18 in the paint.
The home standing Tritons took to an early lead and never looked back as they began the game on a 16-3 run, highlighted by a pair of Ashley Lutz field goals.
Saint Leo trimmed the lead to six with 8:55 remaining in the first half as back-to-back jumpers by Lee and Chelsea Williams made the score 18-12.
However, the defensive minded Tritons shut the Lions' offense down over the next four minutes, while expanding their lead to 18, 35-17, with 3:05 to play in the half.
Eckerd kept the double-digit advantage as they entered halftime break, 38-22.
The Tritons continued their hot-shooting in the second half, as they opened the 20-minute session by putting up 10 of the first 12 points, expanding their lead to 24.
Despite the best interior efforts from Lee, the Lions could not overcome the large Tritons' advantage as they posted the double-digit conference win.
In addition, the Lions also faced a rebounding disadvantage, but were able to put in five-of 11 three-point field goal attempts, including two apiece from Viscomi and Clyburn.
The Lions will close-out the 2010-11 campaign at home on Saturday, February 26 when they host the Barry University from the Bowman Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Prior to the game, the Lions will honor four seniors including, Joanna Bussa, Lauren Lee, Jamarra Robinson, and Kiara Bradley.


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So you're thinking about poms on your wedding day? Here are a few alternative trends we're loving (with links to how-to's)!
Yarn Poms. This is a somewhat labor intensive task, but the outcome is really beautiful. You can do them in all different colors. We've seen them in different hues of gray, yellow, blue, etc. If you want instructions on how to make them, go over to ruffledblog.com, they do a how-to with Jessica of Wednesday Inc.
Flower poms are something your florist can pull together for you pretty easily as they have all of the tools needed. This is a babies breath hanging pom, which is so elegant and simple. I love this idea! {Photo Credit: Jonathon Ong}
These fabric poms are an alternative to the tissue poms, and provide a must more professional look for a wedding. Head over to oncewed.com and for a how-to from Ashley of Dolci Odille


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Homemade vs. Store-Bought: Eggnogby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Holidays, December 19, 2011
Are you planning to celebrate with this creamy classic this holiday season? Do you buy it in the carton or make your own? Which is the better way to go for this holiday treat?
What is Eggnog?
A decadent concoction of cream and milk along with eggs, sugar and nutmeg — it's easy to see how the calories and fat in eggnog can soar. Commonly spiked with rum, brandy or whiskey, the "adult version" will pack in even more calories (about 100 for every shot of booze).
You'll find festive cartons of chilled nog in the refrigerator section of the grocery store from Halloween through New Years. Made with the typical ingredients (minus the alcohol), you'll also find thickeners and stabilizers, artificial colors and flavors; some are also sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. One-half cup typically has 170 calories and 8 grams of fat.
Making your own eggnog will spare you the additives found in store-bought varieties but a traditional recipe will be similar in calories and fat. You can lighten things up using low fat dairy products and going light on the sugar. Low calorie flavorings like orange zest, vanilla and cinnamon can also give your homemade eggnog a boost.
Bottom Line: Make your own eggnog so you can control the quality and the amount of the ingredients – especially the high calorie ones.
Recipes to Try:
Slimmed Down Eggnog
Low-Fat Eggnog (above)
TELL US: Which do you prefer — homemade or store-bought eggnog?


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Feldman, offense lose steam after early lead
Feldman posts zeros until homer in sixth, RBI double in seventh
CHICAGO -- Scott Feldman was riding a groove for the bulk of Friday night's game at U.S. Cellular Field that had led him to similar success over the White Sox during his 10-year career.
Feldman was 5-2 with a 3.60 ERA against Chicago entering Friday's second-half opener, and had allowed just four hits and no runs heading into the sixth inning.
Then the South Siders mounted a late rally, packaged by a powerful, two-run homer from Dayan Viciedo in the sixth and an RBI double from Tyler Flowers in the seventh that propelled them to a come-from-behind, 3-2 win.
"A couple pitches here and there, and it's a different outcome," Astros manager Bo Porter said. "I think the breaking ball for the home run, probably just a little bit elevated in the zone more so than he wanted, but he had the sharp breaking ball working tonight, he had the sinker working -- just made a couple pitches there they took advantage of and put good swings on it."
Houston, however, was stopped by the combination of 14 strikeouts and seeing its final 22 batters go down in order.
The team's lone All-Star, Jose Altuve, accounted for three of those whiffs, and Chris Carter, who entered Friday's game on a career-long, nine-game hitting streak, had four in four at-bats.
"I don't know how many of them were out of the zone, but we had some hittable pitches early in the zone that, I feel like, if we really put better swings on those pitches, we'd be in a position where we're hitting with two strikes," Porter said of his team's offensive approach.
Altuve placed a hefty portion of the credit on White Sox pitcher Jose Quintana, who finished with two earned runs, three hits and eight strikeouts in five innings. But the third-year starter was credited his 35th no-decision after leaving before the rally.
"Quintana threw a really, really good game; amazing," Altuve said. "His pitches were good location, good spin, good movement. … To me, he's one of the best lefties in the big leagues."
The Astros were able to steal two off of Quintana in the second on an error and groundout.
Matt Dominguez, having reached base in eight of his last 10 games, led off the second with a hit to right, then scored on an ensuing single by Jon Singleton, who ended up at third after the ball rolled past Viciedo to the right-field wall. Singleton scored when Robbie Grossman grounded out to shortstop Alexei Ramirez.
Quintana held off the Houston bats the rest of the way -- not allowing another hit -- but was relieved after five innings because of an elevated pitch count (106 pitches, 71 strikes).
"I felt like early in the game we did a great job, and it looked like we were going to actually be able to chase him a little bit early, but he hung around, gave his team five innings," Porter said. "But I felt like our guys did a great job early in the game really being patient."
Entering Friday's contest, the Astros (40-57) had won four of their last six, though now have lost 10 of their last 14 overall.
"Any time you play a game that close, it's one play here or there," Porter said. "They made more plays than we made."
Daniel Kramer is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Honor Guard Takes First Place and Best Dressed Two Years in a Row
May 9, 2011
Can you say repeat! For the second straight year, the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office Honor Guard took first place and best dressed award at the May 7 Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments (COG) Honor Guard competition. This event took place on the grounds of the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington D.C. The Honor Guard team was comprised of Sergeants Maegan Timothy and Stephen Thompson; Master Deputy Sheriff Samuel Gonsalves; and Privates First Class David Barr, Thomas Kyle and Christopher Loftis.
The COG Corrections Chiefs Committee sponsored the 20th annual Wreath Laying Ceremony and Honor Guard Competition which commenced National Correctional Employees' Week. Slain correctional officers from across the nation were honored and remembered during the ceremony. Honor Guard members also participated in the opening and closing services, wreath laying, and rose posting for each fallen correctional officer. These events recognize the outstanding work and dedication of all correctional employees and serve to increase the region's awareness of the important role they play in ensuring the safety of our communities.
"Winning these awards is a huge accomplishment and to win them two years in a row is incredible," said Sheriff Stan Barry. "I'm so proud of the Honor Guard. These awards are a direct reflection of their tireless efforts, attention to detail and commitment to excellence."
The Honor Guard is the formal representative of the Sheriff's Office at all types of functions in Fairfax County and the surrounding metropolitan area, including parades, graduations, funerals, major and minor league sporting events, and other special activities. Joining the Honor Guard is voluntary but very competitive. In rain or shine, heat or cold, the Honor Guard maintains strict composure, precise military bearing, and meticulous attention to detail. Established in 1982, the Sheriff's Honor Guard currently has 36 members.


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Did you know?
While most of our wines are familiar, we have our very own viticultural cross - pinotage.
In 1652 the Dutch East India Company dispatched Jan van Riebeeck to erect a fort and lay out a garden in Table Bay. Five years later the first farmers started to work their own land and in 1659 van Riebeeck recorded the making of the first wine in the Cape.
The South African wine industry is still heavily focused in the Western Cape region. With its Mediterranean climate, soils, and the influence of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans' air, it is ideal for grape growing. The first wines from the South Africa winelands were made from indigenous wild grapes, but later French vines were planted - including chenin blanc and muscat.
The industry received a huge boost in 1686 when a large number of Huguenot religious refugees arrived from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Most of them came from wine growing regions, bringing with them their knowledge and skills. Many chose to live in what is now Franschhoek near Stellenbosch, their farms still linked to France through names such as La Motte, Cabriere, Provence and Dieu Donne.
In 1866 the winelands were devastated by phylloxera, the vine root-killing bug. This led to a massive replanting of South African winelands, which laid the foundation for the current industry structure of cooperatives and private producers. These cater for the entire spectrum from everyday consumption to high-end quality wines, many of which have won international acclaim.
While most of the grapes from the winelands of South Africa will be familiar to visitors, there is one uniquely South African viticultural cross - pinotage. Bred by Professor Abraham Perold at Stellenbosch University in 1925 from pinot noir and cinsaut, it produces a deep red wine with smoky, earthy flavours. It is also often blended or made into fortified and sparkling wines.
Travel tips & Planning info
How to get here
The majority of South Africa's wine farms are found in the Western Cape, in a relatively small area. Cape Town is the closest major city to most of the well-known wine farms.
Best time to visit
Winter can be wet so spring and summer are best.
Get around
Self-drive is best if you want to really delve in to what's on offer.
What will it cost
Entrance to wine farms is free while wine tasting can be done for a minimal fee.
Length of stay
Anything from a day to two weeks or more.
What to pack
A hat and sunscreen. If it's winter, a raincoat or umbrella.
What to eat
Most wine farms have top-class restaurants on their premises.
Best buys
Wine...by the case.


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Medical Definition of Fracture, spiral
Fracture, spiral: A fracture, sometimes called a torsion fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart.
A fracture is any break in the bone or cartilage. It usually is a result of trauma but can be due to an acquired disease of bone such as osteoporosis or abnormal formation of bone in a congenital disease of bone such as osteogenesis imperfecta ("brittle bone disease").
Fractures are classified by their character and location. Examples of classification include "spiral fracture of the femur," "greenstick fracture of the radius," "impacted fracture of the humerus," "linear fracture of the ulna," "oblique fracture of the metatarsal," "compression fracture of the vertebrae," and "depressed fracture of the skull." A "comminuted fracture" is a fracture in which bone is broken into a number of pieces, as distinguished from a "compound fracture" in which the bone sticks through the skin.
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Harvey Norman executive chairman Gerry Harvey has warned that industry conditions remain dire and expects more retailers will go bust early next year.
''There are more retailers currently under pressure than I've ever seen, I've been in retail 50 years,'' he told reporters after the company's shareholder meeting today.
''There's a lot of businesses that are hanging on for Christmas, and expecting Christmas sales to be good but they know, or have this gut feeling, that the first half of next year is going to be extremely difficult.''
He warned that despite the wave of failures over the last two years ''there's plenty more to go because I have them all coming to see me (saying) 'will you take us over'. 'will you buy a share in the company' etc etc.''
He said many of these companies just need a little push and they are gone.
''You've got so many companies out there in that situation,'' he said.
'Last man standing'
He earlier told investors that Harvey Norman's massive real estate portfolio, worth billions of dollars, ensures it will be the last man standing when the retail clean-out comes to an end.
''We're in a very difficult environment and we're playing 'last man standing','' he said. ''We're doing all things possible to be there when another 20 per cent of the stores close in the area that we're in, then we're going to get the advantage of those stores going out of business.
''It is going to happen. I can guarantee you. It's only getting worse.''
Looking ahead to Christmas, Mr Harvey said he expects sales to be up on last year if the hot weather holds.
''If we have a really hot period across Australia and we sell a lot of air conditioners, then we'll definitely beat last year,'' he said. ''If it's cold every day then we'll battle because air conditioners are a big part of our business in December.''
'Passive' investor in Qantas
Mr Harvey also said he's just a passive investor in Qantas, despite reports he and wife Katie Paige are part of a group pushing for strategic change at the airline.
It has been reported that Mr Harvey and Ms Paige have joined a group of wealthy investors which include former Qantas chief Geoff Dixon, former chief financial officer Peter Gregg, venture capitalist Mark Carnegie and adman John Singleton, in buying a less than two per cent stake in the airline.
The group is believed to have bought into Qantas at about $1.15 a share in early June before Qantas shares fell to an all time low of 97 cents.It was also well before the Emirates tie up was announced in September.
It is understood that the group made the purchase because it believe Qantas shares are undervalued and the strategy of chief executive Alan Joyce and the board is questionable.
Mr Harvey said it was no secret that he had Qantas shares and had held them for some time.''I have got shares and always have had in about 50 public companies,'' he told reporters after the annual general meeting.
''Over the years I've had shares in Qantas which I buy and sell and at the moment I have shares in Qantas too.''
But he said he had no influence over the Qantas board and did not intend to offer them any advice.
''I'm mostly, always pretty much, a passive shareholder,'' he said.
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North Petherton III 17, Morganians 19
MORGANIANS ran out narrow winners in Saturday's friendly with North Petherton III at Beggars Brook.
Russell Potter opened the scoring for North Petherton when he broke through a number of tackles to score near the posts.
But Morganians surged back into the game and soon registered tries of their own, before Pethy struck again to bring the scores closer.
Morganians battled on and defended well to eventually snatch victory by just two points.
l In Somerset 2S, Bridgwater & Albion 3rds' fixture at Hornets 3rds was one of the few to survive the weather, with the home side running out 19-15 winners.
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COUNTY council tax bills across five boroughs in East Lancashire look set to rise by just under two per cent for this financial year.
The Labour administration at County Hall has proposed a 1.99 per cent increase for the major portion of council tax bills in Burnley, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Pendle and Rossendale.
This would add just under £7.25million to the authority's coffers for the forthcoming 12 months, the county's cabinet was told.
And it would mean a charge of £1,107 for county services, for the average household in Lancashire. County council leader Coun Jennifer Mein said it equated to around 41.5p extra per week for bill payers.
If the county council had chosen to opt for a council tax freeze then it would have received around £4.2million from Whitehall, according to finance bosses.
Coun David Borrow, deputy leader and resources cabinet member, said he would also be setting aside £5million from the council's reserves to meet any funding gap. But he said he was 'confident' this would not be required and added: "Officers and cabinet members need to be looking at savings all of the time."
Coun Geoff Driver, the Conservative opposition group leader, said: "The use of resources to balance the budget is not a good one at the best of times.
"But it is particularly worrying we are proposing that when will be facing such serious financial pressures."
Another £159million in savings must still be found across the following three years.


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This is a minesweeper game with more than 50 variants. Minesweeper is a logical game, in the game the player will have to find out all the mines in the field according to the hints given.
Plenty of maps are provided by us, but the beauty of this game is its customization possibilities. Mission creation has never been easier, with a stable, full-featured editor integrated into the game engine itself.
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Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
I am 14 years old in 9th grade. My intelectual abilities far surpass those of my peers, and I fand my grades dropping because their is absolutely no challenge, so why try? I would like it if i was reccomended some books that will challenge my logic(emotion).
Tomas wrote:Hey Shade,
In no particular order- here are three:
The Logic of Emotion
But there is an actual logic to emotion. If there were not, we would not be able to identify person's emotions by their behavior as accurately as we do. ...
(book intro)
Emotion and decision
Common emotional decisions may use some logic, but the main driving force is emotion, which either overrides logic or uses a pseudo-logic to support ...
http://changingminds.org/explanations/e ... cision.htm
Logic and Emotion
A discussion of the apparent conflict between logic and emotion and its significance in modern philosophy.
Be well.
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Heat oil in a medium sauce pan, sauté garlic and onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add lentils, tomatoes, crushed tomatoes, celery, carrot, green pepper, potatoes, basil and water. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame and simmer for 20 minutes. Season with shoyu, black pepper and mirin. Cook another 5 minutes. Serve and garnish with parsley.
Per serving - 132 calories, 3 gram fat (22% calories from fat), 6 gram protein, 19 gram carbohydrate, 4 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 272 milligram sodium


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A woman in a society of ignorance spends most of her day on the telephone. She calls her friends, one after the other, to learn the latest news and gossip. She relates what has been going on in her family, the arguments she had with her husband, what she bought at the store, who came to visit, and what they talked about. These telephone conversations go on for hours but, generally, they accomplish nothing fruitful.
Believers, on the contrary, as we saw in previous sections, avoid all kind of idle talk and futile activities. They never allow themselves to debase their level of conversation. If they have to, they can spend much time on the telephone, but to discuss an important matter. If there were no such need, they would not talk on the phone just out of habit; they would instead engage in more useful and educational pursuits.2012-01-21 01:51:58


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Federal employees were back to work Thursday after the government shutdown ended.
In Jacksonville, that meant people who hadn't been able to get things done for the last 16 days flooded the Charles E. Bennett Federal Building downtown.
The building houses the Department of Labor, Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Internal Revenue Service.
Some people visiting the IRS on Thursday needed to get transcripts and tax statements so they could apply for loans or apply to school.
It was a relief for many of them to finally be able to get the documents they needed.
"Every nation goes through things, and I guess this is something that we had to go through," student Rigoberto Cortes said. "And as people of America, we're just dealing with it. I'm just going through the whole process. I'm like, 'Hey, I'm just glad we're back open.'"
After weeks of waiting, Cortes was finally able to walk inside the Bennett Building and get the paperwork he needs from the IRS for school.
"I'm a new enrolling student, so enrolling requires my tax information," he said. "So I actually have to get a transcript from the federal building to enroll in school, and they were like, 'OK, we need to get this from there,' so I'm waiting, I was waiting for this to open."
Brandon Copely, a graduate student at the University of North Florida, has been doing without the money from loans, unable to get the documents from the IRS to complete his application.
"I get a couple thousand of student loans to help me out, pay for bills and everything else," he said. "It really hurt when it closed down. I couldn't get anything from them for the things that I needed."
Now, he's looking forward to student life post shutdown.
"It'll make a huge difference," Copely said. "I can pay my bills, I can go get some food, put some food on the table. A lot of things I can do now."
People said there were no issues at the federal building Thursday and everything ran smoothly for the most part as there wee enough employees there to handle requests.
Workers who were furloughed are glad to be back. They said it was difficult trying to pay bills without getting paid. But they say they will receive compensation for their work days during the shutdown, though they haven't been told exactly when that money will come.
Michael Hoffer has mixed feelings about returning to work.
"I didn't know until this morning. I thought it was a relief like, you know, show me the money, just don't put us back to work," Hoffer said.
With a missed mortgage payment and another one due soon, not being paid has taken a toll on Hoffer's family.
"Very stressful," he said. "I have two grandkids that live with us. My wife works, but she doesn't get that much pay. It's just been too stressful."
At Fort Caroline, employees caught up on some of the work missed during the shutdown, all to welcome the many visitors happy to see the park back open.
"It means a lot to people like me," park visitor Joe Stewart said. "I'm not really working right now, so you're stuck in the house all day if you're on a disability check or retirement and you have nothing to do. I'm fortunate I have a car so I can get out, but if the places are shut, there's not much to do. So I'm just very happy it's open."
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Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) — YG Entertainment Co., which manages the Korean boy band Big Bang, lowered the amount it's seeking in its initial public offering after the band's leader tested positive for marijuana use.
G-Dragon's drug use could be a "constraint" for the band's activities for a while, YG said in a revised prospectus submitted to Korea Exchange Inc. yesterday. Big Bang's concerts may be delayed and revenue from commercials could fall, the company said. Big Bang and its members accounted for more than half of the company's total sales in 2010, YG said.
YG is seeking as much as 35.9 billion won ($31 million), less than the 39.9 billion won it had earlier sought as Big Bang played to full stadiums in Japan and fans flocked to female quartet 2NE1, which is also managed by the company. Shares of listed rival S.M. Entertainment Co. more than tripled this year, even as the benchmark Kospi Index slumped 9.5 percent.
"A short-term impact on earnings is inevitable given that G-Dragon was YG's flagship artist and helped lift the company to the top ranks in the Korean music industry," Choi Woong Pil, a Seoul-based fund manager at KB Asset Management Co., which manages $23 billion in assets, said in an interview. "It won't end interest in the IPO because its main rival S.M. continues to perform really well and YG's potential is intact."
Deep Regret
YG declined to make G-Dragon, whose off-stage name is Kwon Ji Yong, available for comment. The singer unwittingly accepted what he thought was a regular tobacco cigarette from a fan during a tour of Japan in May and took "two or three puffs" before throwing it in a toilet, the company said in a statement on Oct. 5.
"Prosecutors decided not to indict G-Dragon as he didn't have intention to smoke drugs and extremely small traces of marijuana were detected from tests," YG said in that statement. "G-Dragon and the company deeply regret and apologize for not being more careful."
YG plans to set up an "artist risk management" team, the company said in yesterday's prospectus. An artist's image tends to affect revenue of entertainment companies, YG said.
Orders for stock in the IPO will be taken on Nov. 14-15, compared with the previous schedule of Oct. 12-13, the sale document said. The company is seeking to sell almost 1.25 million shares at 22,100 won to 28,800. It earlier offered them at 24,600 won to 32,000 won.
Music Charts
YG's stock price was 64,000 won on Oct. 18 in the over-the- counter market, according to the website of online equity exchange pstock.co.kr in Seoul. That's down from 69,000 won on Oct. 5.
South Korean pop, or "K-pop," acts promoted by S.M. Entertainment dominate the nation's music charts. S.M.'s biggest boy band, Super Junior, and main female group Girls Generation were the top album sellers last year, according to South Korea's Hanteo music chart.
Girls Generation's videos, including "Run Devil Run," and Super Junior's "Mr. Simple" have generated tens of millions of views globally on Google Inc.'s YouTube. Shares of smaller label JYP Entertainment Corp. have climbed 163 percent in 2011 on the chart strength of its bands such as Miss A.
It was that kind of success that made YG decide to go public, Chief Operating Officer Choi Sung Jun said in a phone interview on Oct. 10.
Winter Sonata
"K-Pop is definitely getting attention these days," he said. "Even if investors aren't fans of the music, their teenage kids may buy the music and hum the songs. We hope that familiarity means they'll feel comfortable making bets on our potential."
K-Pop is now the main force behind the so-called Korean Wave of popular culture, which started to spread across Asia in early 2000s with television dramas such as "Winter Sonata." Japan, which has its own home-grown music industry known as J- Pop, is the biggest market for Korean music, accounting for 69 percent of exports, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency said in a June report.
Next is Southeast Asia with a 21 percent share and China with 8 percent. The YouTube video site and other social- networking services are helping to promote K-Pop in Europe, which accounted for just 1 percent of Korean music exports, the Seoul-based agency said.
Cultural Icons
In France, hundreds of fans gathered in front of the Louvre on May 1, demanding S.M. hold another showcase of its artists in Paris after about 7,000 tickets for a June concert sold out in 15 minutes.
YG plans to use the proceeds from its share sale, arranged by Daewoo Securities Co., to increase its pool of new artists, add production staff and open offices abroad.
The company is headed by Yang Hyun Suk, a former member of Seo Taiji and Boys, a 1990s trio that mixed pop, rap, rock and techno to become cultural icons in Korea. Yang, 41, is YG's biggest shareholder with a 48 percent stake. The company posted net income of 7.2 billion won in the first six months of this year, from 5.6 billion won a year earlier.
"In the past, we may have been too conservative in promoting our bands overseas," YG's Choi said. "With the proceeds from the IPO we can make a push to get them recognized."
Note: IPO = initial public offering. This is basically how much the company will be selling its stocks during its first public sale. YG's first sale was supposed to be last October 12 to 13 but it's now moved to November 14-15. After the incident, they lowered the price per share (of stock) from 24,600 won to 32,000 won to 22,100 won to 28,800. They're looking at selling a total of 1.25 million shares.
– YG's reasons for going public are: to invest on new artists, additional staff, and more overseas activities/promotions (thanks to the Kpop boom).
– In 2010, more than half of YG's revenue came from Big Bang's activities.
– Because of G-Dragon's marijuana issue, Big Bang's concerts might be delayed and the group's activities might be limited for a while.
– They're predicting a drop in the revenue Big Bang gets from endorsements.
– GD's issue will have a short-term impact on the YG's earnings but interest in the company will still be there since YG's potential is seen as "intact".
– YG will be setting up an "artist risk management" team seeing how their artists' public image has/will have an effect on their revenue.
Excerpt from another article on the IPO from 10Asia:
"The incidents revolving around our artists Daesung and G-Dragon of Big Bang may serve as constraints for the group's activities for the time being and affect business performance.
It is hard to determine when G-Dragon or Big Bang will be able to pursue their activities normally due to G-Dragon's marijuana-related incident which could affect the activities of Big Bang, G-Dragon alone and GD&TOP."


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SUGAR LAND, Texas - As a crowd enjoyed a Skeeters baseball game on Friday, Aug. 24, mosquito control trucks were spraying in Sugar Land to combat the growing West Nile virus threat.
That was welcome news for Oscar Araica. He took his son to the game and planned to camp out with him and his Boy Scout troop afterwards. He also brought reinforcements. "We're prepared. We brought repellent," said Araica.
Fort Bend County health officials are encouraging residents to enjoy the outdoors, but do it safely. They said use a good coat of insect repellent containing DEET, wear long sleeves and pants and remove standing water.
County health officials recommend reapplying repellent as often as you would reapply sun block when sweating or getting out of the pool if you engage in high energy outdoor activities such as swimming.
Mosquito control experts said joint pain, headaches, fever or vomiting are serious warning signs, and should be addressed with your doctor.
"Why take a chance? That is my explanation," said Dr. Rudy Bueno with the Harris County Mosquito Control. "Why take a chance? Just go get it checked out."
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lI have a table with an ID column which is the Primary key and auto incremented. I have another column named ORDER that contains a number. This number is used to define the order in which the row data is displayed on a page.
When I delete a row, the ORDER column will have a gap and I would like to renumber the subsequent rows to remove the gap. ie:
I want to renumber the rows:ID ORDER1 12 24 35 4
When I insert a new row I want the ORDER row to be given the NEXT sequential number
How do I do that using PHP PDO?
The next sequential number as in leaving the gap, so if you remove ID=4, you just put it at 5 anyways?
Or the next number as in filling the gap, so if you remove ID=4, you should get 3 for order?
If you delete ID 4
You haveID ORDER1 12 23 35 46 5
I need it to reorder starting at 1... ie 1,2,3,4,5,6
You need ID to reorder?
If that's the case, I'll warn you now: that is a BAD idea. You never ever want to change your id value.
Also, if you recorder them, doesn't that mean ORDER always equals ID, so it doesn't really matter?
Can you elaborate a bit more on what you're trying to do. There is likely a better way to do what you're trying to accomplish.
No, not the ID, that stays the same, the ORDER row will be renumbered... It wont be the same as the ID because ID may be deleted
Okay, now that I know the question. =p
The simplest way to do this would be to do a SELECT query and get all of the elements, ordered by ID. Then just go through and do an UPDATE on each one, changing the ORDER to an ever incrementing value.
However, there are two potentially better ways to do this:- If the ID and ORDER are always related, then why have order? Just arrange stuff based on ID.- When you remove a single row, you could do an UPDATE SET ORDER = ORDER - 1 WHERE ORDER > removedOrder.
If I knew more what you were doing with this I could help a bit more.
The idea is that the user enters a number to determine the order of the images (ORDER) so the ID will not be in any specific order,
The 10th ID would be in first postions
So I need to Select the query in order of ORDER ASC then renumber ORDER 1,2,3,4,5, etc..
That's what I figured. In that case, this:- When you remove a single row, you could do an UPDATE SET ORDER = ORDER - 1 WHERE ORDER > removedOrder.
Is how you would want to do it. It would just shift everything down to fill in the gap you just created, preserving the order but giving you no gaps.
A better solution would be to not store the order in the database at all but to generate that field as you read the records. That way the order values are automatically updated when a record is deleted.
That wouldn't work with user-controlled ordering though... would it? If it would, can you elaborate?


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Mushkin's High Performance Ventura Ultra SF-2281 USB 3.0 Stickby Jarred Walton on 1/9/2013 5:40 PM EST
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KPOM - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkWith MacBooks and Ultrabooks shipping with proprietary storage, flash drives like these could become appealing. Price will be an issue, though. If they are as expensive as traditional SSDs, they may not find much of a market. If I were these manufacturers, I'd use slightly slower NAND if necessary to get the price down. Even 200-250MB/s would be "good enough" to use as secondary storage, and would rival SATA II. Reply
phillyry - Friday, March 29, 2013 - linkKPOM - i agree with you in terms of the need for sweetass ssd's. i also agree on the point of making them less expensive but still good enough.
that being said, i'd still like them to have fast enough random i/o that they could be used as an external OS drive when desired. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkWith these stats I think I've cornered the handful of enterprises that are early adopters. Reply
Zero866 - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkI find it funny that the very first word of the entire article is spelled wrong. To boot, it is the name of the company that this whole thing about...
I agree with KPOM, this will help alleviate the need for proprietary storage issues. The benefit will also increase with USB booting too! Reply
MGSsancho - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkSell me one even at 16GB capacity for $100 and I'll buy a few Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - linkThe usage of the USB-SATA daughter board allows Muskin to move to other SATA controllers as they become available. Ditto for models that don't need as many NAND packages as they can use a smaller PCB.
I'm also curious if there is a DRAM buffer on the Sandforce PCB (what is the chip next to the Sandforce controller?). There is none, that'd contribute to its relatively low performance to traditional SSD's. Reply
Wolfpup - Thursday, January 10, 2013 - linkInteresting to see someone finally put a real controller in a USB flash stick! The speeds might be lower than SATA, but geez, just today I'm using a recent quality flash stick and I get like 6MB/s writes, 20-23MB/s reads lol. "Slower" is relative here :-D Reply
PVPK - Friday, January 25, 2013 - linkThis is not a innovation, it's existing technology in a smaller package.
I'm not here to troll, just stating the obvious.
I, myself is not a fan of SandForce due to their history of reliability issues (BSOD and Random Freeze and Lockups).
I would rather much use a regular SSD from Samsung or Crucial and put it into a 2.5" USB 3.0 enclosure, you get similar performance or better with a more reliable SSD controller.
If 2.5" enclosure is still too big for your pocket, you can always wait for someone to make a msata USB 3.0 enclosure, that would be similar in size to this stick, gives you the choice of what SSD you want to use, give you better performance and reliability.
SandForce controllers are just too unreliable compare to Marvell and Samsung, and this stick will face the same issues that other people are facing with SandForce SSD, sure, there's alot of positive reviews, but the negative reviews percentage on SandForce SSD is much higher compare to Crucial and Samsung's SSD. Reply
phillyry - Friday, March 29, 2013 - linkunless you include intel's sandforce-based ssd's Reply
wtfiwinomgs - Sunday, December 22, 2013 - linkyou sir, retarded.
the sandforce issue is long gone, on top of that you only get BSOD if you running OS off of it. the histories of issues you mentioned doesn't match the usb 3.0 stick here and only SSD, and issues was solved years ago.
on the other hand I'd rather go for sandforce than some samsung shit where they would purposely overclock their phone, and SSDs for benchmark results only and reflect like 2% real performance gain in the real world scenario. Reply


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New York -- Saks Inc. says it plans to close its Saks Fifth Avenue store in WestShore Plaza in Tampa, Fla., on May 4.
Steve Sadove, chairman and CEO of Saks, commented: "This planned closing is in line with our strategy of using our resources in our most productive Saks Fifth Avenue stores. We regularly assess the productivity, profitability, and potential of each of our stores and may determine that a closing is appropriate from time to time."
The retailer has operated its Saks Fifth Avenue store in Tampa since 1998. The company operates nine other Saks Fifth Avenue stores throughout Florida, including a store in nearby Sarasota. It plans to open a new Saks Fifth Avenue store in Sarasota's Mall at University Town Center in 2014.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Westside church was victimized by copper thieves this week after previously falling victim to the same crime.
The pastor at the Divine Truth and Deliverance Ministry said Wednesday night he was feeling warm, so he turned on his AC unit. Then, he said, things got warmer. He went outside and saw that the copper elements had been stolen from the unit.
Pastor Carl Dole said he's disappointed.
"For me it's sad because we try to reach out to the community," Dole said. "It's kind of heart wrenching because the same people you're trying to reach out to are the ones that are taking from those that are trying to receive."
Sometime last week, Dole said thieves went to the back of his church and cut out all the copper lining from his air conditioning unit. He said they also took metal scaffoldings worth hundreds of dollars.
About a year ago, Dole said people ripped out the entire AC unit to get to the copper inside. Members of the church had a hard time believing it could happen twice in such a short time.
"It's disheartening to see what the world is coming to these days where people would actually take stuff from the church," Tony White said.
Dole estimates the recent damages to be around $1,250. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.
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