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Armstrong World Industries Inc. (NYSE:AWI) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.
Armstrong World has a market cap of $2.9 billion; its shares were traded at around $49.63 with a P/E ratio of 22.77 and P/S ratio of 1.05.
Highlight of Business Operations:The discount rate is used to determine retirement plan liabilities and to determine the interest cost component of net periodic pension and postretirement cost. Management utilizes the Aon Hewitt AA only above median yield curve, which is a hypothetical AA yield curve comprised of a series of annualized individual discount rates, as the primary basis for determining the discount rate. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, we assumed discount rates of 4.85% and 5.10%, respectively, for the U.S. defined benefit pension plans. As of December 31, 2011, we assumed a discount rate of 4.75% compared with a discount rate of 4.90% as of December 31, 2010 for the U.S. postretirement plans. The effects of the change in discount rate will be amortized into earnings as described below. Absent any other changes, a one-quarter percentage point decrease in the discount rates for the U.S. pension and postretirement plans would decrease 2012 operating income by $4.9 million and a one-quarter percentage point increase in the discount rates would increase 2012 operating income by $4.8 million.
component is added for the expected return from active management based both on the plans experience and on historical information obtained from the plans investment consultants. These forecasted gross returns are reduced by estimated management fees and expenses, yielding a long-term rate of return of 6.50% per annum for 2012. The expected asset return assumption is based upon a long-term view; therefore, we do not expect to see frequent changes from year to year based on positive or negative actual performance in a single year. Over the 10 year period ended December 31, 2011, the annualized return was approximately 7.5% compared to an average expected return of 8.0%. The actual return on plan assets achieved for 2011 was 6.4%. The difference between the actual and expected rate of return on plan assets will be amortized into earnings as described below.
SG&A expenses in 2011 were $478.3 million, or 16.7% of net sales, compared to $531.3 million, or 19.2% of net sales, in 2010. The decreases were due to reductions in core SG&A expenses. In addition, 2010 was impacted by $14.7 million of CEO transition costs, a $6.1 million asset impairment charge related to the termination of our flight operations, a loss of $5.8 million related to the sale of our European
Operating activities for 2011 provided $212.2 million of cash, an increase of $21.8 million compared to the $190.4 million of cash provided in 2010. The increase was primarily due to higher earnings partially offset by lower cash generated by changes in working capital.
Operating income declined as the margin impact of lower sales, significant raw hardwood lumber material inflation and the related inventory valuation impact of this inflation, offset reduced manufacturing and SG&A expenses. Operating income in 2010 was negatively impacted by approximately $16 million of fixed asset write downs and restructuring charges related to the closure of two manufacturing facilities. Non-cash impairment charges of $22.4 and $18.0 million related to our Wood Flooring trademarks also negatively impacted operating income in 2010 and 2009, respectively.
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Release Date: 1991 |
Ive only heard the singles here, and they were cheesy and awesome
I've only heard Along Came A Spider by Cooper, which had some great cheese on it.
Nice review.
In view of that album's acceptance and success, the exact same template was used for Trash's follow-up, 1990's Hey Stoopid. The results were, again, above average, even if this album is not as highly regarded as its predecessor.
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Nagarok, get Billion Dollar Babies. It is his best album and amazing.
I should check this album out, i've only heard welcome to my nightmare, go to hell, along came a spider and a live plus greatest hits.
great review.
Good review Pedro. You make a pretty good case for your high rating, even if I am surprised you feel this is a 4.5. I still look back on quite a few songs off 'Trash' pretty fondly.
Personally I think Welcome to My nightmare was Alice's finest moment, but that's just me. Great review, I like this album quite a bit.
hey schools out for summer guys
School's out for me forever
schools been blown to pieces
Album Rating: 4.5SCHOOL'S. OUT. COM. PLETELYYYYYYYYY. *drum roll, end-of-song havoc*
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffReally like this Alice. Hey Stoopid is filled with good songs.
My favourites are the title track, Love's a Loaded Gun, Might as Well Be on Mars, Little by Little, Wind-Up Toy and specially Dangerous Tonight.
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You got all three dates wrong, Constrictor was released in 87, Trash in 89 and the album of your review Hey Stoopid in 1991.
Album Rating: 4.5This one is far superior to Trash. It contains more of Alice's dark sense of humor from the 70's while definitely something that would please 80's-early 90's era fans. Might As Well Be On Mars was a great song that he ought to bring back live.
Album Rating: 4.0FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Album Rating: 3.5I've had 'Dangerous Tonight' stuck in my head for days. Kinda perfect music for travelling home at night. This is probably one of my favorite Cooper albums.
Album Rating: 4.0haven't listened to this in full since like the early 90's
Album Rating: 4.0FRAANKEENSTEEIINNN
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Doninga's David Mullins Dies at Age 51
David L. Mullins, who operated the Doninga bloodstock agency, died Aug. 18 after a lengthy illness. He was 51.
David L. Mullins, who operated the Doninga bloodstock agency, died Aug. 18 after a lengthy illness. He was 51.
Parker Buckley, a former jockey who was working as an exercise rider for trainer Steve Asmussen, is in critical condition following an Aug. 18 accident at Saratoga's Oklahoma training track.
Beulah Park and River Downs, two Ohio Thoroughbred tracks that race more than 200 dates combined, have requested only Quarter Horse dates for 2009, a track official said Aug. 18.
Pascacio "Paco" Lopez, this year's leading jockey at Calder Race Course, has appealed a 30-day suspension for careless riding.
Mount Joy Stables' Smooth Air, who has been sidelined with foot problems since his impressive victory in the Ohio Derby (gr. II) May 31, is being pointed toward the $1-million Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II) Sept. 1, said trainer Bennie Stutts.
Calder Race Course will close its main track and training track for training Aug. 19 in anticipation of the effects of Tropical Storm Fay, which was moving across the Florida Straits the morning of Aug. 18. Simulcasting is also canceled at the Miami Gardens facility. No live racing was scheduled Aug. 18-20. Calder expects to reopen its tracks and simulcast facilities Aug. 20.
An attempt by Philadelphia Park Racetrack & Casino to lure Big Brown to the PTHA President's Cup Sept. 13, is a no go, according to the colt's minority owner, Paul Pompa Jr.
Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin turned in his final serious prep for an upcoming start in the Aug. 30 Woodward Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course when he breezed seven furlongs over the upstate New York oval Aug. 18.
Tropical Storm, a son of Storm Cat, came through with his first winner when his son Storm Shocker won Aug. 17 at Presque Isle Downs in his second start.
Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson announced Aug. 15 that a horse has been diagnosed with Equine Piroplasmosis, an animal disease that the U.S. has been considered free of since 1988.
Look in the winner's circle after any offspring of Unusual Heat wins a race and you'll likely see a petite, brown-haired woman hugging the jockey, high-fiving the trainer, or congratulating the owner.
Patinack Farm paid top price of Aus$1.3 million (broodmare prospect To Be Surprised during the Magic Millions August Thoroughbred Sale on the Queensland Gold Coast.
Bay Meadows wrapped up 74 years of racing with the $63,450 Last Dance Stakes Aug. 17 and fittingly, it was trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, winner of 37 consecutive training titles at the San Mateo track, who had the honor of winning the final race with a filly named You Lift Me Up.
For the first time in four years, the Thoroughbreds are coming back to Cal Expo.
Calls to action aren't new to The Jockey Club Round Table conference, but at this year's meeting Aug. 17 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., there appeared to be a sense of urgency. Public perception and the threat of federal intervention have a way of moving things along. <P>In what a few attendees called the best Round Table in years, Thoroughbred industry rep...


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NAPA (CBS SF) – A Napa man who was killed Tuesday when his car crashed head-on into a Cal Fire big-rig on state Highway 12 apparently intended to kill himself, a Napa County sheriff's captain said.
Capt. Tracey Stuart said notes found at 53-year-old Thomas Robinson's home and witnesses' statements about his driving before the collision indicate he likely intended suicide.
"He was driving fine until he abruptly turned into the path of the truck," Stuart said Thursday morning.
An autopsy showed Robinson died of blunt force trauma injuries, Stuart said.
Robinson was driving a Ford Escort west on state Highway 12 near American Canyon just west of the Solano County line when he crossed over the double-yellow line and drove into the path of the oncoming 2000 Mack tractor-trailer.
Two other vehicles were involved in the 10:30 a.m. crash, which sent eight people to hospitals with minor to moderate injuries and closed the highway for eight hours. Seven of those injured were in a Toyota Sienna minivan.
The big-rig was hauling a bulldozer back to Siskiyou County after it had been brought to Napa County as backup equipment for two vegetation fires over the weekend, Cal Fire Division Chief David Shew said.
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Manchester United vs Cardiff Live Stream: Watch Free English Premier League Football (EPL) Online (Kick Off Start Time)
Manchester United will be aiming to make their unbeaten run stretch to 10 when they face Cardiff on Sunday.
David Moyes will be hoping that United's turnaround will continue after starting the season with only two wins in six matches. The Red Devils have won six and drawn three of their past nine matches in all competitions and have gone five games without a loss in the league.
"That's our aim - to still be up there and maybe top or in or around there come the New Year. Then, hopefully, we can kick on," Wayne Rooney told the team's official website.
Rooney will again be a major factor in United's success and has been in good form with five goals in his last eight games.
His partner on the attacking line, Dutch international Robin van Persie, will also be counted on against Cardiff which United has not faced in 38 years when both clubs where in the second division.
Newly promoted Cardiff City are near the relegation zone, but did manage to beat Manchester City and will be looking to sweep the Manchester clubs this season. Since that impressive win over City, Cardiff have recorded just one win in four home matches.
Cardiff have been having a tough time finding the back of the net with just three goals during their last five games. Facing United does not look like it will give the club a reprieve given that United has allowed only one goal in their last four matches.
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TORONTO - Perhaps now all those trade rumours that had Steve Nash bolting the Arizona desert will finally be put to rest.
And perhaps now people will finally believe what Lon Babby, Phoenixs president of basketball operations, has been insisting all along amid the rampant speculation.
When asked earlier this season about Nashs presence and importance, Babby, the one-time agent who helped orchestrate both Hedo Turkoglus arrival and departure as a Raptor, provided arguably the quote of the season.
Hes the sun, the moon and the stars, Babby would say of Nash.
At 37 years old, Nash shows no signs of becoming less relevant in a game that has become more guard-oriented than at any time in hoops history.
The numbers speak to a legacy that remains untarnished, the only blemish on Nash being that hes yet to win a championship, denied by fate and by playing in a Western Conference dominated by the Lakes and Spurs, a team Nash exacted some revenge last spring in a memorable upset.
Had Nash demanded a trade, there would have been no shortage of suitors and no telling how much closer Nash would have been in winning that elusive title.
No player since John Stockton runs a pick and roll quite like Nash and theres no peer when it comes to Nashs creativity and ability to keep his dribble alive.
The true measuring stick of Nashs stature in the game was on display at all-star weekend in Los Angeles, where the games elite point guards were effusive in their praise of a unique player who continues to defy the odds.
I grew up watching him, Deron Williams said of Nash, a seven-time all-star who figures to play in his eighth next year in Orlando, assuming, of course, there is a season.
It seems like hes gotten better with age. He does so many things well.
Derrick Rose has clearly elevated to the top of the point guard pecking order, producing an MVP season that gets better with each passing game.
As good as Rose has played, he doesnt have Nashs vision and creativity.
Like Williams, Rose is a physical point guard who has developed a three-point shot that makes him virtually unstoppable.
Rajon Rondo has evolved, but he still has an inconsistent jumper.
Russell Westbrook has emerged as an all-star, a quick floor general who figures to get better as he gets older.
Chris Paul, regardless of how long he stays in New Orleans, remains an elite point guard, followed by Tony Parker, a member of San Antonios Big Three who will at times look to get his own shot off at the expense of others.
And then theres Nash, no longer an MVP candidate but hes better than an ageing Jason Kidd and can go off for a 40-point game.
But as Nash tries to get the Suns into a playoff position, his team-first approach is what separates him from every other point guard.
With Nash, Grant Hill has been revitalized.
With Nash, Channing Frye has been legitimized.
The odds of Phoenix rising from the depths of inconsistency are long, but as long as Nash stays healthy its now a possibility.
The Suns arent as good as they were when Amare Stoudemire ran shot gun with Nash.
The team tried to turn Turkoglu, a point forward, into a power forward, but soon realized a change was necessary and a blockbuster deal was orchestrated with the Magic.
All three pieces acquired from the Magic, be it Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat or Michael Pietrus, have been marginal at best, which means Nash has been asked to shoulder an additional load.
As a result, his turnovers are up, but most of his season averages are better than his career totals.
Remarkably, no player in league history had averaged 10 assists at age 35 or older until Nash last season. Hell repeat the feat and is averaging slightly more than last years 11.0 number.
In the history of the NBA, only Nash, Larry Bird, Reggie Miller, Mark Price and one-time Dallas teammate Dirk Nowitzki have averaged 50% shooting from the field, 40% shooting from beyond the three-point arc and 90% from the charity stripe.
If he maintains his current clip, Nash will post his fifth 50-40-90 season, an accomplishment thats unprecedented.
Im loyal to the Suns, the franchise, the fans, Nash told the Arizona Republic. I was given a contract and I want to honour it. Thats all Im concerned with. When they tell me its time to go, its time to go. But until then, Im just going to play my hardest and try to get better.
In a week that has seen the worst the NBA has to offer in terms of me-first players, Nash continues to show what it means to be a pro.


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Rogan Corporation, a leading molder of plastic components for more than seventy-five years, has added a 1,500 square foot new clean room to its manufacturing facility. This addition coincides with Rogan's recently expanded contract manufacturing and assembly operations. The new clean room was created to meet increasing medical and pharmaceutical device industry demand for Rogan's liquid silicone rubber molding and assembly capability.
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The new Class 100,000 clean room houses manufacturing and assembly operations to meet the growing demand for liquid silicone rubber molded products. With the Phase I clean room now in operation, Phase II, involving further expansion to meet projected future growth, is in the planning stages.
Rogan also has added four new horizontal and vertical Liquid Silicone Rubber injection-molding presses to meet their customers' demands and to expand its molding capability. The new presses enable Rogan to meet both its commitment to higher efficiency molding and to Green Sustainability energy conservation.
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Listen to this insane remix of Welcome To The Black Parade!
The mix was made by global superstar DJ, Steve Aoki, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's smash album The Black Parade.
Talking to Buzzfeed Gerard Way said: "You know, when you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song," he explained.
"But right away, I really loved his remix. And what I love about it is the sounds are phenomenal, and he's kept the intensity, and I think in some ways, the purpose of the song. So, I loved it right away. I was like, this is really cool. And it's always fun to hear somebody, especially somebody as talented as Steve, it's fun to hear the way they see the song. It has that bed of music there, still, that the band was a part of. It has those important melodies, and it has those important root notes. So, you know, I think it does a really great job of capturing the essence of the song and turning it into something new."
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While you're here check out the 11 Things You Didn't Know About My Chemical Romance
11 Things You Didn't know about My Chemical Romance
Even having looked through every single song MCR have recorded, there's still stuff we've got to tell you about the Jersey degenerates. And with a band as epic and huge as My Chemical Romance, there's still bound to be loads more to learn. Like this stuff…
11. Gerard Way recorded a song in his undies
How did Gerard get the right vibe when he was doing his vocals for You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison? He could've gone to prison, or gone and done stuff to guys like himself in a prison, but time is money in the studio, and it's surprisingly difficult to get into a prison (especially if you want to get out again in time to meet your record deadline). So instead, he stripped down to his Y-fronts and belted this out. Clutch, you do not need to follow suit.
10. They recorded real pain
Of the very worst kind as well: toothache. While recording his vocals for I Brought You My Bullets…, Gerard Way was suffering from an abscess in one of his teeth. Which is like trying to be a weightlifter with an arrow sticking out of your arm. Brush, kids, brush.
9. Gerard Way is allergic to cats
Apparently so. And we've just made up a story that The Black Parade was gonna be called The Cat Parade until a red-eyed, sneezing Gerard pulled the plug on the whole thing, but that would just be silly.
8. They've got Black Flag's approval
The next time someone looks down their nose and tries to give you some pish about My Chem not having any punk cred, point them in Keith Morris' direction. Black Flag's be-dreaded, one-time frontman did backing vocals on Hang 'Em High. Stick that in your bondage trousers and smoke it, losers.
7. The Black Parade almost wasn't called that
Gerard once said The Black Parade was going to be called The Rise And Fall Of My Chemical Romance, in tribute to David Bowie's The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. Turns out the sly bugger was having us on. "It was never the title of the album, more a spoof, or joke," he revealed. A very funny joke, we thought, as we threw out our My Chemical Stardust costumes and waited for them to release the album.
6. Their name's British
It was during Mikey Way's time as a sales assistant in Barnes & Nobel that he hit upon the idea of what his brother's new band could be called. He'd discovered a book by Scottish author Irvine Welsh entitled The Acid House: Three Tales Of Chemical Romance. Presumably the idea of calling the band Filth, Porno or Trainspotting didn't appeal much to Gerard.
5. They toured with Christian bands
Out of necessity, you understand. "Basically, [emo has] never been accurate to describe us," Gerard once said. "Emo bands were being booked while we were touring with Christian metal bands because no one would book us on tours." Sadly, not one of those Christian metal bands were Stryper.
4. Why Ray Toro got the gig…
Bloke's a bloody genius, Ray Toro is. A taskmaster who by his own admission works his bandmates hard, but it's a small price to pay to have such a creative, brilliant guitarist in your ranks. And he got the guitarist spot in the band after Gerard Way discovered he couldn't play guitar and sing at the same time. Which was very lucky, don't you think?
3. They were going from the get go
Three months after My Chem formed, they were in a studio recording their first album, 2002's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love. Twelve weeks to get the band up and running, get all them songs together, get them set, and get signed and sorted for a record. Industrious lads, them Chems.
2. Their videos are as good as Nirvana's
Let us explain that before you lynch us. They are of the same caliber as Nirvana's. And Green Day's for that matter. The link? Sam Beyer who directed Famous Last Words also controlled the camera for the Smells Like Teen Spirit and American Idiot videos. Not bad company to be in, all told.
1. They didn't like Twilight much
At one time, My Chem and Twilight would have gone together like fangs and a lily-white neck. But times change, and by the time the makers of the Twilight movies had come knocking seeking the band for the soundtrack, they'd already upped and left the vampire party. "There's a lot of people chasing that fucking money," said Gerard Way. "'Twilight?' A lot of people around us were like, 'please, for the love of God, do this fucking movie.' But we'd moved on." And written a song called Vampire Money just to twist the knife.
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Whether you're a new fan in 2013, or you've been to every match since 1996, we want to make sure you make the most of your matchday experience at RFK Stadium. Below is a list of things every fan should try.
Parking benefits for VW owners: If you drive a Volkswagen, you are eligible for two great parking benefits.
- VW offers free parking to the first 50 Volkswagens that park in Lot 4. Arrive early! The lot fills quickly.
- Volkswagen owners that park in Lot 8 (full parking rates apply) are eligible to park in a special section that is normally reserved for Season Ticket Holders.
Lot 8 Tailgate and Food Trucks: The Lot 8 Tailgate opens two and a half hours prior to kickoff and features fun activities for fans of all ages. Get a taste of the town from local DC food truck Doug the Food Dude. Tailgaters typically gather on the lawn for corn hole and other games. Be sure to check out Customer Service's tent for the chance to win an autographed jersey.
Season Ticket Holder's Champions Club: The Champions Club is an exclusive destination for 2013 Season Ticket Holders.
Matchday: Pick up a copy of our FREE game program called Matchday. Each issue has an exclusive feature on a player or coach and the latest team news.
Team Poster Night: Wednesday is team poster night at RFK. The first 10,000 fans in the gates will receive a 2013 team poster, courtesy of Parts Authority.
Be a Good Sport: D.C. United and Budweiser encourage fans to drink responsibly. Head to Gate A to make the pledge to be the designated driver for your friends and receive a free soda, Good Sport promotional items, and the chance to win a cool prize-pack.
Get the gear: Our Team Store is open three and a half hours prior to kickoff on gamedays. The store is located at RFK Stadium's Main Gate, and offers everything from scarves and jerseys to children's clothes and dog collars.
Food specialities: RFK Stadium offers everything from pupusas and carne asada to hot dogs and fries, plus a good selection of beers and drinks. List of food and beverage locations
You know what to do - cheer and sing in support of D.C. United for 90 minutes. If you need help you can use our mobile guest services or visit the Guest Services booth located behind section 307.
Season Ticket Holder's Champions Club: The Champions Club is the exclusive Season Ticket Holder destination for post-game drinks and fun.
dcunited.com: Be sure to check dcunited.com on your mobile device or your computer for match highlights, a recap, and analysis.
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Transforming trade promotions from management to optimization
The following post is published by the Partner and Global Head for Digital Transformation of Zinnov, a leading Globalization and Market Expansion Advisory firm.
The consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is undergoing rapid changes due to digital transformation, evolving retail formats and a new breed of competitors. While this increases complexities for CPG manufacturers and retailers alike, it also presents new opportunities for proactive enterprises.
One such opportunity lies within trade promotions, where the spending today forms 15–25% of the total revenue and represents one of the biggest line items in the profit and loss statement (second only to the cost of goods sold). Therefore, it is imperative for a CPG enterprise to analyze and optimize trade promotions to derive bottom-line efficiencies and enhance profitability.
The four phases of trade promotions
The first two phases involve the planning and execution of incentive programs that occur between CPG manufacturers and retailers. This is known as the trade promotion management (TPM) process. The next phase is evaluation of the promotion results post execution. Evaluation requires a trade promotions intelligence (TPI) infrastructure, which leverages an enterprise demand signal repository (DSR) that stores and integrates all the syndicated and point of sale (POS) data with the internal master data. The TPI infrastructure allows the TPM solution to become another data source where plan data can also be fed in to the enterprise infrastructure along with forecasts and shipment information. The final phase, trade promotions optimization (TPO), leverages predictive analytics on top of the TPI infrastructure to recalibrate and reallocate trade spend to high-growth opportunities.
To achieve trade promotion effectiveness, a CPG enterprise must transition through each phase. TPO requires a TPI infrastructure, however, most CPG enterprises try to jump directly from TPM to TPO. This leaves the majority of CPG enterprises today stuck in the early stages of trade promotions maturity.
Top roadblocks in achieving trade promotions optimization
What are the top challenges that enterprises face in moving from TPM to TPO maturity?
In terms of execution, too many CPG enterprises still use manual processes, such as Excel spreadsheets. This failure to leverage technology leaves them unable to analyze real-time data and apply course corrections dynamically.
CPG enterprises also struggle with implementing trade programs across multiple regions and countries, since each market presents its own variances and complexities. This hampers the uniformity in the trade promotion planning and evaluation process and the visibility of the entire value chain from creation to evaluation.
Finally, enterprises rarely have access to high-quality data. This primarily results from a lack of uniformity among retail partners and distributors. For example, retailers may use different product taxonomies, supply inaccurate or missing data, or provide incompatible formats (Oracle, SAP, Excel) that require conversion to a common data type. A confluence of these scenarios makes it very difficult for CPG enterprises to maintain data uniformity and quality, integrate data effectively, and reach the next level of insights and action.
Road map for effective trade promotion strategy
A successful trade promotions strategy begins with addressing the right questions. An enterprise should ask itself:
- How much should we spend on promotions?
- Who are my top-performing retail partners?
- Which products deliver the best ROI on promotions?
- How frequently should I manage and optimize my trade promotion strategy?
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Vanishing Point is a 1971 American action road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and Dean Jagger. The film is notable for its scenic film locations across the American Southwest and its social commentary on the post-Woodstock mood in the United States. The film is especially popular with Mopar auto enthusiasts because it prominently features a classic 1970 Dodge Challenger muscle car.
A car delivery driver, Kowalski (Barry Newman), arrives in Denver, Colorado late Friday night with a black Chrysler Imperial. The delivery service clerk, Sandy (Karl Swenson), urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum to San Francisco by Monday. Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to buy Benzedrine pills to stay awake for the long drive ahead. He bets his dealer, Jake (Lee Weaver), that he will get to San Francisco by 3:00 pm Saturday, even though the delivery is not due until Monday.
Kowalski is a Medal of Honor Vietnam War veteran and former race car driver and motorcycle racer.
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1959 American LaFrance "Little Mo." Photos courtesy Auctions America. Walter Lewis "Army" Armstrong was a mechanical jack-of-all-trades with a particular passion for the fire service. He'd eventually found three companies dedicated to firefighting, ultimately producing ... Read more
In Vermont, we're still in the grips of winter, but one sure sign of spring is the increasing hours of daylight. That alone is enough to make one optimistic that warmer days (and in Vermont, plenty of mud) are coming, so now is the time to be shopping for a light restoration (or preservation) ... Read more
It's a good bet that many of you started following Jay Leno's old car exploits after he got involved in the subculture of giant tank/airplane/firetruck-engined roadsters, and he returned to that form in the latest Jay Leno's Garage video with a look at La Bestioni, a 1915 American ... Read more
The beauty of the collector car hobby is this: there's something with wheels to satisfy (almost) everyone's taste. Used fire engines, while not practical daily (or weekend) drivers, enjoy a respectable following, as do professional cars, like those used in the funerary services. While t ... Read more
1909 American-LaFrance Type 5 number 1. Photo courtesy Tim Kane, Lenox Fire Department. One of the founding elements of the Hemmings Motor News Concours d'Elegance eight years ago was to offer attendees something a little different with regard to featured classes. Cars of New York State, His ... Read more
Photo courtesy Walter M.P. McCall. If you look back far enough, you can trace the origins of American LaFrance back to 1832. That was when a guy named John Rogers started building hand-operated fire pumps along the future Erie Canal near Albany, New York. We just learned via Fire Apparatus Journal ... Read more
Collecting and restoring old fire trucks is tough. First of all, they're big, so finding the space to store and work on them is a hassle, and you're going to need a whole new set of tools to work on them. On top of that, about the only time you really get to exercise them is in l ... Read more
Owning a fire truck would be awesome – who among us as a kid wasn't awestruck at seeing a fire truck in a parade or in action? – but there are a couple hidden expenses with owning and operating one, even one such as this 1962 Ford F750. First, you've gotta stock up on candy ... Read more
These rigs don't show up very often at auctions in any way, so it was very surprising to see this 1983 American La France pumper show up as a lot at the Leake Car Auction in Dallas earlier this month. In fact, we thought at first that it was there to protect the auction site, the big Market H ... Read more
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In sitting out nearly two full calendar years, Steve Sullivan had many low points on his road to recovery.
There were days the Nashville Predators forward couldn't roll out of bed due to his tightened back.
Although the extra time away from the team allowed him to spend more time with his four kids, Sullivan couldn't do much more than watch them play.
But one of the hardest things was seeing his team move on without him, especially how they made the playoffs the past two seasons only to get knocked out in the first round each time.
"You want to help your team any way you can and tough times can make it bad," said Sullivan, who suited up last night against the Calgary Flames in Game 7 of his comeback.
"Just knowing that last year we were making a run for it and everyone was saying our team was missing a top-six forward.
"If we could just find a top-six forward ... that's me. That was tough. There was nothing I could do. The body was just wasn't reacting."
Sullivan was first injured Feb. 22, 2007, against the Montreal Canadiens when his back seized up on a routine shift.
He would eventually require two surgeries and several different rehab plans to get to the point where he could be effective again.
In coming back, and scoring two assists in six games prior to last night's outing, Sullivan joins a group of two other players to miss more than 600 days and return to the same team. The others are Jim Peplinski and Mario Lemieux.
Still, the 34-year-old considers himself day-to-day, which he may be until the end of his career, but so far, so good.
"I've been skating for a while, but we had to make sure it was ready," Sullivan said. "My worst fear was coming back for one shift and it going out on me. Then that would be the end of the story. I didn't want that to happen."
Predators head coach Barry Trotz is happy to have Sullivan back. After losing such players as Scott Hartnell, Paul Kariya, Alexander Radulov, Kimmo Timonen and Marek Zidlicky, getting a skilled playmaker has made the Predators much more dangerous.
"Everybody's cheering for Sully because everyone realizes how tough it is to do it," said Trotz. "We've deleted so many top-end players the past few years, getting a guy like Sully back in the lineup was a real boost for our morale.
"I've known Steve was going through a real tough time. There are a lot of peaks and valleys in coming back from a back injury.
"It's almost like a toothache. It just never goes away, although you don't have that excruciating pain. You make some gains and then take some steps back."
To Sullivan, timing is the toughest thing to get back.
"The legs and speed have come back quicker than I thought it would," Sullivan said. "I thought it would be the opposite. I thought I would still see the game well.
"It shows how quick of a game it is. You don't have time to make decisions, so the vision has taken a little longer."
In all that time away, Sullivan never thought of giving up and retiring with 723 career games, 228 goals and 351 assists.
"Not even close," Sullivan said emphatically. "I was still under contract. I owed it to everyone to find a solution."


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How is the rifling originally machined into the barrel? Where do I get information on these processes? Where do you get information on such things as wall thicknesses for various materials and calibers and the effects of different rifling twists on various calibers and barrel length? What are the best sources for barrel blanks?
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RG, if you'll go to http://benchrest.com/douglas/ you can watch a video by Douglas bbls that explains barrel making from start to finish using the button rifling method. And at http://www.border-barrels.com/articles/bmart.htm there is an article that explains the process using 3 methods of rifling. There is a very good book titled "Barrels and Actions" by Harold Hoffman that goes into great detail and actually tells you how to make a barrel from bar stock steel. I'd like to try it sometime but it just isn't cost effective with all the barrel blanks on the market. A barrel blank isn't really blank. It's already drilled, reamed and rifled. There are several good sources for blanks. I like Douglas bbls and use them as the standard in my shop. I have put together some very accurate rifles using some very inexpensive bbl blanks from Gun Parts Corporation. Most of these are E.R Shaw or at least that's what they told me. Another good reference for barrel work is Gunsmithing by Roy Dunlap. The books I mentioned are both available from Brownells www.brownells.com. George
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Thank George. I'll check all that out. I probably won't do one from scratch for the same reasons that you mentioned. But I hate it when something so common is such a mystery to me. Besides that, this knowledge should help me when picking "barrel blanks" and in finishing them off. I'm sure that I have a lot of pre-conceived notions that will be put to rest and find others that I hadn't even thought of.
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Debbie, Tillman, Tilghman, Reynolds, Wright are all in my lineage. Don't know if there is any relation. My Tilghman shows up in abt 1530 with Christopher Reynolds. A sibling, Dorothy, married William, son of Richard and Julian Newman Tilghman of Co. Kent, England. Tilghman family records are available in the DAR Library and Library of Congress. Can you tie any of this to you? Let me know if I can help any more.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Science - Theme issue "Models of Natural Action Selection"
Readers of this list may interested in the following theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Biological Science, which was published online this month. It will be available in hardcopy for purchase from September. Apologies for multiple postings. Theme Issue on "Models of Natural Action Selection" Editors: Tony J. Prescott, Joanna J. Bryson, Anil K. Seth. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. ISSN: Print: 0962-8436 Online: 1471-2970 http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1318 SUMMARY: Action selection, at its simplest, is the problem that every human and animal faces at each instant of "what to do next?". To scientists this problem raises a plethora of further questions: How do we know how to do the right thing? Why is it that we sometimes make poor choices? How do we plan ahead for complex tasks and remember what we are trying to do as we go along? Are there central decision-making mechanisms in the brain or do actions somehow 'select themselves' through the interaction of many concurrent brain processes? What happens when different parts the brain want to do different things? How do the actions selected by individuals shape and change the social groups in which they live? This theme issue addresses these questions by focusing on a particular strategy for finding scientific explanations - computer modelling. The contributions employ state-of-the-art modelling techniques ranging from large networks of simulated brain cells, through to models of individuals (people or animals) viewed as agents operating in simulated worlds. The research has broad applications, from understanding brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, to explaining how we choose which political parties we vote for, and how they adapt to increase their appeal to us. Contents: Introduction. Modelling natural action selection Tony J. Prescott, Joanna J. Bryson, Anil K. Seth http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=t492g1hv6x876027 Do we expect natural selection to produce rational behaviour? Alasdair I. Houston, John M. McNamara, Mark D. Steer http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=376r0758h2535773 The ecology of action selection: Insights from artificial life Anil K. Seth http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=b7552510826h88u5 Compromise strategies for action selection Frederick L. Crabbe http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=k233kl08x105608h Action selection and refinement in subcortical loops through basal ganglia and cerebellum J.C. Houk, C. Bastianen, D. Fansler, et al. http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=w4077317t235g045 Cortical mechanisms of action selection: the affordance competition hypothesis Paul Cisek http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=u80m22400060r56r Towards an executive without a homunculus: computational models of the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia system Thomas E. Hazy, Michael J. Frank, Randall C. O'Reilly http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=4172u10225l40707 Multilevel structure in behaviour and in the brain: a model of Fuster's hierarchy Matthew M. Botvinick http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=cmp4015726557200 Is there a brainstem substrate for action selection? M.D. Humphries, K. Gurney, T.J. Prescott http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=lh5k330u4v1k8320 Understanding decision-making deficits in neurological conditions: insights from models of natural action selection Michael J. Frank, Anouk Scheres, Scott J. Sherman http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=v1153m417480086j Extending a biologically inspired model of choice: multi-alternatives, nonlinearity and value-based multidimensional choice Rafal Bogacz, Marius Usher, Jiaxiang Zhang, et al. http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=50v10186675418m1 Biologically constrained action selection improves cognitive control in a model of the Stroop task Tom Stafford and Kevin N. Gurney http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=d224283588250646 Agent-based modelling as scientific method: A case study analysing primate social behaviour Joanna J. Bryson, Yasushi Ando, Hagen Lehmann http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=k622m6tx3715lgw3 An agent-based model of group decision making in baboons W.I. Sellers, R.A. Hill, B.S. Logan http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=60v120716201w758 Spatial models of political competition with endogenous political parties Michael Laver and Michel Schilperoord http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/link.asp?id=m0044hqx84g16020


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Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge posts Instagram videos promising a new dance celebration
During the back end of last season and beginning of 2013/2014 we have got used to seeing Daniel Sturridge's quirky celebration after scoring for Liverpool.
With five goals in six matches, Sturridge has been Liverpool's main man so far and his link up play with Luis Suarez at Sunderland last Sunday suggests it could be a very fruitful season for the England striker.
And, we have seen the Sturridge dance celebration which has also been featured in the new FIFA 14 game.
On Thursday, Daniel Sturridge posted a couple of Instagram videos that suggests he has a new dance celebration up his sleeve.
Sturridge posted on the first one: "New dance coming soon" and both videos appear to show the Liverpool striker and his mates doing a type of bunny/meerkat dance.


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Sure, there are people who there who claim that your hosts harbor a bias this way or that way on the political figures we discuss and the issues of the day. And to the extent that we are not and have never once claimed to be impartial journalists, or anything other than the shadowy cabal of blogger pundits that we are, we're not losing a lot of sleep over this.
Because we suppose we do have a bias: against rank stupidity, and nonsensical, irresponsible blatherings from persons of all political stripes. Today's prime example does happen to be a Republican, and he does happen to be shoveling pure nonsense, and it does happen to be the kind of nonsense you'd expect from, well, a Republican given its ideological bent. Those are facts beyond our control, as the Durango Herald's editorial board picks up the story:
State Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, wants to replace Rep. John Salazar, D-Manassa, as this district's next U.S. congressman. Fair enough. That is how the system works, and without good people to step up and run for office, democracy cannot function.
As for elections setting a course for the country, however, the process works better if candidates keep their campaign promises and policy positions somewhere near reality. And offering to cut the federal budget by 50 percent does not qualify.
Nonetheless the Tipton campaign sent out a news release Tuesday promising to do just that. Nor is there any confusion as to his meaning. In the announcement, Tipton said he has a "vision for a federal government that is half the size and cost that it is today. Half as expensive as it is today. Half as many programs. Half everything!" [Pols emphasis]
That's right, folks. State Rep. Scott Tipton, considered the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for Rep. John Salazar's CD-3 seat in Congress–a seat prominently "targeted" by national Republicans as a pickup opportunity–proposes we just…cut. The federal government. "By half."
So what (the hell) would that actually mean, asks the Herald?
Does Tipton want to stand up in Cortez and advocate closing Mesa Verde half the year? What other federal spending in the 3rd Congressional District would he eliminate? And how many jobs would he be willing to see go away?
Better yet, how would you like to be a fly on the wall when he tells a group of Blue Star Moms that their children, now serving in the armed forces, are going to get their pay, their pension and their government-supplied health care cut in half? That is in addition to getting only half the equipment, ammunition, training, fuel or even food they have now.
Even more interesting might be listening to the explanation at the local senior center about how spending on Social Security and Medicare also are going to be cut by half…
Gosh, and it sounded so good in that press release, so simple and neat, until you actually think about it, Mr. and Mrs. Low-Information Voter. Then, somewhere in the pit of your stomach, it hits them: this is completely crazy! Who out there really thinks a majority of CD-3 voters will get to November, all the way into the voting booth, without ever realizing how ridiculous, simplistic, and unworkable Tipton's proposal to "cut the government in half" is?
And here's the thing: Tipton is not the only "mainstream" Republican candidate in Colorado who has seemingly made it his mission to out-crazy all potential opponents.
Senate candidate Jane Norton's strange statements about Obama and terrorism, and call to eliminate the federal Department of Education, Scott McInnis' call to eliminate the Colorado Department of Ed and join some weird quasi-secessionist "group of states" with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Cory Gardner's flirtation with "birtherism," not to mention the universal embrace of a radical abortion ban this year that failed by over 70% of the vote only two years ago, Arizona's new immigration law that seems so popular today while ignoring the demographics of tomorrow…who among you really believes this is, in aggregate, a platform a majority of Colorado voters would support?
Our guess, even among Republicans, is not very damn many. Most who do defend recent lurches to the extremist (we are using that word very deliberately and objectively) right by Colorado Republican candidates do so with unconcealed cynicism, noting that the "Tea Party" and other radicalized conservatives represent the segment of the population most energized to vote this fall. As for the 'proposals' themselves? We're supposed to accept that this complete whackadoo nonsense coming out of their mouths is either a contrivance or inexperience.
The problem here is not really partisan in nature, either: it's about extremism in general. Extremism does not sell the broader electorate, it repels them. If a Democrat were to propose with a straight face that we go out tomorrow and double the size of the federal government, we would denounce that as similarly extreme and ridiculous. Are there any Democratic candidates in Colorado putting their name on a press release calling for that, though? That would be no.
We keep coming back to something former GOP Rep. Norma Anderson said to the authors of Blueprint: "Republicans have forgotten that politics is a game of addition, not subtraction." The fact is that in Colorado, this lurch to the hard ideological right by Republicans has been going on for a long time, and has done tremendous internal damage to the party. What we didn't expect is that even those who were casualties of that lurch–either in primaries like Scott McInnis, or the general election like Dick Wadhams–have apparently learned nothing.
If that's true, then they remain on same path they have been on in Colorado for the last three election cycles, "wave year" or not: to long-term marginalization.
P.S.: Kudos to the Herald for actually digging into the meat of Tipton's statement and discussing the potential repercussions. It's vitally important that statements from politicians are actually debated by the media, rather than just recited verbatim.


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Lidle mourned at memorial service
Veteran pitcher remembered for the things he loved to do
By Mike Scarr / MLB.com
Cory Lidle's twin brother held up a small smiley face ball and informed the several hundred gathered at the memorial service at Forest Lawn of Covina on Tuesday how a seemingly insignificant toy could be so meaningful at one of the toughest moments.
"This is Cory. He's looking down on us and he is OK," Kevin Lidle said as he stood at the lectern on the partly cloudy and cool morning.
Cory Lidle was killed when the small plane he may have been piloting crashed into a New York City high rise last Wednesday. The cause of the accident that also took the life of flight instructor Tyler Stanger is still under investigation and it also remains unclear which man was at the controls, but Kevin Lidle couldn't be more certain that if his brother had been standing there with him he would have been smiling.
"I'm going to miss him tremendously," Lidle said as he related the story of reaching into the pocket of his brother's leather jacket given to him by Melanie, Cory's widow, and finding the ball. "I'm not ready yet [for the grief] but I'm waiting for that day. I'm going with the flow and I'll see what happens."
The service was held in front of the Mausoleum of Christian Heritage with family members flanking one side of the casket and friends and guests on the other. Three times during the memorial, a trio of private planes passed overhead.
Mourners included manager Joe Torre, general manager Brian Cashman, Jason Giambi and shortstop Derek Jeter of the Yankees and Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson. Former Phillies teammates Randy Wolf and Mike Lieberthal, who was a childhood friend, were also in attendance.
"What we found out today is the friendships he forged early and were still there," Torre said. "That speaks a lot about Cory."
Melanie Lidle spoke briefly at the reception at the Faith Community Church following the memorial and thanked her sister, Brandie Peters, her family, friends, the Yankees and Major League Baseball.
"Lee Jett from MLB made everything as smooth as possible," said Jordan Feagan, Cory Lidle's longtime friend and agent. "The Yankees showed why they're first-class and a world-class organization."
Also speaking on behalf of Lidle was Art Small and son Aaron Small, who was also a longtime friend and Major League pitcher. While the Smalls delivered opening and closing remarks, childhood friends Paul Felberg and Warren Reid, and Peters also spoke.
"It was like we never missed a beat," said Small, who would catch up with Lidle during Spring Training or occasionally on the road.
Small was friends with both of the Lidle twins, and their ball-playing days carried through Little League and eventually into the pros. Cory Lidle played with the Mets, Devil Rays, A's, Blue Jays, Reds and Phillies before joining the Yankees this past July.
Slightly less accomplished but no less traveled, Small has played for six teams over 10 seasons but the relationship he forged with Lidle and the sudden shock that it is now just a memory reinforced how special it was.
"As my son grows up I only pray that he will have a friend like Cory Lidle to grow up with," Small said.
Lidle was born March 22, 1972, and starred at South Hills High School but was not drafted and played for three different Minor League organizations, including a stint in an independent league, before hooking up with the Mets in 1997.
Though he had a fastball that barely topped 90 mph, Lidle worked an assortment of pitches to compile an 82-72 mark and a 4.57 ERA in a career that spanned 10 seasons.
As the elder Small recalled, though, Lidle's fastball had plenty of heat. Small was watching Cory Lidle work out one day, throwing to his brother Kevin, and decided to move from behind a chain-link fence and around to another side for a better view. But as Small stood up and his head cleared the six-foot barrier, he was beaned by one of Lidle's pitches.
"I don't know how long I wore those tread marks," Small said.
Lidle was 4-3 this season with the Phillies before being traded along with Bobby Abreu to the Yankees on July 30 in exchange for a quartet of Minor Leaguers. Lidle's presence was felt, though, at his final stop as a pro ballplayer.
"He is one of those guys that I wish I could have played longer with. He was always positive," Jeter said. "He is a member of the Yankees family; he is a member of the Yankees organization."
Giambi, who grew up with Lidle and played with him in high school as well as the A's and Yankees, was just a few blocks away and waiting for a phone call from Lidle at the time of the accident.
"He had a zest for life and it was exciting to be around him," Giambi said. "He will always be a part of the family."
Lidle's penchant for food landed him the nickname "Snacks" and parked appropriately in the lot at the reception Tuesday was a large In 'N Out truck, serving lunch. The idea belonged to Brandie Peters, which Feagan said was more than on the money.
"He loved In 'N Out. He would have eaten it every day," Faegan said, adding that Lidle used to bug him to get an endorsement from the burger chain. "He never got past just meat and cheese."
Lidle died as he lived. His previous hobby was poker, so strong that he formed an offseason charity poker event to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. That enthusiasm turned to flying, and Lidle was preparing to make a cross-county trek to his California home after the Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs by the Detroit Tigers.
On the day of the crash, Lidle and Stanger had taken off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey at about 2:30 p.m. ET in the Cirrus SR20 that Lidle owned. They crashed minutes later into the 30th floor of a Manhattan condominium on East 72nd Street after making a U-turn over the East River, according to several reports.
Those remain details that will give family and friends closure but will not help define the man they knew.
"It is tragic, but at the same time he was doing something that he loved to do," Wolf said.
The Lidle family has requested that donations be made to the Stanger family in lieu of flowers.
Mike Scarr is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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POLICE in the Vale of Glamorgan are investigating a number of lead thefts from properties across the county.
Sometime between 2pm on Thursday, January 3, and 9am on Friday, January 11, a section of roof lead was removed from Atlantic College, St Donats.
In another incident between Wednesday, January 9, and Sunday, January 13, lead flashing was removed from a conservatory at a house on Eagleswell Road on Llantwit Major, and the property was targeted again between 10am and 4pm on Wednesday, January 16.
Llantwit Major Neighbourhood Sergeant Nick Kihlberg said: "While the offences are not being linked, we have experienced several thefts of lead in the Vale in recent weeks.
"We are appealing for information and want to hear from anyone who may have seen anything suspicious in the vicinity of either property during the times in question."
Detective Chief Inspector Marc Lamerton of Vale and Bridgend police said: "Metal theft is not a victimless crime. As well as from private houses, metal is often stolen from community buildings, which costs tax payers money to replace, and those responsible are often involved in other forms of criminality.
"Metal thieves will literally steal anything in order to sell it on for cash.
"I am sending a clear message to anyone involved in the scrap metal industry that we are taking this extremely seriously and will continue to target those who steal or assist in the disposal of stolen metals."
Anyone with information should contact Sergeant Nick Kihlberg at Llantwit Major police station on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


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MARLINS at PADRES
Time: 5:35 p.m. Game 2 of 3
TV: Fox Sports San Diego
Radio: 1090-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Today's matchup
Marlins LHP Mark Buerhle (1-4, 3.34 ERA)
Buerhle, 33, signed as a free agent with the Marlins last December just days after the Marlins signed Heath Bell and shortstop Jorge Reyes as free agents. He was 161-119 with a 3.83 ERA in 12 seasons with the White Sox. This will be only the second time he has ever faced the Padres. On June 5, 2005, at Petco Park, he allowed seven hits over 7 2/3 scoreless innings, but received no decision. He is 0-3 on the road this season with a 3.26 ERA.
Padres LHP Clayton Richard (1-3, 5.12 ERA)
Richard, 28, is 1-1 with a 1.35 ERA in two starts at home this season. Richard is 1-0 lifetime against the Marlins in one start. On June 25, 2010, he pitched six scoreless innings against the Marlins in Florida. Richard has allowed five homers in 31 2/3 innings this season. He has lost each of his last three starts.
Looking Ahead
Home: 1:05 p.m. TV:FSSD
Marlins RHP Ricky Nolasco at Padres RHP Joe Wieland (0-4, 4.91 ERA)/l
Home:7:05 p.m. TV:FSSD
Rockies TBA at Padres RHP Edinson Volquez (0-2, 2.92 ERA)
Home: 7:05 p.m. TV:FSSD
Rockies LHP Drew Pomeranz (0-1, 4.05 ERA) at Padres RHP Jeff Suppan (1-0, 0.00 ERA)


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Written on: 02/05/2013 by Pjamevery (1 review written)
I placed an Oder & paid for it only to receive an email about 2 hours later informing me they could not fulfil my order due to supplier problems but I woul receive a full refund in 2 days time ! A week later I'm still waiting for my money back & I've sent a further 3 emails to which I am not getting a reply!!! I WANT MY MONEY BACK IMMEDIATELY!! How can you run a business like that?… Read Full Review
Written on: 01/05/2013 by Parksy (1 review written)
I ordered the thank you selection off flowers+chocolates+balloon, before i read the reviews for this site witch concerned me but all these items were delivered OK.Only complaint i could have was they were delivered one day early witch was no problem on this occasion… Read Full Review
Written on: 01/05/2013
I ordered a 'new born' arrangement to be sent on the 10th April 13 and nothing has arrived - even the so called 'red ticket' which was the only reply e-mail I have had from this company. Over a week ago I said it had not (what ever it is?) and to date, no more contact, apart from not one, but two, e-mails to advise me they were moving so delay on delivering - so really double trouble there. Having tried on several occasions to contact by phone, the last being dead on 9am this morning, I held… Read Full Review
Written on: 30/04/2013
My daughter ordered from Bloomin Delightful from Australia for my birthday. When received the box was soaking wet consequently there was no water left in the flowers ( which looked half dead). I was disappointed when I found a price list inside the box and saw how much she had paid for the puny bouquet. There was no flower food, no water and the flowers died after 2 days. On a positive note the Happy Birthday balloon is still up after 6 months. The reason I decided to write now is because… Read Full Review
Written on: 29/04/2013
I ordered some roses as a thankyou to a neighbor, as I am disabled and housebound. My neighbour as done things for me so thought it would be nice to send some flowers. When I asked what the flowers were like my neighbour said they arrived with a thimble amount of water and died in two days. I tried to ring the company but was put in a que and as it was an0844 number decided not to hang on, have sent email but had no reply. Unfortunately I did not see the review until it was to late. I will… Read Full Review
Written on: 26/04/2013
I ordered some flowers with chocolates from Bloomin Delightful for my anunts 80th birthday which cost me about £24. I very rarely see her but thought it would be a nice gesture. I didn't want the flowers delivered the very next day so I emailed them to ask for them to be sent on the saturday of that week - got no reply so decieded to check the site & too my horror saw the dreadfull reviews especially the one from Watchdog! So I rang using the telephone number they provided & surprise surprise… Read Full Review
Written on: 21/04/2013 by DBurnham (1 review written)
I ordered some flowers in the period between Christmas and New Year as a thank you for a family friend. They were ordered on-line with the promise of 24 hours later. After a few days they hadn't arrived - I then tried contacting the company by phone and mail to chase, but to no avail. A day or two later I mailed them again to cancel the order. I then re-ordered from a more reliable supplier who fullfilled the order that day. Over a week after the original order (and despite my cancellation)… Read Full Review
Written on: 15/04/2013
I purchased an order with this company today believing it would be delivered today! The ad is very cunning in respect that they really make it look like your going to get delivery on the same day for free. How sucked in was i ! Then when i tried to contact them you are held on a line for that long you end up putting the phone down. How covenient is that!! Also i payed via debit card and got charged for that, this i believe not correct!! Failing that i e-mailed them and they replied with a… Read Full Review
Written on: 15/04/2013
Let us know what they are like when they arrive.....thats if they do!!!!!!!!!!
Written on: 14/04/2013
I ordered some flowers from Bloomin Delightful for a special occasion on Friday afternoon, with delivery due on the Monday. I had no email confirmation of the order which concerned me. I emailed them that evening, I didn't even receive an acknowledgement. I then searched for the company and found some pretty worrying reviews including one by Watchdog on BBC1. I emailed twice on the Saturday to say that I no longer wished to have the order, unless it was guaranteed to arrive on the Monday as… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/04/2013 by lornamansell (2 reviews written)
Ordered a delivery for a specific date and once ordered and emailed received it showed it could take 1-2 days. So contacted them and they said it wasn't going to arrive today due to the order time. So why allow you to pick a date thats not a possible delivery date. When I rang them they said they would be delivered to the address on saturday or Monday if not they will expect the recepitant to contact them to redeliver or go and collect them for a local depot. A surpise to cheer someone up… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/04/2013
My Mum was sent a replacement arrangement as the one ordered was not in stock.....seemingly they have the right to do this and this would be fine if the replacement was acceptable and not something that left you embarrassed with your gift,they were dreadful and no effort was made to satisfy my grievance . Please do not give your business to this company they are dreadful !!!!!!!… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/04/2013
Snap!!!!!!!!! Where are they getting the flowers from thats what I would like to know..... the company is an embarrassment!!!!
Written on: 11/04/2013
I order from them 1 month ago never got my flowers rang up 5 times and they kepted fobbing me off ... i rang 5 days after when my flowers had been order and i got told i could have a refund but they didnt know when it would be put back in my bank account and its NOW a 1 month and no money and no flowers SHOCKING .. im going to ring them back at 9am today and threaten them with trading standards and see how long it takes them to put the money back in my account they were fast enuff to take the… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/04/2013
I dont think they even care.... I bet you dont get your money back.... if you do let us know!!!!
Written on: 10/04/2013 by dannyj84 (1 review written)
I ordered flowers for my wife to be delivered on a Sunday her birthday, when they haven't arrived I contacted the company via phone and email with no luck. when I finally spoke to someone I was told they use royal mail to post! obviously Royal mail don't deliver on Sundays so why let me book!! This is now a month later the flowers haven't turned up and I have been told as they haven't been returned by royal mail they believe they were received and we are effectively lying, and I will not be… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/04/2013
i have ordered twice from blooming delightful and been very happy with the service… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/04/2013
I think its odd the day that bloomin delightful contact the review center about all the negative reviews a positive one pops up (the 1st positive one in many months.
Written on: 10/04/2013
I do too. I don't believe it. This Company shouldn't be allowed to trade.
Written on: 10/04/2013
How did you know that??? Were you personally contacted too??????
Written on: 10/04/2013
How did you know that??? Were you personally contacted too??????
Written on: 10/04/2013
Bloomin delights asked the review centre to ask me to contact someone called Samantha at bloomin as I put a negative review ( see bloomin terrible review). The review centre said that samantha wanted to resolve my complaint. When I contacted her she was throwing terms and conditions down my neck about the small print. I told her I was confused as I thought she wanted to resolve the issue. She said she didn't and just wanted to check my complaint was genuine. She reckoned that there was loads of false reviews on here, which I don't believe as I know how poor they are. I told her I have complained to trading standards and citizens advice. She then said trading standards had approved her terms and conditions. Shocking customer service. I'm even angrier now!
Written on: 11/04/2013
I was contacted as well I didn't contact Samantha as my solicitors are dealing with them so I didn't want to have to deal with them again after months of harassment because my bank refunded. I believe every negative review on here is 100% genuine after dealing with them and seeing them on watchdog!
Written on: 11/04/2013
I have contacted trading standards & a solicitor about this "company" and have also made sure that my facebook & twitter is plastered with negativity about them.
I also logged a complaint on the BBC Watchdog website, which I thoroughly recommed everybody do, as they have apparently appeared on there before!
Written on: 11/04/2013
Exactly the same thing happened to me but I have saved all my emails, invoice and photos of the shabby flowers sent with emails going back and forth to Samantha and Manager@ and the owner....didn't want to know .... and if they don't believe these reviews are real THEN PUBLICLY CHALLENGE US!!!!!!!!!!
Written on: 25/04/2013
After my solicitors e-mail to bloomin awful, guess what?? An immediate offer of refund! Had they just done that originally I would of accepted that & put it down to bad experience. However they ignored e-mails & spouted t&c's about perishable items blah blah blah, so no deal to the refund, will see them in small claims court!
Written on: 26/04/2013
Well done MRCS 1's..... maybe others will follow !!!
Written on: 07/05/2013
The claim was lodged at court & bloomin awful had until 14th may to respond but looks like they've closed down!! Typical :-(
Written on: 07/05/2013
How do you know they have closed down????
Written on: 07/05/2013
Saw some reviews on here where bloomin awful had contacted them to say they were unable to fulfilling orders which I thought was odd....website down too
Written on: 10/04/2013
Me too. I have been contacted by review centre via Bloomin delightful about my reviews and been told to contact Samantha.... funny that because the last email she sent me she said she couldn't do anything more 4 me.... so why now ehhhh??????????????????????????????
Written on: 11/04/2013
I was contacted by Review centre too asking for me to e-mail samantha because "as a company who take customer service & negative comments very seriously they were very concerned to hear my comments. Thought this was very ironic, given I had sent approx 10 e-mails to them over the last 10 days, while waiting for the flowers (which were completely poxy when they did arrive!) and the hadn't replied, other than standard t&cs balony. I have contacted trading standars, watchdog & a solicitor also as I am absolutely furious! and I too don't believe for one minute that this is a genuine review!
Written on: 11/04/2013
I'm disappointed to say bloomin terrible and their employees are investing too much energy trying to discredit genuine complaints, rather than proactively trying to improve their customer service and the customer experience. Shocking! Don't bother contacting her. She throws t&c's down your neck and makes any angry customer ready to explode. They shouldn't be in business.
Written on: 08/04/2013 by dot0303 (1 review written)
Ordered easter flowers to arrive by easter saturday as advertised on there website .Didnt arrive until six days after.Rang them e-mailed them three or four times just got the automated standard reply .How do these people get away with it wish i had read the damming reviews before ordering.Lets get together and shut down this bogus company… Read Full Review
Written on: 10/04/2013
They have been investigated by Watchdog before in 2009. Call C.A B. 08454 04 05 06 and register your complaint if enough people do trading Standards will have to be involved and also go on the Watchdog page and fill in a complaint.... I have and hope many other people do too. Good luck!
Written on: 06/04/2013
I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my Mum on 27th March 2013. Nine days later and various emails to Blooming Delightful, the flowers arrived at their destination. Rubbish service, no communication, they managed one email per day in reply to mine and kept asking questions which they knew the answer to and which could have been asked all at the same time, obviously they were stalling for time. My husband finally sent a stinker of an email threatening trading standards and the flowers turned up… Read Full Review
Written on: 09/04/2013
hi just read your feed back i order from them 1 month ago never got my flowers rang up 5 times and they kepted fobbing me off ... i rang 5 days after when my flowers had been order and i got told i could have a refund but they didnt know when it would be put back in my bank account and its a 1 month and no money and no flowers SHOCKING .. im going to ring them back at 9am today and threaten them with trading standards and see how long it takes them to put the money back in my account they were fast enuff to take the money but when it comes back to giveing it back they dont know when it will be ..... bad service never will i order from them again !!!!
Written on: 09/04/2013
They have been investigated by Watchdog before in 2009. Call C.A B. 08454 04 05 06 and register your complaint if enough people do trading Standards will have to be involved and also go on the Watchdog page and fill in a complaint.... I have and hope many other people do too. Good luck!
Written on: 06/04/2013 by ML1984 (1 review written)
Having ordered from Bloomindelightful late on the Thursday before Easter weekend, I was surprised to see that they gave an estimated delivery date of Saturday. I was prepared to have flowers arrive on the Tuesday, though I did expect some e-mail confirmation of when the flowers were actually delivered. The flowers did not arrive with the recipient until Thursday. As the flowers were sent by Royal Mail (I have never heard of flowers being delivered with regular post!), and the recipient wasn't… Read Full Review
Written on: 08/04/2013
They have been investigated by Watchdog before in 2009. Call C.A B. 08454 04 05 06 and register your complaint if enough people do trading Standards will have to be involved and also go on the Watchdog page and fill in a complaint.... I have and hope many other people do too. Good luck!
Written on: 09/04/2013
Omg im writing to watchdog right now I order flowers 1month ago no flowers and still waiting for my refund they said I could have ... let all get to gether and get up on watchdog im a single parent and they were fast enuff to take the 24.75 from me but when it comes to giving it back they are shocking !!!
Written on: 04/04/2013 by BloomingDisgusting (1 review written)
I am dismayed to find so many people on this website are in exactly the same position as me. On Thursday last week I put in two orders with Blooming Delightful (what a joke that name is!!) and spent a total of £40. Both were confirmed on the website and by email confirmation as delivery for 29th March 2013. That day came ... and went but no flowers .... no answer from their phone number, no answer to my emails .... now we have reached the evening of 4th April (6 days after my orders were… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/04/2013
Register a complaint C.A.B 08454040506 have assured me this will get passed on to trading standards and if enough people complain they will also have to investigate along with Watchdog who have investigated them in the past.... GOOD LUCK TO ALL
Written on: 04/04/2013
In my experience, as with many other disgruntled customers,you will make a big mistake to order flowers from this bloominawful florist.Flowers have not been delivered after a week, and my email asking for a delivery date has been ignored… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/04/2013
Register a complaint C.A.B 08454040506 have assured me this will get passed on to trading standards and if enough people complain they will also have to investigate along with Watchdog who have investigated them in the past.... GOOD LUCK TO ALL
Written on: 04/04/2013
The worst company I have ever dealt with. Ordered Flowers and a balloon for my friends 30th they didn't arrive on the day requested, have tried calling but no answer. I have emailed but get a bounce back reply. Website didn't except the 10% discount code I put in either. I am gutted spent over £30 with this company and feel very let down. Wish I had read the reviews before placing my order. Will be telling every one I know not to use this awful company. If and when the flowers turn up I'm not… Read Full Review
Written on: 04/04/2013
Register a complaint C.A.B 08454040506 have assured me this will get passed on to trading standards and if enough people complain they will also have to investigate along with Watchdog who have investigated them in the past.... GOOD LUCK TO ALL
Written on: 04/04/2013
They won't let you cancel, says in their T&Cs that as a perishable item, cancellation in not allowed. I ordered flowers last thursday 28th, website showed delivery on Friday 29th,....guess what? still no flowers! Most digusting company I have ever had the misfortune of coming across and like you, wish I'd done some research too. I have been in contact with CAB & trading standards and there is currently a letter from my solicitor en route to them...not that they'll care! How on earth are they still allowed to trade??
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Ken Livingstone tells the BBC that Boris Johnson had 'regular dinners with News International' (source: @PoliceReview).
Yet Ken was more than happy to whore it up at The Sun in 2008. Here he is pretending to be me at my old desk during the London Mayoral race.
Being a hypocrite never looked so desperate.
Update: For a better post on this, take a look at Andrew Gilligan's blog at the Telegraph.


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Ministry of Sound 'The Annual 2006' Released Ministry of Sound, October 31st
'The Annual 2006'
Released Ministry of Sound, October 31st
Ministry of Sound are set to make dance music history on October 31st, as they shrug off those winter blues with the latest funk-soaked installment of their legendary Annual series. Incredibly they are looking set to sell their five millionth copy of the Annual, a testament to the continuing popularity of the genre-defining series.
The Annual 2006, as always, will feature 2 CDs crammed full of this year's biggest chart-topping dance anthems and pop-tinged club hits. Only the choicest dance morsels will do, with CD One featuring two of the biggest tracks of the summer in the form of Tom Novy's insanely catchy "Your Body", and the D.O.N.S chart-storming hit "Pump Up The Jam". You'll be able to transform a bedroom in Deptford to the Terraces at Space with the touch of a button, while DHT's huge "Listen to your Heart" and LRD's roof-raising "Jaques Your Body" are guaranteed to have more than just your Citroen boogieing along. Uber-cool New York producer Armand van Helden turns up the heat with his white-hot anthem 'When the Lights go Down', while Mylo adds some mad-scientist mixing by combining 'Drop The Pressure' with Miami Sound Machine's 'Dr Beat' to produce the awesome bootleg-turned-chart hit 'Dr Pressure'.
And if two CDs of triumphant house hits were not enough, the good folk at Ministry have selected twenty of the most sensational dance videos of the year, and brought them together on one DVD for your visual delectation. From the strip-poker antics of United Nations 'Out of Touch', to the casting-couch shenanigans of Max Graham's 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' (did those boys have the best job in the word?), this DVD is guaranteed to get the lads hot under the collar and the girls practicing their dance moves in front of the TV!
Ministry of Sound launched the first Annual way back in '95, featuring dance must-haves, including Livin' Joy "Dreamer", Bucketheads "Bomb" and the sensational "Hideaway" from De'Lacy. They sold over two hundred thousand copies of the compilation, and began one of the most successful runs in dance history. Since then 'The Annual' has gone on to amass sales of over four hundred and fifty thousand copies each year, bringing the total albums sold to just under 5 million. The Annual 2006 looks set to smash this figure in the coming months!
So if you want to relive some of the biggest tunes of the year or fancy giving your loved ones something more exciting than Rudolph socks in their stocking, pick up your copy of The Annual 2006, when it 's released on 31st October by Ministry Of Sound
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About the Book
When Sugar Lacey arrives in Bigelow, Arkansas, to the women of the town it seems as if "a storm blew in.... A storm walked into their town on two legs in spiked, red patent leather heels." Afraid for their men and their morals, they want Sugar out of Bigelow. But Sugar, who has traveled too far and survived too much in her short life, has finally found a place in which she could put down roots.
To the surprise of the town, and most of all to Sugar herself, she develops a friendship with Pearl Taylor. Pearl, a respected member of the community, carries with her every day an overwhelming burden grief over her daughter Jude's murder fifteen years before. From its tenuous beginnings, Pearl and Sugar's friendship allows each woman to confront the very thing that most haunts her.
In language that is by turns lyrical and stark, and with a cadence that invokes the rhythm of the storytelling to which she grew up listening, Bernice L. McFadden brings vividly to life a 1950s Southern black town. Sugar, her first novel, is a powerful exploration of the sometimes unrelenting depths of grief and despair, the seeds of hope that can grow in even the bleakest of circumstances, and the role that love and friendship can play in helping us find redemption within ourselves.
- Publication Date: January 2, 2001
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Plume


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