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What a bunch of frauds,......Felger
posted at 3/24/2011 10:12 AM EDTThis half wit is actually calling the Max Pacioretty hit "The Big Flop". The guy literally broke his back and he's calling it a flop. While discussing it last night Felger was actually turned upset and called the act reprehensible. Not the hit itself, but the flop and portraying the injury as more than it actually was. I didn't see the same disdain when Paul Pierce was hauled off in a wheelchair only to show up 5 minutes later with a skip in his step. I know he called him out on it because Felger hates basketball but there was no disdain for the act. There were no words used in this town like abhorent or,........REPREHESIBLE. Give me a break,....A WHEELCHAIR!!!! We were all tought how disgusting it is to use a wheelchair unless you need one. And we were all tought how REPREHENSIBLE it is to poke fun of, in any shape or form, cancer patients. Yet most of the HOMERS in this town defended Kevin Garnett when he did just that. The Hypocrisy in the town is UNMATCHED!! stop pointing fingers every single frackin day of your lives and look in the mirror. EVERYTHING you allege, you are guilty of yourselves.


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|(Blue Flag Iris - 06) When we moved into our new home on Sleepy Hollow Lake in 1980, there were many clusters of blue flag iris growing along the 17 miles of shore line. As more and more of the shore line was rip-rapped to prevent erosion, we began to notice a decline in the numbers of blue flag along the shore, so we transplanted a few clusters to our proprty in order to preserve their beauty. The photos in this series are of the ones in our yard. During late spring, several clusters can still be seen in bloom along the lake shore.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 01) This top view of the blue flag iris shows the distinctive petal formation. One stamen is in each of the three larger sections of the flower.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 02) When viewed at this angle, we can see that the blue flag iris has upper smaller petals covering the lower larger petals. It is truly one of God's exotic beauties.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 03) The cell structure of the lower petal (sepal) can be seen in this photo as a dotted matrix.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 04) This photo gives us a bee's eye view of the structure of the upper petal-like style and lower petal (sepal) with the inner stamen.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 07) The name of the blue flag iris comes from the Greek word, iris, which means rainbow, and from the Middle English word, flagge, which means reed or rush. This flower was the favorite of King Louis VII of France who chose it for the design of his emblem which became known as the fleur-de-lis, a corruption of "flower of Louis".
|(Blue Flag Iris - 08) The blue flag iris was cultivated by the Native Americans for medicinal purposes. The rhizomes (roots) were used as a cathartic and, when dried and powdered, were made into a poultice for sores and bruises. God's gift of this amazing "orchid" of the north is something we should all cherish and protect.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 09) We took this photo the end of May after many of the blue flag iris blooms had withered away and new flowers were still blooming.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 09a) This is a closer look at some of the blue flag iris.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 09b) This is another photo of the blue flag iris.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 10) This is another clump of blue flag iris that is growing in the shoreline rip-rap.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 10a) This is a closer look at some of the blue flag iris.
|(Blue Flag Iris - 11) This is another look at some of the blue flag iris.

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Actually Barack Obama has never held a real job in his life. His wife Michelle was the big shot as she was head of Legal Dept for a large hospital.
Part of problem is even poor people are far richer and have it easier than somewhat well off people of days gone by.
My "rich uncle" back in the 1960s had a cheesy split in the burbs, mowed his own lawn and had a 19 inch color TV with a whopping few channels and in the window airconditioner and he drove a 1969 Chevy Impala and his wife a 1967 Dodge.
Rest of us folk had a few kids, lived in apartments with no AC in Queens or Bronx etc, had one black and white tv with rabbit ears and no car.
Today my "rich" uncle would be laughed at. Kids dont know how to jump a car, change a tire, do minor home repairs, properly interact with adults, even know how to answer a phone and go to car washed, have their nails done, maids, lawnservice etc. And this is blue collar kids. New cars leased and Disney vacations. Even "jobs" they have are cushy.
I had a series of jobs in college, janitor, house painter, drove a bull dozer and worse one disposing hazmat stuff by redbagging them. Tons of dead cancer ridden cats, rats, rabbits, mice etc. Demeaning, hard dangerous jobs that made me appreciate school.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A retired Department of Veterans Affairs doctor says efforts to meet national performance measures hid potentially life-threatening delays for patients seeking care at an Austin VA clinic.
The claims by Dr. Joseph L. Spann are similar to ones made against VA hospitals in Phoenix and other parts of the country.
The Austin American-Statesman reports (http://bit.ly/1iXW8Ka ) Spann alleges that the chief of radiology at a VA medical center in Temple regularly asked doctors to change their requested date for ultrasounds, MRIs and CT scans to hide long backlogs for tests required before life-saving treatment can begin.
During a Senate hearing Thursday in Washington, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said any "adverse event for a veteran within our care is one too many."
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I have watched last night's officials over time. If O'Neill is officiating, Iowa State is at a disadvantage.
He makes questionable calls both ways BUT more seem to hurt us.
Bert Smith- I have said it since the first game I saw him "officiate"- Why give him a whistle? He runs up and down the court, he positions well, he has good mechanics BUT he calls NOTHING. 5 calls a game- 2 questionable and one horrible. Consistently. How does he keep a job in the Big 12?
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San Francisco might be Jason Momoa's favorite city, but don't ask if he's running for governor. The tall, bronze-skinned Honolulu native, who stars in Marcus Nispel's new Conan the Barbarian, is well aware that comparisons to the screen's most famous conquering Cimmerian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, are inevitable. And, thank you, he's heard all the jokes.
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At 48, George Lopez has starred in his own hit sitcom, amassed a loyal following over 27 years as a stand-up comic, and, most recently, joined the suddenly contentious ranks of nighttime talk-show hosts with Lopez Tonight on TBS. Why not add a surefire blockbuster to his résumé?
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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — A chaplain's prayer invoking the name of Jesus to open council meetings in a northeast Ohio city is stirring debate over separation of church and state.
For years it was traditional to begin Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) Falls council meetings with quotes, poems or a moment of silence.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1duLI1X ) that changed after councilman Terry Mader was appointed council chaplain in January and began ending his prayer with the phrase, "In Jesus' name, we pray."
Some residents are asking for a general invocation that doesn't single out a particular religion while others are urging the council to keep the chaplain's prayer as is.
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Australia made history by being the first nation to abolish laws requiring companies to pay for carbon dioxide emissions. The country's senate posted a 39 to 32 vote to repeal carbon tax – a law that had been in place less than three years. Elected in September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott campaigned for the removal of the said tax in order to reduce power prices and spur economic growth. Environmentalists see the repeal as an appalling move because they claim it will cause an irresponsible 30 percent emission increase over the next 15 years.
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Heavy auto fuel importation has been a source of political and economic contention in India for years now. According to a leading national spreadsheet, the government is considering a financial incentive scheme worth $2.5 billion for hybrid and electric cars that would help the country save about $11 billion of fuel costs. The Ministry of Finance is pondering on a proposal that pure electric cars be offered a subsidy of 35% and plug-in cars with a single-charge-range of at least 15 km be offered 25 %. Mild Hybrids and strong hybrids would get subsidies of 15% and 25% respectively.
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The decades -old ban on most crude exports from the U.S., now the globe's biggest producer, will be weakened as government rulings allow exceptions, according to analysts. The Commerce Department's approval for Enterprise Products Partners LP and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. to export light oil known as condensate indicate a series of actions that will make the restriction obsolete. The ban, passed in 1975, was a response to the Arab oil embargo that quadrupled prices and caused gas shortages in the U.S. at a time when the nation's crude production was dwindling.
US and China Fosters Carbon Capture Technology
On July 8, delegations from the U.S. and China signed eight partnership agreements to curb greenhouse gasses. Four of these agreements were focused on carbon capture technology. Research institutions and businesses will be collaborating to develop demonstration projects as well as technology sharing. The agreements are the latest step in the relationship between the two nations on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) research and development that dates back to 2005. China is number 2 in the world in terms of active CCS projects. China has 12 large scale projects while the US has 19.
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You hear the term 'rare coin' tossed around a lot. But what really is a rare coin? A wheat penny found in pocket change? Maybe a pre-1964 quarter made of 90% silver, or a Buffalo Nickel…?
In terms of pocket change, these coins are rare. In terms of numismatics, they are not.
The US Mint has been producing coins annually in the millions for nearly its entire existence. For the last hundred years, coins have been produced even at the Branch Mints (currently San Francisco, Denver, and most recently West Point) in the tens or even hundreds of millions. In terms of this scale, coins only available in the millions or hundreds of thousands seem rare.
But they are not. To the experienced numismatist, a coin minted in the hundreds of thousands is rather common. Check out your Red Book, you'll see what I mean.
A truly "rare coin" is one of which there are only about a dozen or fewer.
With coins minted in the thousands or millions, the only way to discern numismatic scarcity or real rarity is through Condition or Variety.
Conditional Rarity
For the most part, collectors love pristine coins. (I happen to love worn ones, too, but I know I'm in the minority.) Based on a few factors, the condition of the minting equipment or coin dies, in combination with mint handling or even circulation, very few coins remain in pristine condition. Heck most coins ever made were not in flawless "70" condition.
Different years and different mints produce differing coins. Just as you most likely don't notice the more common coins in your pocket change, collectors of days passed rarely notice pristine examples of relatively common coins until a few years had passed revealing somewhat scarcer varieties or conditions. Mintage reports weren't published immediately then, just as they are not now.
It may take time for the realization that (for instance) Denver's dimes from two years ago are seldom found in grades of 66 or better. As such, they are conditionally more scarce, meaning that Denver dimes grading 67 or 68 will garner significant demand. Perhaps Philly mint dimes of the same year can be found routinely in 68, meaning the only real demand is for examples of 69 or better. On the other hand, Denver's coins may come more regularly struck Full Torch, whereas Philly's Dimes are seldom found fully struck.
Population Reports
It takes years of roll hunting by both dealers and collectors to divulge these trends, and even then this is must be discovered through a significant population making it through the rounds of TPG submission.
The result of this phenomena are found in population reports.
Many collectors insist on having the finest available examples in their collection. They search out the reports made by TPGs, which may for example show hundreds of certain types of coins exist grading 66, but may find that only 5 grade 68 at the time of the report. Perhaps only one coin in the World grades 68+ (for the moment). The most serious collectors will insist on a 68. The pickiest collector with the right connections and the most money will insist upon and pay for the finest known, the pop 1, that elusive 68+.
Let's look at a pop report:
Now, here's where pop reports get muddy. Every dealer (or collector) that gets a 66 – which in this example have a value of under $1000 due to their relative scarcity – will most likely crack out their 66 and resubmit if they believe the coin could grade 68 and thus be worth significantly more to the discerning collector. And any of the five 68 owners that believe they have an exceptionally beautiful 68+, so they send it in, hoping for that 68+, making a buyer comfortable paying thousands of dollars more.
This skews population reports. There may not be 321 66s (as shown here). Perhaps there are only 249, but a number of those coins were resubmitted and resubmitted again.
Obviously, the TPGs do their best to come to the most reliable conclusion they can. But collectors and dealers don't make it easy for them.
In this example situation, condition creates rarity. Any time a new coin of the exact same type grading 68 or 68+ is discovered, it impacts the value of the pool. This is Conditional Rarity.
And also, by the way – this is a big reason for CAC. They have their own pop reports which are necessarily better than the TPG pop reports. For now.
Another example of even more scarcity in condition is toning. A collector's attraction to toning is subjective, so I'll leave that to you.
Varietal Rarity
The other kind of rarity is varietal rarity.
For many 'classic' US coin collectors, there is not only date and mint mark, but also die state and die variety to consider when collecting.
Every coin die is unique. Sometimes, especially in older coins, it is possible to determine die varieties, die pairings (multiple obverse and reverse die marriages), and die aging through the coin they create.
And yes, some collectors not only collect by date but also to some extent other varieties.
New varieties of even older series are being discovered by the new blood in the collecting world. In late 2010, a new Morgan variety (called a VAM) was discovered for the first time in many years. In 2012, a new Large Copper variety was re-discovered by an avid EACer.
Some Catalogued Varieties:
Fugio: Newman
New Jersey: Maris
Connecticut: Miller
Boston Tree Coinage: Noe
Early American:
Half Cents: Cohen
Large Cents: Sheldon
Half Dimes: Logan/McCloskey
Dimes: Reich
Quarters: Browning
Halves: Overton
Dollars: Bolender or Bowers/Borckardt
Gold: Bass/Dannreuther
Classic American:
Middle and Late Large Cents: Newcomb
Halves: Wily & Bugert
Seated Dollars: Browning
Morgans and Peace: VAM
Modern American:
Cherrypickers Guides
In the same way, varieties' populations are tracked, and these populations are often broken by condition. There you have a monster Pop Report called a Condition Census.
Rarity Scales(s)
Perhaps the most common rarity scale is Sheldon's, though it has been tweaked over the years.
Here is the one I use:
R1: Over 2000 estimated (common)
R2: 601 – 2000 estimated (somewhat common)
R3: 201 – 600 estimated (somewhat scarce)
R4: 76 – 200 estimated (scarce)
R5: 31 – 75 estimated (quite scarce)
R6: 13 – 30 estimated (somewhat rare)
R7: 4 – 12 estimated (rare)
R8: 2 – 3 estimated (nearly unique)
R9: 1 estimated (unique)
As you can see, the scale refers to estimations. It's impossible to have a firm grasp. At any time, another coin could surface. Coin Rarity is never an exact science.
But you can see the fun of owning a coin of which fewer than 100 others are known to the numismatic community! Forget 1909 S VDB, you can have something fewer than 100 other collectors have!
This rarity scale is minor tweak of Jack Robinson's, which is an adjustment of Sheldon's. Pluses designate more rarity (for example, R4+ means on the end of the scale closer to 76) while minuses designate less (R3- means closer to 600 estimated than 200).
There are other rarity scales that work well. Numismatic brain Q. David Bowers created his URS which is very logical but hasn't been universally adopted by collectors yet, though it's growing in popularity. You can read more about rarity scales on Wikipedia.
Varietal & Conditional Combinations: Real Rarity
All this means, of course, if you have an ultra-scarce or rare variety in an ultra-scarce or rare condition, you have a rare coin.
Another thing to consider is pedigree. While a coin is never guaranteed to be the only coin a certain collector had in their collection – they probably had a few as they upgraded through the years – pedigree certainly can make a coin feel a bit more special. This is especially true if it was the ultimate coin in the collection at the time the collection was broken up and sold off. Many hoard coins are a little overblown, but hey – if that's what appeals to you, it's cool by me! Some people can't understand paying big bucks for a 64 that belonged to Eliasberg when there are plenty of 67s out there. Again, that's all up to you.
So the next time someone tries to sell you a 'rare coin', ask him whether it's "R6 rare" or R8. If he doesn't know what you're talking about, there's an excellent chance he's not a seller you want to buy from!


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text: Megan fuelled with 'anger & champagne' 04 Jul 2014 Emmerdale's Megan Macey has had enough of sister-in-law Charity worming her way into every aspect of her life, and on Friday, after a few drinks, decides to vent her frustrations. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast Speaking to This Morning's Eamonn and Ruth, actress Gaynor Faye revealed just how Megan voices her opinion at the grand re-opening of Home Farm.She said: "(Charity) has taken it all from Megan - the brother, the gorgeous Home Farm, the business, everything and it's all going to come crashing down. "Leyla (Harding) said that they are going to go (the re-opening), but I don't think that Megan is expecting the grand event that is going to go on."And they've got this little tiny (wedding) stall, because they haven't had a chance to get it ready and everyone else has got all these balloons, so she feels really embarrassed and humiliated."She's consumed with anger and champagne."With Megan having enough of Charity she makes a spectacle during the event by drunkenly verbally abusing her sister-in-law in front of the gathered guests.And one of those guest is none other than Olympic gold medal cyclist Victoria Pendleton - who has been booked to officially open the site ahead of the Grand Depart of the Tour de France 2014.Gaynor revealed to Eamonn and Ruth the excitement amongst the Emmerdale cast when Victoria arrived on set to film her scenes."It's not every day you get an Olympian on your cast list," she said. "So we were all really like: "Oh, she's here, she's here!" © UTV Share Share Share


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You guys know I've been sharing my weight loss struggles with you for the past year and a half. While I haven't tried every single diet out there like some women have, I've been trying hard to cut out those main killers like sugar and grains. I even went Paleo last year and while it was great at the beginning I ended up falling off the wagon.
So when I was asked to review Haylie Pomroy's new weight loss book The Fast Metabolism Diet I jumped at the chance.
What is The Fast Metabolism Diet?
Even thought it's called a "diet" I really believe this is a great first step into a healthier lifestyle. You will cut out all the bad stuff your body does not need, and feed it tons of delicious and healthy foods.
When you think diet, you also think eating less, right? Well that's not true here. She has you eat three full meals and two snacks a day, and the more you have to lose the more you eat.
Haylie Pomroy has spent more than 17 years helping people lose weight, improve fertility, overcome health challenges and reach optimal health while still enjoying real food and not going hungry!
No needing to count calories, points, or fat grams.
Instead, you simply rotate what you're eating throughout each week according to a simple plan that is carefully designed to induce precise physiological changes that will set your metabolism on fire.
PHASE ONE (two days): Lots of carbs and fruits
PHASE TWO (two days): Lots of proteins and veggies
PHASE THREE (three days): All of the above, plus healthy fats and oils
Repeat for four weeks!
Each Phase focuses on different whole, healthy foods to calm your adrenal glands, reduce stress on your liver, and feed your thyroid so it can produce the hormones T3 and T4, the superstars of a fast metabolism.
You'll reduce stress, too—and as a result, put the damper on the belly-fat hormone, cortisol. By keeping your metabolism guessing, you'll get it working faster.
What kind of food will you be eating?
The Fast Metabolism Diet book has four weeks of meal plans and over 50 recipes including vegetarian, gluten-free, and all organic.
Here's an idea of the meals and snacks you will be eating for the next 28 days.
Does this diet work?
Yes, it really does.
Since I received the book right before we left on vacation, I didn't get to start it until mid April. I haven't yet finished my full 28 days but I'm almost three weeks into The Fast Metabolism Diet and I've already lost 12 lbs.
Fast weight loss might not happen for everyone. I think it really depends on what you were eating before you started the diet. My initial ten pounds was in the first week, just cutting out sugar, white starches, and eating less junk all together.
It works, yes. But it's not the easiest either.
There are a TON of diet restrictions. No wheat, corn, dairy, refined sugar, caffeine, soy, alcohol, dried fruit or fruit juices, artificial sweeteners or anything "fat-free".
Coming from someone who loves food, all kinds of food, it will look overwhelming at first. It does get easier.
Like she mentions in her book, you have to eat five times a day, nothing less. This can be hard for some, but if you plan out your meals and make sure you keep phase appropriate snacks on hand, you will be fine.
Another must do is drinking LOTS of water. You have to drink half your body weight in ounces each day. This is a MUST no matter what diet or lifestyle you lead. Like I've said before, water is key to weight loss.
You may notice an increase in your grocery bill. I don't think it's more expensive to eat healthy, but it does cost more to buy organic and natural products over non-organic and processed meals. In the long run, it's worth every penny.
In the Facebook group I've been apart of since starting the diet, we've found that there are some discrepancies in the book and between the book and The Fast Metabolism Diet App. I'm hoping this is something they will fix with time and reviews.
What happens after the 28 days?
There are a few different options once the 28 days is over. You can continue on and do another 28 days, for as long as you need to to lose more weight. You can choose to do The Fast Metabolism Diet every other mouth, or every 2 (or 3) months. She writes in her book that one of her clients likes to do one week a month.
No matter what you do after the diet this book is a great tool in your new lifestyle, and a great reference for later on.
For me, learning moderation was a big thing in doing the diet. It's something I struggle with especially emotionally eating, but trust me when I say after you eat well for a week then eat even one little thing (like a cupcake) your body will feel it, and most likely won't like you for eating it.
I suggest you crack open The Fast Metabolism Diet book, read it, and start your own journey. Read it again and again each week, ask questions on her Facebook page, and check out the new community forum for advice and tips, and share your own weight loss adventure.
This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/FastMetabolismDiet.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.


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Make no mistake - Fastenal (Nasdaq:FAST) is a great company, and a good play on the consolidation of the industrial supply market. That said, Fastenal's stock carries a valuation more commonly seen in hot technology stocks than in the industrial sector. Consequently, while I do believe Fastenal has a runway to becoming one of the largest players in a market worth over $150 billion, the stock already seems to be assuming a great future.
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In-Line Good Enough
Fastenal just barely made the numbers for its third quarter, and ordinarily you might think that would be bad news for a company with a robust valuation. Whisper numbers had been heading lower, however, and I suspect that there was more than a little relief that underlying fundamentals were actually pretty solid this quarter.
Revenue rose a little more than 10% this quarter. Although that was very slightly below expectations, I suspect investors and analysts will be more encouraged by the recovery in daily sales growth - September sales perked up nearly 13% versus 12% in August.
Profits continue to be a mixed bag. Gross margin slid again (down 30 basis points), but is still in the target zone of 51% to 53%. Likewise, the company is still executing well with its operating expenses, as operating income rose 13% and the operating margin expanded another 60 basis points.
SEE: A Look At Corporate Profit Margins
Still Building the Business
Fastenal continues to increase its footprint. The company contracted more than 5,300 vending machines this quarter, bringing its total cumulative installations to over 17,000. At the same time, while the pace of new store openings has slowed, the company has nevertheless opened 73 so far this year.
Both of these remain key metrics for Fastenal and are core to the company's growth plans. While Grainger (NYSE:GWW) and MSC Industrial (NYSE:MSM) are both growing their vending/dispensing businesses, Fastenal has done exceptionally well with it. Elsewhere, while I think some analysts and investors may make too much of the advantages offered by Fastenal's local stores (it's not as though the stores can carry complete inventories), it does offer an immediate sales channel that the delivery-based models of MSC Industrial and Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN) can't match.
Near-Term Challenges, Long-Term Opportunities
When trying to think about what constitutes fair value for Fastenal, there's always this push and pull between near-term and long-term potential. Right now, the company probably has about 2% share of the huge (and hugely fragmented) industrial supply market. Even if companies like Anixter (NYSE:AXE), Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE:AIT), MSC Industrial and Amazon try to get into Fastenal's wheelhouse (be it through more focus on fasteners, vending machines or what have you), there's ample room to grow.
On the other hand, fastener sales have been slowing a bit. What's more, it's hard to see how the U.S. industrial sector can just keep on growing if Europe and China don't start seeing better economic health relatively soon. Then again, ISM has been improving a bit and broader economic measures are still basically positive.
The Bottom Line
I have no qualms projecting ongoing strong growth for Fastenal, as I do believe it can more than double its market share over my forecast period. The company is years away from saturating its store base, and that's assuming that the company doesn't try taking the concept outside U.S. borders. Even if the company starts seeing less new store growth potential, it will reap better free cash flow from the lower capex demands.
SEE: 5 Must-Have Metrics For Value Investors
Consequently, I'm comfortable with mid-teens free cash flow growth projections, even though I acknowledge that that's a very demanding goal. Unfortunately, even that level of growth doesn't come close to making these shares cheap. At these valuations, I'd be more inclined to buy shares of MSC Industrial (which I do own) or WESCO (NYSE:WCC), though I'd be in no particular hurry to sell Fastenal shares if I owned them (what makes for a good hold is not always the same as a good buy).
At the time of writing, Stephen D. Simpson owned shares of MSC Industrial since 2006.


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Water Smart Home Survey
North Marin Water District offers free Water Smart Home Surveys to its customers. This free service includes indoor and outdoor water efficiency checks, a landscape irrigation system efficiency test and a leak detection test.
Our friendly, knowledgeable survey technicians can show how you can easily conserve more water and save money, and we'll even give you money-saving rebate and incentive information to get you started. Best of all, your appointment can be scheduled at a time that is convenient for you.
Outdoors, we will inspect:
· Flow and leaks
· Sprinklers and irrigation systems
· Hoses
· Faucets
· Landscaping
· Water meter
As part of this program, our survey technicians will teach you how to read your water meter so you can keep track of your own water usage. They will also create a free, custom irrigation schedule based on your particular landscape, designed to save you water and money! Additionally, they will relay rebate and incentive offers to further increase your outdoor water savings.
"Cash-For-Grass" Turf Replacement Incentive
NMWD is offering residential customers a cash incentive for removing automatically irrigated lawn area in their landscapes and replacing with District approved, low water use planted landscapes. The NMWD incentive will pay you up to $50 per 100 square feet of lawn area. The incentive is limited to $400 for single family dwellings, $100 for townhouses or condominiums, and $50 for apartments.
To be eligible for these rebates, the customer must:
- Agree to brief pre- and post-installation inspections.
- Submit replacement project plan to NMWD for review and approval prior to installation.
- Replace the regularly mowed and automatically irrigated lawn with California native low water use plant material (see District Approved Plant List) or District approved synthetic.
- Mulch new landscape to a depth of at least 4 inches (synthetic turf projects do not apply).
- Agree not to re-install irrigated turf in the project area.
- See program application or call the District office for additional eligibility rules.
You are ineligible for the program if:
- The lawn area is replaced with a pool, building extensions, patio, deck or other hardscape feature.
- The dwelling is a commercial building or is owned by a commercial or government entity. (Commercial Cash for Grass rebates are approved on a case-by-case basis. Call 415-761-8944 for details.)
- The replacement project is irrigated with the same sprinklers used to water the previous lawn area.
- You do not own the property where turf will be replaced.
- Your replacement project has a water feature of any kind.
How can I participate?
- Call NMWD's Water Conservation Office at (415) 761-8944 and schedule a brief pre-inspection. Rebates are issued only for projects which have been approved in advance.
- After the pre-inspection has been completed and replacement project has been pre-approved, replace your lawn.
- When your replacement project is completed, schedule a post-installation inspection.
- Mail the completed application to NMWD, along with original receipts for plant materials, mulch and irrigation equipment. Be sure to make copies for your own files. If you hire a landscape contractor, ask that materials and labor be billed separately.
- The rebate will be mailed within 4-6 weeks after the application (with applicable original receipts) is received and the post-installation inspection has been completed.
Cash 4 Grass rebate application (pdf)
Water Smart Landscape Rebate
Efficient landscapes can be achieved through a number of strategies including efficient irrigation devices and equipment, and soil maintenance. You may be eligible for rebates when you install District qualified water efficient landscape equipment including:
· Drip irrigation systems
· Water pressure-regulating devices
· Check valves
· Multi-stream rotating sprinkler nozzles (for lawn areas only)
· Rain shut-off devices
· Mulch
· Soil conditioner/amendment
Rebate amount: 50% of the actual cost of District approved items, up to a maximum of $100 for residential customers.
How to participate: Confirm eligibility during your Water Smart Home Survey, or call NMWD at 415-761-8944 to arrange a pre-qualification inspection.
Landscape Rebate Form
Weather Based Irrigation Controller Rebate
A weather-based irrigation controller, or Smart Controller, is an effective technology for reducing water usage outdoors. Unlike a standard automatic timer that turns water on at set intervals regardless of weather and plant needs, a Weather Based Controller uses weather data and site information such as plant type and sprinkler system output to automatically adjust watering times and frequency. This increases water use efficiency, reduces run-off, and improves the health of your landscape. A Weather Based Controller irrigation system can save 30% or more on your landscape water use, and is less expensive that you might think.
Rebate amount: $100 or $30 per active station up to $1,200 per controller, whichever is greater. Rebate cannot exceed the purchase price of the Smart Controller.
How to participate: Confirm eligibility during your Water Smart Home Survey, or call NMWD at 415-761-8944 to arrange a pre-qualification inspection.
Smart Irrigation Controller Rebate Form
Smart Irrigation Controller List
Large Landscape Water Audit Program
NMWD has an auditing program for Novato businesses with irrigated, large landscape areas. Thorough on-site audits can be performed to make sure that water is being applied efficiently to help reduce the business cost of water, and will include a "catch can" test, flow tests, and irrigation inspections and scheduling. Please call NMWD at (415) 761-8944 to schedule an audit. (Note: Audits may be scheduled from April through July only.)
Large Landscape Budget Program
NMWD has developed large landscape water budgets for all dedicated irrigation accounts. NMWD compiled measurements of irrigated turf and shrubs at these sites and developed budgets based on the calculated area and local evapo-transpiration data. The budget allows those business maintenance staffs to compare the current landscape water use compared with calculated water needs and to prioritize audits at the poorest-performing sites. Currently, all dedicated irrigation accounts receive a letter, shortly after their bimonthly bill, advising them of their water budget performance.Please call (415) 761-8944 to request that the District develop a budget for your landscape sites.
Rainwater / Graywater Rebate
The District has initiated a pilot program to incentivize customers to install systems to capture rainwater or graywater to offset potable water demand for landscape irrigation. The District may rebate approved customer installations of rainwater catchment systems and/or graywater systems. See links below for application and participation procedures.
Rainwater Catchment Rebate Form
Irrigation Efficiency
California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS)
A CIMIS station provides evapo-transpiration (ET) data, or how much water your landscape will use, in inches, either through plant transpiration or evaporation. This data allows you to manage your landscape irrigation by matching the watering times to reflect the current ET rates. To determine how many inches per hour your irrigation system can apply, call the NMWD for a free water smart home survey. The Novato station has recently been relocated to better reflect the local area landscape water needs. The new station is titled Black Point #187.
Demonstration Garden
NMWD's Water Conservation Demonstration Garden is located behind the Administrative Office building at 999 Rush Creek Place in Novato. The garden was designed and installed by local firms and contains popular, colorful, and locally-available, low-water use plants. Visit the garden to get ideas for low water use landscaping at your property.
Cistus Dark Pink
Pacific Coast Iris "Raspberry"
Salvia Leucantha
Demonstration Garden Plant List
More Demonstration Garden Pictures
Garden Guide
Pool Cover Rebate
Pool Cover Information and Rebate Form
Lawn Be Gone
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Hs anyone attempted changing the thermostat "assembly" out on one of these yet? Looks like it could be a pain. If so how much was intailed in doing so. Thanks!
Scratch that. Figured it out. Ain't too bad
I'll assume you are talking about the HVAC unit? First time was a pain, but I've done it so many times now that it takes me 10 minutes to take off the complete console then it's just about unscrewing the unit from the face plate.
No, he's talking about the thermostat... lol
Easy if you have the proper tools. Time consuming if you dont.
How much did it cost? I was looking at replacing the thermostat on mine ... but it seems that the thermostat is like $150 and is part of the housing?
Yea you can't service just the thermostat you have to change the whole housing as an assembly. You either have a housing without a sensor or a housing with a sensor. Without the sensor it is 65$ with the sensor it is 260$ it comes with a seal for the housing and everything already installed.
Can I buy the housing without sensor and swap it in, or do I have to check and then go from there?
Well, Your car either has a housing with a sensor, or a housing with no sensor. It's a bit hard to see if yours has a sensor installed or not, but you can see with a mirror and a flashlight.
where the heck is the thing mounted at LOL
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Matthew Collings & Emma BiggsJanuary 3, 2012
Our friend Matthew Collings, featured in the first issue of our brother publication Matter, and his collaborative partner Emma Biggs will showcase a selection of innovative large-scale paintings at Vigo Gallery from January 13th.
Biggs and Collings: The Whole Earth,Vigo gallery, 13 January – 10 February 2012
"Highly acclaimed collaborative artists Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings are internationally renowned for their works on canvas and in mosaic. Opening on 13 January 2012 at Vigo Gallery, the artists will show a selection of innovative large-scale paintings. Deliberately choosing to promote abstract values, their work reveals a deep understanding of modern and pre-modern art. It connects to the physical, sensual world. They believe colour and form in painting can
produce a structural space that is like observable reality. Instead of depicting recognizable objects they use colour, pattern and repetition to create complex images that seem truthful about the sensation of seeing. In this exhibition, Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings present their most important artistic statement to date, with eight major new pieces which amount to a virtual manifesto of their art."
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"Free Syrian Army units on Wednesday destroyed posts at Maalula and Jabadine held by the army on the Damascus-Homs road after fierce clashes with President Bashar Assad's forces and auxiliaries," the Syrian National Coalition said overnight. The Coalition stressed its "commitment to protect all Syrians, no matter what their religion, race, confession or political belief." (AFP)


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The difference between the three national CRAs and credit scores
Dear Experian,
What are the differences between the three national credit reporting agencies: Experian, Equifax and Trans Union? Is the credit reporting different, and why are the credit scores different?
Dear XOB,
Experian, Equifax and Trans Union compete to sell credit reports and ancillary services. These companies collect, store, and maintain information covering the entire United States and Puerto Rico, so they are referred to as the national credit reporting companies. Innovis is a fourth major company that has entered this market, but it does not yet have the same scope as the other three.
A sometimes confusing fact is that there are also a few local or regional credit reporting companies affiliated with one of the three major companies. They collect, store, and maintain information in the same manner and in the same database as the national credit reporting company with which they are affiliated, so there is often little or no visibility to the fact that the credit report is from an affiliate rather than the major company. However, there are fewer and fewer local credit bureaus because they are being acquired by the national credit reporting companies and merged into their systems.
Another factor complicating the industry is that recent legislation requires the national credit reporting companies to share requests for security and fraud alerts and to maintain a jointly operated Internet site to allow consumers one point of contact to request free credit reports each year.
It is certainly an unusual situation for competitors to work together in such a manner, but the national credit reporting companies have worked together for many years to set consumer assistant standards to best meet consumer needs and to eliminate some confusion by having consistent practices. Certainly, not all services are the same because the businesses are competitors and their systems, processes and policies are developed independently, but there is a shared feeling that we don't want competition to hinder consumer assistance.
While some consumers would prefer the simplicity of having only one credit report, the fact that there is strong competition is considered a positive by many in that it keeps all of the companies working very hard to provide the most accurate credit reports, the best customer service, the lowest possible pricing, innovative and effective tools and additional services to enhance customers' decision processes.
Credit scores are different on each system in part because the national credit reporting companies are competitors with different computer systems. Because they compete, some businesses choose to report only to one or two of the companies, but not all of them. The differences in the data produce different scores.
Most scoring models are developed using data from one system at a time, so there can be variations in the numbers even when the credit reports appear to have the same data. The VantageScore is the only score that was developed to produce exactly the same score on the same data across all three databases.
The other important reason is that there simply are many different credit scores. So, it is possible to have different credit scores because the credit scoring systems used to calculate the scores treat the information differently, or simply have different scales.
You can find much more about credit scores in my previous columns.
Thanks for asking.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, May 18. AFTER breaking 1:00 in the 100-meter back during prelims at the Arena Grand Prix in Charlotte, Katinka Hosszu talks about how she sees prelims as just another chance to swim fast.
Hosszu had planned on beating a 1:00 during prelims, and managed to pull off the swim, while still coming back and winning during finals with an even faster time.
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Studio with WiFi in the City Center
Número máximo de hóspedes3
Tamanho25 m2
Andar no.(com elevador)
- Recebe famílias (com crianças)
- Internet/WiFi
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- Lavadora / Secadora
- Permitido fumar
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The studio is composed of an open space kitchen and living area, has a sofa bed for two and a queen bed and is fully equipped. Comfortable, warm, full of sunlight and quiet as it is facing the back of the building and away from the street noise. The building´s residents are respectful and quiet. There are four big supermarkets only five minutes away by foot.
Tourist, cultural and culinary attractions are within walking distance; there´s no need to use the public transport. The most important museums in Madrid are at hand's reach: El Prado, Reina Sofía, Thyssen, Caixa Forum and many more. You can also leisurely stroll to The Madrid of the Austrias, Barrio de las Letras, San Miguel Market, El Rastro flea market and The Buen Retiro Park.
The studio is located in one of the safest and most convenient areas in Madrid´s city center. You can easily walk or take one of the several means of transport easily reachable. From Barajas Airport, or from Atocha train station you can take the metro to "Sol", "Tirso de Molina" and "La Latina" stations. From there you just have to walk less than 150 meters to the studio.
Loud noises and parties late at night are forbidden.
Security Deposit: €100
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Hemos estado muy bien. El estudio muy bien situado y en perfectas condiciones.
Jose nos ha facilitado mucho la estancia. Es muy amable. Nos encantará volver.
it was a great place to stay in.
located in the middle of the city Madrid,
the place was new and very clean!
fully equipped with a huge refrige, laundry machine,
fan, air conditioner, and all kinds of cookers!
the pool inside the a.p.t was great!
and moreover Jose was a really nice host! ,so kind
! If I visit Madrid one more time, I would like to stay in Jose's place, definitely! thanks Jose!
Nice, modern and fully-equipped flat in a calm yet central area. Super-friendly and flexible host. Fully recommended.
tolle Wohnung, mitten in Madrid.
Gut eingerichtet, hell und sauber.
Fenster zum Innenhof, also relativ ruhig.
Das Beste: ein Schwimmbad im Hof.
Our stay in the apartment in Madrid was perfect. Jose was very friendly and flexible. It was not a problem at all to arrive 3 hrs earlier than 15.00 hrs. Jose is a perfect host. The apartment was like we'd expected, clean and spacious. Just like the photos. The swimmingpool is to good to be true and that in the middle of Madrid. Thanks.
Fantastic place to stay in Madrid center with a nice "cool" pool and excellent service by Jose.
Wir waren sehr zufrieden. Eine phantastische Lage um zu Fuß durch Madrid zu gehen, eine Ausstattung in der Wohnung um gut die Ferientage genießen zu können und ein zuverlässiger, nicht aufdringlicher Service!
Unsere trip to Madrid was wonderful, also because of the stay in Jose's apartement
it was clean, quiet an excellent situated. And of course since Jose is a nice and polite person. Thank you for the hospitality.
Perfect location in the middle of Madrid; everything within walking distance like the Puerta del Sol, Plaza Santa Anna, Plaza Mayor and the Rastro market. The host lives next door and is a really nice person. Downside from our point of view: the small shower and the smallish stairs to the bedroom on the mezzanine. Really big people won't fit.
The apartment is fully equipped. It is spacious, bright and clean and is in a beautiful spot in the middle of the city, near the metro Tirso de Molina. An ideal base for exploring the city. The only disadvantage was the construction of the shower, but if that is repaired, it is an ideal apartment that I can recommend to anyone.
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SOFTWARE HOUSE Google has announced that its self-driving cars have racked up almost 300,000 miles on the clock with no recorded accidents.
Announced by Google in 2011, the project aims to push the boundaries of technology by introducing driverless technology into the real world.
Despite saying that its prototype cars cope well with dodging everyday hazards, Google still has plenty it needs to do before they become a part of our reality.
Engineering lead Chris Urmson explained in a company blog post on Tuesday, "To provide the best experience we can, we'll need to master snow-covered roadways, interpret temporary construction signals and handle other tricky situations that many drivers encounter."
Urmson added that the firm will start letting its test drivers use the vehicles on their own, rather than in pairs, although he said the ability to retake control of the wheel remains paramount while participating in trials.
"One day we hope this capability will enable people to be more productive in their cars. For now, our team members will remain in the driver's seats and will take back control if needed," he said.
Although Google claims there have been no accidents as a result of its driverless cars, one was involved in an incident in August 2011, causing a five car smash-up.
However, the firm blamed this on human error, saying it wasn't in autopilot mode at the time of the collision, suggesting that computers are better drivers than humans. µ
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PHOENIX - Sales for all fireworks start next week but fire crews want to warn public about risks.
A new fireworks law regulates when fireworks can be bought, sold and used in Arizona.
The new law doesn't apply to novelty items: snappers, snap caps, glow worms, snakes, party poppers, toy smoke devices and sparklers.
Captain Jonathon Jacobs says fireworks are a big concern for fire fighter during the summer months.
In the beginning of June, Phoenix Fire Department says a 10-year-old lit off some fireworks that caused her home to go up in flames.
Jacobs says parents need to take precaution.
"We are majorly concerned about supervision," said Jacobs. "We are not talking children watching other children shooting of fireworks, but really having an adult having a strong presence to make sure things are taken care of safely."
Phoenix Fire Department responded to more fires on July 4 than any other day.
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Strategic Development of Neural Stem & Progenitor Cell Products - 2013 Update
- November 2013
- Region: Global
- 113 Pages
- BioInformant
Neurogenesis is the process by which neurons are created. This process is most active during pre-natal development when neurogenesis is responsible for populating the growing brain. Neural stem cells (NSCs) are the self-renewing, multipotent cells that differentiate into the main phenotypes of the nervous system. These cell types include neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. Neural progenitor cells (NPCs) are the progeny of stem cell division that normally undergo a limited number of replication cycles in vivo.
The terms neuronal and neural also need to be defined. Technically speaking, "neuronal" means "pertaining to neurons," and "neural" means "pertaining to nerves, which are the cordlike bundles of fibers made up of neurons." Since both terms ultimately are descriptive of neurons, the scientific community uses the terms "neuronal" and "neural" interchangeably. The complexity of this issue is explored from a strategic perspective within this report.
In particular, when naming products, companies are advised to use the term "neural" rather than "neuronal," both in reference to stem cells and progenitor cells, in order to best position products within the marketplace. Also of interest is that when "stem cell" versus "progenitor cell" publications are compared, neural/neuronal "stem cell" publication rates continue to outpace neural/neuronal "progenitor cell" publications by over 200% over a trailing two-year period.
In summary, an understanding of neural stem cell language and terminology can substantially improve product naming, strategic positioning, and the effectiveness of marketing communications. These subtleties as explored in detail within the context of this industry report.
In addition, the report focuses on: recent advances in neural stem cell research applications; research priorities by market segment; opportunities for profitable product and technology development; the competitive environment for NSC products; detailed market size analysis; market trends and metrics; five-year projections; and the needs and decision-making of NSC scientists.
In 1992, Reynolds and Weiss were the first to isolate neural stem cells from the striatal tissue of adult mice brain tissue, including the subventricular zone, which is a neurogenic area. Since then, neural progenitor and stem cells have been isolated from various areas of the adult brain, including non-neurogenic areas like the spinal cord, and from other species, including humans. During the development of the nervous system, neural progenitor cells can either stay in the pool of proliferating undifferentiated cells or exit the cell cycle and differentiate. The past twenty years have seen great advances in neural stem cell research and applications. Researchers have isolated NSCs, which have demonstrated pluripotency and the ability to differentiate into many different immune system cell types. In addition, NSCs can be regulated both in vitro and in vivo, which represent different commercial product opportunities. Neural stem cells have also become of profound interest to the research community due to their potential to be used in drug discovery and delivery applications, as well as for tools of neural toxicology assessment. NSC transplantation also represents a ground-breaking approach for treating a range of chronic neurological diseases and acute CNS injuries, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and spinal cord injury, among other conditions.
Furthermore, neural stem and progenitor cells offer the potential to safely carry out pharmacology assessment for drugs designed to impact brain function or physiology. As tests on human cells become increasingly feasible, the potential grows for companies to develop disease-specific cell assays by producing recombinant stem cell lines expressing a therapeutic target. As novel drug delivery agents, neural stem cells also show promise in killing gliomas and other cancers. Finally, viable therapies for treating disease through neural stem cell transplantation are also on the horizon for forward-thinking researchers.
Market Segments
To facilitate research resulting from these advances, a large and diverse market has emerged for neural stem cell products, platforms, and technologies. In total, the neural stem cell product marketplace is comprised of the global sales of these items. One thriving component of this marketplace is the segment of companies that sell NSC research products to scientists.
Termed "research supply companies" or "research product vendors," large companies selling neural stem cell research products include EMD Millipore, Life Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and STEMCELL Technologies, as well as more than 40 other suppliers that range in size from multinational corporations to small specialty companies. Together, these research supply companies represent a substantial annual percentage of NSC product sales. Each of these industry participants are identified within the context of this report. As of 2013, EMD Millipore, known as Merck Millipore outside of the United States and Canada, is the leader in neural stem cell product development for the scientific community. A Canadian company, STEMCELL Technologies, is a close second in the area of NSC product development for scientists.
Within this report, profitable opportunities for NSC research product development are revealed. Specifically, competitors looking to enter the NSC research products marketplace would do well to focus their energy on the areas considered highest priority by the scientific community, specifically cell-based therapies and standardized neurotoxicity assays. Due to recent legislative initiatives, interest in the latter is expected to increase significantly in the next several years. Furthermore, companies looking to enter the NSC product market could also focus their efforts on areas in which available products are not yet optimized for use with rat or mouse neural stem cells. Or, research supply companies could choose to focus product development on areas where human neural stem cell products are not yet available, although there would be some necessary work-around due to patent restrictions. Companies could also develop products for which there is little market competition, such as hESC-derived neural progenitors, kits for analysis of NSC differentiated progeny, NSC blotting and nucleofaction kits, and PCR arrays. Finally, companies could choose to explore varied sources from which to potentially derive neural stem cell products, such as human umbilical cord blood and derivatives of neural rosette cell lines.
In addition, pharmaceutical companies also have intense interest in neural stem cell product development. Because of their plasticity, ability to develop into the main phenotypes of the nervous system, and unlimited capacity for self-renewal, NSCs have been proposed for use in a variety of pharmaceutical applications, including:
- Neurotoxicity testing
- Cellular therapies to treat central nervous system (CNS) conditions
- Neural tissue engineering and repair
- Drug target validation and testing
- Personalized medicine
- And more
While development of therapies that involve embryonic stem cells (ESCs), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) continue to expand, development of neural stem cell therapies has been more substantially affected by barriers to entry, including patent restrictions, the dominance of current competitors, and the complexity of neural stem cell applications. Nonetheless, within the area of NSC therapy development, there are currently three dominant competitors, which are Neural Stem, NeuroNova AB, and NeuroGeneration. In addition to those companies, there are also more than a dozen other companies actively developing NSC therapies for use in the treatment of human injury and disease.
For this reason, development of NSC products by the pharmaceutical sector also represents a thriving segment of the global NSC product marketplace. Of particular interest to this community is the potential for use of NSCs to heal tissues that have a naturally limited capacity for renewal, such human brain and spinal cord tissues.
Furthermore, within the pharmaceutical sector, development of new drugs is extremely costly and the success rate of bringing new compounds to the market is unpredictable. Therefore, it is crucial that pharmaceutical companies minimize late-stage product failures, such as suboptimal pharmacokinetic properties or unexpected neurotoxicity effects, that can can arise when candidate drugs enter the clinical testing stages. To achieve this, it would be highly desirable to test candidate drugs using in vitro assays of high human relevance as early as possible. Because NSCs have the potential to differentiate into nearly all of the main phenotypes of the nervous system, they represent an ideal cell type from which to design such neural screening assays.
In summary, the unifying factor within the NSC product marketplace is that all companies involved need to understand market forces, trends, metrics, and financials, in order to out-compete the competition and make more profitable decisions. Producing NSC products can involve complicated and confusing decisions, but it doesn't have to.
Claim this report to reveal the current and future needs of the NSC marketplace, so you can focus your marketing efforts on the most profitable products, in the most promising research areas, and within the most lucrative domestic and international markets. Your competitors would prefer you didn't buy this report. But when you do, you'll be gaining invaluable stem cell market insights to help you control and dominate this market.
Methods and Methodology
As a technology company, the authors standard techniques derive market data from sources that utilize high-quality primary research inputs. The following constitute the basis for this research and analysis:
- Preliminary Research - Examination of studies that need further confirmation by the scientific community, using extensive secondary research.
- Fill-gap Research - Selectively sampled and focused primary research as a fill-gap strategy.
- Historic Analysis - Historic analysis of all end-user industries/markets, requiring technology and market evaluations, growth projections, and market size estimation of end-user markets.
- Historic Supply Chain/Raw Materials Analysis - Comprehensive analysis of data for each primary market segment.
- Data Consolidation - Merging historic end-user market data to yield consolidated primary market data.
- Cross Linking - Primary market data (historic) is compared with resulting end-user consolidated market data and the variance in percentages between data sets is calculated by year.
- Variance Determination - A median figure for each year with a tolerance range equal to twice the variance percentage is determined.
- Projections - End-user markets are projected forward (typically 2013-17) based upon historic growth, technology and market trends, and primary research from the market place.
- Variance Factorization - Consolidation of projected end-user market data to yield derived primary market data. The data is adjusted to the historic variance determinations, as above. The resulting data is further verified by confirmatory primary research.
- Confirmatory Primary Research - Resulting data is presented from companies or individuals participating as research partners. Variations from derived data are adjusted to reflect primary research based consensus.
- Electronically Based End-User Surveys - In addition to the methods described above, electronically based end-user surveys are utilized. Surveys are distributed to a comprehensive panel of academic and industry representatives working within the market segment of interest.
Furthermore, the market intelligence contained in this report was compiled using a broad range of sources, including:
- Grant Funding Databases (NIH database, DoD database, and more)
- Patent Databases (USPTO, WIPO)
- Scientific Publication Databases (PubMed, Highwire Press, Google Scholar)
- Product Launch Announcements (Trade Journals, Company Websites, PR News Feeds)
- Financial Data (SEC Filings, Investor Relations Packets)
- International Surveys (Electronically Distributed End-User Surveys)
- And More
Finally, a rare and valuable feature of this report is an end-user survey of 240 researchers (91 U.S. / 149 International) that identify neural stem cell research as their core research focus. These findings reveal NSC researcher needs, technical preferences, key factors influencing buying decisions, and more.
Scientist survey results include:
- Emerging trends within the NSC research sector
- Insights into NSC product selection, purchasing decisions, and preferred providers
- Crucial trends and unmet market needs within the NSC marketplace
- "Tested Sentences" for selling to NSC scientists
- Breakdown of the marketing methods used by industry participants
- And much more
Leverage these insider insights to make effective product development decisions, create targeted marketing messages, and produce higher prospect-to-client conversion rates.
In summary, growth in stem cell research has exploded over the past two decades, and so the market to supply NSC products and technologies has grown to meet this huge demand. The proliferation of neural stem cell research since 1992 has opened the floodgates for forward-thinking companies to enter a unique product and technology marketplace. Neural stem and progenitor cells are the keys with which researchers are unlocking some of the most destructive human diseases and the cells' future potential is bright.
Key Findings Include:
- Charts, Trends, and Metrics for the NSC Product Market
- Analysis NSC Grant Rates, Scientific Publication Rates, and Patent Rates
- Market Size Quantification for NSC Products
- 5-Year Market Size Projections (2013-2017) for NSC Products
- Profitable Opportunities for NSC Product and Technology Development
- Consumer Behavioral Patterns and Preferred Providers
- Preferred Species for NSC Research
- Crucial Trends and Unmet Market Needs
- End-User Survey of NSC Researchers (91 U.S. / 149 International)
To profit from this rapidly expanding market, you need to understand your key strengths relative to the competition, intelligently position your products to fill gaps in the market place, and take advantage of crucial NSC product trends. Claim this must-read industry report to optimally position yourself to sell NSC products. SHOW LESS READ MORE >
A. Language and Definitions
1. Neurogenesis
2. Neuronal vs. Neural
3. Neural Stem Cells vs. Neural Progenitor Cells
B. Brief History
C. Regulation of Neural Stem & Progenitor Cells
1. In vitro Regulation
2. In vivo Regulation
D. Product Background
A. Basic Research
1. Developmental Biology
2. Adult Biology
B. Drug Discovery Applications
C. Drug Delivery Applications
D. Neural Toxicology Assessment
E. Neural Transplantation
F. Brain Tumor Research
A. Overall
1. Cell-Based Therapies
2. Standardized Neural Toxicology Assays
B. Breakdown of Neural Stem Cell Research by Disorder
C. By Segment
1. Academic
2. Biotech
3. Pharma
A. Key Neural Stem and Progenitor Cell Patents
B. Additional US Patents
C Additional European Patents
A. Clinical Trial Analysis
1. Frequency by Year
2. Geographical Breakdown
B. Grant Rate Analysis
1. Historical Analysis
2. Future 5-Year Projection
C. Patent Rate Analysis
D. Scientific Publication Rate Analysis
1. Historical Data
2. Future 5-Year Projections
3. NSC Research Frequency Relative to Other Stem Cell Types
E. Geographical Analysis: Domestic vs. International Status
1. Number of NSC Labs, by Region of World
2. Percent of Total NSC-Specific Research Funding, by Region of World
A. Definition: NSC Product Market
B. Experimental Approach
C. NSC Research Products
1. Market Size
2. 5-Year Market Projections
D. NSC Therapy Market
1. Market Size
2. 5-Year Market Projections
A. EMD Millipore
B. STEMCELL Technologies
C. AlphaGenix, Inc.
D. R&D Systems
E. Cell Applications
F. SA Biosciences
G. ScienCell
H. Neuromics
I. Amaxa
J. Life Technologies
K. Sigma Aldrich
L. StemCells, Inc.
M. Lonza
N. BD Biosciences
A. Neuralstem, Inc
B. NeuroNova AB
C. NeuroGeneration
A. Academic Labs
B. Private Labs
C. Commercial Labs
D. Government Labs
A. Product Categories
1. Neural Stem Cell Lines & Neural Tissues
2. Neural Stem Cell Kits
3. Media: Maintenance, Differentiation, Expansion, & Freezing Medium
4. Growth Factors
5. Markers for Neural Stem Cells & Differentiated Progeny
6. PCR Arrays
7. Nucleofection Tools
8. Neural Toxicity Assessment
B. Product Suggestions
1. Neural Toxicity Assessment Products
2. Species-Specific Opportunities
3. Areas of Underdeveloped Competition
4. NSCs Derived from Novel Sources
5. Novelty Cells Types, such as Neural Rosette Cells (R-NSCs)
A. Survey Overview
B. Characterization of Market Survey Respondents
1. Geographic Distribution of Respondents
2. Respondent Breakdown by Industry Affiliation
3. Breakdown of Respondents by Duration of NSC Research Activity
C. Survey Findings
1. General Scope
2. Comparison of Providers / Brand Preferences
3. Marketing Assessment
D. Terms Used in Online Product Search


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