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In part one of this post titled, How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000), I wrote about how I came about the idea for the e-commerce website that I started, grew and sold, while on an international work-related trip.
The article goes in depth explaining the formulation of the idea, the facts I gathered about my industry during research, and an analysis of the product supply chain, which eventually lead to the value proposition (the business idea).
I then discuss the journey to search for a product distributor who would become my business partner, how and where I found one, as well as the establishment of the e-commerce portal itself.
This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience.
I hope you find this discussion beneficial and of some value to you as you embark on similar entrepreneurial ventures.
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There were several more challenges encountered in conjunction with this project, once we were in operation, and as a result several invaluable lessons were learned.
One of the biggest lessons I learned is when going into business that requires heavy technical work, such as the e-commerce website (programmed in PhP) we ran, it is better to find a programmer that will work with you on a profit sharing basis rather than payment per task.
Website Programming
A one and done programmer can disappear overnight on you, leaving you with no one to turn to for immediate help. If you are running a blog, you can get away with less frequent technical help. But when you are running a website with over 1,000 different products that change frequently (in size, quantity, branding, name, description, etc), as well as one that demands consistent improvement in process and technology, it is almost impossible to provide an ideal user experience without full time help by your side.
Finding a programmer who will work in exchange for a vested interest is difficult; the alternative is to have and be willing to fork out dollars constantly for work you want done on your website.
Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC)
We didn't have the slightest idea about search engine optimization (SEO), so we focused on PPC to drive traffic to our website. If you ever get into PPC, make sure you spend ample time studying quality material discussing what it is and how to execute it effectively. If you can't do it, hire someone who knows what they are doing.
PPC marketing can be very exciting, addictive and lethal at the same time. I almost lost my shirt doing this. I still don't understand PPC marketing well enough to this day to be able to make a killing from it like some internet marketers do, and that's why I only do it for one of my niche content websites. I spend a mere $10 a month on it, mainly because I haven't found anyone else in the niche and therefore am able to generate a relatively high revenue to expense ratio or return on investment (ROI).
The site I use it on has been up for over two years and so far so good. I am keeping my fingers crossed but I know that it is just a matter of time before some competition catches up. Pardon the tangent.
Business Automation
Another lesson learned is to automate a business as much as possible, particularly one that involves several types of products and a constant back and forth interaction between you (the business) and the buyer (the consumer).
Here is an example why: my partner supplier had millions of dollars worth of merchandise in the warehouse, but the merchandise mix (both product and price) changed frequently. This became a nightmare for us. Updating inventory prices and quantities became like a full time job in its own.
We brought in a couple of programmers and paid them to do some work to sync the website's product database to the warehouse inventory system. However, because the warehouse inventory system was such a manual process (manually updating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets), we now had to rely on the hourly warehouse employees to update the spreadsheet timely and accurately. You can guess what happened.
Growth is Not Always Good
Most companies want to grow, as did we, but growth should be planned so that it can be managed when you get there. When growth is unplanned for, it becomes unmanageable and you find yourself putting-off fires instead of proactively planning for and preventing them.
Instead of operating from a proactive approach, you relinquish control and become reactive to externalities, which at times make you completely helpless. This often leads to inefficiencies in the short term and disaster at some point down the road. Luckily as you will find out below, we were saved from disaster. However, we did encounter several painful inefficiencies.
For example, because our inventory update system was flawed, our website would indicate that product A is available and that we have 15 pieces of it in stock, 10 of product B and 5 of product C. Because our customers were mainly resellers, they typically bought each product in large volumes.
What started to happen frequently as we grew was that customer D would order 20 pieces of A, 15 of B and 10 of C. This had a few implications. First, we were not able to fulfill the entire order and therefore have an unhappy customer.
Second, because the website processed payment upon ordering immediately, we now had to refund money for the product we didn't have. Not only did this take a lot of time to do, but we also had to incur credit card processing fees for refunds. Not to mention an unhappy customer. Credit card processing costs money per transaction, whether it is a purchase or a refund.
What also started to happen frequently is because the warehouse inventory wasn't reflected full time on our website, customers would view a product and not buy it because the website would show it as not available when in reality we could have 100 pieces of it in the warehouse. I know this because many of our customers emailed us asking when we would get more of product E, F and G. Lost sales from ready to buy customers on available items absolutely killed me.
In an attempt to fulfill customer demands, I started buying my own inventory, and a lot of it. Because I didn't want customers to turn back unhappy, I tied up my own cash flow in perishable inventory. This was a huge risk. One bottle of designer perfume can cost anywhere between $15-100, and I had a ton on hand.
This is not only detrimental from a cash flow / working capital perspective, it is also a huge risk. Think about potential inventory breakage and obsolescence. I was also spending a lot of time analyzing which items sold most and during which seasons so I could plan my inventory purchases accordingly. A big time consuming activity.
Because of the entire mess collectively, we saw that our membership renewal rates were down the following year. Many refused to renew their memberships and others wanted a prorated refund before even a full year of their membership was complete. I don't blame them. Why would I pay Sam's Club an annual fee when they don't have the items I want half the year?
In addition, we had six Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaints from unhappy customers. Suddenly, our operational risks "creeped" into becoming reputational risks. I know from experience that if we were to continue down this path, we would have potentially faced lawsuits. BBB complaints to attorneys are like blood to sharks.
Bottom line is that our membership was growing much faster than we had anticipated and we were simply not equipped with the PPT, or personnel, process and technology to make things work the way we wanted to. Sure we were making money, and volume was increasing (both sales and memberships), but the work and potential risks involved were becoming more than we were willing to burden.
Partner Diligence
Finally, I learned that you should be very careful in selecting the partner you choose to work with. I see more partnerships fail than succeed, and there is a very good reason for that. Partners must share the same vision and hold the same values and characteristics necessary to succeed in any venture.
For example, if you are determined, know how to persevere and don't give up easily, select a partner who has the same track record as you. When one partner looses patience, or gets fed up because of obstacles that come your way (and they will no matter what business you decide to go into), there is a tendency to start getting frustrated, pointing fingers and giving up.
Take your time in selecting your partner. It is not easy finding one who has similar motivations as you and who can perform at a level you want to perform at. Perhaps that is one reason why most of my side gigs are self-operated ventures.
The best way I can summarize the root cause of ALL challenges we encountered was that although I took my time to research and develop a solid idea upfront, I jumped the gun on the execution. I aimed and fired without having completely researched or being ready for what came ahead. Maybe the first-mover anxiety got to me?
One fine weekend afternoon I received an email indicating interest in our business, and whether we were open to discussing the potential sale of it.
I wasn't thinking about a sale at this point, so I didn't know what to make of the message right away. I sat on it and talked it over with my partner over the next few days. We realized it would be best for us to sell the business and move on, and perhaps try a similar concept down the road, except this time much better prepared before launch.
So about a week later I wrote the sender back asking for more information. I researched his company and came to learn that at the time he owned the second largest Ebay store. If you are familiar with how Ebay works, in addition to auctioning items, you can also have a store on Ebay's platform. There are however several restrictions that Ebay imposes on you, such as restricting you from routing visitors to your personal website outside Ebay.
The buyer had initially indicated that his team was interested in establishing an online presence. They did not have their own e-commerce website and relied on Ebay for their online sales. If you are familiar with Ebay's commission and fee structure (not to mention its payment system PayPal charges its own commissions), it is much more expensive to do business on Ebay than it is on your own website using your own credit card processor or merchant account service.
After a few more back and forths I started the due diligence process, except this was a seller side due diligence, or SSDD. Just a year before this, I had conducted buy side due diligence (BSDD) when I acquired a physical, local business in my community.
The sell side due diligence process involved preparing financial statements and getting them audited and opined on by a local accountant (CPA), hiring a local attorney to prepare the sell side documents including the main contract, which included indemnification clauses and customer disclosure requirements, researching an escrow company to hold funds during the transaction, a full list of assets included in the sale as well as transfer procedures for each (such as the back-end customer email list database), analytics accounts, email IDs and the DBA (the business name). I also contacted the State of Incorporation of the business for corporate dissolution documents and an employee identification number (EIN) transfer.
To ensure customers remained in good hands, I researched the buyer further by contacting them anonymously, purchasing a product from them and then subsequently complaining as a disgruntled customer, as well as researching them on the internet for any dirt I could find. After the process, I was comfortable in their credibility and knew our customers would be in good hands going forward.
The website was generating approximately $60,000 in annual earnings or profit at the time, and after toggling around we agreed on a sale price of just under $250,000, which is approximately four times the annual earnings or EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), a term frequently used in the business community, specifically in the mergers and acquisitions industry.
To ward off a bit, a niche content website generating the same amount of revenues would have sold for more than four times its earnings. That is because a content website is less time consuming to manage, and does not involve "heavy" offline expenditures and hassles such as inventory, warehousing costs, supply chain, etc. Content websites also tend to generate more free traffic organically from search engines rather than relying on paid advertising like many e-commerce websites do. Remember, I almost lost my shirt in PPC marketing!
As the sale date approached, I realized more and more that the buyer was not so much interested in our website as he was in our customer database. They had clearly done a net acquisition cost analysis on a per customer basis and decided that they were getting a good deal buying essentially 1,500 customers for $250,000. At this point I was kicking myself knowing that I could have made more on the sale! You will see why below.
Although not directly related to this article, this is an interesting concept to highlight. In the 90s, there was a trend in the corporate world where one company would buy another one that was not profitable but had a large amount of operating losses from previous years. Corporate tax accounting rules allow companies to deduct operating losses from previous years in years of profitability. Back then, buying sinking companies because of their large loss carry forward balances was allowed, and everyone started doing it until the government realized and modified the legislation.
Think about this for a minute. Let's say company A sucks, has $20M in losses from previous years and is no longer making money. Company B is a profitable rock star company and has no loss carry forward from previous years. Let's say company B makes $40M a year.
Since company A doesn't make money, company B feels they can buy company A at a greatly discounted price. They are most likely right in that assumption. Company A is a sinking ship and is looking to get out. Company B offers $5M to acquire it and company A agrees. Let's see what this transaction does for both.
Company A cashes out and avoids continuing losses. Company B makes $40M a year and pays collectively 40% of its earnings in taxes (Federal, State, City, County / Local all combined). Because company B bought A, it can now deduct company A's carry forward losses of $20M from its current year income of $40M, arriving at a net profit of only $20M.
So instead of paying 40% tax on $40M, which is $16M, it now pays 40% tax on just $20M, which is $8M. So by paying $5M to buy company A, company B ended up saving $8M in taxes, a net saving of $3M on the whole gig. Is $3M worth all that hassle???
Did the buyer care about my website? Maybe or maybe not. But they did get what they wanted, and that is loyal, regular and recurring customers at a dirt-cheap per customer acquisition cost.
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Long after the sale, when my mind was finally a bit relaxed and off the roller coaster emotional ride, I was convinced the buyer bought our website for its customers. It enforced my realization that they were not at all interested in the e-commerce platform that we had created, but rather the underlying asset which was our list of 1,500 loyal, regular and recurring customers (similar to carry forward net operating losses).
Think about this from the buyer's perspective. They essentially paid $166 per customer acquisition ($250,000 divided by 1,500 customers). This is genius. How much are you willing to pay to acquire a customer? I guess that depends on the industry you are in.
After several discussions with my now ex-partner, I learned that in the wholesale designer fragrance market, the lifetime value of a good customer can exceed hundreds of thousands of dollars. Grant it that my ex dealt with bigger fish, but still.
When I thought about it from the buyer's perspective, they could easily make $166 back on just one single sale to a retail customer, let alone a wholesale one. It all started coming together. Although the buyer may have been looking to establish an online presence like they said they did, I am convinced that the customer list was the main driver of the acquisition.
Should we have persevered and hung on? I don't know. What could have, should have, may have, I really don't know. All I know is that it was a blast. It was a fun and adrenaline pumping roller coaster ride from start to finish (also quite taxing especially when we started really growing). It gave me a true taste and appreciation for entrepreneurship in its purest sense, and I realized all-time high satisfaction levels in my "entrepreneurship career".
Sure, the sale also gave me the ability to brag about a quarter million dollar sale at a bar / nightclub (how do you think I picked up my wife?), however, if you break down the money earned to an hourly wage, I am willing to bet that someone flipping burgers at McDonalds likely makes more with a lot less stress. But see others just don't realize that – I bet you didn't? But now you do.
I had caught the entrepreneurship bug, and I warn you, it is pleasantly malignant!
P.S. NO, that is not how I found my wife.
If you have not read part one of this series, you may have been lost from the get-go.
It's a very interesting story and as I read it, I think of the differences between an ecommerce website and an info product website. While there are certainly benefits to both, an info product site appeals to me much more.
Thanks for sharing.
Brandon – Sir I too prefer niche websites / info based websites. They are less headache and easier to get up and running. I currently have multiple, all of which are profitable and are ranked high for relevant keywords. That said, ecommerce has its own adrenaline pumping characteristics, so much that I am toying with my next ecomm idea. Hope to see you at the Extra Money Blog!
good differences in both types .
Misbah Mumtaz
Thanks for being so candid in this article. It awesome when someone shares their stories about owning a website.
By sharing in such detail, I find that I further reinforce my understanding about the subject matter. Welcome Justin
Thank you for sharing this article. Although I have no desire to open a major online ecommerce site (at least not at this time – maybe someday I will change my mind) these lessons are ones we can all utilize in our businesses.
Bang On Denise. The beauty of entrepreneurship is the underlying lessons that are so intertwined no matter what specific project we are talking about. There is always something to learn
Seemed as of though you put in a lot of work back then..but that what it takes to make it tot he top..
"Black Seo Guy "Signing Off"
We are all going to work in some shape or form at some point in our lives right? Might as well put just a bit more extra and do it early to reap long term rewards 🙂 Any thoughts?
LOL. Awesome article! 🙂
I think it's especially good to plan for automation in the early stages of your business, so you don't need to go through too much trouble later on.
A lot of great lessons here. 😀
Allen – only if I knew back then what I know now. But then again, anyone will say that at any given point in their lives right?
Sounds like you speak from experience. What are some of the projects you are involved with?
Well, mostly blogging, affiliate marketing, and information products…
Sometimes, growth without proper planning can be a really bad thing. Planning ahead really helps
I know Manuel I know. You can hit me in the head with a coconut and I swear I won't complain.
But it is also true that some of the most valuable lessons in life are learned the hard way!!!! Such as I did
This is very interresting and this give me motivation and its like a line that i wanna reach to.
Again, very nice and thank you!
"Hej" Andrew – Welcome to the blog
I hope I got my Swedish right?
Hello 🙂
Yeah man. You got it right.
Sorry for late reply, haven't been able to do so much with my slow internet.
Im going to read more in your site.
Keep up the good work 🙂
That was a long and very interesting reading.
I'd like to mention de PPC part.
Newbies think that PPC + Adsense = Millions. And that's really an awful plan. They jump into PPC marketing without any knowledge -not even a bit of Adsense Optimization- and that leads to losing money and the guy or girl telling others you can't make money online.
Think before doing anything. Everything must be planned.
Great post.
totally, totally, totally…if someone tells you that again, feel free to send them to me and I can tell them how I almost lost my shirt and found myself on the streets. not literally…but you know?
Yeah sure! Next time once I finish with him/her I'll pass him/her to you haha 😀
Hi Sunil this is really interesting story. I want to read your first post, but I don't know why there is 404 message there. Can you tell Yaro to fix the link?
I have emailed Yaro and his crew. I am hopeful they will get on it quickly. Kindly check back. Good to see you back again
Hi everyone,
The links have been fixed! Apologies for any inconvenience.
Thanks kindly (Semmy & Sunil) for letting us know.
Steph (E-J editor).
Thanks for getting those links fixed for us Stephanie so quickly as well!
Thank you Steph!
Hi thanks Sunil. You have really interesting story. I think I can learn form your story. Learn from your mistake.
This is a great post. I am glad you shared your story because many great lessons can be learned.
Thanks so much,
You are welcome Karen. What are some of the projects you are involved with? I am trying to get an idea what everyone in the audience is interested in.
Owning a website and making it big needs a lot of hard work and good planning, keep up the good work.
Yes – as well as any other business. If there is one thing I've learned well in life, that is that there is no free lunch for anyone
Especially nowadays with any online business with so much competition…
but that also means more opportunity for some of us. definitely more pressure to differentiate between competition…
You were never ashamed to admit that there are downsides in an e-commerce business and I love how you worked on your success. Thanks for sharing your story. You'll be an inspiration to me.
Golden Boy – I would have never known success without having failed first. Glad to be of help. Looking forward to seeing more of you
Thx for sharing this. selling e-commerce quite interesting
Sunil, great inspiring post. Just goes to show if you are willing to take the right actions and stick with it, you can reap the benefits later.
Dwight Anthony
Financially Elite Blog dot Com
Thanks Dwight, and you are exactly right on persevering. Nice blog you've got as well. I am surprised I have not seen you on my blog – we have some level of overlap in our audience.
Sunil you should be congratulated for the honesty and warning here as so many people think setting up a business, getting people to run or design it, and automating it, will mean simply sitting back and enjoying the fruits of it all in no time are WAY off beam. You point out the flaws and glitches and show that the unexpected and unplanned is always waiting to break out so be prepared, have a Plan B, and even expect it to happen. Or, mind your own business!! Stellar stuff Sunil.
John – thank you. Yes unfortunately many are after that magic bullet that let's them sit back, relax and collect. That is all possible, but not until due effort is invested upfront. You are absolutely correct.
Thanks a lot john. This is an excellent Post indeed.
Sunil, you have taken lot of time to explain about selling an ecommerce business. I have to appreciate for your time.
[…] UPDATE: Part 2 of the story has been published and can be accessed here. […]
Thanks for the article, this story inspires, the first part was great too.
Great article. Congrats on your success. This is a real partnership project and as you say, everyone involved must have the same goals and vision for any such partnership to succeed.
Great, article part 1 and 2. Learned a lot from this. Had no idea so much work is involved in building a drop shipping eCommerce business.
Sunil, A Very Nice Experience Sharing. You have mentioned nearly almost all the challenges , though i think there is more on the Procurement side. Fake/imitation products coming from china market. Secondly, warehouse Space capturing requirements. I liked the experience you shared on the PPC (online marketing). This is a big concept and many budding entrepreneurs makes the same mistakes. Thanks again for the post.
Great documentation of your first effort into e commerce. I really enjoyed reading it.


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Last month while campaigning in Iowa, First Lady Michelle Obama asked Barack if he was sneaking fried Twinkies in Iowa.
Now we know our self-appointed food czar enjoys snacking on the tasty treats herself.
What hypocrisy!
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Last month while campaigning in Iowa, First Lady Michelle Obama asked Barack if he was sneaking fried Twinkies in Iowa.
Now we know our self-appointed food czar enjoys snacking on the tasty treats herself.
What hypocrisy!
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HA! I knew she looked rounder lately!
Mooch wearing the darned table cloth again
September 17, 2012
Zuhdi Jasser: America in 'Cold War 2.0 with an Islamic flavor'
["What we're seeing now I would basically look upon as Cold War
2.0 with an Islamic flavor," said Jasser, the founding president of
the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. "We have let them
define who we are. We have let their media define that America is
the enemy and everything is to blame on the West and that has
allowed them to avoid fixing their own condition."
"And yet, when they do try to fix their own condition, like the Syrians
and the Egyptians and the Tunisians have, we have gone and helped
the wrong people — the [Muslim] Brotherhood, the Islamists."]
Iran Egypt Turkey offer way to remove Assad, what Syria needs
is a Syrian solution, the region should offer a strong prospective,
not imposed..
I just gagged on my lobster thermidor and truffles. Hand me a Big Gulp while they're still legal.
Well we know Moochelle has been sneaking into the Peking Garden restaurant at late night, just by judging the size of the rickshaw she's pulling.
This trick looks like something we'd see in a cage. Also, her ahz is a wide as Kansas. Don't tell me this hypocrite eats LOTS of veggies. They are, undoubtedly, the ugliest first couple in my generation, maybe of all time.
Oh really? And she had me convinced her ass was expanding strictly from arugula salads.
KK: It's either a table cloth or the interior of a 53′ Plymouth when she dresses up. If there's a Twinkie (not Barry) involved, it's the table cloth for sure.
Chewy needs her calories.
September 17, 2012
Video emerges of Sydney girl promoting jihad
[Eight-year-old Ruqaya yesterday addressed a crowd at the
Australian chapter of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bankstown as part of
their "Muslims Rise" conference, Nine News reports.
Ruqaya spoke of her love for jihad, which means a spiritual
struggle or holy war, the global Islam community, known as
Ummah, and the violent uprisings in Syria.
"These uprisings have demonstrated that this Ummah is alive
and well, that her sentiments are for Islam, her love is for Jihad,
she has unshackled herself from the fear which she held," she
"Children as young as myself can be seen on the streets joining
the uprisings, risking their lives to bring food, water and medicine
to their wounded family members, some of them never returning
to their mothers … Nobody is too young."]
please note: police were tipped off by MUSLIMS beforehand..
Fried Volkswagons too.
Sometimes when I make fun of Moochilin Man eating twinkies I wonder if I am wasting my time with inconsequential things. Like, why am I so filled with hate over such a small thing. Then I remember how the LIEBERALS attacked Laura Bush for a hit-and-run murder, and how they lied about having videotape of Nancy Reagan having sex with a rottweiler. THEN I KNOW WHY WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR POWDER DRY
If you want to see Moochie as of how she will age in the future, look no further than her hometown of Chicago and the head of the teachers union, Karen Lewis…..
Of course M.O. won't eat the veggies, she knows what's in the peas, carrots, rice et al.
'Instead of putting genetically modified foods through proper trials as consumers have been demanding for years, it appears the United States Department of Agriculture in alliance with the Chinese government have instead chosen to secretly test their latest GMO rice on young Chinese children. What's particularly interesting is the fact that the agencies decided they even needed to test the rice, after claiming that GMO rice and all other GM creations are virtually identical to natural foods.'
US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice on Children
Is this why M.O. is pushing 'healthy' foods to schoolchildren? It's just a tesy of GMO foods for all we know.
Well aware of Michelle and her great pride she takes in this nation.{sarc}.
hypo CRISY
With 7 weeks or less until election time, I JUST WANT TO SEE THE TWO LOSERS OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE.
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Michelle Obama: 'Instead of Pointing Fingers and Placing Blame, Barack Got to Work'
just barf up that veggie sandwich, mo.
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Michelle Obama: 'Instead of Pointing Fingers and Placing Blame, Barack Got to Work…on his short game.'
Duh. Have you seen her ass? (By ass I mean her butt, not the ass she hangs around with,)
You don't get a derriere that size eating vegetables. Vegetables are for the little people.
just a sample: #7 – page 3
Michelle & Mother Khadijah
[Barack Obama got his start as a radical organizer. He's maintained
associations with individuals who clearly represent the farthest-left
activists one can find in America. We're not talking about famous
liberals like Ted Kennedy or Joe Biden, we're talking about neo-Marxist
radicals like Bernadette Dohrn and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Now
we're seeing connections to top-level activists for Hamas. This is not
about judgment, though that's how most commentators will play it; it's
about who Barack Obama really is. It will only take so many of these
associations before we can state categorically that Barack Obama is
not a centrist of any kind, but a full-blown neo-Marxist in sheep's
clothing. America, beware.]
[Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo,
Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the
US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all
its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising
efforts for his newest cause – Barack Obama for President…..]
Among the notable individuals who helped Farrakhan organize
the Million Man March were Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, and
Barack Obama. (#23 – page 2 – Farrakhan)
Obama knew all about Farrakhan
[Ten years after first stepping foot in Wright's church, in October
1995 Obama accompanied Wright to Farrakhan's "Million Man March."
The following year, in January 1996, Farrakhan returned from another trip to Libya. It was the same month in which Barack Obama became an Illinois State Senator. By then, Obama had been attending Rev. Wright's church for ten years, the latter five as a committed member. The New York Times reported:
Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, visited Libya this week to meet Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and discussed how to "unify, mobilize and organize" American Muslims for elections in the United States this year.
Colonel Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, quoted by the state press agency, said: "Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today we have found an opening to enter the fortress and to confront it from within."]
bit more of much more here (#18 – page 2) & here (#4 – page 3)..
I know we should not speak ill of our black FLOTUS….but……
Her phat ass needs to sit down somewhere. LOL!
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Here are 95 examples of Barack Obama's lying, lawbreaking, corruption, and cronyism: http://tinyurl.com/95examples
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It's campaign season, time for the Wookie to come down from her high horse, stop lecturing Americans on every little thing they do and eat, and start acting like she's "one of us," just another down-to-earth, junk food-loving American.
I can hardly wait until that b**ch moves out of our White House.
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Meanwhile, under Her Majesty's new school cafeteria program, 6′ 5″ high school football players who practice for hours must do so at only 850 calories max if they buy school lunches.
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State Sen. Karin Housley
State Sen. Roger C. Chamberlain
Guest Writers
Schools have the important job of preparing children to face the challenges of the 21st century. To accomplish this, they must have the resources and facilities to meet students' educational needs.
We believe the time has come, in the Forest Lake School District, to repair the existing facilities and provide safe, secure and dependable schools for students, both now and for generations to come.
The district has done its homework and offered a reasonable plan to do just that. It's brought together a diverse coalition of business leaders, parents, labor and community associations to provide our children with an educational environment that is second to none.
This plan and bond request will be brought to the voters on May 20. The funds will go solely toward maintaining and improving existing buildings.
It's been more than 16 years since voters passed a bond that allowed the district to make major improvements and necessary maintenance. It's clear that district facilities are badly in need of repair and upgrades, and that safety and security improvements are needed.
We support this effort and believe it will be an educational and economic benefit to the community for years to come.
Again, we believe this is a smart and reasonable request, and we encourage all Forest Lake area residents to vote on May 20.
– Karin Housley (R-St. Mary's Point) represents Senate District 39. Roger Chamberlain (R-Lino Lakes) represents Senate District 38.


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Tendulkar opened the batting for Lashings World XI in a 40-over charity game against Cambridge University and smashed 155 off 110 balls.
A crowd of around 2,000 turned up at Fenner's to watch Tendulkar in action, cheering when he came out to bat.
And he was mobbed by autograph hunters as he headed back to the pavilion.
He was eventually out in the 30th over, caught at mid-on, off the bowling of medium-pacer Ben Jacklin, who finished with 1-74 off five overs.
New Zealander Chris Cairns then delighted the crowd with a 57-ball unbeaten 113, including nine sixes, two onto the pavilion roof.
Tendulkar opened the batting with former West Indies captain Richie Richardson and faced four bouncers in his first over.
But while, Richardson, Greg Blewett and Phil Simmons all got out to balls keeping low, Tendulkar went through his full batting repertoire to give his shoulder a good work-out.
He had fortune on his side as he was dropped four times but treated the capacity crowd to a batting masterclass, hitting 25 boundaries and three sixes.
Tendulkar will play five matches for Lashings as he resumes batting after missing seven one-day matches against England and the ongoing tour of West Indies.
He is attempting to be fit to play for India in a triangular series against Sri Lanka and South Africa in August.


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Lawson says in a statement that she is 'disappointed but unsurprised' after Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who were accused of defrauding her and Charles Saatchi, are acquitted.
Nigella Lawson's former assistants, Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who were accused of using Lawson's ex-husband Charles Saatchi's credit cards for personal use, have been acquitted of all charges. The verdict was delivered in a London court on Friday, December 20.
The celebrity chef slammed court system in a statement following the acquittal. She wrote, "I am disappointed but unsurprised by this verdict. Over the three-week trial the jury was faced with a ridiculous sideshow of false allegations about drug use which made focus on the actual criminal trial impossible."
"My experience as a witness was deeply disturbing. When false claims about habitual drug use were introduced I did everything possible to ensure the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) was aware of the sustained background campaign deliberately designed to destroy my reputation," Lawson continued.
"I did my civic duty, only to be maliciously vilified without the right to respond. I can only hope that my experience will highlight the need for a reform that will give witnesses some rights to rebut false claims made against them," she continued, adding, "Even more harrowing was seeing my children subjected to extreme allegations in court without any real protection or representation. For this I cannot forgive the court process." The celebrity chef also thanked people who supported her during the "difficult and upsetting time."
The Grillo sisters previously were said spending $1.02 million on luxury items and vacations using Saatchi's credit cards without permission. The two, however, claimed that Lawson authorized the use of the credit cards to buy their silence concerning her recreational drug use.


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Regular lightbulbs are far too boring. Why choose them when you can have this awesome Darth Vader Lego lamp?! As you would expect, the light source is his lightsaber. You can use batteries to light the room, or you can power the lamp with your computer via a USB cord. The Force might work, too; it's worth a try. And since the lamp is a basically a 7.5″ Lego figure, it's poseable! I might have to switch to the Dark side.
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On Monday, IAG joined a growing list of companies issuing hybrids to retail investors with $350 million in convertible preference shares.
The new issue is to replace an existing hybrid called reset preference shares which forms part of their tier-1 capital.
One challenge for IAG is that from 1 January next year the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority wants financial institutions it regulates to comply with the Basel III capital requirements. But they haven't yet finalised what these are.
"Even if we wanted to right now we couldn't come up with an instrument where they actually gave us a stamp of saying these comply," said IAG CFO Nicholas Hawkins.
APRA has said any capital instruments that don't comply with the new rules when they do come out will be amortised down at 10 per cent per annum. That means over time they will steadily reduce as a component of a n institutions' regulatory capital.
To reduce the risk of not complying, IAG worked with APRA over the past five months to ensure the new preference shares were close to what they think the new rules are going to be. As a result they expect that even if the CPS doesn't comply with the new rules, it won't be amortised.
"They can't actually stamp it and say yes that's all fine," said Hawkins. "But to get a better outcome on transition, APRA has required IAG to include 'non-viability clauses'. Any financial institutions that want to obtain 100 per cent credit for tier one instruments will have to include these.
"That means in certain circumstances when APRA deem IAG non-viable, APRA can cause these preference shares to convert to ordinary shares - that's a new concept for Australia," he said.
The CPS mandatorily convert to ordinary shares in seven years, but Hawkins said they would then have an option to repay them and issue a new instrument.
"So our view is this instrument is how all financial institutions will be issuing their financial instruments going forward - this will be the new norm."
He said the recent hybrid issues by the banks potentially will not qualify as tier one capital next year.
However, he points out that IAG is not issuing as regularly as the banks.
"Things are a bit different for them, they are regular issuers to the market and so they may just come back to the market with different instruments," he adds. "We're not. So it was a more material issue for us because we're not regular issuers – we didn't want to find out from 1 January that this instrument didn't comply."
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While most government workers face lean times, increased efficiency dividends and stripped down budgets, Airservices' workers will be trimming down in their onsite gyms.
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But the controllers' performance in getting to the gym has been less impressive; 575 of Airservices' 900 Brisbane workers have signed up as members, but they only managed about four visits, on average, in the three months until September 30, 2013.
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Last month Alexis Schroeder of East Bethel, won the National Junior Miss title at the Young American Miss International pageant in St. Louis, Mo.
This particular competition is a natural pageant, meaning no make-up on girls under 12 years old, no spray tan, no fake hair, teeth or nails and all clothing must be age appropriate.
It is a sister pageant to Dream Girls USA and is judged based on a preliminary application, photo, community service, patriotic wear and formal wear.
"When I'm competing my favorite part is showing the judges my personality," Alexis said.
Her community service has included volunteering for Feed May Starving Children, Kids Against Hunger, Alzheimer's Association, National Eating Disorder Association, Family Pathways, Presbyterian Homes of Arden Hills and toys for the Lions club Christmas project.
Alexis, who is eight years old, will attend third grade at Isanti Intermediate School this fall. She is the daughter of Dustin and Nicole Schroeder.
While representing Young American Miss International this year, she will focus on Feed My Starving Children and Family Pathways. Alexis would like to help children in her community and also abroad, making sure they have food to keep them healthy, she said.
"I like volunteering because I can help people and it makes us both feel great," Alexis said.
She will bring awareness to these organizations and her title by being in parades, making appearances, volunteering and fundraising, according to Alexis.
While competing in St. Louis, Alexis's scores from the patriotic wear were combined with the prejudged scores for application, photo and community service. The top five then went on to the formal wear competition.
Alexis achieved top overall score and was crowned Junior Miss, with comes with a bouquet of roses, crown ring, sash, crown and $350 cash. She was also awarded with a plaque for having the top application score.
Alexis's mother Nicole says this has been a great experience for her daughter, who has gained confidence and poise while being involved with the pageant.
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Alexis competed in her first fundraising pageant in November 2011. She then competed in the Dream Girls USA state pageant in 2012 and was crowned Supreme Print Model. At the 2013 Dream Girls USA state pageant she was crowned Queen of Queens, a title that goes to the girl that has the most well-rounded reign from the previous year.


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So all that stuff yesterday about a nice GTO or Charger SRT8? I might have to just leave that in my dreams for a while. Sometimes, things aren't about me. Chris wants to have a vehicle for trips. But she can't tow the travel trailer. It's just too…much. So, we need to dump the trailer and get something she can drive. I may have found it, but it's not an enthusiast's vehicle.
A local car dealership has a 1982 VW Vanagon Westfalia for sale. The price is steep at $17,000, but it only has 50,000 miles, and the dealer says its very clean and in very good shape. The price is about par for one of these things, and their pretty much unobtainable in the normal course of things. Looking around the various used car sites, I see there are a grand total of five of them for sale in the continental US this evening. So, let's run through the pros and cons of this little gem.
Pros: There actually are several. It's a real camper, with a fridge, stove and refrigerator. The pop-top makes it roomy enough to stand up inside. Gas mileage is pretty good, at around 28 MPG. It's small enough to use as a daily driver, and large enough to be a little house. It will allow Chris and I to take little trips without the effort of hooking up a huge travel trailer. And Chris can drive it by herself if I can't go. You can actually load it up with stuff so it's got a lot of practicality for Costco runs and the like.
Cons: Well, let's not beat around the bush about how much of a turtle this thing is. It's powered by a 1.6L I4 diesel that puts out 48 HP. Yes. 48. Not 148. It's not a typo. It'll do 0-60 in a geologic era. Top speed? I dunno, 60 MPH maybe. On level ground, of course. No air conditioning. Four-speed manual gearbox. It'll have to be religiously maintained, because it's 30 years old. Fortunately, it's the same diesel that was in all the VWs of the era, as well as the Audi 80/2000. So, spare parts won't be completely unobtainable—though not particularly cheap either.
It's really a car for Chris. She told me she was sure I would take her car and buy a GTO with it. Ordinarily, she'd be right. If she didn't want a little camper she could drive, I'd never even consider it. But I love her, so we're going to take a look at it first thing in the morning, and I might just trade in her Spyder and buy it for her.


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Foreign Minister John Baird is getting some action from a right-wing women's group for his unequivocal support of the human rights and civil liberties of homosexuals in Russia and around the world. Mr. Baird and the Harper government should rest assured most Canadians find REAL Women's criticisms off base.
Who does John Baird think he is, Gwendolyn Landolt, vice-president of the association, asked indignantly in a press release Wednesday, "using taxpayers' money to promote his own personal agenda and endeavouring to set standards of the laws of foreign countries?"
As foreign minister, Mr. Baird serves as this country's spokesman and global ambassador. His efforts to highlight the abuses of human rights -- lately, the passage of anti-gay laws in Russia -- express the deeply held values Canadians have enshrined in statutes, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Based on the foundation of tolerance and respect, they are laws to emulate.
If Ms. Landolt sees that as a personal crusade, it is she, not John Baird, who is out of touch with her country.


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By David Tereshchuk*
June 13, 2013—Only last year, hope was beginning to rise that Darfur, Sudan, might finally be on the way to a better life. After a decade of brutal conflict, and shocking slaughter of civilians, peace agreements appeared to heralding a period of recovery. Tens of thousands of people were voluntarily leaving the region's internally displaced persons' (IDP) camps and returning home to start rebuilding their lives. It was only a tiny proportion of the camps' overall population, but the return inspired considerable optimism.
Now, though, fresh violence has bedeviled the process. In April this year, clashes broke out again between the Sudanese Government and rebel forces in East Darfur State. The fighting, especially in and around the town of Labado, sparked a whole new surge in population displacement – people leaving their homes and seeking greater safety elsewhere within East Darfur State and South Darfur State.
Many of the fleeing families were drawn to El Daein, East Darfur's state capital, and have been staying in the city's El Neem IDP Camp, which is already home to nearly 60,000 people. The new arrivals have been swelling that population at an estimated rate of 2,000 households per month (perhaps as many as 12,000 new individuals).
At the request of Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission, the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has begun providing emergency shelter for the new IDPs, with funding from the United States' Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance channeled through its partner agency, Catholic Relief Services. UMCOR is well placed to carry out work on the ground for this project, having operated effectively in El Neem since 2007. UMCOR has been negotiating with state authorities over the building of new emergency shelter units.
UMCOR's head of mission in Sudan, Juliet Stein, says that with the government reluctant to provide new plots of land for the additional IDP influx, "the new shelters will have to be squeezed in alongside existing families and share already allocated plots."
There is great urgency in UMCOR's push to provide its targeted total of 3,000 new emergency shelter units. Darfur's rainy season is just beginning, and many of the new arrivals currently are sleeping out in the open. According to the mission's Darfur operations manager, Dismas Agoro, "The heavy rains can promote pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, as well as diarrhea. Mosquitoes proliferate in the rainy season, too, so the malaria risk is also heightened."
UMCOR's approach is to employ a model for the shelters' design that has been developed with involvement by representatives of the displaced populations themselves. These families also will erect the shelters, with guidance from shelter extension workers. Woven grass mats held together with strong cords on a framework of bamboo poles will form the shelters' main structure, and while the rainy season lasts, plastic sheets also will be used. Once the rains end, the sheets will be folded when dry and stored until needed again.
Ongoing shelter maintenance will be a priority too, with education and training offered to residents to carry out their own repairs and replacement when needed.
There is a special and serious concern that needs to be addressed in the camp. Stein reports that "El Neem is unusually vulnerable to fire." Thousands of temporary homes are already placed very close together, a condition that will be exacerbated with the new construction. "It just takes one family," says Stein, "to have one member be somewhat careless—since they cook on open flames—and a fire can spread really fast through the camp." Instruction in fire prevention will be a vital part of the program.
In these challenging circumstances, UMCOR and its partners in Sudan will make every effort to provide for, as Agoro describes it, "family needs in a strange land far from home."
Your gift to Sudan Emergency, UMCOR Advance #184385, will help. Thank you for your support.
*David Tereshchuk is a journalist and media analyst. He is a regular contributor to www.umcor.org.


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Hi all,
I've known about freesound for awhile now but just hit a question on licensing. This is mostly theoretical but it got me thinking -- can you sell a game or app (with proper attribution) that is using sound clips as a focus part of the app? Let me give an example and what sparked the initial discussion -- a friend demonstrated his iphone app that made various noises (belching, etc.) and it got me wondering if you could use sounds in this manner under the cc license. This kind of usage seems a bit different than a short sampling in a movie. Thoughts?
I think I answered my own question:
Your Derivative Work(s) must only make a partial use of the original Work, or if You choose to use the original Work as a whole, You must either use the Work as an insubstantial portion of Your Derivative Work(s) or transform it into something substantially different from the original Work.
In other words, unless the play revolves around the police siren, you're fine.
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The Killeen Food Care Center received 103,000 pounds of food during last month's annual Food for Families drive, but it's only a fraction of the 2.3 million pounds distributed to clients this year.
Ann Farris, co-director of the pantry, said its largest food drive helps provide about 1,500 Thanksgiving and 500 Christmas baskets on top of its regular operations.
The center is supported by 20 local churches, grants, H-E-B, Walmart and Sam's Club and other donors.
Farris said nearly 40 percent of the center's donations come from individuals.
The center also depends on Capital Area Food Bank for contributions and food purchases. The nonprofit agency in Austin provides food to more than 300 partner agencies in Central Texas.
According to its website, Capital Area provided more than 22 million pounds of food to its partner agencies in its 2012 fiscal year.
Sara LeStrange, spokeswoman for Capital Area, said the Killeen Food Care Center received more than 900,000 pounds of food in 2012 from the food bank.
The Food Care Center receives three kinds of donations from Capital Area — Hope packages, which are free and designated for senior citizens; fresh fruits and vegetables, which are also free donations through Capital Area's Fresh Food for Families program; and the weekly orders it places.
Farris said the center pays a "small maintenance fee" for its orders with Capital Area Food Bank.
LeStrange said the "shared maintenance fee" helps Capital Area share the costs of things like keeping large freezers running so it can continue to aid as many organizations in Central Texas as possible.
Farris said through its partnership with Capital Area Food Bank the food center can maximize its dollars because $1 provides seven meals.
Nearly 80,000 people depended on the Food Care Center in its 2013 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30 — about 6,000 more than the previous year.
No requirements have to be met to receive food from the center. Anyone with a need can benefit from its donations.
"Our goal is to stand in the gap for families who are hungry," Farris said. "If someone is hungry, they can have food."
Clients can use the center once a month and receive enough food to provide three meals a day for 10 days.
Farris said about 25 percent of the people who visit the food center are one-time users, and about 20 percent are military, which she said is a "hot-button topic."
"People will say 'Well, they have a job; why do they need food?,'" she said. "Well, a good number of them are young, they have families, and sometimes a significant number of children. Sometimes they just make decisions that back them into a corner. Things just get tight sometimes and they need our help."
In the food center's 2013 fiscal year, 3,101 clients were military; a decrease from 7,418 in 2012 and 5,277 in 2011.
Over the past five years, the center distributed food to an average of 68,412 clients annually. Of those clients, 22,589, or 32 percent, were families.
The center has 55 regular volunteers who help facilitate the process as individuals go through the warehouse selecting food.
"It's not complex work," Farris said. "Usually, it's just a matter of teaching someone what happens at the station they will be working. They make sure the people get what they need."
Several volunteers are retired military officers and several more are teachers.
"For the most part, our volunteers recruit each other," Farris said. "They tell their friends. It's mostly through relationships that we recruit volunteers."
On average, the center costs $305,000 per month to operate, Farris said.
Part of the pantry's operations include keeping an eye on food safety.
Farris said although it is possible for spoiled food to be distributed, it's rare and monitored closely.
"We follow the food guidelines that are provided by the (Bell County) Health Department," she said. "The health department also does routine announced and unannounced inspections of the facility."
She said temperature gauges on the freezer and coolers are read twice daily to ensure proper operation.
"Our fresh fruits and vegetables come from Austin on a trailer," she said. "We go through them when they arrive and throw out anything that can't be used. The rest is put out for our clients to take."
The toughest months for the food pantry are June, July and August, Farris said.
"That is when children are out of school," she said. "They don't have access to free or reduced lunches like they did during the school year. So the need increases during the summer months."
The number of clients increases by an average of 128 per month during the summer.
Farris said the center plans for times of increased need "the best it can," but sometimes it comes up short.
Since Farris and her husband, Gerald, began running the center in 2005, there have been two times when the food bank struggled to meet demand.
"Twice we have been significantly short and needed help," she said. "The community responded with donations. They stepped up and helped us out."
Killeen's steadily growing population also presents the center with challenges. When Farris started, she said there were about 40 families going through per day. Currently, the average caseload is 130 families per day.
"The challenge is huge in terms of a growing populations," she said. "A lot of times it's people just coming into town and they don't have a job yet, or they are trying to pay all of the deposits you have to pay when first moving."
Farris said most of the time the need is temporary, but for some residents it becomes a long-term need.
"As our challenges continue to grow, so does the support we receive," she said. "This is a faith-based ministry. We exercise our faith in terms of having enough to take care of these people, and when there isn't, we ask for help. That's when the community responds."


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Only God knows your friend's heart, and whether or not he had truly believed in Jesus and given his life to Him. But the Bible also warns us against false belief -- thinking we have turned to God, when in reality we haven't.
How can this happen? Jesus warned us that sometimes people seemingly welcome the Word -- but in reality their hearts are so hardened to God that the Gospel can't take root and grow. The Word of God, He said, is like the seed a farmer scatters -- but sometimes the seed lands on soil that is too hard or rocky for it to grow: "Those (seeds) on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. ... In the time of testing they fall away" (Luke 8:13).
Pray for your friend, that he will remember how good God was to him during a very dangerous time. Then pray that he will turn to Christ for the forgiveness and new life he needs. He may think giving his life to Jesus is a sign of weakness -- but it isn't. It takes courage to follow Him.
Then examine your own life, and ask God for a heart that is open and ready to receive His Word -- not just when you first believe, but every day of your life.


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From our writer, Dilip: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, sons of Zeus!
Its all about Percy: Jennifer Lopez, daughter of Apollo (as she can sing very good, and Terpsichore (the Muse of Dance) as she can dance good as well)
Daughter-of-Athena: Tom Daley, son of Poseidon
Jason: Mila Kunis, daughter of Aphrodite
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SD rural electric co-ops look to cut tax hikes
PIERRE -- Opposition from groups representing public schools wasn't enough Monday to derail a tax change sought by South Dakota's rural electric cooperatives.
The state Senate's committee on taxation endorsed the proposal 6-1. It would limit the growth of taxes paid by cooperatives for schools. The measure, SB 123, now goes to the full Senate for consideration as early as today.
The co-ops for decades have paid a tax on their gross receipts from electricity sales. The money goes to support schools and takes the place of property taxes.
The change sought by the co-ops would levy a tax per kilowatt-hour sold. Price of electricity would be taken out of the equation.
"It's the right thing to do. It's a mechanism to keep costs down," said Sen. Eldon Nygaard, R-Vermillion.
The lone nay was cast by Sen. Jim Hundstad, D-Bath, who acknowledged that as a co-op member he'd benefit from the change. But, he said, that approach doesn't work if schools' needs outpace the tax revenue.
He said that's been the case for the motor-fuels tax, which is charged per gallon regardless of price; highway costs have risen, while the tax revenue hasn't changed much.
"A per-gallon tax on milk is not how we do it," Hundstad said.
Co-ops paid an average of 9.7 percent more annually in taxes during the past decade on their gross receipts, according to Ed Anderson, executive director for the South Dakota Rural Electric Association.
He said changing to a tax strictly on kilowatt-hours would, based on projected growth, cost about 3.7 percent more per year. He said the cost would be an estimated 6.7 percent more annually if the gross-receipts approach remains in place.
Anderson and others laid the fault at the feet of environmental regulations from the federal government, especially the Environmental Protection Agency.
He said two existing power plants that supply electricity for South Dakota rural customers have been forced to add $750 million to $800 million in environmental retrofits. Those costs are passed down to co-op members and the coops have to pay taxes on the additional receipts.


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This illustration of the Office of the Ascension is by
Jean Colombe. The text chosen for this mass is
extremely brief: "And the Lord Jesus, after he had
spoken to them, was taken up into heaven... "
(Mark XVI: 19)
However, the Epistle from the Acts of the Apostles is more explicit: " And when he had said these things, while they looked on, he was raised up: and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they were beholding him going up to heaven, behold two men stood by them in white garments. Who also said: "Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven! This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him going into heaven. " (Acts I: 9-11)
Jean Colombe has taken certain liberties with the text, while following some old iconographical traditions. On the right are the eleven apostles described by Mark (Judas has not yet been replaced), among whom John and Peter are clearly recognizable.
But on the left, in addition to the Virgin, whom French artists always showed in this scene, are the Holy Women and other disciples. All kneel, as in Giotto's fresco in the Arena Chapel in Padua. Following an old custom, Jean Colombe has shown the imprint of Christ's feet on the rock between the two groups.
The two men in white apparel who came to announce the Second Coming have not been included in the miniature. Jesus is accompanied in His ascension by a heavenly host who ignore the apostles.
Unprotected by clouds, He rises in the sky. He does not extend His arms as usual in this event, but makes a gesture of benediction with His right hand and holds a thin, symbolic cross in His left.
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Collection of Best Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Your Windows
We here at AskVG always try our best to share useful Registry tweaks and tips to make your Windows faster and user friendly. We have posted several guides to add extra functionality to Windows as well as to customize Windows UI and built-in features.
Many times readers request us to post an ultimate registry script which can automatically tweak Windows settings so that they don't need to modify Registry manually.
That's why, today in this topic we are going to share an exclusive Registry script which will tweak a few internal settings of Windows OS to optimize your system performance and to add a few extra features.
This Registry script can be used in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and later OS without any problem. We assure you it'll not harm your system in any way and its completely safe to apply.
STEP 1: Copy following code and paste in Notepad. Save the file with the name "Tweaks.reg" (including quotes) and then run the file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
STEP 2: Restart your system to take effect and get ready to experience super fast Windows.
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If you don't want to create the registry file manually, you can download a ready-made Registry script using following link. Download the ZIP file, extract it and you'll get the REG file:
Download Registry Script File to Make Windows Faster
An uninstallation Registry script is also available in the ZIP file to restore default settings.
Tweaks Description
If you are worried what this registry script is going to do in your system, here is a description of all the tweaks included in the file:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
- Adds "Copy To" and "Move To" options in files and folders context menu, so that you can easily copy and move them to other locations.
AutoEndTasks - Forces Windows to automatically end user services when the user logs off or shuts down the computer. It'll prevent the "Closing apps and shutting down, This app is preventing shutdown" screen from appearing. Check this topic for detailed info.
HungAppTimeout - Reduces system waiting time before killing user processes when the user clicks on "End Task" button in Task Manager.
MenuShowDelay - Decreases menus show delay time, it'll make the menus show faster upon clicking.
WaitToKillAppTimeout - Reduces system waiting time before killing user processes when the user logs off or shuts down the computer.
LowLevelHooksTimeout - Reduces system waiting time before killing not responding services.
MouseHoverTime - Reduces popup delay time to show popup description faster when you move mouse cursor over an item.
NoLowDiskSpaceChecks - Disables the low disk space check so that you don't get the annoying low disk space notification in system tray.
LinkResolveIgnoreLinkInfo - Prevents Windows from wasting time in searching for a program which no longer exists in your system when you try to open its shortcut.
NoResolveSearch - Prevents Windows from searching for the disk drive to resolve a shortcut.
NoResolveTrack - Prevents Windows from using NTFS file system's tracking feature to resolve a shortcut.
NoInternetOpenWith - Disables "Search on Internet" prompt in "Open with" window so that you can directly see available programs list.
WaitToKillServiceTimeout - Reduces system waiting time before stopping services when the services are notified about shut down process.
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The MBA is offering members the opportunity to learn about a unique professional development opportunity on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University is offering a Global Master of Arts Program geared for busy midcareer professionals with an interest in international affairs who are unable to enroll in a full-time, residency-based program.
Attorneys, like many busy professionals, often stop short of pursuing additional graduate programs due to their intense professional commitments that leave little time to devote to studies. However, Tufts University's GMAP takes into account the schedules of busy attorneys in order for them to pursue an international affairs degree program.
By combining the rigor of The Fletcher School's cross-disciplinary curriculum with a flexible format, midcareer professionals are trained to find more innovative solutions to international challenges, all without leaving their current positions.
Associate Dean and Director of GMAP Deborah Nutter will lead an informational session on this program at the MBA Boston headquarters on Nov. 27 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Interested attorneys should call (617) 338-0530.
For more information, visit http://fletcher.tufts.edu/gmap/default.shtml.


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A RUTHIN man is to embark on his second Ironman challenge in a year.
Rob Boyns, who runs Ruthin-based IT company Boyns Information Systems, has entered the gruelling Iron Man Wales challenge to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society. The event takes place in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in September, and consists of a 2.4 mile sea swim, a 112 mile bike ride, and a 26.2 mile marathon. It is regarded as one of the toughest Ironman challenges in the world.
"I feel better prepared than last year because my body has adapted to it," said Rob.
"I've had a few injuries, and training has had its ups and downs, but I've had great support from my staff.
"My customers have been really supportive too, they've contributed a lot of money to this great cause, I'm really well supported by everyone."
Rob, aged 46, is aiming to beat his time of 13 hours, 55 minutes and 33 seconds that he achieved last year. He was inspired to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society after his father succumbed to the disease.
"My dad struggled with Alzheimer's for a number of years. People understand how tough it is for families with loved ones suffering from it. It really is a great cause," said Rob.
The Alzheimer's Society provide support to sufferers and their families, as well as carrying out continued research aimed at combating the disease. Dementia affects 820,00 people in the UK, but research is desperately underfunded.
"Dementia is very common and it can have a devastating effect on families," said Rob.
"That's why I was keen to raise as much money as I can for the cause."
Rob will take part in the challenge alongside friends Steve Morgan and John Vaughan, both of whom are from Ruthin but are now living in Flintshire. Last year Rob, Steve, John and another friend Tim Doswell, of Harrogate, raised almost £20,000 for Liverpool's Alder Hey hospital by completing the challenge.
Super-fit Rob is currently training for around 17 hours a week for the event, which is regarded as Wales' toughest race.
"At the start of the event last year we sang the national anthem on the beach," said Rob.
"It was really inspirational and it fired me up straight away. I felt so proud.
"The challenge is difficult, of course. The cycling part of the event becomes monotonous after a while, it takes around seven hours and we're not allowed to talk to anyone. The run is difficult too but the people who are there to support us get you through it.
"People cheer you on and high-five you as you go past. There's thousands of them, it really spurs you on. There's bands playing in street corners and people clap and scream.
"It's the thought of them and the fundraising money that gets you through it. It's all so positive.
"Getting to the finish line last year was a brilliant feeling."
Local companies have helped in Rob's fundraising efforts by making a one-off shirt sponsorship donation, and their logos will appear on the shirt that Rob will wear for the challenge.
"I'm so grateful to everyone who's donated money, and I'm really looking forward to the challenge. I want to raise as much as possible but I also hope to inspire children to engage in sport " said Rob.
Iron Man Wales will take place on September 8.
To donate visit www.justgiving.com/robert-boyns
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ONE of Myer's most experienced executives has quit the company, joining an exodus of senior talent that has raised concerns among some institutional investors.
Myer executive general manager of national store operations Nick Abboud - considered by some to be a potential successor to chief executive Bernie Brookes - tendered his resignation yesterday after 19 years with the company.
According to a Myer spokeswoman, Mr Abboud had been in
charge of ''all aspects of Myer's store operations, from conceptualisation to delivery of operational strategies'' whose role included running of all of Myer's department stores.
''Basically, we knew that if Bernie was hit by a truck, Nick was there to step up to the plate,'' said one major investor.
''There are about seven or so who have left over the past year, so the concern is that the ranks are getting a bit thin.''
The departure comes just a week after Myer reported that profits had fallen 14.3 per cent in the year to June as it battled higher costs, weak consumer demand and a shift in the way people shop. Myer, like rival David Jones, has seen sales tumble as more people shop online.
Mr Abboud's departure follows that of Penny Winn, another CEO aspirant, who joined Woolworths just before Christmas. Other recent departures include Deanna Moylan and Wayne Latham, who joined Just Group, and Karl Winther, who is now head of marketing at Officeworks. Former Myer PR boss Mitch Catlin is now with Swisse Vitamins.
Mr Abboud said he had left ''with the blessing of Bernie Brookes'' and would take up a role with a private equity firm. Mr Abboud is expected to be appointed as the new CEO of a major retail chain in coming weeks.
''I have spent 19 years at Myer, and the past six have been the best of them,'' Mr Abboud said.
''I have been part of a team that has done a private equity turnaround, and now I have the chance to go through that process myself as CEO. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and Myer understand that. Bernie is an iconic figure in the retail world, he has been a mentor of mine, and I hope he will continue to be.''
Mr Abboud also took one final shot at long-time rival DJs.
''In very tough conditions, one retailer [David Jones] has reported a 40 per cent profit fall, the other [Myer] just 14 per cent,'' he said.
''I invite anyone to go back and compare the NPAT [net profit after tax] of the two companies over the past four years. You will see Myer has been an amazing turnaround story.''
Myer spokeswoman Jo Lynch said Mr Abboud's resignation was not unexpected. ''He goes with the company's best wishes,'' she said.
Tony Sutton, general manager of store operations, has been appointed to lead the store team on an interim basis.


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Bortezomib in Treating Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma
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Belch A, Kouroukis CT, Crump M, Sehn L, Gascoyne RD, Klasa R, Powers J, Wright J, Eisenhauer EA. A phase II study of bortezomib in mantle cell lymphoma: the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group trial IND.150. Ann Oncol. 2007 Jan;18(1):116-21. Epub 2006 Sep 13.
Belch A, Kouroukis CT, Crump M: Phase II trial of bortezomib in mantle cell lymphoma. [Abstract] Blood 104(11): A-608, 2004.
Assouline S, Belch A, Sehn L, et al.: A phase II study of bortezomib in patients with mantle cell lymphoma. [Abstract] Blood 102 (11 Pt 1): A-3358, 2003.


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Very easy and a quickly cooked side dish made in the crock pot: dump and go. Serve these at breakfast or as a side dish at dinner; or double the recipe and eat for dinner and serve as leftovers with tomorrow mornings breakfast. This recipe worked out great for me because I had to use up some hash brown patties; the standard ingredient usually called for in this dish is the hash browned potatoes. This recipe is courtesy of "Fix It and Forget It" crock pot cookbook.
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I doubled this, but didn't have 2 cans of the cheddar cheese soup. I added about 8 oz of sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese to the recipe. I hate when people rate recipes after making changes, but I can tell that even if I hadn't added my own stuff, this would have been awesome! Super easy and great as leftovers. Thanks for sharing.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 -1 1⁄4 lb hash brown, partly thawed
- 1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cheddar cheese soup
- 6 ounces evaporated milk
- 1 1⁄2 ounces French-fried onions
- salt and pepper, to taste
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- Combine all ingredients and place in the bottom of a greased slow cooker.
- Cover; cook on high for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.


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Hogeye30 Jul 2015 - 09:47Hey Mizoo--- That was quite a thread. I feel badly. I shouldn't have provoked the guy but I couldn't help myself. I think he lives in his mother's basement and got off his meds. I got several PMs over this and all were having fun with the guy.
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Hogeye04 Jun 2015 - 16:02Hi Wee Davey;
I'm with you. It's just to easy. I think I can actually tell when he's off his meds. Like you said it's just too easy.
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