based on the original demand, i try to predict as accurately as possible what we will need to produce during the following season. i hope yours was as good as ours! it's just not the way it is. yet many people don’t even know what “direct” really is. there were bright spots around the nation, but few in the state. encourage the elections act to do away with the x and require all of us to write in the name of our chosen candidate — both first and last. performance is an extremely important aspect of quality. 