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Pacific Blue Announces Early Take-Off with $9* "Ready-Set-Go" Fares19/10/2007
New Zealand's newest domestic airline Pacific Blue is offering $9* 'Ready-Set-Go' fares to celebrate the announcement that its local flights are taking off early.
Pacific Blue says its domestic services will start three days earlier than the previously announced date of 15 November, with travellers now able to book flights from 12 November 2007.
3,000 seats will be on sale from 10am Saturday 20 October to midnight Monday 22 October or until sold out, for the special price of $9*. The fares are for travel 12-13 November on the airline's three domestic routes: Auckland-Wellington, Auckland-Christchurch, and Wellington-Christchurch.
The airline's General Manager Commercial, Adrian Hamilton-Manns, said Pacific Blue is committed to making domestic services more affordable for New Zealanders and the $9* fares are a great way to celebrate the early arrival of the airline at the country's domestic terminals.
"When we announced our domestic services in August we had an immediate and dramatic impact on the cost of local air travel," he said. "Over 100,000 New Zealanders snapped up our $39 fares, and our competitors immediately dropped their lead-in fares to match ours."
"To celebrate our early launch and to say thank you to all New Zealanders for supporting us, we decided to offer a $9 sale fare for the first couple of days of flying. So for less than the price of a pizza delivery, thousands of Kiwis have the chance to be among the first Guests on our new domestic services."
Mr Hamilton-Manns said the company's strategy in New Zealand is based on giving travellers easy access to low fares, friendly service, and a strong range of supporting products.
"In August when Pacific Blue announced it would fly domestically in New Zealand, competitors dropped their lead-in fares by up to 30 percent. Our promise to New Zealanders is that we're here to keep the air fair, and that if they want a great deal on their domestic travel, they should always check Pacific Blue first."
The airline says Guests on Pacific Blue domestic services will enjoy many of the same benefits as on its international flights.
"When they board our fleet of modern Boeing 737 Next-Generation aircraft our Guests will enjoy leather seats, international class legroom with an average seat pitch of 80.5 centimetres (31.5 inches), audio music channels, and of course great service from our friendly crew members," said Adrian Hamilton-Manns.
Guests on domestic flights will be able to earn Points with the airline's award-winning Velocity program on every dollar spent on their Virgin Blue, Pacific Blue or Polynesian Blue fare, and redeem Points on every available seat on its New Zealand, Australian, and Pacific Island network, as well as on airline partners such as Emirates and Malaysian Airlines.
"Velocity is free to join on-line. Like our low fares, our rewards program is another area where we aim to be fair to our Guests."
Pacific Blue is adding two new Boeing 737 Next-Generation aircraft to its fleet in early November, with an additional aircraft due early in 2008.
*$9 fares are one-way on the net and are on sale from 10am Saturday 20 October to midnight Monday 22 October or until sold out, for travel on 12 and 13 November 2007 on Pacific Blue's New Zealand domestic routes. For full terms and conditions details visit www.flypacificblue.com


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Your the one I follow - Kayaking Norways Brandseth River from Bottomsupkayaking.com on Vimeo.
Trust. It is the building foundation with which every paddling team should be built upon. Trusting that your team mates will make make smart decisions for themselves, you…Continue
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Here is a great video put together by Adrian Kiernan from our adventures into the Ansel Adams Wilderness area of California's High Sierras. A truly beautiful place with a classic river running through it, the North Fork of the San Joaquin.
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"Looking back on the trip, and all the rapids we paddled, the unbelievable landscapes we were lucky enough to travel through, the amazing group of people on the water with us and the perfect water levels provided to us by Mother Nature, I would have to say this…Continue
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Finally recovering from a long weekend of Extreme Racing and Event organizing. The Kaituna Time Trial was the first event of the weekend. It entailed two race runs down the length of the Kaituna River (regular section) with your combined times adding up to give you your total time. I…Continue
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Scouting is just another term for decision-making; in essence, you are looking at what lies ahead and deciding what course to take. A major key in progressing from class 2-3 whitewater into the realm of class 4-5 is the ability…
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If I had to pick one river in the entire world that I though hosted the most number of kayak races per year ... it would have to be, without a doubt, the Kaituna River. We have mass starts, time trials, multi-sport, slalom, short boats, long boats, raft, swimming, and even inflatable races down this river ... so when Ben Robson came up with an idea for a totally new style of race to be held on the Kaituna, we were all interested in what he could have possibly thought…Continue
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Finally back on the Ottawa River ! After spending the past year and a half traveling back and forth from New Zealand, Quebec and California, hitting up all the amazing steep creeking these places have to offer, I must admit I was…Continue
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(Tyler Fox runs a beautiful drop on the First Descent of Maretu Stream in NZ. Photo Brendan Bayly)
It started 2 years ago, after just landing in NZ I was instantly beconed over to the East coast of the North Island, where Josh Neilson and Matt Danes had a "surprise" they wanted to share with me.…Continue
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New Zealand, or Okere Falls, NZ if you really wanted to narrow it down, has, over the past 5-8 years produced some of the World's fastest kayakers. If you've ever been to the kaituna river, or participated in any event in…Continue
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Simon Davidson throws a triumphant fist pump half way down the Finally slide
The Mastigouche River in Quebec is a must do on any paddlers wish list. It was on the top of my good friend Simon Davidson's list of rivers to paddle while over in Quebec this past…Continue
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Once again I've teamed up with Mike Mckay of Five2nine to bring you a look into a years worth of amazing paddling by some of our sports top paddlers on some of the sweetest rivers on the globe. As always quality filming, tight editing, and a…Continue
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Every spring the immense area know as Quebec gives up its icy and snowy grasp on the land, flooding its many large volume rivers. This huge amount of water combined with Quebec's rugged geography produces some of the World's largest standing waves. With a some patients and a bit of luck this can be everything you've been looking for.
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After 2 years of failed / aborted Cali trips, I was finally able to pull it together. Everything came together, and on top of that Mother nature stepped up to the plate to play as well with a 200% snowpack in the Sierra's.
In turn with my entire Cali season we hit the timing perfect!…Continue
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Waihi Stream is a Kayaker's dream, a 1km stretch of whitewater that drops 100m's over smooth Papa (A soft, clay like rock found in abundance on NZ's east coast), with road acess put-in and take-out. Josh Neilson and Matt Danes had scouted this Jem a couple years back and have been waiting for a rain event big enough to over-flow the dam at the put-in.
I had arrived in New Zealand the day before and as always the boys were fired up to see another familar face back in…Continue
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: We are selling our late parents house that has a hot water boiler for heat. The plumbing inspection revealed what they think is a corroded return line, although the system is working fine. The plumber said he couldn't tell if the line was threaded or a part of the boiler. Said if it was part of the boiler the entire boiler may need replacing. Does this sound reasonable? The house was built around 1920 and the pipes in the bsmt. and the boiler appear to be asbestos lined. The potential buyers also asked for a low water fuel cutoff switch which I read is probably one of the most important safety devices for a boiler. Any approximate idea of cost for this item?Thanks for any opinions you can provide.
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Beautiful Apartment with Balcony
Size45 m²
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- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Washer/dryer
- Balcony/terrace
- Pets allowed
- Towels
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-This is a small and cosy apartment house with hotel character. Here you can enjoy your holidays in various ways.
-Our facility has 500 m² of outdoor space with adjacent parking and the 3-star category. The house is centrally located just minutes from the beach and conveniently located in Ostseebad Binz.
-In the 1 - and 2-room apartments are spread over three levels, accommodation of individuals and a family of 4 is not a problem. Numerous additional beds, such as provision of free cot and high chairs or a camping bed also ensure a pleasant stay for our youngest guests.
-The accommodation is located in Rügen, Germany's largest island, often described as the most beautiful one.
-Rügen offers diverse landscape as it is rich of white chalky cliffs, idyllic bays, white sand beaches and lush beech forests.
-From the large viewing platform, visitors may also enjoy a panoramic view of the sea and coastline.
-In Rügen you can find a wide range of restaurants offering you seafood which is usually very fresh.
-Other leisure activities popular in Rügen include wind surfing, water skiing, horseback riding, forest climbing and hot air balloon trips.
-The Island of Rügen can be reached by car, by train (there is also a regional train connection from Stralsund to Sassnitz and Ostseebad Binz), by ferry (domestic ferries run to the mainland or international ferries to Denmark and Sweden) and by plane (Rügen's airport is in Güttin, with regular flights from Berlin and Uetersen near Hamburg).
Services Included
-Board games are also available for your additional enjoyment.
-The accommodation of stroller is no obstacle and the immediate vicinity of a playground is of particular interest to families.
House rulesThere is an additional charge of 3,- EUR per day for pets.
|Price for > 2 guests
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Reviews of this property
-A cozy home, perfect for family and friends enjoy to a good time. Spectacular house structure and a good price.
Wir hatten einen sehr angenehmen Aufenthalt . Es war schön und zweckmäßig eingerichtet.. Alles was man brauchen könnte ,war auch vorhanden. Auch ein sehr schöner Balkon war da , den wir allerdings auf Grund des Wetters nicht nutzen konnten. Die freundliche Besitzerin war bei Rückfragen immer erreichbar. Wir haben uns sehr wohlgefühlt und können das Apartment auch weiterempfehlen.
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-A cozy home, perfect for family and friends to enjoy a good time. Spectacular house structure and a good price.
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Heb alleen veel te veel betaald en wil dan ook graag een compesatie terug ontvangen op mijn rekening. heb ruim € 250,00 te veel betaald . zie daarom ook graag iets terug.
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Subd. 1. Certain Acts Prohibited. No person shall commit the act of vagrancy. The acts set forth in the subdivisions which follow shall constitute vagrancy.
Subd. 2. No Lawful Means of Support. Any person having no lawful means of employment and having no lawful means of support realized solely from occupations or sources; or, any person who lives idly and without visible means of support.
Subd. 3. Loitering. Any person found loitering or strolling in, about, or upon any street, alley or other public way or public place, or at any public gathering or assembly, or in or around any store, shop or business or commercial establishment, or on any private property or place without lawful business and conducting himself in a lewd, wanton or lascivious manner in speech and behavior.
Subd. 4. Unlawful Occupancy. Any person wandering abroad and occupying, lodging or sleeping in any vacant or unoccupied barn, garage, shed, shop or other building or structure, or in any automobile, truck, railroad car or other vehicle, without owning the same or without permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession of the same, or sleeping in any vacant lot during the hours of darkness and not giving a satisfactory account of himself.
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"In the past couple of decades, studies across the social sciences have been designed around this new orientation. It has long been known, for instance, that male earning potential correlates rather bluntly with height. But it was only in 2004 that a trio of economists thought to burrow a little deeper and discovered, based on a sample of thousands of white men in the U.S. and Britain, that it wasn't adult height that seemed to affect their subjects' wages; it was their height at 16. (In other words, two white men measuring five-foot-eleven can have very different earning potential in the same profession, all other demographic markers being equal, just because one of them was shorter at 16.) Eight years later, Deborah Carr, a sociologist at Rutgers, observed something similar about adults of a normal weight: They are far more likely to have higher self-esteem if they were a normal weight, rather than overweight or obese, in late adolescence (Carr was using sample data that tracked weight at age 21, but she notes that heavy 21-year-olds were also likely to be heavy in high school). Robert Crosnoe, a University of Texas sociologist, will be publishing a monograph with a colleague this year that shows attractiveness in high school has lingering effects, too, even fifteen years later. "It predicted a greater likelihood of marrying," says Crosnoe, "better earning potential, better mental health." This finding reminds me of something a friend was told years ago by Frances Lear, head of the eponymous, now defunct magazine for women: "The difference between you and me is that I knew in high school I was beautiful."


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Champs: Akali, Ezreal, Lux.(Ofcourse lots of others but these are my mains)
Summoner name : Dukro
Region: EU-W
Level: 30
Favorite champ : Janna/Poppy/Cho'gath
Least Favorite Champ : Any carry pretty much.
Extremely competitive? : I play for the fun of it, but I can be serious when needed
Do you rage? : Never banned, never raged. Maybe like.. Once in my entire life of gaming LoL.
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There is no better way to learn authentic Thai cooking than taking an authentic cooking class in Thailand. You don't need prior cooking skills - just a love for eating Thai food!
- Lunch included
- All necessary equipment included
- Free hotel pickup and drop-off included
- Informative, friendly and professional guide
- Tour is wheelchair accessible
This half-day cooking class will introduce you to the wonderful world of Thai flavors allowing you to take your knowledge home with you so you can make authentic Thai dishes back home in your own kitchen.
Your class will be held at The Baipai Thai Cooking School, an ideal home-style learning environment that aims at cooking a style of Thai food that is different from most of the hotels and restaurants in Thailand. Spend the morning learning to prepare 4 authentic Thai dishes. During all classes, the school's instructional emphasis is always focused on the same three things: traditional Thai technique, innovative use of ingredients, and aesthetic presentation. You will be guided by professional teaching staff who possess years of experience in this specialized area of Thai culinary delights! They are as enthusiastic about Thai food as they are sharing their knowledge with you.
All classes are conducted in English and are a "hands on.' This is an experience not be missed.Please note: The class does NOT cater for vegetarians
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Depending on the number of people on this coach tour, you may be transferred from your hotel to a central departure point to begin this tour. Please see Additional Information for a list of hotels with no pickup and drop-off
Hotel pickups commence approximately 30 - 60 minutes prior to this time, exact pickup time will be advised on reconfirmation.
Returns to your hotel at approximately 1:30pm
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Thai cooking is a skill you keep for life!
- Thai cooking course
- Lunch
- Cook Book
- Transport by air-conditioned coach
- Local guide
- Gratuities (optional)
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- This tour will operate with a minimum of 2 passengers
- Minimum age is 18 years
- Wheelchair accessible
- Restroom facilities available
- You must provide your hotel details at time of booking, failure to do so may result in cancellation
Hotel pickup and drop-off is NOT available from the following hotels:
- Novotel Suvarnabhumi - Bang Na (near Suvarnabhumi Airport)
- Niran Grand - Bang Na
- Nototel Bang Na - Bang Na
- Royal Princess Srinakarin - Bang Na
- Amari Don Muang - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Airport Suite Bangkok - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Asia Airport - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Ebina House - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Rama Gardens - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Quality Suite Airport - Viphavadee (near Don Muang Airport)
- Miracle Grand Convention - Laksi
- Inn Come Sweet - Chatuchak
- Chaleena Princess - Ramkamheng
- Grand Hitech Tower Inn - Ekkamai
- Forum Park - Yannawa (far end of Nang Linchi)
- Rio Residence - Yannawa (far end of Nang Linchi)
- Royal Pacific Plaza - Rama 9
- Oasis - Huang Kwang
- P R Union - Thonburi
- Gold Orchid Bangkok - Suttisan
- And select areas such as the outer suburbs
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Lend your activewear collection a stylish pop with our new BE-FIT BEBE SPORT collection! This lightweight cami features a moisture-wicking and breathable lightweight blend of nylon and spandex. Dries 8 times faster than cotton.
- 77% nylon, 23% spandex
- Center back to hem: 18" (46 cm)
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- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
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Kushner, S. and Adelman, C. (2006) Program evaluation: A democratic practice. In: Green, J. L., Camilli, G. and Elmore, P. B., eds. (2006) AERA Handbook, Complementary Methods for Research in Education. (3rd ed) New York: Published for the American Educational Research Association by Routledge. ISBN 9780805859331 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/6002
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Program Tweaks
by gwilson on Apr.06, 2010, under Uncategorized
This coming fall there will be a few modest changes to the BIMS program. Part of our ongoing assessment is focused on how our students are doing; the remainder is focused on how our courses and program structure can be improved. Based on feedback received, we are making these changes:
1. We are changing BIOL 4320 Molecular Cell Biology to be BIMS 4320 Molecular Cell Biology. It made no sense to us to have a course listed under BIOL when Biology majors are not required to take the course and it cannot count for credit toward their major, when that same course is a required BIMS program course.
2. We are modifying the way advanced electives are to be categorized through the addition of two new course numbers: BIMS 4X91 Advanced Topics in Microbiology and Public Health, and BIMS 4X92 Advanced Topics in Genetics and Molecular Biology. Since program inception last year, we have allowed a wide variety of courses to satisfy the 9 hrs of upper level BIMS program electives – courses from Biology, Biochemistry, Psychology, Pathophysiology from the nursing program, and Kinesiology. We believe more focus is needed to help strengthen the core of BIMS-centric courses, and so these two new course designations will be our first step in doing this.
3. We are dropping BIOL 4310 Immunology. This course will still be offered annually, but will now be a course under BIMS 4391 Advanced Topics in Microbiology and Public Health: Immunology (probably to be referred to as Advanced Topics: Immunology). Dr. D's Cancer Biology will be offered as a 4392 Advanced Topics: Cancer Biology. So, though it would seem we are losing a very important course (Immunology), the fact is it still will be offered but under a new number.
4. We are re-designating the 3-hour requirement for Immunology as a 3-hour requirement for any BIMS 4X91 OR BIMS 4X92 offering, opening the program to be tailored more toward the interests and needs of our students.
With these simple changes, we believe we have made a small but important step in improving our program.


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COPS FY 2010 Grant Opportunities
The COPS Office is now accepting grant applications for FY 2010. The following are highlights of some of the funding opportunities available. Please go to the COPS website at www.cops.usdoj.gov for more information on specific program eligibility and application guidelines.
COPS Hiring Program—$298 million
This program will distribute nearly $300 million to address the full-time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide and to increase their capacity to participate in community policing. In FY 2010, COPS will select hiring program grantees from the existing pool of approximately 6,000 2009 COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) applications. The COPS Office will not accept new applications for this program in FY 2010.
Community Policing Development—$12 million
This program funds a variety of innovative projects and knowledge resource products that support the integration of community policing strategies throughout the law enforcement community. These dollars help enable officers and community members to more effectively address emerging law enforcement and community issues.
Indian Country—$40 million
This program provides grants directly to tribal law enforcement for equipment, training and technology to proactively address the most serious law enforcement needs and to implement or enhance community policing strategies. This solicitation is part of the Department of Justice's Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS).
Tribal Meth—$5 million
The Tribal Methamphetamine Initiative will address the unique challenges of tribal jurisdictions to combat methamphetamine use and abuse. Through a combination of direct grants to tribes and cooperative agreement with a technical assistance provider, the COPS Office will provide training and technical assistance to all the tribal grantees with the opportunity for the production of deliverables that will be of use to all tribal communities in the future, be in a position to evaluate the effectiveness of grants and process, and build on a successful model for creating coordinated, multidisciplinary approaches to meth that COPS has long supported.
Secure Our Schools—$16 million
The program provides grants to law enforcement for the placement and use of deterrent measures such as new equipment, technology, training and assessments at schools and on school grounds to increase school security and safety.
This initiative is designed to support partnerships between state or local law enforcement agencies and their district United States Attorneys' Offices and United States Marshals. Ultimately, the program goal is to reduce child endangerment by providing grants to State and local governments to help them locate, arrest, and prosecute child sexual predators and exploiters, and to enforce State offender registration laws.


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Financial Analysis and Rick Ross
October 22 2008 07:18AM
At long last Wanye's gotten around to sending over part one of his review of NHL financial problems. In the interests of saving time we will release them two a week—meaning the series will end next week. A big thanks to the Engineer for his assistance and graphs. We like graphs. Things are tough all around these days in the world of financial wizardry. Many companies are waking up to drastically reduced stock prices, the inability to find financing for their operations and in some cases even face closure. Sports, and entertainment in general, are saturated now unlike any time in history. There are professional leagues for every conceivable sport under the sun: 65+ wheelchair lawndarts, ape racing, and even Greco-Roman midget tossing. Some leagues may not survive a long recession. Others will only survive by consolidation; for example merging the 65+ wheelchair lawndarts with ape racing leagues to create a new super-league of old timers being chased by dart throwing apes. Officiated by once-tossed midgets. Sounds like a bright tomorrow, doesn't it? Recently, institutions such as Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch have been forced to close their doors, a sight many on Wall Street thought they wouldn't ever see in their lifetime. In our lifetime, we hope we don't ever see financial conditions impact the NHL, much less our beloved Oilers. This is the focus of this series of articles: do some research into the weak points around the finances of the NHL and discuss where/if they could be affected by this whole mess.
Part one: An overview of the NHL's finances and potential risks to the operations
There are three things that make an examination of NHL finances and discussing the impact of a deep recession a difficult proposition for your ol' pal Wanye. First, NHL owners guard their books like a state secret and there is very little information about NHLonomics on the interwebs.
Secondly, there is the fact that many NHL owners treat their team as a very expensive toy, a tax write-off or the final word in a billionaire wang measuring contest. As a result there should be no confusion between team finances and owner finances as the majority of the team owners are able to shoulder a significant financial load in the event of bad times.
Finally, we didn't think we would see things get as ugly as they have gotten in the financial markets. It's tough to predict a floor when you keep smashing through and continue heading down. Great Depression II? Or that thing we all laugh at/can't remember in 18 months? The former will certainly impact your NHL team, the latter not so much.
In a very interesting article on ESPN.com, NHL vice-president Ed Horne alluded to the NHL's ticket sales this season.
"We're in a soft and changing economy, (but) based on season-ticket renewals, new season tickets taken out, and buys of smaller packages and individual games, our sales [for the 2008–2009 season] are up four per cent from where they we were last year."
This is encouraging news for a league as dependent on ticket sales as the NHL, due primarily to the lack of a national TV deal. A big ol' TV deal will flatten out peaks and valleys of team revenue making the teams less dependent on Joe and Jane Lunchbox showing up and having a beer or two in the stands. Large media companies are able to withstand economic tough times better than the average family of four—and their payments to the teams are costs of doing business, whereas for your average fan it's discretionary fun income. Having said all of that, the NHL's TV deal amounts to the Versus Network sending them a gift basket of muffins on Valentine's Day. So they're disproportionately dependent on ticket sales from other leagues.
An NHL team is an expensive proposition to run, as noted by Jim Kelley of Sports Illustrated.
Reaching the cap automatically incurs payroll costs of $56.7 million. Then comes the price tags for insurance, pension and other costs, which can add another $3-4 million. That's before you factor in the minor league and scouting operation, arena maintenance and lease, non-hockey payroll and travel expenses. If a team has to budget for revenue sharing, it will be looking at $80 million or more in yearly operating costs.
Eighty million a year—that's some big smoke. The immediate question becomes determining the likelihood that all 30 teams will be able to meet these demands. If teams can afford to pay the majority of their bills, they will be able to run a short-term debt in the hopes that things will turn around. In the meantime, NHL brass are (hopefully) busy determining the weak points in the business of the NHL, calculating how likely they are to occur and figuring out workarounds.
We've done the very same exercise here, ranking what we believe to be the main risks to the teams as a general rule and assigned them an impact score. It should be noted that this isn't the likelihood that the event will occur, but rather the severity of its impact should the event actually occur. It should also be noted that these numbers would vary by market, by team and by owner. If Swift Transportation—the largest trucking company in the US—goes into the toilet, the Coyotes could go 82–0 and the owner Jerry Moyes would have bigger problems that would affect the Coyotes ability to make payroll.
Risk of fans losing ability to support league: impact severity 4/10
Some portion of the population will always to have enough money to shell out $200 for hockey tickets and a $10 beer. Over the past ten years we've already seen the NHL move out of affordability for most average fans to attend on the regular basis. Season tickets have been replaced with mini packs and cable TV for most fans. Companies now shoulder the majority of the load of ticket sales in many markets.
With most NHL teams currently sporting thousands of season-ticket- and mini-pack-holders whose cheques or credit card payments for the year have already cleared, the NHL has a solid base with which to work this season. Game-day sales in most markets are not large revenue centres and a short-term downturn can be offset by the millions of dollars the NHL collects prior to the puck dropping to start the season. It could be that season ticket holders are replaced with larger groups splitting tickets four ways—tickets could also be split at the front-office level into mini packs for sale. Mini pack holders can be replaced with larger groups of fans who will buy casual tickets at reduced levels.
If a mild recession hits, the NHL could adapt as the fans go down a notch on the pecking order. Ticket prices can be reduced, and teams don't need to have 100 per cent full buildings to operate a team. Anytime you have a risk that tens of thousands of people all start to behave in a largely different manner (ie, thousands of fans pull up stakes and don't attend a hockey game live for a number of years) sheer numbers make this risk substantially less than say an owner going bankrupt. Sheer numbers of fans shield the NHL from this risk having a dramatic impact on league revenues until things get really, really bad economically.
Risk of large corporations losing ability to support league: impact severity 6/10
Over the past twenty years, there has been a shift in NHL season ticket holder demographics away from average civilians owning season tickets to the majority of season ticket holders now being coporations. Redistributing season ticket holders from tens of thousands of average fans to hundreds of companies comes with its own risks and rewards.
Reward: Ticket prices go up as companies are able to afford more expensive tickets in the short term.
Risk: Your financial base is no longer tens of thousands of fans, but hundreds of companies which can be less stable in the long run.
Anytime you swap tens of thousands of customers for hundreds of customers, your economic stability generally decreases, even if they are able to pay more money in the short to medium term.
This riskiness gets even more intense as you climb the ladder of corporate support for the Oilers. Imagine the impact on the NHL if Ford were to go under—a real possibility. Ford is all up in most teams marketing grills, buying this, sponsoring that. But do you know where this advertising money comes from?
You: "Is it from all the profits Ford makes every year?"
Me: "No stupid. Ford loses money like the Leafs lose games."
You: "Oh Wanye, you so crazy. Ford is a huge company and can be a title sponsor for years to come."
Me: "They have lost over $8 billion in the last quarter alone. Tell me how long that can continue."
You: "Marry my hot cousin Wanye. I beg you."
Me: "I'll think about it."
You can't just go out and find a new major corporate sponsor like you can replace a season ticket holder. Major corporate sponsorship is much harder to find and is way harder to replace. This is a substantial risk to the NHL.
Risk of NHL owners losing the ability to operate the team: impact severity 9/10
Let's do some calculations. If there are 200,000 people in Edmonton with the financial means and desire to attend a game in Edmonton and they only need 16,839 for a sellout, really only need eight per cent of these people to attend a game. Now there are perhaps 100 companies in Edmonton capable of providing major financial support to the team. Say the Oilers need 25 to support the team to meet their budgetary goals. They need 25 per cent of the companies capable of pitching in to do so. With more reward comes more risk.
Now, how many Edmontonians are capable of buying the Oilers off of Daryl Katz if he hits tough times? This is hardly likely considering Kay-Z is made of solid gold and can always sell a toe or two to make payroll, but it bears consideration. It's not as though he could list the franchise on Comfree or on Craigslist. It's a tough sell in a down market.
The problem is that few people are in a position to spend the money necessary to buy and operate an NHL franchise. The bigger problem is that in tough times the amount of people able to do this shrinks even further as fortunes of the rich contract. The real problem is the rich people who are still in a position to take over a troubled financial team during a crisis are probably unwilling to do so—as an NHL team isn't usually a profitable investment when you compare it to other things you can do with $200 million in your chequing account. In bad economic times, things get cheaper and the rich use this opportunity to buy excellent investments on the cheap. This is why the rich get richer.
The only way you get rich off of 2/3 of the NHL teams is to sell the franchise. Think I'm full of it? Go ask the EIG how happy they were with their investment in 2005. Now ask them after the Katz cheque cleared. Now before you throw a whole bunch of stats at me about profitability of teams right now remember that we are considering a sale in a deep recession. This would make the assumption that revenues across the league have been slashed and see little hope of recovery in the short term.
The only clear path to making money off an NHL team is to sell it. This makes 1/3 of them crappy investments in good times and nearly all of them crappy investments heading into a recession. The idea of having the billionaire owner fund a team's burn is a little like robbing from your wife's purse to pay the bills of the family. Eventually you have to find someone else's money to steal not your own.
This is where the NHL is most vulnerable, though they will never discuss it openly.
Risk of the Canadian dollar tanking relative to the American dollar or vice versa: impact severity 7/10
As an article at NHL fanhouse recently noted, the increase in the value of the Canadian dollar may be responsible for as much as half of the league's revenue gains since the NHL went through the lockout of 2004–05.
"If you take out the Canadian teams, which have done so well since the lockout largely because of the Canadian dollar, the league's revenues are actually only growing at a 2 per cent clip per year," says an executive with a US-based NHL team, who requested anonymity.
As Mirtle pointed out when the Star article when live, the Cando averaged $1.007 USD from Oct 07 to Apr 08, a full 14 per cent increase over the same period the year previous. If the exchange rate collapse continues into the fall and the Canadian dollar trades as low as $0.90, the likelihood of reaching those revenue projections is doubtful at best.
Six out of 30 NHL teams are Canadian so the league is clearly more dependent on the American dollar than the Canadian dollar. Without boring you about how most currencies in the world have a spread of values but generally trend as a group, we will simply leave it at this: if the Canadian Dollar tanks it will be really bad for the NHL. If the US dollar tanks, look out. Er, lets take a peek at the Canadian dollar of late shall we?
More coming soon:
- Part two: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Three potential scenarios facing the NHL
- Part three: The potential impact on the Edmonton Oilers
- Part four: To infinity and beyond
—Have something to say? E-mail Wanye directly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wanye - that C$ fx chart doesn't look like it even shows the most recent drop to sub $0.80.
Bravo Wanye...good timing of the article on another banner market day. Time to cry in my cheerios after this.
You can't just go out and find a new major corporate sponsor like you can replace a season ticket holder. Major corporate sponsorship is much harder to find and is way harder to replace. This is a substantial risk to the NHL.
This is starting already in the left turn circuit.
General Motors Corp., Chrysler Corp., Sears Holdings Corp. and Chevron Corp. will cut or drop sponsorships next season. Teams like Petty, Waltrip and Earnhardt may enter 2009 with unfunded cars. Drivers like Earnhardt Jr would be in the same boat.
Anybody who doesn't think this will trickle down is either naive or a mental midget.
October 22 2008, 08:32AM
Tommy -
I know its a hair out of date. This 4 part series has been awhile in the making.
October 22 2008, 08:43AM
Great work. Excellent read man.
Long time reader, first time commenter.
I can't figure you out Wanye. Are you an idiot or smart?? Is this the same guy that gave us boner pants???? Great article
October 22 2008, 09:29AM
I'm thinking that a few owners like Jerry Moyes having trouble making payroll might not be all bad; the numbers on Versus can only go up once the league incorporates the dart-throwing monkeys. The big questions are if Jonathon will be interested in doing stat analysis on the monkey hit-ratios, and if they'll be able to tell the monkeys from the left wingers in Calgary.
October 22 2008, 09:34AM
Sure hope Katz pile of money is kept in coffee cans burried in the backyard, and is rendered in gold boulion or something.
Would hate to see our billionaire owner be reduced to pedestrian like status cuz of market turmoil caused by jittery investors sellin' off when things are bad...don't they realise that makes it worse? It's the time to buy! buy! buy! and then...buy more!
October 22 2008, 09:47AM
Let's be clear on the outlook for Rexall and Kay-Z. People will sacrifice a lot before they don't go buy their heart medication at the closest Rexall.
Assuming all is well with his operations internally - and all indications say they are phenomenally well run - he has as close to a recession proof business as possible.
October 22 2008, 09:51AM
That is true, we, as the human race, will always have a portion of society that will be sick or injured...and even moreso during these tough economic times. :)
Very good point.
Kay-Z knows how it's played.
October 22 2008, 10:32AM
Great article Wanye. How do you fit that brain in that skull.
October 22 2008, 01:57PM
That was a great read and the current economic turmoil in the world hits home to us Oiler fans. I don't want to believe that there could be another era where we were the farm team to all the big market teams. I hope that with all the depression going around that people look to Rexall drugs to cure it.
I have always said liquor retailing was the most recession proof industry. When times are good people drink it up, and when times are bad people drink it up (more?).
That being said, drugstores are a close second in recession proofness.
October 22 2008, 04:20PM
Tommy -
It isn't so much the industry that you are in that is what's important. The main issue is the vitals of your cash printing company - and specifically your debt.
- What's your debt load? - What's your capacity to pay that debt? Are you stretched to the max? - Can you borrow more if needed? - What % of full capacity must your firm operate at to remain profitable.
Katz could be selling life saving medication to dying hordes. If he can't lay his hands on product because a company like Pfizer went out of business it won't matter how shiny a Rexall is. Now Kay-Z supplies all of his stores with Rexall Brand drugs so he is even smarter than the average billionaire as he controls his own supply lines.
But as industries go you are right - medication and booze are the best ones to be in.
The very best: Viagra Light Beer - booze and drugs together at last!
My brain doesn't do any of the thinking. Think about 3 feet lower....
October 22 2008, 04:46PM
Not only does Daryl Katz control his own supply lines he also bears a striking resemblance to Rob Schneider.


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cur-mud-geon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner
Thoughts For the Season
I read a quotation a few days ago that stuck with me. The quotation is that of Arthur E. Morgan and it follows:
"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
I have given quite a bit of thought to that quotation over these past few days. It has caused me to wonder how it must feel to be devoid of anything about which one might have some pride of accomplishment. No matter how big or how small an accomplishment, to have not one thing about which to feel important is a great individual tragedy.
I wonder if that is as much a statement about how some of us cannot see that we have a worth to others as it is that some of us simply cannot see that we have accomplished anything of importance.
I think about children who have not had a happy home in which they were nurtured and celebrated by their father and/or mother. I think about the homeless and destitute who have no time for thinking about such things as accomplishments they have made; they think about where they'll sleep and if they'll awaken from that sleep...if they think about such things at all. I think about those confined in prison cells forgotten or ignored by any family they might have had; or those who are institutionalized for various psychological disorders.
I think about those in abusive relationships whose self-worth has been stripped from them over the years. I think about those who live in foreign lands where there is only the daily quest for food and water. I think about those who have given their lives over to drugs and for whom only the next hit is important. I think about the person whose errant driving caused another to lose his or her life. I think about those who believe they have done something so horrific that they can never be forgiven.
I also think about how each of us has the opportunity to help those we encounter each and every day by letting them know when we think they've done something worthy of praise. That might be something as easy as complimenting a retail clerk for their help or thanking the person who bags your grocery purchases. It might be a comment to a business person about how their establishment has helped you. It might be that simple smile for a person you don't know.
I think about the wonderful life I have been so fortunate to have lived and about all that I am thankful for as the Thanksgiving celebration arrives. I think about all those who have helped me over the years and lament that I had not made the effort to thank each of them before they were laid to rest. I think about those whom I know and about whom I am concerned for whatever the reason.
But, even as much as I am now more aware of the need to give out those pats on the back, I fall short on some days. I am so full of my own thoughts that I don't seem to always have enough time to think of others and their needs.
As are most of us, I am a work in progress…and I am very thankful about that "in progress" part at this Thanksgiving time of year. That is much more to be thankful for than would be a work whose progress has ceased.
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October 30, 2013
On October 27th, Masa Israel alumni gathered for the 3rd Annual Tri-State Area Alumni Summit.
The Summit was held at the UJA Federation of New York and was coordinated by Tri-state area Alumni Board in cooperation with Erica Schwarz, Masa Israel's Director of Alumni Relations.
"We hold the Summit each year because it's a place for alumni to come together and feel a sense of belonging with like-minded people," said Alumni Board chair Dina Silberstein. "The Summit serves as a starting point for alumni to connect to each other and to what they want to do in the greater Jewish community."
The event kicked off with an engaging speech by keynote speaker Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, of Park Avenue Synagogue. An alumnus of a long-term Israel program himself, Rabbi Cosgrove spoke of his journey from unengaged young adult to OTZMA participant to leader in the Jewish community, and provided ideas on how to maintain the feeling of connection to Israel after returning home.
Attendees then chose to attend one of two breakout sessions. The professional development session featured a panel of Masa alumni who leveraged their experiences in Israel to succeed in the workforce, providing practical tips and tools and answering questions.
The Israel advocacy session, led by Career Israel alumnus Noam Gilboord of the Israel Action Network, provided practical guidance on articulating reasons to support the country.
"The conversation was interesting to me because I've been approached before with negative comments, but didn't know how to respond," said Lynnley Rothenberg, a recent Career Israel alumna. "The session was a light-bulb moment for me."
Masa Israel raffled off two free tickets and a meet-and-greet with Idan Raichel, the world-renowned Israeli musician.
The event culminated in an engagement fair, where alumni could meet representatives from over 20 Jewish organizations.
Overall, attendees had a great time seeing old friends and making new ones.
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Arsenal squandered a two-goal lead in Germany on Tuesday evening as Schalke denied Arsene Wenger victory on his return from a touchline ban.
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The Frenchman has been forced to watch the first three Group B fixtures from the stands, including the surprise 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Bundesliga outfit a fortnight ago.
Arsenal's long unbeaten Champions League home run came to an end that night and they had looked set to get revenge in Gelsenkirchen after netting two first half goals in quick succession.
Having held off Schalke's intense early pressure, Theo Walcott netted his 50th goal for Arsenal against the run of play in the 18th minute after Olivier Giroud was dispossessed in the box.
The France international got in on the action eight minutes later with a superb diving header, but Klaas-Jan Huntelaar reduced the deficit in first half stoppage time.
Arsenal were pinned back as Schalke poured forward in search of an equaliser and, despite goalkeeper Vito Mannone's best efforts, it came when Jefferson Farfan fired home via a Thomas Vermaelen deflection.
The big talk before kick-off surrounded Andre Santos, who was dropped after a poor performance in Saturday's 2-1 defeat at Manchester United was compounded by his ill-advised decision to ask former team-mate Robin van Persie for his shirt at half-time.
Laurent Koscielny came into the starting line-up in his place and Walcott overcame illness to replace the injured Aaron Ramsey.
Schalke, who named an unchanged side despite manager Huub Stevens suggesting otherwise, began brightly and Mikel Arteta blocked a Christian Fuchs effort five minutes in.
Arsenal were struggling to get the ball out of their half and somewhat fortunate not to go behind when Lukas Podolski was caught in possession and Schalke broke, with Mannone saving superbly to deny Ibrahim Afellay at his near post.
The Royal Blues' pressure did not relent and Benedikt Howedes headed over a Farfan corner as they continued to press for an early opener that, rather surprisingly, came at the other end.
Roman Neustadter's poor back header put through Giroud through on goal and, when the dallying Frenchman was dispossessed by Howedes, Walcott collected the ball and went on to slot home unopposed.
Santi Cazorla and Joel Matip were booked shortly after the 18th-minute effort opener, before Atsuto Uchida was forced off injured.
Marco Hoger slotted in at right-back and soon found himself caught out by Podolski.
The Germany international turned the substitute and whipped in a low cross that Giroud met with a superb diving header in the 26th minute.
Schalke looked shellshocked and Fuchs was booked, before Giroud headed straight at goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall.
But, just as Arsenal looked set to go into half-time with a two-goal cushion, neat interplay from the hosts put Huntelaar through and he lashed home in stoppage time .
It was a classy finish by the Dutch international but one he could not match six minutes after the restart.
Huntelaar went through on goal after connecting with Jermaine Jones' through ball, but Mannone made himself big and saved brilliantly.
While Giroud had miscued a great shot just moments earlier, it was the hosts that were on top as Arsenal again came out the blocks slowly.
Last-ditch defending and fine goalkeeping was all that was keeping Schalke at bay, with a combination of Arteta and the post denying Hoger.
Podolski was booked for kicking the ball away in frustration after referee Nicola Rizzoli called halt on their attack due to injury to the Schalke right-back, who had to be replaced by Kyriakos Papadopoulos.
When play resumed Mannone did brilliantly to palm away a driven Lewis Holtby effort, before stopping a long-range Afellay strike.
The Italian goalkeeper could not keep Schalke at bay for much longer, though, and when Farfan collected the ball on the right-hand side of the box he fired home via a deflection off Thomas Vermaelen.
Arsenal responded well to the 67th minute goal and Walcott hit the post, only to be ruled offside.
Jones was cautioned and then denied by Mannone as the match entered a final 10 minutes in which neither side was able to find a winner, with Huntelaar heading over and Walcott denied by Unnerstall's outstretched leg deep in stoppage time.
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YUMA — Authorities say a Yuma man chased away two men who had broken into his trailer and had fired several warning shots as the suspects ran away.
Yuma County sheriff Sgt. Sam Pavlak says the 22-year-old man who lived in the trailer grabbed a gun when he spotted the intruders and ran after them outside the trailer as they fled.
Pavlak says the victim fired the shots in the general direction of the burglars but didn't fire directly at them.
No one was injured.
Pavlak says 26-year-old Rigoberto Quiroga and 28-year-old Jesus Arbizo had forced their way into the trailer through a window and were later arrested outside a nearby apartment complex.
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Skip to comments.How Many Government Employees Are There?
Posted on 03/08/2010 5:47:40 AM PST by fruser1
Given all the talk of wanting a smaller government, I figured I'd look up how many government employees there are. I found this info rather easily but thought it was worth passing on.
These numbers are from 2008 data. The addition and percentages I performed myself:
Number of Full-Time Federal Employees - 2,518,101 Part-Time - 250,785 Full-Time State - 3,818,577 Part-Time - 1,451,002 Full-Time Local - 11,039,250 Part-Time - 3,383,976
2008 US Population (est) - 304,059,724
% of Gov't employees - 7.38%
Inverse - 13.536
So this means that there's a government employee for every 13.5 people in the country.
Below are links to where I got this data. You can check out your own state-specific numbers there if you want.
http://www.census.gov/govs/apes/ http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
For State and Local data, I looked at the "US Summary Table" which explicitly lists full-time and part-time categories separately. For the Fed data, I had to subtract "full-time" from the "total" to get number of part-time employees above, as that table did not explicitly list the number of part-time employees.
About twice as much as there needs to be...............
What I want to know is — all the departments — Education, Labor, Interior — there are so many — how many in each department and what do all these people DO ALL DAY!!?!?!?!?!? That's the real question.
The real secret is the number of contractors which could easily double your number.
They just told me that the Poist Office has less mail to deliver...and it's been that way....but "0" layoffs to date.
Some lying scumbag from the government workers' union wrote a letter to the WSJ a couple of weeks ago saying that the number of full time Federal government employees is the same as it was in Kennedy's era (1.6 million if memory serves correctly). It was an obvious lie, but the WSJ published it anyway.
Too d@mn many.
My gag reflex is overstimulated.
The scientific term is T.N.C. aka Too Numerous to Count. lol
Just at the federal level did the charts indicate how many, if any, were military. I remember when clintoon cut the military he claimed credit for reducing federal employment.
Enough to start a medium-sized country somewhere
... actually, that's a good idea ... they can all leave and start their own country.
OMG. That's oppressive, not to mention mega wasteful.
Our government needs a serious overhaul. Cut it by at least 90%.
This number needs to get around. People will be shocked to hear it (as much as I am right now).
And there never will be any. No matter how little the USPO does, it will continue to be an arm of the Democrat party.
How does the 13.5% compare to private employment? And does that include military personnel?
Bearing in mind that of the 300million people - a high percentage are dependent children and retired seniors.
OK, 13 work for me:
3 in department of defense
.25 of a marine
.25 of a coastguardsman naa, I live in Utah, scratch the coastie.
Prob one teacher
how about 1 VA worker.
I will take 25% of 1 police man (small rural town, that includes the sheriff too. reluctantly I will take 1/10% of the DMV folks.
This could be interesting....
Now get fancy. What percentage of working Americans is that? Does that drop your number to 6 for every government employee? 7? And the average American makes less than the average government worker if you factor for benefits and retirement. That should skew the number more.
2008 US Population (est) - 304,059,724
A key statistic is the number of government workers divided by total workers.
That number is probably getting close to 20%
Bingo! Having been a former bureaucrat, I can tell you that the trend has been to expand the shadow workforce. The number of contractors working side by side with federal employees...doing the same work, has exploded.
Recently stories have come out about how govt employees make more on average than the average private sector person. We pay their salary, but also their bennies, their retirement pensions and a whole lot of other stuff they can work in from their buds in congress. And we are having to keep our budgets on the positive side while funding their existance. Ozero is on a huge hiring binge and all those fedgov employees suck more and more cash out of our lives. Then they are going to raise taxes on us to fund the new hires. Maybe this is obama's army he spoke of. Thousands of federal employees that he can use for his own purposes.
Just thinking.
"Just at the federal level did the charts indicate how many, if any, were military."
723,385 for Nat Defense/International Relations, if that helps you.
Not counting the military the largest employer in the county is - the county.
The school system alone has close to 7,000 workers - one for every 7.4 students.
Those studies show that government workers earn 150% more than equivalent term and skill positions in the private sector. But that way understates the difference in earnings.
I do not think that those studies include the factor of job risk. Most people in private sector jobs get laid off or fired — downsized — every so often. No so with FedGov.
I'd guesstimate that were that job risk to be factored in we're looking at 300%.
Amazing! Can some one tell me what justifies that many?
And then also tell me why the Census must hire 1.2 million ADDITIONAL government employees - to count an estimated 310 million people? Approximately 1 census worker to count each 258 people! Over the course of many months! Do they each count a couple a day and then go home?
Yeah, but who would pay them for producing nothing?
This was done by mechanizing, automating and roboticizing the way mail is handled.
Although there are hundreds of thousands of employees there, each is just a cog in a vast machine that becomes "more machine" and "less human" every year. The human beings continue to be vital to the machine but eventually that will come to an end.
It is conceivable that within 50 years the only employee will be the Postmaster General.
Not even close.
They census "workers" only go out to the places where the forms are not mailed in.
In reality, what percentage will that be, 10-15%.
So these "workers" will have to contact 25-30 families over the course of six months, about one a week.
What a backbreaking job that has to be.
It depends on how many part timers they've got, and where the work takes place.
Government engineers don't either.
You match job for job with the same skillsets and experience, the studies show the opposite.
Now, let's match CRIMINAL RECORDS. Your typical civil servant, e.g. a postal worker or one of the drones at Department of Defense (that's at the federal level eh) do not have CRIMINAL RECORDS!
Show me how Seven Eleven or AAA Refuse could run a business if they demanded that no one have a CRIMINAL RECORD.
Hey, even General Motors hires convicted felons!
The US government doesn't.
You are in la-la land on this matter — YOU look up the studies. Also, you are mistaken about the felony class.
Does "SEIU" give you a clue?
Now, where are your studies that show that federal employees make more, doing the same job, than private sector employees.
I know I know, that is the problem, but I consider that THEIR problem. I just want them to go away.
Maybe they can enslave the local 4-legged critters in their new far far away paradise. :)
Sorry, I'm no longer helping the lazy.
Here in Houston there are more contractors doing work for/at NASA than there are actual federal employees.
If not, the picture is WAY worse than these numbers paint it.
If that small portion is 10-15%, or 31-46 million, that comes to 26-39 people to count for each "worker." Subtracting even 50% of the Census staff for "management" and "support" staff and that's still 52-78 people to count for each actual Census counter!
Once you take even the smallest part of this process out of the hands of the computers and the mail delivery service, that part is going to take far more time and effort.
You didn't even name the studies. (What I'm hoping for here is that you'll refer to a rather famous private company in the field of comparing jobs that's otherwise managed by classical Marxists).
'Way too many...
With the taxes we pay, trust me, we are ALL working for the government.
Government (Federal, state & local) needs to be cut by 50% IMMEDIATELY and then another 50% next year. This should apply to cutting gubmint employees as well as spending. Cut it to the bone!!!
Please be careful when painting with a very broad brush. FrogDad is a full-time Civil Servant working in the DoD. He works his butt off.
Admittedly, the "Civil Servants" to be vilified are legion, but some are necessary. FrogDad teaches new soldiers, sailors, and marines the military job he did for 24 years. It's a job that must be done and who is better qualified?
Yes, there should be layoffs at the PO. Yes, there should be layoffs in the great buddy pool hired in DC. Yes, about 25 of Mrs. BO's "personal assistants" should be fired.
Also, there should be no unionization of fed workers allowed. It's already hard to fire the SOBs, being unionized makes it nearly impossible.
Your right on the govt attorneys and engineers. But have you ever seen the immense size of the Dept of Education or the Dept of Ag or the Dept of Transportation buildings in DC? They are some of the most massive buildings in the city and you can bet every office is full. What they hell do we need more and more taxpayer funded doo gooders telling the states how to educate their kids and how to grow their crops?
>> what do all these people DO ALL DAY!!?!?!?!?!?
They SPEND YOUR MONEY.
Think of them as family that moved in to mooch off of you.
There are several complexes in DC built BEFORE AIR CONDITIONING. They have high ceilings, large windows, and all offices open along large, high hallways.
The USPS headquarters at L'Enfant Plaza has more employees in it than the 4 story Ag building on Independence ~ and that has to do with the impact air conditioning has on space requirements.
The greater number of federal workers in the Department of Agriculture work in field offices all over the country ~ mostly in small towns and rural areas. That's why you have no idea how many there really are.
Given that agriculture is a major American business employing millions of people (directly, or in food processing, sales, services, transport, etc.) the number of folks employed in USDA is, in fact, NOT excessive.
The graph below shows the the number of full-time-equivalent employees by state expressed as a percentage of the population since 1952. I derived this from Commerce Dept data. Data before 1952 are much harder to come by. I once started looking for data for NJ and my recollection is that the numbers I found were down around one percent back in the early 20th century.
Since it's not easy to tell, I would point out that the states with the highest 2007 percentages are DC, and Alaska. The lowest are Hawaii and Nevada.
[Note: that the site where this chart is hosted will be closing down soon.] ML/NJ
The tables do not include military. These would be civilian employees. Oddly enough, though, I see the Coast Guard is included in these totals, under the Department of Homeland Security.
The number only includes employees, not contractors. These would be folks getting W-2's from Uncle Sam, not a private company.
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JACKSON – Aubrey Patterson's opening line when he stood to rebut those who roasted him at a recent Mississippi Press Association event was perfect.
"I am at loss for words," Patterson said. It would be incorrect to say the BancorpSouth chairman and former chief executive officer deadpanned because the word has the connotation that someone is acting. Patterson was not. It was his normal, dry, matter-of-fact delivery.
Master of Ceremonies Sid Salter referred to him as chairman of the "bored" during the roast that is conducted annually to raise money to provide scholarships for worthy journalism students. I know the punchline. Do worthy journalism students actually exist?
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Bryant revealed, "I have known Aubrey Patterson for a long time. We were in business together. He owned the mortgage on my home."
Bounds quipped the problem with bankers' jokes is that bankers do not think they are funny and others do not think they are jokes.
It was pointed out that most of those Patterson selected to roast him were beholden to him in some way. Patterson is a member of the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning – an appointee of former Gov. Haley Barbour. Bounds is hired by the board and reports to the board. Patterson was a key member of the CDF board that brought in Rumbarger to run the economic development agency.
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I have dealt with Patterson for a long time. Truth be known, at one point I went to church with him – even though if you look up the definition of Presbyterian in the dictionary you will not find my picture.
While the roasters were funny, Patterson is seldom, if ever, at a loss for words. He is instead careful, and well thought out in his words.
In his most truthful moments, Patterson probably would concede that he wished many of the politicians he has supported through the years would follow his lead in, well, thinking before they speak.
Aubrey Patterson is far from a shrinking violent. He has argued aggressively for his position – whether improving the state's educational system or lessening regulations for banks – in multiple halls of power. He is respected and in some cases feared in those halls.
And, of course, the roasters know that, but their job was to be funny, which they were on occasion.
But the roasters also went out of their way to point out the difference Patterson has made not only in Lee County, but throughout the state – whether advocating for better education or for more economic development opportunities for Mississippians.
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Bobby Harrison is the Daily Journal's Capitol Bureau chief. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (601) 353-3119.


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--Kaiser 22:51, 25 November 2007 (CST)
Attenuation refers to the percentage of starting extract that has been converted by the fermentation process:
Attenuation = 100 % * (starting extract - current extract) / (starting extract)
This formula works with extract given in weight percentages and degree Plato. Since, at least in the wort and beer gravities that most brewers work with, there is an almost linear relationship between (specific gravity - 1) and extract percentages. This formula can be changed to:
Attenuation = 100 % * (starting gravity - current gravity) / (starting gravity - 1)
to work for brewers who measure extract as specific gravity.
Brewing process and wort composition
To understand the different forms of attenuation we need to take a look at the extract composition first. During mashing, the majority of the grist is converted into water soluble compounds and then to beer. This is shown in Figure 1.
The conditions during the mashing process as well as the grains will determine the exact ratio between the various compopunds (sugars, detxtrines, proteins and others). Once the conversion is complete, the mash is lautered. During this process not all of the dissolved extract is extracted. The perentage of the total dissolved extract and the extract that actually ends up in the boil kettle is called brew house efficiency.
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When during the wort fermentation, the fermentable sugars are converted into almost equal parts of CO2 and ethanol as well as much smaller amounts of other compounds (esters, higher alcohols). The yeast will also absorb most of the simple proteins. But not all of the fermentable sugars will have been fermented at the time the beer is comsumed. The amount of fermentable sugars left in the beer has an affect on the beer character and different styles of beer oftentimes have different amounts of fermentable sugars left.
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Hydometers are calibrtated for measuring the sugar (extract) content of a water soulution. This is true for wort. But when they are used to measure the extract of beer, which contains ethanol, the reading will be skewed by the lower specific gravity of the ethanol. As a result the hydrometer shows a lower extract content than the actual beer has. This measured extract value is called apparent extract (as opposed to the real extract that is measured when there is no alcohol in the solution) and is commonly used when refering to the extract (or specific gravity) of beer. Like the real extract it can be expressed as weight percent, degree plato or specific gravity. To determine the real extract one can boil-off the alcohol and replace it with distilled water before using a hydrometer. If the original extract is known the following formula [Realbeer] can be used to calculate the real extract from the apparent extract:
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Apparent vs. real attenuation
When the apparent extract of the beer is used to calculate its attenuation it is called apparent attenuation. The use of the real extract will give the real attenuation. When brewers speak of just attenuation they are most likely to mean apparent attenuation since it can easily be calculated from the hydrometer readings.
Limit of attenuation
The Limit of attenuation is the sum of all the sugars that the yeast is able to ferment expressed as a percentage of the total extract content. Since ale yeasts (saccharomyces cerevisiae) can only ferment maltotriose to a third and lager yeasts (saccharomyces uvarum) can ferment that wort sugar completely, lager yeasts will show a slighly higher limit of attenuation for the same wort.
Other than this the limit of attenuation of a given wort does not depend on the yeast strain. It is soley set by the mashing process. All yeasts are able to ferment all the fermentable sugars (save for the lager - ale difference mentioned above) in a given wort. This fact is taken advantage of in a [forced ferment test]. The forced ferment test uses a sample of wort and pitches it with a large amount of yest. To ensure complete fermentation this sample is kept warm and the yeast is roused regularily (shaking or stir plate). Once the fermentation is complete the apparent extract is measured and the limit of attenuation for that wort can be calculated.
Yeast strain differences in attenuation
If there are no limit of attenuation differences between the different yeast strains, why are there more and less attenuative yeast strains available? Though yeast strains are able to ferment all the sugars in the beer, they usually don't get to. In contrast to a fast ferment test beer is fermented at lower temperatures, with smaller pitching rates and without constant rousing. Because of that the yeast will not get a chance to ferment all sugars in the wort. flocculation will cause it to drop to the bottom or collect on the surface where it doesn't have as much wort contact anymore. Because of nutrient depletion and or high alcohol levels cells die before they get a chance to ferment every last sugar in the wort. The result are left over fermentable sugars that play an imporant role in the character of the beer. The closer a beer's attenuation is to its limit of attenuation the drier and less sweet it will tase. When looking at the attenuation ranges given for commercial yeast you will notice that the less flocculating a yeast is, the more attenuative it will be. This makes sense as the less fluculating teasts will ramain in contact with the wort for a longer time.
[Narziss] lists ranges for attenuation (removal of the yeast) to limit of attenuation differences for different german beer types:
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District Vision Plan Public Meeting: November 16, 2013
Fair Oaks Community Center - Multipurpose Room
Redwood City, CA
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This meeting will focus on the Peninsula Foothills and Baylands Regions.
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In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in a meeting, please contact the District Clerk at (650) 691-1200. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the District to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to the meeting.
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