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Re: State Registration of Documented Vessels
Sail life,
I currently am a titanium salesman, though I also have a JD and am bar certified in Louisiana. And worked as an attorney for years, before I realized I hate the practice of law and moved on.
in Louisiana the resale of a boat between private parties (ie not a broker, or retail shop) is considered a 'casual sale'. Which means no sales tax is owed on the second sale. Technically you actually have to get the department of revenu's blessing on the sale, but it is a simple formality unless they contest the sale as a simulation, or one of the other exceptions to the casual sale rules.
Exert from....Louisiana Sales Tax Statutes and Regulations pg 37 (47/174 in PDF)
d. It is not the intention of this Chapter to impose a tax on an isolated or occasional sale, frequently termed a casual sale, except with respect to the sale of motor vehicles, which are specifically cov- ered by R.S. 47:303(4). The primary consideration in determining whether a sale meets exemption requirements is whether the seller is in the busi- ness, or holds himself to be in the business, of selling merchandise or tangible personal property of similar nature, and not solely upon the fre- quency of the transactions
Due to the legal nature this conversation has taken... The above should not be construed to be legal advice, but is of a general nature. Only upon specific review of your facts and situation, and with consultation by a tax law expert can your particular tax liability be determined.
|The problem here is the confusion over the named tax. Sales tax, is applied when the object is sold and to be transfered between two or more parties. Use tax, is ambiguous and can be applied for any number of reasons but mainly covers the ground between sales and property tax. Property tax comes into play in two ways; one as tangible property or asset, the other as real property. Most juresdictions only want to make sure their sales taxes are paid and will verify that the taxes are paid in the sale state if the owner have moved. Sales tax can only be charged once per item per owner (vessels, vehicles and property) so if a state has the opportunity to collect the calculated tax ahead of another they will. Many states work in concert to reciprocally collect taxes due.
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Minniwaska has it right. There are so many different sales tax rules and interpretations from state to state that it is not possible to generalize. IMO the bottom line is that it is not smart to save a few bucks and then have to be looking over your shoulder forever, wondering if the state will catch up with you. Not only that but your poor state government needs more money!
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Generally speaking, Sales Tax is due upon sale inside a jurisdiction, like a State. However, many States have different rates by County. It is due each time a new Sale is made, except between commercial vendors when trading inventory and some State's exempt sales between individuals, under certain conditions. Use Tax is due upon using an item in the jurisdiction for a defined period of time and is typically the same rate as Sales tax. Use Tax is designed to collect an equivalent of Sales Tax, if you buy in another State and bring the item home.
How these apply to each State differs dramatically. For example, many will waive Sales Tax, if you removed the purchased property from their State within a period they define. Many will give you credit against their Use Tax, if you paid another State's Sales Tax. But, not all do this and none define it the same.
Registration is only a license to use use your boat within a jurisdictions waters for more than a defined period of time. Many States use registration as a way to determine if you've paid the appropriate Sales or Use tax.
Before anyone gets energized on trying to make sense of this, or argue about waters that flow to Ireland?, tax code isn't designed to make sense or be right or wrong. It's only designed to collect revenue. Period.
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I like how a lot of people these days just go.....I'd paid it to avoid the hassle . That's what made this country great . There actually was a guy in the Continental Congress who acknowledged that the British were pesky , but it would be easier to just pay them & avoid the hassle . His name was Ima Spineless ******** ......just sayin
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Your avoiding what I said and the question that Tempest asked. Also you imply that what I said isn't correct but never specify what is wrong.
From the Louisiana state website FAQ on taxes
Frequently Asked Questions : Louisiana Department of Revenue
To what transactions is sales tax applied?
The state general sales and use tax is levied on the following transactions:
The sale of tangible personal property in this state.
The use, consumption, distribution, or storage for use or consumption in this state of any tangible personal property.
We agree on this - If O1 didn't pay taxes it is tax evasion.
As to O2 in this case I don't know what his liability would be for O1s' failure to pay taxes but O2 will be paying taxes on his purchase of the used boat.
Even if O1 payed sales tax, when O2 buys the boat he will have to pay taxes on his purchase.
Your numbers don't make sense. Mississippi has a 7% tax rate. On 250k that would be 17,500 in La with a 4% tax it would be $10,000.
Why Louisiana would care about sales taxes due in another state is a mystery. How much of this 30k was to go to Mississippi and how much did Louisiana want? Was the boat titled or documented?
In post #30 you say "Louisiana says well if it's here more than 90 days you need to register it in Louisiana. To do so you need proof of sales tax being paid, or will have to pay it."
Sounds like they want their tax money.
Your statement in post #28 is wrong.
"Sales tax is only due the first time a boat is sold, not every time. Just like used cars when sold from person to person are not due sales tax (they are if the title was from a used car lot though). "
The statement that a car would only have sales tax if bought from a dealer doesn't make sense and is wrong. There's a reason you always see/hear a line about "title, taxes and registration" in car ads. When you go to a DMV and try to title a car that you bought they are going to collect sales taxes if the state has a sales tax. If you buy it from a dealer who is getting your tags he will collect the taxes and other fees. As for a boat it is the same thing. The Louisiana website says nothing about 'new' or 'used' just sale of tangible property.
Like Sea hunter said sales tax is due each time an item is sold not just when it is new. When I bought my used sailboat I paid sales tax in Maryland. Since I'm the third owner and the boat has always been in Maryland it was the 3rd time Maryland collected sales tax on the boat.
If you are buying a used boat it would be smart to ask the agency that handles boat titles in the state where you plan to keep the boat what sales tax you might owe.
I was under the impression that you sell titanium, are you also a boat broker or lawyer?
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Everyone pays the sales tax once for each boat they purchase on any new or used boat; whether or not the boat is documented or as the RO one moves to a different state. Registration requirements vary state to state, however, state jurisdiction prevails as to registration and or title if the state has titled vessels. One of course can choose to avoid paying the sales tax, but in the end the somebody is going to have to turn over a pound of flesh.
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Sail life,
You are correct... But not quite.
Let me go through an example of a boat I just cleaned up the paperwork on...
1) Owner 1 (01) buys a boat in Louisiana
2) O1 tells Louisiana the boat will be registered in Wisconsin. So no sales tax is owed to Louisiana
3) 01 never tells Wisconsin he bought a boat so Wisconsin doesn't know they are due sales tax
4) 01 documents the vessel, thus allowing him to get a boat mortgage, and insurance. With the boat located in Louisiana, but titled in Wisconsin.
5) 01 sells the boat to owner 2 (02)
6) 02 want the boat to be legal, so he calls up Louisiana to see what he needs to do.
7) Louisiana says well if it's here more than 90 days you need to register it in Louisiana. To do so you need proof of sales tax being paid, or will have to pay it
8) since 01 never paid sales tax, 02 is stuck with a tax bill he never expected to pay
9) 02 calls me, we sue 01.
10) 01 settles for amount taxes owed
11) 02 registers the boat legally
Yes you are correct that 01 was supposed to pay the taxes, but he didn't. And with no revenue department looking for him, he was fine. Had he been caught he likely would have been subject to tax evasion charges, but he was never caught.
In reality a huge percentage of boats did this, because it was a very safe way to avoid a large tax bill. And since there was no way to check if sales tax had been paid until the boat was stopped, and you can't search a boat without probable cause... The states didn't have much to go on.
Enter our current situation.
Some states have begun to require registration even if a boat is documented. So if you don't have a sticker on your boat the officer has probable cause to investigate you for operating without registration. Since all states to my knowledge require proof of sales tax being paid to register a boat, there is now an enforcement mechanism that works. I expect more and more states (particularly costal states) to adopt this policy.
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Sales tax is due when you sell a car if the state has a sales tax. You don't pay it, you don't get tags or a title. Same for a boat... It depends on the state.
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Sales tax is only due the first time a boat is sold, not every time. Just like used cars when sold from person to person are not due sales tax (they are if the title was from a used car lot though).
In this case the first owner should have paid sales tax but didn't, by documenting the vessel and never reporting the sale to the state in which it was documented. The second owner then got hit with a tax bill based upon the original purchase price of the boat.
There are some other complexities like the age of the boat, and if the boat was a dealer buy or private sale, ect.
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That looks like 50% of the homes I have to go into up here.Once you become a pickle you can't go back to being a cucumber.
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That looks like the sink of a rental house my aunt had. She called Dad one day to see it he could get the kitchen sink unclogged. So we jump in the truck and drive down to the rental house and have a look see. Sink backed up but would drain very slowly, had a garbage disposal in it also. So Dad gets a bucket and pulls the trap off and finds chards of glass packed into it. The renter finally confessed that she thought that a garbage disposal was just that, a "GARBAGE DISPOSAL". Told my aunt to call a real plumber to clear the drains, what a mess.
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It's not just the sink. Look at the window sill and even the chair.
I grew up dirt poor but NEVER did I live in those conditions. You can NOT blame those conditions on your station in life. It has only to do with pure laziness.
I say the he11 with the clog and burn the dump down!
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Unfortunately yes, her sink looked exactly like that one.
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There was an old wife's tale many many years ago that you could sharpen the blades of a garbage disposer with glass. I'm sure many of us know the ice trick.
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i fill it with ice cubes. then i discoonect the outlet side and make sno-cones for the kids
actually the great thing about ice cubes is that it beats up the crap in the disposal that's lodged inside and turns to water. plus it's cool to see the machine foam with slush as it grinds up.
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Almost right, you put a lot of ice cubes in and run a small amount of water (just more than a trickle) while adding additional cubes until you have a serious slushy. On a dirty or smelly disposer the chocolate color you see coming out of the disposer is from the ice scouring the internal grind chamber. You must also take a peek under the sink at this time to check the piping which just had this semi frozen concoction flowing through it as you may need to snug down a slip joint nut or two. Any time my crew would unjam a disposer we would also clean it out. If the disposer jammed during the above procedure it would be an indicator to the homeowner that a new one would be needed soon.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Lee356, Jul 8, 2009.
That sounds like a plan.
I heard that "off season is over" sentence the last years and all we saw where signings like Mo Evans or Jarvis Hayes. I slowly start to think that this year it will be the same; I still don't get it; yeah, the CV signing is ok; but a SG for a team that is loaded with SG's and has NO PG what so ever and lacks a C is something I still don't get. Unless he trades at least RIP for a C Joe messed it up once more
I think Joe is trying to put Kuester through the same test he put Curry through. A week or two into the season he'll trade half of the team just to see how Kuester reacts in comparison to Curry and to evaluate his performance through the end of the season.
Good post. For those of you who started following the team back in 04, that team did not materialize overnight the day before you decided to watch them. It took a few years. 01/02 and 02/03 still goes down as some of my favorite years since you knew the only place we were going was up. I feel the same way now. Finally getting something new together here.
I think we are putting too much value in Rip. A 30+ year old sg who can't create his own shot at 12 million a year? If Rip is not in the right offensive system as we seen this year with AI, he is total trash. Maybe our tradeable assets are not really all that tradeable.
Seems like we are interested in everybody from Davis, to Bass, to Milsap, to Boozer, to Chandler and player X, but we have not offered anybody anything....the saga continues...........Joe what have you done for us lately? We are impatient fans dude...
Seems like Joe was overly aggressive going after Gordon and CV and now he is sitting back being too passive filling the one thing we need a Center that can rebound.
With the rumours that AA is possibly being traded for cash, our move into the PHX suns is almost complete. Tay at C!
Hey, that's an exciting team to watch.
I think what Lee was trying to say is that we blew most of our money on players that are a dime a dozen. Sure Gordon and Charlie V. are upgrades, but they don't do the things that we need to win like play defense or rebound. We should have went after a rebounding Center or Power Forward first with our money. We already have RIP so why sign another SG?? Now that we have Gordon on the books you don't have the leverage to make a trade. The other teams now have the upper hand because they know Joe has to trade someone so the Pistons will not get the best value and if they trade someone they will have to accept the other teams terms and demands to make the deal happen.
You got it about right. Just add that Joe continues dumb move after dumb move in the name of cap space - that he continually squanders on the wrong players - and you got his whole story from 2004 on.
Such as...? (Nice avatar btw).
Thanks We should have been talking to the Clippers before we signed anybody. We could have gotten Camby or as a last resort Zach Randolph. I rather have David Lee than Charlie V. At least David Lee averages 10 boards a game and shoots above 50% from the floor and plays a little defense. I would not spend almost 60 million for Gordon to come off the bench. It makes no type of sense. It seems like Joe wants to turn us into the Phoenix Suns of the East. Which is fine, but they found role players to fill those 3 pt shooter roles.
I wouldn't. Lee may be a slightly better rebounder than Charlie V, but he isn't close in terms of offensive skill set and his defense similarly leaves a lot to be desired. Plus, Lee wants way more money than he's worth.
Well, we just got rid of the one player who consistently gave us a chance to win games by toning down the perimeter play of the opposing team. Without Afflalo, we are a lottery bound team. CV and Gordon ain't going to give us enough scoring to even dent the point totals they will be giving up, let alone make up for losing two of our best defenders in Amir and Afflalo. At this point, we are a 20 win team. Tops. Now, people hold out hope yet of one more player coming. Guess what. One more player might make us a 30 win team. Tops. Joe has done nothing, and its looking more and more like he is going to do nothing, and does not even care. One more thing. A whole lot of ills over the past several years have been passed off by many as somebody else's fault besides Joe. Well, now Joe has no owner looking heavily over his shoulder, Hammonds is gone, and gone are any coaches with standing who could influece Joe. Its all Joe now. And his moves so far in this situation have been trash. Time to fire the guy. For this first time, I am openly saying that Joe has to go. He is the problem, though I really do hate to say it.
Those must have been the most crucial 15 minutes of the game. At least we'll get a high lottery pick and draft a future star.
Lee getting rid of Amir Johnson and Aaron Afflalo is showing that Joe Dumars is doing something. He's making the team worse right?
LK, are you serious, are you trying to rile lee up? AA was a decent backup SG, but Amir is the human foul machine. Look at his summer league performances for crissakes. He's a 4th year player and 4 time VSL player and he is getting punked. If you're good in SL, you have a shot. If you're bad, you're screwed. I don't know why people are pining for Amir and Aff, when Summers and Daye are the most exciting rookies we have had since 2005.
Amir fouled a lot if not played regularly. Whenever he played steady minutes, the fouls subsided. Remember what Curry said. What he said was the truth, that Amir needed steady coaching - in other words, keep his role regular. Curry went back on that not too far into the season at all. (the Kwame starting with Sheed thing.) Curry, and his non-sense are gone. But Joe is still around so we still got house cleaning to do. How many years downs the line do you suppose Summers and Dayes are going to take to contribute - especially on defense? PS, other people besides me disagree with you, believe it or not.
No, I wasn't being serious. But it does seem that Joe Dumars is truly going in a new direction. Defense is no longer the motto it seems, and we never know how this team is going to look, until they go out and play.
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Nothing has changed, IMO, except that the Chinese government wants even tighter control on the citizens of Tibet. They are attempting to control the Buddhist religion, especially through legitimizing succession of their candidates for Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, et. al., in order gain absolute mastery in Tibet. Monasteries there are now filled with government approved monks. Appearing to support Buddhist activity in China itself is only a political ploy.
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|i was talking to the old boss about it yesterday and was gonna try and sell it back to him and instead he inspired me to keep it and finish it. funny how those things go sometimes
|so heres what i do have so far. i have the manifold and know what im doing with that just need to get the right flanges for whichever turbo i use. the ones i ordered on ebay seemed to be of excellent quality but they sent me a gt15 flange. i have 2 turbos to choose from a .42/.48 t3 with no shaft play and a gt2560s non ball bearing gt28 that needs a new compressor wheel($48 ebay) and a rebuild because it has more shaft play than im comfortable with and of course balancing ($68 gpopshop plus shiping). i have a turbo xs type s BOV 39# injectors i may replace with 42# or larger. walbro 190lph fuel pump. i have some random intercooler piping laying around. it has a 3 inch exhaust from the flex back dumping in front of driver rear tire (may get trubendz dual exhaust kit). i have a fuze boost gauge i have a bosch wideband sensor but i need a controller still. gonna get some cheap intercooler wish i still had my evo 8 fmic. ive still got alot to go to finish it feed/ drain lines coolant lines mafia xcal etc. but i think im gonna finish it ive got too much time/ money/love in this thing to give up now. and the money from the yota will help fund completion of the tour
|so the plan from here is to get a rear bumper ( they dont sell aftermarket ones since its a hard cover unlike the focus. and i went and broke the studs off 14 of them at pull a part one day) get it painted and inspected. then from there ill have to sell my daily toyota paseo. no room for 2 cars and my work van at home. during the winter i will work on the contour on the weekends when i dont have school and work. i dont have to really worry about it being off the road for a while i have the work van for work and school and the occasional part store trip on my way home
|been a while since ive updated. i ended up going back to school for hvac starting in july and started a new job in august with an hvac company so i havent had much time to diddle with the contour. my old boss has been cool and let me store the contour at the shop for a while. ive been on the fence about what to do with it. i was almost decided to part it out since its still salvage title because i never had it in for inspection yet. i dont think i can bring myself to do it being so close to being driveable and having a good portion of the parts needed to go through with the build.
i geuss im gonna go ahead and make it work with the focus header and an adapter. ive got an adapter atarted and the turbo clocked to sit right and it should sit just right and i will still be able to retain my internal gate to save a few bucks and get oil flow. i cut the triangle flange off another focus manifold and im gonna get my turbine flanges machined at a shop here locally
thanks for the advice mother ill look into it more if i get a chance tomorrow. as of now not a huge worry its manual and i dont drive it anywhere but a parking lot for teh most part so ive ignored it. atleast it has a real good pedal on the clutch. my biggest fear was the release leaking and having to pull the trans
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|just a small update. workin out all the litle bugs from being in a 10 year hibernation. think i got my vacuum leaks taken care of it alot more responsive now. next will be to figure out why i cant get a good bleed on my brakes even though its not leaking. thnking imgonna order some new rubber lines and see if that helps
|made an official goal for myself to have it on the road and spooling for the ohio spring into focus meet spring 2014. gives me almost a year to get everything together and sorted out. i think today i may see about putting my boost gauge in the car and just use it to watch vacuum for now
|well kinda blows that its gonna be adding extra cost to the build but ive come to the conclusion im gonna have to use the SPA manifold and an external wastegate. with getting the turbo clocked to the way i need it theres no way ill be able to use stock gate
|since i havent had a lot to post a little background on the car. an older couple who were returning customers at our shop bought it lightly used with low miles around 99. after driving the car for a few years during which they maintained it excellent, the car was rearended and totaled in 2003 . the car was too nice and the damage was too little so my boss purchased the car and it sat at the shop. from there the car sat until a little over a year ago when i bought it. i awoke it from its coma and have been going through all the bugs here and there since. cars nearing completion now and runs and drives great. the car will be going for its inspection soon and i wont be getting too crazy over the summer just mainly parts buying. this winter its on. by spring time next year it WILL be on the street and boosting
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Tech is experiencing an innovation boom, and many in the hospitality industry are ready to replace the "slow to adopt" mentality with strategic IT investments. From cloud computing to mobile devices, hotels and restaurants are monitoring, testing and deploying new solutions that improve the guest experience, streamline operations across vast franchise networks, and bring greater security to their enterprises.
To get insight into some of the specific areas that hospitality operators are — and should be — focusing on, Hospitality Technology consulted its Editorial Advisory Board. This diverse group of hospitality executives represents a variety of industry segments, from QSR to fine dining; from the independent hotel owner/operator to major corporate brands.
The Board talked about areas for easy improvement (what we called "low hanging fruit") emerging technologies of significant interest, major challenges the industry is facing and more. Hospitality Technology offers a sincere thank you to the members of its Board for their willingness to discuss important trends and provide candid advice. Here's what they had to say.
Steve Barrow, VP of IS, Luby's Inc.
Where is the low-hanging fruit for improvement in your industry?
In certain segments, guest WiFi has become a customer expectation. With the explosion of iPads, smartphones and tablets, operators will soon be at a competitive disadvantage by not offering WiFi. While security concerns cannot be ignored, WiFi can be added into a connected restaurant for a very small incremental cost.
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
I believe a mobile payments standard such as Google Wallet or NFC on smartphones is an emerging technology with profound implications. The service will allow a customer to access all of his account balances and payment methods (i.e., gift card, credit card, loyalty points, etc.) through one interface on the smartphone. This would relieve POS vendors from writing interfaces to every platform that the merchant might desire and free the consumer up to use alternatives payments currently not available for most merchants, such as PayPal.
Steve Brooks, Dir. Mission Control & Business Analyst,
Tumbleweed Restaurants
Where is the low-hanging fruit for improvement in your industry?
Low hanging fruit for us centers around loss prevention. We can take business intelligence exceptions to help us locate opportunities for up-selling, tip declaration, beverage sales, menu engineering and fraud. Fraud has the largest ROI. If we can minimize or eliminate fraud with business intelligence, there is very little investment. Our new loyalty vendor has fraud reporting that we can use to red-flag suspicious gift card activity. This year we plan to roll out a better display of exceptions and reporting on smart phones.
What IT projects are on your company's priority list in 2012?
Our top project for 2012 is implementing a loyalty program. We have picked our partner for this and hope to have it up and running by the end of the first quarter. Our objectives are to increase guest frequency and guest counts by at least 4%. Part of the program will be based on points for purchases, with points good towards dollars off future meals. We also plan to surprise our guests with unexpected offers that will get them to visit and talk about us. Other projects include upgrading POS equipment and evaluating the next wave of mobile POS.
Mike Dickersbach, VP of IT,
Thayer Lodging
Where to do you think IT innovation is lacking in your segment of the industry?
The property management system today is one of the most archaic systems we have in our hotels. Most major brand systems, whether built in-house or off-the-shelf, were not built with social media and interaction in mind, and some didn't even have Internet in mind. I have seen some next generation hotel management systems that are truly cloud-based (no thin client installs). They have the ability to integrate with social media outlets, CRM and all the other major management modules, allowing the guest to ultimately have a better interaction with their online hotel profile and booking abilities.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
Consumer and enterprise mobile devices will be the hardware platform going forward. I fully expect, especially with Windows 8 around the corner, that tablet hardware will be the form factor of choice for most people, even corporate environments. With that, all major software in the future will be, more or less, the "app-based" model, with easy install and de-install, and they will be touch-based.
I would expect apps to be available to give the guest a new, unique experience to their guest room, not only from the booking side, but also the experience once they have entered your hotel; much more than just a booking widget. I would like to enter a room and control the room from an app, know what hotel I just walked into, know the capabilities the hotel has, and offer me ways of making my stay more convenient.
Brian Garavuso, EVP, National Marketing & CIO,
Diamond Resorts International
Share some insight regarding a critical challenge facing your industry.
Several key issues are present in the timeshare segment: First, there's no viable enterprise/scalable product. All major timeshare companies have home-grown systems. Also, due to the nature of timeshare and homeowners associations, there is no funding to improve guest room technology or any kind of real innovation. And third, there's a lack of understanding of the timeshare segment and business model by hospitality technology vendors, many who don't have financial models that fit our segment.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
I would like to see the payment card industry provide applications and interfaces that can be integrated into our technology; that completely remove the need for all the extra work for PCI compliance. I fully support the need for credit card data protection. However, the payment card industry has created a significant amount of rules and regulations, which are costing companies huge amounts of money. The payment card companies, meanwhile, have contributed nothing to solve the initial problem.
Jeff Gengler, VP of BusinessTechnology,
Papa Murphys
Where to do you think IT innovation is lacking in your segment of foodservice?
The lack of standardized, secure, inexpensive, and innovative payment platforms continues to be one of the most productivity-impacting constraints we deal with in the restaurant and hospitality industry. The amount of resources put forth to maintain and enforce compliance, especially in a heavily franchised environment, directly impacts our ability to provide more strategic efforts to increase operational efficiencies, grow our customer base, and improve the guest experience. A cost effective, secure and very standard payment technology, which minimizes or essentially removes PCI exposure, would allow us to divert those resources back to the customer-obsessed efforts our businesses are ultimately asking us to provide.
Are there any lessons learned from an IT project that you can share with peers?
Creating and maintaining a very engaged team is the key to success. Engaging executive sponsorship, effective champions, change management, and a solid core team will usually keep one from having too many lessons to share. Despite having a great team, one lesson we learned while initially testing the POS, take out, and back office modules of our enterprise solution was that our corporate locations had a much higher tolerance for troublesome issues than our franchise partners. We completed our first few in-store pilots only in corporate locations, finding out that they were much less inclined to report issues than the next few very vocal franchised location tests. This set us back a few months due to the issues uncovered, but on a positive note, we have since successfully tightened the management of our testing and upgrade process to include eager and excited franchise partners who will gladly provide us with that much-needed very early feedback.
Michael Hassell, Director, IS,
China Grill Mgmt.
Where is the low-hanging fruit for improvement in your industry?
We will be tapping into social media and the opportunities those viral markets offer. While our younger customer base has a firm grasp of this medium, we find it interesting that as the age demographic increases, the willingness to participate in these social media environments decreases. The latter being a good portion of our guests, we are exploring the possibilities of companies like Linkedin.com and other business-oriented social sites that can facilitate access to that particular niche.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
I am most interested in quick response code (QR Code) technology. I believe we could integrate it into our operations. This would be a great opportunity to exchange information with our guest. If you look around, you can't walk more than 10 feet in a public space without seeing someone on a smartphone or other web-enabled device. When you stop to think about how quickly and efficiently we can provide information to our guests and in turn receive information from them with the same ease, it simply boggles the mind as to all the possibilities.
David Lehn, VP of IT,
Noodles & Company
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
We are using iPads in a few of our restaurants, in conjunction with our online ordering system, as a line-busting device. But where we are most excited is the possibility of a tablet being the sole computing device for our operations area managers (above-store managers who oversee upwards of 12 locations). The touch screen capability in a highly portable device to access various forms we have built out on SharePoint has been very well received. Our executive team has also widely adapted to, and in fact demanded, these devices as a supplement to their existing tech arsenal. They've proven especially handy for the frequent, short business trips when quick, easy access to email and other documents is the name of the game.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
POS in the cloud: I want a secure, always-available enterprise class POS that can accommodate all of our business needs. The players that would be most successful with this offering will also provide an open API to facilitate the myriad of integration points required in a modern restaurant environment, to include digital menu boards and signage; online & mobile ordering options; real time analytics; and frequent feeds to/from those systems both upstream and downstream to the flow of data. I would expect that in a shared-services cloud model, the costs should be no more, and arguably less, than what it costs for a single operator to manage all of this within their own data center.
Rocky Lucia, Director of IT,
B.R. Guest Hospitality
What IT projects are on your company's priority list for 2012?
Two major objectives are to create and intranet and to consolidate many of our servers to virtual servers. With the intranet, we need to be able to securely share information, increase workflow and productivity and increase our communication, to name a few. This initiative will be critical as we continue to grow. With virtual servers, as we retire old server hardware, we will consolidate many of our servers onto just a few servers using VMware. This will reduce the amount of hardware to support, save money and improve overall performance.
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
An emerging technology to us is hosted voice over IP (VOIP). I'm in the process of planning a complete cutover from PBX to VOIP. Even though this has been around for years, there are some good companies out there hosting this product. This will be very useful to us as we can use our existing infrastructure, and get rid of expensive phone lines and PRI circuits; another great plus is we can manage all phones and users ourselves, which eliminates the need to call a PBX vendor to add phones, program, etc.
Mark McBeth, VP of IT, North America,
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Share some insight regarding a critical challenge facing your industry.
Visa has announced that all U.S. acquirers and processor service providers must be able to support Chip and PIN transactions by April of 2013. They have also announced an initiative to accelerate the adoption of contact and contactless Chip transactions by merchants in an expansion of their Technology Innovation Program (TIP) to the U.S. Visa has agreed to eliminate the annual validation of PCI compliance for any merchant that has at least 75% of their transactions originating from Chip and PIN terminals. This should act as incentive for us to move quickly with our acquirers and processors. However, it won't completely eliminate the need for PCI Compliance assessments and reporting.
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
In 2011 the term Hotspot 2.0 became a popular tagline the for much anticipated 802.11u WiFi protocol. This protocol enables a WiFi network to detect and auto-authenticate a connection to your smartphone or tablet. It allows for seamless transfer between the carrier cellular network and a hotel's WiFi network, giving users the ability to roam between the two networks without manual authentication, which is often cumbersome and complicated. This would also permit a carrier to offload data traffic from their overburdened macro cellular network onto the hotel's WiFi infrastructure, and ultimately on to the carrier's robust terrestrial network.
The carriers love this idea since it solves one of their major customer service issues brought on by the explosion of smart devices and data consumption. This creates an interesting paradigm. Since the carrier's data is riding the hotel owner's infrastructure, impacting guest and administrative traffic, there should be justification for creating a revenue stream for the building owner (or infrastructure owner). To properly optimize this, the hotel will need a way to identify and meter this traffic through application layer monitoring devices or HSIA gateways, and then apply a price tag to the usage. APs will need to support the new protocol, which could result in significant network upgrades and cost, which further justify the revenue stream. The carriers are going to be the catalyst for advancing this protocol and their requirements to offload data are going to increase. Hoteliers should consider adding this to their new build and renovation projects as well as any legacy infrastructure upgrades.
Brian Pearson, CIO,
Stacked Restaurants
Where is the low-hanging fruit for improvement in your industry?
I still see way too many organizations not using kitchen display and management solutions, and table management solutions. I know of many people who will scoff at the notion that they are "achievable without significant effort," but when you look at the return, the effort pales in comparison. Increase order accuracy, reduce comps/increase profitability, speed table turns, lose fewer guests due to inaccurate quote times; these are just a few of the major benefits that are easy to quantify for your shareholders. Not having these systems is as close as you can get to not having a POS solution. It really is the other half of the coin.
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
NFC: While it's been out there for awhile, we are finally beginning to see manifestations that are concrete enough to plan and prepare for its integration into our environment. For example the ability for a customer to sign-in to iPads in our restaurant, pay for their meal, and affiliate with the brand in many other ways. With the inherit insecurity of credit cards, and the broad backing it has from major retailers like McDonald's, Walmart and 7-11, we see leading organizations with implementations already; this will grow in 2012-13 and become mainstream within the next three-to-five years.
Darrin Pinkham, VP of IT, Benchmark Hospitality International
What IT project(s) are on your company's priority list in 2012?
We're moving entirely over to cloud-based virtualized servers, which increase TCO/ROI of property application requirements for everything: PMS/GMS, POS, reservations, spa, golf, activities, CRM, mobile, web, etc. We're prioritizing having fully integrated websites with marketing messaging and alerts, which caters to our properties' seasonality requirements and specific demands and changes. We will have the ability to make on-the-fly special offerings to guests for quick business need periods and demand opportunities.
Where is the low-hanging fruit for improvement in your industry?
There are several areas: enterprise-encrypted backup solutions in the cloud are much cheaper than premise-based tape, media and/or server-based backup solutions; next, increase bandwidth, both for your admin and guest networks; also, increase free-to-guest channel line-up offerings with more HD content; finally, Web-based mobile applications, instead of downloadable apps which can be very static and seldom reused.
R.P. Rama, VP & CTO, JHM Hotels
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
Payment security systems have to be of utmost importance in the industry and a solution has to be created where the data is not stored in any system at the business unit. For that to happen, it may require some kind of device that would be biometric in nature where one can prove the guest was at the hotel and approved the charges that were incurred. Once that is done, there would be no need to have any credit card information. The guest then would access a cloud-based subscriber portal to review the charges online. Customers would input their default credit card numbers, attach them to the biometric signature, and going forward they would use the biometric tool to make all payments. It would resolve any issues with stolen or lost credit cards or even getting duplicate cards. Hand held devices would be placed at each profit center, or in hands of servers, to get guest approval for charges and transmit data to the cloud for processing.
Also, I'm interested in a communication device that can work within a hotel infrastructure to send instant messages, and also be able to talk to staff members while on site. When one leaves the hotel, that same gadget could become a cell phone and still continue to function for communication with the hotel staff member when not on site. This system can send out any kind of alerts and can track all communication on a central portal as to when the message was sent, received, opened, read, or responded. The switching from an internal wireless system to wireless carriers outside the building is the key to this device.
Dan Sheehan, Sr. VP & CIO,
Dunkin' Brands
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
I don't believe this is emerging per say, but utilizing tablets (iPad or Google) out in the field to be more productive will be important. We are looking at operations, marketing, development, construction and franchising to all benefit from using tablets. There are a number of field-based applications that better utilize the tablet's foot print (camera, content management, ease of use, etc.). We are piloting a number of these and measuring productivity gains.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
I want to see POS vendors move to the cloud, fast. I want to virtualize the POS so there is less hardware at the restaurant, less failure and less the restaurant managers have to worry and get involved in fixing POS failures. Yes, I realize that POS hardware will fail, but I want to get to a place where it's a plug-and-play mentality for our restaurant managers. With a cloud-based POS, if there is a failure, you grab your back-up POS in the manager's office, unbox it, plug it in and it starts configuring itself. Within 15 minutes, it's ready to start taking orders.
Joe Tenczar, VP of IT & CIO,
Hard Rock International
Where to do you think IT innovation is lacking in your segment of foodservice?
I still believe payment at the table is a fairly simple problem to solve, but it is slow to get traction with the large POS vendors. In 2011, I visited only three restaurants in the U.S. that offered payment at the table. In Europe, it was hard to find one that did not offer it. Verifone, Magtek, and others offer mobile secure hardware payment solutions, so why no broad adoption? It's possibly just a current lack of demand from our consumers. I think it is just a matter of time before our guests start expecting this or before PCI-DSS mandates it.
Tell us about a "wish list" technology, and how you would most like to see this tech applied for use in the hospitality industry.
I hope to see a single mobile device be your unique and secured identifier for everything from loyalty programs to payment transactions, to hotel room entry. This might be NFC or something else. Such a large percentage of our guests are carrying mobile devices, we should be able to identify them uniquely and have them authorize the sharing of this information for multiple purposes. Personally I hate having to carry 30 cards in my wallet for varied functions. I know there are multiple vendors doing some facets of this chip-based ID, but the entity that standardizes and creates buy-in from consumers will be huge in the future of hospitality and retail markets.
Scott Wise, CEO,
Scotty's Brewhouse
Where to do you think IT innovation is lacking in your segment of foodservice?
I believe our POS systems are a part of what keeps us behind. If I see a tech innovation and have an idea for how we could implement it into our restaurants, it seems like our POS company is always the first to say, "that won't work," "we are working on it and it will come out in eight months to a year," or "you can have another company do it; but, we won't support it when you integrate with our systems." There are a few companies and restaurants out there that are doing it right. I'm excited to watch Stacked Restaurants and where they go; they are the future and I believe have the market to themselves right now.
What emerging tech do you think will be particularly useful to your company?
QR technology is not emerging… and there is probably more innovation to come with its use, but I don't think these codes are being leveraged enough right now, in the right applications or processes. We are using them on our coasters. When scanned, they take you to an up-to-date list of the 30 beers we have on draft. We also put them on the top of our guest receipts and, when scanned, they go to a mobile-friendly, quick comment form for feedback. Without them, our online comments were at about 40 per month. In the first 30 days of using them on our receipts, our comment usage went to 800 submitted (a 4,000% increase). In the next 30 days, we had 1,400 submissions. We just introduced four different restaurant carryout menus (32 pages worth of printing costs and environmental trash) onto one marketing piece with four QR codes linking to all of our restaurant menus. Like most tech innovation and restaurants, I think that your own creativity is the only limitation to usage and
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Fantasy Baseball Morning Update: Tigers' Jackson may be DL-bound
Remember Aroldis Chapman's speeding ticket from earlier this week? It turns out that he's gotten four of them in the last two years. Chapman is a really good pitcher, but maybe he should have defected from Cuba to become a NASCAR driver instead.
Carlos Zambrano got knocked around last night, dropping our streaming starter record to 32-19 for the season. Today's pick is Philip Humber (owned in 7 percent of FOXSports.com leagues) against the Twins, while Friday's is A.J. Burnett (4.5 percent owned) versus the Cubs. Burnett has allowed two or fewer runs in five of his six starts as a Pirate. Yes, I know he gave up 12 runs in the other start. Don't be a wet blanket, OK?
On to the news:
- Tigers OF Austin Jackson missed another game Wednesday due to his abdominal injury, and the team is likely to decide by Friday if he needs a DL stint. Since Jackson has missed a week already, a DL stay could be backdated, leaving him eligible to return next week. Quintin Berry, who was called up to start in Jackson's place and led off last night, had 19 steals in 39 Triple-A games this season. If Jackson goes on the DL, Berry might be able to help AL-only owners for a handful of games.
- What's that? Robin Ventura said Wednesday that Addison Reed is the White Sox' closer? I am shocked - shocked! - at this development.
- Ernesto Frieri got the save in the Angels' 11th-inning win yesterday, and game recaps from both the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Times hint that Frieri has become the team's de facto closer. Frieri has a crazy-high strikeout rate, with 37 whiffs in 20 1/3 innings this season, but it would be nice to see him get a traditional save sometime soon. I still suspect that the Angels would like to give the job back to Jordan Walden, who has nine consecutive scoreless appearances.
- In other Angels' news, it sounds like OF Torii Hunter will rejoin the team next week.
- Braves' catcher Brian McCann missed his second straight game on Wednesday due to flu-like symptoms. His status for tonight is TBD.
- The Nationals hope that OF Michael Morse will return before his June 8 target date. Morse is still available in 27.3 percent of FOXSports.com leagues, so see if you can grab him.
- Manny Ramirez, who went hitless in his latest Triple-A rehab game on Wednesday, might not join the A's on May 30 after all.
- Brewers SP Marco Estrada pitched only one inning last night because he injured a hip flexor while running the bases on a first-inning double. Can someone remind me why I should pay to see pitchers hit?
- Diamondbacks' pitching prospect Trevor Bauer struggled in his latest Triple-A start, walking five batters in five innings. Let this serve as a reminder that, whenever Bauer gets called up to the big leagues, there are likely to be bumps in the road before he becomes a stud.
- Adrian Gonzalez started in right field again yesterday, but Bobby Valentine doesn't sound eager to play him there when the Red Sox return to Fenway Park this weekend. Will Middlebrooks owners, take note.
- Astros OF Jordan Schafer missed Wednesday's game after having a toenail removed, but they're hoping he can play Friday.
- Indians 3B Jack Hannahan will probably return to the lineup this weekend.
- Cole De Vries will make his first major-league start tonight for the Twins. De Vries, P.J. Walters, Scott Diamond ... why are the Twins making me work so hard by letting all these no-name guys start? Anyway, you don't need to bother with De Vries.
- This article on the Padres' website makes me think that closer Huston Street is less than two weeks away from coming off the DL.
- Catcher Miguel Olivo is a few days from returning to the Mariners, and one possible roster move for them could be to cut Chone Figgins.
- Cardinals 1B/3B Matt Carpenter (oblique) is on the DL. Remember when they had too many players to fit into the lineup?
- I love that the Rays batted Carlos Pena leadoff and Drew Sutton cleanup last night. Sutton is eligible at shortstop in FOXSports.com leagues, and is an interesting AL-only pickup.
- Blue Jays 2B Kelly Johnson is day-to-day after leaving Wednesday's game with hamstring tightness. The Jays' website notes that Johnson has had nagging leg issues this season, so we'll need to keep a close eye on him.
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Just now able to post as power is now back on.
This one was worse than we expected and stayed longer than most down here in this area. All things considered we came out of it in fine shape. The surge and the wind combined to raise the water here 8' or so. The only problem we encountered was with the wind shift from N/E to S/E. With the wind blowing at around 70 we had to climb aboard, from the dink, on the lee side and adjust the spring lines as the bow was coming too close to the boat house in the gusts. We lost our lazy jacks and a spare halyard came loose, and ran to the top of the mast. We did not remove our wind generator as time did not permit. It can not be tied in place without placing a cover over it according to the instructions. The wind came on us all of a sudden and during so became too dangerous, we ran out of time. It ran at serious speed for three days and two nights and we feared the worst as it screamed and wined and the brake system sounded like a wounded helicopter at times. It came through fine though and is still putting out as normal, truly amazing.
Water came within three feet of entering our house. Many in our area were not so fortunate. Not much sleep until last night as we were up monitoring wind, water level and "ROSA". Thank You to all who have expressed concern for all of us living through this event. We have been through many over the years but never seem to become confident no matter how much we prepare, too many variables I guess.
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Oh I forgot to mention, I didn't see less than 5'6" coming in from the South, and I left through the North and didn't see less than 5'9" until passing the canals, which got to 5'4" (rocks!) for a second.
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Hey everyone. First off, Serenity is safe and sound. I sailed her back to her slip, none worse for the wear but for an American flag that gave its all and will be properly disposed of.
Second, My prayers and best wishes to those now in the new impact zone.
Third, I ended up on the Pennekamp mooring. They were very welcoming and understanding of my concerns and fears. After some discussion with a park officer, they permitted me to set one anchor as long as a I used one of their moorings for primary hold. I tied up to the mooring and dropped my 55 lb overkill anchor with enough line for a 15:1 scope, but left it very slack. This way It wouldn't be used unless the mooring failed. When I got back to her today, they only charged me for one day on the ball since they were closed Sunday and Monday. Really nice folks there.
I got into the dingy and headed for the boat, expecting the worst. There she was, still snug on the mooring, and with the anchor line only wrapped around the mooring line once! She was snug and dry, and despite the 4 days without solar panels and lights on, still had almost 12 volts waiting for the journey back to her slip.
I appreciate all the good wishes and advice, and feel much more prepared for next time. Which hopefully won't be this year!
Happy Sailing!
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"I'm going to drop a couple of extra anchors in the water, just to be safe. "
That might be a very expensive mistake in Pennekamp. If there is coral in the area, or seagrass in the area...all sorts of regs against damaging the bottom and that's often why there are mooring balls instead of an anchorage area.
Just make Real Damned Sure you can drop anchors without getting a very expensive bill for doing so, Floriduh is not like New England when it comes to anchors and bottoms.
The Pennekamp moorings are in Largo Sound away from any coral beds.
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Good luck to you and everyone else on the Gulf Coast, Leocat......let us know how you fare with the storm.
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Re: Hurricane is a comin, now what???
Lets hope it runs the length of the Mississippi, ending the severe drought up there. A bit late to save the crops, but it will restore the water table somewhat.
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Waiting for Issac. Well, it seems like it is our turn again here in Slidell. We live just off of Lake Pontchartrain and are debating on leaving again. "ROSA" is secured behind our house in a small waterway with 1" lines to large pilings on both sides holding her about 15' off of our dock. Considering taking a bow anchor out also this morning, by dingy, while it is still possible. Hoping for the best.
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Our hearts and prayers are with you all down in the Keys. Katrina survivors here in Louisiana. Been there done that many times and we may still get this one too! Be Safe Be Cautious.
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If you tie up in the mangroves you'll need to get back on the boat as quickly as possible after the storm passes or someone else is likely to help themselves to anything you leave on board. I know this from experience.
Wish I'd seen his initial post earlier, I would have strongly suggested he head back up the bay to somewhere between Miami and Lauderdale, further from the projected track, and no shortage of far better options up there...
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If you tie up in the mangroves you'll need to get back on the boat as quickly as possible after the storm passes or someone else is likely to help themselves to anything you leave on board. I know this from experience.
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Tom Diegel always turns on his avalanche beacon before leaving the house to ski.
On Friday morning, he heeded dire avalanche warnings and hiked to the gentle, tree-covered slopes on the Big Cottonwood-Millcreek ridgeline in an area known as Shangri-La.
"If I'd had any idea the slope would split, I would not have been there," Diegel, 43, said Saturday.
He met up with some acquaintances and they skied a few runs of powder in the trees. Just before 1 p.m., they started back up the slope. About halfway up, they came upon an open slope, away from the protection of the trees.
The slope was gentle, less than a 30-degree angle, and looked safe, but they decided to cross one at a time as a precaution. Diegel went first, then munched on a sandwich as the second man crossed and joined him. Then the third man, Matt Clevenger, of Salt Lake City, took a few steps out of the woods.
"That's when it cracked and broke," Diegel said. "We knew we had a big problem."
With a woomph, the slope fell and snow rushed toward Clevenger.
"He had enough time to turn around and take a few steps toward the woods," Diegel said. "He took two steps and then he disappeared."
The rushing snow caught him, dragged him about 10 feet down the slope and buried him.
A person buried in an avalanche quickly runs out of oxygen, and, if left long enough, dies of asphyxiation, said Bruce Tremper, director of the Utah Avalanche Center.
"You usually have about 15 minutes to live under the snow," he said. Brain damage can start after four minutes. The deeper the snow, the more the lungs are compressed and the lower the chances of survival.
Clevenger later said he felt cemented in place, and a rising sense of panic, then a feeling of dreaminess, Diegel said. Clevenger told the Utah Avalanche Center he did not want to comment on the rescue.
Back on the mountain, Diegel quickly turned his avalanche beacon to receive the signals from Clevenger's beacon. The other three men did the same.
The beacon pointed toward the spot where Clevenger had stopped, pinned vertically against a tree. Diegel pulled out a thin, tent-stake-shaped avalanche probe and poked it into the snow.
About three minutes had passed when they found him, buried under 4 feet of snow. All three men unfolded avalanche shovels and started to dig. They could hear Clevenger groan as they got closer to his face -- a good sign.
Six to ten minutes after the avalanche, they uncovered his face, but he was silent and blue. Diegel cleared the snow from his mouth. It didn't help. He bent and breathed into Clevenger's mouth. After a moment, he blinked and started to breathe.
"As soon as I saw him blink, I knew it would be OK," he said.
When they pulled him out, Clevenger was shivering uncontrollably, but unhurt. Fortified by a few cups of hot tea, he thought about finishing the day of skiing. But with temperatures hovering around 10 degrees Fahrenheit, they decided to ski out.
"It was a miraculous recovery considering the depth of the burial," Tremper said. "They did everything right."
After the past few avalanche stories, it's nice to see a guy make it.
They are never less scary =(
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Amber M. Foster, 28, was reported missing Saturday by her landlord, said Greg Lowe, spokesman for the Hardin County Sheriff's Office.
Foster, who lives in a group home setting in Eastview, is described as white with shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes and medium build, according to a news release. She is 5-foot-2 and 125 pounds.
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Just wanted to drop a line and say hello to all. Living in the sunshine state of Florida. Hobbies guns and motorcycles. Because of the good advice from this forum, I picked up a new Beretta PX4 yesterday, and love it. Shipwreck: seen you a few time in Bersatalk.
Welcome to the forum, glad you're here! New guy buys cigars.
Welcome Latinbiker67. If you get on the east coast stop in at the swamp, I am in Titusville. Keep the shiney side up.
Best Baldy..
Hey Baldy sometime I take my Sunday rides out there by the lake.
Thanks to all for the warm welcome. I added a few pics of my stuff in the pic forum as well as a beretta range report. Looking forward to gaining some good advice from all. rick
Hi LatinBiker. If you are talking about Fox Lake you are only about 5 miles from the house. That sure is a sharp bike you have. Two of my four daughters have them crotch rockets. (sigh)! They wonder why their back hurts just going up to Bike Week and back. 90 miles round trip. (sigh). Maybe one day in the future we can get together. See ya.
Best Baldy.
Welcome to the forum. What flag is that on your arm? Cant tell the colors, but looks like I might not be the only Boricua here now. Not the only one that likes motorcycles either.
Hard to understand why anybody would like such things as guns -
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or, of all things - motorcycles???
Someone like that might even like big dogs -
No accounting for tastes but we're glad you're with us!!!
I cant help myself I gotta ask. OJ did you do it?
While I'm not quite sure what "it" you are referring to - I learned early (in grade school) to just accept the teacher's judgment of my guilt for anything - she was usually correct and I didn't question it. I would pick up little sand lizards (harmless cute quick moving reptiles about 5" long) and, from my seat in back - release the little critters. Its location was easy to pick since the girls on each side of the isle would obviously slide over to the side of their seats away from the lizard.jblaze725 I cant help myself I gotta ask. OJ did you do it?
The teacher never subscribed to "innocent until proved guilty" - or "OK, who did it?" - she would just say, "OK, Jack - pick it up and take it back out". I never even considered appealing that judgment because, frankly, I was always guilty. Therefore, whatever "it" you were asking if I did it - yep -I'm no doubt guilty as charged!
I shoot every week, get at least one 100 mile ride on my bike weekly, and support these "little uglies".
"Could this discussion wait until half time?"
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At least, they sure know their place!!
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Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable intelligence force in American history.
Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive—and sometimes American presidents. The FBI's secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between protecting national security and infringing upon civil liberties. It is a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic.
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"Enemies is a research masterpiece. Picking through seventy thousand newly declassified documents and using on-the-record interviews, Weiner reveals startling new truths and debunks nagging old myths about the FBI. Enemies reads like a thriller, but don't let the heart-pumping prose fool you. Weiner has written a scholarly tour de force that will be an instant classic for any serious student of American national security." (Amy B. Zegart, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UCLA School of Public Affairs, author of Spying Blind)
"Important gripping history read perfectly"
If you liked LEGACY OF ASHES you'll like this too. Unbelievable insights on the FBI, Hoover, and the never ending tug of war between liberty and safety.
"Very Entertaining!"
Enjoyed the book very much. The narrator does a great job. And the story flows pretty well. Definitely would recommend.
"Amazing and mind blowing."
This very detailed history of our FBI is eye opening in chilling ways. The institution that was created with the warning that "a secret police is a menace to our society," then became just that under the direction of a power hungry maniac. It has had direct and indirect, negative affects on our country and way of life on a truly unknown and vast scale.
This book looks unbiasedly and unapologetically at all of this and is informative to the utmost degree.
You have done your country and its people a true service, Mr. Weiner.
I read or listen to about 100 books a year--history, sci-fi, literature, science.
"The sordid truth"
Though Weiner is easier on the FBI than he was on the CIA in Legacy of Ashes, make no mistake, this is an unabashed indictment of the FBI. He makes pains to present a balanced history, letting the facts speak for themselves. Hoover's legacy is a wasteland.
"Begin here ..."
I recommend this book wholly plus the history of the CIA by the same author. They build upon each other. American history is a complex subject these works help to conect the dots.
"Good book, just not for me"
All about Hoover
At the order of the President, the FBI infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to stop and disrupt their violent activities. One of the murders that was investigated by the FBI was carried out by a local sheriff, his deputies, and the justice of the peace.
Has a great voice, enjoyed the narration.
More details about Hoover than you could ever want to know.
I enjoyed parts of the book but there were so many inane details about Hoover I lost interest. As a matter of fact, the majority of the book is exclusively about Hoover. I purchased the book with the understanding that it was going to be about various different FBI operations and while the book DID talk about different operations, everything was from Hoover's perspective. If you like Hoover or care about Hoover, or want to know about Hoover - this book is for you. If not, it's going to be a little long to get through.
"A fascinating history of the FBI."
A fair-minded look at the history of the FBI, and the degree to which culture at the Bureau has shaped the history of our country.
"absolute masterpiece of modern history "
this book gives a clear and non partisan history of the FBI from it's orgins to Hoover's unprecedented reign to the modern day flailing and success of the agency. cannot recommendit enough.
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"Its not as good as "Legacy of Ashes""
First let me say that having read (or listened to) "Legacy of Ashes" and thought it was pretty good and I will probably listen to it again, this one not so much.
The title "Enemies" does look like the correct title since that's what Hover did create enemies, not only for him but for the whole country
Problem I think is that while "Legacy or Ashes" followed the whole CIA and how it did things where as "Enemies" was mostly about how J.Edgar Hover mostly ran things like he wanted to and really effed things up pretty good - Hover lived with his mother until he was in his 40's until she died! and he worked a normal government job not a bum or something like that, also he never ever had a relationship with anyone, never had sex ever according to all reports about him, its just strange.
After Hover dies and someone else takes over the FBI and it went to all sorts of different people in charge of the FBI because since Hover had really strange rules and polices in place that were hard to remove it was perceived by the President that they were doing things wrong.
There were some reviews that mentioned this wasn't as good as "Legacy of Ashes" and they were right, I don't know what the main problem is other than the large focus on Hover but that cant be avoided I guess when someone runs the FBI for as long as he did but it just doesn't feel as good as the other book, or as good as I think it could be.
I dont have anything to add that would make this better but I got the idea I couldn't want for the book to end until it got to the point that Hover was out of the picture.
I guess this book would be better 50 years from now since Hover ran the FBI until 1972 and then it was just cleaning up the mess that Hover left behind and forgetting the ways he put into effect, it was only after Sept 11th that the FBI started getting better so 50 years from now it would make a much better book to see how things went on from now
"Very informative"
The thing I liked best about this book was how thorough of a history it provided. It definitely debunked some myths that I thought previously to listening to it, it confirmed some things and it also had a lot of new information. What I liked least about it was it's length!! Holy cow, what a long book.
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dodge challenger in need of rear end advice.
dodge challenger that i was told has a 4.10 rear end in it with a 8.75 rear axle.
what should i do with the rear end since the car has a bit of trouble getting up past 120 mph, and im going to be doing some fairly major work i believe under the car since its shaking pretty badly after 110 mph at around 5500-6000 rpm which personally i wont be driving it past 60 until i have that fixed since it makes my fear that the [color=yellow]stinking[/color] axle is going to rip right through the floor and rip me and anyone who may be in the car at the time into little pieces
The transmission is a 4 speed manual.
Im sure im not listing all the info you guys may need so please ask for more information and be specific
the engine is a 440 which to tell you the truth with the 4.10 rear end lights up the rear wheels a little to easily sometimes, i think it could go a bit higher in gearing, since i want to be cruising at 70mph at like 3k rpm right now its like 4000-4500 rpm at 70.
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What will tomorrow's smarter, cleaner aircraft look like? And who will lead the technology race to create it?
The industry is feeling a talent crunch. But efforts are afoot to enlist a new generation—and new kinds of—aviation workers
A PwC analysis looks at fertile spots for commercial aircraft manufacturing in the US
Aviation's second golden age: Can the US aircraft industry maintain leadership?
The US commercial aircraft industry's stocktaking of its long-term competitiveness comes at a time of revived interest in strengthening the nation's industrial sector. Critical to achieving this is building a coordinated front among the private sector, educational institutions and government to re-tool an industrial workforce with the skills and technologies to compete and innovate globally. The need for such collaboration becomes more urgent as the US commercial aircraft industry faces competition from countries with ambitious and aggressive industrial policies already swiftly afoot.
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