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Preseason game preview/Shootaround Report: Dallas Mavericks (2-2) at Atlanta Hawks (2-3)
ATLANTA – With his team virtually decimated by injuries this preseason but still managing to go 2-2 through its first four preseason contests, Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle entered Philips Arena preaching the positives to his players at their Saturday morning shootaround.
Before facing the Atlanta Hawks in an exhibition showdown Saturday evening, Carlisle continued to take a glass-half-full approach despite the fact that 24 hours prior the Mavericks were announcing that 11-time All-Star Dirk Nowitzki would be sidelined for approximately six weeks after arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.
Seeing Nowitzki's lengthy time away from the team as an opportunity for the Mavs' unsung heroes to step up, the coach figures to give budding stars like 25-year-old Brandan Wright and rookie Jae Crowder more time this preseason to show what they're capable of before the games actually begin counting in the standings. And it's that positivity that has permeated through the entire Dallas roster.
"We've gotta move forward with the guys we've got," Carlisle explained after his team's walkthrough. "The game's gonna be all about pace, continuous movement and efficiency. … Our whole team has gotta step up, it's not just gonna be one guy. It's not dumping it into [Elton] Brand's lap and saying, 'Hey, go put up numbers to make up for a loss of a top 10 player.' That can't be what it's about. But, collectively, we've gotta have a team of go-to guys. That's it."
"It's something we've kind of been expecting. You know, we knew it was a possibility this whole time and we've just gotta ride it out," Wright added. "We've got guys that need to step up, myself included, and we've just gotta keep the train rolling. … It's tough, man. Six weeks, that's a lot of games, so we've gotta play hard, we've gotta lift our level and we've gotta get some guys stepping up. We've gotta focus more and we've just gotta stay healthy with everybody else."
The Mavs hope their positive thinking translates to a win Saturday night, when the squad will not only be minus Nowitzki but also fellow 7-footer Chris Kaman after he remained in Dallas to be treated for a right calf strain. And with two projected starters on the frontline absent from Carlisle's rotation, the head coach admits that the Mavs will have to play an unorthodox brand of basketball in order to be successful.
However, with fourth-year guard Rodrigue Beaubois expected to see his first game action since spraining his left ankle in the preseason opener against ALBA Berlin on Oct. 6, the Mavs should still have plenty of firepower to steam through the Hawks Saturday night.
"We'll be more of a slashing team, not as much spacing, but we've gotta use that to our advantage – athletic ability, cutting hard, getting to the rim," Wright foreshadowed.
"We know we've gotta play hard," Carlisle continued. "We know we've gotta affect the game for 94 feet on the defensive end. But, you know, we've gotta also play smart and we've gotta play within our system. And so, a lot of it is geared towards playing in a freelance dimension with some perimeters, but then, when it gets time for us to execute, we're gonna have to run things and execute."
Note: The Mavericks return to action Saturday night in a road exhibition showdown against the Atlanta Hawks. The game will air on TXA 21 at 6 p.m. CT.


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Feature: Social networking
Changing times
Jan Wyllie explores the potential consequences of the rise of social-networking and how taxonomies can help bring order to chaos.
Sometimes, its so slow it is almost imperceptible. Weve always known the mass media and the mass market that it enabled. The thing about the mass approach today is that it is the few pushing their goods, services and thoughts on the many in return for money. It wasnt always so.
The mass market economy is not yet 200 years old a tiny fraction of human history. Before that markets were overwhelmingly local, supplied by local farmers, artisans and cottage industries. Of course, trading was sometimes undertaken over long distances (think of the Silk Road or roads, to be more accurate) but only for exceptional items, such as spices, silk and other exotica, as well as limited quantities of valuable raw materials, such as marble and gold.
When the media, technology and capital behind the mass market became widely available, very significant changes happened, very quickly: peoples lives changed radically within their lifetimes, whether they liked it or not.
Ever since then, advances in mass production, transport, power and communications technologies have been changing peoples lives at an ever-accelerating pace. As markets became increasingly global so, too, did the mass media and its various creatures, such as celebrities and brand names.
Until recently, the internet has extended and amplified the expansion of the mass market at the expense of local markets. How many bookshops have been closed as a result of the success of Amazon, for example? The internet enables it and a handful of other, established retailing behemoths to compete in many more sectors than any bricks-and-mortar store ever could.
Despite all the change in the past 200 years, the direction of change remains the same: from smaller to bigger, from fewer to more, from local to global, from labour intensive to capital intensive, from steady-state economics to eternal growth economics. But these trends could be beginning to reverse.
Reversing polarity
Take the mass media, for example. It has lost the advantage that once favoured broadcasting and print media very few people could afford to own a TV station or a printing press. But with broadband everyone can blog, video and podcast to the rest of the world at low cost to themselves and very little to their audience.
Meanwhile, the mass market as most people have known it, especially in the UK and the US, is hurtling towards the twin brick walls of unsustainable debt and rising energy costs and those energy costs are not going to drop with the populous nations of China and India becoming more prosperous.
The change in question is a reversing of the polarity of the marketplace: the power of the small is on the increase, with the social and economic advantages starting to swing back towards local, rather than global, trading.
This new form of many-to-many markets is still small. But it is growing exponentially, led as ever by geeks and techo-glue-sniffers, and driven by powerful market forces.
Instead of consuming media passively, anybody and everybody can now air their views to the whole world virtually for free. Life-and-work-changing wikis, blogs, photo sites, video-chat and a host of other new free software services appear in this market on an almost daily basis.
The opportunity is there for everybody (with a broadband connection) to be able to broadcast or narrowcast their thoughts, voice and video, as well as to evaluate information for themselves and for free, rather than being mere passive receivers of stories from the mass media the pillar on which the global mass consumer-market rests.
Multimedia document sharing and video conferences are effectively free, enabling people to be with each other in what used to be called virtual space. Who, in the future, will want to waste all that money, time and effort travelling to the office and back? The only aspects of the social experience which cannot be shared through the new medium are touch and smell (which could be an advantage in many offices).
The implications are enormous, significantly affecting the way people live and work. This new broadband @home economy is being brought to you by Skype, Technorati, Flikr, Del.icio.us, Netvibes and a host of others serving the long tail of the many-to-many marketplace, which make up the social technologies of Web 2.0 in its myriad forms.
One thing all these new software applications have in common is that they are personal and social, not technical, which means that virtually anybody can use them both to develop and enhance their knowledge of what interests them, as well as to engage in new types of human and economic relationships.
Critical factors
When everyone has their own globally accessible, two-way multimedia communications medium, they will need to know how to manage and organise information and interactions. They need to agree on ways of doing things (protocols) and ways of describing things. Otherwise, there will be a Tower of Babel-style chaos as they desperately scroll up and down endless lists, or are left to the vagaries of free-text searching to find the information they need.
The good news is that we are not entering completely uncharted waters. Librarians have had to deal with similar problems for hundreds of years. So have all large organisations. One of the reasons that science has been such a successful endeavour is that these kinds of common protocols and terms have been at the heart of the scientific method since the 1700s, when Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carolus Linnaeus developed the first taxonomy to describe living species in the natural world. Evolved versions of this first taxonomy are still used today in the bio-sciences.
By contrast, the blog-world and the new Web 2.0 services are in the early stages of development. However, people recognised early on that blogs, bookmarks and links need to be described, so they tagged their items with descriptive words and phrases to help themselves and others to find them.
If blogs, wikis, and audio and video podcasts are to realise their potential, then they will have to master some of the basic tools of knowledge management (KM). Consistent classification (ie. taxonomies) is, as it always has been, at the heart of the matter. Although there is a large body of professional experience and knowledge in the taxonomy field, classification is a natural faculty that people use instinctively.
Taxonomies, at their best, provide a conceptual framework to help people improve their understanding of the new meanings that come with the multimedia, two-way broadband-internet explosion.
From tagging to folksonomies
Blogs, photo-libraries, podcasts and video clips of which millions are being added to the web every month all require some kind of description in order to have any chance of being found and seen.
Information overload was a hot issue in the 1980s, when sources were limited to books, journals, magazines and newspapers. Early online-information-publishing services, such as Dialog and LexisNexis, were regarded as making a desperate situation worse by making the full text of documents searchable by the words they contained.
There was even a heady moment when many information professionals believed that the ancient arts of indexing and classification had become obsolete. It did not take long for user dissatisfaction to push for more reliable and meaningful ways to access what, at the time, was overwhelmingly textual information.
Since then, information professionals and professional information users have shown an increasing interest in taxonomies and thesauri as a way to make their knowledge storing and gathering processes more useful and satisfying. Much money and effort have been invested in software intended to automate classification and thesauri creation in an attempt to make this kind of information structuring easier to use, more economic and therefore more widespread.
Millions of people have wanted to both retrieve and share; first, their text documents with blogs, then their digital photographs with services such as Flickr; then their audio podcasts and, most recently, their videos with YouTube. As personal library-systems and descriptive words (known as tags) became public, certain words inevitably became more commonly used to describe similar sorts of content except for the equally inevitable occasions when the same words are used, but their intended meaning is different.
So, personal tags soon evolved into what became variously known as folksonomies, folk classification, ethnoclassification and social classification. Meanings are not defined because users apply their personal preferences within a changing sea of social meaning. This kind of user power and contribution is central to the Web 2.0 ethos of social networking.
Folksonomies simply comprise a flat list of terms with none of the hierarchy or the multi-faceted relationships between terms that are found in the most useful taxonomies. In other words, folksonomies are a list of descriptive terms which a group of users happens to use. There is no thought about design, consistency or quality in the creation of ad hoc tagging systems.
Social tagging
The great thing about the process of informal tagging is that anybody can do it quickly and effortlessly. It requires no discipline and brooks no authority. Furthermore, flat, one-dimensional word-retrieval is simple to realise.
As many commentators have pointed out, searching using folksonomies is good for finding things unexpectedly and also provides rich social-networking opportunities, too. At Del.icio.us and other sites, such as Flickr, there is seen to be a strong social benefit to tagging: people contribute to, and benefit from, the tagging done by others.
The advantages diminish sharply when it comes to people who are using tags and folksonomies to look for something specific. Users can be overwhelmed by the sheer number of terms and inconsistent usages presented in the form of endless alphabetical indexes, without the benefit of any organising schema at all.
People inevitably have to spend their precious time scrolling up and down long lists of tags and articles of possible interest with no way of knowing whether the content to which they point is pertinent to what they are seeking. Perhaps even more troublesome is that there is no way of knowing whether the items that are being sought have been tagged at all, let alone in a way that is useful to the knowledge seeker. And then there is there the difficulty of looking for older material, as tagging usage and fashion changes.
At present, the vast number of taggers have no idea of how using taxonomies could enrich their blog and wiki experience. As taggers and searchers drown in vast (and very messy) indexes of words, yesterdays key insights and items will, to all intents and purposes, be forgotten lost in the index to anybody who doesnt already know (or cannot remember) the exact tag that the tagger happened to use. A culture that continually loses its memory is unlikely to survive long.
It is ironic that while all the various Web 2.0 media make it possible for people to record their thoughts and pictures for posterity, many (if not most of them) could be unfindable, lost forever in massive inaccurate indexes. Searchers simply have to guess at the words that taggers might have used.
An important aspect of a folksonomy is that it is comprised of terms in a flat namespace. That is to say, there is no hierarchy and no directly specified parent-child or specified relationships between the terms. That means that natural linguistic and formal hierarchies cannot be used to enable people to look at material at different levels of generality. As already noted, the experience of using tags as search terms is the same as using an alphabetical index. It is necessary to look up many different terms to find a set of items which could be accessible with just a single category in a taxonomy.
More people are beginning to see the advantage of encouraging taggers to collaborate on employing common terms. Ways employed to facilitate convergence include the following:
Suggest tags for me;
Find synonyms automatically;
Help me use the same tags others use;
Infer hierarchy from the tags.
To succeed in attempting to improve the performance of tagging at least two conditions must be met. First, the community of users needs to be ready to set rules, and agree upon a set of standards for tags. Second, users need to be made aware of, and agree to, follow these rules.
Once there is a preliminary system in place, it becomes possible to use the most common tags to develop a controlled vocabulary that truly speaks the users language. One of the attractions of these kinds of value-free, purely practical conventions is that they quickly become virtually unconscious to users.
Another approach that has been widely discussed (and, in the case of Del.icio.us, even implemented as tag bundles) is the tagging of tags, which could result in the creation of hierarchical folksonomies. This is an area that is well worth investigation by taxonomy designers as a first step to introducing taggers to the benefits of working with a taxonomy.
Advantages of working with taxonomies
Until recently, taxonomies were something that only librarians or specialists in scientific disciplines seemed to care about. Indeed, part of the reason for the great success of the scientific process is the use of agreed classifications among collaborating researchers.
For the past five years, the ins and outs of building taxonomies have been becoming an increasingly important topic within business and government.
Why the surge in interest? Because taxonomies are an important way of helping organisations to structure their information so that it can be more easily shared. The implementation of enterprise portals, content-management systems and business-to-business e-commerce has highlighted the inadequacy of the way that many organisations classify their knowledge so that users waste time trying to find whats relevant to them when they need it or, worse, fail to find it at all. A good taxonomy, effectively implemented, will significantly improve knowledge-worker productivity and satisfaction.
If financial assets lose value, knowledge assets are likely to become a relatively secure store of value because they can be turned into production and traded for mutual benefit. As a result, the husbandry of knowledge assets should become a critical strategic objective. The building and implementation of corporate taxonomies is a duty of care for any enterprise today with vast amounts of information that may need to be instantly retrieved.
And if the internet transforms into the semantic web, where users, suppliers and technology systems share common languages to enable more meaningful and effective interaction with a global soft machine, an understanding of taxonomies will be essential. Taxonomies are at the core of the ontologies out of which the semantic web is being constructed. An understanding of how taxonomies work in this context will be necessary to take advantage of the new market opportunities they may offer.
Quo vadis?
As collaborative Web 2.0 technologies begin to spread within and between businesses, a choice has to be made about how to manage the vast collections of text, pictures, sound and video being put online everyday. Will random collections of personal tags be the norm for knowledge organisations? Or, will a more navigable structure and a degree of accuracy become more popular?
There is some scope for meeting in the middle. Tag lists and clouds can be analysed. The resulting classification schemes will immediately help users see categories of interest to them which, in turn, should help them form collaborative groups. As people learn a classification system at the most general level, they are primed to learn a more complex classification scheme to further investigate categories of interest.
Of course, the other way round is to make quality, easy-to-learn taxonomies available to information users, along with online tutorials and expert assistance, if the money is available
Either way, classification and taxonomies will play a vital role in shaping the new knowledge universe being ushered in by Web 2.0 technologies, which will inevitably lead to Enterprise 2.0 applications.
And anything that helps us to navigate around the humungous amount of information on the internet today which will double in volume in the next 12 to 18 months has got to be most welcome.
Jan Wyllie is managing director of Trend Monitor, experts in the application of faceted-classification schemes (http://trendmonitor2.wordpress.com). He is also the author of Taxonomies: Frameworks for Corporate Knowledge, which is available from the Ark Group in PDF format. Please e-mail Adam Scrimshire for details, firstname.lastname@example.com. Jan Wyllie can be contacted by e-mailing, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Fitbit One is the latest fully featured wireless fitness tracking device to make a splash in today's smart gadget market, and it's finally here to replace Fitbit's longstanding Ultra wireless fitness tracker with an all-new rain and sweat-resistant design featuring a devious sleep tracking and silent alarm capabilities, along with the usual pedometer features like keeping track of steps, calories burned, distance and the number of stairs you've climbed throughout your day. It sure looks the part from up here, but the real question is how well can it count when put thru the ultimate test? Catch out full, in-depth review of the One after the cut!
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This week, school district voters will be asked to approve the
$8.9 million second phase of capital improvements at Ballston Spa's elementary and secondary school campuses. The referendum to authorize the spending for a variety of facility upgrades and replacement of aging infrastructures has been trimmed, according to Superintendent Joseph Dragone.
With an eye toward maximizing state aid and mindful of the current economy, school officials claim they reduced plans for second phase work $5.8 million from the initial $14.7 million plans. The ratio of spin to truth in that contention depends upon your level of cynicism.
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State aid will pay for $5.9 million of that figure, if voters approve the referendum, according to Ballston Spa school district communty relations coordinator Stuart Williams.
The more gargantuan $49.3-million first phase, which is receiving a similar percentage of state aid, has started briskly with some of the most visible and easily executed work.
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Time Magazine has their Person of the Year, and we now present the first ever . . . STACKS Person of the Year!
Last week we asked you to nominate the person or group of people that have had the biggest impact in YOUR world in 2012. There were lots of amazing nominations, but the person (or in this case group of people) is . . . Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, and Liam Payne, a.k.a. One Direction.
- ArtisticCat7 has personal reasons for nominating One Direction. "They have made a big impact on my life because it's the first time I was really involved in a band. It showed off a different side of me as a person."
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Stephen Joseph was founded in 1981 when Alexandra Buckley started making fabric frames to earn extra Christmas money. The next year, she ditched her job as a third grade teacher to start Alexandra & Company, the first division of Stephen Joseph. Today the company employs 125 people, and they make all kinds of kids' goodies, including backpacks, rain gear, stationary, and room decor items.


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I tip around 20%, but I've become more willing to tip less for poor service. My wife often asks for help with menu suggestions, usually in the form of "if you were ordering would you get item A or B." If all the server can say is that they're both really good, it depends on what you like, well, that wasn't very helpful. If I ask for something in particular (not in the way something is cooked or prepared, but like I want water in addition to my other beverage) and they don't do it I will hold it against them. If they drop the food off and go BS with their other server buddies while I'm waiting to let them know that I didn't get something, the food is wrong or I need something like condiments or whatever, I will hold it against them. If they aren't polite and make me feel like I'm a pain in their ass, I will hold it against them.
It has taken me a long time to start holding poor service against the server in the form of a lower tip, but I feel like it's absolutely the way it should be. There are really good servers out there. Those folks deserve 20%+, period. There are decent servers out there. I'll give them 18-20%. There are ****ty servers. I've finally convinced myself that they don't deserve more than 10%. Now, if I'm going to tip as low as 10% I'll usually say something. I hope a low tip is never s surprise to a server who feels they did a great job on my table.
I do take into account the kind of place I'm at. If I'm at Denny's I'm expecting Denny's-class service. If the server provides that, basically bringing the food out and not being rude to me, they'll get 20%. But if I go to a nicer restaurant and, as my wife and I usually do, order appetizers, soup or salad, bar drinks, higher priced entrees and sometimes dessert, I expect a reasonably attentive server who can tell us something about the items we're ordering. If I get night-shift at Denny's service in that situation I'm not going to tip very well.
My mom was a waitress from the time she was 14 until she was in her 30s. My sister has been a waitress and a bar tender. My wife was a waitress when we started dating. I have been a waiter at a few different places. I don't hold ****ty cooks against the server. I don't hold things outside the servers control against the server. I used to always tip at least 20% no matter what. I'm passed that. If I don't get good service I don't leave a good tip. If I get bad service I say something about it.
One thing, though. If you plan on being a regular somewhere, which has a lot of benefits, you should tip better than you normally would and overlook small things if they happen infrequently. The first place my wife and I went on a date was Red Iguana. Now, this is in the mid-90s and the Red Iguana was popular, but not ridiculously popular. Once we started dating we'd go there pretty much every Friday and sometimes one or two other times a week. We tipped well. When it was busy we'd walk in to put our name on the list and our normal waitress, the head waitress, would get us a seat right away and would treat us very well. She was always sure to seat us in her section and not make us wait with the crowds outside. It was worth leaving her a good tip.
Gameface pretty much covered it all.
Pizza, 3-4 bucks in Utah. I don't see a reason to tip more for two pizzas than one. Those guys take from A to B and listen to a radio doing it. There aren't 98 different things to make sure are attended to. The only exception is the place two blocks away. I give them 2-3 dollars for their five minute max round trip, sometimes $4 if I'm really buzzed and excited the pizza got there in 12 minutes instead of 18.
I usually tip a flat $5 for pizza delivery.
At the STG nite out I tipped the waitress $75 on a $125 tab. Because she took excellent care of us, I want her to always take excellent care of us, and also .. well, nm.
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If girl is hot, add 35%, because you might get laid.
I thought of a couple more things. If it's Denny's for appetizers and long coffee late at night then make sure to tell your server you to not pay as much attention to you. Say it several times so they understand it's alright to back off the service a bit.
Also, when I go out with my children I almost always tip higher because their meals are cheap and they make big messes. I also want to stress this shouldn't be an expected standard for families. There's no reason a father should feel pressured to pay a college server more per hour than he makes. Young servers can easily make plenty for what they are doing.
For a sit down restaurant, 15-20% Honestly depends on how poor I am at the time, but never less than 15% unless it absolutely calls for it, which has happened on time in my life.
For pizza, usually they can keep the change from a $20 if it's over $15, but standard is $3-$5.
And a couple bucks for the barber.
It started with Earl [Watson], Randy [Foye] and Marvin [Williams]the veteran guys. I thought the young guys did a good job of following their lead getting us off to a good start. - referring to the Jazz/Bobcats game on 3/1/13
Earl, Randy, and Marvin started the first quarter 0-3, scored a whopping zero points, and finished with a turnover in the first quarter.
Your head coach of the Jazz ladies and gentlemen.
It started with Earl [Watson], Randy [Foye] and Marvin [Williams]the veteran guys. I thought the young guys did a good job of following their lead getting us off to a good start. - referring to the Jazz/Bobcats game on 3/1/13
Earl, Randy, and Marvin started the first quarter 0-3, scored a whopping zero points, and finished with a turnover in the first quarter.
Your head coach of the Jazz ladies and gentlemen.
PKM ur a baller bro i bet you tip with bentleys and lambos right bro


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NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- I guess you could call me The Digital Skeptic. (You'll have to imagine the trademark symbol after that.)
See, during the valuation hype surrounding digital darlings such as Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, I thought maybe -- just maybe -- someone should be wondering aloud if this whole digital economy thing is not going to pay off.
No matter how clever Google Drive is, when you take a look at the market you'll see a flood of competition will likely strip it of any real value. |
So I took a flyer and trademarked the term "The Digital Skeptic." It's as good a phrase as I could think of to describe my dim view of the prospects of the digital age. And I sat back and waited for something that called out for a skeptic's view.
Sure enough, this nutty digital age has served up a singularly bizarre business idea: Google(GOOG) Drive, the search giant's online file sharing and syncing tool, which debuted earlier this week.
I have spent the past few days testing this service -- you get 5 GB free, and 25 GB costs $30 a year -- that enables sharing and updating of files, photos and other digital information across PCs, Macs and many mobile devices. I have also surveyed the syncing and sharing competition and compared their features.
What's the best way to describe Google Drive?
"Just like the Loch Ness monster," was the way Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and Apps at Google, introduced the service in the company's official blog. Pichai, of course, was referring to the fact that Google Drive has been rumored for years but hadn't yet actually surfaced in techland.
Certainly Pachai was joking, but to me, the metaphor is dead on: Google has jumped into a market so flooded with options that it is essentially in no market at all.
Makes the Loch Ness monster look logical
I understand why Google felt it had to have some sort of syncing and storage business: Heaven knows how, but storage and syncing have become sexy.


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Sales/Service/Installation Price: $235,000 Location: Central North Island Ref #:091111 |
Net Surplus: $120,081 EBPITD Taupo Based - Licensed Distributor Opportunity An exciting opportunity exists to own a business offering unique services to a niche market based in Taupo, servicing the Central Plateau are. This business operates under an exclusive distribution license agreement, backed by an experienced manufacturer. The current owners have added a number of complimentary products giving the business multiple income streams. A new owner can readily build on the foundations that are in place. The business enjoys the profile and support of a nationally recognised brand arguably the leader in its particular industry and has exclusive right to distribute in its area. It receives excellent levels of support in relation to product supply lines, marketing, systems and technology. The business has posted solid results over the past four years, in what have been tough economic times. The owners have seen a mrked increase in work as the building industry shows a growth in activity. The addition of complimentary products has ensured a good foundation plus the opportunity to grow the regular contracted maintenance side of the business gives an owner every chance to succeed. The business is involved in the residential, commercial and industrial building trade and would suit a person from the trade or a particular person who is keen to learn. The owner will assist in training and is offering a suitable handover period. |
Specialist Transport Price: Asset Sale Only - Present All Offers Location: Bay of Plenty Ref #:280912 |
Net Surplus: Horticulture & Agriculture Related-For Sale on an Asset Only Basis-Present All Offers-Bay of Plenty This long established transport services business has been operating in the Bay of Plenty for over 20 years and has built a reputation as a leader in its specialist field. The business has expanded its activities through natural growth and has a secure loyal customer base who retain their services due to the reliable, experienced and customer focused drivers and support crew. This successful formula ensures that the large client base made up of mainly arming and horticultural customers remains with the company and provides a solid base for expansion in the future. The business is currently returning a profit and potential to expand exists with a hands on operator. Although the business is being sold on an asset sale basis it will also include the customer database, processes and systems. The vendors have asked that all offers are presented for consideration. There is extensive specialist machinery included with this sale. A current market valuation is available which shows the machinery is valued at $1.049M. This business is located within 30 minutes of Tauranga and is operated from purpose built facilities. The premises are leased from an entity associated with the vendor at current market rates. The vendor has other business interest which he is looking to focus on. However the vendor is prepared to continue as an advisor if required for a period of up to 12 months to ensure a smooth transition for a new owner. Laurie Wooding Properties Limited (In Receivership) t/a Flames International Hotel and Conference Venue is offered for sale to the market via an "Expressions of Interest" process. The company, Laurie Wooding Properties Limited was incorporated on 28 August 1972 and is a long established company. It became involved with the running of Flames International Hotel and Conference Venue ("Flames") during 2006. The hotel traded reasonably well from 2006 to 2012 - but following the change of economic circumstances locally, it became difficult for management to meet its financing commitments resulting in Receivers being appointed. The Receivers elected to continue trading the business and appointed an Agent to manage the business on their behalf. Flames is the newest hotel in Whangarei. All guest rooms have balconies with views over Whangarei and/or the swimming pool. The hotel has been totally refurbished to a very high standard and is ideally positioned to take advantage of Northland's tourism industry. Located on 1.38 hectares of prime land in Waverley Street in the beach suburb of Onerahi, Flames is just 1km from the Whangarei Airport and only 6 minutes from the Whangarei CBD. The Bay of Islands and the Tutukaka Coast are less than an hour away and Cape Reinga is a comfortable return day trip. Please see their website www.flameshotel.co.nz for further details regarding accommodation, dining and conference facilities. This is an opportunity to purchase an established well performing late night bar servicing the Courtenay Place hospitality area. The business currently has a part owner / manager in place together with bar managers for various shifts as required. The underlying strengths of the businesses include:
Courtenay place is a popular eating and drinking area in Wellington. The quality of the premises, ambiance, location and entertainment offerings make this bar stand out from other Wellington establishments. For anyone who is not familiar with Courtney Place in Wellington, it is Wellington's major entertainment district and guarantees a steady stream of customers all year round. This bar occupies a prime location underpinning the performance. The business has shown growth in sales year on year for the past three years in what could be described as generally challenging trading conditions. Turnover is circa $1.4m. GP is running around 66%. Further information will be shared with serioulsy interested parties. |
TradeMark Protected Opportunity Price: $288,000 + Stock Location: Wellington Ref #:261112 |
Net Surplus: $140,769 YE March 2013; $205,931 YE March 2012; $146,672 YE March 2011 Niche Building Industry; Specialised Focus The business operates in a specialised nich area of the domestic building industry. The work they understabke leads into other trade services provided which are complimentary and a necessity. The owner is not on the 'tools' howerver has the capability. He is involved in the General Management & Sales side of the operatin. In addition there is some four full time and two part time staff. The business has genuine growth opportunities with product trade mark protection in NZ & Australia. The product side of this business to date has only been a reactive activity largely supplying existing customers. The opportunity is to ramp up production and marketing into the domestic market here in NZ & Australia. In addition approaches to the trade mass distribution market should be pursued. The owner has attended various home/trade shows selling product with fantastic success. Follow up orders are placed through their website. The business operates with some 6-8 week forward work load. This does fluctuate throughout the year. Customer enquiries and quote data is housed in a CRM database system. This ensures very accurate reporting data is maintained. This system was commissioned some 18 months ago and houses in excess of 875 customer records. The business operates very effective advertising and marketing campaigns. The business has experienced year on year growth in sales and EBPITD profit performance. Turnover is circa $835,000. |
Established Youth Clothing Brand Price: $275,000 Location: Wellington Ref #:191212 |
Net Surplus: Clothing Design, Production, Retail, Online, Database; Selling below Stock and Asset Value This youth clothing brand and retail business has been established for seven years operating in Wellington and Nationally through an effective online presence. They have built a reputation for quality, style and value in their market. The business infrastructure is mature with solid systems and processes from clothing development and manufacture through to marketing and sales. Online and International sales offer the most apparant opportunities for growth along with traditional retail opportunities. The work has been done with the foundations in place for the next stage of development. The business has:
There is a balanced, fresh range of items in the current catalogue. Current stock at cost is some $320,000. Book value of assets is some $197,000. This business is located within 5 minutes of Wellington CBD in an established hub. The premises are leased at competitive current market rates. The vendor has other business interests which they are looking to focus on. However the vendor is prepared to continue as an advisor if required for a period of up to 12 months to ensure a smooth transition for a new owner. |
Retail Chain Price: $350,000 Location: Wellington Ref #:140213 |
Net Surplus: $142,768 EBPITD (9 months to 31 December 2012) National Expansion Opportunity - NZ Wide Licence Agreement - Mall Locations The business is involved in the retail sale of cosmetics, personal care products, hair care products, hair accessories, fashion accessories, sunglasses, belts, handbags, costume jewellery, body piercing and body piercing jewellery. There are currently two stores operating in Wellington. The brand originated in Queensland with some 30 shops operating today in Australia. They have a NZ wide licencing agreement with the Australian parent who shares brand access and stock buying power with the NZ businesses. Target customer audience is predominately from 14-25 year old girls and the business has a good reputation for having on trend well priced product for this age group. Over the past few years they have found older women 30-60's have been making up a bigger part of their sales mostly in part to product pricing of brand name products such as Revlon and L'Oreal. The shops have competent store managers and staff. The owner is running the businesses by remote control from Tauranga. There is a very real opportunity to expand this business throughout New Zealand. The business owns the NZ wide rights to this brand. The business is about to launch a website into the market which should compliment the existing retail sales. The business turnover is Circa $1m with YTD gross profit running at 67%. In addition to the purchase price the current owner has invested into the development of a website. This is due to go live around mid March. A purchaser will have the option to purchase the website in addition to the sale price of $350,000. The $350,000 purchase price includes stock of some $230,000 and depreciated assets of some $120,000. The owner will be available to provide a period of assistance to a new owner. Details will be discussed and agreed with prospective purchasers. |
Infrastructure Contracting Price: $670,000 Location: Wellington Ref #:150313 |
Net Surplus: $320,269 EBPITD (Feb 2013); $285,828 EBPITD (Mar 2012); $259,596 EBPITD (Mar 2011) High Demand for Services; High Barriers to Entry The business is an infrastructure contracting company that specialises in a wide range of concreting and infrastructural landscaping and is involved in completing work in and around the following areas:
They have been in operation in the Wellington Region for some 25 years and have a first class reputation.They have completed a number of landmark projects for City Councils and the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA). They do not generally undertake any work for private clients instead prefer to focus their efforts on work for the various City Councils around Wellington and NZTA. The business operates with a General Manager and a combination of employed staff and permanent contractors. The owner works approximately 20 hours per week in the business.They consistently have a forward work load of some two months as there is demand for their expertise and they have a first class reputation. To compete work for NZTA and the various City Councils you are required to be an accredited/pre qualified service provider. This requirement acts as a barrier to entry for new entrants to the market. The business have pre qualified / accredited contractor status with their customers. These qualifications are difficult to achieve and are a major advantabe in winning work with the various governing bodies. Over the past six years turnover has been between $1.4m and this financial year will be over $2.0m. The business has shown strong EBPITD growth over the past three years. The region has significant roading projects ahead which should see the demand for their services continue. The owner has been in the business for a long time and feels that its time to retire from the industry. He is open to discussing a suitable handover period together with possible consultancy support into the future as and if required. |
Business & Consumer Software Solution Price: Expressions of Interest Location: Wellington Ref #:120413 |
Net Surplus: $322,708 (2014 EBITD Projection); $1,868,784 (2015 EBITD Projection); $3,849,293 (2016 EBITD Project Recurring Revenue Poised for Major Growth; International Opportunities The company has built, tested and commercialised their product over the past 5 yrs. The company's software is currently utilised by a number of NZ Government entities & commerical organisations. The uptake has been significant since the product was recently launched on the market. The company is proving the value of this technology in the NZ market and is seeking a buyer to further deploy this technology into NZ and its developing offshore markets. The product has a number of competitivie advantages and the unique selling proposition is compelling. Existing & targeted customers sit across a diverse range of sectors including Local & Central Government, Education, Corporate & Private Individuals. Existing cases have Government Departments obtaining an ROI within 21 days! The business is poised for a major growth phase. The business is in the early stages of commercialisation. Already there is some $800,000 pa worth of business on trial due for conversion. Every one of these customers has made significant savings during this trial period and is in the process of being converted to annual customers. That will produce recurring revenue. There are also offshore growth opportunities available. The business is being presented for sale by way of "Expressions of Interest". Inidicative non binding offers are sought by 22 May 2013. The vendor will then choose who to proceed to Sale and Purchase agreement and due diligence. Due to health reasons the working owner is now unable to continue in a full time capacity. The business requires a motivated working owner / investor to further develop the NZ and International markets. All the hard work is done. The business owner has more leads and trial customers to convert than capacity. |
Total Carpet Services - Dunedin Price: $355,000 Location: Christchurch Ref #:090712 |
Net Surplus: $155,618 EBPITD 2012 Total Carpet Services Dunedin prides itself on having one of the only fully truck mounted carpet steam cleaning systems in New Zealand. The U.S.P of the company is these larger, more powerful carpet cleaning machines provide a much deeper, thorough clean than most of their competition. The current owners have been running the business for over 20 years and have built up an enviable and extensive database of repeat residential, commercial and institutional customers. The business enjoys excellent Gross Profit margins in the region of 80% and sales have increase year on year since 2009. Features
We Think Design & Print Price: $95,000 + GST (if any) Location: Christchurch Ref #:170513 |
Net Surplus: Specialist copy centre with an artwork twist... This strategically located Queenstown (Glenda Drive Industrial area) copy service centre has benefited from being the only provider of specialist copy and printing services demanded by the surrounding customers (builders, architects, draftspersons). The business has expanded into a unique field of large piece canvas production which has allowed it to snare a large production contract. Highlights are:
We Think Design and Print could be easily run by a husband and wife team with no previous experience as the copy centre is simple to understand and operate; or attractive to an existing graphic designer who's looking for a low cost (going concern) entry point in to the Queenstown graphic design market place with a ready made customer database, or taken on by another professional service provider looking for a method of reducing over head costs. Price includes quality Plant and Equipment at an estimated market value of $26,290. |
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On Thursday evening, the 85-year-old German-born theologian will become the first pope to have resigned from the papacy in 600 years.
Sunday's noon appearance from his studio window overlooking the vast square was his next-to-last appointment with the public of his nearly eight-year papacy. Tens of thousands of faithful and other admirers have already asked the Vatican for a seat in the square for his last general audience Wednesday.
Perhaps emotionally buoyed by the warm welcome, thunderous applause and the many banners reading "Grazie" (Thanks) held up in the crowd estimated by police to number 100,000, Benedict looked relaxed and sounded energized, in sharp contrast to his apparent frailty and weariness of recent months.
In a strong and clear voice, Benedict told the pilgrims, tourists and Romans in the square that God had called him to dedicate himself "even more to prayer and meditation," which he will do in a monastery being renovated for him on the grounds behind Vatican City's ancient walls.
"But this doesn't mean abandoning the church," he said, as many in the crowd looked sad at his approaching departure. "On the contrary, if God asks me, this is because I can continue to serve it (the church) with the same dedication and the same love which I have tried to do so until now, but in a way more suitable to my age and to my strength."


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Smart Woman: Pseudo Dementia
By: Lane Stone
Updated: September 22, 2010
One in four of people will be diagnosed with dementia in our lifetime. We all worry about it, but could losing your mind be all in your head? Your forgetfulness could be completely treatable!
"You're in a go. It's like you can't even think." says Carolyn Conley.
"I couldn't do anything." says 90 year old Irene White.
Two women, different stages of life, same fear!
"I started experiencing memory lapses, a really odd feeling." says Conley
But these women are not losing their minds. After years of suffering, Carolyn Conley found out the opening at the base of her skull was not big enough, and put pressure on her brain stem. Surgery corrected it, but for millions of others, no surgery is needed for the solution.
"Many of us complain about middle aged pauses or senior moments." says PhD Gary Smalls, Geriatric Psychiatrist at U.C.L.A.'s Center on Aging in Los Angeles.
Dr. Smalls says many women suffer from Pseudo Dementia and don't know it.
"You may be stressed out, you may be fatigued, it could be anxiety." says Dr. Smalls
Internist Mildred McAffey says clinical depression is often confused with dementia.
"It can be mistaken for dementia. I had this one patient who thought she had dementia. As it turns out, once we started her on the anti-depressant, her memory significantly improved."
Anemia, Thyroid Disorders, Malnutrition, Alcoholism and Vitamin D and B deficiencies can also cause memory loss.
"It turned out it was vitamin B12 deficiency." says White.
"I absolutely feel like a new person." says Conley.
Signs that your memory loss may be Dementia include asking the same questions repeatedly, becoming lost in familiar places and being unable to follow directions. Unlike Pseudo Dementia, Dementia is not curable; for these women, that was not the case.


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Outside use of water in the City of Altus is now restricted to every other day. The Emergency Ordinance was approved to compensate for severe drought conditions.
During the regular Tuesday City Council meeting, the City Council approved Emergency Ordinance 2013-4, with modifications, initiating a Stage 2 Water Conservation Plan. City of Altus Chief of Operations Bob Stephenson reports that the Tom Steed and Altus-Lugert reservoirs are at record lows. Stephenson indicated that according to the Emergency Ordinance, the City of Altus would be at a Stage 3 because Tom Steed is at 40% or less of it full capacity. If conditions don't improve by April 15, the City will enter a Stage 3 mandatory restriction to one day per week.
Council member Rick Henry commented, "I would like to see us going to Stage 2 first, to implement something." Henry pointed out that going from no water restrictions to Stage 3, once a week outside water usage, may be too drastic for people in the community.
During a "Stage 2 Drought Warning," businesses and residents North of the Bradford/Falcon Road divider can use outside water on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Those South of the divider can use outside water on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Several revisions will be made to the Ordinance regarding specific uses and restrictions for sprinkler systems and swimming pools, but enforcement or the ordinance is in effect.
City Council approved the Resolution to authorize the execution of the Project Agreement to reconstruct intersections of Falcon and Tamarack along Park Lane.
Council members also approved items on the consent agenda, and a resolution amending the fiscal year 2012-2013 Annual Budget for the General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, Capital Project Funds, and Internal Service Funds.
Council approved to terminate a portion of the Airport Farm Lease with John Bates for the purpose of airport or industrial use, and reimburse all costs and expenses incurred in cultivating on the land, to be returned to the City, and also approved a $50 call-out-fee for Air Evac Lifeteam and authorized the Airport staff to charge overtime when responding to Air Evac after hours. Members also voted to appoint the City's representatives for negotiating Collective Bargaining Agreements with both the FOP and IAFF Local Chapter for the fiscal year 2012-2013.


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Fears of a resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus have been raised by the United Nations, saying wild bird migrations had brought it back to previously virus-free countries.
A mutant strain of the disease is said to be spreading through Asia and at least eight people have died in Cambodia this year of bird flu.
The new strain of the H5N1 virus is spreading in China and Vietnam and can apparently sidestep defences of existing vaccines, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement yesterday.
It urged greater surveillance to ensure that any outbreaks are contained, although it is still uncertain though whether the mutant virus can be passed on to humans.
Last week, the World Health Organization reported that a six-year-old Cambodian girl had died on August 14 from bird flu, the eighth person to die from H5N1 avian influenza in the country this year.
Vietnam suspended its springtime poultry vaccination this year, FAO said.
Most of the northern and central parts of the country where the virus is endemic have been invaded by the new strain.
Elsewhere, FAO says bird migrations over the past two years have brought H5N1 to countries that had been virus-free for several years, including Israel, the Palestinian territories, Bulgaria, Romania, Nepal and Mongolia.
'Wild birds may introduce the virus, but people's actions in poultry production and marketing spread it,' said FAO's chief veterinary office Juan Lubroth in urging greater preparedness and surveillance.
WHO says globally there have been 331 human deaths from 565 confirmed bird flu cases since 2003 when it was first detected.
The virus was eliminated from most of the 63 countries infected at its peak in 2006, but it remained endemic in six countries: Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The number of outbreaks in poultry and wild bird populations shrank from a high of 4000 to 302 in mid-2008, but outbreaks have risen progressively since, with almost 800 cases reported in 2010-2011, FAO said.
'The general departure from the progressive decline in 2004-2008 could mean that there will be a flare-up of H5N1 this fall and winter, with people unexpectedly finding the virus in their backyard,' Lubroth said in a statement.
But leading microbiologist, Professor Hugh Pennington, says that while there is no evidence that the flu is yet mutating to spread from person to person it is a 'reasonable speculation' that it has become resistant to Tamiflu – the main drug used in the UK to fight the virus.
The British and Scottish Governments spent over £100m on over 50 million doses of Tamiflu – enough for 80 per cent of the population
The emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University had warned last year that deadly flu pandemics with special antiviral drugs could create an even more dangerous, untreatable 'superflu' after the UK expanded anti-viral stocks from 35 million to 50 million.
The Scottish government's effort to combat a possible pandemic is also heavily reliant on Tamiflu, an oral drug produced by the Swiss manufacturer Roche, despite warnings that it may be ineffective.
"Tamiflu should only be given to high risk cases. I think it is a reasonable speculation to make – given the new reports – that Tamiflu has been handed out inappropriately and the virus has developed a resistance to it. If that is the case that would mean that the UK's stocks of the drug would be largely ineffective,' said Professor Pennington.
'The idea that Tamiflu was a cure-all was plainly wrong.
'There is no need to panic yet because there is no evidence that the virus is spreading person to person and there are other anti-virals – such as Relenza – that do have an effect.
'There is also no evidence that the virus is becoming vaccine resistant. A new vaccine will have to be made, but that is to be expected. Flu is always changing and it would be staggering if this flu didn't. Vaccines have to be constantly updated.'
However, the UK Government has stockpiled only about ten million doses of Relenza and it is more difficult to take. While Tamiflu can be swallowed as a pill at home, Relenza is a powder that must be administered with an inhaler, normally under medical supervision.
But Professor Pennington warned that stocks of Relenza had to be increased. 'We have to get as much Relenza as possible because we don't know how effective Tamiflu will be,' he said.
'With flu the best advice is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.'
Prof. Pennington, a past president of the General Society for Microbiology, said it was also 'impossible' to predict when this year's flu would strike.
Dr Steve Gamblin, the joint head of molecular structure at the National Institute for Medical Research, has also previously warned that the mutation renders Tamiflu about 250 times less effective than it should be.
A spokesperson for the Health Protection Agency, told the Mail Online: 'H5N1, like other influenza viruses, is constantly changing so that over a period of time new subtypes will emerge.
'New strains may not be sensitive to the vaccine currently used to protect poultry in these areas but there is currently no indication of the transmission of this new virus to humans.
'The HPA is monitoring the situation carefully with colleagues from the WHO and others.
'In England the HPA has in place a network of laboratories capable of testing for H5N1.
'Instructions and advice are available on the HPA's website to help clinicians in dealing with travellers who are suspected of having H5N1.
'The agency also has agreed plans with Defra for dealing with the human and public health issues that may arise from a possible outbreak of avian influenza in birds in the UK (including H5N1).'


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What Time is the Presidential Debate?
Here are details on Tuesday's debate between Republican candidate Mitt Romney and Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
The second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney is set for 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16. This one will take the form of a Town Hall meeting.
AOL will provide a live stream of the debate.
TV Channels Broadcasting Live: ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and more, including CNN Espanol.
Live Streaming Online: YouTube's Election Hub, AOL.
Hosting your own debate watching party? Share it in the comments.
Below is more detailed information on Tuesday night's debate, as well as the schedule for upcoming debates:
October 16, 2012 Presidential |
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets) Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent) The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization. |
October 22, 2012 Presidential |
Topic: Foreign policy Air Time: 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets) Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates Participants: President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS) The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy. |
1:22 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Newest polls from today show Obama with three point national lead going into second debate...
Brian Andrews
10:47 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Watt, the latest Gallop and Rasmussen National polls give Romney a slight lead. Best place on the web to check the state of the race is RealClearPolitics - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
Ettore Greco
1:34 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Once again, the next US presidential election will be fixed. Mitt Romney will be elected even though Barack Obama would have received more votes in the 2012 election. The political assassination will be perpetrated by Bush hiding behind Crossroads GPS, the most influential group of Neocons.
The Neocons will have Mitt Romney elected to first use him and then let him fall easy prey. All blames and responsibilities will fall on the new Mormon president for the events already planned.
The new World War of Religion is already a done deal behind the backs of all people which will be forced to fight for their own Countries in their obligation as citizens
Since 9/11 it's the War on Terror
One "false flag" attack so called by error
Blair, Bush, and Israel had a Pact in store
Their next surprise is knocking at your door
A hidden vile Idea from those who want "more"
will use you and your Belief for the next World War
As "chosen people" gain while Humankind loses
Greed wins not by the swords but by the words of Moses
Daring is to tell you when, better then to tell you rhymes
could not side with either one to get ready for our times
to look beyond and past today to seek for a solution
one only hope is there for you and spells Wavevolution
A new type of Revolution wins with the ultimate weapon:
Your Mind
9:26 pm on Monday, October 15, 2012
Still waiting for detailed answers for:
(1) What are your plans for tax reform?
(2) What are your plans for entitlement reform?
(3) What are your plans for overall spending reforms?
Why these questions: See CNBC's "Are we rich or poor?" debate (worth watching):
Or just read some of the CBO's recent reports (google "CBO entitlements projections").
We need tax reform (keep in dead simple) and spending reforms (both near term and long term). Big spending reforms. In exchange, add a near-term high-rate of return investment in our infrastructure (grid, bridges, etc).
Tired of both parties being wedded to their "bases". Time for some common sense. Both Romney and Obama have it in them. Let's see it.
Melissa Bysura
7:25 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Yes I'll watch and yes my mind is already made up. Ross Pero 2012!!!
8:52 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Watts why doesn't your numbers match up with these?
Gallup: R 49%, 0 47%.... Oh my: Gallup shows Romney leading by five — in swing states. UPI Poll: Romney has 3-point lead (R 49%, 0 46%)
9:13 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
please start listening to your readers who are against seeing this onslaught of people from other states posting all over this regions patch
on this topic from yesterday, the only 3 commenting yesterday were from elsewhere
maybe people should start checking where these folks are from and every time they post a comment, counter with just listing their name and location so other readers and the patch will see how bad this has become
Joseph Robert
9:40 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
VOTE EARLY!! Don't let Republican leaders suppress your right to vote!
Watch Romney explain his flip-flopping positions on the issues. 2 million views!
More than 2 million views in past week!
Romney-Ryan: We believe in LYING to America!
Jack Kelly
10:51 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
"What Time is the Presidential Debate?"
Don't care. I'll be watching Tosh.0
Ken Adams
11:38 am on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
hey mark...vote early, VOTE OFTEN. the liberal way. or just let a bunch of illegals vote. that works well too.
bob lang
8:47 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Have any proof for these statements or are you just throwing mud and hoping people are stupid enough to believe what you're selling?
2:33 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Thanks Adam for doing this. Is there anyway to keep these spammers out? It's ridiculous!
3:53 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
i think our patch and all patch editions should stop this across the country
i can't believe they want this used for the purpose it is being used
3:57 pm on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
i'm not a regular poster on here
it is my hope other people will also do this so patch will hear us loud and clear, and since i will not have the time to play this role myself


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