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DunnAir Business Jet Completion Center Is Done
Founder Dale Dunn launched DunnAir Business Jet Completion Center in 2004, and the company opened for business in Tucson, Ariz., in February 2005 with high hopes for success. Today, the 255,000-sq-ft hangar is empty, the phones have been disconnected and no one from DunnAir was available for comment regarding the closing. Jim Garcia, senior director of business development for the airport authority, confirmed that DunnAir had shut down, noting that the center had been using only two bays of the hangar but was paying $108,000 a month to rent the entire facility and experiencing financial difficulties.
Faced with lease negotiation difficulties and delays in getting an FAA repair station certificate, DunnAir opened more than six months later than planned. By late last year the company had laid off most of its workforce while investment conditions were restructured.
DunnAir leased the facility from Bombardier, which had used the space as an
aircraft completion facility and had a long-term lease agreement with the airport authority for the property and hangar at the rate of $285,000 a year. With 18 years left on the lease, Bombardier and the airport authority are looking for a new tenant for the space. Bombardier continues to operate maintenance facilities in Tucson, but not at that particular hangar.
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House asking prices reach a record
Jun 18 2012
House asking prices have risen to a new record high, but they remain well below their 2007 peak once inflation is taken into account, a study says.
The price of a home coming to market rose by 1% month-on-month in June to reach £246,235 on average, but London is the only region where prices have outpaced inflation over the last five years, the Rightmove house price index found.
Nearly 30,000 new sellers a week came to market in the three weeks before the Diamond Jubilee weekend, the highest rate of new listings for nearly two years, suggesting asking price increases will slow down as seller competition intensifies, the study said.
Elections in Greece and the eurozone turmoil, as well as this summer's sporting events such as Euro 2012 and Olympics are likely to dampen house sales further, with buyers more interested in viewing sport than property, the study said.
Asking prices have risen to new record highs for the last three months in a row. But while sellers' prices are up by 2% on August 2007, just before the economy faced the run on Northern Rock, they have fallen by 13% in real terms after retail prices index (RPI) inflation is taken into account.
London is the only region in the study covering England and Wales to record an inflation-busting increase in asking prices, which stand at a new high for the capital of £477,440. Prices there have increased by 3% after inflation since August 2007.
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How do you manipulate yourself - positively?
Your mind/part of it, knows that something should be done, the rest of you doesn't want to. What do you do?
I've read about intelligent procrastination. When attempting this, you deceive yourself into believing which tasks are more important than others. This stems from the conviction that you're bound to pick things to do of lesser importance, than the most important ones on your list.
In my opinion, intelligent procrastination is a way of intelligently putting your focus where you think it can make the biggest impact. E.g. you sometimes pick the easier task, of two, where the other is obviously more important, just because of the implied difficulty of the job and the quicker fulfillment of a job finished.
Another way I found to do things is doing them as they pop up in my head. I spend more time being effective overall, but I might not be doing things in the best way. E.g. you do not minimize time consumption on traveling, because the order of tasks isn't optimized. Overall I do think things through, but I feel I could be more effective and I'm looking for input.
Please look away from the mental age the above suggests and spelling errors, this is not my main language. First time posting, be kind.
If you understood the question differently, by all means describe that as well, together with your take on the question.
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Rhona Pavis 50+Jul 29 2012: You simply do the positive things that occur to you. It's really quite simple. "Where there is a will, there is a way." It's a matter of choice. You are in control of you. Choose positive. Do what you know to be positive. No need to complicate something that is simple. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Trust yourself. Positive words, positive acts cause positive results. You know that. Just do it.
Jul 29 2012: Rhona my friend, you say it simply and effectively again:>)
Where there is a will, there is a way...matter of choice...we are in control...choose positive....do what we know...no need to complicate something that is simple...love, respect and trust yourself...positive acts...positive results...just do it. I LOVE it my friend!!!
In your indroduction you write..."In my opinion, intelligent procrastination is a way of intelligently putting your focus where you think it can make the biggest impact". YES, YES, YES!!!
In each and every moment, we have the ability to CHOOSE where our focus goes....
Where focus goes, energy flows...
What we focus on expands...
It is really NOT that difficult to focus our mind and heart where we want it to be in each and every moment:>)
Rhona Pavis 50+Jul 30 2012: Colleen, there was no "Reply" thing in the "bully" item so I am replying to that here. Hurt people can also be jerks. Hurt people have a choice about their behavior. People who murder people are probably hurting, but their choice of how they manifest that hurt is their choice. I would use a term that is stronger than "jerk" for such people, but sometimes the focus needs to be on the choice of the person and the consequence of their choice of how they manifest that hurt. Some hurt people write a poem or paint a picture and play mellow music. I would not refer to those hurt people as jerks.
Jul 30 2012: Hi Rhona,
I agree that people who are hurting can act like Jerks, and that often applies to bullies. I totally agree that ALL people make choices regarding how they manifest that hurt onto others. It is often a projection of their own hurt.
That being said, I like to show people sometimes that they have different choices. I experienced an example of this just yesterday. Some new folks moved into the house next door. I was out in the gardens, saw the man outside so went over to introduce myself. We were chatting, and his two kids (around 9-10) came out. The little boy tripped, and right away, the father said "he is so clumsy!" I said "he has flip-flops on and is walking on uneven ground...I don't believe he is clumsy". The father said..."he is clumsy....always clumsy....can't even walk without tripping...he's been clumsy since he started walking"...bla....bla.....bla...on and on!!!
That poor little kid!!! So, I gave up on the father for a minute and started talking with the kid....."almost time for school...do you like school...what subjects do you like, etc.". The little kids perked up a bit and started talking, and as he was talking, he was wandering a bit and tripped again. The father popped in with...."see...always clumsy".
That father was being a jerk and a bully, in my perception, and I knew that I was not going to make any progress with him by calling him a jerk, so I just kept focusing on the kid and our conversation. As you say..."sometimes the focus needs to be on the choice of the person and the consequence of their choice".
Rather than keeping the father in the "jerk/bully" catagory, I attempted to show him something different. They just moved in......give me time!!! LOL:>) This fits PERFECTLY in this conversation....how to manipulate positivity!!!I appreciate you and your perceptions of life Rhona:>)
Jul 30 2012: Indeed, I totally agree!
But to add, not all bullies or murderers do what they do because that's the manifestation of their negativity. I can definitely see some who genuinely enjoy hurting others. To me, sadistic people are ones who have a weak understanding of others. If they knew how it felt to have someone do the same thing to themselves, they'd probably be more reluctant to hurt others knowing the damage they're doing. However, if the person likes to take pleasure from pain inflicted onto themselves and thinks everyone else should feel the same, that's where I say, "These guys are messed up to the core."
Jul 31 2012: James,
Did you ever hear of the terms "pecking order" or "leveling"?
I suggest that those who seem to enjoy hurting others are sometimes trying to bring those they hurt to the same "level" of discontent.
I agree that they "have a weak understanding of others", because they have a weak understanding of themselves. I also absolutely agree that if they knew how it felt to have someone do the same thing to themselves, they'd probably be more reluctant to hurt others..."
Many people in our world have been wounded physically and psychologically, in all possible ways that you cannot even imagine. Many times, they have blocked out the hurt they felt from that wounding of themselves. They learned a pattern of behavior, however, that is destructive to others, just as it was, and continues to be to them.
When we witness people who seem to like to hurt others, I believe it is often an outward manifestation of a shallow feeling (that person is having the same pain as I have) of a very deep, unacknowleged pain. Make any sense?
Rhona Pavis 50+Jul 30 2012: Colleen, I am glad our admiration is mutual. I guess we have reached many of the same conclusions. The common denominator seems to be "positive." We are both willing to be positive in word and deed and thought and any way we can. I love us for being the way we are right now. Furthermore, I am certain that we are being effective at accomplishing all of our positive goals. Sounds like you will need to direct your energies towards the parent and the child. Complex. You will succeed. It amazes me how people can behave toward others and be unaware of their impact. I assume the parent has low self-esteem, has been put down and hurt probably by his mommy and/or daddy and, robotically, he passes that pain and suffering on to his child, convincing himself he is "right." It's like people who are prejudiced. They think they are stating facts, when they go out of their way to avoid facts and instead selectively build a case to support their prejudice. I hope we become increasingly efficient in accomplishing our positive goals. I want all those positive results now. Perhaps I can be patient for days or months, but I don't want decades and centuries to go by before is simply loving, kind, healthy and happy. Right on! Keep being as Colleen as you can possibly be. Thank you.
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Maine Coast TV, Channel 7, is the Community Television for all
Time Warner subscribers in Knox County, Maine. We cover the
City of Rockland and the Towns of Camden, Rockport, Thomaston, South
Thomaston, St. George, Warren, and Owls Head.
We are also part of the Maine Community Television Network. As part of the wider community of Maine, much of our programming is broadcast around the state of Maine and in exchange we also receive quality programming from other towns in Maine.
Channel 7, Maine Coast TV, the community station for Knox County is presenting an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden as part of its Deutche Welle series.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden talks about his revelations, industrial espionage and death threats. He says the public has a right to know what the government is doing in its name - "and what the government is doing against it". After six months of painstaking preparation, journalist Hubert Seipel succeeded in conducting the first television interview with Snowden since his flight from Hong Kong. The meeting with Snowden, who revealed the massive espionage activities of the US intelligence agency NSA, took place at a secret location.
The interview will air on Channel 7, Friday January 31 at 8:00 PM, Sunday February 2 at 8:00 PM and Wednesday February 5 at 9:00 PM.
We have a new menu item on our menu bar. It is titled "Videos" and if you click on it you will find videos of some of our locally produced shows. To begin with we have Out and About with Al Gardner and also Reigning Cats and Dogs. We have had many requests from viewers who can't recieve our cable broadcasts to see some our unique local programming. We are starting with two shows and will expand our offerings soon.
GEM Histories
Be sure and watch the GEM Showcase on Saturday at 3 PM, Sunday at 6 PM, and Wednesday at 8 PM. GEM
has been producing local historical documentaries for many years and
every week we show something from their archives. Join us for
look back at people and events from the midcoast area.