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How I Proved The Gurus Wrong And Developed...
Dear Friend,
Let's just say it were possible... I mean, possible that RIGHT NOW...
You could have yourself a little income machine that produced, $300, $1000, or $3000 a month... every month. Coming straight to your bank account. No matter how long you spent "working" on it.
Then imagine you had the exact formula to replicate one of those income machines...
Imagine you had the blueprint for building as many of them as you wished, multiplying your passive income with each new one you had.
Would you scale your income up to $5000 a month? $10,000 a month? Even further?
My name's Andrew Hansen and on this page I'm going to show you exactly how this is possible, and exactly how you could have one of these little income streams up, running, and earning by the end of this month.
I'm going to show you how I've done it - every single month for the last 7 years – and how normal people from every walk of life are doing exactly the same... following my blueprint right... this... minute.
Ready? Here goes...
First, I know you've heard claims like this before. If you're anything like me, you are immediately skeptical of them.
So rather than yell in your face about how amazing my "super duper system" is... or show you a photo of me posing next to someone else's Ferrari... (we all know how obnoxious THAT is...)
I'd rather just take you inside my own portfolio and show you some of these humble little sites so you can see for yourself.
Here's a sampling of 3 little income streams from my own portfolio...
As you're reading, you'll get a sense of how simple they are, how little work went into them, and how easy it is for you to replicate them to produce thousands of dollars in passive income for yourself and your family, every month, starting TODAY...
Income Machine #1:
First income produced: Month 1, a $38 sale.
Current Monthly Income 2013: $380/month
Income Machine #2:
First income produced: Month 1, a $30.18 sale
Current Monthly Income 2013: $1195.41/month
Income Machine #3:
First income produced: Month 1, a $94.50 sale
Current Monthly Income 2013: $3024/month
Click Play To Watch Me Log Into This Account Live:
And there are plenty more where those came from - in fact I'll be showing you some more later - but you get the idea.
Pretty cool right? But you wanna know the craziest part?
Further down this page...
What I want to show you here today is exactly:
And of course, that little secret...
Here goes...
First... I'm NOT going to tell you my "rags to riches" story here.
Truth is, I don't really have one.
I DID have one, kinda.
A poor student, living with my parents, dreams to make a fortune online, all of that.
Like most people, I had that period (for me it was a year) where I:
At bottom, I was forced to take some online jobs for like $8 an hour to pay off the debts I accumulated.
Suffice it to say: Every mistake in the book, I've made it.
But... that was 7 years ago.
I've been making a fortune online ever since, and using my passive income to live free and abundant... with one variation or another of the very formula I'm going to share with you today.
So let's just fast forward to 2012, where the story REALLY gets interesting...
So we re join the story in 2012.
I got married at the start of year (thank you!) and in June, the wife and I had just returned from our honeymoon.
It was a magical year for me.
We took 6 weeks "off" around the wedding. Got married on a clifftop in Thailand. Closest friends and family there. We stayed in this villa where you have a button to call a private chef for you... the works!
(Note: I'm not usually THAT kind of guy... but it was our wedding and we figured what the heck, ya know?!)
Anyway, absolute highlight of my life, by far.
Then a couple months later, we took another 5 weeks for our "proper" honeymoon.
We spent the time traveling round the Greek Islands for a while, and we rented an apartment in the south of France for the rest of the time.
My level of gratitude is through the roof. Memories I'll never forget.
By this point - June 2012... I'd only spent maybe one quarter of the year doing anything that could even vaguely be described as "work".
** (That's just kind of how things are when you have this kind of passive income business)
But it was at this point that my year took a bit of a turn...
When I got back home - and out of my little happiness bubble - I started getting into a little "work" again, and I found some strange things happening...
Things that made me terribly angry.
For whatever reason, while I'd been away, there were groups of people in the "internet marketing" world talking about how certain ways of making money online were "dead" all of a sudden...
There was this general feeling that for some reason, it wasn't possible to make money online with these little websites, other people's products, and free traffic anymore.
Former students of mine were sending me worried emails. Some people even changed businesses for good. What was going ON?!
I was dumbfounded...
Joe S.
Kent, UK
Joe was one of my students. That's Joe there.
A retired professional. Capable when it came to the internet, but by his own admission, "no expert". He had never used Wordpress, never done SEO, never done affiliate marketing at all.
He was looking to supplement his income with an online business.
Within 10 days of following my formula...
Joe saw his first sale for $56!
Joe was over the moon at his results. He had tried other methods before and had spent months creating sites that hadn't produced results yet. Now he's got his first little income stream. The first of many.
Nicole V. from London was another one of my students.
A Danish native. English second language. She had been looking for a while to start a web business with her husband, to supplement their income.
The first time we spoke, she had never used Wordpress. Part of our first chat involved explaining how affiliate marketing worked. She didn't know a thing about SEO or click throughs or finding niches.
Within 4 weeks of following my blueprint...
Nicole made her first sale of $28.50
She sent me this email...
Nicole had her first income stream. A plain little website with only 3 pages.
But it didn't stop there...
Souhail Ijaz
London, UK
Souhail was another one of my students. That's Souhail there.
A young guy with a family, who works a 9-5. He had played around with online marketing a little in the past, had mixed results, and was looking for a formula he could finally focus on to build an income that would last.
We worked on the formula when he got home from work in the evenings. After week 2, I got an email from him containing the following:
"Over the last couple of days I was surprised to see a couple of sales of the product amounting to around $50 in commissions!"
Within 2 weeks of following my blueprint...
Souhail made his first sales of $48.86
My own success became irrelevant. ANYONE from even the most rank newbie could do this, starting right now today, and I had proven it beyond ANY doubt.
So what's the secret?
We're going to move on now and talk about exactly WHY those people achieved those results and then HOW.
So you can copy them. Ready?
On the surface of it, it's all very simple: I use simple little websites (blogs to be exact), I sell other people's products, and I get Google to send me traffic.
But in the details of this system is a treasure trove of understanding, accumulated slowly, month by month over the last 7 years.
(Fortunately for you, you get to skip the 7 years and start profiting today)
The system I've been telling you about:
Makes money from people who already want to buy stuff. That means I don't have to work hard on "selling".
Capitalizes on little markets that almost NO ONE knows about. That means almost no competition so I can make money FAST.
Costs little to nothing. These are simple, low cost sites and strategies. No big investment is required.
SERVES Google. They LOVE ME for how much quality I provide their searchers. I don't need to worry about Google hating me.
And when I knew this system was perfect... when it had proven itself not just to me but to everyone who had seen it... when it was 100% certified powerful and profitable...
Let's be honest: Do you think if you watched me do each step of the process...
You went to the links I went to...
You clicked the places where I clicked...
You made your sites look like my sites...
You could make money like I do? Of COURSE you could!
You've seen on this page that I did it, and people with FAR LESS experience than you did it too... in just a few weeks.
They did it, and now YOU can do it as you go through my blueprint.
Open video 1... watch it... copy it... move to video 2...
You do that until the end of the course... you've got yourself a $300-$3000 a month income stream. There's no denying it. That's just what happens.
And it begins now.
Allow me to introduce you to...
Welcome to your "game changer" moment. The point you look back on and think "THAT's when my online income really started to skyrocket".
Built on 7 years trial and error in this business and carefully crafted for the internet of 2014, the Forever Affiliate Video Course is the complete, nothing ommitted blueprint to creating simple $300, to $3000 per month passive income streams as of TODAY.
- It's my "copy and profit" guide to generating income streams just like I showed you on this page...
- It's actually much MORE detailed than what Joe and Nicole and Souhail used to make their first income within weeks.
- It's every... single... step... you need to take, demonstrated clearly and explained fully, to have your own passive income machines up and running in the shortest time possible.
That's exactly what happened to every person you read about on this page... except they had LESS help than you'll have.
Want to know the 3 steps? See exactly how this is going to happen?
Obviously I can't give it ALL away here but...
Let me give you an insight into the simple power of these 3 Phases, and a sneak peak at what you'll be exposed to inside the Forever Affiliate Course.
Hold on to your seats folks...
This is where I'm going to show you how to pick markets that allow for fast profits.
Why? Because you can break into them almost instantly and TONNES of money is being made there.
I don't mean just any markets, but markets that other affiliates haven't even HEARD of yet. Markets so easy that sometimes almost NO ONE else is competing in them.
In Phase 1 some of what you'll learn includes...
- How to uncover those "BIG" markets before they get big and then ride the wave of profitability while others are "wishing they knew about that sooner". (Phase 1, video 7)
- How to find markets that other people have already proven to be profitable so you don't have to. (Phase 1, video 9)
- How to know how much money there is in a market before you enter it. "This will be a $950 profit stream. 5 of these and I'll reach my goal income." << That kind of thing. (Phase 1, video 2)
- How to locate countless "high end niches" with 3 figure commissions per sale. Here just 4 sales a month could be a $1000/month income stream for you. (Phase 1, Video 15)
And SO much more. You'll get 11 techniques like this for finding the hottest, most hidden profit centers on the internet. PLUS...
EVEN IF you've seen every "niche research" technique I've ever created... You haven't seen these ones.
These are the newest and most powerful.
BONUS Video: The Markets Where I've Made The Most Money
This is a special presentation of 20 minutes where I flat out tell you the markets that you should make a B line for, and all the ones to avoid... Based on my experience of where I have made the most money over the last 7 years.
You grab 'em, you go there, you make money. Research Work = zero.
In this step you'll verify whether the markets you've found in Phase 1 are profitable...
That means you'll never commit time or energy to something that you later find out was "the wrong one", and isn't actually profitable. (we've all been THERE before!)
Oh and in doing this, you'll often make a profit immediately! (I'll show you how to do this in the shortest time possible)
- In Phase 2 you'll copy my "Power Site Setup" formula and have your first income machine off the ground in under 10 minutes if you wish. (Phase 2, Videos 2)
- You'll get fast forwarded right to the core of things, setting up the bare profitable minimum of a little site, ready for targeted visitors and sales. (Phase 2, Video 3-7)
- You'll see how to easily knock out sites that visitors will be excited to buy from, and avoid doing those costly things that Google will hate. (Seriously, it's so easy when you know how, even after all Google's changes of 2012) (Phase 2, Video 9)
- You'll get my templates for profitable content, so you can copy them directly. These are my time tested layouts for making affiliate sales even when you only get a few visitors per day. (Phase 2, Videos 13 and 14)
- You'll get the BEGINNING of our traffic getting strategy in Phase 2 as well. You'll see the first visitors to your sites during this phase, with these white hat, low risk, high powered visitor attracting tactics. (Phase 2, Video 16)
You should know at this point...
Yes I mean you might end up making money before you even finish the 3 phases of the Forever Affiliate process. That is NOT a joke.
That's what happened to Joe, who you met at the top of this page.
Oh, AND...
Imagine her looking something like this... sitting at the computer waiting to write YOUR content.
I've included access details for some of our very own content writers.
In other words if you can do a quick "Power Site Setup" following my video (takes 10 minutes or less) then shoot an email off to our trained, experienced, US writer with the template I provided...
You can have your first income machine off the ground within 48 hours while you were off doing... whatever you wanted!
Easy enough?
Ok, then let me show you the last phase...
This is where we go hardcore on traffic and really ramp up your profits.
But as you'll learn, Phase 3 is about SO much more than that.
Phase 3 is about locking in your profitability for the long term, and slowly reducing the amount of work you do, to it's lowest possible point.
This is where I reveal...
- The 2014 search engine strategy that has my humble little sites blowing away their competitors in the search engines, day after day, even after Panda, Penguin, EMD, and ALL Google's updates in 2012. (Phase 3, Video 1)
- How to GET rankings in the search engines as QUICKLY as possible... and KEEP those rankings for as LONG as possible.
- My easiest and most impactful link building strategies for 2015 (and how to get better rankings with LESS links). (Phase 3, Videos 2-8)
- How to mine the thousands of dollars per month PER SITE that most affiliates are leaving on the table.
But even more importantly, in Phase 3 you'll see:
- How to truly "set and forget" a site so that it can keep ticking over with income without you looking at it (like you'll see a lady called Dana talk about below) (Phase 3, Video 10)
- How to clone an income stream so that you can "rinse and repeat", and scale your income up to whatever level you desire.
Oh yeah and...
The whole way through Phase 3 I'll be throwing you options, resources and tools for getting the "work" done by other people efficiently and affordably.
I told you this business was meant to be hands off, and I meant it.
I'll be showing you the services I use, the people I contact... some of them only known to the most hardcore inner circles and "affiliate nerd" masterminds.
I figure what the hell. At least this way you'll have no possibility for this not to work for you (wink, wink!)
And guess what? After this step... there is no more.
After this, you go and enjoy the new income you've created... In any way your heart desires.
A little like these guys...
When people put this blueprint into practice that's what happens.
You put it into practice and before long, people around you are watching and wondering "How did HE/SHE end up so successful?"
When I got started in this business, I would talk about it with people around me. Tell them what I was doing, how I was going to make this great money, you know?
And while I was lucky to have a number of close friends and family that were really supportive, I had more than a few "doubters".
I had people laugh (older people than me too, which made it feel all the more condescending)... I had people tell me it wasn't a smart decision... I had people tell me to stick to focusing on my "career", and all the rest of it.
And - I don't think I've ever admitted this before - I always kept a mental note of the people who doubted me. I thought "I'll remember what you said... and one day I'll prove you wrong".
When I had my "big success" with this business, I of course never confronted any of them... but I also knew I didn't have to. They knew.
I'll be honest... there's something nice about that feeling :)
This system is different, because I made it different.
This is NOT the kind of program you can "get stuck" with. The whole process is there before your eyes, to copy and profit.
This is NOT the kind of system you have to "wait around to see results" with. People made money in 10 days. You met them. You saw for yourself.
This is NOT the kind of business model that's going to cost you thousands of dollars to set up. This is simple, cheap web assets that make enormous returns on investment.
This is NOT the kind of business model where you go and spend hours "working in the business". It's designed from day one to run WITHOUT you.
This is NOT the kind of business that's "Here today, gone tomorrow". This is a high value, long term, "set you up for life", kind of business model.
And not only is this system different. I AM different.
I do this teaching stuff differently to anyone you've ever met before.
The thing I'm most proud of in my life is the respect I've earned from my students and from other teachers in this business. Not just because they've made money with my techniques but because they appreciate the way I conduct business.
With Forever Affiliate, you're getting...
Here's what some of the smartest and most honest people in this business had to say about me:
You know I've documented my entire strategy for creating multiple $300-$3000 minisites, and you know you can get access to this course, copy it, and achieve the same.
So what's "the deal"?
My way of doing business is that I create a course that should cost $997 and I sell it for much cheaper. That's how I've always done things.
That's what Forever Affiliate is. If it cost $997, and you made your first site which - at the modest end - made $500 a month, you'd have paid back the investment in 60 days. That price would be a bargain.
The real price of Forever Affiliate is just $297.
**Edit: To celebrate it's continued success in 2014, lifetime access to the full Forever Affiliate is available today for $197 only when you join with the button below.
Because after 7 years in this business, the thing I care most about is getting this information into people's hands, and watching their lives change because of it.
I was once where you are, and I know how close you are to making it BIG. The difference is in the quality of information you get.
And the thought that I can make that difference for you? You think that makes me feel pretty good about myself? HECK YEAH it does!
I told you I do things differently, and there are more reasons than one.
Exhibit B...
I believe in my strategies SO strongly, that if you don't make money with them, I'll PAY YOU, just for trying...
This is not humor or exaggeration. Me and so many others like YOU are cashing affiliate checks right now, with the strategies you could be implementing right now.
Another payment JUST arrived in my Paypal account while you were reading this, from another simple little site, just like you'll soon have.
Or that same payout could just as easily be one like this...
And people all over the world are seeing the same results...
I could go on all day with more testimonials, more screenshots, and more proof, but extra time we spend here now is time taken away from time YOU could be making money with this stuff.
So let me close things here.
I really look forward to sharing my method with you, and watching you become a success story.
I can't wait to see the look on your face (or more likely, the tone on your email) when you're writing to me telling me how much money your sites have made.
Finally, I'd like to leave you with one last thought...
I heard a crazy story recently...
I heard that in Dubai, there are these wealthy oil shieks who have, what can objectively be considered TOO much money...
So much money that they'll buy some sports car, just to drive around in for a few hours, have a bit of fun... then they'll just leave it on the side of the road somewhere, keys in the ignition, and have their chauffeur take them back home...
The first thing I thought was...
"Imagine the guy who's just walking along one day and finds a Ferrari on the side of the road with no license plates and the keys in the ignition!"
In a weird way, right now... you have a decision to make not unlike THAT guy's...
I've left my sports car on the side of the road for you...
The keys are in the ignition and a note is on the windscreen saying "Free to a good home"...
And you have to make a quick decision...
Will you hesitate... ask questions... and stand there wondering "is this too good to be true?" or "what's the catch?" while some other shmuck comes past and takes the opportunity from under your nose?
Or will you seize the day...take the keys... stick them in the ignition... and drive off into the sunset?
Right now... it's up to you.
I understand that I'm getting access to the full Forever Affiliate course, plus bonuses, in order to generate my own $300-$3000/mo passive income machines.
I understand that I'm covered by a "better than double money back" guarantee and that if I don't make money with this in 60 days I'll be getting $100 cash.
I'm ready to have my "game changer" moment and I want to get started immediately!
Thanks for reading, and I'll see you soon!
To your success,
Andrew Hansen
P.S. This is the ultimate system for replicating "hands off" income streams of $300-$3000. You won't find anything like this.
P.P.S. I'm giving you $100 out of my own pocket - on top of a refund - if this doesn't work for you. You won't find anything like THAT on the net either. Scroll back up and get your piece of this action today.
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So let's do a poll. Who played the best knock in the final - Mahela, Gambhir or Dhoni?
So let's do a poll. Who played the best knock in the final - Mahela, Gambhir or Dhoni?
The difference between the teams is that he had almost no support.
fade, made to fade
passion's overrated anyway
forever 63*
anyone who votes for Gambhir or Dhoni should be banned
As isolated events, Mahela obv.
Gambhir had the opportunity to better it if he finished the Innings but he had to play that **** **** shot.
Yeah Mahela. WAFG.
Very happy to see Mahela winning this poll in a losing cause rather than Sachin.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
While Mahela's innings was the best in terms of quality, I will still call Gambhir's innings the best Chasing 274 with the team 31/2, awesome.
A toss-up between Mahela and Dhoni, probably Mahela just. I have more time for the guy who takes the ownership of the whole innings and takes the team all the way through the innings.
Mahela, easily. Followed by Gambhir.
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Mahela's was the best in pure batting terms of course, a sublime confection of timing and placement particularly in the powerplay. If this was a regular game I would have voted for him. But this was the world cup final and while I am sure there was some pressure in the first innings it's nothing compared to the pressure that Gambhir would have felt when India were 31/2 chasing 275. I have seen so many teams falter in those situations, get bogged down and lose wickets and it was Gambhir who ensured that India stayed on course. In terms of batting his was the least of the three but in the context of the game I think it was the best.
Went for Gambhir, he had situational pressure and was able to negate the spin attack of Sri Lanka to the point where the game could no longer be lost, did this with minimal risk until the dodgy shot to get out, and the bit of luck with the dropped catch.
See a lot of you voting for Mahela. Do you guys also reckon the MoM should've been given to Mahela?
For me all 3 innings were fantastic and worthy of a world cup final. By small margins, I'd go Dhoni > Mahela > Gambhir.
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just giving my opinion like.
but really i don't understand how peopole can vote for the other two. it was just a mile better knock. just because his team didn't win doesn't make it poorer than the other two.
Doesn't make it better either. I would say they were all equally important and would place Dhoni's and Jaya's innings higher than Gambhir's effort since they stayed out there till their team's innings were over.
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Jay Leno has been hit with a bizarre lawsuit from a woman alleging a guest on his program accused her of bestiality.
"The Tonight Show" host is entangled in an odd legal battle with Louann Giambattista, a former flight attendant for American Airlines.
In the suit filed in New York City, she claims that in an episode of Leno's show in July, he referenced a news report alleging Giambattista was caught smuggling her pet rat onto flights by carrying the rodent in her underwear.
A guest on the show is said to have remarked, "If I were one of those rats, I would've been very upset. I prefer not to sit in cooch."
The suit states, "Leno and his guests falsely accused Ms. Giambattista of engaging in sexual relations with a rat."
The documents state that Giambattista's relationship with her husband, Steven Goldring, has been affected by the incident, insisting they have become "pariahs in their own community."
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Ichiro's Malt Chichibu The Peated, the latest bottling from Ichiro Akuto at Chichibu distillery, will be released in Japan on 26th September. It is made up of heavily peated spirit distilled in 2009 that has just reached its third year (three years maturation is necessary to make spirit whisky). It is limited to 5,000 bottles.
This is a cask strength bottling at 50.5 per cent alcohol (slightly stronger than Chichibu's usual releases because Akuto believed that is necessary to show this whisky to the full). It has a phenol content of 51 ppm (parts per million). Basically, that "ppm" measures the chemical presence of peat in the whisk. The level is high but nothing compared to some Scottish monsters. The whisky was matured in bourbon barrel, a refill hogshead and a new hogshead.
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(CBS News) A branch of the National Academy of Sciences reported today that doctors in military hospitals appear to be overprescribing pain pills and the result is often addiction.
Thirty-year-old Michael Long still has the bullet he took in his back during a tour in Iraq in 2005. He says removing it would have been too dangerous.
Institute of Medicine calls drinking, drug abuse in U.S. military a "public health crisis"
He said the injury is still "extremely painful."
In a military hospital, he got hooked on painkillers.
"At first I ended up taking them the way they prescribe them. When then they stop doing anything, you take twice as much as you're supposed to be taking," he said. "It's when you start running out halfway through and you're like, 'Oh my God, I'm addicted to opiates. I'm a junkie now.'"
He admitted he had to start doing "seedier dirty things" like dealing with drug dealers or buying the drugs off someone who else who has painkillers.
Long entered an Army treatment program but continued to abuse drugs. He was arrested and given a Bad Conduct Discharge, which meant he couldn't get veteran's benefits for future treatment of chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
"To be honest, you're too afraid to admit that you have a drug problem to seek any type of help," he said.
Today's report calls the problem in military medicine "a public health crisis." It cites failures in prevention, diagnosis and treatment. It found outdated programs, poorly trained staff and a lack of confidentiality for patients.
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I think this book would have been great except for the mention of sex. Disapointing!!!!!
Ever heard the expression if the government could figure out a way to tax oxygen, they would? Well, that is the premise for Breathe. Quinn is the spoiled rich kid given everything he wants including extra air to exercise and real fruit. Bea is middle class forced to walk no faster than 3 mph and dine on protein enhanced cakes. Alina is a fighter, a terrorist who believes the government is pulling the wool over everyone's eyes. Together they knit a story that will drive them all to examine their broken world differently.
This book is one of those that I hated as much as I liked. I thought Bea was an awesome character, fully developed and easy to cheer for. Quinn and Alina took me more time to warm up to.
To me, Breathe is a frightening example of what power and the love of money can create. The author's writing is compelling and leaves you waiting for the next ball to drop. If anything other than learning to appreciate every breath you take, this book has accomplished enough
If you enjoyed divergent, this book is for you. An amazing plot with descriptive characters, they should make a movie on this! I also just found out that there is a sequel called "Resist". I haven't read it and don't know what it is about yet but it is definitely on my To- Read list. Again I suggest this book to Divergent lovers!
it is a pretty good book. it started off slow but got better the way through. it kinda is dystopian and zombie like. since the drifters in it remind me kinda of zombies but a different kind.
Fast paced, with short chapters, great for reluctant readers. Once you get past the issue of the planet getting rid of the trees (which led to their situation), I think it's a pretty realistic approach to what people will do to keep power. It also does a good job portraying that those fighting the corruption may not be better in that they can be extremists too. The main characters struggle to come to terms with these issues in a realistic way. I will definitely try the follow up "Resist".
I came across this book when looking for material along similar lines as the Hunger Games. The author's idea is fantastic and very unique, but her storyline leaves something to be desired. There are a lot of holes in the plot and the ending left me with more questions then answers. I had high expectations when I started reading, but it was a pretty steep slope downhill. Wouldn't recommend.
Meh, usually I like dystopian themed books but this one was really lacking something. The characters were likeable, however the plot left a lot to be desired. I just thought things could have been explained better and the POVs could have been longer instead of jumping back and forth so quickly.
I think Breathe was a great book. Which honestly I didn't find surprising at all, I mean look at the cover its so darn gorgeous!! I loved the characters it was kind of like a love triangle between Bea, Quinn and Alina. Though I did kind of find it strange that Quinn would call Alina the girl of his dreams just after meeting her once, I loved Bea's devotion and love for Quinn,she was willing to stay quiet and not profess her love since it meant she could be near him. This book was full of twists and turns and I could not predict what would happen after each book. I'm certainly looking forward to reading the next book of this series!!
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The Inquirer has a report from an AMD shareholder meeting in which CEO Hector Ruiz reiterated that the company's long-known plans to move to 45nm in mid-2008 are still on track. Recall that AMD and IBM are fab partners at the 45nm node, so all of the recent hubbub around high-k dielectrics will benefit AMD directly. AMD's 65nm Dresden fab is currently transitioning to the new 45nm SOI process, and IBM's two fabs in NY will join it at that node. IBM and AMD will arrive at 45nm a few months behind Intel, with the latter company gearing up to bring its 45nm Penryn products to market later this year.
Speaking of New York and fabs, AMD is wrapping up work on the initial design for its forthcoming Fab 4X in Malta, NY. The fab won't go online until sometime in 2009, and that's assuming that the company breaks ground on it relatively soon. And whether or not AMD starts building will probably depend on how their (currently troubled) financial outlook develops.
A process shrink isn't the only weapon that AMD will use in its fight to regain momentum and marketshare. Barcelona is still headed for a summer release, according to comments that AMD's Randy Allen made to InformationWeek. Allen also insisted that the ramp-up to quad core will happen at a similar pace to the ramp-up to dual core, which would put the company's shipments at a 50/50 dual-core/quad-core mix if they can pull it off. As tech pundits are fond of pointing out, Barcelona has to deliver the goods, and it's possible that it may. But it's going to face off against the 45nm Penryn from Intel, and judging by the preliminary performance numbers that Intel has released, Penryn is no slouch.
This summer's launch will also see the codenames Barcelona (server quad-core) and Agena (desktop quad-core) disappear in favor of a suite of new product name. A rumor cropped up last month on a Polish site, PClab.pl, that AMD would be ditching the venerable Athlon desktop brand name for a new Phenom (pronounced like "venom") mark. Dailytech just got more confirmation of this rumor, along with a product matrix for what AMD will be calling its "Stars" family of processors. There's no word yet on what, if anything, will replace the Opteron mark. For a listing of clockspeeds, socket types, TDPs, brand names, and other data, check out the slide at Dailytech.
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On the campaign trail, Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, the Republican candidate, has recently run into problems trying to explain how he would cut $110 million in state spending by putting a cap of 2 percent on spending across the board — while not putting the state corrections budget, early education, Dr. Dinosaur, the state highway patrol and other 'too-important-to-fail' programs in jeopardy.
When pressed by his Democrat opponent, Sen. Peter Shumlin, to explain the impact of such a proposal Dubie has a ready response: he'd exempt that program and get the savings from the other parts of the budget. One specific example was when Dubie learned that a 2 percent cap on spending would reduce the state corrections budget by almost $35 million, not far from the $42 million Shumlin had proposed — a proposal that drew a slew of negative, fear-mongering campaign ads suggesting that sex-offenders and rapists would be let loose on the streets if Shumlin were to reduce spending by such a draconian amount. When confronted with the affects of the 2 percent cap on corrections, Dubie effectively punted, suggesting that even though the corrections budget is one of the state's largest, he could hold it harmless while getting his savings from other programs — except those that were too vital to diminish.
But if Dubie is balancing the state budget based on plans to cap spending at 2 percent and, let's say 25 percent of state spending is exempted, that puts even greater pressure on the remaining programs.
Voters should contemplate how that would specifically affect education spending. Even if the cap remains at 2 percent (which mathematically could not work and still realize the savings he originally projected), it would significantly undermine efforts to restructure our schools.
First and foremost, the 2 percent cap would be a mandate from the state that restricts school spending — no two ways about it. While Dubie tried to call it a "conversation" recently, he finally admitted it would have to be enforced (or mandated) by the state to work. And that's a direct challenge to local control over a school district's ability to set its own budget. It would be, as Shumlin says, a significant change in the way Vermonters operate their schools and begins to put the state in control of education spending.
The contradiction, of course, is that Dubie also tries to maintain that he is "the local control candidate" and is against having state government have a heavier hand in deciding local issues. On this issue, nothing could be further from the truth.
Nor is it an acceptable answer to the challenges facing the state's educational system.
Significant change within our present school system is needed to meet 21st century needs. We have too many students who don't graduate from high school, too many who don't go on to college and too few who graduate with post-secondary degrees or have the sufficient training to be productive workers in the industries of tomorrow. We need more coordination between the business community and our schools, and we need more leadership from and coordination with UVM and the state college system.
If Dubie is elected and starts that conversation by telling school boards across the state that the first thing they have to do is deal with a state mandate to cap spending at 2 percent, or lower — when inflation for specific items like health insurance, fuel, and labor contracts are all much higher — reform will be tossed aside and a battle will pit one side (teachers, unions, principals, students and their parents) against the other (the administration).
That's not a plan that brings hope to Vermont youth, nor is it a plan that will train Vermont workers to fill the knowledge-based jobs of tomorrow. Rather, it is a plan that continues the destructive political rhetoric of the Douglas administration against school spending for the next several years.
Dubie needs to understand that if he hopes to attract new jobs to the state, he can't continue to wreck the educational foundation that is so fundamental to that goal and to Vermont's future. On this particular score, he fails to make the grade and his policies will keep the state's economy in the same pattern of decline that we've seen for the past eight years.
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The following is an interview on 27/08/2009 with Frank O'Carroll, the Business Development Director of Digicel's South Pacific operations.
Q: This time you started contributing today to East Timor's activities and celebrations and you have contributed to this, and how significant is this contribution?
A: Yeah, we've contributed to the first East Timor bicycle race, the Tour de Timor, and Digicell has committed to funding it to the tune of US$100,000, and then there's been additional costs which we've borne ourselves, in terms of our marketing materials, t-shirts and hats, and then there's been all the branding along the route. There's been a significant contribution by Digicell, but we're fully committed to the market in Timor Leste.
We think the initiative of having the race is fantastic for the country, not just for the people of Timor Leste but for people outside the country how it's been viewed by people outside the country also. It's amazing to talk to some of the cyclists we've met in the last few days, to hear their comments on how beautiful the countryside is, and they will all be ambassadors for Timor Leste when they to home to their home countries and tell people how beautiful the country is, how friendly the people have been, and I'm very, very confident that the Tour de Timor will become a huge event next year, and even bigger in the years ahead.
Q: It seems likely that Digicell is very committed in investing in this country's telecommunication market. Do you have any idea when it's going to start?
A: It is probably difficult to estimate when it will start. Digicell has been visiting Timor Leste for the past three years designing our network, working on our business plan, looking at the existing operator and looking at where the opportunity might be.
We've also spent a lot of time presenting to government ministers, senior figures in government and a number of business people. As you are aware, we've opened out initial office in Dili. We're employing at the moment 12 people from the Dili region who've helped design the network for us and to go through the initial phases of setting up our business.
In terms of when the licence will come, the government has been committed for the last 18 months in terms of looking at the whole process of libereralisation and we are aware that the draft telecoms policy paper has been completed and this is being handled at senior levels within government. The whole process now is that the exclusive concession that was granted to Portugal Telecom or Timor Telekom a number of years ago, that needs to be looked at. The government needs to extract itself from that exclusive concession that was granted to Portugal Telecom, or Timor Telecom, a number of years ago, that needs to be looked at. The government needs to extract itself from that exclusive concession which is certainly damaging the country in terms of development, has damaged the country in terms of telecommunications infrastructure which is very poor and among some of the highest rates in the world and if we look at broadband and internet connectivity for people within their own homes, for small businesses and even for large businesses in the country has been very damaging.
So we hope to see the process in the next six months will have accelerated. We know that there is a huge determination in government to see the process of liberalisation implemented and to see the entry of a new competitor into the telecommunications market.
Digicell would obviously like to be a company selected for a new licence in Timor-Leste; however we know that the government are going to go through a very detailed and transparent process to select the best company who fits best for the country and who give the best proposals for Timor-Leste.
Q: As the President of the Republic has told the public here, after the meeting in Suai, he came out and criticised badly Timor Telekom and it seems as if he's advertising Digicell. It seems as if he wants to see by the end of next year the telecommunications market to be liberalised, and he's hoping that Digicell is committed to invest millions and millions of dollars. For the first year, to have about 80% of the population having access to a phone connection in this country. What would you say to that?
A: I suppose I'm very biased because I've worked with Digicell for a very long time since it started its operations in the Caribbean. I'm wholeheartedly a big believer in Digicell and I've seen firsthand what it has done for developing economies quite similar to Timor-Leste around the world: from our very first operation in Jamaica through to the English-speaking, French-speaking and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, more recently into Central America and then into South America. We came to the Pacific region in 2006, and to date we have existing networks that we own and operate in five markets: in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga and Papua New Guinea. We're about to launch our sixth network in the Pacific region, which is in the Republic of Nauru. So Digicell I wholeheartedly believe is the best fit for a country the size of Timor-Leste in terms of its economic development and in terms of where its telecommunications market is. I know we've received enormous support from the Government and we're very thankful for that, and we've received even bigger support, overwhelming support, from the people of Timor-Leste who quite frankly have been robbed of an affordable and accessible telecommunications service since Timor Telekom were given their exclusive concession.
We've travelled through the region extensively through the past couple of weeks in preparation for the Tour de Timor, and we were inundated talking to people who constantly complain about the fact that they haven't had access to telecommunications – for people who have, how expensive it has been and how unreliable it has been. So we know that because of this feedback we've received from the time that we've been in Timor-Leste and we're constantly receiving this feedback from people right throughout the country. So as a result there is a big commitment to make sure a new entrant is introduced. People who will know Digicell—our philosophy, our culture, and how we've performed in other markets—will know that we're a very good fit for this economy. As I said, we've launched in markets that have had one operator—a monopoly—for years, we've driven prices down, we've increased the range and quality of services. As you mentioned, our commitment is to launch with 80% population coverage on day one, which has been unheard-of in the landscape here so far, and we will guarantee that we will make telecommunications affordable and accessible to the vast majority of people in Timor-Leste within the first two to three years of our operation.
But our commitment is to launch by building a state-of-the-art network to give 80% population coverage and grow it from there. So we're not just interested in cherry-picking the big population centres; we think it's a basic human right that every individual should have access to affordable telecommunications. When you look at our operations in Papua New Guinea, Digicell has been awarded a humanitarian award last November for making telecommunications services available and affordable to people of Papua New Guinea. We've seen how our investment in that country has transformed the economic development of that country, not just in Papua New Guinea, but in every other market in which we've operated as well. We currently operate in 31 markets with over 10 million subscribers; our shareholders have invested US$3.5 billion in Digicell around the world, and we employ in the region of 5000 people. So Digicell is a company that reaches many countries around the world and has a vast experience in its 10 years of experience, and we know we're a very good fit, and we're very confident that the Government know we're a very good fit for this marketplace.
Q: In terms of financial investment, how much are you going to invest here to make these phone connections available for the people?
A: Sure. Our plans at the moment are confidential in terms of the actual size of what the investment will be, for competitive reasons; however, if you imagine to build a network of that size, it would probably cost in the region of US$65 million to US$80 million. That will mean that we will be erecting our own towers, having a very significant staff and management team of Timorese nationals who will work with our company; making sure that they're trained not just for this market, but we will bring people from Timor after we've trained them to other Digicell markets where our company operates, and to make sure they receive world-class training. And we're very confident from our knowledge of our initial staff base that we've taken on board and from our dealings working with people in Timor, that they're loyal, that they're hard-working, that they're trustworthy, and we know that the Timorese people will make a good effort within the Digicell organisation.
Q: What is the reason that you want to invest in this country?
A: This is a good question. I suppose when we examine any market in which there may be an opportunity, we always look to see how many operators—in terms of telecommunications operators there are in the marketplace; their level of penetration in terms of how many people are using the telecommunications services; we would look at the price of the services and the quality of the services in terms of how up-to-date the technology is.
We examined Timor-Leste a number of years ago. Every box that was on our list was ticked as "this is a good opportunity for us". There was a monopoly provider who had no respect from its customer base: even people who were heavy spenders and heavy users of telecommunications services were hugely critical of the company in terms of its poor customer care and its poor range of services in terms of its pricing; when we spoke to the people who didn't have access to telecommunications services they were obviously critical because they weren't given access, and they wanted to have telecommunications.
So the reason we're investing in this country is we feel it's a great opportunity for Timor-Leste, not only to introduce a state-of-the-art and modern telecommunications network, but to totally change and transform people's lifestyles. One of the areas that we've been looking at recently is mobile banking, with the increase of Timorese people who've opened bank accounts and started saving. Not just older people who are in the employment network, but younger people also who've opened bank accounts. And we've talked to banks who are here, particularly ANZ bank, and they've been very successful in encouraging people to open bank accounts, encouraging people to save money, encouraging people to look towards the future. And then we look at this issue of mobile banking and as we've seen in other first-world countries—and we believe that Timor will absolutely leapfrog from where it is today to being one of the leaders in the world in this area—where people will be able to transact using their mobile phone. So for example, people will be able to walk into a shop to buy their bread, buy their milk, buy their water and whatever other goods they need, and not necessarily use cash, not use a credit card or debit card for that transaction, but be able to take currency from their mobile phone and immediately transfer it to the shop owner. This is the very latest
technology,in terms of some of the most developed countries in the world, but we're confident that this is something that the people of Timor-Leste will understand, and we know from some of the initial tests that we've done that people will want this level of technology in the country.
The other area that we look at is in terms of broadband [internet] connectivity, and we look at—unfortunately—so many schools don't have access to the internet and we believe that this is absolutely and utterly unforgivable, that any telecommunications operator worth anything in the world should be looking at education and the development of the economy from the young people forward, so we're determined to provide high-speed access to broadband into schools to make sure that people can learn not just in their local language, but also in a number of other languages.
I was hugely encouraged by the number of languages that people in Timor can speak, and it's incredible to see how quickly people can switch from one language to another. We know that in local languages books haven't been published in local languages for various reasons, and we're very confident that we can have this leapfrog again where we won't have to have hard-copy books printed but that people will be able to use the internet to educate their students. But as I said those are two areas that we're looking at, and both are huge opportunities for the country.
What's more encouraging is that both fit right into the objectives of the government, because the government, as you're aware, has some huge objectives for this country that are hugely ambitious, but we know that they're determined to change the lives of people in Timor-Leste, and we know by our investment working in parallel with the Government's objectives, that this is going to be good for everybody.
We're absolutely delighted to be part of the tenth year anniversary in such a small way but perhaps in an important way by the sponsorship of the first international Tour de Timor bicycle race. Very much it's Digicell's philosophy that we embrace the culture and everything about a culture that we invest in, and it's been an emotional week for everybody, and I know that our staff and people who've been involved with the Tour have worked tirelessly day and night to make sure that it's been an enormous success, to make sure that it's sent out a phenomenal signal to the rest of the world as to what Timor-Leste is all about and how ready it is to become such a leading country in the region. Digicell is absolutely privileged and totally delighted to be associated with the anniversary and we wish everybody in Timor-Leste every success in the future as well.
Q: In terms of the security stability of the country, regarding the violence and warnings that are at times present, it seems that Digicell have another view on this issue.
A: We have absolutely no fear about the security, the wellbeing in the country. We're absolutely confident that it is a very safe place. We know that people in Timor are passionate about the development of the country moving forward. We've never had any incident where any of our staff members have been in a situation that has made them worry. We operate in some other very difficult countries – Haiti, for example, which has had a huge history of serious security issues and more recently in Honduras which you've seen in terms of the coup; Papua New Guinea which in some of the isolated areas is quite a dangerous country at times; but Timor-Leste has been nothing but positive. As I said, perhaps sometimes people's views about the country from the outside—because of lack of information, because of perhaps ignorance of people from other countries—has had a bad image from time-to-time.
But initiatives like the Tour de Timor in terms of how that sends out such a positive signal about the country is fantastic; but in saying that, Digicell has absolutely no problem in relation to security in the country.(ts)
Alkatiri Attacks Again on Corruption
Dili, Tempo Semanal
Former East Timorese pm Marie Alkatiri has said this week that this country is the most corrupt in the world.
Dr Alkatiri's attack, on the eve of the country's August 30 tenth anniversary of independence, was multi-pronged.
Not only did it go to the heart of the current government of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, but it had implications too for a report released this week showing that only a tenth of the international donations received in the last 10 years had gone into the country's economy.
The government had people in power who pocketed money and there needed instead to be transparency, he said.
Most of the rest of the money – or 90 per cent – went towards international salaries, overseas administration and procurement, and imported supplies.
The period covered in the report included four separate governments – that of the presidencies of Serzio Viera de Melo (UNTAET) in 1999-2000, Marie Alkatiri's in 2002-2006 and the 2006-2007 presidencies of Stanislau da Silva and Jose Ramos Horta.
Speaking from his Dili home, Dr Alkatiri said that East Timor had hung on to whatever means it could to the big outside powers, and that Fretilin needed to serve the country with a legal and physical infrastructure.
Dr Alkatiri said that the way in which Gusmao's government had spent almost US$2 billion between 2007 and 2009 was unclear but that the current President had a commitment to sustain the economy through its oil reserves and human resources within a system that needed to be put in place for the country's stabilisation.
The June 2009 quarterly report of the banking and payments authority of Timor-Leste, the Petroleum Fund of Timor-Leste, has shown that the Fund's capital grew from $4,750.08 million to $4,901.52 million.
In an exclusive interview with Tempo Semanal, East Timor's President Dr Jose Ramos-Horta said the country's economy was in growth mode, but there was much to do in the coming years to further consolidate peace in East Timor, improve governance, and fight and prevent corruption.
"There are a lot of allegations about corruption; much of it, is, I think, well founded. There is a real problem of corruption, we cannot deny this, because corruption means we are diverting money away from the people for the benefit of a few individuals,'' Dr Ramos-Horta said.
''I hear story after story of corruption and there is evidence about it so I'm determined, together with the Prime Minister, to stamp out corruption in this country.
''People didn't fight and die for us, later to have a corrupt government and a corrupt system."In marking East Timor's tenth anniversary of its 1999 acceptance of autonomy by referendum from Indonesia's abusive occupation, which started with an invasion in 1975, there is another grim statistic to count: the new independent nation has received an estimated US$3 billion in international assistance, with various United Nations (UN) missions working alongside the government since full independence was attained in 2002.
Dr Alkatiri said that there was a need to create a sense of security in the country's own institutions and to show the people that these can deliver, Dr Alkatiri said.
Money had to be spent, he said, by the United Nations on items such as helicopters.
One of the contraditions at present was that East Timor was too small a country to have many rice fields, and instead brought in rice from overseas.The government was spending much more money than previously, or $US369 million in the four years of 2002-2006.There had to be transparency for the money that had been spent, otherwise people from outside would point their finger at the government.There was still poverty in East Timor while the government, instead of keeping money in the bank, put it instead in a drawer, which he said was a disaster.Dr Alkatiri said that money needed to be spent now on education and health care.
Among the benefits of independence was being able to really plan national development. Better structure and economic soundness would give the country credibility, he said. The problem now was also to manage East Timorese resources as a way of continuing into a better future.(ts)


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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Brandeis University women's basketball team went cold midway through the first half and were unable to regroup as the Judges fell, 58-50, in a University Athletic Association (UAA) contest at Carnegie Mellon University tonight. Brandeis drops to 8-13 overall, 2-8 in the UAA, while the Tartans improve to 12-9, 4-6 UAA.
Trailing 14-9 less than seven minutes into the game, the Judges went on a tear, scoring 12 of the next 14 points. Junior guard Kasey Dean (Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug) had a 3-pointer to start the run, and she also capped it with a fast-break lay-up at the 9:45 mark. That hoop gave the Judges a 21-16 lead, their largest of the game. Unfortunately, the visitors made just two field goals for the rest of the half, as CMU outscored them, 15-5, the rest of the way to take a 31-26 lead into the locker room. Eight of the points came from the Tartans' Emily Peel in the run.
Brandeis's fortunes did not change in the first 10 minutes of the second half, as they went without a field goal for the first 7:32, falling behind by 14 points at 41-27 with 12:50 on the clock. Carnegie Mellon forced eight turnovers in that span, while four different players hit buckets as the hosts pulled away. The Judges got within seven points with eight minute remaining on a pair of Erika Higginbottom (Millbury, Mass./Worcester Acad.) free throws, but they wouldn't get any closer than that.
For the game, Brandeis was led by Higginbottom, who finished with 12 points. She hit 4-of-6 from the field and from the line. She also tied for team-high honors with three assists. Sophomore guard Hannah Cain (Gloucester, Mass./Gloucester) also reached double figures, scoring nine of her 11 points in the second half. Dean added nine points, while junior guard Janelle Rodriguez (Peabody, Mass./Peabody Veterans) had eight. Rodriguez tied with senior center Samantha Anderson (Johnsonville, N.Y./Hoosic Valley) for game-high honors with nine rebounds, while Dean matched Higginbottom's three assists.
CMU was paced by Peel's 21 points – 17 coming in the first half – and nine rebounds, while Liza Otto added 14 points, eight caroms and a game-high four assists. The Tartans owned a slight rebounding advantage, 41-39, but they outscored the Judges 30-12 in the paint. They also converted 23 Brandeis turnovers into 24 points, while surrendering just 10 points on their own 15 miscues.
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Bruce Willis' daughter Rumer has defended her dad from critics who have blasted him for appearing awkward in interviews, revealing he probably can't hear the questions properly.
She insists the "Die Hard" star doesn't go out of his way to be less than talkative when promoting movies, but a hearing loss issue means he is always struggling to make out what is being said by interviewers.
Rumer, who is Willis' eldest daughter with ex-wife Demi Moore, explains, "I think part of the problem is sometimes he can't hear … because he shot a gun off next to his ear when he was doing 'Die Hard' a long time ago, so he has partial hearing loss in his ears.
"If me and my sisters get together and he's at a dinner table and we start talking about fashion and things, the poor guy. …"
Willis' daughter also feels her dad has a reputation as an edgy, cool guy to keep up: "I think he just has this vibe where he feels like he's gotta kinda do a cool man (thing)."


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Today's recreational vehicles have all the latest conveniences you'd expect to have in your home.
That wasn't always the case, but a local man is making his mark by reclaiming old RV's and making them modern.
Tim Heintz got into RV restoration for fun.
He's since turned it into a business that's gaining national attention.
Heintz is one of only a handful of people in the u-s who fully restores vintage recreational vehicles.
¶ "It's just a crazy addiction I have. It's a bad hobby to get into because you can't stop at just one. I have 9 trailers in my collection alone," he said.
12-years ago, Heintz decided to turn his hobby into business.
As the CEO of "Heintz Designs Vintage Trailer Restorations" in Panama City, he's restored dozens of RV's.
He has 5 projects underway right now and he could be getting busier.
Heintz has caught the eye of travel channel's series "extreme r-v's."
producers recently taped an entire episode in his shop, showing the restoration of a very rare 19-57 air-float.
the owner flat-bedded it, along with 3-other RV's.
"He bought four of them. Three of them 30 foot and one of them 35 foot and had them all flat bedded from Los Angeles, California where they were at in a junkyard."
Tim and his team picked the best one, the '57 air-float, then used the other 3-for spare parts.
Heintz said, "So he has a truly vintage looking trailer with all the modern conveniences you would have in a brand new rv. 24,000 BTU's worth of air conditioning and heating that's hidden inside of them because they really didn't have air conditioning back then. There's also a very rare Philco refrigerator in there, that's a double hinged door that opens both ways. That's a pretty rare feature to have in itself. There's also a tankless hot water heater and satellite dishes and things that are not even visible to the typical person."
The 1957 air-float is long gone, but Heintz and his crew have plenty to keep them busy.
After more than a decade in the industry, Heintz says the best part of his job is seeing the look on his client's face.
"To see them when they first see it and they are a little bit apprehensive, because you know there's rotting in them and there's floors gone in them there are falling apart and then when they come to pick them up they look like they did when they were brand new. So it's very joyful to me to see them when they first pick it up,"he said.
Heintz's episode of "Extreme RV's" airs October 1st at 8:00 central on the Travel Channel.
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Best winger we have at the club.
Koeman begs to differ.
Him, Besic and Joel are the last remnants of the failed Martinez project who I will be glad to see the back now Walshy's got his fingers on Mosh's fat cheque book
*Mori*Don't mind Besic at all given how cheap he was.
Based on what exactly. Does nothing defensively, creates almost nothing, scores hardly ever. Based on what is he remotely useful never mind the best winger at the club
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Eric Tillman has always sold himself as the accessible general manager. Long before he came to Edmonton — in his Grey Cup-winning stops in B.C., Toronto and Saskatchewan — he wanted to be the media's darling; the go-to for information around the Canadian Football League and most important, with the team he was building at any point in the two decades he's been a GM in the league.
In his time in Edmonton, Tillman's openness with the media — this paper included — began to irk Tillman's coworkers. A competitive edge was sometimes sacrificed, whether in an upcoming game or in contract negotiations. His eagerness to deliver (read "craft") the message — in the 2012 season in particular — proved to be a distraction to a team that was trying to create an identity in the post-Ricky Ray era.
As big as the Ray trade was — it became the storyline of the Eskimos' season the day it was made on Dec. 12, 2011 — it could have faded away, had Tillman allowed it to.
After a Week 2 17-1 loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders that had the Eskimos exposed at the quarterback position, Tillman went on 630 CHED and said that on an emotional level, he regretted trading Ray. He was back on the air a few days later to clarify the statement and emphasize that he stood by then-starter and key component of the trade, Steven Jyles.
That didn't save Jyles from having to face a scrum of reporters asking him how he felt hearing that his GM had said he regretted trading for him. It also meant head coach Kavis Reed had to revisit the same questions that he'd faced every day through training camp.
There were smaller matters that ate away at Tillman's standing within the organization. Earlier this season, he heard a comment on the radio that compared Reed to the Professor on Gilligan's Island: something along the lines that Reed was a good coach who could take two coconuts and turn them into a radio.
As the man who supplied the coconuts to the Professor in that analogy, Tillman took exception to the comment and tore a strip off of the radio station for allowing the comment to be made. Meanwhile, the Eskimos lost that week in Winnipeg on a late Jyles fumble.
Tillman travelled to watch his team only once this season, going to Toronto on Aug. 27, where his Eskimos beat Ray for the second time. Tillman lingered outside the Eskimos locker-room after Kerry Joseph led the team to a win (Jyles left the game with a hurt knee). When neither the Edmonton nor Toronto media interviewed him that night, Tillman vented his frustrations to his employees, who were attempting to assess their quarterback future.
Jyles started just one more game in 2012, before Joseph, 39, assumed starting duties. Matt Nichols, the only under-30 quarterback on the roster, didn't come into the picture until both Jyles and Joseph were injured.
After Nichols showed promise but some rough edges in that Sept. 28 loss, Tillman implored this reporter in a lengthy phone conversation that night to write a story that called for a return of a Jyles-Joseph quarterback combination the rest of the season. He couldn't deliver that message because of the optics. A media member could.
Mired in a five-game losing streak just over a month ago, Reed expressed frustration over team information being leaked to TSN.
Reed grumbled about the TV network finding out that he had assumed offensive co-ordinator duties earlier that week. Next, they found out that linebacker J.C. Sherritt was injured. Tillman denied that he supplied the info, but his reputation for sharing made many assume he was the source.
"I'm going to start asking the guys out east what's going on with our football team," Reed said on Oct. 1.
On Oct. 17, Tillman ruffled feathers in the organization when he shared with a local paper a list of quarterbacks that the team had on its negotiation list. Eskimos employees were angered that the information was made public, claiming that it put the team at a competitive disadvantage. Tillman had got permission from the league to share the names on the list, but the gesture drove a wedge between him and his employees.
Rhodes was aware of that wedge and on Oct. 25 he went to the Eskimos board of directors and told them he wanted to fire their general manager.
"I went to the board, told them of my decision and on that same day I had their full support," Rhodes said at Saturday's news conference.
There was certainly dysfunction between Tillman and his staff, who felt that while they tried to work with the pieces they had in front of them, they had to work against Tillman and his mission to justify the Ray trade.
It was also suggested at the conference that Reed had done elements of Tillman's job over the past two seasons. Rhodes didn't deny that.
"(Reed has) done more than we asked him to do," he said.
Tillman's distractions are gone, but this week promises to be hellish for the Eskimos. The organization is in flux, with 13 key players and nine defensive starters set for free agency this winter. The turmoil could still run past Tillman's often empty office. Just this year, public relations man Dave Jamieson, community relations rep Brad Morgan and football operations manager Ryan Wagner have quit their jobs. Most recently, vice-president marketing and management, Duane Vienneau, quit this past week.
Almost lost in this firestorm of drama is Sunday's playoff game. Rhodes has fired his GM and will send his team into the biggest media market in the country, which will no doubt be salivating over the juiciest story the league has seen since Tillman dealt Ray to Toronto.
All the while, Ray is in his still new home in Mississauga, focused and waiting.


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Entering Week 6 against the New York Giants, Alex Smith was the No. 1-rated passer in the NFL.
Things have changed in a hurry following back-to-back subpar outings by the San Francisco 49ers' quarterback. The Niners had a much more conservative game plan in Thursday night's 13-6 win over the Seattle Seahawks. How much did that have to do with their trust in Smith?
Niners coach Jim Harbaugh said Smith was "fantastic" all night, which is about as accurate as saying the team had no interest in Peyton Manning last offseason. Offensive coordinator Greg Roman said Smith's health -- he's still dealing with the effects of a sprained finger -- played a part in the less-aggressive attack.
Smith occassionally is spelled by rookie backup Colin Kaepernick, who is used as a change-of-pace runner. Yahoo! Sports columnist Michael Silver asked Smith if periodic jogs to the sideline can hurt his play.
"I'll say this: It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long," Smith said. "In hindsight, it's easy to say (it's a mistake). But it's also been very effective for us at times."
Silver drew special attention to a fourth-quarter draw call deep in Seahawks territory. Smith threw an ugly red-zone interception earlier in the half, and the 49ers made sure that wouldn't happen again. Smith was stopped short of the first down, and the 49ers kicked a field goal to push their lead to seven.
"Sometimes it's like that," tight end Vernon Davis (zero catches) said of the call. "Of course everybody wants to make their mark and help the team win. We'll take what we can get."
Wide receiver Michael Crabtree shook his head when asked about the draw, according to Silver.
"I don't want to talk about it, bro," he said. "Cause I know if I say something....We won -- you know what I mean? I can't say anything, because we won."
The 49ers lead the NFC West after beating a very good Seahawks team. But that doesn't mean all is well.
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