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Every month, our back page features a company for sale. Here's how each business has fared
When it comes to buying and selling companies, there's a huge difference between the public and private marketplaces.
Just take a look at the U.S. economy during the past year and a half. The stock market charged into a heady, uncharted 8,000-plus terrain. Mergers-and-acquisitions activities raced along at a record annual level of $495 billion. Venture-capital investments proceeded at a breathtaking pace of $10 billion to $12 billion; initial public offerings raised $65 billion, another record.
The conclusion is inevitable: during a period like this one, in which investors were flush, bankers were willing, and boom was spelled M&A, it surely must have been the best of all worlds for those private-business owners who were ready to cash out of their companies.
Here's the shocker: all those record-setting economic trends, all those potential buyers with cash to burn, all those consolidating companies with national and international growth on their minds--they had little if any impact on the prospects of small companies with for-sale signs hanging on their doors.
Recent conversations with the owners and business brokers of the 14 companies featured in Inc.'s Business for Sale column during the gold-rush period from April 1996 through May 1997 revealed that only 3 had sold, although a couple more seemed, knock on wood, close to deals at press time. None of those sales was tied to an industry consolidation or a corporate expansion, although big companies did come window-shopping in a few instances. None of the 14 businesses had explored the prospect of going public or attracting venture-capital investors as an alternative to selling out.
Meanwhile, a few of the businesses were pulled off the market when their owners concluded that they'd be better off continuing to run their companies rather than selling at too-low prices.
The apparently dysfunctional marketplace doesn't surprise Jim Goonan, director of corporate finance and due diligence at accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton, based in New York City. "In times like these, investors have very high expectations about what they should be able to earn on their money, which translates into a desire to negotiate for lower prices if they're thinking about purchasing a company," he says.
Meanwhile, he explains, "sellers who read about the high prices that some companies earn by going public or selling out to consolidating corporations tend to overestimate the value of their own companies because they also expect higher returns in this economic climate." Goonan concludes, "That means that economic conditions like these push buyers and sellers in very different directions. That actually makes it harder to do deals, even though there's more money available, at least in theory, to finance them."
What do the experiences of our 14 companies say about the larger marketplace? Our perspective, of course, is slightly askew: their annual revenues ranged from $141,000 to $4.8 million, clearly on the small side of the for-sale market. Still, it may be that if and when many small companies do sell, the reason is not the state of the economy but the companies' success in managing to track down a buyer who's a lot like the seller, with the same goals and interests but just a little more money to invest and a few more years to go until retirement.
"Very little has changed for small companies, regardless of all those economic records you read about in the newspapers," stresses Bill Wetzel, director emeritus of the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research. "The reality is, those companies cannot--and never could--attract venture capital or angel investors, because they're much too small and they don't have the kind of extraordinary growth potential those investors are seeking. They could never carry out an IPO. So their sales prospects just haven't changed."
He adds, "Small companies are selling into a totally different marketplace from the record-setting one we read about in newspapers. The small-company marketplace consists of people who aren't necessarily looking for multimillion-dollar profits or massive capital gains. They want the lifestyle of a small-business owner and a nice salary, maybe with the potential for a comfortable, additional profit."
The only real expansion within that segment of the marketplace comes from downsized executives from large corporations, who might be shopping for a small business with their severance packages. But they're scarcely the kind of buyers who might go hog-wild with an offer: their own purchases are limited by the extent of their savings and their ability to get bank financing, always a tricky proposition for small-business owners.
There were clearly some companies--mostly big ones--that benefited from the United States' boom environment. "The two major trends driving many of those deals were industry consolidation and deregulation," explains Scott Adelson, managing director of investment-banking firm Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, in Los Angeles.
According to Adelson's division, Mergerstat, which tracks mergers and acquisitions, the hot industries that benefited from those two trends during the first quarter of 1997 included banking and finance; brokerage, investment, and management consulting; and utilities. The average size of the deals? A whopping $216 million, compared with $131 million a year earlier. With that kind of deal profile, it's no surprise that our 14 companies--successful as many of them were--failed to appear on many buyers' radar screens.
One reason, notes Goonan, is that "there's not much difference between the due-diligence investigation that buyers need to perform with a big company and that required with a small one, and often the cash flow and growth potential tend to be better with bigger companies." Very small companies also suffer from buyers' anxieties that their success may be tied to the involvement of the founder, and big companies often benefit from the availability of more information about them within the marketplace, which helps ease buyers' anxieties. All that translates into a pattern of higher selling-price multiples (selling price compared with earnings, valuations, or some other benchmarks) for bigger companies.
But in the past few years, size hasn't been the only factor determining a company's potential to be sold. Recently, the economy clearly crowned some beauty queens among selling companies. Those included businesses in consolidating industries, which, even if they were very small companies, did tend to attract suitors. Also popular were those perennial favorites of venture capitalists and angel investors: companies in sexy, high-growth industries such as new media, biotechnology, high tech in all its permutations, health care, and a handful of other fields. (For a look at the toughest kinds of companies to sell, see "The Brokers' Dog List," below.)
Still, there are important lessons to be learned from the sales successes and failures of the 14 businesses for sale we recently surveyed. Here are some of the most compelling:
Your customers might like to buy your company.
The Illinois retailer of flameproof underwear and other race-car safety equipment (featured in May 1996) had recast earnings of only $81,000 on sales of just over $400,000. Its sales tag of $200,000 plus $30,000 for inventory struck valuation experts as way too pricey; the business, they said, couldn't generate sufficient profit for a new owner to pay that much.
But miracles really do happen. After sales efforts stalled, the company's owner fired his business broker and took matters into his own hands. "I think I wasted my time with the broker, because he had much bigger fish to fry than a $200,000 sale," he says. "What I finally decided to do was go through my warm circle of friends and customers. That's when it all fell into place for me."
His own feelers uncovered several likely leads. The one that panned out was a deal that closed this past April. Here's the fine print: he sold the company for just 5% less than his original asking price. (One unspoken rule about valuations: Forget about all those appraisal guidelines. If somebody really wants your company, then it's as valuable as he or she thinks it is.) The seller scarcely noticed the small cut he took in price, since he had saved $20,000 in broker's commissions by handling the deal himself.
"The sale couldn't have been simpler, since these folks were my friends and longtime customers," he emphasizes. His buyer was nothing short of perfect: a retired chief executive with a lifelong love of race cars, who was able to buy the business under the best of all terms--with cash.
You can't be too aggressive about publicizing your desire to sell.
Take the Hawaiian kayaking company (September 1996) with sales of just under $270,000 and a price tag of $169,000. When the owner and his business broker decided to send their sales package to Inc. in the hope of prompting an article, it was a long shot. But they realized a simple truth: the more buzz you can generate about your company, the better your chances of a sale.
By the second week in October, the company had a deal in place for a $160,000 sale to a couple who had read the Business for Sale column on an airplane flight between Portland, Oreg., and their home in Salt Lake City.
"It was almost unbelievable," recalls the wife. "We had made up our minds that we wanted to leave our corporate jobs and change our lifestyle. Then I read the article and asked my husband, 'Isn't that the company we went kayaking with during our last visit to Maui?' " (Remember lesson number one? It always pays to consider your customers--even the ones who seem slightly far afield.) Turns out that the husband's father lived in Maui, and the couple had been fantasizing about relocating there for years.
They called the broker the next day, and he could tell just how interested they were. "They asked all the right questions and made plans almost immediately to fly in and check everything out in person. That was a pretty good sign that they meant it," he says. As often happens in deals a broker is involved in, the owner deferred to the broker on financial matters and fielded the rest of the questions himself. The owner also took the prospective buyers along on various kayaking trips, to explore the mechanics of the business and, of course, keep their interest whetted.
Written offers flew back and forth by fax during a 10-day period, with the sale eventually closing at 5% less than the asking price--but for better-than-expected terms. "I'd been willing to finance $90,000 for five years, but these buyers were able to offer me much better terms than I'd hoped for," says the seller. After considering tentative offers from a few other buyers, he accepted this one, since it gave him more cash more quickly.
The deal closed like this: with $100,000 down and the rest to be paid in two equal balloon payments at the end of the first and second years after the sale. Best of all, the seller can bank on those upcoming payments: his company's buyers have strong business backgrounds and have already boosted sales by 30% by tapping into the group-excursion market.
The seller voices only one regret: his buyers insisted on involving their attorney, which, naturally, required him to do the same. "The lawyers didn't bring anything to the deal and wound up costing me an extra $5,000 and slowing down the eventual closing date by one month," he says. "That was too bad."
You've got to protect yourself and your company at all times.
Kayaking companies aside, lawyers really can't hurt a business sale, and in those truly awful cases in which deals spiral out of control, they may provide the only protection sellers can count on. If you're wondering just how bad things can get, consider the sad case of the Northeast bagel-bakery chain (October 1996), on the market for $2.5 million.
If there was any company in this group of 14 businesses on the block that had sales prospects worth betting on, this was the one. After all, the bagel business has been hotter than, well, toast, with five national chains carrying out aggressive expansions, including regional acquisitions. With multiple outlets in a handful of desirable college towns and a hefty $2.8 million in sales, the chain looked like a smart buy in a consolidating industry.
But you can't bet on anything in this marketplace. The owners negotiated a deal that looked just right: the bidder--a small entrepreneur with financing in place, a second-in-command with expertise in the bagel business, and a willingness to pay top dollar--signed a contract and indicated his readiness to close the deal quickly.
"The day came when we were ready to close at 2 p.m.," recalls one of the two founding partners, "so we called a meeting early that morning for our senior people. That's when we notified them that we were selling the company and talked to them about what we expected to happen next."
But the sellers couldn't have predicted the outcome of even the next 12 hours. "We were 99% there, and then this guy called us up and pulled out of the deal," says the partner. He describes what happened next: "It was unbelievable. Here we thought we had a contract that guaranteed the sale, but it turns out the contract was written completely to protect the buyer's interests." (No wonder. His lawyer had drawn the contract up.) "The buyer was able to pull out for any reason at all, at any time before the close, with absolutely no penalty."
Months later, this would-be seller takes a deep breath and then says: "We never even knew why he pulled out. He didn't have to tell us. But the damage he did was unbelievable."
The owners had to perform damage control to hold on to their senior staff. They needed to go back to square one and try to recontact once-interested investors. Not surprisingly, perhaps, they lowered their sales price to its current level of $1.6 million. But so far, nothing's happened. "We keep telling ourselves, it's not over till it's over. But we learned the hard way that you need a contract with many more legal protections and penalties in place. We were too lenient because the deal looked gilt-edged," the owner admits.
How can a good company fail to sell in a consolidating market? "It happens all the time," says Goonan of Grant Thornton. "In theory, the market forces are right, but anything can disrupt a particular company's chances. Maybe the seller wasn't flexible enough. Maybe the timing was slightly wrong. The thing to remember is, consolidating markets are made up of lots of small companies. Maybe yours won't sell because somebody else's in the neighborhood does."
Don't delude yourself--or potential buyers--about your company's weaknesses.
The seller of the Georgia tennis club (July 1996) knew that. "I wasn't a tennis instructor, and I knew that I had never managed to realize the business's potential, because I always had to hire other people to give lessons," he says. "When I talked to possible buyers, I emphasized that I was just selling the real estate--that I wasn't trying to put a value on the business--and in fact that I was selling it for less than its appraised value because I knew that a new buyer would be taking a gamble."
That direct approach gave him a lot of credibility in the marketplace, credibility that his company alone probably wouldn't have possessed. (In fact, this was one of the businesses on the block whose selling prospects we might have bet against ourselves.) The bottom line: the owner closed a sale in late May for $325,000--a price less than 6% lower than his asking price of $345,000.
Best of all, he handled the sale himself from beginning to end. "I saved at least $35,000 in broker's commissions, which was great," he notes, "and I sold to a guy that I knew, who had been running a public court in Atlanta." He adds, "During the months when the club was on the market, I got inquiries from people from all over the country, but I knew in my heart that the right buyer would be somebody who lived here, who understood just how incredibly strong the tennis market is in this area. That person would recognize what kind of potential this club would have if it were owned by a real tennis person who could give lessons and not have to give all that money away."
The good news is, he's sold the club and moved on to a business--real estate investment--he feels much better suited for. But getting the deal done required real flexibility. The seller had originally planned to offer $87,000 in financing to the new owner; during the two months in which negotiations took place, he expanded that to $100,000. He has no regrets. "That was the only way to make it all happen," he says.
Recognize when the time has come to work on plan B.
A pawnshop and a cinnamon-bun bakery may not have much in common with each other, but the owners of each of these profitable businesses came to the same conclusion during the past year: as of now, they're the best owners they can find for their companies.
"I guess the problem is, there really aren't too many entrepreneurial types willing to take the time to teach themselves about the pawnbroking business," speculates the owner of the $890,000 pawnshop (April 1996). "I was really shocked that people didn't recognize this company's value." So were we. Thanks to Nevada's strict control over pawnshop licenses, the company possessed a market monopoly until the year 2026. Profit margins were also 25% and rising.
Without an acceptable offer in sight, the owner decided to merge the pawnshop with another, larger one he owned elsewhere. That accomplished his most important goal: freeing up his own schedule for more time with his family. "By consolidating both operations, I was able to combine managements into one single operation. We were also able to hold on to some valuable tax-loss carryforwards from the newer operation. In all," he says, "I have absolutely no complaints, because this really is a very profitable business."
The owner of the cinnamon-bun empire--actually, a bakery and restaurant based in a New Mexico ski region (August 1996)--also has no regrets about pulling his company off the market. Considering the strength of his business's reputation--his restaurant actually appears on local postcards--he feels he had nothing to gain from accepting any of the three "terrible" offers he received.
"I thought about one seriously because the price was pretty good, but in the end, the terms were just so awful," he recalls. "The buyer wanted to give me very little down and tie it all to these huge balloon payments. By the time I got through with the paperwork costs, I'd be in the hole. Then I had to ask myself, What if they couldn't make the balloon payments, ran the business into the ground, and ended up returning it to me in terrible shape?" Negotiations dragged on for nearly six months because the buyer seemed appealing in certain ways, including his "pretty heavy business background." But by the end, the owner reports, "I was sick of talking to him. If he had really been serious, we would have gotten closer to each other's positions."
Fortunately for this owner, two of his adult children had decided by that point that they wanted to get more involved with the business. "That was great because the main reason I wanted to sell was because of my arthritis--I just didn't want to keep working as hard as I was," he says. "The company itself is very profitable, and it's all for the best that I didn't sell if my kids want to be involved."
Jill Andresky Fraser is Inc.'s finance editor. Cheryl McManus provided research assistance for this article.
| COMPANY: Florida Taxi Company
FEATURED IN: May 1997
# OF INQUIRIES: More than 60
RESULT: Serious interest, including some from other cab companies
COMPANY: Midwest Amusement Park
COMPANY: Coastal North Carolina Blueberry Farm
| COMPANY: Chain of Cosmetology Schools
FEATURED IN: February 1997
RESULT: About 10 serious potential buyers; negotiations stalled while waiting for owner's (recently filed) tax return
COMPANY: Minichain of Cinemas
COMPANY: Northeast Bagel-Bakery Chain
| The Brokers' Dog List
In a marketplace in which small businesses often have a tough time finding buyers, some kinds of companies are the most difficult to sell. Here's a short list that you won't want to find your company on:
|Personal service
|Sales may be too reliant on owner's involvement
|Involvement of third party complicates matters
|Sales--and value of company--are contract-driven and may seem unpredictable
|Any company whose asset value is too high for its cash flow
|Financing costs in top-heavy asset deals (involving real estate or other pricey assets) look too great to be met by cash-flow prospects
| And the Rest?
Here's how the remaining eight companies featured in our Business for Sale column from April 1996 through May 1997 have fared
COMPANY: Nevada Pawnshop
COMPANY: Illinois Race-Car Safety-Equipment Retailer
COMPANY: Arizona Golf-Club Manufacturer
COMPANY: Georgia Tennis Club
| COMPANY: Bakery and Restaurant in New Mexico Ski Region
FEATURED IN: August 1996
ASKING PRICE: $2.4 million
RESULT: Pulled off market; owner's children decided to get involved
COMPANY: Hawaiian Kayaking Company
COMPANY: Regional Collection Agency
COMPANY: Rocky Mountain Video Distributor
Selling or buying a private company is hard to do. So don't rely simply on whatever your emotions (or business brokers) tell you. Here are three top-notch books that can quickly boost your expertise:
- How to Buy a Business: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, by Richard A. Joseph, Anna M. Nekoranec, and Carl H. Steffens (Dearborn Trade, 800-245-2665, 1993, $19.95), offers a shrewd look at key considerations to keep in mind when purchasing a small business. (Among them: the benefits of broadening your search beyond your fantasies.) It also details how to find and evaluate prospective acquisition candidates. Would-be buyers should find the long chapter on financing the acquisition especially helpful. Don't make an offer without it.
- The Buying and Selling a Company Handbook (Price Waterhouse, 1995, $3) can't be beaten when it comes to explaining the tax and other financial considerations relating to company sales and purchases. True, it's technical and can get so complicated it's off-putting. But if you spend some time working your way through it, your chances of success will inevitably improve. Isn't that worth a migraine? For a copy, call the communications department of your local Price Waterhouse, or call 212-819-5000 and ask for the marketing department. Or write to Douglas Calvin, Price Waterhouse, Middle-Market and Growing Cos. Group, 1251 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10124.
- How to Sell Your Business for More Money in Less Time with Fewer Problems, by C.D. Peterson (McGraw-Hill, 1990), is out of print, but it's worth trying to find it at your local library. What Peterson lacks in style, he more than compensates for by quickly and clearly answering an enormous range of questions a prospective seller might ask. Among the most useful chapters is one that addresses an all-too-typical quandary: "I did everything within legal bounds to keep my reported earnings--and therefore my taxes--as low as possible. How can I show buyers what my business is really worth when my books show such low earnings?" If the work sheets and sections describing the intricacies of business-valuation methods seem too complex, skip them and focus on meatier matters.
If you'd like to read the original Business for Sale columns covered in this story, they appear in the magazine, April 1996 through May 1997. You can also find the stories in our on-line archives; type Business for Sale for keyword search and select Sort by date.
HOULIHAN LOKEY HOWARD & ZUKIN, Scott Adelson, 1930 Century Park West, Los Angeles, CA 90067-6802; 800-455-8871 76


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2002 in film: Success from old stars and old styles
It wasn't the best of years at the movies, but some of the best moments came from stars of long standing doing some of their best work, and younger directors emulating the old pros.
Top Ten:
1. Road to Perdition - What you'd get if Steven Spielberg directed The Godfather.
2. Chicago - The best screen musical since Cabaret.
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien - A Mexican take on the Hollywood teen movie, with unexpected substance.
4. About a Boy - Hugh Grant will never have a better role than the immature hero of Nick Hornby's (High Fidelity) novel.
5. Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes' updating of a 1950s melodrama looks like the real thing, but with issues that were verboten then.
6. Insomnia - The director of last year's best movie (Memento) goes Hollywood without losing his edge.
7. About Schmidt - You don't know Jack until you see him in the year's saddest comedy– or funniest drama.
8. Tadpole - The only picture I saw three times this year, and I'm still not sure why I liked it so much. I guess it's just so romantic.
9. The Quiet American - Graham Greene's thriller combines romance and a great Michael Caine performance with a history lesson about Vietnam.
10. 25th Hour - Who'da thunk Spike Lee would do some of his best work on a movie about white people?!!!
Honorable Mention (listed alphabetically):
Catch Me If You Can
Changing Lanes
8 Women
Minority Report
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Roger Dodger
Scotland, PA.
The Sum of All Fears
Talk to Her
Best Director: Sam Mendes, Road to Perdition
Runners-up: Pedro Almodovar, Talk to Her; Alexander Payne, About Schmidt
Steven Soderbergh Award for Directing a Double-Header: Steven Spielberg, Catch Me If You Can & Minority Report
Runner-up: Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American & Rabbit-Proof Fence
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven & The Hours
Runners-up: Diane Lane, Unfaithful; Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Best Actor: Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt
Runners-up: Al Pacino, Insomnia & S1m0ne; Robin Williams, One Hour Photo
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer, White Oleander
Runners-up: Bebe Neuwirth, Tadpole; Rachel Griffiths, The Rookie
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Newman, Road to Perdition
Runners-up: Chris Cooper, Adaptation; Ed Harris, The Hours
Best Original Screenplay: Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven
Runners-up: Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkin, Changing Lanes; Dylan Kidd, Roger Dodger
Best Adapted Screenplay: David Hare, The Hours
Runners-up: Peter Hedges and Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, About a Boy; David Self, Road to Perdition
Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition
Runners-up: Edward Lachman, Far from Heaven; Christopher Doyle, The Quiet American & Rabbit-Proof Fence
Best Foreign-Language Film: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Runners-up: 8 Women; Talk to Her
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine
Runners-up: Standing in the Shadows of Motown; The Cockettes
Best Almost-Released Film: Bark!
Runner-up: Slap Her, She's French!
Best Influence: Douglas Sirk
Best Original Song: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem, 8 Mile
Runners-up: "I'm Still Here" (Jim's Theme) by John Rzeznik, Treasure Planet; "The Hands that Built America" by U2, Gangs of New York
Best Original Score: Elmer Bernstein, Far from Heaven
Runners-up: Terence Blanchard, 25th Hour; Peter Gabriel, Rabbit-Proof Fence
Most Promising Newcomer - Female: Alison Lohman, White Oleander
Runner-up: Ellen Pompeo, Moonlight Mile
Most Promising Newcomer - Male: Ryan Gosling, The Believer & Murder by Numbers
Runner-up: Derek Luke, Antwone Fisher
Love It or Hate It Movie of the Year: Gangs of New York (I hated it)
Oh, that Jennifer Aniston Award: Jennifer Aniston, The Good Girl
Jar Jar Binks Award for Nails on the Chalkboard of an Otherwise Sublime Experience: Gollum, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Runners-up: Jude Law, Road to Perdition; Jar Jar Binks, Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
Instant Message Award: Crossroads, for teaching young women not to accept a ride home from a party with a strange man because they may get raped, but it's all right to ride across the country with a strange man because that's how you find true love
Runner-up: The Four Feathers, for teaching that men don't fight wars for patriotic or economic reasons, but for the comrades at their side. So why not stay home and enjoy each other's company?
Disengage Spel-Chek: S1m0ne
Sigmund Freud "There Are No Coincidences" Award: Rabbit-Proof Fence and Evelyn, two year-end releases by Australian directors about efforts to reunite families in which children have been taken away by the state
Runner-up: Suicide (What Everyone Wants for the Holidays!) featured at year-end in The Hours, Love Liza, Morvern Callar, and alleged in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
I Haven't Tried that Yet Award: Secretary
Runner-up: The Piano Teacher
Most Overexposed: Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love, Mr. Deeds, Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights, and The Hot Chick
Are My 15 Minutes Up Yet? Award: Madonna, Swept Away and Die Another Day
Runner-up: Guy "Mr. Madonna" Ritchie, Swept Away
Oh, I Thought Your Career Was Dead Award: Al Pacino, with his best work in a decade in Insomnia and S1m0ne
Runners-up: Robin Williams, One Hour Photo & Insomnia; Dennis Quaid, The Rookie & Far from Heaven
Alive and Well and Living in Paris Award: The suddenly ubiquitous Charles Aznavour, acting in Ararat and used musically as a symbol of romance in Tadpole and The Truth about Charlie
Unexpected Moments in Children's Animation Award: The love story between Ash and Sam in Pokemon 4ever
Runner-up: The gratuitous violence of Lilo punching another girl in the face in Lilo & Stitch
Are You Lonesome Tonight? Award: Ralph Fiennes as a Republican environmentalist in Maid in Manhattan
Bottom Ten:
1. Femme Fatale
2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
3. Deuces Wild
4. Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever
5. National Lampoon's Van Wilder
6. Slackers
7. Stealing Harvard
8. Austin Powers in Goldmember
9. John Q
10. [reserved for Swept Away]
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Cat's Meow
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Gangs of New York
I Spy
The Mystic Masseur
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SunXia wrote:I agree with this, the treatment of these women is horrific and downright disgusting and honestly, more needs to be done to protect them. Those stories and stories like it sadden me greatly that people would treat others like this. Only in August, Eastern European girls were rescued from trafficking.
While I agree Human Trafficking is wrong and exploitation is wrong, I don't know how anyone could consider it right, I still don't think the entirety of prostitution should be made illegal. Here it is illegal to pay for sex from someone who is being forced into it and other forms of pimping and such.
However, I have also heard of people and know people who have had pleasant experiences with prostitutes who are not existing like the dreary brothels uncovered by the police in August...
And more needs to be done to combat this, to protect the basic Human Rights of the people who are victims of Exploitation and Human Trafficking. That is definitely a problem that needs tackled of course.
Here's the thing. When it comes to practical policies, we are presented with a choice. We can have the libertarian German-Dutch model and all the problems that come with it (which includes, in every empirical instance, increases in human trafficking and abuse of women), or we can have the Nordic model which gets rid of a lot of those problems, by criminalising the buying of sex without criminalising prostitutes. I'm of the view that the Nordic model is superior in practically every way, at least when it comes to combatting human trafficking. The people who are supporting the German model are cutting off a very powerful tool-to-hand when it comes to combatting trafficking in women, and they are in fact making the problems worse.
Chris Hedges pulls no punches here.
Chris Hedges wrote:Sweden in 1999 criminalized the purchasing of sex. Norway and Iceland have done the same. The two responses—the German model and the so-called Nordic model—have had dramatically different effects. The German and Dutch approach normalizes and expands human trafficking and prostitution. The Nordic approach contains it. Sweden has cut street prostitution by half and freed many women from sexual slavery. Lakeman, citing the Nordic model, calls for criminalizing the buying, rather than the offering, of sexual services. Those whose bodies are being sold should not be punished, she said.
Since December the purchase of sex has been illegal in Canada. The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, or Bill C-36, criminalizes the purchase of sexual services and decriminalizes the sale of those services. It restricts the advertisement of sexual services and communication in public for the purpose of prostitution. But the law has triggered fierce opposition, and it faces threats of a legal challenge. The Ontario premier, the Vancouver Police Board, law enforcement officials and some other political bodies and politicians have announced they will not implement it. The New Democratic Party, Canada's second-largest party, and the Liberal Party have said they will work for the legalization of prostitution. There is no guarantee that the law will hold as economic and sexual inequality widens across the globe.
"The global trade, particularly of Asian women, has been steadily worsened by the neoliberal policies of First World countries," said Alice Lee, part of the Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution. "These policies are grounded in social disparities of race, class and gender. They create conditions that force poor women to migrate. Those who support legalizing prostitution often argue that trafficking is bad, but prostitution is acceptable. But trafficking and prostitution are inseparable."
Emphasis mine. The activists who have the most experience dealing with trafficked women are in agreement on this - legalised prostitution regimes lead to increases in human trafficking. Every. Damn. Time. The ending of legalised solicitation is an issue where law-and-order conservatives can and should ally themselves with the radical left against the industries which peddle in human flesh, and it's an issue where practically every woman would benefit from the adoption of the Nordic model.


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Q When is BART going to realize that those of us in the 'burbs have to drive to the station in order to take the train, which means we need a place to park?
Ann Dalton
A Maybe today is the day.
Q One day I had to be at an appointment in San Francisco by 10:45 a.m., so I left home at 8:30 a.m. to drive to the Dublin/Pleasanton station to catch the 9:28 a.m. train. There were no parking spots at the Dublin station, so I drove to the West Dublin one, where parking is even more limited. But across the street was parking paradise — the lot at Stoneridge Mall.
Ann Dalton
A Only you were in for a rude surprise.
Q As I was getting out of my car there, a self-important mall cop zoomed up beside me and asked if I was on my way to work at the mall. I said no, I was taking BART. He said, "Then you can't park here."
I asked what would happen if I did. He said I would get two warnings, and if I parked there a third time, my car would be towed. I said, "OK, then this will be my first warning."
But he said, "No, now that I have warned you, I will have to tow you today if you leave your car here." I was speechless and decided not to waste any time pleading my case, because at that point I needed every precious minute to drive into the city. I could have returned to the Dublin station to wait for the reserved parking spots to open to everyone at 10 a.m., but then I would almost certainly have been late for my appointment, and of course there was no guarantee that any reserved spaces would even have been available.
I'm a big fan of public transit, but the parking situation is maddening.
Ann Dalton
A Maddening is the right description, according to many BART patrons discussing the issue of parking.
Q All money for widening freeways, toll road construction and metering lights should be invested in BART so that people can get out of their cars. This includes adding parking at stations that fill up, such as Walnut Creek and Lafayette.
My wife and I wanted to use BART to go into San Francisco, so we tried to find a parking place at Walnut Creek, Lafayette and Orinda at 10 one morning, but none was available, so we ended up driving into San Francisco.
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A This may not lead to more parking spaces, but here's your chance to vent. BART wants riders to take part in a parking survey to provide feedback on potential changes to the paid parking program that could impact the amount they pay. BART has about 47,000 parking spaces with a daily parking fee of $1 or $2 at most stations.
For stations with parking on the Peninsula and in San Francisco, fees have been adjusted periodically based on use. For East Bay stations with parking, the a $1 a day could jump to $3, except at West Oakland, where the charge is now $5 per day.
Of the 33 BART stations with parking, 27 have a daily fee. Six stations currently offer free daily parking. About one in four of BART's 366,00 weekday riders park at stations.
The survey needs to be completed by Tuesday. Go to http://bart.gov/guide/parking to weigh in.
Q How much parking will there be at the BART stations on the San Jose extension and will we have to pay to park? Parking is so difficult in the East Bay that I fear they won't have enough spots in Milpitas and San Jose.
Dolores R.
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A Finding a parking spot should not be a problem for a long time. There will be 1,200 parking spaces at Milpitas, nearly double what will be needed when the line opens in a few years and enough to serve projected needs through 2035. There will also be 1,200 combined surface and garage spots at Berryessa, also nearly twice what will be needed when the extension opens.
There are plans to charge for parking at both stations, but the cost isn't known yet.
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Me and my sister went to 'Harry Potter in Concert'. We were very excited to see the first movie of Harry Potter again with live music.
We decided to be a tourist in our own country, so be booked a hotel room in Antwerp, where we stayed after the concert.
I must say it was a very nice experience. The music was beautiful. Sadly the room was to big. Though we had a good place, we couldn't see the musicians from close.
After the concert we went for a cocktail in 'Applemans'. A well know cocktail bar in Antwerp. We talked about the music and our childhood. It was a perfect weekend.
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It can be difficult to leave our bunnies in the care of others. Trying to explain all the important details and health alerts to be aware of can be overwhelming for your pet sitter, (especially if they are not familiar with rabbit care).
The biggest problem with leaving rabbits with pet sitters, whether they be professional, friends, or family, is that rabbits hide serious health issues very well.
Our free Bunny Sitter Guide not only makes daily care easier for your sitter to follow, but helps your sitter recognize possible health issues that need urgent attention.
Examples of health assessments and alerts in Guide include:
Assessing a bunny's personality so that the bunny sitter will understand what is abnormal.
Offering a favorite treat each day. If a bunny refuses, it could mean there is something wrong.
And since bunnies can die within 24 hours once their digestive system stops (gi stasis), it is also important for sitters to check that a bunny is a producing fecals daily.
Before you go on vacation, it is a good idea to have a rabbit-savvy vet to refer your sitter to. Many vets allow you to put a credit card on file. I would suggest doing that with your regular vet and an emergency vet. This way, if your pet sitter cannot get a hold of you during an emergency, you are covered. Just be sure to let your sitter and vet know of any financial limit in these cases.
The rest is pretty self-explanatory. If you have any tips to add, we'd love to hear them. Just contact us and put "Sitter Tips" in the Subject.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - While Pacific head coach Greg Gibbons helped recruit seniors Charlene DeHoog, Kasey Kipp and Dana Vargas to UC Santa Barbara's women's volleyball team, he was not going to just let them run away with a gimme victory in their final home match at the Thunderdome.
Gibbons, who served as UCSB's Associate Head Coach for the previous four seasons before taking over at Pacific, saw his young Tigers team defeat the more experienced Gauchos on Saturday night, 23-25, 25-20, 23-25, 25-20, 15-12.
It was the final home match of the career for DeHoog, Kipp and Vargas but they were unable to stop a pair of lethal Pacific hitters as Samantha Misa tallied 24 kills and Jennifer Sanders had 22 to lead UOP.
DeHoog had 13 kills and 19 digs for the Gauchos, who fall to 15-13 overall and 9-6 in the Big West. Kipp had eight kills and seven total blocks while Vargas had 46 assists and seven digs.
Stacey Schmidt led the Gauchos with 14 kills while Kara Sherrard had 10 kills and 15 digs. Chelsey Lowe had a career-high 30 digs for Santa Barbara.
In the fourth set, UCSB rallied from a 13-9 deficit to take a 14-13 lead on an attack error by Pacific. However the scrappy Tigers scored six of the next seven points for a 19- 15 lead and then cruised to the win, grabbing momentum for the fifth set.
UCSB started the season 5-0 in five-set matches, but have now dropped two of its past three.
Trailing 6-4, Gibbons called a timeout and his team responded with four straight points to take a lead it wouldn't relinquish. The Gauchos got as close as 13-11, but another Pacific timeout helped the team regroup.
A block at the net gave Pacific match point and after a long rally brought the Gauchos to 14-12 on a Tigers hitting error, Misa's 24th kill of the night finished the Gauchos.
With one match left - Saturday, Nov. 20 at UC Riverside - UCSB will try to get more than 15 victories for the 28th time in the past 30 seasons.
The Gaucho Fund, launched as part of the Dare to Be Great strategic plan, is UCSB Athletics' annual giving program to provide vital funding support for scholarships, academic success and leadership development for Gaucho student-athletes. The Gaucho Fund is the anchor to the Dare to Be Great campaign.


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If Poltergeist taught us anything, it's that you shouldn't build a house on a Native American burial ground. Obviously the owners of Flagstaff's Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort have never seen that movie because they're literally about to shit all over one, by expanding onto 74 acres of sacred land in the San Francisco Peaks and manufacturing 100 percent of its snow from sewage.
If you plan on skiing at the Snowbowl this season, there are two things you should know. First, its snow is going to be made entirely from repurposed poop. Second, it's got more bad karma than it does black diamonds. Thirteen Native American tribes fought against these plans for more than a decade, but in February, the resort got approval from a federal appeals court to make snow from poop and cut down acres upon acres of trees. In all fairness, the U.S. Forest Service says the crap water is just fine, grading its quality just below that of drinking water. If you thought yellow snow was bad...
The Native Americans who still pray and hold ceremonies on the mountains feel that not only is the resort disrespecting their traditions, but also harming the environment and polluting aquifers. Meanwhile, groups like the Forest Service, the Flagstaff Utilities Department, and the Chamber of Commerce are all talking at once, assuring the Native Americans that it's all fine and nothing could ever go wrong. Sounds like a familiar plot. Navajo ghosts, feel free to intervene at any time. [New York Times]
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Valve is ramping up participation in the Counter-Stike: Global Offensive beta, promising a whole round of keys will be handed out to people who complete a survey on the game.
All you've got to do is head here and answer some questions, and "over the coming months [Valve] will make selections from the survey participants".
In good news for the curious, unlike the company's DOTA 2 beta, new players will be welcomed as part of the intake.
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NISKAYUNA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imagine an intelligent system managing the surgical tool sterilization process in a hospital – ensuring safe delivery of care, enabling new levels of hospital efficiency, and delivering with surgical accuracy all of the medical devices doctors need to perform life-saving procedures. At GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), scientists envision such a future and will soon begin a groundbreaking project designed to leverage the power of the Industrial Internet to transform the way hospitals manage and track their thousands of surgical tools.
Working with GE Healthcare and the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA), Global Research scientists will develop a prototype system capable of locating, sorting, delivering, and sterilizing surgical tools with little oversight. A mash up of technology, including robotic systems, RFID, and computer vision will form the backbone of the automated system. Tools such as clamps and scalpels will be provided a unique ID so that they are readily identifiable by various robotic components. The prototype system will perform various tasks, including kitting of surgical tools, movement throughout the sterilization process, and transport to and from the operating theater ensuring the correct tools are in the right place, at the right time, and in sterile and working order. Click HERE to see a video which further outlines the project and shows a few of the robots GE is considering using.
"The technologies we're investigating have been used to automate manufacturing processes in industrial settings for years, and we believe they, in combination with a new level of intelligence, can have a substantial impact in hospitals," said Lynn DeRose, Principal Investigator and Auto-ID technology expert in the Distributed Intelligent Systems Lab at GE Global Research. "At GE, we're uniquely positioned to construct a smart solution that can make operating rooms run more efficiently, save millions of dollars in healthcare costs and lead to better patient outcomes."
In most hospitals today, tools are inspected, washed, and counted multiple times by hand. This process is inefficient, fraught with errors, and could lead to critical delays, and more importantly, adverse patient events. According to the Institute of Medicine, between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die every year due to preventable medical errors accounting for a $12-$25 billion cost to the U.S. healthcare system. Automating the device recognition, delivery, and accounting processes is expected to significantly reduce hospital costs.
Expected benefits include:
- Increased patient safety, hospital quality and cost performance through reduction in surgical infections
- Increased efficiency in OR scheduling due to increased kit accuracy and reduction in instrument count time
- Increased hospital throughput from reduction of set-up and room turnaround time
Having an intelligent automated solution handle the labor-intensive asset management tasks has the added benefit of freeing-up hospital personnel, who are in many cases already stretched thin. Staff could be retrained and re-deployed to perform more patient-focused jobs.
"According to experts in the field, the surgical operation and recovery setting is considered the fastest growing and most resource intensive section of the hospital, accounting for approximately 30 - 50% of a hospital's budget," said DeRose. "Simply put, the operating theater is the single largest contributor to a facility's bottom line. Any gains in efficiency that lead to more revenue being generated will be felt in a big way."
Perhaps the biggest challenge of this project will be to train the robots to handle and test specific implements. "Even maneuvering something as simple as a pair of scissors requires lengthy coded instructions for a robot," DeRose went on to say.
Technologies developed through this venture could support existing healthcare products including GE's Centricity Perioperative suite and AgileTrac™. All technologies will be built on a common framework resulting in a system that is expected to offer greater flexibility, and easier installation and configuration for different hospital settings. Hospital personnel then will be able to customize computerized dashboards so that information relevant to their job is available at their fingertips.
The $2.5M project will span two years. At the conclusion, automated systems will be tested at a yet-to-be determined VA hospital.
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Carlos Beltran, the most desirable free agent on the market, will become a member of the Mets in the biggest signing of the off-season.
An official with a National League team who was briefed on the negotiations said Beltran and the Mets agreed in principle to a seven-year, $119 million contract early yesterday. The deal is contingent on Beltran's passing a physical today and on an accord on the financial parameters of the contract. That means the Mets are agonizingly close to being much more relevant as a team.
They are hoping that Beltran, who was seemingly destined to play center field for the Yankees, then was supposedly returning to the Houston Astros, can help them revive a stagnant organization, and they are dreaming about eventually challenging the Yankees for supremacy in New York.
By being persistent and offering the most money, General Manager Omar Minaya persuaded Beltran to spend the next seven summers chasing fly balls in Flushing and playing in the shadow of the Yankees. The Mets are hoping Beltran can do something about that shadow.
Beltran does everything well: he can run, hit, hit for power, throw and field. In signing Beltran and Pedro Martínez, the premier free-agent pitcher on the market, the Mets have invested $172 million in a makeover. That Minaya -- who has made a point of appealing to Hispanic players -- was able to persuade each player to relocate to a team that has averaged 71 victories in the last three seasons cannot be viewed as anything but baseball's biggest coup of the off-season.Continue reading the main story
In less than a month, the Mets have added two All-Star players and made the kind of splashy moves usually associated with George Steinbrenner, the principal owner of the Yankees. Steinbrenner had some interest in Beltran, but almost none in Martínez.
The Mets, in need of star power because they are planning to start their own cable network in 2006, were consumed with signing each player and were not scared off by their competition.
Who will be next? Yesterday, Beltran called Carlos Delgado, the free-agent first baseman the Mets are still interested in. Beltran is a friend of Delgado's and a fellow Puerto Rican. The Mets need a first baseman and have continued their conversations with David Sloane, Delgado's agent.
To secure Beltran, the Mets outlasted Houston in nail-biting negotiations. Scott Boras, Beltran's agent, was talking with the Astros up until their midnight deadline on Saturday. The Astros, who faced the deadline because Beltran had declined salary arbitration, offered Beltran a seven-year, $108 million deal. But the Astros would not agree to a full no-trade clause, hurting their chances.
Because there is no state income tax in Texas, the Mets' offer to Beltran was only marginally better than Houston's. But the Mets included a blanket no-trade clause that helped seal the deal. Beltran's contract will also include an $11 million signing bonus, and the sides are discussing the amount of money that will be deferred. The agreement may end up being for slightly less than $119 million.
"We're still having dialogue," Minaya said. "That's all I can say."
Only 27, the switch-hitting Beltran will slide neatly into the third spot in the lineup and is expected to replace the fading Mike Piazza, who is 36, as the foundation of the franchise. Beltran batted .267 with 38 homers, 104 runs batted in and 42 stolen bases with the Astros and the Kansas City Royals last season.
He solidified his status as a multitalented player and set the stage for the fattening of his bank account during the playoffs, batting .435 with 8 homers, 14 R.B.I and 6 stolen bases in 12 games. He helped the Astros come within a game of making their first World Series.
But the only time Beltran has hit more than 30 homers was this past season, and his career batting average is a modest .284.
Before Boras began negotiations, he told some associates that he thought Beltran could end up playing for the Yankees. Although the Yankees monitored the negotiations, they never made an offer. Boras initiated contact with the Yankees, but they told him they were not enthused about adding a $17 million player to a payroll that is already up to about $200 million and incurring additional luxury tax payments.
At one point Saturday night, Boras contacted the Yankees and proposed a six-year, $100 million contract for Beltran, a lesser offer than the one tendered by the Mets. Once again, the Yankees resisted.
The Mets were understandably worried about the Yankees hovering over the Beltran discussions, and that is one reason Minaya pushed to reach an agreement in principle yesterday. The Mets did not want to leave any opportunity for the Yankees to crash their off-season party.
When the Mets added Martínez, they said he was a player whose value transcended how many games he would win. Beltran told the Mets that he took them more seriously as a suitor because they signed Martínez. Whether the presence of Martínez and Beltran can help deliver Delgado is the next question. Sloane said Friday that several teams were serious about signing Delgado.
But the Mets clearly made themselves more attractive in many ways by adding Beltran, their new marquee player, and, they hope, their new savior.
Omar Minaya, the Mets' general manager, and his wife, Rachel, will have dinner with President Bush and a small group at the White House tonight. Minaya was with the Texas Rangers' scouting department when the president owned the team.Continue reading the main story


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What beauty product are you obsessing over right now? For me, it would have to be Trish McEvoy's Voyager Beauty Emergency Card, it was my birthday present to myself a few weeks ago. 🙂 The Beauty Emergency Card includes the Instant Pick Me Up All Over Face Color, lip color in Iced Bordeaux and Golden then eye color in White Peach and Deep Aubergine. This also includes a mini planner with four mini brushes.
Isn't this an adorable set? Just looking at it warms my heart. 😉 I love that the shades work for everyday wear, how the card is thinner and smaller than my iPhone and altogether you have an extremely travel friendly set. What's not to love?


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Missing My Friend
Today is the one year anniversary of the death of my dear friend Bill Moody, whom many of you knew as Percy Pringle and Paul Bearer in WWE.
Here is a tribute I wrote for him, which is posted on his official web site. PercyPringle.com – My Tribute
There will never be another Bill Moody. I miss him like crazy.
Here's something fun for you all to enjoy… Percy Pringle Sings
In the photo posted above, you will see Bill, myself, and Gulf Coast wrestling legend "Cowboy" Bob Kelly. Bob was a childhood hero to Bill, and he was very happy to call him his friend (as am I).
Bob lost his wife of over 50 years, the wonderful Chris Kelly, just a few months back and is still dealing with everything. As you take a moment to think about Bill Moody, do say a prayer for Bob and Chris, too. I know they would appreciate it.
I wish like anything I could be down at the Gulf Coast Wrestler's Reunion this week to be with my old friends in Mobile, Alabama. Alas, fate has other plans for me. But I am sending all of my very best thoughts to all of you as you celebrate all your memories and years of kinship. Just save me some banana pudding, if you will.


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We often wonder "how did I get here?" when we look around and reflect on our personal networks. Where did all these connections come from? Did I do all this? Who helped weave my network? What can I do with these connections? Where can I add more?
I will go through key growth stages of a network that evolved this past decade. Many of the connections have already resulted in creative collaborations. Other connections are just bearing fruit now. Networks are like that -- a new connection does not always bear instant fruit, sometimes the growing season for some links is very long. Yet at the end, the fact that the link is already established, an opportunity is spotted and acted upon using the resources that the link provides.
Many years ago the network looked like this. Two people are connected if they interact with each other as friends and/or colleagues. ONet represents a now defunct on-line group: The Omidyar Network. This was a gathering place to help people discover how they can make a difference.
People on ONet got to know each other from their on-line activity and Jerry introduced Tom to Valdis -- he closed the triangle amongst himself, Tom and Valdis.
Next, Tom introduced Jean to Valdis at a seminar he organized in Boston. Soon after that, Steve reached out to June after doing a web search on "network weaving."
In the next phase, June introduced Steve to Valdis to work on network mapping, and Valdis introduced June to Tom to speak at his next seminar in Europe. Notice as people start "closing triangles" via introductions, the original meeting place for a portion of the group -- ONet -- starts getting pushed to the periphery.
Next, Valdis introduces June to Jean to share similar interests and goals, and after working with Valdis on network maps Steve introduces Daniel, who is also interested in network mapping, to Valdis.
Finally, Jean meets Jerry at another event and the network as it stands today is now in place.
When we make introductions, and close triangles, we are not doing it to merely create new connections. Network weavers usually have a goal in mind when connecting two new people -- a project, a mentorship, a future collaboration. The links between Daniel, Jean, and Valdis were in place several years ago but only this year did they all collaborate around a common project. Jean and Valdis were working on thrivable networks and Daniel was organizing a conference around building networks to help inner-city kids -- all three were going to be in Chicago the same week. After a few emails it was agreed, Jean and Valdis would do a workshop on building thrivable networks @ Daniel's Tutor/Mentor Conference.
So, networks are built in many ways. First, by being in the same physical or virtual space, and second by active network weavers who make strategic introductions for the benefit of those they connect and for the benefit of the entire network. Networks are also activated in many ways. Sometimes by the initial introduction and connection to an immediate need, and other times, existing links need a little nudge to activate -- like an obvious opportunity. Our themes in the workshop will be:
• Know the Net - map the existing connections of your community/ecosystem
• Knit the Net - weave and support new connections, build a thriving network
• Nudge the Net - activate the network toward self-organization and action
Register here online and join us in Chicago on November 20th!
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Letting the days go by...
Many years of knowing, knitting and nudging.
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Teen Wolf casting news!
Ex-Desperate Housewives studs Charlie and Max Carver have nabbed recurring roles in Teen Wolf's super-sized Season 3. Per Deadline, the real-life twin brothers will join the addictive MTV drama as a pair of Alpha werewolves, described as "dangerous charmers with brilliant minds."
Neighbours alumna Adelaide Kane and Days of our Lives' Felisha Terrell also have secured recurring gigs. Kane will play a mysterious woman with ties to Beacon Hills, while Terrell has been cast as another Alpha wolf.


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Southern California Fire Departments Use TeleStaff to Deploy Staff to Battle Fires
TeleStaff Automated Staff and Notification System Proves Fast and Efficient in Emergency Response
Irvine, CA— PDSI, the leader in public safety scheduling and notification software, is estimating that 90 plus fire departments are using TeleStaff to communicate to and deploy staff to battle the Southern California fires. Californians can take pride in fact that these fire departments are using the latest in fire staffing and notification technology ultimately ensuring quick and effective responses to these fires by the appropriate first responders.
According to Battalion Chief Jim Birrell of the Monterey Park Fire Department, "TeleStaff has saved our department several hours in staffing management due to the Southern California fires this week. We currently have two Engine Companies and a Battalion Chief assigned to the Santiago Fire in Orange County. Before TeleStaff, we used to staff manually by pen and paper. With TeleStaff, we now reassign our personnel to Strike Team Status and TeleStaff makes the calls automatically to backfill for our personnel out on the fire line. I can honestly say as our department's Administrative Chief that TeleStaff has saved me countless hours."
National City Fire Department is also relying on TeleStaff this week to battle the fires. "TeleStaff has been used to call back personnel in order to deploy two Strike Team Fire Engines from October 21 – 26, 2007. TeleStaff was used to call-back Captains and Engineers, and has worked efficiently during these times of crisis. TeleStaff did not require staff to take time out to make phone calls to Captains and Engineers; TeleStaff did it for them automatically as soon as the units were deployed. The system noticed the vacancies and called Captains and Engineers on its scheduled time," stated Walter Amedee, Homeland Security Manager.
Deploying staff and several resources to combat fires, not only in its own agency, but out into other agencies, has been the Ontario Fire Department's priority.
"On Sunday, October 21st, a large fire broke out during the high wind situation in the southern portion of our city. We deployed and staffed to full capacity, and called in additional resources to assist (Strike Teams from other Fire Departments). This fire was reduced in size on Monday, and we were able to release the outside agency resources. By early Tuesday, we were able to commit five engine companies, one water tender, three chief officers, and three other overhead personnel to the fires in the Running Springs and Lake Arrowhead area. All of our resources were deployed and staffed through TeleStaff," stated Battalion Chief Dave Carrier.
Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Reeb of the Long Beach Fire Department states "TeleStaff has been extremely valuable this week. Deployment and return times among firefighters is impromptu, but TeleStaff allows us to track work hour variations on multiple strike teams at different times. As deployment teams roll out, personnel yet to be deployed are monitoring TeleStaff online. TeleStaff lets everyone know what our staffing needs are, and offers a high level or accountability."
Santa Clara County Fire Department is relying on TeleStaff to contact and staff higher numbers of personnel for the fires. "We normally staff ten spots each night on a regular basis, but on Monday night, October 22nd, we were actually staffing 76 spots. On Tuesday, we needed to contact all of our personnel to let them know we still had spots that still needed to be filled. We sent notifications to 170 firefighters and captains, and we were able to complete that in less than an hour and a half. We have eight phone lines that allow TeleStaff to contact our staff at their best contact number. If we didn't have TeleStaff, contacting the staff would have been done manually and would have taken much more time and resources to complete," stated Captain Jim Swanson.
For La Mesa Fire Department, TeleStaff is being used not only to deploy personnel, but to forecast staffing needs, track personnel hours, and to provide updates.
"Currently our department has deployed twelve of our 46 suppression personnel on engines and as strike team leaders to the various fires in the county. For most, they received their first rest and hot meals yesterday morning. Telestaff is being utilized to track our personnel hours, to forecast staffing needs, and to help in filling open positions. Also, using the messaging portion of the program, TeleStaff provides situational updates and advisements," stated Division Chief Barry Wiebel.
"Everyone at PDSI has witnessed firsthand the brave efforts of public safety personnel during this time of crisis, and we truly appreciate their relentless and unselfish commitment to the affected communities in Southern California. We are proud to serve the public safety community with our products," stated Greg Ekstrom, President, PDSI. TeleStaff is proving to be an extremely reliable, efficient and critical solution to fire departments relying on it to contact, deploy and track personnel during the Southern California fires.
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Principal Decision Systems International – PDSI, is a software and services company headquartered in Irvine, California that is focused on developing workforce scheduling software for a diverse array of industries including public safety, government, healthcare, and hospitality. The Company designs, develops, markets, implements and supports scheduling software products that automate daily processes such as scheduling staff for shifts, events or appointments resulting in value-added solutions and offering increased productivity among human resources. TeleStaff™ provides public safety agencies a scheduling and notification solution capable of managing complex rules, work codes and shifts. Collection Management System™ (CMS) is a group of applications specifically designed for blood collection organizations. STAFFeasy™ is a web-based event staffing and notification solution designed to fill positions based on rules and notify personnel of work assignments. For more information about PDSI, please visit the company's website at www.pdsi-software.com.


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Before he died on assignment in war-torn Syria, reporter Anthony Shadid blamed the New York Times for his deadly fate.
"If anything happens to me," Shadid allegedly said, "I want the world to know that the New York Times killed me."
When Shadid died in Syria in February, the Times reported it was of an asthma attack. Now, the reporter's cousin Ed Shadid claims the news publication forced Anthony to make the journey against his wishes.
At the annual conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Saturday, Ed said Anthony had been on bad terms with his editors before he left the country. The cousin even doubts the death was due to asthma and instead claims it seemed more like a heart attack.
The Times responded to these allegations on Politico and said they did not pressure Shadid to take the trip.
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The Battleship Texas, which reopened Saturday following repair of a leak that developed June 9, has been closed again following the onset of a new set of leaks discovered Sunday. A marine salvage company is currently working to fix this latest issue. The ship will reopen as soon as the work can be completed. For additional information, contact Andy Smith at 281-479-2431, ext. 236.
Battleship Texas reopening after repairs
HOUSTON — The Battleship Texas, closed for a week to allow a salvage company time to repair a leak that the historic vessel developed June 9, will be open to the public again starting Saturday.
"We closed the ship last week so that divers could locate and repair the leak," said Andy Smith, Battleship Texas State Historical Site superintendent. "That has been done and we plan on reopening the Texas in time for weekend visitors to enjoy exploring this century-old vessel."
Smith said pumping of water from the ship has been completed and that it has not taken on any new water in more than 48 hours.
While the leak has been patched, efforts are ongoing to clean the remaining oil disturbed by the flooding -therefore all areas below the Second Deck will be closed to facilitate this until further notice.
TPWD has been working for some time toward the permanent dry-berthing of the ship, with details of that available at http://www.dryberthTEXAS.com
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BOSTON (Reuters) - The teenager accused of lying to FBI agents in the Boston Marathon bombing case was freed on $100,000 bail on Monday pending a later trial date, and investigators said bomb fragments suggest they were less sophisticated than homemade ones used by insurgents.
While out on bail, Robel Phillipos will be under the custody of his mother and must wear a GPS bracelet, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ordered in federal court in Boston. The $100,000 bail for the 19-year-old was secured by real estate put up by a third party, the judge said.
Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is accused of making false statements to FBI agents investigating the April 15th attack that killed three people and injured 264 near the marathon's finish line. He was not charged with direct involvement in the attack.
Phillipos' mother was "very emotional," after the ruling, the teenager's attorney, Derege Demissie, said. About 60 people, including friends, family and a large contingent from the Boston Ethiopian community, appeared in the courthouse on Monday showing their support.
Defense lawyers argued he was not a flight risk, has no prior criminal history and can refute FBI allegations that he interfered with their investigation, court records show. In affidavits of support filed with the court, Phillipos is described as a social worker's caring son who read to kindergarten students.
Last week, U.S. authorities charged Phillipos and two 19-year-old students from Kazakhstan with interfering with their investigation as a manhunt for suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was under way.
After the hearing, Phillipos walked through the courthouse wearing street clothes and a black baseball cap and was surrounded by the contingent of family and friends.
Federal investigators, meanwhile, are focusing on two main points in their continuing investigation.
They are examining forensic evidence, most notably computers seized from the suspects and possibly their associates, a U.S. national security official said. They are also focused on a trickle of evidence that is coming in from Russian authorities, the official said.
All the analyses of the bomb fragments and related evidence suggests that the bombs were very unsophisticated, far less so than homemade bombs used by insurgents in places like Iraq.
Investigators believe it is quite likely that the bomb designs at least partly came from the article "How to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom," published a couple of years ago by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's "Inspire" magazine and then republished earlier this year in a glossy brochure entitled the "Lone Mujahid Pocketbook."
The family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in a police gun battle, struggled on Monday to find a burial site for him.
Relatives have said they want to have him buried locally, but several cemeteries in Massachusetts said they would not accept the remains. Under Islamic law, the body cannot be cremated, a procedure used in some cases of notorious criminals such as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Phillipos and the two Kazakhstan teens are described as college friends of the surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar. Authorities charged the Kazakhs, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, with conspiring to obstruct justice by disposing of a backpack containing fireworks they found in Tsarnaev's dorm room.
Lawyers for Phillipos point out that he has not been charged with removing or tampering with evidence, but with lying to authorities about the conduct of his friends.
Their cover-up, as alleged by investigators, happened after the FBI released surveillance photos of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan. Dzhokhar was found bleeding while hiding in a covered boat in a back yard in Watertown, a Boston suburb.
Phillipos was born in Boston and raised in Cambridge as part of a loving Ethiopian extended family, according to affidavits filed in federal court.
Richard Feigenberg, who taught math to Phillipos in the seventh and eighth grades, described his former student as a caring member of the school community.
"When I asked for someone to take out the trash or read to a kindergarten student, it was most often Robel who volunteered," Feigenberg said in an affidavit. "He always had a wonderful smile that warmed the whole classroom."
Relatives of Phillipos described him as a kind, polite and respectful young man, according to affidavits.
"When I heard the news of Robel's arrest, I was extremely shocked and heartbroken," said Kifle Alemu, an uncle. "I was unable to wrap my mind around what was going on, especially knowing Robel as a gentle young man who has never been in any trouble."
Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Philip Barbara


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Postal Boy?
May 13, 2007
Is Paul Millsap's nickname really "Postal Boy," or did the Chinese commentators make that up? Regardless, he's a monster on the boards.
The best part of the watching the game is when they're going to commercial during a timeout or end of quarter and for the five seconds before the commercial starts, the Chinese commentators' feed is shut off and you can hear the English commentators for a moment and you feel so blessed.
This may only pertain to this point in time, but this past week when I was in China, I was able to go without checking my email for eight days. However, every chance there was to get online, I *had* to hit espn, cnnsi, foxsports, dime magazine, yahoo sports, the salt lake tribune, and deseret news.
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NY Registration Drive for STAR Property Tax Breaks
12.05.13 7:12am
Homeowners urged to sign up for New York's STAR property tax break
Officials are trying to get more homeowners to register for New York's STAR property tax break before the end-of-year deadline.
State tax officials are providing direct assistance to homeowners in seven STAR registration locations from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday. The centers will be in Albany, Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Long Island.
The STAR exemption averages $700 statewide. All homeowners have to reapply for the benefit as part of an effort to weed out waste and abuse.
State officials say 800,000 people still haven't registered with the Dec. 31 deadline looming.
More than 1.9 million homeowners have registered for basic STAR exemptions.


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