Herald; Dubuque, Iowa – Not many things can ever top a simple compliment from Dad
0 Comments | Telegraph – Herald; Dubuque, Iowa, Jun 19, 2010 | by LEN BANAS
I talk to my father, Eddie, as often as I can, but, admittedly, it has diminished over the years.
When I was young, we used to debate the time to come home and how much gas was left in the car. Sometimes I would come home very late from a date. I would usually throw two steaks on the grill, fan the aroma up to the bedroom and wait for my father to come down and join me in a meal. Some of our best conversations took place over a T- bone at 2 a.m.
On other occasions, I would talk to him about all of the places he took me as a child. We were great travelers, my father and me. There isn’t a lake in northern Illinois or southern Wisconsin that had been spared by our fishing prowess. We thought we were great fishermen, but as it turned out we were only good at dropping anchor and drowning worms. It didn’t matter, though, because it was our time together.
Dad had time for me because he worked as a precision machinist for International Harvester. I thought it was a great place for him because he only had to work six months out of the year
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In the late fall of 2005, Alex Tew, a brilliant young computer wizard and entrepreneur from England, was looking for a way to finance his college education. Setting his sights high, he brainstormed how he could earn a million dollars in one year.
Of the ideas he came up with, the one he decided to implement was outrageously outside the box. It consisted in selling pixels–the little pinpoints of light on his computer screen–for a dollar a piece!
To implement this brazen idea, he set up a webpage, divided it into 10,000 blocks of 100 pixels each, and created a computer program to link one or more of these blocks to a particular website.
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Often times when things
Often times when things got slow, and they often did, you?d be day-dreaming on the porch of the hut, or walking around looking for a stick to wipe your ass with, for there was no toilet paper.
The ones with wives, or lovers back home, were lovesick half time, truly lost in the heat and rains of Vietnam; again I say this because it was cause for alarm at times. I often thought of the Israel Army, to my understanding if a person had gotten married, they would not allow him into the service for a year or so. That made good sense, he had his sex, got his house in order for the most part; and was focused.
Nights seemed star-less, no birds singing at all, matter of fact, there were no birds. Not in the jungle, or out in the ammo dump, only dry-heat, lizards and not too far away the South China Sea coast. No birds, no birds, no sir, never-ever heard them, no birds at all –and if there were I had never seen them.
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Woodbridge Group Closes Arkansas Cancer-Alliance Oncology Deal
Market Wire, July, 2010
Woodbridge Group, a leading middle-market mergers and acquisitions firm, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Arkansas Cancer Institute’s (ACI) Radiation Oncology unit by Alliance Oncology, a division of Alliance HealthCare Services, based in Newport Beach, California.
ACI’s Radiation Oncology department offers state-of-the-art cancer treatments such as Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy and Image Guided Radiation Therapy, as well as diagnostic services such as CT scan and PET.
Alliance HealthCare Services, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is the nation’s largest provider of advanced outpatient diagnostic imaging services, focusing on MRI, PET/CT and CT through its Alliance Imaging division and delivering radiation therapy services through its Alliance Oncology division.
The Arkansas Cancer Institute-Alliance HealthCare transaction was managed by Woodbridge dealmaker Tex Sekhon, who is based in the firm’s Dallas-area office. “We are proud to have negotiated a financially attractive transaction for our client — and one that ensures the residents of south central Arkansas will continue to receive advanced diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy services for years to come,” said Mr. Sekhon.
In a recent announcement, Paul S. Viviano, chairman of the board and CEO of Alliance HealthCare Services, said, “With a reputation for the highest levels of clinical care and patient satisfaction, the addition of this facility will play an important role in the continued growth of Alliance Oncology.”
Woodbridge Group, LLC, an innovative M&A firm, was founded in 1993 to provide divestiture and acquisition services to middle market companies.
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Arizona Chamber: Wong's utility plan a cheap stunt, dangerous
Arizona Chamber: Wong’s utility plan a cheap stunt, dangerous
0 Comments | Arizona Capitol Times, Jun 30, 2010 | by Luige del Puerto
The president of the one of the state’s largest business groups called an Arizona Corporation Commission candidate’s proposal to cut off utilities from illegal immigrants cruel, dangerous and a cheap political stunt.
“Your cynical attempt to ratchet up the rhetoric over immigration to score cheap political points in a bid for office marks a new low in our state’s immigration debate,” Hamer wrote June 30 of Commission candidate Barry Wong’s proposal.
Hamer noted that temperatures in Phoenix easily reach the 110- degree mark in summer.
“To deny someone access to electricity based on his or her immigration status is not only a wrongheaded policy proposal, it’s just cruel,” he said. “If your proposal were to take effect, it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where a household has its electric utilities shut off in the summer heat, thus exposing children or the elderly to potentially fatal consequences.”
Hamer wrote the critical commentary after reading an article in the Arizona Republic, which quoted Wong, a former lawmaker, as saying if elected he would require public utilities to check the legal status of customers as a way to keep costs down for other customers.
According to the article, Wong said serving a growing number of people with power would raise utility rates because it would require new power plants, and ensuring that utilities did not serve the undocumented could protect other ratepayers from utility hikes.
Hamer told the ~Arizona Capitol Times~ that he wrote the letter because Wong’s idea is “so far beyond the pale” that the candidate needs to be called out.
“It just screams of political opportunism,” Hamer said, adding cutting off anyone’s utility service is simply not an option because if implemented, it could lead to a loss of life.
The chamber didn’t endorse Wong for the Commission. Instead, it threw its support behind Republican candidates Gary Pierce and Brenda Burns. But his letter has nothing to do with the chamber’s earlier endorsements for the Commission, Hamer said.
Wong defended the proposal and said he broached the idea, which was made in response to a query, from a purely economic standpoint.
“If a group is here illegally, improperly, if that presence has a strong negative financial impact on everybody else who is here properly then that’s something we should look at,” Wong told the ~Arizona Capitol Times~. “I think as a former commissioner and a candidate for the Commission, I think I would be remiss if I didn’t look at all angles to how to protect my ratepayers.”
But Hamer said the proposal may also end up hurting U.S. citizens.
“And since you’re concerned over the citizenship of ratepayers, it bears pointing out that U.S. citizens in that household could be the ones who bear the brunt of your idea,” Hamer said.
As far as the proposal’s potential impact on members of a household who are citizens, such as U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, Wong said that’s why the idea needs to be studied carefully.
In making the proposal, he drew parallels to the state’s decision to deny access to welfare assistance to illegal immigrants.
“I think that we can take a page from that policy,” he said, adding the question would be how to adopt and tailor it to a utility situation.
Much of Hamer’s letter talked about the dire consequences of shutting down a household’s utilities.
“It’s not just air conditioning that gets shut off under your proposal, but also medical equipment like respirators or dialysis machines or cooking equipment.”
But Wong said no one’s power would be shut down without adequate or reasonable notice.
“I would be reasonable and say that you’ve got to give people adequate time to plan ahead and with proper notice to the general population that this issue and policy is coming down the pipeline. So if the people think it applies to them then they need to take appropriate action and take personal responsibility,” he said.
Wong, a Republican, faces Burns and Pierce in the Aug
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Disused church to be converted into homes
Disused church to be converted into homes
0 Comments | Lincolnshire Echo, Apr 22, 2010 | by Charlotte Orson
A DISUSED city church falling into disrepair will be converted into houses and flats.
West Parade Methodist Church’s last service was held almost five years ago and its building has been largely untouched since.
Now, as windows are beginning to be smashed in the church’s adjoining hall on the corner of Hampton Street and West Parade, the building finally has a buyer.
Lorraine Staines, property sales manager at Walter’s in Lincoln, confirmed a residential developer has had a bid of Pounds 275,000 accepted for the property owned by the Methodist Church.
Ms Staines said: “The sale hasn’t gone through yet so we cannot give too much away.
“They will be looking to develop it into residential accommodation.”
The site of the grade-two listed church and its adjoining hall was granted planning permission last year to convert the church into two houses and part demolish the attached hall to build six apartments in a three-storey building. The plans include six car parking spaces and the council received just two objections to the church trustees’ planning application.
A clause in the permission granted by the City of Lincoln Council requested by the West End Residents’ Association, says the site cannot be turned into student accommodation.
The site was marketed last year by Pygott and Crone in Lincoln, but after a preliminary sale fell through, it was presented to Walter’s to sell.
Walter’s director Edward Walter said: “The sale is still subject to contract, but it will be a fantastic improvement to the area.”
The 103-year-old church’s congregation dwindled to just a handful of parishioners by 2005, with remaining church-goers having to travel uphill to Bailgate Methodist Church or Burton Road Methodist Church.
George Woolfenden, committee member on the West End Residents’ Association, said: “As long as the building stays in keeping with its environment, it’s okay with me.
“The church is looking very sad and needs something doing to it.
“It’s in-filling as opposed to building more properties, as it’s changing the use of a building that’s already there into housing.”
Resident Gavin Street, of nearby York Street, said: “The architecture of the chapel is nice, but the rest of the site is a bit rough and ready.
“We saw the ‘for sale’ sign and my wife has had a baby so we were hoping it was going to be used for community purposes, but that’s just our particular need.”
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The dining room is the hub of activity for Winter Park, Florida, interior designer Sandy Crawford and her family. Located in the center of the house, it isn’t just for special occasions-the Crawfords use it daily, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
But the dining room wasn’t always the dining room. Originally, the space was the kitchen. An extensive remodeling by Winter Park architect Steve Feller swapped the locations of these two rooms. This gave the new kitchen an exterior location and a bit more space. But it meant the dining room would have to squeeze into the old kitchen spot. “It really is a tiny dining room; it’s only 8 x 8,” says Sandy.
The architect carved away three of the room’s walls, leaving only posts in two corners. One side of the dining room now opens to a hall, another side to the kitchen, the third side to a family room addition at the rear of the house. “It could have been one big space,” says Steve, “but we wanted a sequence of spaces.”
Removing walls on three sides allows the dining room to borrow space and light from adjoining rooms. “You don’t feel as confined,” says Sandy. To make maximum use of the space, the designer used a 48inch-diameter table. “I love a round table, especially in a tight space. You can seat more people,” she says.
For flexible seating, Sandy combined four chairs and a 4-foot-long bench, which can accommodate two comfortably. The bench, chairs, and round table are all of plantation– grown teak from Indonesia. Down– filled tufted cushions provide extra comfort for the chairs and bench
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