You know the economy must be bad when even Gordon Brown decides to sell off some of the family silver to plug the hole in the Government's finances. As the Sunday Telegraph reported, he has hired Standard Life chairman Gerry Grimstone to help him sell a large number of his precious state assets.
It's a daunting job, but Grimstone, someone who has overseen perhaps 20 privatisation deals, is just the man to do it. In Mrs Thatcher's Treasury he was put in charge of privatisation policy, and in the private sector he carried on structuring more state sell-offs.
Fortunately, a lot of the work has already been done for him. Last April, in the Adam Smith Institute's Privatization: Reviving the Momentum, city analyst Nigel Hawkins identified a whole list of privatisation targets that should bring in a cool £20bn or so.
Grimstone might like to start with the Royal Mail, worth about £4bn in itself. Other countries' post offices are booming since being privatised, so we don't we liberate ours from the state too?
Then there's BBC Worldwide, a back catalogue of programming which would bring in another £2bn at least. He could throw in Channel 4 for another £1bn or so.
Among the utilities there is Scottish Water, £5bn, Glas Cymru £4bn, and Northern Ireland Water £1bn, British Energy and the atom company Urenco would net a useful £10bn. Then there's air traffic control, the trust ports, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and the state betting shop, the Tote.
Sometimes life gets difficult and I have to let go of my need to micromanage every aspect of my future. I have to allow for the side trips and the surprises. I have to try not be so relentlessly specific that I miss the opportunities that sometimes present themselves when I'm firmly convinced I need to move in a different direction and could then easily miss them. I need to pay attention to the subtle signs and signals I might miss if I keep racing down the path and never stop for a moment to consider my direction.
Sometimes the universe taps us on the shoulder and says...pssst...hey...try this...you might like it! Then we think...what? Are you crazy? Get the heck outta here universe, I'm busy relentlessly focusing on this thing here that isn't quite working for me but dangit I'll get this square peg into this round hole if it kills me.
I spent a long time not seeing the idea of beads being the key to a new career, then I realized after being gently pummeled with them by an ever patient universe for an extended period of time (ouch, ouch, ouch, stop that, ouch, what, okay already I got it...beads...sheesh) that beads and crafting and writing had immense possibility. I realized that beads and crafting and writing would allow me to integrate all of my talents and strengths into one direction and then I went for it with everything I had. That's what I think of as co-creating your life. When I'm open to that, for me personally, that is when I find success.
I know that what is real isn't what we call success or failure, in the Tao these things are the same. What is real is love. The rest is just the stuff we do to pass the time so we might as well make it interesting! More than that, we can pursue our dreams and share our passions with others and by doing so we are spreading light and love and the power of the creative through the universe. I'm doing far more than making sparkly crafts, I'm crafting hope.
I strive here in this blog for total transparency. Meaning I speak my truth and I don't sugar coat it, it's exactly how I'm feeling when I sit down to write each morning. Some mornings are sunny skies and some are stormy weather, and I try to embrace all of it with the same joie de vivre. This is where I work out my thoughts, my fears, my joys, my sorrows, my triumphs and my tragedies...all of it. It's like a moving meditation. It's not always pretty, but it's definitely real. My hope is that by being transparent here, I'm helping other people who read this every day to see that yes, we all have good days and bad days, yes we all have a few dreams that get deferred and no we can't actually all win the gold medal even if we work and dream and visualize our arses off. My hope is that I can help people to see that the gold medal isn't really the point, it's the journey we take towards it, it's the joy of the experience and it's the power that comes from not measuring ourselves by external affirmations. It's the magic of learning to live fully in the moment and let go of our attachment to the past and the future.
We can all of us craft hope and joy and beauty, and that's the real gold medal.
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College Football is back tonight! We've all been there,
the day of the first college football game at your Alma Mater (or
current university). I can remember my days at Miami U in Oxford
(during the Ben Roethlisberger era), and how crazy we got the day
of...and day before a game. I remember keg parties and cornhole....5am
parties and tailgating on the lawn near the stadium. Do you have any
crazy or interesting college traditions? I'd love to hear em. Check in
on the show or Email me.
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Breaking down the Big Ten Yahoo Sports 1. Ohio State: No other NCAA football team has more to prove in 2008 than the Buckeyes. After two straight BCS Title losses, Jim Tressel’s crew took a lot of heat from the media and fans. With 18 returning
starters, the Buckeyes are a top-five ranked team in 2008 and have the
title in their sites. The team will rely heavily on tailback Chris
Wells to carry the load on offense. Maybe the best power-back they have
had since Eddie George, Wells is a Heisman Trophy candidate and should help lead Ohio State to a third outright and fourth overall straight Big Ten title.
2. WIsconsin: Maybe one of the most underrated team in the country, Wisconsin has 17
returning starters and two of the best tight ends in the country in
Travis Beckum and Garrett Graham. An end of season bowl loss to Tennessee left a bitter taste in their mouths, but the Badgers are hungry for
wins, hoping for their first Big Ten title in almost ten years.
3. Michigan: This may come as a shock to many, but Michigan still should have a
decent year, even though they a ton of question marks on offense.
Almost zero experience at quarterback, only one returning offensive
lineman and their two best wide-receivers from last year now playing in
the NFL could only mean bad things for Ann Arbor. Enter Rich Rodriguez…
you can say whatever you want about him, but this is a good choice for
the Maize and Blue. It will be very interesting to see how Rich Rod’s
spread offense will do against some of the defenses of this division.
The Wolverines defense should be one of the better ones of the Big Ten.
4. Illinois: The Illini are the upset pick of the Big Ten. Sure, Ron Zook’s crew are fun to watch but I am still not convinced they are better than
the three teams above them. Granted, they have a potential star
quarterback in Juice Williams (my favorite name since Kirby Dar Dar)
and a sure-fire top ten pick in cornerback Vontae Davis, but they still
need a couple more years of solid recruiting before they can contend
for the title. Watch out for wide-out Arrelious Benn. That kid can flat
out motor.
5. Penn State: This has to be JoePa’s last year, right? Look, I am going to keep this
simple. Penn State has a lot of talent this year and could easily jump
a few teams on this list, but until they get a “new” blood in the
coaching staff, they will stay a mediocre team. The injury to Sean Lee
did not help their ranking either. Expect Derrick Williams to have a
huge senior year and become a Biletnikoff award finalist.
6. Michigan State: Another sleeper team in the Big Ten, the Spartans have a lot of speed
and a ton of potential, but it all needs to come together to get them
to move up the standings. Losing Devin Thomas to the draft
hurt, but tailback Javon Ringer and quarterback Brian Hoyer are two of
the best offensive weapons in the Big Ten. An inexperienced offensive
and defensive-line could be troublesome, but the Spartans should have
enough fire-power to get them into a bowl game.
7. Purdue: In Joe Tiller’s swan song year, the Boilermakers are experienced
(13 starters returning) and have a top-flite quarterback in Curtis
Painter. The defense is going to have to keep the points down if they
want to contend. They gave up an average of 26.5 points a game last
season, including 48 points in their bowl win against Central Michigan
8. Northwestern: The Wildcats are due to have their usual “surprising” season, where
experts pick them to finish at the bottom of the standings and they
emerge as one of the best Big Ten teams, winning eight to ten games.
Will it be this year? Only the Wildcats know. They do have some
exceptional offensive talent in quarterback C.J. Bacher and tailback
Tyrell Sutton. If they offensive-line can hold up, they should at least
be in every game this season. An easy non-conference should help their
push for a bowl bid.
9. Iowa: What has happened to the Hawkeyes? 12-13 the past two season and losses last season to Iowa State and Western Michigan have the fans in Iowa City looking to Kirk Ferentz to turn things
around. If he does not find his touch, you can bet he will be looking
for a new position very soon.
10. Indiana: They lost their big wideout in James Hardy, but quarterback
Kellen Lewis is back from suspension and could lead an exciting
offense. Lack of talent and depth should get the best of this group,
but they could bite some teams if they catch them sleeping.
11. Minnesota: They are returning the worst defense in the nation from last season and
thanks to the Gophers, Michigan was not the only Big Ten team to lose
to a D-I FCS opponent. Those pesky North Dakota State Bison got the best of them last season. At least they are getting a new field soon.
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Maybe the Bengals should give us a "money-back guarantee" Since
they have a waiting list the length on I-75...this probably wouldn't
work...but they should offer us, the fans, an opportunity to get our
hard-earned / easily spent money back if the Bengals tank it. Maybe
that would motivate MIke Brown to get a GM and start winning.
Better yet...a precedent has been set. Thank you Stanford! The
Stanford athletics marketing department has little choice but to take a
big chance and hope that the payoff finally comes - first on the
football field and then, maybe, in the stands of its sparkling but
half-empty stadium. The deal works like this: New season-ticket and new
"Family Plan" buyers can ask for the "Gridiron Guarantee," and if
unsatisfied with the "entertainment value" at season's end, the cost of
the season tickets will be refunded.
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Manning won't play in tonight's game Indy Star He might
be in uniform for Thursday night’s preseason finale against Cincinnati
in Lucas Oil Stadium, but he all but certainly won’t play. He said
Tuesday that he planned to be ready for the Colts’ Sept. 7
regular-season opener against the Chicago Bears.
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Palmer won't either....obviously "I mean, I'm healthy, I could play, (it's) just not in the cards this
week, I think mainly because we played Saturday and turn around and
play again on Thursday," said Palmer, who had a protective brace on his
nose and packing in his left nostril. "I just want to be 100 percent
and healthy and feeling great going into the Baltimore game."
Name: Allison Michelle Humbert School: The Ohio State University Birthdate: October 12, 1987 Hometown: Green, Ohio Year: Sophomore Major: Undecided
1. I love Ohio State, but I almost went to: Kent State
2. My favorite class is: Human Development and Family Sciences.
3. Movies I can't live without:How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Dumb & Dumber, RENT, Mean Girls, Radio. I could go on forever!!!
4. Music I can't live without: ALL Country- Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Justin Timberlake, The Beatles...I listen to pretty much anything!!
5. TV shows I can't live without:Grey's Anatomy, ELLEN, Full House, Friday Night Lights
6. One misconception about cheerleaders: That we aren't real athletes. Our season is longer than many other
sports and we practice/train just as hard as any other athelete. Not to
mention all the injuries cheerleaders have from performing very
dangerous skills!
7. My favorite sport is: Basketball & Wrestling. I love the intensity!
8. My favorite professional sports teams are: the Cleveland Cavs & Cleveland Indians
9. My one guilty pleasure is: Coldstone Creamery
10. My best physical feature: my smile :)
11. Strange and unusual fact about me: I used to play the trombone & violin.
12. My friends would be surprised to know that I: used to be obsessed with X-Men & WWF Wrestling when I was younger. (Thanks to my older brother!)
13. Favorite foods: Any kind of pasta, chicken, peanut butter and chips & salsa!
14. Five people I'd like to have dinner with (living or dead): Steve Irwin, Julia Roberts, Ellen DeGeneres, My grandfather Julius Lettrich, and Kelly Ripa.
15. Three people who annoy me: Richard Simmons, Rosie O'Donnell & Andy Dick
16. Next risk I want to take: Scuba-diving! I love the ocean.
17. Typical day: Wake up, class, practice, study, relax with some friends then bed to rest up for the same thing the next day!!
18. I think facial hair on guys is: HOT...but only the scruffy look!
19. If I won the lottery, the first thing I'd buy: Plane tickets to travel around the world! I love vacations!!!
20. Describe the worst date you ever went on: I've been lucky enough to never experience a horrible date!
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ESPN pays $2.25 billion for SEC rights For
those of you UK fans looking for an SEC TV Network...sorry, your SOL.
The Southeastern Conference has signed a 15-year deal with ESPN
reportedly worth more than $2 billion to televise sporting events,
including football and men's and women's basketball. The agreement
announced Monday is the longest ESPN has ever
signed and matches the length of the powerhouse league's deal with CBS
earlier in August. The deal begins with the 2009-10 season and ends the
league's look into starting a network to carry its sporting events.
ESPN will have rights to every SEC home football game not on
the network package and all league matchups will be shown on some
outlet, including at least 20 a year on ESPN or ESPN2. That includes
two primetime Thursday night matchups and Saturday night games.
Thursday, August 28, 2008, 09:32 AM EST [Ohio State]
The Ohio State Buckeyes kick-off their 2008 football season this Saturday against Youngstown State in Ohio Stadium. The Buckeyes are picked to win the Big 10. Chris Wells was picked as the preseason offensive player of the year. James Laurinaitis is the preseason defensive player of the year. Let's face it...this game could be a massacre. However, we all know that Jim Tressel will not allow his former team to be absolutely embarrassed in front of 100,000 people. I think that the Buckeyes will build a comfortable lead, then grind it out on the ground, all the while playing excellent defense. Actually, I cannot see Youngstown State scoring a touchdown. A lot of Ohio State players should see action on Saturday, on both sides of the ball.
I want to see the special teams step up their game from last year. Coach Tressel has always said that the punt is the most important play in football. If the Buckeyes have to punt, lets make sure the coverage is sound. Also, seeing a scarlet jersey return one for a touchdown would be nice to see as well. The biggest thing for the special teams is no blocked field goals!
I don't need to see Todd Boeckman throw for 300 yards and 4 touchdowns. I just want to see him control the offense, complete most of his passes and most of all...no interceptions. The game plan for Youngstown State should not be so complicated that he, or a receiver, makes a mental mistake. I am kind of anxious to see Terrelle Pryor. Coach Tressel says that he is learning a lot from Todd Boekman. If you take Boeckman's leadership and knowledge combined with Pryor's athletic ability and talent, you have something really special in the making.
My prediction is Ohio State 41, Youngstown State 3.
Here are some interesting nuggets:
Jim Tressel is 73-16 in seven years at Ohio State
The Buckeyes have not lost to an Ohio opponent since falling to Oberlin in 1921, 7-6
The Buckeyes are 106-8-4 in home openers, winning the last 29 in a row
They are 379-105-20 in Ohio Stadium since it opened in 1922
OSU returns 20 starters from last year, the most in the Big 10
My book just got reviewed over at the Pagan Book Reviews site. And I am happy to see words like "awesome" and "must-have". Go read it :) and you can find all kinds of other book reviews there too, it's a neat site.
This month saw another shameful and furtive closure of a fine Catholic church – SS Peter and Paul, in New Brighton on the tip of the Wirral peninsula, whose dome used to serve as a landmark to sailors and which is now an empty monument to the folly of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.
You can find the story in a Catholic Herald opinion piece by the Catholic writer Andrew M Brown (not to be confused with the Church Times hack Andrew Brown). Here are some extracts:
Angry parishioners from the campaign group SOUL (Save Our Unique Landmark) accuse the diocese of, to put it mildly, lacking transparency. It is true that the consultation period was abruptly cut short by eight months. SOUL says the diocese had in any case made up its mind some time before. It is also a fact - the vicar general, Mgr John McManus, admitted it - that as early as September and November last year, the Diocese held "exploratory" meetings with a developer called Urban Splash.
In the spring of this year the Diocese of Shrewsbury finalised an agreement to share the Anglican church a mile down the road, All Saints, and subsequently began paying to have it refurbished. The diocese neglected to mention any of these developments - until they were safely wrapped up - to the lay faithful whom they were supposedly consulting.
Then, in a fascinating twist, the Vatican got involved. On May 2, the Congregation for Clergy wrote to parishioner Cathy Nelson to say the Bishop [Brian Noble of Shrewsbury] had "assured" them he "had no current plans to close the Church of SS Peter and Paul". How could Bishop Brian have made such an assurance? In July Mrs Nelson alerted the Congregation to the announcement of closure. It responded that "the Congregation must evince surprise" at the scheme to share "a local church of a Protestant denomination" and "hastens to assure you that, in the information provided by the diocese, there is no indication that any such novel plan is in the offing." Such a plan "would...naturally, be of concern". Why did the diocese not mention the church-sharing plan in the information it gave the Vatican?
Good question; but the plan is going ahead regardless. So much of what Catholic dioceses do these days, particularly relating to church closures, is furtive. And that's not just my opinion: it's held by the Church's own architectural advisers, whose attempts to protect Catholic patrimony are constantly thwarted by Magic Circle diocesan bureaucrats with the numbers of property developers programmed into their mobile phones.
Full coverage of the US Elections 2008 Much excitement because Bill Clinton has endorsed Obama, supposedly with some sincerity. Countless BBC correspondents reported his pronouncement on the race for the White House with much solemnity. But even if Bill was being sincere, the question is: how would we ever know?
Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic Convention
The old Clinton hokum gets worse with every outing. I recall his 2006 appearance at the Labour conference, when he was greeted with much enthusiasm by the delegates. They sat bolt up-right waiting for his words of wisdom and the old stager crinkled his nose, narrowed his eyes, put on his best Elvis voice and launched into an endless parable about African villages as a metaphor for society and something called Ubuntu. It is drawn from Bantu, a southern African language, and relates to a Zulu idea: umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu - meaning that "a person is only a person through other people". You don't say.
After a while the Labour grins became fixed. One could almost see the thought bubble forming above the heads of the audience and framing a question: How much more of this rubbish does Clinton have left in him?
The answer, unfortunately, is reams of the stuff. At least Obama has done the world a favour and his defeat of Hillary means we are spared four more years of Bill's tosh.
The new director of Demos, Richard Reeves, will, it appears, hit the ground running. He is due to take up his post in September and has published several thought-provoking articles in the run up.
"Will the Internet kill think tanks?", he asked in the Guardian. Heargued that "thinktanks win their influence either through intimacy with their principal political ‘clients' or through independent technical expertise", but that their power may wane "in an era of online networking, blogs and wikipedia."
At the same time, in A question of character in Prospect magazine, he explored how the need for "good character" was emerging as a key area for both the left and the right. British society, he argued, is not broken "in any meaningful sense", but if it became composed of individuals without "a sense of personal agency or self-direction; an acceptance of personal responsibility; and effective regulations of one's own emotions", all attempts at social inclusion or harmony would be doomed.
The interesting thing is that these two arguments are linked in a way that he did not explore.
Reeves recognised, in the Prospect article, that character is dangerous territory for politicians, tempting them to "will what cannot be willed."
It's actually worse than that. It is treacherous, indeed electorally suicidal, "don't have the capability to deliver on my promises", "go on, call me a hypocrite if you dare" territory.
Character may end up being a problem for politicians but it is not a political problem. Good character is formed, above all, by the strong personal relationships nurtured by family, community and civil society. And each of these is, by definition, not government. Government may be able to create the conditions for each to flourish but it cannot, by almost by definition, deliver on the promise of good character.
This is not, of course, a new observation. Political theologians Oliver and Joan Lockwood O'Donovan have argued that it is one of the most important lessons of St Augustine's City of God tells us, they argue, that:
"It is the deep groundswell of social cohesion, the corporately felt commitments and unarticulated impulses that really determine the character of communities. These make the rational plans and conscious judgements of their leaders look like waves on the surface of the ocean."
But it is a new problem for us, living at the fag end of the modern period during which political will became the one, true gospel. We are now so locked in to this "politicians delivering a better Britain" model that changing the script will be painful.
All this may seem like a greater problem for the Left than the Right. After all, the Left has traditionally made more of Government's ability to solve problems. Now, faced with a problem that lies largely outside the political sphere, it is left somewhat unarmed.
But it is also a problem for the Right. It is a long time since the Conservatives did any serious conserving. The Right's almost monomaniacal focus on the market as a "solution" over the last three decades has blinded it to the fact that the market does not necessarily foster "good character" and may, if allowed to eat its way through communities and civil society, actively destroy it.
And it is also, returning to where we started, a problem for think tanks, at least conventional ones. If, as Reeves observes, thinktanks owe their influence to intimacy with politicians, when those politicians are faced with a challenge, like character-building, that is ultimately beyond their capacity, thinktanks risk losing their influence with them. Maybe, for thinktanks to remain influential, they will need to be active on the ground, in church halls, just as much as in Whitehall.
There is much speculation in all this. The Left and the Right will continue to proclaim Britain wrecked or recovering, depending in which is in power, and thinktanks will continue to tell their political friends that they have just had the best idea since Child Tax Credits. And the population will continue to say they are disillusioned with all of them.
But if character does emerge as a political problem, it may do more than cause ministers and their minions to scratch their heads. It may show that they, like the emperor, are wearing rather fewer clothes than they thought.
Today the TaxPayers' Alliance has released a report, The Burden of Green Taxes, that lays bare the amount we are all paying in green taxes and charges and examines whether that burden is justified.
Since 1993 when Ken Clarke introduced the Fuel Duty escalator in order to meet "our Rio commitment", green taxes have become a massive burden on ordinary families. Green taxes, net of road spending, now stand at a colossal £24.2 billion, nearly £1,000 per household.
This is quite an imposition and those who pay the most are those in rural communities who need to drive to get around, the elderly paying more to heat their homes and manufacturing industries already struggling with competition from the developing world.
Green taxes are generally paid in addition to other taxes like VAT, so they constitute a premium that you wouldn't want to place on vulnerable consumers and industries without good reason.
The reason that has been given - by the environmental movement, politicians of all three parties, and those economists who support "Pigovian'" taxation - is that we need to correct for "externalities".
Those externalities are the harms to the rest of humanity that someone's greenhouse gas emissions create by their expected contribution to climate change. Under the logic that politicians use to justify green taxes, the tax should be set to compensate exactly for those externalities. In this case, that means that the tax should be set at what economists call the "social cost of carbon", which measures the harms of each ton of carbon dioxide emitted.
That makes the social cost pretty important and estimates have been constructed by a number of different groups. We compared estimates from the most respected academics in the field, international institutions and Government departments. It turns out that British green taxes are already set between £7.9 billion and £21.8 billion too high, between £316 and £872 per household.
The massive burden of Fuel Duty and Vehicle Excise Duty, the Landfill Tax, the Climate Change Levy and Renewables Obligation place a huge price on carbon that just can't be supported by mainstream estimates of the social costs of British greenhouse gas emissions.
Politicians are promising more green taxes and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is getting into its stride, but the intellectual justification for further interventions just isn't there.
Green taxes have failed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; in fact, emissions have risen since Labour came to power.
Cuts before then were a one-time gain from the dash for gas. Politicians have been trying to tax people into replacing fossil fuels before alternatives are ready and the result has been that the taxes haven't delivered the green goods.
At this stage - when we've had high fossil fuel prices for several years and consumers and businesses face excessive green taxes - there is already every financial reason for people to adopt alternatives to fossil fuels.
Making the burden of green taxes ever heavier is an unjustified and deeply unwelcome imposition on families struggling to make ends meet in a slowing economy.
If you want to find out how green taxes are affecting your area, we have also produced local estimates of how much people in each local authority area are paying in green taxes and the extent to which those taxes are excessive. Those estimates can be found on our site.
Teen chases mother with knife after change to computer privileges Authorities say a Palm Bay teen chased his mother with a knife and beat
his brother with a sugar cane because of a change to his computer
privileges.
Man tells deputies he slept through car chase The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says a man who led a deputy on a
high-speed pursuit told investigators he was sleeping, not driving,
during the chase.
Robber curses out judge at sentencing The mother of all curse words flew across courtroom D Monday as
16-year-old home invasion robber Richard Brantley was sentenced to 25
years in prison.
Man sentenced after sending hostages for beer An Illinois man who police say held five people hostage in a motel in
Fort Madison, Iowa, was arrested after he sent 2 of his hostages on a
beer run.
15-year old charged in killing another 15-year old Ramsey County prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old boy with
second-degree murder in the shooting death of another 15-year-old who
refused to shake his hand.
Blogger arrested over leak of Guns N' Roses songs A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N'
Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site was arrested Wednesday
and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000.
Police say man swam nude in neighbor's pool Police say a man who lives in a town just north of New York City has
been caught with his pants down - skinny-dipping in his neighbor's
swimming pool
Got me a new job, I just started working at AT&T and Cingular Wireless on 8-25-2008. I am a Sales Representative for a Cellular phone Kiosk at Rosedale Mall in Roseville we are located on first floor of the mall near Caribou Coffee, ALDO, The Walking and Cache' store, So stop by and I will hook you up with some discounts. I am always working from 9am-6pm so, when you get there just ask for me "Saly". Peace! See you guys there.
Yes, I DO Dave in The Morning and Do KDWB All Day Long when I am at work. I mostly listen to the KDWB on my cell phone.
