http://search.candy.com/b/q?k=candy canes&sn=160447305
http://www.candy.com/Atkinson_c_159.html?gclid=CKmhyJjMhLQCF...
Here you go... factory is located in Lufkin TX but they are probably not organic.
Money Matters - Part 14
Thanks!!!
Prob BBQ flavored!! ^_^
I saw the candy link had chocolate filled candy canes. Sounds interesting.
Yum on the bbq... I got a recipe for bbq'd pecans this week and plan to try it.
Hooray, Sherrie!!!!
Jen if you are still looking for candy canes here are some natural ones made in the US http://www.naturalcandystore.com/category/usa-candy-canes
Yuupp - Sherrie is a Key Floral Inc. emp. Worked 10 hours today. I will take some pics of the 2 stores I have.
Oh - I got a raise. 22 cents per hour & have been earning vacation time since I started 4 months ago. Why 22 cents, its an equation. I wont even go there. The 2nd store I got is HUGE compared to my hometown store.
Congrats!
congrats!
Good going Sherrie!
I have been with library for three years and no raise. Our co library budget has been cut more than about any other county agency. THis despite a co executive who keep a tight rein on school system. tight as possible.
I found a small juvenile level paperback book about unicorns, mislabeled. In the course of sending it to headquarters and asking about it, the circulation person looked at this book on Amazon and found one selling for $100. Should the library sell this book, or label it and circulate it, as if it were a cheap paperback? Couldn't someone steal the book, pay the $4? replacement cost fine, and then sell it?
Whoa, if they were smart they would sell it and go buy a cheap replacement and then give you a bonus with the extra
Retired library books don't fetch the high prices that other books do, and I have noticed that the offered prices on Amazon don't necessarily reflect the true sale price of books. That said, I am sure that someone going through the retired books and listing them on Amazon or/and HalfBay could generate som money for the library. Maybe that could be an opportunity for a volunteer.
It'd be great to have a knowledgeable volunteer, come through and look at the shelves and flag anything with potential. But as you say, by the time it has been 'worn' on our shelves it may not be worth it.
Anyone wants to buy new fiction a few months after it comes out- and does not mind library covering- may be able to do it dirt cheap at your local library. We get dozens to satisfy requests for new fiction, and then they all have read it in a few months, and we can't keep all those copies. Quite often people donate fairly new fiction in excellent condition, ditto, can't use.
Who thinks patrons could or should pay some small fee for the service of getting brand new (fiction) books on reserve? Its simply entertainment. Shouldn't the library system be for education first?
The education function of our library is subsidized by the late fees, partly generated by checkout of entertainment, including all sorts of videos (movies, HBO series etc) and music cds. It's hoped that having entertainment (materials, and internet access (Facebook!)) gets people in to use more stuff.
OK I will quit now, everyone has to be getting bored ...
Not bored I find it interesting how these things work
Top line jobs number looks good - 146K, beating 'expectations'. However, as usual - you have to look at the details. First, October was revised lower. Revisions always seem to be downward. More importantly, thousands more left the work force, yielding the seemingly better 7.7% rate. But if the labor force was the same as it was in Jan of '09, the rate would be 10.7%. That puts things in better perspective. As Jay Leno says, all we have to do is keep convincing people to give up and we'll have that pesky rate down to 5% in no time.
Rate for gov workers only 3.8%. Priorities.
I can bet that top end govt pensions and benefits are not on the chopping block either, even if they are 'insignificant' in amount to the whole budget.
Great Jen, but I'm afraid I have used up the interesting stuff now LOL!
Unlimited corporate donations will be accepted for the inauguration.
Hey, if you can't afford to throw a party, just don't have one...
sallyg - It wouldn't be too time consuming to use a bar code scanner to upload the ISBN numbers and check the selling price. The books that are worth the most are the obscure ones that someone needs for research and they won't mind the retired library markers. I will bet there is a software program somewhere that is already designed to check prices by ISBN numbers. There might be a book reseller interested in having first choice of the retired books for a monthly fee.
AYankeeCat- I can only hope that this has been considered by the Powers that Be. As a rather pedestrian county system, we may not have that much of real value in that sense.
I have The Death of a President by William Manchester, and next year is the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Cross fingers, if there's any interest in this book, it may be in the next year.
You aren't kidding Darius! I notice I haven't gotten any corporate sponsorships, hence my lack of parties here.
Hey they should get Hostess bakers to give them a cake party.
Let them eat cake...
So typical of CA mentality.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/07/166745290/school-district-owes-1-billion-on-100-million-loan
Say hi to our new neighbors! wonder when they'll start up buying all the land?
According to the National Association of Realtors, non-American buyers accounted for $82 billion in home sales last year. More than $7 billion of that is by the Chinese, who are now the second largest foreign home purchasers after Canadians. They're buying high-end, multimillion-dollar homes from California to New York and paying cash.
Paid $3.80 per gal today. Thought it was going down?!!
Sure, they have earned it...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/10/3135652/report-mgrs-at-fannie-freddie.html
Saw that, and worse, their CEO is supposed to be on the short list for next Treasury Secy! Outrageous. This in addition to all the other underhanded stuff they do.
sheesh
gas is 3.37 here
About 70% of people in a poll said taxes on small business should not be raised. (250K level currently pushed) Same % say no cuts to entitlements such as pushing back age for SS or Medicare. Duhhhhh.
And now so many companies are moving up their dividend payouts to avoid any increase in taxes on them next year. Many will not issue any dividends at all next year as a result. So HOW will this raise more money?? Interestingly, many such as the Washington Post company PUSHED these tax increases. And one of their biggest investors who will benefit big-time? Warren Buffett. The hypocrisy astounds.
Hang tough!
schicken- remember the learning curve, I think there's a complex learning curve to any new role, and pretty soon you will pass a point where it becomes more automatic and less of an effort. No burgers, no burgers, no burgers...Hang in there
Our gas going down, pd 3 17 today, others near here 3 21. Honda Civic getting 28.9 mpg around the burb.
The very rich/ advantaged can always use their means to improve their situation in certain ways. its a big game.
Victor - I read through most of that. One of my main takeaways is that imposing furloughs is a bad economic decision for states. Don't you think?
My main takeaway is you don't over hire and you don't pay them ludicrous wages and benefits. It's the people's money, not some company's.
I've posted about the killer tax on medical device companies that will go into effect Jan 1st as part of the healthcare act. Now 18 senators who voted for it must have finally read it and are urging that the tax be put off. Duhhhhh.
Here is a good idea! http://www.foodrenegade.com/will-allens-growing-power/
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