| Franchisee aims to score in business monitoring via the Web
Patrick, 46, sold his franchisee's stake in an outdoor lighting company last year, he wanted to build a different type of business, but wasn't sure what kind. But he had some clues. "I knew I didn't want to do retail, and I knew I didn't want to do fast food," he said. He also knew that he wanted a business that would serve other businesses, and that he wanted to make use of his technology background. After graduating form the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in information science in 1983, he had spent 20 years in information technology before launching the lighting company. After his experience with his first business, he was sold on the franchising model as a way of getting a business off the ground. It was while searching the Internet for franchising opportunities that he learned about Dallas-based Eyesthere, a company that offers businesses the ability to monitor their work sites long-distance via the Internet.
Forecast: Kickapoo to flood; Mississippi expected to remain within its ...
The mighty Mississippi River likely will remain within its banks in La Crosse this spring, but flood-weary Gays Mills to the south could take another hit from the Kickapoo River, forecasters said Friday.The Kickapoo, which flooded in August due to heavy rains, has a 90 percent chance this spring of reaching flood stage at Viola, Gay Mills and Steuben in southwestern Wisconsin, according to the National Weather Service long-range flooding forecast released Friday. .
Pledge to reclaim Scottish history for our children
Even many adults are in a similar position. They know all about the English/German kings, but lack any knowledge of their own kings, especially before that sad day in 1603 when one of our kings was foolish enough to accept the English throne.History is, and remains an important subject. We should know all about the origins of our society if for no other reason than to avoid repeating the same mistakes we have already made.Like other subjects on the Scottish curriculum, children should be taught Scottish history, geography, languages and literature, instead of being force fed foreign stuff in lieu. Why should our children continue to be taught about some numpty that burned some cakes, but no mention is made of Nechtan the Great? .
1968: 40 years later
As the news spreads, uprisings begin in 125 cities.
6 Eldridge Cleaver is arrested following a police ambush of Black Panthers in Oakland, Calif. He will later escape to Algeria, eventually to be joined by LSD guru Timothy Leary thanks to his own prison break, engineered by the radical Weather Underground.
8 The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, precursor to todays DEA, is established.
23 Student demonstrations lead to the occupation of five campus buildings at Columbia University, in protest of plans for building a gymnasium on land used by the neighboring Harlem community. When police end the sit-in with force eight days later, 700 people are arrested and more than 150 people injured.
27 Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy for the job being vacated by LBJ.
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