| A tough nut: Hard work rewarded in black walnuts
But we're getting ahead of the story. For his first foray, the former Bulldogs player did what countless other black walnut lovers have done: He threw the nuts on the driveway, got out the truck and started running over them. The hulls gradually slipped off. He still had to get through the thick shells. A broken pair of pliers and an $80 vise later, Fredenburg, his wife, Jennifer, and their 6-year-old son, Joseph Scherer, are slowly extracting the nut meat and selling it for $10 a cup on Craigslist.org. "It should be $100 a cup, as much work as it involves," Fredenburg says. "But it's fun." Black walnuts, beloved by an often rural fan base for their emphatic, slightly bitter flavor, make their way into stores in much the same way. An informal network harvests nuts from wild trees in the fall and takes them to more than 250 hulling stations scattered across the main growing region of 15 states in the Appalachians and the Midwest.
Donelson mom shows how to be your own boss
Becoming a parent completely changes one's perspective. So it was understandable that when Donelson's Kristin Hooper had her first child in 2003 she wanted to leave the corporate workplace as a pharmaceutical representative "in pursuit of owning my own day and life.'' .
January 2003
Sean Hackbarth says George W. Bush's massive tax cuts will allow Americans to pull their nation out of its current economic funk
The conservative case against a single federal code: A recent article by Bruce Walker on increased centralized government continues to draw responses. This week Robert S. Sargent Jr. takes Walker on
Leftist sacrifice-a-thon: The left is all about sacrifice these days. Unfortunately, writes Jackson Murphy, it's you that's supposed to be the lamb
Make your own explosives: Want some new ways to kill infidel Christians and Jews? Mii Almarkaz Alisslami Alilami has thoughtfully written a guide and Jeremy Reynalds says you can find it on the web
TV network's malfunctioning news: The impending paperback release of Bernard Goldberg's best-selling book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, reminds Alan Caruba of the morass the mainstream media is caught in
New Jersey's "smart guns," dead kids: Ted Lang says New Jersey wants all handguns to be "smart" but for some reason the state can't keep the children it cares for alive
Battling environmentalist myths: Steve Martinovich reviews Global Warming and other Eco-Myths a fine look at the science that disproves the environmentalist litany of dread
We the government: Forest firefighting season starts now: Worrying about Iraq is all well and good but John G.
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Show our brave boys respect
People should be falling over themselves to help these guys, yet they are treated like s***. It’s incredible to see young lads out in Iraq and Afghanistan doing things the SAS were doing ten years ago. These guys on six-month tours are seeing so much action they are veterans within days of arrival. And they are seeing more shot and shells than soldiers in the Second World War. In those days the military usually had enough personnel to divide their forces into three and rotate them, with one third in action while the other two thirds were held in reserve. Today, the Army is only tens of thousands strong and has little reserve. In Afghanistan a company second-in-command returned from leave to his 3 Para unit in Helmand Province and told his men: I don’t know why we’re bothering.
Orlando Web Design Company Pioneers the Development of Sales-Driven ...
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GM tackles glut of dealerships
Even after eliminating hundreds of U.S. dealerships in the last few years, General Motors Corp.'s massive sales network isn't shrinking fast enough. GM CEO Rick Wagoner said the automaker will look to step up dealer consolidations, specifically efforts to combine Pontiac, Buick and GMC shops into one channel in which a single dealership would sell all three brands."This is a frontier where we plan to increase our efforts," Wagoner said during a presentation this week to Wall Street analysts. "It's time to do that and the payoff is significant." GM reduced its dealer network by about 7 percent between 2005 and 2007, to 14,118 from 15,094 franchises. The automaker's consolidation efforts have centered on melding GMC, Pontiac and Buick dealerships into one line of stores.
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