Nordic Tugs to resume production

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Nordic Tugs plans to restart production to provide products for spring deliveries, the company announced.

The Burlington, Wash.-based company is continuing to take orders during the temporary suspension of production that it announced in August. Nordic Tugs boat owners, dealers and service yards are receiving parts and service support.

Most employees were to be furloughed during the shutdown. A skeleton staff was to field customer inquiries and maintain the plant to keep it prepared to resume production when business improves, the company said when the shutdown was announced.

The action “has been forced by the ongoing effects of the Great Recession and the reluctance of customers to order new boats,” according to the manufacturer.

Nordic Tugs has six domestic dealers and three international dealers that have inventory boats or boats available through the factory, the company said.

During the fall boat show season the company’s dealers have seen a great deal of interest in new boats, Nordic Tugs reports.

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Mmmm, $15,000 Gingerbread House

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A sure sign you have too much money is when you think about buying stuff like this:

$15,000 Gingerbread House

Edible Gingerbread Playhouse by Dylan’s Candy Bar

Nothing matches the childhood joy of building, admiring—then devouring—a holiday gingerbread house. This mouthwatering gift lets you expand that tradition with enough glee for all the children, grandchildren, godchildren, relatives, and lucky friends of all ages. This unique edible playhouse is handcrafted of 381 lbs. of gourmet gingerbread and 517 lbs. of royal icing by the expert confectioners at Dylan’s Candy Bar®. The munchable manor, which stands 6.6 feet high by 5.25 feet wide by 4.1 feet deep, incorporates the best confections from the world’s largest candy store in New York City. With literally thousands of signature gourmet sweets from which to choose, it is both artfully designed and decadently delicious. It includes giant cookies, lollipops, gummies, mints, gumdrops, and (of course) a candy-encrusted roof. There’s also a lollipop tree inside, just for good measure. CEO and self-proclaimed Candy Queen Dylan Lauren was inspired as a child when she watched the classic movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. With Dylan’s Candy Bar locations throughout the nation, she’s made all our dreams come true.

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Edible Gingerbread Playhouse by Dylan’s Candy Bar
Price 15,000.00

Friday Random Ten: 2010-10-15


NameArtistAlbumGenre
1. Life Is A Long SongJethro TullOriginal MastersRock
2. Owner Of A Lonely HeartYes & The London PhilharmonicSymphonic Music Of YesRock
3. I’m So CuteFrank ZappaSheik YerboutiAlternative & Punk
4. I Have Been In YouFrank ZappaSheik YerboutiAlternative & Punk
5. I Am A RockSimon & GarfunkelThe Best Of Simon & GarfunkelFolk
6. AbacabGenesisAbacabRock
7. Evenstar London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Voices Feat. Isabel BayrakdarianThe Lord Of The Rings: The Two TowersSoundtrack
8. FinaleOriginal Broadway CastRent [Disc 2]Soundtrack
9. Coming Back To LifePink FloydThe Division BellRock
10. Dear FatherYesTime And A WordRock

How to Tell if Your Mobile Home is Haunted

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  1. A can of Skoal mysteriously floats through the air.
  2. Blood drips out of your simulated wood paneling.
  3. The eyes on the velvet Elvis painting move.
  4. The room is spinning, and you’re not even drunk yet.
  5. That car in your front yard isn’t on blocks — it’s levitating by itself.
  6. Your dog, Bo, gets sucked into the TV set, and he’s blocking your view of rasslin’.
  7. That mysterious scratching below the floorboards? The Telltale Raccoon.
  8. The chain the ghost rattles is attached to his wallet.
  9. You feel an eerie presence every time “Freebird” plays on the radio.
  10. The trailer is shaking, but there’s no tornado in sight.
  11. Your Dale Earnhardt bed sheets have eyeholes cut in them.
  12. The ghost is completely invisible except for the tobacco juice running down his chin.
  13. Mysterious footsteps seem to be stomping out “Achy Breaky Heart.”
  14. There’s a funny howlin’ noise comin’ from the corn crib–no wait, that’s Jimmy.
  15. You hear strange moaning—but only during Shania Twain videos.
  16. You’re missing four PBR’s, and the missus only drinks Old Milwaukee.
  17. The lights turn on and off even though you paid the power bill.
  18. You hear blood-curdling screams, but both neighbors are still in jail.
  19. You get a mysterious phone call that says, “I know what you did last NASCAR race.”
  20. Instead of saying “boo” the ghost says “boo-ya’ll!”
  21. The veneer of window grime looks just like Calvin… and he’s peeing on YOU!!
  22. Instead of naked women, your playing cards, all of a sudden, have pictures of covered bridges on them.
  23. The folks on Jenny Jones discuss domestic problems that eerily resemble your own.
  24. You get a creepy feelin’ and it ain’t because Richard Simmons is on TV.
  25. You come home one day and it’s clean.

Great Lakes Limestone and Coal Trade Up

Maybe a good sign

Great Lakes Limestone and Coal Trade Up

Lakes Limestone Trade up 16% in September Shipments of limestone on the Great Lakes totaled 3,461,606 net tons in September, an increase of 3.6 percent compared to August, and 16 percent better than a year ago. However, the trade was down 10.7% compared to the month’s 5-year average.

Loadings at U.S. ports were up 342,000 tons compared to a year ago. Shipments from Canadian docks increase by 135,000 tons.

Year-to-date the Lakes limestone trade stands at 20.5 million net tons, an increase of 25.2% compared to a year ago, but a decrease of 15% compared to the five-year average for the first three quarters. Loadings at U.S. ports are up 28 percent compared to a year ago. Shipments from Canadian docks are 15.4% ahead of last year’s pace.

Great Lakes Coal Trade Up 32.5 Percent in September Coal shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 3,648,453 net tons in September, a decrease of 6.8% compared to August, but an increase of 32.5% compared to a year ago. Compared to the month’s five-year average, loadings were down 7.4%.

Shipments from Lake Superior rose noticeably from a year ago – 35% – and were on par with the month’s five-year average. Loadings in Chicago increased by 145% compared to a year ago and all but equaled the month’s five-year average. The coal trade out of Lake Erie increased 13.6% compared to a year ago, but was nearly 20% off September’s five-year average.

Year-to-date coal shipments stand at 22.3 million tons, an increase of 8.6% compared to a year ago. The better measure is the five-year average, and in that regard, 2010 loadings are 18.7 percent off the pace.

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