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Submitted by vincent_vega on Fri, 07/27/2007 - 7:50am.
Queen guitarist to complete doctorate
I have to admit, this is pretty cool. Goes against the common belief about people in rock n' roll. Smart guy, all the memebers of Queen had Degrees or Dipolmas, some with Honours. Great achievement and although he will never see this post, my congrats go out to him.
Submitted by vincent_vega on Fri, 07/27/2007 - 6:47am.
I don't normally paste other's comments from other sites but I did find this LTE in the Daily Zero intersting, especially the last lines.
I do believe what he says is true. What people either forget or like to ignore is that America was being attacked by radical fundamentalists long before the hated "Bushco" as some wag dubbed them, came along. Anyone who thinks otherwise seems to have their heads in the sand or is so blinded by hatred/dislike of the current President and Vice-President.
Submitted by vincent_vega on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 1:58pm.
I am saddened again by Benroya pulling their bid for the old, and newer Olympia Brewery. It seems that there never seems to be a straight answer about why different interested parties pass over the brewery property. The Schmidt family ran a very successful brewery business until consolidation in the brewing industry took its toll. The Schmidts tried to fight this by buying the ailing Theo. Hamm Brewing Company in 1975 and than merging with Lone Star Brewing in 1976. Unfotunately, Hamm's was too far gone, sales had slumped in a huge way and the fight with old Hamm distributors cost millions of dollars in legal fees that could have gone other places, like developing a new brew, or pushing advertising. Pabst bought Olympia Brewing in 1983, and then was the target of Paul Kalmanovitz and his brewery wrecking empire in 1985. After this, it was all downhill and fast. Under Kalmanovitz and the new business model, advertising was slashed and only the minimum of brewery maintainance was done. This would haunt the brewery later on. Under the Pabst/Stroh/Miller deal in early 1999, it seemed that the Tumwater Brewery would be reborn. In an asset swap, Miller bought the brewery and the Hamm's label from Pabst, for the best it would seem. New spending happened at the brewery, new machinery was installed, more workers hired and the grounds improved. About 4 short years later, Miller had turned into SABMiller and Tumwater was shut down. Numerous reasons made the rounds, the brewery was too small to fit into SABMiller's system, the fight with LOTT, Union unrest, and the years of neglect by Pabst of the brewery. Huge money needed to be spent to bring the brewery up to what SABMiller wanted and then it was still too small. |
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