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I appreciate your imput guy4omaha..And I share your hope that no M of O 'takeover' ever happens.. Now moving on relevant 'Rumor' discussion.. ..Ciao..LiO....Peace Don't quite understand all the reason for the digs... these phenomena of consolidation and buyouts are interesting to me and I think per...

guy4omaha

:?: Hmm.. I'm in town Saturday from 10 until whenever i leave for the game.. maybe 2... and sometime Sunday.. ;) Dang, I have wanted to attend everyone of these this summer in Omaha and Des Moines. But I have been out of town every single time. This weekend I am off to Massachussets. Again, I can't...

guy4omaha

Swift wrote:The Qwest art isn't that bad. Someone should have told them though that that style of abstract-sculpture-art stopped be relevant about 30 years ago.

Who knows? Perhaps in another 30 years it will be the rage again.

guy4omaha

Fortune 500 or not, it could still get swallowed by its larger competitors. Lets hope that the push to develop and sell some of its land holdings will allow for some capital infusion into its core competencies and an increase in revenues. It would hurt for Mutual to get swallowed and lose some empl...

guy4omaha

Cowboy, I have no facts that say anything is pending. And I certainly hope it doesn't happen. But to remain independent in any industry is darn difficult today. My old employer in a different industry was number five in marketshare. But because it couldn't keep up with number 1 and 2 it had to sell ...

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I somehow find it a bit hard to believe that a Fortune 500 company like Mutual of Omaha is a 'small player' in the insurance industry..Just my thought..Even if it's 'all relative'..M of O is still a Fotune 500 company.. What am I missing?.. ..Ciao..LiO....Peace as others have said here, the threat ...

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I highly doubt Mutual of Omaha will be buying Principal Financial Group, a company that has twice as much revenue as Mutual. Keep dreamin'. Wish it weren't true but Mutual of Omaha is a pretty small player compared to the bigger insurance companies in its fields. Below is a sampling of industry sta...

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Everyone has their opinion. I am a little older at 42 than the average age here and I have a bad back, so my snow blower is one of my most prized possessions. Another consideration is how early you have to be to work. For me to blow out the drive way during a decent snow, it means I have to get up a...

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Great job with the photos DTO. It looks like your Vantage points were either on the field or in the Central stands when you were shooting the skyline. When I was at Friday night's opening game, I was in the visitor stands about halfway up at the 50 yard line. From that vantage point you are looking ...

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I was at the Central - North game last night. Wow!!! The atmosphere in the stadium were great. Sat in the visitor stands and the views of downtown looking South and mostly east at the skyline from the hill was a really neat vantage point. From the visitor stands you saw just a portion of the FNB Tow...

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more likely to drop their prices to stir up business I see you future father-in-law's point but also need to see that for that week or so he is making a good profit by jumping up the gas prices. Especially i his station would be one of those that jumps up every few hours although nothing has change...

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I probably should add that the practice as a principle is not done with an intent to price gouge. I am not naive enough to think that there aren't some who are gouging and using this principle as an excuse.

guy4omaha

I think it was KM3 was reporting on the gas tonight and they quoted an unnamed gas station owner saying that some stations raise the price in anticipation of what they are going to have to pay for their next load. So in other words they are charging us a lot more for gas they bought a few days earl...

guy4omaha

I hate BP (British Petroleum to me) because they changed the theme of their stations to that pukey, eyesore pale yellow and green.

guy4omaha

Zeph,

That collection on skyscraperpage.com was about the best compilation I have ever seen. Makes me proud. Thank you very much.

guy4omaha

Yes do try Pizza King.

guy4omaha

It's great because they have a lot of old and rare movies that you wouldn't be able to find at Blockbuster or Hollywood anyway! I am always looking for the old Mel Brooks movies to share with my teenage sons because Mel's movies are so STUPID. Does Netflix have some of these titles? Sherlock Holmes...

guy4omaha

I have a feeling this person was either drunk, high, about to get drunk, about to get high, or like 15. My guess is Lincolnite is about 15 or maybe younger. Doesn't represent Lincoln very well at all. I about fell off my chair when he said he was married because I honestly thought I was reading the...

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admin wrote:(and a few of us aren't THAT 'ugly' either!).

Speak for yourself Jeff.

guy4omaha

My recollection is that there were so many naysayers to the project when the developers were trying to raise funds and get all the regulatory approvals that they didn't think they could get approval for the exit as well. It seemed to me the developers thought that if they could at least get the thin...

guy4omaha

cool. I have been meaning to get on board with Netflix. This is just the excuse to get me off my duff on this.

guy4omaha

Crossroads has had plenty of up and down cycles and rebirths before. This mall being Omaha's Oldest "active" mall really has seen changes. Does anyone else remember the jagged roof with all the little peaks on top of the stores between Brandeis and Sears. And all the old signage on the old...

guy4omaha

Count me in as a double secret member of the I hate hot-humid weather club and also a member of the height obsessed crowd. However, I did like hot-humid days in my youth when my only worry was what time we would start water-skiing each day. In youth there was this nice factor about females in bikini...

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Just had to show you this: "Omaha is never mentioned in the same breath as Boston or Chicago and likely would lose a status derby to Wal-Mart headquarters Bentonville, Ark. Omaha, as a business center. . ." This is an example of the tripe the reporter added to the article. He says Omaha wo...

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Omaha received a full page spread with graphics and sidebars on Page 7B of today's USAToday. The online version below doesn't have everything the print version does. http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2005-08-07-omaha-usat_x.htm The story is a mixture of praise (mostly from the Omahan's quoted ...

guy4omaha

A great shot of Eppley looking south. http://www.kfest.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=There-and-Back-Again&id=DSCN0571a Zedmib: These are some pretty cool photos. If the rest of you didn't look through the rest of this photo album at the above link, go back and do so. Some very neat a...

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Guy4Omaha posted: 'You win, I am sorry I ever brought the "possibility" up. So how far into the future do you think it is before we see Colorado Springs as a larger city than Omaha???? Hey, it could happen. Omaha used to be a lot larger than Seattle ..... a very long time ago.'.. Don't be...

guy4omaha

Okay... Okay already. :lol: I am not willing to bet it will happen. Even though you would have to find a way to collect it from a corpse. I agree it's not probable even if it is possible. However, (you knew there would be a clause like this didn't you)... the population of the country as a whole is ...

guy4omaha

My oh my, we've all hit a nerve. DTO, I am only calling them as I sees them. Just like you. While I am sure you will disagree, I just think you are not giving Des Moines proper credit. Central Iowa is different than eastern Nebraska. And in some ways, in my opinion, better. I will support my city an...

guy4omaha

[quote="Omaha Cowboy"]Guy4Omaha posted: 'While I hope I am wrong, I suspect that in the long run Des Moines will be the larger "METRO" of our two cities.'.. While I happen to disagree with the body of your post here (but respect your opinion at the same time)..The above gave me q...

guy4omaha

Omaha (other than the first three days of my life) is my birthplace and my home. It is also the place I returned home to after living in Iowa for 10 years. Omaha is my baby, my pride and my joy. However, Des Moines and central Iowa do not look up to Omaha. Only a portion of the population of the wes...

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Last week Northwest Airlines filed an application with the Department of Transportation to operate flights between Omaha and Cancun. They are proposing seasonal service to start this winter. It will probably only be once or twice per week... but you've got to start somewhere. Eppley has a weird met...

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Yep, and of cities with 400,000 or more Omaha rounds out the Baker's Dozen at the top of the list of fastest growing cities. Look at the list below and we are the only city in the top 13 that isn't in the sunbelt, isn't on an ocean in the sunbelt or doesn't have a shitload of casinos again in the su...

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first of all wags, great skyline shot. Makes me salivate. I think it was earlier in this thread that a lot of us were speculating on which companies would be candidates to build high rises. I was talking to a fairly high placed engineer with an architecture firm headquartered downtown who told me on...

guy4omaha

You have made me "homesick." I lived in Harlan for five years. Loved it there. If I could find a way to make a living there, I would go back.

guy4omaha

If it is not too late to get in ... I have June 18th open. Out of town commitment for me on the 11th. Echo the thank you thoughts of everyone else Coyote.

guy4omaha

Projectman, I am just being silly now and your point was well taken then. I have to be careful about ending up on that one soapbox in particular. This most recent post was my way of going there without going there. Well not too bad anyway.

Make a heck of a lot of sense doesn't it.

guy4omaha

Bradley, those were great. I am not qualified to be a critic because I don't know jack about photography other than what pleases my own eye. But I thought the angles of the Qwest Center and the Tower were very unique (at least compared to what I have seen).

Do some more.

guy4omaha

Who needs Saks and Nordstroms? We're guys. Most of us anyway. Right. And we have Scheels, Dicks, Canfields with Bass Pro and Cabella (probably) on the way. Do we have a Black and Decker Outlet Store at Nebraska Crossing? I will probably go to my grave marveling at how much of the world's economy re...

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talk about projecting an image of an inferiority complex. Now Jeff . . . you should remember that this is one of my favorite threads to go off on the deep end with . . . and Projectman gets tired/irritated real quickly when I do this. But I agree. We have so much to be positive about we don't have ...

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