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JDRF Hope Gala: 5:30 p.m. Feb. 2, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem. Honoring Ron and Linda Wellman. Begins with cocktail reception and silent auction. Dinner, live auction and program begins, 7 p.m. Black tie optional. 336-373-1768 or piedmont@jdrf.org.

The fees! The fees are everywhere! As a rule of thumb, the collection of taxes, fees, and surcharges above the stated subscription price ranged from about 15% to 30% of any given customer’s total bill (including bills we looked at but didn’t publish). Taxes and state charges are, of course, highly variable. State and local taxes ranged from 0% to about 9%, depending on where subscribers live. Likewise, some states charge telecom taxes or franchise fees, while others don’t; all told, it makes for one big mess to compare different locations in any apples-to-apples way. Similarly, some fees that are technically added by the companies — to recoup state or federal charges — are fixed by other entities, and so the cable companies don’t have much to do with it. But then there are the pure revenue fees — those times where cable companies are making bank by charging you money they could just have put in their packages. The biggest bugaboos we saw?

For a few miles our route takes us through West Virginia. We pass a sign to Harpers Ferry. “Have you ever been there?” he asks, probably knowing the answer since I’ve told him I’ve seen none of the Civil War sites. Without any discussion he drives off the Interstate, and we make our way to this iconic place that means nothing more to me than a name: John Brown.

Stearns also received the Quality Service Pinnacle Producer Award, which is based on customer satisfaction survey results.

Cafe crisis: A charity-run mobile coffee van in Globe Lane draws the ire of a cafe operator who claims the $1 coffees it offers has drawn a “druggie” crowd into the lane.

It is all focused on alleviating some of the pain for about 150,000 LIRR commuters who must somehow get to and from Grand Central every day. Currently, they have to joust, push and elbow their way to platforms at crowded Penn Station, which also accommodates Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, adding up to 40 minutes to their daily commutes.

The Acoustic Cinch Fit loops through the end of any instrument strap, and its magnetic security clasp makes sure it stays in place. The cinch clamping action also allows easy application and removal, utilizing the weight of the instrument to remain locked onto the endpin so the guitar is always held securely. And with no strap modification required, now you can easily attach any strap to acoustic endpin jacks.

But eight years into its tablet experiment, Apple continues to struggle with the same question from users: Can an iPad actually replace a laptop?

Lihua International (OTCMKTS:LIWA) and Arconic (NYSE:ARNC) are both industrial products companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, risk, profitability, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings and valuation.

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“However, the royalty which Apple Inc. and other patent holders initially demanded from users of FireWire (US$0.25 per end-user system) and the more expensive hardware needed to implement it (US$1–$2), both of which have since been dropped, have prevented FireWire from displacing USB in low-end mass-market computer peripherals, where product cost is a major constraint.”

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