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eMarketer reports that beginning this year, Piper Jaffray anticipates that local online advertising spending will outpace the national spend within the U.S. marketplace. In 2008, national and local ad spending levels were equal. But while the research firm projects a drop in national online ad spending for 2009, local is expected to increase by 5 percent. Over the next five years, Piper Jaffray predicts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9 percent for local online ad dollars, compared with 4 percent for national Internet spending. Borrell Associates, on the other hand, forecasts only a 2.9 percent CAGR for local online ad spending over ... Read Full Story

Shares of IMAX Corp. jumped in Thursday trading after Piper Jaffray put its highest rating on the company, saying more theaters are likely to install its big screens as film distribution costs drop. Improving digital technology is a boon to IMAX, analyst James Marsh said in a note to investors Thursday. He initiated coverage with an "Overweight" rating and $14 price target. IMAX shares rose 89 cents, or 9.1 percent, to $10.68 in afternoon trading. "We see a virtuous cycle as digital technology massively reduces film distribution costs, which encourages more films to be released in IMAX format and then drives more IMAX screen ... Read Full Story

Many years ago, in the German town of Hamelin, the people had a terrible problem with rats. There were rats everywhere,Kids Stories Kids Stories: The Pied Piper is a post from: Folklore Collection in the World Read Full Story

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Justin Taylor has served us well by putting together a fantastic post explaining how Piper responded to God's call to the pastorate 30 years ago today . There are a number of links in the post that are all worth following. I will share just three extracts here which combine to make it clear that Piper definitely believed God himself was speaking to him back then, and reflect that he was under no illusions thanks to his dad as to what he was about to take on! I am sure that given his other comments about this subject, he would have considered such an ... Read Full Story