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The plan here was to pen an article about QPR without solely concentrating on their billionaire owners and that helipad that comes out of the centre circle on non-matchdays. I'd also planned not to dwell on the R's prestigious talent, Morrocan international Adel Taarabt. That was going prove a much more difficult proposition.
It's not often that EFW rubs shoulders with 13,185 Championship fans, 464 of whom were from Coventry. In fact, this is the first game we've ever covered in this division, and we've been knocking around for the best part of three years. Have we become bored with visits to Spartak Trnava all of sudden? No, don't be daft. It just suited our schedule.
The Rangers faithful have been singing 'We're Queens Park Rangers and we're top of the league' for pretty much the whole of this season. This should carry a postscript of 'but traditional kick offs are a thing of the past'. Granted, it's not very catchy. But a quick flick through the (£3) match programme revealed this statistic: between their home game with Cardiff City back on November 27 and the visit of Leicester City on March 5, QPR would have played no home games on a Saturday at 3pm. Nothing. Nada. I'd give Norris McWhirter a bell if he was still with us. This must be a record?
So with The Hoops chief conjurer, Taarabt (second mention - Ed.) supposedly off limits, what can we talk about? Pubs any good to you? There's plenty of them in Shepherd's Bush. It's undoubtedly one of the reasons the BBC chose to build Television Centre here in the 1960s. What in life isn't better after two pints? My colleague, Huddo Hudson and I had the pick of these pubs before and after the match. All of which were within a Dave Challinor throw-in of Loftus Road.
The Green, Uxbridge Road. QPR fans only (in fact most of them are and won't always welcome Queens Park Strangers). A couple of likely lads who get in here, but in the main it's a thinking fan's boozer, with quite a few older supporters who frequent it. A few real ales, including some guest beers.
The White Horse, Uxbridge Road. A little more lively, with a pool table and mixture of QPR fans and locals, many of who are Irish. It's also a shrine to both Queens Park Rangers and, erm, Newcastle United. Fact.
The Coningham, Uxbridge Road. Much further down the road, this is another Irish QPR pub straight out of the 1970s. You're more likely to hear a few renditions of favourite Rangers chants past and present in here.
The British Queen, Uxbridge Road. Opposite the Coningham (see above for details) this is the pub of choice for old hooligans and young upstarts. When Millwall paid a visit earlier in the season, this is where problems occurred. As such, we put a line through it on the EFW notebook and moved on.
The Defector's Weld, Uxbridge Road. On the opposite corner to The Green is your archetypal middle-class establishment, with cool tunes, laid-back bar staff and pricey drinks. If you're looking for football banter, this is probably not for you.
The Springbok, South Africa Road. The nearest pub to the ground and as such is always rammed. It has been done up in the last couple of years so your feet don't stick to the carpet any more, but word is the banning of away fans has killed the atmosphere in here a little. A few unruly types occasionally pop in here to bait visiting supporters as they walk past. Plastic glasses on match days as well.
And if you want something to soak up the beer, then look no further than....
King Solomans, Uxbridge Road. It's a modest Lebanese cafe-cum takeaway which serves up fresh and inexpensive foodie delights.
So sporting my Sunday best Loftus Road trousers and man bag, I swung through the doors of the salubrious QPR press lounge with Mr Hudson and signed my name next to Barney Ronay (Guardian) and Simon Brotherton (BBC). Out came a tray of hot pies which were snapped up quicker than a new Argos catalogue. There was also a vat of soup on offer along with free coffee and beer. As we're professionals at EFW, we didn't touch the beer. And then we thought better of it and filled our boots.
Making your way into the back row of the press box is easier than it sounds. I had to climb over a couple of chaps from the radio and across the lap of Ivan Speck from the Daily Mail. As I looked up, slightly flustered, upon reaching my seat I noticed a fan with a large Mexican sombrero, Moroccan flag, hooter and rattle. You couldn't not notice him. He's the R's version of John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood. And he's bonkers.
QPR's vocal element mainly congregate in the top corner of one of the stands. It must be the worst view in the ground. But they're Queens Park Rangers, and they're top of the league. I know this because they sang it throughout the game, along with some anti-Chelsea chants (eff off Chelsea, West London is ours), several very loud renditions of 'Taarabt's too good for you' and lots of references to Marlon King and his jail sentence for groping a woman in a nightclub and breaking her nose. 'She said no' they sang, 'She said yes' retorted the Coventry fans.
Marlon King, of course Marlon King, opened the scoring. Considering the frightful abuse he was getting, his celebration was fairly muted. It was a goal that had the football correspondents around me typing 'against the run of play' into their keyboards. Coventry were at it again against QPR. They're their bogey team and had only lost once in the previous seven meetings with the Rs (research skills - Ed.).
Just before half time, Adel Taarabt produced a piece of magic that had everyone purring with delight. He curled a 20 yard effort into the top corner the net for the equaliser. Off the bench leapt Neil Warnock and waved his arms in the air like he just didn't care. The tannoy played a blast of Pigbag and the crowd joined in 'da da da HOOPS da da da da'. It could be worse. I'd heard the previous day that Norwich City used to play songs on the PA whenever they got a corner.
QPR had the better of the second half. On came Ishmael Miller who produced a fingertip save from the excellent Keiren Westwood in the Coventry goal. At the other end, Paddy Kenny made a fine double save from Marlon King. Warnock pushed Taarabt out to the wing, with debutant Wayne Routledge taking up a more central position and, well, listen to me banging on about the actual game for a change. This Championship lark could catch on.
And then it happened. A moment of pure magic from Taarabt which will be talked about in W12 for many years to come. He produced a pinpoint 40 yard pass with the outside (outside) of his right boot. It landed at the feet of Routledge who controlled it perfectly with his first touch and lashed in the winning goal with his second. It was the sort of pass that made you want to stick your boots on and try and recreate the magic straight away. But it was getting dark already and we had to meet Paul Finney from the Independent R's website for a few post match beers.
First up was an entertaining press conference though. "He [Taarabt] is an exceptional player," bemoaned Aidy Boothroyd "I was tempted to run on and kick him myself," he continued. "I'm not jealous and don't want to complain about all their money...." he said jealously, whilst complaining about their money. He then carried on talking about Taarabt. Everyone was talking about Tarrabt. "I hate to say it but you have to admire him. You also have to ask why is here? I'm sick of talking about him, he has pissed me off all day."
Next up was Warnock. "You won't see a better ball than that in the world, never mind the Championship," he said with a big grin. "He [Taarabt] has some baggage with him. When I was younger, I wouldn't have entertained him, he thinks he should be playing for Real Madrid, but now he's got to help me finish my career. I look at his good side rather than the one or two bad things."
QPR shouldn't have any problem filling those 4000 or so empty seats next season. They will be in the Premier League after all. They've got the money to give that league a good go as well, because of those billionaire owners. But we don't want to talk about them, do we? Today was all about Adel Taarabt and that pass.


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Momentum builds, but EMD relative investors should beware the dollar
Balanced opportunites
February will almost certainly be the second consecutive month when the emerging markets (EM) local currency bond index has been ahead – the first time we have seen that since the first half of 2014.
So what happened next that year? The US Federal Reserve (Fed) started preparing the market for rate hikes, which tightened financial conditions, caused a large spike in the dollar, and a fall in the local currency EM bond index (JP Morgan GBI-EM) which has seen it drop by about 23% since then.
Assuming that a rising dollar and tightening credit conditions do not choke it off, the opportunity in emerging markets this time will be more balanced between credit risk, interest rate risk, and currency risk – with EM currencies offering the most upside, given their recent fall from grace.
Dollar risk
It remains our belief that the local currency story is dominated by the dollar, at least at present.
From the start of February to the 11th of that month, the dollar index fell by 4%, but since then it has risen by about 2.7%, driven by "Brexit" fears which have hurt both the pound and the euro.
Clearly, a resurgence of dollar strength could help derail a more positive story for EM currencies.
What does the price of oil tell us?
However, another key factor for emerging markets – the price of oil – has not been correlated with the most recent move in the dollar.
West Texas Intermediate, a key marker for oil prices, has risen by just under $4 from a near-term low on February 11.
That seems to signal that the dollar strength is probably viewed by the market as less of a structural move driven by improved fundamentals and more of a temporary spike driven by fears surrounding other currencies.
However, this must remain a tentative thesis at this point until further supporting data comes to light.
Nevertheless, higher oil prices are generally positive for the asset class and will likely encourage investors back into the market, if history is any guide.
Leaving aside speculation about possible deals to limit production amongst oil producers, these buyers are likely to be comforted by falling US rig counts and what seems like the endgame for many stressed smaller producers.
This is feeding into the heavily-backed consensus view that the oil price will now grind slowly up to $45 or $50 by the end of the year. If that materializes, we would see it as a significant plus for the asset class.
Substantial gains
Aside from the recovery in the local currency bond index, February has also seen a move into positive territory for dollar EM bonds.
Since the February 11 market low for all asset classes, investment grade sovereign spreads have compressed by 36 basis points, yet remain about 75 basis points above their historical average. So there could be substantial gains to come from here.
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First graders studying germs at Visitacion Valley Elementary School
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By Jeffrey Chen, MS1
Imagine standing in front of 25 kids in a 2nd grade classroom. Your goal is to engage and teach these seven year-old students about the skeletal system. What do you do?
Instead of wheeling in the age-old skeleton-on-a-hook or showing them a video, you bring out a jar of chicken bones that have been soaked in vinegar. The students take them out and are able to bend them like rubber, awed by what they can see and do. Is it magic? No, you explain, it's science!
Since 1989, the MedTeach [1] program at UCSF has partnered medical students with teachers at San Francisco elementary schools to plan and co-teach lessons about health and the human body. Run by the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership (SEP) and funded by the School of Medicine, MedTeach recruits teams of 2-3 first-year medical and pharmacy students to work with teachers of kindergarten to 5th grade classes. These volunteer teachers first observe a normal day in the classroom then come back to teach four classes throughout the year.
Dylan Masters is a second-year medical student who worked last year with Pamela Kahn, a 2nd grade teacher at Frank McCoppin Elementary School. For his team, the four lessons focused on the heart and lungs, the digestive system, bones, and nerves. A typical lesson would start off with teaching basic biology – for example, bringing in chicken bones or actual human hearts to show to the students. These specimens come from the SEP Resource Center, which loans donated human organs and other learning materials for science education.
The lessons always extended beyond just science. "We would try to link the science to how it's affecting them now and what they can do to stay healthy," said Masters. "Our goal was to get things to stick in their minds."
For example, he'd follow up the bendy-bone experiment with an explanation that the vinegar dissolves away calcium, which is what makes bones hard. He'd then emphasize the importance of drinking milk.
"The kids loved it. They were intelligent, enthusiastic, and always eager to see us," continued Masters. "At the end of the year, they even handed us thank you cards with a smorgasbord of organs drawn across the pages. It's a nice break from school to go out into the community and get rewarded like this."
Katherine Nielsen, Co-Director of SEP, sees that each year, everyone benefits from the program. Medical students deepen their ability to talk about health in ways that young people can understand, which will help them as doctors. And teachers become more excited about teaching science and more confident in doing so, which ultimately leads to more science being taught in elementary school classrooms. "In the Bay Area, 80% of elementary teachers spend less than an hour a week on science," she said.
"Importantly, the elementary students learn about the human body and work with young doctors as role models," Nielsen emphasized. "Getting to know the medical students helps them develop a positive attitude toward medicine and doctors."
So with simple experiments like squishing together bread and orange juice to mimic digestion or measuring heart rate before and after exercise, students get excited about science in ways that textbooks could never stimulate. "They're so clearly enthusiastic," said Masters. "You just have to smile."
Students interested in volunteering can apply here by November 12th [2]
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Box office tallies. You hate them. All they do is cause movie fans to become armchair studio gurus and justify the continued production of horrible big-budget movies with inflated opening weekend grosses. But what if we could rejigger the whole formula so that we had a much better idea of what makes a film "successful"? WE CAN! At PopcornBiz we've come up with a proprietary new formula that makes the weekend box office numbers only a small fraction of how we statistically grade movies.
It was a huge weekend for new movies this week, with the four entrants ("The Muppets," "Hugo," "Arthur Christmas," and "My Week With Marilyn") all getting some of the year's best reviews. Alas, it will shock you to learn that it's not always a blessing for critics to love your movie, as you'll see from the final box office (chart via Box Office Mojo).
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - $42.0M
2. The Muppets - $29.5M
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3. Happy Feet Two - $13.4M
4. Arthur Christmas - $12.7M
5. Hugo - $11.4M
6. Jack and Jill - $10.3M
7. Immortals - $8.8M
8. Puss In Boots - $7.5M
9. Tower Heist - $7.3
10. The Descendants - $7.2M
"The Muppets" nearly earned back its modest budget, and should have long life as the go-to family film for the season. But "Hugo" and "Arthur," both of which cost north of $100 million, have their work cut out for them. Did you know that "Hugo" cost $170 million? HOLY SMOKES, that's a lot of French robots.
Once again, "Breaking Dawn" lorded over the box office this weekend with an iron fist and an earnest, open-mouthed stare. But because we don't like "Twilight" here at the PBCS standings, we've specifically engineered our formula to factor out things like "grossing over $220 million since opening day" and "making goth chicks squeal with delight." WATCH!
1. The Descendants - 1,104
2. My Week With Marilyn - 452
3. The Muppets - 181
4. Hugo - 179
5. Tower Heist - 47
6. Puss In Boots - 38
7. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - 33
8. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - 26
9. J. Edgar - 25
10. Immortals - 22
Laugh at our little formula all you like, but George Clooney's Oscar contender saw business increase over 500% after expanding theaters this weekend. Meanwhile, "Arthur Christmas" got a pathetic 4, keeping it out of the rankings altogether. Please note that the rankings didn't include two new limited releases: silent movie sensation "The Artist" and David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method," both of which averaged over $45,000 a theater while playing on just four screens each. Our clearly biased metrics will surely reward them if they cross our newly installed $1 million barrier.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator John McCain said on Thursday that he and other backers of immigration reform "are not winning," and must boost efforts to get the House of Representatives to pass such a bill.
McCain said proponents - who include businesses, churches and labor - will wage an aggressive campaign in selective congressional districts next month to make the case for a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
"Here is a fact: We are not winning," the Arizona Republican told reporters. "So we have to wage a campaign. That doesn't mean a negative campaign. It means a positive campaign."
"You need to respond to things that are said. You need to build support. You need to network," McCain said.
The Democratic-led Senate last month overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill crafted by McCain and seven of his colleagues, but it was declared dead on arrival in the Republican-led House.
Most of the opposition to the White House-backed bill is over a provision that would provide a pathway to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants now in the United States.
Backers say the pathway would draw undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and make them productive and tax-paying members of the American way of life, improving the U.S. economy.
Critics argue that the pathway would amount to "amnesty," and attract more illegal immigrants into the country.
McCain and two fellow co-authors of the Senate bill, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, recently met with tech giants, including Google, Intel and Microsoft, to discuss the campaign for immigration reform, aides said.
They plan to target more than 100 House Republicans who are seen as at least open to the possibility of voting for immigration reform, which would help provide business with needed high- and low-skilled workers, aides said.
"There are many members of the House who don't want to take up any bill at all," said McCain.
McCain and others initially predicted that if the Senate passed an immigration bill with strong bipartisan support, it would pressure the House to consider it.
The comprehensive bill passed 68-32, but House Republican leaders have refused to even bring it up. Backers are now hoping that the House simply passes a limited bill.
That would trigger a House-Senate conference where negotiators could try to combine the two measures into a single new piece of legislation.
Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, another co-author of the Senate bill, said even though Congress will be on recess in August, it will be a pivotal month for immigration reform.
"We need the entire universe of people who care about immigration reform to be active next month," Menendez said. "If we do that, we will be well positioned for the fall in the House. If we don't, we will run a risk."
Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, a leading foe of the Senate bill, dismissed the effort as "an act of desperation."
"The problems with the Senate bill can't be fixed with new TV ads," Sessions said.
The push for comprehensive immigration reform has been hurt by Obama's problems in implementing his 2010 overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.
Critics charge Obama's recent decision to delay a portion of the health law shows he cannot be trusted to fully implement any new immigration law, including provisions to bolster border security.
On Thursday, more than 90 Catholic college presidents sent letters to all Catholic House members, including Speaker John Boehner, urging them to support a comprehensive immigration bill.
"We hope that as you face intense political pressure from powerful interest groups, you will draw wisdom and moral courage from our shared faith tradition. Catholic teaching values the human dignity and worth of all immigrants, regardless of legal status. We remind you that no human being made in the image of God is illegal," they wrote.
In a telephone conference with reporters, University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins was asked about other actions the university presidents would take to get House members to pass an immigration bill.
"We thought about revoking their degrees," Jenkins joked before admitting, "We don't have a lot of authority over them."
Catholic organizations are planning radio ads, telephone "town halls" with local Catholic leaders, newspaper op-eds and other events to rally support.
Boehner, at his weekly news conference, stood firm on his position that the House would pass "common-sense" legislation.
"Americans expect, as a nation of laws, that we'll enforce them - starting at the border," Boehner said. "They expect that no one who broke our laws will get special treatment."
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What you're looking at here is not an 8K resolution screenshot of Mass Effect 3. It's one-sixteenth of an 8K resolution Mass Effect 3 screenshot.
Go ahead and expand that top image. It's a full 1920 x 1080, or what we've been calling full HD for several years now. 8K resolution is 7680 x 4320 — 16 times the number of pixels.
Here's the full picture, capped by Redditor DarkLiberator. For the full effect, right click the image, choose open in a new window or tab, and then expand it to full size.
See the choice ring at the bottom of the screen? It's okay, I didn't either at first.
According to DarkLiberator, the game's framerate was pretty much unplayable at this resolution, so don't expect me to start building an 8K gaming machine any time soon. Thankfully he's compiled a 64 image gallery on Flickr (you'll want to download the full-size images) so I don't have to worry about it.
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Gainesville, Fla. – Damek Tomscha hit a solo home run to start the fifth and Ryan Tella hit a three-run home run with two down in the sixth as Auburn claimed a 4-1 win at Florida on Sunday afternoon. With the win Auburn won its fourth SEC series of the season and moved to 31-20, 11-16 SEC. Florida dropped to 28-25, 13-14 SEC.
"Today was as big a day as we have had all year," Auburn Head Coach John Pawlowski said. "To respond the way we did. It was a tough one last night and we had to put that behind us. To come out here, the will to win and the passion to come out on the winning end was a testament to this team. I am really proud of this team today."
Chase Williamson (3-0) earned the win out of the Auburn bullpen, entering in the fifth for starter Justin Camp with two on and one out. Williamson needed five pitches to get a ground ball double play off the bat of Casey Turgeon and keep Auburn ahead, 1-0.
Williamson finished the day tossing 2 2/3 innings, allowing a run on two hits while striking out one.
Terrance Dedrick earned his eighth save of the season with two innings of scoreless relief. Auburn's closer, he came in in the eighth with a man on second and none out and a run already in in the inning. He would walk the bases loaded with one out but he got a strike out of Vickash Ramjit and a fielder's choice from Josh Tobias, who hit the game-tying home run on Saturday, to keep Auburn up by three. His eight saves are the most by an Auburn pitcher since Austin Hubbard finished the SEC West Championship season with 10 saves.
Tomscha's seventh home run of the season gave Auburn a 1-0 lead to start the fifth. The home run was the fifth of the weekend for Auburn and its fourth solo blast against the Florida pitching staff.
Tella's second three-run home run of the weekend gave Auburn a 4-0 lead in the sixth, driving a Danny Young pitch off the scoreboard in right with two down and Patrick Savage on first and Jordan Ebert on second.
Turgeon's eighth-inning double off of Williamson scored Richie Martin and ruined Auburn's bid for a shutout.
Camp went 4 1/3 innings, allowing five hits and walking one in his first career start, striking out three. His start was the second-longest for an Auburn pitcher in a SEC series finale this season behind only Will Kendall's five-inning outing at Texas A&M on April 7.
Garrett Cooper's finished with two hits, extending his hitting streak to 15 games, Auburn's longest since Casey McElroy hit in 15 straight from May 1-26, 2011.
Blake Austin finished with three hits for Auburn while Cullen Wacker added two.
Auburn finished the series scoring 15 runs, hitting six home runs. Of the 15 runs, 12 of them came with two outs in an inning
Auburn returns home for its final four games of the regular season. It will play host to Jacksonville State at 6pm on Tuesday in the final non-conference game of the regular season and then play host to No. 11 Arkansas from Thursday-Saturday in the final SEC weekend series of the year.
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'Wheel Of Fortune' Contestant Has Both Tourette's and Asperger's Syndromes [Video]
The "Wheel of Fortune" marketing machine has been on a roll lately with the viral videos!
There was the guy that solved the puzzle with just two letters revealed. And most recently, there was the guy who failed about three or for different times in one game, costing him thousands of dollars and a vacation.
In the syndicated game show's most recent viral hit, we meet 21-year-old Trent Girone, who has both Tourette's and Asperger's syndromes.
He's been a huge fan of "Wheel" since he was a little kid, and finally got his opportunity to be on the show.
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Facebook's Q4 Earnings: Can Anyone Say "Mobile"?
Facebook's numbers are in, and investors aren't feeling it thus far.
As I told you this morning, the outlook was fairly optimistic — consensus expected a 34 percent boost in revenue from the previous quarter at around $1.525 billion, with an EPS of 15 cents. Facebook surpassed that revenue, coming in at $1.59 billion and an EPS of 17 cents per share. The street immediately proceeded to sell, trading down about four percent in after-hours.
"We think we delivered strong results this quarter," CFO David Ebersman told AllThingsD on a call this afternoon. "It's encouraging as validation for the recent investments we've made in monetization and in mobile as well."
The biggest eyebrow raiser: Mobile accounted for 23 percent of ad revenue, up from approximately 14 percent in Q3.
"I just think the mobile number is really terrific for us," Ebersman said. "It's such a great foundation for us, given our belief that 2012 was a year of transforming ourselves into a mobile company. And that that's really where the future is going to be."
No kidding. The company has been playing up its mobile ambitions for the past year-plus, ever since the company's S-1 filing to go public. (If you haven't heard by now, mobile is the future!)
It's true at least in terms of user activity: For the first time this quarter, daily active users on mobile surpassed that of Web visits to the site.
But on the earnings call, neither Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg nor Ebersman delved deep into which of Facebook's new advertising products led the company to its leaps and bounds in mobile revenue.
Though there were hints. Zuckerberg said that the sponsored stories in the news feed were doing exceptionally well, and saw massive engagement returns compared to that of the traditional advertisements in the right rail (you know, the ones we're used to seeing). That'll mean a decreased return in right-rail ad engagement, Ebersman hinted, but also said that the shift to news feed ads and mobile will supplant the declining numbers from the right rail.
One big thing: When Facebook says it's a "mobile first" company, that doesn't mean it's in the business of building a phone. As AllThingsD has reported in the past, Facebook has indeed dabbled in producing a proper Facebook phone — codenamed Project Buffy — with hardware partner HTC. But as of late, there haven't been many rumblings on those plans.
Perhaps Zuckerberg's denouncement of the Facebook phone was in earnest; after all, he used his strongest language to date in denying it. "We're not going to build a phone," were his exact words.
Still, that didn't stop Facebook's C-suite troika from trumpeting "mobile mobile mobile!" the entire call (ad nauseum, if you ask me).
Check out my notes below for the call's highlights.
Howdy! Still waiting on hold, like the rest of Wall Street. Wonder who of Facebook's C-Suite will show up today?
1:53 pm: This hold music isn't terrible.
And the Street can't seem to make up its mind: Shares are trading up, down, up, down in after-hours. Right now, FB is down about 1.5 percent.
1:59 pm: Worth noting that shares aren't trading down as much as the last time Facebook hit its numbers.
Q3 saw an immediate 10 percent drop after the print hit. Oh, Wall Street. So fickle.
2:02 pm: Running a bit behind. Come on, y'all.
And here we go.
So Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and Ebersman are all on the call. As has been tradition for the past few quarters.
Legalese. Please hold.
Zuckerberg stresses the shift to daily mobile users. "This is challenging for us to navigate…we started off the year with apps that weren't as high quality as we would have wanted."
"Today there's no argument. Facebook is a mobile company."
Whatever you say, Mr. Zuckerberg.
Zuck talks about mobile mobile mobile mobile. I expect this on every major Internet company earnings call henceforth.
Instagram doing great, Zuckerberg says. Skips past that whole terms of services unpleasantness of last year.
Next up, Platform talk and the social graph. Plays up Graph Search, with disclaimer of it being an early beta product.
"It's good for lots of things that you wouldn't use a traditional search engine for." In other words, not Google.
"Down the line, this could potentially turn into a meaningful business for us." Zuckerberg on Graph Search.
Take that, Goog.
Zuckerberg says App Install ads is off to a good start, but no specifics.
Plan for ad biz going forward involves improving targeting, designing better ads and working on custom audience targeting. You don't say.
Zuckerberg wants to "temper near-term expectations" on payments biz — i.e. Gifts and Graph Search.
Guess Gifts ain't off to a gangbusters start.
Expenses are likely to grow at a faster rate in 2013, due to increased expenditures in product development.
Headcount going to shoot up, too. Take a look at this quarter's numbers, and you'll see it already has.
2:12 pm: Now on to Sandberg.
Sandberg cites brands using Facebook ads during the holiday season as the strength of their performance. Yep. Spending through the rest of those ad budgets.
Ad strategy over the last quarter — building tools for "every type of marketer — brand, direct, local businesses and developers."
Sandberg cites Walmart's success in delivering mobile eyes over the holiday quarter. Michael Kors, too.
Quite the brand disparity, I'd say.
Talk about Facebook "Offers." Nearly 42 million unique users claimed offers. Not bad.
Emphasis on Offers explains the Graph Search push into local and social discovery, by the by.
2:16 pm: Now to Facebook Exchange. Pay attention here.
FBX served 1 billion impressions daily, supported more than 1,300 advertisers per day.
App install ads seem to be doing well enough. Games getting the bulk of installations, but Sandberg thinks this will expand to other types of categories — travel, shopping and the like.
Talking up Facebook marketing campaigns. As an aside, I've heard it's still tough for small-timers to use Pages to their advantage. Big brands probably still doing better.
Anyone counting how many times the word "mobile" has been uttered on this call? I've lost track.
Ads in news feed apparently drive 8x the amount of offline sales than those seen in the right rail, acccording to a study FB conducted with a partner.
In other words, news feed ads are important.
2:22 pm: Now on to CFO David Ebersman.
Going back over the numbers — big shift to mobile, growth of monthly and daily users globally.
All the numbers that Ebersman is citing "do not include Instagram, which continues to grow at an impressive rate."
Ad revenue up in Q4 as strongest of all of 2012. Attribute that to the new ad products.
18 percent increase in avg. price per ad in the U.S. and Canada. That's good.
Payments revenues from games were essentially flat year on year from 2011.
Expenses increased 67 percent, "driven primarily by headcount and infrastructure."
That's a lotta hiring.
Ebersman chats a bit about the stock lockups expiring. Expects taxes to go up slightly in 2013.
Expectations for payments in 2013 — still hopeful for games, "however, we still face a declining headwind … because games payments revenues still coming primarily from desktop users."
2:28 pm: Come on, Zynga and others. Make that shift to mobile faster.
Total expenses expected to grow about 50 percent in 2013. Woof.
Now it's Q&A time with the analysts.
Question from Doug Anmuth at J.P. Morgan — did FB open up more ad inventory for Q4? They saw a big jump.
Zuckerberg on measuring ad quality in the news feed: They look at "Likes" and the like. Ranking improvements made last year improved ad quality by 50 percent, Zuckerberg says.
Inserting ads resulted in about a 2 percent reduction in "Likes" and comments. Says it's marginal, not too shabby.
A question on engagement. How do you measure it?
Zuckerberg: "We want the organic content to be the same basic types of content as paid content."
In other words — "Yo, ad guys! Make better ads! We'll help you. Don't worry."
Zuckerberg basically wants your news feed ads to not suck. Cites Instagram as a great model for native ads.
Now when are you going to monetize Instagram, Mark?
Sandberg on Facebook Exchange: Facebook exchange on Triggit drives 36 percent more conversions than ads anywhere else.
2:37 pm: Zuckerberg: Early on, didn't expect to show everyone an ad every day. Mostly because quality wasn't there. But now that they're showing ads, the engagement didn't take a big hit.
Translation: They can spend time improving quality, but it's really not as bad as they thought it would be.
It's more about good targeting and good ad formats now, says Zuckerberg.
A question about Graph Search vs Google. Dun dun dunnnnnnnn!
2:39 pm: Zuckerberg: Something we talked about when rolling out Graph Search is all the connections within Facebook. We're just coming from a completely different place [than Google]."
Though that also implies that Google's efforts to link people with the things they like using Google+ isn't exactly up to snuff.
Question about video in the news feed. Remember that rumor that video would appear in news feed ads in the future?
Ah, a non-answer from Ebersman about video ads. Shucks.
Zuckerberg: For video ads, it's not critical that Facebook hosts it. They could link out to others, for example.
Question: Talk about the relative ad load in the U.S. vs. Europe and Asia.
Also, why are mobile ads shooting up? Any particulars?
Ebersman adds little color. ARPU took off in the U.S. first, then rest of the world afterwards. Makes sense, because that's where the rollouts were concentrated.
Again, non-answer on mobile. Basically, we make good products, so mobile ad revenue shoots up.
"We're not going to build a phone." Zuckerberg. That's the strongest language he's used in saying they aren't going to build a phone. Ever.
Although still could be a Steve Jobsian feint!
Never say never, right?
A question about the right rail. Since it's not working as well as news feed ads, how do you expect it to trend going forth?
Ebersman says Facebook doesn't really consider it separate businesses. Not going to break it down.
Oh, and another "growth in mobile usage" comment. So reading between the lines, expect right rail revenue to decrease as mobile usage increases, as per Ebersman's comments.
2:49 pm: Sandberg: "The click is not really the most important metric for us."
Sandberg: In terms of our measurement capabilities — still really early.
As is everything Facebook is working on! Wonder how long the "we're early in this" argument is going to fly.
Ebersman: "We want Facebook to be the default social infrastructure for mobile games."
Wonder how Zynga, who is developing its own mobile social mesh, feels about that?
2:52 pm: The college kids love the Facebook, Ebersman says. And that's good for our future.
Sandberg claims a strong position on mobile, particularly because of logged-in identity and the ability to serve relevant ads.
More questions about payments. Talk about health.
Ebersman on Payments: Note that this year as opposed to last year we have a little bit of revenue from non-game sources.
We still see a nice diversification in games.
In other words, it's not all Zynga.
When will Facebook Exchange come to mobile, analyst asks?
Sandberg shuts him down. Nothing to share. Sorry, pal.
Ebersman saying Facebook still needs to help people understand how to actually use Gifts.
That's confusing and not easy. Anecdotally, I've tried with a few of my friends and parents. They are confused.
2:59 pm: Zuckerberg: Android is a very dynamic and open platform, as long as Google keeps it that way.
The two companies don't really have a "relationship where they really talk," Zuckerberg admits.
In a nutshell: We dig Apple, our relationship is cool. Google and us, not so much. They better keep Android open. — Zuck
Them's antagonistic words, Mr. Zuckerberg.
3:02 pm: And that's a wrap!
What a way to go out.


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I'm on a mission, a mission to finish as many of those lingering WIPs as possible over the next month. First up is my Attic24 Rainbow Raindrops Cushion (free cushion tutorial here and stitch pattern here).
Now this is a pretty quick project to hook up, especially in chunky weight yarn,so I have no explanation as to why it's taken me so long to finish it except… oh look pretty yarn! I wonder if that would be enough to make a shawl… I could just have a quick look on Ravelry… What do you mean it's Thursday today?
If you've seen Attic24's pictures you might notice that in order to get the trickling raindrops effect the stripes should be displayed horizontally, but that didn't look quite right with mine, as it came out, um, less than square! Partly this was because I wanted the button band to continue the rainbow stripes pattern on the back.
I love those rainbow buttons! To be honest, they steal all my attention away from the simple but effective stitch pattern.
I bought the yarn and the buttons as a pack from Woolwareouse.co.uk which worked out to be a good deal, but my only criticism is this the "yellow" in the rainbow is actually Camel and more of a beige colour. Even though Stylecraft has expanded their range of shades available in aran and chunky weight in the Special acrylic, there still isn't a warm, sunny yellow suitable for a cheerful rainbow. In their Special DK they have four shades of yellow, and either Sunshine or Citron would be perfect for a rainbow colour scheme! Sadly, if you want a bright yellow in a heavier weight yarn it would be a case of holding two strands of DK together. 😦
Talking of rainbows and stripes (and Stylecraft Special DK too for that matter), one of my other ongoing WIPs is my Granny Stripe blanket. I'm up to the fifth repeat of the random 17 colour pattern. I'm trying to make each repeat completely different, with no two colours next to each other more than once. It worked on the first four blocks of 17, but it's getting away from me a bit now!
My other blanket WIP is the knitted border I'm knitting in strips to go around the edge of my oldest WIP, a patchwork blanket I started in my teens! (The blanket is the one on the back of the sofa in the pictures of the cushion at the top of this post.)
This border has been great for using up odds and ends of DK acrylic from my stash, and the garter stitch is delightfully mindless for when I'm feeling, well, mindless! It's good practice for knitting without looking at what I'm doing, I skill I plan to master!
I've probably got another block of 17 stripes left to go on the Granny Stripe blanket, and then another strip and a half to do of the knitted border… and then it's time to dig out another WIP from the pile!
Wish me luck!
Beth 🙂


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Think Progress: Virginia Advances 'Gangbanger Bill of Rights' To Withhold Gun Crime Evidence From Federal Government
-By Josh Israel
January 25, 2013- A Virginia House of Delegates committee endorsed a controversial bill Friday that would prevent any state or local government entity from providing information about gun crimes based on any federal law enacted after 2012. If enacted, the bill could prevent local police from sharing records with the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The bill, authored by arch-conservative Delegate Bob Marshall (R-VA), aims to:
Huffington Post: Cowardly Ted Nugent Threatened the President Again
-By Bob Cesca
January 24, 2013- Last week, the annual SHOT Show was held in Las Vegas. The NRA had not one but three different booths and Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the assault rifle used by the Sandy Hook shooter, had two different booths. So it comes as no surprise that aging rocker, secessionist and draft dodger Ted Nugent was there, too. It was the largest gun show in the world so, naturally, the rogues gallery of gun fetishists were on hand.
And the Secret Service should probably have another chat with Nugent after what he said from the floor of the SHOT Show.
The New Civil Rights Movement: Planned Parenthood Is The 'Equivalent Of A Nazi Gas Chamber' Says Fischer
-by David Badash
January 24, 2013- Bryan Fischer yesterday told his listeners that Planned Parenthood is the "equivalent of a Nazi gas chamber," and allowing women the right to choose will lead to terrorist attacks. Fischer, the public face of the certified anti-gay hate group, American Family Association, made his comments in the light of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision affirming a women's right to choose.
"You see a Planned Parenthood clinic, just think Birkenau, just think Auschwitz, just think Bergen-Belsen," Fischer tells his listeners on Focal Point — heard in almost 40 states via almost 200 radio stations — "because that's what you are looking at, you are looking at an equivalent of a Nazi gas chamber."
Huffington Post: Ted Nugent Suggests He's Ready For Armed Revolt Against 'Evil, Dangerous' Obama
-By Nick Wing
January 22, 2013- Rocker-turned-gun rights provocateur Ted Nugent is willing to say just about anything to attack President Barack Obama and his administration for what he believes is an imminent effort by the government to snatch up guns. During a recent interview, Nugent again raised the bar, invoking a Revolutionary war milestone to suggest that he and his "buddies" were prepared to fight such an effort at all costs.
"I'm part of a very great experiment in self-government where we the people determine our own pursuit of happiness and our own individual freedom and liberty, not to be confused with the Barack Obama gang who believes in we the sheeple and actually is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George that we escaped from in 1776," Nugent said in a recent interview with Guns.com at the NBC-sponsored Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show. "And if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies."
RAW Story: West Point study on 'violent far right' shows 'dramatic rise' in attacks
-By Samantha Kimmey
January 19, 2013- A report published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy on Jan. 15 discusses the potential dangers of "violent far-right" organizations, which has angered some conservatives that believe the military should focus on international threats.
The executive summary of the paper, "Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right," claims that "since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating from individuals and groups who self- identify with the far-right of American politics."
Salon: This man helped save six children, is now getting harassed for it
Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists
-By Alex Seitz-Wald
Janaury 15, 2013- "I don't know what to do," sighed Gene Rosen. "I'm getting hang-up calls, I'm getting some calls, I'm getting emails with, not direct threats, but accusations that I'm lying, that I'm a crisis actor, 'how much am I being paid?'" Someone posted a photo of his house online. There have been phony Google+ and YouTube accounts created in his name, messages on white supremacist message boards ridiculing the "emotional Jewish guy," and dozens of blog posts and videos "exposing" him as a fraud. One email purporting to be a business inquiry taunted: "How are all those little students doing? You know, the ones that showed up at your house after the 'shooting'. What is the going rate for getting involved in a gov't sponsored hoax anyway?"
"The quantity of the material is overwhelming," he said. So much so that a friend shields him from most of it by doing daily sweeps of the Web so Rosen doesn't have to. His wife is worried for their safety. He's logged every email and every call, and consulted with a retired state police officer, who took the complaint seriously but said police probably can't do anything at the moment; he plans to do the same with the FBI.


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HOT SEAT- Being Coy: If TJ had done talk radio
Coy Barefoot seemed to have it made as a writer after publishing five books and with offers to write more. So what did he do? Took a job at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership.
For the author of Thomas Jefferson on Leadership, it was a natural segue.
And as if his plate as communications and alumni relations director there weren't full enough, he's about to launch a drive-time local talk show on WINA March 1.
What's with all the careers, dude?
"It's an incredible opportunity to be part of something exciting," says Barefoot with the maddening enthusiasm of someone who loves what he does.
The new show, Charlottesville, Right Now, was conceived last summer when Barefoot worked the morning show on WINA. "I had so much fun," he says. "It was like WKRP in Cincinnati."
The Charlottesville Radio Group, which carries the right-leaning syndicated shows of Neil Boortz and Sean Hannity, wanted to create more local talk, according to Barefoot.
"Number one, the ratings of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are plummeting, and number two, they see [the new show] as a true community service with local issues and local talk," he says. As the new host and producer of Charlottesville, Right Now, Barefoot will take over Hannity's 4-6pm time slot.
Barefoot's vision of talk radio does not include screaming. "That ends right now," he declares. "We have a whole generation fed up with that. All it's done is polarize."
He decries ad hominem attacks upon people who disagree, and instead proposes a novel concept: "civility and respect."
As jazzed as Barefoot is about his radio show, he's equally pumped about his Sorensen duties.
"It's incredibly Jeffersonian," he explains of the Institute's mission. "Jefferson said that if you don't get involved and you don't care, it won't work... The Sorensen Institute is all about getting people involved."
His first day on the job, he was hanging with Governor Mark Warner, and the connections he's made through the Institute have already helped to snag Lt. Governor Bill Bolling and Attorney General Bob McDonnell for his show once a month.
"I'm the luckiest man in Charlottesville," says Barefoot. "I had the best job in town– and now I have the two best jobs in town."
Age: 39
Why here? I came for grad school in 1989 and minus a few years in Florida and New York, I've been here ever since.
What's worst about living here?No drive-thru Chinese food
Favorite hangout? The Corner
Most overrated virtue? Correct grammar
People would be surprised to know: I don't fly. I used to fly quite a bit but had one too many scary trips, and then I watched my brother and his wife survive a single-engine crash.
What would you change about yourself? More Zen
Proudest accomplishment? My book, The Corner: A History of Student Life at the University of Virginia. The six years I spent researching and writing that book were a true labor of love, and I met many wonderful people in the process.
People find most annoying about you: I'm the Aries poster-boy: impatient and stubborn (but on the flip-side: enthusiastic and confident).
Whom do you admire? My son, Whitman
Favorite book? The triumvirate at the top of my list are Dubliners by James Joyce, The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, and Virgil's Aeneid.
Subject that causes you to rant? That mercury, an untested poison, continues to be put into vaccines that are given to infants and pregnant women
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Increasing scientific probability that life is not unique to earth
Biggest 21st-century creep out? That racism, slavery, and militant religious zealotry are still alive and well in the world
What do you drive? A '95 Nissan Pathfinder littered with bits of food, Popsicle sticks, empty juice boxes, old pacifiers, and toys. I love it.
In your car CD player right now: Ziggy Marley's 1999 release Spirit of Music (his best).
Next journey? I'm going on a caving trip in March, looking forward to swimming in an underground lake.
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Despite the fact that I did well in high school, I almost flunked out my first year at William & Mary (call it boy meets snooze alarm). Needless to say, my parents were not too happy. Thank goodness I was allowed to go back to school and redeem myself.
Regret: After college I was going to mow lawns across America and write a book called Mow West Young Man. I had the van, the money, and a big-name lawn mower company that was interested in sponsoring the trip. But other things came up, and I never went.
Favorite comfort food: Ben & Jerry's "Cherry Garcia" frozen yogurt
Always in your refrigerator: Organic apple cider
Must-see TV: The Andy Griffith Show. Don Knotts still makes me laugh out loud.
Favorite cartoon: King of the Hill. Hank is the man!
Describe a perfect day. Blue skies, Blue Ridge, kids, dogs, and my beautiful, brilliant wife by my side
Walter Mitty fantasy:I rent the Omni ballroom for a black-tie celebration in honor of my son's full recovery from autism. A capacity-crowd turns out to hear Whitman give a riveting speech about how he overcame this hideous illness.
Who'd play you in the movie? Kevin Spacey
Most embarrassing moment? On my 16th birthday I crashed taking the behind-the-wheel portion of my driver's test. Nobody was hurt. It was more of a fender-bender, actually, but I never even got out of the parking lot of the DMV, and of course I failed the test. I was so depressed on the way home, but my mom couldn't stop laughing. She said, "One day this is going to be so funny to you." She was right.
Best advice you ever got? "Stick to your knitting."
Favorite bumper sticker? "What if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?"
Coy Barefoot
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Coy - I agree with your views on the Michael Savage autism flap wholly. I too have a child who is 7 and was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two. I can't believe the ignorance displayed by Mr. Savage in his commentary and am truly saddend that people would have this viewpoint about a disability such as autism.
If only he knew what we know, he would assuredly have a different view, but unfortunately his missunderstanding of this affliction only underscores the challenges we face as parents dealing with this disorder and further demonstrates the future stigmatism our children may face.
My best to you
Scott Gambill
Coy, Your outrage on Michael Savage's comments are wrong. You are hurting our children more by pulling him off the air. I'm a mother of a child diagnosed with autism. It takes tremendous work on the part of my husband and myself to raise this child. We as parents have to take control and educate ourselves with what foods our child is allergic to, vitamins they need, education, love and discipline. One of the most important thing you can give an autistic child is a mommy and daddy giving their full time attention. As you know our autistic children need very special nutrients to help repair any damaged caused by mercury or other nutritional deficiencies. Mr. Savage was saying not all children is diagnosed correctly with autism and I cannot agree more. Many parents let the child control them and the parent needs to control the child. I visited many classrooms for special ed children looking for the right placement for my child. These children were not all autistic. Many of these children had special needs other than autism. And I will say many of these children were on medication subscribed by their physician to help them focus or calm down. These children were like robots. It's sad to see a radio station get angry with a man that loves helping children. Read his books he wrote about for child nutrition. You didn't help your community you hurt it!
Good luck,
Mother of Dr's said he was autistic
I heard your comments today in your conversation with the gentleman from RaisingCane??? re,you are glad we are done with Karl Rove politics etc. I find that interesting in light of your discussions with and seemingly agreement with Tom Perriello. I thought at first he seemed like he might be a breath of fresh air-someone sincerely interested in service to others. But I came to see his campaign as one of the most negative I have ever seen, and quite dishonest. The two mailings I received attacking Goode as wanting to add a 23% additional sales tax on everything were
very misleading and dishonest. I have studied the Fair Tax and his attack of course left out the most important element of the plan ie eliminating all other taxes and a payment to offset the amount of sales tax on necessities. I am sure one of his handlers figured that he had come up with a clever attack and Perriello bought into it.
And I frankly heard nothing of any positive plans, only platitudes about better jobs and going after the "gang in Washington" who caused the mess we are in . In my mind that gang are the very people who supported Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac such as Barney Frank, Chris Dodd etc and who of course were favorably supported in return with campaign money. I have my doubts about Tom going after them. And we are learning that the majority of Tom's money came from outside the district. His claim that he did not take corporate lobbyist money seems quite disingenious in that the Democrat Party of Virginia and the natioanl party do take such funds and then support the candidate with that money. Sounds suspiciously like laundering to me. I realize that these tactics happen on both sides. And with due respect to Dr Sabato, I do not agree that "Politics is Good". Congressman- elect Perriello seems to be just the newest incarnation of the politics as usual candidate. Very disapointing. I anticipate having our district under the thumb of the national Democrats in the House.
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The week in review
Worst terrorism: Ten bombs hit Madrid's train lines at rush hour March 11, killing 200 people and wounding 1,450.
Biggest bandwagon: Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Asbury Park, New Jersey, join San Francisco in issuing licenses for or recognizing same-sex marriages.
Biggest damper: The California Supreme Court puts the brakes on gay marriages March 11 in San Francisco, where 4,000 couples have wed.
Biggest mystery: Just whom the Albemarle police are considering charging a year after the shooting of former deputy Stephen R. Shiflett. Frank Brown and Latrone M. Jones, who were detained by police after Shiflett claimed a thin black man in a baseball cap shot him, are suing the county, and have demanded documents in the investigation, Liesel Nowak reports in the Daily Progress.
Most notorious case: Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney James Camblos has been appointed special prosecutor in the 1982 rape and murder of Rebecca Lynn Williams, the case for which Earl Washington Jr. was wrongly convicted and nearly executed. DNA evidence points to Kenneth M. Tinsley, whom Camblos represented as a defense attorney almost 20 years ago. Critics are calling for Camblos to step down as special prosecutor, according to the Washington Post. Camblos says he does not believe there's a conflict.
Worst library tale: William Harvey Wright, 50, is arrested for fondling a 12-year-old girl at the Gordon Avenue Library, according to a Kate Andrews story in the Progress.
Best visual aid: Opponents to lowering Albemarle County's tax rate from 76 cents per $100 to 74 cents show up at a March 10 budget hearing bearing Tootsie Rolls to symbolize the 15 cents-a-day such a cut would represent to property owners while taking $2 million out of the 2005 school budgets.
Diciest fate for 20 Albemarle County high school seniors: They're in danger of not graduating because they haven't passed their SOLs, according to School Board member Brian Wheeler's March 11 meeting report. The at-risk students represent 2.2 percent of the county's 900 seniors, and are receiving individual help.
Safest campaign issue: Dems David Brown, Kendra Hamilton, and Kevin Lynch call a press conference to announce their support of moving City Council elections from May to November.
Best way to party down: With cards that measure blood alcohol level, which UVA's Office of Health Promotion will be passing out to students in hopes of keeping them from passing out.
Biggest convoy to visit Montpelier: Lynne Cheney's. The wife of VP Dick Cheney drops in on James Madison's former digs March 11 to teach a history lesson to elementary school students. [See Photophile, page 32.]
Worst black market: The UCLA medical school is under investigation amid charges that 800 bodies donated for medical research were hacked up and sold, according to the Post. The director of UCLA's cadaver program, Harry Reid, 54, is arrested for grand theft.
Worst loss of a poetic monologist: The body of Spaulding Grey, 62, author of Swimming to Cambodia and more than a dozen other performance confessionals, is pulled from the East River in New York March 7, two months after he took the Staten Island Ferry and disappeared.
Fattest nation: Obesity is weighing in as the leading preventable killer after tobacco. "We're just too darn fat," says Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Worse than profanity, violence or sex: A study shows that 80 percent of PG-13 movies show tobacco use, and critics want such movies slapped with an R rating. No word on the percentage of obese actors in those films.


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You go nuts all day long with the cooking and the cleaning and the worrying and the will this or won't that and did I remember to and does the house look and will they even show up and what was I thinking when I decided to do this they could have had their lousy corn flake stuffed pork chops and gone the hell home by now... and waitasecond is that cat-box I smell?
Or you could be like my Food for Thought pal, Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson.
Nance likes to entertain. It's just that she just doesn't think she's any good at it. In this week's FfT she sings the praises of friends who go all out to throw really fancy dinner parties. And I'm talking little copper vessels for the spuds, table side vinaigrette mixing, the works.
How about you? Do you like to entertain or dread it? Tell the world in the space below.
"At a formal dinner party the person nearest to death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."
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We at Business Start-Ups often wonder what it's like to be millionaires. You could say we're a bit obsessed with the idea. And young millionaires? Oh, please. We can't get enough of them. Can you blame us? It'd be pretty awesome to wake up in the morning and know your business will have a good day--a very good day. But what does your millionaire dream look like? If it's anything like the ones of these entrepreneurs, all of whom have hit the million-dollar mark before hitting 30, you may just see your dreams reach fruition.
Stephanie Hirsch, 28
Company/description: INCA Girl Enterprises Inc. makes fashion editors fawn with its hip plastic bags, plastic bamboo beach mats and beaded bikinis.
Based: New York City
Started: 1996
1999 sales: $1.4 million
2000 projections: $3 million-plus
Divine intervention: After college, Hirsch worked as a waitress and talent agent gopher in Los Angeles--even as a stylist-assistant after moving to the Big Apple. But Hirsch "never felt right in any job. It sucked the soul out of me." A 1996 trip to visit a pal in Peru and some pondering on the Inca Trail generated an epiphany: She would make the plastic market bags everyone was carrying the hottest new thing in the United States.
How much? "Days of harassing [Peruvians] and giving them money" led Hirsch to the bags' manufacturer. The nondesigner then returned to New York City and spent $500 in savings on samples and a spot in a fashion trade show that March. Press in Vogue and Marie Claire quickly followed.
Starry-eyed: Sure, Hirsch lost $150,000 trying to save her trademark from shady angel investors at one point. But now this once-homebased designer's got a shipping loft, four sales reps (in New York, California, Hawaii and Italy), and kudos from actress Courtney Cox and model/Nylon creative director Helena Christensen. Sports Illustrated even featured an INCA beaded swimsuit in last year's swimsuit issue.
Make like a Clydesdale: Hirsch didn't accidentally go from being "very unhappy" to having Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman and Fred Segal in Los Angeles embrace her creations. "Just ignore negativity," she says. "Don't listen to people who go `Get a real job and make some money.' Just making a living is not enough for you."
Mike Fridgen, 24, and Ryan Smith, 26
Company/description: International Student Tours (IS Tours) is a brick-and-mortar establishment offering student tours and trips; also included is TripHub.com, a nationwide online student travel company.
Based: Seattle
Started: 1997; TripHub.com launched 1999
1999 sales: $2.5 million
2000 projections: $4 million
Ticket to ride: For 20 months, Fridgen and Smith's student travel business posted a Web site to assist in marketing their packaged travel tours for high school and college students. Learning that more than 50 percent of their hits came from states in which their products weren't available, the co-founders' focus shifted toward creating TripHub.com, the first nationwide student tour and travel aggregate.
All aboard: Working in the student travel industry while attending the University of Washington, Seattle, the two frat brothers joined their university's Program of Entrepreneurship Innovation in 1996. After a program-sponsored presentation, a Washington Mutual bank representative offered them a $120,000 credit line, and with a combined $50,000 in personal and family-loaned seed money, IS Tours was created.
Growth spurt: With their great ideas and a strong work ethic, Fridgen and Smith not only embraced the advantages of the youth-oriented industry, but also used their own youth as an advantage. "We were students selling student packages," explains Fridgen, "which gave us an edge." That edge made IS Tours' packages look a heck of a lot hipper to their target audience, high school and college jet-setters.
Lemons to lemonade: These traveling newburys didn't always have it so good. Faced with bitter competitors, IS Tours had to overcome hordes of threatening faxes sent to schools, families and establishments attacking them as callow upstarts. Today, IS Tours remains standing, yet the energy focuses on TripHub.com. Holding the largest inventory of Spring Break packages available, TripHub.com allows its members to book everything from a trip home for the holidays to study-abroad programs--all online. "With college students representing over 34 percent of the nation's online population," says Fridgen, "we're going to be the number-one online student travel source."
Marc Miller, 24
Company/description: InSite Advertising Inc. places ads in the bathrooms of crowd-attracting venues.
Based: New York City
Started: 1997
Combined 1999 sales: $4 million
Combined 2000 projections: $8 million
The porcelain god: Inspired by the Dana Carvey flick Opportunity Knocks as well as his own fixation with sports pages posted above the urinals at bars and nightclubs he frequented, Marc Miller had an epiphany: Why not use public restrooms as an advertising medium? And not just any old commode--Miller specifically chose those within the hottest venues, where only the most happening 21-to-35-year-olds dispose of their martinis and microbrews. A medium where male relievers keep their attention focused on the wall in front of them and female relievers curiously examine any written text in their peripheral vision. "Every man knows that if you look left or right it turns into a liability," says Miller. So with that, as well as enthusiasm from family members, he launched InSite Advertising--a supplier of mini-billboards that allow advertisers to hawk their wares and venue proprietors to average 15 percent in revenue.
Head rush: Fresh out of college as well as a hedonistic month in the south of France, Miller and a former partner pounded the pavement to meet high-power ad agency execs by day and T-shirt-and-shorts-clad bar owners by night. With $5,000 in personal and familial contributions, Miller secured affordable office space through a generous building owner and, within three months, secured 75 interested venues. "From that point on, we were very successful in getting some big-name clients onto our billboards," says Miller. "So we decided to open up other markets. We thought if advertisers were interested in our concept in New York, they'd probably be interested in Philly, Chicago, DC, LA and Boston."
Bowled over: Today, with 22 strategic markets in place, InSite has plunged into the lavatories of alternate venues nationwide, such as health clubs, shopping malls and concert arenas. With sales climbing from $300,000 in 1998 to an astounding projected $8 million this year, there's no way this business is going down the toilet.
Manoj "Marty" Puranik, 26, and Jose Sanchez, 25
Company/description: Atlantic.Net Inc. is an ISP.
Based: Gainesville, Florida
Started: 1994
1999 sales: About $6 million
2000 projections: About $12 million
Gotta start somewhere: First computers for these technically inclined entrepreneurs? Puranik: "A Texas Instruments TI-94a given to me by my uncle in 1984." Sanchez: "An Atari 400, a long time ago."
Computer connection: Puranik and Sanchez hit it off immediately when they met while attending the University of Florida in Gainesville. "We just happened to sit next to each other and started talking about computers. After a while, we decided to start an ISP," Sanchez recalls. It was UF's lack of Internet access for students that helped the partners along.
Mony, mony: A couple of college students with no business experience couldn't just wave their hands and make an ISP appear. They actually started out in 1994 with a computer store. "We had the idea; we just didn't have the money to do what we wanted," says Sanchez. "We started selling computers to generate cash flow to fund the Internet portion of the company." Puranik and Sanchez didn't pay themselves until the ISP went online a year later.
Across state lines: Atlantic.Net may not be the biggest fish in the ISP ocean, but they are one of the most successful. They just completed their (count 'em!) 10th ISP acquisition and have expanded out of Florida across the southeastern United States. Plus, "we're looking internationally," adds Puranik. In 1998 and 1999, UF recognized Atlantic.Net as one of Florida's 100 fastest-growing private companies. "In some ways, we didn't really think we were going to pull it off. In your head, you always kind of dream the world, right?"
Matt Britton, 25, and Michael Cohen, 23
Company/description: The Magma Group Inc. is a marketing firm focusing on e-mail marketing to college students.
Based: Boston
Started: 1996
1999 sales: $1 million-plus
2000 projections: $2.5 million-plus
Go team, go: Magma's Team Magma program employs more than 6,000 student organizations at 400 campuses nationwide to sign up students to receive e-mail marketing messages from Magma's clients. Student organizations receive cash for each sign-up. Magma also uses event marketing at spring break party spots to provide information and give away goodies for clients.
Heads of the class: Britton and Cohen began their entrepreneurial careers by promoting concerts and festivals, but they found their niche when large companies asked to sponsor the student events. "The fact that companies were coming to us when they had all these traditional media outlets showed us those outlets weren't working," says Britton. "We saw there was a huge opportunity to serve Internet companies because it leveled the playing field with our competitors who hadn't tapped into that marketplace yet in terms of pitching Internet companies. But we knew that since the college market is so Internet-savvy, it's definitely a market that Internet companies would want to reach."
Prodigious advantage: Starting the company while Cohen was still attending Boston University and Britton having recently graduated had its advantages and disadvantages. While Cohen juggled studies and CEO duties, both partners juggled the difficulties of being young while competing with established companies. "We were lucky because it was easy for us to portray ourselves as close to the market we were reaching," says Britton.
Econ 101: Britton and Cohen started Magma sans funds by working out of Cohen's bedroom and funneling all profits back into the company--a practice they still abide by. "We take barely enough money to live on," says Britton. "Every dollar in terms of income that comes into the company goes right back into building it." Still, Britton says, one of their biggest challenges is "growing faster than the dollar and cents allow you to." To make up for the gap between big plans and small working capital, the partners are looking into several options, including venture capital investments and acquisition or private investment from industry majors.
Di-Ann Eisnor, 27
Company/description: Eisnor Interactive (EI) Inc. is an offline promotion agency that creates real-world advertising experiences (using things like mobile billboards and "street teams") to promote digital brands.
Based: New York City
Started: 1997
1999 sales: $12 million
2000 projections: $32 million
Full circle: Schooled in painting and business, Eisnor longed to fuse both fortes. Employment at a "super-conservative" Japanese ad agency and at renowned interactive agency Site Specific bolstered her business acumen yet hardly subdued her creative side. She even started an artist's residency program.
Ch-ch-changes: After Site Specific's 1997 sale, Eisnor left the company with a new agenda: to pioneer media offline. A personal investment of $20,000 opened EI's doors--but the offline promotion category was almost nonexistent.
Try me: "[For six months, Internet companies] were like `I think this is the future, but we're not going to pay for it,' " recalls Eisnor. But Site Specific clients Prodigy and Music Boulevard soon signed on. Nickelodeon.com, TheStreet.com, Compaq and Staples.com have since become believers. Now EI is in negotiations with Halfway, Oregon, to become the first dot.com town ever by possibly changing its name to Half.com. The payback: EI has promised to wire all schools and homes and reinvigorate its economy with interactive industry.
Best regards: Eisnor attributes her success to her staff ("You'll get valuable ideas from our receptionist to our CFO") and her seasoned management team. With a board of great mentors, you can't go wrong.
Contact Sources
Atlantic.Net Inc., (800) 422-2936
Eisnor Interactive Inc., (212) 414-4924, http://www.eisnor.com
INCA Girl Enterprises Inc., http://www.incabag.com
InSite Advertising Inc., (212) 391-9048, http://www.insiteadvertising.com
The Magma Group Inc., (617) 783-9700, http://www.magmagroup.com


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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said renewable energy accounted for over 10 percent of total electricity supplied in the 12 months to end-June.
Renewable power output grew 27 percent from July 2011, according to the UK's latest Renewable Energy Roadmap status report released on Thursday.
"Renewable energy is increasingly powering the UK's grid, and the economy too," Energy Secretary Edward Davey, who heads DECC, said in a statement that accompanied the report.
"It's a fantastic achievement that more than 10 percent of our power now comes from renewables, given the point from which we started," he said.
Britain has a target to produce 15 percent of its energy, including electricity, heat and transport, from renewable sources by 2020 in a bid to cut climate-warming emissions.
This means that 30 percent of the UK's electricity must come from renewables by the end of the decade, the government said, with wind playing a leading role.
"Right now, getting new infrastructure investment into the economy is crucial to driving growth and supporting jobs across the country ... I am determined that we get ahead in the global race on renewables and build on the big-money investments we've seen this year," Davey said.
DECC has identified around 12.7 billion pounds ($20.6 billion) of confirmed and planned renewable investment by companies between April 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012, potentially creating around 22,800 jobs.
The department, which expects the growth in renewables to continue or accelerate, predicts the industry will support 400,000 direct jobs by 2020, up from around 110,000 jobs currently.
Government subsidies have played a key role in encouraging investment, however, and economic difficulties have put pressure on support schemes.
Government departments have reined in spending, though officials say the falling costs of the technology mean that less support is required to encourage take-up.
Offshore wind power capacity grew by 60 percent to 2.5 gigawatts (GW), while onshore wind grew by 24 percent to 5.3 GW, according to figures in the Renewable Energy Roadmap report.
Solar photovoltaics recorded the highest growth with an increase of five and a half times to 1.4 GW in capacity by the end of June 2012, the report said.
Industry group RenewableUK welcomed the findings of the report.
"The update is spot on. It highlights the sector's dynamic growth and the healthy pipeline of wind, wave and tidal projects to come," RenewableUK Deputy Chief Executive Maf Smith said.
"It's right to note that costs are falling steadily, so renewables will continue to offer even better value for money for all of us," he said, adding that it will help stabilise the price of energy.
In November, Britain set out plans to triple support for low-carbon power generation by 2020 in order to help replace ageing fossil fuel power plants with less polluting alternatives.
The outlay will be clawed back through higher energy bills.
Under the agreed Levy Control Framework, spending on low-carbon power generation will increase to 7.6 billion pounds a year in real terms by 2020, from the current 2.35 billion pounds, to reduce dependence on gas.
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It was obvious from the enthusiasm about our 25 Make-Ahead Breakfasts post that we all need some easy, go-to recipes! For busy families on-the-go, prepping beforehand is crucial. So I thought today I'd share 25 great slow cooker meals.
You can toss these in the slow cooker in the morning and have dinner waiting when you are ready for it. Better yet, prep as much as you can on a Saturday and freeze your meals in gallon-sized plastic zipper bags. Then you can just dump one in the slow cooker (defrosting it the night before is best, but usually not a deal-breaker) on your way out the door.
Do you have a favorite slow cooker recipe? Please share it in the comments!
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew (vegan)
- Cream Cheese Chicken
- Stuffed Pepper Soup
- Pasta Fagioli Soup (vegetarian if you sub vegetable broth for chicken broth)
- French Dips
- Sesame Chicken
- Greek Chicken Pitas
- Balsamic Onion Pot Roast
- Bolognese Sauce
- Curried Pork Chops
- BBQ Chicken
- Cajun Stew
- Chicken and Cornmeal Dumplings
- Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Lasagna Soup
- Korean Ribs
- Country Style Pork and White Beans
- Spicy Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches
- Italian Sausage Stuffed Peppers
- Texas Two-Step Stew
- Shrimp and Corn Chowder
- Cheesy Cowboy Casserole
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