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Sprouts beats Whole Foods on price
A new market basket study by Bloomberg Industries finds that Sprouts Farmers Market is about two percent less expensive than Whole Foods when it comes to everyday retail prices. Add the promotions that Sprouts regularly runs into the equation and the savings differential grows to 13 percent.
"Sprouts is being very aggressive, especially in produce, on being a value-oriented organic retailer," Jennifer Bartashus, an analyst with Bloomberg Industries, told Bloomberg News.
Sprouts' everyday price on organic produce is about 22 percent lower than comparable items at Whole Foods.
The chain, which operates 170 stores in nine states, is focused on shoppers who want to buy natural and organic foods but at value prices. The company recently reported an increase in same-store sales of nearly 13 percent for its first quarter.
"Our strong comps in this quarter were driven by our ability to aggressively promote fresh produce which gives us a broad appeal with the everyday grocery shopper," said CEO Douglas Sanders during the company's earnings call earlier this month. "A strong produce comp coupled with our store [widened] department promotions into a solid traffic and balance performance across the store."
While Whole Foods has gotten more aggressive with its pricing of late, the company continues to struggle in ridding itself of its "Whole Paycheck" nickname.
"We haven't been investing in price as aggressively as we probably needed to do," said John Mackey, Whole Foods co-CEO, in the company's earnings call earlier this month. "So we're going to be investing more aggressively in price going forward while continuing to take our expenses down and continuing to innovate and differentiate."
- Sprouts Beating Whole Foods in Price War, Analysis Shows – Bloomberg News
- Sprouts Farmers' CEO Douglas Sanders on Q1 2014 Results (Earnings Call Transcript) – Seeking Alpha
- Whole Foods' CEO John Mackey on Q2 2014 Results (Earnings Call Transcript) – Seeking Alpha
Is Sprouts Farmers Market positioned for significant growth in the future? What do you see as the biggest opportunities and challenges for the chain going forward?
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One of the biggest stumbling blocks to organics is the cost over conventionally grown food items. Lower prices definitely will attract a larger number of consumers, but until organic is closer on price to conventional, the majority of food shoppers won't have enough interest to seek them out.
So for Sprouts, they may increase the overall market size some, but to really grow the company in the next few years or so they probably will have to take direct aim at Whole Foods. In places where they share the same market and can demonstrate better value and a similar or better experience, they have a good opportunity to leverage the price differential and poach customers.
In our Southern California valley, we have Sprouts, Whole Foods, Lassen's, Stater Brothers, Valley Produce Market, plus the national chains and warehouse clubs.
Sprouts offers an easy to shop open floor format with healthy foods at good prices. Fresh produce will be key to their appeal and to better leverage their strong vitamin supplement department. Their deli is small but is very popular with the lunch crowds and very good prices. They currently don't have a loyalty program and have an opportunity to integrate mobile technology into the shopping experience. Sprouts has a good growth story and potential ahead.
Sprouts is a great alternative to the big three supermarket chains and the much pricier Whole Foods. They carry many non-traditional brands, have good produce and offer butcher services. The biggest challenge faced by the chain is the limited number of items they carry and competition from Trader Joe's.
Sprouts does not carry the same breadth of items as a traditional grocer, so consumers might have to visit a second store to get everything on their shopping lists.
Trader Joe's also leans heavily towards organics and at prices that undercut Sprouts.
To be successful, Sprouts will need to continue aggressively pricing and continue to offer strong customer service. There is a niche for them in the marketplace for health-oriented consumers who want quality products without the Whole Foods price.
I am impressed by David's thoughts and statistics regarding Sprouts Farmers Market. While I think they will grow so will Trader Joe's and possibly Whole Foods. Organics have proven their value in today's marketplace but they are struggling a four-way battle with future "opportunity" vs. "pricing" vs. "saturation" vs. the "economy."
Are Sprouts' skills up to mastering their business challenges? While we all like to root for the small guy the jury on Sprouts is still out.
I don't get it…saying you're less than WFs is tantamount to saying that the car you just bought costs less than a Mercedes. So what? Do they have sales people that are as good as WFs? Are their stores as well done as WFs? Do they have a value brand that crosses into center store like 365? Do consumers trust their brand as much as they do WFs?
Sprouts should grow because there's plenty of room for players on the "better" side right now, but I wouldn't tout the price issue if I were them. Others have been going after WFs for years on that and they continue to open store after store after store. Talk to your P.R. firm, Sprouts. Try again.
Whole Foods is expensive and will face greater competition. Where I live, coops are big. The prices are always less at the coops for the very same thing. And you get to see exactly where the products come from. Whole Foods doesn't have that local personal connection, and I see more people shopping at the coops and less at Whole Foods.
Isn't that kind of saying Coach is cheaper than Louis Vuitton? I am sure the poor and downtrodden are rejoicing at the news that they can save 2% by shopping at Sprouts. Let's face facts, those shopping at Whole Foods and/or Sprouts aren't counting pennies anyway. It's fashionable to complain about pricing at Whole Foods. People complain in public only to let others know that "they" can afford to shop at Whole Foods. A 2% difference means less than nothing and I will almost bet that Sprouts will increase their prices to be equal to Whole Foods.
Neither of these retailers ever increased market share by advertising price. They made their name delivering products that were free of pesticides, contaminants, hormones, etc. that adulterate grocery products. People realize that yields are lower when things are grown without the benefits of the above and expect to pay more.
While Whole Foods has endured barbs and slings, they have not seen serious erosion of their business in spite of one of the worst recessions this country has ever experienced.
Sprouts needs to watch where they grow and how they locate. They seem to favor power center type locations and I find they get lost among other stores in these types of locations.
Personally, I like Sprouts in northern California as they're a well priced alternative to the poor competition that exists in that market. The same goes for Sprouts in Oklahoma. But when I'm in places like southern California, Arizona, or even Colorado with other good choices, I don't go to Sprouts unless it's to check on traffic.
Sprouts, remember, got where it is due to internal issues at Sunflower and a cash need by Smart & Final so Henry's was sold. Sprouts was the worst of the three similar chains but managed to get into a position of control not by being the better operator, but by luck. Henry's was the superior chain and I'd go out of my way to shop there in southern California.
I'm a little curious if some of those commenting have visited a Sprouts store or taken a look at Sprouts weekly ad. 90% of the produce floor space at Sprouts is NON Organic. Sprouts advertises hot prices on conventional meats and produce. Value oriented customers do shop Sprouts for these items.
I don't think Sprouts and Whole Foods are going after many of the same customers. Sprouts will hurt conventional stores with high prices and lackluster meats and produce. I'm not naming names, but there is good reason Sprouts targeted Atlanta to expand into if you look at the execution of the dominant conventional there, compared to other regions….
According to Warren's piece – which I found well done and certainly timely – they see room for a 6-7 fold increase, but the obvious question is how many other operators are saying the same thing? Organics at the moment are, of course, "hot," so the field is likely to see heavy competition, and we could well end up with an over-saturated market. The other downside, obviously, is that their (relatively) small size gives them little market power – either with suppliers or consumers…being a little sports car makes it easy to be nimble, but it also makes it hard when you're run over by a truck.
Storewanderer's point of Sprouts being the worst of the three similar chains has me concerned. When I see the worst in class expanding I have to wonder if they can sustain and growth. We have above average natural food operators and we have below average operators. Now all of them can't be above average and Sprouts I'd put in the below average ranks. In some ways with their sales and unit growth, they remind me of Fresh & Easy, just build lots of them anywhere there is a vacant piece of real estate and hope for the best. Same store sales increases will look impressive but sales per unit not so much.
The elephant in the room is Sprouts is no Whole Foods, and if the only think they can beat Whole Foods on is price, not market share or profit, at some point they will hit a wall.
Another challenge not yet mentioned is in California it is easy to secure low cost conventional produce and transport it to the stores quickly. This is just what Sprouts does. As you expand, transport time and cost increases, impacting quality and price. The main traffic draw for Sprouts is low cost conventional produce; if you look at a basket at Sprouts it is mainly produce and not much else. This gives them the opportunity to grow baskets of existing customers. Add Sprouts fresh departments and vitamin area to Trader Joe's center store/dairy/produce and you'd have a true winner.
Yes, growth is certainly in Sprouts' future. Managing change, growth and customer service while preserving their corporate culture and image will be Sprouts' biggest challenges and opportunities as they grow in both store locations and numbers….
Sprouts has tried to mesh its mix and the old Henrys and Sunflower mixes but the net result is a store better than the original Sprouts, similar to the original Sunflower, and a downgrade from the old Henry's. Henry's had stronger meat, deli, and bakery and Sprouts has added some items, but cut others, decreased sizes in some, and increased prices.
I don't think it is anything like the Fresh & Easy situation, but I think Sprouts is a bit headstrong and should have just taken all of the old Henrys programs rather than trying to haphazardly mesh their inferior ideas in.


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The Orangery at Blenheim Palace is a brasserie-style restaurant in an historic location. Enjoy flavoursome lunches and quintessential afternoon teas, amidst elegant décor and stunning views across the grounds.
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I had a delicious lunch here - the guinea fowl was especially good. To sum up: the pleasant service, a lovely aspect, and very good food, all ensured a thoroughly lovely lunch. I would definitely eat here again, and I can certainly recommend it. My only complaint would be the screaming child which did rather shatter the ambiance. Perhaps people with children likely to scream (under 10s) could be seated away from adults seeking a pleasant, relaxing experienced. When the family left, the restaurant experience became very pleasant.
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Our second visit for Afternoon Tea with overseas visitors. The venue is lovely and the setting couldn't be better. A delicious choice of teas and coffees, fresh-baked scones and tasty little cakes. The sandwiches were also beautifully fresh and well-presented, although I would have preferred brown bread, rather than white. Service was good this time, if a little distracted. I think perhaps there was a function on elsewhere at the same time?
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This Activity draws a picture of the sound heard by the internal microphone or of the signal present on the microphone socket. More specifically it draws a graph of this input versus time, the input is on the vertical axis and time is on the horizontal axis. That is, the laptop functions like a machine called an oscilloscope.
As well as graphing signal as a function of time, Measure can also graph as a function of frequency.
The XO-1 laptop is only capable of mono input, the XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 are capable of stereo input on their microphone socket and can graph two signals at once.
Note: As of Measure Version 37, older versions of Sugar, e.g. 0.84, are no longer supported.
Where to get Measure
- 1. Select secondary toolbar
- Allows the Activity's Journal entry to be renamed
- 2. Select secondary toolbar
- Measurement settings
- 3. Select secondary toolbar
- Tuning settings
- 4. Time base/frequency
- Plots the signal vs. time or plots amplitude vs. frequency
- 5. The time scale
- Used to scale the plot
- 6. Freeze the display
- Pause the program
- 7. Capture sample now
- Saves an image of the wave in the Sugar Journal
- 8. Stop
- Exits the Activity
- 9. Mute
- Mute/unmute channel
- 10. Invert
- invert the display
- 11. Amplitude adjustment
- Use these sliders to control the sensitivity
- 12. Caption
- A summary of current settings that are selected
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The sensor toolbar - measurement settings
- 13. Sound
- Use this setting with the internal microphone, external microphone and external AC signals
- 14. Resistance sensor
- Use with external resistive type transducers
- 15. Voltage sensor
- Use with external sensors which generate a voltage
- 16. Sample interval
- A log file 'Measure Log' is saved to the journal, it contains one sample per interval
- 17. Starts/stops saving a log file
- 'Measure Log' with measured values as readable text
- 18. Trigger
- Synchronise the sample period to the waveform so that the sample will start on a rising edge or falling edge
There is no 19.
Note: Whenever you switch sensing modes, Measure switches to time-base plotting.
Tuning toolbar
The tuning toolbar - frequency settings
Hint: Adjust the time scale (#5) to increase the spacing between the tuning lines.
- 20. Instrument
- Select instrument to tune.
- 21. Note entry
- Select a note for tuning. (When an Instrument is selected, the notes are restricted to the open notes of that instrument; when no instrument is selected, any of the 88 notes on a piano can be selected.)
- 22. Frequency entry
- The frequency of the target note is displayed. (The user can also enter a frequency to target.)
- 23. Show/hide tuning mark
- A tuning mark displays the target note on the plot.
- 24. Show/hide harmonics
- Harmonic lines are integer multiples of the target frequency.
- 25. Play a note
- Plays a five-second sample of the target note. (Sampling is disabled while the note is playing.)
- 26. Measured note
- An estimate of the note being played is displayed. If the note is slightly flat or sharp, relative to the target, it is displayed in color (red == very flat or sharp; yellow == somewhat flat or sharp).
Note: Whenever you switch to a tuning mode, Measure switches to frequency-base plotting.
Measuring A5 (880 HZ)
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Let the children experiment with the internal microphone, try singing, whistling, musical instruments, the Tam Tam musical Activity. The Turtle Blocks Activity can generate an audio tone.
The children should learn through guided discovery that:
- sound is a pressure wave
- the pitch of the sound is determined by the frequency or cycles per second (Hz)
- the loudness of a sound is determined by the amplitude
- sounds contain multiple frequency components or harmonics
- the more pure sounds have less harmonics
This Activity does not currently support sharing. However, it is useful to use one XO for measuring and another for generating sounds.
Measure is able to take input from a wide range of external sensors including switches, photocells, temperature sensors, inductive loops, hall effect sensors, soil probes and many more.
Care should be taken not to exceed the allowable input voltage:
- XO-1 -0.5V to 5V
- XO-1.5 -6V to +9V
- XO-1.75 -6V to +9V
It is a good idea, particularly on the XO-1, to put a resistor of 680 ohms in the phono plug, this increases the allowable input voltage range.
You can use save data from measure to the Sugar Journal using the Capture feature described above (16). These data can then be imported into SimpleGraph, where they are displayed.
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You can find ideas for fun science experiments at Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure
Building sensors
There are detailed instructions for building sensors at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure#How_to_build_low_cost_sensors
Adding instruments
You can add new instruments to tune by modifying the instrument dictionary in config.py.
INSTRUMENT_DICT = { _('Guitar'): [82.4069, 110, 146.832, 195.998, 246.942, 329.628], _('Violin'): [195.998, 293.665, 440, 659.255], _('Viola'): [130.813, 195.998, 293.665, 440], _('Cello'): [65.4064, 97.9989, 146.832, 220], _('Bass'): [41.2034, 55, 73.4162, 97.9989], _('Charango'): [329.63, 392, 440, 523.25, 659.26], _('Ukulele'): [261.626, 329.628, 391.995, 440], _('Sitar'): [174.614, 130.813, 195.998, 65.4064, 391.995, 261.626, 523.251], _('Mandolin'): [195.998, 293.665, 440, 659.255], _('Recorder'): [391.995] }
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A lot of people have bad credit these days. Sometimes it is simply a matter of not taking their credit privileges seriously. Maybe your credit card issuer has provided you with the utmost in poor customer service, so you feel no obligation to pay your credit card bill on time, thinking "I'll show them who is boss". Do not deceive yourself this way, because they will absolutely have the last laugh as they report your LATE payments to the credit bureaus, and this hurts you by giving you a lower credit score than you should or could have.
Maybe you had fallen on some hard times several months or several years ago, when you got laid off your job, you were going through a divorce, you had some unexpectedly high medical expenses, or a myriad of other possibilities. Whatever it was, it caused you to get behind in your payments, so you were reported to the credit bureaus as having late payments, which again lowers your credit score.
The value of having a good credit score these days can not be underestimated. When you go to apply for a new job, chances are high that your credit will be checked, which most employers feel is a good indication of your character and how seriously you take your duties and obligations. A poor credit score is also going to cause you to pay a higher interest rate on your mortgage, your car loan payments, and many other things, which can add up to costing you hundreds and even thousands of dollars more in interest than you would have paid with a good credit score.
So let's assume that those previous problems are behind you, you understand the value of making payments on time, and that you now want to rebuild your credit so that your credit score will also be increased. Keep in mind that this is a PROCESS and it does not happen overnight. In reality, it will take a minimum of several months of consistently good actions on your part, but that is also part of how your credit score is derived, by looking at your credit HISTORY and seeing a consistently good record. And of course, it takes time to create that history.
Another very important step that many people forget or do not take time to do is to get a copy of your credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies, which are Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Each of them keeps a credit report on you, and since they do not share data between them, each very likely has a different view of you from a credit perspective. Get your credit reports and go over them with a fine tooth comb looking for inaccurate information. The reality is that the majority of consumer credit reports contain errors, and those errors do not get corrected automatically. In fact, they NEVER get corrected unless you initiate the action to get it corrected.
Another reason for going over your credit reports is to look for accounts that do not belong to you. The crime of identity theft is the fastest growing crime of this century, and you could be a victim of identity theft and not even know about it, although this would probably be reflected in your credit reports by listing accounts that you do not know about.
To improve your credit score, there are multiple ways to do it. With the credit cards you already have, make sure that you make your payments on time. If you mail your payments in, make sure to mail them enough ahead of time so that the payment will be posted to your account prior to the due date. More than anything else, making payments on time, consistently, will be your best friend in your goal of raising your credit score.
Get a secured credit card. Typically you can be approved for one or more of these, since your credit limit is exactly the same as the amount of money you have put on deposit with the card issuer. Use the card sparingly, but always pay it off at the end of the month.
As your credit starts to improve, you may qualify for an unsecured credit card. Again, use it sparingly and pay it off at the end of each month. Always make sure to pay on time.
You did not get bad credit overnight, and your credit score will not improve overnight. But with consistent action on your part and making each and every one of your payments on time, your credit score will improve and give you the type of credit score that you can be proud of.
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Nassau County police said Tuesday that they are looking for three men who entered a Levittown home posing as water department workers and stole cash and checks from the residents.
The three suspects said they were from the water department and had to check the meter and sinks because iodine was found in the water and a person in the Sarah Drive neighborhood became sick.
One suspect showed identification from the water department, police said, so the homeowner let them in at about 4:30 p.m. Monday.
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This article explains how to connect a SIRIS to a VMware hypervisor.
- Datto SIRIS
These instructions apply to virtual and physical SIRIS appliances to enable agentless backups, ESXi Virtualizations, and ESXi uploads. For Hyper-V instructions, see Connecting A SIRIS To A Hyper-V Hypervisor / Virtualization Offload To A Hyper-V Host.
System Requirements
Datto SIRIS supports hypervisor connections to the following paid versions of VMware vSphere:
- VMware vSphere 5.5
- VMware vSphere 6.0
- VMware vSphere 6.5
- VMware vSphere 6.7
To back up a virtual machine hosted on VMware vSphere, you must set up a connection to the hypervisor. This connection enables automatic screenshots and virtualization.
1. In the Datto device GUI, click Configure → Hypervisor Connections → Add Connection.
Figure 1: Add Hypervisor Connections (click to enlarge)
2. Add a Connection Name and Server Address. The Hypervisor Type will default to ESX. Use this setting to create an ESXi connection.
- Always enter the highest-level connection for the Server Address; the Datto will autodetect your ESXi environment. Use the IP address of the vCenter server that manages the host.
- If you are using a clustered environment, use the IP/FQDN for either the vSphere Client or the web client.
Figure 2: Hypervisor Connection Name (click to enlarge)
3. Fill in the fields for the Hypervisor Login, as shown in Figure 3.
- The account that the Datto appliance uses to connect to the hypervisor must be one of the following types:
- A Domain Administrator for the vCenter instance
- A root account on the hypervisor
Figure 3: Hypervisor Login (click to enlarge)
4. Specify your ESXi Hypervisor Options.
- If you are connecting to a vCenter managed environment, you will be prompted for a Data Center, Cluster, Host Address, Offload Method (NFS/iSCSI), Datastore, and Network Adapter.
- If you are connecting to a standalone environment, you will be prompted for an Offload Method (NFS/iSCSI), Datastore, and Network Adapter.
Offload method considerations
- Can easily migrate in case of disaster recovery after virtualization
- No extra steps to set up the connection
- You offload via RDM mapped drives. When using vMotion (external link), ESXi will move RDM mapped VMDKs normally. The RDM mapped VMDKs, however, are equivalent to symlinks.
- iSCSI is more secure then NFS.
- ISCSI requires setting up an extra vmKernel port.
Figure 4: ESXi Hypervisor Options, vCenter Managed configuration shown (click to enlarge)
- When adding a datastore, specify a location to store the virtual machine during ESXi virtualization and screenshot verification.
- The location can be a different datastore than where the virtual SIRIS appliance virtual machine is located.
- The datastore should have enough space to hold the .vswap file for each ESXi virtualization.
- Each .vswap file is equal to the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine.
- When configuring a network adapter, specify the NIC on the SIRIS appliance that is attached to the same subnet as the iSCSI adapter on the ESXi host. The iSCSI traffic will travel over this NIC.
- You use the iSCSI adapter on the ESXi host for ESXi virtualization.
- For proper iSCSI connection and RDM creation, the adapter should be on the same subnet as one of the NICs on the SIRIS appliance.
- If you use a software iSCSI adapter, then it should be bound to a VMkernel adapter on the same subnet as one of the NICs on the SIRIS appliance.
If you don't already have an iSCSI adapter set up on your ESXi host, see page 69 of vSphere (external link) for instructions.
Once you click Next, the Datto appliance will connect to the hypervisor and display your connections, as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Successful connection (click to enlarge)
You can now add pair VMs for backup using the System Backup Wizard.
Updating Connection Credentials
If you need to update the hypervisor credentials for an existing connection, click the pencil icon on the right side of your hypervisor connection listing. The connection wizard will re-launch and allow you to make changes without having to re-boot or re-connect the hypervisor.


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The lone finalist for the Clayton County, Ga., superintendent's job says he is committed to turning around the troubled district.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- CBS President CEO Leslie Moonves finally got his woman. This morning, Katie Couric ended the media parlor game of will she or won?t she by telling ?The Today Show? audience she will be leaving the job she has held for 15 years to become the first female solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast as managing editor and anchor of CBS News.
|Katie Couric told 'The Today Show' audience this morning that her last day will be May 31. Today is her 15th anniversary as anchor of the morning show.
Although her ?Today? co-host Matt Lauer had to prompt her to say why she was leaving, CBS had no hesitation sending out a release this morning trumpeting its new star. Ms. Couric will stay with "Today" through May 31 and begin her new post in September. Along with filling the seat long held by Dan Rather, and most recently by Bob Scheiffer, Ms. Couric will contribute pieces to CBS?s "60 Minutes" and anchor prime-time specials.
?Seasoned broadcasters who are at once respected, charismatic and known throughout this country and beyond are increasingly important in this fragmented media landscape,? Mr. Moonves said in the statement. ?I'm proud to have a talent like Katie, who personifies this rare combination of qualities, and look forward to the many contributions that she will make not only to our developing evening news broadcast, but to our entire news operation."
Blow to 'Today?'
With the move, Mr. Moonves manages to strike a potentially damaging blow to rival NBC by wooing away a key player from its most profitable show, which brings in $250 million in profit annually. NBC has struggled the past two years with its prime-time lineup, and its unrivaled strength in the morning has helped it weather that storm. But even that has begun to show cracks, as ABC?s ?Good Morning America? last year had several weeks where it nearly pulled even with ?Today? in ratings. According to the latest ratings, ?Today? has 6 million viewers vs. ?GMA?s? 5.2 million. In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic, the standard for advertisers buying news shows, ?Today? was watched by 2.9 million people while ?GMA? was watched by 2.4 million.
Media buyers believe the show might stumble a bit, but that the franchise is strong enough to hold up despite the defection. ?The legacy of the show is bigger than she is, and I?m a huge fan of Katie. Still, the show can survive without her,? said Andy Donchin, senior VP-national broadcast, Carat. ?But they?d have to get their legs on solid ground. ... At first there may be some fall off as people reevaluate what they watch.?
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Ms. Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as deputy Pentagon reporter. She began work on ?Today? in June 1990 as its first national correspondent, which included two stints covering the Gulf War. She then served as substitute co-anchor with Bryant Gumbel in February 1991 until taking over the job permanently 15 years ago today.


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Pune-based Force Motors has come up with the new 2017 Gurkha BSIV model. The new off-roader gets a BSIV compliant engine along with some cosmetic updates and a new chassis and suspension setup. The 2017 model has gone on sale in three variants – Xpedition 4×2, Xplorer 4×4 (3-door) and Xplorer 4×4 (5-door). Prices of the new 2017 Force Gurkha BSIV model start at Rs 8.45 lakh and go all the way to Rs 11.48 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). Read on for full details on specifications, features, and prices of the new vehicle.
While the new 2017 Force Gurkha facelift features the same Mercedes IM 616-derived engine, it been updated to meet BS-IV emission norms. The 2.6-litre turbocharged inter-cooled Diesel engine has max. power of 85 HP and a peak torque of 230 Nm. It comes mated to a G-28 5-speed Manual Transmission.
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While the 2017 Force Gurkha Xpedition gets a 36 Months/3 Lakh kms warranty, the Gurkha Xplorer gets an 18 Months/Unlimited Kms warranty.
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|Ground Clearance (mm)
Underpinning the new 2017 Force Gurkha facelift is a new C-in-C chassis frame. Force Motors claims that the new chassis offers enhanced structural rigidity. It also gets a new chassis with multi-link coil spring suspension. The Gurkha gets 16-inch steel alloys shod with all-terrain rubber. Powering the 2017 Gurkha is a 2.6-litre, 4-cylinder, Turbocharged Diesel motor that benefits from an intercoler. The engine goes on to produce a maximum power of 85 BHP and peak torque of 230 Nm.
New 2017 Force Gurkha Mileage
Both the new models of the new Gurkha facelift have a claimed average mileage of 17 KMPL.
New 2017 Force Gurkha Facelift – Images
New 2017 Force Gurkha Facelift – Design Review
The new 2017 Force Gurkha facelift carries a set of minor interior and exterior visual updates. The 2017 model carries a few new styling cues that seem to come from the iconic Mercedes G wagon. The 2017 Gurkha is available with both soft-top and hard-top options. The new Gurkha looks every bit a hardcore off-roader. Bits like steel bumpers, snorkel, large wheels and faux plates make the Gurkha look really mean and rugged.
On the inside, the new 2017 Force Gurkha facelift looks much like the pre-facelift model. However, there's some freshness that arises out of a new four-spoke steering wheel, a new gearknob and addition of some storage spaces. The Gurkha is now available with a HVAC unit. Overall, the cabin can be best described is utilitarian. However, the Gurkha gets away with lack of comfort features as it's a budget-end off-roader.
New 2017 Force Gurkha Facelift – Colours
Both the models of the 2017 model Force Gurkha are available in four colours-
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Some of the After Digital team and myself were invited along to the BBC Connected Studio on Knowledge & Learning yesterday, for a fantastic day focused on creativity and digital innovation.
Connected Studio is an initiative established by BBC Future Media across the UK, which aims to develop innovative and intuitive new digital media formats, functions, products and features across the BBC's entire range of media and content. Digital agencies, technology companies and creatives were selected to attend the live streamed event across 3 locations - Glasgow, Salford and Cardiff. The Creative Studio days provided an open, collaborative and inspiring environment to encourage attendees to share their ideas, team up, brainstorm and develop creative concepts for new BBC Knowledge and Learning products.
BBC experts were on hand to offer up their advice and feedback on ideas, user experience and audiences. What's more teams were able to pitch their ideas to a sample audience panel in 15 minute slots, to decipher the clarity and feasibility of their concepts. The After Digital team was lucky enough to receive highly positive and useful feedback from the audience panel, who saw significant scope in our idea for real life application.
From there, teams went on to refine their ideas further, ensuring they could deliver their concept succinctly and efficiently to the judging panel. The day concluded with each team having to pitch their idea in just 2 minutes to the BBC judges and full BBC team, as well as all the other delegates across the 3 venues via live video streaming.
Despite the tight timescales and high-pressured environment, After Digital thoroughly enjoyed the day and meeting all those in attendance, and felt there were some fantastic ideas that came out of the Creative Studio as a result.
We look forward to the next stage of the programme and potentially continuing to work with the BBC for future digital developments and innovation.
David Johnstone, Business Development Director at After Digital, said; "With innovation at the heart of everything we do at After Digital we are always seeking opportunities like this to collaborate and grow the scope of our work. The BBC is already a leader in media and digital innovation and initiatives such as the Connected Studio further highlight the organisation's dedication to continue to strive for excellence and offer their audiences seamless, connected, multi-platform experiences."


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Okay. Just three simple T/F questions for you:
1. True/False?: Lactate is a waste product that is only produced from high intensity exercises and causes muscle damage.
2. True/False?: Coaches should use physical activity as a punishment for undesirable behavior ("You're late for practice again. You're going to stay after practice run 2 extra laps.").
3. True/False?: The major motives for exercise participants continuing in an exercise program or sport are: health factors, weight loss, and fitness.
Know the answers? Can you explain why and justify your answer choices?
I'm sure you all kind of know what the right answer is but may not exactly be able to explain why.
Answers for all of them are FALSE.
I'll esplain here (and you're about to find out a butt-load more than you ever wanted to know about these topics):
1. Lactate is a waste product that is only produced from high intensity exercises and causes muscle damage. —> FALSE. [This answer will not be fun unless you've taken some human anatomy and physiology courses. You can skip down to number 2 and 3 for sport psychology stuff].
(*Inhale deep breath*!) That part about how lactate is only produced during high intensity exercises is false because lactate is pretty much always present in your body (right now you're saying, "But Michelle, I'm not sore and I haven't worked out in a few days!"). Well even at rest, lactate is continuously produced… the thing is that it is also being cleared/removed at the same rate. There is going to be no lactate accumulation, but there is going to be lactate production.
There isn't even lactate accumulation at low intensity exercises (because the body can still clear it quite rapidly). The lactate production is influenced by several factors (such as anaerobic conditions and muscle fiber type), but I don't want to get too much into that. Main part of how all the conditions are related to lactate production is in the intensity of the exercise. As exercise intensity increases, the body's ability to readily utilize oxygen changes, which shifts the products in the body's energy-making pathways (instead of getting pyruvate from glycolysis, we get more lactate). As lactate production continues to rise without it being cleared fast enough, we get accumulation.
Now you're saying, "So Michelle, does the lactate itself cause muscle damage? Pain? Is it just a waste product?" No, no, and no. Along with the accumulation of lactate, the concentration of hydrogen ions also increases (hydrolysis of ATP produces H+). It is the acidity that may interfere with muscle contractions or stimulate pain receptors, but it is not the fault of lactate. Also, the accumulation is cleared within an hour of your workout, so the soreness you feel later is not from some extra lactate sitting around (yes, it's there and being produced, but not accumulated anymore. It's cleared at the same rate and production by that time). And lactate can actually be used as fuel! It can be oxidized by the heart, skeletal muscle, and converted to glucose by the liver.
So here's the take-home message: Lactate is not simply a waste product. [This is science behind it now. Who knows, maybe in 15 years, they'll go back to saying it IS, in fact, the bad guy.]
[^Super awesome pictures from last summer at a RunningAddicts track workout. We were getting the intensity way up! Photo cred: Linh].
2. Coaches should use physical activity as a punishment for undesirable behavior —> FALSE.
Not sure if you have ever been a coach or if you have been coached where this happened to you. As a high schooler, I came to my tennis practice about 10 minutes late one time (14 years old, had to talk to the teacher about something, wasn't quick enough to get changed and then I was late). The coach made me run 2 laps around the track for being late.
"Umm, coach… that's like… half a mile!!!" I say.
"That's right. Now go hustle. You're already behind!" he says.
I'm sure he had the best of intentions. He wanted me to see that I had to always be on time and that being late was not going to be tolerated. I definitely wasn't late again (got rid of the "undesirable behavior"), but I also hated… HATED running from that point. I saw it as torture and punishment. Funny enough… since it was used as punishment.
As a coach or physical educator or anyone who teaches workout classes, your goal is for people to be in it for the long haul. That doesn't come from hating an activity, but from enjoying it. They won't enjoy it if they associate it with punishment. So please, remember (especially if you are working with kids) to never ever use any physical activity as punishment. No more, "Drop and give me 20!" They will hate push-ups for ever and a day.
[Took me a while to see that running isn't punishment! Even when I started, it was associated as being punishment for having eaten too much the day before.]
3. The major motives for exercise participants continuing in an exercise program or sport are: health factors, weight loss, and fitness.—> FALSE
Actually, those are the major motives for people joining a program in the beginning. They want to be healthy, they feel better, they want to lose weight. What are the motives for wanting to continue in that exercise program/sport? Enjoyment and liking the type of activity! There are also social factors (friends/liking instructor), but basically, it comes from the enjoyment of the activity. If you aren't having fun, then you won't be sticking with it for the rest of your life.
If I kept seeing running as a form of punishment for 'too many calories consumed', then I would just be a miserable runner (oxymoron?) who would not continue into old age. I'd grow weary and tired of it. Luckily, I saw the fun, enjoyment, and joys that come from running, so I plan to do this until I'm withered and grey (God-willing, of course).
This is something that is great for P.E. teachers and exercise instructors to know! You may be helping people get fit and lose weight (extrinsic motivators) and then slowly see a decline in attendance from some of those enthusiastic noobs. Or maybe it became the third week of January and everyone's New Year's resolution was a bust. KIDDING. Anyways, find ways for your students to have fun and find enjoyment in the physical activities (intrinsic), and you'll have converts for life!
[^Another picture from post-track RunningAddicts workout. Having friends who enjoy the same activity gives me much more enjoyment —> more love for the sport of running! Photo cred: Linh].
Human anatomy and physiology: like it or dislike it? [I super duper like it]
What sports did you play when growing up? Did you like your coach(es)? [Some coaches empowered me, and others definitely did me some damage… all had the best intentions].
What got you started in your favorite activity? Has that motive changed or evolved over time?


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Race Anti-Gravity Ships From The Future With Flashout 3D
FLASHOUT 3D ($1.99) by Jujubee is a gorgeous, anti-gravity racer featuring stunning tracks, deadly weapons, and upgradable ships. Anyone familiar with the Wipeout PSP titles will notice similarities instantly.
As you'd expect, your job in Flashout 3D is to win races and destroy your competition. You can compete in career mode, a single race or a time trial. Multiplayer and "challenge" modes will be coming soon. Races take place on various tracks, which are based in real places like New York, Brussels, and Berlin.
You start off with one anti-gravity ship, but as you earn virtual dollars you can purchase better ones. Other aspects of the game, including power-ups and tracks, are limited to start with, but as you progress your options increase. If you don't want to earn your way to the top, you can pay for upgrades with in-app purchases.
To get started, you pick the racing mode, your vehicle of choice, the track, and even the background music. Your ship is tilt-controlled by default, but if like me you're useless with tilt controls, you'll be glad to know you can use a virtual joystick instead.
The ships accelerate on their own so all you have to worry about is the steering and shooting. The lack of acceleration and braking controls might disappoint some, but I think the simpler controls are better suited to the iPhone. Even the most basic ship travels at super high speeds, so you need quick reflexes to find your way around the tracks without constantly crashing into the walls.
To add to the fun, there are various power-ups on the tracks. These include weapons, speed boosters, and my personal favorite, the auto-pilot power-up.
Having these power-ups laid out on the tracks isn't always a good thing as it means the competition can use them too. However far ahead you get, you can always get gunned down, or overtaken by someone with a speed booster.
As this is such a fast paced game, it can take some time to get used to the controls, but it's worth it once you get the hang of it. The graphics are stunning and the gameplay is fun enough to keep you entertained for hours.
If you've got quick reflexes and are addicted to speed, this is the game you've been waiting for.
You can get Flashout 3D for $1.99 in the App Store.