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Retailers Facing Jittery Consumers This Season
As retailers approach the holiday shopping season, when consumers traditionally give a big boost to the U.S. economy, some are seeing worrisome signs that Americans are tightening their purse strings. Photo: AP Images.
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... the the ... speaking of the fiscal cliff could hit holiday shopping plans ... to do ... it in the Pell joins us now to discuss the old for holiday shopping season ten things for joining us ... think so though stocks are going to ... really pick up again this week later this week ... now ... let's talk about how this may be impacting ... shopping is is is really kind of ... completing a lieutenant ... in consumers' minds as they ... whoa that's one of the Israelites mark that's one of the concerns on the part of retailers a mean retailers are expecting sales to increase this year but up three point five percent of that which is ... just slightly below the twenty year average so ... their of their ... main that's not connected mistake number but when you talk to them ... and what today's column talks about is that ... they have concerns that you know the fiscal cliff people seeing their taxes going up ... the Mike going back they may also be ... redirecting their spending their ... divine e-mails Home Depot not the ... rule for dad for the Christmas tree ... okay now what really inching tidbit in the in the outlook on today on on the two ... is ... layaway is coming back it's in stores including Wal-Mart talk about that you know what it means Wal-Mart started last year with layaway brought it back ... on the idea ... and from ... the harpist the McCaughan talks to some of the Wal Mart executives ... say ... people ... need that because there's they they don't want to add to their credit card debt ... basically we do see you'd start paying for something and you pay forty installments ... before you can read how exactly ... and um that started in ... one month earlier this year than they did last year and they ... believed it had ... of the three hundred million dollars in sales as a result this year ... which owned debut is a sign that that's a success but it also ... is a sign that ... consumers need that kind of help to deal with the fiscal realities of musical gone budgets we have had some mixed results ... released in October for different sectors of of consumption ... so for instance electronics appliances that was down ... nearly six percent ... year over year in October ... buy furniture home furnishings France's ALS up five percent ... of its anti surprise by LTROs in place that would hit by ... the Dow was up dramatically given October's the first month we have the I phone five ... while the electronics ... category in government data is interesting because it's it's it's very heavily into its because much of that ... electronic shopping is done online known to separate category ... which was not strong in October ... so you have seven point two percent at the Apple store sales in there but you also have ... the traditional ... electronic retailers who ... are necessarily ... seen as a traffic okay now one thing that people always love to talk about ... the resilient American consumer ... hands ... ay ay boys were you wonder is is that even mean people are thinking well maybe the fiscal cliff worries won't ... impact shopping too much by details of the resilience ... is that just a euphemism for going deeper in debt ... cutting back on savings ... mean that this is a tradition that gnome retailers every year worry about ... whether consumers will be ... enthusiastic one thing that they have ... to be ... to feel positive about is that ... of consumer confidence is at the highest levels in five years ... so ... um a combination of good use of wood that's a big job numbers ... um it's not because incomes are up it's because people are spending ... more and saving less savings rated gotten to over eight percent and one one after the financial crisis is now back down closer ... to three percent of ... the stupid just slightly above three percent ... on the deck to be viewed two ways you can you can say ... during a really strong times we've had very low savings rate because consumers public company didn't worry about ... saving and that was a sign of ... strength ... you can also be a sign of weakness that people are having to spend ... um ...


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Liam, you seem to be the cutest little crazy boy one can dream of. I would love to hear all the stories you are telling and I am sure even your doggie friend knows he deserves to be told off once in a while. You sound as if you had access to the otherworld during the night, playing with elfs and pucks.
Enjoy Christmas time-everyone will be at home and have plenty of time for you

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Code Coaching® is our core philosophy, and what our school is about! We believe that every student is different, and that kids should learn the things they're most interested in, at the speed that works best for them. From game development to Python or Java and beyond, Code Coaching® works for all kids of all ages and skills. Code Coaching® uses a super-small 2:1 student-to-instructor ratio so our students can get the focused attention and customization they need. These sessions run one or two hours a week (your choice), at the same time every week on a schedule that works for both you and our Coach. Check out our video for more!
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BERKELEY, Calif.—California coach Lindsay Gottlieb learned the seventh-ranked Golden Bears are pretty good, even at their worst.
Call it another step in the maturation process for one of the Pac-12's most surprising teams this season.
Gennifer Brandon had 13 points, 10 rebounds and a key block with 20 seconds left as Cal rallied from 16 points down in the first half to beat No. 20 Colorado 59-56 on Friday night.
"This really speaks to our resolve and believing that we can win any which way," Gottlieb said after the Golden Bears overcame their worst shooting half of the season to complete a season sweep of the Buffaloes. "We were exposed in the things that can tend to be our weaknesses one at a time, and they all came at once. But I loved the fact that we hung in there. The team stayed locked in."
The Bears (16-2, 6-1 Pac-12) have done a pretty good job of that lately. The win over Colorado marked Cal's fourth over a ranked team in the last three weeks and fifth overall, a school record.
Cal edged Colorado 53-49 on Jan. 6 in a game decided in the final moments. The Bears needed to sweat out a last-second shot by the Buffaloes in that one, too.
This time it was Cal that needed to come back late.
The Bears were down 32-16 with 4 minutes left in the first half but went on an 18-2 run extending into the second half. Then they went on two more big runs to secure the victory.
Colorado didn't go quietly.
After Brittany Boyd scored on consecutive trips down the floor to put Cal up 58-54, Jen Reese made a layup to cut the gap in half. Boyd then missed two short shots but Colorado's Arielle Roberson missed a hook shot and had a layup blocked by Brandon with 20 seconds left.
The Buffaloes, off to their best start in nine years, had one final shot but Brittany Wilson's 3-point attempt was off.
"I knew we were going to knock down shots," Boyd said. "Once we saw somebody make a play, it went over and everybody started making plays."
Laysia Clarendon had 13 points and five rebounds while Boyd scored 10 for Cal, which remained tied with Stanford for first place in the Pac-12.
The Bears did it by beating the Buffaloes at their own game.
Colorado went into the game with the Pac-12's top scoring defense and extended its impressive streak of holding opponents under 60 points to nine straight games. But Cal's defense was equally impressive in the second half, particularly down the stretch when the Buffaloes (15-3, 4-3) were held scoreless over the final 1:49.
"They upped their pressure and they sped us up, but I liked how we responded," Colorado coach Linda Lappe said. "For us to regain our composure in the last 8 minutes was a huge stepping stone for us."
It was the complete opposite in the first half.
Wilson scored nine straight points and Lexy Kresl made a 3-pointer to give Colorado a 32-16 lead. The Buffaloes had little problem against Cal's zone defense, beating the Bears both inside and from the perimeter.
As good as its offense looked, Colorado's defense made the biggest difference in the first half.
The Buffaloes held Cal to 22.9 percent shooting, allowed only three baskets over the final 9 minutes and gave up just four second-chance points even though the Bears grabbed 16 offensive rebounds.
Cal, which has played five ranked teams in the last three weeks, managed an 8-0 run to close out the half but still trailed 32-24 at the break.
Clarendon, the Bears' leading scorer, missed six of her first seven shots from the floor but had four points as part of a 10-2 run early in the second half that tied the game 34-all.
Brandon later had eight points during an 11-2 spurt to give Cal a 45-41 lead with 10:19 remaining. It stayed close the rest of the way until Clarendon's clinching free throw with 14.8 seconds left.
Wilson had 11 points and five rebounds but missed the potential game-tying shot as time expired, ending a four-game winning streak for the Buffaloes.


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Like a rock star late to the stage, ABC has kept the suspense going on the fate of its country music-themed soap "Nashville"--until at long last announcing its renewal late Friday...on Twitter.
ABC Co-President Ben Sherwood announced the renewal of the Connie Britton-Hayden Panettiere drama on his Twitter account.
On the bubble last year, the second-series held its ground amid a hefty roster of freshman duds, on the network. Despite taking a dip in the young-adult demo, the second season was a solid performer, averaging 5.3 million viewers and a 1.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demo.
The renewal avoids an awkward situation--some of the show's stars--Charles Esten, Clare Bowen, Sam Palladio, Chris Carmack and Jonathan Jackson--were on a "Nashville" concert tour that made stops in such cities as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
"Nashville" wraps its second season on May 14.
The drama joins previously announced returning series, including, "Scandal," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Revenge," among others.


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Sonja and Tony Robins from South Australia love the beauty of Samoa and her people. But it's their fishing trip with Troppo Fishing Adventures they will remember for a long time to come, and one of the reasons they will return to Samoa.
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The Acting New Zealand High Commissioner to Samoa, Mike Walsh, has responded to criticisms of the new online system for the selection process of students eligible for New Zealand scholarships.
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The Government celebrated the commissioning of a $5.39 million tala 200 Kilowatt Hydro Power plant at Vailoa Palauli, yesterday. The occasion was hailed as a milestone for the big island of Savai'i, with Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa'ilele Malielegaoi officially opening the project.
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A Samoan Economics Professor, who spoke to the Samoa Observer on the condition of anonymity, believes Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa'ilele Malielegaoi has a "moral obligation" to raise Samoa's minimum wage, regardless of the impact on the private sector.
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Samoa Stationery and Books has responded to calls from their customers living on the west side of Upolu by opening its eighth and newest store at the Faaso'otauloa Taulapapa Pati Investment building at Vaitele-tai.
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Tupuivao Seiuli Tuala has been re-appointed to another term in office as the Chief Executive Officer of Samoa Airways. This is Tupuivao's third term.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture, Afamasaga Dr. Karoline Fuata'i, says there was an improvement in the 2018 Samoa Primary Education Certificate of Achievement (S.P.E.C.A.) exam results. But the percentage of those students who passed the exam was only 0.7 per cent and not 7 per cent, as reported earlier by the Samoa Observer.
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A 22-year-old man has been charged by the Police, after an incident where he punched a Chinese woman in the face, and allegedly ran off with money from her store. The incident took place last Saturday morning at Kavana Avealalo Store at Falelauniu. It was captured on CCTV, with the footage handed to the Police.
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Different cultures in Turkish, Spanish and Samoan combined to witness the happy marriage of Denise Pologa Senel and Adam Senel at Taumeasina Island Resort this week.
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Young people can become good leaders in their community without entering politics, says university lecturer Tahere Talaina Si'isi'ialafia. Speaking during the Samoa National Youth Council annual general meeting at the Development Bank of Samoa building recently, the National University of Samoa (NUS) sociology lecturer said former US President Barrack Obama believes that societies can embrace moral leadership if the youth are decent.
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Talofa Samoa! In the first week of last year, I was looking for one of METI 'champions': someone, who had been following the whole foods, plant based (WFPB) diet that METI promotes and who had been successful in reversing his diabetes condition, which had been crippling him for years.
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Tim Litz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 148 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
Original Creative but Professional Logo For Upholstery Business. Have Fun with it.
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I'm looking for a logo for my Upholstery Business - Litz Upholstery. We Specialize in Automotive and Marine Upholstery (interiors of Cars and Boats).
Would love to incorporate Nautical Stars into the logo. Like This One - http://bouchercustoms.com/PIX/nautical_star.jpg
Try Any Colors You'd Like. Doesn't have to be a crazy design. Something that works on both a white and black background. Maybe two designs - one being the full business logo and a second being a symbol that i can but on my products. Would like "Automotive and Marine Specialist" printed under logo.
If You have a Better Idea in Mind I would love to see it.
I don't want to see any car or boat designs. We specialize in cars and boats but i don't want the image that, that is all i am capable of doing.
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Chemical Weapons Expert on Alleged Syria Gas Attacks
Syrian opposition groups said government forces killed more than 1,000 people in the capital's suburbs in poison gas attacks Wednesday. Faiza Patel, former senior policy officer at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, joins The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the ... also in the rebels say ... come forces killed above one thousand people in the sum of the Damascus any poison gas attack the government has denied the reports Pfizer Patel ... for my senior policy officer for the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons system and a day and the continues with us ... aam you how great ... these two stories history ... all the new oil in use today ... aam ... what can you tell us about this attack they you know what I think it this way we know ... only a limited amount that this attack and we have the allegations date and about a thousand people died and people are complaining about a respiratory illnesses when suggests that it's likely some kind if it is a chemical weapons attack then ... those are the same tens of that kind of nerve agents and their fat attacks ... against the asset not a lot of them I guess is that make the same ... so late BX or sandwich or that they know they just attack the nervous system ... they can compete in a gas or liquid eye and ... that doesn't sound Basin the symptoms reported that its mustard gas because that that creates blisters and so forth and and that was something that accuse him fuss for Woolwich has said it was a hundred years ago and now ... I'm did it seem like that some of these these agents that you know these these these gases will ... make the Coming shells or or that this post and then they need to activate dumbing Down estate to spur us very quickly ... write ... not necessarily as I ... can actually linger for a long time and also depend so we will be possible to go to the sign and discover whether this wasn't the trace elements that oh absolutely I mean I have no doubt that have qualified chemical weapons teams that says the UN team is on the ground now ... they discover ... that ... it's an order gas or really any other kind of chemical agent attack it's even several weeks of paid to confess that ... quick quickly but if you if you just announced that chemical weapons way used by the asset regime it is the alignment being cross that present Obama talked about if if if the line is crossed and on this happens ... when chemical weapons is it's it's a dream of the US might have to get involved it is the isthe without being given absolutely thank twenty twenty full of that's the treaty indication that he gave I guess I was almost a year ago now and the SEC and this is the red line that they can cross they cannot use chemical weapons on civilians ... and so if they if it and there's the UN team though that if they were to find ... chemical weapons use I think he would be hard pressed to back away from


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My Brother Is the designer of this vest. I helped him make it a reality by doing the pattern drafting and construction.I must admit, I wasn't too excited about it because I knew it would take a lot of work. Since my brother rarely asks me to make anything, I had to oblige. I felt humbled that he trusted that I could do it.
My brother decided to pick out his own fabrics. Well… he picked a STRETCH velvet and a silver lame jacquard paisley fabric. I cringed, but I ended up interfacing the velvet and it stabilized it quite well and the lame was a good complement to the velvet.
The cut is made up of asymmetrical concave curves that I traced on the muslin. I added double welted pockets at the waist and a single welt upper left pocket. The buttons are clear acrylic fashion buttons which add a bit of sparkle. The lining is a poly lining.
I have to add that my brother is a musician, so the drama in this vest is on point.
It took about 4 days total between fittings and pattern revisions and the final look, but I love the result.
It screams Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas everyone!
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I hope your 2012 is off to a tiptop start. I've been busy launching my latest endeavor, Mama Knows Her Cocktails. I'd be so happy if you would visit my new blog to see what I am doing. Organic gardening and cooking, thrifted barware, a cocktail bar with industrial style, and delicious cocktails all in one place!
I will be retiring from posting on this blog. My deepest thanks for supporting my efforts here the last year and a half.
I'm having buckets of fun infusing spirits with herbs and spices, inventing tasty syrups like Thyme, Orange & Pink Peppercorn to liven up cocktails and non-alcoholic sips, and "researching" happy hour hot spots all over Seattle.
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Jagr's shootout goal gives Stars win over Coyotesby Steve Hunt
DALLAS -- With a three-game road trip coming up, the Dallas Stars desperately needed two points from Friday night's game against Phoenix. Thanks to Jaromir Jagr, they got them
Jagr delivered the game-deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout as the Stars snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Phoenix Coyotes 4-3 before 18,181 at American Airlines Center.
Jagr, who was just 5-for-23 in the tiebreaker before Friday, ripped a wrist shot that hit the bottom of goaltender Mike Smith's glove, rolled over his pad and trickled over the goal line to give the Stars the win.
"I think it's pretty exciting for the fans," Dallas coach Glen Gulutzan said. "The fans, seeing Number 68, a guy of that caliber, I think they got their money's worth."
The Stars (3-4-1) begin a three-game trip in Phoenix on Saturday and couldn't afford a home loss.
"Yeah, it was big," Gulutzan said of the win. "First of all, it's a division rival and we've got them tomorrow night too. I think the win itself was best for our psyche and our confidence. It gives us something to try to build off of."
Smith, returning after missing four games with a lower-body injury, stopped 21 of 24 shots. Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen made 31 saves.
Martin Hanzal had two goals for the Coyotes (2-4-2, 6 points), while Oliver Ekman-Larsson had two assists. Hanzal has been bothered with injuries, but he was the Coyotes' biggest offensive force.
"He was a good player for us tonight," Phoenix coach Dave Tippett said. "He was a guy that was questionable whether he'd be in the lineup or not. He gave us a heck of a game."
The three goals in regulation were a bonanza for the Stars, who had scored just nine times in their last six games.
"I think there's still room for improvement offensively, as far as putting more shots on net and creating more zone time," said Gulutzan, whose club has been outshot in every game this season. "We're still looking for some chemistry early in the season, and I think that will help our offense."
The Stars led 2-0 in the first period thanks to the first NHL goals by Antoine Roussel, who was making his NHL debut, and rookie defenseman Brenden Dillon. Roussel, the eighth player in NHL history to be born in France, was the first Star to score in his league debut since Raymond Sawada did so against Edmonton on Feb. 9, 2009.
"Obviously, that was fun. I'm happy to get the first one out of the way. Getting a win was most important. Plus I got a goal. That's fun," Roussel said.
Phoenix got one back at 14:00 when Radim Vrbata knocked a 12-foot tip-in off the stick of Dallas center Jamie Benn to make it 2-1. It was Vrbata's third of the season and came after he redirected a shot by Ekman-Larsson from the point
The Coyotes drew the first power play of the night when Dallas defenseman Jordie Benn was whistled for holding David Moss 1:16 before the first intermission. Phoenix tied the game one second after the power play ended when Hanzal beat Lehtonen with a short backhander 45 seconds into the second period. Lehtonen had denied Ekman-Larsson's initial effort, but Hanzal was waiting to pounce at the far post.
At 13:53, things got heated between these Pacific Division rivals. After Dillon delivered a blow to Ekman-Larsson's face near the Stars blue line, he and Phoenix's Kyle Chipchura dropped the gloves behind the Dallas goal, earning 24 total penalty minutes for their confrontation.
Just 21 seconds after that scrum, Michael Ryder put Dallas back in front by beating Smith on the short side with a wrister from the top of the left circle. It was the 400th point of Ryder's career.
Hanzal tied it again with 1:34 remaining before the intermission, beating Lehtonen to the far side with a long wrist shot.
After a scoreless overtime and shootout, Vrbata gave the Coyotes the lead in the shootout by scoring to start the second round. Jamie Benn tied it in the third round before Jagr won it.
Stars rookie defenseman Jamie Oleksiak, the 14th player taken in the 2011 NHL Draft, saw 17:31 of ice time in his NHL debut.
"I thought he played a pretty solid game. I thought he did a good job blocking shots in front of our net and getting people out of the way," Gulutzan said. "I thought it was a good first game for a young guy."
The teams meet again Saturday in Glendale as Phoenix starts a three-game homestand.
"We'll take that point, put it in the bank but we go home tomorrow. On home ice, we need two points tomorrow," Tippett said.


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Notes on 2010 Big Ten and Other QBs
Author note: This got long. Real long. My bad.
In this diary I build off of the foundation laid out in the White Rainbow entry over the weekend to size up the QB around the Big Ten as well as other QBs of particular interest to Michigan. This is a list of player expectations going into the season based on the investigations I've conducted previously. This list is presented in order of worst to best expected year end pass efficiency for each category.
Before I begin, I wanted to share a technique for ranking QBs that came to me after I published the White Rainbow diary. In that diary I talk about how I think passer rating does a decent enough job at determining large differences between players but a poor job at distinguishing subtle differences between them. Well, after playing with the numbers a bit, it looks like taking the average ranking for all four categories yields a method for differentiating players with similar QB ratings but vastly different subjective quality.
The following table* shows an excerpt of the NCAA QB rankings for the 2009 season.
NCAA Rank
|Tim Tebow, Florida
|Kellen Moore, Boise St.
|Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame
|Scott Tolzien, Wisconsin
|Daryll Clark, Penn St.
|Kirk Cousins, Michigan St.
|Richard Stanzi, Iowa
|Joey Elliott, Purdue
|Juice Williams, Illinois
|Mike Kafka, Northwestern
|Terrelle Pryor, Ohio St.
|Tate Forcier, Michigan
|Ben Chappell, Indiana
|Adam Weber, Minnesota
If you take that same data and rank each player for each of the four categories then average that ranking, you end up with what I'm calling the QB Prism Score yielding the following final ranking.
NCAA Rank
QB Prism Score
Mcalibur Rank
|Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame
|Kellen Moore, Boise St.
|Tim Tebow, Florida
|Daryll Clark, Penn St.
|Kirk Cousins, Michigan St.
|Scott Tolzien, Wisconsin
|Joey Elliott, Purdue
|Mike Kafka, Northwestern
|Juice Williams, Illinois
|Richard Stanzi, Iowa
|Terrelle Pryor, Ohio St.
|Ben Chappell, Indiana
|Tate Forcier, Michigan
|Adam Weber, Minnesota
Notice how this technique improves differentiation between similar QBs using the exact same data and very simple math (rank and average). At the very top we see that the all three guys had awesome numbers, but Tebow had the worst INT % of all of them. The method distinguished Clausen as a higher overall performer than Moore and Tebow.
A similar thing occurs when looking at Big Ten QBs. The traditional passer rating ranks Daryll Clark, Kirk Cousins, and Scott Tolzien as virtually identical passers; Prism score separates them substantially.
Now look at the log jam between Ricky Stanzy and Ben Chappell; only 5 passer rating points seperate 7 players. The Prism Score breaks these into main groups: Elliot-Kafka and Williams-Stanzi-Pryor-Chappell-Forcier.
Some bunching still exists but the bunches are smaller.
Anyway, I thought that might be a useful and easy technique for people who are so inclined to apply. On with the purpose of this diary.
Returning Players
Adam Weber, SR, Minnesota
Adam was ranked 98 - of - 100 in NCAA passer rating for 2009. I would actually rank him 100 - of - 100. His completion percentage, yards per attempt, and interception rate were terrible, especially for a redshirt Junior in his third year as starter. His touchdown rate ... I'll be good and listen to Thumper's dad ("if you don't have anything nice to say..."). Eric Decker did get hurt, but that's not the reason Weber wasn't throwing TDs. Of his 13 TDs last year, 5 were to Decker, 5 were against Michigan State, and the other 3 were flukes. OK, so that last part was mean. Recall that MSU's secondary was worse than Michigan's in 2009.
Going into 2009, Minnesota had 10 returning offensive starters available to them; that was a mature squad. My previous QB-centric work has shown that by year 3 as starter, QBs are what they are. Adam Weber is bad at passing. Phil Steele thinks Weber will end his career on a high note, I don't. Alas, I think Thumper's dad is disappointed in me.
Side Note: Minnesota's D only has 2 players returning and Phil Steele points out that they play USC, Penn St., Ohio St., and Iowa at home so they'll have to go on the road in order to try and win. That's just mean. Short Minnesota; with leverage. When do we play them again? Oh ... sweet.
Ricky Stanzi, SR, Iowa
I make no bones about it; I think Stanzi is hugely over rated. He throws a worse ball than Brady Quinn and is inaccurate to boot. I tried to find a picture of him throwing a pick but couldn't confirm the result of the pass shown. There's a 5% chance that what you're looking at is a pick (no joke) so I'm assuming that it is until proven otherwise. Relax, I'm mostly kidding.
Anyway, last year he actually had the highest rating of the next four QB in this list, which were in a tight cluster, but his high YPA and solid TD rate obscured the fact that his completion percentage and INT rate were the worst of the bunch. The two categories he was good in, YPA and TD rate, are highly influenced by things outside of the QB himself (receiving corps, O-Line, run game, opposing defense). The two things he has direct influence over, Cmp % and Int rate, he was really bad in.
Coming into his third year as starter he should improve somewhat and has McNutt and DJK returning but loses Bulaga and Moeaki. Net, net, I think Iowa sees modest improvement in their passing efficiency. The problem is, they need more than that.
Now excuse me, I'm about to get kicked out of the country by the Americanzis.
Ben Chappell, SR, Indiana
Apparently, I hate senior quarterbacks with oodles of experience. That has nothing to do with the fact that Michigan doesn't have any, I swear.
In all honestly, I think Chappell is a fine QB and a great find for Indiana. He has progressed nicely so far and should take another step forward this year if Indiana's O-Line can absorb the losses of two 4-year starters. Maybe, maybe not.
As far as the quality of his passer rating he is the opposite of Stanzi; He did the things he could control (Cmp %, Int %) well, but didn't do so well in the things he needed help in (YPA, TD %). The latter two categories should take a step forward this year as IU's top 5 WRs return this year. Again, if the O-line holds up IU should be a pretty saucy passing team.
All in all, I expect there to be a significant gap between Stanzi and Chappell. He's slotted here because the support he has around him isn't as good as that of the others ahead of him.
Tate Forcier, SO, Michigan
Originally I was going to do a spotlight diary on Forcier similar to one I'm working on for Denard Robinson but, since Forcier is more of a known quantity in terms of style and actual production evaluating his prospects is much more straight forward.
As most Michigan fans know, Forcier was a Godsend for Rich Rodriguez in 2009. From his pedigree to his tutelage by Marv Marinovich to his early enrollment, Forcier's freshman performance didn't exactly come without signal. Based on my previous work on QB maturation, Forcier's freshman year was solidly that of an average true freshman 5 star recruit which is well above that of the typical first year starter. Considering that 5 star QB recruits almost always go to very good, if not elite, football programs and are therefore surrounded by elite and mostly mature talent (see Chad Henne), Forcier proved that all the fanfare that accompanied his arrival in Ann Arbor wasn't just optimistic hype. And he sustained a meaningful injury to his throwing shoulder early in the season.
What's more remarkable to me is that as polished as he was, he still showed room for tremendous growth. In terms of performance metrics Forcier was ahead of schedule in completion percentage and YPA, and he met expectations for TD rate and INT rate. The four picks he threw in the Ohio State game took his INT rate from 2.5% to 3.5%. If he had maintained the INT rate had going into the game—resulting in 1 INT and 3 INC instead of 4 INTs—his final passer rating would have been 2 points higher with all else being equal.
Those keeping track will note that, true to his hype, Forcier was ahead of schedule in terms of the self-controlled parameters (Comp. %, INT %) and solid in the team help parameters (YPA, TD %). Michigan has a stable of high potential receivers with extensive starting experience and development time and also has the best offensive line it has had since 2007. With reasonable personal development and the supporting cast he has around him, Forcier has every opportunity to be all Big Ten this year. Michigan might not have a senior QB in the strict sense, but it has one in the practical sense.
As insurance against Michigan slappy-ism, I'm placing him further down the list than I think he'll end up.
Terrelle Pryor, JR, Ohio State
Say what you want about TP, no one would think twice about him if he weren't a baller. As a true freshman, he a had a high passer rating that met the long term quality thresholds establish in the White Rainbow diary. Last year was a step back statistically for him as he regressed in completion percentage, YPA, and INT rate; his TD rate remained solid though. The regression makes some sense between the expansion of his responsibilities in OSU's offense and the breaking in of new contributors at the skill positions.
Another difference between his freshman and sophomore years is that Pryor ran less often in 2009. This is a bad idea; if Pryor is allowed to flash his running ability explicitly, opposing defenses must respect the threat which would leave easy opportunities in the passing game. Josh Nesbitt is the uber-example of this effect. Nesbitt rarely throws and is inaccurate (46.3%) when he does, but when he connects, the result is a big play. Nesbitt's YPA in 2009 was a staggering 10.5 accompanied by a good TD rate (6.2%) and solid INT rate (3.1%). I'm pretty sure Nebitt's YPA was the highest (by over a yard!) in the FBS, and certainly the highest in BCS conferences. He's not a great passer, but that doesn't stop him from doing extensive damage when he throws.
This season Ohio State has everybody coming back except for the tight end. Pryos has already shown how much damage he can do when he puts it all together; if you don't know, ask Oregon. This year he will be better and will have high quality support around him. The result is likely to be an emetic wave of OSU/Pryor hype. Chin up though, chances are that this is his last year on campus.
Kirk Cousins, JR, Michigan St.
Cousin's superiority over Keith Nichol in 2009 was apparent to everyone except Mark Dantonio. Maybe Dantonio had a problem with the fact that it looks like Cousins likes to rub his butt up against his lineman's during a wind up. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Even though it was his first year as starter, Cousins put up the numbers of a seasoned veteran. His YPA of 8.1 was above the threshold of good QB play, and his Comp.%, TD rate, and INT rate were just a hair's width away from the thresholds; that's close enough.
Coming into 2010, Cousins will lose his top receiver in Blair White along with a bunch of other knuckleheads who ain't going out like dat, son. But, because of Dantonio's preference for only disciplining players that are either expendable or not worth the heat of benevolence, Cousins has some good to very good WRs retuning in B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell, along with non-knucklehead Keshawn Martin.
The challenge for Cousins will be finding enough time to hook up with his receivers. MSU loses 3 starters from a so-so offensive line in 2009. I don't expect that to slow Cousins down too much though.
Scott Tolzien, SR, Wisconsin
Tolzien and Cousins were neck-and-neck for best returning passers and based on 2009 numbers alone, Cousins actually wins. Both had the same-ish YPA and Tolzien had a better completion percentage, but Cousins had a better TD rate and lower INT rate along with an adequate completion percentage. However, when you look at the team Tolzien has coming with him, his prospects for 2010 look higher and that give him the nod in my book.
The Badgers have a monster offensive line coming back all of which are either returning starters of have substantial starting experience. Running back John Clay was the Offensive Player of the Year in 2009. Tolzien has his top wide receiver back, too. So yeah, there's absolutely no reason why Wisconsin's passing attack shouldn't be very, very good this year.
I don't have much else to say except that I think Bucky Badger is dumb, and that makes me feel better. What? That's totally germane to the topic of this diary.
Nathan Scheelhaase, RS-FR, Illinois
Scheelhasse was a rivals.com 4 star recruit who also received offers from Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and bunch of other solid programs according to Rivals. That's solid endorsement, but his supporting cast is likely to be a drag. The Illini need to establish all new receivers this season and also need to replace two multi-year starters on the O-line. Beyond that, Illinois is bringing in a new offensive coordinator this year, so there are strong headwinds against Scheelhaase.
Kevin Newsome, SO, Penn State
Despite grim sounding early returns, 4-star and one time Michigan recruit Kevin Newsome should be the guy for Penn State this year. He has been around for a year and therefore has time invested in a collegiate strength and conditioning program, play book study time, technique development. Penn State has to find a new combination at O-line, but there's plenty of talent available to make that happen. They have their top 2 WRs retuning as well as really good running back in Evan Royster to take the heat off.
Dan Persa, RS-JR, Northwestern
Persa was a rivals.com 2-star recruit in 2007 who's biggest offer besides NW came from West Virginia. So, theoretically, Rich Rodriguez thought this guy had some skillz. Northwestern has a solid supporting cast around him with all 5 starters on the O-line returning this year, as well has two WRs who each caught more than 40 balls last year and the teams leading RB (Kafka was the team's rushing leader in 2009). I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up having a better year than all of these guys.
Robert Marve, RS-JR, Purdue
Marve originally committed to Miami (FL) as a 4 star recruit in the class of 2007. He also received offers from Purdue, Michigan State, and Alabama. He started as a RS-SO at Miami but split time heavily with Jacory Harris. He was suspended for the first game in 2008 for disciplinary reasons related to his arrest for a misdemeanor mischief charge during his redshirt year. He was also suspended for the bowl game for missing class. Oops, I got carried away with the Google-stalking. What can I say, I was fascinated. Besides, I think its worth wondering how this kid handles adversity. This is basically the anti-Tom Brady story.
He transferred because of an apparent falling out with HC Randy Shannon; but Jacory Harris flat out beat him head to head that year. Marve was pretty inaccurate (54.5%) and had an extremely high INT rate (6.1%) and a low YPA (6.0). Marve is coming off a torn ACL suffered just before fall camp last year. His knee is probably fine now, but he had to have missed a lot of pratice time rehabbing his knee rather than working on his accuracy and timing with the receivers.
If he's grown up since his Miami days Marve has a shot at being the best new QB in the Big Ten saving for a certain someone. Purdue returns the Big Ten's most prolific WR of 2009, Keith Smith, but is pretty thin at OL. The running game took a big hit when Robert Bolden tore his ACL this spring so a lot of pressure will be put on Marve to produce.
Other QBs of Interest
Kyle Havens, 5th Yr, UMass
I wasn't going to write anything about UMass because they're an FCS team that was sub-500 last year and who lost their top rusher and receiver from that team, but then I saw this video from the spring and figured people might get a kick out of it. Madre. Same team, dude.
Anyway, I thought it'd be rude to link that video and not do a write up so here it goes. Havens was actually a rivals.com 3-star JUCO recruit in 2009. He played in and started 10 games last year but his prism stats were terrible: 55.3% Completion percentage, 7.2 YPA (OK, I guess), 3.4% TD Rate, 5.7% INT Rate. That's against FCS competition.
Random Bowling Green RS-FR
BGSU had a crazy prolific passing attack last year. They're all gone, only 4 offensive starters are back this year. As far as QB there are four guys vying for the gig: Matt Schilz, RS-FR, 3 star; Aaron Pankratz, RS-FR, 2 star; Kellen Pagel, RS-FR, not ranked; Caleb Watkins, FR, 2 star.
Pankratz is the only guy to have thrown the ball in a college game (13 attempts), but Schilz was purported to have the inside edge in the spring. Watkins had a bunch of offers from MAC teams, but, his Rivals profile also lists Michigan, Ohio State, Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, and Cincinnati, for whatever that's worth.
Zach Frazer, RS-SR, Connecticut
Frazer is another senior QB with a lot of experience that I'm turning my nose up at. It's not me, it's him. I promise. This will be his 3rd year with meaningful playing time as a starter. His passer rating for the last two years has been dreadful: 103 in 2008, 116 in 2009. Running those numbers through the prism shows that he was indeed a bad passer. Last year was an improvement over 2008 as he improved his completion percentage, YPA and TD rate by normal amounts while improving his INT rate by a large amount. Unfortunately, all of those numbers were bad save for TD rate which was sligtly below average.
This year Frazer has a solid to good RB and an experienced offensive line returning but loses his top 2 WRs from last year. Frazer should be able to improve is Cmp % and INT rate of his own accord, but he has a significant way to go in order to reach high quality veteran numbers and this is his last year to do it. As for YPA and TD rate, my opinion is that you need help from the rest of the offense to get good numbers there, and while the O-line and running game should be solid, having 2 new starting WRs to break in will cut into the progression there.
Dayne Crist, RS-SO, Notre Dame
The Notre Dame offense has a lot going on this off season, new head coach, new offensive scheme, and a new starting QB. Sounds like a tough transition, huh? I actually don't think so. I don't see the transition from a Pro Style offense to a Passing Spread to be all that different. Both systems need guys who can pass block, throw, and catch; Notre Dame has all of that, in spades. Crist is a new starter but he was a 5 star recruit who has been on campus working out and improving his technique for two years. Sure, he has to learn a new playbook but Brian Kelly's system is notoriously simple making it easier for inexperienced players to step right in and be effective. Crist will have a whole off season to learn the system. Sure, he won't be flawless out of the gate, but I can't imagine that he'll be a liability either.
As for the team around him, Crist and Kelly inherit Michael Floyd and Kyle Rudolph who have already established themselves as elite players at their positions. The O-line has three 4-star recruits returning as starters and the other two spots are likely to be filled with 4-star recruits as well. The retained talent fits the new system like a tailor made glove lined with memory foam. Are we really to believe that Brian Kelly wouldn't have recruited these players himself?
Some people look at Notre Dame in 2010 and see a situation similar to what Rich Rodriguez walked into at Michigan in 2008. They are wrong. Oh, so wrong.
And there it is. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on these players, how big a threat they pose to Michigan's secondary, and anything I may have overlooked/understated in my assessments. Also any feedback on the Prism Score would be helpful as well.
*Can someone please explain to me how to format tables so they show up with Maize and Blue row and column headers? I've tried many things, I've failed many times.
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|System: PSP
|Dev: GrindHouse
|Pub: XSEED
|Release: January 15, 2013
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p
|Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Strong Language
by Shelby Reiches
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is a difficult title to review. This is in part because I am a woeful pansy, incapable of playing games with grotesque imagery and helpless characters for more than brief stretches of time, and largely because Book of Shadows is not necessarily what one would consider a "game." Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is more or less a visual novel, as Jenni Lada mentioned in her article on their Western proliferation. This entails lots of text, long stretches of time without any sort of interaction, and choices that have a tremendous impact on how the story plays out.
That isn't to say that Book of Shadows is all text and images with nothing resembling gameplay. There's a form of exploration, during which the title seems to pull elements most notably from point-and-click adventure games of yore. It's a bit unwieldy to select items in the environment with the stick or D-Pad (it makes one wish this were a native Vita title, just for the touchscreen functionality), but it works. You won't really be solving complex puzzles, though. Inventory items don't exist to be combined in creative, if obtuse, ways. They're taken at face value, acting more as triggers for interactive elements in the environment or hidden story paths than as pieces in a riddle.
And there are a lot of hidden paths to uncover. Book of Shadows, like its more free-roaming predecessor, is divided into discrete chapters, each of which comes with at least a couple of "Wrong Ends" and only one true ending. Some have five or six bad conclusions, each of which occurs under different circumstances and can prove as compelling as the chapter's actual ending. The next chapter won't unlock until you've achieved the current chapter's true ending, though.
This structure makes a bit less sense in Book of Shadows than it did in the original Corpse Party. While Corpse Party was a single narrative split among many characters, the events of their stories interweaving to unveil the whole and come to an eventual climax and conclusion, Book of Shadows is more like a series of side-stories and vignettes. While the opening cinematic hints at a continuation of the original game's storyline, the actual chapters, save for a bonus one that only unlocks once certain requirements have been fulfilled, all take place either before the original game or expand on events that occurred within it (though twisted into alternative what-if scenarios).
Most of the tales see the player returning to Heavenly Host, where they see things from the perspective of less central characters from the first game. Morishige, for instance, or Byakudan's Tohko. One of the game's more interesting chapters is actually a fever-induced memory of Ms. Yui's, which takes place in Kisaragi Academy and foreshadows some of the events at Heavenly Host. It's also one of the more enjoyable chapters to play because it doesn't mess with the standard choice-heavy visual novel style.
Most other chapters get bogged down with aimless wandering, by which one hopes to stumble upon an item or trigger that allows one to proceed. The school is divided into spaces that one selects from a menu, which is how one travels the halls and enters rooms. Once on a space, the player is presented with a mostly static view and a cursor for selecting items in the environment. The problem is, progression-critical items might be found on seemingly random hall squares, which can be passed through without any indication that they contain anything of value.
When the trigger isn't an item, it's a specific square one must pass through, at which point the next event kicks off and the story advances. In one particularly frustrating case, a key event can't be triggered unless one's "Darkness" meter is high enough. There is no indication in the world, in anything any character has said, or even in the general mechanics of the game, that this is what must be done. This occurs in the very first chapter of the game.
Darkness in general is an odd mechanic. It's supposed to serve as a sort of "sanity meter," with characters reacting in increasingly terrible ways as it rises higher until, at 100%, the character outright dies and the player receives a "Wrong End." As with most deaths in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, this is rarely a quick and simple ordeal. It's just an odd mechanic since it really doesn't tend to rise unless one spends an inordinate amount of time checking out corpses one has already viewed. Bad decisions don't generally affect the darkness meter, either, since they mostly result in immediate death.
Death is everywhere in Book of Shadows, as one might expect from a game with the word "corpse" in its very title. There are human remains throughout Heavenly Host, many of which suffered grotesque injuries that sealed their fates. Additionally, almost every "Wrong End" results in a graphic description of a character's undoing, accompanied by chilling sound effects and voice overs (the game is voiced throughout in Japanese, and the cast isn't afraid to ham it up). The visuals themselves don't always live up to what the audio and text promise (in content, not in quality; the illustrations are very well-drawn), opting for restraint in even the most explicit of cases, but this is probably for the best. Imagining the events as described allows the player to see it in a way that is most unsettling to them, facilitated by the game's incredible atmosphere.


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Grow Your Business With Quality Content Online
What is a Content Strategy and Why Do I Need One?
Why you need a Content Strategy for your Business
Brief Content Case Studies
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Assessing Your Business
Mission: One Thousand
Assessment Part 1: Your Existing Content
Assessment Part 2: Know Your Audience
Assessment Part 3: Knowing Who is Not Your Audience
Assessment Part 4: Know Your Competition
Assessment Part 5: What Do You Do?
Assessment Part 6: External Signals
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Keys to Success
One Hub, Many Spokes
Use a Soft Touch
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The Office of Personnel Management wants a small-business contractor to help it consolidate five of its data centers into a single commercial location.
OPM issued a request for proposals for the contract, which will be a 100 percent set-aside for small businesses.
The due date for proposals is March 11.
The agency wants a data center hosting service that can host OPM-owned IT resources and to physically isolated those resources from other services or cloud offerings that the contractor may provide, the solicitation states.
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The agency is planning a one-year, fixed-price contract with nine one-year options.
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Female Sexed Semen has a Higher Value than Previously Thought
Using sexed female semen has gained significant momentum across the UK's dairy herds where the prospect of a valuable replacement heifer and the likelihood of an easy calving have attracted many dairy farmers to this practice.
But researchers from the USA have just uncovered a further advantage to producing a heifer calf and revealed that the female calf's mother will produce significantly more milk than the cow producing a bull.
The trend is most pronounced of all in a first calf heifer which will give more milk in both her first and second lactations if her first calf is female. If her second calf is also a heifer, the benefit accumulates, and is worth 446kg of milk over the two lactations.
This is 2.7% more production than a cow which produced two bulls, and there is no difference between the two in the quality of the milk.
And while the researchers – from Harvard and Kansas State Universities and from Dairy Records Management Systems (a milk records organisation) – knew that the generally easier calving of a heifer calf was likely to have a positive effect on subsequent production, they were able to prove unequivocally that there was an additional cause.
Beginning their research with a remarkable 2.39 million lactation records from 1.49 million Holsteins, they subsequently cut this dataset down to eliminate lactations which began with difficult calvings, and even amongst this easy calving group, there was a positive effect on milk production of a female calf.
The mechanisms involved were not specifically identified but there was circumstantial evidence to suggest the female foetus was exerting a hormonal influence on her dam.
Relating the group's findings to the farm situation, the researchers said there were more compelling reasons than before to use sexed female semen.
"Often in the USA, dairy farmers use sexed semen on heifers and one of the reasons for doing this is to avoid dystocia," said the first author of the research, Professor Katie Hinde. "But now we know there's also a production advantage to be gained, I'd say that if a heifer's first calf is a bull, it's worth considering sexed semen for her second lactation."
Here in the UK, cattle breeding company, Cogent - who pioneered the use of sexed semen and now has one of the largest sexing facilities in the world at its Cheshire HQ - is delighted with the findings.
"Dairy farmers have been using sexed semen produced in Cheshire since 2000 and every year since the facility opened, we have accumulated customers, fine-tuned the sexing procedures and improved the outcomes," says Innes Drummond, the company's reproduction technologies manager. "Now we have a product from which at least 90% of pregnancies will be female, and our customers are increasingly benefitting from the sexed female advantage.
"These benefits include the production of a valuable heifer calf to become a herd replacement; the easier calving of a generally smaller female calf and the chance of assisting with cash flow by breeding the lower end of the dairy herd to a beef sire," he says. "But now we know the mother of the heifer calf will also give more milk, there's an even more compelling reason to use sexed semen than ever before."


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Licensing Overview
Use of the QM multivalue database software is controlled by licence from Zumasys. This page provides an overview of the licensing policy.
What does the licence control?
A QM licence is issued to a named company or individual and is normally for use on a specific system identified by a system id code. The licence sets the maximum number of simultaneous users of the software, the platform (Windows, Linux, etc), the site text that will be displayed on entry to QM, and the availability of optional add-on components. There may also be an expiry date. Use within cloned virtual machine environments requires that each clone is separately licensed.
Each user of a QM system runs as a separate operating system process which falls into one of two broad classifications, interactive or phantom. Interactive processes are users connecting to a QM server via a terminal emulator, directly from the operating system command prompt (a console user), via the QMClient API or other route where the client side is controlling the actions of the server process. Phantom processes are background activity that has no direct interaction with the user. There is a special case of an interactive phantom (iphantom) which is a phantom process that has a accepted an incoming network connection, effectively becoming an interactive process.
The user limit set by the licence determines the maximum number of interactive processes, including interactive phantoms. Attempting to start a new interactive process when this limit has been reached will fail.
There is also a limit on the number of simultaneous phantom processes. This limit is normally eight plus a further one for each two licensed users after the first four. Some licences may have different rules for determination of the phantom limit. Attempting to start a new phantom process when the limit has been reached will check whether there are spare interactive users available and, if so, borrow one of these.
The QMNet subsystem that allows access to data on remote QM servers is built on an extension to the QMClient API. Opening a connection creates a QM process on the remote system that handles all QMNet activity for the same QM process on the local system. This consumes one licensed user on the remote system in addition to the licence used by the connecting process on the local system. This process terminates when the last QMNet file is closed although the NETDELAY configuration parameter can be used to keep the connection open briefly. QMNet has no additional impact on licensing on the local system.
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Device Licensing
The device licensing option allows multiple interactive connections from the same client device to share a licence. It has no effect on phantom processes. Device licensing is typically used to allow both a terminal emulator connection and a QMClient connection from the same PC. Device licensing is available in sizes of two, four or eight sessions per user. In the two session per user mode, for example, the first two users connecting from the same client device consume only a single licensed user. A third connection from the same device will consume a second licensed user. The system maintains these counters on a per-device basis such that if any one of these three users disconnects, the remaining two processes share the one licensed user.
Device licensing requires support in the client device. It is available with console users, AccuTerm, Winnix, QMClient and the largely obsolete QMTerm. Other terminal emulators will not take part in the device licensing system. Also, the licence terms state that device licensing may not be used with an intermediate layer that effectively makes multiple client devices appear to be just one device.
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Scope and Contents: This collection is made up of documents created by the office of the provost and senior vice president at Kansas State University. Documents in the collection consist of a wide range of material from the office administrative files, class documents, department and dean files, program reviews, role and aspirations, strategic planning, university events, COCAO, president's staff, Board of Regents, Dean's Council, grievances, university awards, and vice provost papers. Some records document the interactions with other univiersities in the state of Kansas and universities nationally. The bulk of the materials are from the 1980s to 2010 with most of the other documents dating back to the 1970s.


text: Louise N. SidloskyAge 87, of HillsdaleKALAMAZOO � Louise Nada Sidlosky, age 87, of Hillsdale and formerly of Farmington, died peacefully on Monday, April 8, 2013 at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. She was born Feb. 21, 1926 in Detroit, the daughter of Samuel and Pauline (Bober) Blackford. Louise married Michael Sidlosky on Sept. 30, 1948 and he survives.Louise graduated from St. Mary of Redford in 1943 and she received her bachelor of arts from Marygrove College. After a brief career as a journalist for the Detroit News, the family moved to Farmington Hills, residing there from 1956-1976, at which time they relocated to Hillsdale.Louise was a member of St. Anthony Catholic Church and the Altar Society. She volunteered for Meals on Wheels and the Hillsdale Newcomers Club. Louise also enjoyed quilting and sewing, co-founding the Raisin Valley Quilting Bee.Survivors include her husband of 64 years, Michael; seven children, Carolyn (Harry) Mattison, Mary Beth (Steve) Harnish, David (Candy) Sidlosky, Barbara (Byron) Renner, Mark (Sandie) Sidlosky, Margaret Sidlosky and Rosemary Sidlosky; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a brother, Raymond (Delores) Dodds Jr. of Pickford.Louise was preceded in death by her parents.A Mass of Christian Burial for Louise Sidlosky will be Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 11 a.m., at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Hillsdale, with Fr. David Reamsnyder officiating. Interment will follow at St. Anthony Cemetery. A rosary will be recited Friday evening at 5 p.m., with visitation to follow until 8 p.m., at the VanHorn-Eagle Funeral Home in Hillsdale, and visitation will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. until the time of service, 11 a.m., at the church.In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation � Great Lakes Chapter (2660 Horizon Dr. SE, Ste. 235, Grand Rapids, Mich., 49546, www.myasthenia-mi.org).To view this obituary and send condolences, visit www.eaglefuneralhomes.com.


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Ariana Grande & Jai Brooks Split - What Went Wrong?
Ariana Grande and her boyfriend Jai Brooks have reportedly split for the second time.
The 21-year-old singer ended things with Jai, 19, last month after he wasn't there for her when her grandfather passed away, according to E! News.
"When her grandfather was dying, everyone was there for her. People flew to Florida to be with her, but Jai didn't," a source said. "Ariana just felt he wasn't there like he should have been."
Ariana posted a cryptic message about love on Twitter today: "You learn a lot about love, life & the people around you during a time of crisis. July was painful for many reasons but of all the personal loss I suffered last month, the loss of my grandfather, a true gentleman, was the only one that truly mattered. I thank my loves for being so in tune to what is good and right for me and my heart. I hope you will surround yourselves with people who will be there for you thru the bad times, not just the good. I thank everybody who was here for me when I needed them as the ones who weren't really broke my heart."
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text: King Philip's War (1675-1676) marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers. With tensions spilling over following the collapse of trade partnerships and aggressive expansion of colonist territories, Pokunoket chief Metacom — a.k.a. King Philip — led a bloody uprising of Wampanoag, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck and Narragansett tribes. The fighting lasted fourteen months and destroyed twelve frontier towns, ending shortly after Metacom was captured and beheaded. Some of his supporters escaped to Canada, while others who surrendered were sold into slavery.


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How important is it for you as a small business to please your customer? Do you think your company should be concerned with customer satisfaction?
Customer satisfaction refers to how well a company's products and services meet or exceed the expectations of your customers. It is considered an important indicator of how well your business is doing today, but more so how well it will do in the long run.
Why is customer satisfaction important?
In a dynamic marketplace where thousands of established brands compete for clients, customer satisfaction has become a critical component of business strategy.
As a rule, when you see a decline in customer satisfaction, you can accurately predict that sales and profitability will be negatively impacted. In contrast, higher level of customer satisfaction usually forecasts increased customer loyalty and purchase intentions. Customer satisfaction may be your biggest differentiator especially if you are a small business owner.
In general, a satisfied customer is likely to:
- Become a return customer.
- Remain loyal to your brand.
- Become your unofficial advocate.
- Be less attracted to competing products.
- Contribute to your long-term success.
These are powerful marketing advantages that could determine the faith of your small businesses. Generally, customers listen to other customers. When a happy customer shares a positive experience with others, this unintentionally convinces them to give your business a try. For instance, when you wish to book a hotel online, you turn to the review section of the website to read about other customer experiences before making a decision. A few positive reviews become the determining factor for you choosing the given hotel.
Why is it important to measure satisfaction/collect feedback?
Today, many firms ask for customer feedback using various approaches. For some, "how are we doing?" survey leaflets may work, for others it may be an online short survey to be filled at the end of a transaction. Regardless of how you collect this information, it tells the customer one thing – "Your satisfaction matters to us, and we want to serve you better".
Measuring customer satisfaction is important for businesses to be able to better manage and further improve their offering. It also:
1. Makes the customers feel appreciated.
When you ask your clients to rate their experience, it sends them a message that you value their opinion and you are considering improving your product or service based on their recommendations. It makes them feel appreciated knowing that your business is there to serve them.
2. Serves as market forecast indicator.
You may be able to measure how well you are doing today by simply looking at your numbers. However, your customer satisfaction ratings tell you about how your business will do in the future as there is a direct correlation between customer satisfaction and sales.
3. Tells you how to improve your operations.
Looking at your product through the eyes of your customers will help you narrow down and invest in the exact area that needs strengthening. This will allow you to maximize customer loyalty, and change the mind of your unsatisfied customers before they leave you for your competitor.
4. Helps your employees focus on meeting customers' expectations.
By gaining valuable insight from your customers, your employees will have a more realistic and tangible goal to fulfill.
5. Warns you of problems when your ratings fall.
Measuring customer satisfaction could serve you well and prevent your company from experiencing declining numbers. Pay attention! When your ratings fall, it oftentimes is an indication that your sales may drop as well. Knowing this in advance will give you an opportunity to react fast.
It is in your interest to welcome all feedback from your clients regardless of the format. You should especially appreciate negative feedback as it tells you that there is something wrong about the way you do business and allows you the opportunity to react immediately.
Visit this link to learn how to set up your customer satisfaction survey today!
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The needs of homeless families that exist are year-round. A Valley homeless shelter is helping to break the cycle of homelessness.
UMOM is the largest homeless shelter for families in the state of Arizona that offers transitional and permanent housing.
According to Darlene Newsome, CEO of UMOM, they have 134 families that live on the main campus and by the end of the year they going to be expanding up to 156 families.
Newsome said that UMOM loosely defines the term family because it can be a single parent, a two-parent family or a grandparent raising a child.
"We believe that every family deserves an opportunity to have a better life," Newsome told News/Talk 92.3 KTAR's Bruce St. James.
"It's a place where people can change their lives."
UMOM offers families case management services, child care, after school programs, employment assistance and a medical facility.
The shelter is looking for Christmas gifts currently, especially for teenagers as well as jackets and sweaters for the cooler weather.
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