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Erik, Great! Glad it worked out for you. I still have mine and have been using it for about 2 years since I modified it, no leaks whatsoever. Let us know how it goes out there.
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Chris, I haven't been updating the site as much as I would like to these days. The fabric is too expensive to sell by the yard. I pay high shipping and fees to get it into Canada, so it would ...
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I have been selling bivy's (CC bivy) with WPB cuben fiber tops for a couple of months now. I had a custom weight made and when I ordered, it took almost 3 months to get. I am not sure if this w...
Re: Tell us Steve!
OK, I really should have posted earlier as promised so my apologies. I used this jacket on my last trip as it rained quite a bit. Performance was great and I even used it as a windshirt for most of...
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Hey Stephen, The MEC store in Toronto is huge. Lots of stuff to go through. Right across the street is Europebound (their website is terrible so don't bother judging the store based on that) w...
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$60,642...amazing. Devin came to my house the day (or maybe day after? can't recall now) he posted his project on kickstarter and I was blown away that he was at ~9K, you can imagine how imp...
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HAHA, I've been MIA for a while aswell and this thread is just too funny. Thanks!
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Ken, Browsing through the posts, I finally found one I could provide information for! :) The platy bladder can handle boiling temps. I routinely pour boiling water right out of my pot into my w...
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Aaron, yes, you can breath through it. I am getting bivy's made with the lightest version they have available right now. Should be done in the next couple of weeks and up on the site. Bryce,...
Re: C3 disappointment
Ziff, I actually talked with Tim Marshall about this last week. I have no real reason why it works well for me other than I heat and press it after bonding. However, I think he has had the same is...
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If you are thinking about this quilt, go for it. This system is the best I have used...just make sure you are ready for it. Paired with my Nunatak Skaha Plus, this is my 3 season sleep setup. I hav...
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With only one review for the rainbow, I had to put my 2 cents in here. Adding on the above post. Straight out of the box (tent, stuff sack, stakes etc.) and thrown on a scale, mine comes in at 4...
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I bought this on a whim just over a year ago after reading some reviews on it. This has turned out to be my go-to jacket for all my winter activities. From snowboarding to snowshoeing, there is no rea...
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While the products are great, I purchased a 2 sets of Down Booties (which were in stock) on Jan-15th. Credit Card was charged same day and product was to be shipped next day. 3 weeks later I started t...
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Simply put, this pack had everything I was looking for - in order of importance: 1)Panel Loading for easy organization 2)Hip belt pockets for regularly accessed items 3)Mesh side pockets for dryi...


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The Christmas season is nearly upon us. This year, I really wanted our focus to be on the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus. Now that Ellie is 2 years old, she can understand more of the story of baby Jesus and I wanted to give her a fun way to explore this story. So our Nativity sensory bin was born.It took me about half an hour to make this, it's super easy to do and you just need a few items to make it. Items for Nativity Sensory BinWooden activity tray or basket Brown crinkle paper (you could also use real straw if you have access to some) Craft sticks Wooden stick people or peg people Felt (3-4 colors of … [Read more...]
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My daughter loves animals. Maybe it's because we have three dogs, a cat, and a fish. When looking for gift ideas for her I always know something animal related will be a hit. So today I am going to share 10 gift ideas for toddlers who LOVE animals.We are all about real life and hands-on activities around here. So many of the items you will see below are designed to encourage independence and explore the world of animals in an age appropriate way. A quick story about this picture. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to use it for this post. Ellie's Auntie Aimee has a bunny at her house. Every time we go over to grandma and grandpa and … [Read more...]
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It's hard to believe Thanksgiving is just a week and a half away. Soon we will be on to winter and Christmas. Here are some great, last minute tasty treats for fall that you can squeeze in for Thanksgiving.5 Tasty Treats for Fall Lemon Thyme Cake with Lemon Glaze - Sassy Southern Yankee Homemade Doughnuts - Little House Living Walnut Puff Cookies - My Sweet Mission Pumpkin Bread - Creative Homekeeper Traditional Shortbread Cookies (Gain Free) - Intoxicated on LifeGood Tips Tuesday LinkUp PartyWe want this to be a resource for you to find Good Tips for your life, home, kids and everything in between! So what kinds of posts … [Read more...]
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EPMD's Erick Sermon has stepped up with details to calm hip-hop fans worrying over his health condition after suffering a heart attack just a few days ago.
Calling in from a hospital, Sermon detailed how serious his heart attack was last week.
"I scared myself, man, it's crazy," Sermon told radio host Sway. "I was downstaris on Wednesday night, I was making this record — I went upstairs and I sat on the sofa and I had got two sharp pains on my lefthand side and I said, 'Maybe I'm sitting wrong,' so I positioned myself differently on the sofa and I sat there and watched the TV. … Around twelve o'clock [on Thursday], I got the same pains on my lefthand side, so I said, 'You know what, let me go to the emergency room' — when I got there, as soon as I hit the door, my whole leftside kind of cramped up on me — I started getting those pains again, so they put me to the back to get a blood pressure reading and my blood pressure reading was 200 over 190. … If I didn't make it there in time, I would have suffered a stroke first — so when I got to the emergency room, they figured out that heart attack was a mild one and they took me in the back and I'm still here. I've been here for about five days." ("Sway In The Morning")
Yesterday, the renowned producer/rapper provided a small update on his condition.
Erick Sermon sent shockwaves through the hip-hop community yesterday as his close friend, DJ Scratch, tweeted that Erick had suffered from a heart attack. But, we spoke exclusively with Erick Sermon this afternoon who assured us he is alive and well. He said… "I'm good! I got two more tests on Monday and Tuesday then I'm home hopefully on Wednesday." (Global Grind)
Reports of his unexpected heart attack hit the Internet Saturday (November 12).
Just days after Heavy D passed away, hip-hop almost endured the loss of another legend. According to DJ Scratch, MC/producer Erick Sermon suffered a heart attack earlier today–though he said Sermon is recovering. "Erick Sermon had a heart attack today," Scratch wrote. "He's ok, but still send your prayers." DJ Scratch was a long-time DJ and producer for seminal hip-hop duo EPMD, which consisted of Sermon and Parrish "PMD" Smith. (BET)
Initial reports claimed Sermon's high blood pressure ultimately sparked the attack.
Kim Wingate, a close friend of Sermon and owner of justshuddup.com, said that she talked to the rapper. He nearly died. "On the heals of suffering the loss of Heavy D, we almost lost another HipHop Legend last night. Erick Sermon is in the hospital after suffering a heart attack last night. I just got off the phone with E and he said the doctor told him his blood pressure was so high he was minutes from death. He wanted me to let everyone know he's okay." (All Hip Hop)
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Restaurants not having websites only Facebook
I've been noticing a trend of restaurants (and bars) not having their only websites or they will have a site that just links to Facebook or other social media.
I find this kind of annoying because their menus aren't often posted on facebook or they might be hard to find or outdated.
Hard to tell if they are doing it to be 'cool' or just don't want to develop their own site. Of course social media is big too and they likely want their visitors to go there because they might share posts,etc.
Anyone else annoyed by this?
Some places might have menus that change frequently. It's faster just to post a photo of the chalkboard.
Given the shittiness of most restaurant websites, it doesn't bother me that much. At least on Facebook, I know I'm not going to have to watch a 30 second flash intro only to arrive at a page where I have to tune out the tinkling piano midi long enough to guess which random image might take me to the restaurant's address.
I prefer a clean, minimalist restaurant website over Facebook, mainly because they usually have a menu, as you noted, but I prefer Facebook over the vast majority of actual restaurant websites.
re: Jacquilynne
I agree with this. Most places websites are horrible. They tend to be slow loading, have annoying plugins and are not intuitive.
I don't think a website ever convinced me to go somewhere but some have been annoying enough to make me question their mgt.
I also think Facebook is less expensive to maintain. It's pretty easy to update, load photos and post news. My friend maintains her business FB page herself but has to pay someone to maintain the domain named one.
re: Jacquilynne
Same here. As a group, restaurant websites have to be the most useless genre of web site. So many of them are just home pages that have an address. Others, you have to wait for some stupid animation to load and then get blasted with loud music if you aren't careful.
I want to know hours of operation (oh and by the way, if you serve a "late night menu", WHEN does that kick in? I want to see a menu with prices, and maybe a photo or two of the place. Maps and directions are nice as well. Just give me the facts, please.
I think having a FB page is fine as a way to have an interactive conversation with your customers, and announce things like daily specials or special events. Both types of communication have their place.
I grew up in a time where the only menus were posted next to the front door, or you had to go in and ask.
Never affected my dining decisions or enjoyment of my meal.
Somewhat annoyed; however, I also understand that maintaining a website can be rather a pain (particularly for a smaller place) and that it's a lot faster & easier to keep a facebook page up-to-date. Considering that their primary focus should be on feeding me, I don't really mind if they choose not to spend a lot of time on a web site (although I agree that if they're not keeping FB up-to-date, either, that doesn't do me a lot of good)
Yep. I recently went to a restaurant and found they were closed that day. No hours posted online and no one answered the phone. Ugh. I find a simple website far more appealing than a Facebook page. Little Serow's site (www.littleserow.com) is the best I've seen.
re: Hobbert
Great website, but I didn't care for the "rules" and probably wouldn't eat there because they put me off. I'm of the opinion that restaurant sshould be welcoming and accommodating to customers, not rigid and limiting. I realize it's their prerogative, and that maybe some other people are cool with the restrictions. But I'll spend my money elsewhere, thanks.
re: saturngrrl
Yeah, but they get points for letting me know up front. I'd rather see that I can't take pictures (not that I would anyway) on the website than be annoyed about it when I got there.
re: Hobbert
True. I'd rather know I don't want to eat there ahead of time, than get there and be unpleasantly surprised. It's good they communicated that, but it certainly ruled me out as a potential customer. As I said, I'm sure others are just fine with the rules and will happily comply with them and dine there.
re: saturngrrl
Not even remotely.
I look up the menu for the local Chinese place and the local pizza place on my phone because sorry, I'm not going to drag them around town.
The menus are hanging on the fridge with a magnet.
Other than that, I'm not sure I've ever made a restaurant decision based on a website.
If someone recommends a restaurant, I like to look it up on the web. If it points me to a FB page, I am truly disappointed. I like to check menus, etc. to see if it is a place I want to go. Most FB posts do not include menus, unfortunately. Also, since real names are posted (most cases) replies are not so reliable.
re: Harters
I'm with you Harters.
I also like to know their hours.
All other things being equal (food, etc.) I also like to book online via opentable.com so I get my points.
I don't care if a restaurant has an online presence. If it's good usually I'll find it (print, walking around, word of mouth, etc.). A few really good, old school places are still NOT online.
I have observed the trend OP mentions: a static website and an active FB page.
A recent article in NY Capital Region's Metroland newspaper had a survey about small businesses (restaurants , etc.) and social media. An interesting read:
It can be harder to find the truth online (people lie, fake FB likes, Yelp issues, etc.). I have concerns about privacy when it comes to FB. I do not want everyone to know my business. My iphone is usually set so my every move cannot be tracked. Or can it? What price convenience vs. privacy?
re: Harters
To your list I'd add phone number and days/hours of operation. And I'm not on Facebook, either.
I've found that the majority of restaurants in the small towns around the area use facebook more so than have their own websites. The ones with websites are usually chain restaurants and the websites are run by corporate. I like the restaurants that update their facebook page so that it shows the hours they are open that day automatically. Not having access to the menus is annoying, especially when I may be looking at an hour-long drive or more to go explore some small town dive. Most of them do update their FB page with specials of the day tho, and I've found 90% of the time if I post a question asking about specials, or whatever, I get a response back pretty quickly, since it probably goes to someone's FB app on their phone.
Yes. And websites that are not viewable on mobile devices. Really? In this day and age?
I will not go to a restaurant that doesn't have a menu that I can read online. If it's on FB fine, but most are not. How will I know if there is something there for my picky eater?
I also prefer prices, hours of operation and a list of types of payment accepted.
re: Jerseygirl111
This seems to be a very narrow view. Lots of fine places with delicious food don't have online menus.
re: jmckee
I am sure there are. But I am not going to eat there.
Everything is online nowadays. Is it that hard to post a menu? Even a sample if your menu changes frequently is acceptable to me.
re: Jerseygirl111
You have to pay for hosting. You have to pay for website design and maintenance.
I eat based on food, not technology.
re: Jerseygirl111
If I can't view a menu ahead of time, we won't be a patron. I'm a parent of a kiddo with food allergies. I need to know if every other item has nuts in it we will just move along. Saves us a bunch of hassle.
re: autumm
Agree 100%. No online menu then we will not waste our time on their business. I have yet to find a real menu on a FB restaurant website.
I haven't yet seen a restaurant facebook page that was of any use at all.
re: sandylc
Just to give you an idea, here is one place that has a menu online (not that I've been to it). It used to be a restaurant and now has moved locations and become a "sports bar". Not my kind of hang out place!
re: sandylc
Here's a place with a good Facebook page.
They have menus, pictures of food and announcements about special events. And yes, they do take reservations on the Facebook page.
I'm not on Facebook and occasionally I find a restaurant Facebook page that I can't access. If the Facebook page has hours, location and a menu then I don't mind.
Interestingly, I have had several restaurant owners tell me that they have the Facebook page because it is easier to list specials and make changes than on their website. Perhaps, but I find many Facebook pages that lack even the most basic information.
re: meatn3
"I'm not on Facebook and occasionally I find a restaurant Facebook page that I can't access. If the Facebook page has hours, location and a menu then I don't mind."
This. Ditto for any other sort of business, not just restaurants.
That's the way it is for most businesses in the parts of Asia I've lived - Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. IF the company has any web presence at all, that is.
re: RosePearl
The new being...?
Not a problem, even though I don't do FB. A restaurant without a Web presence is reminiscent of those laid-back pre-internet days.
I don't care how they do it but we are on the road a lot and don't consider a place if there isn't a current menu with prices, hours they are open and the rules -cash only? Dress? reservations?
re: wekick
This is an honest question: what did you do before the internet? Not eat out ever?
re: Jack Flash
This applies to places that have restaurants with a web presence. Otherwise we pick the place with the most cars if traveling or ask around. We happened on to some great places that way. We missed a lot too that were right around the block but we didn't know until the internet. We are a little pickier as we go along too. Now with all the additional information available via the internet we know about the great fried chicken place five miles ahead in the next town. We can make choice about whether we want to spend $30 or $100 for dinner. We might choose a place that has a lot of homemade food vs a place that has all fried food out of the freezer. Some places list specials online only. If I am looking ahead for a non chain place to eat, I am willing to detour if the place is open( we always call and double check) and I know what is on the menu and how much it costs. Knowledge is king in my book.
re: Jack Flash
Not who you were asking but it was just more work and you took more "risks". Basically I did what I do here but got less info in considerably more time.
Before the internet I bought guide books, which is like googling or coming here and reading threads
I spoke to friends, co workers and relatives who know the area I am going to. Same as posting inquiries here but getting a lot more info, often very detailed.
I made phone calls to verify hours, getting direction. Often my guide books would have outdated info.
Once there I would buy the local paper and/or magazines, walk the neighborhoods, talk to people I met along the way. And even with internet I still do these things!
Often my pre web ventures led me to great grub, sometimes it didn't-just like today. There is no guarantee no matter what route you take. However I would say my success rate in finding "hidden jems", local specialities, etc has increased 10 fold since the w.w.w. It also allows me to share my finds with like minded people.
re: foodieX2
True. This site is very valuable for finding the little out of the way places.
We were recently in a bakery in a small that we just drove by. It was a find with all kinds of regional treats. We asked about local food and the guys face lit up and he came around to the front and gave us all kinds of places to go in the region. Nothing beats that. The websites were still helpful in knowing prices, exact items and hours and making our choices for the next several days.
I don't mind what they have, as long as it's updated.
Nice thing about Facebook: no music, easy to navigate, no flash.
re: weezieduzzit
Usually pages for restaurants and similar businesses are public, so you don't have to have a Facebook membership to see them and they come up in regular google searches.
re: Jacquilynne
re: weezieduzzit
Unfortunately that's how Facebook works. You need a certain number of "likes" to have access to their analytics tools.
Not really. A lot of the restaurants in my area are local family-owned type places. A website costs money. Facebook does not. As long as their Facebook page has the basics (address, hours, hopefully a menu even if it's just a photo of their menu) I'd rather them keep their money they would normally spend on a website since it's likely they're not raking it in anyway.
re: juliejulez
That's true for the most part. What many restaurants or even people don't realize is that many internet providers will host a simple website for their customers for free. It's usually only a single page with no bells or whistles but sufficient enough to post basic info and a menu. At least Comcast does or used to.
Any restaurant that doesn't have a presence on the web is losing potential customers.
An acceptable restaurant website can be done on Facebook, but the nicest restaurant websites are done stand-alone. Also, the sites without gimmicks, moving stuff and music are the nicest.
It's generally cheaper to use Facebook than a website with a registered domain name.
So if the money is saved towards food, employees, or just "staying in business" then, no, I'm not annoyed by this.
re: ipsedixit
The cost of having your own registered domain is a pittance. The cost of buying menu software that will generate pdf files is a few hundred bucks. Not per month or per year, but once. Given the number of restaurant websites where it's clear some clueless person overpaid some even more clueless web designer to over-design the restaurant website with needless Flash crap, you'd think there would be enough money to afford a registered domain.
re: nocharge
Everything you say is true.
But will you also not agree with me that the cost of a Facebook page is ... free?
A pittance (whatever that may be) is still more than free. In dollars, yen, or Bitcoins or whatever.
re: ipsedixit
I perfectly understand the concept of a restaurant needing to be "frugal". It's smart business sense. But I have had my own personal internet domain name for over a decade and the cost is low enough that I can't even recall the exact number since it's small enough that I don't care. And that's for something that isn't even a business expense.
re: nocharge
Yes but you still need to know website building basics to have a site and maintain it. Most people don't know how to do that, so they either have to take the time (that they probably don't have as most "mom and pop" type restaurateurs work their asses off) to learn, or hire someone to do it. I won't even get into the cost of doing SEO so people can find the website by using search engines. Creating a Facebook page is very easy to do and takes very little time, and is easy to update daily and reaches a wide audience.
re: juliejulez
And restaurants are well known for having more clueless websites than pretty much any type of business and having overpaid some clueless web designer in the process of creating them. Forget the SEO crap. I just want to see the menu. Uploading the pdf is not exactly rocket science if your IQ is marginally higher than single digit.
re: juliejulez
You can get a domain as low as $1.99 a year, there are many free website and website builder services (Wix, Weebly, etc.) There are even super low cost templates with hosting like Go Daddy's Website Tonight (as low as one dollar a month up to $9.99 a month for a bigger site with SEO help.)
The template sites are so easy you can get a webpage built and live in a couple of hours tops. If that's more time and money than a restaurant can spend I don't know if it's somewhere I'd want to eat anyhow.....
re: juliejulez
SEO can cost nothing. Someone just needs to put in the time. A neophyte can do it themselves they just need to read up a bit.
re: ipsedixit
I'm with you, ipse -- if there has to be a choice made between time and money spent on a website, and time and money spent on the food, I'd rather they spend it on the food (substitute service, decor, ambiance, wine, etc., etc., etc. at will)
Having a facebook only website reminds me of the early days of the web in the 90s where a restaurants web address was something like www.webhost.com/abbcc/sdfsdf/sdfsf instead of having its own domain. It's cheesy.
re: LeoLioness
I agree. for the small mom and pop places I can find hours, specials, and quite a few have menus scanned in. They are more likely to update their facebook because it is easy and free than a website. I also almost always get immediate feedback if I message to ask a question.
Absolutely, you have picked one of my current peeves. I don't do Facebook and if I can't review the menu it's unlikely I would go to that restaurant.
This is on a par with my problem with restaurants which have websites and don't maintain them.
Hard as it is to believe, not everyone is on Facebook, and I get annoyed when the only online information about a restaurant (or any business I might be interested in, for that matter) is linked to Facebook. Businesses today MUST maintain a well-executed, frequently-updated website.
re: CindyJ
If they "must" than they would. But they aren't so they don't. <shrug> I know many successful businesses with only a Facebook page if they have anything at all. And there are probably just as many or even more with stylish well maintained web sites that go under.
re: CindyJ
Yeah, they really don't.
Sure, they'll lose some business because they don't have a "well-executed frequently-updated website", but they won't lose all.
I agree, it would be nice if they had such. But the reality is that not all business are on the Internet. Not all businesses see the value in having a "well-executed frequently-updated website".
re: LMAshton
I think the "well-executed frequently-updated website" concept is just one of many factors that any business should consider in terms of marketing. How much money and resources should you spend? The reality is that it's not that costly. But for some reason restaurant owners tend to overpay web designers for Flash crap rather than just the basic infrastructure where you can see the daily menu.
re: nocharge
I would love to see websites for more businesses. It would certainly make my life much easier.
But "The reality is that it's not that costly" isn't necessarily true. Depends on where you are. In some countries, buying a domain name costs USD50 or more per year. Which those in developed countries would consider nothing, but in developing countries, that's enough to hire a cook for a month. It's all relative. Then you add the hosting on top of that, and the monthly hosting cost could mean not paying a cook for a month.
Consider, yes. But also, in a region where most of the people aren't online, it doesn't make huge sense to have an online presence, no matter how much you or I or others would prefer that they do. Or if most of their customers aren't online. Or if most of their customers are repeat business so already know all the details of when they open, where they are, and so on.
It's not quite so black and white.
My oh my, what did we do before the internet?
I just did a little research for a friend of mine who's travelling and wanted to know where to get good eats in the destination location. (I am frequently asked these sorts of questions. For a variety of reasons, some of them, um, visually obvious.) I turned up about 12 good places; more than half of them did not have websites.
Somebody in this thread made some comment about the proprietors needing to make allowances for website design, etc., in their marketing budget. For Mom & Pop places, for example, this is totally unnecessary. I'd much prefer a modest place that concentrates resources on the food than a joint with a glitzy website and only moderately good chow.
FB is free, no hosting, don't have to pay someone to update it...Most times turns into amateur hour, as most operators fail to keep it updated once the shine wears off. Also "new media" rules can apply, ie spelling errors, grammar issues, no fact checking. A class act resto WILL have a website...leave fb for the 12 yr old girls, but sheesh, even they are shunning it more and more. Taste and style? That's another conversation. A good designer/programmer will NOT want to include flash, music, blinkies, etc.
re: BiscuitBoy
"Most" times. On what do you base this? I have "liked" quite a few local restaurants on FB, and all but one keep their FB page up to date. None of them have spelling and grammar errors.
And of course, your assertion about "12 year old girls" is simply a cheap shot at something you don't like.
"A class act resto WILL have a website." Define "class act" please.
re: jmckee
-I can point to several restos in my area that started fb pages, then let them wither...pretty sure that's not a unique quality of my area - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pattie... and http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/9147...
-Nobody really likes fb, hate to break that one to you...even the 12 yr old girls have grown bored of it. Source - various tech journals and sites I monitor
-Class Act - An operation that cares enough to present itself professionally, accurately and correctly to the public, rather than thru an app on a damn iphone
We're done here
re: BiscuitBoy
I like Facebook. So your statement "Nobody really likes fb" is false.
re: juliejulez
I like facebook, too. Not every part of it, no. But I still use it and enjoy keeping in touch with friends and family there. So, yeah, another point against nobody liking facebook.
I agree, a lot of places I have tried to look up that are local only have an abandoned Facebook page. Not even an email address. They often won't reply to messages via Facebook either.
That's my experience with smaller food places, but also non-food related services such as salons where I would want to ask if a certain style is within their limits, and I would need to message them online to show them a picture, since I can't show a picture by describing it on the phone, and don't want to go through the hassle of going in-person.
Alternatively, you could try seeing if they have a menu on specialty restaurant delivery sites like eat24hours.


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Back in spring of 2014 I had MOHS surgery for basal cell carcinoma growing on the tip of my nose. By the end of that day the tip of my nose was gone and I needed a plastic surgeon to put everything back together again. To say I was not prepared for this is an understatement. I will be forever grateful that I was referred to Dr. Andrew Jacono for that task. His talent, kindness and compassion got me through a very difficult time in my life. Actually, everyone at his office is kind and understanding of their patient's needs at a very fragile and vulnerable time in their lives. I never thought I would look like myself again, but I do and I thank you Dr. Jacono every day for that.
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This was the first time I considered something like this. At first, I was very uncomfortable with the thought of getting cosmetic surgery, however Dr. Jacono made this a very positive experience. This is an excellent facility with fantastic staff. Everyone was extremely polite and professional. I was made to feel very comfortable and never had any anxiety about the procedure. The experience was so positive, I am open to the possibility of considering another procedure in the future. Thank you, Dr. Jacono. You're the best!
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Dr. Jacono is truly an artistic genius. My rhinoplasty looks unbelievable- beautiful and natural. Dr. Jacono is extremely kind and friendly, and this immediately took all my fears away. I put my full trust in him because he is one of a kind. His staff is also very warm, and overall my experience could not have been better. Dr. Jacono is cool, intelligent, and simply amazing. I recommend everyone to Dr. Jacono!
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Staff Photo by Danielle Moore Longstreet's Charge Condos off Euclid Avenue in Chickamauga, Ga., recently finished renovations this summer on 20 condos in the area. Currently, there are eight available units with prices starting at $154,000.
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*Contact: Randy Durham, broker, Keller Williams Realty, 593-2400; firstname.lastname@example.com. (Mr. Durham also writes a weekly column on Tuesdays for the Times Free Press on real estate.)
*Development amenities: Condominiums are zoned for Chickamauga Elementary and Middle schools and Gordon Lee High School. The 100-year-old building is adjacent to a city park.
*Home features: Condominiums include hardwood floors, expansive custom wood cabinets, luxurious master suites and sunrooms when available. Units have a scenic view and are built in a private location.
*Comment: "It was a unique opportunity to take a historical building in a small town and give condominium living to a community that had not been exposed to it and to keep the historical integrity of the development." — Randy Durham
Perla Trevizo joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2007 and covers immigration/diversity issues and higher education. She holds a master's degree in newswire journalism from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Texas. In 2011 she participated in the Bringing Home the World international reporting fellowship program sponsored by the International Center for Journalists, producing a series on Guatemalan immigrants for which she ...
There's a lot of perks you can experience living in a condo. If you are on the go kind of people living in this kind of home is definitely the best fit. In my own opinion it is more secure living in this kind of place rather than a landed home. You can also do a lot of things with condos, if you don't to reside in it you can lend it or rent them out to other people. This what investors do in Singapore, they are going to invest on a development mixed or residential and they will convert it to an office space http://www.developersales.com.sg/ I think this somehow a brilliant idea because of the profit that you can get. Anyway, I would like to thank you for posting this kind of helpful and very informative article. I do apologize if I have to revive this post up. Again, thanks for sharing keep up the good work!


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Today, the Cato Institute released its latest health policy book, Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care, by Arnold Kling, a man I like to think of as the anti-Krugman. Have a look at Kling's work here, buy the book here.
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After spending a few years in the studio system with comedies like "Pineapple Express" and "Your Highness," David Gordon Green is firmly back in the indie world with the one-two punch of last year's "Prince Avalanche" and the newly released Nicolas Cage-starring "Joe." As the new film opens in selec...Read More »
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While he stated early on that the eclectic careers of Danny Boyle, Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant were the ones he strove to emulate, the career of David Gordon Green has nevertheless puzzled those who expected him to follow a singular track. Perhaps because he was touted as the heir apparent to...Read More »
"Joe" unites a pair of talents somewhat on the comeback trail. David Gordon Green's once-lofty critical reputation—the filmmaker was once lauded as a successor to Terrence Malick—took something of a hit after a left-turn into poorly-received studio comedies like "Your Highness" and "The Sitter," but...Read More »
Yes, the career of Nicolas Cage has taken what one can argue is a serious nosedive in recent years. His frightening hairline has become the butt of endless jokes, his personal life is always a mess (he named his son Kal-El after Superman and he's on his third wife), and his take-a-paycheck career ch...Read More »
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I sew this dress for a LARP and totally dig it ! The Simplicity attern is perfect, I just made the sleeves longer.
More on my blog, the pattern comes from the french Simplicity magazine : Tedances Couture n°5.
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Well done!!! fantastic dress!!
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Baumann, who has worked at NPMA for 18 years, will be based at Rollins' corporate office in Atlanta. Baumann's new position is within the technical services group, which also includes Paul Hardy, Frank Meek and Ron Harrison.
FAIRFAX, Va. — Greg Baumann, vice president of technical services of the National Pest Management Association, has resigned that position to join Rollins Inc. as technical services director.
Baumann, who has worked at NPMA for 18 years total, will begin his new position in about a month, he said. Soon to be based at Rollins' corporate office in Atlanta, Baumann will report to Tom Luczynski, Rollins corporate secretary and vice president of Orkin international development, franchising and support services.
Baumann's new position is within the technical services group, which also includes Paul Hardy, Frank Meek and Ron Harrison.
"We are very happy to add Greg's impressive breadth of experience to Rollins," said Luczynski. "He has been a very strong industry leader, and we look forward to the knowledge he will bring to our already impressive technical team."
Baumann told PCT this new position is a "wonderful opportunity to combine my technical and project management skills."
Baumann, a 2006 PCT/Syngenta Professional Products Crown Leadership Award winner, has varied experience in the pest management industry, including time spent as corporate quality assurance auditor, The Hershey Company. He also launched Pro-Tech Pest Management, a home inspection and termite business, with several partners in North Carolina in the early 2000s.
Rollins Inc. provides pest control services and protection against termite damage, rodents and insects to more than 2 million customers in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia and the Mediterranean from over 500 locations. For more information about the company's subsidiaries visit www.orkin.com, www.pestdefense.com, www.westernpest.com, www.orkincanada.ca, www.indfumco.com, www.cranepestcontrol.com and www.rollins.com.
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I have a very simple application. I have a button and a label in IB. I have an IBAction for onClick that calls setText on the label. There's an outlet for the label. Everything is connected in IB. It crashes the app the first time in the simulator. When I launch it again, it sets the text. Then crashes again next time. It always crashes on the actual device. This should be simple, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
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While some people have argued that hundreds of carp would need to infiltrate the lakes to establish a population, a new study suggests otherwise. Fewer than a couple dozen adventurous fish could be enough to launch a successful invasion, the authors predict. If the invasive carp do take over the lakes, they could harm native fish populations.
The researchers ran computer models of Asian carp population growth, including processes such as spawning and maturation. If a small group of fish — say, 20 or less — reach the lakes, the likelihood of establishment is more than 75 percent under certain conditions, the authors predict. "[T]he most hazardous containment breach scenario is if barriers are continually leaky, and a small number of fish are introduced into the lake basin each year," they write in Biological Invasions. — Roberta Kwok | 17 September 2013
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From factory to data center: The O'Reilly Radar Podcast
Nate Oostendorp on manufacturing and the industrial Internet, and Tim O'Reilly and Rod Smith discuss emerging tech.
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The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on manufacturing — will the industrial Internet's effect be as significant? In this podcast episode, Nate Oostendorp, co-founder and CTO of Sight Machine, says yes — where mechanization ruled the Industrial Revolution, data-driven automation will rule this next revolution:
"I think that when you think about manufacturing 20 years from now, the computer and the network is going to be much more fundamental. Your factories are going to look a lot more like data centers do, where there's a much greater degree of automation that's driven by the fact that you have good data feeds off of it. You have a lot of your administration of the factory that will be done remotely or in a back office. You don't necessarily need to have engineers on a floor watching a machine in order to know what's going on. I think fundamentally, the number of players in a factory will be much smaller. You'll have much more technical expertise but a fewer number of people overall in a factory setting."
According to Oostendorp, we're already seeing the early effects today in an increased focus on quality and efficiency. Read more…
The next industrial revolution
It's all about software, but it's a little harder than that.
If you Google "next industrial revolution," you'll find plenty of candidates: 3D printers, nanomaterials, robots, and a handful of new economic frameworks of varying exoticism. (The more generalized ones tend to sound a little more plausible than the more specific ones.)
The phrase came up several times at a track I chaired during our Strata + Hadoop World conference on big data. The talks I assembled focused on the industrial Internet — the merging of big machines and big data — and generally concluded that in the next industrial revolution, software will take on the catalytic role previously played by the water wheel, steam engine, and assembly line.
The industrial Internet is part of the new hardware movement, and, like the new hardware movement, it's more about software than it is about hardware. Hardware has gotten easier to design, manufacture, and distribute, and it's gotten more powerful and better connected, backed up with a big-data infrastructure that's been under construction for a decade or so. Read more…
Talking to big machines
What "design beyond the screen" means for the industrial Internet.
Design beyond the screen is a much broader and more transformative concept than just that, though: it encompasses changes in the relationships between humans and machines and between machines and other machines. Good design beyond the screen makes interaction more fluid and elevates both people and machines to do their best work. The impact of good design beyond the screen could be huge, and could extend well beyond consumer electronics into heavy industry and infrastructure. Read more…
Extracting value from the IoT
Data from the Internet of Things makes an integrated data strategy vital.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is more than a network of smart toasters, refrigerators, and thermostats. For the moment, though, domestic appliances are the most visible aspect of the IoT. But they represent merely the tip of a very large and mostly invisible iceberg.
IDC predicts by the end of 2020, the IoT will encompass 212 billion "things," including hardware we tend not to think about: compressors, pumps, generators, turbines, blowers, rotary kilns, oil-drilling equipment, conveyer belts, diesel locomotives, and medical imaging scanners, to name a few. Sensors embedded in such machines and devices use the IoT to transmit data on such metrics as vibration, temperature, humidity, wind speed, location, fuel consumption, radiation levels, and hundreds of other variables. Read more…
Why PayPal jumped the software-hardware gap
A software company reaches into the physical world with hardware.
PayPal is a software company, but when I met with Josh Bleecher Snyder, director of software engineering at PayPal, it was to talk about hardware. He's leading the development of Beacon, PayPal's new hands-free payment platform. At its heart is a finger-size stick that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to connect with mobile phones and confirm identity.
Paypal's move into hardware extends its software into the physical world — a key idea behind our Solid Conference. What was once a system confined to screens and keyboards is now part of a new set of interactions in brick-and-mortar stores.
Beacon is part of a vast PayPal stack, and Bleecher Snyder's team solved problems with a blend of hardware and software thinking — writing code in Go that was efficient enough for Beacon's processor to be underclocked and avoid overheating, and to anticipate attacks on PayPal's service that might come from compromised hardware. His entire system hews to PayPal's "don't be creepy" mantra by quickly and permanently discarding data that isn't used in transactions. Read more…
What's a tech company, anyway?
Talk of the "tech sector" is out of date. Every company is a tech company.
Uber has encountered a series of challenges that are notionally unfamiliar to the current generation of tech companies: wrongful-death lawsuits, rent-seeking by an entrenched industry, regulatory scrutiny from local bureaucrats, worker protests. The company admitted to having disrupted a competitor's operations by calling its cars, then canceling. No matter how explicitly it warns about surge pricing, riders accustomed to a certain way of booking a car ride object.
There's an established industry that charges people for rides in cars, and it's been reduced to a set of straightforward points of competition: price, car quality, ease of booking, and — treacherously for Uber and uncharacteristically for "tech companies" in general — the burly and distasteful accumulation of political clout before municipal taxi commissions. Read more…
Toward an open Internet of Things
Vendors, take note: we will not build the Internet of Things without open standards.
In a couple of posts and articles, we've nibbled around the notion of standards, interoperability, and the Internet of Things (or the Internet of Everything, or the Industrial Internet, or whatever you want to call it). It's time to say it loud and clear: we won't build the Internet of Things without open standards.
What's important about the IoT typically isn't what any single device can do. The magic happens when multiple devices start interacting with each other. Nicholas Negroponte rightly criticizes the flood of boring Internet-enabled devices: an oven that can be controlled by your phone, a washing machines that texts you when it's done, and so on. An oven gets interesting when it detects the chicken you put in it, and sets itself accordingly. A washing machine gets interesting if it can detect the clothes you're putting into it and automatically determine what cycle to run. That requires standards for how the washer communicates with the washed. It's meaningless if every clothing manufacturer implements a different, proprietary standard for NFC-enabled tags.
We're already seeing this in lighting: there are several manufacturers of smart network-enabled light bulbs, but as far as I can tell, each one is controlled by a vendor-specific app. And I can think of nothing worse for the future of home lighting than having to remember whether the lights in the bedroom were made by Sylvania or Philips before I can turn them off. Read more…
Exploring software, hardware, everywhere
A Twitter Q&A follow-up to my conversation with Tim O'Reilly.
Last week, Tim O'Reilly and I sat down in San Francisco and had a conversation about the collision of hardware and software. The fact that digital entrepreneurs see hardware as part of their available palette now is really interesting, as is the way many companies with traditional manufacturing roots are seeing digitization and software as key parts of their businesses in the near future. Software plus more malleable hardware is like a whole new medium for building products and services. We really are on the cusp of interesting times.
As our time wound down, questions were still coming in via Twitter. Since we couldn't get to all of them during the time allotted, I thought I'd try to respond to a few more of them here. Read more…
Death to the screen
Is freedom just another word for a smart environment?
You know the "Next Big Thing" is no longer waiting in the wings when you hear it dissected on talk radio. That's now the case with the Industrial Internet — or the Internet of Things, or the collision of software and hardware, or the convergence of the virtual and real worlds, or whatever you want to call it. It has emerged from academe and the high tech redoubts of Silicon Valley, and invaded the mainstream media.
Of course, it's been "here" for a while, in the form of intelligent devices, such as the Nest Thermostat, and initiatives like the Open Auto Alliance, an effort involving Audi, GM, Honda , Hyundai, Google and Nvidia to develop an open-source, Android-based software platform for cars.
But we are now tap-dancing one of those darn tipping points again. As software-enhanced objects, cheap sensors, and wireless technology combine to connect everything and everybody with every other thing and person, a general awareness is dawning. People — all people, not just the technologically proficient — understand their lives are about to change big time. This is creating some hand-wringing anxiety as well as giddy anticipation, and rightly so: the parameters and consequences of the Internet of Things remain vague. Read more…
Slo-mo for the masses
Thinking about technology in highly disruptive ways has made high-speed videography affordable.
All kids cultivate particular interests growing up. For Michael Matter, Edgertronic's co-inventor, it was high-speed flash photography. He got hooked when his father brought home a book of high-speed images taken by Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, the legendary MIT professor of electrical engineering who pioneered stroboscopic photography.
"It was amazing stuff," Matter recalls, "and I wanted to figure out how he did it. No, more than that I wanted to do it. I wanted to make those images. But then I looked into the cost of equipment, and it was thousands of dollars. I was 13 or 14, this was the 1970s, and my budget was pretty well restricted to my allowance." Read more…