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According to figures from internet analytics firm comScore, shoppers spent a record $1bn online on four separate days.
As consumers increasingly access the internet on-the-go through mobiles and tablets, the ability to shop anywhere and at anytime has helped 2012 become the largest ecommerce year to date.
The week of December 8th became the biggest spending week in history, generating over $6.9bn in online sales, comScore said.
"This past workweek saw four days surpass the billion dollar spending threshold during the heaviest five-day online shopping period on record," said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni.
"With this most recent week in the books, the peak spending period may now be in our rear-view-mirror - but the online holiday shopping season is not over yet. We should have one more headline day on Free Shipping Day this Monday the 17th as the procrastinators among us scramble to order gifts in time for Christmas next week," he added.
The growth rate for 2012 compared to 2011 is expected to be well over 10%, Fulgoni said. "For the season-to-date, the growth rate based on corresponding days last year is 13%. But, with two extra shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, we still expect that the full season will realize a growth rate well north of 13%," he said.
Cyber Monday this year became the heaviest online spending day in history, with a whopping $1.465bn spent in just one day.
A report by Experian revealed that UK consumers made 112 million visits to online retail sites that day, a 32% increase from the year before. Amazon had the largest increase in market share of visits this year representing 12% of all retail results, up from 10% last year.
Mobile devices were widely used for shopping on Cyber Monday with eBay UK mobile and Argos Mobile being the third and sixth fastest moving websites.
"There is still plenty of shopping time between now and Christmas however, and in particular we are expecting a lot of last-minute panic buying online on Christmas Eve as consumers take advantage of click-and-collect services," said James Murray, digital insight manager for Experian marketing services.
"Marketers need to be aware of these trends so they can engage with their customers at the night time to maximise sales in what could be a bumper Christmas year for online retail," he added.
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Experience the healing mind of compassion in a day of guided meditations at the Amoghasiddhi Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Attleborough. Picture by: Kelsang Rinzing
Friday, June 22, 2012
A Compassion Meditation Day Retreat will take place at the Amoghasiddhi Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Queens Square, Attleborough, on Saturday, June 30, 10am-5pm.
Experience the healing mind of compassion in this day of guided meditations. Through compassion we learn to see others in a new way, helping us to connect to everyone we meet and think about. Compassion opens our hearts to others, healing our relationships and bringing us a special peace within.
Includes a delicious vegetarian lunch.
Cost: £20. To book a place, call 01953 451937 or visit www.amoghasiddhi.org.uk
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GParted News
27 January 2015: GParted Live 0.21.0-1 Stable Release
The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This live image contains GParted 0.21.0 which fixes an off-by-one sector error in GParted's internal block copy algorithm, and removes unnecessary duplicate actions when resizing a partition.
Items of note include:
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Jan/27)
- Replaced i486 live image with i586
- Increased minimum requirements to 256 MB of RAM
- Includes GParted 0.21.0 (fixes off-by-one internal block copy, adds ReFS detection, removes unnecessary partition resize actions)
26 January 2015: GParted 0.21.0
This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates. One fix involves an error introduced in 0.15.0 whereby GParted's internal block copy has an off by one sector bug when the source is before the destination; and the copy is performed backwards from high block to low block. The problem results in incorrect last sectors in partitions.
Key changes include:
- Fix off by one sector error in GParted internal block copy
- Add support for ext4 on RHEL/CentOS 5.x
- Remove unnecessary duplicate actions when resizing a partition
18 December 2014: CVE-2014-7208 Unsafe OS command execution in GParted <= 0.14.1
A security vulnerability has been found in GParted versions <= 0.14.1. The vulnerability does not exist in GParted 0.15.0 and higher.
See public announcement of the security vulnerability by Wolfgang Ettlinger on 2014-12-18.
The GParted team thanks Wolfgang Ettlinger (discovery, analysis) from the SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab (https://www.sec-consult.com/) for responsibly reporting the identified issues and working with us as we addressed them.
Additionally the GParted team thanks all persons involved for handling the security vulnerability in a professional manner. Further, I personally thank Mike Fleetwood for all his work on this issue and for developing patches to address the vulnerability in multiple GParted versions.
More details, including the patches to address the vulnerability in GParted 0.4.2 to 0.14.1 inclusive, can be found at the following link:
Bug 740161 - CVE-2014-7208 Unsafe OS command execution in GParted <= 0.14.1
25 October 2014: GParted Live 0.20.0-2 Stable Release
The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This live image contains GParted 0.20.0 which improves resizing for multi-device btrfs file systems. Also included is a patched version of parted 3.2 that fixes a crash that would occur when resizing fat16 file systems.
Items of note include:
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Oct/24)
- Includes GParted 0.20.0 (improves resizing for multi-device btrfs)
- Includes patched version of parted 3.2 to fix Bug 735669 - GParted crashes resizing fat16 file system
- Fixes Bug 738258 - Incorrect language title for locale pt_BR
- Fixes missing required package syslinux-utils
- Adds "File/System utils -> gsmartcontrol" right-click menu
- Adds package syslinux-efi
- Improves descriptions and layout for exit dialog
20 October 2014: GParted 0.20.0
This release of GParted improves resizing multi-device btrfs file systems. Also included are language translation updates.
Key changes include:
- Include devid when resizing multi-device btrfs file systems
- Add GRUB 2 restoration steps to help manual
29 August 2014: GParted Live 0.19.1-4 Stable Release
The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live.
This live image contains GParted 0.19.1 as released earlier, but it is linked with libparted 3.2 to take advantage of many fixes applied by the parted project. More specifically, libparted 3.2 fixes a crash that used to occur when resizing fat32 partitions with some prior libparted versions - see Bug 735471.
Items of note include:
- Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Aug/29)
- Updated to parted/libparted-3.2-5, see Bug 678290
- Includes partclone, see Bug 732039
26 August 2014: Ten Years of GParted
The GParted team is happy to announce the tenth anniversary of GParted.
The first public release of GParted was version 0.0.3 on August 26th, 2004. Over the past 10 years, much has happened. Following are some statistics:
- Over 300 people have contributed to GParted
- Many GNU/Linux distributions now include GParted
- Translators have worked to make GParted available in over 50 different languages
- GParted is used in over 220 countries around the world
- There have been over 17 million downloads from Sourceforge alone
When did you first get the idea for GParted?
Bart Hakvoort - I was trying to do some partitioning and realized there was no convenient way to do that using Linux. There was of course QTParted, but as a dedicated GNOME user I didn't like the idea of having to install QT as a dependency. I also was a bit more strident those days and didn't want to use win32 based applications like PartitionMagic. This was when I first realized there existed an actual niche for this particular application.
Who was involved in the project early on?
Bart Hakvoort - Lots of people actually, in the beginning mostly early testers who crashed a few disks for the greater good. Too many to name, but my friend Mario comes to mind, the guys from the Dutch I18n team helped me a lot. Especially Tino and Vincent did lots of testing during the alpha stage and reported numerous issues. Vincent also provided the template for the website that's still mostly in use. After the first releases LarryT came on board to help, initially with the docs and later on with almost anything. A couple of months after the first public release Patrick Verner came with the brilliant idea of building a small livecd to run GParted from. This way you could manage partitions on systems without having Linux installed or manipulate the root partition of a system. Then JanC supplied and looked after the forum and all of a sudden we had a small team :-)
Why did you choose some of the languages and libraries (gtkmm, libparted, etc)?
Bart Hakvoort - I honestly can't remember why I chose libparted over e.g. fdisk. Maybe because Andrew Clausen was so helpful and enthusiastic about the idea of a GUI or maybe because the 'parted' command structure and the library itself offered more flexibility. With regard to gtkmm, I was most comfortable with C++ and as an avid GNOME user Gtkmm made sense. It also had an active, helpful community and a lot of great examples, so that wasn't a hard choice back then.
How was the project name "GParted" selected?
Bart Hakvoort - It stands for GNOME PARTition EDitor and also refers to the fact it was at first a Gtk frontend to Parted. I also think the fact it was a GNOME version of QTParted had something to do with it, the 'G' simply had to be in there. ;-)
Mike Fleetwood - Almost everything in GNOME is named GSomething. What else would you name the GNOME UI for parted!
What inspired you to contribute to GParted?
Bart Hakvoort - Partly since I wanted to write something useful after using Linux for years without contributing anything back to the community. Partly because I just wanted to create something 'real' after all the little hobby and study projects.
LarryT - I met Bart Hakvoort when looking for documentation about GParted at its very beginning. Bart offered me the opportunity to participate in the documentation of the project. I thought this was funny and useful by the way.
Curtis Gedak - All through my career I have used and benefited from a wide variety of free software projects. I felt a debt to the Free Software community and I wanted to give back. About this time I ran into limitations with a proprietary partitioning tool. In my search for a solution I came across GParted which coincidentally was looking for a developer.
Mike Fleetwood - I have occasionally made small contributions to a few pieces of open source software as I use them and come across a bug or see an opportunity for a small enhancement. GParted was no different. I'd used GParted to re-organise my hard drive and saw a small enhancement I could make. My first few small patches to GParted were well received so I continued contributing. Quickly I had a new hobby on my hands.
When did you first get involved with the project?
LarryT - I think it was around 2006. At this time I created the first documentation. In 2007 I maintained the live CD as best I could. In 2007 Bart left the project because of his work. He asked me if I would become the project admin. Only Jan Claeys was still in the team (if my memory is good). During less than one year, I maintained this project just to prevent it from disappearing. After some months I looked for C++ dev, and found Curtis....
Curtis Gedak - In late 2007 while searching for a project to help, I came across LarryT's request for a C++ developer. At the time I did not know C++, but thought I'd give it a try. Back then GParted did not have the ability to set volume labels. After reviewing the code and liking what I saw, I started to add the missing volume label functionality. And the rest they say is history. :-)
Mike Fleetwood - I sent my first small code fix in August 2010 and started contributing regularly from November 2011.
What memorable challenges or humorous situations have you encountered?
Bart Hakvoort - Hmm... I didn't know all that much about partitions and file systems back then. So once people started to use it for real and began to report issues I had a lot of homework to do. Luckily I got a lot of help from people with far more experience in this area. Andrew Clausen from libparted comes to mind, he really helped me in these early days of building a GUI around libparted.
LarryT - Well the best one is still to become admin of this project without knowing any line of C++ :D I had to learn how to build a live CD from scratch, and thanks to François Dupoux it was possible. We spent hours on IRC chat over many days for this.
Curtis Gedak - When I started I didn't know C++ and my knowledge of GNU autotools was minimal. Fortunately, LarryT handled all the administrative stuff while Francois Dupoux helped me get up to speed on autotools and with collecting outstanding patches to build an initial 0.3.5 release. During this time I read and practiced the exercises in "Thinking in C++" by Bruce Eckel.
Mike Fleetwood - As a developer the challenge with an existing program is always to understand how it works, and why it works the way it does, well enough to change it. My initial step was how GParted executed external commands to query and manipulate the various file systems it supports. All the time I am extending my understanding of the user interface and the Gtk+ library used to implement it.
Which areas are you involved with?
LarryT - Currently I'm busy with studies, but I hope to come back and offer help with testing.
Curtis Gedak - While I started out as a developer only, I've grown to work in all areas of the project with the exception of building the Live images and translating to different languages.
Mike Fleetwood - I primarily develop code and review patches for the GParted application. Occasionally I assist users in the forum and via bug reports.
What distro did you use as the base for the Live image and why?
Patrick Verner created and maintained the first Live CD images for GParted. The Live image was based on Slackware Current starting with GParted LiveCD 0.2.5.
LarryT - When I maintained the live CD I used Gentoo, just because my teacher (François Dupoux) did and taught me to do so.
Steven Shiau now maintains the Live image. Steven is actively involved in other projects, such as Clonezilla. For ease of maintenance GParted Live is based on Debian Live similar to Clonezilla Live.
Is there something additional that would be interesting or useful to mention?
LarryT - Though my English is poor, I am always happy to share with others, and I think this project was/is a good opportunity! I forgot to say one thing: I am a catholic monk.
Looking back, are there things you might do differently now that you have 10 more years of experience?
Barted Hakvoort - Well... being a bit older and more experienced I probably should've more seriously considered contributing to QTParted instead of developing a new application. Apart from that... hmm... I've never liked the wrapping of CLI commands to perform the filesystem specific tasks. If I needed to do something like that today I would try harder to use the backend libraries of these tools instead.
This wraps up the responses provided by past and present GParted contributors. Please note that many others, not listed here, have made significant contributions. GParted is made possible by the users, the contributors, and by the greater Free Software community.
In conclusion the GParted team is pleased to celebrate 10 years of providing an easy-to-use graphical partition editor as free software that all can share and use. :-)


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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Primary pupils "amazed" by the amount of rubbish collected from a Suffolk beach are hoping to transform the unsightly mess into works of art.
Benhall St Mary Primary School collected 14kg of rubbish - including vast amounts of fish and chip forks and ketchup wrappers - from Aldeburgh beach on Friday as part of the pupils' project on the coast and its wildlife.
Woodlands Class teacher Katie Jenkins said the children were "absolutely amazed" by what they found and "really passionate" about improving their environment.
"The children were really interested in finding out about why our coast is so special but also very fragile and how it has changed since the storms last year," she said.
"We decided to go to the beach to find out how much litter there was and also to learn about the local wildlife.
"I think they were absolutely amazed by what they found - you don't see it so much when it's spread across the whole beach but when you start bringing it all together it's quite surprising to see how much there really is.
"They're really passionate about the litter problem and the impact it's having on the environment and are keen to go back to the coast to collect even more rubbish."
Back at school, the pupils sorted through the litter, from food wrappers and cigarette butts to a pair of pyjamas, and arranged it according to which section of the beach it was found - shoreline, tide line or beach.
A report on their findings will be presented the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, which provided the pupils with the litter picking equipment.
And the rubbish itself will be "upcycled" into statues to feature in a possible art exhibition later this term.
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Well done! Benhall Primary school not only have your children provided a valuable service to the community and the local environment I am sure they have benefited educationally from the experience identifying various objects and speculating their origin. I cannot believe anyone would think that this type of outdoor practical learning is worthless. Maybe as a follow up they should investigate the origin of some of the rubbish. I would guess that the local fish and chip shop may be a good plaice to start.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
I think this was a fantastic day out!! My little boy loved it! Learn't loads of interesting facts and certainly hasn't caught anything nasty yet! Im sure precautions were taken to keep our children safe. Much better than just talking about the problem in a stuffy classroom! Well done Mrs J and Benhall kiddies.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
I would not be happy if a child of mine who was at school to learn went out picking up rubbish that the council should do ,not matter what the teacher say a health problem is there,with children sorting out the rubbish ,
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
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Harry and Taylor are spending a little pre-holiday time together on the slopes in Utah! Do you think they'll be celebrating Christmas there too?
Taylor Swift and Harry Styles sure do seem to be inseparable lately! Shortly after spending her 23rd birthday in his London stomping grounds and being spotted in Los Angeles at her home, the lovebirds were photographed enjoying a romantic holiday ski trip in Park City, Utah on Dec. 21!
The couple reportedly left Los Angeles late on Dec. 20 together after Harry appeared on The X Factor season finale with his One Direction bandmates, performing "Kiss You". They were photographed by fans while enjoying a bit of lunch, dressed appropriately for a day on the slopes, in scarves and snow caps.
According to Country Weekly, Taylor is due to visit Australia to promote her album. "It's gonna be non-stop sun," she said. "So it will be weird to have a tan around Christmas but I'm really excited about it." Could she and Harry be enjoying one last day together before she heads Down Under? Or could the heartthrob be joining Taylor on her trip? It's still unclear when, exactly, Taylor is due in Australia, but considering Christmas is in just a few short days, it stands to reason that the trip is imminent.
Christmas isn't the only gift-giving day on Taylor's mind, as a new report in the Daily Star detailed her rather expensive plans for Harry's upcoming birthday! A source told the publication, "Harry spent [$1,500] on Taylor for her recent birthday, and now she wants to repay the favor — and then some."
It appears that expensive music memorabilia is at the top of Harry's wish list.
"She's been phoning Beatles stores in Liverpool hoping to find pieces of rare autographed memorabilia she knows Harry will love. A staff member at one store let it slip she wanted to spend somewhere between [$65,000] and [$80,000]."
Do you think Harry and Taylor will spend Christmas together, HollywoodLifers?
– Billy Nilles
More Taylor Swift and Harry Styles News:
- Taylor Swift To Buy UK Home To Be Closer To Harry Styles — Report
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We all know that most people like getting there way but since woman go the extra mile of being the pretty peetesa's (friend or beatiful one).they like getting there way most of the time with there relationships with men and through extention just there relationships period depending on how they are feeling.
Want an example?
Let's say Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez is hanging out. She has a boyfriend she would want taylor to have a boyfriend so she can have something to do with justin and if that doesn't fit into there socialy hangout like a older guy like Jake who doesn't fit into that situation then Selena well there for respond negatively about each realtionship that works out best for her relationship with justin beiber and her relationship with Taylor Swift…Wich would be a Harry Styles
Raymond B. Ellingsworth III
Posted at 9:19 AM on December 22, 2012
They say that stress can unravel your dna itself and is the underlaying cause of hospital visits. Humans eyes follow movement because back in the day if something moved it was something to eat or something that was going to eat you making you feel fear triggering stress producing adreniline in your heart coursing through your body making you faster and stronger for a short duration and after five mintues you got to eat or you was eaten.
So with the slight of hand in mind hopefully you ladies well be more forgiving of us men if we get caught glancing at your breasts and your rumple dumples because do they ever do so sway. For you bigger titted girls thoose things move when you breathe. Wich is kind of off the subject but I am pretty much free thinking writing…for the most part. Guys might want to rember that scientific fact though for future situations such as the girlfriend or wife catching you ogle or just a beatiful woman in general
Raymond B. Ellingsworth III
Posted at 9:04 AM on December 22, 2012
My understanding of would you bleed for me means to me(Ray WICH I put that in 3rd person to remind myself that I am my own person and that theese are my thoughts numerical being manifested from my being and no one elses my choices based on choices)
The body produces red blood cellls all the time wich makes new blood so the longer you live the more blood you produce they say the biggest muscle in the body is the gluteous maximus(the butt and where 35% of your punching power comes from with hooks and uppercuts if you bend the knees and let the kinetic energy flow up your body through your hand…energy has to go somewhere for the guys out there) but Carly Rae Jepsen thinks The Heart Is A Muscel (My favorite song by that little peetesa)
Wich I personaly think so to its where blod and adreniline are produced it beats all throw at your life and it's called of like the englishes war drums. The war of life and death
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State Awards Funding to Repair Cincinnatus Dam
Friday, September 27, 2013
New York State is providing money to replace eight dams across the state, a dam in the Town of Cincinnatus is among those receiving funding.
New York State is providing close to a million dollars in funding under the NY Works initiative for improvement projects to address flooding concerns.
Specific work to be performed includes: raising the height of some dams to increase storm water storage capacity; reinforcing and regrading embankments; installing rip rap to control erosion; expanding piping and adding outlet valves; and installing new culverts.
The Papish Pond Dam in Cincinnatus will receive nearly $64 thousand dollars in funding. The money will be used to replace an outlet structure, and replace embankment material to improve dam stability. Construction is scheduled to begin this month.
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The Cosmonauts to Headline The Bitter End
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The Cosmonauts Claim Responsibility, Apologize for Siberian Meteor Shower
STAR CITY, MOSCOW OBLAST – World-reknown rock band The Cosmonauts have taken full responsibility for a recent bus-sized meteor that exploded over the Ural Mountains on Friday, raining space debris over a wide swath of Siberia. "During the course of partying after our most recent show at Sullivan Hall in New York City, a sudden surge in the level of Jameson aboard Space Station Mir trigged a system malfunction, redirecting the meteor towards Earth. We vow to more carefully monitor the highly sensitive equipment aboard Space Station Mir during intensive partying excursions", said the band in a statement released Monday.
The shockwave from the meteor resulted in significant property damage and injuries to over 1,000 Siberian citizens. "We apologize for any inconveniences caused by the meteor shower", stated Cosmonaut Pharaoh of Lead Guitar Matt Prescottano. "Given the cutting-edge rock and roll research aboard Space Station Mir, however, we cannot guarantee that future cosmic impacts will be avoidable".
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With the hottest of the weeks of summer setting in and kids spending more time indoors, it's not uncommon to hear parents wishing for things other than video games and TV to engage them. Without the time constraints put on kids by school schedules and extracurricular activities, summertime is the opportune time to teach them how to cook or if they already have basic cooking skills, to test some new recipes and learn some more advanced skills.
Providing a child with a recipe book for building a collection of their own personal favorites can help them see that their time and efforts in the kitchen are valuable. Not only can they see a compilation of just how many things they are able too cook, they have control over creating their idea of a 5-star menu!
A recipe collection can take many forms from a simple file box of index cards to a file on the computer to a traditional recipe book. For this project, I started with a photo album for 4 inch x 6 inch photos. Many photo albums come with a removable clear protective sleeve that will help prevent food stains from getting on the covers. So you can have a book that's pretty (or cool if you're working with a young boy!) as well as functional.
The book I started with (I invoked my right as a woman to change my mind on the color!) had a window in the cover that was intended for displaying a photo. Instead, I layered scraps of fabric, stamped images, and buttons.
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After adhering a piece of background fabric in the window of the album, I added some stamped embellishments. The owl I used is from the Fiskars Halloween Night stamp set and I used the Green High Density Pigment ink to stamp directly onto a scrap of muslin. The 5 Inch Easy Action Micro-Tip® Titanium Scissors are perfect for cutting around the edges of the small stamped image.
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Fabric can be difficult to punch so on a project like this, one that won't be washed, using paper is perfect acceptable. These were adhered to the book cover using the Peel and Stick Fabric Fuse by first putting a small square of the adhesive on the back of the patterned paper and then punching through the 2 layers. I was unsure of my placement when I was working on adding the punches and you can see here that I need to go back and press them all down now!
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He succeeded. Coral Gables became an ideal community -- quiet, attractive, and conservative. And as time went on, efforts (some of them excessive) were made to keep it this way. Want to paint your house a different color? Check with the city first. Last year, officials even attempted to ban New Times's distribution boxes from the streets because the bright-red color didn't jibe with the city fathers' pallid dreams.
How could such uniformity support any ethnic diversity, even the culinary kind? Yet odd as it seems, behind the often predictable doors and windows of Miracle Mile and the Coral Gables business district, 26 different types of cuisines are being served. You can find Irish, Brazilian, Cuban, Greek, Italian, and French -- to name more than a few -- all within several blocks of each other. Now you can also enjoy wonderful Austrian food at Mozart Stube, the Gables's 27th addition to the ethnic dining scene.
Stube, which translates loosely into "a place to relax," is an appropriate name for this 60-seat dining room. Located in the space Didier's restaurant used to occupy, the three-month-old Mozart Stube is warm and unpretentious, qualities that upscale Gables restaurants sometimes lack. My companions and I liked this dining room immediately. Its wood-paneled walls and wooden benches -- handmade by owner-chef Harald Neuweg -- and its accents of alpine blues and greens are refreshing, particularly in a community where the buildings are dominated by Spanish-style architecture.
The interior design was not the only pleasing element of our recent Friday evening meal. From the basket of rye bread, accompanied by a traditional spiced butter, to the enormous souffle that finished our meal, every aspect of our experience spoke of an Austria I'd enjoy visiting again.
Good Austrian food is not -- pun intended -- to be taken lightly. As a result of Vienna's cosmopolitan outlook, the cuisine has drawn its influences from varied European sources, including Spain, Italy, and Holland. But it's the Hungarian/Germanic contributions and the regional dishes of the mountain provinces and small towns -- bread dumplings, smoked meats, and sausages -- that most of us recognize as typical Austrian fare. Which means that even at its Mozart Stube best, you can anticipate a robust meal.
In Miami, Bavarian cuisines (Austrian, German, and Hungarian) have not been well-represented. Most of those restaurants that do serve schnitzel and wurst do it poorly. Mozart Stube is the exception that I wish would become the rule. The wiener schnitzel here -- described on the menu as "the real McCoy," a phrase that our Eastern European waiter didn't understand -- was perfectly cooked. The crumb coating, crisp and brown, didn't cling inappropriately to the juicy meat (you should be able to insert a knife between the two). The serving size was also impressive. A butterfly-shaped cut of scalloped, pounded veal edged over the plate, oversized like a product of Lewis Carroll's imagination. An assortment of salads, including cucumbers marinated in vinegar and room-temperature potatoes dressed lightly with vinegar and bacon, accompanied the meat. Harald Neuweg (who trained at Austria's culinary institute Hotel Austria) loves this dish, and it shows.
The former owner of Old Vienna, Cafe Vienna, and Harald's offers three different schnitzel varieties on the menu; they include one topped with mushroom sauce and another sauteed with bacon, mushrooms, and onions. He has also instituted "wiener schnitzel Sunday," a four-course prix-fixe menu featuring the obvious. Eating schnitzel -- what Neuweg calls "a Sunday afternoon Austrian tradition" -- beats the American one of watching football. And the half-liters of Dinkel Acker beer are infinitely better than, say, Bud.
Veal is hardly the only item on the menu. But you won't find much besides meat. I tried the main-course Austrian pasta dish of eiernockerl, noodle-like dumplings so small they usually float in soup, and even these came flecked with bacon. They had also been endowed with butter and scrambled with eggs, an absolutely delicious combination highly reminiscent of that all-time favorite American breakfast: bacon and eggs. The addition of the tiny nuggets of pasta simply elevated it (as well as my cholesterol count) to a heartier status. The pasta came with a beautiful bibb lettuce salad that had been dressed with a sharp vinaigrette, a fresh, welcome contrast that actually enabled me to eat more of the rich noodles than I would have otherwise.
We deliberately ordered more meat in the form of the bauernschmaus, a flavorful combination of smoked ham, roast pork, and bratwurst. The thick-sliced ham was smoky rather than salty, a definite plus, and the pork was meaty and tender. Still, the highlight of the plate was the succulent bratwurst. A "frying" sausage, bratwurst should be browned before it's served, and Mozart Stube's version was a deep mahogany color. The pork sausage was slightly spicy, not overwhelmingly so, and the dominating flavors of caraway, marjoram, and nutmeg blended nicely with the meat. A rich brown gravy added moistness, and a subtle sauerkraut, tangy and soft, supported the meats from underneath. Knodel, a bread dumpling that's most often served with roast pork and sauerkraut, as it was here, covered the entire entree. But this delicacy wasn't as heavy as it looked -- in fact, it was among the lightest I've tasted. Do I need to add, however, that altogether this was a very filling meal?


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July 4 event plans underway; patriotic celebration includes food, games, live music, raft racesTicket sales begin June 1Thursday, May 31st, 2012 Issue 22, Volume 16.
This event is the sole annual fundraiser for the effort in town to remove graffiti, clean statues and murals, plant and maintain flowers and plants in the downtown area and the South Mission Road medians, and create new enhancements, such as the military memorial on East Mission Road. The purchase of an entry ticket (in advance $38/adults, $12/children age 6 to 12, free under age 5) includes a number of tickets to use on food items such as a complete chicken dinner, barbecue beef sandwich, hot dog or hamburger, pie, ice cream, beer, wine, soft drinks or other traditional 4th of July treats. "Because large donations from the county and other individual contributors are no longer being provided, and the costs of holding such an event including fireworks, continue to increase, the price of the tickets have gone up," said organizers. "It takes months of work by close to 100 volunteers, but is a wonderful event for the community in addition to raising money for all the great work the organization does. Children and families can engage in a variety of games and contests (some may require tickets, additional tickets will be offered for sale) and try their luck in the traditional "Quack Up Cup" rubber duck race where bright yellow plastic replicas can be "adopted" (for a small donation) and enter the Advertisement The Rubber Raft Regatta is expected to be one of the highlights of the event again this year. Teams of four compete for the title of being the fastest rubber raft to row across the lake. A cash prize is awarded to the winning team. Live music for the event will be provided by the MarDels. "The MarDels is San Diegos most well-known and loved nostalgia band," said organizers. "Since 1982 this popular seven-piece group has been performing dynamic renditions of the best music from the 50s to the 70s. The band has now expanded its repertoire to include select hits from the 80s and 90s, as well as swing standards from the 40s." A silent auction will feature an array of enticing choices and offer an additional way that citizens can help provide for the beautification of Fallbrook. Attendees at the event can sit on the lush, manicured lawn or purchase reserved tables. The various options can be viewed at www.fallbrookbeautification.org. Tickets go on sale June 1 for the event on the website, at the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce, Major Market, A Few of Our Favorite Things, and Dominicks Deli. If purchased the day of the event (at the door), tickets will be $43/adults. There is no entry to the event after 8 p.m. Organizers encourage local residents that prefer to celebrate at home but enjoy the fireworks show to make a donation to: Fallbrook Beautification Alliance, P.O. Box 434, Fallbrook, Calif. 92088. Donations can also be made on the website. 5 comments
$38 per adult is too expensive for most.
Less than half of what is costs to go to a padres game with good seats and twice the amount of time and fun. I do not have to drive 40 miles each way and pay for parking either. All 6 of us are going again and can't wait. If you have never gone you would appreciate the work involved and the value for so many events and food. Thanks for making the show possible even without corporate sponsorship this year. :)
Thoughts on food for vegetarians? We always have to pay the same everywhere, however rarely have a vegetarian choice. Maybe it's time for this Fallbrook event? Please.
I know that there is always a booth serving cheese pizza Kitty. However, I agree that isn't much of a choice. Perhaps a salad bar or a "make your own baked potato" booth would be a good plan for our non meat eating friends??
If you take a census of the people in my neighborhood, they would all tell you Fallbrook IS NOT the place for a fireworks show. Animal friendly Fallbrook???? Not really.
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April 4th, 2012
Infusing a North American sound with her UK roots, Roc Nation's newest artist Rita Ora collaborated with London born rapper Tinie Tempah on her debut single R.I.P., written by Toronto's own Drake. In R.I.P. Ora sings about a new love leaving his old relationship behind to be with her. The video features Ora in a variety of looks while singing in front of chopped up cars inside of what looks an abandoned warehouse.
While in the UK on tour, Drake spoke with London radio station KISS FM about his relationship with Ora, saying "One of the greatest gifts I ever received in my whole life—I wear it every day—is this ring right here. They tried to talk about this ring the other day and say I got married to somebody, which I didn't. Rita actually gave me this ring. We're dear friends."
Drizzy also opened up to the radio station about his initial intentions for Rita's latest single, saying "'R.I.P.' is a song that I originally wrote for Rihanna. Rihanna actually didn't take the song. I think it was for [Loud] and Rita expressed interest in it and anything I can do for Rita, I will do."
While I'm sure Rihanna would have made R.I.P. a hit, from the look and sound of the video below I don't think Rita will have any problem's filling her shoes at the mic.
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Comments On Jan 25, 2015:Great overall product. Since every rig is built slightly different, getting parts to fit properly can take a little work. When installing, take you time and leave everything loose until everything is in place.
Made for a great place to mount tools, spare tire, and fuels cans.
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Lose #2- "It's Chip."
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Michael DeForge is probably the universal answer for everyone when they are asked "who's the greatest cartoonist coming up today?", which is probably a weirder fact than it seems. Because there actually is a universal answer, it is kind of hard to know about DeForge and not acknowledge that the guy is amazing, whether you're coming from seeing him in Strange Tales or Vice online or are actually lucky enough to find a physical copy of his own books – no matter what it is undeniable what the guy is capable of, regardless of the reader's tastes going in. Personally, I've only seen bits and pieces of DeForge's work, and Lose #2 is the first thing of his I've read that goes past a few pages. What struck me the most when reading it wasn't just how well it was drawn (and make no mistake, it is), but how gripping "It's Chip." is as a story.
DeForge has developed the strangest tone – I've seen it compared to David Lynch but that's not right. Lynch is similarly interested in brushing the horrifying with the banal, but even at his weirdest, Lynch is easily understandable as exposing the emotions underneath the common and the everyday. Lynch is about the unconscious in a really straightforward way, and "It's Chip." really doesn't feel like it is aiming for those buttons at all. It feels like Deforge is more interested in underlining a specific series of types (he gets the way people speak down on the page, especially kids) that just happen to be suburban people, instead of make a commentary on them, Lynch-style. The story of "It's Chip." is a kind of update on an old Night Gallery trope of having a small child fall in love with something that's not just horrifying, but dangerous to the entire community surrounding the child. The update here is that instead of illustrate some kind of emotional damge in the child, Rod Serling-style, there is an almost Miyazaki-like sweetness to Chip. A sweetness, as blind as it is, that is absent in the whole of the characters he's got to interact with. Chip and his brother Reggie (who has a great line "He's that weirdo whose Dad talks all retarded because of the war or something") find a rotting body of a horse infested with giant insect-spider things, and Chip falls in love with one of the spiders that walks around with the horse's severed head on it like a hat.Instead of being about how society tries to separate Chip and his pet, it is kind of played as a real love story for Chip – with the spider-horse wandering off in the night to leave him despairing, only to find a sac full of hundreds of spider maggot babies he can love in it's place. It's like My Neighbor Totoro with devastating physical deformities or Charlotte's Web with death creeping around the edges.
Chip's love of the thing is shown to be pure and innocent. And the spider, while malicious, seems to hold the same affection for Chip, at least temporarily. But it's played for tragedy, which only adds to the sickening crawl of the story as a whole. This is as successful a horror story I've read in comics – it kind of gets at the ability of images to add up to a feeling of unease, which I associate with Otomo's Domu more than any comic I've read that's been labeled "horror". Telling a horror story in comics is always going to be reliant on how grotesque the artist can get and still be coherent, and DeForge has managed to be both consistently clear and increasingly contagious.
The control of the page DeForge has – this works the way it does because of the clockwork pacing his choice to use the 9-panel grid makes the piece read like a metronome, reliably drilling to the reader as the story takes confounding turns or shows us something scarily brand new. The pacing remains the same no matter what – if it is a conversation, a series of actions slowly delineated, or vast jump cuts. It creates a sense of mundanity even with the most disturbing drawings, but it also creates a kind of continuity so all the scenes maintain a visual tone even though the emotional tone goes through huge shifts scene-to-scene.
It isn't all cute or disturbing, either. What the most affecting about "It's Chip." is how beautiful it sometimes is. The page where the horse-spider walks through the darkness, it is simple and does narrative work. In leaving, there is more of a separation going on than a phsyical one, it falls apart in the next scene because of the separation from Chip, and it's visual annihilation is a great foreshadowing of that. But it is also just this gorgeous, lyrical moment that shows a lot of atmosphere and motion without really changing much from panel to panel. It is the key moment to the story, not the venom-fried face of Reggie or the army of spiders swarming the school, or even any scene with Chip. Here's where DeForge wins me over forever, the horse head bobbing in the night wind. Horror is rarely this pretty, and never in comics. Yeah, DeForge can make your skin crawl or your heart break. But lots of people can do that in comics. Taking your breath, that's not an everyday thing.
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Though she doesn't appear in the new prequel films, actress Liv Tyler couldn't wait to see her friend from Lord of the Rings at the premiere for The Hobbit – and smell their hair...
Stars of The Hobbit, including Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis and director Peter Jackson, braved the cold for the film's New York premiere.
It felt more like a family reunion for the cast and crew, including Liv, who starred in the Lord of the Rings trilogy – but was not part of the franchise's latest incarnation.
She said: "I'm really excited to see Fran (Walsh) and Philippa (Boyens - writers/producers) because I haven't seen them for 10 years and we email and gossip all the time.
"I can't wait to hug them and smell their hair – I know that sounds really weird – but they're my dear friends and such a big part of my life.
She added: "I can't wait to see Peter (Jackson), and I can't believe it's been so many years. I can't wait to see the film and visit Middle Earth again."
In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Bilbo (Martin Freeman) has no desire to hit the road after a company of dwarves turn up to enlist him on a quest to retake a dwarf mountain kingdom from the dragon that decimated it.
The first of three prequels to The Lord of the Rings movies, it opens in the UK on December 13.


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- Greek: chrisma, an anointing
A mixture of olive-oil and balsam, blessed by a bishop on Holy Thursday and used in administering Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, and in the consecration of churches, altars, chalices, patens, and in the blessing of bells, and baptismal water. Chrism by itself sometimes appears in art in association with certain saints.
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Dixon takes series points lead; Franchitti in hospital.
"The chicane changed the track a bit but the circuit overall is pretty good once they are able to work on the trouble spots"
Sage Karam sets the fastest lap in Indy Lights.
Leading IndyCar squad appointed fourth team for new global electric series.
Why Montoya? I wouldn't bet my money on him...not over the rest of the IndyCar field...
Juan Pablo Montoya is looking forward to making his return to open-wheel racing with the "Captain"
What started as a casual pit lane conversation between Penske Racing president Tim Cindric and Juan Pablo Montoya, has blossomed into the return of Team Penske's third full-time IZOD IndyCar Series entry.
Montoya, 37, is a native of Colombia and he is one of the most accomplished drivers in the world.
IndyCar penalizes Dixon, and hands the Kiwi a hefty fine and probation
Will Power: "I really had no idea that (Scott) Dixon was there."
Helio Castroneves continued his chase for the IZOD IndyCar Series championship by qualifying in the seventh position.
A look back at Will Power's return to the top step.
Welcome to Indiana-ville from a photographer's perspective: Sonoma pit lane and the penalty!
Castroneves enters Sunday's race 31 points ahead of Scott Dixon, who will start second.
Franchitti wins the Verizon P1 award for the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma, teammate Dixon on front row
Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon topped the time sheets on Friday for the GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma.
Will Power fourth-place finish marked his fourth top-five result of the season and it represented his best finish on a road course in 2013.
Will Power set the pace with the fastest lap of the day – 1:05.4332
Yesterday was an open-test day for the IZOD IndyCar teams but today was the official practice at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Penske Racing's Will Power set the fastest time for this weekend's Honda Indy 400.
Helio Castroneves, who has finished in the top 10 the past nine races, enjoys a 29-point advantage over Scott Dixon heading into the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio this weekend.
Helio Castroneves continues to lead the IZOD IndyCar Series standings, Will Power has led laps in 10 of the 13 races this season, which is tops among all drivers in the series.
A look back at the 2 in TO events, according to Edmund Jenks of notes from the EDJE.
Helio Castroneves, No. 3 Hitachi Dallara/Chevrolet, finished in second place position on Indy Race 2 on the streets of Toronto.
INDYCAR officials handed Dario Franchitti a 25-second penalty while he was on the podium.
A critical look back at this weekends racing.
Helio Castroneves has now produced top-10 results in eight of the 10 races this season.
The confusing qualifying at Iowa has Will Power on pole.
Helio Castroneves has produced five top-10 finishes in six races at Iowa but will be looking for his first win at the short oval on Sunday.
Helio Castroneves maintains his lead in the IZOD IndyCar Series standings as he will carry a 16-point advantage over Milwaukee race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay. Will Power improved from 12th to 11th in the series standings.
The victory marks Castroneves' fourth at TMS – the most all-time – and his 28th career win which places him 12th all-time in IndyCar history and one behind mentor and Team Penske advisor Rick Mears.
Interview with Helio Castroneves, Roger Penske, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Tony Kanaan.
Helio Castroneves is the seventh different winner in eight races this IndyCar season.
The IndyCar series has returned to oval track racing, this time in Texas.
The first of the IndyCar Series double-headers received a variety of reactions. Blogger Mark Wilkinson offers his take on the two races at the Belle Isle street circuit.
In his first race with Dale Coyne, Mike Conway grabbed his second career win by beating Ryan Hunter-Reay and Justin Wilson to the line in the first of two races at Detroit.
Helio Castroneves finishes 6th and AJ Allmendinger on 7th place position; Will Power car experienced a fuel probe issue and earned an 18th- place finish.


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There's nothing worse than going on a picnic (yup, back to the picnic theme) and finding that your nice beer or wine has mulled itself on the way. Byo bags are certainly a lot nicer than your average cool bag in both the style stakes and collapsability. Pick from the one bottle bag (in blue, black, burgandy or green) or the six pack (black or red). Made from neoprene, they'll cushion your booze nicely, have a handle for carrying, keep bottles and cans upright and when you're done they can be stored flat. £9.95 for the one bottle, £14.95 for the six pack at Firebox
Built NY lunch tote | camping gadgets | Champagne expedition kit
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Ligand Raises Ownership Limit For BVF Partners To 25% Of Shares Outstanding
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: LGND) announces that its Board of Directors has agreed to waive certain "poison pill" provisions to allow BVF Partners L.P., including its affiliates and associates ("BVF"), to increase its ownership of the Company from the previous limit of 19.99% of outstanding common stock to a new limit of 24.99%, subject to certain conditions. BVF has been Ligand's largest shareholder since the second quarter of 2011 and currently owns 17.7% of the Company's outstanding stock.
BVF's acquisition of stock, if any, is expected to be made in the open market or through direct purchases from other stockholders. Ligand has been diligent in setting the terms of the waiver for the potential benefit of all shareholders of Ligand. In summary, the conditions under which BVF will be permitted to exceed the current limit of 19.99% and own up to 24.99% of Ligand's outstanding stock include the following:
- BVF's purchases must exceed the 19.99% threshold within nine months from the date of the agreement, or the waiver for the increased ownership limit automatically terminates.
- At any time BVF holds a position in excess of 19.99% of Ligand's outstanding stock, Ligand's Board of Directors will have sole voting control over BVF-owned shares representing 15% of the company's total outstanding shares (currently approximately 3 million shares).
- BVF will not attempt to nominate any Director to the Ligand Board of Directors or undertake any other control initiative.
- Any shares purchased in excess of 19.99% of the outstanding common stock must be held by BVF for a minimum of four years or until the stock reaches $100 per share.
About Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Ligand is a biopharmaceutical company that develops and acquires assets it believes will generate royalty revenues and, under its lean corporate cost structure, produce sustainable profitability. Ligand has a diverse asset portfolio addressing the unmet medical needs of patients for a broad spectrum of diseases including thrombocytopenia, multiple myeloma, diabetes, hepatitis, muscle wasting, dyslipidemia, anemia and osteoporosis. Ligand's Captisol platform technology is a patent-protected, chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. Ligand has established multiple alliances with the world's leading pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Pfizer, Baxter International, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene, Lundbeck Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., Spectrum Pharmaceuticals and The Medicines Company. Please visit www.captisol.com for more information on Captisol or www.ligand.com for more information on Ligand.
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Sep 05, 2012, 09:20 AM | |
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The official MrRCSound system thread.
Welcome to the official thread for discussing MrRCSound sound generator units. The purpose of the thread is to try and allow me to answer questions, and to help each other with installs and setups of the sound systems. Please feel free to post any videos, pictures or information you have about the sound system, how it is working for you, hints, tips suggestions, etc
I will be putting up some videos shortly, and encourage you all to do the same.
Mods, if this is the wrong location, please feel free to move it and let me know. Andrew http://www.mrrcsound.com |
Sep 05, 2012, 10:43 AM | |
Hey guys,
my system (Budget B) is on the way and as soon as I have it (might be a few days because it ships from the US to Germany), I will make a few comparison vids with them. I have tinkered with combinations of different Kemo amplifiers and Visaton speakers - using the same sound module brick that MrRCSound uses in their units - in the past and found them either too large/heavy/bulgy or too quiet. Tests with resonating sound boxes improved the sound of the speakers, but ate up a lot of space and were too large most of the time. It seems that with these systems, a balanced and good compromise between the above mentioned factors has been found and I am looking forward to seeing how they perform. Will report back when I get the system! Best wishes, Bernhard |
Sep 05, 2012, 10:58 AM | |
Check out the video channel on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrRCflying?feature=watch Cheers, Bernhard |
Sep 05, 2012, 01:50 PM | |
Andrew, any chance you can work up a multi engine sound option soon?..
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Sep 05, 2012, 01:58 PM | |
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I see a few of my customers have already commented. Great! Guys, I know some of you have done videos and such. Put them up here!
Now for those of you who do not know what my product is, or what it does, here is some history and some explinations. I started out about a year ago now looking at systems that would produce a decent sound for an electric airplane. To give it that real plane sound. The systems I found on the market are great, but for me an average pilot, they were quite expensive, large and heavy. Most of the planes I fly are 1400mm class or so. The systems out there would not readily adapt to them, at least not without major overhall. Well, needless to say I started working on a design of my own. Things progressed from there, and I now have a patent pending on my design. I do not like to compare my systems with others out there. I think each one has it's benifits and downfalls, but they should stand on thier own for what they are. Some of the features of my systems, that I feel are important are: 1. Customer Service - I am willing to work with customers before and after the sale 2. Mobility- the ability to move the sound system from plane to plane 3. Value per plane - becuase of the mobility of the system, value per plane goes way up I designed the system from the begining with the average joe flier in mind, and am trying to keep the price points at a decent level. The light weight and small size of the systems allows them to be used in 1200mm -1600mm planes with ease, and I also have a system for smaller planes, and larger ones. I am also working on some product for the future. I will give more info here as the time comes. So, with all that being said, let's start the discussions. Andrew http://www.mrrcsound.com |
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The system seems to cause some interferance with 72mhz. I had glitching on one of my planes do to it. That is why I reccomed 2.4Ghz only. In some cases the sound unit will glitch if the ESC/BEC does not have a ferrite choke on it, but I have not had the sound unit effect the flight components at all on 2.4. A choke may clean it up, but I have not tested it yet. Andrew http://www.mrrcsound.com |
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The Orlando Magic are being patient with their rebuild, which is a good sign for Magic fans (even if they are growing restless). It's going to take time for the Magic to construct a roster that mirrors anything like the one that made them title contenders in the late-2000's and they know that.
It's why they traded Dwight Howard for a myriad of young players and draft picks, and it's why they're okay with losing a ton of games right now. After all, all those losses bring higher odds of getting better draft picks, as well as the opportunity for those young players to have free reign on the court. The hope is that the combination of all of those factors will pay off in the long run.
For that reason, though, the signing of Channing Frye this summer, an eight-year veteran, to a four-year, $32 million contract (with all four years guaranteed) seemed a little out of character for GM Rob Hennigan.
At 31 years of age, Frye is on the fringe of his prime. After sitting out a season as a result of an enlarged heart that put his career in jeopardy, Frye bounced back in a big way with the Phoenix Suns in 2013-14, averaging 11.1 points and 5.1 rebounds per game while sporting a 13.2 PER and .555 True Shooting percentage.
He was one of the better stretch fours in the NBA, thanks to him shooting 37.0 percent from 3-point range last season, and his perimeter-based game shouldn't change drastically over the next few years — a promising sign given his age.
However, despite that, the main concern is that a four-year deal will take him into his mid-30s, making him stick out like a sore thumb on a roster whose average age is currently 25 years old. He's the highest paid player on the roster (for now), and he is certainly not a No. 1 option on a playoff team.
Meanwhile, the Magic just drafted Aaron Gordon with the fourth overall pick in the 2014 draft, and they are hoping he develops into a franchise player in the future. However, Gordon joins a team that is stockpiling forwards, one that features up-and-comers like Tobias Harris, Kyle O'Quinn, and Maurice Harkless (not to mention Andrew Nicholson). There won't be an abundance of minutes going around. Likewise, Frye also eats into a good chunk of their salary cap over the next few seasons, too, which could hurt them if they choose to re-sign Nikola Vucevic and Harris.
Nevertheless, the signing of Frye is more than just basketball and the seven figures that show up in the books. Frye brings leadership to a locker room that is in need of some molding. Here's what Hennigan said in an article on the Orlando Sentinel:
"First and foremost, his experience and what he's able to add to the team from that perspective is very important to us. He's played in the league a long time. As we did a lot of research on him and got to know him, Channing's someone who takes a lot of pride in leading."
To add to that, any concerns about his position can be put to bed knowing that, while Frye started at the power forward spot for the Suns, he spent 38 percent of his minutes last season as a center, per 82games.com. He will, therefore, be able to play both positions for the Magic, which will enable the likes of Harris and Gordon to alternate between playing the three and four. He'll also be a good backup to Vucevic at the center spot, bringing a different dimension offensively while holding his own on the other end of the court.
Most importantly, though, Frye should be a perfect complement alongside Elfrid Payton, Victor Oladipo, and Gordon, all of whom struggle greatly to space the floor.
Phoenix's offensive rating when Frye was on the bench last season was 102.5, yet that elevated to 110.4 when he was on the court, per NBA.com. It's the equivalent of a bottom-five offense turning into an elite one. While Frye isn't an elite shooter from beyond the arc — he's shooting 38.5 percent for his career, which is great but not quite elite — his threat alone drew bigs out of the paint for the Suns, which opened up the floor tremendously for their guards. The Suns ranked near the top of the NBA in points scored off of drives, and Frye's presence played a big role in that success.
For the Magic, 57.0 percent of their offense last season was made up of pick-and-rolls, spot-ups, and transition opportunities combined, per Synergy Sports. All of which is Frye's bread-and-butter, so he shouldn't have an issue settling into the team's system and he is expected to have a similar impact.
In an interview with Zach Lowe of Grantland, Goran Dragic had nothing but praise for Frye. When asked about the difference between the 2012-13 season — the one Frye sat out — and 2013-2014, Dragic said:
"It's a huge difference from […] when Channing was out. Everybody was so much inside the paint, that you could not create. You could not get to the inside. And right now, it's so much easier. They're so afraid he's going to knock down shots."
The Magic are certainly better with Frye on the team, but he's not someone who will propel them into playoff contenders. The Magic ranked second-to-last in offensive efficiency last season, scoring 101.7 points per 100 possessions and finished 19th in 3-point percentage. Frye isn't going to solve those offensive problems himself, but he'll help. More importantly, his presence should also make a tremendous difference to the development of Payton, Oladipo, and Gordon, all of whom are considered to be the pillars of the franchise moving forward.
Is the price tag a little too much for Frye? Maybe, but the Magic had to overpay him, even slightly, to lure him away from Phoenix and their training staff mafia, and they had plenty of cap room to make it work. Not only that, but his contract expires before Oladipo, Payton, and Gordon are due for their extensions. In addition, Frye's salary declines every year, starting at $8,579,088 in 2014-15 and ending at $7,420,912 in 2017-2018, per Sham Sports. That opens up cap space for other players.
The Magic only have $55.5 million committed to their roster this season, anyway, which is right below the $56.7 million salary floor, and they only have $33.9 million tied up in their roster in 2015-16. They have plenty of cap room to work with and signing Frye to this contract doesn't hurt them in any way. If things do go sour, Frye's contract is very moveable and he's someone the Magic should get decent return on.
If all goes to plan, though, Frye should accelerate the development of the young players by providing them with some much needed outside shooting and steer the squad in the right direction by being a leader in the locker room. That way, the Magic can maximize their potential in years to come.


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I know this post is kind of out of the norm, but what the hell, I figured I would let it fly. Today I was thinking a lot about business and what makes a company successful. I was thinking specifically about marketing and I came up with an interesting scenario:
Say you had money to invest and you had to pick one of these companies to invest in. Both companies are in new industries that have pretty good potential for growth. Which one would you pick?
The above facts are set in stone. You can't say you would change their marketing strategy or improve their product. You had to pick one of the companies given the current facts above, with no assumptions as to what can or might happen in the future.
I am also aware that if you were actually investing into a company you would require much more information, and there are a number of factors that would sway your decision. But setting that all aside, and you had to pick one right now given the above information, which one would you pick?
#2 – If you can't be good, you have to be "there".
Have you ever bought from a bad sales person? Most likely because he/she was "there".
Credit – David Knox
Neither if those facts are set in stone.
Definitely the second one. This is why early microsoft shareholders are so rich today ;)
Selling product is all about awareness. You could have the best of something but if no one knows about it, you are not going to sell much. It would always be nice to have the best product, but given how quickly technology changes these days, odds are the product will need to go through numerous iterations in the future, giving you the opportunity to improve on it. Marketing however is much harder to achieve. Gravis had probably the best example with MSFT. Their products while clearly inferior at this point to many of their competitors, has not dramatically hurt them, since they are so incredibly powerful at getting word out that they exist.
Depends on the product. If it's in an industry where viral growth is likely to help spread the word about the product, a marketing strategy isn't as important. But if no one finds out about your product, it doesn't matter how good it is.
If the marketing weakness in the first company would persist for a very long period of time, I would rather choose the second company.
I believe most people would prefer to buy an average product if the price compensates for the lower quality. So an effective marketing strategy would expose the product to a large amount of people. This would definitely increase sales, and as long as the price stays reasonable the company would prove to be a good investment.
If you have a great product, but nobody knows about it: how could you ever sell it? Even if your few clients are satisfied, it would take a very long time until you start to see some profit from your investment. This could be good as a long-term investement, but if there's no hopes of reaching the masses with some good marketing (which there isn't), then product won't stay afloat for long as other competitors enter the game with similar quality but better marketing.
#2 obviously. #1 has only a chance if #2 has an exceptionally bad product and people start actively searching for alternatives.
Business acumen and integrity don't often mix. To feel good about my efforts, I'd have to absolutely be in love with a company/product first, and use that as a motivator for investment/evangelism.
Odd as it may be, I'd go with the "best product" of the two.
There's two sides to marketing. Excellent product marketing will ensure you have a deep understanding of your customer's needs and problems. With this awareness the product will become the best.


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Small schools banding together
By JUDY SHERARD
PALCO -- Keeping the school district's doors open is personal for Palco USD 269 Board of Education President Tom Benoit.
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PALCO -- Keeping the school district's doors open is personal for Palco USD 269 Board of Education President Tom Benoit.
Benoit has served on the board off and on for more than 20 years.
"Our biggest deal is to keep the quality of life for rural Kansas going -- if we can keep our schools open," Benoit said. "I'm not saying there's not a good quality of life in Wichita or Kansas City, but we have a different type of quality of life out here, and we want to promote that and keep it going."
Local schools are a big part of that quality of life, and a number of area districts belong to Schools for Quality Education, an organization whose main purpose is to preserve small schools, said Larry Lysell, USD 269 superintendent and pre-K to grade 5 principal.
Lysell, in his first year at Palco, has been a superintendent for 20 years, and in education for 40 years.
Benoit is president elect of the SQE board, and Lysell was elected to serve as a regional representative on the board.
Benoit said he's ready "to do some testifying at the state level for financing, and keep our schools open and keep things moving for us."
About 100 Kansas school districts belong to SQE, and the term "small" is relative. Member schools' enrollment range from 80 students to more than 1,000 students, but the majority have 150 to 500 students, Lysell said.
The Palco district's enrollment is 145 pre-K to grade 12 students, an increase of nine students from last year.
"If people will stay with us, we can have a district here for a long time," Lysell said.
USD 269 pays $325 a year to belong to the organization.
"It's just very reasonable," Lysell said.
Whatever their size, the school districts have some issues in common, with funding at or near the top of the list.
"We're constantly campaigning to get back to the former level" of funding, Benoit said. "If they (Legislature) would fund the formula the way it's built right now, it works real well, but the senators and representatives are having a lot of trouble wanting to finance it that way."
"That amount should be $4,433, and it's $3,838, so we feel it's considerably underfunded," Lysell said.
School funding isn't the organization's only issue. It also takes a stand on consolidation.
"We want to keep consolidation in the hands of the people that it affects," Benoit said.
Rather than have students ride the bus to larger schools, "we want to give them all the opportunities out here that the larger school districts away from us have," he said.
To get their united voice heard, SQE has two part time lobbyists to represent its interests in Topeka.
The lobbyists take advice from the SQE board. Larger members benefit as well as small schools, Benoit said.
"I think it's worked real well. It's money well spent," he said.
The organization also has a program that allows a group of students to go to Topeka during the legislative session and talk to their legislators.
"These legislators really like talking to kids," Benoit said. "These kids are smart. They really know what's going on out here."
"I don't have kids in school any more, but I got grandkids coming," Benoit said.
Since his children tell him they'd like to move back some day, "I want to see my grandkids go to school here."