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Owner and educator Dr. Chad Laurence is in private family practice at Corrective Chiropractic in Hockessin. After earning his doctorate from Life University of Chiropractic in Marietta, Ga., Dr. Laurence began practicing chiropractic in 2000. Before his chiropractic studies, Dr. Laurence received a BS degree in Microbiology from Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Laurence is one of only two doctors in Delaware who is certified in Chiropractic Biophysics, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the CBP technique. With a focus on chiropractic, structural spinal correction, nutrition, education, specific training, and massage therapy, Dr. Laurence is able to relieve symptoms for individuals suffering with physical problems, including neck and low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, arthritis, and intestinal difficulties. His approach is also particularly successful at helping children with chronic ear infections, asthma, allergies, ADD/ADHD, bed-wetting issues, colic and immune system disorders. Dr. Laurence is an experienced presenter who has been invited to speak in a variety of venues. He has published articles in regional health publications and area newspapers. Dr. Laurence and Corrective Chiropractic have been voted "Best Chiropractor in Delaware" by readers of several local newspapers. He currently serves on the boards of the Southern Chester County Chamber of Commerce, Arthritis Foundation of Delaware, and is a long-standing member of Longwood Rotary. For more information about Dr. Laurence or Chiropractic Biophysics (CBP), call Corrective Chiropractic at (302) 234-1115 or visit www.correctivechiro.net.
After years of lingering glances (and a few stolen kisses), The Vampire Diaries' Elena and Damon are finally together. But is this a good thing?
While fans have been divided since Day One over whether Elena should be with Damon or his brother Stefan, we here at TVGuide.com have also been divided. There's no denying our love for both Salvatores, but while some of us (aka Robyn) are thrilled Team Delena has finally come to fruition, others (aka Sadie) believe Damon is better off alone. Here are our arguments for both sides of the equation.
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Sadie Says: Damon deserves better Though Elena's feelings for Damon might be real, there's no denying part of her still loves Stefan. A love that strong doesn't just disappear overnight (and remember, it wasn't too long ago that Elena broke Damon's heart after choosing Stefan over him). Damon would give anything for Elena, but can you really say she'd do the same for him? Damon deserves someone that loves him only and doesn't waver in her affections - something Elena can never provide. When it comes right down to it, Damon's just too good for her.Robyn Says: Their chemistry can't be denied!Damon hasn't been a saint and in many ways intentionally or subconsciously drove Elena away from him because he felt she was too good for him. For a guy who jumps in and out of women's beds, he needs a girl to provide him with stability and show him that he's worthy of love. And while she has often chosen Stefan over him, there's a reason she keeps coming back despite Damon not being the safe choice
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Sadie Says: Elena needs to live for herself Elena is constantly the pawn in someone else's game, so she, more than anyone, deserves the autonomy vampirism can bring. But instead of discovering her independence, Elena found herself sired to Damon. I had hoped becoming a vampire would be Elena's breakout opportunity to go after what she truly wants, but now she can't separate her desires from Damon's will. Destiny's Child was right when they said, "Ladies, it ain't easy bein' independent," but Elena at least deserves a chance to try!Robyn Says: Damon's support makes Elena stronger ... and cooler!Damon was the only one urging her to let herself give into vampirism - good, bad and ugly. It's not his fault that her wants and desires lead her back to him. In fact, Damon might be the first person to truly allow Elena to be herself whereas everyone else is constantly judging her actions. With him by her side, she's as independent as we've ever seen her. Besides, have you ever seen her have as much fun as she's had in the last two episodes?
Sadie Says: Damon's driving a wedge between Elena and Caroline Caroline hasn't always been my favorite character, but over the seasons she's grown into the most sensible and sweet of Mystic Fall's supernatural squad. That's why it breaks my heart to see Damon come between Elena and her best friend (and ruin a completely pleasant girls night!). While Caroline can be a little harsh, she's just trying to protect Elena from the same pain and heartache Damon put her through years ago. Plus, isn't there a rule in the girl code about ho's before bros (not to mention, against dating your BFF's ex)?Robyn Says: Damon is not responsible for maintaining Elena's friendshipsI'll be the first to say how much I love Caroline, but the girl has a grudge against Damon that she'll never let go of. Besides, Elena and Damon's relationship has led Caroline and Stefan to become even closer, which is a friendship I'm so happy to see be explored. And rules about dating friends' exes certainly don't apply to Vampire Diaries, especially Caroline since she's dated the most guys in the group.Mega Buzz: Secret love on Bones, a Vampire death and a Nashville proposal
Sadie Says: The sire bond makes girls crazy! The bond might not change how you feel, but that doesn't mean it's void of serious consequences. After Damon ditched her, Charlotte literally counted every brick on every building in all of New Orleans - for 70 years! But because it was all to "make Damon happy," Charlotte didn't regret it one bit. And while Damon would never treat Elena's free will so flippantly, we've already seen how easily Damon can hurt her. "She almost died to make you happy!" Stefan pointed out, once they discovered Damon's the reason Elena couldn't drink from a blood bag. Call me old-fashioned, but that does not sound like the foundation of a healthy relationship!Robyn Says: Damon has good intentions despite the sire bond's powerCharlotte was crazy from Day One, and in Damon's defense, he thought he freed her of the bond with the fake spell. And in terms of Elena, this all happened before he was aware that she was sired to him. Even Stefan admitted that Damon loves her as much as he does and when it comes down to it will always do right by her, even if it means letting her goWho's the sexiest Vampire Diaries star?
Sadie Says: Dating brothers is weirdI know it's television and the Salvatores have always had a weird relationship when it comes to women, but seriously: dating brothers is never OK. Life is not The Family Stone. Imagine the holidays, the family dinners - how could they not be awkward? And didn't Katherine teach Stefan and Damon anything? Sharing is good, but not when it comes to girlfriends!Robyn Says: The sibling conflict drives the showOK, fine, but the brotherhood is the foundation of the show and is tested most when it involves love. So without them going after the same person, perhaps we'd never see just how deep their love - and sometimes hatred - for each other goes, and without that, the show would be boring.
Sadie Says: Damon loves Elena a little too much The real problem with Damon isn't that he's a "psychopath narcissist" - it's that his heart is too big! All Elena wants is for her loved ones to live long and happy lives, but Damon doesn't care about Elena's wishes as long as he gets what he wants - her. When Elena and Matt were drowning after the crash, Stefan listened to Elena's pleads to save Matt first because he understood that was the only way to make Elena happy. Damon, on the other hand, would kill anyone - even one of Elena's best friends - to save her life. Though he's much more sensitive, Damon's still just as selfish as when we met him in Season 1.Robyn Says: Is there such a thing as too much love?At the end of the day, I'd rather be with a person who loves me too much rather than not enough and it's a positive thing that the self-proclaimed selfish vampire would do anything in the world for this girl. And can you not make the same argument about Stefan? If he didn't fall for her so hard, he would've been OK to leave her and her friends alone, never involving them in the supernatural world within Mystic Falls.
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Country Corner Farm Market & Pumpkin Patch
Farm, Fresh, Fun! Explore acres of pumpkins, a giant interactive adventure corn maze, farm-fresh produce, a petting zoo, craft barn, tree house and playground. Hayrack and pony rides, Mine for gems, ride the famous cow train. Special event weekends and concessions are also offered.U-pick pumpkins, interactive adventure corn maze and flashlight maze available in month of October. Ample parking and a nominal charge for activities. May through September 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Month of October Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and S
Ski Snowstar Winter Sports Park
Minutes from the Quad Cities. Easy access from I-80, I-74 and I-280. Enjoy skiing, snowboarding, tubing, ski lifts, restaurant and complete ski and board rentals. Skiing available every night. Features 100% snow-making equipment as well. Great winter fun for the entire family!.
The Timber Campground, Inc.
Large mature trees covering 50 acres surrounds a 5 acre lake for you to unwind in nature's glory. Activities for all ages, swim, fish, play horseshoes, volleyball or swing at the playground. 30 and 50 amp sites all with water and electric hookup. Pull through and tent sites are available.
Niabi Zoo
This zoo located near the Quad Cities houses more than 900 exotic animals. See the animal exhibits on foot or hop aboard the Mel McKay Express, a miniature replica of an old steam engine that takes visitors around the park. Rise and shine with the wild things during Breakfast With the Animals, held on select Saturdays.
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American Discovery Trail
What a way to travel - about 75 miles, from one major river to another (the Illinois and the Mississippi), all on one newly built trail. The Hennepin Parkway State Trail (a linear state park) offers surcease from the flat, treeless Illinois prairie with a lock-strewn straight course of water and a green tunnel over the old tow path of a canal that was obsolete before it was completed. Quaint towns lie nearby, camping spaces (usually primitive) abound, and history is there for the dipping of your fingers in the water. At Sheffield, a comprehensive trail museum more than fills the gaps in your experience of a very unique way to travel through the heart of America.
Geneseo Campground
Located 4 miles north of I-80 at exit 19 and adjacent to the historic Hennepin Canal. Shady, quiet camping in the midst of nature's wonders. Spend a night in one of our four rustic cabins. Try the Yurt Accomodations. It is 20 foot diameter, and sleeps 8. It has one queen bed and 2 bunk beds with a full on bottom and twin on top Rent a canoe or kayak and relax on historic Hennepin Canal. Bring you own bicycle or simply walk to enjoy the recreational trail along the Hennepin Canal. The town of Geneseo has great Victorian homes with welcoming porches. In additional to the RV camp sites, there are 12 tent sites available. Internet services on site.
Channel Cat Water Taxi
Channel Cat makes stops between five docks in the Quad Cities area. Each boat accommodates 47 people and seven bicycles. The Channel Cat offers a wonderful opportunity to get out on the mighty Mississippi River and see it up close. You can get on and get off at the various docks and enjoy nearby attractions and riverfront bike trails. One fare is good all day!
Celebration River Cruises
Hop aboard the family-owned Celebration Belle riverboat that cruises the mighty Mississippi River. Operating April through October, the 800-passenger riverboat offers a variety of cruises, ranging from sightseeing tours to theme cruises such as Big Band and fall foliage, captain's dinner and dance cruises, and overnight excursions.
Adventure Quest of the Quad Cities
Adventure Quest of the Quad Cities is the perfect for fun-filled outdoor adventures. This 54-acre facility is located just off 1-80 & I-88 near East Moline IL. Make your reservations today and enjoy zip lines, panning for gems, hay rack rides, and wonderful hiking trails. This facility is also available for parties and corporate team building. An elegantly decorated 8,000 square foot banquet facility with an extensive menu is available. The facility also offers interactive games, inflatables, dunk tanks, water slides, laser tag, and more. Check out these annual fall events that include Pumpkin Festival the last weekend in September and the QC Haunted Forest every Friday & Saturday in October.
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Great River Trail
The Great River Trail is a breathtaking journey along 60 miles of the Mississippi River. The route is a mixture of paved rail-trail, small-town sidewalks, dedicated bike lanes on the street and a stretch of road shoulder along the Great River Road. The Great River Trail begins in Savanna and travels south through many small river towns with traditions still steeped in the quintessential culture of the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi River Visitor Center
The visitor center overlooks Lock & Dam 15 on Arsenal Island. See the observation deck - a great spot for viewing bald eagles in the winter and for watching barges lock through on their way up and down the mighty Mississippi River. Enjoy exhibits on the Mississippi River and a gift shop. Guided tours are available of the Lock & Dam system on Saturdays and Sundays from Memorial Day through Labor Day at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tour Reservations are required!
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Quad City Botanical Center
Rock Island's Quad City Botanical Center houses exotic tropical flowers, a 14-foot waterfall and reflecting pools with koi. Seasonal attractions include a butterfly garden and the Garden Train Railway exhibit. The Botanical Center also regularly hosts art exhibitions and special events for families.
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Whitewater Junction - Aquatic Park
Whitewater Junction is a railroad-themed aquatic facility. Two water slides, spray toys, zero depth edge and shallow water play area.
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Quad City KOA at Camelot
Situated on 140 acres of lakes, trees and grass. Excellent fishing for bass, crappie, catfish (no license required). Rental boats, bicycles, heated pool, water playground.
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Black Hawk State Historic Site
Wonderful for families, friends for outdoor recreation. Additionally, the Watch Tower Lodge has hosted thousands of wedding receptions and offers a lovely setting in the beautiful historic park. This wooded, steeply rolling 208-acre tract, borders the Rock River in the city of Rock Island. Prehistoric Indians and 19th-Century settlers made homes here, but the area is most closely identified with the Sauk nation and its great warrior, Black Hawk. Voted one of the "7 Wonders of Illinois," this pristine park offers beautiful trails for hiking and walking only. Picnic areas are also available. While at the park be sure to visit the Watch Tower Lodge that houses a large reception area and the John Hauberg Indian Museum. The museum features Sauk and Meskwaki Native American Indian artifacts and displays depicting the four seasons and life of these tribes. A new exhibit tells the story of the Sauk and Meskwaki—how they came to live in the Quad City area, why they no longer live here, and, as the piece de resistance, a four-by-eight-foot scale model of the city of Saukenuk one of the largest Native American Indian settlements in the United States.
CITY:Rock Island
Longview Park
Park provides sledding and ice skating in the winter, gardens, greenhouse, tennis, walking trails, shelter and pool in summer.
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Highland Springs Golf Course
This 18-hole championship golf course has a beautiful layout, with mature trees, ravines, huge greens, ponds and natural areas. There's also a driving range, full-service pro shop and a snack bar.
CITY:Rock Island
Quad Cities CVB Bike Rentals
Bike rentals through the Quad Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau are available at their Visitor Center located at 1601 River Drive, Suite 110 in Moline. Bikes are available in a variety of sizes and come with locks and helmets. They also offer Kiddie Trailers to hook on the back of adult bikes for toddlers and small bikes that can be attached to the adult bike for children still needing training wheels. Rentals are available from Memorial Day through October. Rent by the day or by the hour.
CITY:Rock Island
Backwater Gamblers Water Ski Shows
Enjoy this professional water ski team as they perform on the Rock River with jumps, human pyramids and more. Great fun for all ages and admission is free. Shows are offered every Wednesday and Sunday from Memorial Day through Labor Day beginning at 6:30pm.
CITY:Rock Island
Schwiebert Riverfront Park
Located along the Mississippi River in the downtown Rock Island Arts & Entertainment District, this park offers spectacular views of the Mississippi River, an open-air stage, interactive fountain, observation shelter, waterfront promenade, bike trail and digital playgrounds (the first installation of its kind in the Midwest). The park is also available for rental for weddings, receptions and special events.
CITY:Rock Island
Whitewater Junction
Kids will love this railroad themed aquatic center featuring a spiral slide, tube slide, water geysers and playful water features. Open during the summer months 7 days a week, Whitewater Junction is located inside the lovely Longview Park in Rock Island, Illinois.
CITY:Rock Island
Mississippi River Trail
Situated in Sunset Park in Rock Island is the Mississippi River Trail. Listed as a difficult trial, mainly due to its length and many portions not protected by shade, this asphalt trail hugs the bank of the river as you move through parks, industrial sections, downtown business districts and small river towns.
CITY:Rock Island
Saukie Golf Course
This golf course is a stunning example of a golf course designed from the early part of the 20th century. Saukie was built in 1927 (opened in 1928) and designed by Thomas Bendelow. This public course is considered to be an "executive length" course and is a classic example of a short course that will challenge every golfer. Tee times available 6 a.m to 6 p.m.
CITY:Rock Island
Fyre Lake Golf Club
Opening April 1, 2013, this Nicklaus Design championship golf course features fairways that wind through a hardwood forest in a scenic lakefront setting. The public is welcome to tee off at this Quad Cities-area course that offers challenges for golfers of all levels. Brush up your skills with a lesson from the professional teaching staff.


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Not very interesting, but I'm curious whether imagination will release some kind of GPU Compute optimized MIPS/PowerVR SoC at 16nm FinFET next year. Should be Imagination's first real "owned" MIPS core. The rest were just in the pipeline so far. A serious try at a MIPS core on the latest process node would be interesting to see.
And that's if Apple doesn't buy Imagination by then. CPUs and GPUs are going to become a lot more integrated in the future, to squeeze all that computer performance out of them, and make instructions flow easier from one to the other. So I don't think Apple will be able to just keep buying GPU parts from Imagination. Either they start building their own, which seems a lot harder to do, or they buy Imagination, for which they probably don't even need to pay more than $1 billion.
If they do buy them, I hope they least put MIPS back into the market, rather than kill it, since they have no need for it themselves. Imagination probably has the best shot (even if it's not a huge one) at resurrecting MIPS. So it will probably die anyway if they don't keep building MIPS cores.


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Based on work in Waldorf kindergartens, these six books provide invaluable material for working with young children and will be useful for Waldorf teachers, home schoolers, and parents alike.
First published more than twenty years ago, these books are in their third edition, now reedited and with much new material added. In addition, the music has been comprehensively edited, with most songs now in the scale of D-pentatonic, which is particularly suited to pentatonic lyres and may be played on any traditional seven-note or twelve-note instrument. Each volume includes an enlightening introduction by Jennifer Aulie on music in the "mood of the fifth."
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Magnum & IdeasTap Photographic Award: The Finalists
November 4, 2013
by London Office
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Last week Magnum Photos and IdeasTap announced the 9 finalists of its annual Photographic Award, at a reception and exhibition hosted by Mother.
This year's judging panel, chaired by IdeasTap chairman Peter De Haan, included: Stuart Franklin, Magnum photographer; Ben Edwards, photographer and MA Photojournalism course leader at the University of Westminster; Amy Christian, Stories, Film and Photography Project Manager at Oxfam; Fiona Rogers, Cultural and Education Manager at Magnum Photos and Emma Bowkett, Photo Editor at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine.
The judges reviewed both exhibition edits and 'dream project' briefs submitted by the 18 shortlisted photographers, before choosing which three from each age group would go through to the next round.
Each finalist now receives £1,500 to shoot their dream project. They will also create a Magnum in Motion multimedia essay and attend a second mentoring session with a Magnum photographer. Ultimately, one winner from each age group will be awarded a £5,000 prize and the two younger photographers will do paid internships with Magnum Photos.
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Written by on February 1, 1997 How To Install A Six-Point Rollbar At HomeThe theme of Car Craft's project Cheap Street Chevelle has been simple: Build a fairly potent street machine on a real world budget using real world parts. We've skipped the aluminum cylinder blocks, big ol' honking 14-71 superchargers and clutchless Pro Stock-style manual transmissions. What we did opt for is a low-buck iron-block 355 V8 with a hydraulic camshaft, fed by a 750 Quadrajet carb. A TH350 automatic transmission, mild 3.73:1 gears, 3000-stall converter and Hotchkis rear suspension get the power to the ground. So far, Cheap Street has run a best "all engine" quarter-mile pass of 13.18 at 100.23 mph and 12.20s with a 125hp dose of NOS Super Power Shot nitrous oxide injection. For all of our testing, the Chevelle has been powered by pump gasoline, run through full exhaust and driven to and from the track.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News - Text and video of speech delivered at UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Google in Silicon Valley
Today I kicked off the UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Googleplex (the company's headquarters) in Silicon Valley.
The following is the text (The link takes you to Scribd, where you can print out the speech. I have also attached it below. I apologize for any inconvenience people have had trying to access my presentation) of my speech. You can also see a video of my presentation (the keynote slides, with my voiceover) at Vimeo. Here is a link to the keynote slides themselves.
The text of the speech contained two errors. One was a typo: The Rocky launched its first Web site on March 1, 1996, not 2006. The second was due to my faulty memory. Colorado has 64 counties, not 65 as I first reported.
Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News
Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I hope by sharing what I learned from my experience as editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News I can help get this conference off to a good start. Recently, when I asked my former colleagues at the paper for reflections on their experience since its closure, Bernie Lincicome, a fine sports columnist, wrote me back: "I feel like the cadaver being asked by the funeral director, how did you like the flowers?" I'm not sure what that makes this talk. Maybe the funeral director being asked to perform his own autopsy and offer guidance from the other side on how to save the lives of others suffering the same malady.
First, a little history: The Rocky Mountain News was Colorado's oldest newspaper, founded in 1859 when Denver was little more than a hamlet of log cabins. The paper went on to cover the news in three centuries, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. It became so much a part of the fabric of Colorado that many readers called it "My Rocky," a term of endearment rare for any newspaper. It was owned for more than 80 years by a deep-pocketed company, E.W. Scripps, that still today is controlled by the founding family.
Scripps started as a newspaper company, but navigated through the advent of radio, TV and cable - starting successful new media businesses each time. In the '90s, after going public, Scripps innovated with its free cash flow and hit a home run building lifestyle cable networks, including HGTV and the Food Network, now worth more than $5 billion.
So some pretty smart people were at the top of the company that owned the Rocky Mountain News. Yet none of that was enough for the Rocky to survive in the Internet era. The Rocky published its final edition on Feb. 27 of this year, the first major paper to shut its doors after the economic crash of the fall of 2008.
On the day the closure was announced, Scripps CEO Rich Boehne told the staff assembled in the newsroom: "You are the model of what a great newspaper should be. It's a tragedy for the industry that you disappear." He was talking to a staff that since 2000 had won four Pulitzer Prizes, a total topped by just six other newspapers in that same period. And the staff knew that from a circulation standpoint, when the papers competed head to head on weekdays, the Rocky came out on top.
So, why did the Rocky disappear? Looking back now on that difficult day, the word that stands out in Boehne's statement is "newspaper." As one former Scripps executive told me in talking about what has happened to the newspaper industry, words that I think apply to the Rocky, "We had all the advantages and let it slip away. We couldn't give up the idea that we were newspaper companies."
Well, Scripps isn't a newspaper company anymore in what was its biggest market. And today I'm going to walk you through the lessons I think might be taken from its largest paper's failure. While this is going to be a newspaper-centric talk, I believe you'll find that the lessons apply broadly across radio, TV, magazines and other media, too.
But before I subject the past to scrutiny, you need to know I don't exempt myself from criticism. I was the top editorial person for the Rocky's final 11 years and part of the business leadership team. I bear my own share of responsibility. It's easy when looking back to see things that might seem obvious to us today, but it was a lot more difficult when we were in the thick of the fight, and most of the revenue growth and almost the total revenue pie came from the main newspaper product. That said, the first lesson I hope people who care about the future of local news take from the Rocky's experience is this: Being a "great newspaper" isn't enough in the Internet era. You have to know what business you're in. We thought we were in the newspaper business. Working on the Web, you need to think of now and forever. At a newspaper, people largely think about tomorrow. Thinking about tomorrow isn't enough anymore. Consumers today want services when, where and how they want them, and they want to be able to participate, not just receive.
Look, it's understandable that we thought we were in the newspaper business. In the 1990s, Denver was the site of what was sometimes called America's last great newspaper war. The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News had competed for 100 years and each saw the grand prize close at hand. Each wanted to become the only newspaper in town - something we thought of as "owning the Denver market." We thought winning would guarantee a stable and profitable future. We misunderstood the competitive landscape and put the vast majority of our efforts into the print war.
The problem was we were fighting the last war. We didn't understand what was happening to the playing field. Media companies used to think they were in control. That they could "own" a market. What we didn't take into account is that in this new era, consumers were going to be in control.
So that brings me to Lesson #2: Know your competition. If we had spent more time trying to build the depth of our connection with the community using online tools from the very start, perhaps the outcome for the Rocky would have been different. If we have time later, I can give you some examples of what I'm talking about.
The Rocky's first foray onto the Web came in 1995. The newsroom provided a Cox-owned site called Fastball with Colorado Rockies stories and data. To give you some perspective, that same year Colorado's leading television station put up a Web site, but all it had was a picture of the station's building, its address and phone number. No links or news at all. At that time, believe it or not, much of the talk about "new media" at many newspapers was about things like AudioText, where users could call in and select different categories of news. There was also fax on demand. And 900 numbers, for such things as out-of-state lottery numbers or sports scores, horoscopes and even a dating service.
The Rocky had been burned in the new media world before. In 1990, it made what it considered at the time a major play, launching an electronic service called the A LA CARTE EDITION. The paper sent software to a few thousand users, many of whom had 300 baud modems.
You can see from this introduction to our first electronic service that we thought of ourselves as newspaper companies right from the start. We wrote that the goal of the new edition, was "ultimately to strengthen and preserve the printed daily newspaper."
The service was shut down after about 9 months, but not before scooping the paper on the start of the First Gulf War, reporting 12 hours before the paper landed on most doorsteps that the war had begun. The project was halted, I was told, because "we just couldn't show that it was having any measurable impact on retention of print subscribers and it wasn't producing revenue."
Right from the start, new offerings were measured by what they did for the core product, not on their own merits. A big mistake.
The Rocky's first Web site, this is the home page on the very first day, grew out of the newsroom's night copy desk crew, a few of whom had learned some HTML. It was a bottom up effort. There was no advertising involvement. Under the direction of the senior night editor, a small team built a Web site that went live on March 1, 1996. The Post had put up a site late the previous year so we knew we needed to do it, if only because we couldn't let them have a leg up on us anywhere.
The launch of the site was a perfect example of how the attention of the paper's leadership was on print, not on new possibilities. We were wrestling with a decision to pull back print distribution to 13 counties adjacent to Denver, a money-saving move to match the $5 million in savings we believed the Post had achieved by narrowing its printed page. We cut about 30,000 circulation, or 10% of our total, in one day. The Post kept delivering to all 64 Colorado counties.
On the day before the Rocky opened its doors to the world online, the page 2 column by the editor began: "I have never been much good at saying goodbye. But that is my task today for many loyal readers of the Rocky Mountain News." It wasn't until the fourth paragraph that he introduced the Web site. He wrote: "Nonetheless, some of our key stories, features and photographs will still be available outside our new service area. This will be possible through our two new electronic ventures."
One was the World Wide Web site. The other was a wire service we had set up to give our content to smaller Colorado papers to print at the same time as it appeared in the Rocky. There was no promotion of the Web site. Our PR efforts at the time were attempts to control the damage from cutting off 30,000 paying customers.
The message to the newsroom at that time regarding the Web site: "Do not let it interfere with the print edition." And as managing editor, I made sure that we kept our focus on the print competition.
We knew the Web was a place we needed to be. But we didn't have a clear strategy. Mission. Or objective. It was a "complement to the paper," as we said in our initial "About us" page.
Which brings me to Lesson 3: You have to have a strategy and you have to be committed to pursuing it. We perceived the Web site as a newspaper online, as a complement to the paper, not as its own thing. That's not a strategy.
Senior management's focus in the 1990s was on keeping the newspaper alive. Again, to be clear, that's understandable, at least to a point. We were fighting for our lives and the money then lay in print. We didn't understand the Web or new technology and didn't have the time to learn much about it. We weren't a consumer-driven company, except that we knew our priority was to get papers on the porch on time in the morning. Otherwise, we feared our subscribers would switch to our competitor.
Without clear objectives, an organization stumbles from one priority to the next. The 4th lesson: You must know your goal. On the print side, we had a clear objective. But our online objective kept changing. Of course this is partially understandable, because what was possible in the online world was also changing rapidly.
Because the Rocky's newsroom was unionized, management felt it had to quickly make a decision about where to house the new service. The fear was that union rules governing the newsroom would limit what we could do with the Web and potentially increase operating costs at a time when there was no revenue to speak of associated with it. So the newsroom lost its role on the Web until five years later, after the "war" was over.
Legacy labor/management relations and organizational structures cannot be allowed to dictate how a new operation works. Lesson #5: Keep new ventures free from the rules of the old. Over the years, the company had agreed to conditions it might not have liked but could accept because revenues of the newspaper made them possible. The problem was they would strangle a startup.
It was probably a smart move to get the Web out of the newsroom. It made it possible for the Web staff to carve their own path. But it also separated the newsroom - the paper's most valuable asset - from its new online product for five years. And that clearly had its downside.
Even without a clear goal or strategy, the Web team - and the company - did go on to do some interesting things.
Scripps partnered with Cox to produce an outdoor recreation site called "Go West," another short-lived effort because costs so exceeded revenues. The Rocky bought an online real estate service. It built web sites for customers. It became an internet service provider.
But the Web leadership kept changing, which meant new marching orders; there was tension between corporate and local leadership about direction on the Web; and staff turnover was heavy. Indicative of the struggle to find a strategy was how the name of the site kept changing. It started as Denver-RMN.com. (A really catchy url.)
We ventured deep into high school sports. This is an early example of a RockyPreps page, incredible detail about girls volleyball. This was the first time we thought Web first, posting results online immediately and then outputting select data to print. It was popular with readers. But advertisers shunned it.
You can see initially there was a strange lack of commercial interest on our part.
Except that we were already aware that our classifieds needed to have a home online.
Then we changed the site's name to InsideDenver.com. We thought the Web was going to be more about what to do than about news. (The story is that Denver.com was available but the $50,000 price tag was considered too steep.)
Finally, we chose to go to our newspaper name, RockyMountainNews.com, despite how unwieldy it was as a url.
This was an era where we didn't fully believe in the value of the web. So, like other papers, we created the bundle, selling web space as an add-on for print advertisers.
We generally saw the web as a few advertising boxes we could sell. We didn't see the value of audience. Scripps bought sophisticated software to run its cable and newspaper Web sites. Although it tried to put the focus on readers, in the end it let technical people develop a culture based on how they wanted technology to work - stable and secure - rather than putting the priority on remaining nimble in a rapidly changing world. We kept trying to build perfect systems, slowing our progress, instead of working iteratively.
And in Denver, we thought we needed to reinvent everything for our market instead of accepting solutions that would work across the company.
What did we discover? That the people running a new business need to be free to do what's best for that business, regardless of the potential impact on the old. That's lesson #6. Why couldn't newspapers have invented something like Yelp? Probably because editors would have gone ballistic over reader reviews with misspelled words and would have felt uneasy with reader contributions being given priority. The Rocky's Web team producing InsideDenver.com used the slogan, "Before you go out, go InsideDenver.com," that could have led in that direction. But the mission was changed because InsideDenver didn't sound like a newspaper and didn't encompass the idea of our all-important classifieds.
A pivotal moment - perhaps the most telling about the paper's approach to the Web - came on the morning of April 20, 1999 when two students opened fire at Columbine High School. The world was watching.
At that time, we had one content producer whose job was essentially to shovel the newspaper onto the Web. The Web team was on the first floor of our building. The newsroom on the third. After news of the shooting broke, the producer came to the newsroom and asked the city editor for any news he could give him. "I'm not giving you anything for the Web site," he remembers being told. "They'll steal it." They, in this case, was The Denver Post. The culture of the newsroom at this point was still to save any possible scoops for the morning paper to keep the Post a day behind us. The Rocky's Web team ended up relying on our TV news partner for its reports. Even with that, the traffic numbers that day weren't matched for two years. Neither the Rocky nor the Post won an Eppy Award for coverage of Columbine. That was taken by the Boulder Daily Camera, which didn't have anywhere near the resources of the two Denver papers to cover the story. But both papers won Pulitzer Prizes for their print coverage.
Something else happened that day, though, that changed the perspective of the newsroom. We decided to give all our best photographs from the high school to the Associated Press as soon as we had them in our computer system. The result, the Rocky pictures you've just seen appeared on front pages around the world the next morning. The staff saw the tangible benefits of sharing in real time. The quality of their work captured the attention of the world and raised the paper's profile. That day was a turning point for how the newsroom worked with the web, although the results wouldn't become fully visible until a few years later.
The newspaper industry today talks a lot about the need to get paid for its content online. But in the late '90s, Denver was an experiment in essentially free newspapers. By the peak of the newspaper war, more than 400,000 subscribers to the two Denver papers were paying a penny a day for home delivery. The Rocky was bleeding money and the Post was heading the same direction. So the owners called a truce, asking the Justice Department to approve what's known as a joint operating agreement, which allows newspapers to merge business operations while maintaining separate and independent newsrooms.
The agreement, written in 2000 under the direction of two seasoned newspaper executives - William Burleigh and Dean Singleton - didn't even mention the Web. Yet another sign that the Web was an afterthought all along. The Web wasn't perceived as central to the success of the new business. It was believed that savings from combining the business operations of the two papers plus the ability to raise advertising rates would produce very healthy returns for both owners. Instead, what happened was that classified revenues dropped by more than $100 million a year from the start of the JOA to the end, and national and display categories tanked, too.
The JOA is a complicating factor in the Denver story. I'm not going to explore it today, except to say that such agreements lead to economically inappropriate activities that ultimately undermine a business. And that's part of the explanation of what happened to the Rocky.
The JOA did offer one significant benefit to our Web efforts. It gave the papers enough economic cushion to make them feel comfortable enough to negotiate new flexible contracts with the Newspaper Guild to move the Web editorial team and programmers back into the newsroom - this time at the very center of the room, not in a dark corner on the 1st floor, a symbolic move to try to indicate the site's importance to our future.
This was critical to the multimedia and database creativity that followed on the Web. And I think it was critical to our growth in traffic, from roughly 600,000 uniques a month in 2001 to 2.2 million a month when the paper was put up for sale.
But again, the focus in Denver when the agreement went into effect in early 2001 and for the next few years was on print. The Web in many ways became even more problematic. The papers had two basically similar Web sites using different content management systems and supported by a third advertising system.
The papers still were competing with each other online, even though the owners each got 50 cents of every dollar earned from the Web sites. Instead of focusing on new media and new ways to serve audiences with niche print, online and mobile products, the owners spent $130 million to upgrade their printing plant (they knew they would achieve savings by doing so) and $100 million to build a new headquarters on a prominent site in downtown Denver. The Web was essentially in limbo for a long time, with the Web leadership on the business side continuing to turn over, making it hard to gain any traction except in the newsroom.
Still, we produced some work of a national, even global caliber.
The online version of this story that won 2 Pulitzer prizes, Final Salute, included
8 slide shows
5 movies in a custom built Flash application
And a separate video trailer that preceded the publication of the print special section.
A related story in our coverage of the war at home was called Wake for an Indian Warrior.
The slide show that was part of the story of the first Sioux to die in Iraq had somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 million page views.
Lesson #7: If you want to compete in a medium, you have to understand it. The newspaper industry didn't understand the web in the beginning. That's understandable. But it's not clear that the newspaper industry understands it today. That's partly because you need to get the right people into an organization, people who can see and seize new opportunities. We were lucky to be able to hire some really talented people who made the work you've just seen possible. The question is why would talented people want to join companies that are held back by their past? I think that's a real problem for legacy media organizations. Smart, talented people have choices. And it's hard to imagine the best and brightest in advertising, for example, wanting to join a newspaper online operation when they could be working in a pure play environment.
A good example of our lack of understanding of the Web came in 2005 when Denver took its first big leap online under the JOA. This was the same year YouTube went live. Executives in Denver perceived a need for a vehicle to compete with weekly newspapers, which they thought were taking local ad share. In response, the Rocky launched YourHub.com, a network of more than 40 "citizen-journalism" web sites serving the Denver metropolitan area. All content appeared online first. Most came from readers. The best content of the week - again, almost all from readers - was published in 18 weekly zoned print sections. The first site went live that spring. But guess what? Google couldn't find it.
The company that built the site was a key contractor for a major newspaper company and worked for other large companies, but it didn't adequately understand search engine optimization and built the site in such a way that it didn't show up in Google searches, although Yahoo and MSN did find it. We weren't smart enough as a company to know that needed to be a basic requirement of the project and didn't know how to evaluate programming to make sure it was. (I don't have to tell you that if Google doesn't find a site, its opportunities are very limited.) Ultimately, it was Scripps employees at Shopzilla who studied the architecture of the site and advised us how to rebuild it so it would show up in Google search rankings. See what I mean about the importance of having people who understand the medium they're working in?
Another example from that effort. Craigslist had come to Denver four years earlier, but we still couldn't get the classified advertising leadership to agree to compete with Craigslist by offering free classifieds on these community sites, even private party under a certain dollar amount. The argument went on for almost a year, a year when we sent the message to users that we didn't understand how they wanted to use the web or that advertising content was valuable to them.
Lesson #8: Measure, measure, measure. While newspaper companies had experts managing circulation accounts to make sure they met the requirements of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, they were less committed to an intense focus on web data. I think newsrooms and entire news organizations have to use data more to guide their allocation of resources. This doesn't mean local news organizations should stop doing investigative reporting because most web traffic goes to freaky stories about teachers having sex with students, but it does mean that they should use the tools available to them and be honest about what the data tell them.
It took the move into the newsroom of Web journalists for the rest of the newsroom to finally change its attitude. Police officials complained that they were answering questions from one reporter for the Rocky Mountain News (a Web journalist) and then having to do the same thing again later in the day for another (this time a print reporter). That was making it more difficult for our print reporters and finally the traditional newsroom staff took over reporting for the Web and became committed to updating news when it happened.
One of the ways we encouraged that was to count what we were doing and share the results. They saw that breaking news updates were driving usage of the site.
By the end, Scripps' former Web VP felt we were cooking on all cylinders as a news Web site. But that's probably too generous a view. I think we had far to go.
Which brings me to Lesson #9: Ask yourself: Without R&D, how are local news companies going to get out on the edge and develop new offerings? Now that newspaper companies are filling the bankruptcy courts, they're scrambling to find ways to survive on the Web. But their efforts seem mostly about making money off their current offerings. You don't see them developing Yelp, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. I think they still could develop successful new services. But it would require something they haven't historically done, research and development. The Rocky looked to other newspapers and news sites to assess how it was doing. We should have been looking more closely at pure-play Web operations.
To conclude, Scripps, the owner of the Rocky, is about 130 years old. It's survived a lot of change. I wouldn't count it or other historic titles like Hearst or The New York Times out. But I'm concerned about their future. There's still too much of a sense of entitlement in the industry. The Associated Press spends too much time making the case that copyright violation is the problem bringing the industry down when the industry should be focused on building new and better products and services. Are companies making the same mistake in this decade that the Rocky made in the '90s, not understanding the competition? I think so.
Newspaper companies have to look for ways to answer the needs of the people in their communities. They have to know what business they're in. We thought we were in the newspaper business. It seems like that's what too many still think. They're not. They're in the news, information, knowledge and connection business.
Which brings me to the final lesson: Know your customers. If newspapers would spend more time trying to understand their customers instead of focused on their own internal issues - such as which newspaper department should get credit for Web revenue - they're more likely to be successful. That's a hard switch for traditional manufacturing operations like newspapers to make. But I don't think I need to explain why it's essential. The following quote explains the dilemma newspapers found themselves in.
"We were not used to the market telling us how things should be. We were used to telling people what we thought they needed and how they needed it," is how a Scripps marketing exec put it. That has to change.
So, given my experience at the Rocky, what are some things I think newspapers should do going forward?
Newspapers should think bigger at the same time as they think smaller. They should look for opportunities to scale. They're still too focused on unique, market by market solutions. Examiner.com in Denver is an example of a site that has something to teach newspapers. I'm not saying it's a great site or that I necessarily think it'll succeed. But it's growing rapidly at least in part because they've invited thousands of people to become experts, or examiners, on their sites and because they've built the service as a national brand based on local sites. Newspapers can't think anymore of building or selling one monolithic audience. They need to build many niches and many audiences. But interests align across geographies, so there's no reason that everything they do need be limited to their "markets."
Newspapers could end the criticism of an ever-shrinking amount of content if they would partner more with others and invite more people to participate on their sites. (When people say what you often hear, that newspapers seem thinner and thinner, we can't forget that it also creates a negative impression of what's happening to their Web sites.) The I-phone APP model is something newspapers should explore. Apple built a platform and lets others use it. Couldn't newspapers work together and with others to benefit readers and users of their services the same way?
Newspapers have traditionally served a small percentage of the businesses in their communities. Instead of trying to hold on to their piece of the pie, newspapers should be using technology to make the pie bigger, along the lines of the way ebay expanded buying and selling opportunities. Newspapers should find more ways for more local businesses to reach potential customers.
Newspapers should give consumers more control. They're still thinking too much about themselves and not enough about what the consumer wants.
Newspapers should stop looking longingly in the rear view mirror at 30% margins. It sometimes seems the whole game of the industry leadership is trying to find a way to get back to their old margins. (Because of the competition, by the way, the Rocky never had those kinds of margins.)
And, of course, finally, the most difficult recommendation of all, newspapers should stop making decisions about new business opportunities based on how they'll affect their legacy business. The main newspaper cannot dictate the shape of the future.
Thank you for listening to the lessons I've taken from my experience at the Rocky. I hope this autopsy was useful and that my suggestions help others avoid succumbing to the same fate as the Rocky Mountain News. I'd be happy to take any questions. As a reminder, here are the 10 lessons I've discussed today. I'll keep them up during our conversation.
Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News.
Know what business you're in.
Know your customers.
Know your competition.
Know your goal.
Have a strategy and be committed to pursuing it.
Measure, measure, measure.
Keep new ventures free from the rules of the old.
Let the people running a new venture do what's best for their business, regardless of the potential impact on the old.
To compete in a new medium, you have to understand it.
Invest in R&D.
22 comments:
Several comments.
First, Dean Singleton STILL doesn't understand the Web, and as head of the AP, that's catastrophic.
Second, it's called paywalls. The Aug/Sept AJR had a great article on how more smaller-level dailies are doing it. Deano could be proactive on this, tying paywalls for AP content to new contracts with Google, Yahoo, et al, but he remains asleep at the switch.
Beyond "folding," the reason many newspapers today are struggling, as I speak from a professional background, is manifold, and not primarily, in many cases, due to the Internet.
Rather, you have things like crooked owners (Chi Sun-Times), the biz angle leading to LBO artists (Sam Zell/Chi Trib), family feud fallout (Freedom Comm/OC Register), overvaluing newspapers as capital investments a decade ago, and more.
Add in the recession's huge ad drop-off.
Include many companies indeed being clueless about the Internet and how to "monetize" it, and it's no wonder papers struggle.
Doubly add in the fact that many ad reps don't kow how to sell to the Web.
Triply add in that things like host files and ad-block add-ons let people like me avoid most newspaper ads.
Quadruply add in that many newspaper chains don't get the three things I just listed.
Put up paywalls. Including for the bloggers. Bloggers making real money from blogging will realize they're hooked, or petard-hoist.I agree with Jay Rosen, that was a tour de force.
I'm curious what the reaction was, both in questions and comments you got from people after. I imagine much of the speech must have helped people understand more of how newspapers got where they are given that the average Google employee age is so young.Paywalls? Paywalls!?
The value of most news carried by your average newspaper doesn't come from hearing the news, but from the ability to share the news with other people. A paywall makes the product less valuable, while charging more for it!
El Pais, the biggest newspaper in Spain, built a paywall about 6 years ago. Their ad revenue dried up as their viewership shrank and shrank, because for most people, the third retelling of the most important stories was not really any worse than full access to the newspaper. Years later, they opened their site again, but now their competition has surpassed them, and it will take a decade to catch up.
The creation of newspaper articles and the aggregation of those articles into something a user might want to see are two different businesses on the web. Until journalists realize the difference, and treat them both separately, they will not solve the problem, and bloggers will eat them alive.Newspapers are worthless to me. I get all my news online and/or TV. I also ignore any news site that doesn't allow the readers (casual readers, I don't feel the need to sign in or create an account) to comment directly on the article.
The news is so biased most if not all have some sort of agenda. I don't need or want your agenda. User comments allow for other points of view.
Notice during the bush years, the war in iraq was bad and our troops are dying. Now that the other side is in power, you don't hear a peep.
The news/media is supposed to be the watchdog of the government. Informing us, the masses, when the government is doing something wrong or unconstitutional. Instead they have turned into the government's lap dog. No one mentions that the war in Iraq, right or wrong, is unconstitutional. (Any law allowing the president to send our troops to another country without a declaration of war is unconsitutional.)Sounds like a bunch of clueless rich morons couldn't let go of their cash cow until it was taken from them by we the people. Here is a list of REAL things you need to know:
1. You cannot charge for content. People won't pay for it because they can get it in a thousand places. You MUST get your revenue from advertising.
2. If you want to build a community that actually wants to use your site, you CANNOT require registration or logging in, you MUST provide anonymous commenting. Yeah, that's scary, but pull your huevos out of you wife's purse and just do it.
3. Investigative journalism and expose's of government corruption and waste (a la Woodward and Bernstein) is the ONLY area where "professional" journalists have an advantage over the rest of the people publishing their opinions on the web. We aren't interested in hearing how great government is doing, we can go to THEIR website for propaganda. We want people with guts to go after the rich and powerful; kind of tough when you are OWNED by the rich and powerful.
4. When "professional" journalists DO write something, proof read it!! Over and over I see AP stories with poor grammar and spelling, and these are supposed to be professionals? I can get crap spelling and grammar from any blogging moron.
5. Learn how to build a web site people WANT to look at. Most media companies who go to the web build the crappiest, most bandwidth intensive pieces of junk I have ever seen. DON'T use animated gifs, DON'T play flash unless a reader clicks play, and DO provide a text transcript of every story, especially the video ones. Not everyone has broadband (due to the ridiculous monopolies on internet access, we need to nationalize the internet and telecommunications infrastructure) and they would like to be able to read the content of the video instead of waiting hours to play it.
6. Learn how to do CROSS-BROWSER development. Saying "we design for IE because it has 80% (or whatever) market share and screw the rest" is a great way to not only loose potential customers, but also it will cost you more to run the site because every time a new version of IE comes out your site will break and require many hours of redesign and testing to make it work again.
Hope these hints help, because you need all you can get. By the way, there is still a market for print newspapers; I need something to potty train my puppy on.My dad used to read the Miami News every night when he got home at 6. Here it's 6:30 and I haven't even left the office yet. And on top of that, I'm commuting in from Tucson to Phoenix, so on the 4 nights a week that I do get to stay at home, I don't get home till 8 or 9.
I do get the weekend Arizona Daily Star. They've had a really good running story about Arizona Game & Fish killing off the last known jaguar in the US. They studied it to death and put it down because they thought it was in kidney failure. Last week, after they interviewed a biologist at the UA who did an autopsy and reported no signs of kidney failure, the UA lab director "clarified" his policy regarding public statements: no public statements. I really appreciate the efforts that the reporters put into this story, and it's great to get an update on the weekend when I have time to sit down and read it.Hi,
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Limelight 2P
The Limelight follows the "keep it simple" principle for quick set-up and weight-minimization while still camping in style. A roomy side vestibule keeps gear dry in wet weather. D-shaped door allows no-step entry/exit; color coded webbing and poles for easier set-up.
- Feature List
- Gear Loft Included
- Footprint Included - Use Shiny (Coated) Side Up
- One D Shaped Door, One Vestibule
- Seam Taped Full Coverage Fly with Vents
- Color Coded "Easy Pitch" Clips and Poles
- Free-Standing Design
- Seam Taped Catenary Cut Floor
- Interior Pockets for Small Gear Organization
- Light-Reflective Points
- Jingle-Free Nylon Zipper Pulls
- Can Be Used with Bare Bones Setup
- Window Weld™
- DAC Press-Fit Poles
- Tent Floor Fabric
- 70d 100% Nylon PU 3000mm W/R, F/R
- Tent Canopy Fabric
- 68d 100% Polyester Ripstop,F/R | 40d 100% Polyester No-See-Um Mesh F/R
- Tent Fly Fabric
- 68d 100% Polyester Ripstop 1800mm, W/R, F/R
- Tent Vestibule Area(s)
- 9 sq ft, 0.84 sq m
- Tent Floor Area
- 32 sq ft, 2.97 sq m
- Tent Dimensions
- 41 x 54 x 88in, 104 x 137 x 224cm
- Tent Pole Data
- 3 / DAC Press-Fit 9.0mm
- Tent Min Weight (Poles, Body, Fly)
- 4lbs 10oz (2097g)
- Tent Max Weight
- 5lbs 0oz (2267g)
DAC tent poles are created from a unique alloy making them lighter and stronger than other aluminum poles.
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Roast Beef Quesadillas
While I was enjoying some of the leftover roast beef in the grilled roast beef and cheese sandwich I thought that all of the ingredients in the sandwich would make for a great quesadilla and I just had to try it. You can't really go wrong when you start with nice and tender roast beef and I often use sauteed peppers and onions as quesadilla fillings so it was perfect match. In my opinion quesadillas need to incorporate some kind of heat and with horseradish going well with the beef it wasn't even a decision to use it. Of course the glue that holds a quesadilla together is the cheese and I went with some swiss that I had leftover from the sandwich and since I also had some of the coffee gravy from the roast beef leftover I added a tablespoon of that to the quesadilla as well. The roast beef quesadilla turned out great! The tortillas were grilled until lightly golden brown and slightly crispy and good! The cheese melted nicely and went well with the roast beef, peppers, onions, horseradish and gravy flavour combo. I served the roast beef quesadillas with some coffee gravy for dipping.
Roast Beef Quesadillas
(makes 1 quesadilla)Printable Recipe
1/2 tablespoon oil
1/2 onion, sliced
1/2 green pepper, sliced
1/4 cup roast beef (oven roast or pot roast), sliced or shredded
1 tablespoon horseradish
1 tablespoon gravy (optional)
2 tortillas
2 handfuls cheese such as cheddar, swiss or provolone etc., shredded/grated
1. Heat the oil in a pan.
2. Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
3. Add the green pepper and saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
4. Melt a touch of butter in a pan.
5. Place a tortilla into the pan, swirl it around in the butter and repeat with the second tortilla.
6. Sprinkle some cheese on the tortilla followed by the beef, onions, pepper, horseradish and gravy and top with more cheese and finally the other tortilla.
7. Cook until the quesadilla is golden brown on both sides and the cheese is melted.
Tip: Place a plate onto the quesadilla and flipped it from the pan to the plate and then slide it back into the pan to flip the quesadilla.
Similar Recipes:
Grilled Roast Beef and Cheese Sandwich
Chicken Satay Quesadillas with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
Tandoori Chicken Quesadillas
Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich
Pot Roast Sandwich Smothered in Gravy with Melted Swiss Cheese and Horseradish Mayonnaise


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Sen. Ayotte gives soldier her guest seat for State of the Union speech
Instead, he was busy preparing and packing for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity offered to him by U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte to attend Tuesday's State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., as her guest.
The two spent over an hour talking about what conditions were like for Osgood and about the work he was doing. Ayotte also asked about his family. When she returned to the States, she put in a call to Osgood's wife, Christa, and their two sons, Justin, 6, and Waylan, now 2, to check in and see how they were doing.
"I'm shocked," Osgood said by phone Monday as he prepared to board a plan from Boston to Washington, D.C.
"Captain Osgood has served our country with distinction, including active-duty service in Afghanistan, where I met him last year. I'm so pleased he accepted this invitation, and I hope he enjoys the State of the Union," Ayotte said.
The Danvers, Mass., native has flown over 120 missions totaling more than 850 combat hours and has deployed seven times in support of various operations.
Osgood said it was rewarding to be able to take members of the Afghani military home from war zones for visits with their families."A lot of people who go do computer work or don't get outside the wire," he said. "They don't see the people or interact with them all the time. So it was nice to interact with somebody and get feedback right away. I am pretty proud of that."Osgood has served with the U.S. Air Force for about 14 years.
Watch parties
For those without a ticket, watch parties are being held in different parts of the state.
The event is free of charge and attendees will have the chance to provide feedback on what the President says or does not say during his address.


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Design by: Marie Murray and Rosemarie Fagan
Skill Level: Easy
Size: Fits ages 2-6.
Materials: Yarn Needle; Worsted Weight Yarn;
Storage Bag: Brown (MC): 6 oz, 330 yd (168 g, 297 m); Small amount Yellow (Y) and Green (G); 1″ button;
Apron: Brown (MC): 5 oz, 275 yd (140 g, 248 m); Yellow (Y): 1 oz, 55 yd (28 g, 50 m);
Green (G): ½ oz, 28 yd (14 g, 25 m);
Hat: Brown (MC) 1 ½ oz, 83 yd (42 g, 75 m); Small amount Yellow (Y) and Green (G);
Tools: Dark Brown (DB), Grey (Gy) and Red (R): 1 oz, 55 yd (28 g, 50 m) each;
Small amount Beige (B) and Black (BL); Two ½″ buttons; Fiberfill; 2 Pipe Cleaners; Black Marker.
Crochet Hook: Size H-8 (5.00 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Handy Andy Tool Set Crochet Pattern
Our pretend tool set will have your little one fixing every make-believe home improvement on the block! It's just like Dad's and will have your little boy feeling like a big helper. This darling multi-pocketed apron holds an abundance of tools and accessories including; Saw, Hammer, Screwdriver, Pliers, Pencil, and Measuring Tape. It also includes a Storage Bag and Hat. Don't forget the companion pattern, Cooking Katie Chef Set, for girls!
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PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Reserve 1/4 cup of the steak sauce. Mix remaining 1/4 cup steak sauce with all remaining ingredients until well blended.
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