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In their first incarnation, group buying services failed. A similar concept in China may provide a road map for how to do it right.
During the height of the dot-com boom, the future looked bright for online group buying services.
Newly launched companies such as Mercata.com, Mobshop and LetsBuyIt.com followed a simple business plan: They created Web sites where online shoppers hunting for the same items could place orders together in hopes of obtaining sizable discounts.
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It seemed like a great concept. The sites were free for consumers and made money by charging commissions and fees to the sellers of the products. Support was strong from investors, vendors and media. Within a few years, however, virtually all of the services failed. Traffic on the sites slowed after an initial boom. Most visitors didn't make purchases, and as the number of buyers went down, prices went up.
Now a similar concept -- though with important differences -- has arisen and is booming in China. It's called tuangou, which loosely translated also means group buying.
Tuangou services still start on the Web, where they invite shoppers to register for buying events involving certain manufacturers or retailers. Then they organize bus trips to those stores or outlets where participants who registered -- often numbering in the hundreds -- negotiate discounts as a team. Another key difference: Tuangou shoppers know their final price before making the purchase, and receive their goods immediately. Earlier group buying sites indicated final prices only after purchasers agreed to buy, and deliveries sometimes took weeks.
Divergent Paths
Such differences matter. Two of the biggest earlier-generation sites, Mercata.com in Bellevue, Wash., and Sweden's LetsBuyIt.com, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001. A third, Mobshop, discontinued its consumer service in 2001, though it continued selling software for e-commerce.
Of the more successful tuangou sites, meanwhile, Shanghai-based Liba.com, founded in 2003, says it has 1.6 million members, 300,000 unique visitors per day on its Web site, and some 30,000 transactions a month during team buying events in major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Teambuy.com.cn, founded in 2006 and based in Guangzhou, says it has more than 100,000 members and arranges team buying events in 48 cities in China. Neither company has released profit or revenue figures. The founder of Liba.com, Zhang Guohua, says his company has no plans for an IPO, but he doesn't rule it out. A spokesman for Teambuy says the company is considering an IPO. A third tuangou site, taobao.com, is a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, a Chinese Internet company that is 39%-owned by Yahoo Inc. YHOO 0.13 %
To be sure, tuangou's success owes much to China's culture and still-developing markets, where group haggling is common and transparency in retail prices is not. The tuangou model will have to evolve as Chinese markets mature, and if it is to be exported to the West. A handful of new online services are already attempting this in the U.S. and Europe.
But tuangou represents a significant step in the evolution of online group buying as a whole, and contains insights that may help unlock the commercial potential of perhaps the biggest phenomenon on the Web: social networking. As these networks become the way younger generations interact with each other socially (and maybe even professionally), the potential for buying and selling over these networks in the near future cannot be neglected. Lessons offered by tuangou suggest there are enormous opportunities for online services that are able to position themselves as intermediaries as people increasingly connect in online forums and social networks and demand more value via collective bargaining.
Comparing Models
The key differences between tuangou and earlier group buying sites can best be seen by comparing six standard components of business models.
BASIC STRUCTURES: In its earlier form, online group buying services would initially negotiate with vendors on a range of prices for each item that fluctuated depending on the number of final purchases. Some service providers even owned the inventory, managed the warehouse and shipped the products to individual customers. Such a strategy was risky because the number of customers interested in a certain product was unknown in advance. Unwanted inventory and excess costs resulted.
A tuangou service acts as an intermediary between vendors and shoppers. The service coordinates with the vendors on available goods and schedules for team buying events. The number of service members registered for each event is known in advance and communicated to the seller. Sometimes the seller will announce a discount in advance, based on expected attendance. The tuangou service has no inventory.
SETTING OF PRICES: The earlier services agreed with vendors on a range of discounts linked to the number of buyers by a deadline set usually one to two months in advance. For example, if the retail price of a digital camera was $899, the sale price would be advertised on the site as $689.95 if there were no more than 25 buyers by the deadline; $679.95 for 26 to 200 buyers; $659.95 for 201 to 500 buyers; and so on. A shopper wouldn't know the final price of an item until the deadline had passed and purchasers were tallied. Discounts of as much as 40% were sometimes possible.
Second Generation
Some of the differences between early approaches to group buying and tuangou buying services
|Group Buying (U.S./Europe)
|Tuangou (China)
|In store (primarily)
|Usually limited assortments
|Usually unlimited assortments
|Unknown when consumer commits to purchase
|Known when consumer commits to purchase
|Mainly through advertising with some blogs and online forums
|Mainly through word-of-mouth, online blogs, online forums, etc.
|Demand and expect convenient service and a low/fair price; consider shopping a hassle
|Mainly want noncounterfeit products at low prices; many view shopping as a leisure activity
|Revenue depends on click rate and commission for each transaction, so it's critical to get distributors/wholesalers to offer popular products with an attractive discount price schedule.
|To increase ad revenue, the tuangou service provider needs to get the sellers to provide quality products at attractive discounts, which in turn generates more success stories about tuangou buying events.
|Price competition is fierce, especially when customers can obtain price comparisons via various online shopping bots or price search engines.
|Competition is less fierce because product and price comparisons are harder to make online in China.
Source: Christopher S. Tang
Tuangou services occasionally announce the size of a discount on the site ahead of a scheduled buying event, based on registered participants. But they mostly leave negotiations to the shoppers, who choose leaders from among themselves to conduct the bargaining. Typical discounts are 10% to 30% off the manufacturer's suggested retail price. Shoppers know the final price before buying, which is essential for a good consumer experience.
SOURCES OF REVENUE: Group buying sites were free to customers. They generated revenue by charging vendors fees based on the number of clicks on the site, and commissions per transaction. Traffic and purchasing rates thus were critical.
Tuangou sites are also free to customers. Sellers pay the services a nominal fee to register on the sites. The sites also charge for advertising. In some cases, tuangou services provide additional Web page design and postings for fees as well. These value-added services are critical to tuangou's success in China, where most midsize retailers lack the resources and experience to do professional Web design work themselves.
COST OF ACQUIRING CUSTOMERS: Because online group buying was an untraditional concept, it had to be explained and justified to customers. This made the cost of acquiring each new customer more expensive than in traditional retailing. Mercata.com, for example, offered each new customer a $100 credit to shop on its site.
The tuangou services are also relatively new, making customer-acquisition costs high compared with those for retailers in China. But most tuangou sites try to limit those costs by relying on word-of-mouth and blogs to create awareness -- a strategy that was less available to the earlier group buying services because blogs and social networks were still relatively new at the time. Also, the concept of collective haggling requires virtually no explanation in China.
APPEAL TO CUSTOMERS: In group buying, the discounts could grow as more buyers committed.
But choices of products were limited, and delays in delivery detracted from the consumers' experience. The main sites limited their product choices mostly to consumer electronics. Sites that handled their own inventory further limited their products to reduce the risk of overstocking.
In tuangou, negotiating skills are important. But vendors' willingness to lower prices is often primarily driven by volume, or number of units being sold. To that end, tuangou services allow friends and family of members to register for some events without becoming members themselves. There is also no obligation to purchase anything.
Providers also offer a much greater variety of products and services to their members, with a heavy focus on more expensive, planned-purchase types of goods, such as home appliances, remodeling materials and cars.
APPEAL TO VENDORS: The earlier services helped sellers increase revenue and lower marketing and inventory costs.
Tuangou basically does the same. In China, where retailing is still a fragmented market and product and pricing information is not easily accessible or comparable, the services also offer a way for retailers to promote goods and services.
Strength in Numbers
- Group Buying: Web sites that first offered online group buying, in which shoppers got discounts if enough people agreed to buy an item by a deadline, failed because of problems such as slow deliveries and prices that weren't set until after customers committed to purchases.
- New Wave: Several Web sites in China have refined group buying under a new name, tuangou, and are having much more success. These sites form teams of shoppers who visit stores to negotiate deals in person and take immediate delivery of their goods.
- What's Next: Tuangou is catching on elsewhere, with some modifications. And it may prove well-suited to selling on social-network sites, where offers can be tailored to specialized subgroups that, in turn, can get big discounts thanks to their size.
Prospects in China and the West
While tuangou services appear likely to continue to prosper in China for the short and medium term, their long-term success is questionable due to the rapidly developing market there for consumer goods.
As retailing becomes less fragmented and advertising expands, there will be more ways for shoppers to compare product and pricing information. This could reduce the appeal of team buying events, which sacrifice some convenience in return for good prices and access to noncounterfeit goods. Collective haggling and assurance of quality products are likely to assume less importance, too, as retailers, superstores and discount clubs strengthen their presence and the Chinese government beefs up consumer-protection laws.
To sustain growth for the long term in China, tuangou sites may need to offer more value-added services, such as independent product reviews and pricing data to help consumers make buying decisions.
To succeed in the U.S. and Europe, meanwhile, will require basic changes that recognize cultural differences and the more advanced consumer marketplace. The value placed on convenience, for example, would seem to exclude team buying events. Also, collective haggling is an alien concept for consumers and vendors.
A handful of new services in Spain, the Netherlands and the U.S. are trying to bridge these gaps, some with sites still under development that promise to negotiate prices on behalf of members and that invite vendors to engage in competitive bidding for customers. Netherlands-based UnitedConsumers.com, launched in 2007, says it negotiates price breaks on insurance, phone service, gasoline and utility bills and has some 40,000 participants a year.
Tuangou and Social Networking
The much bigger prize in the long run may be figuring out how to take lessons learned from tuangou and use them to tap into huge potential customer bases found in social networks.
According to the Web tracking firm comScore Inc., the most popular networking sites, MySpace and Facebook, each had more than 100 million users in January. The behavior of these users could generate innovative business opportunities for group buying and tuangou services in the near future. Businesses can identify groups and subgroups on these networks and use text-analytics software to comb through profiles and posted messages to spot new youth trends. The buying services can use statistical methods to identify groups interested in certain products or services, such as personal computers or car insurance, even students posting messages about spring-break vacations. The buying service can then approach members of these groups with prenegotiated deals tailored to them.
Services also can try to identify "leaders" of subgroups, or people likely to influence decisions of others, and provide incentives for them to recruit new members to the buying service. Positive effects can snowball as more members join, making greater discounts possible, which leads to further recommendations and recruiting both on the network and on personal blogs. As word spreads, it becomes a powerful mechanism for acquiring new customers at no cost. Moreover, the growth potential is exponential.
—Dr. Tang is Edward Carter professor of business administration at UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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The Siege of Limerick has established itself as one of Irelands largest tournaments, known for its great parties and atmosphere, as well as a highly competitive weekend of ultimate. We will be inviting all of Irelands top colleges and clubs as well as hoping to attract a host of foreign teams from across Europe.
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Me: Hey guys. Sorry about not doing my usual, funny beginnings today. But now I can talk about last weeks episode. So I'm like still very, very, VERY Mad at the writers about the whole Peddie thing. So basically this is my way of how Peddie should/would get back together. So yeah.
Disclaimer: I don't own House of Anubis. If I did we would have a lot more Peddie.
So yeah! Here we you guys!
Patricia smiled sitting down outside on the steps of Anubis House. It was dark outside and the stars were visible. Everyone was asleep since it was past 12. She was sitting outside in the dark and cold night. The door creaked open behind her and she saw Eddie. Of course they broke up over summer break but being in Sibuna bonded them together as just friends. Patricia sighed. She still wishes that they would be back to the way the way were. As more than just friends. Patricia had no idea why they even decided to break up.
"What are you doing outside in the cold?" Eddie asked. Patricia shrugged.
"I don't know... I just can't sleep you know" She replied.
"Same" Eddie said sitting down next to her. A moment of silence passed over them. "So... Are you and Fabian... like dating?" Eddie asked. Patricia nodded simply.
"And you and Her" Patricia said.
"Yeah..." Eddie trailed off. The truth was that Patricia didn't really feel the sparks that she felt with Eddie. And Eddie didn't feel the sparks with KT like the way he did with Patricia. The only reason they were together was Eddie wanted to make her jealous, like Patricia wanted him to be jealous. "So the whole time last year... You were just in Sibuna?" Eddie asked.
"Well duh genius. It was a die or get the mask problem" Patricia replied. Eddie nodded.
"That's why you didn't tell me?" He asked.
"We didn't want you in danger... I didn't" Patricia said mumbling the last part.
"Remember last year when we played Football" Eddie said laughing at the memory.
"Oh you mean how we ran in around in tights, tackling each other?" Patricia said. "Not real football"
"It is to me" Eddie said. "And what you guys call football is soccer"
"You got me in detention all the time" Patricia said.
"It wasn't just me, okay? You did the same" Eddie replied.
"Wha- No I didn't" Patricia replied.
"Did too. Who put the dog treats in my locker?" Eddie said.
"It was treat. For the teachers Pet" Patricia joked.
"Remember the time you 'lost your eyesight' and sprayed the fruit?" Eddie asked.
"Not really. I couldn't see" Patricia said.
"Wait. Did you loose it because of the tunnels thing?" He asked. Patricia nodded.
"It happened because we played American Football and you tackled me to the ground causing the Amulet to get lost" Patricia said. Eddie shrugged.
"Don't blame me, you wanted to try it" Eddie said.
"Because you challenged me!" Patricia replied.
"Oh really Yacker?" Eddie asked. When Patricia heard the old nickname she froze. He hadn't used it ever since the break up. She sighed crossing her arms and stared up at the stars. It was awkward between them again and everything was silent. "Sorry" Eddie mumbled. Patricia nodded.
"Do you ever... you know... kinda miss... us?" Eddie asked. Patricia sighed giving a slight nod.
"But why does that even matter any more? We're broken up, dating different people..." Patricia trailed off. There it began again. Her heart wanted her to say Yeah. I miss it all. I miss you. But her mouth said something else.
"I don't know" Eddie replied.
"Exactly" Patricia said, before getting up. "Later.." She trailed off. Eddie got up with her and sighed. He wanted to fix it all, but it wasn't possible. With her dating Fabian and him dating KT.
"No. I can't do this anymore" Eddie said. Patricia turned around to face him.
"Do what?" She asked.
"I miss us Yacker! I miss our insulting yet cute nicknames for each other, you whiny british yack, I miss all of this" Eddie said. He stepped closer to her.
"Oh like I don't weasel?" Patricia replied.
"Then what are we doing?" He asked. Patricia shrugged. He leaned in slowly and Patricia met him halfway. He put one hand in her hair and the other one on her waist, while she wrapped her arms around his neck. The didn't realize the door creaking open or their housemates looking through the window. Joy and Amber couldn't take it anymore and ran out to them, squealing. Patricia and Eddie jumped apart as Amber and Joy hugged them. Fabian smiled and joined in.
"Fabian? You're okay with this?" Eddie asked.
"Yes! I haven't seen you with a smile or happiness since... well last term" Fabian replied.
"And same with you Trixie" Joy replied.
"Yeah since he called me the girl from his dream" A voice said.
"KT?" Everyone asked.
"How are you okay with this?" Jerome asked.
"Well the fact that Eddie wouldn't shut up about Patricia, and the fact that EVERYONE can tell that you two want to be together really bad. Plus I don't really have a crush on Eddie.." KT said.
"Okay. Good. Because you do realize that there was nothing between us... Right?" Eddie trailed off. KT nodded with a smile.
"We're like brother/sister. So why would I date my brother?" KT said.
"Yeah that's what I was thinking! Except you as my sister." Eddie replied. Patricia smiled.
"So I guess there really isn't something wrong with Americans or Newbies" Patricia said. "Sorry about the whole... Yeah..." Patricia said.
"Did THE ALL MIGHTY TRIXIE just say SORRY?!" Jerome, Alfie, and Eddie asked. Patricia glared at the three of them.
"You know... I think we could be best friends" KT said.
"Oh don't forget me Trisha!" Joy said.
"Of course not" Patricia laughed. Joy smiled. She was happy to have her best friend back. She was really happy with Eddie and Joy had picked up on that since Eddie's first day. When they first saw him in the student lounge.
"You know, you guys are just really Happy when your together" Joy said. Eddie and Patricia both blushed but were glad that no one could see it due to the darkness.
"What are you all doing out here?! Get TO BED. We will discuss your punishment in the morning" Victor's voice boomed.
"Let me guess. Your gonna pull out your toothbrush and say 'I wanna see my face in the bowl' " Alfie quoted.
"BED. NOW." Victor said. Everyone quickly ran off to their rooms and went to bed. While Patricia and Eddie were laying on their beds with a smile.
Eddie picked up his phone and unlocked it.
So is Peddie back on?
-Eddie ;)
He hit send and waited for the reply.
Yes... It is...
He replied and waited yet again.
You don't seem so sure Yacker...
-Eddie ;)
Alright. What do you want me to do? Scream it at breakfest?
Why that sounds delightful!
-Eddie ;)
Whatever weasel. Night.
Night Yacker :)
-Eddie ;)
And the two of them fell asleep with smiles on their faces. Knowing that they were back on and were back to the insulting yet cute nicknames, made them smile.
That's pretty much it...
Okay so. I want to tell you guys about this little event I've organized. I don't know if you've heard about it or not.
Peddie One-Shot day! I'm doing this along with HOAgleek4Ever and xXAquamangoXx. So if you guys wanna join in, just message the either one of us. Thank you :)
If you are just submit a Peddie One-Shot Tomorrow with the tag #PeddieOne-ShotDay :)
Thanks all! And thank ya for reading!


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New release honors a sad, lonely Roy Orbison
CORPUS CHRISTI - Roy Orbison saw the world from behind the shield of his dark sunglasses that became the Vernon, Texas-born guitarist's mysterious trademark.
Perhaps his inclination toward hiding his eyes from everyone had to do with the fact that despite his incredible talent, his precise musicianship, and his otherworldly, nearly supernatural voice that all worked together to bring him a great deal of success, there was always a deep element of sadness that hung over his soul.
Many who knew the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee will attest to that fact. They say the genesis of these emotions dates back to watching his wife, Claudette, die in a harrowing motorcycle accident. To be sure, that sense of loss takes on a real, multidimensional character on songs like "I'm Hurtin,'" "Today's Teardrops" and "Love Hurts."
This year marks what would have been Orbison's 75th birthday, and to commemorate the work of this forlorn singer and songwriter, the recent release of Roy Orbison: The Monument Singles Collection (Legacy/Monument) is an impressive summation of his heartbreak-laced hits and their accompanying B-sides.
Originally, Orbison was signed to Sun Records, and being in the company of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash gave him to the opportunity to be one of the original architects of rock and roll. From Sun he moved to RCA Records, but he became uncomfortable with the label's corporate directives that he felt were hampering his creativity.
That's when Roy met Fred Foster who had started a small independent record company called Monument. It was there that Orbison would record the most important singles in his career, and his rapid-fire output between 1960 and 1964 is gathered and presented in glorious mono, the format in which the original singles were issued.
The sheer breadth of emotion and stylistic range attest to Orbison's talent as a songwriter. It also points out his refusal to be pigeonholed, as elements of not only rock but country, blues, and soul were evidenced on such notable singles as "Only the Lonely," "Blue Bayou," "It's Over" and "Crying."
Other standouts include the eerie "In Dreams," the blue collar lament of "Working for the Man" and the romantic idealism that inspires "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)."
Orbison's most successful hit was born out of a collaborative writing session with Bill Dees and inspired by a trip Roy's wife was about to make to the grocery store. Roy and Bill were struggling with an idea for a song, and as Orbison asked his wife if she needed any money, Dees remarked that a pretty woman doesn't need any money. They retooled that lyrical idea into "Oh! Pretty Woman," a single that was released in August of 1964 and has since become one of the most recognizable pieces of music in history.
The set also includes a DVD that includes a dazzling remastered version of the song's original video performance, as well as the rare Monument Concert that vividly showcases Orbison's mesmerizing showmanship.
Roy would go on to record for MGM, star in a movie called "The Fastest Guitar Alive," and enjoy a career renaissance in 1988 as a solo artist with the Mystery Girl album as well as being a member of the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne.
He died on December 6, 1988, but his most prolific period as the creator of some of rock and roll's most essential singles gets rightfully revisited on this impressive collection that not only celebrates what would have been Roy Orbison's birthday, it also echoes with a tinge of sadness and loss, emotions with which the man was all too familiar.
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Unabridged audio CD; approximately 9.5 hours; 8 CDs; read by Hillary Huber; includes PDF file with reading group guide.
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Nine Lives (1986)
|Artist: Bonnie Raitt
Learn more about Nine Lives:
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Friday Music/ryko
Sku: 220601406
Release Date: 4/26/2011
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. No Way To Treat a Lady ~ Bonnie Raitt
2. Runnin' Back To Me ~ Bonnie Raitt
3. Who But a Fool (Thief Into Paradise) ~ Bonnie Raitt
4. Crime of Passion ~ Bonnie Raitt
5. All Day, All Night ~ Bonnie Raitt
6. Stand Up To the Night ~ Bonnie Raitt
7. Excited ~ Bonnie Raitt
8. Freezin' (For a Little Human Love) ~ Bonnie Raitt
9. True Love is Hard To Find ~ Bonnie Raitt
10. Angel ~ Bonnie Raitt
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info
|Personnel: Bonnie Raitt (vocals, acoustic, electric & slide guitars); David Kitay (guitar, programming); Johnny Lee Schell (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Dean Parks, Michael Landau, Charles Ferrin, Ira Ingber (guitar); David Woodford (saxophone); Bill Payne (piano, keyboards); Eric Kaz (piano); J.A.C. Redford, Guy Moon, Richard "Koz" Kosinski, Ian "Mac" McLagan (keyboards); Ray Ohara (bass, percussion); Leland Sklar, Nathan East, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); Ian Wallace (drums, percussion, programming); Russ Kunkel, John Robinson, Carlos Vega (drums); Rob Fraboni, Lenny Castro (percussion); Blondie Chaplin, Steve Ross, Christine McVie, Todd Sharp, Ivan Neville, Sippie Wallace, Earl Smith, Rosemary Butler, Max Carl (background vocals); Tower Of Power Horns.
|Producers: Bill Payne, George Massenberg, Rob Faroni, Steve Tyrell, Russ Kunkel.
|Engineers include: George Massenburg, Terry Becker, Rob Fraboni.
|Recorded at Shangri-La Studios, Malibu, California in 1983; Tyrell-Mann Studio, Los Angeles, California in 1986; The Complex, West Los Angeles, California in 1983 & 1986.
|Digitally remastered by Teresa Caffin.
|Audio Mixer: George Massenburg.
|Recording information: Shangri-La Studios, Malibu (1983); The Complex, West Los Angeles (1983); Tyrell-Mann Studio, Los Angeles (1983); Shangri-La Studios, Malibu (1986); The Complex, West Los Angeles (1986); Tyrell-Mann Studio, Los Angeles (1986).
|Photographer: Jim Shea.
|Produced by George Massenburg (Linda Ronstadt) and Bill Payne of Little Feat, LIVES is full of slick '80s production: big-sounding guitars, smooth jazz trimmings and sanitized rhythm arrangements. There are also contributions from some of the biggest pop songwriters of the time. Song doctors solicited include Will Jennings (who co-wrote "Stand Up To The Night," a number used in the Farrah Fawcett comeback Extremities) and the team of Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance ("No Way To Treat A Lady").
|Raitt's cover choices include a loving rendition of Toots Hibbert's "True Love Is Hard To Fine" (featuring Raitt's hero Sippie Wallace on harmonies) and "Angel," yet another Eric Kaz gem. Inexplicably, however, NINE LIVES failed commercially at a time when similar records by Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood did well.
Musical Guests
|Sippie Wallace
|Ivan Neville
|Christine McVie
|Bill Payne
|Nathan East
|Ian McLagan
|Tower Of Power Horns
Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
|Franklin, Aretha
|Ultrasonic Studios, 1972 ~ George, Lowell
|John, Elton
|Newman, Randy
Technical Info
|Release Date : 04/26/2011
|Original Release Date : 1986
|Catalog ID : FRM 25486
|Label : Friday Music
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
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TypeIt4Me Touch 26/08/2014 Comments Off on TypeIt4Me Touch
Version 2.1 is in the App Store now, we've squashed some bugs and given it a facelift. Thanks to everyone who helped with beta testing.
Version 2.1 is in the App Store now, we've squashed some bugs and given it a facelift. Thanks to everyone who helped with beta testing.
Break out the confetti and party hats, because everyone's favourite whacky noise-enabling Mac app will soon be 64.
…64-bit that is: we're updating Sounds4Fun for Mavericks and the latest generation of Macs. It's not quite old enough to claim a pension or enjoy free bus travel just yet, though its code heritage does date back to 1987 when its granddaddy – SndControl – was first released.
To cut a long story short, we're looking for a few volunteers to test drive the new 64-bit Sounds4Fun and help us smooth out any
bugs unintentional features that may be hidden therein.
If you'd like to help, please email email@example.com to let us know why you would like to join the Beta Testers group and what model Mac and OS X version you'd be testing with.
Thanks and Happy New Year! Hope your 2014 has got off to a great start.
Good news, everyone: we're pleased to announce that TypeIt4Me 5.3.2 is now available to download at the Mac App Store. Before you get too excited though, please note that it's a maintenance update only. As much as we'd love to go crazy and add a bunch of cool new stuff to TypeIt4Me's repertoire of text expanding tricks, this would unfortunately fall foul of Apple's new rules governing Mac App Store updates. We're strictly prohibited from tacking new functionality onto non-sandboxed apps in the store, and as sandboxing TypeIt4Me would seriously impair its usefulness this release focuses on fixing bugs instead. Those of you who were really holding out hope for a new built-in shortcut that automatically writes your term papers for you, we're sorry to have to disappoint you there.
Now that we've managed your expectations we can move swiftly on to detail the more joyous tidings that this release otherwise brings with it. After a busy few months tinkering under the hood, we've given TypeIt4Me a tune-up to ensure that it runs more smoothly. A number of outstanding glitches and performance issues that some of you reported have been addressed. Specifically, for this spit and polish update we've:
Once again, many thanks to those of you who helped us to identify these issues so that we could remedy them. And while we're at it, kudos to Apple for honouring its pledge to allow developers to continue fixing bugs in their non-sandboxed Mac App Store offerings.
We hope you'll get on well with this update – it may not be a revolutionary leap forward, but it ought to improve your TypeIt4Me experience, nonetheless. As always, we welcome customer feedback. If you run into any further performance issues, please let us know about them so we can sort them out for you.
After 16 days waiting for review, TypeIt4Me 5.3.1 is finally available in the Mac App Store.
Remember that the *only* extra feature in 5.3.x vs 5.2.x is iCloud support, which can *only* be offered in apps sold in the Mac App Store (Apple's rules, not ours).
To celebrate the release and allow any of our long standing, loyal users to upgrade to 5.3.1 without paying full price again, we are going to drop the price on the Mac App Store to $4.99 for a limited time. That's a whopping 75% off and is even cheaper than the $8.99 we normally charge for upgrades.
If you need/want iCloud support, which works great with the companion TypeIt4Me Touch app on iPhone and iPad, now is the time to head to the Mac App Store and grab a copy for yourself and perhaps a gift one (or two) for your friends.
After 16 days "Waiting for review", TypeIt4Me 5.3.1 – which fixes several bugs, including date/time expansion, Add a clipping and triggering abbs using TAB in Safari – is finally "In Review" and should therefore shortly become available in the Mac App Store.
Remember that if you are currently using TypeIt4Me 5.2.1 and do not need/want iCloud support, you can stay with 5.2.1 as 5.3.1 only adds iCloud support and no other features.
TypeIt4Me version 5.3 is now available to download from the Mac App Store. As promised, this latest version includes iCloud support, so you can use your TypeIt4Me abbreviations seamlessly across all your Macs – and with TypeIt4Me Touch on your iPad or iPhone. You'll notice there's a new pane just above your TypeIt4Me clippings that enables you to manage your local abbreviation sets and drag them across to iCloud and back again as you see fit:
A note for customers who purchase TypeIt4Me outside of the Mac App Store:
Apple currently only permits applications sold through the Mac App Store to access iCloud, so for now, the incarnation of TypeIt4Me available for direct download from the Ettore Software website will remain at version 5.2.1 rather than 5.3. That's while we evaluate options for adding some form of access to iCloud, for example via a 'helper' application made available separately on the Mac App Store.
We promised you an announcement and by golly it's a doozy. After months of gruelling work we're super pleased to reveal that TypeIt4Me Touch 2.0 for iOS is finally available to download from the iTunes App Store. A nifty mobile companion to our flagship Mac product, we've rebuilt it from scratch to achieve better performance and integrated some very useful new features. This sprightly new incarnation of our text expander app – formerly known as TapIt4Me – is a free upgrade for everyone who bought version 1.0. Better still, we're offering it as a universal app optimised for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad at no extra cost.
For the uninitiated, TypeIt4Me Touch 2.0 is a text expansion app that enables you to speed up typing on your iDevice. It lets you use your own custom-defined shorthand abbreviations that will expand on the fly to longer words, phrases and snippets of boilerplate text as you continue typing. Swiftly compose a note with TypeIt4Me Touch and you can email, tweet or message it to someone directly from within the app. You can also save it for later or copy it to the clipboard to quickly paste into another app.
TypeIt4Me Touch is priced at a very reasonable $4.99 / £2.99 / 3.99€, so it's not going to break the bank. Optimised for iOS 5.x and designed to play nicely with TypeIt4Me for Mac and OS X 10.7 Lion, it comes with some brand spanking new features, including:
Now that we've got the sales patter out of the way, please do head over to the App Store and check TypeIt4Me Touch out. We're confident you'll either love it, loathe it or have mixed feelings about the time-saving opportunities it opens up for you. For our part, we're pretty stoked about it.
Well, that was the big news for today. It's time for us to get back to work on the Mac version, but before we wrap this up, we'd just like to extend our grateful thanks and appreciation to the small army of dedicated volunteer beta testers who so dilligently found ways to break this app while it was in development. Their heroic efforts have helped us make TypeIt4Me Touch 2.0 a stronger, more robust animal. We hope it will make your life just that little bit easier. Enjoy.
Good day to you fine folk out there in shiny Appletopia! Remember us? We're back with a long overdue update to bring you up to speed with the latest developments and tittle-tattle here at Ettore Towers. We realise the unusually prolonged bout of radio silence may have had one or two of you absently wondering if we'd perished at the hands of frozen night terrors during the winter. Well fear not, for we managed to elude the White Walkers and now that spring has sprung [a leak] we can emerge blinking into the drizzle to give you the lowdown.
So just what have we been doing besides slurping porridge and bingeing on Game of Thrones? To cut a long story short, we've been working our socks off. Those of you who've been following our software development efforts for a while will have noticed by now that when we go quiet it means we're super busy squashing bugs, responding to customer feedback and painstakingly building superior iterations of our app offerings. In recent months we've been particularly focused on beefing up TypeIt4Me in order to better support your evolving stenographic text expansion needs. Not only is a Mac update nearing completion, but – without wanting to give too much away – we also have a little treat in store on the mobile side of things. Stay tuned for a forthcoming announcement…
…In other news, after the ringing endorsement TypeIt4Me received from Lifehacker in their Mac Text Expansion Faceoff last year, we're pumped to see the venerable Adam Dachis is still a keen TypeIt4Me user. You can watch him discussing its usefulness in this Take It to the Cloud podcast (about 16 minutes in). The dude's not on our payroll, we swear – he's just awesome :)
Howdy folks, we're just poking our heads over the parapet to bring you news that TypeIt4Me 5.2 is out today. This update is free if you paid for a full or upgraded licence after 1 January 2010 – so if you've already given us some of your hard earned dosh at some point in the last 18 months, you're good to go. Otherwise you'll need to stump up a modest US$8.99 if you want to benefit from the latest features. Can't say fairer than that, can we?
New or changed features in TypeIt4Me 5.2:
For now, the above command needs to be copied and pasted – or typed – in Terminal as the option is not currently included in TypeIt4Me's preferences screen. If this feature proves popular we will look into making it more user friendly in a future release. If you try it and decide you don't like it, you can revert to normal by firing up Terminal again and entering the following line:
defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu shortenProposedAbb -bool YES
Yep, we like to keep busy. Hot on the heels of version 1.0's debut less than a month ago, it's our pleasure to announce that SpeakMyTunes 2.0 is available for download now. You can grab it straight from our website or, if you prefer, from Apple's Mac App Store.
It was just a bit of fun when we launched it, but SpeakMyTunes has proven to be quite a hit. In a few short weeks our freeware song announcer for iTunes has been downloaded by thousands of music lovers across the globe. We'd like to thank everyone for the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response: your positive feedback and suggestions just keep pouring in. As you might expect, we're pretty jazzed that people are enjoying SpeakMyTunes and finding it useful. Encouraged by your kind words and great ideas, we've gone on to add some spiffy new features. This is what's new in version 2.0:
That's it for the time being. We hope you'll get a kick out of these improvements – we've certainly enjoyed the challenge of implementing your requested features. Anyway, have fun tweaking SpeakMyTunes to your hearts' content and keep the feedback coming. We love to hear your thoughts. Toodle pip…à bientôt…adiós…and arrivederci!
It's been a long time coming, but we've finally updated BigBen with some hi-res photos and professionally recorded chimes.
It now plays every quarter and correctly starts the chime on the hour, to end in time for the first bong to play as the clock strikes the hour.
Check it out here and tell all your friends.
A few users alerted me last week that 5.1 (44) no longer worked on their PPC (non-Intel) Macs.
Turns out that in order to compile for PPC, Xcode 3.2.6 now requires manual intervention to change the default setting, which is now Intel only.
Today, we replaced the TypeIt4Me binary included on the distribution disk image with a binary that supports PPC as well as Intel and will run on both Leopard and Snow Leopard:
Unless you are still using a PPC, non-Intel Mac, there is NO need to download this version which is otherwise identical to 5.1(44).
With Lion 10.7 coming later this summer, 5.1(45) may very well be the last PPC-friendly version and we may also be dropping Leopard support, focussing on Snow Leopard and Lion only.
NB This version now supports Command-Q to quit the app. If you prefer NOT to have this, open Terminal and paste in the following command:
defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu AddCmdQ -bool NO


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When Bounces Affect Your Rankings
Both Google and Bing have indicated that your sites bounce rate can affect your rankings in the SERPs (how much is a separate issue). This has caused some confusion among website owners, chiefly because what constitutes a bounce means different things to different people (and different analytics platforms). Let's talk about bounce rate, what it means and when a bounce will and will not affect your rankings.
What is a Bounce?
Broadly defined, a bounce is a visit that hit your site and then left right away. Analytics platforms and search marketers alike tend to define a bounce in one of two ways:
A short visit: Some marketers measure a bounce as a visit that took less than a certain amount of time, for example visits of under 1 minute.
A single-access entry: Many analytics platforms define a bounce as a visit in which a user did not visit any pages on the site other that the one that he/she landed on.
When hearing that search engines evaluate bounce rate as part of their ranking algorithm, many website owners hit the roof. After all, what if a user bounces from the site because they immediately find exactly what they're looking for? Sometimes a visit doesn't have to be very long or over multiple pages to be a totally successful user experience!
Settle down. Search engines know that. They're not unfairly judging you based on your total bounce rate.
What is a Bounce, to a Search Engine?
To a search engine, a bounce means something different than it does to your own analytics. When it comes to using bounce rate as a signal, search engines are only looking at people who click on your site in the SERPs and then immediately click back to the search results. Not people who visit your site and then leave by clicking a link or typing in a different URL, and not people who visit only one page but don't return to the search results. Call it the Back-button bounce rate.
As with many search ranking factors, it helps to think WHY search engines would want to take Back-button bounce rate into account. When a search engine evaluates a page to rank for a certain keyword, they want to know: will people searching for this keyword find what they're looking for on this page? Visitors who click on your page and then immediately return to the search results clearly haven't found what they are looking for; if they had, they would stop looking, right?
How Low Does My Back-Button Bounce Rate Need to Be?
No website is going to be the very best experience for 100% of searchers. Some people are going to click the Back button no matter how awesome you are, and search engines get that, too. Additionally, some industries have higher bounce rates than others (for example, in retail niches where customers are doing a lot of comparison shopping, Back-button bounces are commonplace).
Search engines have gotten pretty good at figuring out what industry you're in, and what other websites are competing in your niche. As long as your Back-button bounce rate is comparable to (or better than) your competitors', you're in fine shape.
Focus less on getting your bounce rate below a certain threshold, and more on getting your bounce rate as low as you can. One way you can do this is to take a look at which pages on your site are getting traffic from which organic search keywords, and make sure that those pages are, in fact, good matches for the search intent behind their target keywords. Working to reduce your Back-button bounce rate this way isn't just beneficial for search rankings; its good for your customers, too.
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The use of the back button to define "bounce" is important. If you fave done your SEO right and have compelling content, then folks should be responding to your call for action on the landing page.
Is there any way to controll bounce? Are dir sumitters bad?
To add to the Bounce Rate issue, there are a lot of factors to be considered.
The Bounce rate which we see in the Google Analytics is not something the search engines consider for quality purposes. Search engine consider the "Dwell Time" which is nothing but the time spent on a page by the visitor before leaving back to the search results page or closing the page (without going to any other page on the site).
Also, there are two types of bounce rates: Actual Bounce Rate and Standard Bounce Rate
Actual bounce rate: user visiting your page from search results page and leaving within a few seconds without navigating to any other page on the site. The bounce rate what you see in the Google Analytics program is nothing but the Actual Bounce Rate. This is a negative sign as the Dwell Time is just a few seconds.
Standard bounce rate: A person visits a page with high quality content, reads the full content and then leave (spends more than 10 mins). Also, he doesn't visit any other page on the site. This is still a bounce, but "Standard Bounce Rate". Here this is not considered as a negative sign by the search engines as the Dwell Time is more than 10 mins!
[…] Page titles and Meta data are probably the strongest on site optimization factors on any indexed webpage, but try to make them relevant, rather than stuffing with keywords or writing vague titles. Use them to give people searching on search engines, a clear idea of what to expect from your website – let them not be misleading. Misleading page titles and meta descriptions can get you lot of clicks but if the bounce rate from your pages are higher for those keywords, they can damage you. (Does bounces affect SEO?) […]


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Apache, PHP and MySQL on SuSe 9.3
First time Linux user here....
I was wondering wether you could shine a little light on me with respect to how to install Apache, PHP and MySQL in order to create a small server for running a web-app I need to do for a certain class.
I noticed there are a lot of different kinds of downloads for linux. Anyone care to explain?
NOTE: as seen on thread title, Linux distro I'll be using is SuSe. Alternatively Fedora Core...
Thanks a bunch.
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It gets stressful at times but it can be fun when you are making your own fun programs such as soccer, racing games or just bees chasing a guy. Erica Ceniceros NVCS
Team: 33
School: Jackson Middle School
Area of Science: Behavioral Science
Interim: Problem Definition:
The problem we are researching is if verbal bullying in middle school can spark a chain reaction effect throughout the community. One of the things we have been seeing during the research is that most teens are unaware that they are being verbally bullied. Other things that we have been seeing is, that most kids in our surveys show that the main reason of them becoming bullies is because the were they were bullied in the past. The information we have gathered shows that there might be a chain reaction based on the data we have acquired.
Problem Solution:
The solution to our problem is to program in NetLogo TNG a simulation based on a program used in Kick-Off and manipulating it to our problem. The setting in which our program will take place is a Middle School. Within this Middle School the 'Students' or turtles will wander and there will be mostly bystanders and a small percentage of bullies and victims. The bullies will 'chase' the victims within a certain radius, the victims will 'run away' and some of the bullies will chase after. After a bit, the bully will catch up to the victim and they will have a chance to become a bully, stay a victim or become a bystander. The bully will also have a chance to not be a bully any longer. The bystanders will also be involved because there's a chance for them to become a victim. With this we will be able to show how the chain reaction effect appears in Middle Schools.
Progress to Date:
Since the Supercomputing Kick Off, we have been working on making our surveys then disturbing them to teachers in our school. The surveys are anonymous because this subject can be sensitive and quotes such as "Because of bullying, I am now constantly putting myself down" or "the same people that I picked on, picked on me" (anonymous surveys) some would not want this information out. We have received 178 surveys back; we have been analyzing the surveys. So far we have been looking at the adaptations of bullies and victims. We are about to begin on programing based on the information we have gathered in our surveys.
Expected Results:
The results we expect to find during this project is to show that bullying has an effect on both victims and bystanders and can spark a chain reaction throughout its community (Middle Schools); to show the impact that bullying has toward a school environment. The chain reaction we expect to find is that bullies will bully the victims, which will have an affect on the victim and that person will start bullying others for various reasons.
Cafege, Adam, and Marconi Calindas. "Bullying Facts." Sonny Sunflower. Weebly, 2013. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. http://ofpetalsandhopesonnysunflower.weebly.com/bullying-facts.html.
Meier, Megan. "Bullying, Cyberbullying & Suicide Statistics." Megan Meier Foundation. N.p., 6 Nov. 1992. Web. 29 Nov. 2014. http://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/statistics.html.
"Verbal Bullying." - Bullying Statistics. N.p., 2013. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/verbal-bullying.html.
Fraser-Thill, Rebecca. "Information for Preteens: Are You a Bully?" Information for Preteens: Are You a Bully? About Parenting, 2014. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. http://www.pamf.org/preteen/growingup/school/bullyquiz.html
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Motorcyclist hurt in collision with van on Rt. 249
HICKSVILLE, Ohio - A 59-year-old Hicksville man was hurt seriously yesterday when his motorcycle collided with a van on State Rt. 249 in Defiance County north of here, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.
Donald Vanscoder was taken in critical condition by medical helicopter to Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind., troopers at the patrol's Defiance post said.
A hospital spokesman said she didn't have a patient by that name. Mr. Vanscoder was riding west on Route 249 just west of Rosedale Road when a van being driven east on Route 249 by Greg Bany, 42, of Edgerton, Ohio, collided with his bike. Mr. Bany was turning into a private drive when the collision with the motorcycle occurred, troopers said.
The accident is under investigation. Mr. Bany was wearing his seat belt and was not hurt. Mr. Vanscoder was not wearing a helmet, troopers said.41.29355 -84.76189


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Park where end of Big' was filmed is in troubleBy JIM FITZGERALD
The Associated Press | June 09,2014AP PHOTO
People enjoy the bumper car ride at Playland in Rye, N.Y.RYE, N.Y. Playland, a collection of modest coasters, rides and attractions that evokes a simpler time and even holds a place in Hollywood history, is in trouble.
The 86-year-old Art Deco landmark north of New York City is the nations largest government-run amusement park, and its been a money loser for suburban Westchester County for years. It lost $4.3 million in 2013, attendance dropped from 1 million in 2005 to 390,000 last year, and a grand plan to revamp the park is more than a year behind schedule, caught up in politics and opposition from neighbors.
While no one is predicting that Playland will have to close anytime soon, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino now the GOP nominee for governor has often said the status quo cant continue. And officials note that only about 30 percent of Playlands patrons are county residents.
Amusement parks arent an essential service of government, said Astorino spokesman Ned McCormack. If we cant get it to a point where its financially viable, a day could come where it just can no longer go forward.
The county doesnt have the space, the money or the inclination to make the 280-acre Playland into a Six Flags-type thrill-seekers dream. Its size, old-fashioned feel and lower prices make it more of a family outing, with a boardwalk, beach and picnic tables on Long Island Sound.
The parks style is evident at the end of the 1988 blockbuster comedy Big, in the scene when Tom Hanks character makes his wish to return to his life as a child.
One of the most beloved sections is Kiddyland, where the Red Baron airplanes and Crazy Submarine are especially tame. A long mall down the center is given over to shade trees and flowers rather than rides.
At Playland last week, patrons agreed its a low-key excursion. But several said the slower pace was part of the charm.
I do agree its a little bit outdated, said Jeannette Charles, principal of St. Bartholomews School in New Yorks Queens borough, which brought 170 people, mostly 8- to 13-year-olds, to the park for an end-of-the-year outing. But for my kids, this is perfect. Theyre having a great time and nobodys complaining.
But Gershwin Vini, 15, of Massapequa on Long Island, said hed like to see a few more rides, maybe one big drop ride. For a high schooler, its not that much fun.
Astorino, who has said he hopes to be the man who saved Playland, asked in 2010 for proposals to reimagine the park. He announced in 2012 that he had chosen the nonprofit Sustainable Playland Inc. to turn the park into a year-round attraction as opposed to just a summertime draw.
The plan called for cutting back the area devoted to rides, while preserving such favorites as the wooden Dragon roller coaster and the old Derby Racer carousel. SPI would also add water park features to the beach and pool, create a Great Lawn overlooking the sound, and build a field house and athletic fields. The popular boardwalk where the Big scene was filmed would remain.
The sports facilities heavily in demand in Westchester were considered a key element for income and for expanding the parks appeal throughout the year.
Astorino said in 2012 that Westchester would get $4 million up front and would eventually receive at least $1.2 million a year. But Geoff Thompson, a spokesman for SPI, said the $4 million figure is no longer being talked about, partly because of the funds eaten up by various delays.
Astorino had hoped that the new operator would take over in 2013, and he asserted that he didnt need the approval of the full county Legislature. That resulted in two lawsuits. The Legislature also decided to hold hearings, questioning SPI and the unsuccessful bidders.
Meanwhile, some residents of Rye, where Playland is located, began objecting to the proposed field house, which is near a residential area. In response, it was reduced from 95,000 to 82,500 square feet. Then the city government, threatening a lawsuit, claimed that the city, not the county, should be the lead agency in determining the revamped parks environmental impact.
The state is expected to rule shortly on who gets to lead the review.
Meanwhile, Catherine Parker, the state legislator from Rye, withdrew her longstanding support of the Sustainable Playland plan.
Im not saying its the wrong plan, she said. But its doomed because its going to be tied up for years with this looming litigation.
She said the county should start over with reasonable proposals that dont involve a field house.
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SAN DIEGO – The fourth exhibition of the NFL preseason is meaningless to most. It won't affect the Chargers' starting lineup, nor will it have great weight on playing time or specific roles during the regular season.
For others, however, Thursday's game means everything. When the Chargers host the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday, some players will be participating in their final NFL game.
"One of the veterans told me to look at this game like it's the Super Bowl," said cornerback Ramon Broadway, an undrafted free agent from Arkansas battling to make the Chargers' roster. "You don't want to play with all that pressure, but you have to go out and compete like it's your last game. You want to make a lasting impression and, most of all, you want to represent yourself well and show that you can stand out within a system."
Most decisions on the 53-man roster have been made, but there are a few openings ---- as many as three or four ---- that could be secured with a solid performance against the 49ers.
There are several young players on the bubble, including Broadway, linebackers Darryl Gamble and Carl Ihenacho, receiver Bryan Walters and offensive lineman Colin Baxter. One or two could make the roster. A few more are headed for the practice squad. A great many of their teammates are headed for the unemployment line with the Chargers required to reduce their roster from 80 to 53 by Saturday.
"It means a lot that these players go out and play well," Chargers coach Norv Turner said. "They've put a lot into this training camp, and if it helps them make our football team, that would be very special for them. It could help them make another team if they don't end up sticking with us.
"There's some of the greatest competition of any game in the preseason because most of these guys are playing for a job. They're playing for a chance to compete in the National Football League, so you'll see a pretty serious, pretty physical approach to this football game."
Broadway knows how vital this game is. The cornerback has impressed in practice, but his time to translate that to a game has been fleeting as the starters played more prominent roles in the second and third exhibition games.
He'll get his chance to show what he has learned Thursday since the Chargers' starters aren't expected to play much –quarterback Philip Rivers may not play at all. Broadway admits exuberance may have hurt him early on, when he tried to impress rather than fill his role within the defense.
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What the fuck is there to discuss? These are all fairly well known acts that have for the most part already played at Coachella.
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Being stuck on a boat with people who go to Coachella sounds like a horrible nightmare.
Lineup is weak sauce shit.
white power?!
If suprefan isn't first, he cries.
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Why also isn't Celine Dion on here??? It would be perfect!
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Pulp will have one of the smallest crowds and they're the top billed act, this is a bust
Wtf if your out there for 3 days they gotta have more acts
4 or 5 days. Fucking read.
Every band will have a full showlength set, I'd imagine. Its much "Hey lets go to Jamaica and there are some bands" as apposed to "There's a shit ton of bands playing and we will stop in Jamaica."
I like this lineup a whole lot more than at first glance.
Pulp were amazing and I'd love to see them again.
Yeasayer were also great.
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I missed Black Lips at Coachella, I'd like more from Cloud Nothings
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Well let's be honest, the ones that were not at Coachella this past year will probably be at Coachella this upcoming year, right? If they hold out Yeasayer for this cruise and not the real thing, I am gonna be one unhappy camper.
Just go to Hedonism is Jamaica and watch/judge "The Best Pum Pum" contest, after "The Best Ass" contest. Then have an orgy, well under $600 and I'm sure someone will play a Pulp album for you if you request it.
I love PULP and all, but this is fucking stupid. I'm so over this festival. My friends and I all agreed next year will probably be our last. It's getting way out of hand.
For the price I don't see many people embarking just for the lineup, like someone said earlier it looks like it's simply a cruise first and then a music festival with probably lots of sex and smuggled drugs that will be the real draw.
I'm just curious as to why "Coachella" is even in the name of it
because they're using it as a brand.
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Maybe you were watching a different pass than I did but it is very obvious that Marquez knew he was there and turned into Pedrosa. I am not naive enough to think he intentionally had plans to crash Dani or anything like that but he forced contact that in no way was necessary.
You're telling me that you calculate contact into your "safe passes"?
Granted, it's been a while but if I forced a pass like that in CMRA, CRA or WERA, the guy that I caused to crash would be searching the pits for me to see if it was physically possible to punt my nuts through the top of my head or to see if he could invert my nose with his fist.
Marc could have easily ran that turn a little wide and not made contact in some valiant effort to force the pass on Dani...and then recovered within half a lap.
I don't ever plan contact and I don't think MM did either. He got in too hot, go tpinched between DP and the curb, then inadvertently barley touched DP's swing arm with his clutch lever guard (most likely). I don't think he was planning contact, just trying to stay on the track. If DP would have turned in a split second earlier, there would have been no contact. My point was while trying to set up a pass it is not uncommon to get in too hot and run up beside somebody.
First, that wasn't a "forced pass", it was a "got in too hot". And second, if you did the same thing at a club race, no one would know because that light touch wouldn't have done anything, much less cause a crash. The only reason it caused a crash here was TC, the poorly protected wire, and the poorly programmed system.
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