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Carlisle Utd can improve but there will have to be signings, says defender Murphy
Last updated at 12:00, Monday, 14 May 2012
Anyone stopping by Brunton Park this summer and hoping to hear the splashing of cash may be disappointed by the silence. This is not an era of heavy spending at Cumbria's only professional club.
Down at United these days the principle is of careful progress and only cautious dips into the player market. If the Blues are to advance from last season's eighth-placed finish any additions must be carefully-sourced and responsibly funded.
But come they still must, says Peter Murphy, a man who has seen a fair few dozen players step in and out of Carlisle's ground down his 10 years with the club, and who believes the only way to progress is by strengthening in the right places.
From this authoritative corner of United's dressing room comes an opinion which most people on the terraces and seats share: that Carlisle have just completed a strong season which faltered at the end only because a thin squad was under-equipped to cope with Lee Miller's absence, up front.
The view from the centre-half position is therefore the same as the sight from beyond the touchline. Somehow United must maximise their limited resources and make a good squad better, deeper.
"I think it's been a great season for us," says Murphy, who is one of eight men considering a new contract offer from manager Greg Abbott.
"I think we're overachieving, for a club like ourselves, based on the wages and budget and things like that.
"Stevenage are probably like ourselves, and good luck to them. We had the luck a few years ago coming up from the Conference, but they've worked their way back up and now they've got a chance to go up to the Championship.
"Other than that, if you look at the teams above us, with the money, the attendances and the backing that they have, the likes of ourselves have tried our best to keep up with them, which isn't easy."
The story of 2011/12 will be split into several chapters, including an inconsistent start, the booster jab of a brilliant signing [Miller], a September slump and then a strong rise into the top third of the table, before the frustrating conclusion.
Amid all the good times there may have been no more significant moment than the time Miller went hurtling over a Scunthorpe defender in April, damaged his groin upon landing and left Carlisle to fight their remaining battles without their best player.
They tried to see it through without him, but it was too much. That final stagger to the line, says Murphy, highlights an obvious area to address.
"It's been a good season, unfortunately we couldn't follow it through with missing a player like Lee Miller," the Dubliner says. "When you look at what he brought, and what we've got as a club, it's been hard to replace him.
"When you've got the likes of Mark Beck coming in, who hasn't got much league experience, that's what we're dealing with – the squad not being the biggest.
"Hopefully next season we can add a couple of players and push on. When you've got a key player out of the team and are relying on young kids, it's hard for them. Hopefully we will have that extra quality. It just depends on where the club goes."
It is also true that retaining current players is more important, at present, than securing new ones. The uncertain eight will, Abbott hopes, begin to commit themselves over the coming days and weeks. The last thing Carlisle's manager needs this summer is to go shopping with an entire cupboard to fill.
Murphy is one of three centre-halves to be weighing up new terms, on the back of a campaign judged his best and most consistent in six years by Abbott.
Whatever arrangement of defenders Carlisle's manager lines up next season, stemming their leakiness is another obvious challenge. For some time United remained in the play-off hunt despite a negative goal-difference column but it did for them in the end.
It needs to be a positive figure next season if the next demanding step is to be taken.
Murphy, for the moment, is able to reflect with some contentment on his personal contributions to 2011/12, which may go down as the first in which he has enjoyed the full trust of Abbott from first to (almost) last.
"I've been playing centre-back, I've played a lot of games and enjoyed it," he says. "I feel I have played well. It's just unfortunate I didn't play the last two games.
"After moving to left-back, Lubo [Michalik] and Danny [Livesey] were awesome in the Sheffield Wednesday game, so they started the next two games and he [Abbott] brought in Matty Robson, who's a more attacking full-back.
"And we had a great result against Exeter so he stuck with that for the last game.
"Apart from that, though, it's been a great season for myself. I've enjoyed it and it's been good to be in a team that's done very well. Hopefully we will be even better next season."
United without Murphy remains a hard picture to conjure with. On the face of it, Abbott's warm words about the 31-year-old at last Sunday's end-of-season awards dinner suggest the manager would much prefer to have him around than not.
A testimonial game this summer (yet to be finalised) and other events to mark his 10 years of service also remain on the calendar for the Blues' longest-serving player, who broke the club's outfield appearances record last term and has long secured for himself a permanent place in supporters' affections.
You sense there was no more frustrated man inside Boundary Park than Murphy, who watched the dream fade from his position on the substitutes' bench. Now the bigger picture looms.
"With Carlisle there's always something up or down on the last game, and this time it was a chance of going up," he says. "We had that chance, but unfortunately it didn't work out that way and it wasn't in our hands.
"But overall I think the fans will have enjoyed the season and we've given them some things to cheer about. Hopefully we can go even further next year."
First published at 11:29, Monday, 14 May 2012
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Campaigning architect dies
In 1972 McCarthy, who was born in 1943, became not only the youngest member to be elected to the RIBA Council, but also its youngest vice president.
In the late 60s McCarthy was a driving force behind the newly formed Salaried Architects Group (SAG) which campaigned to modernise the RIBA.
According to fellow SAG founder, Sam Webb, 'Maurice was an extraordinary character'.
'He modernised the RIBA and was one of the first, if not the first, to recognise the threat that the newly constitutionalised ARB was to the RIBA,' said Webb.
McCarthy was also responsible for revising the RIBA Code to include an obligation on an architect to consider the interests of the user client and public.
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Pennsylvania hunters harvested an estimated 352,920 deer in the 2013-14 hunting seasons, a statewide increase of about 3 percent from the previous year's 343,110 total, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported Wednesday.
Locally, the wildlife management unit that predominantly contains York County saw a drop of 3.8 percent in deer harvested, while the unit that houses most of Adams County saw an increase of 7.8 percent.
Statewide, hunters took 134,280 antlered deer in the 2013-14 seasons — a harvest similar to the previous license year when an estimated 133,860 bucks were taken. Also, hunters harvested 218,640 antlerless deer in 2013-14, which represents an about 4 percent increase compared to the 209,250 antlerless deer taken in 2012-13.
Wildlife management unit 5B takes up most of York and Lancaster counties, plus parts of Adams, Lebanon, Dauphin and Berks counties. The region harvested 7,400 antlered deer, down from 8,500 in 2012-13. Meanwhile, the anterless deer harvest increased to 12,800 from 12,500 the year before. The total number of 20,200 represents a 3.8 percent drop from the 2012-13 total of 21,000 deer.
WMU 5A covers the majority of Adams County and parts of Cumberland and Franklin counties. The region harvested the same number of antlered deer — 2,800 — as it did the year before, while hunters took 4,100 antlerless deer, an increase of 500 deer over the previous year's 3,600 total. In all, the 6,900 deer taken in WMU 5A represent a 7.8 increase over the 2012-13 total.
Harvest estimates are based on more than 25,000 deer checked by Game Commission personnel and more than 110,000 harvest reports submitted by successful hunters. Because only about one-third of hunters report their deer harvests, the Game Commission uses data from deer checked in the field and hunter reports to estimate the total harvest.
The PGC reported that 47 percent of the antlered deer taken in 2013-14 were 1 1/2-year-old bucks, with the remaining 53 percent being 2 ½ years old or older.
The antlerless harvest included nearly 62 percent adult females, about 21 percent button bucks and almost 18 percent doe fawns. The rates are similar to long-term averages.
The antlerless success rate remained about 25 percent for the licenses issued.
Bureau of Wildlife Management personnel are working to develop 2014-15 antlerless deer license allocation recommendations for the April meeting of the Board of Game Commissioners.


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Sounds like the perfect combination of Sinar standards. You get the rigidity and load handling ability of the P rear standard, combined with a lighter weight, but still still rigid F2 front standard.
It sounds like we headed down very similar paths. I'm having Richard make the back for my camera (but I am making the rear "box") and I plan to order my bellows from Camera Bellows. The ARCA-SWISS front bellows frame is on it's way to me from Percision Camera Works and should be here early next week. At which point, I'll ship it off to Camera Bellows to get the bellows made. I think I'll limit my bellows extension to about 28". The longest lens I current have is a 600mm Fujinon C that only needs 22.6" of extension to focus at infinity. If I ever do need to go longer, I can add an intermediate standard (which I already have) and an extension bellows (which I also already have) as well as a longer rail section (also, have). So, in my base configuration, the camera will be lightweight, compact and able to handle lenses up to 600mm. If I ever need more extension, I've already got everything I need.
I do plan to hike, and maybe even backpack, with my camera. So, a compact, lightweight configuration is a requirement for me (another reason I chose the ARCA-SWISS).


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I have files opened via a Samba share, and have full permissions on the files I'm trying to change.
Editing and creating works fine, however when I right click and hit 'Delete File', the menu disappears and nothing happens.
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Since it was raining and cold and windy yesterday I decided to take shelter inside a movie theater where it was warm and there was popcorn and pop and movies. And since I like the comedic stylings of Jason Segal, I decided upon "The Five-Year Engagement." Segal, you will recall, starred in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and his daytime job is some TV show with the guy that used to play Doogie Howser. Anyway, his indifference to most things makes me laugh and he seems like the kind of guy that I would want to sit down with and have an Orange Julius.
"Five-Year Engagement" is slightly better than I thought it would be. There are more than a couple of laugh out loud moments and some very humorous bits. The premise is good and many of the issues tackled in the movie are very real. Most movie goers will identify with one or more of the characters.
Towards the end of the movie, the pace slows down and some seriousness prevails. That might be a good time to go to the bathroom or call your parents. For some reason the running time is a shade over two hours. I could have easily cut fifteen minutes out of the film if anyone had asked me. Alas, they didn't.
My recommendation is that most of you would like this movie. Probably 75% of you.
As for the jab taken at the great state of North Dakota? It was pretty funny. I consider it an honor that they took the time to include us in their little movie.
I ate some popcorn and drank a lot of Diet Mountain Dew. I also smuggled in a bag of Peanut M and M's. I didn't count, but I think there were less than 15 in the bag. What's up with that?
The Five-Year Engagement: 3 out of 5 stars.


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Valuations stretched? Would the FED promote that? Would they approve of it? Do they want Mom and Pop to risk their hard earned dollars for the benefit of Wall Street and the rich? Yes on all counts! The FED will continue to financially rape the poor, the elderly and the middle class to prop up their speculating banks!
Well, it's comforting to know that Yellin is focused on the trees rather than the forest. It will help when the bubbles.
And also comforting that Yellin knows what the appropriate valuation is for equities. Perhaps she and her colleagues could tell publish daily a list of equities that are "dangerously stretched" and those that are "reasonably" valued. Investors and speculators could invest based on the Fed's valuations.
It is a whole new assortment of tools: micro-prudential added to the macro-prudential toolbox the Fed has discovered.
Ray: Are small caps overall stretched or are small caps in the biotech industry and social media stretched? Big difference.
There is nothing confusing in the Fed's language. The second excerpt makes it very clear that the Fed is highlighting overvaluation among small-caps broadly AND biotechnology and social networking stocks, regardless of capitalization. The first excerpt simply makes the observation that the degree of overvaluation is, as one might expect, most notable at the intersection of these two groups (i.e., small-cap biotechs and small-cap social networking stocks.)
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|Transient periventricular echodensities in preterms and neurodevelopmental outcome.
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|PMID: 16901425 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Little is known about the clinical evolution and neurologic sequelae of transient periventricular echodensities in the neonatal period. The aim of our study was to assess the neurodevelopmental outcome in preterm infants with transient periventricular echodensities. Cerebral ultrasonography was performed within the first 72 hours of life on all preterms with a < or = 37 weeks' gestational age who were admitted consecutively to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the University of Parma from January 2001 to December 2002. Cerebral ultrasonography was performed at least twice within the 14th postnatal day and was repeated weekly until 40 weeks' postconceptional age. Transient aspecific echodensities were defined as areas in the periventricular region brighter than the choroid plexus persisting less than 14 days. One hundred sixty-four preterm infants were selected and divided into three groups: (1) 78 preterm infants without ultrasound abnormalities, (2) 50 preterm infants with transient periventricular echodensities, and (3) 36 preterm infants with persistent echodensities. Developmental outcome was assessed at 44 weeks' postconceptional age, after 1 month from the discharge and at the corrected ages of 3, 6, 9, and 12 months using the Griffiths Mental Developmental Scale. Group 1 and 2 infants showed normal neurodevelopment in 88.5% and 94% of cases, respectively, whereas the preterm infants belonging to group 3 had a favorable outcome in 22.2% (P < .001) of cases only. In conclusion, our study demonstrates how infants with transient echodensities show a neurodevelopmental outcome that is entirely identical to infants with a steadily negative ultrasound finding.
|Francesco Pisani; Luisa Leali; Sabrina Moretti; Emanuela Turco; Enrico Volante; Giulio Bevilacqua
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Brush the cobwebs off that old box and press it back into service.
Short for Simple Light Incredible Temporary Autonomous Zone, you'd expect something stellar from Slitaz, and it delivers.
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Another Vinyl Playback question., Do playbacks help clean vinyl?
Another Vinyl Playback question., Do playbacks help clean vinyl?
Aug 15 2008, 16:34
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I hardly ever play vinyl these days, but every now and then I find an old record that I haven't heard for ages and feel like listening to. Usually I figure if I'm going to play it I might as well record it add it to my digital collection.
Anyway the question in this thread relates to surface noise, some of which I think due to my old records not being very clean. Often these records have been sitting un-played for 20 years or something and I think maybe they've got kind of "baked on" grime or something.
I don't have much in the way of a cleaning setup either, just some old yellow cleaning cloth (that's prolly also about 20 years old and a bit dried up) that I give em a wipe with, but I don't think it really does much. I know I really should try cleaning this stuff a bit more before recording but the problem is that I'm lazy.
One thing that I think I've noticed though is that if I play the record a few times before I record it then it seems to sound a little better. Now I'm not sure if I'm just imagining this (like perhaps just getting accustom to the noise and not noticing it so much) or if playing the record several times actually helps clean it somewhat?
Does anyone know if this is a known phenomenon or am I just imagining it?
Aug 15 2008, 17:28
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A couple hifi firms (Rega?) agree with you: the stylus can be an extremely effective way of cleaning a record. In fact, I just noticed that a side I played yesterday seems to be a bit quieter than a side I played a few days ago. Some vendors of record cleaning machines recommend that you play a record at least twice after cleaning, so that any small gunk that's left over gets pushed aside.
That said, you must clean the stylus regularly for this to work. Fortunately that particular problem is much easier nowadays - most people in the know use Magic Erasers; look on AA for how to use it with a stylus.
I'd imagine that if a record was subjected to smoke or pollen or any other kind of ultrafine particulates that might break down, and the small particles would simply become embedded into the groove if you played it.
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Aug 15 2008, 17:54
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Thanks for the info axon. I'm not sure what a "magic eraser" is, it sounds like some sort of household cleaning product (sponge of some sort). is that right?
Currently I clean the stylus before playing with the head of a small art brush. I dont really know how well that works but it gets rid of any visible junk that I can see hanging off the stylus.
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I find a Carbon Fiber Cleaning Brush (by Stanton and others) works well, much better than a cloth.
You won't believe how much crud comes out of the grooves. Also, after cleaning it with the turntable motor turning the vinyl, turn the motor off, spin the record backwards and hold the brush to the vinyl for a second time--this can shift even more crud.
Aug 15 2008, 18:13
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Since I hardly ever play vinyl (and my collection is a bit old and crappy) I've been resisting the idea of going to an audio store and buying any specific vinyl cleaning products but I think you've convinced me it's worthwile. I'll probably head off to the music store tomorrow and look for a decent brush or something.
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Here are some rather interesting before/after shots:
Carbon fiber brushes are reasonably effective for the small stuff, and they're cheap at $10. Just don't try to clean them with water.
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Do Twitter and meditation mix? Ramblings of a twittering mind.
July 6, 2009
What I am really asking is — am I cut out for Twitter? "Do twitter and meditation mix" just sounded like a good title. Meditation mixes with anything — meditation can be a part of any lifestyle. But for someone like me who was drawn to meditation partly because of my "twitter mind", Twitter can be a challenge.
My twitter mind is a lot like the Buddhist "monkey mind" — jumping from thought to thought like a monkey from tree to tree. Some of us are more that way than others. In Ayurveda, my mind has a lot of vata energy. For those conversant with Ayurveda, I'd say Twitter would aggravate vata, pacify kapha and be neutral for pitta. But that's a whole 'post in the making…
Noticing anything about this post — does it seem to be jumping around? Too much time spent learning the Twitter ropes got my mind going. The energy there is incredibly frenetic for someone like me. It's also exciting. My mind tends to go off on tangents and free associates. It's great for creativity, but it has to be tamed. I'm sure that's what lead me to the style of meditation I learned and the style I teach.
In my guided meditations, I consistently encourage letting go of thoughts — not following the train of thought. This allows the mind to detach and settle down. Not only does this allow for deep rest, but it allows for the discovery of what lies beneath our thoughts. When we meditate, we experience the quality of awareness itself — the silence and stability within. We call it getting centered. It is the opposite of having a scattered attention. The attention becomes one-pointed, anchored.
Twitter could easily scatter ones attention as you jump from tweet to tweet, clicking on links wandering here and there through blog posts, videos, and more. It's all a matter of balance — finding the right mix of activities that keep us balanced and grounded. The "right mix" isn't the same for everyone. What we need to learn is what works for us.
As I said, for me Twitter is a challenge. It's a fun challenge — I love the interconnectivity and especially the opportunity to connect with more of our podcast listeners. But because of the way I'm wired, I can't spend a lot of time on Twitter. (And that's a good thing — I have so many projects to work on!) I have to find a way to make Twitter work for me. I need to tweet my way, and how that will look is just beginning to evolve.
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7 Responses to "Do Twitter and meditation mix? Ramblings of a twittering mind."
patti on
July 6th, 2009 3:38 pm
i fell into twitter last year and was instantly besotted!
i couldn't stop tweeting, following tweets and talking about twitter.
the energy was crazy, the people were fun, the ideas were prodigious and constantly fresh and changing.
and the information overload began to fry my brains and i was losing sleep just trying to keep up with it all. and more freakily, i was starting to feel a bit spaced out as i went about my daily life, because my mind was on twitter.
oooo tooo much!
in january, i closed my facebook account.
in march i closed my twitter account.
i found hours extra in each day and regained some space in my head.
i blog. i post on some forums of interest to me. i read the odd blog (odd as in occasional, not as in peculiar). i get lost with google for hours at a time and discover new things at my leisure. it's enough…. for me….right now.
twitter really fed my busy chattering monkey mind and the danger of twitter (for me) is that it was bottomless and endless and infinite and i had no built-in "enough' button.
AH on
July 6th, 2009 10:01 pm
I think Twitter is the equivalent of an ADD brain for "normal" people. Twitter for me is a nightmare as I have an ADD brain and I work really hard to keep on task. I even have a watch that vibrates every hour to help me re-focus. I love your meditations because you emphasize letting go of the thoughts – not following them, and if we do, to gently let go. By using your meditations I am able to feel in control of my thoughts for a while and it is very empowering. Thank you!
Mary on
July 7th, 2009 8:39 am
patti — sounds familiar! Glad you "regained some space in (your) head"!
AH — Twitter does seem like the ADD brain! Sometimes I think our whole culture has ADD — everything moves so fast and multi-tasking is the norm. Movies and TV shows jump around more and more. I'm so glad you've found ways to re-focus and that the meditations are helping. You are welcome!
Chris on
July 8th, 2009 7:21 am
This goes to a question I have been asking: How do you balance the meditation life with the Twitter (real) life? In meditation I feel connected. Once out, I am back to Tweeting.
Mary on
July 8th, 2009 1:42 pm
Chris, I like to think of balance as a dynamic thing. I like the image of someone on a balance board. There's constant movement with the feet tilting the board back and forth as balance is maintained.
In life, we go back and forth between outgoing and ingoing attention — outgoing when we're busy with tasks, ingoing when we meditate and our attention can go inward. It's natural to have both movements happening — in and out — but I think the problem in our culture is too much time spent with the outward attention. We become scattered, lose our center and it drains our energy. I think with regular meditation, one becomes much more self-aware and able to recognize when the sense of connection and centeredness is lost. With that recognition, the mind can shift. In fact, meditation can culture the habit of shifting the attention back to center.
chris on
July 13th, 2009 7:45 pm
Thank you, Mary. Just hours after I asked my balancing question, I had a week that challenged me to keep my balance. My father was hospitalized, could have lost his life, but with lots of prayers, and loving doctors, he made it through.
I spent a lot of time last week/weekend using your gratitude podcast – appreciating my dad, those helping him and loving him. He actually is home now much to the surprise of the medical staff….and his family. No way to prove it, but I do believe the appreciating and prayers (from around the country) increased his will to live, and sped up his healing.
Mary on
July 14th, 2009 8:36 am
Chris, sounds like you made it through this very difficult situation able to maintain balance, and I'm sure it helped your father! I'm glad he pulled through.
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With all the cuts will we make a move?
Do you think we will go after any cornerbacks or Linebackers for depth since everyones roster has been trimmed to 53? I mean the bengals cut Deltha Oneal and i seen some other names that could possibly contribute to our depth issue... any opinions one what we should go after?
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Re: With all the cuts will we make a move?
I'm thinking that the team will have to get another cornerback some time because at the moment we only have 3 healthy cornerbacks and some of them have proven that we can't completely rely on them to always stay healthy. I'm hoping that we get a decent cornerback and that we get rid of Richard Owens. Scott Linehan's love for him is the only thing that is keeping him on the team.
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There are some interesting people out there Delta O'neal like you guys said before, Willie Anderson, Milford Brown, Tony Fonutuni, Keyan Forney, Fernando Bryant, Darren Stone, and Ahamd Brooks. If it weren't for the character concnerns i'd be begging to jump all over Brooks. We really need CB's so the vets Fernando Bryant and Delta O'neal are verry nice options for Richard Owens roster spot. Also don't sleep on Darren Stone I wanted to draft him coming out of Maine last year he could be the possible SS of the future. I really like his size speed coverage ability and hitting if he shows some special teams upside he is a guy could take Eric Bassey's roster spot and possibly be the SS of the future.
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I wouldn't mind adding O'Neal for the right cost.
In another thread, a poster (whose name I've forgotten) suggested we may only be keeping owens for the first week for fiscal purposes- so we can cut him and have it count less against the cap. See the "final 53 man roster" thread for the ins and outs.
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I hope we add something to our line up. We are really thin at the secondary position and if Brown and Atogwe are not ready by next week, I'm gonna really worry about week one...
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Re: With all the cuts will we make a move?
I'd like to see the rams go after Willie Anderson, i'd feel better knowing he was the Pace's backup. But Bryant wouldn't be a bad pickup.
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Holt was cut by the Panthers. Would he be a legit pickup?
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The Faiders cut Archaleta.St. Louis, "The Gateway to the West".
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When he came here he had a great press agent.St. Louis, "The Gateway to the West".
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A breakdown of three different ways start-ups often use PPC to acquire new customers and a look at which ones have proven to be the most successful.
Paid search is the quintessential tool for acquiring new customers. So shouldn't it be the ideal tool for high-growth start-up companies? Yes it can be, but it often isn't. So let's start there.
Great new ideas sometimes aren't ready to spread via paid advertising, especially not when they're competing in expensive keyword auctions. As an advisor to any start-up, your second job is great tactics. Your first job is strategy: knowing when to advise entrepreneurs that there are other things they should be doing first, before spending money on paid media (either with available funds, or with sweat and favors), like put more into product development, recruit key cofounders or technical staff, traditional or new (online) PR, inbound or content marketing, etc.
Start-ups that have raised around $1 million in seed capital, of course, can probably afford to budget for paid advertising on top of the other priorities, assuming they have some cash flow. (In ecommerce, consumer finance, or very well defined B2B spaces, pay-per-click [PPC] might vault right to the top of the list even in bootstrapped startups, in cases when a bit of compelling content or glad-handing influencers pales in comparison with the immediate customer acquisition potential of PPC.)
Broadly categorized, the main uses of PPC we've seen fall into:
Let's look at number three first. Probably the biggest tragedy in the land of start-ups falls over at the slow end of the "fail fast" vs. "fail slowly" spectrum. Companies that cling solely to inbound marketing, charm, etc. -- oftentimes simply benefiting from temporary success in the ever-shifting world of Google organic search -- may never reach critical mass, and may never really seriously test their business model against "normal" acquisition costs (free simply isn't a credible price for gaining a new customer in the real world). Too much hope is a problem for entrepreneurs, just as much as too little hope or too little perseverance might be. We worked with an innovative but tiny start-up in the telecommunications space, and the entrepreneur decided smartly to budget a certain amount for PPC so he could understand consumer behavior. Nice product, and for a consumer, a nice-to-have but not a must-have. (Consider that Skype might have been this start-up's biggest competitor at the time.)
Despite ego-boosting positive feedback from some early customers, the results of testing paid ads were pretty dismal. The entrepreneur was forced to take a more serious look at the upside limits to the business, and seriously question whether the idea was worth raising capital or mortgaging his house for. After all, he had a day job as a lawyer. The difficulty of converting new customers via PPC helped him to understand that a few pockets of consumer interest didn't necessarily translate into a scalable business. At least the experiment was cheap.
The second option, acting like a traditional business, has been a clear success for the start-ups we've worked with. Whether it's making a small profit on each ecommerce sale, gaining new high-end large-buyer B2B customer wins, or undercutting the "big guys" in SaaS, hardware, or software, many start-ups have found that PPC leads to them feeling like a real business sooner than later. Positive cash flow combined with a steadily increasing pipeline of real customer response data is start-up nirvana; well, actually, it's simply business nirvana. Why make the distinction between a start-up and any other business? Although their needs and outlook may in fact vary greatly from larger, more established businesses, this approach to PPC has helped many start-ups succeed. Steady growth, by the way, doesn't preclude "hockey-stick growth stories." Indeed, when five or six years of data and growing dominance are all laid out before strong strategists and deep-pocketed investors, a "go big" shift is easier to undertake. And instead of discussing "burn rates," the entrepreneur is taking home a growing paycheck.
When it comes to number one and "go big": please don't go there right away. Strategy number one -- the massive market-sizing exercise -- rarely makes sense. We've had start-ups come to us with thin business models who have a minimum spend in mind (because their prominent celebrity investors were feeling their oats? we had no idea): "spend $75,000 per month on a bunch of celebrity names!" or what have you. The funny thing about massively failed "market-sizing exercises" is that the investors will often leave the party suddenly. The start-up -- instead of working on the product or idea, gaining validation, and winding up a long-term success -- is prematurely aborted. The company "pivots," the CEO might lose control, the investors get 80 percent of the company in a "down round," and so on. Sure, "fail fast" might be a glib mantra that appeals to the partners and investors who potentially have large pools of capital to deploy, but it does the entrepreneur -- the one who pins her hopes and dreams on making this thing succeed as a real business -- little good. "Fail fast" is best reserved for the small, affordable tests outlined in strategy number three. And if you're the business owner, there is no better discipline at first than spending your own money in an attempt to either carve out a return or gain valuable market insight.
That doesn't mean start-ups shouldn't want to move quickly. PPC is nimble, and can help a new company make its mark before potential competitors even know what hit them. Many have reached significant funding milestones as a result of PPC's ability to generate a solid customer base without waiting around for "inbound marketing alone" to make a hero out of them. PPC also "makes you smart," as my colleague Mona Elesseily points out. Because the clicks cost money, you're more apt to test landing pages, UI features, business model details, etc.
Raises of, say, $1 or $2 million, are supposed to leave some money in the budget to accelerate growth -- often at break-even levels and no better --so the investors can decide whether to place their next, bigger bet on the company. Once funds raised are in the $5 million and up range, typically there will be plenty of marketing dollars earmarked in the budget for a full-scale paid marketing effort. Especially in tech, we've worked with quite a few start-ups that have progressed through the ranks quickly with rapid customer acquisition strategies via PPC.
Goodman is founder and President of Toronto-based Page Zero Media, a full-service marketing agency founded in 2000. Page Zero focuses on paid search campaigns as well as a variety of custom digital marketing programs. Clients include Direct Energy, Canon, MIT, BLR, and a host of others. He is also co-founder of Traffick.com, an award-winning industry commentary site; author of Winning Results with Google AdWords (McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed., 2008); and frequently quoted in the business press. In recent years he has acted as program chair for the SES Toronto conference and all told, has spoken or moderated at countless SES events since 2002. His spare time eccentricities include rollerblading without kneepads and naming his Japanese maples. Also in his spare time, he co-founded HomeStars, a consumer review site with aspirations to become "the TripAdvisor for home improvement." He lives in Toronto with his wife Carolyn.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Heinz Field long has been known as one of the toughest stadiums for kickers to perform.
When Pitt and West Virginia face off in the Backyard Brawl on Friday, it might be even more difficult. The two teams expect to play on what Mountaineers' kicker Tyler Bitancurt called this week "horrendous" turf.
"I've played on some bad fields before, but I expect this to be one of the worst if NFL teams are complaining about it," Bitancurt said.
The conditions of the natural turf have caused the NFL's Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots to complain. While the sod will be replaced, it won't happen prior to the Brawl: The Steelers will wait until after this weekend's slate of games, which include Pitt-West Virginia and four WPIAL championship contests.
The turf is expected to get worse before it gets better, too, with rain and snow in the forecast for Thursday and Friday.
"I don't talk about it; Oakland talked about it. That's what I told the team," West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said. "When you play on a wet field, loose turf, what do you have to do• ... You just have to narrow your base. You can't overstride."
Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt said the field surface will not have a significant impact on either team.
"Both teams have to play on it, and you deal with it," he said.
What usually impacts the outcome, though, is the kicking game, no matter the venue. The last three meetings have come down to special teams plays or mistakes. Last year, Bitancurt made a 43-yard field goal as time expired to beat Pitt, 19-16. In the 2008 meeting, WVU botched an extra point and was forced to go for a touchdown instead of attempting a field goal on its last drive, which was unsuccessful in a 19-15 loss. In 2007, then-WVU kicker Pat McAfee missed two field goals in a 13-9 loss that shoved the Mountaineers out of the national championship picture.
"The kicking game will be a major factor. It has been in all of the last three games," Wannstedt said. "Two years ago, T.J. Porter had his best punt return of the year to set us up for our final score. Last year, they kicked a field goal with no time. (Three years ago), we strip them on a kickoff return. So there's been scenarios where the kicking game has been a factor."
Bitancurt and Pitt kicker/punter Dan Hutchins have had up-and-down seasons in 2010.
After making nearly 80 percent of his field goals last season, Hutchins has converted 71.4 percent this year. He is 1 of 5 from beyond 40 yards. He has made 9-of-12 field-goal attempts at Heinz Field this year after converting 14-of-15 attempts there last season.
"I believe that I am able to kick those kicks; it's just unfortunate that I have missed a few of those kicks, multiple kicks like that," Hutchins said. "I'm attacking it. I'm very positive about it. I can't look in the past."
Bitancurt made 87 percent of his field-goal attempts in 2009, but that number has dropped to 72 percent in his sophomore season. In addition, he has struggled on natural grass. Half of Bitancurt's field-goal misses have come on grass, along with his lone extra-point miss.
To deal with the potential field issues, Bitancurt has worked on shortening his stride to eliminate the chance of slipping. This week, he will practice on WVU's natural grass practice field instead of the artificial turf of Mountaineer Field.
Bitancurt said Monday he hoped the practice field would begin to wear similarly to Heinz Field's turf, so he could practice on a comparable surface before gameday.
"I would prefer to kick on the worst possible ground this week to try to prepare," Bitancurt said.
Hutchins said he has learned to overcome the turf issues at Heinz Field.
"There's been a lot of games played on it. It's a unique type of grass. It gets ripped up so much. But that's just how it is," he said. "For me, to go out there and kick, we've always got to make sure I've got a flat spot, pat it down, et cetera. It should be good. We'll see what happens."
Getting their kicks
Heinz Field and its oft-criticized playing surface will host its fifth Backyard Brawl on Friday. Here's how the Pitt and West Virginia kickers have fared in the four previous meetings at Heinz:
2008: Pitt 19, West Virginia 15
Pitt: Conor Lee — 0-1 (missed 40)
WVU: Pat McAfee — 3-3 (made 20, 26, 40)
2006: West Virginia 45, Pitt 27
Pitt: Conor Lee — 2-2 (made 43, 39)
WVU: Pat McAfee — 1-1 (made 51)
2004 Pitt 16, West Virginia 13
Pitt: Josh Cummings — 3-4 (made 37, 35, 20; missed 35)
WVU: Brad Cooper — 1-3 (made 26; missed 44, 31)
WVU: Andy Good — 1-1 (made 31)
2002: West Virginia 24, Pitt 17
Pitt: David Abdul — 1-1 (made 33)
WVU: Todd James — 1-1 (made 43)
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With the rap of the gavel, Bro. Raymond E. Oldland, Sr., W.M., Marion Lodge No. 562, Connellsville, opened the 15th Annual Meeting in the Hills. There were 680 brethren in attendance representing 70 different lodges from Pennsylvania, 11 states and one Jurisdiction from Canada.
This ever-popular Masonic gathering is held under special dispensation in a secluded spot near Dawson, Pa. The event is organized by the lodges that share the Pleasant Valley Masonic Center in Connellsville: King Solomon's Lodge No. 346, Marion Lodge No. 562 and James Cochran Lodge No. 614.
With an impending storm fast approaching, the special meeting to honor our brethren who served overseas in our military during the past 10 years (shown below) went off without a drop of rain during the meeting.
Online Masonic Education is Gaining Momentum!
Since the debut of the online Masonic Education site, 988 members have created logins, 219 have taken the first Masonic law quiz, 168 have taken the second Masonic law quiz, 177 have taken the quiz on the Masonic history video, 221 have taken the quiz on the written Masonic history document, 190 have taken the Entered Apprentice Mason Mentoring quiz, 166 have taken the Fellowcraft Mason Mentoring quiz and 161 have taken the Master Mason Mentoring quiz.
The website and course offerings will continue to evolve and expand to provide additional learning opportunities for members. If you haven't checked it out yet, visit www.pamasons.net/education.
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In an unusual confluence, three new Apple Stores are set to open over the weekend. The most prominent is the Bondi location in Sydney, Australia, which will open at 8AM Friday morning at 213 Oxford Street. Much of the store's event schedule revolves around the iPad, which will see a simultaneous Australian debut. One iPad workshop is scheduled for 9AM, and several more are scheduled for subsequent days. The store will also host regular concerts, beginning with the Beautiful Girls on Sunday afternoon.
Also ushering in the iPad is a second store in Edmonton, Canada, this time based at the Southgate Centre at 11100 51st Avenue. The grand opening is set to happen at 8AM, through normal Monday-to-Friday hours start at 10AM. Unlike the Bondi outlet, no in-store events of any kind have been scheduled.
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