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I am the founder of Free Software Magazine. My role has always been important, but you must keep in mind that FSM exists thanks to several key people who worked hard on this project.
My latest editorial has received countless comments about us dropping the PDFs. You can see them yourself - some of them are reasonable, while other were along the lines of "I want a PDF version, and I want it right now. If not, I will never be back to this site ever again".
When you manage a site like Free Software Magazine, your skin thickens - it really does. Rob Malda, the much-praised and also much-criticised leader of Slashdot knows this very well. Your skin thickens, but the attacks still hurt - every single time, on a personal level. I have always been sympathetic to Rob Malda, but only now I can say I truly understand some of his reactions.
I had planned on detailing the reasons for our decision to drop PDFs in the upcoming newsletter. However, it seems I need to respond sooner; this blog entry is to answer all those readers who sensibly, and politely, asked me why we made this decision, and even offered help to reinstate the PDFs. If you look hard enough, you'll see a few sensible responses amongst those angry ones.
We did not have the resources to continue producing PDF files. I have personally spent countless hours trying to make it work, with Gianluca (who was heavily affected by our decision) and Dave. Our original plan was to cover the costs of creating the hi-res, hi-quality PDFs (that is, paying Gianluca to produce it) with Lulu.com sales. The result was... well, disappointing to say the very least. The response was understanding though - in order to turn any profit, we had to charge quite high rates and on top of that there was shipping costs. As a consequence, after four months, lulu.com had made only enough money to cover a couple of meals out in a cheap restaurant. Our readers were not interested in the paper version of the magazine, and the PDF - the electronic version - was an enormous burden on us.
The PDF needs a cover, needs composition, and needs a lot of double-checking. The PDF also puts a strain on the production schedule of the magazine - once the PDF is created, it's hard to change it. Plus, if you want to be able to print the magazine later, you also need to make sure the number of pages is a multiple of 16. This means that sometimes important articles are left behind because they just don't "fit the puzzle". There is also a "flexibility" issue here: without creating the PDFs, we can decide what gets published in an issue much more easily, and are able to make last-minute decisions.
Since the Lulu.com plan didn't work out, I hoped we could cover the PDF costs (in terms of time and money) by selling PDF ads. Unfortunately, selling PDF ads is basically impossible - unfortunately, we are not the only online magazine to have discovered this sad truth.
Basically, we cannot afford (either time or money) to continue producing PDFs. This decision wasn't sudden - we kept working on the PDF versions as long as we could. However, given the circumstances, I must say that the decision is final.
Somebody suggested that we publish PDF versions of the magazine and charge $1 for each copy. In our experience (we've tried charging for the PDFs before), readers are rarely willing to part with money for information they can get for free. Again, we are not the only ones who have discovered this fact. Further and unfortunately, micro-payments are not the easiest thing to deal with - it's actually quite hard to charge somebody $1 over the internet. There is infrastructure to set up, accounts, and missing payments to deal with and this is only the beginning. We would have to be convinced that it would be a worthwhile venture before we undertook it... and we have already been convinced otherwise. However, if somebody out there is serious about this, is a good graphic designer and wants to create and sell PDF versions of Free Software Magazine, please contact me in about a week (things are a bit hectic at the moment), bearing in mind that we have very little time available to manage such a system.
Dear sensible readers, I very quickly organised a "printer friendly" button for each article and blog entry. I haven't worked on the CSS yet (any volunteers?), but given the circumstances, I have put it online immediately. Dear sensible readers, consider this a compensatory gift to you, from me and from all the people who worked so hard on this amazing project.
Take care, and thank you for your support,
Well now...
AS I expected from this man - honest, straightforward and precisely what I thought.
Thanks for trying to keep the PDF available, and thanks as always for the great articles and thought provoking reads. The printer-friendly stuff is well handled, although I'd prefer a non-serif font :)
Wishing you and the team all the bst in this new phase of your venture.
Hi all,
The position you've made is unfortunate, but quite understandable.
Everything has a cost somewhere down the line, whether it be time or money.
I really liked the pdfs, but understand your reasoning. Outgoings always need keeping in check and those that create greater problems need resolving.
Thank you for the explanation and keep up the very good work.
Trust Your Readers More
Now that the whole thing is explained, now I understand the problem of not providing more PDFs. However, you should have said this sooner. If you explained this from the very beginning, most of these comments would have been avoided. Thank you for the "Printer Friendly Version", I wanted something like that too.
Fair enough
Thank you for the complete explanation. If it had been given previously, some of the 'anger' might have been avoided.
Thank you also for the printer-friendly version. I haven't tried it yet on paper (my printer refuses to work), but I will soon. It is not ideal and not the same as PDF, but it will address some of the issues raised in the previous discussion.
BTW, I am more than willing to pay 1 dollar, or 1 euro, or even a little more for the pdf version, in case it gets published (I would also be willing to subscribe to a paper edition - I haven't done it before through Lulu.com because I would have been paying more for the shipping than the magazine itself!).
Most important is that FSM goes on being published.
Paulo Gomes
I understand your problem now.
Instead of charging 1 buck per PDF you could also make PDFs availlable on a subscription base. Maybe 50$ per year?
To find out how much people are willing to pay for PDFs a poll might help out.
Comments are very welcome here!
Please accept my apologies for not providing a much clearer explanation earlier.
Hopefully, enough people will read this explanatory entry about the PDF issue. As I said, seeing the (small) number of PDF downloads, we didn't think taking the PDFs out of the equation would create such a stir. I obviously underestimated how much those people wanted the PDF...
And, me being me, I am already investigating how to generate PDFs on the spot from the articles, and how to publish them in a collection (for each issue). It might not be as flashy, but it will get the job done!
Please send me an alternative CSS if you have CSS experience - I will add your changes, and we can together make the "printer-friendly" version look better.
htmldoc can do that...
...it will not be flashy, but it will be able to put a collection of articles with working hyperlinks and an auto-generated ToC into one PDF file. It is very easy to handle, but yet fairly sophisticated and poperful. You can tell it what the title page should look like, you can set up a background pic or graphic for the pages, you can determine font sizes, headers and footers, and you can make offline/from-paper/printout readers happy...
1. www.htmldoc.org/
2. pdf-o-matic based on htmldoc (online testing of basic HTML-->PDF conversion -- the real htmldoc can do much more)
Ok, thanks for the
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
I think what most people care about is a method of reading the mag offline and for archiving purposes on their own.
Question: I see you are using Drupal... I can't believe there isn't already something prepackaged for web to PDF conversion of articles for Drupal?
drupal pdf module
http://www.howtoforge.com/ uses the subscription module
pay to get pdf files.
Great Content!
As long as all the great content keeps getting put out I don't mind how I get it! I think the printer friendly button is a great compramise...
Keep up the good work...
I couldn't have said it
I couldn't have said it better.
As long as the great articles keep coming, it doesn't matter what form they take.
Linux: The choice of a GNU generation.
Finally they are gone :)
I always hated the PDFs, because I think usability is much better for HTML pages than PDFs (fast loading time in general, incremental loading, easier text/image copying, etc.).
The only advantage of PDF is, that it looks better, when printed, but there is also a printer-friendly version, which does at least something similar.
Of course choice is always good, so an optional PDF was fine for me, but I can understand your reasons why you don't do it anymore.
Sorry, but I don't agre with
Sorry, but I don't agre with you about this.
Yes, HTML is good for online reading, but sucks when you don't have Internet connections, or try to read it in bead, while commuting(sp?) or doing stuff on a "chair" which we will not talk about here ;)
So that is the main reason to have PDF (or some other simular format making a total printout of Magazine easy).
So better looking is not the only thing that PDF:s are better then HTML, becouse that could easy be argued agains...
PDF's MAIN advantage is that you can so easily get a print out of ALL relevant messages (and it gives a Magazine feeling, with a dead line). So a not so good looking PDF-version of Magazine (with ads) is much, much better than no easy way of geting whole magazine in one sweep. Just try to have 10 minutes full speed access to webb and then read the Magazine. Then you have same experiance as many who need that.
And yes, different choises reading the Magazine is only good.
The future of offline?
So was the end of the PDF the end of the packaged issue of FSM? I'm not going to rant and rave about it being gone, although it was the method I used to get my fix; it's your magazine and no one should think they can tell you what you have to do or else.
Personally, I would love to see another packaged version of the magazine so that I can just grab it, throw it on the PDA, and go (320x240 resolution, hint hint :P ), is this something that might be coming later? Even if it were just a continuous webpage of the whole magazine it might provide for a faster copy/paste.
I'm just brainstorming a bit, throwing out a few ideas and perhaps picking your brain. Regardless of where things go from here, thanks for the magazine and all the hard work involved.
Nick D
Packaged Version
Shortly before heading out of town for the weekend I made a feeble attempt to pack it up for the road myself. I loaded each "printable format" version in my web browser, then went to Save Page As. If you save it with everything attached it is not only smaller (although the printable format doesn't have the ads, so that might be part of the size savings), it also formats to the width of the browser which works better on my Axim.
So thanks for doing away with the PDF and bringing in the printable format!
Nick D
Thank you for your explination and comments.
I have to agree with Pedro Rosario. I appreciate your comments and explanation, and as a business major I fully understand the need to keep FSM afloat. And Pedro is correct again. If your financial comments had been mentioned first much of the community anger could have been avoided. If the choice is PDF or no FSM then PDF MUST loose out. Personally, if any of my comments were painful to you, I do apologize.
Your commitment to finding a way to have a 'pdf type' file is commendable. It shows a commitment to your readers and I really do appreciate it.
We will still have issues!
We will still release issues. We discussed it a lot here, and we decided that it makes sense on many different levels to organise (and therefore release) "issues" (that is, sets of articles) all at once.
Well, that is different than
Well, that is different than publishing an article declaring PDF a dead format, and oh by the way we're not going to be publishing in PDF format any more.
Praise and Apology
I did not want my post to seem like a give me a PDF or I am out of here. That was not my intent at all and I apologize if that is what it seemed. I am one of the anon-cowards.
Now that all has been explained I understand. I am still saddened by the loss. As to payment, why not a subscription fee. For the high quality of this magazine and others that in recent months have announced closure, I would be willing to pay a fee per year to download.
This magazine and the Tux magazine have been a great help and asset to myself and I am sure others. There is a wealth of free useable software out there, that I was not aware of until I started to read your magazine.
I will continue to check back to see the progress. In the meantime I have a lot of Printer Friendly buttons to press so I have some reading tonight.
Thank You for the great magazine
Please combine the PDFs and provide one dowload
Can you please combine all the PDFs and provide one download? This takes about two minutes if you have the PDFs at hand.
pdf-less format only
Personally, I am of 2 minds regarding this decision.
My first reaction was annoyance - I, until this point in time anyway, have always downloaded the magazine for later perusal and, particularly, reference. The reasons for this were a) I don't like reading a lot of articles at one time on my screen because of eye-strain b) I prefer to read articles at a later time from going thru my emails c) I can take my time and leave and return easily d) I can save articles to be read and referenced on a more timely occasion e) I can read the articles when I am in the mood especially if the articles are (as FSM's so, unfortunately, frequently are) ... um, less than compelling e) I can include them in my informal personal reference library of sorts.
All that having been said, I DO have other e-zines that are strictly that and have no Print-format component. They do tend to avoid referencing themselves as a Magazine per se, but since they are usually built upon a wiki-model they are easy to refer to.
If FSM is to continue Print-less, I hope it will continue its evolution towards a more web-only paradigm - particularly as far as content presentation is concerned. Hopefully I have been clear while not unnecessarily wordy, and constructively helpful, though brief.
Best of Luck in your new direction.
It can be a death of the FSM
You gave us a pdf version. It was not one time episode, but you did it fifteen times. So you shouldn't be angry when we want something what was part of our reality. Every number of the FSM was in pdf format. I know that new way of publishing is in a new web style. But should everything be done this way? Now it looks worse, is more difficult to read and it is a kind of a revolution for me. Revolution which has happened when I was sleeping, because you even didn't try to talk with your readers about help, about funds for pdf-making etc.
You could did it in a better style. FSM in pdf was one of the best, original magazines on the net. Now it is one of a million. Maybe the pdf did that FSM has so many readers. You should think about it (excuse me for my english, I'm trying hard, but I know about mistakes).
As many have written before.
As many have written before. This is quite different than to say PDF is dead, so we wont deliver our magazine in that format any more.
And as one who like to read articles of computer. I don't mind non-perfect PDF publications without even 16 page set up. Use whatever you want, as it is usally read electronicly, and not printed out as a folded magazine.
And if it wasn't clear before (and it wasn't, sorry),
keep up the work and don't hide real reasons from us like this ;-)
Honesty is the best policy
You shouldn't take the attacks personally, for they weren't personal. For some reason you tried to hide the real reason you are dropping PDFs-- money, not the silly "PDF is dead" explanation. The strong reactions were because of the strange explanation. If you had been direct and forthcoming before, I bet most of the responses would have been about fund raising, not complaining.
Anyway, I only read a few issues, including the first, but I thought the layout and design were AWESOME, as well as the excellent content. Lulu charges A LOT for printing, if I recall correctly from investigating last year, and I hope they're not the most reasonably priced printer out there. Anyway, I wish you had brought this issue up maybe six months ago, or back when there were alternatives to dropping PDF. I, and many others, would have made donations to keep things afloat before it was too late. In the future, please don't be ashamed to ask for help when you are doing such a service for the community.
P.S. Have you decided what is to become of the LaTeX macros? Maybe you could license or sell these?
PDF alternative's
I posted a reply to the PDF is dead article in the current issue of the Magazine, the reply is "PDF is still alive" , i really hope you agree that post.
I also saw the posts you mentioned bashing the fact pdf's are gone & threatening to abandon their subscription. I do disagree with them though i understand their point.
In my post there i mentioned other comercial magazine's using PDF versions of their issue's. What i forgot to talk about, which might be a magazine you should check as they are free aswell & have a solution i mentioned in my post aswell, is ATPM - http://www.atpm.com/ , "About this particular Macintosh", which offers 3 kind of downloads of their issue's. These are 2 pdf versions, one to print & one for reading as a pdf using a pdf viewer like Acrobat or Preview (in Mac Os X), the third however is the one that you can offer insrtead of PDF.
It's offering the issue as a downloadable pdf version which is packed as a diskimage (DMG), as their target public is Mac users who can open these kind of images, but any sort of archive (zip, gz, tar, ...) could be used (most preferred would be zipped as the zip archive format can easely be used on most OS'es)
I really would appriciate a move in that direction & hope it will please a lot of the other subscribers aswell well. If you are not persuaded i suggest holding a poll to see if there is a need for this
PDF files
OK. It's clear. It's honest. I got it. Copy and paste will do. As long as you go on. Do please. jjb
Probably a good thing
I find I file PDF's away for "Ron", but if the article links are there I am more likely to read them now. Ideally you would do both, but practically speaking I think you have made the right move.
Great Solution , Create your own!
Get your FSM mail, start Open Office : Now swiftly read the articles you like,
copy and paste the ones you like to study deeper into Open Office , when finished
Export the whole lot to PDF! There you go, your own selection of great articles from the Free Software
Magazine. Yes open source gives you more power to be creative!
There you go!
Hope to have been of some service!
Great Solution , Create your own!
What I would do is print the Web page directly to PDF. Of course, I do that from my own PC. Not likely to work for those who have to read FSM from an Internet cafe or a locked-down office PC.
Daniel O. Escasa
IT consultant and writer for hire
contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com)
personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph
Sad ... it was a beautiful venture.... but the future's bright!!
I appreciate the honest and swift explanation provided... indeed it does seem to be a death trap going by the explanation. I live all the way over here in India and I am not very keen to do online transactions which may not be completely secure. However, if such a setup were to be arranged for, then I would be more than happy to be one of the first to subscribe. It is a wonderful magazine and the content is very useful and pertinent. I just hope people appreciate the effort that you have put in to ensure that the FSM continues to serve its purpose.
I must confess that when I logged on today to download my favorite magazine to take a printout and read in complete offline enjoyment, I was shocked to see the "online-only" tag and would have been deeply flustered if I had not taken the time to read this. I do hope I can help/contribute in more ways than one. I will surely get more proactive and make contact when I am in a position to help in a positive way, this good magazine.
Timmy Jose.
Suggestion for compromise
Is it not possible for those of us who have some idea about design and layout, but not either no time or no ability for coding, to put our skills towards formatting FSM into a PDF magazine?
If the text and images for an article were made available after publication for download (?TAR), then those interested could but together a PDF - simple, complex, showy, consistent style, inconsistent style - who cares? You can still have your PDF!
Might even be worth a competition if ads musdt be included.
Any thoughts????
OK. It's clear. It's honest.
OK. It's clear. It's honest. I got it. Copy and paste will do. As long as you go on. Do please. jjb
Totally agree Tony... I really love pdf... but if it is not possible we will have to accept what you can give us... as long as you go on... we are already missing Tux... please don't make us miss FreeMagazine too...
And about people who hit you on that "thick skin" ... please don't pay any attention to them. Your job is appreciated for this huge community
Apples and oranges
You say that you will no longer provide a PDF version of FSM, but the reasons you give for that decision have nothing to do with PDF. The reasons you give support a decision not to provide a 4-up or 16-up layout with a "cover", etc. What does that have to do with the digital format of the magazine?
Answer: nothing. You can easily generate PDFs of the content you currently produce. Whether you want to do so, or whether you should, is not my call. But you can, easily.
Old Issues PDF files
I now understand why you are getting rid of the PDF files.
But why get rid of all the old Issues PDF files?
... the PDF is gone! So what!
First off, thanks for this FREE resource that clearly takes up a great deal of your time and effort. I really don't care much if the PDF version goes; reading the magazine on-line is not a 'life threatening experience' (although you might not think so by some of the early responses). At the end of the day you read the PDF via your screen or you read the HTML via your screen - what's the difference?. If you want hard copy of a particular article (and I would contend that most readers only want hard copy of one or two articles not the whole issue) then its much better (and cheaper) to print from your new "Printer friendly version" than from a PDF. If I want to keep a particular article I either copy the HTML page or use a PDF printer to make my own PDF version.
In an earlier response I said that the only issue I see with the HTML format is that you keep an easy to access archive. I've already deleted all my old PDF version hoping that you will maintain an archive.
Thanks again for the good work.
There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.
try living in a third world country with their wages
Then see how much you are willing to pay for online access (at those wages) to "read online". And then try downloading these web pages for offline browsing using say wget. It may not be "life threatening" but it will certainly be "world view changing".
a path inbetween?
Thank you for your great magazine!
I liked your PDFs very much, because I can take them with me even to places without internet access. So I'd like to request a thing in the middle between PDFs suitable for a publisher and no PDFs: Maybe you can use some transformation (XML/XSL?) to convert HTML to a PDF (with a number of pages non multiple of 16)? (Why do you want to keep this rule of multiples of 16 pages if you publish online only?)
htmldoc was already mentioned, maybe thats the direction?
If you disagree, please tell me how to take an HTML issue with me (please don't say 'wwwoffle')...
More info here
It seems a lot of people want/need to know what's going on behind the scenes with FSM so...
If transparency is what you want...
No Offline solutin yett , please hear me out
Hi again,
well i was early here to talk about the missing PDF version , and as i understood the problem , i gave you solutions.
Now 2 or more weeks later, i see no solution implented yett. So i guesh you ain't considering a solution, atleast not for the current issue. Can it be that hard to make a zipped version of a print ready version of the html version of the magazine ??? Aren't your readers worth the small effort asked here ???
Okay i know some comments offered here was very negative & those subscribers don't really deserve such an effort BUT was my comments negative , didn't i bring you an easy solution & a few examples of it & was i the only positive comment ? I think not, please i plead again for an offline version.
Please don't see this as a treath or as a negative comment but i really think an online only edition would make me less intrested in the magazine & would probably only do the effort of creating an offline html myself if the article is Mac related & skipp the other article's even though the *nix open source articles are usefull for me aswell but in that case i'dd probably get my information on those apps through other channels as your channel obviously isn't the easiest way anymore to get it.
I hope you bring os some sort of offline version soon , thx
PDF lost, me too
I was here because of the huge quality of the PDF magazine. It was very useful read the FSM in my laptop/pda everywhere. I'm sure that was also an important reason of other readers. Now, I think, I'm not going to read too much at the FSM homepage, or maybe anything. That's not like
"I want a PDF version, and I want it right now. If not, I will never be back to this site ever again"
as Tony has pointed. It's only that one of the things that were important for me has disapered. If the pdf reappears, or an easy way to get all the content in a pdf comes (maybe trought css), I surely come back.
Anyway, tank you very much for your huge effort and your awesome magazine. It was very interesting for me. I would make a donation, but I didn't know your problems. Sorry and thanks again.
Two links that may interest you
Ok! I see why the PDFs are gone :)
Here are one interesting link that you may wish to look:
Local copy problem
I prefer pdf files to save local copy of whole issue of web magazines.
I read writings form web site if possible, but save the pdf file for future reading purpose.
If you decided to stop pdf version, how can I download and save a local copy? I think printer-friendly version does not corresponds to this matter.
I will wait and see the solution of this problem at your side.
The reason I described above is the main reason of willing pdf version of files I think.
converting on the fly
I want to suggest a cheep solution. A tool can be set to convert articles to pdf on the fly, with reasonable quality. The people who want pdf files, can use it.
The point is to provide a downloadable version of back issues
If you do so, and particularly if you do so with the source (if that is html then it must be without all the dynamic html nonsense), then your readers who want pdf can make their own pdf and may return that to you for archival.
So you want more web site traffic !
If the problem was the work load in producing pdfs there were plenty of other alternatives to consider. Providing PLAIN html, archives of whole issues for instance or for that matter asking for community help . On the other hand making such a change without consulting your reader community or seeking their help reeks of less than honest motives. It is pretty clear what this is all about. It is about CONTROL. It is about getting more people to frequently access your web site which will attract more popups and other commercial crap. What was the point in creating a new magazine when linuxgazette (.net) was around for much longer and could use your help. No, that was not good enough. You had to show them how to make a real magzine in a jazzy
PDF. And now you REALLY showed them. Ah yes there is new theory in town "Paper is dead". Do you have any data for this ? Or is this your "know it all" opinion. Don't you think it is hipocracy trying to create a "free software mazagine" and then going against the very grain of the "free software model" of depending on the community and giving them the democratic CONTROL on such significant decisions.
A posible solution
I am a reader which allso didn't liked the change, but I understand, anybody must live and living means money this day.But as others said, maibey you could make a zipped file with the articles. And for the money i heared that google pays preety good on its ads, and i would like to donate but I am 14 years old and i live in europe.But i would like to click everyday on the ads, if it helpes.
Happy to help
The Perl Review, with a much smaller market than FSM, is both print and PDF and still easily paying its bills. I'd be happy to talk to you about how you can solve the issues that led you to drop PDF. -- brian d foy ([email protected])
What was really concerning.
Was the dribble that was the editorial. You used a forum to justify your position, creating false assumptions and, well just plain lies to cover up the real fact that you couldn't afford to create the PDF version anymore.
You deserved the responses you received, and I'm sure you will continue to receive them for some time, despite your perfectly rational explanation on your blog.
You have a perfect opportunity to make peace with many of your disgruntled customers; you know what they are asking for, a method of printing the entire magazine for offline reading. You have been getting offers of help, and pointers to great resources to fully automate this process.
Meanwhile I wont be returning, not because of the missing PDF, but your contempt for me as a reader. I deserve better than that, and I have better things to do with my time than to be angry at an article.
Good Bye.
I don't think so.
What was really concerning [w]as the dribble that was the editorial. You used a forum to justify your position, creating false assumptions and, well just plain lies to cover up the real fact that you couldn't afford to create the PDF version anymore.
Your accusations are baseless. Your opinion about Tony's opinion is just an opinion. But, while his was not attacking you, your one is attacking him. That does not make you a) right, b) clever, or c) worth listening to. There were no lies. There was only opinion. We (FSM) and others in the online magazine industry can't afford to keep producing PDFs... because no one is willing to pay for them. Therefore, to us, PDF is a dead format and HTML is very alive. Tony tip-toed around certain issues, in order to be sensitive to certain parties, and had limited space in which to get his message across... this does not make him a liar.
You deserved the responses you received, and I'm sure you will continue to receive them for some time, despite your perfectly rational explanation on your blog.
Why? We didn't take away anything that a) belonged to you, b) you deserved, c) you earned, or d) you paid for. But despite that, so far we have received pleads, requests, demands and threats in regard to returning the PDF. We offered it for free. We did not need to. And now we don't. We are sorry for those who will miss it but you have no right to complain and we do not deserve to get some of these responses (including yours).
You have a perfect opportunity to make peace with many of your disgruntled customers; you know what they are asking for, a method of printing the entire magazine for offline reading. You have been getting offers of help, and pointers to great resources to fully automate this process.
First of all "customers" pay for a good or a service. Our readers get something for free. We don't have disgruntled customers. If you have the desire you can extract the HTML and convert it to PDF for printing yourself. Other people are already doing this. We won't stop you. We just aren't going to continue spending our time, and therefore money, making something that we find unrewarding in every way to make a very small percentage of our readership even more happy than they should be with the fact we give them all this information in HTML format. However, we have provided an alternative printer friendly option which also cost us in developer time and therefore money.
Meanwhile I wont be returning, not because of the missing PDF, but your contempt for me as a reader. I deserve better than that, and I have better things to do with my time than to be angry at an article.
If we have contempt with you at all, it is as a commenter not as a reader. You as a reader, were quiet and pleasant to provide reading material to. You as a commenter are offensive and unreasonable. And I can also think of better things for you to be doing than posting insulting and offensive comments on our site.
Good Bye.
Good Bye.
Old issues?
Can we still download old issues in PDF format?
You could have tried...
You could have tried in the time it took you to post your comment.
Tried WHAT exactly? I dont see any PDF links for the old issues. I was asking because maybe I missed something (finding things on here - like this list of comments - is not obvious).
PDF's using PrinceXML?
Have you given any thought to maybe using PrinceXML [1] to create a monthly issue of FSM? Basically you feed PrinceXML an XML file (XHTML, XML, etc) plus a CSS file or files and you can create your PDF issue straight away. Essentially what you'd do is export your content to XML/XHTML and build the issue from that. AListApart.com had an article [2] on using it to print an entire book with it to PDF. It definitely looked interesting. It's not free software, but it does allow you to wait till the last minute to create your PDF out of your content.
Thanks for a great magazine!
[1] http://princexml.com/
[2] http://alistapart.com/articles/boom/
text only version
I'm all for a plain text version of FSM. Thanks for trying and for the online and by article printing for now. It was just great to print the whole thing and read it while on public transit. The images were too much for my printer anyway . . . By the way, I always gave the printed version to others who also appreciated it.
what about enable the printer-friendly module
what about enable the printer-friendly module, so at least we print the printer-friendly version.
i searched over and over for the printer-friendly bottom in vail
How about using the free software community itself?
The move away from .pdf is reasonable when the costs are considered. However, instead of providing a `printer-friendly' version, you could ask if some of your readers are willing to format at least some of the articles in a nicer form. After all, TeX makes it pretty easy. This way, the most popular articles will get the attention they deserve. I myself am not a big fan of .pdf but only because it is a bad standard, however, some form of typographically correct output is preferrable to none (there are no truly open page standards at the time if one does not count .dvi and .djvu or OO XML junk). Reading stuff on the computer screen is just too painful, and clicking `next' after every page is even more so. Also, it would be nice if the fact that
is prominently displayed somewhere on the front page, so that everybody knows what to expect. The content is great, and that is all that matters. All technical issues can eventually be worked out. Thanks for the magazine, in any case.
Single file for offline reading...
Personally I enjoy reading when I'm on transit, through my PDA or laptop. The PDF format does present a nicely packaged single-file for me to transfer.
Is there any way to package an entire issue into a single readable format without requiring the necessary formatting with PDFs? That would make it easy for me to pack-and-go. And surely I wouldn't mind a little advertisement here and there so you can (hopefully) cover the cost. ;)
PDA-compatible format?
Tony, I applaud you and FSM staff for your patience and commitment to your readers, both in taking the time to explain your decision in an honest fashion, and for the level of patience shown.
I only discovered FSM in issue 17, so I won't exactly miss the PDF format. I do however agree with a single page format for viewing through my PDA, whether online of offline. It needn't be an entire issue either - I'm happy with the current format of TOC linking to articles elsewhere. It keeps the pages to a manageable size.
As a fellow web developer, once again well done, and I look forward to future issues of FSM.


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Marcel is my new favourite shell. Great stop-motion by writer/director Dean Fleischer-Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate. Check out more of his award-winning domestic adventures here.
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The Book Covers of M. S. Corley
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We just recieved a fresh batch of design books for our library here at the NYC studio. While perusing one of them, The Modernist from Gestalten, I came across M. S. Corley's redesign of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events," in the style of of classic Penguin books. It's quite inspired. Please, do yourself a favor and go check out more of Corley's work at his flickr page.


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The story of a boy born on the day Pentagram opened and how his life has been tracked (and kerned) by forty years of Pentagram design.
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If you don't know what Port Forwarding is yet, you might want to start by reading our What is Port Forwarding guide.
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To setup port forwarding on the TP-Link TD-8840 router your device needs to have a static IP address. You should complete one of the following steps first:
Now that you have setup a Static IP Address on your device, please enter the IP address that you assigned to your device here:
Now we need to know your routers IP address. You can find it a variety of ways.
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Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser.
In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your TP-Link TD-8840 router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.1.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now.
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Before we can forward ports to your DVR, we need to change some settings in your DVR. Press Menu on your remote control to get in to your DVR's main menu.
In main menu, move the Active Frame to the Network icon and press ENTER.
Write down the number that is in the IP, Gateway, and Mask settings. Do not change the Gateway and Mask settings. We are going to create static ip address for your DVR and use it from now on. The IP address in the picture above is 220.127.116.11. The 64 portion of that ip address is called the last octet. Each octet of an ip address ranges from 1 to 254. If you have an ip address where the last octet is closer to 1 than 254, add 50 to the last octet and set the IP ADDR to that. If you have an ip address that is closer to 254 than 1, subtract 50 from that last octet and set the IP ADDR to that. Save the settings and get out of your DVR's setup. In this example the last octet was 64. So the new octet in this example would be 114, and the ip address in this example would be 126.96.36.199. Do not use those values they are just an example.
You will need to restart your DVR before those settings will take effect.
Remember what you set the IP ADDR to. You will need to tell your router what IP Address to forward those ports to. Since you want to forward ports to your DVR you will need your DVR's IP address.
We've already taken care of setting up the static ip address in the guide below so you don't need to worry about that part. Just enter your DVR's static ip address that we just setup in to the box requesting your computer's ip address bellow. You won't really be forwarding ports to your computer, but you will be forwarding them to your DVR. Everything else is the same, just keep in mind that the ports will end up being forwarded to your DVR and not your computer.
Now that you are logged in to your TP-Link TD-8840 router you should see the following:
Click the Advanced Setup link near the left of the page.
You should now see a new menu. In this new menu, click NAT.
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Click the Add button near the center of the page.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. QSee QSC26404 requires you to forward the following ports: 80,8000. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Add Virtual Servers menu.
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When you're finished, click Save/Apply near the top of the screen to save your changes.
And that's it! You're done!
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Australian Spotlight
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Posted: Jul 26th 2011
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The CENSUS is coming up in Aug 2011 here in Australia. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has developed this great little interactive animation (narrated by funnyman Shaun Micallef). At the end you get to create your own infographic based on the information you supplied in the animation. So clever and very well executed.


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Are you hitting the road this weekend? New research says the days leading up to Christmas are some of the most dangerous for drivers.
Where are those crashes most likely to occur? A group of researchers analyzed crash records surrounding Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's for the past 10 years.
They say December 21 through December 26 is the peak for crashes but not on the highway. Experts say the majority of fender benders happen near shopping centers where drivers are in a rush.
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Turning the corner into a new year makes the gardening season feel closer at hand.
If you've got a hankering to get outdoors and "do something," January is an ideal time to apply compost, regardless of weather. That means toss it on top of the snow!
Even if you are not able to till it into the soil, the early application gives compost adequate time to break down. Compost on its own is low in nutrient value. It's not valuable for what it is, so much as what it does - and the doing takes time.
Early composting allows a "mellowing process" that will result in a homogeneous soil mixture ripe with microbial activity. That's why compost that mellows a few months has better results than when it's applied right before planting. This process helps soil hold on to both nutrients and water. With another dry season predicted, holding on to every drop of water this growing season will be critical.
• Compost by nature is all organic, but some compost "mixes" will have sand and other inorganic material as fillers.
• To promote the most organic activity possible, look for compost with little or no fillers.
• Also, shop for compost that is well-aged and low in salt.
• A good rule of thumb is 1 cubic yard of compost per 100 square feet of garden area. Use less if your soil has been well amended in the past.
• Bulk purchases are the most cost effective, so you might get the best deal picking up bulk compost. For reference, a pick-up truck holds about 1 1/2 to 2 cubic yards. So if you need this amount - or could share with a neighbor - buying in bulk could save some cash. To buy in bulk and have it delivered to your home usually requires a minimum order of 5 or more cubic yards.
This weekend looks to be a warmer one, so it might be fun to pitch some compost over the garden and daydream about early summer tomatoes.
Reminder: compost is about more than growing veggies. It's a key ingredient when establishing a healthy, low-water lawn and for all the other plants in your landscape. If you are renovating or installing a new landscape, be sure to follow the compost requirements of your water district or municipality.
Courtesy Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado and Neils Lunceford, a landscaping company based in Silverthorne that is a member. Contact them at (970) 468-0340.


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Join the lightweight movement in style with the Women?s Reebok Zig Sugar Running Shoes. Featuring a no sew upper cage and a seamless fit, these minimal runners offer comfort for miles.
Combining breathability from the mesh and synthetic upper and light cushioning from the 3D Ultralite foam technology, these sneakers are designed to offer energy return and responsiveness in a flexible package. Famed Reebok ZigTech technology is utilized on the outsole, adding the unique zigzag look and a plush feeling underfoot.
Who says lightweight runners have to be flimsy? With the Women?s Reebok Zig Sugar Running Shoes, runners of all levels get the best of both worlds: less bulk and plenty of soft cushioning.FEATURES:
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Inspired by the old world utilitarian ideal of making something that is "built to last," IZOLA have put together a collection of playful objects with a retro feel. Their products include flasks, candles, laundry bags, bamboo toothbrushes, handkerchiefs, shoe brushes, shower rings, ceramics and shower curtains.
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Don't let the game stress you out, take out your frustration on the field with the Vex Junior Cleat from Warrior!
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My bicycle is our second car. I love to bicycle in all weather, for all distances, and on all routes. Bicycling has brought so much joy to my life, and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. I will use my soapbox to tell you about the joys, the freedom, the benefits, and, yes, the challenges of bicycling and walking for transportation.
Dogs have never bothered me when I bicycle. I'm might just be lucky, but I think it's because I'm a slower breed of cyclist, and I have never tried to outrun a dog. Besides, I have had two experiences that prove to me that trying to outrun a dog is futile.
The first was on a trip to a carnival a couple hours' bike ride away. A black and white dog, not large, chased me. I wasn't scared; in my experience dogs that chase me are just having fun. I decided to race the dog on the flat stretch. I was going all out at 20 mph and that dog just loped alongside. It turns out that dogs can run 16 to 31 mph. I could not sustain that speed long and had to slow down. Disappointed, the dog turned back. Really, I was relieved, because just then I saw in my mirror a car approach from behind, and I was worried about the dog getting hit.
The key point in this story is that the dog chased me until I slowed down. Dogs are territorial but they also like to chase things that are running away. So get out of their territory quickly, but slow down just a little so they don't think you are running away.
The other experience was riding with my dad in the hills north of Kansas City. We crested a hill and 3 beautiful black dogs shot out of a yard. One stopped at the side of the road and supervised. The other two flanked my dad, barking at his heels. He sped up and got quite fast on the downhill but I could see that if they wanted him, they had him. Their coordinated effort was amazing. Later, when he turned back and I continued on, he was worried about riding up that hill to the dogs' home. I told him not to worry, because they could easily have taken him out the first time around. They weren't around when he went back.
Other approaches I have heard of include spraying water from a water bottle or carry pepper spray (not mace, which can kill a dog), but I have never heard of either approach being used successfully.
I interviewed Dr. Webb at Lindquist Veterinary Care Center, who confirmed that slowing down is wise. According to her, speeding up stimulates and reinforces the predator-prey response. They instinctively chase anything that is running away from them, and when you speed up, they think you are running away. Your running away rewards the chase, so they will do it again next time.


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Loving this identity for Chin Chin, a no-frills Asian restaurant in Melbourne. That colour, the typography, the awesome pop-art graphics. Looks like a fun place to be. By Projects of Imagination.


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SMS Audio STREET by 50 Wired Over-Ear Headphones
The STREET by 50 Cent Audio Wired Over-Ear Headphones are the only way your ears should experience music. The stylish, comfortable headphones help you escape into your own world anywhere at any time. The headphones feature a tuned 40mm driver, professional studio quality sound, enhanced bass, soft memory foam cushions, and passive noise cancellation. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson created SMS Audio as the next step in the evolution of personal audio technology. Box includes: removable cable with mic, soft carry case, airplane plug adaptor, soft touch cleaning cloth, owners manual, and product brochure.


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The Wheels on the Bus go around and around, load up children, let's go to school! Our school bus is almost 12 inches long and 4 inches tall and includes one driver and 3 children (all removable). People are 2 inches tall. Made of solid wood with no finish. Smoothly sanded, all egdes nicely rounded. Made in the USA.
Recommended for children over the age of 3.
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The freezing rain/snow mix on Friday afternoon forced the postponement of all area prep sporting events.
Four basketball games were affected. East Henderson at North Henderson will be made up Monday (with JV boys beginning at 5 p.m.).
Hendersonville at Madison will be made up Wednesday, as will Smoky Mountain at West Henderson. The other area game, Hayesville at Rosman, will be made up Saturday. For these games, varsity girls will start at 6:30 p.m., followed by the boys.
Three wrestling matches were also postponed: North Henderson at East Henderson (to be made up Wednesday), Madison at Hendersonville (to be made up Wednesday) and Brevard at Tuscola (to be made up Feb. 7).
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Brenda is a native North Dakotan and very pleased to be involved in the world of education through the NDSU Extension Service in Ramsey County. Her family and friends can make life interesting at times but there is always an opportunity for learning along the way.
There's An App for That!
Last week's happenings included a day in Jamestown at an in-service for staff working with the 4-H program in ND. You know 4-H people are dedicated when EVERYONE comes even though it was 30 or more degrees below with the wind chill!
Part of the training session was dedicated to a technology update –especially apps for cell phones and which apps could be reliable resources for educators. The individual leading the training started by saying she had put together just a few of her favorite places – the list was five pages, single-spaced!
Calendars, cameras and calculators have long been part of cell phones. Now Google Earth and National Geographic features allow you to travel the planet with a swipe of your finger. If you are actually walking outdoors, MyTracks will record your journey, speed and the amount of ground you've covered. If you are outdoors after sunset you might wanted to have added the Flashlight app to your phone earlier in the day.
NDSU has a tremendous Winter Survival Kit app for safety's sake in our harsh winter conditions. If you become stranded, the Winter Survival Kit app will help you determine your geographic location and contact emergency services. The app's "gas calculator" will help you estimate how long you can run your engine on your remaining fuel. It will also alert you every 30 minutes to remind you to periodically turn off your engine and to check your exhaust pipe for snow buildup. Those alerts can be critical in helping you avoid deadly carbon monoxide poisoning. (it's at: http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/extension/apps)
If your phone goes missing and is manufactured by Apple, FindMyPhone allows you to use another iPhone, an iPad, or an iPod Touch device to find it and protect the data for security reasons. My husband needs that for his keys and his gloves and his hat and remote controls-- there may not be enough apps for him. Several Moms in the groups wondered if there was an app for lost shoes and misplaced homework. Most of us at the training sessions, agreed we would not be downloading the AgingBooth app which lets you see what you might look like as you age. Whoever created that app has a strange sense of humor.
Snapchat and Skype apps allow you to place free video calls for a view of whoever you are calling. We Skype with our oldest son – and say he's looking well and the new deck looks great, etc., etc. – but he knows we are really looking for a view of the grandsons. Just prop up the phone Son-turned-Dad and we will happily watch the 13-month-olds eat, crawl, pull themselves up, plop back down, investigate a toy, try to grab the phone, smile, cough, chatter and just recently wave good-bye. There's no app for that feeling.


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|Satellite Gallery--Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center
Event Type: Gallery
Age Group(s): all ages
Date: 6/29/2013
Start Time: All Day
Be inspired. Visit the Satellite Gallery of the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center at the library. Through July, enjoy the group exhibit of the Frederick Plein Air Painters Members featuring Frederick County landscapes and landmarks.Library: Urbana Regional Library
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STOCKTON - Sheriff's investigators are seeking the public's help in providing information that led to a fight between six to seven men during which two men were stabbed.
The fight was reported at 8:40 p.m. Saturday in front of a home in the 3000 block of West De Ovan Avenue. One of the victims was stabbed in his right calf. The second victim was stabbed in his upper back. Both were transported to an area hospital for treatment and reported in stable condition, the Sheriff's Office reported.
Investigators were unable to gather much information from the victims, one because he was uncooperative and the other because of his medical condition. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office at (209) 468-4400 or send a text to 274637 and type SJSO in the message area followed by a space and your tip.
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UTG Tactical 3 Point Sling
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- very high qualityMY REVIEW
1. high quality
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3. will mount on any gun
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1. VERY CONFUSING!!! (my computer wont play the movie though, watch the movie, it will help, maybe its just me? lol)
PS: (whoever just rated every one of my reviews as not helpful in one day for no reason really sucks something awful)
- Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!A must have! Cuz eventually, YOU WILL GET TIRED OF HOLDING YOUR RIFLE! This sling makes it so you can have ANY rifle have a 'harness' so you can let go of it and let is rest right up to your side... Or wherever. Even if you don't have sling rings on your rifle, it'll still be able to hold it! It's shaweet.
See for yourself if you trully disagree with me, buy it.
Rating this would be nice, thanks for reading.
- The Best Sling.This was my first purchase off of shorty, but i guess i never got around to glorifying its greatness.
BUILD: overall it is INCREDIBLY sturdy and is reinforced with durable PVC and comfortable non-slip ruber strips.
ACCESSORIES: it comes with three sling adjusters. One allows for you to attach it to the but of a rifle if your gun does not have any sling holes on the stock. The other allows you to attach it to rifles, like my A-15, that have special sling-tie slots on the stock. And the third one i am not too sure about but that is mainly because i dont use it so i never really tried to figure it out.
USAGE: I used to use it as a regular sling and it adjusted comfortably to whatever gun i put it on (my A-15 or M324). However using it as a quick draw 3 point form works amazingly well when switching weapons. Here's a story to satisfy all of your war-lust...My team and i were playing some friends in a new heavily brushed area. I had my A-15 with this sling and my electric taurus on my hip. I had another guy (vacaloco's bro) who also had an A-15 with this sling. We were hiding in tall grass when we spotted one enemy with the UTG MP5 AEG and another with a UTG M87 fullstock. He and i both sniped the guy with the MP5 AEG first (in the head and chest) with our A-15s when the guy with the M87 (another of vacaloco's bros)ran towards us. I quickly dropped my A-15 (which caught at my waist perfectly thanks to the sling) and i pulled out my pistol and unloaded a whole mag into him.
Without the sling i probably would have had to drop my gun to the ground where it could have broke.
Overall its a must have purchase and no serious airsofter should be without one.
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- goodif you have a rifle (main gun) and have like 1 or 2 side arms get this it will help for switching instead of droping ur main gun and running around with ur sidearm and might loose urr main gun its happened to me before so i recommend this sling it helps alot!
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- YOU WILL LOVE THIS!I love this sling. I ahve the UTG sniper and i can just sling it perfectly around my back and then in half a second ahve out in front taking out retards. It is very comfortable. The people that say it is confusing can't tie their own shoes. Buy this sling.
- SweetBest sling i have to agree. Only one problem with this sling i have.(okay i will stop with this Yoda crap) It is so freaking hard to figure out if you have never seen one before(at least for me). If you need a gun for you poor heavy gun and get tired out carrying it buy this sling is is SWEET.
- takes getting used toat first it is a little confusing on what configuration you want to set it up as but once it is in the right setup it works. Very durable material and will attach to pretty much any rifle.
- Feels nice.Doesn't irritate you like the sling I have for my M4, very comfy.
- very nicethis is very nice. my freind has it and uses it all the time. plus it mounts on anything but a pistol lol. im gonna get 1 for my UTG shotty :).
- Its amazingThis Sling is amazing...i love it, its so easy to just pull the gun around. The only reason I have it a 4 and not a 5 was it takes some difficulty to find a spot to strap it on 2 the gun!


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The British owner of Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market said Wednesday it is undertaking a sweeping review of the money-losing grocery store chain, setting the stage for a high-profile failure of a retail group that entered the Bay Area with much fanfare less than two years ago.
Fresh & Easy, which has 19 stores in the Bay Area, arrived here promising to deliver a new approach -- relatively small stores of about 10,000 square feet to 15,000 square feet. The grocer's parent company is England-based Tesco, the world's fourth-largest food retailer.
"This obviously was not a very good concept," said David Livingston, a Milwaukee-based retail analyst. "Fresh & Easy really was a failure from the start."
In October, Tesco signaled its concerns about Fresh & Easy, saying it would keep tight reins on new capital investments in the grocery chain while cutting costs and improving profitability.
Tesco said Fresh & Easy had many positive factors in its favor, but apparently not enough of them.
"Its journey to scale and acceptable returns will take too long relative to other opportunities," Philip Clarke, Tesco's chief executive officer, said in a prepared release. "I have therefore decided to conduct a strategic review of Fresh & Easy, with all options under consideration."
Multiple parties have approached Tesco with an interest in buying all or part of Fresh & Easy or becoming a partner, said Tesco, which didn't identify the companies, groups or individuals interested in Fresh & Easy.
While its fate is being decided, Fresh & Easy will remain focused on its customers and employees, according to spokesman Brendan Wonnacott.
"It is business as usual in our stores," Wonnacott said. "We look forward to bringing our neighbors the same delicious, wholesome and affordable food they have come to expect from Fresh & Easy."
The grocer's 19 Bay Area stores employ about 500 workers. Fresh & Easy has five stores in Santa Clara County, including three in San Jose; five in Contra Costa County, three in Alameda County, three in San Francisco, and single stores in San Mateo, Napa and Solano counties. The market chain has 165 stores in California.
Perhaps the biggest stumble for Fresh & Easy was that it failed to carve out its own distinct niche in California.
"The brilliance of a store like Trader Joe's is it sells things that no one else sells," said Patty Edwards, chief investment officer with Trutina Financial in Washington state. "Fresh & Easy sold some things that no one else had, but it wasn't unusual enough to get the cult following that Trader Joe's has."
That lack of differentiation appears to have hurt Fresh & Easy at a time when supermarket wars have intensified in the Bay Area with expansions in the grocery business from Whole Foods, FoodCo., Sprouts Farmers Markets, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Target and Safeway.
"Fresh & Easy made a lot of promises that raised consumers' expectations," Livingston said. "They tried to sell the consumer that they would have Whole Foods quality with Walmart pricing. That never came to pass."
Contact George Avalos at 925-977-8477. Follow him at twitter.com/george_avalos.
Fresh & Easy has 19 stores in the Bay Area. Here are the cities with the number of stores in each:
San Jose, 3
San Francisco, 3
Hayward, 2
Antioch, 1
Brentwood, 1
Concord, 1
Walnut Creek, 1
Danville, 1
Pleasanton, 1
Mountain View, 1
Sunnyvale, 1
Pacifica, 1
Vacaville, 1
Napa, 1
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Learning to string your own stick in lacrosse is one of the most valuable skills that you can pick up! By stringing your own stick, you will know how and why your stick works the way it does and how to fix it when it is throwing poorly. You will know you can rely on your stick at all times! In this DVD, lacrosse star Trevor Tierney will teach you to string a mesh pocket. Mesh pockets are the easiest to string however, they have many little intricacies that can affect the performance of the pocket. Tierney learned to string sticks when he was eight years old and has learned tips and tricks from all his heroes, who are some of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. Let Tierney pass this knowledge on to you, so you can become the next great stick doctor for yourself, friends and teammates!
Tierney, goalie for the Denver Outlaws and Team USA, has won at every level in lacrosse. Tierney is the only goalie in the history of the game to win a National Championship (1998, 2001) in college at Princeton University, a World Championship for Team USA (2002), and a MLL Championship (2005) with the Baltimore Bayhawks. His experience in and around the game is second to none. Trevor is also the son of Coach Bill Tierney, head coach of Princeton University.


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Cybergun Kalashnikov AK-47 Electric Softair Rifle
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- Worst gun I've ever usedWhen i got this aeg i charged it for a couple of hours but when i used it the third shot on full auto it shot off to the side and the fps i crazy low and it is very light. It doesn't even weigh over 2 pounds and after about a week the hi cap mag that is wind up broke and i had to take it apart and unjam it. My spring pistol shoots harder than it does so don't waste your money on this and save more money to get a higher fps riffle. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!
- At last, we meet again...I called this rifle 'Horrace'.
The first rifle I'd ever owned. Sporting-Good-Store-Failure #1. Ah, the nostalgia kicks in...
Nonetheless, shorty makes a good point in that this isn't, by ANY means, a competing rifle. This isn't even an entry level rifle. If I gave this as a 'gift' to someone, I could quite possibly ruin the sport of airsoft for them.
But anyway, this rifle is labeled to be for knocking down cans (at distances -10ft) or generally just screwing around with. But I wouldn't humiliate a can of diet cherry vanilla doctor pepper (which is, indeed, the best tasting soda in all the land) by wasting the last of its' usefulness by putting dents in it at point blank range with this disaster. Nor would I make what I'm sure is one of the deepest insults to a child just getting into airsoft by relegating them to play with this. A more effective method of combat could possibly be to throw the BB, or perhaps even run up to your attacker and tag him with it. Oh, I think I invented a new game.
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Women's Nike Cushion No Show Running Socks
Nike Women's Cushion No Show Running Sock brings unmatched comfort in a low cut.
Made with sweat-wicking Dri-FIT fabric to keep toes dry and strategically placed impact protection for added comfort, mile after mile. Plus, they have a right/left specific fit with a mesh panel at the top of each sock for enhanced breathability, as well as a Y-stitch heel to prevent sliding.
Wear these for running and as a cozier sock around town. Enjoy comfort.
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