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This question comes up at every gun shop, every gun show, and every time two or more shooters get together. It's the old 'Ford vs Chevy' argument, although it can feel a little more like 'The Hatfields vs The McCoys' at times.
Like my dad used to say, "Now There's a hole with no bottom!".
At the risk of opening a can of worms, stirring them up, and spreading them out across the gun shop floor...... here is what 'Ol Carteach thinks.
My ideal carry pistol? One that works, one that is on me when I need it, and one that's sufficient caliber to likely deter someone who wishes me harm. In other words, carry pistols are like tools in a tool box. The right tool for the right job, or at least as close as one can get. Notice, there is nothing here that says a carry weapon must be a revolver, or must be self-loading. There is nothing here that says it must be made of steel, or plastic, or even melted down barbie dolls. It need not be cheap, nor expensive, nor pretty, nor ugly. It does not need a whiz bang laser, nor a flashlight, nor dual matching cup holders.
A defensive carry weapon must work, must be there, and be big enough to do the job at hand. More than that is personal choice (not a bad thing).
'Must Work' means the pistol needs to be reliable. In this case, reliable is usually determined by the number of rounds the weapon can go through without a failure of any kind (not directly related solely to ammunition faults). A not uncommon notion, and one I subscribe to, is that a carry weapon should be able to digest thousands of rounds in a row without a single hiccup. Not dozens, not hundreds, but thousands.
Revolver shooters may look at this number differently, and with good reason. Solid, old school, double action revolvers have a reputation for reliability that is unmatched. This statement may drive some Glock shooters into fits of frothy fury, but it's no less the truth. With fewer moving parts, robust designs, and no safeties to get in the way, revolvers have earned their reputation for dependability. Not that wheel guns are infallible. No, they are far from that. No machine is free from all failures forever. But.... a good quality revolver is the standard others are measured against.
Weighed on the scales of reliability, revolvers as a genre have an edge. Not a big one, in these modern times, but there is a measurable lean to the wheelies side of things.
Most importantly, and back on the topic, carry weapons need to be reliable. This means their owners, if they really care, should be shooting them a lot. Not a box a year at the family Fourth of July picnic, in between the hot dog course and the pie extravaganza..... but several hundred rounds a month, if possible. Many defensive shooters believe a carry pistol should have a solid thousand rounds through it, without a glitch, before it is really dependable enough to be relied on.
In this area of concern, there is no substitute for round count. Folks who carry, and do it with forethought and reason, need to spend quality trigger time with their weapon. Should it not be true, should it suffer failures of any kind.... then it's time to move on to another weapon. Allowing for a short break in time, several hundred rounds or so, a serious weapon simply should not fail to work afterwords.
This is not to say that failures don't occur. They always will, as we are dealing with machines. Machines break, machines fail, and machines are only as good as their designers skull sweat and their owners care. If you have one steel ball.... you are pretty safe in that it's not likely to fail. As soon as you introduce a second steel ball and let it touch the first... all bets are off and it's just a matter of time till they fail. For that reason, good shooters practice for failures. Reload drills, failure to feed drills, and even 'move to a backup gun' drills.
Now, once we have a reasonably reliable weapon, where should we keep it? The answer is really very simple. A defensive weapon needs to be on you, or where you can lay your hand on it RIGHT NOW. That's it, pure and simple. Anything less means your defensive options are diminished tremendously. Understand... it's all about time. The time it takes you to move your weapon into service, Vs the time it takes a bad guy to surprise you and take the advantage. If your 'time to armed' is less than the bad guys 'time to overpower', then you may win. If not, you are likely to lose. 'Time to armed' means weapon in hand, ready, aimed at the threat. A weapon anyplace else but there means you are not armed yet.
This notion of 'time to armed' must be balanced against risk, and against social need. As I sit writing this, I am perhaps twenty feet from a substantial house gun (a twelve gauge pump action shotgun), tucked away in a safe and concealed position. Am I armed? Sadly, the answer is no... or least "not very well for the situation". I know from experience that someone can be on the front porch without my knowledge, and through the front door far faster than I can vacate this chair and get to that shotgun. But, should I have that weapon leaning against my chair, as I write? Or, perhaps in my lap? No, that would be unreasonable, given the threat level right now, which is approximately 'zero'.
The single best place for a defensive handgun to be is on your person. That is the one place it's best suited to fulfill it's role.... defending your life in a violent encounter. In keeping with this thought, some consideration must be given to the size and shape of the carry weapon, as opposed to other factors. How does the carrier dress? What environment are they in? How much weight can they comfortably bear all day without fatigue or irritation?
Above all else, a weapon left at home in the safe because it was unsuitable to carry... is no longer a defensive weapon. The words "Leave me alone, I own a gun!" will carry no weight when shrilly screamed during a violent encounter. A defensive weapon has to be on the person to be of use, and this means it must be suitable to the situation. If the only possible carry position is on a neck cord, with the weapon hidden under a tank top, then so be it. In that case, the weapon must be small enough, and light enough, to be carried so.
On the other hand, most adults who can wear any type of loose clothing can carry a full sized (and full power) pistol on their person without too much difficulty. There are any number of quality made and well designed belt holsters. There are belly bands, pocket holsters, 'Grip Clips', shoulder holsters, and purpose designed carry bags. There is clothing specially designed for wear with concealed carry. There are... options... many options, and very few real excuses.
It's in the 'carry arena' that semi-auto pistols gain an edge over revolvers. A modern defensive 'pistol' can carry ten rounds of .45 ACP in a reliable weapon that's flatter and lighter than most snub nosed .38 Special revolvers. Moving to even lighter calibers, such as .380, gives automatics the decided advantage. There is an entire new genre of very small, very light pocket pistols built around the .380 cartridge. Plastic bodied, double action only, minimal carry signature.... all designed to BE THERE in your pocket, because they are just so easy to carry. True, the .380 is not a mighty power house of defensive thunder, but even a pipsqueak .380 (in the pocket) beats a .500 magnum in the safe.
My opinion? The largest reliable pistol you can carry, comfortably concealed all day, that is the way to go.
The last criteria, that the weapon be in sufficient caliber to perform it's job, is at the heart of a never ending discussion. What caliber is too small? What is too big? What is too 'unusual'? What has the best terminal ballistics? What has the best track record?
Carteach has definite thoughts on the issue. Consider what we ask the defensive pistol round to do. Ideally, it should be able to deter or stop someone from violently attacking. How does it do that? A pistol round works primarily in one way... it punches holes in people and things. If it's large enough, fast enough, or heavy enough, it can cause shock and trauma in addition to punching holes, but the very least a defensive pistol round must do is punch holes in people. Deep enough, and damaging enough, to deter an attacker (with luck).
On the low end of the scale, the .380 auto is considered the bottom rung. With modern ammunition, it has the ability to gain a bad guys attention. It certainly will not 'blow them twelve yards backwards, doing flips all the way', but a solid hit with one should let a bad guy know they made a serious error in the victim selection process. At the very least, it should cause enough pain and disruption to allow the victim to escape. At the worst, it may result in a dead bad guy. The same can be said for both the .32acp and the .22 rimfire, but both those rounds have a sad record in shutting down attackers. Kill people, eventually, sure. Deterring violent criminals bent on personal destruction? Not so much.
In the revolver realm, the .38 special is generally regarded as low man, although the venerable .38 Special +P 158 grain FBI load has a reputation as a man stopper.
From there, the field is wide open.... right up till the cartridge becomes just too strong for the shooter to efficiently and accurately handle it. There are some who regard the 9x19 parabellum as 'too harsh' in recoil, while others shrug off the muzzle blast of a .44 magnum as tolerable. The real consideration on top end is what can the shooter handle well. Too harsh, and accuracy suffers tremendously, especially as the shooter becomes afraid to practice.
As far as caliber is concerned, Carteach's thinking is.... The biggest that will fit the pistol you will carry, and not so big that you won't practice often. As for the rest, there is a good argument that can be made for every single cartridge out there, and each will have supporters and detractors. When it comes to tools in the tool box, chose the best you can, and one you have faith in... if such is possible.
Putting all this blather into real world reality, here are 'Ol Carteach's choices: For everyday carry, a Glock G-30 in .45acp. It's reliable, reasonably powerful, surprisingly accurate, easy to shot well, and on my large body it simply vanishes under a loose shirt. The full magazine of heavy .45acp is comforting, as the round has a long track record of success in defensive shooting. Over 100 years worth, come to think of it!
For backup, or times when I cannot carry on my belt, a Taurus model 85 .38 special snubnose with +p ammunition. The old snubby is one of the original Taurus imports, and I have owned it almost 20 years now. It's had thousands of rounds through it, and is quite reliable. For carry, it snuggles into a belly band and simply goes away, even under a loose T-shirt.
For times when nothing else will suit, a Ruger LCP in .380 finds a home in my pocket. Tiny, light, reliable, and reasonably accurate given the LaserLyte unit I mounted on it. With Federal Hydroshocks on board, I think it's a significant threat to any violent criminal with intent on ruining my day.
There are others in the Carteach CCW stable, but those three account for 99% of regular circumstances. Each pistol gets used, fairly often, and trained with under various situations. None are target pistols, plinking pistols, nor hunting weapons. They are defensive concealed carry weapons.... and ones I have faith in.


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Yeah, Definitely a great idea. I'm doing it this season and I already almost broke even. Plus now with Melo in town, I should be rackin it $$$. haha
I'm considering splitting season tickets with a group of people. Hoping to get 2 or 4 seats for every game for about $100 ticket. I figure we can hopefully sell off enough games at a premium and playoff tickets to at least break even and get to enjoy a lot of games for free.
Anyone done this? Thoughts?
Yeah, Definitely a great idea. I'm doing it this season and I already almost broke even. Plus now with Melo in town, I should be rackin it $$$. haha
Orange and blue, yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
Is 75 dollars a seat enough to get decent tickets that have good resale value?
Any sort of other fees you have to pay - like seat license, etc? Do you get a discount from buying in bulk?
Well, the 400 seat section are now $150. per.
Thanks to Melo.
That's a big raise from being $6. dollar seats when I was in H.S. in the mid 1970's. For those who could afford season tickets this season got a great deal in a short term stock investment.
sell one games ticket and the next game is FREE.
Yea I just sold a bunch of tix in the 133 area: Cavs twice, Nets, and Bucks (in march...I'll be there tonight) all went for $95+. And I saw seats in my section going for $400 for the Lakers game.
And those seats were $87 per (two seats) in the package. Came out to a little over 7 grand, and i think the box office price is $120 so there is a definite discount when you buy in bulk (season tix obviously) so you might be alright at $75 per (if that's the price in the season tix package.)
I haven't been selling my tix this season tho, I only missed 2 game so far. Next year I might try to make a little $. But if you sell your tix thru Ticket Exchange, they can automatically apply whatever amount you made to your balance, or I guess to your package next season if you renew.
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
How much is the Cheapest Season ticket?
is anyone else looking to get season tickets next year? i just put down a deposit to get on the waiting list. what are the odds that seats will still be available? how long do you think this waiting list is?
yea how much do season tickets go for dont care if their 400 level; i'd consider purchasing with friends would be great and could make myself some $$
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
i spoke to a rep at MSG. He told me that season ticket prices are definitely going up next season. The upper bowl seats would be in the $5-10k range.
To get on the waiting list, I would have to put down a deposit of $250/seat. But to get onto the "VIP" waiting list, I would have to subscribe to the Knicks + 1 other team, the cheapest being the NY Liberty at $900 (tax writeoff if i donate the tickets to charity). This VIP list would supposedly put me right behind current NYK subcribers but ahead of those on the "new subscriber" waiting list.
The question is -- how long is the waiting list and what are my chances of landing tickets next season. And in the grand scheme of things...is it worth it?
could we get some insight from current knicks season subscribers? like how much are you paying now -- ballpark..and how much do you expect the increase to be next year?
Playoffs are up 100% from $74 to $150 per ticket
Next Season there up about 35% from $74 to $100 per ticket
Again this is for the 200 section. I'm not sure if this is across the board but expect it to be.
I have until 3/24 for playoffs and 5/13 for the renewal.
Based on the fact that you're asking this question I'm going to render a guess that thousands of other fans are thinking the same thing. That being said, prices for tickets are only going to rise, especially since we may have a perennial playoff contender on our hands.
If I were you I'd buy now.
thanks for the feedback. i'm thinking of dropping some cash on the 'throwaway' NY liberty tickets so that i can cut the line for new knicks subscribers. i'll let everyone know how it progresses.
as long as i can make my money back at the end of the season, then its all worth it.

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Beginning Investor: How to Start
by Charles Rotblut, CFA
If you are brand new to investing, the question you are probably asking yourself is: "What should I do first?"
It is not an easy question to answer for someone who is just starting to manage their portfolio. There are many options available, with just subtle differences between some choices. More importantly, you do not want your first investment to be a losing one.
So, how do you start?
In this new column, I plan to answer that question. I will explain primary investment concepts and give you basic steps that you can take to manage your portfolio. More importantly, I will give you the knowledge to become a successful investor.
It does not matter if you are a brand new investor starting with a very small portfolio or someone who is taking over their investments for the very first time, the steps are essentially the same. So, let's start taking that first step.
Create a Plan
Investing is a long-term project that constantly evolves. As is the case with any project, success starts with a well-thought-out plan. A map of what you want to accomplish and the steps you are going to take to get there are required. You never know all of the details when you begin a project, but you should have an idea of what you will need to find out as you move forward.
Of course, any big project encounters unexpected twists and turns. Investing is certainly no different; if anything, it encounters even more twists and turns. However, if you have a good plan mapped out, you will have a framework to fall back on when the unexpected inevitably happens.
What Should Be in Your Plan?
When creating your plan, you need to stay focused on the bigger picture and not the details. Investing can get complicated in a hurry, so it is important to keep things at this level simple.
Here are the three primary areas you want to cover in your plan:
Financial Goals
Are you looking to build wealth over time, preserve capital, pay for a certain expense (e.g., college for a child), or is there some other goal? Alternatively, is there more than one goal that you hope to accomplish? Many people have more than one goal. If that describes you, write down all of your goals and the number of years until you need to reach each goal.
Risk Tolerance
What is your ability to withstand losses? Can you handle the losses caused by a bear market? Alternatively, how well would you be able to sleep at night if one or more of your investments experienced a big swing in value? Though it may seem like you should answer these questions based on your emotions, your financial situation and goals are important factors. I'll explain why in a moment.
Personal Involvement
How involved do you want to be? Some people really enjoy the process of selecting, analyzing and tracking individual securities. Others prefer a more passive strategy, such as investing in a mutual fund or letting a financial planner make many of the decisions. Many incorporate a combination of the two. The answer to this question comes down to how interested you are in being personally involved and whether you have the time to actively monitor your investments.
Other Considerations Are Secondary
Notice what is not in this plan. There is no discussion of whether you should buy Intel (INTC) or Cisco Systems (CSCO). No thought is given at this point as to whether you should own mutual funds, bonds or commodities. In fact, there is nothing about whether you should open an account with E*Trade, Edward Jones or Vanguard. It is not that these decisions aren't important, but rather that they are secondary to the three primary areas. Once you know what your goals, risk tolerance and involvement level are, it will be easier to make other decisions such as where to open your account and what types of investments to buy.
Guidelines for Answering the Questions
Two of the questions are very specific to you: financial goals and personal involvement. You simply need to make an honest assessment of your unique situation to answer both questions.
Risk tolerance is more difficult to assess. It is partially dependent on your emotional ability to withstand swings in your portfolio value, but even more dependant on time and wealth. Many people have lofty financial goals and low tolerances for risk. Unfortunately, this is a paradox. Conversely, others do not realize that accomplishing their goals may mean taking on less risk than they believe they can handle.
Figure 1 provides a grid to help you assess your risk tolerance. You will notice four quadrants that are based on time and wealth. The longer the period of time before you need to depend on your portfolio for cash withdrawals and the greater your current wealth (or ability to add to your savings), the higher your risk tolerance should be. Conversely, the shorter the period of time and the lower your wealth is, the lower your risk tolerance should be.
Pay attention to what quadrant you find yourself in. This will help lay the groundwork for the next step, asset allocation. This is the process of deciding what types of investments (e.g., stocks, bonds, etc.) to invest in. I will discuss asset allocation starting in next month's Beginning Investor column.


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However our Members-Only Classifieds are closed and not searchable, so no problem to use email addresses there.
Thu 31 Mar 2011
Thu 31 Mar 2011
However our Members-Only Classifieds are closed and not searchable, so no problem to use email addresses there.
Fri 1 Apr 2011
Thanks. Can I delete the post and/or email?
Fri 1 Apr 2011
done. :)
Fri 1 Apr 2011
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looking for Mandarin/cantonese speaking assistant editors for several weeks of work in San Francisco. Anyone that's interested in interning that speaks mandarin/cantonese for college credit also encouraged to apply. Please contact me directly: jhenion[AT]current[DOT]com
Sat 2 Apr 2011
Desperately seeking animator(s)for low budget documentary about how the US has been taken down by our multi-national corporations. Please check out our trailer at:Heist-themovie.com
Sat 2 Apr 2011
Can't think of a more important subject, Donald. Hope somebody comes forward ASAP!
Sat 2 Apr 2011
In reply to Donald Goldmacher's post on Fri 1 Apr 2011 :
Sounds like a great project.
I've really loved working with the animator Hongsun Yoon. You can see some of her work in the trailer embedded here, but she can really do a much wider range of styles. She's done everything from network tv graphics to very experimental films.
You can contact her at hongssun(at)hotmail(dot)com
Sun 3 Apr 2011
In reply to Doug Block's post on Sat 2 Apr 2011 :
Thanks for your support, Doug. Much appreciated, as we are getting to the homestretch, and just lost our animators due to their being victims of our current economic crisis. How ironic.
Sun 3 Apr 2011
I am following up on your lead, Augusta. Many thanks.
Sun 3 Apr 2011
In reply to Donald Goldmacher's post on Fri 1 Apr 2011 :
Donald, Cannot wait to see this doc...
I have an animator friend that may be able to help. If you still need someone, email me at kristen[at]artifactdocumentaries[dot]com and I can put you in touch with her.
Wed 6 Apr 2011
Hi D-Worders – I'm currently supervising production at Etsy.com and we are looking for an eager and able video operations coordinator. It's a job very heavy on post, requiring web publishing experience. It's a staff job, based in Brooklyn. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please see the job description here: http://www.etsy.com/jobs/job_description.php?job_id=oy5GVfwY. Thank you so much!
Fri 8 Apr 2011
Fresh off a career retrospective and judge's seat at the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival, prolific and iconoclastic Oregon filmmaker VANESSA RENWICK comes to Anthology Film Archives to present an adrenaline-pumping, awe-inspiring and sometimes brutal program of new works on video, including several NYC premieres. MIX ME A WALK is a both meditation and a holler, using stunning cinematography and rare archival fragments to offer up both the grandeur and the violence of nature. Wolves, coyotes, ravens, eagles, elk, bears, horses and bison may be the stars of this show, but these five films amply demonstrate why Renwick has been a star in the underground film scene for the past few decades. Discussion moderated by filmmaker Esther Robinson.
Join us for discounted drinks after at The Scratcher!
The program begins with Red Stallion's Revenge (16mm to video, 7 min., 2007), a remixed, re-scored 1943 western shot at the base of Mt. Shasta featuring the grudge match of the century between a horse and a bear.
We then leave the animals behind and enter the realm of humans and trees. Food is a Weapon (16mm & Super8 to video, 4 min., 1998) uses haunting logging footage from the 1940's, revealing old growth treasures looted for the war effort. A eulogy for trees.
Next up is the poignant Woodswoman (video, 10 min., 2010). One hypnotically watches the book Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille burning in a fireplace, and learns the place of the book in Renwick's life, as well as the fate of Anne LaBastille.
Vanessa: "I hated the Trojan nuclear cooling tower 20 miles downstream from my Portland home, sitting on an earthquake fault line. I and many others tried to shut it down twice. It finally did get shut down, and then I read of its upcoming demise. PORTRAIT #2: TROJAN (16mm to video, 5min., 2006) was made because I knew I would miss it in the landscape. How could this be? It is true."
FULL ON LOG JAM (video, 16 min., 2010), a meditation on the forests of the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern Oregon, captures the grandeur of nature in a way that makes us all too aware of our human transience and vulnerabilities.
Hope and Prey (3-channel video, 23 min., 2010) features stunning wildlife cinematography of animals hunting and being hunted in a winter landscape. Wolves, coyotes, ravens, eagles, elk and bison are the stars. The dramatic, sometimes brutal nature cinematography is transformed through black and white, high-contrast recomposition and a hyper-dynamic score by Portland's infamous underground composer, Daniel Menche.
And Sunday, April 10 UnionDocs and The Flaherty Co-Present
A retrospective of Renwick's work 1983-2009.
Discussion moderated by Penny Lane.
At UnionDocs | 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 | 7:30 pm | $9
Vanessa Renwick's iconoclastic artwork reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. She is a naturalist, born, not made: a true barefoot and cinematic rabblerouser. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms since 1983, she has made over 45 films, videos and installations, shown widely and internationally at places like MoMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Kitchen, New York Underground Film Festival, Migrating Forms, PDX Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion, International Film Festival Rotterdam and The Viennale. She's won many awards over the years, including the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film at the Ann Arbor Festival and First Place in the Peripheral Produce 2001 World Championship Invitationals. As the director of The Oregon Dept. of Kick Ass, Renwick booked, programmed and toured The Lucky Bum Film Tour to over 70 venues across the U.S. and Canada, with Bill Daniel. Renwick is represented by PDX Contemporary Art. (www.odoka.org)
"One of the cornerstones of Portland's remarkably fecund scene for moving-image art."
Ed Halter, Rhizome
"Filmmaker and curator Vanessa Renwick invites us to contemplate death, and to do so with a proper mix of wrenching horror and ecstatic wonder."
Holly Willis, L.A. Times
"Renwick is one of the city's most venerated filmmakers, having portrayed in more than 20 films everything from nude bicyclists (The Yodeling Lesson) and gray wolves (Critter) to poetic portraits of now-gone local landmarks (Portrait #2: Trojan) and biographies of cantankerous fellow outsider artists (Richart)."
Brian Libby, The Oregonian
Esther Robinson is an award winning filmmaker/producer. Her critically acclaimed directorial debut A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory took top prizes at The Berlin, Tribeca and Chicago film festivals and is available on The Sundance Channel, Netflix and iTunes. Other producing projects include The Canal Street Madam (Cameron Yates), Home Page (Doug Block) and the 1999 digital release of The Last Broadcast (Lance Weiler/Stefan Avalos). Esther is also a former program officer (The Creative Capital Foundation) and a non-profit entrepreneur (www.arthome.org)
Mon 11 Apr 2011
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Public historian available for all types of film projects. I have the ability to research, conduct oral history interviews, and find those difficult-to-locate documents. Get those important facts right! Reasonable rates. Please contact me at: laura[dot]marshallsay[at]gmail[dot]com
Tue 12 Apr 2011
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Anyone looking for a work space?
We're sad to leave our great edit space in Park Slope (near F and G Train) but our production is ending and funding is gone. We've been very happy here for the past year. It's a big room in a building full of artist spaces, but most are doc filmmakers. It's $620 per month – a great price for the space. I don't know exact sq ft, (about 350 I think) but we have 3 workstations set up, a dining table in corner, a couch and coffee table – plus some filing cabinets.
Available May 1, give or take... contact me for pics or to come by and see it. It's 1713 8th ave. michael[at]thoughtfulrobot[dot]com
Wed 13 Apr 2011
Looking for a good cameraman in Dubai who can do sound for a french documentary company. Documentary will air on Arte . Has to be based in Dubai – with their own HD equipment . The shoot is scheduled for Monday the 18th of April and will consist of interviews and b-roll . Any suggestions?
Mon 18 Apr 2011
A friend of mine, filmmaker, is looking for a space in NYC – walking distance from SoHo – for May & June. If you know of something plz email niametany AT gmail DOT com
Mon 18 Apr 2011
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Looking for a Hindi Voice Over artist either male or female at Kolkata. contact me at: susa1927[AT]gmail[DOT]com
Tue 19 Apr 2011
I am looking for a place to rent in New York City from May 8 – 18 – Lower East Side if possible, as close to E 3rd and Ave C as I can get. I need two beds in two separate rooms – an entire apartment would be perfect, but if anybody has two rooms to sublet, that could work as well.
I am also planning on renting a tripod (decent head, for EX1 or similar) for the same dates. I'll go with a rental house (and would love advice on where to go), but renting directly from another D-Worder would be great as well.
If you have any hints for me, please email me at mail (at) magdalenahutter (dot) com. Thank you!!!
Wed 20 Apr 2011
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NEEDED: Spanish translator to make subtitles for a 1 hour documentary. Please contact DeanHamer[AT]aol[DOT]com
Fri 22 Apr 2011
Dean, do you know about dotsub ? Not sure if it would be useful in this case but might be worth checking out. One of the principals is on our advisory board for the ENVY project. I can give you his contact info if you think you'd like to get in touch with him.
Fri 22 Apr 2011
Just in case anyone is looking for a nice 3 bed house in Seattle I have a friend who is renting her place out...in june she said its in a good area and cute its getting fixed up a little right now. She super cool and has moved to my area but wants to rent her house as she is here full time, I think its in $1600-1800 range and she says its a pretty classy place. Seems like a lot but I have no clue of the market in Seattle...if you want to know more I will put you in touch with her.
Mon 25 Apr 2011
The Docs In Progress Evening with an Expert series returns on Monday May 2. This program will focus on how brings filmmakers and other industry professionals to be engaged in an active distribution campaign for a social issue documentary, using the Emmy Award-winning Out in the Silence as a case study.
Filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer will return to Docs In Progress during a brief break from their outreach tour to discuss how they built a grassroots campaign around the film to help raise visibility and use the film as a tool for mobilizing action. Among the topics to be covered:
* Measuring tangible impacts through documentary screenings and discussions
* Building relationships with community partners
* Balancing "old-school" grassroots outreach such as radio interviews, local newspaper articles, fliers, and posters with "new school" methods such as social media, e-mail marketing, website and blog coverage, and online screenings.
* Strategies for fundraising, friendraising, and film sales for social issue films
* How making a difference and making a living through documentary do not have to be mutually exclusive concepts.
Monday, May 2, 2011
6:30 pm Networking and Refreshments
7:00 – 8:30 pm Program and Q&A
Docs In Progress
8700 First Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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Out in the Silence captures the remarkable chain of events that unfold when the announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man, Dean Hamer, ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small Pennsylvania hometown. When the mother of a gay teen being tormented at a school in the town writes to Wilson, he is drawn back on a journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America. Prior to its completion, Out in the Silence was workshopped through several Docs In Progress programs including Peer Pitch, Work in Progress Screenings, and One-on-One Consultations.
Out in the Silence has been playing the film festival circuit for more than 1 1/2 years, has been funded by the Sundance Documentary Fund, has screened on public television, and recently won a regional Emmy Award for Best Documentary. However, these kudos pale in comparison to the deeper impact the film is making in small towns across America as the filmmakers have taken it to community screenings one town at a time. The aim of this grassroots campaign is to expand public awareness about the difficulties that GLBT people face in rural and small town America and to promote dialogue and action that will help people on all sides of the issues find common ground.
Social activist and filmmaker Joe Wilson was frustrated by the limitations of traditional advocacy, and so he picked up a camera with hopes of reaching broader audiences with stories that inform and compel people to question and act. Wilson's work has been awarded winner of the Videomaker Magazine National Documentary Challenge, Audience Prize at the One-in-Ten Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, among other recognitions.
Scientist turned filmmaker Dean Hamer joined the journalism field after being invited to discuss his research on AIDS, human sexuality, and behavior genetics on numerous television news shows. He set out to communicate complex scientific and social ideas through compelling documentaries. Hamer's debut film, The Preacher and the Poet (also an alum of the Docs In Progress Work-in-Progress Screening Program), was a winner at the PBS/Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. His work also has been awarded the Audience Prize at the One-in-Ten Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Barcelona Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, among other recognitions. Hamer also has worked on productions for the BBC, Discovery Science, and network news channels. He has written three award-winning books, including The Science of Desire, which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" in 1994.
Wilson and Hamer are partners in filmmaking as well as life, having produced over a dozen pieces for their company, qWaves.
While this talk will not include a full screening of the film, Out in the Silence can be viewed online on Hulu or SnagFilms or can be purchased on DVD or digital download through their a variety of sources.
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Hi D-Word folks.
Looking for a production assistant with solid LIGHTING experience for a day-long shoot in Cambridge/Boston on May 3rd. We're making a short video tribute to a victim of 9/11 – shooting mostly interviews, some b-roll – full day. Possible second day the following week (May 9th)
PA must know how to beautifully light an interview and be willing to jump in to help carry equipment, setup etc. Day rate approximately $300-400, depending on experience.
(* We'll be shooting with a Sony EX 1R, and using a Kinoflo Lighting Kit: (1) 4x4 (4 bank), (2) 2x2, 3 C stands, 3 arms, gobbles, small ballasts, DAYLIGHT AND TUNGSTEN BULBS, extension cords)
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BRANCHAGE FILM FESTIVAL is looking for Films!
The next Branchage International Film Festival will take place 22 – 25 September 2011. New work is what makes the festival really come alive.
Enter your film to be a part of it – the Branchage Programming Team want to see your creative talent!
We will take submissions of both feature films and short films, they can be fiction, documentary, art films, music vids or any indefinable cross over of the above.
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A personal health record (PHR) is a collection of information about your health. It is different from an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) or Electronic Health Record (EHR), which are owned and stored by your healthcare provider.
A PHR is a document that you are in charge of—one that you compile, update, and keep. It can simply be a folder full of papers, but people are increasingly turning to electronic personal health record systems. These store health information in a secure location online that you can access anytime
Anytime you move, switch healthcare providers, or seek medical treatment during a vacation, you will be asked to provide your health history. It can be difficult to remember all of this information. Having a PHR on hand means you know the answer when you are asked when your last tetanus shot was or the dosage of your medications.
PHRs can also save you in an emergency situation. Consider this example: If you were to experience a health emergency at work, or on a trip with friends, would your companions be able to answer questions about your health history and current healthcare provider? In a time of crisis, it can be difficult to remember important and potentially life-saving information; a PHR can do that work for you.
You create a PHR online through the system of your choice (see chart below) and then either print off a copy or pull the record up on your web-enabled device to present to your healthcare provider. Some online PHR systems can be automatically accessed by medical personnel; others will offer a printed ID card with a password, should you be unconscious or unable to access your record yourself in an emergency situation..
Start first with your health insurance company. Many offer a PHR online tool on their website. However, check to make sure that you can transfer your information if you need to switch insurance companies.
Other PHR online systems are available. A good free one is Microsoft's Healthvault [4].
Include the following in your personal health record:
Online PHR systems are not covered by HIPPA; however, most have a very similar privacy policy of their own. Take the time to read it before you start an account.
There are many personal health record tools available online. Check with your health insurance company first to see if they offer a PHR. Some insurance companies may offer the benefit of automatically uploading claims, test results, and appointment histories to your record. Make sure you ask how your information is handled if you switch providers. If the company cannot transfer your information to a new provider, be sure you back up all of your records elsewhere.
My PHR [5] has a wealth of information on this topic, including a search function that enables you to browse different PHR tools before choosing one. Below are some of the most popular online PHR tools and their costs and benefits:
|Microsoft HealthVault [6]
|Can connect to certain health-monitoring devices (i.e., glucose meter) to upload and record readings
|Healthy Circles [7]
|Can transform your data into interactive graphs
|MedHelp [8]
|Offers support communities so users can connect with others
|My Medical Records [9]
|$9.95/month for a family of up to 10
|Any healthcare professional can simply fax medical records directly into your password-protected account
Medline Plus [10] - Information on how to get started
My PHR [11] - Directory of PHR tools available
Google Health [12]
Healthy Circles [14]
MedHelp [8]
Below are steps to lead you through the process of creating and using your own HealthVault account. Microsoft HealthVault is just one of many online PHR management tools that can help you create and store your personal health records in a protected online account. HealthVault is used by the Mayo Clinic's online Health Manager system, and Microsoft is a member of the TRUSTe Privacy Program, which ensures that your personal information will stay private. HealthVault includes a feature that enables members to connect health devices (such as glucose meters or blood pressure machines) to the computer and automatically upload readings.
Starting a Microsoft HealthVault account is easy and free. To get started, go to www.healthvault.com [4] and click "Create a free account."
You will need to create a Windows Live ID, which is a sign-on name that can be used on Microsoft sites. Just click the "sign up" button on the screen that appears after you click "Create a free account." You'll be asked to provide an email address, password, and secret question. This information will only be used to help you remember your password if you ever forget it.
When you are finished, you can sign in to Health Vault using the email address and password you provided.
Once your account is started, you'll need to fill in your information.
Click on the "Health Information" tab. To add a specific condition (i.e., diabetes), click the plus sign next to "conditions."
Begin typing in the name of your condition. A pop-up list will appear with suggestions.
You can also add other health information, such as a list of your medications:
Go through and complete all of the sections you can. You may need to refer to paper records or call your doctor's office for past test results.
If your doctor faxes you paperwork, you can scan it and upload the document via the "Upload a file" button:
Ask your healthcare provider if their system works with HealthVault.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/PHR_0.jpg
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/understanding-health-insurance
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/navigate-healthcare-system/how-do-i-get-e-facts
[4] http://www.healthvault.com/
[5] http://www.myphr.com/
[6] https://www.healthvault.com/us/en
[7] http://www.healthycircles.com/
[8] http://www.medhelp.org/
[9] http://www.mymedicalrecords.com/
[10] http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/personalhealthrecords.html
[11] http://www.myphr.com
[12] http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/health/about/
[13] http://www.healthvault.com
[14] http://www.healthvault.com/details.aspx?PartnerID=healthy+circles&EntryID=healthy+circles&type=application&rmproc=true


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The year 2013 provided more clarity about human-generated climate change than ever before. On 27
September 2013, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) released the Working Group 1 contribution to its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which looks at
the science of climate change. It is categorical in its conclusion: climate change is real and man is
the main cause.
The release of the first instalment of AR 5 came in the wake of an unusual number of severe
weather-related disasters, and at the head of an almost unbroken series of the hottest years on
record, with the period 2000 to 2009 the warmest decade on record so far.
There are some basic well-established links:
Greenhouse gases occur naturally and are essential to the survival of humans and millions of other
living things, through keeping some of the sun's warmth from reflecting back into space and
making Earth livable. But it's a matter of scale. A century and a half of industrialization,
including clear-felling forests and certain farming methods, has driven up quantities of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. As populations, economies and standards of living grow, so does the
cumulative level of GHG emissions.
AR5 part 1 took stock of where we are and what we now know. For the first time,
Working Group 1 could provide a comprehensive assessment of sea level rise, and its causes, over the
past few decades. It was also able to estimate cumulative CO2 emissions since pre-industrial times
and provide a CO2 budget for future emissions to limit warming to less than 2 degrees C. About half
of this budget was already emitted by 2011!
Thanks to the IPCC, this is what we know:
On 28 March 2014, the IPCC published the Working Group II report on impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability. The Working Group III report outlining options to curb greenhouse gas emissions
will be released on 11 April 2014. The final synthesis report, an overall summary for policy makers,
is due in October, shortly before the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. These reports give
governments tools that will help design the architecture and content of the 2015 agreement and the
assessment of the long-term global goal.
The Summary for Policy Makers, the Technical Summary, as well as the full report of the AR5 Working
Groups I and II are available on the IPCC website.
What we know we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know
But, these days, it is what we don't know that is the most worrying— because you
can't properly prepare for what you can't foresee. Knock-on effects of even small changes
in many natural systems show just how delicate a balance nature strikes.
Scientists talk about "tipping points", where a gradual change suddenly moves into a
self-fuelling spiral. How much methane is trapped in the melting permafrost and in sea-beds in a
warming ocean, and, if some or all of that methane is released, what effect will it have on the
global temperature and climate? If the ice cover in the poles keeps shrinking so that there is less
bright white surface and more dark liquid sea surface, how much more heat from the sun will the dark
surface trap, and how much less can the ice packs reflect back into space? Sea mass expands when
warm— how much will this add to sea level rise?
Each of these is among the simplest examples of potential vicious cycles identified by scientists.
There is also another unknown. At some point, bright children ask questions about electricity, light
and heat, and, inevitably, "where does oil come from?". The simple answer is that, hundreds
of thousands of years ago, before humans, the animals and plants that died accumulated on the bottom
of water bodies, mixing with sand and mud. Sediment kept piling over the top of that, and the
heat and pressure eventually transformed into oil, petroleum or natural gas. These are trapped in
porous layers in the earth, prevented from escaping by a non-porous layer of rock.
That's the leading scientific theory on that, in any case. And no one has the definite answer on
whether the world's oil reserves will, eventually, run out.
Right now, coal, oil and natural gas power the economies of the world; almost all modern human
endeavour produces carbon dioxide. This makes climate change extremely complex, tied up in other
difficult issues such as poverty, economic development and population growth. Clearly, dealing with
climate change is not easy. It is not about to get any easier. But ignoring it would be worse.
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It's a familiar story if you grew up reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring on
the devastating effects of DDT or lived under the widening hole in the ozone layer. You may have felt
a sense of déjà vu as the world woke up to an environmental problem - and came
together to take action.
Climatologists were the first to sound the alarm in the 1960s and 1970s. These scientists noticed
that concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were increasing, and that it was correlated to a steady
increase in global temperatures. Ice core research backed up this observation, and anecdotal evidence
- which had long been trickling in from scientists in many disciplines, farmers and fishermen, as
well as amateur nature observers and enthusiasts— began to add up.
More than two decades after these first urgent calls, governments created the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change. As far as international agreements went, negotiation of the
Convention was fast - especially one on such a vastly complex issue. It was ready for signature
at the Earth Summit (formally known as the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development in Rio de Janeiro).
What led to the creation of the UNFCCC was the first assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, released in 1990. The Panel was created by the World Meteorological Organization
and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988, and this first report reflected the views of
400 scientists. Its primary message: global warming was happening and something had to be done about
The most recent assessment report currently available is AR4, released in 2007. This is a sample of
the observations in AR4 that finally propelled climate change into popular consciousness.
The IPCC now has a well-established role. It reviews worldwide research, issues regular assessment
reports, and compiles special reports and technical papers. Its findings reflect global scientific
consensus and are apolitical in character, providing a crucial counterbalance to the often highly
charged political debate over how to respond to climate change. Its assessment reports now reflect
the work and observations of thousands of scientists.
IPCC reports are frequently used as the basis for decisions made under the Convention. They played a
major role in negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol.
Scientists, economists, political scientists, financial experts and all manner of other researchers
use historical observations and known links to create models and project outcomes. The IPCC
collates published and reviewed science, including projections of what is to come based on a scale of
warming scenarios. These collective projections paint quite a clear picture.
On a worldwide level:
The IPCC has detailed sections on various regions of the world: Africa, Asia, Australia
& New Zealand, Europe, Latin America, North American, the Poles, and Small Islands. Please click
on the IMPACTS MAP
to access the projected impacts on your region.
The Science: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
ChangeThe fifth assessment report is due in 2014.
Scientific rigor in the Convention: The Subsidiary Body
for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA)
Climate change threatens to erode the gains made through humanitarian and development efforts to
improve the lives and strengthen the self-sufficiency of billions of people, and to reduce their
vulnerability to a myriad of natural, economic and social threats. The Millennium Development Goals
represent the world's collective effort to strive for a fairer world.
Looking at the current and projected impacts on climate change-- for example, on agriculture,
freshwater and human health-- one could easily identify where climate change impacts might challenge
the progress of the MDGs.
See the Millennium Development Goals website.
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Hi everybody!
My little guy is 10 1/2 months this week. Still nursing tons, and we've been doing the purees off and on since about 6 months. He gets more at daycare than with me, 'cause on the weekends we tend to nurse and reconnect and I don't really push them too much at breakfast or lunch, but he still gets a dinner veggie and fruit.
Anyway, he's still on the stage 2 purees. We tried some stage 3s, as well as some puffs, apples, and rice crackers, and he has gagged on them almost every time. Should I be worried? Should we keep trying with the 3s, or stick with the 2s for a while longer?
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What goes up, must go down: the popularity of flash memory in personal computers for storage is projected to decline in 2009 compared to previous years. Netbooks next year will utilize mostly traditional hard drives instead of NAND flash memory for storage, analysts from a memory market research company said on Wednesday.
It is a bit ironic, but when the first ultra low-cost personal computers (ULCPCs) hit the market in 2007, they featured specially-created solid-state drives (SSDs), previously an option for very expensive personal computers, instead of conventional hard disk drives (HDDs) in order to save several dollars. In the course of the previous few months a lot of netbooks got hard drives back and that trend will continue going forward, according to market intelligence company DRAMeXchange.
Asustek Computer's Asus Eee PC with 7" and 9" displays and NAND flash-based storage played an important role in ULCPC market in the first half of 2008, but now many netbooks feature hard drives instead. Back in the first half of 2008 about 70% of ULCPCs sported SSDs for storage, but already in the second half of the year only 10% to 18% of low-cost personal computers are projected to utilize NAND flash for storage, which leaves 82% to 90% of the market to HDDs. The penetration of hard drives will continue to expand going forward, lowering demand for flash, claims DRAMeXchange.
The demand towards specially-developed SSDs for ULCPCs will slowdown due to the previous Microsoft announcement, which had loosen the limit of HDD capacity on ULCPCs from 80GB to 160GB. Currently the price gap between SSD and HDD is still large in terms of price per gigabyte: for every GB of MLC SSD manufacturers have to pay $4 to $5, which is far higher than $0.5 per GB in case of hard drives.
Therefore, the chances of SSD to enjoy rapid growth on the entry-level or mainstream markets are very small in the short term. Nowadays the SSDs are only adopted on very few high-end notebooks, such as Lenovo ThinkPad X300/X301 or Sony Vaio Z27 priced at $2800.
One of the main reasons for slow adoption of SSDs now is that most PC OEMs have doubts about the SSD in the standard notebook PC market, whether in price, reliability, or durability and under the trend of low price demand, HDD will still be the main stream storage device of laptops in the next two to three years, DRAMeXchange believes.
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Several public restaurant brands joined some of the nation's largest companies to discuss their plans for expanding sales and unit counts at the recent Robert W. Baird & Co. 2013 Growth Stock Conference in Chicago.
Strategies varied from brand to brand, including enhanced focus on menu, marketing, guest service or international expansion.
Here's a breakdown of what some major players in the industry — Darden Restaurants Inc., Yum! Brands Inc., Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. — revealed during the conference.
Darden: Opportunity in specialty brands
While Darden's three flagship brands — Red Lobster, Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse — would speak to the value-conscious consumer more aggressively over the next several quarters, a growing portion of the company's sales and unit expansion would come from its Specialty Restaurant Group, said chief executive Clarence Otis.
Restaurants in that division include The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's and Yard House, which Darden acquired last July.
"We know there is a fairly significant percentage of consumers that we're just not going to capture with any serious frequency with our three large casual-dining brands," Otis said. "These, for the most part, are higher-end consumers and, to some degree, younger consumers. The Specialty Restaurant Group is designed to capture these consumers, and we have to do it with a multiplicity of brands, because by definition those consumer categories are small enough that you're never going to have a 500- or 600-unit restaurant chain."
He noted that Yard House in particular would be an important growth vehicle for Darden's specialty portfolio, as it is a well-established concept, but with just 44 locations it still has a long runway for growth.
"Yard House actually helps both ends of that equation inside the Specialty Restaurant Group," Otis said. "It's mature enough that it can fund its own growth, but it does have significant unit growth ahead of it. So we felt like it was a good fit for that business, and that scale makes the Specialty Restaurant Group even more significant for Darden."
With Yard House, the specialty portfolio produces more than $1 billion of annual sales and is growing at about 20 percent annually, Otis said. That puts the group on par with LongHorn, which rings up $1.2 billion in annual sales and grows at about 10 percent a year.
Yum: An eye on India
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For the balance of 2013, Yum! Brands Inc. would focus on shoring up its once high-flying China division, as that system recovers from negative publicity surrounding the country's supply of chicken and fears of avian flu, both of which hurt sales at KFC, said Steve Schmitt, vice president of investor relations.
But the Louisville, Ky.-based operator or franchisor of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut has several growth stories to tell, Schmitt said, including its India division.
Yum created a separate division for India last year, envisioning the same kind of rapid growth for the China division, and while China has often been cited as the model for Yum's expansion in India, Schmitt noted a few differences.
Major profit growth is still several quarters away for the division, as Yum focuses on unit growth and system sales growth in India, Schmitt said. Same-store sales declined 3 percent in the first quarter in India, "but that should improve significantly," he noted.
He added that India's first 1,000 restaurants would be spread more evenly among KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, unlike China, where KFC is by far the dominant brand, Pizza Hut is steadily growing and there are no Taco Bells.
"Because of the growth opportunity we see [in India], we don't want to cut the growth short for any of these brands," Schmitt said. "We love the way KFC is positioned in India, and we like how the casual-dining Pizza Hut brand is positioned but have some work to do yet on delivery. But if there's one market where we'd bet on Taco Bell succeeding internationally, it's India. With the form of our products, the spiciness of our food and our vegetarian offerings, we really believe we can grow four brands in India in a significant way."
He added that the innovation on Taco Bell's domestic menu — especially Doritos Locos Tacos — has driven much of Yum's recent profit success in the United States.
Dunkin': Filling in 'white space'
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Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands identified plenty of "white space" for unit growth during its presentation at the Baird Growth Stock Conference, both for Dunkin' Donuts domestically and for Baskin-Robbins internationally.
Chief executive Nigel Travis noted that 90 percent of Dunkin' Donuts' unit growth is coming from existing franchisees, who are aligned with the franchisor's plan to gradually expand contiguously from markets that they take the time to establish. He also said Dunkin' Donuts is far from building out its core East Coast market, even as investors keep an eye toward the brand's expansion to California slated for 2015.
"Everyone thinks about going west, but we could build 3,000 stores east of the Mississippi," Travis said. "We could build a bunch of stores in Charlotte, N.C., or Orlando. We had another investor conference in Miami, and everyone there complained about a lack of Dunkin' Donuts."
The decision to move all of Dunkin' Donuts' advertising to national campaigns in 2010 would pave the way for all new unit growth in new domestic markets, chief financial officer Paul Carbone said. "When we open our first restaurant in California in 2015, the markets there will have seen advertising on TV for five years before there are any assets in the ground," he said. "Compare that to Las Vegas: We opened Las Vegas in 2005, and the first time they saw ads on TV was 2010."
Travis added that Dunkin' Donuts could soon ramp up international growth, as the franchisor plans to streamline the international supply chain and move from "low-GDP" markets where it is more established into more mainstream markets like Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia.
"In all those other low-average-weekly-sales markets, the franchisees were very profitable even when their [revenue] numbers were low, but we didn't get the return we needed because the royalty flows from the top line," Travis said. "So we're very focused on filling that white space with those high-GDP markets."
Buffalo Wild Wings: Sales drivers in full swing
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The Minneapolis-based purveyor of wings, beer and sports currently has about 900 casual-dining restaurants in the United States and a handful of units in Canada, and the brand envisions as many as 1,700 locations in North America, chief financial officer Mary Twinem said.
But in addition to unit growth, the brand also has several sales-driving initiatives, including a new prototype, a new wing pricing structure, an upcoming signature craft beer and its "Guest Experience" business model.
Buffalo Wild Wings currently is on track to build about 60 company-owned locations and 45 franchised restaurants in 2013, which would account for a unit-growth rate between 11 percent and 12 percent, said Jeff Sorum, vice president and corporate controller.
"As we get closer to that 1,700 [store count], somewhere in the range of 1,400 to 1,500 units, that cadence will probably slow," he said. "As you fill out those last few trade areas they're a little more difficult to penetrate. You typically have to wait for somebody to vacate a spot."
As domestic expansion starts to level off, Buffalo Wild Wings naturally would look toward international growth, Sorum said. "We've signed deals in the Middle East for Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., and the first of those units will be opening this year," he said. "We have three different partners in Mexico who will open units by the end of the year. And we've had very exciting visits to Southeast Asia: Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, just to name a few."
Chipotle: Focusing on marketing, menu
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Chipotle Mexican Grill detailed several plans for 2011, including a previously announced rollout of an improved margarita and the test in California of a premium tofu-based vegetarian protein called Sofritas.
The Denver-based brand of more than 1,400 restaurants also will increase its marketing this year and accentuate the fast-casual chain's preparation and actual cooking of burrito ingredients in its stores, founder and co-chief executive Steve Ells said.
Chief financial officer Jack Hartung added that the 48 restaurants Chipotle opened in the first quarter of 2013 was the highest total of new units in a first quarter the company has ever achieved. The company's guidance was for 165 to 180 new stores for fiscal 2013.
"We're well on our way to having a level-opening year," Hartung said. "That's really important from an operations standpoint because the hiring, training and opening of new restaurants — we feel our teams can do a much better job at this pace."
Chipotle has even more restaurants in its pipeline than its opening guidance, Hartung added, though it is too early to tell if a lack of sufficient real estate sites or people in certain trade areas limits that upside.
Ells added that the company's fast-casual Asian restaurant ShopHouse has no shortage of quality real estate or capable managers once that single-unit concept opens more locations this year, including another outlet in the District of Columbia and two units in Los Angeles. The general managers slated to run the ShopHouse stores in California are Restaurateur-level managers at Chipotle.
"ShopHouse has a lot of potential," Ells said. "In so many ways is exactly the same as Chipotle: the same attention to raw ingredients that we buy, attention to classical cooking techniques, preparing food in an open kitchen in front of the customer, and serving them in an interactive format to give them exactly what they want. … It's about showing that maybe Chipotle was successful because of this new-fast-food system we invented."
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What do you expect from this chapter?
Obito dying?
Orochimaru betraying Sasuke and fighting Taka?
Hinata dying?
Either way, something big happens tommorow
Tell me what you think
This would be one of those times where Kishi goes back to another part of the story, like Sasuke or even the corpses of the Kage.
I think kishi will transition the story to sasuke's perspective.
No, Orochimaru wouldn't just outright betray Taka and fight them, he's already admitted Sasuke is more powerful than him at the moment. He won't try anything. But after Orochimaru does what he does for Taka then he'll go his own way I think. Either way I know he won't die. Kishi wouldn't bring back the first (and best) primary antagonist just to have him perform one task.
Madara is going to be like "pitiful" and do some kind of beautiful ass, jump-whirl fire style move that wipes out 45% of the alliance. The Juubi will handle the rest.
I doubt anything like that would happen tonight <.<
too early for Obito to die, if he even does. I think he will get talk no jutsu'd
it's time for all the kages to come back
I think Kabuto will use edo tensei on the kages so that they could fight edo madara.
Originally Posted by Uzeless
I think Kabuto will use edo tensei on the kages so that they could fight edo madara.
He needs prep all the bodies and DNA and shit now so he can't do that anymore. The ritual takes too long.
I believe we won't see this "jutsu" for a few chapters. We'll see Sasuke most likely. Or the Kages.
It will probably be something with sasuke because we have seen too much naruto talk lately.
The Shinobi Alliance doing gangnam style
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The costly non-conservative Republicans did have intentions to create a higher federal deficit. Radical Republicans, Blake Farenthold, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and John Boehner already know they cannot change "Obamacare" because it is the law and President Obama's plan to support federal courts mandate ruling on Obamacare.
Let's analyze the costly stopping and starting the government by calculating the price for taxpayers will suffer: 1) $300 million per day, $1.6 billion per week; 2) unemployment applications; 3) economy and stocks fall because of unemployment; 4) border patrol, protecting and securing our national borders; 5) women and children who need food medical supplies (WIC program); 6) school children lunch; 7) center for disease control; 8) no vaccine for children or adults during flu-season; 9) the national parks service, closed for war veterans who fought for our country; 10) 800,000 people on furlough.
There is absolutely no way to save money. Why do Republicans call themselves conservatives? The federal debt is $16 trillion, and Republicans are determined to increase the federal spending.
There is absolutely no way to save money. Any professional businessman, a banker or person who is in the banking industry in Refugio County can calculate. For example: Multiply 5 percent interest compounded daily, weekly or monthly, accrued interest will grow!
Satan has already found Republicans "weakest-walk with God." Satan has already found "free-rental-space" inside of Republicans' heads. Jesus Christ was a rebel with a good cause, when he "scolded the publicans and pharisees." Read Matt. 23:13-18, Woe to you pharisees teachers of the law! Jesus rejected the pharisees. Today, we have "rebel Republicans without cause." They "prop-up" what Jesus has rejected!


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Is it possible to catch HIV through a healing cold sore (oral herpes)?
The other day I had oral sex with a girl (I went down on her). I had a healing cold sore that had formed a scab and wasn't bleeding. She wasn't bleeding, either, but now I'm concerned that I've put myself at risk for HIV/AIDS. Is it possible to get HIV through a healing cold sore?


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Pool and Spa Water Use
The amount of water used to fill and maintain a swimming pool throughout the year is affected by a variety of factors including:
Because of the variability of conditions listed above it is difficult to determine how much water a swimming pool will use. By comparing homes with and without swimming pools and correcting for differences in landscape size its estimated that homes with a swimming pool use about 58 percent more water outdoors than homes without a swimming pool (Maddaus and Mayer, 2001). This research indicates that the addition of a swimming pool results in a substantial increase in water use.


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Mr. Vater was born July 26, 1936, in Mason to Milton and Louise (Johnson) Vater. He attended North Texas State University in Denton and married Jeannette Priess in Fredericksburg on May 24, 1959. He was a retired teacher for Beeville ISD and taught government, history, speech and drama from 1959-81. After retiring, he began Vater Satellite Company.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Milton and Louise Vater; and a brother, Jon Vater.
Survivors include his wife, Jeannette Vater of Beeville; a son, Jim (Jeannine) Vater of Spicewood; a daughter, Judy (John) Chastain of Van; three grandchildren, Zachary Vater, Troy Vater and Leslie Chastain; and numerous other family members and friends.
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Seasat 1
Ocean Dynamics Satellite
Phase: Past
Launch Date: June 27, 1978
Seasat was the first satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The mission was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of global satellite monitoring of oceanographic phenomena and to help determine the requirements for an operational ocean remote sensing satellite system. Specific objectives were to collect data on sea-surface winds, sea-surface temperatures, wave heights, internal waves, atmospheric water, sea ice features and ocean topography. The mission ended on October 10, 1978 due to a failure of the vehicle's electric power system. Although only approximately 42 hours of real time data was received, the mission demonstrated the feasiblity of using microwave sensors to monitor ocean conditions, and laid the groundwork for future SAR missions.
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Tag: Dogs beating the Dow
Dogs of Dow howling more than DJIA
- 3:27 pm Friday, April 25th, 2014 by Dian Vujovich
They're not seriously howling—maybe barking would be a better descriptive—but this year's Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the Dow Jones Industrial Index in both yield and year-to-date returns.
Okay, let's face facts: Last year was one heck of a year for equities and that act is not likely to be followed this year. One investment professional I spoke with thought that individually managed portfolios would be lucky to see a 10 percent return in 2014. As for the indices, that same source wasn't expecting them to do that well. All of which brings to me those Dogs.
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- Title
- The paradoxical nature of new venture failure
- Author(s)
- Gulst, Noga
- Abstract
- 'With each tottering attempt to walk, our bodies learn from the falls what not to do next time. In time we walk without thinking and think without falling, but it is not so much that we have learned to walk as we learned not to fall' (Petroski 1985: 13) This research represents a contribution to the academic literature on entrepreneurship by exploring what entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs learned from their failed ventures. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate what can be learned from new venture and business failure. In addition, it reveals that although entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs perceived new venture and business failure differently, they shared similar experiences in their failed ventures, and generated similar knowledge. New venture failure is a well-researched field, in which the emphasis in the academic literature is on the importance of learning and recovering from such reverses. However, studies related what it is that one can learn from new venture failure are scant. This research explores the relationship between two fields: new venture failure and entrepreneurial learning. In this study, new venture and business failure is defined as 'the entrepreneur's dissatisfaction with the venture's progression', and it is emphasised that the entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs decide whether or not their venture has failed, regardless of the objective state of the venture. Learning is defined as a combination of behavioural and cognitive patterns: 'a creation of knowledge that leads to a behavioural change'. It is suggested that entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs learn from every action they perform, gaining experience from both successful and failed activities. However, they learn more from critical events. This exploratory, qualitative study explores how 27 experienced Australian entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs perceive new venture failure, and what they have learned from it. The research used practice-based theories to convert the participants' experiences into academic theories. The data was analysed using cognitive maps for categorising and sorting the data, and classic content and word count techniques for the analyses. The results of this research indicate that entrepreneurs perceived new venture and business failure as identical, while intrapreneurs distinguished between them. The majority of the entrepreneurs who participated in this research defined a failed new venture or business as a business or new venture that does not make a profit and suffers from lack of cash. However, the majority of the intrapreneurs who participated in this research defined a failed business as a business that is not managed properly, and a failed new venture as a venture that does not grow. A significant addition to the body of knowledge in this domain is depicted. Since this study is a first of its kind to integrate entrepreneurial learning and new venture failure, the following finding is highlighted: Venture failure is not perceived in a negative context by entrepreneurs, as long as they learn from the experience/s. As such, it is identified that ventures fail, not entrepreneurs! This finding would, however, provide a base for further empirical research into the psychological aspects of entrepreneurs' perceptions to new venture failure. From a research methodology perspective, using cognitive maps and entrepreneurial scripts in the above context constitutes an addition to the body of knowledge. Such methodology has been identified as an innovative research concept in examining the cognitive structures of entrepreneurs. The study concludes with a list of suggestions for novice and nascent entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs given by the participants in this research. These suggestions are the summary of their learning from their failed ventures. It is suggested that nascent entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs may adopt recommendations from the suggested list, thereby marginalising their risk of failure by learning from others. As this is qualitative exploratory research, it had a small data set. Any future researchshould ideally be expanded into a quantitative study and include entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs from different countries, thus enabling the findings to be generalised and the effect of cultural differences to be overcome.
- Publication type
- Thesis (PhD)
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Entrepreneurial learning; Entrepreneurship; Intrapreneurship; New venture failure
- Coverage
- Australasian Digital Theses collection
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2011 Noga Gulst.
- Thesis Supervisor
- [Alex Maritz]
- Thesis Note
- [Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology, 2011.]
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The Geography Blog focusing on all things geography: human, physical, technical, space, news, and geopolitics. Also known as Geographic Travels with Catholicgauze! Written by a former National Geographic employee who also proudly served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sunday, April 04, 2010
A Note on the Baja California Earthquake
Since the Richter Scale is logarithmic, the Baja California was about twice as powerful as the Haitian Earthquake but about two-hundred fifty times smaller than the Chilean earthquake. 230,000 were killed in Haiti but there have been only 432 confirmed dead in Chile. The clear lesson is that building engineering quality is the key factor in casualties from an earthquake.
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- exuberance said...
No. The clear lesson is the quake magnitude is but one input to estimating casualties. Building codes, quake depth, geology, and population density where the shaking happens are just or more important. The quake North Mexico quake was in an amazingly remote and unpopulated region, the shake map shows it's worse effects barely reaching any populated area and then only a very small town. The quake in South America was extremely deep and it's shake map shows the effect spread out thinly over a vast region.
- Catholicgauze said...
The depth and position did play a part, no doubt. Even then the Chilean earthquake was about 500 TIMES as powerful as the Haitian one. If Chile had Haitian like building standards then the death toll would be much higher. Not as high as in Port-au-Prince due to position, depth, etc. but still much, much higher. The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a great deal away from DF but still killed around 40,000 due to bad building standards.
- sgenius said...
Mexicali, the "small town" that Exuberance refers to, is my hometown. Capital of Baja California State, It happens to harbor almost a million inhabitants and is an important commercial and industrial center in the Mexican Northwest (although smaller than Tijuana).
Mexicali has been always aware of its high seismicity and thus, there's an adequate prevention culture in the community. Tall structures are uncommon, and the buildings are made from light materials. Thus, the city was struck, but not as heavily as Haiti.
I concur, however, with Catholicgauze's point about poor building standards, and exuburance's mention of the quake depth being an important factor also.
- exuberance said...
sgenius, I hope your family is fine. But, actually I was referring to Guadalupe Victoria, which is the closes thing to the quake on this map: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/sc/shake/14607652/
That said, that isn't the shake map I recall; the one I recall didn't show the involvement of the entire mountain range.
So point taken, Mexicali is clearly the nearest significant population center to the quakes effects.
That said, non of the red portions include populated areas while most of the Haitian quake's shake map does.
By the way, this photo is amazing:
- sgenius said...
My family is fine, fortunately, thank you! :)
I stand corrected; your point is valid. Guadalupe Victoria is a small town - and it was heavily struck.
Thing is, since somebody at NPR reporting about the earthquake talking about Mexicali as "a small town", I developed some... resistance to that term :D
However, your comparison to the Haitian earthquake in terms of impact over populated areas is totally true. I think we were fortunate this quake happened over the Laguna Salada fault - there is another (although less active) fault that reaches Mexicali proper...