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Jamba (NASDAQ:JMBA)
Q1 2012 Earnings Call
May 07, 2012 5:00 pm ET
Karen L. Luey - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Executive Vice President and Secretary
James D. White - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Peter Mahon - Dougherty & Company LLC, Research Division
Chris Krueger - Northland Securities Inc., Research Division
Conrad Lyon - B. Riley & Co., LLC, Research Division
Kurt M. Frederick - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by and welcome to the Jamba Inc. First Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This conference is being recorded today, Monday, May 7, 2012, and I'd now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Karen Luey, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.
Karen L. Luey
Thank you, operator, and good afternoon. With me on today's call is James D. White, our Chairman, President and CEO. During today's call, I will review our first quarter financial results. James will follow with an update on BLEND Plan 2.0 initiatives and accomplishments. We will then open up the call for questions. I would like to remind all listeners that this call is being broadcast and recorded live over the Internet at jambajuice.com. The webcast is available on our website, and a replay will be available via telephone until May 28, 2012.
This conference call will include forward-looking statements within the meanings of the securities law. These forward-looking statements will include statements about the company's strategic priorities, certain statements of our expectations and plans. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that are contained in the company's filings with the SEC, including the Risk Factors section in our Form 10-K. The company does not assume any obligation to publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking statements discussed during the call. With that said, I'd like to turn it over to James.
James D. White
Thank you, Karen, and welcome to our first quarter call. On our last earnings call, I said the strong same-store sales trend that marked the end of 2011 was continuing in the early weeks of 2012. And as you can see from our 12.7% increase in company-owned store sales and 11.6% increase system-wide, the positive trend actually accelerated through the quarter, so we are off to a great start.
I'll highlight some of our quarterly accomplishments and then expand on a few of them later. Our same-store sales have now been positive for 6 consecutive quarters for company-owned stores and 7 for franchise stores. Both improved traffic and higher average check drove these increases in all day parts. Store profitability improved by more than 1,000 basis points during the quarter, versus a year ago. Our balance sheet remained strong with 0 debt and $19 million in cash. All of our strategic initiatives in our BLEND Plan 2.0 that we unveiled last year are being initiated to accelerate our growth. Product and menu innovation is accelerating around fresh juice blends and better-for-you smoothies, like our fruit and vegetable offerings. Our JambaGo express units are being installed, and we are planning 400 to 500 installations by year end. We added 6 international units in Q1 and will double our international stores to more than 40 during 2012. We acquired the premium boutique company, Talbott Teas, a lifestyle specialty brand that fits well with our brand positioning as a leading health and wellness company, and our CPG revenues are growing with a very strong showing in the Inventure Foods line. CPG royalties are on track to reach around $3 million this year. Our unrelenting focus on taking costs out of the system and managing our cost structure continue to yield excellent results. With that overview, I'll now ask Karen to take us through the financials.
Karen L. Luey
Thank you, James. Before I review our highlights for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, I'd like to remind you that we switched the dates of our quarter end to more conform with the calendar quarter end. The press release that was issued today has comparisons against prior-year GAAP results and prior-year pro forma results. The 10-Q, which will be filed on or around May 8, 2012, will only include comparisons against prior-year GAAP results. And today, I'll focus most of my comments on the pro forma comparisons.
We continue to make progress on strengthening the financial health of our business, and it's reflected in our first quarter results. Quarter-over-quarter comparisons on a GAAP and pro forma basis reflects significant improvement in comparable same-store sales and total revenue, 4-wall store margins, adjusted operating profit, and we continue to improve on our bottom line results.
On a pro forma basis, for the first 13 weeks in 2012 compared to the first 13 weeks in 2011, we reduced our net loss from $7.7 million to $1.5 million or $0.03 loss per share, a reduction of more than 76% due to the increase in revenue and continued operational efficiencies in overall store operating expenses, primarily labor. Our 4-wall store margins improved to 15.4% from 4.8%, and our adjusted operating profit increased by $6 million to $10.7 million in the first quarter of 2012 from $4.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. Total pro forma revenue for the first quarter increased 4.9% to $53 million, and company store revenue increased 3.7% to $50 million as compared to the prior-year same quarter. Across our entire system, we showed increases in comparable store sales for the first quarter. Our company comparable store sales increased 12.7%, and franchise comparable store sales increased 10.5%. And for the second consecutive quarter, we are reflecting an increase in traffic. The results of our company comparable store sales increase of 12.7% for the quarter includes an 880-basis point increase in traffic, and a 390-basis point increase due to average check. The increase in traffic consists of approximately 510 basis points related to the weather impact and 370 basis points related to more frequent and repeat business.
The increase in traffic continues to be achieved through our menu expansion, and our plan to become more relevant and a habitual location to consumers. Several good examples of this are the introduction of oatmeal and breakfast wraps to drive the most habitual day part of, breakfast. In addition, the introduction of our Fit 'n Fruitful meal replacement smoothie early in 2012, along with the Probiotic Yogurt and Fruit & Veggie Smoothies, which were introduced in 2011, are driving repeat customers and traffic into our store locations.
We continue to reflect positive same-store sales growth in all 4 day parts. Our attachment rate for a beverage with another item was approximately 20% for the first quarter of 2012.
On a pro forma basis, our franchise and other revenue for the first quarter increased by 29.7% to $3 million compared to $2.3 million from the same prior-year quarter. The increase was attributable to royalties related to the increase in number of franchise stores, increase in franchise comparable store sales and the increase in our consumer packaged goods license revenue. Our CPG revenue was $300,000 compared to $170,000 from the prior-year same quarter. The number of retail stores in which Jamba-branded consumer products are sold increased to approximately 35,000 at the end of the quarter, and we remain on track to achieve our annual guidance of $3 million in CPG revenue.
We continue to make significant progress in improving our 4-wall store margin, which includes company revenue less total company store expenses of cost of sales, labor, occupancy and other store operating expense. Our store profitability on a pro forma basis improved by $5.4 million to $7.7 million for the first quarter of 2012 compared to $2.3 million from the prior year. And as a result of the strong performance by our stores and increased franchise revenue, our adjusted operating profit improved to $10.7 million from $4.7 million in the same comparable quarter.
Now let me discuss general and administrative costs for the first quarter. On a pro forma basis, general and administrative costs were slightly higher than the prior-year same quarter by about $200,000. This was due primarily to an increase in noncash, stock-based compensation expense.
For the full year, our effective tax rate is a benefit of 13.7%, and we continue to have a full valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets. Our Q1 to [ph] federal net operating loss at the end of the quarter was $116 million, and we do not expect to be a taxpayer this year. Our balance sheet remains strong with $19.3 million in cash and cash equivalents and no debt at the end of the quarter. Our capital expenditures for the quarter were $900,000 related to maintenance capital, revenue-driving initiatives and investment in our information-technology platforms. There was no activity under the redeemable preferred stock, and the outstanding convertible shares at the end of the quarter remains the same at 168,389 convertible shares. Although we did not draw on the senior revolving credit line, we used it to collateralize several Letters of Credit that were formerly collateralized by cash.
So let me take a minute to discuss our thoughts on JambaGo revenue. As we have said previously, the revenue which came from JambaGo will not be significant for 2012. We have plans to open 400 to 500 locations during the year, resulting in a revenue estimate of approximately $700,000. And as we gather additional information regarding the flow of cash [ph], we will provide updates on future earnings call. With that said, I'd like to turn the call back to James.
James D. White
Thanks, Karen. I said at the start of our new BLEND Plan 2.0, strategic initiatives are being initiated. While I won't detail these plans, I did want to note that they focus on 5 areas for accelerated, sustainable growth: making Jamba a top-of-mind healthy food and beverage brand; embodying a healthy active lifestyle in our stores and throughout our entire enterprise; accelerating the global retail growth through new and existing formats; building a global CPG platform in Jamba-relevant categories; and finally, pursuing new ways to reduce cost and increase productivity.
Since these strategies are an extension of the plans that have guided us over the last 3 years, we were able to move several initiatives from development to market last quarter. For example, our 3 new fresh squeezed juice blends affirm our legacy of providing consumers with all-natural, great-tasting products that inspire and simplify healthy living. Each of our juice blends is squeezed to order for optimum fresh and nutritious drinks that provide at least 2 servings of fruits and/or vegetables. They're an easy, tasty way to get more fruit and vegetable nutrients into the diet. And this is just Phase 1 of our fresh juice initiative.
Concurrent with our Store of the Future work, we will be adding new juice bar concepts in units in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Seattle, and we are looking for bolt-on acquisitions to expand our fresh juice offerings. We're also focused on deepening the nutritional expertise available to our consumers with the launch of our unique MBA program, our Master of Blending Arts. This program will advance the knowledge of the Jamba team members in product nutrition, the benefits of juice and juicing and their expertise in creating custom beverages.
The focus of our associates is an across-the-board, all-encompassing initiative to really significantly improve our culture for building custom beverages and really having our entire organization embody our aspiration to build a great, healthy lifestyle company. We've deployed systems and improved productivity in our stores. Labor, as a percent of sales, continues to decrease from 36% in 2008 to 31.6% last year. We have increased our efforts with innovative technology to assure top consumer service and satisfaction, and we're encouraging all of our associates to become active and engaged in our local communities in an effort to foster more healthy active lifestyles with our campaign, "Live Fruitfully."
One of our related efforts is the participation in the National 2012 Summer Jobs Plus Campaign, a nationwide effort of President Obama and the Department of Labor to curb youth unemployment. Summer is our busy season and with our expansion into new markets, Jamba has pledged to hire 2,500 youngsters so they can gain the skills and work experience that will help them get started with their careers. Supporting youngsters also is an important aspect of our JambaGo express units that we'll be placing in K-12 schools.
During the year, we will have install 400 to 500 JambaGos that will provide a healthy alternative for schools seeking solutions to combat the epidemic of juvenile obesity throughout the country. We believe that JambaGo represents a win-win-win, that provides great-tasting smoothies that children love, a wonderful healthy alternative to fight obesity and a good investment for Jamba.
In addition to schools, JambaGo will also be installed in convenience stores, colleges, entertainment systems and other locations. If successful, we think the number of JambaGo installations could exceed 1,000 over time. In describing the JambaGo business model, I've harkened back to my days at Gillette in likening the JambaGo installations and refills to the razor and blade model. When I came to Jamba, I was hoping to find something that would provide us with this very successful model and JambaGo does it.
In addition to new formats, we also continue to sharpen our marketing efforts, which we're doing a better job of focusing on driving traffic, building loyalty and making our brand more relevant to more people. This ongoing effort will be a key contributor to our accelerated growth. So Q1 was strong, and we see good progress ahead. So we are again affirming our guidance for the year. We expect to deliver positive company-owned comparable store sales in the 3% to 4% range, achieve adjusted operating profit margins of 20% to 22%, develop 40 to 50 new stores in the U.S., 10 to 15 new stores internationally, plus our JambaGo units. We'll maintain general and administrative expenses flat in dollars with fiscal 2011, excluding performance compensation, and we will deliver CPG licensing revenues of approximately $3 million.
As I said, I'm very pleased with Jamba's results and achievements, and we continue to create new ways to build on our heritage and transform Jamba into a leading active, healthy lifestyle brand. We have an exceptional brand franchise, a focused strategy, a talented and very disciplined organization. And as I always say, promises made will be kept.
Before I conclude, I would like to welcome our new partners in the U.S. and from around the world to the Jamba family. I also would like to thank the Jamba team members and franchise operators across the system for their continuing efforts to build our company and deliver outstanding service to our customers. I will now turn the call over to the operator so we can open it up for questions.
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Peter Mahon with Dougherty & Company.
Peter Mahon - Dougherty & Company LLC, Research Division
The first one I had has to do with just your comp store guidance versus kind of how you started the year. One, and it kind of implies a more severe slowdown in the back half of the year than I would have thought based on how you started. Has something changed even through the first few weeks of Q2 here? Or is there something looming in the back half of the year that gives you a little less confidence in that comp store sale number?
James D. White
Peter, we'd say we're very confident in the plan that we entered the year with. We've got off to a strong start in Q1, but it's early in the year and we would never revise our earnings but were actually very bullish on our plans. And to be clear, we've got positive comparable store sales as we play through the early part of Q2.
Peter Mahon - Dougherty & Company LLC, Research Division
Okay, great. Got it. So it's more of a timing issue opposed to guys seeing a fundamental change in kind of the marketplace right now?
James D. White
We absolutely don't see a fundamental change. We are bullish on the strategy.
Peter Mahon - Dougherty & Company LLC, Research Division
Okay, great. And James, you talked about CPG or license or I should say, license revenue reaching about $3 million for the year. Is the JambaGo revenue are going to be tied into that number or -- and then a follow-up to that is, doing about $300,000 in Q1, do you guys -- what do you see on the horizon that gives you a lot of confidence in reaching that $3 million mark? Is it the JambaGo or is it something else that you guys see?
James D. White
So the first one I'd make, Peter, is that JambaGo was a standalone division for us and a standalone growth stream into the company, and Karen laid out what can be expected there and that's in addition to CPG. The CPG business is built on the expectation that we will accelerate distribution. We'll go from the current 35,000 or so points of retail distribution to about 50,000 by year end. And we also have other things in the pipeline that will build on that platform moving forward. The Q1 performance is a doubling of CPG revenue versus a year ago, and you'll see that accelerate over the balance of the year. So again, we're very comfortable with the expectations that, we call it, for $3 million and royalty revenues on CPG.
And our next question comes from the line of Chris Krueger with Northland Capital Markets.
Chris Krueger - Northland Securities Inc., Research Division
Looking at International business, has that pipeline changed at all? And are there -- do you have expectations to add more partners in new countries this year?
James D. White
So I'll start with your second question first. We do expect to add a partner to our new markets in 2012 as we've talked about late last year, and we are exactly on plan for international. We finished last year with roughly 20 units, and we expect to double that and get close to about 40 units for the full year. And as I said previously, we expect to double our presence internationally for the foreseeable future. And so from 20, to 40, to 80, to 160 so that will grow nicely over time and it'll be a combination of us building out the 3 existing markets and adding new markets to the mix that will grow moving forward. We think the full potential is at least 1,000 units. And as a reminder, we've got a pipeline of 320 units across South Korea, which is 200 units, the Philippines, which is 40 units and Canada which has 80 units today.
Chris Krueger - Northland Securities Inc., Research Division
All right. A couple of weeks ago, you announced changes to your energy drink ownership, I guess, of the patents and all that. Can you just go over to your plan for the energy drink? How would you look at that?
James D. White
I think you should -- and really as a broader strategy from a CPG perspective. And what we always said is, once we got through the turnaround for the company that you would see us leverage joint ventures, you'd see us leverage some straight ownership where we find the right co-packer or co-manufacturer and would lead the go-to-market strategy ourselves. This is the case where we found an opportunity and reached agreement with Nestlé to buy back our IP. And you'll see us accelerate our energy drink business in a couple of ways. One, you'll see us expand out of the Northeast and you will see us take really full control for the P&L of that business, which ultimately will allow us to control how we expand that business, but longer term, it will also give us a greater share of the profit pool moving forward. So we're bullish on the category both for the size of the category and really, the uniqueness of the Jamba energy proposition, which we think stands uniquely in a better for use space and a really good [ph] category.
[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Conrad Lyon with B. Riley & Co.
Conrad Lyon - B. Riley & Co., LLC, Research Division
First question, a macro question, whenever you see the type of same store sales [indiscernible] you put up, a question comes out is, do you think you're getting the market share or is the pie increasing or a combination of both, can you speak to the -- what you think is going on in there?
James D. White
We think there are 2 things in the macro environment as it relates to Jamba. One, we think the demand is increasing for better-for-you products, so we think we sit in a sweet spot in the industry. As the consumer is getting healthier, there is a high interest in innovative, relevant, better-for-you products so we think we'd benefit there. And I think importantly, we significantly accelerated our innovation agenda over the course of the last 2 or 3 years. Karen mentioned that we have intentionally built products that we view as more relevant from a consumer perspective like our Steel Cut Oatmeal platform. We've added innovative items in our smoothie lineup and our fresh juices, and we think all those things position us to be a lot more relevant. The better-for-you consumer, and we've created products that have a more habitual, more loyal nature to the products and that was the big driver in our traffic the last couple of quarters.
Conrad Lyon - B. Riley & Co., LLC, Research Division
Follow on, a little bit more getting into details here in this the quarter. It looks like you are more efficient with promoting than the prior year meaning that, I think, if I remember correctly, you had a [indiscernible] that was more across the board on menu and this year was a bit more concentrated. If that's truly the case, did you find that being a little bit more efficient and incremental to margins?
James D. White
We've been very surgical since the middle of last year from a promotional perspective. We've been far less promotional. You'll see us stay and in that kind of mode. We're really surgical in terms of promotion and discounting. One of the things in this quarter that was really effective was the sweepstakes that we've launched, which was really helpful to drive traffic really across the system and we, system wide, had just really balanced performance. If you look at the overall comp store sales for the system at plus 11.6%, we had every one of our top franchise partners that have positive same-store sales for the quarter and then the traffic increases speak for themselves.
And we have a follow-up question from the line of Peter Mahon with Dougherty & Company.
Peter Mahon - Dougherty & Company LLC, Research Division
Just one follow-up question. In terms of just expense control. Obviously, Q1 was a good momentum from that perspective. Do you feel like there are additional levers you can pull to leverage those costs even further, especially like fiscal operating line. Is that actually, I think, the only one that actually increased year-over-year on percentage of revenues? Do you guys still feel that there's room from that perspective?
James D. White
You'll see us continue to make progress on the labor line in particular, and we continue to manage the cost of goods line. Therefore, you'll see us continue to improve that margin performance from a four-wall perspective.
[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from the line of Kurt Frederick with Wedbush Securities.
Kurt M. Frederick - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division
Just had a question on the JambaGo. First is, I'm just wondering how many units were open at the end of the quarter, and then maybe just talk a little bit about the initial results and how things are going?
James D. White
Karen, can you answer the units that were open at the quarter close?
Karen L. Luey
Sure, Kurt. We had about somewhere between 88 to 90 units open at the end of the quarter close, and those were primarily in the K-12 schools today.
James D. White
And what we expect to have, Kurt, is 400 to 500 units. So by the time we finish up the year, for us this is really our initial pilot year with this idea. It holds great promise. We've seen significant momentum-building in schools in terms of the demand for these units, and we're learning as we go but we've been very pleased with the early results. And Karen, would you reiterate the guidance that we've given in terms of the results we expect in 2012?
Karen L. Luey
Yes. Kirk, as you know, we're just starting to build the foundation for JambaGo and as such, we've estimated that revenue stream as we build will result in about a $700,000 JambaGo revenue for 2012. That will help us stepladder in 2013 results with a foundation of somewhere between 400 and 500 units to start off 2013 with.
Kurt M. Frederick - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division
Okay. Then unrelated, just on the raw material cost, just wondering what you're seeing there. And if there's any interest still kind of going through to the process of, like reformulating stuff to get around anything that's kind of higher cost related to it?
James D. White
Really for us, we continue to focus on ways to take out cost and manage expenses with discipline, especially in the supply chain and cost of goods area. But we're still good with our guidance that we've provided for the year to be in the 24% to 25% range. And we'll beat it if we can, but we're very comfortable with the numbers that was laid out after the year there.
Kurt M. Frederick - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division
Just one final, I guess, on the new products that you come out with. How are they priced as far as profit margins? Are they generally -- do you take into account, put them at a higher margin?
James D. White
It really depends on the item. Overall, we're looking to add things that are accretive from a business and margin perspective. The better-for-you items are going to be at the higher end of our smoothie portfolio. And obviously, the more fresh juices that we'd sell, the more profitability we drive overall. But most importantly, the items that we're adding are just far more relevant to consumers so we're getting the traffic increases from the repeat visits.
And I show no further questions in queue at, this, time. Management, please continue with closing remarks.
James D. White
So in closing, we had a fantastic quarter. We had same-store sales that were at the top of this industry's performance, and I'm pleased to be able to stand before you and say that we expect strong performance in Q2. And we are excited about the momentum-building from a consumer perspective around the better-for-you products and we think Jamba is one of the clearer ways to play the healthy lifestyle momentum that is happening. So thanks and we look forward to seeing you in the second quarter.
Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our call this afternoon. We thank you very much for your participation. You may now disconnect.
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Whittier Field
Hubbard Grandstand
Hazardous football-playing conditions of the early 1890s are described in a brochure entitled The Proposed Athletic Field at Bowdoin College: "The football field on the delta is ten yards too short, and the pine trunks and roots, at the east end of the field, add an unnecessary element of danger to the game."1
Readers of the brochure were solicited to make donations for clearing, making a quarter-mile track and a 220-yard straightaway, preparing baseball and football areas, fencing, and building a grandstand with dressing rooms for players. Although the College owned most of the six acres, some had to be acquired from the Robert Bowker heirs. Because the field area was flat and sandy, it did not require elaborate work. The engineering was done by John Emerson Burbank, an 1896 graduate and a physics instructor at Bowdoin from 1896 to 1900. The contractor was William Muir, Jr., of Brunswick.
Although Bowdoin had been playing intercollegiate baseball for twenty years, the first intercollegiate football game, with Tufts, had taken place as recently as 1889; the first game with Colby was in 1892, and with the University of Maine in 1893. Across the country at this time, competitive sports had developed to the point where grandstands and stadiums were needed for the spectators. The Harvard Stadium, designed by McKim, Mead and White and at the time the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, went up between 1899 and 1903; the Yale Bowl followed in 1914.
When Bowdoin's new field was completed, the wooden grandstand was moved over from the Delta, and some time before 1902 the field was named for the director of athletics and later college physician, Frank Nathaniel Whittier, class of 1885. Dr. Whittier, who had married a daughter of the Skolfield family, lived in the Park Row double house now owned by the Pejepscot Historical Society.
In 1902 General Thomas H. Hubbard, class of 1857, announced his gift of a grandstand equipped with locker rooms and showers. Hubbard Hall was barely finished when Henry Vaughan, its architect, undertook this new project for General Hubbard, with C. L. Fellows and Company of Concord, New Hampshire, as contractors.
This is probably the only grandstand in Henry Vaughan's oeuvre. Here, instead of the Gothic ideas he used in Searles Science Building and Hubbard Hall, he turned to something more pastoral, related to large summer cottages and to Stevens's Shingle Style, although the grandstand is made of stone and brick. The similarity derives from the generous overhang of the deep, hipped roof, originally green slate, and from the informality of the fieldstone base (now mostly obscured by additional bleachers). The upper red brick area originally had twelve openings, now blocked in, which contributed to a festive airiness. Before seating was added in front and to the sides, and before the addition to the roof, the grandstand appeared taller.
At the dedication, in May 1904, General Hubbard began:
Today we give this structure to Bowdoin College and dedicate it to the use of athletes and the lovers of athletics. Let us at the same time dedicate it to the declaration, 'Fair play, and may the best man win.'2These words are carved in the front of the grandstand in the granite plinth that rests on the fieldstone base.
To celebrate its twenty-fifth reunion, the Class of 1903 gave to the College the gateway to Whittier Field and the Hubbard Grandstand. President Sills had wanted a gateway here, according to the Johnson family letters exchanged during the planning of the W. E. Robinson Gateway.3 Felix Arnold Burton '07 had already designed one and given a watercolor rendering of it and one of another gate to the Museum of Art in 1915.4 Henry Johnson, the museum director, probably encouraged Burton, his young friend, hoping suitable donors would come forward.
The Class of 1903, however, retained Harry S. Coombs '01 of Lewiston. Coombs provided the class with a fine rendering of the proposed gate, which was used as the twenty-fifth reunion letterhead.5 This was an effective choice, for the class raised more than the cost of the gate. Red brick, cast stone, and ironwork are the ingredients in this largest and most elaborate of Bowdoin's gateways.
The entrance is a demi-ellipse, with the brick walls curving out from the two pairs of posts. Provision has been made for ticket sellers, and there are five entrances. The large size is well adapted to the crush of spectators entering and leaving a fall football game. The formality of the Georgian forms relates to the other gateways rather than to the grandstand within, but the design organizes the landscape of flat terrain and towering pine trees.
Text From: Patricia McGraw Anderson's The Architecture of Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1988). ©Bowdoin College.
1. Sp. Coll., Bldgs.: Whittier Field, p. 3.
2. "The Dedication of the Hubbard Grandstand," Bowdoin College, June 22, 1904, pamphlet. Sp. Coll., Bldgs.: Hubbard Grandstand, pp. 3-5.
3. F. R. Johnson to H. J. Chase, Feb. 17, 1919, includes a statement that President Sills wants a gate to the athletic fields, but "Anne does not take to anything connected to athletics."
4. Report of the President, 1914-1915, "Gifts to the Museum," p. 48.
5. Sp. Coll., Class of 1903 folder. See also the Orient, April 18, 1928, p.i.


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Holeman & Finch Public House
Holeman & Finch Public House was a real find. From the same owners of renowned Restaurant Eugene comes a farm-to-table restaurant that rivals the likes of Toronto's the Black Hoof. A small glass window with the word EAT displays legs of ham and gives you a glimpse of kitchen action.
A small restaurant that seats around 30 people, H&F has followed the "no reservations" trend that matches the snobbery of a Manhattan hotspot – the food is anything but.
The Virginia Peanut Ham (aka Smithfield ham) peaks my interest as the waiter tells us that the ham comes from pigs that are fed peanuts their entire life and that the natural oils from the peanuts therefore make for a tastier ham which is then smoked and cured for 17 days. The result? Bacon-like strips of ham, minus the "added" fats.
For starters we opt for the Shiitake, served atop a bed of sunchoke purée with pickled kohlrabi and watermelon radish. Take it from a Chinese gal who's eaten shiitake at every single birthday and wedding banquet – this was a bang-on dish of 'shrooms. The mushrooms are just al dente and the added crunch from the kohlrabi coupled with the smooth and creamy sunchoke purée makes for a bounty of lipsmacking textures and flavor.
We also opt for the Mondongo, a "stew" of tripe, crispy belly, hominy, sweet potatoes and plantain chips – the aromatics reminded me of my childhood days where chef Dad would whip up a bowl of comforting ramen in the absence of chef Mom; but the flavours were so much more orgasmic (sorry dad!). Tender pieces of tripe with cubes of salty pork belly with crispy plantain chips to bring the sodium high down a notch; I'd gladly slurp on this than jump on the ramen craze.
For our main we go down the Southern path of Oconee River Caught Cat Fish – not the usual "muddy"-tasting kind from the bottom of the pond. The fish was cooked perfectly and served atop a bed of creamy grits with Geechee gravy, bacon and Holy Trinity. Sweet Jesus!
The share-plate sizes leave us just enough room for dessert as we opt for the server-recommended Pork Fat Caramel; reminiscent of a caramel fondue served with slices of apple, pear and again, kohlrabi and watermelon radish. The watermelon radish makes for an eye-catching display and adds a little color to an otherwise beige and brown plate. It was good caramel, but I would've happily eaten just the plate of crunchy pear slices if given the option.
We also opt for the Sticky Toffee Pudding which really is more of a brownie than it is an STP – the death-by-chocolate kind of goodness that is just the right amount of chocolate without overwhelming to the point of exhausting your palate.
Service is attentive but dishes come out at random from the kitchen; the Mondongo arrives after the catfish and at one point we ponder whether there was the possibility they had forgotten.
A James Beard Award for their Outstanding Bar Program welcomes you into the alleyway for the single washrooms that becomes a bit of a social spot as the lineups build. Having sipped on cocktails, they don't wow us as much as the food.
And while there are no over-hyped food trend items on the menu, the Holeman & Finch Burger is in high demand (comparable to the Cronut craze where people line-up 2 hours in advance to get in on one of 24 burgers served every night at 10PM, aka burger time). Pro tip? You can get the same burger at Sunday brunch without having to make a beeline through the crowd.
But at the end of the day, my dinner companion and I agree – Holeman & Finch earns a spot on our list of best meals ever eaten, even without the burger.


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Noise Level
The noise level of each cooler was measured between 1:00 and 3:00 AM in a closed room about 20 m2 big using CENTER-321 electronic noise meter. The noise level for each cooler was tested outside the system case when the only noise sources in the lab were the cooler and its fan. The noise meter was installed on a tripod and was always at a 150 mm distance from the cooler fan rotor. The tested cooling systems were placed at the edge of the desk on a sheet of polyurethane foam. The lowest noise reading our noise meter device can register is 29.8 dBA and the subjectively comfortable noise level in these testing conditions was around 36 dBA (do not mix it up with low noise level). The fan(s) rotation speed was adjusted in the entire supported range using our precise in-house controller by changing the voltage with 0.5 V increment.
We will compare the noise level of the Palit GeForce GTX 770 JetStream and Zotac GeForce GTX 770 AMP! Edition with that of the reference GeForce GTX 770 from Nvidia. The top speed of the fans they reach when regulated automatically is indicated with vertical dotted lines.
First of all, none of these cards can be called really quiet. Each of them is not just audible against the background noise of our rather quiet computer but downright loud. The Palit GeForce GTX 770 JetStream is the noisiest of the three, surpassing the reference cooler from Nvidia and being barely comfortable in 2D applications. The Zotac GeForce GTX 770 AMP! Edition is indeed quieter than the reference sample but not by much. At speeds above 2200 RPM the Zotac is noisier than the Nvidia. It is, however, the quietest of the three cards in 2D applications, which is important even for gamers.
Power Consumption
We measured the power consumption of our testbed equipped with different graphics cards using a multifunctional Zalman ZM-MFC3 panel which can report how much power a computer (without the monitor) draws from a wall outlet. There were two test modes: 2D (editing documents in Microsoft Word or web surfing) and 3D. In the latter case the load was created by four runs of the introductory "Swamp" scene in Crysis 3 game at 2560x1440 with maximum image quality settings, but without MSAA.
Besides the cards from Zotac and Palit and the reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 770, we've included into this test a configuration with an overclocked dual-processor Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 (we'll explain the reasons for its overclocking shortly). Here are the results:
There is only a 26-watt difference between the configurations with the reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 and the pre-overclocked Zotac. On the other hand, the Zotac needs 5 watts more than the reference GTX 770 when the latter is overclocked to higher frequencies. This must be the consequence of the customized PCB or a higher power draw of the cooler's fans. The configuration with two GTX 770s (the Palit plus the Zotac working at the same clock rates) needs 204 watts more than the configuration with only one such card and 73 watts more than the configuration with a dual-processor GeForce GTX 690. Now let's see which one delivers higher performance.


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Happy Birthday Britney!We hope you have a Blessed year filled with the Joy of the Lord!
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Happy belated birthday Britany. I so enjoy hearing about your children as Pastor Greg shares the many cute things that they do. I know that keeping up with them will keep you young! Maybe, if you are lucky they will keep you as young as your father-in-law who just turned 6 :-)! May our Lord Jesus give you many many more birthdays and I pray that every year will be filled with love, joy, peace and good health. Dorie E.


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One of baseball's legends, Babe Ruth was born in Downtown Baltimore, so it's no doubt that residents love the sport of baseball and support their local baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles. Oriole Park is a state-of the-art facility in Downtown Baltimore that opened on April 6, 1992. It was a much-anticipated opening day after 33 months of construction on what was Camden Yards. Fans have been coming from all over town from Towson, Catonsville, and Glen Burnie wearing their team apparel to show their support. Orioles fans can purchase fan gear at the stadium or online at the official shop. The online store has everything a die-hard fan could want from jerseys, hats, memorabilia, tailgating accessories and even home and office dcor.


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National Fire Protection Association Standard 1901 allows proportioning systems designed to supply 1 percent or greater solutions of Class B foam to be inaccurate up to +30 percent. FoamPro recognized the waste of resources this standard allows and decided to develop an automatic proportioning system to control such waste.
What happens when you pump $30 per gallon foam at 2,000 gpm using a 3 percent proportioning rate through a low-tech proportioner with a 30 percent inaccuracy rate?
"Not only are you wasting thousands of dollars of foam, you're consuming foam at such high rates that you have a huge logistics issue in keeping the system fed," said Bill Ballantyne, sales director for FoamPro Foam Proportioning Systems. "If you're 30 percent inaccurate that's 30 percent more foam that you and your manpower need to bring just to keep the system going."
FoamPro has introduced AccuMax, the first high-volume, multi-port foam injection system for Class B industrial applications. It provides fully automatic foam proportioning, regardless of changes in flow or pressure. In addition, greater nozzle performance is realized as AccuMax does not restrict water flow. Instead of turning knobs or activating levers, AccuMax's electronics deliver precise foam every time.
Central States Fire Apparatus, affiliated with Rosenbauer International, recently built and delivered its first industrial fire truck using AccuMax for the Shell refinery in Mobile, AL. It came complete with a Waterous S100 2,000 gpm fire pump and a FoamPro AccuMax 150 gpm foam proportioner capable of supplying 2,500 gpm at 6 percent and 5,000 gpm at 3 percent.
"The truck was originally speced for a balanced pressure eductor style proportioner," said Central States CEO Harold Boer.
By its very nature, balanced pressure proportioners utilizing a venturi device were inaccurate, Boer said.
"The biggest problem with the venturi type was the flow range," Boer said. "A specified flow range could be fairly accurate. However, if your flow goes above or below that range the proportioner can't compensate the way our computer-based system can."
Also, the venturi proportioners were limited in the amount of water that could be pushed through.
"The bottom line was that you needed more discharges on a truck so you could flow foam out of each discharge, combining them into a manifold to go into a large monitor or portable deck gun," Boer said. "With computer-based proportioners we can monitor flow within larger outlets for larger flows, reducing the number of outlets required on a truck."
AccuMax does not place flow restrictions on the plumbing, Ballantyne said.
"You get full flow capacity out of whatever size plumbing and diameter pipe you're using," he said. "We can plumb 4-inch discharges with full 4-inch piping. With the venturi type you were limited to 2? -inch to 3-inch piping."
The AccuMax operator has maximum flexibility. Each of eight discharges may flow plain water or 6-, 3- and 1 percent solution. A main waterway flowmeter located in each foam outlet provides flow data. The individual line controller receives this information and continually compares it to the chosen injection percentage, automatically opening or closing the concentrate supply valve. The flowmeter confirms the amount of foam being injected.
Meanwhile, the master control totals all individual line requirements and signals the Edwards pump to supply foam. All lines incorporate check valves to prevent water or solution backflow. Each line controller may be programmed for three default injection percentages. Each controller also displays current water flow, injection rate, total water and concentrate used.
The master control module displays current water, foam flow, total water and foam usage from all active discharges. Additionally, it warns the operator of a low concentrate level and offers an optional discharge pressure reading.
Master and individual microprocessor control modules include advanced diagnostic capabilities and system self-checks when AccuMax is powered up.
Venturi designed ratio controllers utilized in nozzle eductors. Balanced pressure and around-the-pump proportioning systems severely restrict water flow. Because of this, departments are required to run multiple discharge hoses to supply the high flow monitors or appliances. By comparison, AccuMax flowmeters do not restrict water flow, allowing greater pump performance at each outlet. This reduces the number of hose lays required, making the complete operation more efficient.
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If you have overdue materials you will receive a message that says "Borrower is blocked from making Requests." Call the Parnassus Service Desk at (415) 476-2336 for assistance.
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After you sign in, your account information will display. Select your sort option, then click "Submit."
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Status Messages
- In process - Your request is in the process of being fulfilled (potential suppliers are being sought and queried).
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From its beginnings as a fishing village in the 13th century, Rotterdam has evolved into the second largest city in the Netherlands and home to one of the largest ports in the world.
Much of Rotterdam's centre was destroyed during World War II. However, the city was reborn as a hotspot for modern architecture, with a towering skyline that is always changing and several of the country's most innovative buildings.
A popular saying among Rotterdammers goes "Money is earned in Rotterdam, divided in The Hague and spent in Amsterdam," reflecting Rotterdam's traditional view of itself as a no-nonsense workers' city.
Although Amsterdam is generally viewed as the cultural capital of the Netherlands, besides modern architecture Rotterdam also boasts one of the Netherlands' finest museums in the Boijmans van Beuningen, as well as a bustling contemporary art scene.
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The populations of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Eindhoven and Groningen are surging, due to changes in young people's lifestyle patterns in the Netherlands.
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Solutions & sustainability - Sept 29
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Billy goat not gruff about his responsibilities
Chi-dooh Li, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
I was fascinated by news from Seattle City Light that a herd of goats would be deployed this week in the Maple Leaf neighborhood to perform some "environmentally sustainable vegetation management." That's bureaucratic gobbledygook for clearing up unwanted brush without using obnoxious fuel-consuming, smoke-spewing, noise-making mechanical devices.
Through a City Hall contact I managed to arrange a private interview with the crew-chief, Albert ("Don't call me Billy") the goat at his favorite hangout -- a dense patch of trees and overgrown brush on a local golf course. It looked like a place where I had parked a lot of errant tee shots.
I noticed the city ID tag around his neck with his mug shot and name, followed by the initials ESVMRE-II. "Environmentally Sustainable Vegetation Management Ruminant Engineer, class II," he said, anticipating my question. "I wish they'd just call me a defoliator."
I asked Albert if he was supporting a family. "Yup, big one," he replied. "Wife and I have four kids. You know, don't you, that we goats have four stomachs? Makes a total of 24 stomachs I have to feed. Of course, I get to eat on the job. That is my job, you could say, to eat," he half chuckled, half grunted.
(28 Sept 2006)
Urban farming: City pickers
Jack Watkins, The Independent
It was once a forgotten wasteland in east London - now it's a thriving organic farm. Urban areas consume huge amounts of food, so why aren't there more places like this?
Five years ago Allens Gardens provided a spectacle of dereliction all too familiar in the underprivileged London borough of Hackney. By night it was a shooting-up gallery for drug addicts, by day a dumping ground, choking with debris and burnt-out bins.
A snip, you might think, for a property developer? Not so. Today the spot is host not only to a spruced-up children's play area but also a vegetable and fruit plot that is helping to breathe new life into the once common practice of urban food growing.
It has the look of a tranquil urban idyll. There are four beds of vegetables grown under a crop-rotation system. A line of newly planted apple trees fronts an ancient brick wall, on the other side of which a young grapevine trails. Herbs such as salad burnet and mint fit into odd corners. As a reminder that modern growing needn't mean the elimination of all other forms of life, there's a tiny pond, inhabited by frogs and newts.
The plot is one of three managed by Growing Communities, a local social enterprise group, and though they jointly amount to less than one acre, they comprise the first Soil Association-certified organic growing plots in London. Benign and small-scale as they might seem, they are a vital and ambitious component in a local box scheme run by the group and its determined founder-director, Julie Brown.
"This is not about recreating The Good Life," explains Brown. "We are trying to show that cities can produce food as well as consume massive amounts of resources. There are lots of good reasons for urban growing, such as building communities, therapy and reconnecting with nature, and environmental reasons such as reducing food miles. But where we differ from others operating in London is that we are trying to show that growing here can also be economically viable."
(28 Sept 2006)
The Urban Hunt
A Summer Spent Killing—and Eating—Seattle's Small Game
Brendan Kiley, The Stranger (Seattle)
The alarm goes off at four in the morning—before sunrise and the joggers hit the parks and woods. I ride my bicycle down Boren Avenue toward Lake Union, turning at the Greyhound station, past two prostitutes, one white, one brown, both young, who shout: "Hey honey! Hey there, baby! Hey! Hey!" The lightening sky is pretty, the breeze clears my head, and I am biking along Westlake Avenue, headed to Woodland Park, to shoot a rabbit.
The hundreds of rabbits in the park are a scourge. Many are Easter gifts people have come to regret and left there. They lack the instincts and habits of wild rabbits. Fed by fair-weather parkgoers, they overbreed and, in winter, die of starvation and disease. They eat everything in sight, stripping the park of vegetation and chewing up tree roots. They sneak into the nearby zoo to forage and, according to Woodland Park Zoo spokesperson Gigi Allianic, are hunted by lions and stepped on by elephants. (Allianic later recanted the elephant story as "anecdotal." The city parks department has tried—with mixed results—to capture, sterilize, and relocate the bunnies to a sanctuary in Redmond. They want, at some public expense, to decrease the rabbit population in the park. I've come to help.
A few weeks earlier, I was sitting in a bar with some friends. The conversation turned toward crazy people. One friend told a story about a man arrested at Green Lake for chasing geese and breaking their necks. The man told police he was hunting. Everyone laughed. I said hunting for geese in the park didn't sound that crazy. Hunting for food in the city makes a kind of sense. It's inexpensive, ecologically low impact, and less distasteful than rich politicians and businessmen spending extravagant sums to hunt for sport on private ranches. Sane rural people hunt in their backyards all the time. Why shouldn't urban people?
And what about disasters?
(28 Sept 2006)
A long personal article brings to light our strange food taboos. -BA
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Insert Ham Joke Here
Need a little something to enliven up your seder? There's a great Black Lives Matter Supplement from JFREJ. A Refugee Supplement from HIAS. Or any number of social justice supplements. But my favorite might be A Hamilton Haggadah, written by a couple of rabbinical students at RRC.
What "When Do We Eat Already?" sounded like 370 years ago
Back in January, blogger Mississippi Fred Macdowell posted scans of the Rittangel Hagaddah [pdf], a 1644 Hebrew-Latin Haggadah that has the distinction of including musical notations for two of the songs. Last month, high school students at the Tannenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto performed them in concert. Here's his followup post with video of the performance.
Next Coffee Break in Jerusalem
Good to the Last Seder: "The Jews are known as the people of the Book, and that book, which has sustained them is... the Maxwell House Haggadah." The brainchild of the Joseph Jacobs Advertising firm, Maxwell House Coffee has provided copies of the haggadah for Jewish-American coffee purchasers celebrating the Passover Seder since 1934, a fact that led one rabbi to claim that the coffee company "did more to codify Jewish liturgy than any force in history." Although the Maxwell House Haggadah has received criticism from both secular and religious Jews, the haggadah is still so ubiquitous that it has even surfaced at the official Obama seder at the White House
Moses is Departing Egypt: A Facebook Haggadah
"The Passover Seder, the oldest continuously observed religious ceremony in the world, tells the story of the Jews' Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition says that people of each generation must imagine that they personally had departed from Egypt, and the sages say that each generation must tell the story in its own terms. The sages probably did not intend this. "(Via)
The manuscripts of David Kaufmann, Jewish scholar extraordinaire. Wonderful illuminations, inventive typography and even a little bit of naughtiness.
The Prague Bible
The Prague Bible (1489) is a splendid three-volume MS of the Tanakh, once in the possession of Enlightenment luminary Moses Mendelssohn. There are several other beautiful examples of medieval and early modern Hebrew MSS online, including the Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts collection (New York Public Library), the Illuminated Haggadah Exhibit (Klau University), selections from Moses Maimonides' Moreh Nevukim (Leiden University), and the Prato Haggadah (Jewish Theological Seminary). See also the introduction to the Hebraic Collections at the Library of Congress.
Open Source Religion?
Open Source Judaism? This is the baby of Douglas Rushkoff, who recently wrote a book about the subject and whose opinions about icons and branding remind me of someone else. He's even started an open source haggadah.
Once We Were Slaves
Avadim Chayeinu: A BDSM Haggadah In some way or another, all who celebrate Passover, end up writing their own Haggadahs. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of different ones to choose from. Tradition says: never forget that YOU were freed from the land of Egypt. The desire to tell one's own tale of liberation and free one's own voice has led to holocaust haggadahs, gay and lesbian hagaddahs, zionist hagaddahs, feminist haggadahs, secular humanist haggadahs and now, a haggadah for those to whom the term "slave" has an altogether different meaning. (via boingboing.)
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Peak rush hour has arrived.
Interstate 95
Slow going, especially around Fairfield and Westport.
Things are improving by the minute as commuters make their way to work.
Around New Haven, SB delays getting on the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in "Staven."
Interstate 91
Big time SB delays from North Haven into the Elm City. Some of the biggest back-ups all morning.
Blame it on a disabled vehicle near Exit 6.
Merritt Parkway
In worse shape than 95.
And there's now … a MVA SB near Exit 48 in Trumbull. This won't help things.
Trouble spots are around the Route 8 and 25 to New Canaan. Speeds are in the teens, about 15 miles; not good.
Interstate 84
Been good all morning; still is.
New Haven Line customers traveling through the vicinity of Harrison may experience residual delays of up to 10 minutes due to an earlier disabled train in the area.