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Hey Guys,
From searching the internet, and various forums I have been unable to find a clear answer.
Is it worth (or even possible?) to re-map a 325i N53? (3.0L engine) Some sites are saying you need the 3-stage manifold off a 330i, others are saying you can hit near on 268bhp with just a map.
Has anyone had there 325i re-mapped? If so, was it worth it/where did you have it done?
I have a drive-line warranty on the car, so I suppose I should let that run out before looking into this more seriously?
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So glad I found this forum! I have a 2007 CRV-EX AWD. I took it in this morning for a B1 service. The dealer just called me and said that I need new front and rear brakes...2mm left in front, and 3mm left in back (I'm not quite sure what this means...). Anyway, they said it'll be $600 for the brakes on top of the $230 for the B1 service.
Now, this is my first new car and I'm still new to dealing with dealership mechanics/ service. But this price seems kind of high to me. I've called my regular mechanic who serviced all my other cars but he hasn't gotten back to me. In the meantime, does the price from the dealer seem fair?
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PyramidVille on Facebook: The Zynga effect is no mirage
It's not exactly in good form to sum up a new game to the features of its predecessors, but with a name like PyramidVille that's basically unavoidable. Kobojo's runaway hit with over 2.2 million monthly players simply cannot escape the lens of popular games like FrontierVille and CityVille with how closely it attempts to emulate their success. Though, there are a few outstanding features in the game that Zynga would (and more than likely will) be smart to learn from. And while PyramidVille runs without a hitch and features an exquisitely animated presentation, there are moments in the game that will inspire the ultimate question: why?
If you're familiar with Zynga's stable of 'Ville games--which we'll just assume you are--PyramidVille doesn't present much of a learning curve, if one at all. Though, even if this is your first time playing a property management Facebook game, the tutorial does an excellent job of ironing out the basics. You are an Egyptian landlord of sorts, guided by Cleopatra herself to turn your single hut with a few workers into a sprawling sand-ridden city. To do this, you must (you guessed it!) plant crops, building new structures, and supply those buildings with Goods that sprout from said crops. See, we told you this one would be familiar.
However, what's interesting is that Kobojo has somehow taken elements more than likely inspired by FrontierVille and CityVille, and merged them into a single game. For instance, your avatar is fully customizable, and your actions are done through it--just like in FarmVille and FrontierVille. Actions that, of course, exhaust Energy that refills over time or can be restored instantly with Gems, the game's paid currency. Though, housing structures that increase your overall population of workers must be filled with Goods sourced from farming, a fundamental mechanic to CityVille. Did we mention you must also clear debris to place new buildings and decorations at the cost of Energy--sound familiar?
This process is essentially the cycle you'll encounter for the rest of the game. The game features several resources including Wood, Fibers, Metal and Clay. But unfortunately they're treated as items and not resources like in other property management games, meaning their not displayed in the interface but rather relegated to the Inventory system. Of course, these are unnecessary clicks that could have been avoided.
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520 to 540 BHP dyno horsepower for 116 MPH and a 11sec ET.
But you must gear it to leave the line hard and use all the power of the engine.
(Get past peak HP rpm thru the traps.)
You must leave the line hard to get the ET. (gears .converter)
Such and engine when geared correctly will be quite happy cruising at 100 KPH at 3300-3500rpm.
Ditch the flowmasters.
I can get you a 11 sec ET with less than 520HP real dyno HP , but you must leave the line HARD.
( gears/converter/launch) plan on gearing it to run some 12-15% RPM beyond peak power RPM point, thru the traps
trap at 7000 rpm +
and launch at or slightly higher than the peak engine torque rpm (Race converter)
Not going to happen with 4.56's and a 3000 stall, using a Naturally aspirated 383 SBC
This is all based on 3800 lbs (car and driver) 383cid N/A motor and your 31" tall Sportsman Pro's
And a optimistic but realistic chassis efficently quotient factor applied to your car. (tuning the ladder bars etc to get it to work)
"Making it Hook"
Yah, that's a little exsessive lol...the highway drive would drive me mental.
Thats not true, Unless you re already unstable
As I said the engine will be quite Happy cruising at that rpm. @100 KPH
With correct timing ( vacuum advance) and jetting at cruise it will be fairly decent on gas too.
Of course as soon as you get your foot in it it is going to make power and consume fuel to do that.
As far as keeping you sane, start by ditiching the Flowmaster mufflers and make the exhaust exit at the rear bumper.
Note: a race converter is much more efficient and "streetable" when the car is geared agressively-correctly.
very little slip at cruise- will not run hot etc.
Under gear it and the car will be a dog and the of course the high styall converter will tend to run hot.
This is a ton of info to process lol, and I appreciate it....as were buried in snow I'm headed out to snowblow and ponder lol.....will be back this eve....
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Four guys, four topics we haven't yet touched upon today. T.O. visits Ocho, Bob Costas has enough smarm for us all, stupid beauty pageant contestants and more.
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#1 Tue 16 Oct 07 4:18pm
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Wheat Flour Substitute
I am a devotee of Jamie's stuff from a long while back, but have recently discovered that I am wheat intolerant - results in things you really do not want to know about. However, as a person who loves to cook for herself and her extended family who are lactose intolerant, I was wondering if there was:
1. a substitute for the wheat based flours that Jamie uses that are comparable to end result, eg. potato or buckwheat flours? and
2. which is easier to use, rice or soy milk for things to cook?
Thanks for your help, I did read through the pages before posting so as not to offend. If I have, please forgive the newbie.
And Jamie, if you can be of assistance with specific Australian brands that would be great too.
#2 Tue 16 Oct 07 6:53pm
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Re: Wheat Flour Substitute
AmericanEmu, no idea myself, but don't worry - there are several users who are either lactose or gluten intolerant or have family members with these problems. There have been other requests touching on those problems and were readily answered, so don't worry!
There might be some info in this thread:
Good luck and welcome to the forums
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#3 Wed 17 Oct 07 10:36am
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Re: Wheat Flour Substitute
Hi AmericanEmu
My husband and youngest daughter are coeliacs, and all my children are lactose intolerant, so I know very well where you're coming from!! I'm UK based, so some of the ingredients we use may only be available here.
I use a general purpose gluten-free flour for cooking, which is a blend of soya, potato and rice flours. If I've been unable to get any generic mix, I've used equal parts of the above with success. Another flour that is great for puddings and pancakes is, of course, buckwheat, and for cookies/biscuits I find that rice flour gives a nice, light and crisp texture. For things like pastry and cakes, a teaspoon of xanthum gum into the mix seems to work wonders for the texture as well.
As you are based in Australia, you could search out the Orgran brand (which is an Australian company). To my mind, they make some of the best flours and substitutes on the market. Another good Australian company is Laucke, who make some excellent (and edible ) bread mixes.
As far as dairy products go, we use dairy-free margarine or olive or sunflower oil as a substitute for butter and, for milk, we either use a soya milk (generally unsweetened for our palates) or a variety of cow's milk that has been pre-treated with the lactase enzyme to remove the lactose (this was recommended by my daughters' paediatrician, as it's better for calcium absorption for young children than soya or rice milk). I don't know whether you would get the same kind of thing in Australia. As a cream substitute I use a soya-based product (AlproSoy), which seems to work fine, and there are many companies that make soya-based substitutes for cheese and cream cheese - I've even found a UK one to replace sour cream/creme fraiche with some success - but I don't know whether you would find that in Australia.
Most of Jamie's recipes work fine with these substitutes, even though they may need a little "tweaking" to make them work properly.
Hope that helps a little bit, and good luck. Cooking wheat free is a challenge at times, but you'll find it fun in the end
#4 Sat 20 Oct 07 1:30am
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aaarrrghhhhh...i had written a lovely, informative and at times witty reply last night and then the forum was down for maintenance when i clicked submit....now the whole thing is gone. We'll you'll just have to settle for this poor imitiation:
There is nothing that replaces gluten in cakes or breads. You will not get the same texture or the same results with any substitute. It will seem difficult at first but you will get over it. The below is my list of tips. I will point out that I am ultra sensitive to gluten. I am not coeliac (negative to all tests) but I'm not intolerant to any other food chemicals (see elimination diet thread on these forums). Coeliacs can often get away with things like dextrose, maltodextrin, etc that are derived from wheat but have undetectable levels of gluten (below 5 parts per million; although my belly can detect them, and will keep on detecting them for days). It's generally only the ultra sensitive that need to avoid all those forms of gluten. If you haven't been to a dietician then I suggest you go to one.
The white rabbit's tips on gluten free (sydney, australia centric):
*avoid freedom foods gluten free wraps, they are truely the most awful thing I've attempted to eat. Same goes for their chocolate biscuits.
*freedom foods does do a non-wheat contaminated oats, I've not tried them yet as I also have issues with oats (bad, and I mean bad, gastric reflux - I was drinking mylanta like it was water; this may or may not be related to my gluten issues).
*lowan rice flakes are good boiled up like porridge. And if you have to do an elimination diet at any point they are good mixed with a can of heinz baby pureed pears (also good as an easy sauce for pork) and brown sugar. Very filling.
*Julian's gluten free pizza bases are good, MacroWholeFoods sells them. They are much better than pizzas you get from places that do gluten free bases with average toppings that cost a fortune.
*Basco brand muffin mixes are the better ones, but avoid the berry one, it tastes weird and it has little cubes of jelly instead of fruit. The double choc is nice and good if you are feeling lazy but need things to take for lunch. They freeze well.
*Sakata brand rice crackers are the only ones that are truely gluten free (my belly is a good analytical device for gluten presence). The crackers in the blue cardboard box are the best.
*Tamiri is a soy sauce that is not made with wheat - however this comes back to a sensitivity thing, I am sensitive to normal soy
*San Remo gluten free pasta is the best on the market, don't bother with anything else. I'm the only gluten intolerant person in my house and we all eat this pasta (saves doubling up on pots) - the only difference in taste you notice is if it has no sauce with it. They do lasagne sheets too.
*Eskel do some decent wafer biscuits and pretzels which are ok. They also do crackers but they have palm oil in them which is not the best for you but you are hardly likely to eat many.
*there are gluten free beers, but i've never tried any because i never liked beer in the first place
*Coles stocks frozen gluten free bread which is better than the stuff in the bread aisle because it was frozen after cooking. If you get the stuff in the bread aisle freeze it. It all tastes fairly average to awful. It's handy to have for those times in the first 6 months or so when you just need some "bread". The gluten free puddings also in that frozen section (blue box) are terrible. The apple pies of that brand aren't much better either.
*millet puffs - unless you have hippy leanings don't torture yourself with this or any other of those tasteless puffed grains that squeak between your teeth *shudder*
Baking (I haven't done much yet as I've been on an elimination diet and a lot of things were off limits)
*zanthum or guar gum - don't use too much as things go a bit rubbery - avoid recipes that use commerical gluten free flour plus these gums (most commercial gluten free flours already have some in it)
*white wings gluten free flours are good
*not strictly baking but you can make a white sauce using gluten free flour - just do it as normal. We sometimes make it with UHT skim milk as the texture is smoother and it's a bit cheaper
*cake recipes that use nut meals are your best bet
*massel stocks are gluten free or you can be very good and make your own but I don't tend to have time
www.taste.com.au look in recipe selections or whatever and it has a gluten free section
use google/other search engine to find gluten free girl (it's a US blogger, with some gluten free recipes)
www.nigella.com - look in the recipes section for a chickpea cake, I've not tried it yet but it seems interesting
*Tobie Puttock's daily italian has the gluten free, lactose intolerance and IBS conversions or other information at the bottom of every recipes
*There is a cook book by darina allen which i have but have not tried anything from yet (elimination diet), but it looks good.
*Sue Shepard's books are boring; she is in tobie's book but his stuff is much more appealing
*I tend to avoid books that have mains recipes, as most mains recipes are gluten free anyway
*Nigella lawson's books often have gluten free recipes for desserts (that woman knows dessert) - just by their nature; and the books are a good read too
*Restaurant sojourn in balmain (sydney) has dealt with my gluten issues on several occasions and been great http://www.restaurantsojourn.com.au/
*in general you just ask ahead of time, i find the higher end restaurants are better because they make their own stocks, etc - these places are generally much better value for money in terms of quality of food. Check out the good food guide for your city.
The main thing to remember is that you will get to eat lots more fruit and veg, good meat (if you have a good butcher), luxurious cakes, and you will feel better. You food will be fresher, you will lose all the commercially produced food and it will be cheaper and better. To me gluten was always just filler for more delicious ingredients and now I have an excellent excuse to eat great chocolate, have good cheese with no crackers (you can eat more that way ), and have seriously nice cakes. It also forces you to eat less junk food. Overall, I consider myself quite lucky because gluten is the easiest food chemical to avoid. The desire for bread will pass, if it already hasn't for you.
One more thing, if you can handle the small amount of lactose, parmesan is great dipped into balsamic vinegar. Life is decadent when you have to remove gluten
#5 Sat 20 Oct 07 1:33am
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If you are in sydney there are some great places that do gluten free cakes; including a to-die-for chocolate moouse (spelling???) cake at a bakery on redleaf ave. My non-gluten free sister in law actually requested it for her birthday. Like I said, sometimes gluten free just means better.
#6 Sat 20 Oct 07 1:34am
Re: Wheat Flour Substitute
One last thing, beware of rice flours from asian grocery stores. I have reacted to it in the past, I believe they are often milled in the same places/same machinery as wheat.
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Have you heard about Teff flour...it is primarly used in food from the Sudan and Eratria...It is great for making flat breads especially and there are several cookie recipes for it. My neice is allergic to wheat/dairy/eggs/nuts/spices and much more...we are always playing around and trying new stuff. We use this flour a lot.
#8 Sat 09 Aug 08 6:45pm
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I'm wheat intolerant as opposed to full gluten intolerant so I find gram flour and rye flours work well for making bread. I'm only now venturing into home made pasta and thought I'd try substituting rice-flour for the durum. I'll let you know how I get on.
#9 Thu 05 Feb 09 5:21am
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Lifestyle Bakery is one of my favourite brands for gluten free/ wheat free baked goods! They make DEVINE pizza bases, breadcrumbs and the most excellent gluten free bread i've ever tried called Chia Loaf. Its really good for you too! The Lifestyle Bakery bread crumbs are great for when im cooking schnitzels and they are made with real gluten free bread and not rice flour like other GF crumbs. You can buy their products from Macro, David jones and I have seen it in a number of health food shops too. Their GF pizza bases are used by a number of pizza chains and in Adelaide I find that Goodlife Pizzas make THE BEST gf pizzas with them!
I have tried Dovedale breads and I wouldnt even refer to them as bread they are so horrible they are like cardboard!
Orgran products are really good convienience foods too! Love them for a quick snack before hitting the gym
as so far as flour goes, Soya flour and Corn flour are easy to use and I have found that Lupin is good too
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#10 Thu 17 Dec 09 1:02pm
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Re: Wheat Flour Substitute
hope someone can help. We are trying to make a vegan/gluten free soy free sausage and are having challenges with the binding agent as most vegan "meats" use vital wheat gluten....thx for the help
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A Campus Symposium Against Workplace Bullying
December 13, 2013
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Campus Center
Room: Auditorium
UMass Amherst Campus
The Committee on Workplace Climate and Bullying will sponsor a
half-day symposium on workplace bullying. The symposium, which is the beginning of a comprehensive educational campaign aimed at increasing understanding of the problem of workplace bullying, minimizing its occurrence, and clarifying the responsibility of supervisors for ensuring a productive workplace in which all can contribute to their maximum potential, will feature national experts on the topic, as well as Representative Story, District Attorney Sullivan, and campus union leaders.
Committee on Workplace Climate and Bullying
Symposium on Workplace Bullying – December 13, 2013
Campus Center Auditorium
Doors open
(Minuteman Continental Breakfast: Freshly baked assortment of premium pastries, seasonal fresh fruit, assorted juices, a selection of cold cereals, Yogurts, granola, coffee and tea)
Kathy Rhines and Derek Doughty will MC event
David C. Yamada KEYNOTE
Representative Ellen Story
Chancellor Subbaswamy
10:30 break
Workshop A
"We need your ideas as we move forward with our anti bullying campaign"
Panel members: David Yamada, Ellen Story, District Attorney David Sullivan, Randy Phillis (Faculty), Joe Connolly (AFSCME)
Workshop B
"A Sampler of Ideas on How to Immediately Address Bullying in your Workplace"
Facilitated by Fran Sepler
Resource Room
While the Workshops are occurring there will be another room which will be staffed by committee members, administrators (Ombuds) and mental health care professionals
In this room campus employees can pick up literature related to bullying (recognizing, reporting, responding), fill out surveys related to the symposium content, provide suggestions for the next phase of the campaign.
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(Correction: This story incorrectly stated that GroupM CEO Irwin Gotlieb had accompanied Steve Ridley, who runs subsidiary Kinetic in the Americas, on calls to U.S. outdoor advertising companies to discuss a plan to revise ad-purchasing arrangements; Ridley's visits were made without Gotlieb. The story also inaccurately said that advertising rebates are prohibited in France. While France set strict limits on rebates in 1993, requiring that the terms of any such arrangements be spelled out contractually, it did not ban them outright. The story should have included GroupM's assertion that its policy is to include any rebate arrangements in client contracts. While the article correctly noted that Gotlieb expects GroupM to continue to expand its sources of revenue, it incorrectly stated that he predicted GroupM might eventually stop representing advertisers at all.)
Wherever media and advertising executives gather—from future-of-the-industry confabs to magazine award luncheons—you will find a 58-year-old man with the haggard look of someone who would rather think than sleep. He rarely seeks people out at these events, but lets them come to him. And come they do: CEOs, CMOs, and network bigs, all jostling for face time. Eventually this man will mount the stage. A reverent hush will descend. Irwin Gotlieb, the most powerful man on Madison Avenue, is about to speak.
In his pensive, reedy voice, Gotlieb will typically lay out his vision of the future: billions of consumers in a global bazaar of digital media, advertisers seeking them out with hyper-targeted ads, can't-miss analytics. And he will inevitably explain why his media-buying company, GroupM (WPPGY), will remain central even as the world moves online.
Clients, Wall Streeters, media executives—all listen because Gotlieb is the world's most successful media buyer. He hates the term, preferring to call his business "media services." But he's a media buyer. What does he do? In the simplest terms, he uses scads of consumer data to help clients figure out where to spend money on ads—TV, magazines, Web portals, video games, and so on—and then buys the time or space. Last year, GroupM bought some $60 billion worth of ads for a roster of blue chips.
All media agencies use their massive buying clout to extract the best possible deal from the TV networks, billboard companies, and Web portals. But none of them exploits its scale quite as lucratively as Gotlieb. GroupM earned just over $400 million in operating income on revenues of more than $2 billion last year. That's a big chunk of the income netted by GroupM's parent, the advertising behemoth WPP Group.
But at a time when recession is in the air and ad spending is tepid, it's getting harder to keep profits growing briskly for his increasingly demanding overlords at WPP. So he is looking for new ways to earn money in the U.S., the world's largest advertising market. Gotlieb is known as a Digital Age oracle. But he is putting a new twist on a surprisingly old-fashioned moneymaking model—one that has been banned in France since 1993 and now is under fire in Germany.
The practice is known in the advertising industry as a rebate or "volume override." Here's how it typically works in Europe. A media-buying agency approaches a TV network or magazine publisher and offers to buy a large number of ads. In exchange, the network or publisher pays the media buyer a percentage of the total advertising tab. The media company may write a check, give away free ad spots, or agree to buy something from the agency—a research study, say. Sometimes media buyers share the proceeds with clients. Sometimes they don't.
The rebates are controversial because they present a potential conflict of interest: Media buyers could be tempted to place ads not where they make sense for a client but where the rebates are the fattest. When the French government banned the practice, it required media buyers to act exclusively as agents of their clients when purchasing advertising space or time. Rebates are common in most of Europe. But advertisers often hire auditors to keep an eye on their media buyers—and even then, auditors say, it's not easy to spot such payments.
In Germany, rebates have attracted the authorities' attention because the nation's two largest broadcasters, RTL Group and ProSiebenSat.1 Media, were paying media buyers rebates if they agreed to commit a certain percentage of their national ad budget. Antitrust officials saw such "sharedeals" as a way for the two companies to freeze out smaller rivals. In November they fined RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 Media $140 million and $175 million, respectively. Both companies say they have since halted such sharedeals but acknowledge that they pay fees to media buyers in exchange for bulk ad purchases. "All these rebates belong to the advertisers and should be passed on to them," says Joachim Schütz, who runs the German Advertisers Assn., an industry body.
Rebates have been virtually unknown in the U.S. Now Gotlieb is looking to get money from outdoor advertising companies, which put ads along highways, in airports and multiplexes, and even in city buses. Asked if he plans to expand into other media, Gotlieb says local TV is "quite possible." The GroupM chief says that once he has inked enough deals, he'll tell clients how the rebates work. And he says the plan won't take effect until everyone is in the loop. He refers to the payments as just one "intelligent application of scale" and says they represent a minor part of a plan to derive new sources of income in an increasingly competitive world. "We're simply facing reality," he says. "We know what we have to do and will be proactive about it."
The danger for Gotlieb and GroupM seems clear: He risks alienating the very clients who helped propel him to the pinnacle of the media-buying world.
When Irwin Gotlieb began working on Madison Avenue in 1970 at the age of 20, media buyers were powerless. People like Gotlieb usually represented one client and sometimes controlled just a sliver of that advertiser's budget—say, the money spent on ads during prime-time TV news. With budgets so divvied up and with so few options to reach masses of consumers, ABC (DIS), NBC, and CBS (CBS) practically dictated prices. Gotlieb dreamed of getting an edge over the networks.
Before becoming an ad man, he'd worked in New York's sharp-elbowed diamond district. There Gotlieb learned a thing or two about numbers. A savvy diamond cutter tracks prices for all sorts of polished jewels and imagines dozens of ways to cut up a rough stone before deciding how to milk it for the most money. Gotlieb wanted to bring a similar discipline to ad-buying. In 1976 he wrote a computer program that projected advertisers' demand for TV spots. This helped him decide how many ads to buy ahead of time at a discount. Later, he and his team began combing through consumer research and ratings data to find cheap but promising shows with which he could lock up multiyear deals. (One early find: a Chicago talk show hosted by a young woman named Oprah Winfrey.)
By the 1980s, Gotlieb was running the media department at A-list agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and had become a nerd god to advertisers. For the first time, deep, analytical data—not just the gut instincts of Mad Ave ad-makers—were informing their buying decisions. "Irwin was the most forward-thinking person in media," says Bob Wehling, then Procter & Gamble's (PG) chief media buyer. "I trusted him implicitly." Gotlieb, having won his clients' respect, began looking for ways to wield his power more effectively.
He got his next big break in the 1990s, when a wave of consolidation transformed the industry. Scores of full-service ad agencies were subsumed into five giant, publicly traded holding companies. One was London-based WPP. To generate more income and please investors, the holding companies put their media-buying operations under one roof and spun them off into separate divisions. It made sense: The new media agencies would combine their clients' ad budgets, helping them achieve economies of scale, and start making real money.
In 1999, Gotlieb took charge of what was to become GroupM. But the world was changing fast, and by 2002 he understood he needed to stay ahead of the curve or risk being made redundant by a Google or a Microsoft (MSFT), which were threatening to automate the business.
His clients, bewildered by all the changes, were looking for a trusted guide. Gotlieb had an answer for almost every threat. Viewers using digital video recorders to blast past TV commercials? He would circumvent the menace by stepping up product placement. GroupM (like other media agencies) has built an entertainment division to produce programming designed around advertisers' products or messages. Recently, for example, a GroupM agency produced Exposing the Order of the Serpentine, a faux Spike TV documentary designed to sell Axe Snake Peel Shower Scrub for Unilever.
Gotlieb persuaded clients that he could bring Web-style analytics to TV. GroupM has a minority stake in InVidi, which tracks channel-surfing behavior to deduce who's watching what. Another recent investment: Visible World, which lets marketers customize 30-second spots to specific customers and locales. On the Web front, GroupM is doubling, to 2,000, the size of its worldwide digital staff. Clients seem impressed. "To have someone at the helm who is so knowledgeable about the future of the industry provides a tremendous amount of confidence," says Wendy Clark, the chief marketing officer at AT&T (T), which in October hired GroupM as its main media buyer. "He played a definite role in our decision."
Gotlieb's Web and TV innovations are bringing in money. He is signing up more clients than any of his rivals. And GroupM is the biggest media-buying operation in the world. But it may not be enough at a time when advertisers are stingier about paying media agencies. Gotlieb's boss, WPP Chairman and CEO Martin Sorrell, is counting on continued earnings growth. So is Wall Street.
Which brings us to rebates. It's not hard to understand why Gotlieb wants to replicate the business in the U.S. Rebates can be worth 1% to 15% of a multimillion-dollar advertising budget, as much as a client pays a media agency to place ads. In fact, according to a former GroupM insider, rebates recently generated more than a third of European annual profits at GroupM agency MediaCom. GroupM acknowledges its European agencies get such income from media owners but calls assertions that MediaCom generated a third of its European income that way "absolutely ridiculous."
Why might GroupM zero in on outdoor advertising in the U.S.? Although small, it's the third-fastest-growing medium. And the sector is fragmented: In addition to such giants as CBS Outdoor (CBS) and Clear Channel Outdoor (CCU), it includes startups eager to attract advertising. In 2005, GroupM formed a separate division, Kinetic, to handle its outdoor ad buying. In recent months, Gotlieb and Kinetic CEO Steve Ridley have been making the rounds of U.S. outdoor companies. Here's what they say is on offer: In exchange for a large ad purchase, Kinetic will sell the outdoor companies "tools and services" designed to help them prove their marketing efficacy to advertisers. This does not amount to a rebate, says Gotlieb. It's simply payment for services rendered. But Gotlieb acknowledges that the price is a straight percentage of what Kinetic's clients spend each year with the outdoor companies. (One person familiar with the situation pegged the fee at 1.7%.)
Kinetic has an agreement with billboard companies JCDecaux Out-of-Home Media Group and Titan Worldwide. It also is in discussions with a broad range of other outdoor companies, including Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor, and Screen Vision, which supplies the commercials you see in movie multiplexes. But several outdoor executives who know about the plan express reservations. "It's wrong," says one, who requested anonymity for fear of losing Kinetic's business. "It defies all the fundamentals of what agencies should do: buy ads based on the merits of the advertising. I want to win deals on merit, not because I've agreed to award a rebate."
Gotlieb says he has briefed one "major, global" client about the Kinetic program and got its blessing, although he declined to name the advertiser. BusinessWeek contacted several Kinetic clients; most declined to comment and said they hadn't heard about the rebate deals. But one Kinetic client did express wariness. Rebates are fine, says Burger King Holdings (BKC) marketing president Russell B. Klein, so long as they are done transparently and the connected ad buys are monitored closely. That's partly why Burger King analyzes an ad campaign before and after its run and requires media buyers to provide affidavits that the money was spent in the right place. "If it were simply someone saying, Here's 10 million bucks,' and the person secured rebates and there was no checking up on it," he warns, "that would be another matter entirely."
As far as Gotlieb is concerned, the rules have changed. In a world where ads can be customized to the individual and every click and ad view measured, he says, advertisers and media companies alike will gladly pay for his quantitative expertise. In five to seven years, he predicts, he may not represent advertisers at all. He will be an arbitrageur, buying ads in bulk, slicing them up for niche audiences, and reselling them at a premium. "Then," says Gotlieb, "we don't have to be transparent."


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The Jewish Federations of North America's board of trustees passed a resolution supporting Natan Sharansky's proposed compromise on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.
Monday's resolution, according to a JFNA statement, says the compromise "develops a pathway whereby the Kotel will once again become a spiritual center for all Jews and a symbol of unity for the entire Jewish community world-wide."
Announced in April, the proposal would expand and raise the area adjacent to the current Western Wall Plaza known as Robinson's Arch and create a unified entrance for both sections. Robinson's Arch has been used as a prayer space by non-Orthodox groups for about a decade.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, to formulate a plan in December that would satisfy haredi Orthodox leaders who wanted to maintain exclusive control of the site and religious pluralism activists who wanted it opened to egalitarian prayer.
"By issuing this resolution, the Jewish Federations are giving voice to the strong desire across our community to resolve this critical issue and ensure that all Jews can experience the most spiritually powerful place in Judaism," JFNA President and CEO Jerry Silverman said in the statement.
Sharansky's plan, which was greeted at first with some enthusiasm by both sides of the debate, has lost support recently from both sides.
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Date of Stay: June, 2013
This was a fine campground. We stayed over a weekend (Fri & Sat evening), arriving around 5 pm. Check-in was quick and the owner escorted us to a nice level site overlooking the lake. Owners were friendly and courteous, making us feel welcome as soon as we arrived. Showers and bathrooms were very clean. The showers are coin-operated, so bring quarters on your first trip down there. :-) You'll probably need a $1.00's worth. The roads leading to the campground are NY county roads, running through some hilly country, so expect them to be twisty and low speed. When we stayed, the campground was full with big RVs. It seems to also be a popular place for seasonal rentals. Since we had a popup, we got a pick of sites in an area seeming set aside for smaller campers and RVs. We will definitely stay there again.
Date of Stay: May, 2013
This was our first outing in our popup camper. We stayed over a weekend (Friday and Saturday night). Check-in was quick. The staff were pleasant. No one escorted us to our site, and the map was not as clear as it could have been. The site was mostly level, but did have a slight incline away from the interior road. The site featured a graveled driveway for RV back-in. Site #9 is conveniently located to a water pump station. The Camp Store and shower/restroom building was close by. Men's restroom and shower was fine. Women's restroom/shower was wet and muddy the entire weekend. Camp Store had a good variety of supplies. This campground is a short 10 minute drive into Fayetteville, where there is an abundance of shopping, if you forget anything, like underwear.


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HOUSTON, (Xinhua): Two high school students were killed and 19 others, most of them teens, wounded when a celebratory gunfire led to random shootings at a massive house party in a suburb of the U.S. city of Houston, authorities said Sunday.
The incident happened around 11:00 p.m. Saturday (0500 GMT Sunday) when nearly 100 people, mostly young adults and teens, were celebrating a birthday at a home in Houston suburb of Cypress, the Harris County Sheriff's Office told reporters.
Sheriff Adrian Garcia described the event as a "birthday party gone wild," saying evidence indicated that there was no one-on-one confrontation prior to the shooting.
The initial investigation showed that someone pulled a pistol and fired one celebratory shot into the air, he said.
"Someone else recklessly reacted to the gunfire and shot into the crowd," Garcia said, adding that about 10 shots were fired.
The incident was "a horrible combination of immaturity, access to a firearm and the inability to control oneself," said the sheriff.
Two Cypress Springs High School students, an 18-year-old male and a 16-year-old female, were killed, while 19 others were injured during the shooting, Garcia said. One of the victims died at the scene, while the other died at a hospital.
Eighteen of those who were injured suffered gunshot wounds and another victim suffered a broken leg while trying to escape, he said. Media reports earlier put the toll at two killed and 22 injured.
Garcia blamed social media for causing the tragedy, saying promoting the party on social media likely invited strangers to the home. The birthday party was reportedly advertised on Twitter and Instagram.
"Anytime you promote a birthday party on social media, you have no control over who to expect at your door," he said. "What it does is indicate, that your saying to the social media world, 'I don't know who you are, but you're invited.' That's not a good practice."
No firearms were recovered at the scene, but several bullet casings were found, the sheriff said. No drugs or alcohol are suspected in the shooting.
Pools of blood were visible outside the two-story brick home Sunday morning, and the garage door was bent after people pushed it upward while trying to escape.
Witnesses spoke of a chaotic scene where the panicked crowd scrambled to run for their lives. Some of them broke second-floor windows and jumped. When deputies arrived, they saw some people lying on the ground and others running.
Teenager Shaniqua Brown who attended the party told the Houston Chronicle, the largest daily newspaper in Texas, that Saturday evening's birthday party "was not rowdy at all," and many people were dancing when they heard the shots.
Gunshots began in the house and continued outside as people ran to the streets seeking cover, said the 17-year-old girl. She said she saw one gunman when she ran outside.
Another witness who identified himself as 19-year-old A. Henry told the Chronicle that he was toward the kitchen when the gunfire erupted. He said he heard between 10 and 12 shots fired and that the shooting seemed to last between three to five minutes.
Another witness named Karen Briones said she drove to the scene after hearing the gunshots. She was visiting relatives who live in the other side of the neighborhood. "Girls were crying and screaming, banging on people's doors asking them for help and to call 911," Briones told the Chronicle.
Authorities are now searching for two suspects, both male at the age of 17 and 22, in connection with the shooting


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Attack Of The Giant DiscountersStephanie Anderson Forest
When computer superstore Comp USA held a grand opening last December at its new outlet in Santa Clara, Calif., more than 1,000 people turned up. "There were lines out the door," boasts Chief Executive Nathan Morton.
Even in the heart of Silicon Valley, superstores such as those run by Comp USA and rivals such as CompuAdd are a hot new phenomenon. The warehouse-style outlets cram some 5,000 products--PCs, printers, software packages, even extension cords--into 30,000 square feet of space. And they're priced as much as 80% below list. Prices are so good that some dealers treat superstores as wholesalers. "You can get almost anything there, and at good prices," says Sheryl Rich, a computer dealer who stocks her fledgling shop with items from a Comp USA located some 150 miles from her home in Corsicana, Tex.
Lots of people are going out of their way to shop in superstores. Last year, some 35 computer superstores sold more than $1 billion worth of PC gear. By the end of 1992, the number of such outlets will explode to 135, and their sales are expected to top $5 billion (chart). "Superstores are going to be a fixture in the PC business," says Robert Puette, president of Apple Computer Inc.'s U. S. division.
Already a fixture in some 14 U. S. cities, Comp USA is the country's biggest superstore chain. The privately held, 17-store company expects sales to hit $600 million this year and has three more locations in the works. Founded seven years ago as Soft Warehouse to sell discount software, it switched to the superstore concept in 1988. Last year, it got a big boost when Dell Computer Corp., a top seller of mail-order PCs, tapped Comp USA to be its first retail distributor.
So far, Comp USA has succeeded without the big three PC makers: IBM, Apple, and Compaq. "We were founded as an alternative to the Big Three," says Morton, 42, who joined the company in 1989, after 21 years in discount retailing.
That could soon change. Apple quietly has been allowing existing dealers that open superstores to stock its products. And analysts expect the company to broaden authorization to other chains--including Comp USA--by yearend. Already, Micro Electronics Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, which pioneered the PC superstore concept in the mid-1980s, sells the three major brands in its Micro Center outlets.
SLIM MARGINS. Like any discounter, a superstore thrives on high volume, low overhead, and quick turnover. "If something doesn't sell within 20 to 30 days, we discontinue it," says Morton. Indeed, there's even less margin for error--or profit--than in traditional computer retailing. "The stores have to be managed superbly 100% of the time. There's no room for piddling around," says consultant Seymour Merrin of Merrin Information Services Inc.
There's nothing piddling about superstore growth. No longer catering just to small businesses and home PC customers, they're attracting big-business buyers, too. Comp USA says about 35% of its sales are made to corporate buyers, often through its new direct sales force. Morton says he'll boost that to 50% through support services, including in-store technicians and an 800 line for customers. Also on his 1991 agenda: an initial public offering.
There is a risk, however, that the superstore concept could turn into too much of a good thing. "You can't have a superstore in every city," says Lise J. Buyer, an analyst for Cowen & Co. in New York. "In Little Rock, Buffalo, Rochester, I'm not sure they're going to work." But in Dallas, Columbus, and Atlanta, they're doing just fine.


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Whether it's a suit coat or casual vest - male fashion is bringing new meaning to mix 'n' match.
Men and boys are at the mercy of fashion, far more than women or girls. A rack of new season jackets can pose conundrums far more complicated than: "Does it fit? Does it suit? Do I like it? Is it in fashion?" There is a whole soup of subtleties beyond such paltry concerns: "Do I look too camp in this? Too blokey? Too toffy? Too feminine? (God forbid.) Is my mid-life crisis showing?"
Men's fashion is still a relatively callow term; after lace cuffs, powdered wigs, pantaloons and frock coats, it went into a half-coma of conservatism for more than a century. Until quite recently, blokes' sartorial choices were based on a no-sweat, three-course set menu: suits, "neat casuals", and active-sport or skate-based streetwear. No nutty conundrums there. No personal dilemmas or self-analytical styling issues begging a sartorial solution in that lot. Just pick'n'wear the uniform appropriate to your age and social standing. Easy peazy.
But, there comes a time . . .
It's been more than a decade since men's fashion options began expanding and multiplying into a range comparable to women's. So many designers now, so many labels, shops, bloke-based fashion magazines. So many choices, dammit! All those subtle foibles of visual expression to be considered. "Is this blue too sky? This pink too candy?" This asymmetric, tilt-placket azure micro-fibre Nehru shirt with feature buttons and contrast flap pockets too wanky?" This is complicated stuff. For some chaps - particularly of "a certain age" - anti-fashion conservatism is a lifetime solution. For others - particularly young guns looking for an alternative mode of dress beyond half-mast homeboy pants and puffy jackets - composing an accurate, expressive personal style from current fashion components is more of a compulsion. Hence, this six-pack offers some simple spring fashion solutions for a young bloke's top half. We'll deal with the other half in a six-pack soon.
Unless you are supremely confident, or on the happy end of some expert advice from gifted and caring staff, the same loose set of rules operates across all options:
- Stick to neutral or "non" colours in jackets, shirts and tops: oatmealy creams and beige, pale flesh pinks, light khaki and washed swampy colours, or break up dark shades like black or chocolate with second and third patterned layers in multiple colours or tones.
- Shop firstly for good quality and comfort, secondly for good price
- Window shop long before stopping to try anything on. This will minimise tedious mistakes and time in the fitting room. Trawl up and down and up again, past all the shops in your chosen men's-wear precinct (Little Collins Street, Chapel, Lygon, Greville or Brunswick streets), or department store racks. Make mental notes of styles that repeatedly catch your eye. Think, then choose, then try.
- Think layering for spring: sleeveless vests and short-sleeved tops over long-sleeved shirts and Ts.
- Think soft structure for outer layers: fly jackets and tailored, unlined casual jackets in simple sportscoat styles, or drapey, modified safari styles in linens, canvas cottons and smooth micro weaves.
- More vital than an item's good quality, the accuracy of its style for your personality, and even its price, is its good fit.
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If there is one good thing that will happen in 2012, I believe it will be the first legal blueprint for a clampdown on out-of-control price-gouging by airlines and some other retail sellers on credit and debit card sales.
I don't think it will originate in Australia, but in the United Kingdom where the Office of Fair Trading is investigating the use of surcharging on cards to buy goods in general and travel in particular.
The OFT is being pushed by the British Consumers Association through its consumer service Which? (similar to Choice run by the Australian Consumers Association) to abolish credit card surcharges altogether.
But the OFT has already cracked down on tricky practices that allow airlines and other sellers to hide credit and debit card fees that have little to do with the cost of providing such financial services.
At the very least, the OFT wants card fees included in the headline price of fares, reflecting the fact that almost 100 per cent of consumers pay for them using their own credit or debit cards and not the airlines' nominated cards to avoid fees, which almost no-one uses.
This still does not happen in Australia or the UK, where the current rules allow airlines to hide fees in the booking process: you will often not discover the level of fees until several online pages into the booking process.
In the UK, the worst is Ryanair, which charges £6 ($A9) per sector or £12 ($18) per return flight, which is not far in front of Tiger Airways in Australia, which is charging $7.50 per sector or $15 return.
These fees have little relationship with the fees merchants pay for the use of credit cards: generally 1-2% of the transaction value, even less for big traders like Qantas or Jetstar, and as little as 20-30 cents for debit cards. On a $150 return fare, Tiger is asking consumers to pay 10 per cent in debit or credit card fees.
"You can't buy online with cash and people are frustrated about being asked to pay for paying," the OFT's goods and consumer group senior director, Cavendish Elithorn, told The Guardian.
"We believe there is a strong case for a change in the law so that the cost of using a debit card – the almost universal payment method for today's online consumers – is always included within the headline price."
There is still no sign of a result from the OFT investigation but there's no doubt it will carry weight with its Australian counterpart, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which is wrestling with the same dilemmas and has signalled a stronger line in policing some travel issues, including airports, under new chairman Rod Sims.
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GameStop president Tony Bartel spoke with Forbes about the next generation console race. He has said that sales of the Wii U have fallen below the retailers expectations since the holiday period ended. He added that software is key in selling hardware.
"Following the holiday launch period, sales have been slower than we expected," said Bartel. "Nintendo plans on launching some of their biggest IP over the next few months which we think will increase gamer interest."
"Software will play a big role in each console's success over the holidays," Bartel answered when asked what Nintendo needs to do to compete with the PlayStation 4 and next Xbox. "We're already seeing great developer and publisher support for PS4, so Wii U will need some great titles, especially first-party titles, to compete. There's also a need to increase consumer awareness of the new features available on the Wii U and its tethered tablet features."
The PlayStation 4 and next Xbox will have a huge impact for the industry which has seen sales slow down in the last couple of years. Bartel believes that gamers are more than ready for the next generation of consoles and the launch will "re-energize the entire industry."
"Video gaming is much more mainstream now than it was at the start of the last cycle, so there are a lot more dollars to fight for this time around," answered Bartel when asked what has changed in the industry since the Xbox 360 launched. "I also think consumers' expectations for technology improvements are much greater now than it was seven years ago. Finally, gaming is becoming increasingly social, so continuing to expand the connection to other gamers will be key."
Bartel also added that exclusives are key to setting the consoles apart from each other. He mentioned Halo as a franchise that sells consoles. He also added that high quality and unique new IPs is what drives console sales at launch.
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Make Healthy Living A Lifestyle, Not A Resolution
Nothing much has changed over the years in resolutions. This is the year countless people will decided to "be healthy" or "lose 10 lbs." The gyms will overflow, and by February, a large percentage of those making resolutions will be off them.
So, if you are going to make the "be healthy" resolution, let me help you with a few thoughts. Make the resolution something you can absolutely make happen. Here's four simple ways to make 2016 a healthy year, and 2017, and all the years to follow.
Let's make it a lifestyle, not a resolution.
1. Find like minded friends.
This is going to help you:
a) Split costs on sitting down with experts, commutes to hiking trails or outdoor activities, and if you do it right, purchasing healthy food in bulk.
b) Stay focused and accountable. Nothing better than having someone ask where you were if you skip a walk, hike, gym session, or anything you put in as your goal.
c) Makes it fun. Your friends keep you company, but it's so much more fun and easy doing this healthy thing when everyone around you is on the same page.
2. Manage expectations
Not everyone is a fitness model, not everyone wants to be, and that isn't even a sign that you are healthy. Go at this thing with the mind set to stay alive for as long as possible while being as healthy as possible. Instead of sitting down with a buff personal trainer, sit down with your doctor. See who you should talk to in order to bring your blood sugar down, reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and work towards being healthy.
Make this the year you take care of your mental health and well being, and have that turn into you taking care of yourself because you feel like it. Let your soul guide you to healthy living. Losing weight won't do anything for you emotionally. I've seen it hundreds of times. What you are chasing with weight loss is not there waiting for you at the end. Living healthy, caring for your mental wellness, and finding happiness are the best ways to health and the ideal body weight.
3. Be less sedentary.
We are in a strange time where people will go to the gym for an hour, and then sit for the rest of their waking hours. We can get transfixed by our computer screens and forget to move. I recommend purchasing a product like the Apple Watch for two reasons:
i) Long term, it will store your information about resting heart rate, blood pressure, and other health markers. That means when you go to the doctor, they can give you a better picture of your health. This data storage is critical to success.
ii) Your watch is also going to beep at you if you've been sitting to long. If that happens, make it your resolution to get up, walk for three to five minutes and then do some deep Yoga breathing to reduce stress and purposefully stretch. I'm on a mission as a workplace wellness expert to get employers to realize the importance of this. Five minutes every hour can save the loss of days and weeks in sick time, and it increases productivity. The watch beeps, you get moving, that's a resolution to stick to.
4. This is the year that we all stop looking at food as what makes us fat or skinny, and the gym as the only acceptable source of exercise, or weight loss as a competition. I need this to be part of everyone's resolution. It is what is causing us to walk further away from health. We made it too difficult and confusing and many of us have given up.
The return to basics means:
No more shopping for short cuts with pills, powders or fads
No more feeling guilty if we don't go to the gym
No more setting or goals based on looks, we work towards feeling amazing.
Set the resolution this year to include friends in a more active lifestyle, and to eat real food. Talk with your doctor, and set up a plan with results that make sense for you.
2016 is the year we capture health...and forget about the scale, actually.
Baked goods served warm fill us up and boost our energy levels quickly when in a slump, but they tend to keep us nibbling to keep our energy up.
Combining tryptophan-rich, sweet banana with nut butter improves your serotonin synthesis. The result can be comfortably calming without the sugar crash.
The ultimate comfort food, it satisfies your craving for creamy and salty but carries a lot of excess carbs.
The protein and fat combination tells your brain your stomach is full, so you won't overeat.
Famously high in sugar and fat, it can boost your energy temporarily, but it'll add inches to your waistline.
It has less sugar than milk chocolate and a higher antioxidant score.
It's cool, sweet and creamy, but it's loaded with sugar.
Plain yogurt contains beneficial bacteria. Stevia is a natural plant with sweet-tasting leaves. It contains no calories, is sugar-free and won't harm your teeth or raise your blood sugar. Just one or two drops is typically is enough to sweeten your serving of yogurt.
Ever notice how it takes a long time to fill up on pasta? It's because it's basically all starch, which passes through the stomach before it gets digested. By the time you've had your fill, you're feeling it.
These are made with a combo of soybean and yam flour. and they're pre-cooked. At less than 40 calories per serving, you won't experience the guilt from a plate of ordinary pasta. Use it as a base for your steamed vegetables and as a side to a protein like chicken or tofu.
Sour, acidic-tasting foods provide a strong stimulation to the taste buds and the mind. Fried starches contain acrylamide, a suspected carcinogen.
They are potent enough to activate your senses quickly.
These crunchy chips are usually fried and coated in salt.
The act of chewing something crunchy diffuses the tension in the jaw muscles. Nuts are high in protein, vitamins and minerals.
Two words: Salt and fat.
This pureed chickpea dip is a high-fibre protein accompaniment to raw vegetables.
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Locayta Notes is the only existing app for the iOS platform offering enabled search and syncing of notes functionality. Receive fast and accurate results when searching your data, and create, search and sync your notes quickly and easily on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
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June 24, 2013
Astronaut Joe Acaba is a distance learning graduate student at Texas Tech.
NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba, who currently is a distance learning graduate student at Texas Tech University, spoke with area middle school math and science teachers today (June 24) at the Fourth Annual (MS)2 Conference at the International Cultural Center.
Acaba, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps and taught five years of high school and middle school math and science, was selected as a mission specialist by NASA in 2004 along with several other teachers.
He currently is a distance learning student in the College of Education at Texas Tech University, and his talk today involved engaging with teachers and providing them with topics and resources for the classroom.
"I always stress the importance of math and science," Acaba said. "Even though we don't necessarily use math in our daily lives as astronauts, we totally rely on the tools built by the NASA engineers. It has to be foolproof."
In February 2006, Acaba completed astronaut candidate training that included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in shuttle and International Space Station systems, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training.
Upon completion, Acaba was assigned to the Hardware Integration Team in the Space Station Branch, working technical issues with the European Space Agency hardware. He was also a member of the Space Shuttle Branch, supporting shuttle launch and landing preparations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Acaba was on the STS-119 Discovery in March 2009, which was the 125th shuttle flight. The primary objective of the flight was to deliver the final pair of power-generating solar array wings and truss element to the International Space Station.
Acaba spoke with area middle school math and science teachers at the International Cultural Center.
In May 2012, Acaba embarked on Expedition 31/32 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which lasted until September 2012. During the course of this visit to the International Space Station, he participated in numerous scientific research experiments and performed regular maintenance and operational tasks aboard the orbiting complex.
Although Acaba has visited the Texas Tech campus before, this is his first visit in a professional setting.
"The campus is just beautiful; I'm so impressed with the faculty and students here," Acaba said. "We work with many engineers that are Texas Tech alumni, and they just love this place."
NASA encourages their astronauts to make speaking appointments often, and Acaba said he chooses the educational opportunities so he can share his background as an educator and the challenge of becoming an astronaut.
The College of Education at Texas Tech University offers a full range of programs, including eight doctoral degrees, 12 master's degrees and two bachelor's degrees with numerous specializations leading to careers in public or private education as teachers, professors, administrators, counselors and diagnosticians.
Programs in the college are housed in two departments. The Department of Curriculum and Instruction offers undergraduate programs leading to initial teaching certificates and graduate programs in bilingual education, curriculum and instruction, elementary education, language literacy and secondary education.
The Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership offers graduate programs in counselor education, educational leadership, educational psychology, higher education, instructional technology and special education.Facebook
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Oak Lake, Manitoba 14.41 miles SE
Elkhorn, Manitoba 16.38 miles NW
Maryfield, Saskatchewan 27.01 miles W
Souris, Manitoba 33.89 miles SE
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Aug 2012 - $40.00
Stayed 6 days - family reunion. Large boating/swimming lake at campsite. Many seasonal or permanent campers so over nights have limited selection. Mini golf and store/restaurant on site. Overall, a nice park and friendly staff. Would stay again if in area. - Idletime
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Jul 2016 - $16.00
Clean and well maintained. Flowers have been planted or placed in the common areas.
You will need to call to indicate your arrival and arrange for payment. - Lola1962
May 2016 - $30.00
Friendly and informative, typical of all Lions Club, Flat and level sites that are grass/gravel, with some shade, a fire ring and picnic table. Not a fancy resort but just perfect. - wearecanadian
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We are writing this review to warn those of you who need 50-amp service that it is NOT available at this campground, as previous reviews have stated. And it may be fine for some large rigs, but wasn't appropriate for our 45-ft motorhome. To make matters worse, the ground was soft, and we got stuck while trying to squeeze into our site. All of that would merit an even lower score, but the other campers were terrific - they were extremely helpful and got us out of the mud! If you have a smaller motorhome and don't need 50-amp service, it would probably be a nice place to stay. Admin Note: 50 amp available in 2014. - BigRig45
Jun 2010 - $21.00
Park has level, wide, private sites among the trees; some are long, some are medium length. The campground is 3/4 km on a good dirt road from the highway and railway, so there is relatively little noise. $21 for electric/water; $40 for sewer as well. No Wi-Fi yet, although it is planned for 2010 (and won't be free). Cell coverage is marginal (I had a dropped call), and data rates are 1X only (no EVDO yet). There is a pool, miniature golf, kids' play area, horse shoes, etc., plus a huge woods with trails to wander through. (But beware of the ticks -- I came out with several dozen on my pants!) - Neil C.
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This a small park operated by a small town (Elkhorn, pop about 500). It is well maintained, clean and quiet. Access with our large motorhome was easy, and the park is 1/4 mile off the TransCanada Highway. There is no cable but satellite TV reception is perfect, even for US Direct TV. We didn't need the washroom/showers. The CG is not staffed so you have to call the Elkhorn village office and make arrangements for reservations and payment. While there is no pool or other amenities, and it would be mostly an overnight stop, there is an interesting antique car museum down the road. And the folks in Elkhorn are super friendly! - alanez