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C.J. Overly - President
Charles (C.J.) Overly is pursuing a dual concentration in real estate and corporate finance. He will spend the summer as a Development Intern with Trammell Crow Residential in Washington, DC. Prior to business school, C.J. spent six years as the Business Administrator at Gaithersburg High School in Montgomery County, MD, where he played a leading role in the design and construction of a new 430,000 square foot, LEED Gold school building. During this time, C.J. served a three-year term as a trustee of the Montgomery County Consolidated Retiree Health Benefits Trust. Before joining Gaithersburg High School, C.J. worked as a banking analyst with JPMorgan Chase & Co. He earned a BSBA in Finance from Georgetown University and an AA in Business from Montgomery College.
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John Kilborne - VP of Finance & Operations
John Kilborne was raised in Washington, DC and received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis. After graduation, he spent three years working as an analyst for MAC Realty Advisors, a real estate brokerage firm in Washington, DC. At Kenan-Flagler, John is concentrating in Real Estate and Sustainable Enterprise. In his free time, John enjoys playing basketball, listening to podcasts, and learning about American history.
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Michael Oliver - VP of Communications
Mike Oliver is a Class of 2017 MBA student concentrating in Real Estate and Sustainable Enterprise. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Civil Engineering, Mike worked as a Project Engineer for Clark Construction Group in Washington, DC. At Kenan-Flagler, Mike is pursuing a career in Real Estate Development. In addition to supporting the Real Estate Club, Mike also serves as a Legacy Representative, Chair of the Career Services Advisory Board, and a Nonprofit Board Fellow (Habitat for Humanity).
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Hailey Boushey - VP of Corporate Relations
Hailey Boushey graduated from University of Minnesota with a degree in Marketing and Retail. Before coming to Kenan-Flagler for her MBA, she worked at Target Headquarters in Minneapolis as an internal consultant. She is currently pursuing a concentration in real estate development, and will be interning with Crescent Communities over the summer. In her free time, Hailey enjoys running, yoga, Netflix, and visiting her family back in Minnesota.
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Laura Bartos - VP of Learning & Development
Laura Bartos graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2013 with degrees in Public Health and Sociology. Prior to business school, she conducted sociology research on affordable housing policy and then taught 8th grade science with Teach for America in Charlotte, NC. She reached a 90% pass rate on the 8th grade science state exam with her students while teaching, compared with pass rates of 70% state-wide and 30% across her school. She is pursuing concentrations in Real Estate and Corporate Finance and is interning at Welltower, a health care REIT, this summer. Welltower invests in and develops senior housing/assisted living, medical office buildings, and outpatient care facilities across the US, in Canada, and in the UK. Laura enjoys running and ran college track at Johns Hopkins.
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The UNC Real Estate Club aims to improve the career prospects and education of each one of its members. Whether you are an industry veteran, career switcher, or simply interested in the field of study, the Club provides a number of opportunities to expand your knowledge and network. The UNC Real Estate Club is arguably the most active MBA Club on (and off) campus in terms of networking, educational, and social events, with member benefits including, but not limited to:
Recruitment: Résumé critiques, mock interview sessions, job search strategy, exposure to companies through career treks to New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Raleigh
Mentorship: Designated 2nd Year Career Mentor and Alumni Mentors
Industry training: ARGUS certification course and RE-specific financial modeling seminar
Education: Diverse lineup of topics during weekly lunch meetings, discussing different facets of the industry
Case Competitions: 1st Year Case Competition hosted by a leading RE firm; National Real Estate Challenge in Austin, TX; UNC Real Estate Development Challenge
Conferences: ULI conferences in Raleigh/Durham area; annual UNC Real Estate Conference with over 400 industry professionals
Site visits: Tours of market leaders' development sites, properties, and offices
Social: Fall Social events on Franklin Street; Football tailgate; Spring BBQ; Alumni Happy Hour events
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Ambrose E. "Bosie" Miller
Ambrose E. "Bosie" Miller, 84, of Crosslake, passed away Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, at his home. He was born to Nap and Rose Miller in Oklee, Minn., on Dec. 19, 1929. He was a barber for 50 years, four while serving in the U.S. Navy, two years as an apprentice under his father, and 15 years in Hopkins, Minn. In 1971, he decided to go back up north and bought a farm near Bagley, Minn. He built a log barber shop in Bagley and also drove school bus there for 29 years. In 1998, Ambrose sold his barber shop, in 2000 his cattle and in 2002, sold his farm, then moved to Manhattan Beach east of Pine River to be near family. Though he was retired, he drove school bus for Pine River/Backus for three years. He truly missed the north country, his farm and his many friends.
Ambrose and Marie celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 19, 2002, with a two-day ordeal at their nephew, Bruce Larson's lake home on Cross Lake. Ambrose loved to fish, hunt and play baseball, football and basketball.
He is survived by his wife, Marie; son, Daniel John Miller; daughters, Debra Lynn (Ray) Johnson and Lisa Marie (Pat) Buckley; daughter-in-law, Julie Miller; brother, Kenneth; grandchildren, Danielle, Carolyn, Kristen, Shane, Cole, Blake, Dana and Rachel; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his son, Robert; sisters, Lucille, Louella and Hazel; and brother, Morris.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24, at Immaculate Heart Catholic Church, Crosslake. An additional memorial service and burial will be held in the spring of 2014.
Arrangements are with Kline Funeral Home Pine River.

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SEO skills come from USA first ( not sure that, could be, search engine get hot on USA first ), So, English language sites more than 70% know the basic skill to optimize their site, using no-follow tag or have sense to obtain their site authority.
I will list some suggestion for English speaking but want to do Chinese SEO ranking on Google or Baidu.
Suggestion one: Try Forums, no matter signature or post on forums could be very useful now, Baidu is come later than Google, and Chinese site owner could be 50% know the basic skill about no-follow, you have good chance to take advantage of that. but you can forgot English language version forums, most of them are no-follow. I did try search housewares (http://www.uniwarestore.com/
Suggestion two: Try Google translation, and save as PDF format, submit it, I just try a crazy one, submit sitemap as PDF to a site! I will waiting the result to measure the effect. Most of the back links are about housewares products , So check this keyword on Google, give it at least 3 days, or two weeks, If your keywords go up, congratulations!
Suggestion three: search the resources and write down or print out, analysis them carefully, the key point is make clear what kind of back links works? why them work? How them work? If you not thinking about this, You will follow and beg others Forever!
My personal goal is make stable ranking on "housewares"
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Skip Shaw considers himself one of the oldest Key Largo natives on the island. Sit with the 70-year-old for a couple of hours and you are certain to hear tales of his voyages on the high seas.
But Shaw, whose sea adventures are now fewer, has taken up another passion: collecting fishing reels.
Shaw has more than 200 reels in his downstairs workshop, some with values in the thousands of dollars. Each day, as part of his routine, he scours eBay for his next reel project.
"Sometimes I'll spend $40 on a reel and sometimes it might be $100," he said.
After purchasing a reel, Shaw takes pride in the meticulous work of taking them apart and restoring them to their former glory.
"They don't make them like this anymore," he said holding a Ted Williams-brand casting reel sold by Sears, Roebuck & Company more than 50 years ago.
His collection reaches back to his father and grandfather.
"I never thought I'd ever be doing this," Shaw said while working his way through a pack of Winstons. "You never think you'll live to be 70."
Shaw's collection includes Vomhof, Pflueger and Capitals. The sizes of his reels vary due to the length of line they hold -- usually from 100 to 400 yards.
Shaw, who owns the property on which D-Hooker Sports Bar & Grill sits, isn't looking to make money off his hobby.
"I'm not looking to sell it," he said. "I'm going to leave it for my kids, and make them deal with all this [stuff]."
Shaw said he is baffled by how much some of his childhood toys, which he refered to as "junk," are now worth online.
"People will pay for anything," he said.
Shaw's wife, Diane, has the collecting bug as well, though her pleasure has always been antique glass bottles. She honed that skill when the couple spent 16 years on a sailboat traveling throughout the Caribbean Sea.
"I hate diving," she said, noting she was never keen on swimming with the sharks. While her husband went off to explore the ocean bottoms, Diane found herself tromping along the shores of small islands, looking for glass.
"When you see broken glass, you start digging," she said.
Diane has immortalized their travels in a book, "The Best Years of Our Lives: Voyages on the Xenophora." Diane said she sent copies of the book to everyone she knows.
"It's something she can give to our kids," Skip added.
Nowadays, Diane paints sea creatures and other ocean life on old navigational maps and her art can be found on display throughout the Keys. But she doesn't keep a daily date with the paint brushes.
She occasionally paints, "but only when I feel like it," she says.
The two say they are content with their hobbies at their Upper Keys home and enjoy sharing tales of their journeys with any passerby willing to listen.


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text: Le Mans, 16 June – As the eight hours of racing passed at the Sarthe circuit, night time had fallen. In this first part, a spectacular accident had the crowd and crews holding their breath at the start of the sixth hour, following a spectacular accident involving Anthony Davidson in the Toyota TS030 Hybrid and Perazzini, who was crewed with Cadei and Griffin, in AF Corse's Ferrari No. 81 running in the LMGTE AM class. Both drivers escaped serious injury, although the race is over for Ferrari car. The Safety Car was called out and stayed out for an hour. A great scrap continues between the AF Corse No. 51 Ferrari, currently with Vilander at the wheel and Gavin in Corvette No. 74, who currently appears to have the upper hand, although seemingly using more fuel. The Luxury Racing No. 59 car with Melo driving, is fifth while quickest at the moment in the LMGTE AM class is the Krohn Racing cars, currently third with Michele Rugolo driving.


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The Israel - and Judaism -We Deserve
By Sol Roth
Eugene Borowitz, November 25, 1988
The author argues that the Orthodox power in Israel is not as all-encompassing or corrupt as some people think, and that Israel has been working for the continuity of Jewish unity.
Topic: Continuity, Unity, Jewish Continuity, Religious Denominations, Government
Name of Publication: Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Ideas
Editor: Borowitz, Eugene B.
Volume/Issue: Vol.19/no.362
Page Number(s): 11-13
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text: ...A Very Merry Christmas w/the first listen to what will be the first single off the new album coming out in February. Brave (Official Behind The Scenes Video) All That Echoes hits stores and iTunes and anywhere else it's available online on February 5th. Amazing what happens sometimes when you surf YouTube. I was in the mood to see and listen to him perform Awake from that Tour's DVD, but didn't want to break out the actual DVD. Since I knew it was over at his Official Channel over there, I headed there and lo and behold...I found all this new info about a new Studio Album and the Video w/the new song. Since it's Christmas and it's a time for sharing.... Hope this is as lovely a surprise to some here as it was to me earlier today.


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TWD: Cranberry-Pecan Pumpkin Loaves
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Pumpkin and yeasted products can be tricky. I have a pumpkin dinner roll recipe that has eluded me for a while...ReplyDelete
Lovely bread :-)
Mine's finishing it's last rise. I was totally expecting a quickbread too! Sorry it didn't turn out as well as you would have liked.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous! I felt the same, pretty bland in the bites without the addins!ReplyDelete
We did like them but I like most anything. It's good to learn things about yourself--no point in spending time on something you know you won't like. That's why I leave raisin filled cookies alone and licorice and sour candy etc.ReplyDelete
The second picture with the butter looks more than yummy! Maybe more pumpkin spices would help with the pumpkin flavor? I agree, it is so cool that we learn even small things that make us better bakers.ReplyDelete
This wasn't a big hit for me either. I wish it had more of a pumpkin flavor. I'll stick with the pumpkin quick bread that I love. Your pictures sure make the bread look tasty!ReplyDelete


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Domtar Launches Innovative Project-Sharing Website
Burke Communications recently launched Domtar's Cougar Paper Community website, www.cougarpaper.com, an innovative sharing community where designers & creatives alike can share their latest projects featuring Domtar's Cougar-brand paper.
"Working with Domtar is always a pleasure, so when they came to us with an idea of creating a site with social media-like capabilities for project sharing, you can imagine our team was excited," said Jack Burke, President and CEO of Burke Communications. "Having those like-minded interests in design and print-mediums made this an exciting project, we are proud to have been a part of the process."
Burke was then tasked with creating a site that fosters inspiration and serves as a resource for innovative ideas, perspectives, and possibilities surrounding the versatile utility of Domtar's Cougar paper. A custom Content Management System (CMS) web site was designed in WordPress, a user-friendly platform which would allow the Domtar team to create and manage content on the site with ease.
The site features an interactive gallery for users to view other creative designers' projects printed on Domtar Cougar Paper, as well as upload their own work to showcase. Entry categories include brochures, books, identity branding campaigns, posters and invitations.
"With the site functioning as a showcase of the community's work, we decided to add a multitude of colors to the design as a way to cohesively make the design elements tie in with the wide variety of work shown throughout the site. By using a combination of graphic backgrounds in clean and simple design blocks, we made the design visually more interesting. I truly believe that simple design is never bad," said Burke's Art Director, Mariana Rojas.
Visitors to the site can also access the Domtar Cougar Paper blog, Blueline. Described as, "a window on the world of Cougar paper," Blueline offers users an inside look at the creative process of all things paper.
"The Cougar Paper Community is a new project we're incredibly excited about," said Ashley Maydak, Graphic Designer & Web Specialist for Domtar. "For years, we've received pieces created on Cougar paper from graphic designers, printers and paper merchants all over the United States and Canada. Instead of saving all these inspiring pieces created all or partially on Cougar for ourselves, we wanted to share them with the world and inspire others."
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I am letting people know exactly what State Farm Insurance done to me,I Had a beautiful 1988 Ford F-150 XLT Lariet,I used it for shows and cruise-ins,There was a claim on it for vandelisim.They(State Farm) took the truck with out my permission towed it to a shop and lost the truck for 7 months.When I asked who gave permision for them to take the truck,They said I did,Funny thing is I can prove I was out of town and there is no way they could of contacted me.When the truck was found it was totaled and it had 1405 miles put on it since they had it.I have numerious paper work showing how they have basicly have commited FRAUD and had truck apraised after it was totaled knowing full well They would get a value to there advantage,I have never seen a estimate on the damages,And the fact that I have well over 10,000 in reciepts on vehicle.The company they used to apraise the truck were not even a bussiness licenced to do bussiness in the state.They also felt the need to give all my info to my X-Wife and her family to further cause me problems.They have done this to alot of people and something needs to be done.If there is anyone who wants to see the information for legal reasons,Please let me know.Sorry if this sounds like ramblings but I loved my Truck and it upsets me they are getting away with stealing it,And not having to pay for it.
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Good news if you live on Pokegama Lake, the Mississippi, or Big Sandy lake in McGregor. US Army corps of Engineers water management officials say the water levels have crested and water should begin receding. The Corps original forecast for additional rain for Big Sandy never materialized, so water levels are expected to resume normal summer levels in the next few weeks.
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All Wars Are Bankers' Wars
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Stopped listening when he
Stopped listening when he said Climate change was a global cult conspiracy.
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Amazing!!! I'm just disappointed when some idiot will scream "Conspiracy theory" And Transitioner you should finish the video.


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As a culture of community service is strongly promoted at NEC, students are encouraged by faculty and administrators to participate in this program. Any student who is interested may sign up to be involved on a volunteer basis as much or little as their schedule allows. Additionally, some students have class, program, or studio requirements that include participation in these programs.
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Amtrak Breaks Holiday Travel Record, Readies for Contentious Congressional Hearing
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving was the busiest day in the history of Amtrak with a total of 140,691 passengers riding in the 46-state network. Over the full Thanksgiving holiday weekend Amtrak carried 737,537 passengers, up 1.9 percent over last year, the previous record for passenger rail travel volume.
This happened despite a switching problem that shut down train traffic in Penn Station on the day before Thanksgiving for over an hour on some routes. At one point so many waiting passengers were trying to crowd into one of America's busiest (but by no means not roomiest) rail stations that they were forced to wait outside the building. See pics of the gathering crowds of stressed and stranded passengers here.
Nonetheless the ridership record is an impressive feat considering the water deluge that flooded four of Amtrak's six New York area tunnels, stopping service for days, costing the rail network $60 million in lost revenue and badly damaging electrical components, like switches. Amtrak has already asked Congress for $276 million to upgrade facilities to enhance resilience in the face of future storms.
As we reported, the tunnels in and around New York City are 102 years old, and though this is the first time they flooded, some of the electrical equipment in the area is antiquated legacy stock inherited from before Amtrak incorporated in the 1970s making it hard to repair and replace. All the more reason it is impressive that service was restored and capacity added for the record ticket sales over Thanksgiving.
It was also the most lucrative weekend ever for Amtrak, generating $56.1 million in revenue, up 17.9 percent over last year, meaning that revenue-per-Thanksgiving traveler was up significantly.
Regulators on Capitol Hill may be more interested in that latter data point on Thursday when a Congressional committee will call Amtrak brass to answer questions about the future of rail in America. The GOP-led hearing's title is a hint of the tenor we should expect to see: "Northeast Corridor Future: Options for High-Speed Rail Development and Opportunities for Private Sector Participation." Expect Republicans to again push a case for privatizing passenger rail and reducing federal spending, while pressing Amtrak to cut waste and costs. Outgoing Transportation Committee Chair has made no secret of his distaste for Amtrak's spending habits, even going so far as staging a burger eating photo-op to decry the money-losing food service offered on-board Amtrak trains.
In previous hearings Amtrak has said it is 85 percent self-sufficient with revenues rising, pointing out that states ask for increased service on many lines that are not likely to turn a profit.


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Thanks for all the birthday wishes and for guessing where we were last weekend. You guys and gals are sure good at putting 2 and 2 together!
The second comment correctly identified us in Miami, and a remarkable number of readers identified the second picture as the view from the rooftop terrace suite of the Z Ocean Hotel, which is Priority Club hotel.
And one reader even identified the camera which we used to take the pictures!
If you had showed me a picture of a couple standing by the sea and a picture view from a hotel room, I wouldn't have had a clue!
We had lots of Big Travel with Small Money over the weekend at South Beach Miami.
Our flights on Southwest airlines cost us ~$10 in taxes, and we redeemed 50,000 Priority Club points for 2 nights at the Z Ocean Hotel where we got upgraded to a city-view rooftop terrace suite with a jacuzzi. The rental car cost $51 for 2 days and parking was $36 for 2 days. Oh, and I used a Hyatt gift card from the Capital One Venture Rewards sign-up bonus to treat Emily to a massage.
I think I got a good deal for less than $100.
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We went on an Art Deco tour of South Beach, since South Beach has one of the largest collections of Art Deco buildings in the world. We saw some great examples of the Miami Art Deco style with nautical elements (amongst others) during out 1.5 hour walk.
The winner of the "Where are we" contest, as picked by the random number generator, is janet, who gets a framed print from the Official Art Deco Gift Shop of The Carlyle by artist Mark Rutkowski!
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The Z Ocean Hotel found my blog post and was impressed by the number of folks who correctly guessed where we were staying. Here's what they wrote in the comments:
Daraius, we're excited how many people knew it was Z Ocean Hotel! It was fun to stumble upon your post & will be sure to follow your insightful blog. We hope you & Emily had a terrific weekend with us…Happy Birthday Emily! We'd love to send you Z Ocean Hotel water bottles & Lipstick Love Notes to add to your souvenir for the winner (& to all those who guessed us correctly). All the best!
The Z Ocean Hotel reached out to me via email and graciously offered to send EVERYONE who participated in the "Where are we" contest Z Ocean Hotel water bottles and Lipstick Love Notes!
How cool is that?
As I was researching hotels in Miami, I was very impressed with the high ranking which the hotel received in TripAdvisor. Our stay (and I'm not being influenced by their unexpected giveaway) was terrific and I can see why they are ranked 7 out of 202 hotels in Miami. I'll write a full trip report soon.
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In other revelations yesterday it emerged that:
• The $500,000 the AFL had planned to spend promoting the Swan's three Telstra Stadium matches this year will dry up after Saturday's Sydney-Essendon game.
• Marketing consultant and former Swans chief executive Kelvin Templeton could lose his job in the budget cut.
• Many clubs have agreed in principle to give the Swans money.
• Star forward Michael O'Loughlin was within days of signing a new contract with the club tying him to it until the end of 2007.
• A "non-AFL-aligned" Australian businessman has promised to donate $250,000 to the Swans.
• Colin Seery, the latest casualty in the Sydney administrative shake-up, was no longer working as the club's chief executive.
• Colless denied the Swans' financial woes were linked to an unofficial settlement with former Bulldogs' coach Terry Wallace, who was rumoured to have been approached by the Swans to coach this season.
• Colless did not rule out offering Geelong chief executive Brian Cook a position as the club's new chief executive.
• In some circles, it was questioned whether the effect of the World Cup had been blown out of proportion.
• Sydney's football chief Andrew Ireland is understood to have reassured skipper Stuart Maxfield that no player payments would be jeopardised.
Colless claimed on Monday that the Swans were as much as $4.5 million below budget this year and will need $1.5 million of AFL assistance to survive.
McGuire said it was imperative that the competition not only help the Swans but prepare for the inevitable transfer of corporate money from football to the Commonwealth Games. "We fully support the Sydney Swans in this instance and our commitment to the national competition is absolute," he said.
McGuire was joined by clubs rich and poor in offering broad agreement to an injection of funds into Sydney on the condition that the club satisfied AFL requirements for help such as the Western Bulldogs and Kangaroos have received.
Essendon chairman Graeme McMahon said that the prospect of a competition without Sydney could not be countenanced.
"I cannot see how we can have a national competition if the largest city in the country is not represented in that competition," he said.
Kangaroos chairman Allen Aylett was similarly supportive. "We'll all be under some sort of pressure at some stage, that's the way it is," said Aylett, whose Roos received seven-figure help from the league last year.
"There is a process in place to deal with these situations now and it should be handled through that process but it is also true that if this competition is to remain the best sporting competition in the country, Sydney must be a part of it."
Templeton, who resigned from the club just before the Swans announced last year's million-dollar loss, had been retained by the AFL as a marketing consultant overseeing the infiltration into Sydney's west via the Homebush games.
Now he appears likely to be a victim of a massive budget cut.
Colless blamed the club's critical downturn in corporate sponsorship and hospitality revenue on the rugby World Cup.
He said the club's marketing revenue had slumped by $6 million in the past four or five years and estimated the drop in sponsorship in 2003 was between $1.5 million and $2 million.
"This year there is one fundamental reason and I don't use this as an excuse, it's a fact of life, we are basically going head-to-head with rugby union, the World Cup," Colless said.
"The two core areas of revenue we are competing for is sponsorship and corporate hospitality and the truth is we are being belted, absolutely belted."
Others, though, have questioned the role of the rugby World Cup.
"It's the largest event in the world this year, but what impact it has had on the Swans is not something I'd like to opine on," Australian Rugby Union chief John O'Neill said. "I couldn't say whether we have contributed to the Swans' problems and if we have, it has been completely inadvertent. It's a matter that's subject to market forces."
Essendon's McMahon was similarly sceptical.
"I would have difficulty in believing that there's any more pressure on Sydney from regular sporting events (in other years). Why did Sydney do alright in the Olympics year, for God's sake?" McMahon said.
The Swans are not the only Sydney-based football team suffering. All nine Sydney-based NRL clubs recorded losses in 2002, with Brisbane and Auckland the only teams in profit.
"Rugby league has the dominant position with nine clubs," NRL chief David Gallop said. "That makes it a tough market for our clubs and other sports attempting to establish themselves in Sydney.
"Melbourne is a tough market for rugby league and Sydney is a tough market for the Swans. The Swans have done a good job of establishing themselves."
Templeton conceded the Telstra Stadium budget - last year the club spent close to $800,000 promoting those games - would be massively reduced but said: "The only figure ever mentioned with Telstra Stadium games is the cost. The benefits in profit, crowds and sponsorship are never mentioned."
He added the the round-one crowd for the Sydney-Carlton game still exceeded any other Swans' home game this season and added the coming Bombers' clash should draw an attendance of up to 45,000.
Now, though, a relative pittance will be spent on the round-22 Swans-Collingwood Kokoda clash.
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In the story, cultural critics are optimistic that indie culture's proliferation allows more opportunities for deserving bands to become popular, but there's an underlying concern that mp3 blogs render bands buzzworthy before they can match the hype they're allotted.
Buzz can reach a saturation point merely on the basis of one single; amateur critics often ignore full-lengths that don't meet suddenly unreasonable expectations. They can forsake their own hype-mongering and render a band forgotten with alarming speed, simply by no longer writing about their new singles or tour dates.
This week, two bands that may have fallen prey to that dissipation of hype come to SPACE Gallery. Some listeners may be surprised to have already forgotten them. The Brooklyn trio Oxford Collapse play on March 11. Their confident, humorously jaded attitude first garnered them attention in 2005, on the basis of a few catchy singles in a time when — thanks to the Strokes — just about every garden-variety indie band received a moment in the sun.
The band released strong three albums between 2004 and 2006, with an ebullient mix of sunny guitar licks reminiscent of early R.E.M. and the spastic, nervous energy of Pavement. While certainly a welcome diversion, the band intentionally lack the zeitgeisty pomp of other indie acts that have resonated with audiences (Hold Steady, Arcade Fire).
Oxford Collapse, though, are a singles band, and that's why they always generate excitement before their solid albums are rendered too inconsequential: "Please Visit Your National Parks," off of 2006's Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop), is anthemic indie rock at its best, four minutes of careening one-upmanship that's both sentimental ("You should be standing right next to me") and irreverent (next line: "Instead of two feet in front of me, oh-wee-oh-wee-oh"). Their SPACE show is a one-off gig before they head to Austin's annual indie-rock clusterfuck, SXSW, to woo bloggers in advance of their next album, BITS, due out June 3 on Sub Pop.
Also "riding coattails," Baltimore's Wilderness followed Interpol to the scene in 2005, during indie's revisionist love affair with jangly, post-punk guitars.
The comparison wasn't a helpful one for the band, who share Interpol's early affinity for gloomy atmospherics and creepy vocals, but are much more indebted to challenging instrumental and art rock. Wilderness aren't single-friendly or even approachable enough to accommodate the massive buzz they received; frontman James Johnson howls almost tunelessly through the band's intense, dead-serious songs, as though he's alone atop a crumbling iceberg.
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Robert, Nice to see you posting again. leaserest as Dr. Cathy has so ordered.
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CJR my birthday is also July 1st.
Dotcom your birthstones are almost identical to mine, Ruby, sapphire, peridot
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Robert I also have a block on the way to you and Cathy.
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Have you all noticed that our friend Paintmejudy has started a Mystery quilt? Look under BOM. You add something every 2 weeks. Sounds like fun!! Makes a small piece!
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I'm thinking about it. My main focus in the next few weeks is to finish a few quilts that need finishing. Also do BOM. I just did placemat swap, that was fun. Also making quilted favors and table toppers for 50th Anniversary party in June.
terrium, my BD is July 6 not the 1st. To you & me early HB


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Bill Waddington wrote:Assams, finding great-knock your socks off Assams the last few years has gotten challenging. I believe this is due mostly to poor weather in the region, either way too much rain, or not nearly enough -- one extreme or the other.
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Fortress America? - Elected officials, terrorism and plain business
Some of our elected officials seem bent on smothering the American-championed ideal of open markets with the fear of terrorism as they rail against the right—as enshrined in global trade rules this country helped write—of certain foreign companies to engage in business in this country in the same manner that we have engaged in global business for more than a century.
Foreign direct investment, or FDI, is a critical factor in every country's economic health, including America's. More than just an indication of investor confidence, it is a source of income, technical expertise and jobs. The United States has long been a most favored nation for such investment. At the start of 2004, for example, foreigners owned $2.4 trillion worth of direct investment in the United States. At the same time, U.S. companies owned about $2.7 trillion in investment overseas. At the end of that very year, the U.S. Treasury Department reports, American holdings of foreign securities totaled some $3.8 trillion, up from about $3.2 trillion year-end 2003.
The largest foreign acquisition of a U.S. utility was the $7.7 billion purchase by Germany's RWE of American Water Works Co. Inc., of Voorhees, N.J., in 2003. Foreign direct investors in U.S. energy markets have increased their share of uranium production in every year since 1999, culminating in a practical monopoly of that industry in the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2003, foreigners spent $52.6 billion to acquire existing U.S. businesses and $7.7 billion to establish new businesses in the United States, reports the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis. And at the start of 2004, total foreign claims on the United States valued $10.5 trillion, exceeding total U.S. claims abroad of $7.9 trillion.
In the face of such robust cross-border business, our elected officials reject a Chinese quest to acquire a U.S. oil company and deny a global company with Middle Eastern investors from operating in the United States. The message is ugly. In The Journal of Commerce, British journalist Bruce Barnard writes that the political furor in the United States over Dubai Ports World's acquisition of Britain's Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. and its six U.S. port operations has bemused and baffled European policymakers and businessmen. "The overriding sentiment in Europe's shipping community is one of disbelief at the almost surreal spectacle of Sen. Hillary Clinton entering the fray, pledging to introduce legislation to outlaw the sale of port operations to foreign governments," Barnard writes.
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|17th September 2009, 08:06 PM
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OB bass don't need to be big. Just look at orion or Phoenix. Mine uses 2x10" /ch, just cheap $14 woofers and I equalise them to 20Hz Q=0.5.
Don't know how loud you guys listen to your system, but mine is loud enough for the other half to complain.
The thing here is: active line-level eq. Passive system can forget OBs as they won't have the ability to eq the bass.
Anyway I hope the Ariel replacement will be a great system (and not expensive!) to build.
|17th September 2009, 08:24 PM
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This is an interesting discussion, I appreciate hearing peoples opinions! OB v. Horn, etc. Size seems to be an issue for both of these - and it seems like horns have it worse, on average. It is possible to build sensitive (>90dBspl) OB's that have modest size and don't need 20dB EQ - it just takes a careful design, and probably has to be a 4 way (and it would have an exceptionally regular off axis response).
While horns can have very smooth off-axis responses, their directivity is rising - so radiation at right angles to the design axis are bass and mid heavy. OB, if done well, can have an off axis response that is the almost the same as on axis, just lower in level. I'd guess this might have a big impact on their perceived presentation. Similarly, I would presume horns wouldn't step up as strong a 'reverberant' field, as OBs have symmetrical front and rear radiation (again, design specific). I'd guess this is why horns are perceived as rendering more detail, while OBs are known for the 'spaciousness' of their sound. Just guesses though, I have no experience with domestic horns.
I have two issues with MJK's h-frame - its footprint, and its distortion spectrum mid-bass. But I'm finishing a design that has a 11" by 13" footprint, need no EQ, is almost as sensitive, has more output, and lower distortion, for almost the same cost.
So in summary, unless your in a large room, and listening at very high levels for long periods, OB bass is easy to pull off, particularly if you have the space. In domestic situations (less spl needs, more WAF needed), OB is a cinch.
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|17th September 2009, 08:42 PM
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Since we are all checking in with suggestions...
I thought the concept with a horn top end, cardioid mid, dipole bass, and monopole sub could have worked well.
|17th September 2009, 08:45 PM
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The thoughts behind the system are:
To use the Lowther from 20 kHz to 300 Hz.
Use the Delta 8 from 300 to wherever it quits.
Use the Tang Band Cardioid bass up to perhaps 70 Hz.
As all will be EnABL'd, they will have somewhat better performance in low frequency, without baffle support, than is typical. We shall see how much better.
I wanted the Delta 8 in there because it can handle large amounts of power and should be able to portray the all important upper bass better than the Lowther ever could.
The Tang Bands are 10 dB less sensitive, but they have 12mm of xmax and will be driven by a separate bass amp and should be able to reach 103 db at 20 Hz very clean. This will be rather more than enough for my circumstances.
I also have plans laid for a Berringer 2496, with replaced DAC's (the designer of the Alpha Dac wants to help here) to get rid of the embedded op amp buffer stage in their DAC and replacement of the output op amps with transformer volume controls, with 24 steps and isolation, to match voltage out to the various amps, without using the Berringer's digital volume control, which looses bits. This will allow the Dacs to run without buffering the DC, just gap the primary. I also intend to provide an isolation transformer volume control on the input, as a main volume control. So, the Berringer is really only needed because it has a great set of DSP driven crossover circuits, is quiet, and already sorted.
The final insult will come from using Gary Pimm's front end from the push pull SS Tabor rev 2, into a PP to SE nickle core interstage, to... a 300 B, to drive the Lowther. SS amps, running at tube voltages, appear to be much more linear than when used as current devices only. So, SS driver stages driving a 300 B should be a very pretty sound.
The Audio Prisim has our OPT's in it and is a superb amplifier, sort of an insult to only use it to 300 Hz. And finally Sure tri-path 100 watt amps for the Tang Bands.
I realize that this is anathema in a general sense. However, I have heard all of the components, in various stages of completeness and am confident I will have what I am looking for.
And, all of this is just weird enough to suit my nature.
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And this is clean enough to pick out any bass viol, from an orchestral group and follow it , without strain.
|18th September 2009, 12:10 AM
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|18th September 2009, 12:48 AM
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To give credit where it is due, the math behind much of Gary's work comes from our own John K at this site. http://www.musicanddesign.com/index.html So, if you want to explore other cardioid bass schemes, make sure you get the real information.
|18th September 2009, 01:17 AM
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Well, that last post certainly set the cat amongst the pigeons!
I'm not married to any one approach - but I do think it's useful to partition deep bass (20~80 Hz) from the 80~800 Hz range. The solutions are different, and the interactions with the room are different as well. Deep bass is mostly below the lowest-frequency room mode, and is the domain of Hoffman's Iron Law, which is inescapable.
Setting aside the choice of technology, the dominant problems in the 80~800 Hz range are room modes, followed by box modes and panel vibration. The drivers are inherently flat, since they are in the piston band, so they are essentially blameless here. There are worries about delta-inductance and arcana of magnet construction, but those are minor compared to room modes, box modes, and panel vibration.
If anyone doubts that box modes or panel vibration are audible, by the way, just put your ear against the side panel of conventional loudspeaker, listen for a while with bass-range or vocal music, than move back to your chair. The droning coloration you heard while listening to the box will still be audible from the sitting position - in fact, now that you know what it sounds like, you won't be able to ignore it!
The marvelous thing about OB's is that this coloration is finally, and wonderfully, all gone. But the increase in excursion (below baffle peak) is no small matter. The added excursion (compared to a closed box) is another 6 dB per octave - of course, it can equalized and additional watts thrown at it, but the extra distortion is there to stay (unless servo feedback is used). The OB increase in excursion is [Ion top of[/I] the normal 12 dB increase in excursion per octave of a closed-box speaker.
Ideally, this would be offset by an increase in cone area - but as you can imagine, the cone area necessary to keep excursion low at the lowest frequencies would truly be immense - the size of a wall.
The baffle peak is a little troubling as well. It is caused by the rear wave coming around the baffle to the front - so it appears in the time domain as well as the frequency domain. Subjectively, it is much less offensive than box modes and panel vibrations, because those have much higher Q's and take a lot longer to ring down to zero - that's the droning sound you hear coming from the side of a conventional box.
Each type of approach has measurable, and with listening practice, audible faults. Once you know what box modes and panel vibrations sounds like, they are hard to accept. Once you get used to the effortless quality of horn-loaded bass - especially with piano and symphonic music - direct-radiators don't sound as good. Different people are sensitized to different types of coloration, thus the preference for different types of loudspeakers, electronics, and source materials.
I have had the misfortune of working with loudspeakers for a while, and notice odd sounds that most others don't hear. That doesn't increase my appreciation of hifi, it makes more difficult to listen, since much of the time all I'm aware of is a checklist of faults. The objectivists might say that it's all in my head - and well, yes, it [I]is[/I} all my head, since I can't hear what others are hearing. Who's head would it be in, anyway, if not my own? How can I imagine what anyone else is hearing? I'm not good at that kind of thing.
Less facetiously, I usually hear an improvement when a measurable fault is corrected - although not always. I'm not very sensitive to phase distortion, and others are. Some people go nuts when the absolute phase (of both channels) is inverted, but all I hear is a subtle - sometimes very subtle - timbral change on some instruments, less than a change in seating position, or a track-to-track difference in EQ.
What I do hear - in other words, what I care about when listening to a loudspeaker - are cabinet colorations, as well as fairly obvious dynamic-range limitations. These appear to be the major tradeoffs.
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Even worse, some Christians have overreacted by becoming suspicious of all science. But if we believe that God created everything then all truth leads to him. He is the way and the truth and the life. So faith doesn't begin when science fails, the so-called "God of the gaps" approach. Some Christians are afraid that evolutionary theory might one day get so good that it will eliminate the need for these periodic interventions by God to keep the process going. But is that really all God does? Intervene every few hundreds of thousands of years to correct the creation that he made when it falls short? No! Maybe God made it right in the beginning so he doesn't ever have to intervene to repair it: he intervenes to relate with us. So it's really not intervention. It's involvement in creation.
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