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Trojans Drop Close Match to Rainbows
HONOLULU - Eric Seiffert had a match-high 31 kills and Chris Guigliano added 23 of his own for the Trojans, but USC came up shy, losing in four games in front of 10,225.
The Trojans won the second game, and battled close in the first and third, but the Rainbows (18-10, 10-9 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation) pulled away in the fourth for a 15-12, 13-15, 15-11, 15-7 victory.
USC (12-11, 9-9 MPSF) got 89 assists from Donald Suxho and hit at a .311 clip.
Hawaii was led by Naveh Milo (28 kills) and Kahinu Lee, who posted 21 for the Rainbows.


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What do you get when you cross the concepts of speed dating and Internet search engines? Though at first glance it's difficult to see how they could possibly relate to one another, the latest generation of online search tools arguably lies somewhere at the intersection of the two. A search engine finds data. A decision engine, on the other hand, gets to know you first, and then finds the data most appropriate to you.
a search engine finds data. A decision engine … gets to know you first, and then finds the data most appropriate to you
A decision engine is basically a refinement of a web search engine that uses input from the user to work out what results will be more relevant and useful for them. A decision engine typically works in one of two ways. The first is to ask the user a series of questions designed to get them to specify particular criteria which will then be used to refine the search results. For example, if the user is looking at buying a television, they might be asked questions about screen size, manufacturer, requirements regarding HD or Internet video, etc. The decision engine then provides a list of hits that match the user's conditions, or otherwise ranks the hits carefully so that those which do not match the criteria so closely are given a much lower ranking. Alternatively, decision engines can also work by forming a longer term 'relationship' with the user by collecting data over time in order to establish their typical preferences. So, for example, if they were looking to buy a holiday but previously had exclusively looked at holidays in Spain, those results which offered holidays in other locations would not be placed so highly.
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Working on a project, and could use some help from you guys. I'm going to include a questionaire below, if as many as possible could fill it out and share as much detail as possible, it'd be greatly appreciated.
Tell me about your Head Coach, his philosophies, and his style. What are his tendencies? What do most people not know about him?
Tell me bout your Offensive Coordinator, his philosophies, his style. What are his tendencies? What do most people not know about him?
What offensive scheme do you follow in the run, pass and blocking game? What is unique about it? What do most people not know about it?
Tell me about your Defensive Coordinator, his philosophies, his style. What do most people not know about him? What are his tendencies? etc.
What Defensive Scheme do you follow in the front 7 as wel as in coverage? What is unique about it? What do most people not know about it?
When drafting, how important is character?
During the draft, how active in the past have you been in trades?
Looking at your current roster, who are the up and comers? Who are future starters? Who is starting but shouldn't? Who is tradeable and their value? Who is a lifer?
During the offseason, how active in the past have you been at trading for veterans?
What has been the downfall of your team recently?
Where are your largest holes this offseason?
What are your biggest strengths this offseason?
What will it take for you to win a championship?
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Wow that is a bunch of questions. I'll answer them one at a time I guess.
Our coach's name is Mike Smith. He was previously a defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He has a VERY firey personality, possibly the most passionate coach in the NFL. He is a defensive minded head coach. He is also very motivational, he gets players to want to play for him. In general we as falcons fans are very pleased with him and what he has done here.
Our offensive coordinator's name is Mike Mularkey. He runs a very plain offense most of the time. He runs many of the same plays. Common plays in his offense are things such as; Bootlegs with only 1 intended receiver and having the RB run a short little zig-zag pattern. He very commonly utilizes 2 tight end sets; more than most teams. Screen passes are not often called in his offense as well.
I'm just gonna skip the questions about defense for now.
Our GM, Thomas Dimitroff, considers character very important when drafting players. So far in the time that he has been here we haven't drafted a prospect with character issues. Usually we focus on drafting seniors, and its a very nice bonus if they were a team leader.
We haven't been very active in last years draft as far as trades, but in the 08 draft we did trade up to draft offensive tackle Sam Baker. After what we've seen, Dimitroff should trade up if he sees that there is talent at a position of need.
There are many up and comers on our roster. There is Thomas DeCoud, who looks to have the potential of being a star safety in the league. He delivers huge hits, good in coverage, has ballhawk senses, and will be entering his 2nd year starting (3rd year overall). Another up and comer is Chris Owens, a first year cornerback out of San Jose State. He has shown flashes of greatness, and has won the hearts of Thomas Dimitroff and Mike Smith. There is Lawrence Sidbury, a first year defensive end out of Richmond University. Though he hasn't showed many flashes of greatness in the regular season (save for the Buffalo Bills game in which he stripped the ball from Bills runningback Fred Jackson and returned it for a touchdown), he has shown in the preseason that he has great speed off the edge and has the potential to be an excellent starter. He also excelled at Richmond, putting up first round stats. There are many who truly believe he is an up and coming all pro. There are more, but I'm just going to move on to the next area.
The downfall of the team without question has been the numerous injuries. We had our franchise runningback Michael Turner injured for almost half of the season, our first and second round draft choices were injured for the season after playing a combined total of three games (1 of which was only special teams playing time). We had our starting slot reciever/punt returner/kick returner Harry Douglas hurt for the season before even preseason began. We had our speedster runningback Jerious Norwood injured for a good part of the season, which in turn extremely damaged our ability to call or find success in screen passes. We had Matt Ryan injured for 2 games and a very large portion of another (partially due to the fact that we had 2 starting offensive linemen inactive in the game in which he was injured). Although our backup quarterback stepped in and did a descent job, he did make a vital error at a very crucial time in the game that could have proved to be the game winner had he not made that mistake.
Our largest hole this offseason is at the starting cornerback position opposite Chris Owens. We don't have much experience at that position as it is, and no player has really proved that they can occupy that role.
Our greatest strength this offseason is that we will be getting numerous players back from injury this season, and that we have our up and coming players in the secondary (DeCoud and Owens) putting in extra effort to become better players.
It will take many things for us to win a championship, but most of them are easy fixes. First we are going to need a viable corner to start opposite Chris Owens. Second, we will need to put a little more pressure on the quarterback (which should be solved thanks to Jerry coming back from injury and Sidbury going into his second season with Biermann going into his third). Third, we will need to stay healthy for the most part on both sides of the ball, but that is a requirement for most teams usually. Last, we really do need to change up the offense a little so its not as plain and boring. I think that we should improve in that area due to Bill Musgrave, our quarterbacks coach, assuming the Assistant Head Coaches role.
Overall, I hope that answers your question. Sorry I left out answers to the defense but I'm sure someone else on here would be happy to answer them. Good luck on your project!
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Our largest hole this offseason is at the starting cornerback position opposite Chris Owens. We don't have much experience at that position as it is, and no player has really proved that they can occupy that role.
We need to temper expectations on Owens. He is not for sure a starter. He looks more suited to be #2 rather than a #1. A corner opposite him is important, a #1 corner would be preferred.
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1) Mike Smith runs a cover 2 4-3. He plays man on the outside mostly and mixes it up with our LB's between zone and man. He likes a 4 man pass rush with very good DT's. His strong point of a defense is the defensive tackles, he had John Henderson and the former Jaguar Marcus Stroud over there while he was DC before taking out HC job. Since being hired, Bab's has asserted himslef into an Elite DT, leading the league in TFL by DT's that past 2 years and spent last years 1st round pick on Peria Jerry, a rookie DT out of Ole Miss. I dont know any interesting facts about him really, except he is brother in laws with Brian Billick. Coach Smith is a firey competitor, probably as firey of a Head Coach as there is in the NFL. He has gone face to face with opposing players a few times, most noteable the DHall incident from last season. He is a players coach but also a discipliarian. The players love him and have a great relationship with him and love playing for him, but he is also a no nonsense type of coach. He loves having a fun lockerroom, but off the field issues will not be tolerated.
2) Mike Mularky is a fun topic in the forum. So people think he is great, others think he is terrible. Mularky looked amazing in 08, calling plays on our way to the playoffs, but looked average at best this year. For some strange reason he took a lot out of the playbook this year and only kept the plays that worked well. This lead to teams being able to see what was coming, best example would be the New Orleans game when Redmans pass to Snelling was broken up by J. Vilma who after the game said he knew it was coming because it was the 3rd time we had ran it that game, other Saints also said they knew it was going to snelling.
Mularky is a run first OC, but has been lately opening it up for Matt to sling it around. Known in Pittsburgh for his trick plays, he hasnt ran many with us yet. Also, he does these terrible shotgun rollout plays that never work, yet always seem to go to them in key situations. Its funny because the offensive is at its best by a far margin when Matt Ryan is calling the plays and running a no huddle offense, changing the play at the line.
3) On the Oline, we run a man on man scheme, no ZBS around here. We have big, physical guys who look to dominate you. What most people dont know is we have the meanist, nastyist, some say cheapist playing line in the game. Clabo and Dahl form our right side of the line and both have been in the top 5 of dirtiest players in the game polls by players, with Dahl using being 1 or 2 with Ward (I personally dont think Ward is cheap at all, but thats for another topic).
4) Our DC, BVG is one of the most controversial topics on this forum. some hate him, some like him. I am on the liking him side. He has been called by some as one of the best DC prospects in the NFL, with extremely exotic blitz schemes. Problem is, we dont have the blitzing LB's or players at CB to run it. He did a great job in the last quarter of the season with the defense (and without chris houston
). In the beggining of the season people were mad he wasnt blitzing enough. In the middle of the season, he started blitzing more and we got torched in coverage and people were mad at him for blitzing... I think he will be a good DC for us once we get a WLB and CB and DE for him.
5) In the front 7, we usually just rush the front 4 and drop the LB's in either a Zone coverage or Man Coverage. With the DB's, our CB's usually play man and Erik Coleman our SS plays close to the line and will usually drop into coverage our play some man. Thomas Decoud plays centerfield for us, and is an electrifying player, with great ball skills and a very hard hitter. We also run a lot of nickel, with 2 LB's and adding a 3rd CB like Brent Grimes who excells against slot WR's.
. We might value character more than any other team in the league. Thomas Dimitroff hasnt drafted a character concern yet and only 1 junior due to the immautrity issue in his 2 years so far. He has only signed good character guys in the lockerroom and gotten rid of any player who had even a sniff of an ego (Dhall, Crumpler, Boley, etc). If a player has bad character, you can pretty much scratch him off our draft board.
7) We are somewhat active in trades in the draft. In 08 we traded 2 2nd rounders for #21 overall to draft Sam Baker to protect our #3 overall pick Matt Ryan's blindside. Last year we traded down with Dallas i believe in like the 5th or 7th round, but we traded our 2nd rounder this year right before the draft for Tony G last year, so that may count, im not sure if your looking at that or not. Also, right before the season the last 2 years, we have traded our 7th rounder for a CB. In 08, we got Foxworth which worked out perfectly. This year we got Hill, which turned out as a bad trade, but for a 7th, we werent expecting much.
Up and Comers: Kroy Biermann, Lawerence Sidbury, William Moore (Maybe, hasnt played yet, but high expectations for sure), Garrett Reynolds (Hasnt played but TD thinks he is going to be starting sooner rather than later), Jason Snelling, Stephen Nicholas, and probably our brightest one, Chris Owens.
Future Stars: Obviously Matt Ryan, but then you got, Sam Baker, Thomas Decoud, Curtis Lofton, Jonathon Babinueax (Should be a star already), Peria Jerry (looked great before the ACL Tear), Harry Douglas (all the makings of a great slot WR/PR. He is inbetween an up and comer and a future star).
Starting but Shouldnt:
, the only acceptable answer, but i guess you could maybe add Mike Peterson and some think Michael Jenkins, although im not one of them.
Tradeable: We dont have too much tradeable players as we almost have all our starting lineup the way we want it, but not to much depth. I guess the main tradeable guys are Jamaal Anderson (5th?), Jason Snelling/Jerious Norwood(3rd or 4th), and Chris Houston (5th?).
Lifer: Matt Ryan is the only guarenteed lifer probably.
9) Somewhat active. We got Tony G, Foxworth, and Hill.
10) Our downfall has been our defense for awhile and this season we were probably the #1 team most affected by injuries, Philly has a case too.
11) We have 3 main wholes this offseason. LDE, WLB, and a tall CB. What im hoping for is signing 1 of them, drafting another in the 1st round, and trading up into the 2nd for the last one. Perfect world would be Peppers, Weatherspoon, and Cox or Bodden, Graham, and Weatherspoon, although both those are obviously long shots.
12) Biggets strengths would be QB, RB (although we will need a speed back should norwood leave), LT, OG, MLB, and Saftey. Those positions should not be getting adresses any time soon.
13) To win a championship, we will need Matt Ryan to make the next step from being extremely promising and a winner, to a game dominator and we will need to improve our pass rush and add a CB.
Hope that helps, dont be afraid to post or pm me with any further questions regarding this post or any other things.
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Norwood, Anchondo victorious!
By Francisco Salazar at ringside
Former world champions Freddie Norwood and Mike Anchondo were victorious on the debut of the monthy "Noche de Boxeo" series Thursday night at the El Monte Expo Center in El Monte, California. Former WBA featherweight champion Freddie Norwood (43-3-1, 23 KOs) won an eight round unanimous decision over Jose Celaya. Norwood, who fought at the middleweight limit for this bout, scored a knockdown in the first round. Norwood mostly had Celaya (31-5, 16 KOs) on the defensive throughout the bout, although Celaya did have some of his moments. All three judges scored the bout in favor of Norwood, with scores of 78-73, 79-72, and 80-71.
Former WBO super featherweight champ Mike Anchondo (29-2, 19 KOs) won a six round majority decision over Octavio Narváez (7-5, 4 KOs). "Mighty Mike" won by scores of 58-57, 59-57 and 57-57 in a bout fought at welterweight poundage.
Welterweight Aarón Martínez (11-1-1, 3 KOs) scored a clear eight round unanimous decision over Santiago Pérez (11-3-2, 2 KOs) in the main event. Scores were 80-72, 79-73, 78-74.
Junior Welterweight Abraham Lopez (1-1) scored a four round unanimous decision over Shawn Wate (0-4-1). All three judges scored the bout 40-36 in favor of Lopez.
In a battle of fighters making their professional debuts, Middleweight Manuel Roman scored a first round stoppage over Hector Moreno. After the second knockdown, referee David Mendoza stopped the bout at 1:17.


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Not one of the better shooting teams in the country, FSU has discovered its touch in the NIT.
Florida State hit for a red-hot 68 per cent Monday in a 101-90 win against Georgetown in Tallahassee.
The Noles will play at home again Wednesday in the quarterfinals against Louisiana Tech. The winner will head to the semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
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Stats are through the games of December 19th.
Caribes de Anzoategui –
The Caribes went 2-4 for the week.
- Ildemaro Vargas: Vargas surfaced on Saturday for the first time since November 24th when he was the designated hitter in his squad's 11-0 loss. He was hitless in three at bats, swinging out of the nine spot. Vargas' most recent sighting was on Wednesday when he came to the plate with the tying run at second and one out. Vargas was caught looking for the second out and remained in the game at second for the top of the ninth.
Season-to-date: 18 G, 24 AB, 4 R, 6 H, 1 2B, 1 3B. 3 RBI, 2 BB, 3 SO, .250/.308/.375/.683, .286 BABIP
Tigres de Aragua –
Aragua won two, lost four and had one postponement.
- Jorge Rondon: Rondon had mixed results on Friday, beginning well but ending poorly. He came into the sixth with his squad trailing 3-1, two runs already across and a runner on first. The right-hander got a fly out to center to finish the frame, thus minimizing the damage. Rondon pretty much put the game out of reach in the next inning by allowing three tallies on a lead-off single, two base-on-balls and two more singles, with the walks and latter two singles all coming with two outs. He was replaced by Eduardo Sanchez.
Season-to-date: 4.40 ERA/5.12 FIP, 18 G, 0 GS, 28.2 IP, 28 H, 17 R, 14 ER, 3 HR, 4 HB, 13 BB, 19 SO, 1.43 WHIP, .248 BAA, 272 BABIP, 3 IR/0 IRS
Eduardo Sanchez: Sanchez limited the hit to Rondon's stat line on the 14th when he stranded runners at the corners in the seventh with a grounder to first. He sandwiched a two-out single around two swinging K's in the eighth then induced a 5-4-3 double play that wiped out a base-on-balls and single that kicked off the ninth. Sanchez recorded the final out via another swinging strikeout. He did not give up a run during Tuesday's stint but the right-hander was greatly aided by his catcher. Both of his base runners in the seventh, who got aboard via a walk and a single, were caught stealing which resulted in him facing the minimum. Sanchez followed up a single to begin the eighth by fanning the next two batters then exited. His replacement notched the last out of the frame to strand Sanchez' base runner. His weekly stat line: 0.00 ERA/2.20 FIP, 2 G, 0 GS, 4 IP, 4 H, 0 R/ER, 0 HB, 2 BB, 5 SO, 1.50 WHIP, .308 BAA, .500 BABIP, 2 IR/0 IRS
Season-to-date: 4.20 ERA/3.00 FIP, 14 G, 0 GS, 15 IP, 12 H, 8 R, 7 ER, 0 HR, 2 HB, 9 BB, 18 SO, 1.40 WHIP, .240 BAA, .353 BABIP
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Lara went 4-1 for the period.
- Richard Castillo: Castillo kept his squad in the game on Friday when he coaxed a force at second that left the sacks full to finish the fifth, thus bailing out both Lara's starter Raul Rivero and Springfield staff mate Deryk Hooker who relieved him. Castillo was given a very short leash, being pulled after walking the first batter faced in the sixth. He was given an equally short hook on Tuesday. The righty retired his first batter faced in the fifth for the inning's second out but was yanked after yielding consecutive singles. Both runners were stranded by Castillo's replacement.
Season-to-date: 4.05 ERA/4.95 FIP, 22 G, 0 GS, 20 IP, 24 H, 11 R, 9 ER, 1 HR, 1 HB, 11 BB, 10 SO, 1.75 WHIP, .289 BAA, .319 BABIP, 5 IR/0 IRS
- Deryk Hooker: Hooker had difficulty finding the plate in Friday's contest, issuing two free passes that forced in two inherited runners and broke a one-all tie in the fifth. He gave way to Castillo without recording an out. It was his only appearance this week.
Season-to-date: 0.00 ERA/4.06 FIP, 2 G, 0 GS, 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R/ER, 2 BB, 2 SO, 1.29 WHIP, .125 BAA, .167 BABIP, 3 IR/2 IRS
Bravos de Margarita –
Margarita won two and lost five with one postponed.
- Silfredo Garcia: Garcia tossed a 1-2-3 seventh on Thursday to keep his team's deficit to a single tally in a game the Bravos went on to lose 4-3. The lead-off batter reached on a fielding error but the righty bore down to fan the opposition's lead-off batter swinging. Garcia erased the base runner on a 4-6-3 double play. That appearance finished Garcia's Venezuelan League season as Margarita subsequently removed him from their active roster.
Season-to-date: 2.25 ERA/3.50 FIP, 20 G, 0 GS, 20 IP, 21 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 1 HR, 0 HB, 5 BB, 11 SO, 1.30 WHIP, .273 BAA, .308 BABIP
The regular season ended on Friday, December 14th. Caracas was one of four teams to advance to the three-game semi-final series taking place on the 17th, 18th and 19th. They are the only squad to include players from the St. Louis organization. An in-depth look at the season will appear in next week's notebook.
Bravos –
The Bravos went 1-1 with a tie this week.
- Ismael Brito: Brito did not pitch in either of the Bravos' final two games.
Season-to-date: 1.76 ERA/4.37 FIP, 10 G, 1 GS, 15.1 IP, 14 H, 3 R/ER, 0 HR, 0 HB, 11 BB, 9 SO, 1.63 WHIP, .255 BAA, .304 BABIP
- Breyvic Valera: Valera did not play
Season-to-date: .379/.442/.485/.927, 132 AB, 24 R, 50 H, 9 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 9 RBI, 13 BB, 9 SO, 11 SB, 4 CS, .402 BABIP, 7 E, 6.1 K%, 8.8 BB%
Caracas –
Caracas won one and lost one. They went on to lose the first two against Tampa Bay and were eliminated from the play-offs. Velazco did not appear in either contest.
- Gerwuins Velazco: Velazco started in Caracas' final game of the regular season, a 10-1 loss to Lara. He batted in the three spot as the designated hitter, with a double in four at bats. That hit came in the ninth but Velazco was nailed trying to stretch it into a triple for the inning's first out.
Season-to-date: .220/.291/.320/.611, 50 AB, 6 R, 11 H, 2 2B, 1 HR, 10 RBI, 5 BB, 8 SO, 0 SB, 0 CS, .244 BABIP, 6 E
Caribes –
Caribes lost one with a tie.
- Ronnierd Garcia: Garcia did not play.
Season-to-date: .170/.254/.274/.528, 106 AB, 10 R, 18 H, 5 2B, 2 HR, 15 RBI, 9 BB, 29 SO, 1 SB, 2 CS, .205 BABIP, 6 E
- Alirio Negrette: Negrette did not pitch this week.
Season-to-date: 9.13 ERA/8.05 FIP, 8 G, 7 GS, 22.2 IP, 29 H, 24 R, 23 ER, 5 HR, 3 HB, 20 BB, 12 SO, 2.16 WHIP, .319 BAA, .320 BABIP
- Cesar Valera: Valera tripled off Anderson Gerdel in a pinch hit appearance on the 13th but did not score. He started at short in his team's final game of the season, doubling once in four at bats. Valera batted seventh and committed one error.
Season-to-date: .292/.355/.481/.836, 106 AB, 15 R, 31 H, 10 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR, 18 RBI, 8 BB, 21 SO, 5 SB, 1 CS, .337 BABIP, 12 E
La Guaira –
La Guaira went 0-1 with a tie.
- Anderson Gerdel: Gerdel tossed 1.1 scoreless frames on Thursday. He entered the sixth needing one out to wipe out the runners at first and second. The right-hander gave up an infield single to third but caught the lead runner in a run down between third and home for the final out. Gerdel yielded a two-out triple to Cesar Valera in the seventh but stranded him there with a line out to center.
Season-to-date: 3.94 ERA/3.87 FIP, 10 G, 2 GS, 29.2 IP, 35 H, 16 R, 13 ER, 1 HR, 1 HB, 7 BB, 23 SO, 1.42 WHIP, ..299 BAA, .344 BABIP
- Dail Villanueva: Villanueva did not pitch.
Season-to-date: 6.00 ERA/4.73 FIP, 6 G, 3 GS, 15 IP, 18 H, 11 R, 10 ER, 1 HR, 1 HB, 16 BB, 19 SO, 2.27 WHIP, .305 BAA, .425 BABIP
- Kender Villegas: Villegas did not pitch.
Season-to-date: 1.88 ERA/3.33 FIP, 10 G, 0 GS, 24 IP, 17 H, 6 R, 5 ER, 1 HR, 1 HB, 8 BB, 23 SO, 1.04 WHIP, .202 BAA, .267 BABIP
Zulia –
Zulia went 3-0 with a tie for the period.
- Jose Gomez: Gomez did not appear in either of Zulia's final two games.
Season-to-date: .222/.323/.333/.656, 27 AB, 2 R, 6 H, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 4 BB, 8 SO, 0 SB, 0 CS, .278 BABIP, 1 E
Related article: Part one of this report covered Cardinals prospects' results the past week in the Australia, the Dominican, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
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Cash Store Financial Services Inc., struggling with regulatory issues, may ultimately have to cash out of Ontario. Could this mean easy money for shareholders of Easyhome Inc.?
It's an intriguing theory rising out of Cash Store's recent difficulties. The Edmonton-based company has ceased lending at all of its 200-plus Ontario locations in the wake of a recent court decision. Easyhome, which has been expanding past its traditional leasing business to make more consumer loans, would presumably like a fair number of those storefronts in order to keep growing.
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Cash Store had been operating in Ontario without a payday-loan broker's licence, saying its "lines of credit" were different products, not subject to the oversight of provincial payday-loan regulators. However, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled last month that Cash Store needs the licence to operate. Ontario regulators said they plan to refuse to issue the licence, which Cash Store had already applied for ahead of the ruling. (The company is appealing; a spokesman says it will make no comment outside periodic news releases.)
Even though Cash Store has more than half of its locations outside Ontario, the market sees this as an existential problem for the company. Its shares have fallen by two-thirds since mid-February, to 34 cents apiece, and its debt is trading at distressed levels of less than 25 cents on the dollar.
What's bad news for Cash Store shareholders might be a boon to those who own Easyhome stock. The company's original business is leasing merchandise to the credit-challenged. It has also introduced Easyfinancial, a business that makes consumer loans at an annual rate of 46.96 per cent – still much lower than the effective cost of a payday loan, the company notes. Easyfinancial's high-margin business has been the company's primary driver of growth.
Analyst Doug Cooper of Beacon Securities has a "buy" rating on the stock and a $22.50 target price, about 30 per cent above Wednesday's close of $17.12, based on the company's current footprint and growth potential.
Mr. Cooper notes the two companies' customer bases don't overlap perfectly, as some Cash Store clients wouldn't qualify for an Easyhome loan. But many strip malls, he says, won't lease to both a payday lender and Easyhome, so if Cash Store created vacancies, Easyhome could quickly expand its store count – and possibly pick up the upper tier of Cash Store's customers.
At Wednesday's close, Easyhome traded at about 14 times forward earnings, although robust fourth-quarter earnings and increased guidance released Wednesday afternoon mean the shares will likely trade higher on Thursday.
And yet, the price could still be right. Mr. Cooper noted that at the Sept. 30 loans-per-location numbers, any new location snapped up from the Cash Store could add $850,000 to the company's loan book. Adding 50 new locations – which may be ambitious, given the company's guidance for 30 to 35 new stores – could add more than $40-million in loans.
Mr. Cooper estimates a $175-million book of loans, just a hair above the new guidance, could produce up to $1.50 per share of earnings. Add roughly 70 cents per share from its legacy leasing business, and Easyhome's P/E looks more like 7 or 8 instead.
Over the next several years, he believes, Easyhome can grow its loans to $500-million, and its earnings per share to $4 or even $5.
This column got on the Easyhome bandwagon in June, 2012, recommending the shares when they traded just above $6 at a time of uncertainty for the company. It's worth noting that adding any Cash Store locations would merely be an acceleration of management's previously stated goals for organic growth.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 10-ranked University of Michigan softball team will open its 20th consecutive NCAA Tournament in the Tempe Regional against San Diego State on Friday (May 16) at 3:30 p.m. EDT.
On the other side of the bracket is the No. 9 overall seed in the tournament, Arizona State, and Dartmouth. The regional round is a double-elimination tournament.
The Maize and Blue will be making its 22nd NCAA Tournament appearance (1992-93, 1995-2014). Michigan has earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament every season since 1995.
This will be the fourth time in U-M history that it will play a regional round on the road. On two of the previous occasions Michigan played a regional on the road, it captured the regional crown (2001, 2012). The Wolverines are 69-12 all-time in the NCAA Regional round and have won 15 regional titles.
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- Always remember that you are writing the response to the auditors management – governmental auditing bodies do have supervisors and managers. Do not assume that the person reading the report understands the context of the observation or your reply.
- Re-state the observation and reference number in the response. Typically, the observation goes directly above the response.
- If possible, indicate the related compliant systems. This shows that you are in control and that some operations were functioning within acceptable GMP parameters.
- If the action item is going to take some time to implement, state what will be done in the interim to be compliant with GMPs. Don't simply indicate that actions will be taken in six months to correct the issue in which you are currently out of compliance without addressing what you will do to be compliant from the current date until the corrections are implemented.
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- Describe how the firm will monitor the progress and effectiveness of the corrective actions.
- It may be helpful to explain that despite the issues noted, there has never been an issue. It is not advisable to use this response tactic each time but it can be advantageous for critical observations to state something on the order of "…the product has always met predetermined quality parameters…"
- Revise, revise, revise. Allow other people not directly involved with the audit to review and comment on the response. They may have insight on response wording that would assist in clarification or strengthening of points.
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Things can get pretty loopy when Congress debates a bill for more than 12 hours straight — Wednesday night, for example, the House Ways and Means Committee featured a debate about taxing ice cream and sunlight. Over at the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the other panel getting a first crack at the GOP's health-care bill, the debate lasted 27 hours, and while there was no discussion of solar taxation, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) did have a little debate about à la carte health insurance.
The Affordable Care Act, which Republicans are proposing to replace, requires health insurance plans to cover certain core benefits, like hospital care, prescription drugs, and pregnancy and childbirth. Republicans were complaining about ObamaCare's "mandates," and Doyle asked GOP committee members to name one mandate they take issue with. "What about men having to purchase prenatal care?" Shimkus offered. "Is that not correct? And should they?"
WOW. The #GOP's reason to object to insurance covering prenatal care? "Why should men pay for it?" Watch: #Trumpcare #ProtectOurCare pic.twitter.com/Q55nG1Un8j
— NARAL (@NARAL) March 9, 2017
This is not the first time House Republicans have asked about men having to buy maternity coverage, The Washington Post notes, and it isn't always men asking. Nancy Metcalf, an insurance expert and Consumer Reports columnist, answered the question in 2013:
Health insurance, like all insurance, works by pooling risks. The healthy subsidize the sick, who could be somebody else this year and you next year. Those risks include any kind of health care a person might need from birth to death — prenatal care through hospice. No individual is likely to need all of it, but we will all need some of it eventually.
So, as a middle-aged childless man you resent having to pay for maternity care or kids' dental care. Shouldn't turnabout be fair play? Shouldn't pregnant women and kids be able to say, "Fine, but in that case why should we have to pay for your Viagra, or prostate cancer tests, or the heart attack and high blood pressure you are many times more likely to suffer from than we are?" Once you start down that road, it's hard to know where to stop. If you slice and dice risks, eventually you don't have a risk pool at all, and the whole idea of insurance falls apart. [Consumer Reports]
Metcalf's answer also, incidentally, would have been helpful reading for House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said this about ObamaCare on Thursday.
1. The next time someone describes Paul Ryan as a "wonk," please show them this clip pic.twitter.com/H8XP74Sco3
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 9, 2017
Health care, as President Trump says, is an "unbelievably complex subject." Peter Weber
The Philadelphia 76ers selected University of Washington guard Markelle Fultz as the first overall pick of the 2017 NBA Draft. The Sixers traded with the Boston Celtics to get the top spot. UCLA's Lonzo Ball was chosen second by the Los Angeles Lakers, while the Celtics, drafting third, picked Duke's Jayson Tatum. The draft is taking place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn; follow along live on ESPN. Catherine Garcia
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) isn't bothered by some members of her party criticizing her, following Jon Ossoff's loss Tuesday in Georgia's 6th Congressional district special election.
His opponent, Karen Handel, ran more of an anti-Ossoff campaign than pro-Handel, and ran ads linking Ossoff to Pelosi, a liberal from California. This isn't a new GOP tactic, Pelosi said during a press conference Thursday, "and usually, they go after the most effective leader." Two-thirds of the caucus backed Pelosi last year when she was challenged by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), and she feels "very confident" about the support she has. "I think I'm worth the trouble, quite frankly," she said. "I love the fray." She didn't hesitate to stand up for herself, saying, "You want me to sing my praises? Well, I'm a master legislator. I am a strategic, politically astute leader. My leadership is recognized by many around the country, and that is why I'm able to attract the support that I do."
Pelosi said the party is "paving a way for a new generation of leadership, and I respect any opinion that my my members have," but the "decision about how long I stay is not up to them." Looking ahead to 2018, "history is on our side," she added, as the president typically loses House seats during their first midterm election. Catherine Garcia
Senate Republicans unveiled their health-care proposal Thursday, the upper chamber's version of the GOP-backed American Health Care Act that passed the House early last month. The Senate bill, titled the "Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017," allows states to apply for waivers to certain insurance regulations intended to protect the sick and the poor, proposes steep and lasting cuts to Medicaid, and rolls back taxes and subsidies levied under the Affordable Care Act.
Former President Barack Obama, of course, signed the Affordable Care Act a.k.a. ObamaCare into law just over seven years ago. On Thursday, he took to his Facebook page to offer his thoughts on the Senate's proposed replacement for his signature legislative achievement, slamming the bill's "fundamental meanness":
The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health-care bill. It's a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America. It hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else. [...]
Simply put, if there's a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family — this bill will do you harm. And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation. [Barack Obama]
Senators are expected to vote on their bill next week. You can read Obama's entire statement here. Kimberly Alters
An unintentional loophole in a New Hampshire law would have allowed pregnant women to murder people without consequence
An awkward linguistic loophole in a Republican bill in the New Hampshire state Senate would have, in theory, allowed pregnant women to legally get away with committing murder, Slate reports. Senate Bill 66 defined fetuses past 20 weeks old as "people" for cases of murder or manslaughter, such as when unborn babies are killed in reckless driving accidents. But in order to avoid convicting pregnant mothers of murder if they sought abortions, the bill included an unintentionally hilarious work-around:
The bill's original language stated that "any act committed by the pregnant woman" or a doctor acting in his professional capacity wouldn't apply in cases of second-degree murder, manslaughter, or negligent homicide. Unfortunately, "any act" implied, well, any act. The bill "allows a pregnant woman to commit homicide without consequences," Republican representative J.R. Hoell told the Concord Monitor. "Although that was never the intent, that is the clear reading of the language." *blooper sound effect* [Slate]
The bill initalliy passed both the state's House and Senate without lawmakers realizing the loophole, Slate adds. But unfortunately for anyone with Purge-esque visions of bloodthirty mothers-to-be, the House passed an amendment Thursday "to make sure pregnant women don't go around killing people." Read the full details of the case at Slate. Jeva Lange
Carrier braces for 600-person layoff just 6 months after Trump touted the company as a job policy victory
From the get-go, President Trump's so-called "Carrier deal" has not lived up to its expectations. In December, the then-president-elect promised to save 1,100 jobs at the air conditioner and furnace manufacturing plant that had been slated to go to Mexico in return for $7 million in state financial incentives.
In reality, only 730 union jobs were preserved. Fast-forward a few months, and now more than 600 employees at the Carrier plant are anticipating being laid off next month. "The jobs are still leaving," the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, Robert James, told CNBC. "Nothing has stopped."
"To me this was just political, to make it a victory within Trump's campaign, in his eyes, that he did something great," added T.J. Bray, who has worked at Carrier for 15 years and whose seniority saved him from layoffs. "I'm very grateful that I get to keep my job, and many others, but I'm still disappointed that we're losing a lot."
In addition to the $7 million in incentives Carrier received for agreeing to employ at least 1,069 people at the plant for the next 10 years, the company vowed to invest $16 million into the Indiana-based facility. But "as for Trump's claim that the $16 million investment in the plant would add jobs, United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes told CNBC in December that the money would go toward more automation in the factory and ultimately would result in fewer jobs," CNBC reports.
Indiana Economic Development Corp. president Elaine Bedel added that all of Trump's promises "really [haven't] changed anything."
"We have been doing this since 2005," she said. Jeva Lange
Conservative health-care wonk Avik Roy says the Senate health-care bill could be 'the greatest policy achievement' by a GOP Congress in his lifetime
As the Senate Republicans' ObamaCare replacement was sending ripples of alarm and anger through the Democratic ranks — and some of the GOP ones, too — conservative health-care wonk Avik Roy was reading. And reading. And reading.
After finishing the 142 pages of the "Better Care" act, Roy — who served as Mitt Romney's health-care policy adviser during his 2012 campaign — reached this conclusion:
Finished reading the Senate HC bill. Put simply: If it passes, it'll be the greatest policy achievement by a GOP Congress in my lifetime.
— Avik Roy (@Avik) June 22, 2017
Not all Republicans will be so pleased, though. Read nine ways the bill breaks with promises President Trump has made here at The Week. Jeva Lange
Elizabeth Warren rips apart Senate Republicans' health-care bill, blasting tax cuts as 'blood money'
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) took to the floor Thursday to passionately attack the Republican Senate's ObamaCare replacement, the "Better Care" act. "Senate Republicans wrung some extra dollars out of kicking people off tax credits that help them afford health insurance," Warren said. "They raked in extra cash by letting states drop even more protections and benefits, like maternity care or prescription drug coverage or mental health coverage."
"And then they got to the real piggy bank," Warren added. "Medicaid. And here, they just went wild."
Warren noted that 1 in 5 Americans is on Medicaid, and that the program serves 30 million children. "These cuts are blood money," she said. "People will die. Let's be very clear. Senate Republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy with American lives." Watch below. Jeva Lange
Warren: "These cuts are blood money… Senate Republicans are paying for tax cuts for the wealthy with American lives" https://t.co/ltA2Ma68jp
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 22, 2017


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When the debate over national health-care reform begins in earnest, the health insurance industry's biggest trade association may be much less of a player than expected. In recent weeks, the Health Insurance Association of America has lost two of its biggest members, Aetna Life & Casualty Co. and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. With membership renewals coming up, Travelers Corp. is also considering a pullout, and Prudential Insurance Co. may follow. And the last members of the "Gang of Five" big health insurers, CIGNA Corp., quit the group last year.
The problem is a deep split between the biggest companies and smaller insurers. The Gang of Five see managed-care networks as the wave of the future and would like any reform legislation written to encourage their use. The smaller companies think that they don't have the wherewithal to set up broad networks and fear they would be frozen out of the sort of national system that their rivals envision.


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Could cocaine cause cancer?
Aug. 16, 2000
Is there a connection between cancer and cocaine? Baseball star Darryl Strawberry's second operation for colon cancer in two years - and his well-documented struggle with cocaine abuse - have reignited discussion about cocaine as a carcinogen.
On Aug. 7, the troubled former New York Yankees outfielder underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor near his left kidney. Doctors found no residual traces of cancer in adjacent tissue and are "optimistic for an uneventful recovery."
A 2.4-inch tumor, as well as 16 inches of surrounding intestine, had previously been removed from Strawberry's colon in October 1998.
Strawberry's cocaine problems first surfaced publicly in April 1994 when he entered the Betty Ford Clinic for 28 days. In an interview late last year, he characterized the experience as "a total waste of time."
In 1995, the talented slugger was suspended from Major League Baseball and released by the San Francisco Giants after testing positive for cocaine. In April 1999 he pleaded "no contest" to cocaine possession and was suspended once more. After a much-heralded comeback in which he helped the Yankees win the World Series, Strawberry tested positive again last January. That prompted a third suspension, this time for a year.
Cocaine-cancer connection
Although it is impossible to say that cocaine use contributed to Strawberry's (or anyone else's) cancer, Strawberry's substance abuse history and cancer recurrence have rekindled interest in the notion that cocaine use can cause cancer.
Anecdotal stories of cocaine abuse, abnormal tissue growth, and cancer abound. But a statistically valid cause-and-effect relationship between cocaine and cancer has been hard to establish, particularly one that connects well-defined forms and dosages of cocaine abuse to specific types of malignancies.
Cocaine-as-carcinogen theories were first examined in the late 1980s when the crack cocaine epidemic spawned a wave of public health concerns. But research was inconclusive until 1990, when Dr. Herbert Rosenkranz, professor and chairman of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Cornell University used computer analysis to quantify the carcinogenic effects of cocaine.
"We know that cocaine produces significant cellular changes, and we identified it as a carcinogen over a decade ago," notes Rosenkranz. "But the variables involved in linking specific amounts of cocaine, periods of usage, and factoring in individual genetic differences was well beyond what we could accomplish at that time" he says.
"We established that cocaine has an 80% probability of being carncinogenic in rodents, with an 80-85% confidence level," says Rosenkranz. The American Journal of Surgery last year equated that to a probability of 73.6%.
In 1997, Rebecca Nelson - then a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern
California School of Medicine, now a Ph.D cancer researcher at the City of Hope
National Medical Center - confirmed a cocaine-cancer link by re-examining the
results of a study that began in the late 1980s.
More startling, those who ingested cocaine up to just eight times had a 40%
increase for developing the lymphoma. None of the subjects was HIV-positive,
and control methods separated cocaine from the use of other recreational drugs.
Cocaine and immune system suppression - University of Illinois at Chicago researchers reported in the March 1998 Journal of Neuroimmunology that "cocaine had general suppressive effects on the mouse immune system." This echoes a 1991 report by a team of UCLA School of Medicine researchers, which noted the debilitating effects of cocaine on AIDS patients, but added: "The exact mechanisms by which cocaine facilitates this disease are yet to be proven."
"And that's still where we are in this research, for the most part," notes Rosenkranz. "We have much more research that needs to be done in determining exactly how all these factors may interrelate."
"But would I say that cocaine compromises the immune system and has a probable link to carcinogenesis?" asks the expert. "Yes."
Both Rosenkranz and Nelson note that while cocaine is carcinogenic, that does not mean an individual who has used cocaine will develop cancer. "There are many carcinogens, and many people who are exposed to them who do not develop any sort of cancer at all," emphasizes Rosenkranz. "You do want to eliminate those exposures, though."
"On a practical note, however, I doubt that the research has had - or will have - much effect on cocaine abusers," he adds. "If the short-term and very real possibility of cardiac arrest cannot deter some people from continuing addiction, I doubt that any studies demonstrating long-term increase in the risk of cancer and of the mechanisms involved are going to stop them."
For more information:
Strawberry's friend, fellow baseball star, and colorectal cancer survivor Eric
Davis, fights for colorectal cancer awareness and screening: A
Doctor in Your House.com, May 23
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SKYWARN is a public safety partnership between the National Weather Service (NWS), local emergency managers (EMs) and the general public. The NWS provides training to storm spotters while the EMs are more involved with the organization and logistical end of scheduling training and organizing the groups.
Typically, the NSW calls the local EM to activate area spotters when significant or widespread severe weather is expected. Once activated, spotter groups relay their reports through the EM or his designee to the NWS. This implies that spotters will have rapid, two-way field communications (e.g. law enforcement, highway department workers, volunteer or professional fire fighters and local amateur radio operators working with amateur radio emergency services (ARES) groups). We also welcome individuals that wish to operate as independent SKYWARN participants and who can report from their home and/or while in the field.
Each year, the NWS and American Radio Relay League (AARL) organize a special SKYWARN Recognition Day. It celebrates the contributions that volunteer SKYWARN radio operators make to the NWS. During the full day event, SKYWARN operators visit NWS offices and contact other radio operators across the world.
Eddy County partners with about 90 SkyWarn Storm Spotters. About 40 of the SkyWarn Storm Spotters are amateur radio operators and most of these actively participate in storm spotting each season.
Our Storm Spotters have an active interest in weather and protecting our communities during severe weather outbreaks and serve as the eyes and ears of the Midland/Odessa National Weather Service Forecast Office. SkyWarn spotters provide truth in ground information on severe weather events including tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, high winds, heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Our job is to report severe weather to the NWS when we see it so that the proper warning can be issued to the general public in Eddy County by the Midland/Odessa NWSFO.
Eddy County SkyWarn Storm Spotters are encouraged to contact the Eddy County SkyWarn command center directly with their spotter reports and then these reports are relayed to the Midland/Odessa NWSFO via amateur radio and by other means. These reports are also relayed to our local radio stations (KSVP/KTZA/KPZE) as well.
SKYWARN™ is a concept developed in the early 1970's that was intended to promote a cooperative effort between the National Weather Service and communities. The emphasis of the effort is often focused on the storm spotter, an individual who takes a position near their community and reports wind gusts, hail size, rainfall and cloud formations that could signal a developing tornado. Another part of SKYWARN™ is the receipt and effective distribution of National Weather Service information.
The organization of spotters and the distribution of warning information lies with the National Weather Service or with an emergency management agency within the community. This agency could be a police or fire department or often is an emergency management/service group (what people might still think of as civil defense groups). This varies across the country however, with local national weather service offices taking the lead in some locations, while emergency management takes the lead in other areas.
SKYWARN™ is not a club or organization, however, in some areas where Emergency Management programs do not perform the function, people have organized SKYWARN™ groups that work independent of a parent government agency and feed valuable information to the National Weather Service. While this provides the radar meteorologist with much needed input, the circuit is not complete if the information does not reach those who can activate sirens or local broadcast systems.
SKYWARN™ spotters are not by definition "Storm Chasers". While their functions and methods are similar, the spotter stays close to home and usually has ties to a local agency. Storm Chasers often cover hundreds of miles a day. The term "Storm Chaser" covers a wide variety of people. Some are meteorologists doing specific research or are gathering basic information (like video) for training and comparison to radar data. Others chase storms to provide live information for the media and others simply do it for the thrill.
Storm Spotting and Storm Chasing is dangerous and should not be done without proper training, experience and equipment.
The National Weather Service conducts spotter training classes across the United States and your local National Weather Service office should be consulted as to when the next class will be held.
If you would like to join the Eddy County Skywarn Team, please visit this website.


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Under a high magnification of 21930x, this scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted some of the ultrastructural morphologic features displayed by this group of Gram-positive Micrococcus luteus bacteria. The specimen was obtained from a pure culture that was raised on a polycarbonate filter, for the purpose of identification of the organism.
Being Gram-positive, these organisms appear blue to violet when stained using a Gram-stain technique. M. luteus is an aerobe, which means that it thrives in an oxygen rich environment, and is normally found living in the human mouth, mucosal linings of the upper pharynx, and respiratory tract. Those who may be immunocompromised such a AIDS patients, or those on chemotherapy, need to be concerned about these bacteria, however, these organisms are usually considered non-pathogenic.
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Polaroid Launches Digital Camera
The Polaroid Z2300 features a host of features that let users snap, edit and post pictures instantly to create the ultimate social media machine.
Polaroid introduces the Z2300 instant digital camera which features an integrated printer with ZINK® Technology, enabling users to instantly capture, edit and in less than a minute print full color, 2×3″ prints. The new camera also has social networking functions which allows for instant image touch-ups and uploads. Designed to appeal to instant photography enthusiasts everywhere, the Z2300 instant digital camera weighs less than a pound and houses a 3.0″ LCD screen. The simple and intuitive features make image capture and instant printing effortless, while the rechargeable lithium-ion battery enables multiple captures and prints per charge. Polaroid President Scott W. Hardy describes the new technology:
The Z2300 represents the next step in the evolution of that proud tradition and it was designed to fully integrate the classic Polaroid instant photography experience into today's digital, social world. Portability, creative expression and the ability to share your most memorable moments in digital or print form all come standard in the Polaroid Z2300 camera's compact body.
The Polaroid Z2300 instant digital camera retails for US$159.99 and is now available for pre-order via Polaroid's website.


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The Southern Minute with Chef Thomas Keller
We've got a sneaking suspicion that everyone has a hint of the South in their soul. When legendary chef Thomas Keller popped into our Test Kitchen last week, our theory panned out. See what Keller says about drinking wine with BBQ, fried chicken, and bow ties in our first-ever installment of The Southern Minute:
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