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Vol. 52, No. 12, December 2012
Vending Features
5-Hour Energy Distributor Claims To Have Shut Down Counterfeiters
Emily Jed
Living Essentials LLC says it has discovered counterfeit energy shot products circulating in the marketplace, and has acted swiftly to identify and shut down the counterfeiters' factory...
Allen Key Activates Vending Machine For Promotion At Ikea Opening
Emily Jed
A vending machine with a novel twist is building excitement around the grand opening of the first Ikea store in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
Apriva Continues Discounted Pre-Durbin Visa Vending Rates
Emily Jed
The rates, implemented last February, are comparable to those before the enactment of the Durbin Amendment, and cover payments made by Visa-branded credit, debit and prepaid cards...
Beyonce Inks $50M Endorsement Deal With Pepsi
Emily Jed
The chart-topping pop singer will appear on a limited-edition run of soda cans...
California Voters Reject Initiative Requiring GMO Ingredient Labeling
Tim Sanford
The Grocery Manufacturers Association hailed the voters' decision, saying Proposition 37 was a deeply flawed measure that would have resulted in higher food costs, frivolous lawsuits and increased state bureaucracies...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wants Healthier Vending Menus In City Buildings
Emily Jed
The mayor's proposed ordinance detailing guidelines on fat, sugar and calorie content was set to be introduced to the city council this week...
Coca-Cola Buys Stake In Milk Drink Company
Emily Jed
The Coca-Cola Co. and dairy cooperative Select Milk Producers are taking equity stakes in Fair Oaks Farms, maker of Core Power high-protein post-workout recovery milkshakes ...
Coca-Cola Japan Readies Large-Scale Deployment Of 'Peak-Shift' Vending Machines
Emily Jed
Coca-Cola Japan said it will begin deploying its energy-saving "peak-shift" vending machines, developed with Fuji Electric, in January. Sets 25,000 machine target for year...
Coffee Tea & Water 2012: NAMA Unveils Strategy And Research For OCS Sector
Tim Sanford
Trends in coffee production and consumption, and the evolution of the United States coffee market, suggest very strongly that specialty coffee is the key to winning the future...
Coinstar Machines Facilitate Hurricane Sandy Donations
Emily Jed
"If half of the U.S. population donated just $1, it would translate to more than $150 million in aid to help families get back on their feet," said Coinstar chief Paul Davis...
Colorado Vending Company Offers Clients Machine-Rental Option
Emily Jed
Quench Beverage & Snack Co., a full-line vending company serving greater Denver and northern Colorado, now offers area businesses the option to rent its machines and fill them...
EatWave Vending Machine Dispenses Hot Meals, Cold Drinks And Snacks
Emily Jed
The full-service vending machine can zap meals, cool beverages and vend snacks. It's a glassfront combo with an internal microwave oven that uses proprietary technology to heat and dispense prepackaged foods in a minute or less...
FDA Investigates Reports Linking 5-Hour Energy Shots To 13 Deaths
Nick Montano
Federal health authorities are investigating reports of deaths that may be associated with a highly caffeinated energy shot. Senators complain about lack of FDA oversight...
G&J Acquires Cross Marketing
Emily Jed
Florida-based G&J Marketing and Sales said it will acquire Ohio's Cross Marketing, and has added personnel to cover its new territory...
Georgia Tech Discounts Vending Purchases For BuzzCard Users
Emily Jed
The Georgia Institute of Technology is offering a 5% discount on all vending machine purchases when students use the BuzzCard campus identification and prepaid medium...
Hostess Liquidation Likely As Mediation Fails
Emily Jed
Nov. 20's last-ditch mediation between Hostess Brands Inc. and its striking bakery union failed to produce a deal to keep the troubled Twinkies maker afloat...
Hostess Proceeds With Liquidation, Potential Bidders Line Up
Emily Jed
Twinkies, Ding Dongs and other popular vending machine pastries from Hostess are destined to find new homes as potential bidders "flood" the company with inquiries...
Hostess Says Strike Could Force Liquidation, Closes Three Plants
Emily Jed
A nationwide strike by Hostess Brands' bakers union has forced the bankrupt Twinkies and Ding Dong maker to permanently close three bakeries and may ultimately lead to its demise...
Interactivity Strengthens Engagement: Intel Sees Bright Future For PC-Controlled Vending
by Emily Jed and Tim Sanford
The computer chip pioneer wants to equip vending machines with controller boards based on powerful microprocessors designed for personal computers, able to run applications that can do much more than determine the value of money inserted and detect product selections...
Iowa's Hasty Tasty Acquires Gateway Vending
Emily Jed
Hasty Tasty Vending, a Canteen Vending Services franchise, acquires Clinton, IA-based Gateway Vending, increasing penetration of its previously expanded service area...
Kangaroo Express Tests Fuel Island Beverage Vending
Emily Jed
Vendgogh's vending systems are integrated with the Kangaroo's POS system, giving customers the opportunity to purchase fuel and cold drinks at the same time at the pump...
MEI Releases Easitrax Core v3.15 With Upgraded Interface And Integration
Tim Sanford
Noteworthy in the new vending management software version are an improved user interface, wider integration with supporting platforms and streamlined audit data handling...
Mexico Chews Over Gum Tax
by Staff Reporter
Mexico produces 92,000 tons of gum annually, and Mexicans chew an average 2.5 pieces a day. A proposed tax would help "un-stick" discarded gum...
Missouri Children's Hospital Bans Soda
Emily Jed
Beginning on Jan. 1, 2013, drink choices will be limited to water, diet soda, juice, milk, coffee and tea. The exception will be...
Mondelez Quarterly Earnings Hit By Spinoff Costs
Emily Jed
Mondelez International Inc.'s earnings dropped 29% in its first quarter as an independent company as spinoff-related costs squeezed the global snacks giant's bottom line...
NAMA Chief Describes Association's 3-Year Strategic Planning Goals For OCS And Vending
Tim Sanford
National Automatic Merchandising Association chief executive Carla Balakgie outlines the association's three-year strategic plan at Coffee, Tea & Water conference in mid-November...
Nestlé Waters' Arrowhead Brand Goes Green With 50% Recycled PET Bottle
Emily Jed
The new "ReBorn" Arrowhead bottle, which maintains the brand's familiar Eco-Shape design, will reportedly use 15% less energy than is required to produce bottles from all-new material...
Pepi Completes Systemwide Cashless Vending Deployment
Emily Jed
The Pepi Cos. has announced that all of its vending machines in more than 1,000 locations now can accept cashless payments after a 2-year upgrade program conducted with USA Technologies ...
PepsiCo Opens Shanghai R&D Center
Emily Jed
The R&D center is said to be the company's largest outside North America. It will serve as a hub of new product, packaging and equipment for PepsiCo's businesses in Asia...
Report: Snack Bar Growth Shows No Signs Of Slowing
Emily Jed
The U.S. snack bar market has grown at twice the rate of other snack foods and nearly three times the rate of the overall packaged food sector over the past 10 years, according to Rabobank...
Research Suggests Healthy Eaters Snack More Often
Emily Jed
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the more consumers snack, the healthier their eating behaviors, according to a new report from NPD Group...
Robotic Store Breaks Ground At Oklahoma Tourist Hotspot
Emily Jed
Athletes and tourists enjoying the Oklahoma River now have easy access to healthy refreshments around the clock...
Spindle Pacts With Integrated Payments To Deliver Bundled Mobile Payment Solutions
Emily Jed
As part of the new relationship, Spindle has become a preferred provider of mobile commerce technologies to Integrated Payments...
Texas Lawmaker Reintroduces Public School Soda Ban
Emily Jed
State Rep. Carol Alvarado is trying once again to ban soda, sports drinks and other sweetened beverages in public schools...
Tomra's New Waste Compactor Revolutionizes Trash Collection In Public Spaces
Emily Jed
Public space compactor called TOM takes up about as much room as an ordinary trash bin but reportedly holds up to seven times more waste than the conventional bin...
Tweet-Powered Billboard 'Vends' Sample Men's Shirts In India
Emily Jed
Men's clothing retailer Allen Solly launched its latest collection with a billboard that showcased 60 shirts and dispensed them as free samples in exchange for tweets...
Twinkies Maker And Union Head For Mediation In Last Hope To Save Company
by Staff Reporter
Hostess Brands and one of its biggest unions agreed to mediation in a last-ditch effort to keep the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread from closing...
Twinkies Maker Ceases Operations, Moves To Liquidate Business
Emily Jed
Hostess Brands said it has suspended production at all of its plants and is seeking permission from a federal bankruptcy court to permanently close its operations...
Twitter-Activated Vending Machine Wows Crowds In Pittsburgh
Emily Jed
A vending machine activated by tweets sent from patrons' cellphones could be the first use of such an application in the U.S., and it served as a novel promotional tool at the recent One Young World Summit...
U.S. Government Accountability Office Endorses Dollar Coins At Nov. 29 Hearing
Marcus Webb
Government Accountability Office's Lorelei St. James told Congress in a Nov. 29 hearing that switching from dollar bills to dollar coins would save significant money for taxpayers...
USA Technologies And Isis Will Enable Mobile Payments In 'Thousands' Of Vending Machines
Emily Jed
USAT's ePort will work with Isis Mobile Wallet, an app backed by AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless that allows consumers to make vending machine purchases with NFC-equipped phones...
USA Technologies' Two-Tier Pricing Program Hits 11,000 Location Milestone
Emily Jed
USAT program gives vending operators the ability to charge two different prices: a standard retail price for credit or debit card transactions, and a discounted price for cash purchases...
Vendgogh Partners With C-Store Service Providers To Expand At-Pump Vending
Emily Jed
Jones & Frank, which supplies c-stores in 16 states between Maine and Florida, and Northwest Pump, which operates throughout the West, will market, install and maintain Vendgogh's gas island vending machines...
Vending Machines In L.A. Malls Dispenses Fish Eggs And Snails
Emily Jed
Operated by Beverly Hills Caviar, the touchscreen vender boasts a selection of truffles and escargot, along with bottarga, blinis, gourmet salts and mother of pearl plates and spoons...
VendScreen Raises More Funds To Sustain Industry Deployment
Emily Jed
VendScreen Inc. reports that it has raised $8.4 million in a Series B round, with another $7 million reserved from the 3x5 Special Opportunity Fund and Merrickhanna Ventures...
Wawa Launches Keurig-Compatible Coffee Packs
Emily Jed
Portion packs of Wawa's private-label original and 100% Colombian coffees are now available in 604 c-stores in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia...
Music and Games Features
After-Work Tavern Tradition Fades
Marcus Webb
Several factors have conspired to depress after-work, on-premise consumption. But taverns and saloons in industrial Midwestern cities like Milwaukee are still regarded as "the communal living rooms"...
Alpha-Omega's Updated Website Goes Live With New Capabilities
Tim Sanford
The website has new features enabling visitors to access industry-related articles, game operating manuals, photos and descriptions of award-winning entertainment centers...
AMI Megatouch Live Expands ML-1 Library With Aerial Combat Game
Nick Montano
Air Guardian is the first two-player Megatouch game with control logic that follows multiple touches for each player...
AMOA-NY Seeks Industrywide Aid For Tristate Operators; Allen Weisberg Spearheads Relief Taskforce
Nick Montano
The Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York has formed a taskforce to aid music and amusement operators impacted by Sandy. For its part, AMOA-NY is waiving its dues obligations to members for the first quarter of 2013...
Amusements In Italy: Responsibility, Innovation, Pinball Tourney Mark 40th Enada
Tim Sanford
The 2012 Enada International Amusement & Gaming Machine Show in Rome, one of two annual Italian amusement shows held annually, attracted 15,896 visitors -- 8.1% more than the 14,702 who attended in 2011 -- and hosted 200 exhibitors...
Apple Shows Off NGX Face Place As Example Of R&D Prowess In Photobooth Field
Nick Montano
Apple Industries reports that its research and development center is blazing the trail for the future of automatic photo machines. One manifestation of its expanded R&D capabilities is a photo vending system that runs on an AMI jukebox...
Associations Target $100K To Aid Disaster Recovery
Marcus Webb
The Amusement and Music Operators Association and American Amusement Machine Association adopt joint fundraising target of $100,000 to assist with disaster relief...
Barron Games Introduces Compact Hockey Table
Hank Schlesinger
How do you top a hit game like Quad Air, the four-player air hockey table from Barron Games International? For Baron, the answer is "think small with a big idea"...
Benchmark Unveils 2 Ticket Games, New Prize Vender At IAAPA Show
Tim Sanford
New Monster Drop and Pop It versions, along with the next generation in Tickets to Prizes, will make debut at International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions show in Orlando...
Betson Spotlights Latest Videogame Product From Raw Thrills And Play Mechanix; SnoCross Makes Debut
Nick Montano
Betson Enterprises put the spotlight on the latest videogames from Raw Thrills and Play Mechanix during IAAPA's 2012 Attractions Expo. It was the largest exhibit of video gaming for arcade and street locations at the fall trade show in Orlando, FL...
Big Buck Championship Is On; Raw Thrills Pledges To Match Up To $50,000 In Donations To Help NY And NJ
Source; Raw Thrills | Released Nov. 6, 2012
Manhattan is getting back on its feet and the 5th annual Big Buck World Championship is moving forward. The event will be held at the Altman Building in New York City on Friday and Saturday [press release]...
Big Buck World Championship In NYC Lures Fierce Videogame Competitors
Hank Schlesinger
For the two days, the historic Altman Building in lower Manhattan was transformed into a rustic hunting lodge with six Big Buck Hunter coin-op videogames used for competition.
CDC Says More Big Cities Are Banning Smoking
by Staff Reporter
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 30 of the 50 biggest U.S. cities now qualify for the CDC's 100% smoke-free designation...
Dave Corriveau, Cofounder Of Dave & Buster's, Heads BozoWorld FEC Chain
by Staff Reporter
Larry Harmon Pictures Corp. grants global rights for the development of a family entertainment center and restaurant concept based on Bozo the Clown...
Financial Services Committee Gives Dollar Coin Supporter Schweikert The Boot
Nick Montano
The congressman from Arizona has been the strongest supporter of dollar coins, and this year he has met several times with members of the AAMA...
IAAPA 2012 Attractions Expo Sees 3% Registration Increase
Nick Montano
Around 26,500 participants from 102 nations registered for this year's IAAPA Attractions Expo, compared with 25,800 people from 118 nations at last year's trade show, a 2.7% increase in registration numbers...
Illinois VLTs Take In $18M In October
by Staff Reporter
The state's top-earning video poker location in October was an American Legion post in Urbana, where gamblers bet more than $900,000, or an average of $30,000 a day...
LAI Games Unveils 5 Pieces At IAAPA Show
Tim Sanford
Making their debut are Balloon Buster, Mega-Spin, Little Speedy (a compact version of LAI's popular Speed of Light), Toy Zone Crane and Stacker Wall Street...
Michigan Court Rules Against Sweeps Viddies; Another Location Closes
Marcus Webb
An Internet café in Burton, MI,closed its doors after a local court ruled that electronic sweepstakes games are a form of illegal gambling...
Mountain Coin Closes Arizona Branch, Expands Las Vegas Services
Nick Montano
Mountain Coin Machine Distributors has ramped up its Las Vegas sales and service office to accommodate additional business from Arizona-based operators, reports MCMD president Carson Jenkins...
Namco Bandai's Coin-Op Sales Increase At Home, Decline Overseas; Overall Profits Double Across All Sectors
Marcus Webb
Namco Bandai reported that its overall profits doubled for all sectors combined for the first half of the 2013 fiscal year, reaching ¥17.3 billion ($2.8 billion)...
NC Sweepstakes Video Sector Expands; FL County's Ban Survives
Marcus Webb
In a development reminiscent of video poker marketing more than a decade ago, operators in North Carolina are running sweepstakes locations under flashy and provocative names like Little Vegas City...
Ohio Lawmaker Proposes Ban On Sweeps Videos
by Staff Reporter
State Rep. Matt Huffman (R-4th Dist.) has proposed a statewide ban on Internet cafés and sweepstakes videogames...
Pinball Games See Comeback In 'Pinbars,' Say Happy Location Owners
Marcus Webb
As its name suggests, a pinbar is a pinball arcade that also serves liquor for on-premise consumption. One pinbar in Washington state is attracting locals year-round...
Planners Set GTI Asia China Expo 2012 For Dec. 16-18 In Guangzhou
Nick Montano
A distinguished roster of international leaders in electronic game design and manufacture has been assembled for the upcoming event, which will be held at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou...
Registration Opens For 2013 Amusement Expo; Show Runs March 20-22
Nick Montano
Next spring's Amusement Expo will be the fourth edition for the show that has united the long-running (and formerly separate) events sponsored by the Amusement and Music Operators Association and American Amusement Machine Association...
Roller Coaster Swept To Sea By Sandy Will Not Remain In Atlantic As Tourist Attraction
by Staff Reporter
Seaside Heights Mayor Bill Akers said that the town and Casino Pier owners are in talks to remove what remains of the Jet Star Roller Coaster...
Sega Sammy Reports Q2 Sales, Earnings Mostly Down
Marcus Webb
Sega Sammy's domestic coin-op machine sales, Japanese arcade revenues and worldwide consumer videogame sales were all lower in its 2013 fiscal first half, compared with the same period last year...
Shaffer Distributing Hosts Seminar On Crane Merchandiser Operation
Tim Sanford
Guest speaker Jim Chapman of New Jersey's Coast to Coast Entertainment led a roundtable discussion among operators and FEC owners...
Shaffer Honors Doug Schudel With Bernard C. Flynn Devotion Award
Tim Sanford
Schudel has devoted his time and energy to Shaffer and its customers with respect, loyalty and commitment, the company reported...
Stern Pinball Launches Avengers Games For Operators And Collectors
Tim Sanford
The Avengers is the latest in Stern Pinball Inc.'s long line of flipper games inspired by popular comic superheroes. It will be available in four versions -- the Pro for operators...
Veteran Tech Opens Repair Shop For United Textile, Talon And Grayhound Cranes
Nick Montano
Operators needing repairs for their aging skill crane machines manufactured by United Textile Fabricators and related lines have a new option. Scott Holland of Aslex LLC...
Warren Buffett Buys Fun Express Parent Oriental Trading Co. For $500 Million
Nick Montano
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has agreed to buy Oriental Trading Co., a mail-order merchant and the parent company of Fun Express, a supplier of prizes to family entertainment centers and coin machine operators...
Bulk Vending
Beaver Machine Rolls Out New Look For 50th Anniversary
Hank Schlesinger
Beaver Machine Corp. says the makeover reinforces a commitment to quality and innovation that has been an integral part of its mission for a half century...
Bulk Vending Watch: Big Changes In China's Government Are Imminent
Hank Schlesinger
The second-largest economy in the world is poised for political transition as China commenced its 18th Communist Party Congress on Nov. 7...
Candy Cups From Walnut Group Offers Hygienic Bulk Vended Products
Hank Schlesinger
The machine's 50-milliliter (1.69-oz.) cups hold between 50 and 55 pieces of candy and are recyclable, and improve food sanitation by reducing hand-machine contact...
CAT Rack: Bulk Operator Demonstrates $1 Validator Actuating Up To 4 Vending Machines
Nick Montano
A system permitting patrons to make $1 purchases from any of four bulk vending machines by inserting a dollar bill into a central validator-equipped module has been demonstrated by Bronx operator Alan "The Peanutman" Swiderski...
Haute Couture Meets Pop Culture In Dior's New Line of Temporary Tats
Hank Schlesinger
Don't even think about putting these tattoos in your flat vending machines. The Paris-based ashion house now offers a line of 24-carat gold temporary tattoos...
Jolly Roger's Candy Van Kiosk Could Help Drive Bulk Vending Sales
Hank Schlesinger
The Candy Van is configured to accommodate 18 confection venders, two capsule toy heads and a battery-powered bill changer...
Vending Supply Rolls Out One Direction Boy Band Temporary Tattoos
Nick Montano
New flat merchandise illustrates very popular "boy band" One Direction (1D for short). Vending Supply has the exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the vendible tattoos...
Editorial: Vending
Making A Difference: How OCS And Vending Played A Key Role In U.S. Coffee Consumption Rebound
Tim Sanford
The rebound in U.S. coffee consumption can be attributed to the emergence of the specialty coffee business in the early 1990s. One of the catalysts of the specialty coffee revolution was launched by the coffee service industry. Remember the Coffee Development Group?
by Tim Sanford
Editorial: Music and Games
IAAPA Show Offers Range Of Opinions On State Of Industry
Hank Schlesinger
One exhibitor's "waste of time and money" is another's record-breaking year. The same could be said for operator participants who judge shows by the quality and price of equipment and merchandise...
by Hank Schlesinger
Marcus Webb
Optimism may be out of style, and many industry members may be out of practice feeling it, but we believe that upbeat observations of AMOA's Andy Shaffer deserve respectful attention and careful thought...
by Marcus Webb
Dave & Buster's Releases Mobile Power Card Charging App Co-Developed By Apriva
The big-box arcade and restaurant chain worked with Apriva, a Scottsdale, AZ-based provider of secure mobile commerce and payment processing technologies, to develop the app for its PowerCard...
Bulk Vending and Crane Products
Spotlight, December 2012: What's new for Bulk Vending, Cranes, Amusement Merchandisers and Redemption Counters
Coffee Service News
Campbell's V8 Juice Line Joins Soda Stream
Emily Jed
Campbell Soup Co. has struck a deal to license its V8 Splash and V8 V-Fusion brands for Israel-based Soda Stream's namesake home carbonation machines...
Conagra Buys Private-Label Giant Ralcorp For $5 Billion
Emily Jed
The combined company will have total sales of about $18 billion annually. About a quarter of its sales will now come from private labels...
Dean Foods Sells Morningstar To Canada's Saputo For $1.45 Billion
Emily Jed
Morningstar makes dairy and nondairy extended shelf-life products, including creamers widely distributed by workplace refreshment providers...
Green Mountain Names Former Coca-Cola Exec Brian Kelley Chief Executive
Emily Jed
Kelley, 51, joins the Vermont roaster and Keurig single-cup brewer maker from Coca-Cola Co., where he led the integration of the acquisition of Coca-Cola Enterprises to create Coca-Cola Refreshments. He succeeds Lawrence J. Blanford...
Green Mountain Offers Limited Edition Colombia Geisha K-Cups
Emily Jed
Known for its sweet, citrus-like flavor profile, the Geisha varietal is highly sought after by bidders in auctions, often fetching high prices because of its intricate harvesting process...
Green Mountain Profits Climb, Shares Soar
Emily Jed
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit climbed 22%, exceeding Wall Street expectations and sending shares soaring as Keurig brewers and K-Cups boosted bottom line growth...
Green Mountain, Lavazza Debut Cappuccino-Latte Capsule Brewer
Emily Jed
The Rivo system uses Keurig's single-cup technology to brew authentic espresso-based beverages, and froths fresh milk from the machine's refrigerated compartment...
Keurig Adds Two Café Escapes Flavors, Launches Facebook Promotion
Emily Jed
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has expanded its Café Escapes line of creamy cocoas, chai and mocha beverages for Keurig brewers with two new flavors...
Marley Coffee Pacts With Mother Parkers For Canadian Foodservice Program
Emily Jed
The partnership will bring a full-service coffee program to universities, hotels, cafes, restaurant and convenience stores across Canada...
Melitta Chooses UpShot Filter For Single-Cup Ground Coffee Program
Tim Sanford
Melitta will install equipment at its roasting plant in Cherry Hill, NJ, by year-end to offer its customer base a range of roasting, filling and packaging services using LBP's UpShot filter technology...
Mellow Mood Drink Sickens Jersey Middle Schoolers
Emily Jed
Chartwells, the school dining service division of Compass Group, said it has removed Marley's Mellow Mood drinks from William R. Satz School and Holmdel High School...
New Wilbur Curtis Digital Indicator Tracks Coffee Freshness
Emily Jed
The coffee equipment company has developed a device that ensures decanters are serving coffee at peak of freshness. The FreshTrac digital indicator is available for Curtis Alpha GT brewers...
NPD: Millennials Dine Out Less
Emily Jed
Recession hits 18 -to-34-year-olds harder than any other group. NPD analyst says the demographic shift is "of biblical proportions for the restaurant industry"...
Researchers: Climate Change Could Make Arabica Coffee Extinct By 2080
Emily Jed
Researchers at England's Kew Royal Botanic Gardens and Ethiopia's Environment and Coffee used computer modeling to predict how rising global temperatures and subtle changes in seasonal conditions might make some land unsuitable for arabica plants...
Smucker Expands Folgers Gourmet Selections K-Cup Lineup
Emily Jed
The Folgers portion packs are now available in five roasts and two flavors, including classic, medium, Morning Café light roast and vanilla biscotti...
Guest Columns
A Well-Guarded - High Rate Of Return - Investment Secret Is Now Available To Small Business Owners
by Irv Blackman
Small business owners have many legitimate complaints these days: taxes, regulations, competition (from home and abroad), can't find good people. The list goes on and on. Always has. Always will. Say "hello" to life settlements -- an alternative to Wall Street risks...
by Irv Blackman
Ask, Listen, Sell: Good Questions Invite Answers That Help To Land The Account
By Len Rashkin
The answers you get will let you know if there is any area of service, product or equipment that the buyer is unhappy or concerned about...
by Len Rashkin
Apriva Certifies Ingenico's 3G-Compatible Wireless Handheld Terminal
Emily Jed
Pyramid Technologies Hails Swift Acceptance Of Phoenix Printer
Tim Sanford
Connecticut Vending Association Plans Jan. 30 Membership Meeting
Emily Jed
Foundations Entertainment U Returns To Amusement Expo In 2013
Nick Montano
Mass. Vending Association Plans Tech-Themed Dinner Meeting: Dec. 5
Emily Jed
S.C. Vending Association Announces 25th Winter Training Meet: Jan. 18-20
Tim Sanford
SEVA Sets Date For 2013 Convention At Sandestin Resort
Emily Jed
Names in the News
Biden Staffer To Lead PepsiCo's Government Affairs
Emily Jed
Campbell Taps Luca Mignini International Prexy
Emily Jed
Glen Kramer Becomes Elaut USA Chief Executive
Nick Montano
NAMA Taps McGoey As Vice-President Of Finance And Administration
Tim Sanford
Nestlé Waters North America Names Tim Brown CEO
Emily Jed
PepsiCo Names New Gatorade Head
Emily Jed
Williamson Joins Fastcorp's Engineering Staff
Emily Jed
Small Business News
Can Bulk Vendors Cash In On The 'Black Friday' Retail Rush?
Hank Schlesinger
TAGS: bulk vending, vending machine, coin machine, coin-op business, high-traffic retail locations, Simon Property Group, Walmart, Best Buy, Kohl's, Target, National Retail Federation, Black Friday weekend, vending operator
Keep America Beautiful Launches Recycling-At-Work Initiative
Emily Jed
Upfront with the Publisher
A New Day And A New Year
Alicia Lavay
It's been fascinating to observe, and report on, the convergence of technologies impacting the vending industry over the past two decades. Let's take a look at vending's most prominent advancements of 2012...
by Alicia Lavay
Vending Machine Products
Best Candy Of 2012: National Confectionery Sales Association Honors Product Innovation
Tim Sanford
Blue Diamond Launches Almond Milk Drinks In 11-Fl.Oz. Packages
Tim Sanford
New Sabra Snack Pack Pairs Salsa And Tostitos
Emily Jed
Self-Heating Soups, Beverages Take Convenience To New Heights
Emily Jed
Vitamin Squeeze Water Enhancers Add Flavor And Fortification
Emily Jed
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Laurinburg, S.C. - Kayla Clemens recorded her first shutout of the season and Chelsi Mallory went deep again for the Tornados as Brevard toppled St. Andrews on Monday afternoon at Knights Field, 2-0 and 6-1.
Clemens and Alyssa Miller picked up victories for the Tornados (9-9) on the mound as Brevard snapped a seven game skid, while Mary Cross and Brittany Gunn suffered losses for the Knights (6-20) in the doubleheader.
Game One: Brevard 2, St. Andrews 0
Box Score
Clemens picked up her sixth win of the season and her first collegiate shutout on the mound for Brevard, holding the Knights to four hits while striking out nine batters as the Brevard offense singled their way to victory in the first game of the doubleheader.
Brevard recorded 11 singles in the game against Gunn and St. Andrews recorded four base hits against Clemens as both teams held the opposition without an extra base hit in the contest.
The Tornados plated their first run in the top of the third inning as Emily Boykin led off the inning getting plunked by a Gunn pitch. Boykin advanced to second on a groundout and was brought around to score on Meredith Davenport's base hit to centerfield breaking a scoreless tie.
The Knights threatened to take the lead in the bottom of the forth, loading the bases with zero outs as Kelsey Lee singled to lead off the frame, Cross reached on an error and Kim Baird drew a walk. Clemens was able to pitch her way out of the frame, retiring two of the next three batters on strikes and recorded an infield popup to keep the shutout and lead intact.
Brevard added an insurance run in the top of the seven as Maddie Fletcher brought Davenport home with a two-out single to left field. Clemens retired the side in the bottom half of the inning for the Tornados victory.
Game Two: Brevard 6, St. Andrews 1
Box Score
The Tornados broke a close game open in the top of the third as Ally Davenport, Heather Morris and Mallory all recorded RBI base hits in the frame in support of Miller (3-5) and the right-handed sophomore did the rest on the mound, holding the Knights in check for her third win of the season.
Clemens put the Tornados on the board in the first inning, driving in Mallory with a sacrifice fly to left field to give Brevard the early advantage. St. Andrews answered in the bottom half of the inning, putting a crooked frame up of their own as Lee scored on a BC error, knotting the game up at 1 apiece.
Mallory gave Brevard the lead for good in the next inning off Cross, driving the two-out offering over the outfield wall to put the Tornados up 2-1. Brevard put the game away in the next frame, as Davenport, Morris and Mallory followed each other with RBI singles to give the Tornados the 5-1 lead.
The Tornados added a final run in the top of the sixth inning as Ally Davenport drove in her second run of the game, scoring Boykin from second base. Miller made the lead stand up, retiring the Knights in the final two innings to record the win.
Brevard remains on the road as they travel to Greenwood, S.C. to take on Lander University on Thursday, March 8th. First pitch between the Tornados and the Bearcats is set for 3 p.m.

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|September 8, 2002
|Bethlehem Baptist Church
John Piper, Pastor
Nothing Can Separate Us From The Love Of Christ
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Five times here in Romans 8 the apostle Paul has asked questions to draw out the amazing privileges of belonging to Jesus Christ. Verse 31: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Verse 32: "How will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Verse 33: "Who shall bring any charge against Gods elect?" Verse 34: "Who is to condemn?" And now today verse 35: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
The answers are so plain and so wonderful, Paul lets us supply them and rejoice in them. Verse 31: No one can be successfully against us not even terrorists. Verse 32: God will supply everything we need, even when all seems lost. Verse 33: No one can make a charge stick against us in the court of heaven, no matter who accuses us. Verse 34: No one can condemn us. And today in verse 35: No one and no-thing can separate us from the love of Christ.
And what makes this text so relevant near the anniversary of 9/11 is that Paul spells out the kinds of things that cannot separate us from the love of Christ, and they are the sort of things that happened that day: "Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" The reason Paul chose to mention so many terrible things is to make sure we knew he was not saying: Well, there are some things so horrible that they really could separate us from the love of Christ. No. Nothing can separate us from Christs love.
Notice three things from verse 35.
1. Christ is loving us now.
A wife might say of her deceased husband: Nothing will separate me from his love. She might mean that the memory of his love will be sweet and powerful all her life. But that is not what Paul means here. In verse 34 it says plainly, "Christ Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised- who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us." The reason Paul can say that nothing will separate us from the love of Christ is because Christ is alive and is still loving us now. He is at the right hand of God and is therefore ruling for us. And he is interceding for us, which means he is seeing to it that his finished work of redemption does in fact save us hour by hour and bring us safe to eternal joy. His love is not a memory. It is a moment-by-moment action by the omnipotent, living Son of God, to bring us to everlasting joy.
2. This love of Christ is effective in protecting us from separation, and therefore is not a universal love for all, but a particular love for his people those who, according to Romans 8:28, love God and are called according to his purpose.
This is the love of Ephesians 5:25, "Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her." It is Christs love for the church, his bride. Christ has a love for all, and he has a special, saving, preserving love for his bride. You know you are part of that bride if you trust Christ. Anyone no exceptions anyone who trusts Christ can say, I am part of his bride, his church, his called and chosen ones, the ones who verse 35 says are kept and protected forever no matter what.
3. This omnipotent, effective, protecting love does not spare us from calamities in this life, but brings us safe to everlasting joy with God.
Paul makes this crystal clear in verse 35: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?" No. But someone might say, "O but what he means is that God will not let these things happen to his bride."
Two things prove that this is not the case.
One is the reference to death in verse 38 ("Neither death nor life . . . will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus"). Death will happen to us, but it will not separate us. So when Paul says in verse 5 that the "sword" will not separate us from the love of Christ, he means: even if we are killed we are not separated from the love of Christ.
The other is verse 36, where Paul quotes Psalm 44:22 and applies it to himself and Christians in general, "As it is written, For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." This means that martyrdom is normal Christianity. It is happening all over the world. Pakistan, Nepal, Sudan, Indonesia, Vietnam . . . an estimated 164,000 Christians will die this year because of their faith (http://www.gem-werc.org). This is what Paul has in mind. And it is what Jesus meant when he said, "Some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my names sake" (Luke 21:16-17). Our season of peace and tolerance in America is an anomaly and should drive us to greater and greater care for the suffering church (Hebrews 13:3). See http://www.persecution.com.
So the sum of the matter in verse 35 is this: Jesus Christ is mightily loving his people with omnipotent, moment-by-moment love that does not always rescue us from calamity but preserves us for everlasting joy in his presence even through suffering and death.
Now lets let Lisa Beamer bear witness to this sovereign love. Her husband Todd was on flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania. He was the one who said, "Lets Roll!" He left behind Lisa and three small children (one born last January). Here are ten lessons from Lisa mostly in here own words.
1. Embracing the sovereignty of God brings strength and hope.
Lisa: "God knew the terrible choices the terrorists would make and that Todd Beamer would die as a result. He knew my children would be left without a father and me without a husband . . . Yet in his sovereignty and in his perspective on the big picture, he knew it was better to allow the events to unfold as they did rather than redirect Todds plans to avoid death. . . . I cant see all the reasons he might have allowed this when I know he could have stopped it . . . I dont like how his plan looks from my perspective right now., but knowing that he loves me and can see the world from start to finish helps me say, Its OK." (Modern Reformation, 24-25)
"If we believe wholeheartedly, each moment, that our destiny rests in the hands of Jesus Christ the one with ultimate love and ultimate power what do we have to be concerned about? Of course, our humanity clouds this truth many times but hanging on to glimpses of it keeps everything in perspective." (Modern Reformation, 31)
2. Dont presume to know better than God how to run the world. It is pride.
Lisa: "My faith wasnt rooted in governments, religion, tall buildings, or frail people. Instead, my faith and my security were in God. A thought struck me. Who are you to question God and say that you have a better plan than He does? You dont have the same wisdom and knowledge that He has, or the understanding of the big picture." (World, 25)
"We also arent privy to the perspective he has and shouldnt claim to know better than he does what should happen and what shouldnt. . . . Faith means that, regardless of circumstances, we take him at his word that he loves us and will bring us to a good result if we just trust and obey him. Obviously, the ramifications of this understanding have been tremendous for me since 9/11." (Modern Reformation, 25)
3. God has a good purpose in all the hard things that happen to his people.
"Gods sovereignty has been made clear to me. When I am tempted to become angry and ask What if? and , Why us? God says, I knew on September 10, and I could have stopped it, but I have a plan for greater good than you can ever imagine. I dont know Gods plan, and honestly, right now I dont like it very much. But I trust that He is true to His promise in Romans 8:28: We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. My only responsibility is to love God. Hell work out the rest." (Decision, 8). Beneath her signature Lisa writes Genesis 50:20, "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good." (Modern Reformation, 30)
4. Death and suffering press in on us the perspective of eternity.
Lisa: "September 11 has shown me the reality of eternity in a dynamic way these past few months. When Im overwhelmed with sadness at what Ive lost in this life, He is quick to give me His eternal perspective. Lisa, this life is just a blip on the radar screen compared to your future with Me in heaven, He says. The best thing that you can imagine on earth is garbage compared to what awaits you." (Decision, 8)
5. Gods distribution of suffering is not equal, and one hard thing may prepare for another.
When Lisa was 15 her father suffered an aneurysm at work and died the next morning in the hospital. Lisa: "When my father died, faith wasnt so easy anymore. . . . I spent five years asking why, expressing my anger saying its not fair, before God helped me realize that he is who he is all the time in good circumstances and bad. He is all-powerful and all-loving, but that doesnt mean that as a citizen of this fallen world he protects us from every bad event." (Modern Reformation, 25)
What a witness to Gods goodness and sovereignty the world would be missing today if God had not prepared Lisa Beamer for this loss by the death of her dad!
6. Gods love takes care of us right now in our suffering, not just later.
Lisa: "He knows that I am a hurting and in need right now. Every day He provides encouragement and resources just for me. Little things show me that He is with me: a Scripture with just the words I need to hear, a call from a friend when I feel lonely, help with a task that I cant do alone, or a hug and I love you from one of my children. Gods love is truly sufficient to meet any need that I have." (Decision, 8-9)
7. Calamity calls for quick practical love like meals and baby sitting.
Lisa: "The picture of the church as the hands and feet of Christ, with each person having a special gift, has been well portrayed to me these last months. In the beginning, it was immediate and practical help I needed meals, child care, managing phone calls, and mail. Now that were out of the crisis mode it is rebuilding help I need counseling , encouragement, prayer." (Modern Reformation, 28)
8. Quiet, confidence in Gods power and goodness through suffering create occasions for witness.
Merilee Melvin said of Lisa, "Her disarming quiet confidence in Gods purposes must be the reason Larry King has had her on this show eleven times." (Modern Reformation, 30)
9. Trusting in Gods sovereign care in all circumstances frees you from greed and releases love for others.
Money started to flow in to Lisa Beamer. Some letters were simply addressed, Lisa Beamer, New Jersey, and got to her. Lisa: "I didnt feel comfortable keeping this for ourselves when there were many unknown families who should share." So she started the Todd M. Beamer Foundation to assist children who lost a parent in the 9/11 calamity. (Modern Reformation, 30)
Her freedom for others comes out in another way: "My family and I mourned the loss of Todd deeply that day . . . and we still do. But because we have a hope in the Lord, we know beyond a doubt that one day we will see Todd again. I hurt for the people who dont have that same hope, and I pray that they will see something in our family that will encourage them to trust in the Lord." (World, 26)
Lisas way of encouraging people to trust in the Lord is sometimes so straightforward that Newsweek magazine called it "stern and even a little grim." She wrote in her memoir, "You think you deserve a happy life and get angry when it doesnt always happen like that. In fact you are a sinner and deserve only death. The fact that God has offered you hope of eternal life is amazing! You should be overwhelmed with joy and gratitude." (Newsweek, 42)
10. Without God the world is hopeless.
With hundreds of others she attended the memorial service in Shanksville, PA at the crash site where her husband died. The Christ-exalting memorial service for Todd had been on Sunday, the day before, and had strengthened her. "On Monday," she said, "as I listened to the well-intentioned speakers, who were doing their best to comfort but with little if any direct reference to the power of God to sustain us. I felt I was sliding helplessly down a high mountain into a deep crevasse. As much as I appreciated the kindness of the wonderful people who tried to encourage us, that afternoon was actually one of the lowest points in my grieving. It wasnt the people, or event, or the place. Instead, it struck me how hopeless the world is when God is factored out of the equation." (World, 26)
So, together with Lisa Beamer and the apostle Paul and Jesus Christ himself, I plead with you, Dont factor God out of your life, or Jesus Christ who died and rose and reigns and intercedes for all who trust him, that we might have eternal joy with him in the presence of God.
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I need ur guys expertise on "The Catch Gate"
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:56 am
Post subject: I need ur guys expertise on "The Catch Gate"
First I'll say I know its kind of late to be asking but.......
Was it a catch by Golden Tate or a INT by MD Jennings?
Just wondering what you guys felt here in Vikings land considering it was the Packers.
My opinion is and has been since i first saw it on TV was TD ties go to the WR.
Just a couple of bullet points that are in my head after thinking about it and watching so call professionals talk about it:
1. Define a catch.(there is not one in the rule book it basically says see possession)
2. Is a play over on the ground or in the air?(this is obvious it's just the smart a** in me)
From what I've seen for a WR to make a catch he has to maintain possession throughout the play as well as stay in bounds.....from what i was watching Golden was in the play thew whole time fighting for the ball(ESPN even shadowed out the whole screen then highlighted Tate's hand "
" on the ball)....At its high point both players contact the ball Jennings completely catches it and maintains possession all the way to the ground NO doubt about it.....where my argument comes in is if a WR has a hand on the ball throughout the play when can and should we determine when he has possession.....was it at the beginning when he 1st came in to contact with the ball, is it when he hits the ground or is it when the ref determines all prerequisites where met for a "catch" was made or if a possession has been made.....I TRULY don't no but who does...
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When he hits ground/falls to the ground is when its an official catch
(for example you could catch a ball in midair and sail out of bounds, therefore no catch).
No matter how much it may "look" like an INT, if Tate has one hand on the ball throughout the act, he should be awarded possession (as ties go to the offense).
It is not defined 2 hand vs 1 hand. (WRs can physically catch balls with 1 hand)
Just my opinion, its a catch because it falls into an undefined area in the rules, and becomes a straight ref judgement.
In the offseason, they should identify a rule for this kind of play.
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It was an INT 70%.
It was a TD 30%.
That's how I'm split on it.
However, it wasn't nearly the worse call that week by replacement officials and since it was believed to be unreviewable for possession by former officials and the former head of officials, their not overturning it made sense. When slowed down I'm not sure Tate maintained control throughout the whole play. However, it is much more bang-bang than ESPN tried to make it and you can't conclusively say that with his left hand Tate didn't maintain control once he touched the ball, which was a fraction of a second after Jennings got his hands on the ball. It was a call that went against the Packers, it is iffy if Tate maintains control, but hardly conclusive video that he doesn't, and it is iffy if Tate gets control of the ball at the same time as Jennings, and this is more conclusive in a slow motion replay after watching it four times.
Overall, this is a call that the regular officials could have easily called the same way and the video evidence isn't as highly conclusive as people like to say it is to the point that you could guarantee reversal of the call on the field and guarantee that it was right. However, I do think that was an INT over a TD, just one within the context of indisputable visual evidence it is difficult for them to overturn the call.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:23 am
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If it looks like an interception, it probably is one. At least, that's my take on it. I don't buy that a WR can have possesion with just one hand, when the other guy clutches the ball to his chest with 2.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:25 am
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Why are people still dwelling on this?
I agree it was a bad call, but that's just my
. It was a
judgement call
, and a difficult one at that. There is no absolute correct or incorrect call on the play, and the game is full of calls and non-calls of this nature.
The bottom line is that Jennings made a selfish play going for the INT instead of just knocking the ball down. The result was that the game came down to a ref's decision, and the call didn't go the Packers' way.
It's time for everyone to stop dwelling on this one play and move on.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:28 am
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Kellerman wrote:
If it looks like an interception, it probably is one. At least, that's my take on it. I don't buy that a WR can have possesion with just one hand, when the other guy clutches the ball to his chest with 2.
There is no rule in regards to who has "greater" possession of the ball. You can possess the ball with one hand just as you can with two hands. If Tate had one hand on the ball while Jennings had two hands on the ball, that would be dual possession, which goes to the offense. I think the replay shows that Tate had his left arm hooked on the ball between Jennings chest as his feet hit the ground. So many focus on what happens after the fact, but if Tate possess the ball in the endzone, as soon as his feet hit the ground the play is over. Jennings gained substantially more control of the ball after the fact when Tate's feet hit the ground. That doesnt matter, since the play was over before that point.
From what I saw, Jennings had two hands on the ball while Tate had one hand on the ball when Tate's feet first hit the ground. Therefore, I think the Refs made the right call in that regard.
But they still missed a blatant offensive pass interference.
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The Gnat wrote:
It was an INT 70%.
It was a TD 30%.
That's how I'm split on it.
sounds about right.
milanb wrote:
It's time for everyone to stop dwelling on this one play and move on.
sounds very right. who cares? bad calls happen. always have, always will.
it's not like it knocked a team out of a playoff game.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:52 am
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Those of us who have been around for a while distinctly remember the Packers getting
the playoffs in 2003 because of a questionable judgement call.
I didn't hear anyone from Green Bay complaining about that one.
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Ecclesiastes 9:11
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Was an interception.
Do not feel bad for the Packers.
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It was pass interference on the offense.
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Thanx again guys, not dwelling just didn't see you guys having a discussion on it or at least its not on the 1st page. I had to get a sports fan's opinion not a TV personality or casual fan's. And I only wanted the opinion of the people I read posts from.
We can all go back to current events now...LOL
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There is no gate. there never was, never will be. Just call it something original.
I'm up in the air. At this point, I'm just calling it a catch. I don't feel bad for the Packers at all. In fact, if this happened to the Vikings, no one would have cared probably.
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rpmwr19 wrote:
It was pass interference on the offense.
Also an Interception.
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It was a play that should never have been run because of the Offensive pass interference a few plays earlier that was bizarrely called a DPI.
Other than that I would have called it an interception. Tate never had possession of the ball (at best he had possession of Jennings) Jennings had control first and never lost control of the ball.
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It was the football gods way of making things a little better in Minnesota.
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'"Mental mistakes have cost us goals," Sabres forward Derek Roy said. "We gave up four or five breakaways. … We preached before the game to look over our shoulder and see where Ovechkin is. And we didn't do so."'
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I would like to start an online business like elance@com or freelancer@com or guru@com and was thinking how much would it cost to start such a business. my main concern would be the advertising costs. what do you think?
My first concern, in an established and crowded market, would be unique market positioning. Sure, you can throw massive money at it, and hopefully break into the market. However you're far better of if you can differentiate yourself from the competition in a way that is considered superior by key segments of the market.
How can you serve your customers better than elance and the others?
my main concern would be the advertising costs. what do you think?
Advertising costs are the tax you pay for having an unimaginative service with no competitive advantage against established, entrenched competition. So the cost will be high. Count on little, if any, word-of-mouth.
Who wants a clone, with no detectable difference (and sorry, just because you believe there's a difference obligates nobody in the market to agree with you). Excepting, of course, the one big difference: You'll have little to no volume of traffic to motivate either a client to post on yet one more board, nor a worker to bother looking.
Bottom feeder sites for penny ante chislers are a dime a dozen. Everybody wants to do one. Find some way to upend the mechanics of price over judgement sites, you'll have uncovered a competitive advantage. Price is no substitute for judgement. Lowest bids are not the road to the best value for clients.
Viewing what's being bid on as a lowest price commodity won't foster long term high value clients for the bidder.
All these sites do is oversupply workers and undersupply work. The mechanics of the site demand a plunge to the bottom, price-only competition which often takes short cuts, that doesn't support value for the client. So you see the CraigsClones giving way to the 99Clones, which in turn give way to the FiverrClones.
Five bucks?! I am waiting for the next logical step of the bidders paying the clients. My guess is it will be started by the same colleges who came up with the concept a college education so cripples your ability to work for pay you have be an unpaid intern to relearn how to work.
The reason these sites exist is price is a nice, comfortable data string for programming to use. Price is easy. Value is hard. Value is like talking rainbows and unicorns to a programmer -- if it does exist out there, somewhere, value ain't the programmer's problem. (As the programmer sees it)
Unfortunately a site based on value competition would be the competitive advantage you'd want. Because practically no programmer would conceptualize how you'd do it. Not that there aren't ways. Just that the concept is alien to everybody in the market space right now.
Sort of like the MP3 player or smart phone market, pre Apple. The market is viable -- but not for a copycat.
That is quite a bitter rant. I would be more inclined to consider pacifier's advice.
If you are actually trying to follow the elance.com model with the same audience they have, you'll have your work cut out for you and unless you have a legitimate edge it's unlikely that any amount of advertising will get you caught up to them.
That said, if you have something more specific in mind, like a marketplace that is targeted towards a market that needs/wants/doesn't have such a service it could certainly be done. You'd have to look at that market and consider it's size and the manner in which you would reach it to really determine the advertising costs.
Creating a site like that isn't such a massive endeavor technically, but elance puts quite a bit of time into customer service, support, transaction processing, etc. so it's not just a little website.
As you consider business ideas, keep in mind that even a good idea will always meet skepticism from someone. Just because there is competition in a field doesn't mean that you can't enter that field, you just have to have a good plan that makes sense. I am involved in a startup right now and we're entering a market that already has 2+ strong competitors that have 2 or 3 years and some money behind them - a huge advantage. My and my partner, however, think that we can do a better job servicing this market and we're going to risk some of our own capital accordingly. We've been told that we're crazy and we'll never catch up with the market leader, but we've also been offered millions of dollars in investment money.
The people that said we were crazy were people that haven't been all that successful in business. The people that offered us money are those that are accustomed to taking calculated risks for large returns, and are looking for other such opportunities.
So, without any further detail it's hard to answer your question. And, it's true that you'll need something 'special' if you are planning on simply competing in the online labor/service marketplace. However, anything is possible so think positive and do your homework.
That is quite a bitter rant.
Which would be completely at odds with my normal mixture of Pollyanna and Shirley Temple.
Not to step on the web startup tag line "hey gang, let's throw up a web site!" Not that there's anything wrong with the 'lil Rascals as a show, just not as a business model. ...or management team.
Sagewing, you have proven time and again that you know what a business is and how to run it. So when you say that you're about to start a clone site I know that you've thought it through and weight all pros and cons to come to a sensible conclusion as to whether it will work.You're also willing to invest in it, whereas most most people that want to start a clone want to start it for as little money as possible and expect it to return millions, acting under the believe "If I just build a clone and tweak this-and-this parameter a little bit so my site will be "better" than [name of original site it will be an instant hit. I'd hardly have to advertise at all because people will instantly love it. They love [name of original site here] don't they? My site is even better because of [perceived extra value] so they will most definitely love my clone as well!"
The. world. just. doesn't. work. that. way.
I'm not saying the OP falls under that second category; I'm merely saying there are (too) many that are.
Thanks for your words and I agree that there are plenty of people who are overoptimistic about clone sites, etc. But then, people come to a forum like this for business advice because they want to do business and are willing to take risk, and some mentoring can help an over-eager person to evolve into a real business guru. I don't know many people who succeeded in business without some spectacular failures (i.e. I don't like to talk about my early affiliate marketing efforts!).
We aren't exactly creating a clone of our competitors, though. Instead, we'll be going for the exact same market using the exact same channels and offering the exact same service. Our edge will be simply that we feel we can do it in a much better way for a cheaper price (and there is a specific reason we will be able to do that) so I'm willing to bet some money on this.
It only takes ONE competitive advantage sometimes, especially in a huge market like the one we are entering. Sometimes you don't even need that - Pepsi and Burger King have done very well as a 'number two' who's edge was simply to get into the market and compete. They were strong competitors, though, with excellent skills behind them and a growing, virtually endless market.
Wouldn't have anything to do with that Thailand programmer shop you're looking for in your signature would it?
So, you are going to compete on what seems to be just price... and feelings?
Actually no, our business model will look nothing like the competition and the savings we get from our existing offshore network will only be realized during the initial build and won't be instrumental to the success of the business.
And you post indicates that you are predisposed against an offshore model to begin with I'm doubtful that any further dialog would bear fruit. Emotional and critical commentary about the evils of offshore development is the hallmark of those who fear for their own security, but is not a perspective rooted in rational thought.
Wrong. I have many international clients, therefore I am the offshore worker :lol:. If I need to have a development shop in the future I'm going to use people with a good work ethic, no matter where they are located.
I was asking a question because I was interested. Thanks for ignoring my question though. Was trying to provoke some conversation about feelings and business choices as well, but... yeah, I seem to have provoked other feelings (:
Ok, fair enough. I guess I've had too many unwelcome debates about the merits of offshore development over the last 15 years. I misinterpreted the mention of 'feelings', I think!
I hereby retract my snippy post and apologize for misreading your comments, sorry!
For sure you will know the starting costs.The advertising if you can have 10k I can make you a campaign. If you have 100k I can make you I campaign.I'm saying the costs are related to you: how much to you want to have success with this business and how fast.
Elance kind of web site is quite a complex business, in modern economic science it is called two-sided or multisided market. You need to solve 'chicken and egg' problem and set your prices for both sides of market very right.
Check works of A.Hagiu if you want to read some theory around this subject (BTW, in one of his job he wrote about one similar with elance web site - TopCoder).
Did anyone address the question about price? I was thinking 50k might get you started. Sometimes it can almost be cheaper to buy a business than it be to start one.
I have no idea how much would it cost for advertising but here are some tips and free resources to help you reduce cost for your startup:
First of all, you must be clear on what all you would like to do with the startup. Do you just want the website or recruit employees too? If you just want a website, you can get it done with 2K USD. But if you want to have employees and start it big time, then the cost would go sky high.
I agree with DCrux. You have to offer something different, a difference that is visible for all. Try to study the website similar to what you want to start, see what people like and see what people don't like about their service and try to come up with you're own twist.
This thread is two years old. What possible value do you see in resurrecting it now?
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bt4 works fine, but if i run bt4 with usb its go very fast..
now a create a bt4 virtual on my PC, but the problem is i can surf the Internet, but when i go to network he says not wireless found? isent only working with a wiffi usb stick?
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I had a lot of people ask me about my old sig. This is the artical i got it from
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I felt like bending the bars back, and ripping out the window frames and eating them. yes, eating them! Leaping, leaping, leaping! Colonics for everyone! All right! You dumb*sses. I'm a mental patient. I'm *supposed* to act out!
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the best part is this quote : "lunix is a capricious beast" geezzz im still laughing about it!
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ok, i will sleep in fear now that i know that "linux" is a capricious beast...LOL!
who do i get the sudden feeling that Microsoft had a hand in that article?
this one made me laugh as well "such as Intel, use to prevent hacking."
Not to mention that you cannot buy AMD processors in the shops.
I guess someone ought to tell the shops near me that.
If that was my dad I'd be more interested in killing him then lunux lol. Could you imagine it hahah "He's been using that fu%$ lunux again. Before long he will be a zombie or dead" lol
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