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Futuremark just announced the release date and the start of pre-order for 3DMark11 Advanced Edition as well as a new preview trailer on YouTube in Full HD quality.
According to an e-mail from Oliver Baltuch, President of Futuremark, the next-gen benchmark will truly reveal all that DirectX 11 API can provide to the consumers, providing us with new comparison screenshows revealing various DX11 effects in action.
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I am co-hosting a baby shower on June 14th for a friend of mine and I am in charge of the menu. As a favor for the guests we decided gift bags of chocolate covered pretzels would be perfect. Lucky for me these pretzels are simple to make, look great, and freeze extremely well. To prepare these tasty treats all you need is a little time and patience.
White Chocolate Pretzels
1 lb bag pretzel twists (I used Rold Gold)
2 14oz bags of white chocolate candy coating (can also use white chocolate chips, or almond bark)
Sprinkles to decorate
Candy coating in additional colors to decorate
To prepare the pretzels line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
To melt chocolate, empty contents of 1 bag of white candy coating into microwave safe bowl and microwave in 30 second intervals stirring between until the chocolate is melted consistently (melt the 2nd bag of white chocolate when the 1st bag is just about finished). Using only the unbroken pretzels place the pretzels into the chocolate, covering them completely. Use a fork to "fish" the pretzels from the chocolate shaking the fork back and forth to remove any extra chocolate. Place the pretzels on the parchment lined baking sheet.
If you are going to decorate with sprinkles or colored sugar make sure to sprinkle the pretzels before the chocolate hardens.
To decorate with drizzled chocolate, place chocolate in a sandwich bag on a microwave safe dish and microwave in 30 second intervals moving the chocolate around between. Using scissors, cut the very tip off the sandwich bag. The smaller your cut, the smalled the drizzle. Use the sandwich bag to pipe the chocolate back and forth over the hardened chocolate covered pretzels until you reach the desired look. When the drizzle has hardened (you can put them in the freezer to speed up the process) brake off any extra chocolate with your fingers or the back end of a fork or spoon.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 4, 2012) – As the ETSU men's soccer team moves into Atlantic Sun play, head coach Scott Calabrese sat down with the media relations staff to answer some questions and update the fans and media about the status of the team.
Below are Coach Calabrese's responses to this week's edition.
1. Looking back at Sunday's game against Mercer, the team seemed to control the majority of the game, including a 19-4 advantage in shots, but still came out on the wrong end of the result. How do we prevent that from happening in the future?
"Against Mercer, we were able to get into very dangerous positions when we circulated the ball quickly, but some of the shots we took were from areas with a limited chance for success. This week, we have worked to improve our decisions in the final third, as well as the quality of our finishing. In future games, we might not take 19 shots, but the opportunities we will look to create will be from areas that have a better chance of resulting in goals.
"We also need to be concentrated for 90 minutes without a single lapse in focus. We have been made to pay for our mistakes this season, and more so than in previous seasons. If we are making good decisions, we will limit the danger created by our opponents and that is critical for us."
2. Looking ahead to this weekend, the team faces North Florida on Friday and Jacksonville on Sunday. How vital is coming away with six points, especially being that these games are at home?
"It's important for us to focus on our performance. If we outwork our opponents, have a winning mentality, make good decisions and execute, then the results will take care of themselves. If we focus on the points or anything else, we will not be focusing in the right way."
3. On Friday, ETSU takes a moment to do its share to help in the fight against breast cancer with our annual pink game. If you could, go into how much that means to our program and the community.
"I personally feel very close to this cause. My family has been affected by cancer and I know that several of our players have family members who have been affected by this disease. The soccer programs from the A-Sun have joined together to support the cause and, in the spirit of competition, will honor the program who raises the most money for the Coaches vs. Cancer fund. We receive such great support from our community and I feel that this is a great opportunity for us to give back to a cause we all have such a strong connection to."
4. If you had to give a message to the fans about the state of our team and where we would like to be coming out of this weekend, what would it be? Also, how much does their support mean to our team at the home games?
"We have a team capable of great things, and who want to make ETSU and their supporters proud. We truly need as much support as possible this weekend with two critical conference games on the line. We have had fantastic support from the students and the community, and our players perform better with our fans behind them. As we are looking to extend our season with postseason play, it's important that our fans are there to help us to get the results we need."
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MONDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Does a common test of blood pressure in the ankle help gauge heart disease risk for adults without any symptoms? A new government-appointed panel says there's just not enough evidence to say yes or no on the issue at this time.
In a statement issued Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel that regularly advises the government on the effectiveness of various medical interventions, said it's still unclear whether using the "ankle brachial index" to screen for peripheral artery disease (PAD) and assess the risk of heart disease is beneficial in adults with no PAD symptoms.
PAD causes decreased blood flow in the legs and can be a sign of overall cardiovascular disease, which increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. The ankle test, which compares blood pressure at the ankle with blood pressure in the arm, is used to diagnosed PAD.
The task force reviewed available research and concluded that there was not enough evidence to make a definitive recommendation about the use of the test in people who have no signs or symptoms of PAD and have not been diagnosed with heart disease, severe chronic kidney disease or diabetes.
Since there is no clear evidence, doctors should consider a number of things when discussing the issue with patients, including the current research; expert opinions; their own knowledge and experience; and patients' health histories, values and preferences, the task force advised.
In the meantime, the panel "calls on the research community" to help settle issue, task force co-vice chairman Dr. Albert Siu said in a news release. "Investments in such research may lead to improved cardiovascular health for Americans and to a definitive recommendation from the task force in the future," Siu said.
Public comment on the draft statement will be accepted until April 15 and will be considered as the task force develops its final recommendation.
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Praise for The Hollywood Economist
"The answer to [the] mysteries of modern-day film financing can be found in The Hollywood Economist, Edward Jay Epstein's latest foray into the seamy underbelly of Hollywood spreadsheets."
—The Wall Street Journal
"[A] terrific job…. There's fun to be had in knowing specifics, and Epstein offers plenty."
—Entertainment Weekly
Praise for Edward Jay Epstein's The Big Picture
"A rich adventure that will change the way you look at movies."
"Edward Jay Epstein is here to tell us that when it comes to Hollywood these days, we've got it all wrong."
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"One of the virtues of The Big Picture is Mr. Epstein's astonishing access to numbers that movie studios go to great lengths to keep secret….A groundbreaking work that explains the inner workings of the game."
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"Hollywood has needed one of these for a long time–a user's manuel. This one could not be more complete….[Grade] A."
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"In his adroit charting of the confidence flow between the various entities and eras Mr. Epstein kicks up a lot of little surprises. . . Edward Jay Epstein is quite good."
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"Big-City Rush Hour Blues Now Afflict Smaller Cities: 36 hours. That's the additional time the average U.S. urban traveler spends on the road per year because of rush-hour congestion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. What's more, commuters in medium-size cities now face about the same delays that residents of "very large" cities experienced a quarter-century ago, the TTI says".
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San Diego will be honoring service members at the 2nd annual Salute to Service Festival on Sunday, Oct. 28.
Hundreds of people will attend the family-fun event on the historic USS Midway flight deck. Families and military personnel will be able to celebrate for hours in one of the most beautiful spots in San Diego.
Band Southbound Jonny and variety act Slower will provide live musical entertainment, while children will be able to play in the Kid's Fun Zone. And NBC star Bitsie Tullock from the hit show "Grimm" will be attending the event for a meet and greet with service members.
Bring your appetite, too, because free food will be provided by Northgate Market, Souplantation, Pepsi, East Village Tavern & Bowl, Smart Foods, Olive Coast, Slater 50/50 and Jack Daniel's BBQ Sauce.
There's also a chance to win dozens of free prizes. The Salute to Service event will raffle off tickets to a Chargers game, SeaWorld, Legoland, the Holiday Bowl and Poinsettia Bowl -- among others. You could also win a Hawaiian getaway, courtesy of Alaska Airlines and the Kaanapali Resort & Hotel.
The 2nd annual Salute to Service Festival will be held at 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28 on the USS Midway flight deck. The event is is free for those with a military ID. Free parking will be located at the Navy Pier lot adjacent to the USS Midway Museum.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Big Bird and all their "Sesame Street" friends are taking to the stage to share their love of music in Sesame Street Live's "Elmo Makes Music" at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. March 11 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Jenny, an enthusiastic new music teacher, arrives on Sesame Street only to discover that her instruments are missing. Jenny's new Muppet friends quickly come to the rescue and discover "instruments" they never knew existed -- rubber duckies, trash can lids and even cookie jars. Elmo and friends teach children that everyone can make and enjoy beautiful music together.
Adults will hear music they'll recognize and enjoy sharing with children, such as "The Hustle," "You Should Be Dancing" and "Rockin' Robin." "Elmo Makes Music" features nearly two dozen songs, including "C Is for Cookie" and "The Alphabet Song."
Tickets start at $17 ($12 each for groups) and go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 2, at the Bryce Jordan Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theatre, Altoona Campus Ticket Outlet, Walmart Ticketmaster kiosks, online at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bjc.psu.edu, or by phone at 800-745-3000. VIP seating is also available.
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We got our first real glimpse this week of how President Obama and his now-almost-certain Republican rival, Mitt Romney, intend to wage their campaigns in the lead-up to the general election.
In a speech Tuesday, Obama painted Romney as an out-of-touch patrician who doesn't care much about the troubles of hardworking people low on the income ladder. Romney soon fired back, painting Obama as an out-of-touch liberal who doesn't care much about the struggles of honest businessmen who want to create jobs.
Obama accused Romney and his party of pursuing "social Darwinism," of scheming to protect unscrupulous lenders from regulation. Romney accused Obama of "vilifying success" and of prolonging the recession with "an anti-business, anti-investment, anti-jobs agenda."
Romney blamed Obama for high gas prices. Obama accused Romney of being in the pocket of "Big Oil."
Obama accused Romney of plotting "to end Medicare as we know it." Romney accused Obama of "taking steps that would end Medicare as we know it."
So much for a bracing competition of ideas.
Both candidates clearly believe that the Republican primary campaign is over, and that the way to win in November is to go negative — early and often.
Until this week, Romney had to focus much of his attention on his flagging rivals for the nomination. No longer. Now, Romney wants to talk only about Obama. And Obama clearly intends to give as good as he gets.
Romney, not surprisingly, would like to make the election a referendum on Obama's performance during his first four years. He'll try to stay focused on the sluggish economic recovery, the swollen deficit and a healthcare law that few voters love.
The Obama campaign wants the election focused on the stark choice between two parties rather than on the record of the last four years. And that's why the president is jumping in early to try to define Romney as ultra-conservative in the eyes of independent and undecided voters before Romney can shake off the right-wing rigors of the primary campaign and redefine himself as a moderate.
The president's strategy is to tie Romney to some of the nation's most unpopular Republican politicians: the tea party conservatives in the House of Representatives and their draconian budget, "a budget so far to the right it makes the Contract with America look like the New Deal."
Romney did endorse the House GOP spending plan. "He even called it 'marvelous,' which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget," Obama said.
But that endorsement, in Obama's telling, meant that Romney also supported a parade of horrible consequences: less money for the FBI to fight crime, flight cancellations because of cuts in air traffic control, and no more Medicaid for middle-class children withDown's syndrome.
What was depressing about the two men's speeches this week was not only their hyperbolic negativity, but also how empty they were of ideas for solving the nation's problems. Both men were passionate, but mostly about the mortal dangers of electing the other guy.
These were generic, partisan speeches designed to do one thing: energize each party's base. Obama cast himself as the defender of the social safety net against predatory plutocrats; Romney would have us believe he's the last line of defense against socialists determined to destroy free enterprise.
That suggests that we are heading toward a campaign that will take us right back to 2004, when then-President George W. Bush, his popularity sagging because of the war in Iraq, held off a challenge from Democrat John F. Kerry.
It was a campaign in which each party spent most of its energy trying to propel its bitterest partisans to the polls, and not much time trying to build a broader coalition that might span the center. The result in 2004 was a narrow reelection for Bush, but not much of a mandate for anything he wanted to do in his second term, as he quickly discovered in 2005, when he tried to reform Social Security and failed.
There is an alternative, though, and Obama and Romney both still have six months to try it: They could step out of their comfort zones and address issues that don't fit so neatly into partisan talking points.
Obama could talk, for example, about how he might push his own party to get more serious about deficit reduction, including cuts in the growth of spending on Social Security and Medicare. Romney could explain which domestic programs he would cancel and which ones he would save and which tax breaks he would eliminate as part of tax reform. Rather than simply attacking Obamacare, he could propose a fleshed-out alternative.
It's a risky course for either one, because addressing those tough issues is unlikely to draw cheers from the party faithful. But it would give the next president — whoever he turns out to be — a head start toward actually getting something done.


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A while ago I got a mail from my bank. They offer to fund a photovoltaic system on my house with a special offer. They give a credit upto a specific amount if I use it to install a photovoltaic system, and to pay it back I just have to give them the complete amount of money which I get from the power company when the photovoltaic system is producing power (the state requires the power company to pay a specific amount of money – fixed during 20 years – for each kW/h). They also offer that a specialist visits me to explain the photovoltaic stuff and calculate if all the physical constraints for such an installation are OK.
At first this sounds nice, but I do not trust the words of some random person which wants to get money from me. So I had a deeper look at it.
The roof of my house is still OK, but in some years (maybe 3 – 5) it has to be changed (at least partly). The roof is already 30 years old, so this is OK. If I would install a photovoltaic system now, it would have to be removed and reinstalled when the roof is changed. If the system is financed by the bank, this has to be done by an official specialist (instead of letting a good friend with experience doing it in exchange of my workforce for some renovation project at his house). This means it would be cheaper if I change the roof before the photovoltaic system is installed. I do not have the money to do this completely out of my pocket, so the bank has to finance this.
Letting the cost of the roof aside (which has to be done "soon" anyway), the interesting part now is what do I get when the bank is completely financing the photovoltaic system (maybe parts of the electrical installation need to get updated, as they are 30 years old too). I have to take into account taxes, what needs to be paid back to the bank, what I have to pay for the power, and what I have when everything is paid back.
If the photovoltaic system is financed completely by the bank, the typical calculation is that it takes about 20 years to pay back everything. This assumes I only give to the bank the amount of money I get from the power company for the power of the photovoltaic system. So basically the photovoltaic system pays itself. This sounds great, the problem is that a rough estimation of the lifetime of a photovoltaic system is 20 years (and after 10 years you may have to change the AC converter). The warranty on photovoltaic elements here is 2 years, so far I have not seen any offer where they extend it much (somehow it is hard to find some good pages for private customers, most of the pages I see are either light on info, or target commercial customers). This is not even remotely in the range of 20 years. So after it paid back itself to the bank, it may be broken. And during those 20 years, I still have to pay my complete power bill.
There is also a tax point of view to take into account. Luckily a friend of my sister is doing some tax consulting for private tax issues. The tax stuff involved here is about company taxes (you are required to open a company when you install a photovoltaic system here). This is not specially in the area where she is working in, but I assumed she should know enough about the basics, that I can get at least an overview. I got even more than that. When I talked to her about it, she told me they calculated a similar offer for their house recently. She assumed a photovoltaic installation of 20 T€ and that the bank is financing it completely. The roof of their house does not have the same characteristics than my house, but as the photovoltaic specialists calculate with rough peak sunshine hours anyway, it gives me a rough overview. The good part is, that you do not lose money this way, but you have to pay the tax directly (even if I give all the money from the power company to the bank), you start to earn money near the end of the 20 years.
According to her calculations you will have earned 6 T€ after 20 years, when the photovoltaic system paid itself back to the bank and you had to pay the taxes each month/year/whatever. This assumes that the peak sunshine hours are not getting worse, and that the efficiency of the photovoltaic system stays at roughly the same level during the 20 years. Now let us calculate the amount of money per month and per year you gain when you do this:
So for 25 €/month I have to invest my time into taking care about the tax stuff, have to take care about the photovoltaic system (cleaning, and management stuff in case something breaks because of bad weather or normal usage), have to pay extra money when something has to be done to the roof, and so on. And when everything is finished after 20 years, the photovoltaic system may be finished too (and the rate of money the power company has to pay for each kW/h then is not known, in case the system still works good then). If it is in a state where I have to remove or replace it, I also have to pay the cost of removing it. And I need to get together enough money to get a new roof now.
Now this offer does not sound so good anymore (remember, I also have to pay the power I consume during this time). To me it looks like only the bank and the company installing the system will benefit from it, and I have to take care about all the unpleasant things.
There is for sure an ecological aspect to think about here. It sounds great to produce green energy (I do not know how much CO2 is produced during the production of the photovoltaic system, and if it will produce enough energy to compensate this), and I would do it directly if I would see a sane return of investment, but this offer does not look sane in my current situation.
It seems I have to wait until the prices go down more (and I have some spare money to invest without the need for a bank). Recently I have read that the expectation is that in about 3 – 5 years the technology to print photovoltaic cells can be production ready, which could reduce the price to a tenth of what a photovoltaic cell costs ATM. Investing 20 – 30 T€ is not something I would do from one day to another, 4 – 5 T€ for a similar installation sounds more easy to agree to.
While I am at it: so far I only see photovoltaic info regarding the peak power a cell can generate. To me this does not look interesting. The peak power will be generated most of the time in summer (direct sunlight, no clouds, long sunlight times), but in the summer the consumption of power is less than in winter (less light to use, more time spend outside the house so less time in front of a TV, more BBQ so less cooking in the kitchen, …). More interesting to me would be a good power generation in less than optimal situations like in winter when it is cloudy (but it is probably hard to come up with an useful value, as the average for "less than optimal" varies from location to location). I have seen a report about water heating (attached to the central heating) with solar energy, where a system is used which has a lower peak power, but a better power output in less than optimal weather conditions (round collectors where used instead of flat panels). So theoretically there is the possibility to get more power out in not so good conditions, but so far I did not find any information if it is technically possible ATM to optimize photovoltaic cells to such situations, and if it is if there are some cells available for a sane price.


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The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the FASB are carrying out this project with the help of a joint international working group that will consult on lease accounting issues. Working group members will provide expert advice on staff and Board proposals and implementation issues while offering practical considerations from a variety of perspectives (lessor, lessee, users of financial statements, and auditors). The working group will provide input through a mixture of formal meetings, conference calls, and email.
*Decisions Reached at the Last Meeting (January 22, 2009)
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Background Information
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
In February 2006, the IASB and the FASB issued an MoU that described a joint work plan to expedite global convergence in accounting standards and that established a series of milestones to be reached by 2008. The leases project is part of the 2006 MoU. Under the 2006 MoU, the IASB and the FASB would have to consider and make a decision about the scope and timing of a potential leasing project by 2008. This goal was achieved when the IASB and the FASB added the leasing project to their respective agendas on July 19, 2006.
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Windermere Foundation Surpasses $35 Million In Giving
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The Windermere Foundation had another banner year in 2017, raising even more than it did the prior year thanks to the continued support of Windermere franchise owners, agents, staff, and the community. Over $2.4 million was raised in 2017, which is an increase of eight percent over the previous year. This brings our total to over $35.5 million raised since the start of the Windermere Foundation...
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December 18, 2017
Making the Holidays Brighter in Our Communities
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Every year, Windermere offices throughout the Western U.S. host events to help make the holidays a little brighter for our neighbors in need. From food drives to fundraisers, here are just a few examples of how our offices are giving back this holiday season.
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October 30, 2017
Windermere Foundation Has Raised over $1,500,000 So Far This Year!
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
Thanks to the generosity of Windermere agents and the community, the Windermere Foundation collected over $1,537,000 in donations through the third quarter of 2017. This is an increase of nine percent compared to this time last year! Individual contributions and fundraisers accounted for 62 percent of the donations, while 38 percent came from donations through Windermere agent commissions.
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As baseball's prodigal son returns to the St. Louis bench, some in San Francisco are wondering why their own disgraced steroid user wouldn't be welcomed back with open arms.
John Shea in the San Francisco Chronicle doesn't quite excoriate baseball people for not being harder on McGwire, but he does take them to task for (hypothetically) not rolling out the same red carpet for Bonds, should he return to the game.
[I]magine Barry Bonds wanting to return to the game.
I asked Commissioner Bud Selig for his view on McGwire, and Selig, in favor of the former first baseman's return to the game, said, "He's handled himself very well."
A follow-up question: "Would you have the same feeling about Bonds if he tried to return?"
Selig: "Oh, I'm not going to get into that. Every situation is unique."
Well, they are. In this case, Shea argues, the difference is that McGwire's home run tear was good for baseball, while the BALCO scandal wasn't. Excellent point. He also opines that since Bonds broke Hank Aaron's record, and Aaron is good buddies with Selig, the commish has a personal vendetta. Not as excellent a point.
It's a fallacy to write that McGwire's gotten a particularly warm reception upon his return. But there's three very good reasons why the media might not take as kindly to Bonds in a similar situation. First, McGwire's admitted to using PEDs. Second, he didn't commit any crimes when lying about taking them. Third, the media actually like him as a human being.
Before you accuse me of blaming an entire fanbase for the crimes of a single columnist, take a look in the comments section: half of the readers maintain that there's no evidence Bonds took steroids at all. Shea is preaching to a choir that's drowning out the real world with the same tired song.
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Chalk One Up For The Armchair Economists
from the getting-it-right deptMike Arrington, over at TechCrunch, has written up a post about "The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free" which will sound mighty familiar if you're a Techdirt reader. It's pretty much the same thing I've been saying for almost a dozen years at this point, pointing out the economics and inevitable trends facing the music industry -- and also noting why that isn't necessarily a bad thing. While he's dealing with emotional responses in the comments (again, that'll sound familiar...), it's more interesting to watch an "industry analyst" trash Arrington as an "armchair economist" without backing it up... and then getting his own economics totally screwed up. In this case, we need to chalk one up for the "armchair economists."
The analyst, David Card of Jupiter Research (the same analyst who incorrectly said that Radiohead's new offering would only work because the band was well known), dismisses Arrington's economics as "oversimplified analysis," but doesn't explain why it's actually wrong -- and that's because it's not. Card goes on to say that based on Arrington's analysis "software, filmed entertainment, soda at McDonalds, and the classic example, high-end perfume, should all be free," using that statement as a reason to dismiss the economics. But it's actually Card who's way off on the economics here. Like many of the folks who respond emotionally, Card seems to be confusing what he thinks Arrington is saying with what Arrington is actually saying. Specifically, he's confused "should" and "will." Neither Arrington nor I have been saying that music should be free -- but that it will be free based on the economics at play. People who read the "will" as "should" then get bogged down in moral arguments over "should" or "should not" that don't matter. You can say that companies "shouldn't" pollute, but it doesn't change the fact that they "will" pollute. At that point, whining that they shouldn't is meaningless -- you simply have to figure out how to deal with the reality that they will. If you can then take that reality and figure out ways for musicians to make even more money (as the economic research and history suggests is likely) than the whole moral issue goes away.
It's not worth going through each of Card's "examples," but if you look at the economic trends in play for each situation, you can see that Arrington is a lot closer to the mark than Card is. For software and filmed entertainment, the inevitable shift is to a service model rather than a product model (which is the same as music). A services model recognizes that the creation (not the distribution) of content is where the marginal costs are. In reality, they've always been services models -- just disguised as product models. In other words, the trends in both cases support Arrington, not Card. As for soda at McDonald's and high-end perfume, neither is a zero marginal cost good -- and both have a number of different economic factors dealing with them. For example, soda at McDonald's is a complementary good that people drastically overpay for as a convenience. There's value in convenience -- and since customers in McDonald's are a "captive market" for soda, there isn't the competitive market to drive the price down. It's too bad that a supposed industry expert would accuse Arrington of getting his economics wrong, and then clearly show both that he didn't understand Arrington's statements -- nor does he understand the economics of other products and trends. It reflects a lot better on the "armchair" economists than the supposed expert.
Disclosure: some might say that my company, Techdirt, competes with Card's employer with our Techdirt Insight Community. Then again, others might say that this blog competes with TechCrunch. Neither is directly true, but I might as well disclose rather than have to deal with it in the comments.
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June 27, 2008, was like any other day. It was early afternoon, the sun was out, I was working from home, and I was on a conference call with a client. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a plume of smoke coming from what seemed to be our building's roof.
As the plume grew larger, I began to realize the smoke wasn't an afternoon pre-Cubs-game barbeque on the rooftop by a couple of guys playing hooky from work — this was a real fire. I ran up the stairs toward the rooftop deck to check things out. By the time I got to the door leading outside, the fire had grown large enough that I could hear it blazing, and I knew there were a half-dozen propane grills on the other side of the metal.
It was most certainly time to go.
Luckily, before the fire had spread downward through the floors, I was able to herd our two cats into the carrier, pack up my work laptop in the bag I always had close by, and make it down the smoke-filled stairway and out the building with a couple of minutes to spare. Unfortunately, in the end, we lost almost everything — but we had our pets, our safety, and an emergency line of communication.
Months before, when my wife and I first moved into the building, I insisted that vital items like our cat carrier be stored in easily accessible places in our apartment (rather than the basement storage area) in the — we thought — unlikely case of just such a situation. Only a couple of minutes of planning for what could happen made that split-second decision-making much easier when it did.
This is the crux of what I like to call "disaster uncluttering": Being prepared for the unlikely, in case it happens. It takes but a little time and thoughtful review to prevent mind clutter from getting in the way of your safety when you have very little time to spare.
Here's a checklist of questions to ask yourself and suggestions of what can be done to prevent both mind and physical clutter should a disaster strike you out-of-the-blue:
- Consider where you store things. You should have almost immediate access to the following items: Pet carrier(s), an emergency line of communication (preferably a laptop, netbook, or advanced PDA), a cell phone, your car keys, a rugged flashlight, and, if at all possible, a copy of your renters or homeowners insurance policy.
- Have an escape route ready, and cover your bases. Being on the third level and without a fire escape, our elevator was out and one stairwell had already become dangerously consumed by smoke. Become familiar with every pathway that leads out of your home ahead of time.
- If you have pets, consider putting Pet Safety Alert decals on external windows and your front door to alert neighbors and authorities you have animals (in case you aren't at home when an emergency happens).
- Spend the time, and take inventory of your belongings. Even if you don't use an automated system, a video of everything in your home can help spur your memory. Be sure to backup the video so you can still access it if your home is destroyed.
- Are your vital documents protected and organized? Ideally, you'll want to store them in a fireproof safe and keep a backup copy online. Check out our series on fireproof safes for more information on this subject.
- Consider where you'll temporarily live if you're unable to inhabit your home. Will you need to stay in a hotel, or will you have access to the home of a friend or relative?
In an upcoming post, I'll discuss what happened after the fire. In many ways, the aftermath was far worse than the fire itself.
The image above is what was left of our oak bedroom floor. In addition to soot, it took only a few hours for mold to begin to grow in the water that helped put out the fire.


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Disobedience, Protest and Resistance by German-Russians
in the Soviet State (Part 1)
Verweigerung, Protest und Widerstand der Russlanddeutschen im Sowietstaat
Krieger, Dr. Viktor. "Disobedience, Protest and Resistance by German-Russians in the Soviet State." Volk auf dem Weg, February 2007, 14.
NOTE: This is Part 1: Farmer uprisings during the years of militant Communism, 1918-1921
Translation from the original German-langauge text to American English provided by Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado
However, only a few years after the above sentences were written, numerous and bloody uprisings as well as armed disputes would severely shake the formerly so ideal-seeming colonists. What were the extraordinary circumstances that caused such a radical change and eventually cost thousands of people their lives?
It was not the new state leadership that heated the emotions of the German farmers, rather it was what they considered to be unjust demands and flagrant disregard for traditional notions of values and justice. A violent protest erupted primarily as a result of the Bolsheviks' reckless demands for deliveries of foodstuffs, while the farmers received no recompense for the agricultural products extracted from them, which in their eyes was equivalent to state-organized robbery.
Moreover, the militant atheism of the Bolsheviks, the transfer of power within the villages into the hands of land-poor or land-less colonists, plus the dispossession and redistribution of land stirred up strong dissatisfaction.
Still, the new people in power did receive support that was not
to be underestimated, but it was from a considerable portion of
Russian and Ukrainian farmers: a "wild" redistribution
of estate acreage had effectively been legitimized, and in the course
of agrarian reform, the village poor were compensated at the expense
of landowning larger farmers. In this respect, their view of
what was just was considerably different from that of the Germans: on the other hand, the appropriateness of private ownership was fundamentally beyond question even for the landless colonists.
The great war that lasted four years, and the subsequent bloody civil war with its human and material victims, also contributed to the moral brutalization and a heightened readiness toward violence.
Unrest and Rebellion in the Volga Region
At the time of the civil war, the settlement area of the Volga-Germans was right in the midst of the area where the Bolsheviks held sway. Under threat of violence, the farmers were forced to deliver large amounts of foodstuffs to central authorities as well as to provide recruits, horses and feed to the Red Army.
There were many occurrences of arbitrary acts and incursions. As early as July and August of 1918, there were armed revolts in Balzer and in the Kamenka district. In reaction to an act of particular brutality by two procurement commanders and the continuing forced mobilization, the unrest in Warenburg in 1919 quickly took on the characteristics of a popular uprising. The angered settlers murdered several Red Guard members. It took a whole week for the uprising to be quelled; but in the subsequent wave of retribution, 32 active participants were shot, and the prosperous portion of the village was assessed a fine of 780,000 rubles.
Reckless exploitation became the main reason for the fact that the Workers Commune (the autonomous region) of Volga-Germans [later to be upgraded to an Autonomous SSR - Tr.] was hit the hardest during the famine of 1921-1922. A contemporary witness expressed himself about it as follows:
There were moments, redeeming moments, when the bread of the (German) Commune in Petrograd and Moscow would arrive on time, when it had appeared that the local authorities had lost hope of receiving the daily rations of an eighth of a pound of bread.
During the years 1919/1920, the area was required to deliver 14.5 millions pud of grain [1 pud = ca. 36 lbs. - Tr.], but if one considers that the colonist territory was not more than an eighth of the territory of the Gouvernement of Saratov, and a tenth of that of the Gouvernement of Samara, and that the Gouvernement of Saratov was obliged to deliver only 36 million pud that same year, one does tend to realize ... the obvious discrepancy of these obligations.
At the time there seemed to be an assumption that in the smaller Commune there was 'a lot, and plenty of everything,' which may explain the mistaken approach in the demand for grain deliveries and the wrong approach to the local population."
The armed protest actions by the German farmers reached their peak during the winter of 1920/1921. It was actually a desperate reaction, and for nothing less than naked survival, because the procurement commanders used hostage taking, sham shootings, and beatings to extract the last remaining supplies for the state.
The actual impetus came from abroad. The so-called "Rebelling Army" that had forcible entered the area under the leadership of the former officer Pyatikov conquered Seelman on March 17, 1921. Its uprising quickly spread across the entire German region. State-owned grain stores were broken into and the previously requisitioned grain distributed among the farmers. Animals were slaughtered or driven out of the villages.
A siege of the district centers Balzer and Marxstadt followed a few days later, but they were not actually taken. The entire uprising was marked by extreme brutality; nearly all apprehended Communists and Komsomol members [Communist youth - Tr.], Red Guard members, and members of the requisition commandos in the German settlements were murdered, some were dunked under the ice while still alive, and many Soviet activists were severely mistreated.
Not until April 16 was the area once again brought under complete control of the Bolsheviks. Punishment wrought by them was no less severe: hundreds of participants or sympathizers, not seldom even the totally uninvolved, lost their lives during the reconquest or were at a later time sentenced by hurriedly called tribunals and then shot.
Regarding events in Mariental, one of the centers of the Volga-German unrest, we have detailed statements by the eyewitness Peter Hunger:
Because of the senseless confiscations and the arbitrariness of the local Revolutionary Committee (Revkom), tensions in the village had risen to a high level in 1921. After Seelman had fallen, a local "Fiver Committee" formed as part of an underground action, which on March 23 rested power in Mariental, arrested the eleven members of the Revkom and killed them the following day. Most of the residents acted passively during the entire happening; many disapproved of the killing of those people.
On April 2, a group consisting of 75 villagers was assembled and sent to face the approaching penal unit of the regular army. Five kilometers away, a cavalry unit of the Red Army smashed the badly armed locals. The following day, by order of the village committee, all male residents were to take up designated positions in order to "fall upon the entering penal unit with loud noise and using forks and lances." The action ended in a bloodbath: more than 220 Marientalers lost their lives, and another 66 were condemned to death after a brief interrogation by a military tribunal.
Smaller, scattered groups of rebels emerged in the region until 1922. Larger, collective forms of farmer protests did not occur; and the terrible famine transformed most of the colonists into a state of apathy or forced them to leave their homes.
Left with the lingering impression of the threat of forceful protests by the famers in the entire country, the Soviet party and state leadership on March 24, 1921 decided to retreat from the policy of militant Communism and to introduce a national tax levy, with which it associated the right to sell any surplus on the open market. This marked the onset of the New Economic Policy, which ushered in a period of recovery for the country.
To be continued ...
Our appreciation is extended to Alex Herzog for translation of this article.


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I was talking to HF member dejoha today and he reminded me that we don't have an often-updated list of hammock manufacturers here on the forum. Since he maintains a list for his book, it seems natural for HF to share that central list and we can all help contribute to keeping it up to date.
Hammock Manufacturer Listing
If you run across a new manufacturer not listed there, post a link in this thread and we'll update the spreadsheet to include it. Hammock and Hammock Accessory manufacturers only please!
This thread will be a long-running sticky. To keep it focused, lets keep the posts to links and additions only.


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It had been arranged that mother would come to visit us in December and January, with the maelstrom from Belgium coinciding with the middle part of the visit.
The kitchen would be ready, beds would manifest themselves, mosquito nets would be purchased....all would be in hand.
Then nemesis in suede shoes, my mother's doctor, intervened.
He did not like the look of her leg (I wonder how he managed to phrase that to escape without injury), he did not like the look of her blood pressure (which would not have been improved by the news on the state of the leg) and, in short, he did not think she could make a long haul flight without undue risk.
On telephoning the surgery on receipt of the news the receptionist said that Doctor could make time to speak to me 'in the circumstances' and when she put me through he confirmed that he was worried...worried enough, as he said, to brave the wrath of the matriarch, whose lungs and verbal dexterity were, he considered, standing up well to the burden of ninety six years.
So, instead of flying out to escort mother to Costa Rica I am flying out to visit her by way of a trip to France to see to the admin of Wuthering Heights - are you sure you don't want a house in France? - to upbraid the Post Office for losing my mail, visit the taxman, and encourage the Banque Postale to sell shares I told them to sell some months back.
I'm lucky enough to be staying with friends and will try to catch up on people I didn't manage to see last time....if I have time in view of the shopping list which is gaining on me faster than the tides of Mont St. Michel.
I have to bring back some decent claret from the cellar....that's O.K. as l shall be at the house in any case picking up the books on antique furniture to supply the carpenter with models for chairs for the house in San Jose.
I have to look for shoes and galoshes in size 47...a size unknown to Costa Rica.
I have to look for elasticated waist trousers in pure cotton...not too heavy.
I have to go the supermarket with the ethnic section to pick up Turkish pimiento paste, both sweet and hot.
Goat cheese logs, Fournol, Maroilles, St.Agur...harissa...and would it be easier to get kippers in France or in England...better ring our supplier out in the Vendee....and dried mushrooms....
Oh, and those packs of plastic corks and corkscrew...and is there any epine left in the cellar...?
All very well...but on my success or failure in finding this lot depends my next leg of the journey which will be determined by the weight of my luggage.
Under twenty kilos and I shall fly by Ryanair....but need to prebook.
Over twenty kilos and it's Eurolines where I can take two suitcases for the price of my ticket.
I refuse, ever again, to cross Paris with suitcases and a carry on bag...so the train is out.
With or without the trousers and shoes it looks like two suitcases and Eurolines....but then I still have to pay for an extra suitcase flying back.
I have what I think is called an open jaw ticket - all too redolent of the sharks running the airline business...by which I arrive in Paris and leave from London...and if the problems obtaining confirmation of my booking are any harbinger of what will happen when booking an extra suitcase then I will need a week's notice to sort it out.
I found the flight combination on Iberia's website...which promptly went down at irregular intervals so that booking a ticket was rather like a ladies' excuse me, which followers of Freud might like to know was first typed as a ladies' excise me.
Finally, my reservation was confirmed...but not the purchase.
I have been here before; when my French bank has refused...in the interests of my security...to honour an airline ticket booking as it is rather more than I spend in the supermarket once a week.
Why didn't you contact me, then?
We don't do that.
However, when I was in Costa Rica someone totally unknown to me to was able to buy one thousand Euros' worth of musical equipment in St. Jean de Luz on my account without any worries about my security at all.
It took me six months to get the money back and no explanation has been forthcoming to this day...
After a delay of over twelve hours I grew restive...and was lucky enough to be able to count on a good friend in France to pretend to be me when ringing the Banque Postale to see if they had authorised payment.
Telephoning from Costa Rica I find their choice of music not up to the cost of the call.
No, nothing from Iberia.
The local Iberia office not responding to calls I eventually found a well hidden reservations number on the website. Learning how to pronounce the Spanish alphabet paid off as I recited my reservation reference.
Tranquillo, Senora...we haven't processed it yet.....wait until the afternoon....
At least it wasn't the manana of the manana.....
Thanks to my friend alerting la Banque Postale, the payment went through....but the thought of paying for an extra suitcase gives me the willies already.
Oh for the days of clerks who could answer you there and then with the aid of a telephone.
Were I to fly into Stanstead I could catch up with our hardy Harley Davidson septuagenarians...if it's Eurolines I shall miss them and stay in Kensal Rise instead, whose gentrification I lay firmly at the door of the pet shop and the inflatable doggy sex toy in their window.
Where canine sex toys lead the organic butcher is not far behind, nor the soi disant yummy mummies occupying the coffee shop which used to be a quite decent caff.
Mother has a programme outlined..her unexpected Christmas shopping.... visits to the theatre....restaurants...
But in view of what we had first arranged, it is as if her postillion had been struck by lighting.


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The second floor of the Herbet T. Coutts Education & Physical Education Library is a quiet area and holds study rooms and the majority of the library's collection. The service desk of this library is located on the main floor, which is a common area (not silent). The H.T.Coutts Library is the primary resource library for the faculties of Education and Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta.
The capital of Canada is Ottawa, in the province of Ontario. There are offically ten provinces and three territories in Canada, which is the second largest country in the world in terms of land area.While politically and legally an independant nation, the titular head of state for Canada is still Queen Elizabeth.On the east end of Canada, you have Montreal as the bastion of activity. Montreal is famous for two things, VICE magazine and the Montreal Jazz Festival. One is the bible of hipster life (disposable, of course) and the other is a world-famous event that draws more than two million people every summer. Quebec is a French speaking province that has almost seceded from Canada on several occasions, by the way..When you think of Canada, you think of . . . snow, right?But not on the West Coast. In Vancouver, it rains. And you'll find more of the population speaking Mandarin than French (but also Punjabi, Tagalog, Korean, Farsi, German, and much more).Like the other big cities in Canada, Vancouver is vividly multicultural and Vancouverites are very, very serious about their coffee.Your standard Vancouverite can be found attired head-to-toe in Lululemon gear, mainlining Cafe Artigiano Americanos (spot the irony for ten points).But here's a Vancouver secret only the coolest kids know: the best sandwiches in the city aren't found downtown. Actually, they're hidden in Edgemont Village at the foot of Grouse Mountain on the North Shore."It's actually worth coming to Canada for these sandwiches alone." -- Michelle Superle, VancouverText by Steve Smith.


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For Immediate Release, June 13, 2012
Contact: Mollie Matteson, (802) 318-1487
Deadly Bat Fungus Spreads to Iowa
Discovery at Popular Tourist Cave Means 21 States Now Affected by White-nose Syndrome
MAQUOKETA, Iowa— Iowa wildlife officials announced today that the fungus known to cause devastating illness and death in North American bats has been detected for the first time within the state's borders. The bat disease, known as white-nose syndrome, has spread over much of the eastern United States and eastern Canada over the past six years, after first appearing in New York in 2006. Bats in 19 states and four Canadian provinces have contracted the disease; nearly 7 million have died.
"The spread of this pathogen to Iowa is terrible news for our bats and for us," said Mollie Matteson, a bat specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity, which has worked for years to secure funding and cave closures to stop white-nose and this spring petitioned the White House for national action. "It's a disaster for farmers, too, who depend on bats to control crop pests by eating millions of insects."
Biologists swabbed the fungus off a hibernating big brown bat this past winter while studying the epidemic. Lab results confirmed the fungus's presence, but as yet biologists have found no associated sick bats or bat mortality in Iowa. The fungal detection occurred at Maquoketa Caves State Park, in the eastern part of the state.
For the past two years, state officials kept the caves at Maquoketa closed to tours as a precautionary measure to prevent the possible spread of the disease by people. This spring the state decided to reopen the caves to visitors, citing new funding to hire staff that will educate park visitors about the bat disease. Now the park must switch from trying to prevent movement of the bat-killing disease into the caves to trying to prevent it from being carried to new, uninfected sites. To keep fungal material contained, park officials say they will provide a decontamination mat visitors must step on after touring the caves.
Earlier this spring, white-nose syndrome was officially reported in neighboring Missouri. The fungus, though not yet the disease, was first documented there in 2010.
Biologists believe bats transmit the lethal fungus themselves, but that human transport is the primary means for the fungus to make large jumps beyond the dispersal distance of bats. Indeed, human transport likely brought the disease to North America from Europe, where it is common but does not kill bats.
"Opening a tourist cave when white-nose syndrome was documented in a neighboring state was questionable, but keeping a known contaminated cave open to a high volume of tourists is irresponsible," said Matteson. "Iowa state park officials need to reconsider their decision to open Maquoketa, in particular, because Iowa, along with Missouri and Oklahoma, now represents the western front of this catastrophic epidemic."
Researchers are working to develop an effective way to combat the fungus, including possible vaccines or antifungal treatments. However, development of a practical treatment is uncertain and at best likely several years away. Meanwhile, biologists are concerned the disease could spread across the country, threatening the survival of more and more bat species.
White-nose syndrome is caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans. The disease was first documented in a cave in upstate New York in 2006. Seven species of bat have been infected. Another two bat species have been found with the fungus on them, but have not yet suffered mortality. In northeastern states, where the bat disease has been present the longest, bat populations are down by more than 90 percent. Biologists believe several bat species may go extinct as a result.
The white-nose fungus has been found on cave-dwelling bats in Europe but does not appear to cause them any significant health problems. Scientists are suspicious of long-distance leaps of the disease, especially where they have occurred in caves that are popular sites for visitation and recreation, and have expressed grave concern that the disease could spread to hibernating bats throughout North America. In all, as many as two dozen bat species could be at risk.
The loss of bats is a potential economic disaster. Scientists have estimated that insect-eating bats consume enough agricultural pests to be worth $22 billion annually to American farmers.
For more information, visit SaveOurBats.org.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 350,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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It was a good holiday season for many businesses that sell on Amazon.com. The number of items sold on Amazon between Nov. 1 and Dec. 19 by companies that market their wares on the retailer's marketplace increased 40% over last year, Amazon says.
Amazing Deals Online, an electronics retailer based in Edison, NJ, says its sales through Amazon over the holidays increased 70% over last year. Contributing to the increase was the retailer's ability to ship orders closer to Christmas and still have them arrive on time by using Fulfillment By Amazon, or FBA, a program that enables sellers in the retailer's marketplace to send their inventory to Amazon to pick, pack and ship packages on the seller's behalf.
"We attribute the boost in orders to our confidence, and customer trust, in Amazon's FBA program," says Eli Silver, president of Amazing Deals Online. "Without FBA, our current infrastructure would not have allowed us to fulfill the orders we generated on Amazon throughout the holiday season. Our typical holiday season selling period ends on Dec. 15 due to the time needed for processing and shipping orders, but with the FBA program, we were able to extend our selling period until Dec. 21 and still have our customers receive their packages in time for Christmas."
Over the entire holiday season, Amazon says its resellers sold enough Santa hats for Santa to wear a new hat every day for the next 137 years (more than 50,000 caps), enough smartphone and tablet screen protectors to cover the field of every NFL stadium four times over, and enough tea lights to keep a votive illuminated for more than 200 years. Amazon.com, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, says more than 2 million businesses sell through its site.
Sales on Amazon for clients of ChannelAdvisor Corp., a company that helps retailers sell online through marketplaces and comparison shopping engines, increased 38.1% for the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas compared with the same period last year, Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, noted on his blog Dec. 26. Part of the increase is likely because there were two extra shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Wingo says.
Wingo also observed that Amazon's sales ramped up later in the holiday shopping season. Sales on the marketplace for ChannelAdvisor's clients increased 25.7% from Dec. 1 to Dec. 15 compared with the same period a year earlier and 36.1% from Dec. 16 to Dec. 22. For the five days from Thanksgiving through the Monday after, sales on Amazon increased 37.7% and sales for the month of November rose 43.7% compared to November 2011.
EBay also performed well, Wingo says, although it did not generate the same late-month sales spike. Sales for ChannelAdvisor clients on eBay were up 22.3% between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22 compared to a year earlier and 23.4% for Dec. 1 to Dec. 15. EBay sales for ChannelAdvisor clients increased 33.2% for the for the entire holiday shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Sales via comparison shopping engines also were strong late in the season, with sales between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22 up 20.6% year over year, largely driven by the new Google Shopping product listing ads, Wingo says. That's compared to 10.6% for Dec. 1 to Dec. 15. Comparison shopping engine sales growth for the entire holiday season was 15.6%, also driven by Google, he adds. "As the holiday went on you had Google showing more Google Shopping ads and more advertisers participating," Wingo wrote. Google Inc. converted last fall from showing free product listings in natural search results when consumers enter shopping-related queries to paid ads, with the new program labeled Google Shopping.
The switch to paid ads meant fewer sales from unpaid organic results in Google. As a result, sales stemming from search (excluding Google Shopping ads) fell 20.4% between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22 and 18.8% for Dec. 1 to Dec. 15, largely because of cannibalization from Google Shopping, Wingo says. Sales from search for ChannelAdvisor clients for the entire holiday season fell 15.1%.
Amazon sellers' late-season sales growth did not describe the sales trend for all online retailers. Just-released data from e-commerce platform provider ShopVisible show shoppers hit the web for deals early on in the season. Sales for ShopVisible retailer clients in the five-day period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving) accounted for 26% of total holiday sales and were nearly double any other five-day period in the remainder of the holiday sales season through Christmas.
After that, the first three weeks of December each accounted for between 12% to 16% of holiday sales, with a sharp falloff in transactions the last week before Christmas, ShopVisible says. The biggest online sales days for ShopVisible clients were Nov. 23 and Nov. 26, the Monday after Thanksgiving.
"People do seem to be a little fatigued with some of the really early promotions, and softer December sales indicated that retailers were too promotional to their own detriment in November," says Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "The crazy promotions will probably slow down for the same time next year."Favorite


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To vacate; remove from; surrender possession.
When a tenant leaves premises that he or she has been renting, the tenant is said to quit such premises.
A notice to quit is written notification given by a landlord to a tenant that indicates that the landlord wants to repossess the premises and that the tenant must vacate them at a certain designated time.
v. to leave, used in a written notice to a tenant to leave the premises (notice to quit). (See: notice to quit, unlawful detainer)
quit(Discontinue), verb abandon, abdicate, abjure, abort, acknowledge defeat, admit defeat, apostatize, arrest, back out, become inactive, break off, bring to an end, call a halt, capitulate, cause a stoppage, cause to halt, cease, cease progress, cease to use, cease work, check, come to a standstill, cut out, desist from, drop, finish, forgo, forsake, forswear, give up, go into retirement, go out of business, halt, have done with, intermit, lay aside, leave off, leave unninished, make an end of, nol-pros, put a stop to, put an end to, relinquish, renounce, resign, retire, secede, stand aside, step down, stop, succumb, suffer defeat, surcease, suspend, tergiversate, terminate, withdraw, yield
quit(Evacuate), verb abandon, abscond, beat a retreat, decamp, defect, depart from, desert, disappear, egress, escape, exit, flee, forsake, get out, go, go away, go forth, go out, hurry away, leave, make a departure, make an exit, move away, part, pull out, remove oneself, retire, run away, separate from, set forth, set out, take flight, take leave, take leave of, take oneself away, turn one's back on, vacate, vanish, walk away, walk out, withdraw
Associated concepts: notice to quit, quit
quit(Free of), verb absolve, acquit, clear, deliver, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, emancipate, exonerate, extricate, grant amnesty to, lift controls, manumit, pardon, release, render free, rescue, set at liberty, set free
quit(Repay), verb balance accounts, be even with, clear a debt, clear accounts, compensate, discharge a debt, make compensation, make payment, make reparation, make restitution, pay a debt, pay an indemnity, pay back, pay in full, pay off, pay old debts, recompense, refund, reimburse, remunerate, restore, return, settle a debt, settle an account
See also: abandon, cease, comport, defect, demean, demit, depart, discontinue, evacuate, forfeit, forgo, forswear, halt, leave, part, pay, recoup, reimburse, relinquish, remise, renege, renounce, resign, retire, retreat, secede, shirk, stop, submit, vacate, withdraw, yield
1 to free, release, absolve.
2 to give up, renounce, leave.