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Offensive System Not the Issue in L.A.
Two games in and there is already a deluge of calls for abandoning the Princeton Offense in Los Angeles. It can't work for a host of reasons, and one need only look at the results from the Lakers' first two games to know that it simply can't work.
However, to point to this system as the sole or even dominant reason for the Lakerss' results is misguided at best, and willfully ignorant at worst. I am a firm believer that it doesn't really matter what you run – that if you have good players focused on team objectives, any system can be successful. So how can we best assess the state of Laker-land two games in? I think it comes down to two key components: personnel issues and style (not system) of play.
There are two overarching personnel situations which must be acknowledged before you start placing undue blame on the coaching staff or the system. One, Dwight Howard is simply not himself yet. Two, Steve Nash looks, well, old.
On the first situation, it is a case of caveat emptor. The Lakers knew Howard's back was an issue before acquiring the center, and there can be little doubt now that he is still struggling with the effects of that injury. He moves fairly decent in spurts, but spends a great many trips up and down the floor laboring to keep up with the play. His explosiveness is at 60 percent or so at best right now. This is certainly a situation that will correct itself over time, especially if the Lakers manage to get him appropriate rest and rejuvenation time.
The problems with Nash's advancing age, however, will be much more difficult to remedy. The evidence in the first game was readily available when Darren Collison basically turned him into an eighth grader at midcourt. He also seems just a step slow defensively (never his strong suit to begin with), and missed some simple recovery opportunities in the second game. Whether he can find a fountain of youth to return to his old self or not is a valid and important question.
Perhaps, however, the question can be moved beyond personnel and speaks to style of play. Employing the Princeton Offense does not necessarily mean playing a certain "style" as well – here, I take style to refer to the tempo and aggressive mentality of an offense. It is very possible to use nearly any system and couple it with a specific style to get results: You can run the Triangle Offense in a fast-paced, high-octane style. It can also be run in a grinding, measured manner. The same can be said for the Princeton Offense.
What I have seen in these last two days is a team that really isn't looking to push advantage situations. This is where I think the biggest mistake is. A team with Nash as your lead guard should not be moving into the frontcourt slowly to set up with 13 seconds left on the clock. He should be getting out, pushing the ball down the throat of the defense to see what advantage they can gain. Then, if the defense is able to slow down the action, let the pieces (Howard, et. al.) get into place. This stylistic approach prevents Nash from being taken advantage of by more physical, athletic guards, and it takes advantage of the fact that Los Angeles has some very talented pieces on their team.
Incidentally, this slow-it-down style could be attributed to Lakers head coach Mike Brown, whose teams in Cleveland during the LeBron James years were also known for their walk-it-up, grind-it-out tendencies. With the Cavaliers, the system involved a lot more isolations, but the style of play was very similar to what we see now.
The Lakers are still a very talented team, and sometimes talented teams search for their identity. The key to understanding this process is that it isn't about what they run, so much as it is about who they run it with and how they run it.
Filling Lanes or Filling Space
I love picking up on subtle trends in basketball and seeing how teams take advantage of the floor in different ways based on their specific personnel. I witnessed two very distinct approaches to fast break and secondary break offense over the first few days of the regular season that really speak to what might be a shift in basketball.
Classically, a fast break is executed in order to get a rim attack. The goal is to get the ball right into prime real estate, increasing the chances of drawing a foul and putting pressure on defenses to protect the lane. Watch a team like the Denver Nuggets. They push the ball toward the middle of the floor, and their wings fill lanes wide and fast so they are coming at the rim hard. This forces teams into awkward backpedaling positions, and makes them a tough team to guard.
However, there is an alternative to the traditional rim attack being used more and more. Teams like the Boston Celtics are running hard, but they are running to spaces on the floor, typically outside the three-point line. This approach forces defending teams not only to scramble back into their lane, but also to locate, identify and close out on potential shooters. Giving their personnel specific areas to run to helps the lead guard (in Boston's case, Rajon Rondo) find open teammates as he makes reads of those spaces.
While athletically impressive above-the-rim action in the fast break will never disappear from the game, expect more teams to find ways to fill space as a way to keep defenses off-balance and find easy, numbers-advantage shots.
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In the mid '90s a magazine declared Red Bank, New Jersey the hippest town in the state. Bold as that assessment might sound to those from other counties, it was true at the time. At least for me.
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Kevin Smith set up a production company on Broad Street, long before he dreamed of Hollywood Hills. There were gourmet coffee shops, restaurants, antiques, and musicians on every corner. Bruce Springsteen shopped in town. Red Bank had a vibe and media blessings; good tidings buzzed all around us. And a poet, Bob Simmons* appeared at odd moments on a bicycle.
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He had an awful lot of talent, especially when it came to writing. Every so often, usually after a night on the town, out came that notebook and Bob unleashed some verse. Normally, I don't care much for poetry, it's too steeped in meter and meaning for my working class tastes, but Bob had a way with the pen and page.
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It tackles a simple problem but once you start using it you'll realize how much more convenient it can be compared to email or firing up a file sharing website to manually upload a file. Its simplicity reminds me of Dropbox. You get 1GB of free storage and can manage every file you upload with Droplr through a well-designed web interface.
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I've been using Droplr for a while on OS X and it is really great for sharing files fast. There's also CloudApp (http://getcloudapp.com/) on the Mac but I prefer Droplr because their app has a smaller memory footprint although both services work very similarly.
As recommended by Mario/Jose, Droplr is a nifty little tool to grab and share screenshots in a snap.
But I don't want to make a Twitter account ...
Maybe I'm not investigating enough... but I'm having trouble distinguishing the purposes of these apps and Dropbox & Evernote...
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is this really worthy of el'Reg?
Bad comments by people who dont understand and or/ they are just pissed of that their mate 'Dave' cant clock them in when they are running late.
the only issue here which has been risen above is, the way the data is stored once taken, in this day and age, thats the only thing you can argue over.
Good point, link it to immigration, do that for eeeevvery system :)
Get rid of unions full stop, there all waste of time and create hassle and end up with someone trying tpo make a point and then a load of sheep following, this is the job now, like it or lump it.
So if these blocks are being put in place.
Why hasn't a system been put in place to stop ever piece of spam/malware/DDOS event from coming up or going down someones line already,
surely stop these first as they have a larger financial and social impact on the world, porn can come second.....
So you cant walk up to a drive thru or use a pedal bike as... there is no pavement and cars need to pull up close to collect there order... is there reason, health and safety
so i can be served on a motorbike, open face helmet drinking my shake or eating a Very hot apple slice....
Ok you say, you wouldnt do that... but you munch on your chips or sip your drink in your car....so.....
come on, lets get a test going, who's got a road legal go kart, quad, mobility scooter, SEGWAY it!!!!????
"Rivals may feel Microsoft Microsoft has thumbed through its playbook of moves dedicated to making sure its own services behave beautifully under Windows"
And whats wrong with that, if i had a windows phone....
Um... isnt that what Apple always does;
I have given up trying to get a iphone working without using itunes, apple tv - without itunes, mums ipad calendar and email sync without 3rd party apps, connecting an apple screen to a non apple device.....
Give up
I am seriously thinking to just dump all this social network lark, I only use it to keep up with people who I actually know and talk to, I am not a friend hawk and am proud to say I have 70 something people as friends (i got to 200 and though, this is bulsh*t, delete, delete, delete - amazingly there people who i actually see/speak to/ know! (I know you, your friend of a friend of a friend ... or yer i met you once 2 years ago - add me!)
FB, too many updates, at least give us the option to stick with the old visuals and you can still have you advanced backends.
Let things be, I don't want a time line, I don't want to be forced into sharing things, I don't want to be forced into having to administrate something in my own time, I don't want to know about someone bloody cats or baby pictures no matter how many times i select 'don't show me.....'
What if I don't want FB or the world to have a picture someone I know uploaded of me, I cant do much about it.
Still, daily, people don't realise that when you hit that upload button that content is no longer yours.
You are being a free ant in paid for work colony
Anyone ever seen the film Surrogates, I feel the time of younger and younger generations loosing the grasp on real socialising is falling.
Why cant 'social' networks connect, if that cant that not very social!
it would bring some competition into the area...
have Google's send a message to Facebook, Let some of the private social networks share images with the users friends on FB and Google.
The social network that is anything but social - if you not on it I cant add you as a friend thus I am not interested in you.
Let me guess, you use an apple pc?
another story of a user not fully understanding what they are dealing with and trying to push on.
dont like it dont buy it
To put the record straight, 9/11 happened in America
In England we refer to it as the London terror bombing.
We don't use/associate what people call 7/7 with England, its an American thing, not British.
I hardly watch live tv, the news is the only live or none repeated thing these days
why should I pay so more crappy reality shows like strictly are made that I will never watch,
You have to eat the sim card apparently
waste of typing and video
both the writer and video person (may be the same i cant be bothed to look) are looking far too deeply into this.
it doesnt understand what either are and what they actually do.
a monkey can pickup a car key and some annoying over hyped human will go look, wow, this monkey can drive!
If anyone trys to sell me a phone and mentions the words apps they would get a wet fish slap.
I think 99% of apps are stupid and useless - just time wasting or a fad.
1% of apps are sweeeeeet and I would love just to give a little click and use them on my laptop or desktop.
Isn't this a variant of the adobe air type thing. cross platform applications that are small to run or even can be run from the web?
(god i hate adobe, just starting to remove all air/reader/flash programs and go for open source, there to big, clunky and always need updating)
go back to looking at the original unlocking instructions on XDA for android devices, this will put a new bootloader on and then you can go from there, check if it works on your hardware first of course
gone are the days of manual instal
download there app from the market,
it will then list the builds you can install, select the one, and then when it restarts you have your new build.
Used them since my G1 and they do very good work.
I still cant find any real/actual information on why office 2010 is better then 2003. 2003 takes 2 or 3 seconds at max to loads, 2007 and 2010 takes 10 seconds.
ok we are on about seconds but in this world where we have the most powerful machines of all times i bet my old win3.5 with mono screen laptop boots and loads office(equivalent) quicker
With the ribbon, why cant i drag and drop sections about and have a simple button to reset it on the main file menu. Who do MS ask for input into there new products, themselves!!!?
cant i just have something that runs allot smoother but without all the add on crap a 'normal' person using wants, say i just want to write a standard doc, abit of colour text, bullet points different fonts and i may splash out an put a picture in
finally what is with the default paper size, i have bought a Uk product, give me A4 not dam Letter and why do they think i need a 2.5cm border - waste - wak it down to 1cm all round thank you!
When you say stick with the plastic, prices on the shelf already include a 'plastic' handling charge, if you use cash you can get upto 5.4% off at the checkout just by asking.
Mr anonymously
get a life.
paris, because i am a dick.
funny name! ponder on changing myn now
so apple made smart phones....nope
they just marketed there first one well and gave loads away to celebs which then it caught on with all the 'hello' people then 'business' people picked them up.
nokia smartphones, ones with a full keyboard on, windoze mobile, not herd of any of these then i take it.
Typical Uk
UK - 'Well if you promise then things wil be ok wont they mr Googl 'e' woogalee'
Google-' Er, Yer, Sure Sir, We will do that for you.'
'Uk - 'Gooood, now, anyone want a cookie?'
Google - 'MEE and when i am finnish ma cookie i'm gunna play with your data until i am bord then i might bin it'.
Well done France, ServiceWith* is right, atleast there making a point.
money money
If you want to give me a 5er i will light my cigi with it, i wont use my own 5er though. ........
umm ooook..
Yes officer that is a wire you can see coming out from my coat. Or, yes officer that is an electrical device you have found hidden on me and not its not my phone.
One sure way to get your flight ontime without increasing hassle...not
I never herd of it
Great advertising/publicity Repeat. Sorry BBC.
I get the word Repeat and BBC muddled these days.
Ok things are getting smaller. take a look at the first image above, its look to patrude a good couple of mm up from the base of the head, the middle image looks slightly flatter and the final *new* image looks the the screw head is only about 1or2mm deep, thus smaller gadgets need smaller componants. small compoanants needs small things to hold them together.
its ok making things small, but you gota make them tuff.. perhaps a torx head isnt as strong once you start to machine the head thinner....? thus a redesign of a stronger design is needed.
But yeh, they wana stop you opening up there 'majic box'!
me and dad went in to get some bits for our classic astons that we know they stock (standard generic parts) just didnt know where in the store layout. Assistant persisted that he wanted to know make model and everything even though we just needed to be pointed in the right direction...so....
Staff: what car have you got
dad: Aston Martin DB6
Sales: Hmm
Sales: Right, thats under Jaguar
Me: AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA,
I now am in a hosting company and its supriseing who will forget or ignore the warning emails that are sent out months before hand.
Halfords is like pc word - have a look at there products, right so thats the most i should be paying for it, wheres wilko's/maplins?
really, just really!!!!!!!!!
so are they saying that everyone else (banks, councils, hospitals) are destorying there data in correctly..unsafely,,,.. When i worked for the NHS we paid £50 a unit for the HDD to be shredded and the machines recyled - why cant they jsut do that....?
Like some of the above have said, i suppose its the consultancy fees and the server is going to the 'destroying centre' in a limo with bodyguard and escort (police on, not the other)
Renault must have the same electricians as Alpha.
They still wont sort my bloody windows out though, freakin design floor is going to cost me £498! on a car that only worth £1500 now.
normal apple isuer
Something has gone wrong, it cant be my fault!
Electrics do work 'better' at lower temps (to an extent) its the moisture/condensation.... that buggers things
I agree
but only half, so if i am not a company, gov, charity or whatever...
so....what do i name my personal website, websitename.uk i would of though but its websitename.co.uk now but i dont want any thing else added in before the uk to certifiy its a personal site either, you can get .de or .ae and they dont have to have gov or whatever infornt of them, who actually decided this was the way it was actually going to be as perhaps they should rethink it.
whats the most annoying one you can get whilst thinking of it, ok the min is 2 charectors but whats the max? http://www.ukgoverment.SnuggleUpWithMeMrBanker.gov.bnk.uk
On another path i take it no one has gone to stirling.co.uk instead of stirling.ac.uk then........
And..No, no paris. i still have somewhat of a brain and self respect left.
300K apps
I said ths to someone the other day and they couldnt answer me. Sell me this oh so great phone without mentioning apps......
wow the iphony has 275K off apps that just replicate what the others do and if your thick enough to need an app that reminds you of your period or car park reminder is i guess there is just no hope for some people. Android actually have apps that you can use daily and not for thick'os - and at the end fo the day if you cant find a app you can just make one yourself.
Good point
Internet shopping, you just cant get ya hands on the physical thing to decide you choices.
Good point, if i didnt have a car or live close thats a very good idea. also you could just tag things for you shop at the end of the week.
Because you have had papers from them to stop licking her ass
The google world
"Our final aim is to delete the data" after we have collated the information we need and copied to its required 3rd part company.
At the end of the day we only know what we are told.
..And I cant blame google for collecting OPEN wireless info, i would, anyone with wireless activated on there phone walking around picks this info up, what we do with it is different. .
# Inquirer HTC announces European Aria, the Gratia
5 years..
is that before or after you have had 5 new usb flash drives as they keep on dying or get a static shock. usb flash is not longterm storage.
Its massize
lookin at the thickness of the case you may aswell carry a fullsize laptop and a netbook around with youhttp://www.reghardware.com/Design/graphics/icons/comment/thumb_down_32.png
Ban them full stop
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/thumb_down_32.png I get annoyed enough on the train when people feel the need to shout or atleast talk louder then required about a subject i dont really want to be hearing, actually whatever the subject is i dont care, i dont buy heat! it is possible to leave you phone and spesh if going on holiday.
Do roaming charges apply whislt int he plane?
If they do go ahead with it, make them pay. i dont want my seat price going up for the offchance i might need to make a call.
Scene is real
It actually does exists and goes:
Scene > other FTP > torrent > Http download > then lowest of the gnutella style network. I wondered we would start hearing about scene takedowns.
119 applications you dont really need, that can be done on 119 other things if you didn need them


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A few airline fees are rising and there's talk of even more hikes. But one carrier is reversing the trend. Listen: Airfare analyst Rick Seaney says, watch out! 10 common screw-ups of holiday travelers Southwest The popular Texas-based carrier will raise fees for transporting pets in the cabin next year (the airline does not allow pets to … Read Airline Fee Update: What's Going Up, What's Going Down
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SPDY : Google wants to make the web twice as fast
Google wants to seriously step on the accelerator for communications between Web servers and browsers. Through their SPDY project, Google is working on the development of a protocol which will perhaps help HTTP with its current hard work.
It appears that for Google, the Web is just marking time rather than powering ahead. Unhappy with its current speed, they have decided to try and speed it up through a new research project started a few months ago. SPDY, pronounced SPeeDY, has the aim of making the Web twice as fast as it currently is.
To assist the hard work being done by HTTP
SPDY is presented as a communications protocol running at the Session layer of the OSI model, while http sends HTML pages across the Application layer (the last). While Google recognises the advantages of the HyperText Transfer Protocol, they are also conscientious of the fact that the protocol became the Web standard in 1996. With SPDY they aren't looking to reinvent the wheel, but rather give it a push in the right direction. This means that the time has not yet come when you will have to enter web addresses SPDY://www... replacing the current HTTP://www...
According to Google, SPDY has the aim of transporting content across the Web. The protocol specifically targets a reduction in latency time through functions like stream multiplexing, request prioritisation and the compression of HTTP headers.
Tests have already been performed in experimental conditions between a prototype Web server and a Google Chrome browser using the SPDY protocol. According to Google, the first results are encouraging with the web page load time speed being decreased in the order of 55% to some of the worlds most important web sites. It will be interesting to see whether Google is aiming to allow the use of SPDY only with Google Chrome, or whether they will be opening it up to the advantage of other browsers.
The release was made on the official Chromium blog, the open source arm of the browser, with Google pointing interested parties towards the SPDY documentation so that they can leave their comments. The source code to activate SPDY in Google Chrome has been provided, with this to be soon followed by a Web server.
Last June, Google started to make noises about speeding up the web by calling on developers to leave their contributions, with the aim being to bring all of these ideas together. A few different ideas were picked up like the update of the TCP/IP protocol and the AppCache technology in HTML 5 so that developers can write JavaScript heavy web applications which execute quickly. It appears that at this time Google already had the idea of bringing together a project like SPDY.
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I remember when I bought vacuum tubes to fix my
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But I must admit, that the last time that I could have just
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I went out and bought a new unit.
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Borrowing Collections for Exhibition
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Borrowing Collections
The Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), loans objects from its collections for temporary exhibits to qualifying museums. While the Department's goal is to accommodate qualified borrowers, the volume and timing of submissions often make it impossible to approve all requests. Requests submitted at least 18 to 24 months prior to the proposed shipping date and which are accompanied by clear intellectual justification and evidence of budgetary planning for conservation, bracket-making and packing and shipping will have the best chance of being approved.
Based on the volume of loan requests currently received and being processed for 2013 and 2014, as of Sept. 12, 2013, the Department of Anthropology will not be accepting or reviewing any additional loan requests until July 1, 2014. Proposals received in July 2014 should be for loans that ship no sooner than June of 2015. International loans will require additional time beyond 11 months. Please plan accordingly.
Loan requests are initiated by the submission of a Preliminary Loan Request Form. Please click here to initiate a loan request. This form asks for basic information about the exhibit dates, intent, venue(s), the number of objects requested, and, if known, their catalog numbers. This initial document is intended to help the borrower compile information needed for a successful loan request. It also provides the Department of Anthropology with a general sense of the nature and scope of incoming loan requests. After review by Department staff, borrowers whose requests meet Departmental standards will be directed to move forward to Active Loan Review status. Preliminary loan requests will be routed to our Registrar, Susan Crawford.
We strongly encourage borrowers to consult with appropriate Department curator(s) and, if possible, visit the collections. Borrowers are also encouraged to use our online database, or, if needed, request a report from our collections database. It has been our experience that such preparation facilitates the processing and evaluation of loan requests.
For detailed guidelines on the overall loan request process please refer to the Department of Anthropology Active Loan Status/Loan Process Information document.
- For information on our collections, search our online database. Be advised that due to frequently incomplete database records, and the amplitude of our collections, not all prospective borrowers will be able to select specific objects based only on the online records. Therefore, we encourage prospective borrowers to visit to the collection.
- To request a report or object list from our collections database, please fill out a printout request form.
- To schedule an appointment to visit the collections please fill out an appointment request form.
- Feel free to contact Anthropology Department staff members with questions.
For more details on loan requirements and procedures, please refer to the following documents:
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- Insurance Requirements for Outgoing Loans
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- Contractor Requirements
If you would like further information regarding our loan program, please contact:
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Business report 2009: "The victims in the UK market have been more local and free than national and paid"
Mon, 2009-11-23 13:07 — Valerie Arnould
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An interview with Charles Ross, director, Ocean Strategy*
WAN-IFRA: "As many as five national newspapers could fold within two years in a worst-case scenario as the medium suffers unprecedented carnage", Guardian News & Media executive Emily Bell has warned in October 2008. A year after, what has really happened? It sounds that the free newspaper market took the worst hit.
Charles Ross: Downturns are market leaders' environments where scale offers some protection. Inevitably leading national publishers investing in their products (NI and DMGT) are faring better, while those less crucial for the ad schedule are suffering (Independent). Popular papers also fare better with less dependency on advertising.
After a year of recession, the victims in the UK market have been more local and free than national and paid. The majority of the woes of the market are cyclical rather than structural, and therefore likely to start recovering in line with the economy. Those with higher subscriptions levels or other consumer revenues have had an easier time than those heavily advertising-dependent. Undoubtedly worst hit are those dependent on classified revenues, not only cyclical, but also more subject to structural change forced by digital disruption.
This pattern was predictable at the outset of the downturn, of all the business models out there a local free with substantial reliance on recruitment and property, was always going to have been one of the low performers through the recession.
The lasting legacy of the downturn will be that publishers will constantly review their portfolio and products and take action to keep brands as healthy as possible.
WAN-IFRA: The Daily Mail & General Trust, Johnston Press's, Independent News & Media, Mecom and Newsquest were struggling in 2008 and 2009 with a difficult financial situation, due to big debts. They have all downsized and cut costs, have they managed to improve their financial situation?
The downturn has forced regional publisher margins down from the highly profitable (ca. 30%) to more normal levels (ca. 10%). Problems have come from over-leveraged owners carrying significant debt from high-multiple purchases.
All publishers have cut costs, which obviously improves short-term financial positions that will improve further with the cycle. However, a cost-focused strategy, while pertinent now, needs to be complemented with investment in brands, marketing, product and new revenue opportunities for newspapers to have a sustainable future. Investors in content such as NI and DMGT are seeing the results in the relatively stable sale of their key brands, while elsewhere this is not the case. This is a problem as only healthy brands provide the growth platform for diverse new revenue streams (digital, enterprise, brand extensions, paywalls) to build from and spin-off. With solid core brands the sustainability of the newspaper sector (both local and national) should not be in doubt.
WAN-IFRA: The UK market is often seen as a test market in terms of media development, the Internet now accounts for 23.5% of all advertising money spent in the UK, while TV ad spend accounts for 21.9% of marketing budgets. So UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on Internet advertising than on television advertising. How is the ad situation for national and regional newspapers? Are they able/doing enough to capture a part of those online budgets?
Charles Ross: The success of newspaper publishers online varies widely. Nationals are better positioned than local players, with some local publishers only now waking up to the loss of revenue to Google. The most successful have diversified, can sell all platforms in an integrated way and have a tight control of their inventory and prices. While revenues can be maximised, even at best, online advertising revenues will never replace lost print ad revenues.
Online may be the largest ad channel (using a blunt catch-all definition) and this may well be prescient, but it is not particularly relevant, with on-line for many media providers simply being an additional channel of content distribution.
An area where online does have significant impact is in the disruption of purchasing processes, which can in some cases entirely alter a process and remove the need for marketing channels. Think of secondary ticketing sites like Seatwave; many years ago spare tickets for a concert might have been advertised in a local paper, then e-bay while now online offers the most efficient solution. So Online's impact on advertising is only part of the issue for traditional media, especially those media playing a key role close to the purchase.
WAN-IFRA: There was a lot of discussion concerning the regional newspapers this year: the need for more consolidation, the battle about the obligation to publish legal notice in those papers, the competition on local news and of course the fact that they are losing their classifieds revenue… but it's complicated for us to understand where they stand really, could you tell us how what is the outlook for the local papers?
Charles Ross: This is without question a watershed period for the local press in the UK. The majority of lost revenue is, in Ocean's view, cyclical. However, on top of this we are seeing all categories (including property, motors and recruitment) shift to become 'display' categories in regional press. Therefore the key value is their audience, which with declining circulations means local papers risk losing their position as the best route to local markets.
Obviously the industry should be allowed to consolidate, as no media company operates in a vacuum in this day and age, and online and other competition for revenue is everywhere. Local papers operate in highly fragmented media markets with multiple options open to advertisers and consumers. However, combining declining groups together does not solve the industry's problems nor change the impact of cyclical and structural change.
The future of local press can, with investment in the right strategies for maximising their print revenues and building strong new revenues, be solid. But continued cost-cutting and limited/no investment in the right talent and strategies to develop new offers and revenues locally will lead to failure.
WAN-IFRA: Circulation is a major concern with a continuous decline, what is you own opinion on the cause of this decline that could be specific to the UK and would you say that the growing web audience is compensating for most of the big newspapers? What is your own position on the possibility to implement paid content on the existing publisher websites?
Charles Ross: In any developed market, print circulation will slowly decline (for the print brands investing in products and more rapidly for those milking cash cows), while growth is possible and likely in immature print markets (BRIC regions). The causes are multiple including fragmentation, convergence and social change.
It is clear that publishers' web audiences have lower value than print audiences, and cannot fully compensate for lost revenues from print's decline. Online newspaper audiences, evident in the figures of their websites, are often larger than print audiences ever were. The problem for publishers is not size but monetisation and loyalty with regard to these audiences, hence the current focus on the paywall opportunity. Paywall strategies are sensible for any publisher with sufficient value in their content (high in value and low in number of users in specialised areas, while the opposite is the case in more general content areas) but the amount of this unique content within the inventory of most publishers is limited. It is therefore right to install mixed model paywall strategies, but the contribution from these will vary significantly by paper and should be seen simply as another necessary monetisation strategy.
* Ocean was founded in 2000 with the goal of providing tailored strategic advisory services exclusively for clients and investors in the media industry. Charles Ross joined Ocean Strategy from its foundation in 2000, having previously worked in media for more than a decade. Charles started his career at Thomson Regional Newspapers in 1990 and gained both HQ and operating centre experience in research, marketing and strategy. During his work with Ocean Strategy, Charles has worked on projects throughout all media sectors in the UK and internationally, as well as a wide range of strategic due diligence projects in the media sector.
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My Chess Story: I first went to the chess club at age 25 with a vague knowledge of the rules of chess, and was thrashed mercilessly and embarrassingly by a little Russian kid (1600-ish) and another girl rated about 1200. After reading half a dozen chess books and studying regularly with a few friends, I was rated in the mid 1700s within a year. I was just under 1800 when I joined CV.tv in Spring 2007 and watched a steady diet of Curtains and Zibbit videos. After studying Rudolf Spielmann's book The Art of Sacrifice, I started 2009 with a 15.5/19.0 streak in three tournaments against opposition rated 1900-2100, and gained 224 USCF rating points to surpass 2000. Since CV.tv was fundamental to my own progress, I hope to contribute videos that promote others' enjoyment and understanding of our game. Thank you! Training journal: [1]
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Complete 1.e4 e5 Opening Repertoire for Black
- 0. 1...e5 for Noobs 32:17 Comparison with the Sicilian defense, overview of all major variations, and the guiding philosophy behind the 1...e5 repertoire.
- 1. Intro and Scotch Game 22:03 Introduction to 1...e5, and an overview of the Mieses variation of the Scotch, recommending the solid plan 8...Nb6 intending Qe6 and d7-d5.
- 2. Two Knights, Ulvestad 25:57 Detailed analysis of the ambitious Ulvestad variation after the critical 4.Ng5.
- 3. Two Knights Defense 34:49 Covers [1] Giuoco Pianissimo by transposition (4.d3), [2] Modern Two Knights (4.d4 exd4 5.e5), and [3] Classical Two Knights (anti- Max Lange) (4.d4 exd4 5.O-O).
- 4. Danish, Goring, Ponziani 24:20 Recommends the "Capablanca defense" to the Danish/Goring gambits, and follows the Caro/Tarrasch gambit line against the Ponziani.
- 5. Vienna, Bishops, KGD 34:13 Presents the main lines against the Vienna gambit and a detailed counter to the KGD by transposition, recommended for White in GM Emms' Attacking with 1.e4.
- 6. King's Gambit, Center Game 32:48 Recommends the Modern defense to the King's Gambit with 2...d5 3.exd5 exf4, and the ...Be7 system against the Center Game.
- 7. Four Knights 33:29 Covers the Four Knights by touching on the [1] Glek system, [2] Halloween & Belgrade gambits, [3] Scotch 4N, and then focuses on [4] the "Pillsbury defense" to the Spanish 4N.
- 8. Ruy Lopez, Berlin defense sidelines 31:21 Coverage of the Ruy Lopez, Berlin variation, when White avoids the queenswap mainline.
- 9. Ruy Lopez, Berlin defense mainline 33:17 Overview of the Ruy Lopez, Berlin variation queenswap mainline, recommending the Be7 plan as played by GM Kritz.
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- 12/12/10 B vs 2100 my craziest fighting game 48:28 Crazy sacrifices from a desperate situation lead to a tense defense in severe time trouble.
Danish Gambit
- 9/9/08 Sacrificial Danish gambit 9:30 Blitz quickie featuring a couple intuitive knight sacrifices.
Queen's Gambit
- 8/28/11 W vs 2000 (QGD Exchange) 25:22 My first OTB rated game in the QGD featured an intuitive knight sacrifice out of the opening.
- 9/24/11 W vs 2100 Nimzo 4.e3 24:04 After getting a space advantage I played impatient and careless moves to get to a critical situation.
Open Game
- 9/2/11 B vs 2000 Italian Game 32:41 An experiment with long castles against a strong 12-year old.
- 9/13/11 B vs 2050 Italian Game 27:48 Another experiment with long castles against another strong 12-year old.
- 9/1/10 my best-played game??! W vs 2090 20:38 A strategically clean game against an overconfident opponent.
- 10/9/10 B vs 1500 Berlin with Re1 20:05 Black can find it difficult to play for a win in this opening.
Philidor Defence (by transposition)
- 5/25/08 initiative lesson (1200-1600) 18:06 An intuitive sacrifice leads to an unstoppable initiative.
- 7/15/09 W vs 2000 Philidor/Pirc opening. 26:34 A positional pawn sacrifice for an advanced knight outpost leads to a mating attack. This was the game that put me over 2000 USCF rating.
Pirc, Holmov
- 4/25/09 White vs 2136 (Pirc, Holmov) 18:36 Interesting opening sacrifice for development where one Black misstep is fatal.
Scandinavian Defense
- 1/18/09 B vs. 2150 G/90 Scandin Nf6 22:40 The old guy misplays the opening but doesn't miss his chance.
- 4/24/10 the importance of being objective! 24:21 A video on remaining calm and confident when the opponent throws the kitchen sink at you.
Sicilian Defence
- 12/14/08 Spielmann inspiration 9:27 A couple blitz quickies featuring gambit/sacrificial opening play.
- [2] FM D. Monokroussos analyzes my game against F.G.
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Art of Sacrifice by Rudolf Spielmann
I have now completed a video series covering all 37 games in this book, totaling almost 9 hours. I made the first 14 videos in December 2008, while still officially a Class "B" player. The quality is up and down, but I would single out 19, 24, and 12 as a few of the better ones. A few that are not so good are 4, 18, and 27.
As a training idea, I can recommend going over the raw game score without annotations and without an engine. Try to figure out the game for yourself-- especially try to see where the loser could have (1) avoided problems in the first place and (2) defused Spielmann's initiative. After you have reached your own conclusions, you can consult the video (or the book or an engine) to compare your conclusions. Biography by Wikipedia[3]
Sham Sacrifices
Positional Sacrifice: leads to forced recovery of the sacrificed material with an improvement in position.
Game 1 8:44 Spielmann - Pirc, 1931
Game 2 10:10 Spielmann - Schlecter, 1906
Game 3 13:11 Pirc - Spielmann, 1931
Sacrifice for Gain: leads to an advantage in material, the sacrificed material being regained by force and with interest.
Game 4 12:31 Bogolyubov - Spielmann, 1927
Game 5 10:58 Spielmann - Muller, 1933
Mating Sacrifice: leads to checkmate or to a decisive gain of material.
Game 6 21:16 Spielmann - Honlinger, 1929
Game 7 12:19 Spielmann - Tartakower, 1925
Game 8 11:22 Spielmann - Grunfeld, 1929
Game 9 12:17 Spielmann - L'hermet, 1927
Real Sacrifices
Sacrifice for Development: aims at an unnatural acceleration of one's development.
Game 10 16:26 Schories - Spielmann, 1905
Game 11 11:46 Bernstein - Spielmann, 1906 Brief biographical sketch. Tarrasch gambit (QGD).
Obstructive Sacrifice: slows down the opponent's development.
Game 12 9:23 Spielmann - Landau, 1933
Game 13 16:16 Spielmann - Honlinger, 1933
Game 14 16:08 Spielmann - Bogolyubov, 1932
Game 15 13:05 Spielmann - Walter, 1928
Preventive (Anti-Castling) Sacrifice: intended to prevent the opponent from castling.
Game 16 16:28 Spielmann - Duras, 1905
Game 17 13:42 Spielmann - Mieses, 1910
Game 18 18:05 Mieses - Spielmann, 1910
Game 19 25:10 Gereben - Spielmann, 1934
Line-Clearance Sacrifice: aims at the early employment of rooks on open lines.
Game 20 10:06 Spielmann - Flamberg, 1914
Game 21 16:55 Spielmann - Eljaschoff, 1903
Game 22 12:56 Spielmann - Grunfeld, 1922
Vacating Sacrifice: procures access for a particular unit to a more favorable square.
Game 23 19:30 Spielmann - Janowski, 1907
Game 24 17:19 Spielmann - Reti, 1912
Deflecting or Decoy Sacrifice: lures or diverts enemy forces from the main field of battle.
Game 25 15:18 Spielmann - Forgacs, 1910
(Castled) King's Field Sacrifice: breaks up the hostile King's castled position.
Game 26 18:16 Spielmann - Dekker, 1934
Game 27 10:38 Leonhardt - Spielmann, 1906
Game 28 11:45 Spielmann - Duras, 1907
Game 29 13:16 Spielmann - Bogolyubov, 1932
Game 30 16:52 Becker - Spielmann, 1926
King-Hunt Sacrifice: drives the enemy King into the open, where it is exposed to danger.
Game 31 24:27 A. Rubinstein - Spielmann, 1912
Game 32 15:56 Spielmann - S. Rubinstein, 1933
The Exchange Sacrifice
Game 33 15:24 Treybal - Spielmann, 1922
Game 34 12:24 Spielmann - Tarrasch, 1923
Game 35 10:25 Spielmann - Tartakower, 1909
The Queen Sacrifice
Game 36 15:08 Spielmann - Maroczy, 1907
Game 37 10:32 Spielmann - Moeller, 1920
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Hi folks,
Today's post on MSExchangeTeam was about the new features of OAB in Exchange Server 2013 and that will improve a lot. Just in case I created a summary for you that is coming from 2007/2010 based on their post.
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All kudos for the information for Bhalchandra Atre who wrote the original post.
Besides of the information provided by the MSExchangeTeam post I would like to reinforce a few points, as follows:
Here is the original post with deeper details about the improvements: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/26/oab-in-exchange-server-2013.aspx
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Damage Control Gone Wrong
Rehberg's recent focus in the media on cracking down on lawsuits against the government is a classic example of abysmal damage control.
Rehberg seems to be attempting to get on the other side of the issue of "lawsuits against the government" by appearing to crack down on them. By doing so, one presumes, he hopes to neutralize some of the negative sentiment he dredged up over his own lawsuit against the Billings, MT firefighters who risked their lives to save his scrub brush. No doubt Rehberg has polling which shows how damaging his lawsuit could be to his U.S. Senate campaign against the popular Jon Tester.
The most recent example of Rehberg's behavior can be found in today's Missoulian, which reports that Rep. Denny Rehberg [is] one of 38 co-sponsors of the Government Litigation Savings Act that's intended to reform the Equal Access to Justice Act, which says any government agency that loses a lawsuit to a private individual, group or business must pay the legal costs of the winner.
But for such a practiced practitioner of political games, Rehberg has violated the cardinal rule of Congressional crisis management: If you don't have anything to hide, don't behave like you do. By signing on to this bill, and pushing it in the press at every opportunity, Rehberg appears overeager– and that is causing his strategy to backfire. His focus on cracking down on lawsuits against the government is only serving to recall in voters' minds Rehberg's own lawsuit against Billings' city firefighters.


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Scotland's Inn at the top
PLACES at the end of places have held a special fascination for me and John o'Groats has always been particularly alluring.
It's the northernmost spot on the British mainland and gazing out over an endless sea, with nothing between you and the Arctic wastes, seems deeply romantic.
Wrong on both counts: John o'Groats is the most northerly settlement, with a population of 310 who live on a sprawling, treeless stretch of bleakness and it doesn't face the open sea but the numerous islands across the Pentland Firth.
However, it has long been a magnet for End-to-Enders, cyclists and walkers arriving from Land's End. Everyone else must fly to Inverness and drive for two and a half hours. If only some enterprising airline would lay on flights to Wick, just 12 miles away.
In 1875, a hotel in the grand Scottish baronial style opened on the seafront, a place of elegant repose for visitors.
Over the years it changed ownership many times. Often called "one of the UK's most famous landmarks" it sadly fell into disrepair and had to close.
Rescue has come in the form of self-catering specialist Natural Retreats, who first built 23 self-catering lodges in the surrounding area before focusing on the hotel.
After a £7million two-year refurbishment, the hotel, now called The Inn, is back in business after a grand opening last month.
"It would have been cheaper to knock it down," one of the refurbishment team confided.
Fortunately they didn't and the imposing exterior remains. Next to it are what look like five large, brightly coloured sheds which look as if they were towed from Iceland across the North Sea. The sheds are in fact tofts, housing new selfcatering apartments (there are 17 throughout The Inn) with between one and four double bedrooms.
The style is modish, urban chic. Wherever possible, the designers, Manchester-based NoChintz, have used materials such as local larch wood and Caithness stone and while not entirely Scottish, nearly all of it is at least British-made.
The L-shaped couches and chaise longues are covered in Harris tweed in muted shades of smoke and dusty heather.
The main octagonal tower houses a stunning self-catering penthouse suite with a beamed ceiling and dressing room. You can see where the millions went.
There are two libraries but you won't find a cosy bar to retreat to after a walk and The Storehouse Caf© on-site is not open at night. However, there are plans to open a restaurant and a bar in the near future.
So what is there to do in John o'Groats? Well, you may find yourself pondering the views to the Pentland Firth, and the isle of Stroma lies only three miles away, while Orkney is eight. You can take trips around Stroma in a 500 horsepower rigid inflatable boat on a sea safari around the coast.
After being kitted-out in high-vis suits and lifejackets hired from Natural Retreats' on-site shop, we clambered down from the quay for a high-speed whizz eastwards to Duncansby Stacks, 6,000-year-old pillars of rock standing 200m from shore.
The Queen Mother would often walk the 300 yards to the beach for shells to adorn lamps and picture frames.
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At the right time of year you can spot dolphins, and if the weather's right, Willy the skipper and boatman Gordon will take you to the Swelkie, the point where the North Atlantic meets the North Sea to form a mini waterfall.
The real most northerly point is Dunnet Head, a 25-minute drive west where the wind and rain cut through you.
A couple of miles further west is the Castle of Mey, former holiday home of the late Queen Mother, the only home she ever owned in her own right. As castles go it is small, just 37 rooms, and the tour is astonishingly intimate. Her familiar swing coats and hats still hang in her signature powder-blue bedrooms.
She also loved joke gifts so gonks sit beside antiques and a priceless 14th century Flemish tapestry is topped off with a Loch Ness monster toy.
The Queen Mother would often walk the 300 yards to the beach for shells to adorn lamps and picture frames.
There's no such frippery on display at The Inn. It may not be a cosy bolthole where you can sink into a squashy sofa and sip a dram in front of an open fire but after a scenic stroll along the windswept coast it was wonderful to return to such contemporary surroundings.
And at least we didn't have to walk or cycle 874 miles to reach this special place.
easyJet (0843 104 5000/easyjet.com) offers return flights from Gatwick to Inverness from £75. Natural Retreats (0843 636 7927/naturalretreats.co.uk) offers doubles from £70 per night (two sharing), self-catering


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After ACL Surgery, Another Knee Injury Likely, Study Suggests
Athletes who return to sports should take precautions, researcher advises
THURSDAY, July 11 (HealthDay News) -- Athletes who have anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery are six times more likely to suffer another ACL injury within two years than someone who has never had such an injury, a new study finds.
An ACL injury is a common type of knee injury in athletes.
"Even though additional research still needs to be performed to support our findings, our data does provide early evidence for re-examining current rehabilitation and return-to-sport protocols following [ACL reconstruction]," said study author Mark Paterno, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
The study included 59 females and 19 males, aged 10 to 25, who underwent ACL reconstruction and returned to sports, and a control group of 47 people who had never suffered an ACL injury.
After two years, 23 of those in the reconstruction group and four of the people in the control group had suffered an ACL injury. Overall, 29.5 percent of athletes suffered a second ACL injury within two years of returning to sports, with 9 percent re-injuring the same knee and 20.5 percent suffering an injury to the opposite knee.
Within the ACL reconstruction group, females were twice as likely as males to suffer an injury to the opposite knee, according to the study.
The findings are scheduled for presentation Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine in Chicago.
"In our study, female athletes after [ACL reconstruction] demonstrated more than four times greater rate of injury within 24 months than their healthy counterparts," Paterno said in a society news release.
The data highlights the fact that after ACL reconstruction, patients who return to playing sports are at greater risk for injury and should take appropriate precautions, he added.
Data and conclusions presented at meetings should be considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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