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The National Hockey League today announced its three finalists for the Mark Messier Leadership Award, presented annually to "the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on a
CSNWashington.com Capitals Insider Chuck Gormley will evaluate the 2011-12 performance of each player on the Caps roster. One breakdown will occur every weekday in alphabetical order.
With the 11th and 16th overall picks, Capitals fans can only hope that the 2012 NHL entry draft in Pittsburgh on June 22 and June 23 produces the kind of talent that came out of the famed class of
He may not have used the word guarantee, but the comments Brooks Laich made on Wednesday morning regarding the Capitals playoff chances certainly achieved the same effect.


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Tom Hanks is deciding the fate of a man accused of battering a woman -- TMZ has learned, the Academy Award winning actor is serving as a juror in an intense domestic violence case ... and he's doing a bang-up job.
We're told Hanks is in the zone right now in the jury box, assiduously taking notes about the case.
He's keeping things casual though, wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, dark blue jeans, and black-rimmed glasses.
We're told he's being VERY attentive, hanging on every word of witness testimony.
Or maybe he's just acting. He's good at that.
"...and he's doing a "bang-up" job? Is that an intentional pun on a story of domestic violence? If no, it is an ufortunate choice and you should be changed; if yes, it is in really poor taste, should be changed immediately. My money is on yes but am hoping it was just a mistake.
and I'm sure his liberal attitude will persuade the rest of the jury to vote the way HE wants to see it go. I'm sure the guilty party will walk
That must not be the picture of him at his jury duty, he's not wearing a long sleeve black shirt or blue jeans.
Why would TMZ print news that could lead to a mistrial because everone's focus will be on the jury instead of the evidence, not to mention Hank's fans trying to find the courtroom so they can watch. It seems extremenly careless of you, unless the subject is just to create more sensational news to print!
That photo shopped head looks a bit large for the body it's pasted on. If your going to create fake pictures you could at least do a convincing job of it.
It's up to the discretion of the trial court to decide if the jurors can or can't take notes. As in the case of Jodi Arias, the jurors did take notes.

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Shamanism and Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Self After Trauma
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Return to Christ
This is not a "Christian" Work, per say. This is about CHRIST. The real Christ figure, which is misrepresented by "Christianity." Now, onward. This is
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Dec 22, 2011
Our Modern World is Going Through Some Changes
A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world
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The state of the Dolphins free safety position
Earlier tonight, Adam Schefter reported that the St. Louis Rams have released veteran free safety O.J. Atogwe. In the past two offseasons many fans let it be known their desire for the Dolphins to pursue Atogwe, as the free safety position has been a hole on this roster for several years.
Ultimately, though, upper management never made a serious play for Atogwe. Instead, they decided to bring in Gibril Wilson two years ago, who plagued the secondary with missed tackles and appalling coverage all of 2009, and last offseason, they chose to stay out of the Atogwe sweepstakes and entrusted the starting position to second-year safety Chris Clemons.
That decision should probably be looked at under a positive light, as Clemons was far from a disappointment and rookie Reshad Jones exhibited enough potential to forecast a stiff competition for the starting free safety job in this year's training camp. Still though, both have a long way to go before we can proclaim that the Dolphins finally have themselves a solid starter at free safety. So when a sure bet like Atogwe becomes available, should Jeff Ireland seriously contemplate making a play for his services?
Matt Williamson of ESPN's Scouts Inc. told ESPN's AFC East Blog yesterday that "Miami's defense is one good free safety away from being one of the elite units in 2011." In his six seasons in St. Louis, Atogwe totaled 390 tackles, 22 interceptions, and broke up 38 passes. I would say that would qualify as a good safety. If it's really that simple, should Stephen Ross open up the checkbook for a likely pricey contract if it means the Dolphins would project as an elite defense in 2011?


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Tennis played in the warm Mediterranean air, on clay courts that glow red in the Sicilian sun. Let your game be inspired by the beautiful island views and the friendly expertise of our professional coaching team.
The six clay tennis courts, flood lit in the evening for extended play and superbly maintained, are set amidst the Sicilian countryside and enjoy impressive mountain views. The Verdura Tennis Academy is based at a specially built clubhouse with changing facilities and a lounge, as well as a boutique shop for equipment hire and sales (e.g. Babolat and Wilson racket rental and sales); restringing services are also available.
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You shouldn't be surprised when sparks fly, curly locks flow and boots stomp at YMP's Taylor Swift themed camp. Romeos and Juliettes of all levels will take inspiration from Taylor's songs to find their musical passion. From "Tear Drops on my Guitar" to "We Are Never Getting Back Together," this camp will focus on the musical and song writing stylings of Taylor Swift.
Beginners will use Taylor's songs to learn the ins and outs of music including basic drums beats, guitar riffs and piano chords. Students will also study Taylor's unique song writing style and will have a chance to work with instructors on writing a song of their own.
More experienced musicians will work on their musical skills through T-Swift lenses as well. Playing a Taylor Swift song or breaking down her song structure to make their own, students will bring their musical talents to new heights. Infused with a country-pop twang, this camp is sure to make any music lover wonderstruck.
To sign up for the Instrument Specific Taylor Swift Camp (for Kindergarten-12th Grades) click here!
The Instrument Specific option for each camp will play songs by the specific band, theme or artist but instead of playing with a band they take classes together with students who are playing the same instrument as them (guitar, drums or piano). This option is ideal for students who are new to their instrument and is open to student who are entering Kindergarten-12th Grade in the Fall.
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News and notes on the Crew and Major League Soccer
The Columbus Dispatch - November 14, 2012 09:38 AM
Aaron Horton appears to be at a crossroads in his career with the Crew. After officially being credited with a minute of action as a rookie during 2011, the club's first Homegrown signee did not crack the first-team lineup in MLS this season.
Heading into the offseason, Horton expressed his frustration with the past year while head coach Robert Warzycha said the team's youngest player has some growing up to do.
"It doesn't make any sense to me," Horton said about his lack of time with the first team. "Last year I know I just came in and I played in one game for five minutes so I expected to play more this year. On top of that, I feel like I've gotten better, so to not get that is very disappointing. It is what it is. I just try to do all I can do and everything else is all out of my hands."
Horton said the coaches have told him that he needs to be staying after practice and working hard to improve his standing, and the 20-year-old forward said he has been doing that. When asked what Horton needs to do to see action next season, however, Warzycha pointed to the overall picture.
"He needs to start to be a professional player," the coach said. "He needs to find out how to be a professional player because he's not. His development is going to stop when he's not a professional player and that's where it starts. You get on the field when you do the right things, and when you don't do the right things you don't get on the field. He needs to be a professional. At this moment he is not."
Horton was temporarily loaned to the Dayton Dutch Lions in the early part of the season but had to be recalled when a wave of injuries hit the Crew roster. He saw action as a reserve in eight of the Crew's nine reserve league matches and scored one goal.
He also scored after coming off the bench in the Crew's 3-2 win in a friendly against Stoke City on July 24.
"It was a stressful year definitely, but at the same time I still learned a lot," he said. "I'm still young – I'm the youngest guy on the team. Playing with these guys at this level every day, it doesn't get much better than this. It's easy for me to keep learning from the older guys, but at the same time I do want to get my chance to play and get my chance to shine on the field or at least to get a chance. That's all I really want. I think everything else has been fine. I'm just looking for my chance, really."
Warzycha said youth is not an excuse.
"You have (rookie) Ben Speas, who comes every single day and tries to get better and you have Horton who is trying to be here but I don't think his desire is to be the best that he can," the coach said. "Maybe he thinks that he's young and he has time, but this opportunity is great and I don't think he's taking advantage of it as well as he should.
"He needs to see what the older players are doing and learn from them. It's been an entire year and I don't feel like he learned much from them."
Horton's contract situation for next season is unknown. The Crew is not releasing information on players until all roster decisions have been made.
MSU's Denicos Allen stopped Braxton Miller a yard short on fourth and 2 with 5:46 to play
Michigan State coach referred to second spot in BCS title game
The Blue Jackets will be without defenseman James Wisniewski for at least the next two games because of an upper body injury, coach Todd Richards said today.
Wisniewski was injured during Friday's 4-0 win over Minnesota - perhaps on a second-period check by Wild forward Matt Cooke -- but played 18 minutes, 43 seconds and finished with a plus-3 rating.
With Wisniewski injured, the Blue Jackets are expected to dress David Savard after four straight healthy scratches.
The Blue Jackets play in Pittsburgh on Monday, then return home to play New Jersey on Tuesday.
Wisniewski and rookie Ryan Murray have emerged in recent weeks as a very reliable defensive pair for Richards. In the last six games, Wisniewski had two assists and a plus-6 rating, while Murray had one goal, one assist and a plus-6 rating.
In 28 games this season ...
The Jackets went six weeks between back-to-back victories. There are mammals – rabbits, ferrets, weasels and even kangaroos – that have gestation periods that long. Go ahead, look it up.
In any case, another winning streak was finally born tonight in the Nationwide Arena, where the Jackets defeated the Minnesota Wild 4-0. A crowd of 11,319 braved apocalyptic weather to bear witness.
The wee winning streak is notable in that both victories were shutouts. Sergei Bobrovsky and Curtis McElhinney combined to beat Tampa Bay 1-0 in the Nationwide Arena Tuesday night. Bobrovsky (groin) went on injured reserve (where he will remain for 4-6 weeks) and McElhinney continued hot against the Wild.
The difference tonight was McElhinney (20 saves) got a lot of help from his teammates and his opponents. The Wild, coming off a stirring, 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks last night, were clearly deflated and definitely awful against the Jackets. Thanks for coming. Then again, did anyone see Dany Heatley? He was invisible, and he was not alone.
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On this day- May 21st, in 1979, inside a jury room 12
people were deliberating whether to find former Supervisor Dan White guilty of
murdering then Mayor George Moscone & gay rights leader, City Supervisor
Harvey Milk on the morning of November 27, 1978. White's attorney mounted what
became known as the "Twinkie defense", arguing that he had temporarily lost his
mind due to the sugary snacks he had consumed.
On the afternoon of May 21st, 1979, the jury, which
included no out Gay people, rendered its verdict finding White guilty of the
lesser charge of manslaughter, thus saving him from being sentenced to death.
The pain & shock over the assassinations of the 2
beloved progressive politicians still simmering, many Gay residents, as well as
straight allies, were angered & outraged by the outcome of White's murder
Thousands of people descended on the Castro, as planned,
the evening of May 21, 1979 & proceeded to march to the Civic Center, where
another large crowd had gathered to protest the jury's decision.
As evening came, emotions boiled over & the crowd
surged the building, smashing windows & trying to break through the front
doors. A line of police cars parked nearby were set on fire, sending smoke
& fire into the night sky.
In retaliation, police raided the Elephant Walk, a gay
bar in the heart of the Castro. The culmination of events became known as the
White Night Riots & it took decades before the rift between police &
the city's LGBT community would be healed.
Not all the protesters were part in the mayhem. A line of
people had locked arms in front of City Hall in an attempt to hold back the
crowd from doing further damage to the building.
It marked the last
time local gay people would be afraid to stand up and fight for their rights.
State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, then a public school
teacher, took part in the events of that night: "We were in no mood. This
guy had killed a hero of ours & a friend of ours & he got treated like
he had shoplifted. Dan White was a former cop & he got away with murder. In
a strange way I am grateful that when the verdict came out people were not just
silent. I am glad we were so vocal. I just thought it taught us you can not be
too docile. You really do have to be strong."
Mark Leno, now an openly gay man serving in the state
Senate: "The White Night Riots were the culmination of many changes that were
impacting the city at that time. It was as if it all came to a head through the
outrage of the injustice of Dan White's sentence. It was a jolt to the civic
fabric as if we had to experience all of that to be able to move forward to
become the city that we have become today. The experience I had at that time
continues to inform my public office today. That we have had to fight for every
right that we have gained & we have had to be vigilant every step of the
way so as not to ever lose anything we have again."
The next morning gay leaders convened in a committee room
in the Civic Center. Supervisor Harry Britt, who had replaced Milk made it
clear that nobody was to apologize for the riots. Britt: "Harvey Milk's
people do not have anything to apologize for. Now the society is going to have
to deal with us not as nice little fairies who have hairdressing salons, but as
people capable of violence. We're not going to put up with Dan Whites
That day, May 22, would have been the 49th birthday of
Harvey Milk. City officials had considered revoking the permit for a rally
planned for that night, but decided against it for fear of sparking more
violence. Officials stated that the rally could channel the community's anger
into something positive. Police from San Francisco and its neighboring towns
were placed on alert by Mayor Feinstein, & my hero- Cleve Jones coordinated
contingency plans with the police. More than 20,000 people gathered on Castro
& Market streets. The crowd engaged in a peaceful celebration of Milk's
life. Attendees danced to disco songs, drank beer, & sang a tribute
to Milk.
5 months later, on October 14, 1979, more than 100,000 people marched on
Washington DC for gay rights. Many carried portraits of Milk, and placards
honoring his legacy.The rally, something that Milk had intended to organize,
was instead a tribute to his life.


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PS4 beats Xbox One in retail web traffic share
Sony's PS4 has commanded a greater share of online web traffic across five leading retail websites in the UK.
Online PS4 prices surge 41% since launch
The price that consumers are willing to pay for PS4 is shooting up as we get closer to Christmas.
Konami requests delisting for Skullgirls on Xbox Live and PSN
Xbox Live Arcade and PSN title Skullgirls looks likely to be removed from sale in the near future.
PS4 generated 4% more social media buzz than Xbox One in first 72 hours
New research from Way To Blue has suggested that PS4 put in a stronger social media performance than Xbox One in their respective 72 hour launch periods.
Amazon bringing Sunday deliveries to London this Christmas
Online retailer Amazon is to start offering Sunday deliveries in the UK for the first time this Christmas.
Sainsbury's to cease online sales of games and consoles
Sainsbury's is to stop selling physical entertainment products online in favour of an entirely on-demand model.
Battlefield 4 suffers DDOS attack on PC, PS4 version suffers early struggles
It has not been a good weekend for Battlefield 4 fans.
Amazon not guaranteeing Xbox One or PS4 before Christmas
The UK arm of online retailer Amazon cannot guarantee pre-Christmas delivery of either next-gen console for those who have yet to order.
UK retailers offer exclusive Dark Souls II pre-order merchandise
Namco Bandai is rewarding consumers who pre-order Dark Souls II with a host of exclusive loot.
The Cloud unlikely to deliver Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One
It's looking unlikely that Microsoft will bring Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to Xbox One via its Cloud computing services.
Single-player ACIV: Black Flag features locked behind Online Pass
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag locks away one of its single player features to those who have not registered an Online Pass.
eBay acquires Shutl courier network
Online auction giant eBay has acquired UK courier business Shutl.
Shock - Grand Theft Auto Online servers are struggling
In news that should surprise not a single living soul, Grand Theft Auto Online is struggling to cope with the colossal demand being put on it by eager gamers.
2m mentions in 24hrs for Grand Theft Auto V on Twitter
As well as taking retail by storm, Grand Theft Auto V has also dominated social networks.
Microsoft admits surprise at extent of Xbox One negativity
"Was I surprised that people had a reaction to it? No. I mean, we knew it was going to be a controversial decision. Was I surprised how negative the reaction ...
Rockstar requests online retailers delay shipping Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V will allegedly not be shipped by online retailers until September 16th – just one day before its release.
FIFA 14 tops Gamescom buzz league but PES 2014 is up for the fight
EA's FIFA 14 has been crowned as the internet global buzz champion of Gamescom 2014.
EA's Moore clarifies free-to-play and online comments
Outspoken EA COO Peter Moore has moved to clarify statements he recently made about free-to-play and online games.
GAME wants 30% of online games market
UK retail giant GAME wants 30 per cent of the online video games market.
Spurs launches internet kids' game Tottenham Turfies
London football club Tottenham Hotspur has launched a new children's internet game called Tottenham Turfies.
Trade-in your Green Man Gaming games at over 5,250 UK stores
Green Man Gaming has announced an ambitious trade-in partnership with parcel service CollectPlus.
GameStop.co.uk reveals its own Grand Theft Auto V trade-in offer
In what is likely to become a recurring theme, GameStop has revealed a Grand Theft Auto V specific trade-in offer.
Amazon introduces £10 minimum spend for free delivery
Online retailer Amazon has redefined the conditions under which it now offers Free Super Saver Delivery.
Forza 5 will not require net connection on first play... but will to complete the game
Xbox One owners will not need to be connected to the internet to get Forza 5 working upon its initial install.
Online retailers unite to fend off sales tax
A number of online retailers have signed a letter addressed to chancellor George Osborne calling for an end to the argument for an online sales tax.


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Hi everyone! I had a baby shower to attend a little while back so I needed to make a card. The baby's room theme happened to be jungle related. I used papers from the DWCV Safari Kids 8×8 pack to make this card. Believe it or not this card didn't require any die cutting machine. Only my paper trimmer and atg gun!
Here it is!
I made this a 8 1/2 x 4 inch card.
- Cut a piece of DCWV textured green card stock 8 1/2 inches wide by 8 inches tall, scored in half and folded to make 8 1/2 x 4 inch card base. Distressed the edges with my Tim Holtz tool and inked edges with tea dye ink.
- Cut out the animal squares I wanted to use about just a bit smaller than a 2×2. Distressed and inked edges
- cut a piece of the animal print paper to mat each picture, these came out to be 2×2. distressed and inked edges.
- Attached the animal cut out to the animal print mat using pop dots.
- cut a piece of the striped background paper to about 3 1/2 by 8 1/4. Distressed and inked edges. Attached straight to the card base.
- Attached the matted animal squares to the striped paper with pop dots.
- wrapped brown embroidery floss around the bottom of the card crossing in the middle and taping to the inside of the card.
- used the "the adventure begins here" embellishment found in the Safari Kids 8×8 album kit to adhere to card on pop dots.
- I used two of the animal brads found in the kit as well, I cut the prongs off and used pop dots to attach to each side of the sentiment.
- to finish the card I punched holes in the corners of the striped paper using my crop a dile and placed 2 light green brads opposite two dark green brads, found in the kit too.
I made a quick envelope with a ribbon tie closure to place the card in as well.
Hope you like it. Thank you for checking in with me. Follow me if you haven't done so already. See you in the next post.


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4-year-old Dies After Accident In Fayetteville Pool
A 4-year-old boy died early Monday at Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock after an accident over the weekend at the pool in Fayetteville's Barrington Parke subdivision, police said.
"On June 30th, we received a call over to the community pool at 1879 Barrington," said Sgt. Craig Stout, Fayetteville Police Department spokesman. "There was apparently some type of event going on there with a church group and we had an original report that a child had drowned."
The boy, identified as Patrick Huang, died after being taken off life support at 2:48 a.m., said Stout.
Stout said authorities were called to the pool at 7:52 p.m. Saturday. The boy, not wearing any floatation devices, had been playing in the shallow end, Stout said.
The boy was with some of his family at a church function being held at the site, he said.
Huang did not know how to swim and was sitting poolside with his feet in the water, police said. Other children were playing in the pool, including Huang's 8-year-old sister, when the accident occurred, police said.
Stout said the boy's sister found him on the bottom of the shallow end in three feet of water.
"It was again, a large gathering there of people, the child was last seen at the shallow end of the pool, his parents were there, you had a lot of people coming and going, I guess he just got into water that was too deep for him," said Stout.
There apparently was no foul play in the drowning, Stout said.
"In this case here, it appears to be nothing more than just a tragedy," said Stout. "For the fact that again, you had a lot of people here, a lot of kids that were swimming, things of that nature. I think this child may have just gotten lost in the shuffle."
The Barrington Parke Property Owners' Association website notes that lifeguards are not provided at the pool.
The group holding the function was the Grace Chinese Christian Church of Northwest Arkansas, Stout said. The church is at 301 South Duncan Ave.
Shelby Heflin, who lives in the neighborhood, said the 1,400-square-foot pool at Barrington Parke is gated and for use only by members of the property owners' association.
A member of the association can hold events at the pool and invite people who don't belong to the association, Heflin said.
Huang and his family are not members of the association and do not live in the neighborhood, Heflin said. They had been invited by an association member as participants in the church function, he said.
Heflin said he not a member of the church group but happened upon the scene as paramedics were assisting the boy.
Barrington Parke is near Crossover Road and Mission Boulevard.
Stay with 5NEWSonline.com for more on this developing story.


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Most of the year the Alaska Railroad freight that runs north to Fairbanks each evening does so under the cover of darkness. As the days grow longer in the Last Frontier shots of the freight as the... (more)
The nightly northbound freight can be captured during the long daylight hours of late spring and summer. Seen here at the Parks Highway overpass in Wasilla with the ever present Alaska Range in th... (more)
An Alaska northbound manifest crosses the Tanana River in the early morning hours. This is the last easily accessible photo spot on the Alaska Railroad for the last 50 miles into Fairbanks.


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Martha Entenmann, the matriarch of the family that turned a small Bay Shore, L.I., bakery into Entenmann's, one of the nation's largest and best-known baked-goods companies, died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, L.I. She was 89 and lived in Islip. Mrs. Entenmann had suffered from a heart ailment in recent years and died of complications from a recent operation, her son, William 3d, said. For more than 50 years, Mrs. Entenmann, who married the son of the bakery's founder...
September 30, 1996
Nabisco Foods Group, the food unit of New York-based food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco Inc., said yesterday that it had completed the previously announced acquisitions of Stella D'Oro Company and the Plush Pippin Corporation. Terms were not disclosed. Stella D'Oro, based in the Bronx, markets breadsticks, specialty cakes, pastries and snacks, with sales last year of about $65 million. It is now part of the Nabisco Biscuit Company unit. Plush Pippin, a Kent, Wash., supplier of frozen pies to in-store supermarket...
October 6, 1992
Wendy's International said yesterday that it was planning a joint venture with the IAWS Group of Ireland to make a larger variety of fresh baked goods available to Wendy's Tim Hortons coffee-and-doughnut chain. IAWS, based in Dublin, is the parent of the food service company Cuisine de France, which will provide Tim Hortons with baguettes and specialty breads, like sun-dried tomato and sourdough, beginning in late 2002. The joint venture will include construction of a bakery in southwest Ontario.
March 7, 2001
THE MEDIA BUSINESS -- ADVERTISING; Pillsbury, that staple of home pantries, tries entering the market for store-bought baked goods.
FOR decades, the Pillsbury Company has maintained that "nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven. " But in an era when even instant gratification takes too long, Pillsbury products like flour, cake mixes and frosting are frequently relegated to back shelves of home pantries. So the company is exploring a possible solution to that problem -- a product that comes, already baked, from someone else's oven. Earlier this...
January 20, 1993
The Patents column of Business Day on Saturday incorrectly described a machine, invented by Auburn International Inc., that analyzes baked goods. The machine measures fats and oils, but not cholesterol.
May 21, 1991
Bakery Acquisition Off
The Mexican baked goods company Grupo Industrial Bimbosaid Friday that it would not acquire 50 percent of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries Inc. of Dallas, despite a letter of intent it had signed in February to acquire half of it to form QFS Foods Inc. Bimbo said the companies would continue talks about commercial agreements. Mrs. Baird's has 11 plants throughout Texas.
October 10, 1994
Nutrition Doesn't Sell
To The Living Section: Marian Burros's article "What Americans Really Eat: Nutrition Can Wait" [ Jan. 6 ] just confirmed what a lot of shoppers already know, just by observation. Since grocery stores are in business to make a profit it can be no accident that the greater part of the floor space of most grocery stores is devoted to soft drinks, cookies, cakes, snacks, baked goods, beer, sweetened cereals and, in the frozen food sections, to ice creams, ice cream specialties and frozen baked goods.
January 27, 1988
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS;Nestle Adds to Stake In Israeli Concern
Nestle S.A., the world's largest food maker, has bought 25 percent of Osem Investment Ltd., an Israeli food producer, for $140.3 million, according to Claridge & Kolber Trust, which sold some of the shares. Nestle, based in Switzerland, now owns almost 40 percent of the company, Claridge said on Sunday. Osem's 10 plants produce more than 800 brands of pasta, baked goods, snacks and coffee. (Bloomberg Business News)
July 23, 1996
COMPANY NEWS; Sara Lee Layoffs
The Sara Lee Corporation said its Sara Lee Bakery division planned to close its Deerfield, Ill., plant, which employs 500 people, by March 1. The company also said that the division was reducing its administrative work force by 100 people. Sara Lee said the 26-year-old plant's production of frozen baked goods would be shifted to other plants. The company operates seven other plants in the United States.
June 13, 1990
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Pillsbury Hires Agency To Focus on Blacks
For the first time, the Pillsbury Company has hired an agency to promote its cake mixes and other baking products among black Americans. Uniworld Group, New York, an agency that specializes in advertising to ethnic consumers, was assigned the account yesterday. Uniworld will develop promotional materials and print advertisments for the annual Pillsbury Bake-Off. Other assignments on the account, billings of which were not disclosed, will come later this year. Pillsbury...
July 23, 1991
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS; Tomkins Buys Maker Of Consumer Products
Tomkins P.L.C., the British manufacturing conglomerate, said yesterday that it had acquired Golden West Foods, a bakery and liquid products maker, for $:70.5 million, or $114 million, including assumed debt. Tomkins makes products ranging from baked goods to handguns. Tomkins's liquid-products plant in Britain makes syrups and ketchup for distribution in Europe. Golden West makes bakery and liquid products in Europe. The company, which has more than 750 employees, had full-year operating profit last year of $:8...
October 4, 1997
IN BUSINESS; A Hot Chocolate Bar Opens in Larchmont
Imagine hot chocolate so thick it almost stands up to a straw, and chocolate candies in flavors as exotic as tangerine red chili, lavender caramel and apple rosemary. Such indulgences can be found in the newly opened Larchmont shop, Cocoa, where the owner, Angela Ingrao,serves a variety of handmade chocolates, baked goods and, of course, hot chocolate. Seasonal offerings include chocolate turkeys and sugar cookies hand-painted as autumn leaves. There are brownies, chocolate snaps and the cake of the...
November 24, 2002
1906-1996 -- Her cakes has survived the suburbanization of the 50's and the fat-free restraint of the 90's. By the time she died at the age of 89, the family-owned company she helped to build into an empire had been sold several times over, the last time to CPC International as part of an $865 million deal. The see-through cake box was invented by Martha Entenmann in the same way that Jennie Grossinger built a Catskill resort and Julia Waldbaum created the supermarket bearing her family's name.
December 29, 1996
Headliners; Heartbreak
After 40 years of filling the Amsterdam Avenue air with the aromas of his baked goods, Louis Lichtman found the rent rising faster than his dough. Mr. Lichtman, a 75-year-old Hungarian immigrant whose shop at the corner of 86th Street was a West Side institution, fought back tears last week as an auctioneer gaveled off the shop's fixtures and equipment. Mr. Lichtman's son, Harvey, who took over the bakery in 1977, said he decided to close it after his landlord, eager to cash in on the West Side real estate boom, announced a 400 percent rent increase, from...
July 5, 1987
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Sara Lee's Bryan Foods Moves to Ogilvy Atlanta
Bryan Foods, a meat and cold-cuts division of the Sara Lee Corporation, is moving its estimated $12 million advertising account to Ogilvy & Mather, Atlanta, from Lintas New York. Lintas said Bryan, based in West Point, Miss., made the change because it wanted a Southern agency for its products, which are marketed in the South. Lintas said it would continue to handle other Sara Lee lines, like baked goods. But a newsletter, The Delaney Report, which had reported that...
July 1, 1991
FOOD STUFF; Podunk, by Way of the Bowery, for Sweets
When Elspeth Treadwell worked in an office, she often treated co-workers and friends to her cupcakes and other baked goods. The day she saw a little storefront for rent at 231 East Fifth Street (Bowery), she decided to switch careers. She named her store Podunk, and now sells buttery cookies (75 cents each), scones (75 cents and $1.25), cupcakes ($1.50 each) and cardamom and vanilla Bundt cakes (by the slice or $22 to $24 for the whole cake). She offers various tea menus ($8 to $16 for one person,...
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Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Interaction of Carbon and Sulfur with Solid Oxide fuel Cell Anodes
Article first published online: 30 MAR 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.02980.x
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Offer, G. J., Mermelstein, J., Brightman, E. and Brandon, N. P. (2009), Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Interaction of Carbon and Sulfur with Solid Oxide fuel Cell Anodes. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 92: 763–780. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.02980.x
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- Article first published online: 30 MAR 2009
- Manuscript No. 25410. Received October 28, 2008; approved January 7, 2009.
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Fuel cells are likely to play a key role in any low-carbon economy. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are currently capable of sustained and continuous operation on high-purity fuels, but they must demonstrate that they can overcome a number of challenges before they are commercially viable on a large scale. Fuels such as natural gas, and those derived from renewable sources such as gasified biomass, contain many contaminants, typically sulfur- and carbon-containing compounds. To address this it will be necessary to improve our understanding of failure modes in operating SOFCs, and act on this to reduce degradation rates. A combination of techniques will be needed to develop a rigorous approach to understanding and mitigating degradation. The intent of this article is to present a synopsis of the current state of the art in our understanding of the effect of carbon and sulfur on SOFC anodes. Emphasis is placed on the comparison between thermodynamic and kinetic models, and experimental validation of these. In particular the applicability of thermodynamic models to the study of such contaminants is questioned. Additionally the uses of multiscale kinetic models capable of predicting transient conditions are reviewed alongside recent analytical techniques necessary for their validation.


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- A historical region of central Asia between the Himalaya and Kunlun mountains. A center of Lamaist Buddhism, Tibet first flourished as an independent kingdom in the seventh century. It fell under Mongol influence from the 13th to the 18th century and later came under Chinese control (1720).
- See Xizang.
- Plateau ofTibet An upland region of south-central Asia mostly in Xizang (Tibet) and extending into Xinjiang Uygur, Qinghai, and Sichuan.
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- proper n. The Tibetan Plateau, a plateau region in Central Asia, where the Tibetan people traditionally live, encompassing what is now Tibet Autonomous Region (also called Xizang), most of Qinghai, the western half of Sichuan, a small part of Yunnan and a small part of Gansu in the Peoples Republic of China, and also the country of Bhutan, and the Indian regions of Sikkim and Ladakh.
- proper n. An independent kingdom that formerly existed in Central Asia where the Tibet Autonomous Region now is.
- proper n. A common shorthand name for Tibet Autonomous Region, previously mostly coterminous with the independent portion of Tibet until 1950.
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- n. Same as Tibet cloth.
- n. A woolen stuff usually printed in colors.
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Mumbai, Sep 11 : A benchmark index of Indian equities markets closed Wednesday's trade flat with a mere 0.36 point gain.
Profit booking -- a day after the benchmark index closed over 700 points up to touch its largest single-day gain in four years -- was cited as the reason for the day's choppy trade.
The 30-scrip S and P Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened higher at 19,999.77 points, closed at 19,997.45, up 0.36 points from its previous close at 19,997.09 points.
The benchmark Sensex touched a high of 20,055.53 points and a low of 19,777.63 in highly volatile trade.
The wider 50-scrip S and P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) gained 0.28 percent or 16.40 points at 5,913.15 points.
Extreme volatility was observed in the market a day after its largest single-day rally in four years on the back of a strengthening rupee, reduction in trade deficit and easing of the Syrian crisis.
Heavy selling pressure was observed in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), consumer durables, information technology (IT), oil and gas, technology, media and entertainment (TECk) sectors. However, healthy buying support came into the metal, bank, capital goods, healthcare and realty stocks.
The S and P BSE FMCG index closed 75.98 points down, followed by consumer durables, lower 39.05 points, IT index was down 19.11 points, oil and gas index was down 18.74 points and TECk index declined by 8.15 points.
However, metal index was 278.29 points up, bank index was 208.45 points higher, capital goods index gained 107.91 points, healthcare index rose by 105.74 points, and realty index was up 33.99 points.
Most of the 30 scrips on the sensitive index were gainers in the day's trade. These included Tata Steel, up 5.07 percent at Rs.316; Hindalco Inds, up 3.81 percent at Rs.114.30; State Bank of India (SBI), up 3.52 percent at Rs.1,688.90; Tata Power, up 2.90 percent at Rs.74.50; and Sun Pharma, up 2.46 percent at Rs.562.20.
The main losers were: Tata Motors, down 2.49 percent at Rs.340.50; Hindustan Unilever, down 1.76 percent at Rs.642.95; ITC, down 1.70 percent at Rs.329.70; BHEL, down 1.54 percent at Rs.140.40; and Cipla, down 1.28 percent at Rs.434.65.
Among the Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei closed 0.01 percent up, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng ended the day's trade 0.17 percent down. China's Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.15 percent.
In Europe, London's FTSE 100 was trading 0.08 percent down, while Germany's DAX Index was higher by 0.54 percent. The French CAC 40 Index was 0.01 percent up.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister evidently tripped on the social network's privacy settings, landing in the midst of a debate on Wednesday about "online etiquette."
Randi Zuckerberg, who launched a Silicon Valley themed online reality show after quitting her job handling Facebook public relations, kicked off the controversy after a family photo intended for friends went public.
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Vitantonio Liuzzi believes he can still score points in today's Australian Grand Prix, despite a disappointing qualifying session. The Force India driver qualified 13th, but claimed "crazy" traffic prevented him from showing his true pace.
"It's really disappointing," said the Italian. "We were pretty optimistic we had the pace to get into Q3. Again I had traffic. We had problems with one of the Williams and also a Sauber.
"For me it was a real mess – I just did maybe one free lap in four runs and the only lap we did, we had really good pace. All the other laps I had green sectors every time and we were never able to finish without another car stopping us."
Despite the setback, Liuzzi believes he can join teammate Adrian Sutil, who qualified 10th, in the fight for points.
"At the end of the day in Bahrain, from 12th position we finished in the points so nothing is over," he said. "I feel strong for tomorrow – the car is behaving well, the balance is good, it was just really crazy in qualifying with the traffic."
Liuzzi also believes Melbourne's notorious first corner will be the key to a good result.
"I think we have a big chance to score points, but the first corner will be quite a hot topic," he said. "When you are in our sort of position you are in the middle of a war. There are some drivers who always push a bit too hard at the first corner. If we are able to pass the first corner without any problems I think we are in good shape for the race."
Chances of a wet race are high, and Liuzzi believes this could help Force India.
"The rain has always been a friend of ours," said the 29-year-old. "We always have a really good performance in the rain. This car is completely new and we didn't do much testing in the wet, so we have a bit to hope the balance will be right for those conditions. It's a bit of a question mark, but I'm pretty optimistic."


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nef; You're the 486,924th lib to tell me we lost. But like I said in an earlier post to "Tuscon" (kinda of rhymes with Buschon, doesn't it?) I get it, I really do and I'm over it.
Whining? No sir, just stating the facts.
Little early to tell on the Obamacare since it's not fully implemented. But a lot of governors and small business owners are having real problems with it. But I'd be glad to see some of the polls and sample groups you're talking about.
BTW; Bit of a snarky response for Thanksgiving, don't you think? I hope you get in a better mood so you can enjoy the day with your loved ones!
Snarky? not at all. as you said, just tossin out the facts to ya'all.
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The initial discovery and recognition of the importance of Chocolate is often attributed to Hernan Cortez. Yet in 1502 Christopher Columbus, or Colon, on his fourth and final voyage to the Caribbean, reached the island of Guanaja off the coast of Honduras. History says that he was greeted by Aztecs who offered him sacks full of almond shaped pods in exchange for items they desired. When he did not immediately understand the offering they were giving in exchange, the Aztecan explained to him that a very special drink could be prepared from the beans called tchocolatl or xocolatl. Columbus and his crew found the drink to be bitter and repellent concoction. Little realizing the value of the beans they still took some of the beans back to Spain out of curiosity of the value of them never to realize the economic value of the beans.
When Hernan Cortez arrived seventeen years later to the New World, the then Aztecan leader of the time, Montezuma II, believed Cortez to be the reincarnated Quetzalcoatl, the exiled Toltec god-king whose return was predicted in Aztecan and Toltec mythology. It was according to that myth that that year would be the appointed year of return of the great king who would bring freedom to his people. This confusion made access to the Aztec Capital, Tenochtitlan, where he received the god-kings royal welcome. Cortez was offered many gifts from Montezuma II, including a cocao plantation and a lavish banquet prepared in their honor.
Montezuma realized eventually that he had made a mistake by identifying Cortez as the returned god-king. Cortez enlisted the help of many sympathetic natives and took Montezuma prisoner upon realizing his venerability. It was only a matter of two to three years later that history would see the complete downfall of the Aztec empire.
Not to be compared to his predecessor Colon, Cortez realized rapidly the value of the cocao beans and the impact it would have economically for Spain both as a food and a currency. The value as reported by a contemporary or Cortez was a slave could be purchased for 100 cocao beans, the services of a prostitute for 10, and a rabbit for 4. Pedro Martyre de Angleria, a well known Jesuit, called the cocao beans "pecuniary almonds" thus describing them as "blessed money". He proclaimed that it could exempt it's possessor's from avarice since it can not be hidden or horded underground. The common understanding is that he was referring to the fact that you could not store them for very long without them rotting.
An English friar, Thomas Gage wrote a great collection and extensively on the value of the cocao beans. He is recorded as stating that the natives there bought what they desired or needed for two cocao beans. The exchange he noted also was based on the exchange and value of currency of the time. At the time (1625) the Spanish real was valued at a sixpence or four cents for our understanding. He went on to explain that the natives did in fact make their purchases at the rate of two cocaos, the cost or value placed on the cocaos by the foreigners was 200 cocao beans for a Spanish real or a sixpence being four cents in our day. This is all to say that among the natives the cocao beans were significant and highly valued and was the preferred currency of the day.
Cortez set out to find El Dorado the lost fabled city of Aztec Gold. Not too long after his arrival and after realizing the value of the cocao beans to the natives, he realized that due to the importance placed on the cocao beans by the natives that truly money did grow on trees. The next few years he would set up to exploit the commercial potential of the cocao beans by setting up plantations through out the Caribbean and there by producing "liquid gold". Dur to the nature of the ease and profitability of cultivating the cocao beans, it drew many Spaniards to the New World and the prospect of the easy riches caused many settlers to come and start colonies. Soon Spain established plantations in Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, and the Jamaican and Hispaniola Islands. Though the production of cocao beans has since spread through out the world, to date the most highly prized variety of beans still hails from the original areas.
This "liquid gold" was kept a secret for as long as was possible by the Spaniards due to the ease and huge profits they gained by processing the cocao beans in the New World and then transporting it through out the Old World. But the secret of true Aztec Gold would not last. In 1580 the first ever chocolate plant outside of the New World was set up in Spain. From that point on the popularity of Chocolate began to spread through out Spain at large and into the European countries with great popularity. The Dutch transplanted some trees to their settlements in East Indian States in the early seventeenth century. From there the popularity and cultivation spread to the Philippines, New Guinea, Samoa and Indonesia. The financial success it should be noted was due to the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of African slaves. Plantations were spreading throughout the world and many Europeans countries came and settled the New World in the pursuit of Aztecan Gold, what we all enjoy today as Chocolate.
In reflection it is amazing that something found so commonly today in store through out the world was once the catalyst to expedite the colonization and to activate the "settling" of the New World. That is why to this day we refer to Chocolate as the food of hods and it has rightfully been seen in the venue that it deserves. Not many items have moved a world to action as Chocolate did. Not even the greed for gold moved the world into action as did the first taste of cocao.
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Origin of Ceremonial Costume
One may well suppose that in prehistoric days the Indian made a special garment, the duplicate of his regular dress, which he put aside with great care to be worn only on those special occasions when he worshiped his gods. To make the garment more beautiful he probably whitened the firm cloth with powdered white clay and painted it with colors which seemed to him beautiful and which, in his mind, were associated with beautiful things. When he dressed in this costume, he would perhaps ornament it with a gay feather dropped by a passing bird or a flower newly bloomed by his doorstep. Evergreen branches made fitting tribute to gods eternal, and added color and beauty to the general scheme, so he may have placed them in his belt, or made wreaths for his shoulders, or carried them as bouquets in his hands. These customs doubtless endured for centuries. Then the Spaniards came, strong, hard men who ruled and killed. They were clothed from head to foot, making their bodies safe from many hardships. Through the years which followed, the Indian men began to copy the dress of the invaders. They had not the fine fabrics of the foreigners,
but they fashioned imitative garments from the clothes which they made. However, this did not change the costume set aside for the dance worship. In this the Indian continued as before, dressing as his gods had known him whenever he had sought their aid.
Then came drought and with it a state of great distress. Food was scarce, feathers became difficult to obtain, and animals went farther afield and could not be hunted down. We may assume that laxness in worship was held to be the reason for all these calamities, and the Indian then tried very hard to costume himself exactly as had his forefathers, so that the gods would be pleased and life would again be filled with plenty. The old priests surely remembered what colors were used and where the needled spruce was to be found. These things, they must have reasoned, the gods would like to see restored. They probably tried each magical arrangement, and when one brought success that arrangement became the rule. Even today, when the prayer drama is not successful and the reviving and cooling rain does not fall, they believe it is because something is amiss in the ceremony and the Great Ones are displeased. A chant may have been omitted, the colors may have run on a mask, or a man may not have been faithful to his vow of continence during the retreat.


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If you don't believe yourself, say it until you do. Because it's true. And today, I want to invite you to join with other artists and make something.
On the heels of my new Ebook, The Worship Songwriter, I thought it was fitting for us to do a blog series on creating.
The whole premise of the book is about overcoming your fear and writing your best songs – making something. But making something goes far beyond songwriting. You don't need to be a songwriter in order to create.
- If you lead worship, you create worship experiences for people.
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Making is all around us. Creating is part of who we are. We are made in the image of our creator – we are artists.
We create in order to reflect our Maker. We have been gifted, blessed, commissioned to go forth and create songs, sculptures, structures, canvases, and experiences for the glory of God.
But more often than not, we don't.
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In the end, I would rather try and fail for the rest of my life than offer God my good intentions. It's time to zero in. It's time to decide. It's time to confront the monsters.
It's time to clarify what we're living for – what we're actually doing with our lives.
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Monday, 8 February 2010
Full disclosure: "Spoils of War", 24hr sales result (part two)
Okay, here are the results of my 24hrs experiment of giving away "Spoils of War" for free, if readers choose to take it for free.
Checking my "dashboard" at www.smashwords.com, in the last 24hrs:
- 37 people downloaded the free sample (30% of the story).
- out of these 17 people bought it
In this case, "buying" only means they downloaded the complete story and made the decision how much they are willing to pay for it, which includes "nothing".
So, 37 people were happy to check the stuff out, and 17 were interested enough to want the whole thing. Brilliant.
I think that's a roaring success for 24hrs in the e-book space, for authors whom hardly anybody knows yet. :)
Let's look at the 17 people who "bought" the story.
I have to admit I was a little nervous again here. The first several emails were people taking stuff for free. At email number 5 I thought "fuck this shit, I'm changing the option to fixed price and charge $0.99, that would have been $4.95, demnit!"). Then I had the first sale. Somebody paid $5.00 for the story. That's the price for an ebook novel. And that person paid enough that, had I charged $0.99 and HAD those "free downloaders" paid $0.99, I would have been $0.05 worse off. Now, that was weird.
I agreed with my skeptical voice (and my number-crunching partner) that 5 people is a tiny sample, so I let the sales roll and watched and did nothing.
End result after 24hrs: 17 people bought it; out of these, 10 people took it for free, 7 people paid.
I repeat: seven people choose to pay without being forced or controlled. Wow.
Let's look at what they were willing to pay. Interestingly, my seven paying customers chose one of three prices:
1) $0.99 (the absolute mininum, paid by 2)
2) $3.00 (hefty price for a short story, and WELL above what I thought I could charge for a short story, paid by 3)
3) $5.00 (that's about the price of a novel, and humbled me. Five dollars? To read a short story? Paid by 2)
Nothing in between. Interestingly, not ONE chose a price like $1.29 or $1.79 or even $1.99 that I had calculated with.
It tells me also I have at least five "fans" out there that pay well more than I would have expected, and those five people deserve my love and gratitude. Same with the $0.99 people. They paid even though they don't have to, out of an appreciation for writing, the hard work that went into the story and cover, and as a gesture of goodwill.
Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. You warmed my cynical little heart.
How does this translate into "profit"?
From this, we made $20.98 - in one day, mind you, by giving away 30 free samples and getting 7 paying customers. Now, minus what Smashwords takes as a cut, we have $15.52 in the pocket. Out of this, we'll have to split 50/50, and I have to pay 20% UK tax on royalties.
In the logic of "the free market forces", 17 people paid $21 dollars for it, which equals an average of $1.23. If I take out the "free downloaders" (EDIT to say: "freeloader" was a pun on "free downloaders" but I've been told it's demeaning, so I'm changing the term), the price these supporters were willing to pay is $3.00. One is my "earnings per customer", the other is "earnings per sale".
Consequently, the "fair value" for my story is somewhere between $1.23 and $3.
(Now, this posits that people would have been willing to be charged that much - meaning, were they more generous out of generosity, like somebody buying an overpriced Christmas card because 20% of the sales go to Oxfam? But those factors make the whole calculation more difficult, and I have no way of veryfying this)
What do I learn from this?
That there are readers/fans who appreciate us/our work more than I thought. I can only explain those prices they paid with maybe them feeling they don't pay so much for goods but show their support to their writers and love for a good, quality story.
That there are people who are happy supporting their writers.
That a surprising amount of people are willing to pay even though nobody controlls them.
Why then will I introduce a "fixed price" for "Spoils of War" in the mid-term?
Because I firmly believe in global distribution. The story needs to be able to get out there and reach as many people as possible (yes, Kindle and Amazon and Apple and iTunes and iBook and whatever). But that distribution model doesn't support "choose your own price". In fact, were I not to charge a fixed amount on that distribution model, the system would set the price for "Spoils of War" to $4.95, which, we can agree, is pretty damn steep for a short story.
In the meantime, if you would like to read "Spoils of War", go ahead and download it. It's free. Unless you choose to make it not free, but I'm not controlling you or forcing you. I put it out there, that's my job done.
But a dollar in the hat would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Yours, truly,
Aleksandr Voinov
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Hello Aleksandr,
Let me start by saying how interesting this experiment is. I run a digital publishing house, and pricing is one of those topics that is - as you know - highly intriguing. With all the press on what ebooks should be priced at, your experiment is well-timed.
I am wondering - of those 7 folks who bought your book (i.e. paid money for it), how many of them do you know personally - either via your blog, social networking or otherwise? I find our authors can expect a certain number of sales simply because they have friends who support them and would pay whatever the book was priced. If these sales are by people who you do not know, then that tells a whole different story.
I also think that 7 sales in 24 hours on Smashwords is very good - and likely indicative of the marketing and word that you put out about your book being available there. Do you also have your book available in other ebook stores? If so, did those translate into sales too?
Again, thanks so much for this post, it's very interesting, and I look forward to following you!
(ireadiwrite Publishing)@Elaine: Thank you. I'm chuffed you loved this one. :)
@Michelle: Excellent question. I'm planning to monitor the sales and post an update soon (maybe a "week update"). I do have a fairly large network (it comes natural - I love going out there and meeting people, whether virtual or real doesn't matter). The thing with Smashwords is that I can't track who bought what. I can read somebody's email ("YAY, I just bought it!") and can assume that the sale a couple minutes ago was them.
I'm doing a staggered roll-out, I guess. Yes, first my friends and "close fans", hoping to strike a spark (with reviews at Goodreads) that gets people who have been curious about my/our writing to give it a go. I know that some people who have been reading my free stuff ("Special Forces") have bought "Spoils of War".
I'll see how the sales here compare to the sales of "Forbidden Love" and again when I have more visibility.
I believe in quality above all else. Books where the quality is right - cover, editing, writing - will turn into long-sellers. Bad books (crappy editing, bad-looking cover, bad writing) can spike and then level off. In my experience, the ones that last have staying power - for a reason, usually.
But it's one big experiment. In the meantime, I had several more paid downloads. I'd be happy to discuss matters by email, too.
Good luck with your publishing house. I'll check you out and re-followed you on Twitter. :)Hi again, and thanks for all your comments. I for one am against ebooks or any book being priced low. It think it devalues the work that we all put into it. From cover design to editing and back to the emptying of one's soul, there's a lot that goes into the writing of a book. I recently saw someone tweet that $15.00 was too much to pay for an ebook. But let's think about what enjoyment comes from that book vs going to concert? People pay way more than that to go to a 2 hour concert, but for several hours of reading enjoyment they think they're ripped off? Sure there's the argument for lower over head costs on an ebook, but that should be taken and passed on to the writer and the reader (which we do). When I see prices of 2.99 - I think that's what the book is worth, and I'm less likely to buy it. Like you said, when I see a quality book with a fair price of around $10 (for new authors), I'm totally fine with that.
Ah well, chacun son gout - and those are my tastes. The industry is changing so much and we're all poised and ready to watch and partake - all the best to you and your endeavours, I'll be watching!I'm broke, or I'd buy.
But since I can't, I just read the sample, which I liked. :)
I won't 'buy' the pay-what-you-like titles unless I can pay at least the .99 minimum. I'm weird that way. :)
But your experiment's has had some interesting results so far. Hope it continues going well for you, and I'll buy a copy when I can.Hi Michelle:
Funnily enough, I agree with you. Looking at your website, you're serving the premium customers. Literary fiction commands its price, and rightly so. (And I really like your covers).
"Spoils of War" is an experiment, and one where I didn't lose anything, because the story is a donation anyway. I do believe my writing has a price and I'm not ashamed to ask for it to be paid (see the print cost "Test of Faith" - I do make a profit on that).
And I agree that reading, however it's priced, is excellent value for money. What people really want is emotion, and if you can give them that, reliably, you can charge them more than your peers.
The genre I'm currently active in, gay romance or "m/m literature" has kind of agreed on a "cheap and cheerful" model - with heavy discounting going on. Nobody goes there and asks for the same things they ask from in a literary novel.
The low cost of production doesn't "bite" - it just means faster break even, and since ebooks are only 2% of the market, you *need* the faster break even.
This was a price-finding experiment - I wouldn't "deep discount" my books. I just wondered if people pay if they don't have to (it's more an e-piracy-related experiment than a pricefinding excercise).
I'd be happy to pay $10 for a write I know who can write. (But I get paid in UK pound sterling...)I'm fascinated by this experiment, especially as I'm poking and prodding the pricing models for my publishing house. I've been trying to come up with a way to offer a small selection of shorts as "pay what you will," through that, perhaps as teasers/promos for authors with longer works. Seems to me, based on your experiment, that it might just work!
ReplyDeleteThis has of course been famously done before by Radiohead with the release of the album 'In Rainbows'.
At the time Forbes wrote:
'In a study that examined traffic to Radiohead's In Rainbows Web site during the first 29 days of October, 38% of those who downloaded the album at the site paid something to get the album, while 62% paid nothing.
'Of those who paid, 17% paid $4 or less, 6% paid between $4.01 and $8, 12% paid between $8.01 and $12, and 4% paid more than $12. Put another way, those who paid more than $8 accounted for about 79% of the revenue generated from the site.'
This doesn't count the number of peeps who acquired the recording from P2P sites, nor does it indicate that the entire gimmick was an excellently executed marketing stunt to sell physical format discs (which worked extremely well).
Music, books, pricing: all the same issue/s and the music biz has created a well worn path for the book biz to follow, or perhaps avoid.
Anyhow, thought you might find the stats interesting vis your experiment.@Kate: You can always put in a "donate" button. :) Or a subscription model - send a group of supporters free text if they sign up. There are many possibilities.
@Robert: Great example, thank you. I wish I was Radiohead and had that kind of visibility. :) I mean, I can't just hire a PR company that makes this experiment widely known. There are some other writers who give the electronic text away (Cory Doctorow), but he's giving it away for free and is a major writing celebrity. I was curious whether it works with a writer who isn't a celebrity and doesn't have that kind of marketing sway. It seems it does, at least for short stories. (I have yet to give a novel away - maybe I'm a bit reluctant there because a novel represents months of work - much higher stakes).
@Tizi: It's not most, but "enough" from a writer's perspective. :) And there are many reasons why people "freeload" - they might be genuinely broke, for example, and urgently in need of some perking up.This is a fascinating little experiment you did. I was shocked at the $5 results especially. I don't know of anyone who even charges that high for a short story. Usually I pay around $2.99-$3.99 for a short story. I didn't even know SW had the customer selects the price function. You learn something new every day.


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'Suspicious' activity leads to 2 arrests in Benton
By David Harten
This article was published October 2, 2013 at 5:37 p.m.
Two teens were arrested early Wednesday morning after an officer noticed one acting "suspiciously" and followed him.
According to a news release from the Benton Police Department, an officer on duty noticed a male individual dressed in dark clothing riding a bicycle near Lynnwood Drive. The officer followed him, then approached him after he fell off the bike, the release states.
As the officer was talking to the individual, later identified as Thomas Shirey, 18, a call from dispatch alerted officers of a vehicle break-in near the area where Shirey was seen riding. A description of one of the suspects in the case matched Shirey, police said.
An investigation revealed Shirey and another teen, identified Keith Moore, 19, had been breaking into cars in the area. Moore was later arrested without incident.
Both men were charged with felony theft of property and breaking and entering.
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