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The Russian Defense Ministry is denying a report by a leadingMoscow newspaper that seven Russian warplanes were destroyed in a New Year's Eve attack on the Khmeimim air base in Syria. Two Russian servicemen died in the attack, according to the ministry. Clearly, fighting in Syria isn't over for Russia yet, despite President Vladimir Putin's self-congratulatory conversations with Syrian ally Basharal-Assad.
Recently, however,General Valery Gerasimov, head of Russia's General Staff, made public his post-mortem of the Syrian operation, revealingRussia's military priorities in Syria and its persistentconviction that every conflict in which it is involved is a proxy waragainst the U.S. That war won't be over even once Syrian violence subsides.
In the interview with pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gerasimov provides the basis for Putin's claims that Russia has defeated ISIS. These claims, of course, compete with those of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has said the victory was his, and those of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who claims in a recent memoir that Russia was merely a "spoiler" of a winning strategy Carter had devised.
Though neither Russia nor the U.S. can credibly claim a full victory, the currentof Syria leans toward the Russian version: The Assad regime controls most of the country's territory, an amazing achievement after barely holding on to 10 percent of it in the summer of 2015.
Both great military powers used similar strategies, refusing to put boots on the ground in a major way and relying instead on local forces to do the fighting. "'Lasting defeat required enabling local forces to reclaim territory from ISIS and hold it rather than attempting to substitute for them," Carter wrote. "That meant focusing U.S. forces on training, equipping, enabling, and often accompanying them." It worked only partially for the U.S. -- mainly to the extent that it helped Kurdish fighters, who now control Syria's northern and northeastern areas.
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Netflix is officially the head of the streaming pack, edging out the competition with 112 Emmy nods.
Earlier this year Netflix famously announced they were planning on spending $8 billion on content in 2018, focusing primarily on original content. Reports indicate Netflix could drop even more than that this year, anywhere from $8 billion to$13 billion; that's more than HBO, FOX, and Disney. They are fast becoming the number one content provider in the US.
As other prestigious cable networks have begun to lose steam, Netflix has geared up their service and put even more effort into original content. With new series, movies, documentaries, and stand-up specials hitting the service weekly, they don't look to be slowing down any time soon.
Arguably, some of these tries haven't hit the mark, but this is completely new territory. No other service has put this much into original content and you certainly can't know what works if you don't try it. Especially when it comes to documentaries and series, Netflix has become a powerhouse with enough talent and investigative grit to set a new standard.
This year Netflix has garnered 122 Emmy nominations, breaking HBO's 17-year streak of getting the most Television Academy nods. It looks like all the time and money spent on original content is paying off.
Netflix earned nominations in just about every genre and category you can think of. We take a look at Netflix's Emmy nominated content in the hopes that you'll find some gems you may have never heard of, something that may have just flown under your radar, or maybe even fall in love with a show all over again.
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A love letter to the '80s classics that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is set in 1983 Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl. As we move to season two, we discover a bigger, sinister entity still threatens the residents of the small town of Hawkins, uncovering a secret that we could never have imagined.

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I will never forget the day I got the call. Saturday October 18th 2008, around 10a.m at a volleyball tournament I was playing in I was told that a good friend of mine had been killed in a car accident. Kyle Jeffery Wickliff, the class clown, a well – liked athlete, the go to guy, and the life of the party had been taken away from me. Unfortunately, that in-particular party life he had going on had caught up with him. Kyle had left a party after drinking, thinking he could drive himself to a friend's house, however, lost control, and killed himself. All I could possibly think about was how someone so full of life, full of happiness, and so young, could leave everyone here on earth so quickly. Hearing a friend speak at Kyle's funeral made me realize that life is too short to get mad over the small stuff and hold grudges against loved ones over the petty things. I think to myself, why am I not living to the fullest like kyle? Or looking back did Kyle push it to the extreme a little too much?
Kyle and I met my freshman year in high school in 2006 when he took me out on a date. On our date after we went out to eat he decided to show me the place he went to the most when he needed to think. Not a typical thing to do on a date, but I thought it would be interesting. He had taken me to a memorial site where his very best friend had died just a year before from hitting a tree in a car crash. He showed me things that he had left behind, one thing being a picture of the two of them together. I myself at that time had never had a friend in high school, so close to my age pass away, at that moment I realized why Kyle acted the way he did. Why hold back, why stay mad, why have regrets when you never know when your day will come to leave this world behind? Looking back at him taking me there, I find it all very ironic. Was this God telling Kyle to slow down his crazy life style, or was it to never hold back what you do in life?
Kyle was 19 years old when he left behind a mother, a father, a brother, and little sister who loved him dearly. Around 3A.M. Kyle had left a party frustrated and confused. While driving on a country road and going extremely too fast he lost control and had hit a large pine tree with his car. The pine tree became completly uprooted and snapped in half. It wasn't until two hours later a lady driving to work noticed his car. Kyle's car was 200 feet away from the road in a soybean field. The site of his memorial where the crash happened will always stay in my mind due to the fact I have never seen anything like that before. Seeing the tree on the ground, the tire marks from Kyle breaking on the road, the indents in the soy field from the impact of the car, and the small cross where friends could leave memorable things behind, it was all very unbearable. It was as if I was there when it happened, and I could do nothing to stop it. It all just seemed like a horrific dream.
The night after Kyle's death all types of people from different cliques gathered around the site of Kyle's accident consoling each other. Kyle accepted everyone in his life. It didn't matter who you were, he was always willing to get to know you, and somehow he always learned how he could put a smile on your face.
Rumor has it the night before Kyle died he told someone, "If I were to die tomorrow, I wouldn't regret anything." I truly believe that. Kyle lived life to the fullest. There wasn't a time when I didn't see a smile on his face. He lived in the moment, had no regrets, and was a spur of the moment kind of guy. He was always up for anything, especially a challenge. However saying that, I think that there is a limit to living life on the spontaneous side, and I don't think Kyle always knew where that limit was. He loved to push his limits as far as he could. He was a daring young man who wasn't scared to get hurt every so often. So yes, I do believe that Kyle lived his life to the fullest, and I know that he has taught me to do the same as well as others. However, Kyle has also taught me that there are limits to having fun and you need to know when to take a step back and think about what you are doing and know the consequences of your actions.
I met up with Kyle at our Hancock County Fair one night just two months before his death. It was a fun night with him. We mostly walked around mingling with friends we would run into. Kyle, being as open as he was, insisted that I ride the mechanical bull that night since I had never done so before, and also just to push actions over the edge. He eventually talked me into riding it after fifteen minutes of persuasion. However, they had taken the bull down due to mechanical issues. That is one example of his spontaneous side that I would love to have. I would have NEVER agreed to do something like in front of all those people if he hadn't talked me into it. So instead of riding the mechanical bull, Kyle and I rode a ride together by ourselves. Everyone else we were with just didn't seem that excited about a little kid ride at the county fair like Kyle and I did. I had a blast on the ride with Kyle; he made me laugh the entire time. Unfortunately, after that it was time for me to head home for the night. Kyle insisted that I should stay and hang out with him longer. School was about to start up again and we didn't get to see each other as much as we would have liked going to different schools. After a long battle of telling him I couldn't stay, and telling him bye I started walking back towards my car. Not long after saying bye I heard footsteps getting louder and louder behind me. Then boom, I was on the ground like that. Kyle had tackled me to the ground, and while in the process of doing this he had spilled his full cup of lemonade all in my hair. I was furious for him acting like he was ten, and left mad at the world. He sent me a text around the time I had reached back to my car telling me sorry. I didn't send anything back. I know longer really had contact with Kyle after that besides through Facebook here and there due to the fact that my school and sports life had taken over once again. Ironically the day before he got in his wreck we ran into each other, and it was as if there was nothing wrong between us, he still put that huge smile on my face.
Looking back now that was no reason to be mad at Kyle. He was just being spontaneous sometimes childish Kyle. To this day if I get in a fight with someone I stop and think is this really worth it, is it really worth being mad at this person, because most likely it's not. I have realized that I get mad over petty stuff sometimes and it isn't worth it. Now when I catch myself getting mad over the small stuff, Kyle always comes to mind. There's no need to stay mad. Kyle showed me that death can happen to ANYONE at ANYTIME! I am not, nor are any of my friends invincible. Kyle has been impacting my life since the day I met him, and still continues to this day. Was Kyle perfect? No. However, he knew how to have fun, he was very adventurous, always had a smile on his face, and I could go to him about anything. It didn't matter who you were he would always be there to lend a helping hand. It just goes to show that no matter what you do, nothing can prepare you for what happens next in life. Kyle had his whole life ahead of him, and it all disappeared in an instant. It affected so many people he was close to as well. Although everyone experiences hardships in life, life is way too short to get tangled up in all the small stuff. I know that I am lucky to wake up every day, and since Kyle's death, I have done my best to not get mad over the petty things. I look at things different now. Take in everything you can, don't hold back, and live in the moment, because tomorrow is never promised.


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- native SFTP and FTP support, meaning more speed and less (or less durable) bugs;
- support for passive mode in FTP transfers;
- version number in the About dialog;
- lots of internal rearchitecting to allow new features;
- removed .enc extension for encrypted files, and fixed a bug with decrypting from local files.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Bonkey 3.4 - CloudFiles support! And more...
30 comments:
- knjers said...
Downloaded this version on a new machine. The rackspace option gave an indication that something is different.
And it was...
It seems not to work anymore.
Trying to back up my C:\Documents and Settings\user dir produces just "The system cannot find the file specified" errors. Looks like a file path error somewhere.
- 21 April 2010 at 00:30
- bonkey said...
Thanks for the catch - a careless error left in the release. Please download it again and have another go. Sorry for the inconvenience!
- 21 April 2010 at 05:51
Using new version tried to run a backup to an external drive (have never run a successful backup before).
It failed and my harddrive is now full. Roughly 20-30 GB used by something.
What Bonkey temp files should I look for?
- 24 April 2010 at 02:14
Oh, my hard drive problems were with Mac OS.
- 24 April 2010 at 02:14
- bonkey said...
Hey Andrea - I haven't seen this problem myself, but someone else reported it in the past. See the comment from Xavierdes at http://thebackupmonkey.blogspot.com /2008/10/updates.html, explaining where he found the files. Let me know if that doesn't solve your problem.
- 26 April 2010 at 08:36
I was able to find the files. But I don't want to try again to get Bonkey to work without knowing why it happened. What would stop it from eating all the space on my hard drive again?
I've tried to fix the java heap message, but the fix described on the site doesn't work. Because of that, I just keep breaking my groups down into smaller chunks, but I'm still running into problems, such as eating my Mac hard drive space.
Bonkey does exactly what I'm looking for. I just haven't had luck running it yet :-(
- 29 April 2010 at 07:39
- bonkey said...
Hi Andrea - that's fair enough. One of the limitations I have when developing it is that the only Mac I have access to is from work, and I can't use USB with it, which makes this issue difficult to test. Just for everybody else, can you explain where you found the files?
Regarding heap space, my next challenge is to improve the memory handling so that Bonkey can handle bigger backups. Until then, I'm afraid you'll just have to work around it.
- 1 May 2010 at 17:36
- Sean said...
I'm having a bit of trouble getting bonkey to work with an FTP backup. Whenever I run the backup I get errors like this:
Error backing up file.doc to ftp.myftp.com: Error creating directory Documents: Error creating directory Documents - FTP error: 550 Can't create directory: File exists
When I check if anything happened on the server I see that a new directory called "Documents" (yes, the file name includes the quotes) has been created in the root of my FTP share and nothing is in the remote_backup folder I set as the URI.
Is there a special trick to getting this to work or is my webhost just not playing nice?
Thanks for your time!
- 10 May 2010 at 23:18
- bonkey said...
Hi Sean,
Thanks for the feedback. I'm having a tough time with FTP - it works fine with the FTP server I've setup here, but a number of folks have reported issues. Ping me at thebackupmonkey at the mail run by Google and let me know what OS you're on, and I'll send you a test version and see if it solves your problem.
- 17 May 2010 at 05:28
Great software for backing up from Cloud Files to your hard disk!
Unfortunately the day after the profile creation this java error pops every time i press the Run button:
An internal error occurred during: "Run now".
Thanks so much bonkey!!
- 21 May 2010 at 17:03
Oh bonkey! By the way the log gives this error:
Error loading backup item: No enum const class com.bonkey.filesystem.browsable.BrowsableItemFactory$ItemClass.CloudfilesFolder
- 21 May 2010 at 17:11
- bonkey said...
Bug! Thanks for the report. I'll work on a fix and post a comment here when it's updated. Cheers!
- 24 May 2010 at 05:25
- bonkey said...
New version released which should fix that bug (and another) - see the new blog post. Cheers!
- 24 May 2010 at 06:55
I am trying to use bonkey to backup file onto a remote server.
I have set things up but bonkey doe not transfer any files!
- 30 May 2010 at 18:21
- bonkey said...
You'll have to give me a few more details - email thebackupmonkey at gmail.
- 30 May 2010 at 20:47
Hi! Excited when I found this program. I get error message when I try to back up via FTP. "Error creating directory for ...."
Using MAC 10.6
Might this have something to do with my host server settings?
- 27 July 2010 at 04:01
- bonkey said...
Hi Gareth - FTP support is unfortunately flaky. I've been having a lot of trouble getting it right. There's a release candidate at http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonkey/setup_rc.exe - please try it out and let me know if it solves the problem for you.
- 28 July 2010 at 18:30
Thanks for replay, but I'm using SL 10.6 so cant use the program you linked
Is there one for the mac?
- 28 July 2010 at 19:53
- bonkey said...
Yes, there is: http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonkey/Bonkey_rc.zip
- 31 July 2010 at 04:18
bonkey, I had similar problems with FTP, namely the fact that I couldn't seem to specify the remote directory (my FTP user game access to /, and I wanted my files in /httpdocs). I ended up editing my /etc/httpd file to respecify the root directory of my FTP user but then Bonkey was adding quotes around all the remote directory names. The RC linked above seemed to fix this. Thanks a ton for the awesome software! My only other complaint is that I can't make one of the folders on my computer be the root directory of a backup, for example if my backup is named "My Backup" and I want to backup C:\folder to D:\Folder Backup, my files end up in D:\Folder Backup\My Backup\folder.
- 10 August 2010 at 07:51
- Daniel said...
Hi. I'm new to bonkey. Set up a couple of backup groups. One is designed to back up the documents folder on my mac (a relatively small folder) this works fine. My second group is my pictures folder, which is large due to .nef files. Im trying to just copy the nef files. I tell it to run manually, and it goes what seems to be all the way through, but at the end says 'Could not determine the type of file "smb://eeepcfs/backupfolder".' "smb://eeepcfs/backupfolder" is the path of the network share i am trying to write to (on ubuntu). As I say, my documents folder goes fine, and the files appear to all have copied for my photos, but then this error appears. Any ideas? I'd really appreciate your help.
- 16 August 2010 at 10:22
- bonkey said...
Hi Daniel - that's usually the error given when Bonkey can't write to a network share. Is it full, by any chance?
- 18 August 2010 at 05:40
- bonkey said...
Anonymous - glad to hear the RC works for FTP. Others might like to try that.
Re folders, there's no way to do that at present. I'll put it on the todo list.
- 18 August 2010 at 05:51
The RC worked great to solve the FTP problem. Thank You!
- 21 August 2010 at 22:58
Hi...i've been using Bonkey for 2 weeks. Everything was working fine until today when I cant do my backup anymore. The error is "An internal error occurred during: "Run now".
java.lang.NullPointerException" Tried to update Bonkey but no success either. My Bonkey version is 3.4.1. Can you help? Thanks!
- 2 September 2010 at 17:55
- bonkey said...
Hi Liz
That's strange. Nothing else about your setup has changed?
- 6 September 2010 at 03:54
- daniel said...
I am trying to get bonkey working with mac osx. I have an ftp server setup at home that is functioning fine with my windows machines but when i try to setup an ftp backup of my dad's macbook pro it says can not create the directory. It actually does create a folder on the server but doesn't put anything in the folder.
- 5 October 2010 at 07:43
- rvcormier said...
Rene said
I just started using Bonkey Monkey yesterday. I was able to upload to S3 sevweral backup groups. However there is 1 group I can't upload. The error is "An internal error occurred during: "Run now".
java.lang.NullPointerException" Can you help? Thanks!
- 8 October 2010 at 03:42
- bonkey said...
Hi Daniel,
Sorry for the delay. Try the release candidate I put together, that may fix this bug: http://s3.amazonaws.com/bonkey/Bonkey_rc.zip
- 23 October 2010 at 23:36
- bonkey said...
Hi Rene,
It's hard to guess what that would be without more information. You can email the details to thebackupmonkey at gmail, but it might be a little while before I can look at it.
- 23 October 2010 at 23:38


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Facebook (NYSE:FB) shares are down about 2.5% as investors weigh how heavily Zynga's (NASDAQ:ZNGA) lackluster outlook will weigh on the social network over the long term.
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Revenue from Zynga made up 14% of Facebook's total revenues in the first six months of 2012 and J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) estimates that the games maker made up a whopping 54% of Facebook's payments revenue.
Those numbers are both falling as the companies continue lowering their dependence on one another, however Zynga's troubles will inevitably take a substantial hit on the social network's payments revenue in the latter half of this year and through 2013, J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth said in a report released Friday.
Facebook's stock price is still uncomfortably correlated with Zynga and has been sliding since its platform partner and the maker of "Farmville" announced late Thursday that it expects to report a loss in the current quarter.
A day after the powerful social network said it surpassed one billion users, J.P. Morgan cut its price target on Facebook by two dollars to $28 and again lowered its outlook on Facebook's 2013 payments revenue.
The move follows an early September slashing by J.P. Morgan of Facebook's payments projections following Zynga's weak quarterly performance and broader gaming challenges.
"The bottom line is that Zynga's [second half] numbers – and likely the outlook for 2013 – are even worse than expected," Anmuth said.
J.P. Morgan now sees Facebook's payments revenue in 2013 falling 28% to $582 million, down from an earlier view of $797 million, which would have put the revenue at just a 4% year-over-year decline.
"We expect Facebook shares to be pressured in the near term as Zynga's outlook weighs on high-margin payments revenue and Facebook's overall earnings profile," he said.
While the bank still holds a bullish outlook on Facebook's advertising prospects in the near term, it lowered its EBITDA outlook on Facebook citing the "high incremental margins of payments."
J.P. Morgan now forecasts 2013 EBITDA growing 18% to $3.2 billion and 21% to $3.9 billion in 2014, lower than previous estimates, and EPS for those years coming down 6% and 9%, to 56 cents and 70 cents, from its earlier view, respectively.
Anmuth said Facebook's payments challenges further emphasis the Silicon Valley tech behemoth as an advertising story.
He added that advertising revenue growth can re-accelerate in the second half of this year and into 2013 as mobile revenue and improved desktop monetization offset the user shift to mobile.
Facebook on Thursday said mobile monthly active users grew to at least 600 million in September from just 543 million in June.


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jamespensfan wrote:GSdrums87 wrote:jamespensfan wrote:Im tired of these games. But I TOTALLY disagree with the site of this proposed game. Why should the Pens or the Flyers give the huge ecomomic benefits of hosting this game to a non-HNL site? I think that the primary markets should enjoy the benefits of these games. Either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. I don't give a darm about the giving huge economic boosts to State College, or Ann Arbor for that mattter.
The Pens' market through the midstate has picked up substantially over the past few years. The same could be said about the opposite of your sentiment: Ya'll get the home games, and some of us just can't find the time to drive 7 hours in a day to get to either venue.
I am glad you are a fan. I understand it is inconvinent to get to games and drive a great distance. I just believe that the people of NHL markets deserve these HUGE economic benefits first before non-NHL markets.
Understandable, and I feel like a game like this is more to the NHL's benefit than the specific teams and cities, simply because you put something like that in an area of expansion and their viewership and sales also get a boost from people that may be teetering on fandom or perhaps never had that big event to push them over the edge. Just another PR move from the NHL I'd say.


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Ruth Erspamer Spees
MELLEN, Wis. — Ruth Erspamer Spees, 48, of Hurley, died peacefully Friday, April 5, 2013, surrounded by her loving family, at Mellen Manor Nursing Home in Mellen, following a 10-year battle with cancer.
She was born Aug. 28, 1964, in Antigo, daughter of Ted and the late Gretchen (Pfeiffer) Erspamer, attended St. Mary's Grade School in Hurley, and graduated from J.E. Murphy High School in 1983. She was employed at Villa Maria Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hurley for 24 years.
Ruth was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hurley. She had a great sense of humor, and was a kind, loving person who cared about others. She loved her Welsh Corgi, Brewster, whom she called her boy, and enjoyed going to rummage sales, taking long walks, and baking and shopping with her nieces.
She married Perry Spees on Dec. 31, 1999, in Hurley. He survives.
Also surviving are her father, Ted Erspamer, Hurley; seven siblings, Janie Clemens (Andy Nelson), Ironwood, Mich .; Dan Erspamer, Hurley; Anne (George) Peterson, Appleton; Sam (Melanie) Erspamer, Hurley, Bill (Tara) Erspamer, Appleton, Bob (Fara) Erspamer, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Tom (Tami) Erspamer, Arena; father-and-mother-in-law, John and Tina Spees, Rhinelander; numerous nieces and nephews; special friend, Donna Kessler; and her boy, Brewster.
Out of respect for Ruth's wishes, cremation has taken place.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, April 11, at 11 a.m., preceded by visitation at 10 a.m., at St. Mary's Church in Hurley, with the Rev. Frank Kordek OFM, celebrant.
Luncheon will follow in the parish hall.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be given to Perry Spees, 703 Magnetic St., Hurley, WI 54534.
Arrangements have been entrusted to McKevitt-Patrick Funeral Home and Cremation Services of Ironwood, where condolences may be given to Ruth's family online at mckevittpatrickfuneralhome.com.


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Amy Hultner appeared in all 31 matches and a career-high 115 games for the Matadors as a junior ... as the starting libero, led Northridge in digs with a career-high 521 ... also posted a career-best 4.53 digs per game average which ranked eighth in the Big West ... her digs total ties Jessika Hammerich (2004) for the most in a single season in Northridge history ... comes into her senior season ranked ninth on the Matador career digs list with 1,006 ... with 79 career service aces is just 13 aces away from entering the Northridge career top 10 ... also registered a career-best 50 assists as a junior ... had a career-high 31 digs in the Matadors' five-set win over Cal State Fullerton (Oct. 2) and had at least 20 digs eight times during the season ... earned All-Tournament honors at the University of San Diego Tournament (Sept. 14-15) ... recorded double figures in digs in 28 of 31 matches played ... had a season-best three aces in the three-set sweep over UC Riverside (Sept. 29) ... was named to the Big West Academic All-Conference team for the second consecutive year.
Hultner appeared in all 28 matches and 97 of Northridge's 100 games as a sophomore ... led the Matadors with a career-high 38 service aces which ranked second in the Big West Conference ... finished third on the team with 291 digs for a 3.00 digs per game average ... served a career-high five aces in Northridge's 3-0 win over UC Irvine (Nov. 18) ... posted a career-high 26 digs at UC Santa Barbara (Nov. 11) ... had 20 digs and four aces in the Matadors' five-set win over San Jose State (Sept. 16) ... earned All-Tournament honors at the University of San Diego Tournament (Sept. 14-15) ... had at least 10 digs 13 of Northridge's 28 matches ... was one of seven Matadors named to the Big West All-Academic Team.
Appeared in all 27 matches and 96 of 99 games as a freshman ... tied for third on the team with 18 aces (0.19 per game) ... was fifth on the Matadors with 194 digs (2.02 per game) and also posted a .930 reception percentage ... served a career-best four aces at UC Riverside (Sept. 23) ... recorded double figure dig totals six times during the season, establishing a career-best with 14 digs on two occasions; vs. Arizona State (Aug. 26) and at Fresno State (Nov. 5).
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Bryant signals what's to come with monster homer
TEMPE, Ariz. -- It was one inning in the Cubs' second Cactus League game, but Friday's seventh was a sign of things to come.
Kris Bryant belted a two-run homer in his first spring at-bat, driving in Albert Almora, but it wasn't nearly enough as the Cubs lost, 15-3, to the Angels.View Full Game Coverage
TEMPE, Ariz. -- It was one inning in the Cubs' second Cactus League game, but Friday's seventh was a sign of things to come.
Kris Bryant belted a two-run homer in his first spring at-bat, driving in Albert Almora, but it wasn't nearly enough as the Cubs lost, 15-3, to the Angels.View Full Game Coverage
All of the so-called core four -- Almora, Bryant, Jorge Soler and Javier Baez -- had at-bats in the seventh. Arismendy Alcantara, another highly touted prospect, popped up to lead off the inning, and then Almora, the Cubs' No. 1 pick in 2012, doubled. Soler struck out and Bryant followed with a lengthy at-bat that resulted in a 420-foot shot just left of the batter's eye off a 3-2 slider from the Angels' Jarrett Grube.
Brett Jackson, another Cubs' No. 1 pick, walked and Baez, a first-round selection in 2011, lined out sharply to third base to end the inning.
"It was kind of cool -- Albert got on with a double, Jorge, he had some good swings, and then I drove in Albert," Bryant said. "Hopefully, we can do that a lot in the future."
The Cubs certainly hope so.
Bryant's career has been on the fast track since the third baseman was selected second overall in last June's First-Year Player Draft. After he signed with the Cubs, Bryant played two games with the Rookie League team, then was bumped up to short-season Boise for 18 games. His debut there wasn't nearly as impressive, as he struck out in all five at-bats. But Bryant batted .354 and was promoted to Class A Advanced Daytona, where he hit .333 in 16 games with five home runs and five doubles, plus 14 RBIs.
And he wasn't done. The winner of the Golden Spikes Award as the top college baseball player of the year, Bryant, 22, played in the Arizona Fall League and batted .364 with six more home runs, eight doubles and 17 RBIs.
He may be familiar with playing in the desert, but this is his first big league camp, and the seventh inning was his first at-bat.
"I felt good up there. I was not nervous at all and saw a lot of pitches, which was good," Bryant said. "Home runs don't mean anything if you don't win the game, so that's a little disappointing. For myself, it was a good performance."
Cubs fans will see a lot of Bryant, Almora, Soler and Baez this spring as new manager Rick Renteria takes advantage of the Cactus League games to gauge the talent in the system. All are projected to open the season in the Minor Leagues. All have seemed very much at home in big league camp.
"It was a good first at-bat, and all the nerves are gone now," Bryant said.
How can he be so calm?
"It's just a game," he said. "You've got to go out there and have fun and don't put pressure on yourself and put a smile on your face and good things usually come from that."
It worked at San Diego, where he led the nation with 31 home runs.
"I've just been blessed with power," Bryant said. "I'm putting it to use. Hopefully, I can go out there tomorrow and give it all I've got and hopefully get a win."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat.


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The Reserve Bank's latest forecasts paint a picture of improving growth, subdued inflation, low interest rates and falling unemployment next year.
The flies in the ointment, though, are a dollar which remains stubbornly high, worsening external accounts, and the risk that the housing market and construction costs will not prove as well behaved as the bank expects.
The December monetary policy statement has growth accelerating from an annual rate of around 1 to 1.5 per cent now to the 2.5 to 3 per cent range by 2014 and 2015.
The $30 billion task of rebuilding Christchurch is the biggest impetus behind that, even though the bank's forecasts have the peak in that spending not occurring until 2015 and 2016.
It sees further support from falling mortgage rates, reflecting lower bank funding costs.
And it sees the international outlook as still soft but less threatening than three months ago, with the data out of China improving and an expectation that the United States will muddle through its fiscal problems.
On the negative side of the scales are the effects of the high dollar, especially on firms competing with imports, continued caution on the part of households and the contractionary effects of fiscal policy.
The statement devotes much more space to discussing the risks that inflation will prove stronger than its central forecast, than to the possibility that inflation might continue to come in weaker than it expected.
Construction costs in Canterbury have soared while they continue to rise only moderately in Auckland and nationwide.
Evidence of a spillover of construction cost inflation to the rest of the country is one risk it is on the watch for.
Another is that house price inflation will take off.
It is already running at double-digit rates in Auckland, but the bank expects it to get no higher than 5 per cent nationwide, arguing that houses are already expensive relative to incomes and rents, that residential construction is picking up, and that household behaviour has changed since the boom years.
Households are using mortgage rates at 50-year lows to repay debt faster, rather than seeing rising equity in their home as a licence to go out and spend more than their income.
Should that change, all else being equal, the bank will raise the official cash rate sooner than it currently expects to, which is early 2014.
Discussions with the Government about when and how macro-prudential tools, including the regulation of loan-to-value ratios, might be used are well advanced. Wheeler reiterated that those tools were intended to combat asset bubbles that might threaten financial stability and do a lot of damage when they burst.


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Ex-NBA center Shaquille O'Neal bolstered his playing career in part by owning the Sacramento Kings, averaging more than 25 points and 11 rebounds in 45 career games against them. Now he'll be able to say that he owns them literally.
The future Hall of Famer will have a minority ownership stake in Sacramento's overhauled, Vivek Ranadivé-led franchise, the Kings confirmed Monday. He'll be formally introduced to the media on Tuesday.
On some level, the news is surprising. O'Neal—a longtime nemesis of the Chris Webber-era Sacramento teams—infamously referred to the Kings as "the Queens" in 2002. The Kings never quite got past the Lakers in those contentious battles, with O'Neal's Los Angeles teams beating the Kings en route to NBA titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002.
But the move figures to be beneficial for both sides. The Kings, one of the NBA's worst teams since that period in the early 2000s, can use O'Neal's name recognition. He might also serve as a mentor to center DeMarcus Cousins, the team's mercurial star.
O'Neal, who has placed a priority on advertising and branding since retiring in 2011, becomes the latest ex-NBA player to have an ownership stake in a team, joining the likes of Michael Jordan, Jason Kidd, Magic Johnson and Penny Hardaway.
—Chris Herring
Suspension for Balotelli
AC Milan forward Mario Balotelli was given a three-match ban Monday for making "intimidating and insulting remarks" to an official after a 2-1 loss to Napoli on Sunday. Balotelli confronted the referee after receiving a second yellow card following the final whistle. Milan didn't immediately announce whether it would appeal the ban, although manager Massimiliano Allegri said publicly that Balotelli must do a better job of controlling his temper.
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Justin Hartley, Emily VanCamp, and Christa B. Allen grab lunch together during a break on the set of their show Revenge on Wednesday (July 24) in downtown Los Angeles.
The stars were joined on set by Josh Bowman, who was seen kissing Emily, his real-life girlfriend and sometimes on-screen love.
Earlier in the week, Christa treated her Instagram followers to a sexy photo of Justin going shirtless in just a towel while filming a scene.
In the upcoming third season, Justin is guest starring as Victoria Grayson's long-lost son and the half-brother of Christa and Josh's characters.
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BACnet standard improves alarm handling
Changes to the newly published BACnet standard from ASHRAE will encourage smart lighting controls and other building automation control systems.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2012, BACnet – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, allows building equipment and systems manufactured by different companies to work together.
The new standard is being published due to the wide-reaching changes in alarming functionality made by addendum af to Standard 135-2010. This edition of the standard also includes recently adopted changes for the lighting industry.
Addendum af provides improvements to alarm handling in BACnet including: Improved fault handling, temporary alarm recipient subscriptions, improvements in scalability of alarm distribution and simplifications in alarm distribution to support less complex products.
Addendum af contains 32 parts. Changes include separating the detection of fault conditions from intrinsic reporting and making sure event reporting property descriptions are consistent. Other addendums include changing the description of the reliability property and improving fault detection in event enrollment objects and the specification of event reporting.
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ServInt introduces new Custom Shop ordering system, eliminating the need for clients of web designers to complete complex order forms for web-hosting services
— The Custom Shop is part of ServInt's new PowerPartner affiliate marketing program, providing rapid, high-dollar cash payouts for new customers referred to ServInt by the web design community —
ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for businesses worldwide, today introduced a new ordering system, called the ServInt Custom Shop, that addresses one of the biggest hurdles faced by web designers when they refer clients to hosting companies for service: the complex ordering process that can overwhelm new hosting customers.
The Custom Shop enables web designers to pre-fill ordering pages for the hosting packages they recommend to their clients, leaving only the name and payment fields blank. Designers can save those pre-populated order pages, at which point the Custom Shop automatically generates a URL for the pages. Designers can then forward the URLs, linked to the pre-filled order pages, to their customers for vastly simplified ordering.
The Custom Shop is an integral part of ServInt's PowerPartner affiliate marketing program that pays designers for referring new business to ServInt. Once orders are received, the designer gets a one-time cash payment or service credit, equal to 100 percent of the monthly fee for that service package.
There is no fee associated with becoming a PowerPartner, and designers do not have to be ServInt customers to use the Custom Shop.
"Web designers frequently face a moment of truth when they've completed the task of creating a professional new site for their clients," said ServInt Vice President of Marketing Fritz Stolzenbach. "On one hand, they want their customers to make a seamless, easy transition to a hosting company and server configuration the designer recommends. But they'd rather not be the de facto sign-up and migration tech for the process. Our new Custom Shop ordering system solves this problem, and our PowerPartner affiliate marketing system makes sure designers get paid generously for the new business they refer to us."
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Maybe your dream date will be sitting right next to you at the meeting!
And when it does happen, it raises thorny and painful questions.
We generated an inventory of 27 interpersonal behaviors and examined the extent to which participants judged each behavior as cheating on a long-term partner.
We predicted variation in these judgments based on participant sex and attachment insecurity.
A place for middle aged singles (40ish and up) to get inspired and informed about creating extraordinary relationships by learning and sharing how to navigate the minefield called dating combined with something like speed dating, only better! (Say, for instance, "What Are Your Dating Dilemmas.") Then a question is asked for each small group of 4 - 6 folks to debate... " So while you're getting to know each other in your small groups, and sharing your thoughts on the topic, people are learning and getting to meet other eligible singles at the same time!
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London: Manchester United player Robin Van Persie has told pals he is missing former boss Alex Ferguson and new manager David Moyes is still facing a battle to win over the star player.
According to The Daily Star, it is understood Van Persie has misgivings about some of Moyes` training methods.
The report said that former Everton boss Moyes now has his work cut out to convince Van Persie he is the right man for the United hotseat.
Despite starting the season brightly, with two goals in the champions` first two games, the 30-year-old appeared out of sorts in the goalless draw with Chelsea and 1-0 defeat at Liverpool, the report added.
Van Persie cut a frustrated figure at Anfield on Sunday and looked close to losing his cool several times, the report further said.
A friend of Van Persie said that the player was not happy and therefore, he could not hide it on the pitch, adding that when he became frustrated, he was capable of doing something silly.


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Leeward CC Native Hawaiian Writing and Arts website, Pūpū A 'O 'Ewa Native, was selected as a finalist for Edublog's 2013 Best New Blogs Awards. The students and faculty involved were delighted by achieving a seventh place in the national initiative.
The website presents creative work of Native Hawaiian artists, writers, creators and producers in written pieces, videos and audio recordings.
Leeward CC faculty Pat Kamalani Hurley created the website last Spring to publish the creative work from the Ka ʻUmeke Kā'eo Native Hawaiian Writing and Arts Achievement Awards, and to establish a creative place for students, faculty and community members. With a goal to encourage students to express themselves in both English and Hawaiian languages, the Ka ʻUmeke Kā'eo awards program is supported by Leeward's Language Arts Division and Student Life.
Both the awards program and Pūpū focus on na mea Hawaiʻi—anything Native Hawaiian," said Hurley. "I am proud that Pūpū was nominated for a best blog of the year. We didn't win, but it was an honor for our students to get some well-deserved recognition."
Hurley and her volunteers spend countless hours in making the creative pieces come alive. "If the work is art and in the Hawaiian language, then we like to include audio recordings so that visitors who speak Hawaiian can enjoy the moʻolelo and so that those who don't speak Hawaiian can hear what the language sounds like," Hurley said.
Hurley also produces short, rather informal bios where the contributors talk about themselves and their work. "Videos help to make what could be a static, boring website into something pretty special," she said. "The students never fail to charm."
Although the website is pretty much a one-person operation, Hurley said she couldn't do any of this without the support of the many faculty, staff and students who believe in the goals and vision of the website.
"They recognize that such good, creative works have a wider educational value, and I am grateful for their support," she said.
The audio taping is supported by the Leeward Educational Media Center, and the production of short video bios are edited by volunteer Digital Media students.
"I like to think that both the Ka ʻUmeke Kā'eo awards and Pūpū A 'O 'Ewa are innovative in supporting Leeward CC's mission statement of addressing the needs of Native Hawaiians," Hurley said. "This project help me to meet my kuleana of supporting my fellow Hawaiians while contributing to the campus I love."
To encourage viewership, Hurley recently introduced "New Release Mondays." Each week a new work is posted and featured on the site. As the online presence increase, Hurley's dream is to reach out to high school students to have them "join the conversation."
To learn more on how you can contribute to the project, contact Pat Kamalani Hurley at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the Native Hawaiian Writing and Arts website at http://pupuaoewa.org.


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Techgage has taken a hard look at the latest release from Gentoo, particularly its installation process. Although there is a revamped installer, using it proved to be a less than perfect experience: "This installer does not function like the previous ones. Before, the installer would wait until you made changes to the last option before it began installing. Now, everything is installed along the way."


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Bolt Prospects 2011 NHL Entry Draft Preview: Centers
When your team has Steven Stamkos and Vincent Lecavalier up the middle on your roster at the NHL level, it's hard to classify the center position as a dire need. Indeed, should Steve Yzerman succeed in locking Stamkos up to a long-term deal, the Lightning should have their scoring line centerman spots well taken care of for the next half a decade. However, the Lightning need depth, particularly for future postseason campaigns when lower-liners can often be the difference between advancing and going home, and right now the Lightning organization doesn't possess that depth.
The Lightning do have some prospects of note in Harvard pivotman Alex Killorn, who can play both left wing and center, WHL scoring title runner-up Tyler Johnson, and Miami of Ohio incoming freshman Jimmy Mullin, who can play both right wing and center. But, like the Lightning's defense, there are no blue chippers in the crop that appear to be sure-fire NHLers. For that reason, we rate center as the third most pressing need for the Lightning organization going into the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. Here are 7 players we feel might be available and attractive to the Lightning at their 1st round pick on draft night:
Name: Rocco Grimaldi
Position: Center
Shoots: Right
Height: 5.06
Weight: 163
Born: 2/8/1993, Anaheim, CA
Last Team: USNTDP (USA)
Rankings: CSS 32 (NA Skaters), RLR 10 (Overall), THN 32 (Overall)
The closest thing to Martin St. Louis since Martin St. Louis is mighty mite Rocco Grimaldi of the US National Talent Development Program. Grimaldi combines blazing speed, great hands, a wicked shot, and the compete-level of a demon. If he was 4 inches taller, we suspect he'd be competing to be the #1 overall pick. As it is, though, the Lightning may get the opportunity to steal Grimaldi at the 27th overall pick. Like St. Louis, Grimaldi intends to pursue the NCAA path as he is committed to North Dakota of the WCHA next year where he'll join current Lightning prospect centerman Brendan O'Donnell. He needs to continue to get stronger, which is an inevitability in the typical weight training programs of college teams these days, and he'll probably have to switch to the wing as a pro, but he's got the potential to be a star. A real Bolt Prospects favorite.
Name: Boone Jenner
Position: Center
Shoots: Left
Height: 6.01
Weight: 204
Born: 6/15/1993, Dorchester, ON
Last Team: Oshawa (OHL)
Rankings: CSS 18 (NA Skaters), RLR 32 (Overall), THN 40 (Overall)
Those looking to add leadership to their organization should consider Oshawa centerman Boone Jenner. Jenner is a tough, competitive, honest hockey player with a well-rounded game. He probably tops out as a third-line center in the NHL due to his limited offensive creativity and sub-par speed, but he's never going to give less than his best effort.
Name: Alex Khoklachev
Position: Center
Shoots: Left
Height: 5.10
Weight: 188
Born: 9/9/1993, Moscow, Russia
Last Team: Windsor (OHL)
Rankings: CSS 29 (NA Skaters), RLR 13 (Overall), THN 13 (Overall)
There may be just 1 Russian born player selected in the 1st round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, and that young man will likely be Alex Kohklachev of the Windsor Spitfires. Like Alex Burmistrov last year, Kohoklachev is a shifty, undersized playmaker with a knack for setting up his teammates. He's also one of those rare players capable of lugging the puck into the opposition zone. Other than his size, his only other major liabilities are that he often looks lost in the defensive third, and while his speed is good, he's not necessarily got game breaking acceleration. Still, when scouts throw out comparisons to the likes of Marc Savard and Tomas Plekanec, that should tell you what kind of a setup man the team who selects him is getting. We suspect he will be gone by the time the Lightning pick, but there's an outside chance he'll be available.
Name: Mark McNeil
Position: Center
Shoots: Right
Height: 6.02
Weight: 201
Born: 2/22/1993, Langley, BC
Last Team: Prince Albert (WHL)
Rankings: CSS 14 (NA Skaters), RLR 16 (Overall), THN 16 (Overall)
NHL teams will be very attracted to the pro-style, north-south game of Prince Albert centerman Mark McNeil. He's not a wiggler or a dangler. He goes to the net and arrives in ill humor, stopping occasionally to distribute the puck deftly to his wingers along the way. He also plays an honest game defensively, as well, and is very strong on faceoffs. At a minimum, he's probably a 2nd/3rd line tweener, with the chance he could become a dominant power center as he learns to use his size and strength even more to his advantage. We suspect he will be gone by the time the Lightning pick, but there's an outside chance he'll be available.
Name: Vladislav Namestnikov
Position: Center
Shoots: Left
Height: 6.00
Weight: 166
Born: 11/22/1992, Voskresensk, Russia
Last Team: London (OHL)
Rankings: CSS 11 (NA Skaters), RLR 25 (Overall), THN 36 (Overall)
If there's a second Russian-born player selected in the 1st round of this draft, it'll likely be aggravating London Knights pest Vladislav Namestnikov. The nephew of former NHLer Slava Kozlov, Namestnikov plays with far more edge than the typical Russian player and loves to chirp at the opposition. He competes hard and is a nifty stickhandler, although he tends to be a bit of a puckhog. He's also competent defensively, but he lacks the high-end speed and lateral agility you might want from an undersized player. Unlike Khoklachev, he also struggles to get out of the way of oncoming checkers, which is dangerous for an agitator who weighs in at just 166 pounds. He must get stronger and more street savvy, so to speak, to survive the pro game.
Name: Zack Phillips
Position: Center
Shoots: Right
Height: 6.01
Weight: 181
Born: 10/28/1992, Fredericton, NB
Last Team: St. John (QMJHL)
Rankings: CSS 15 (NA Skaters), RLR 34 (Overall), THN 9 (Overall)
One of up to 4 St. John Sea Dogs that may go in the 1st round on draft day, Zack Phillips may be the headiest player of the bunch. Phillips can play both center and right wing and has an excellent knack for reading the play in the offensive zone and finding open holes from which to score. Coming into the season, he had more of a reputation as an Adam Oates style playmaker, but he was more of a finisher as the season wore on as his quick release led to 38 goals in 67 games. The negatives are that the slightly built Phillips isn't very strong physically and needs to work on his defensive zone coverage and faceoffs, if he stays at center as a pro. More importantly though, he's a mediocre skater who seems to have a choppy stride that is too far up on his toes with each step. Scouts seem split on Phillips. His scouting report is reminiscent of a young Brad Richards, but because he's not overly gifted athletically, there's a chance the team taking him could find him a bit wanting in the end. We suspect he will be gone by the time the Lightning pick, but there's an outside chance he'll be available.
Name: Mark Schiefele
Position: Center
Shoots: Right
Height: 6.02
Weight: 182
Born: 3/15/1993, Kitchener, ON
Last Team: Barrie (OHL)
Rankings: CSS 16 (NA Skaters), RLR 12 (Overall), THN 41 (Overall)
Another budding power center is Mark Schiefele of Barrie, who draws comparisons to another late bloomer: Jeff Carter of Philadelphia. Schiefele has a long smooth stride, but unlike Carter he's more of a setup man with elite-level vision and playmaking ability in the offensive zone. He should get faster and stronger as he grows into his body and has a ton of upside. NHL teams are a little leery of Schiefele because he played for such a terrible team in Barrie, which likely inflated his numbers, but he was strong for the Canadians at the U18 World Junior Championships, showing his talent may be no illusion. We suspect he will be gone by the time the Lightning pick, but there's an outside chance he'll be available.
Bonus Picks:
C Philip Danault, Victoriaville (QMJHL): Hard working, shifty centerman with great offensive instincts, but devoid of upper-body strength.
C Travis Ewanyk, Edmonton (WHL): Physically tough, hard working centerman could be a future captain.
C Colin Jacobs, Seattle (WHL): Tough Texan has a good skill level, but lacks the creativity to apply it. He is a hard worker and will apply himself physically, though.
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Rumours abound of Hayneedle looking at an IPO. CSN stores just reported a record quarter. 4 European multi-niche ecommerce businesses are getting funded (disclaimer: I have invested in one).
Why the excitement? Well, in short, the business model is working.
The model is much better explained here, but in short, it is operating a ton of very specific retail sites rather than one big throbbing etailer. For example would you rather buy tubchairs (yes, people do) from
- a specialist tubchair retailer which has with a huge selection in depth, specific customer service, and price range or
- go to Argos.com and choose from a range of two?
Even better, what if you found this tub chair specialist via the left hand side of google which you trust more than the right side?
Well, irrespective of your answers to the above questions, consumers do like to buy from these specialists and the evidence is in their growth.
However, there's another story here: most interesting for entrepreneurs and VCs: the business model.
1) CoCA
Its clear to me that the scene of the fight for the next 10 years, for all businesses and in particular ecommerce is Cost Of Customer Acquisition.
If you're an entrepreneur and you share my view on CoCA, then I bet that you're focussing on a couple things:
a) smart web-marketing (SEO, adwords & viral) and
b) driving return / repeat visitors from systematic email marketing, offers, blogs etc.
Multi-niche ecommerce businesses have the benefit of customers who find the stores via natural search easily (Google recognises their depth and authority). They also benefit from high customer service expertise, which is (arguably) the single biggest driver of return repeat.
These factors both reduces CoCA.
All businesses have challenges and multi-niche retailers have to leverage their database of tubchair buyers to make inferences on sending them other offers. Its difficult but can be done.
2) Stock costs.
All traditional retailers struggle from tying working capital up in stock. From an investor or entrepreneur's perspective, this is not capital efficient which is a BAD THING (I have another post on this coming).
Holding stock also means you are subject to inventory risk: buying the wrong blouses for this season, or not getting your channel working quickly enough to sell-through at top-price.
Multi-niche models are attractive because it also opens the door to drop-shipping directly from suppliers. This is not simple: supplier management is not easy (who is going to recruit and manage all those dart-board manufacturers?). Operations and logistics can create some thorny issues around availability and delivery, but again, not insurmountable.
Taking a step back, most interesting for me as an investor today is that there are so many smart models around retail: all piggy-backing on ecommerce market growth BUT adopting smart strategies around CoCA and stock.
Now I'm back in the blog saddle, I will write again soon on these.


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His radio career began in college at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he was actively involved in the student-run station, Radio 1190. During his four-year stint at Radio 1190, Corey occupied a variety of roles, including disc jockey, news and sports director and host of the "Local Shakedown," the station's weekly local music program. While pursuing his journalism degree, Corey also contributed to the editorial staffs for both the Boulder Daily Camera and Denver's 5280 Magazine.
In October, 2011, Corey was one of the first hosts who signed on to help launch OpenAir. He spent more than two years working with the OpenAir team to establish CPR's newest service as a destination to explore today's music and showcase local talent. Corey played a significant role in putting OpenAir on the map as a top source for Colorado music with "Mile High Noon," a daily program he created and hosted that highlights emerging local artists. In March, 2013, Corey traveled to Austin, Texas, to cover the South by Southwest music festival, focusing on the experience of Colorado musicians.
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I am very attached to my cavalier and I am afraid to say that I've noticed symptoms of SM. I notice that he is very sensitive to being touched on the head. He also scratches his head a lot and then tries to bite his foot that he scratches with. I've observed that he chases his tail a lot too. I am so afraid to find out the bad news that he has SM that I have been losing sleep. Do you all recommend that I get a test done for this? I should note that he has learned several dog tricks. When I called the breeder that sold manny to me, she said his mother and father didn't carry the disease. She also claims that an infected dog with SM wouldn't be able to learn so many tricks, which I find hard to believe. Can you all please share your opinions and experiences with this. Thank you for your help and support.


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NEW DELHI (AP) — Indians on Saturday celebrated Republic Day without major incident except in disputed Kashmir, where separatists held a general strike to protest Indian rule.
Security was tight Saturday in Kashmir, especially after border clashes between Indian and Pakistani soldiers left five dead on both sides early this month, and in the insurgency-hit remote northeast.
Official observances were held in Kashmir despite a near-total shutdown caused by the general strike. However, In the northeast, people ignored another call for a general strike made by six insurgent groups.
Republic Day commemorates the day India's Constitution came into effect in 1950. Celebrations usually include military parades and displays of weaponry, cultural pageants and dances.
In New Delhi, more than 20,000 police and paramilitary personnel guarded a massive parade to the city's Red Fort.
The parade included a model of the Agni-V (Fire) missile that can carry nuclear weapons as far as Beijing.
India hailed its test of the missile in April last year as a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power. It has a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) but it still requires a battery of tests and must clear other bureaucratic hurdles before it can be inducted into India's arsenal in a few years.
On Friday, India's president referred to the killing of two Indian soldiers, one of whom was beheaded, by Pakistani forces on Jan. 8 as "serious atrocities on the Line of Control on our troops." Pakistan denies India's charge.
The cease-fire line divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, which both claim in entirety.
President Pranab Mukherjee cautioned Pakistan that sponsorship of terrorism through non-state actors was a matter of deep concern to India.
"We believe in peace on the border and are always ready to offer a hand in the hope of friendship. But this hand should not be taken for granted," Mukherjee said in his speech broadcast live on radio and television channels on Friday night on the eve of the national day.
India accuses Pakistan of training and arming insurgent groups which have been fighting for Kashmir's merger with Pakistan or its independence since 1989. Pakistan denies India's claim.
More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over control of Kashmir, since they won independence from Britain in 1947.


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...that there is a gap (a glottal stop)
spqr wrote:Why wouldn't consonantal y pronunciation be used in these examples?
i is consonantal at the beginning of a word when followed by a vowel and in the middle of a word when it falls between vowels(biiugis, pronounced "bi-yugis"). i may also be consonantal in the middle of a compound.
Virgil, Aeneid I.376, wrote:"Troiae nomen iit, diversa per aequora vectos"
Virgil, Aeneid II.174, wrote:sudor iit, terque ipsa solo (mirabile dictu)
Gildersleeve (http://archive.org/stream/gildersleeveslat00gilduoft/gildersleeveslat00gilduoft_djvu.txt) wrote:"2. In the first and third persons Sing, and in the first person PL of the Perfect, syncope occurs regularly only in Perfects in ivi, and no contraction ensues."
Qimmik wrote:Examples from hexameters will always be ambiguous.
Benè moratus sis, mvh. // Behave, mvh.mvh wrote:I will comment no further on your latin, if that is sort of response I get to what I took to be a sincere plea for correction.
Craig_Thomas wrote:Someone might argue that 'i' could still be a consonant in 'jit', but made a vowel in the compound to avoid the difficult to pronounce 'exjit'.
J. N. Adams in Social Variation and the Latin Language (2013) notes that, in contrast with Plautus' Latin, where eō/is/it/eunt/ii/iit abound, the short conjugations of eō are pretty much limited to poetry already in the 1st c. BC...Craig_Thomas wrote:Would these, with 'exiit', satisfy? 'iit', it turns out, is quite a rare form!


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Adam Richman hosts epic kitchen clash testing the courage, strategy and culinary expertise of America's best home cooks
It's the perfect recipe for the ultimate food battle when the best amateur cooks in America put their signature dishes to the test against six professional chefs in "Food Fighters," a high-stakes culinary game coming to NBC. Television personality, author and food enthusiast Adam Richman hosts the series, which takes culinary sparring to a whole new level.
The announcement was made by Paul Telegdy, president of alternative and late night programming at NBC.
"'Food Fighters' combines compelling competition and game show fun with a delicious twist: giving every day home cooks a once-in-a-lifetime chance to compete with world-class chefs," Telegdy said. "Every true home cook has at least one 'signature dish' - the peach cobbler, the lasagna, that appetizer that friends beg you to bring to parties. This is a show that puts those recipes to the ultimate test and rewards the passion Americans bring to their home kitchens every day. We're excited to have the dynamic Adam Richman, one of the world's greatest food enthusiasts, on board as host - and can't wait for viewers to root on these contenders in the ultimate culinary showdown!"
In a series of compelling, tension-filled showdowns, a top-notch amateur home cook will face off one by one against six professional chefs from every corner of the world. Armed only with recipes for their best signature dishes, and three culinary "lifelines" afforded each cook, they'll square off against an expert chef who will have to cook the same dish. The completed dishes will then be sampled in a blind taste test by an esteemed panel of culinary judges known as "The Dinner Party." After the two competing dishes are tested, the verdict determining the winner is given to the host.
If the home cook wins, he can earn a cash prize and get to face off again against another culinary expert, climbing a money ladder with increasing cash prizes for every professional chef he knocks out. If the professional chef wins, the kitchen battle is over.
"I'm beyond excited to be working with NBC and to be part of a show that gives the unsung heroes of culinary arts - the everyday home cooks - their chance to shine on the national stage, and have a chance at winning some serious, life-changing money," Richman said. "I've always loved traveling and meeting great, passionate, every day, food-loving people and sampling their creations. To have the opportunity to put them on equal footing with the pros and to give them their recognition and a shot at glory is literally the icing on the cake. This show is about celebrating ordinary people with extraordinary talent. I can't wait!"
Richman's love affair with food began early on, growing up in New York City and sampling all of the diverse culinary specialties The Big Apple had to offer. Years later, as an undergraduate at Emory University in Atlanta, he began a food journal to document the standout food establishments he was discovering throughout the southeastern U.S. Though he majored in international studies, his love of all things edible naturally drew him into the culinary world after graduation. Subsequently, he built a solid resume working in nearly every echelon of the restaurant world, from coast-to-coast and from the counter to the kitchen.
After earning a master's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University's School of Drama, Richman traveled the U.S. acting in many regional theaters. The nature of his work allowed him to feed his appetite for the best local dishes across America - all of which found their way into his food journal. In 2008, he began hosting "Man v Food" for the Travel Channel. It quickly became their highest-rated show. Richman is currently working on his first cookbook and is a regular contributor for NBC's "Today" show.


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Opponents of the governor's Bay Delta Conservation Plan say the construction of 35 miles of concrete tunnels around the sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will cost the average household in Los Angeles as much as $9,000, or add $5 to $16 a month to already increasing water bills over 40 years.
"This is an unfair project," said Adam Scow, California campaign director of Food & Water Watch, a national environmental and consumer watchdog group. "It is a way to funnel more water to special interests at the expense of ratepayers and taxpayers and the environment. "
In an effort to cut off the governor's announcement in support of the plan and its costs scheduled Wednesday for Milpitas, a town in the Silicon Valley, Scow's group, along with Restore The Delta, a grass-roots environmental group from the Delta area, held a press call Tuesday calling the $23 billion project a boondoggle. Opponents say the project amounts to corporate welfare for agribusiness, which needs cheap water, and oil interests in Kern County, which needs more water to loosen deeply buried oil reserves, a process known as fracking.
"It is simply too costly for agriculture to absorb," said Jeffrey Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. "Urban users will have to pick up a larger share of the cost than they have been told. "
Supporters, such as the farming industry in the Central Valley, Kern County water interests, the California Natural Resources Agency and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, say the project is necessary to divert flows around sensitive habitat and help restore populations of salmon and Delta smelt, endangered species.
"The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is an investment in securing water supply for two-thirds of California – about 25 million people," said Richard Stapler, spokesperson for the California Natural Resources Agency. "It will also supply water to 3 million acres of the world's most productive farmland. Hard to put a cost on that. "
Indeed. The costs of this megaproject keep changing.
Originally estimated at $4 billion, then $14 billion, but that is only the capital cost of the twin concrete tunnels. The state agency has said the cost is closer to $23 billion once other aspects are included, such as habitat restoration, operation and maintenance. Metropolitan Water District, which supplies water to Southern California from the Delta and the Colorado River, had estimated the cost at $60 per year per household. But Restore the Delta says they've underestimated the urban water user's true share.
The group says the state is concealing other costs, such as the $1.2 billion yearly debt service on the massive project. The group says the project could cost as much as $61.5 billion when adding the debt service cost over 35 years of borrowing.
The opponents say the state has yet to do a cost-benefit analysis, so they did their own. They said this project will cost $2.50 for every $1 in economic benefits for a cost-benefit ratio of 0.4. As a comparison, the other pending large-scale public works project, the high-speed rail project that will run from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, has a cost-benefit ratio of 2.0, much better.
"Most projects with a cost-benefit ratio of below one would be eliminated from consideration," Michael said.
Stapler said the state is not required to do such an analysis; in fact, the federal government overseeing endangered species and habitat restoration discourages it. However, the state is working on cost-benefit studies of nine alternatives that will estimate the cost per household on an urban user in Glendale verses one in Long Beach, he said.
For example, customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power may pay more because the agency uses more imported water than say communities in Long Beach or the San Gabriel Valley, which have an ample supply of ground water or other local water sources.
The state will execute a habitat conservation plan for the wetlands around the Delta that includes the tunnels project, which would divert 9,000 cubic feet per second of fresh water around the Delta and into the State Water Project. Some of that information may be released Wednesday as part of additional chapters in the complex Delta plan, he said.
Michael said the state project is driven by corporate interests toward a large-scale fix. He proposes a $2 billion fix of the Delta's earthen levees using seismic retrofitting.
"The state has refused to consider any seismic upgrade alternatives," he told the press. "They can be completed in a few years, not decades. And they are cheaper. "
State engineers say that is not enough to withstand a large earthquake, which could interrupt the flow of state water to Southern California.
"When you armor those levees, it makes them wider and cuts into your ability to create new habitat for those species," Stapler said.
In Santa Barbara, residents approved a pipeline to the State Water Project in 1991 that was estimated to cost $270 million but ended up costing $1.76 billion when the interest was added in, said Carolee Krieger, president and executive director of California Water Impact Network. The burden to homeowners and water agencies has been steep.
She's worried about the added cost of a new water project. Santa Barbarans and those living in Santa Maria could see increases in water bills of $2,000 to $7,000 a year if the Delta plan is approved.
"My fear is our four water agencies would face dire consequences and could go bankrupt," she said. "The urban ratepayers in Southern California are being asked to subsidize agricultural interests in the Central Valley, as well as real estate speculators," she warned.
Restore The Delta says many Southern California cities are requiring conservation and therefore, plan on buying less water from the state in the future. By recycling water, cleaning up polluted ground-water basins in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, and putting more emphasis on conservation, Southern California can save 7 million to 13 million acre-feet of water without building an expensive tunnel project, said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore The Delta.


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