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Retail Omnichannel Analytics
Make decisions to satisfy customers who can shop anywhere, anytime.
See how retail omnichannel analytics from SAS offers insight into your customer's journey to power marketing, merchandising and more.
Omnichannel Analytics
Apply analytics to every step of the customer journey to improve operations – and customer experiences.
Mobile devices, social networking sites and other technologies have prompted major shifts in customer behavior – so you need to be equally empowered. Just as customers can quickly research products and compare prices through multiple channels, you can respond with relevant offers, competitive prices and the right merchandise. With omnichannel analytics from SAS, you can:
- Turn big data into insight, across all channels. By managing and analyzing data from a wide range of sources, you'll gain a more complete understanding of who your customers are, and what they're looking for.
- Tailor retail efforts to accommodate specific areas. Omnichannel trade area analytics helps you understand customers in defined communities and across multiple channels. As a result, your pricing, sales and marketing are always on target down to the store level.
- Optimize merchandising and store operations. The more you know what customers are looking for, the better you can adjust inventory and make precise decisions about what to stock and when. As operations become more efficient, your sales margins increase.
SAS provides truly integrated technology that's purpose-built for retailers. And with our scalable platform that supports every phase of the analytics life cycle, you'll gain relevant insights that drive key business decisions. With SAS, you'll benefit from:
- Unparalleled analytics expertise. SAS has long been a pioneer in analytics, and we understand better than anyone how to help you infuse analytics into your decision making.
- Data management supporting your processes. Easily merge online and offline customer data for precise insights that can drive better decisions. Our event stream processing technology also helps you analyze data while it's in motion, so you can get instant insights and make quick decisions before data is stored.
- A flexible, scalable solution to analyze big data. Omnichannel analytics from SAS enables you to analyze large amounts of data quickly, for relevant insights into critical business issues.
Better connections, deeper insights.
With retail omnichannel analytics from SAS, you can deliver more personalized shopping experiences to make stronger connections and increase revenue. The key? Understanding what your customers need, and reaching them when – and how – it matters most.
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Merchandising Intelligence
Right merchandise, right stores. Right when the customer is ready to buy.
As customer preferences evolve and options for where – and how – they shop expand, you need a better understanding of who your customers are in order to stay competitive. SAS delivers solutions specifically designed for today's retailers, including technology that enables:
- Merchandise assortment optimization. Efficiently rationalize assortments by becoming more customer-centric and less product-centric, using analytics and advanced clustering to understand a customer's path to purchase – and identify missed opportunities.
- Merchandise financial planning. Predict customer demand by channel, and strategically plan key initiatives. Identify opportunities to improve performance, boost customer satisfaction and increase profitability.
- Merchandise location planning. Understand the true omnichannel demand and use automated processes to predict sales by location, optimize inventory and support e-commerce fulfillment initiatives.
- Size/pack optimization. Increase margin potential by understanding historical sales as well as the true size demand by forecasting quantities down to the store/size level. Recommend pack configurations to meet supply chain constraints and distribution costs.
- Revenue optimization. Gain incremental margin by optimizing profitable price strategies over product life cycle. Use analytics to understand competitor pricing, shape demand and meet financial goals.
Learn more about SAS® Integrated Merchandise Planning
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Connect to current merchandise planning, allocation or replenishment solutions. Enable an end-to-end retail intelligence solution. Transform your business to meet omnichannel strategies. With SAS, you can:
- Improve key performance indicators. Optimize financial and assortment plans as well as allocation and replenishment strategies.
- Enable better assortment planning. Analytics helps you efficiently rationalize assortments, accurately determine the optimal choice count and understand what items were not in the assortment to identify missed opportunities.
- Localize and drive profitability. Statistically cluster locations based on selling patterns to work more efficiently and maximize revenue.
- Boost in-stock service levels. Meet consumer size demand by making millions of item or location decisions accurately – even down to size.
- Increase profit margins. Optimize profitable pricing strategies over the product life cycle.
- Implement analytics. Visualize insights through graphs, charts and scorecards to make analytics more approachable to business end users.
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Our out-of-stocks are fewer, our markdowns are fewer and our margins are higher – which, at the end of the day, is what every retailer wants.
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Learn the impact of omnichannel methods on merchandising, marketing and the supply chain.
Customer Experience & Insight
Know exactly what customers want. And make sure they get it.
The new reality of retail is that customers are mobile and have more control over the purchasing process – which means retailers must rethink how to use customer data and insights from analytics to improve customer engagement. SAS solutions can help you:
- Connect with customers in real time. Engage and respond to customer needs instantly with contextual listening and advanced data integration, enhancing the in-store and online shopping experience.
- Sell more. Understand what actions drive transactions and customer value. Know which message or offer is most relevant to your customer – as well as the best way to deliver the message. Personalize interactions to drive the best performance, and integrate the experience across all customer touchpoints.
- Spend less. With an omnichannel approach, you can spend less than your competitors on customer acquisition. Improve the outcome of your marketing interactions by using predictive modeling as the basis for comprehensive integrated marketing.
Priority, rules-based optimization isn't enough. You need true analytical optimization to improve the customer experience, boost response rates and lower campaign costs. With SAS, you can:
- Gain a more complete view of your customers and business. No matter where your data comes from or where it resides – from legacy systems to Hadoop – you can easily access it. Our customer information mapping technology means your data is always available and accessible. And because you can integrate multiple data sources, including IoT, customer, merchandise and location information, you get a more robust understanding of your customer and business.
- Create memorable interactions in real time. Advanced predictive analytics enables analytically driven scoring, segmentation and decision making based on historical and current interactions. When combined with context, you can create memorable interactions across channels in real time.
- Work from one platform. Our end-to-end integrated solution suite helps you work faster and more efficiently.
Rather than mailing every offer to every customer, SAS helps us determine the right people to contact, helping us stay on budget and avoid wasting resources.
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Supply & Demand Planning
More accurate planning. Down to the individual store level.
For a supply chain to be effective, you need an omnichannel view of customer demand. Where and when will customers want to buy a product? How can you optimize inventory and keep customers happy? Our solutions can help you:
- Solve small, medium or large-scale forecasting needs. With advanced analytics and proven what-if analysis, you can create a process to help answer your biggest business questions.
- Gauge the impact of promotions. Consumer demand is affected by promotions – which, in turn, affects supply chain and inventory needs.
- Optimize inventory. Keeping the right amount of stock in the right locations – from suppliers to warehouses to stores – helps you work efficiently and avoid excesses and markdowns in stock.
Learn about SAS® Supply Chain Intelligence
Trust the accuracy of your forecasts at scale and in detail. Collaborate internally and with suppliers to plan promotions and price changes. Avoid lost sales, out-of-stocks and missed opportunities that result from inaccurate forecasts. SAS enables you to:
- Improve forecasting accuracy. A patented statistical forecasting engine uses advanced forecasting methods for modeling and forecasting all your products and selling locations.
- Optimize inventory and reduce stockouts. With analytics you can drive product where it's needed most to meet customer demand, plus you can manage the overall costs of inventory.
- Take the guesswork out of forecasting. An unmatched library of retail forecasting models take into account underlying trends, seasonality, promotions, inventory effects and more. The solution automatically selects the best fit model based on each individual time-series, enabling large-scale forecasting.
Learn about SAS® Supply Chain Intelligence
How can machine learning benefit demand planning?
Demand planning is a multistep process involving an array of manually intensive, time-consuming workflows. But what if you could automate a large portion of demand planning tasks? Find out how assisted demand planning using machine learning enables demand planners to be more productive and efficient – and add real value to an organization's overall demand planning process.
We're now able to drill down through customer hierarchies and do things such as integrate the impact of promotions and special offers into the statistical models.
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IoT for Retail
Give customers relevant, omnichannel experiences – in real time, on their terms.
Gain an omnichannel view of your customers across all devices. Understand, adapt to and anticipate customer needs. IoT solutions from SAS bring together data, analytics and marketing processes to help you:
- Sense customer needs and preferences in real time. Use smart devices to gather location-based information. Then integrate that data with previously known information to form contextual, real-time insights that you can act on.
- Gain a deeper understanding of customer patterns. Merge detailed, online customer behavior data with data from offline channels for a complete customer view that reveals what customers truly need so you can respond in real time with relevant, meaningful offers.
- Provide profitable new services to customers. Combine what you've learned from previous customer experiences with what you anticipate about future needs – then take action to seize opportunities ahead of the competition.
- A comprehensive view of your customers and business. Our customer information mapping technology means your data is always available and accessible – no matter where it comes from or where it resides. And you can integrate multiple online and offline data sources, including IoT, customer, merchandise and location information.
- Automated, large-scale forecasting. An unmatched library of retail forecasting models take into account underlying trends, seasonality, promotions, inventory effects and more. The best-fit model is selected automatically based on each individual time series.
- High-performance predictive analytics. Create memorable, personalized interactions – across channels and in real time – using analytically driven scoring, segmentation and decision making based on historical and current interactions, combined with context.
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SAS® Analytics for IoT can improve the customer experience by fusing IoT data with analytics.
Discover how event stream processing can personalize the shopping experience.


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GR - "Fans hoping for news on Grand Theft Auto 5 may have something to look forward to with T2's conference call in May."
i doubt,but you never know :)
I really hope we get some new info... I'm dying here!
I just want it for PC...
I just hope that it comes to the PS4. The more platforms the better.. its practically the only game left why i'm hanging on to my current generation consoles.
Yup same here GTA5 and the TheLastOfUs are the only games I really want... I got this feeling that GTA5 will come to PS4, but probably not at the same time as on PS3. Now will I wait for the better version and maybe die of anticipation or just give in and play it on PS3 lol
this is why i am going to get the PS4 and maybe the 720 until like a year cause of there is more games on current gen consoles that i am more looking forward to
too bad PS4 doesnt have backwards compatibility.
September feels like its years away...
I wish 2k would give me a time machine so I can go get GTA and come back to the present with GTA in hand.
A conference call is not going to reveal infos about a game
Trailer next week, more info next,month.
No it wont.
They won't reveal details like that. They'll reconfirm PS3/360 as the only platforms, and hopefully they won't delay it again.
Good, hope we see more on the TBS X-COM it was so awesome...
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Although it hasn't exactly been a secret, Taiwan's Acer has officially unveiled its super-slim Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook, the first in the company's series of Ultrabook systems. Like any good Ultrabook, the sleek Aspire S3 puts an emphasis on portability and performance: it packs a second-generation Intel Core i5 processor, measures barely over half an inch thick, and weighs under three pounds. And the Aspire S3 is also promising long battery life: Acer says the unit will run for six hours on a single charge, and offers an impressive 50-day standby time.
"The combination of extreme mobility and affordability found in the Acer Aspire S3-951 Ultrabook will undoubtedly change the way people think about mobile computing," said Acer America's VP of product marketing Sumit Agnihotry, in a statement. "Consumers are going to love the value they find in the freedom and capabilities it offers."
The Aspire S3 Ultrabook features a second-generation "Sandy Bridge" Intel Core i5 processor running at 1.6 GHz, although Turbo Boost technology can take it up to 2.3 GHz for performance sprints. The system offers a 13.3-inch 1,366 by 768-pixel LED-backlit display driven by the CPU's integrated Intel HD graphics 3000 graphics processor and ships with a standard 4 GB of RAM. Inside the super-slim chassis, the Aspire S3 packs a 320 GB 5,400 rpm hard drive supplemented by a 20 GB solid-state drive—the idea is to pack the operating system and the machine's current state onto the SSD, leaving the hard drive for applications, documents, and media. Combined with Acer Green Instant On technology, the Aspire S3 wakes from sleep in just two seconds, and can jump back on the Internet in as little as 2.5 seconds, letting folks get back to work—or at least Facebook—in record time.
The Aspire S3 sports a rigid frame made from magnesium aluminum alloy, featuring a metallic silver smudge-resistant finish: even though it's very thin, Acer says the chassis is strong enough to protect the display. Most of the ports (HDMI and VGA output, power, and 2 USB 2.0 jacks) are located on the back of the unit, although the 2-in-1 card reader and headphone jack are on the sides. The Aspire S3 also sports a 1.3 megapixel webcam along with 802.11b/g/n Wi-FI, and Bluetooth 4.0+HS wireless networking—of course, the system also supports a range of Acer technologies, including clear.fi media sharing. The unit measures 12.59 by 8.52 inches wide and deep, and ranges from 0.51 to 0.69 inches in height. At just 2.98 pounds, the system lives up to the Ultrabook promise of portability.
The Aspire SE-951 will be available October 16 at U.S. and Canadian retailers for a suggested price of $899.99. Acer expects to roll out future Ultrabook models with Core i3 and Core i7 processors as well as more expansive storage options, but there's no word on date or pricing.
What's missing from the Aspire S3? Roughly, all the usual things you can expect to be missing in any Ultrabook: there's no optical drive, no USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt (those will probably have to wait for Ultrabooks based on Intel's forthcoming "Ivy Bridge" processors), and don't expect to swap out the battery when you're on the road: it's "integrated." But if you're after power and portability in a Windows notebook—there are worse systems to consider.


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PHILADELPHIA — Ben Simmons may as well have walked right into a Philadelphia 76ers pep rally when he took a seat on "The Tonight Show" stage.
The Philly-born band The Roots serenaded Simmons with the team's catchy anthem they play at every home game, a decades-old tune with a chorus where the fans belt out: "1-2-3-4-5-Sixers." Simmons and host Jimmy Fallon shared some bites Tuesday night of a cheesesteak from Philly's Dalessandro's.
"I could live in Philly," Simmons said as he chowed down.
Good news, then.
Because barring a series of unreal events, the Sixers are likely to select Simmons with the No. 1 pick in the NBA...


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Y-WE-QYear Started: 2006
Y-WE-Q... too many reasons to list! The top 3... Great Food!!! Great Friends!!! & Great Fun!!!
We have been hooked on competing since the first contest we entered. Nothing like hearing your name called at a contest.
We built our new smoker in 2008 and it won it's first championship in Richmond, MO at the Mushroom Festival BBQ Cookoff State Championship 2009.
Look forward to competing with all of you. Good luck to all!
Hometown: Excelsior Springs
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Most wins in a year: 1
Biggest Wins: For us any win is a big win. We love all ribbon colors. Our biggest win to date was the Mushroom Festival BBQ Cookoff 2009 in Richmond, MO. This was our first championship with our newly fabricated smoker.
Since then we have changed the smoker configuration and are now pulling the 30' rolling masterpiece we call Miss Bell.
Last year in Sept. we won the Jesse James Cook Off in Kearney, MO. So we will see you at the 2011 American Royal Invitational. Good Luck!
Sponsors: Thank You to...Mom & Dad for dog sitting on competition weekends!!!
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The Islanders clinched an Eastern Conference playoff spot despite a 4-3 shootout loss to the Hurricanes Tuesday night.
With the point they received by reaching overtime, coupled with a loss by the Winnipeg Jets at Washington, the Islanders secured a place in the playoffs for the first time since 2007.
Kyle Okposo tied it with 1:01 left in regulation and had an assist. Josh Bailey and Brad Boyes also scored, and Evgeni Nabokov made 29 saves for the Islanders.
Riley Nash and Jeff Skinner scored in the shootout to give the Hurricanes the victory.
Carolina's Jordan Staal had a goal and an assist, Patrick Dwyer and Alexander Semin added goals, and Dan Ellis made 36 saves before stopping Frans Nielsen and Boyes in the shootout.


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I am excited to hear this. Tarkin, along with Wedge, Slave Leia and some others are really the main reason I'm excited about the Vintage line. I'm much more interested in the figures we didn't get as opposed to the ones we did. Unless you know, one of those figures is the Gamorrean Guard.Hopefully we will see Slave Leia, Luke and Han Stormtroopers, and the Cantina Band Member soon.
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The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance has just kicked off in Monterey, California and that means some of the planet's most exotic and luxurious vehicles are about to make their presence felt around the world famous golf course. Generally speaking, there isn't a car in attendance that isn't a rare treat. Your veritable Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bugattis are just a sampling of some of the vehicles on display. So how do you go about standing out in a sea of beautiful? Well, you up the ante of course, which is what McLaren has done with its ultra-exclusive X-1 Concept.
Now when we say "ultra-exclusive," we mean it. McLaren has built just one of these bad boys, and reminiscent of some Hollywood spy flick, it's being created for a mysterious and anonymous client who, according to McLaren, is already in possession of some rare and wonderful sets of wheels.
"One of our clients who already owned a McLaren F1, a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and now a 12C, wanted a unique car. The conversation began with our Executive Chairman Ron Dennis almost three years ago − before the 12C was even launched. The client wanted a machine that had all the capability of the 12C but wrapped in a unique body that reflected his needs and personality," said McLaren Special Operations Program Director Paul MacKenzie in a statement.
Unique is right. While we have yet to get a glimpse of the X-1 in person, from what we can gather from these pictures, it's certainly like nothing we have ever seen before. According to Design Director Frank Stephenson, inspiration was mined from a wide range of vehicles like the 1961 Facel Vega, 1953 Chrysler D'Elegance Ghia, 1959 Buick Electra, 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K and 1971 Citroën SM.
In addition to being extremely rare, the X-1 Concept is said to sport some of the most advanced materials currently utilized in top-end performance vehicles. McLaren has never been reluctant to outfit its vehicles with a healthy helping of carbon fiber and the X-1 is no different. Here, the impressive concept makes use of the same carbon MonoCell that underpins the breathtaking MP4-12C.
As you can see from the images, the majority of the car has been given a classic piano-black paint job, with a few panels left untouched so as to show off the carbon fiber's natural detail. Contrasting the bespoke vehicles paintwork is a striking interior finished in Harissa Red Nappa leather.
But don't take our word for it; be sure to check out the photo gallery above.


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One thing that never would have occurred to me before I had a child is that a nice, thick dal makes the perfect baby or toddler food. If it is the right texture, Baby Yum enjoys spooning it into her own mouth and even popping little hand-made balls of dal into her mouth. While some of the baby-safe foods I've made have been a tad boring (organic carrot puree, anyone), dals have been a fun dish that both I and Baby Yum can enjoy eating. This morning I was determined to make us a tasty dal for breakfast that Baby Yum could enjoy with some jowar roti or sorghum flatbread. Unfortunately, I was all out of my favorite dals- toor dal and red lentil. The only lentil I had in any quantity in my cupboard was organic split green peas from Whole Foods. I was all set to make some split pea soup (which Baby Yum also enjoys), when I noticed a recipe for dal on the side of the bag. It sounded a tad bland, but I was inspired. So, I googled up some split green pea dal recipes, thought about it for a bit, and came up with this tasty dal. I hope you enjoy eating it as much as we did in our household, where it met with the approval of all the ladies in the household- me, Baby Yum and my dairy-sensitive Mother, too!
*Dal also make great food for those who have had dental work done or have to be on a liquid diet for any reason! You can add water and puree in blender as needed. Beats a smoothie any day, in my book.
This recipe was entered in Diane's Real Food Weekly Event.
Vegan Split Green Pea Dal Recipe
1 Cup organic green split peas
4 cups water
1 bay leaf
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 Tbsp. oil (I used olive, but grapeseed,canola, mustard, or coconut would work too)
1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 1/2 cup diced onion
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. ground coriander
1 tomato, finely chopped
1 tsp. salt
Rinse and drain split peas, and put in a soup pot with the water, bay leaf and 1/2 cup onion. Bring to a boil, and then simmer on medium-low for an hour or until tender. Add water as needed if split pea mixture gets too dry or starts to brown on the bottom and stick to the pan. Stir occasionally as needed. Meanwhile, heat oil in a skillet on medium and add your cumin seeds. When they turn brown, add your onion and saute for a few minutes. Add the ground spices and mix together. Turn heat to medium low and let onion turn translucent and start to caramelize. Add your tomato and saute until tomato softens, 4 or 5 minutes. Ladle spice and onion mixture on top of your softened split peas and gently fold together. If desired, you can add some water to your skillet, swirl it around the pan to collect all the yummy spices that are left on the bottom of the pan, and pour that into the split pea mixture as well. Turn heat to low and let flavors mingle for 5 minutes or so. Turn off heat and serve!


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See, that's the point. Archlinux is for users who DO care about their system beeing healthy and not just simply do "update & forget". If any update is to break the system stability it is explicitly explained after upgrading the package with pacman. You didn't read the message, you learned your lesson. And frankly, that's also what makes the archlinux so simple (but I don't mean "easy" here!). Because instead of the package's complex post install scripts it is _you_ who determine what to change in /etc after the updating so that the system works fine after reboot. And such user interventions are really barely needed at all.
I have had no stablility problems after upgrading my system on a daily basis since I've installed it, and that's more than a year now. Compare to the couple of Ubuntu poor upgrade issues they had in the past.
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Director Michael Campus vividly recalls the reaction to his film "The Mack" from the opening-night audience 40 years ago in Oakland.
The film, starring Max Julien as the charismatic pimp Goldie and Richard Pryor as his friend Slim, had shot in the Bay Area city.
"The first scene came on with Richie and Max and — I am not exaggerating — the whole audience stood up and started screaming back at the screen," Campus said. "They never sat down. No one had shown that world — no one had portrayed the black underworld."
Though "The Mack" played in little more than 20 theaters in African American communities, "we outgrossed 'The Godfather,' 'The Poseidon Adventure' [in those cities]," said Campus, who is white. "But we couldn't play the so-called white theaters. People were afraid to go to these theaters, and the distributors didn't think the white audience was there."
On Thursday, the film will get a 40th anniversary screening at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Campus, who also directed the 1974 African American drama "The Education of Sonny Carson," will be on hand to discuss it with Elvis Mitchell, curator of Film Independent at LACMA. Quentin Tarantino is supplying his personal 35mm print for the event.
"The Mack" chronicles the rise and fall of Goldie, who returns home to Oakland after getting out of jail to discover that his brother (Roger E. Mosley) has become a Black Panther-style black nationalist. Goldie, though, is more interested in money and power. He becomes one of the city's top underworld pimps.
Besides Pryor, "The Mack" also stars Oscar-nominee Juanita Moore ("Imitation of Life") as Goldie's saintly mother and Dick Anthony Williams as Goldie's nemesis, Pretty Tony.
Even though the film didn't get a wide distribution, its soundtrack did. Produced by Motown songwriter, producer and singer Willie Hutch, the album was enormously popular, with two of the songs from the film, "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" and "Slick," becoming hit singles on the soul chart.
Tupac, Jadakiss, Too Short and Jay-Z are among the hip-hop artists who have paid homage to "The Mack" and the film's score in their songs.
The film has achieved cult status over the decades. Tarantino even wrote a scene in his screenplay for Tony Scott's 1993 thriller "True Romance" in which "The Mack" is playing on the television. And the term "mack" has become part of the pop-culture lexicon.
One of the film's highlights is the Players Ball sequence, which was shot during the annual gala honoring the most successful pimps from the Bay Area.
"There was a guy who had a swimming pool on top of his car," Campus recalled. "Players came from all over the country. They had their best threads, and they would outdo each other."
Campus, Pryor and Julien, with whom Campus is still friends, quickly bonded when they began to rewrite the original script, which the director describes as terrible.
"We wrote the last five drafts together," he said. "Richie was brilliant, he was extraordinary. But he was at a very dark moment for him because of the drugs. But I will never regret having him" in the film.
Campus said the production was caught in the war in Oakland between the African American underworld, which was led by the Ward brothers, and the Black Panthers, led by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
"They both wanted to be the ones who ran Oakland," said Campus.
Frank Ward, the godfather of the underworld who became the film's protector, was murdered in his car while "The Mack" was in production.
Both Campus and Mitchell cringe when the term "blaxploitation" is used to describe "The Mack" because, Mitchell said, "it doesn't glorify" the underworld lifestyle.
"It's about a guy who sort of struggles with maturity and gets his comeuppance," Mitchell said. "He finds out he's not meant for this. I think it's a movie that is really about these questions of black masculinity: Do you take the easy way out and become this horrible kind of mutation of free enterprise, or do you try to sort of stand up and take the nationalist route and help your people?
"The Mack," Mitchell said, "is a pretty compelling piece of filmmaking. The interplay between Max Julien and Richard Pryor is something to watch. I think in emotional terms, there is a lot going on in the movie. It's an important movie."
'The Mack'
Where: Leo S. Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.
When: Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Admission: $5-$10
Information: http://www.lacma/org.event/mack


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19th Annual Lincoln County Safety Day Camp for Kids to be held Aug. 6
Every minute of every day, children everywhere are injured at times fatally by not realizing the possible dangers that surround them. Through education, many of these accidents can be eliminated and children can lead safer lives.
It is because of the need for education that Ministry Good Samaritan Health Center, UW-Extension, Lincoln County Farm Bureau and Merrill Parks and Recreation are again offering Safety Day Camp for Kids, a free program for children ages 8-11 on Tuesday, Aug. 6.
"Safety Day Camp for Kids is designed to teach children the importance of safety in their homes, on the farm and in their neighborhoods," explained Heidi Duley, R.N. of Ministry Good Samaritan Health Center. "This is an opportunity for children to learn valuable information that may one day save their lives."
Safety Day Camp for Kids offers education and training by knowledgeable and highly skilled speakers who work in a wide range of fields. Participants have the chance to hear them, obtain educational materials and most importantly have direct contact with the equipment and animals, all while being supervised and having their questions answered.
Topics to be covered in this year's safety day camp for kids include: guns, lawn mowers, electrical, hazards of drugs/smoking, animal safety and others. Since the topics change each year, those that participated in the past will still benefit from coming to this morning event.
The 19th Annual Safety Day Camp for Kids will be held at the Former DNR Station in Merrill with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m., and the program running from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A snack will be provided, but participants are asked to bring their own sack lunch. Indoor facilities are available in the event of inclement weather.
For questions or more information about the 19th Annual Safety Day Camp for Kids, please contact Duley at 715-539-2195. Registration deadline is July 31.
Additional supporters of Safety Day Camp for Kids are Harrison Hills ATV Club, Lincoln County 4-H, Lincoln County Health Department, Lincoln County Safe and Stable Families, Lincoln County Sportsman Club, Merrill Area Public Schools, Merrill Fire and Police Departments, Mosinee Kennel Club, Northwood's Tobacco Free Coalition and Wisconsin Public Service.


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So long, Snickers! If a new government proposal passes, schools will be saying goodbye to sugary drinks and fatty snacks, reports the Associated Press.
Under the new guidelines, high-calorie goodies would be replaced in schools by snacks that are mostly under 200 calories. In elementary and middle schools, kids would only be able to buy low-fat milk, water or 100-percent fruit or vegetable juice. High schools could still sell some sports drinks, but with limited calories.
The new standards are part of a 2010 Congressional law and are an initiative to fight childhood obesity, which has exploded over the past few decades. 7.3% of boys and 5.5% of girls can be classified as extremely obese, according to a recent Kaiser Permanente report. Obese kids are at greater risk for diseases that affected only adults in the past, like high blood pressure, joint paint and type-2 diabetes.
Plus: 7 Healthy School Lunches
Although there are rules that currently regulate government-subsidized school breakfasts and lunches, cafeterias can still have "a la carte" options that fall outside those parameters. "USDA's proposed nutrition standards are a critical step in closing that loophole and in ensuring that our schools are places that nurture not just the minds of American children, but their bodies as well," Sen. Tom Harkin told the Associated Press.
The new rules would cover la carte lunch lines, vending machines and other foods sold on-campus, reports the Associated Press. They wouldn't regulate food sold by concessions at after-school games and theater events, in-school bake sales and fundraisers, and food brought from home. The 2014 school year is the earliest the new rules could take effect
Margo Wootan, a nutrition lobbyist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told the Associated Press that surveys done by the Center show that most parents want to see change in the cafeteria. "Parents aren't going to have to worry that kids are using their lunch money to buy candy bars and a Gatorade instead of a healthy school lunch," she said.
Plus: The Sorry State of School Lunches
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As far as long-term investors go, Warren Buffett is considered one of the best. Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's holding company, currently has large positions in companies like American Express and Coca-Cola. They also own a number of businesses outright, including Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad and Geico.
Buffett has a long-term track record of outperforming the stock market. That's why so many professional investors pay close attention to Berkshire Hathaway's stock positions and business acquisitions. Since Berkshire Hathaway has increased their stake in USG Corporation, all appearances show that investors are also going to follow Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway into this company. It also seems likely that the investment conglomerate will absorb this business.
USG Corporation: A Brief History
Formally known as United States Gypsum Corporation, USG Corp. is actually one of the United States' biggest producers of drywall – otherwise known as wallboard – and they also produce a number of other products in the home building industry. USG sells their wallboard under its trademarked brand name, otherwise known as sheetrock. This name is so well recognized that it has become synonymous with the product, much in the same vein as Coke is synonymous with cola and Kleenex is synonymous with tissues. USG is also the leading seller of ceiling tile that is predominately used in commercial construction projects.
Just like every other construction company at this time, it's easy to imagine that a company like USG had a difficult time navigating the real estate fallout due to the subprime lending crisis. In truth, the company has had it rough for over a decade. Back in 2001, the business filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a way to resolve a legacy asbestos liability stemming strictly from the use of a particular carcinogen that the company has been no longer using for decades.
Even with the bankruptcy and asbestos issues hanging over their head, and a rough real estate market over the last five years, the company managed to have a number of prosperous years throughout the entire Chapter 11 proceedings. The bankruptcy was completed in 2006, and shareholders completely retained their equity within the company and all creditors were repaid. USG even established a $3.95 billion trust in order to permanently resolve all of the liability related to current and future potential asbestos claims.
After successfully navigating Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Warren Buffett had high praise for this business, claiming that it was "the most successful managerial performance in bankruptcy that I've ever seen." At the time, Buffett was an interested party and much more than just a keen observer. During the fourth quarter of 2000, Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway purchased 6.5 million shares of USG, and did so during a particularly volatile quarter. The shares traded between $14 and $32 per share at this time.
As part of the Chapter 11 settlement obligation arranged by the bankruptcy court, USG was required to raise cash as part of the asbestos trust, and they did so by selling stock through a specific offering. Buffett stepped up and put his complete faith in this business. He agreed to buy any of the necessary stock that did not get purchased through that offering. Because of this declaration, Berkshire Hathaway ended up purchasing an additional 6,969,274 shares of the business. They even took it a step further and bought more stock on the open market at a value of $45 per share. All in all, this brought Berkshire Hathaway's share total to about 17 million shares, and they owned roughly 15% of the company.
Post Chapter 11: The Real Estate Collapse Years
USG had an excellent performance for the most part during the first half of 2006, but as the housing market began to soften, shares started to fall rapidly from $114 in April, to the mid July price of roughly $45. Over the next year, the USG share price was able to stabilize, but then the second half of 2008 hit – in the beginning of the credit crisis – and share prices declined once again along with the overall broader market.
When USG exited its bankruptcy, it still had a $1.065 billion short-term debt as well as $1.439 billion in long-term debt. At the time, the debt did not seem like a sizable problem because the pricing was never higher and demand for sheetrock was never stronger. By the ending of the year 2009, the short-term debt was paid off, but long-term debt had increased to about $2 billion. A big part of the reason why the debt was transferred from short-term to long-term was that during the end of 2008, the company sold $400 million worth of 10 year notes to Fairfax Financial and Berkshire Hathaway.
Berkshire Hathaway actually purchased $300 million worth of the convertible senior notes that 10%. They will mature in 2018. The notes were noncallable until December 2013, and at that time they could be converted into 26.4 million shares at a share price of $11.40 per share. USG use the exact same terms and sold $100 million worth of these notes to Fairfax Financial. This company is run by Prem Watsa, otherwise known as the Canadian Warren Buffett. Just like Berkshire Hathaway, Fairfax also has large positions in many publicly traded companies, but it also creates a generous amount of revenue from its casualty insurance business and its primary property.
In November 2013, USG announced that it issued a notice of redemption in order to redeem $325 million in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding $400 million on December 16, 2013. The price will equal 5% of the total principal amount. This instance triggered conversion of a number of the notes. We aren't certain why USG only redeemed $325 million as opposed the entire $400 million worth. It's possible that the company decided to only redeem the amount that it can refinance comfortably, even though it would prefer to eliminate the debt entirely. It's possible they will redeem the remainder in 2014. An attempt at acquisition is imminent if any preemptive conversion takes place.
The Current Berkshire Hathaway Position
Back on January 2, when Berkshire Hathaway filed its schedule 13 D/A, we learned that the company now owns a total of 30.5% of the USG common stock. This in effect doubles the amount of shares owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Its previous reported stake was 15.71% back in the third quarter of 2013. It's a rarity when Berkshire Hathaway has such a high stake in a business without eventually taking over the company. This is currently the highest percentage stake that Berkshire Hathaway has in a publicly traded company at this time.
Even though the $11.40 per share conversion price was a lot lower than the current market value for USG, Berkshire also bought several million shares for roughly 50% higher than the market price at this time. It's also highly unlikely that Berkshire Hathaway will sell off any of its shares. Fairfax will also most likely maintain its position due to the probable Berkshire Hathaway acquisition end game.
Buffett's company has many investments in housing related businesses, so USG would fit right into the fold. They even acquired Jenkins Brick right after the subprime crisis, and merged the company with its Acme Brick subsidiary. Buffett also owns Clayton Homes, one of the leading financers and producers of manufactured homes. Some other housing related businesses are Johns Mansville, MiTek and Shaw Carpet. The business also insures real estate.
In an effort to capitalize on the eventual housing turnaround in the United States, Berkshire Hathaway has also undertaken a number of other private investments, which include a Leucadia joint venture know as Berkadia Commercial Mortgage LLC. This business is made up of assets that were bought out of bankruptcy in 2009, at least partially, and they were formally related to General Motors. When opportunities arise, companies like Fairfax financial and Leucadia will continue to take advantage of deals with Berkshire Hathaway.
Warren Buffett has a storied history of adding to positions for several years before ultimately acquiring them. As an example, Berkshire Hathaway purchased shares of Geico for decades before they ultimately acquired the entire company in 1996. They followed the same path with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, where they purchased shares for several years and owned 22.6% of the railroad before ultimately making the final bid in late 2009. Berkshire Hathaway is consolidating and increasing their position in USG, so it's possible that we will see a similar outcome.
USG Today
This company has already been an industry leader prior to the housing crisis correction, and it's a safe bet that the company will continue to be the dominant producer of wallboard once the true housing recovery takes place. Some of the weaker competition should ultimately fail or have a difficult time meeting the demand as the increase happens.
Sheet rock is already the premium brand of wallboard, and it's the type of intangible asset valued by Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, just like it valued Coca-Cola. USG will continue to increase and expand the sheetrock brand with differentiating and new products.
Over the last few years, the company introduced Ultralight sheet rock, which is thinner and lighter than the typical wallboard when you compare it to the traditional product. It is advantageous because it can be transported the same way as regular wallboard, but it will cost less to move, it will cost less to install and it's easier to install as well. This will allow workers to work faster and experience less fatigue. It may even be looked upon as a greener alternative to traditional sheet rock.
As the housing market turns around, and commercial construction continues to accelerate, USG's products will see an increase in demand over the next few years. When this occurs, you will see increasing prices for the purchase of wallboard. As of 2013, USG is seeing profitability once again and earnings growth potential seems significant over the next few years.
Although the most recent conversion of notes increases the overall share count, and this is going to put added pressure on earnings per share because of dilution, the company balance sheet is far stronger because of the removal of high yield long-term debt. By eliminating 10% of the notes the company will pay significantly less in interest expenses, and this should allow them to continue to grow revenue streams and add profit. Plus, the new shares went to shareholders that will undoubtedly hold the shares for some time, and these companies will probably even increase their stake over time, in anticipation of the future conversion of the notes that still remain.
To close things out, it is expected that Berkshire Hathaway will eventually look at this company as a potential acquisition target over the next few years. All signs point to this taking place, and if history repeats itself, Berkshire should end up owning the entire company in due time.


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One of the things I like about the website for the Southern Baptist Historic Library and Archives is that they have a page that addresses family history and what records they have and don't have. What a great way to know what is and isn't available for your research project.
This is a great website with everything from details about their collections, information about visiting their Archives in Tennessee, finding aids, a few biographies and links to other sites that may be of use to your research.


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ROCKFORD — Nathan Smith is glad to be back running without much pain.
ROCKFORD — Nathan Smith is glad to be back running without much pain.
For two months, the Winnebago junior had been dealing with a condition called iliotibial band syndrome, which is a common injury to the knee and the lower thigh.
He was in action at Saturday's Roger Schmidt Cross Country Invitational and placed eighth to lead the Indians to the boys title with 56 points among eight teams.
"We have been training hard for the past two weeks, so we're not all completely recovered, but we came out strong," Smith said. "I'm proud of everybody."
Smith posted a time of 15 minutes, 3 seconds for eighth on the 2.85-mile course at Fuller Forest Perserve. Teammates Nathan Nozzi placed 10th at 15:13, Nathan Ambrose 11th at 15:14, Alan Daly 13th at 15:19 and Jeffrey Swanson 14th at 15:23.
Smith's injury occurred in his right thigh, but he said he's doing better.
"I'm getting my fitness back," he said.
Byron's TJ Pitcock finished first at 14:48 as the Tigers took fourth overall.
Kelsey Hildreth won the girls race in a time of 11:27 on the 2.05-mile course. She outpaced Winnebago's Cheyenne Moore, who placed second at 12:14 and Janelle Ferguson of Auburn at 12:17.
Freshman Delany Appino led the Boylan girls to the team title (50 points). Appino took fourth at 12:31. She was followed by teammates Erica Lowry (7th, 12:58), Deirdre Coyle (8th, 12:58), Haley Beck (12th, 13:17) and Brianna Williams (17th, 13:28) to round out the scoring.
"We tried to work hard together and stay together in the race," Appino said.
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Darien forecast: Skies clear today, but showers on tap later
Early-morning clouds will lift and the rest of the day should be mostly sunny, according to the National Weather Service.
The remainder of the week, however, brings the possibility of much-needed precipitation nearly every day.
Southwestern Connecticut's high temperature today will be in the low-60s, with a northeast wind 5 to 9 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
There is an overnight chance of drizzle and patchy fog will settle in parts of the region, as the temperature dips to a low in the mid-40s.
Tomorrow, there is a 30 percent chance of drizzle before 10 a.m., but skies should clear later as the temperature climbs into the upper-60s. There is an overnight chance of rain and patchy fog, with the low temperature in the low-50s.
On Wednesday, rain -- and thunderstorms -- are possible after 10 a.m. as the temperature rises to a high in the low-60s. Odds of daytime precipitation are about 60 percent, the NWS says.
Rain is also likely Wednesday night as the temperature dips to a low in the low-50s. Chance of nighttime precipitation is 60 percent.
Thursday is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a 50 percent chance of daytime showers and thunderstorms, as temperatures rise to the upper-60s. There remains a chance of showers Thursday night, with a low temperature in the low-50s. Chance of nighttime precipitation is 30 percent.
The outlook for Friday, according to the weather service, is partly sunny, although showers are showers, and temperatures about 70 degrees.


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tps needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
LoanGenie.com is a provider of software solutions for the consumer finance industry in the United States. Seeking new look and feel to our site. Looking for coded XHTML/CSS (minus $200 if not coded).
LoanGenie.com seeks a fresh and new look. We would like a more corporate feel to the site. We are flexible on the colors but would prefer some sort of blue in the color scheme.
Please use the current logo: http://www.loangenie.com/images/logo.gif
We would like a home page design in addition to a sections design. We like the layout of dealertrack DOT com, not necessarily the color scheme used on the site.
Winning submissions must be able to provide any CSS and HTML needed. (minus 200 if not coded)
Again, we aren't looking for the entire site to be designed and coded. Just a home page and section/category page.
Current site structure:
- About Loan Genie
- FAQ's
- Loan Officers
- Mortgage Brokers
- Investor Relations
- Partnerships
- Training Support Team
Loan Genie Loan Products
Loan Tools
- Payment Calculator
- Should You Refinance?
- Savings Calculator
- How Much Can You Afford?
- Make Extra Payments
- Contact LoanGenie
- Office Directions
- LoanGenie Careers
- Career Documents
- Terms and Disclosures
- Privacy Statement
- Professional
- Use current logo
- Coded XHTML/CSS (minus $200 if not coded)
- Images of people
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I bet you didn't know that today is a special day. Okay, it might not be special for you, but it is for me! Today marks the 200th post that I've written between this blog and my previous blog, A Book, A Girl, A Journey.
Not only is today special for me, but today is special for Tasha Seegmiller becasue she's passed 200 followers! In honor of the awesome 200's we are swapping blogs and giving away prizes.
Just by commenting on the end of this post you can win a copy of Everneath, and if you comment on both this blog and Tasha's blog you can win a $20 gift card! You'll want to go to Tasha's blog anyway becasue I'm giving away a hardcover copy of Midnight in Austenland. That's something you won't want to miss.
Without further ado, here's Tasha --
I've always been good at writing. I had notebooks of stories, would make them up with my current crush and me falling madly in love, but always using pseudonyms that only started with the letter of mine and his first names so no one would ever know (yup, sneaky).
The problem is when I was in high school I had lots of really good writers in my class (hello, Ally Condie!). My writing always got good marks, but never vocal attention giving praise because there were just so many good writers. There was one time in high school that I remember accolades for a love story I wrote about two teens going to prom (me and my crush at the time. He's gay so you can see that my stories really didn't come true). But I got glares instead of congrats from so many people in the class, that I decided the silent on the paper for my eyes only kind of praise was more for me.
Skip forward 6-7 years when I finally figured out what I wanted to do with my life after spending a good academic year as the president of the Major of the Month club. English was my passion and I still was decent…adequate…getting A's but not many people knew. Then, I took a class from David Lee. He has a passion for literature that I have seen met in few, a passion that came out in all the emotional manifestations.
And he loved my writing.
I took a class from him that studied Milton's Paradise Lost for an entire semester, a class that had bruised many a GPA, a class that I just had to try. This class pushed me – hard, and I LOVED it. Dave started the class indicating he had taught it a dozen times, during which he gave three A's.
Now might be a good time to mention I'm competitive. I wanted that A. The feedback I got was beyond what I thought I could receive – they had always been comments given to my classmates. The more I wrote, the better the feedback and I caught the bug to research and write.
That semester, David Lee gave out two A's in his Milton class. I was one.
I have loved to write since. Actually, I have been in love with writing since (don't worry, my husband knows. It's okay – he's in love with golf).
And five years ago, I remembered that I knew how to write things besides research papers, dabbled a bit but really got serious about it six months ago.
Best decision ever.
Tasha Seegmiller is a high school English teacher by day, writer by night, mom and wife everywhere through and in between. She is working on a contemporary Women's Lit dealing with death, heaven and selfishness. She blogs at Tasha Seegmiller, with her critique partners at Thinking Through Our Fingers, and as a rotating instructor at The Writer's Dojo . Tasha can also be found on Twitter and Facebook.


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The St. Charles North boys water polo team will be looking to turn the tables on a lopsided defeat when it faces top-seeded Naperville North in a Neuqua Valley Sectional quarterfinal today.
The North Stars lost, 12-0, to Naperville North in the Huskies' home tournament April 6.
"We're definitely a better team than we were about a month ago when we played them," North coach Chris Cloy said. "The kids are excited about an opportunity to play a play a really good team. We're going to be fired up and ready."
St. Charles East is set to face Naperville Central in another quarterfinal later today.


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TOWSON, MD and JERUSALEM and ZWEIBRUCKEN, GERMANY -- 11/17/10 -- LeukoDx Inc. is pleased to announce today that it has retained the services of thinXXS Microtechnology AG to develop the single use microfluidics cartridge to be used in its Point of Care micro-flowcytometry platform.
LeukoDx is focused on exploiting the power of flowcytometry and dramatically expanding its use for diagnostics by developing affordable and simple to use micro-flowcytometer systems. The Point of Care systems developed by LeukoDx combine a small footprint reading instrument and compact single use test cartridges. LeukoDx is currently focused on developing a sepsis diagnosis and monitoring test based on CD64 neutrophil activation, an early and specific sepsis marker. Rapid clinical decision in patient settings such as neonatal intensive care units, critical care areas and emergency rooms are critical to improving the outcomes for sepsis as well as controlling the huge economic impact of sepsis on healthcare systems. The current state of the art technology is not able to provide the answers required by physicians reliably and timely.
Julien Meissonnier, President and CEO of LeukoDx, stated: "We made an extensive effort to search for a strong technology development partner for our microfluidics cartridge and are pleased to collaborate with thinXXS Microtechnology for this purpose. The fact that thinXXS is not only a world class designer of diagnostics devices but also intends to function as an OEM for that part of our system made them a particularly attractive partner."
Dieter Cronauer, Executive Board Member of thinXXS Microtechnology AG, stated: "We are very glad to work with LeukoDx on such an innovative platform technology for medical diagnostics. Micro-flowcytometry addresses a broad range of future applications and is ideally suited to bring in our expertise in developing and producing cost-effective microfluidic disposables in plastics."
About LeukoDx
LeukoDxs mission is to become the world leader in actionable diagnostic information at the point of care with its novel micro-flowcytometry technology platform. Working towards this goal, the company is today developing compact flowcytometry readers for single use test-specific cartridges. The first test application is for sepsis, a leading killer worldwide with high mortality rates and no rapid, reliable diagnostic test. The company will enter the market via neonatal sepsis testing, where the patient population is even more vulnerable and the LeukoDx test addresses the unmet need very well. LeukoDx was created in 2009 and is based on novel technology developed for NASA by CalTech. In 2010, LeukoDx entered into an exclusive license agreement with TrilliumDx to develop a Point of Care version of the Leuko64 CD64 neutrophil activation early sepsis detection and sepsis treatment monitoring test.
About thinXXS
thinXXS Microtechnology develops and produces disposable microfluidic devices from plastics for the diagnostic, pharmaceutical, analytical, and medical industries. thinXXS develops customer specific solutions for applications in immunology, clinical chemistry, DNA analytic or cell based research. thinXXS service is based upon know-how and long-time experience in the fields of microsystem technology. Its team of highly trained scientists, engineers and designers work closely with its customers to develop -- with the aid of state-of-the-art developing tools and a high precision manufacturing technology -- customized solutions on the basis of integrated quality management.
Contact Information LeukoDx: Julien Meissonnier President and CEO Tel: 972 544 575 536 thinXXS Microtechnology AG Dieter Cronauer Executive Board Tel: 49 6332 80020
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Plains Mennonite Church (Hatfield, Pennsylvania, USA)
Plains (for a time Plain) Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located in Hatfield Township, west of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, is a congregation in the Franconia Mennonite Conference. The name is derived from the plain on which Lansdale is built. The first log school and meetinghouse was built between 1760 and 1769 on land contributed by Henry Frey. It remained in use until 1813, when a stone meetinghouse was built. A third stone building was erected in 1867, and the present stone (white stucco) building in 1922, Before the Revolutionary War the circuit system was in use. Bishop Isaac Kolb (1711-76) is thought to have considered this his home church after 1764. He was ordained bishop in 1761. The first minister definitely known to have been or dained for this church was Jacob Krupp (1799-1842), ordained in 1816. Others who served this church were Joseph Cassel (1799-1868); Jacob Kulp (1798-1875), ordained minister 1838 and bishop in 1843; Jacob C. Loux (1822-95), ordained minister 1867; Henry Godshall (1834-1908), ordained 1874, relieved in 1905; Jonas Mininger (1852-1937), ordained minister 1895, bishop in 1905; Jacob C. Clemens (1874- ), ordained 1906; John E. Lapp (1905-1988), ordained minister 1933, bishop 1937; Wayne Kratz (1913- ), ordained 1949. Burials were made in the cemetery as early as about 1764. A Sunday school was organized in 1888. The last three of the above ministers were still serving in 1956, with a membership of 254.
Wenger, J. C. History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference. Telford, 1937: 163-66.
Additional Information
Church website: http://www.plainsmennonitechurch.org/
Address: 50 W. Orvilla Road, Hatfield, PA 19440; Phone: 215-362-7640; Fax: 215-362-4951.
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Lapp, John E. "Plains Mennonite Church (Hatfield, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 16 Dec 2018. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Plains_Mennonite_Church_(Hatfield,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=83999.
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Lapp, John E. (1959). Plains Mennonite Church (Hatfield, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 December 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Plains_Mennonite_Church_(Hatfield,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=83999.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 184. All rights reserved.
©1996-2018 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Parker DragonFly Electric Guitar SunburstExemplifies state of the art technology in a lightweight, ergonomically designed instrument The Parker Dragonfly Electric Guitar is equipped with all the great features Parker is known for in an elegantly carved new shape. This Dragonfly showcases a new, more traditional and ergonomically shaped upper horn, while retaining the unmistakable Parker look and feel. The flared headstock provides more strength in a thinner profile on a faster more comfortable neck. The DragonFly also has a 22-fret fingerboard
enabling precise placement of the neck pickup for that classic neck-position tone. The wear-resistant fingerboard is crafted from an extremely consistent carbon composite. The DragonFly guitar also marks the first time Parker has combined premium alder and basswood tone woods in a production model,providing a wider range of attainable tones. Like the original Fly, Parker covers the DragonFly's neck and body with their own special skin made of carbon, glass fiber, and epoxy resin, topped with a high-gloss finish. The Parker Dragonfly is loaded with a Seymour Duncan TB11 humbucking pickup in the bridge position and a Seymour Duncan SSL2 single-coil pickup in the neck and middle positions. This humbucker/single/single pickup configuration delivers the wider palette of tones today's guitarists demand. Improved pickup mounting means you can swap out the included Duncans with the pickup of your choice. A standard 5-way pickup switch gives you the combinations of a typical 3-pickup pickup guitar. Split the humbucker-style bridge pickup into single-coil mode by pulling up the tone knob. To further expand the Dragonfly guitar's tonal versatility, Parker installed a Fishman piezo pickup in the bridge. This is driven by a Fishman double-voltage preamp with a dedicated volume knob. An additional 3-way toggle switch determines how the magnetic and piezo systems interact: magnetic only, magnetic plus piezo, and piezo only. The included stereo mic cable optionally splits the piezo and magnetic sound to send the magnetic pickups to your amp and the piezo directly into the mixer. The DragonFly bridge is Parker's own custom aluminum vibrato system, which you can play in either a fixed or floating position, thanks to a simple user adjustment through a hole in the back plate. Raise and lower the Parker DragonFly's entire bridge to change the electric guitar's action without affecting intonation. bucker
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Town and Country Days coming up!
It will be Town and Country Days (TACD) time again May 31 through June 2 in Kettle Falls. Festivities will kick off the afternoon of Friday, May 31, with vendors up and running by noon. The annual Grumpy Grouch Fun Run returns, beginning Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m. The run will start and end at the Kettle Falls City Park, next to the swimming pool. The entry fee for the Fun Run is $10, and participants will receive a t-shirt. Entry forms are available online at www.kettle-falls.com, Kettle Falls City Hall and at AIA Insurance in Kettle Falls. Town and Country Days parade begins Saturday, June 1 at 11 a.m. Those wishing to register for the parade can download forms at www.kettle-falls.com or pick one up at AIA Insurance in Kettle Falls. The Slam Jam three-on-three basketball tournament will take place Saturday, June 1 starting at 8 a.m. Entry forms are located at local businesses in Colville (Clark's All-Sports) and in Kettle Falls, or can be printed off at www.kettle-falls.com. The announcement of the Weatherman Award will follow at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Weatherman Award is bestowed to a community member nominated for outstanding community achievement. The Kettle Falls Grouch will also be announced at 2:30 p.m. Individuals can vote for their favorite Grouch candidate at local Kettle Falls businesses. It's 25 cents a vote and all money goes toward Kettle Falls' community projects. This year's Town Grouch nominees are Leona Delp, owner of Sandy's Drive-In; Adam Jesse, volunteer for the Kettle Falls Community Chest; Sharon Holland of Whitty's Chevron in Kettle Falls, and Dan Aldous of Aslin-Finch in Kettle Falls. The Show and Shine car show begins at 8 a.m. on Saturday, and will feature everything from classic vintage cars to motorcycles, trucks and tractors. Registration fee is $10. "There will also be plenty of food and merchandise vendors for people to look at and get something good to eat, along with all our local restaurants geared up for the weekend," says Event Co-chair Dawn Marie Daniels. Saturday will also see live performances from local Bluegrass bands, as well as Rock and Roll and Alternative music. For a complete Town and Country Days schedule, go to http://www.kettle-falls.com/events/town-country-days.


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The official unveiling of the HTC One mini is imminent. After HTC posted a teaser infographic on its blog praising all things small, China's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center has given the HTC 601e its stamp of approval. The images of the device look identical to all the other leaked pictures of the HTC One mini. The official filing documents do not reveal much about the HTC 601e, except for the fact that it will be a single SIM device, unlike China's variant of the HTC One and other HTC Desire models.
HTC One mini is expected to run Android 4.2.2 with a 1.4GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 4.3-inch 720p display, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage with an Ultrapixel camera capable of shooting HTC Zoes and capturing full HD video and the same aluminum construction as the HTC One.
How much money would you be willing to spend on a mini version of the HTC One?


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5 Simply Beautiful DIY Holiday Decorations
For me, part of the holiday spirit is creating decorations and then putting them to use. There's nothing quite like decorating with things you and your family have created yourselves.
Each of these simple and beautiful DIY holiday decorations is from a beginners stand point. These projects will take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour and most even promote reusing a product you've previously used.
Don't you find holiday decorating much more satisfying when you know you've created each item? I do!
• How To Make Modern Paper Ornaments, Curbly
• Minty Peppermint Tree Project, Better Homes and Gardens
• Magnet Ornaments, Young House Love
• Snowball Wreath, Two Junk Chix
• Lace Spray Painted Bulbs, Plumo (take DIY inspiration instead of spending the money)
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WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Taiwan is receiving Raytheon new fire units for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System through a $685.7 million U.S. Foreign Military Sales contract.
Raytheon, in announcing the award, said the fire units for the Patriot system feature advanced technology and upgraded man-machine interface.
Work on the units for Taiwan will be conducted at company facilities in Massachusetts, Texas and Alabama.
Raytheon didn't disclose a delivery schedule for the products.
In 2008, Raytheon was contracted to upgrade Taiwan's existing Patriot systems and was contracted the following year to provide new Patriot systems. It also delivered a Configuration-3 upgraded radar system to Taiwan this year.
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Florida officials and the Legislature have tried several different ways to push policyholders out of the state-run Citizens Property Insurance.
Florida officials and the Legislature have tried several different ways to push policyholders out of the state-run Citizens Property Insurance.
They have raised rates, reduced coverage, even offered to lend private insurers $350 million to encourage them to take on new customers.
Those efforts have largely failed. Citizens announced recently that it will close the year down only 9 percent from a record high number of policies, and that it was suspending the controversial loan program.
Maybe it's time to try something more practical: Require private insurers to meet financial standards that would make them at least as reliable as Citizens.
With 1.34 million policies, including more than 10,000 policies in Polk County, Citizens remains Florida's largest property insurer.
Gov. Rick Scott and legislative leaders cite the potential financial risk to the state if a major hurricane strikes and Citizens can't pay its claims.
But a report this year by the state's Office of the Insurance Consumer Advocate found that numerous small, undercapitalized private insurers operating in Florida would be "as much or more of a financial risk" than Citizens in the event of a hurricane.
And it doesn't take a hurricane for insurers to collapse.
Florida hasn't been hit by one in seven years, but, as the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has reported, in 2011, Tampa-based Homewise Insurance became "at least the eighth Florida property insurer to become insolvent since 2004" — the 11th if you count multiple insurers under one holding company that failed.
As a result of the Homewise failure, all insurance policy holders statewide face a 1 percent rate increase next year — an average of $20 per homeowner — to cover the insurer's $142 million in unpaid claims.
Florida's insurance regulators not only permit private insurers to carry dangerously low reserves but encourage them to take on more policies than they can safely cover.
Major insurers, which began to pull out of Florida or reduce their exposure after Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, have shown no inclination to expand coverage.
The lack of available, reliable coverage led the Legislature to create Citizens in the first place.
The state's latest effort to increase the private market's share was the plan to have Citizens lend $350 million to smaller insurers to encourage them to take homeowners' policies from the state-run program.
Under the plan, private insurers would receive 20-year loans of up to $50 million when they assumed policies from Citizens. The insurers would have to keep those policies for at least 10 years and could not raise rates by more than 10 percent for the first three years.
But critics pointed out that the loan program would drain Citizens' large surplus — built up during the hurricane-free years, and through the rate hikes and reduced coverage — and limit its ability to withstand a major hurricane, with no guarantee that the loans would be repaid.
To its credit, the Citizens board of directors agreed to hire outside auditors to review the proposed program. The auditors are expected to make recommendations early next year.
That Citizens officials decided to suspend the loan program, at least until the auditors make their report, is another potentially promising development.
Citizens President Barry Gilway said, after discussions with insurers interested in taking the loans:
"I seriously doubt even if the ... program would proceed that we would have any real takers that meet the financial requirements that we believe would be necessary."
The companies' failure to "meet the financial requirements" is yet another indication that the state needs to focus not just on lowering the number of Citizens policyholders but on raising the standards for private insurers in Florida.


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Middlebury, Ind.-based EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC announced today (July 18) that Chris Daniels has been appointed regional sales manager of its south central region.
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SEARHC is a non-profit tribal health consortium of 18 Native communities which serves the health interests of the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and other Native people of Southeast Alaska. We are one of the oldest and largest Native-run health organizations in the nation.
SEARHC was established in 1975 under the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination Act. The intent of this legislation was to have Indian Health Service programs and facilities turned over to tribal management. Our contracting with IHS began in 1976 when we took over management of the Community Health Aides Program. In 1982, we took over operation of the IHS Juneau clinic and in 1986 we took over operation of Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital.
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We are a consortium of 18 Native communities in Southeast Alaska, and our highest priority is to be responsive to the needs of those communities. Our board representatives are selected by the tribal governing body in each community. We maintain strong ties to the communities, to our culture, and to our elders. Wherever possible we incorporate traditional Native cultural practices and values into our health care delivery system.
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Baruch's Small Business Development Center Joins Congresswoman Maloney in Hurricane Relief Efforts to Assist Small Businesses
NEW YORK, NY � November 20, 2012 � The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Baruch College is helping entrepreneurs recover from Hurricane Sandy by offering advisement and resources to assist them with their business needs.
On Nov. 19, SBDC advisors met with small business owners from the East Side of Manhattan who came to Baruch College for an information session presented by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney of New York City�s 14th District.
In addition to the SBDC, representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), New York City Small Business Services (SBS), New York State Department of Financial Services and Manhattan Chamber of Commerce were on-hand to answer questions and provide information to help people apply for assistance with property losses and other damages as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
�These organizations have responded quite brilliantly,� Congresswoman Maloney said. �These groups have opened many locations throughout the city to help with disaster relief efforts, and small businesses should take advantage of these services.�
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An excerpt from John Main OSB, "The Inner Christ, MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), p. 106.
The way of meditation is not a way of escape. Above all, it is not a way of illusion. We neither try to escape the real world of untidy ends and chaotic beginnings and nor do we try to construct an alternative reality of our own. What Jesus promises us is that if we do hold him in reverence in our heart, . . .then all the chaos and all the confusion of the world can have no ultimate power over us.
The stresses, the strains, the challenges, all remain but they are powerless to defeat us when we have founded our lives on the rock who is Christ. This is the real task. This is the real challenge that each of us must face, to enter into the reality that is Christ, the rock on whom we can build our lives with the absolute assurance that he will love us through all our mistakes, through all our changes of heart and mind and through every moment of our lives until the last moment of our life, because he is supreme love.
That is why St. Peter tells us of the importance of hold Jesus in reverence in our hearts. Rooted in him we are rooted in the principle of all life, in reality itself and, founded in him, nothing else has ultimate power over us, not even death itself. The challenge is to find our way to him by finding the way to our own heart so that we can hold him in reverence there. The way of meditation is consequently a way of learning to die to illusion, to all unreality, and so it is the way of learning to rise with Christ, to rise beyond ourselves and our limitations to eternal life.
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Thread: The first energy shot powder
11-29-2010, 10:01 PM #1Spammer - Banned
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The first energy shot powder
So I came across a product called Everyday Energy Shots, and they are calling their product 'the first energy shot powder'. Their main sales point is that the product lets you buy 60 shots at a time (in powder form) and then you can mix it yourself in the reusable shot bottle and even mix it with other liquids to control taste. This bulk form makes it a lot cheaper and they say their product is made for regular energy drink users.
What does everyone think about this idea? Is it something you would try and does the product benefits make sense?
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At $45 per bottle you are losing the main demographic for this product. Energy Shots are grab and go items. The majority of Energy shots are bought at the counter in C-Stores, Drug Stores, and mass market accounts. The only place in the store ( mass) that you could put this product is in the sports nutrition/ diet and vitamin aisle. And even then you are priced way out of the comfort zone for purchase in the FDM Market. Thereby leaving yourself the ability to get that price point in the dedicated Supplement/ Sports Nutrition stores.
Also, being that the tub of powder is just that, a tub, it would only make sense to leave it in one location. Thereby limiting its use. i.e. at your desk at work or on your counter at home. I am sure Energy shot users use Energy Shots more than just to get through the day. Some may take it in the morning as well on their way into work, on the weekend, while travelling, etc.
Do I even need to mention that the convenience factor is now taken out of the equation?Whether you think can or think you can\'t, you\'re probably right!
Greg, excellent post.Don't worry, be happy. Meher Baba
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$45 per bottle is definitely an intimidating price. But if you consider that there's 60 shots, the price is actually very low per shot. So it wouldn't make sense for someone who just needs one a month or something. For people who use them all the time though, it's actually a money saver.
I think there's different kinds of convenience too. On one hand, there's the convenience of going into a store and getting a single shot real quick for pulling an all nighter. On the other hand, there's the ability to leave the tub at your desk at work and just come in everyday and make one right there without having to run to pick something up. I think it just depends on the intended usage.
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I got the chance to review this on my website and the taste needs some work.
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Everyday Energy Shots Powder
Hi - I hope this post reaches all of the people who posted a while back on Everyday Energy Shots. Great info in all posts! Greg brought up some great points, but have you checked out the company lately? They have a totally redesigned product and it is awesome. Better taste, more effective, healthier, more convenient b/c of the new packaging (in stick packs). Lower price point (under $20), environmentally friendly (shot bottle is reuseable). You guys should check out their new website. They are under new ownership and I hear they are also in the works in developing new packaging, different flavors and could be on store shelves soon. I totally think there is a market for energy shots in powder form. Think of all the possibilities you can mix it with.. Let me know what you think.


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Caramelized Fennel Focaccia with Red Onions
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Focaccia is great bread but is made even better with the addition of sweet carmelized onions and fennel. The delicate licorice flavor of the fennel shines through.
2 cups olive oil
2 tsp. salt
Pizza dough, for 8, 6-in. pizzas
1 cup fennel, sliced and caramelized
3⁄4 cup red onions, sliced and charred
1 tbsp. dried rosemary
1. Divide oil and salt into two large metal bowls. After the pizza dough rises once, work fennel, onions and rosemary into dough and divide into 2 balls. Place dough in bowls, set aside and rise until dough is tripled in size, about 4 hr.
2. Transfer dough to two sheet pans. Spread dough out to about 12 x 18-in. and 3⁄8-in. thick. Pour remaining oil over top, cover and set aside for 1-11⁄2 hr. Bake until golden brown, about 20 min.
3. Serve focaccia sandwiches with sliced chicken, gorgonzola, cream cheese and lettuce.


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