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Hi all,
Some of you have been helping me on my other thread but I thought I should start a new one with a more appropriate topic title. Here's my other thread in case you're interested.
We have booked rooms at The Springs in Arenal and at Tulemar in Manuel Antonio and now I'm' on to considering which tours to book and what to do about transportation.
I have seen that there are lots of threads on transportation, but I don't know if having kids (or travelling in a group of 4, perhaps) would affect someone's advice on whether to rent a car and/or whether to get a driver. For instance, maybe it's hard to get a taxi in La Fortuna that fits 4 people, or there may be other considerations that I'm not thinking about. Though I know others have done it and thought it worked well, I don't think we'll do public transportation.
Our itinerary:
Thurs - arrive 9:15 pm SJO - stay at airport hotel
Fri - drive to The Springs
Fri - Wed - Springs
Wed - travel to MA
Wed - Sun - Tulemar - depart Sunday at 11:45 am from SJO
I've seen the rental car vs. driver debate, and both ways have been recommended so I'm sure it's up to personal preference. I am not really afraid of driving, but my husband has unfortunately lost his license for a few months (don't ask) so I would be the sole driver. We'll have the drive to Arenal, the drive from Arenal to Manuel Antonio, and then return from MA to SJO on our last morning. All the long drives should be in daylight.
I see 3 options.
- Get 1 rental car for the whole time
- Get a driver for the 3 longer drives and rent while in La Fortuna and MA
- Get drivers for 3 longer drives and take taxis in La Fortuna and MA.
Does one make more sense than the others?
At Tulemar, I know they do not serve dinner on the property, but they say that there are many restaurants outside the gates. It seems like a very large property. Will we need a car/taxi to get to those restaurants?
Another option: would you drive (either in rental car or with driver) or fly from MA to SJO. I'm leaning towards the drive, so we don't have to worry as much about luggage weight and flight delays, but in some ways it can be easier to just fly.
Regarding tours, we will have 4 full days, not counting travel days at the Springs. The hotel sent us a list of their tours. I know we can book on our own, but just starting with their list, what I saw on TripAdvisor and what I read about in my Eyewitness Travel guide book, I've come up with the following.
- Arenal Hanging Bridges (half day)
- Sky Trek Zipline (half day)
- Cano Negro (full day) or Penas Blancas (1/2 day) - I've heard more raves about Cano Negro but I wonder if it's a long day for the kids?
- The hotel offers a 4 hour volcano hike. I don't know how much of that is transportation time. I think that would be interesting but I don't know if it would be too strenuous for the kids. Has anyone else done this with kids?
My husband expressed interest in a night hike. We should be able to fit that in since I plan to do the other tours first thing in the morning if possible.
What about the Sky Tram? Is that worth doing?
Mostly I'd like to spend our afternoons at the Springs in the pools or springs. We may do tubing and horseback riding in the afternoons too. And I think we'd like to visit the wildlife preserve at The Springs.
Is there something glaring that I'm missing or something I should cut out? Would it be better to leave a full day open in Arenal? My current plan would have us booked for a tour every morning, if we do a volcano hike.
We will have 3 full days in Manuel Antonio (Wed is travel day and we depart Sunday morning), and I plan to spend more time on the beach. According to the Tulemar website we can see quite a bit of wildlife right on the grounds. I remember reading that most of the things you can do near Arenal (ziplines, hanging bridges) you can also do in Manuel Antonio, but I'm sort of feeling like if our time in Arenal is so scheduled, maybe we'd like to wing it more in MA. Anything I MUST do near MA?
Thanks for your help!!
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16 more wildlife at Cano Negro. It takes a couple of hours to get there for the boat to put in, so it's up to you if you think your kids would be up for that. It's awesome; we've done it a few times. There is no bathroom on the boat however. We liked Penas Blancas too, but the wildlife isn't as abundant. It's much closer however if that makes a difference. Cano Negro involves a big covered motor powered boat; Penas Blancas is a raft. I would definitely do the tubing at The Springs. We loved that; the river there is absolutely beautiful. We had two guides all to ourselves when we did it. There's a nice open air restaurant by the river where you can eat lunch if you want to. Most of the volcano tour would be hiking since the hotels are fairly close to the volcano. We saw some wildlife when we did it; the best part was going at night to view the volcano, but there's not current lava flow. The hike that we did wasn't strenuous. They give you a lot of history of the volcano and its eruptions. Personally I would rather hike at the waterfall than do the volcano hike. If you do Sky Trek ziplining, you'll automatically do the tram - that's how you go up to the top. Sky Trek is great with wonderful views of the lake and volcano. The lines are incredibly high and fast.
One more thing if you have time; your kids would probably really enjoy the Proyecto Asis animal rescue center. We were able to feed a sloth, monkeys, and macaws when we went. They have a peccary, raccoon, kinkajo, toucans, etc. New animals come in and others are rehabilitated and released, so the makeup is always changing.
There's an internal shuttle at Tulemar that can take you to the property entrance. From there, there are restaurants within short walking distance. You could also walk the whole way. It's uphill to the entrance. We saw capuchin and squirrel monkeys on the property daily and also three and two toed sloths. We never ventured into the park.
I am a confident driver not bothered by most driving including downtown city driving. I would not be comfortable driving in Costa Rica. Plus parking in Manuel Antonio can be a pain.
You do not need a car in Manuel Antonio. We were there for 6 nights without a car. Most of the excursions will pick you up at the door or the concierge will arrange a cab to pick you up at your door.
We were in 405 which is the second condo from the gate so we walked to most of the restaurants from Tulemar. Twice we took cabs to restaurants and had no problem. We took their business card so we could have the restaurant call for our return.
The zip line company, Canopy Safari, is great and wonderful with kids so you can wait until you get to MA for the zipline if you want.
Birdie, which restaurants were you able to walk to from Tulemar? We're looking at staying there for a future trip.
Hi, volcanogirl.
Kapi Kapi, which we really liked. Good food, lovely atmosphere.
Cafe Milagro, casual spot that's great for breakfast and lunch. We did not try dinner there but I did buy a few bags of coffee to bring home for gifts.
Aqua Azul, lively, crowded, very casual, good food. They don't take reservations but the concierge at Tulemar can make one for you.
The casual restaurant at Como Si No because I wanted to see the hotel. I wouldn't go back but enjoyed the huge lizard watching us eat.
We took cabs to:
Raphael's Terrazas which we all really enjoyed.
Ronnie's Place for drinks, sunset and good, not great, dinner.
La Luna at Gaia which was good but I think I prefer Kapi Kapi for a higher end meal.
We also had a private chef cook the fish the guys caught and ate several breakfasts and lunches at the Tulemar beach cafe.
There are any number of other restauarants you can walk to in addition to the little food market. Tulemar is right in the middle of town and seems to be the only high end property that is. At the same time, though, when you are on property you feel like you are out on a quiet peninsula.
Oh, thanks for all the info. We stayed at Mango Moon and were able to walk to Cafe Milagro, Cafe Agua Azul, Salsipuedes, and we took a taxi to Ronnie's Place. I guess Tulemar is sort of in the same area. It's appealing to me because it has its own beach.
cb, we use a private driver to go between cities and then use taxis once we're in town. Arenal is a lot more spread out than Manuel Antonio. We save flying for areas that are harder to get to like Tortuguero or the Osa.
We enjoyed Kapi Kapi (walking distance) too and had several good meals at La Luna (not walking distance). Both are a bit upscale. La Luna has a great view and they have a tapas menu in the bar section if you don't want a full meal.
Birdie, Thank you for your driving input. I was sort of leaning towards hiring drivers, so I can enjoy the view and not be white-knuckled, so I'm not sorry to hear your recommendation that I not drive.
Regarding the waterfall, volcanogirl, I read your report of rappeling and I think I'm too scared (and don't think it's a good idea with the kids!) to do that. I will look into a hike there instead. I think that's something we can do on our own without a guide, right?
The Proyecto Asis would be right up our alley. My youngest is obsessed with animals. Did you do the 1 1/2 hour tour, or the 3 1/2 hour tour & volunteering? I think they would really like the volunteering one and that must be the one people talk about on tripadvisor where they can hold and feed animals.
Is this anywhere near the waterfall? Could we do the 2 on the same day? I hear the hike up from the waterfall is strenuous, so I'd love to be able to do it in the morning, but my mornings are getting filled, if we do Sky Trek, Hanging Bridges, one of the boat tours and the Proyecto Asis.
Patty - thanks for the info on the shuttle at Tulemar. I booked it without doing much research because it was so highly recommended, but the downside is I don't really know basic details that I would have discovered had I done more research. That shuttle will come in handy and we are very happy to do some walking too.
Thanks all!!
c, the waterfall hike and the rappelling are two totally different things in two completely different areas. The waterfall hike is at La Fortuna Waterfall and involves taking steps down to the waterfall and you can swim in the crystal clear river if you want to. It's set with pavers; if you can walk down a bunch of steps you can do it. It took us about ten minutes to walk down. Coming back up is a little steep, and we saw people stopping to catch their breath on the way back up, but it's not difficult if you take a little break. The rappelling is done in a canyon and involves rappelling down multiple waterfalls, much more rigorous than just visiting La Fortuna Waterfall. You can do the waterfall hike on your own. There's a big parking lot and an organized entrance where you pay your entry fee; I think it was around ten bucks or so. The rappelling is done with guides.
We did Proyecto Asis as part of a cultural tour we did with Desafio. They made several stops during the day and Asis was one of them. We also went to an organic farm called Luna Nueva, and we made one other stop. We got a guided tour of the property. It's very small and has a small pond full of turtles and herons. Then there are animals around in big cages, and you can enter some of the cages like the sloth's and macaws'. You can feed the monkeys bananas through the cage. And we were able to hold some of the animals like the raccoon. It's not near the waterfall, but you could do both on the same day depending on how you timed it. They may only do feeding certain times of day though, so you'd have to check on that.
volcanogirl, Salsipuedes was the first restaurant you reached after turning right out of Tulemar's gate. Do you remember an orange 4-story hotel or apartment comlex right in the middle of town? It is next door to the Tulemar gate.
The beach at Tulemar is lovely. We were going to take a cab to another beach just for a different atmosphere but loved Tulemar's so much we decided that we didn't need to go anywhere else. There is shade if you want to stay out of the sun and plenty of chairs and umbrellas. Do check out all the pools, though. There was a quiet one that we went to for swimming and a more popular one we liked in the evening for drinks at the bar.
I don't know if you saw an earlier post from the woman that was knocked down by the wave at Tulemar. I'm bringing it up more for cboris's benefit than yours since she will have kids with her. I think the water at Tulemar is great but there is one characteristic that is good to keep in mind. It may be true at other beaches in Manuel Antonio, too. When the tide changes, the water changes very quickly. Waves that weren't there minutes ago suddenly develop and the undertow gets stronger. If you are on the beach it sounds like a boat has gone by and the waves from the wake are coming in. The waves aren't very big and the undertow isn't particularly strong, but the fact that it occurs so quickly, can surprise swimmers. There is a local magazine that has a tide chart in it. If it isn't already in your condo, you can get a copy at the concierge desk.
We did take a tour of the park, and as Patty pointed out, we saw more wildlife on property than we did in the park. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the park tour. We saw a lot of other creatures like bats and cool insects that our guide pointed out with his scope.
Thanks for all the details. I guess we stayed very close to the property and didn't know it. Where we stayed was fine, but the beach access was terrible, a big long steep muddy hike to get down.
Your family will love Tulemar! As others have noted, the park is worth a visit but we saw more wildlife on property and preferred the property beach. As for Arenal we stayed at Lost iguana and enjoyed the property (to bad the volcano is not active). Our family really liked the hanging bridges, sky trek zip lines, Eco thermals hot springs(stay for dinner) and the horseback ride to la Fortunate waterfall. Enjoy!
Having traveling with kids that age, I would skip Cano Negro. You already have a lot of driving to get from place to place, so to do a full day tour to see wildlife is just adding to the driving. You will see a lot of wildlife already, both in MA and at the Springs, so it's not necessary to me. The drive is long for the amount of time you're on the water. And yes you get to see a lot, it in the distance for the most part. The Damas Mangrove boat trip in Manual Antonio is somewhat similar and you don't have to drive hours to get to it.
As far as the transportation - I think a nice balance is to rent a car while you're in Arenal and hire a driver for the transportation between locations. We've done this and it worked well. For us it was nice to have the flexibility to have our own vehicle in Arenal to go to restaurants, drive to Sky Trek, even just drive around the lake. Just be on our own time. But then with the kids, to have a driver drive us on the long trips took away a lot of the potential stresses. It was also nice to have someone to narrate the ride for us. We've also done the drive on our own. But I find the drive from Arenal to MA to be long and prefer to have a driver. The one from San Jose to Arenal is much shorter. You could consider picking up the car at the airport and driving that leg on your own and turning in the car after Arenal. You definitely don't need a car in Manual Antonio - as others have said. We did walk to dinner each night. I don't remember taking a taxi anywhere, although maybe we did.
As Birdie mentions, do keep in mind that the undertow can be very strong. The waves don't have to be very big, but that water can be very deceiving. That being said, my daughter and I spent hours and hours on the boogie boards they had for us there. We had an absolute blast. We never ventured to the National Park. Never felt a need to - there was a lot of wildlife on the property and the beach was great.
I think one thing we found each time we've been to CR with our kids is that regardless of how much I thought I knew what we planned to do each day, between the unpredictable weather and just getting caught up in each day - we never really did what we intended to do. So have some ideas in mind, but especially with the kids, be flexible.
We loved the Springs, but we didn't enjoy the wildlife preserve there. It consists of cats in cages which to us was kind of sad, like a zoo. Otherwise the property is great. Kids may enjoy being able to get so close to big cats. It's not a very natural setting though.
We did the Damas mangrove tour in MA which only takes a few of hours. While the tour was enjoyable, we didn't like that our guide baited the monkeys. Next time this is something I'd inquire about before booking.
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We are going to Kauai in January 2005. The cost of our already booked airline tickets has gone done ~$80 per person (five people). Do you know if United charges a fee to receive a voucher for the difference?
We booked through a travel agent (who is closed today) who appears to be under the impression that you cannot receive a voucher for the difference. BeachBoi mentioned in a previous post that this can be done and to check with my agent.
I am just trying to get more information as I cannot find any on United's website. Are there any United travelers that have received a voucher difference?
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We are going to Kauai in January 2005. The cost of our already booked airline tickets has gone done ~$80 per person (five people). Do you know if United charges a fee to receive a voucher for the difference? doubt it, knowing the financial state United is in. Frontier wouldn't do it for us recently, either. Give you agent a call anyway, and good luck.
kikahead...Hey ,sup? Yep, I just had this happen to one of my tiekcts on Thursday...If your agent is closed,call United.They have always been very helpful to me.Best of luck!
I have a UA employee sitting right next to me and said that YES, UA will reimburse the difference. Travel agent will have to file claim....
They will do it as long as, at the time of your call, their system shows 5 seats available to your destination on the exact same flights that you've booked , now showing a lower fare.
Thank you thank you!! The travel agency is open today so I will call him and have him make the switch!
kikahead, would you please post the outcome? I always thought an airline wouldn't make any adjustments until the price difference was $100 minimum, and then with a fee charged.
Maureen...Every airline is different.American just recently changed their policy.They will all try to get us, one way or the other.
Kikahead, I would call the airline and then the agent, so you will be "armed with knowledge" talking to the agent.
Maureen, each airline has different rules. I got a $40 voucher from American for free. To use it they now have a $5 charge.
Yep, those airline vouchers have so many strings attached they are just about worthless. I still have four from United for $75 each that haven't been useful yet! I usually get better fares on the internet than I can get going directly to United, even with the $75 discount.
Well I was able to get it. The travel agent sent me back to United, they are sending a voucher for the difference. Again, Beachboi thank you so much for letting me know that United does do this!!!! We will be receiving $400 which is a notable amount!!
kikahead....Glad it worked out in your favor....Glad to help and you are soooooo right that $400 is huge.
Kikahead, don't forget to use them! within a year?
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Creamy Spinach with Smoked Gouda Gratin
Creamy Spinach with Smoked Gouda Gratin
- ACTIVE:
- TOTAL TIME: 30 MIN
- SERVINGS: 6
- •FAST
- •VEGETARIAN
To make sure this gratin is rich and luscious, be sure to squeeze all the excess liquid from the spinach before adding the béchamel.
- Water
- 1 1/2 pounds baby spinach
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 3 tablespoons fine dry bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoons coarsely shredded smoked Gouda cheese
- Smoked Gouda Bèchamel
- Preheat the broiler and position a rack 10 inches from the heat. In a large soup pot, bring 1/4 inch of water to a boil. Add the spinach and cook over high heat, tossing with long tongs, until completely wilted, about 3 minutes. Transfer the spinach to a colander and drain, pressing out as much liquid as possible.
- In a medium, ovenproof skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the onion and cook over high heat, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add the wilted spinach and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the Smoked Gouda Bèchamel and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until bubbling, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the spinach with the bread crumbs and shredded Gouda and broil for 2 minutes, until golden and bubbling. Serve hot.
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- Three 3-pound chickens, halved
- 5 quarts cold water
- 5 large carrots (about 1 pound), 1 halved lengthwise and 4 cut into 1/2 -inch dice
- 5 celery ribs (about 1 pound), 1 halved lengthwise and 4 cut into 1/2 -inch dice
- 5 large flat-leaf parsley sprigs, plus 2 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon whole peppercorns
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 large Spanish onion, quartered through the root end
- Salt
- 2 pounds large Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 -inch dice
- Freshly ground pepper
- Lemon wedges, for serving
- Cut the breasts off the chickens and discard the skin. Cut the meat into 1-inch pieces and refrigerate.
- Put the chicken halves in a large soup pot. Add the water, carrot and celery halves, parsley sprigs, bay leaves and peppercorns.
- Melt the butter in a medium skillet. Add the onion quarters and cook over moderately high heat until browned, about 5 minutes; add to the soup pot. Season with salt and bring to a boil. Skim the broth and simmer over moderately low heat until the chicken falls off the bone and the broth is flavorful, about 3 1/2 hours. Let cool slightly.
- Strain the broth into a large saucepan and skim off the fat. Bring the broth to a boil. Add the diced celery and cook for 3 minutes. Add the diced carrots and cook for 5 minutes. Add the potatoes and cook for 5 minutes. Season the reserved breast meat with salt and pepper, add it to the soup and simmer until it is cooked through and the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Season the soup with salt and pepper, sprinkle with parsley and serve in bowls. Pass the lemon wedges.
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Cucumber with Peel, Raw (1 Cup Sliced)
- Cup Sliced
- Servings Per Container: 1.0
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories 14.0Calories from Fat 1.0
- Total Calories 14Total Calories from Fat 1
- % Daily Value* (DV)Recommended DV
- Total Fat 0.19 g 0%65 g
- Saturated Fat 0.0 g0%20 g
- Trans Fat 0.0 g
- Cholesterol 0.0 mg0%300 mg
- Sodium 2.0 mg 0%2,400 mg
- Potassium 162.0 mg
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Oh Baby Baby Pizza!
The much awaited next venture and update to the old Pearl location in Richmond has not failed to deliver! We manage to snaffle one of the last seats in the house and we get to look over the antipasto bar as the guys are doing their thing. The fit out is gorgeous! Very cool but comfortable, very chic without pretention. There are some luscious accents flying around the place and it only adds to the feeling that we are somewhere fabulous on a little holiday!!
The menu is huge, there is antipasto, boards of beautiful wafer thin cured meats, insalate, salads bursting with fresh herbs and leaves, there is ragu, cheese, meatballs and ofcourse pizza!
Pizza choices are varied with but traditional toppings, plenty of ‘fior di latte’, ‘san marzano tomatoes’, ‘fresh basil’ and a touch of chilli, sausage, prosciutto and parmesan! I have a theory that the best best of any place is the Margherita, if they can do it well you know anything else you eat there will be fabulous!!
Sensational – fior di latte, san marzano tomatoes, fresh basil, sicilian olive oil. No messing just perfectly fresh and perfectly… perfect! But you know what makes any perfectly thin, amazing margherita just a touch better….
A side of anchovies please!! Oh Yes!!
As a friend would say “I love those hairy little fish!!” and they are so very loveable!!
So the place is pretty big and it is very busy, there is a fair trade for takeaway pizzas and out food did take a little while with one of our pizzas not arriving until our other friend had nearly finished but the guys at Baby Pizza handled it brilliantly and we didn’t even have to pull a face – the waiter was thoroughly lovely and apologised and offered to remove from our bill without a moments hesitation. Textbook perfect service!
Regardless we all loved our pizzas, the Salsiccia with fior di latte, spiced italian sausage, friarielle and chilli was really good! We could have gone more chilli but we love the burn!! With a no bookings policy you have to time it right but it is so worth the trip!
Exceptional Pizza Baby!!
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My latest piece for lovefood.com, a tale, of friendship, good food, and a young family facing tough times.
Before Christmas we ran a competition to win £500 worth of le Creuset kitchenware and a years supply of stock from our friends at Knorr. To enter, we asked which one of our tasty recipes you would cook in the pans if you won.
One entry stood out as the clear winner. User stevewestcliff wanted the prize not for himself, but for a young family who he'd befriended over the years. This selfless act of friendship, we felt, was the true meaning of Christmas, and so we chose Steve as the winner. This was his reply when I contacted him…
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You voted for it and here we have it, the New Croque-Monsieur, FoodMayhem style. In preparation for our super awesome Grilled Cheese, Lon made mustard, and I made Challah (Peter Reinhart’s recipe). The Challah should be made and sliced the day before so that it can stale. (Don’t worry, I ate plenty of it fresh that day too. )
New Croque-Monsieur
~Serves 4
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 (roughly 7″ x 3.5″ x 1″) slabs of day old Challah
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, divided
- 2 tablespoons Sweet & Spicy Mustard, divided
- 4 oz shredded Gruyere, divided
- 6.4oz ham (Niman Ranch Jambon Royale), divided
- freshly ground black pepper
Instructions -
1. In a pan or dish large enough to hold all the bread in one layer, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, sugar, and salt. Lay the Challah flat in the pan. Let it sit for 30 minutes. Turn it over and let is sit for another 30 minutes.
2. Melt 1/2 tablespoon butter on medium low heat, on a cast iron skillet. Place two pies of challah on the skillet. (The side you cook first will end up being the inside of the sandwich. )
3. When the challah is golden on one side, flip one piece over. Spread 1 tablespoon of mustard on. Sprinkle 2 ounces of gruyere. Lay on ham. Sprinkle with black pepper. Place the other piece of challah on top, uncooked side facing up.
4. When the bottom is golden, flip entire sandwich over to finish the last side. When the last side is golden, remove from heat and cut in half.
5. Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make another large sandwich (again cutting in half to make two)..
I wanted to add in a comment or two just about the taste of this sandwich. It was ridiculously good. Jessica and I sat around moaning about the flavor. It is a bit sweet from the french toast and the mustard, a bit salty from the gruyere and ham, a bit tangy from the mustard and the pepper, it’s rich from the ham and the egg, and each bite melts in your mouth from the challah and the cheese.
Oh man, seriously, it has everything. This has got to be the winningest Grilled Cheese sandwich for Grilled Cheese month.
Hi Jessica,
Thanks for stopping by my blog…you got it, there’s no going back after panko
Now this sandwich, mmmm mmmmm mmmmmm, looks absolutely delicious, wow.
oh wow – there’s this french bakery/cafe here who features the croque monsieur… i’m sure yours would beat theirs by a mile!
MMMMMM….wow, this new croque monsieur sure gets my vote! yummie twist!!
Fabulous! Thanks for the recipe.
so THAT’S what a perfect breakfast sandwich looks like. good to know.
This is a serious eggy bread recipe Jessica!!
I love the photo’s, thank you for sharing ;0)
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Delicious!!! Next time I'm going to try 3/4 sour cream and 1/4 mayo and a little less salt.
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I wish I had read the reviews below before I prepared this recipe. The dill flavor was overpowering. Sorry Guy! I love you anyway!!!
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This dressing is amazing! I will never again buy ranch dressing from the store. It was so easy to make. I cut back on the dried dill by half, but only because my family isn't crazy about dill. I will definitely be making this again!
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A manufacturer of confectionary ginger is developing a new processing system that eliminates the need to use sulphites as a preservative, making its ginger products allergy-free.
Buderim Ginger, which is based in Australia, has been awarded AUS $245,100 (€123,000) in government funding to investigate a processing system that uses chlorine dioxide rather than sulphites, which are a recognised allergen, particularly for people with respiratory disorders.
The development would help the company tap into the growing “free-from” market which has largely been fuelled by the rising number of people with food allergies, according to analysts.
Steve Dennis, process and engineering manager at Buderim, said the funding, awarded under Queensland’s State Government’s Business and Industry Transformation Incentives scheme, would cover research into the performance of chlorine dioxide, the development of an automation system and the undertaking of trials.
He added: “This funding will help us transform our operations and enhance the products we deliver to our customers which is the most important aspect of our business.
“By having an allergen-free product, with no sulphites, we will be able to deliver even healthier ginger products into new markets in Australia and overseas.”
Buderim, which is described as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of confectionary ginger, has the capacity to process over 5000 ton of ginger per year. It also exports to more than 17 countries including the USA, New Zealand, Europe and Asia.
Manufacturers face strict regulations regarding the labeling of allergens used as an ingredient. For example, under current EU allergen labelling rules, companies are required to lable all pre-packed foods if they contain any of 12 listed allergenic foods, which includes sulphites.
Queensland Industry Minister, Desley Boyle, who announced the funding, said that the current trend in food processing was to remove sulphites and that Buderim was investigating the new processing system “to maintain its competitive edge, and to safeguard its export market”.
Free-from market
The "free-from" food market has been enjoying sales growth, with of over 300 per cent reported in the UK alone since 2000, as a result of growing numbers of people with reported food allergies, according to market analyst Mintel.
However, half of the reported food allergies amongst adults are not food allergies at all, according to a paper published in the journal Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
It said that between 10 and 20 per cent of people see themselves as suffering from a food allergy, but the real figure may be half this.
The Wurzburg University study reported that, of the 419 people with suspected food allergies tested, less than 50 per cent actually had a IgE-mediated food allergy.
According to Allergy UK, 45 per cent of the UK population face food sensitivities at some point in their lives, and two per cent suffer from a food allergy.
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The dust has settled and another SXSW is in the books. If you’ve been following along along, you may have known that I presented this year with Will Turnage something called, “My Robotic Kitchen Planned this Dinner Party.” The talk outlined how technology in the kitchen needs to be used to analyze the holistic cooking experience rather than just focusing in isolation on a few discrete tasks. We had a great turnout and a receptive crowd, and you can listen to a full audio recording of the talk and see the slides embedded below from Slideshare.
In the talk, we demoed a rough prototype of a dinner planning app we built as a proof of concept. The app empowers a dinner party planner to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do list. The central inspiration for what Will and I created is essentially a digitized version of the professional chef’s mind, where flexibility and adaptation are the hallmarks of the cooking approach…
We think that this approach represents a different way of looking at cooking instruction from what you typically find out there today. For instance, anyone can easily discover 3 recipes on any recipe site, but each of those recipes still exist in their own silo. The roast chicken recipe has no idea its being cooked with the roasted brussels sprouts and a side and apple pie for dessert. You still need to make your own mental leap to unify the steps of these dishes into one single to-do list and have a meal that’s efficiently prepared and well timed.
Someone who’s an experienced cook or professional chef naturally knows how to get all three of these things onto the table with minimal drama, but for most people, this kind of thing presents a challenge. Herein lies the gap in showing you how to plan and execute a dinner party and we think there’s real value in figuring this and many other problems out with technology.
There’s much more to be done, and the playing field is wide open for where this can go. At the end of the day, I believe that great things happen when you cook for those you care about. Knowing that, I wish everyone could cook more for the people in their lives and have the same great experience I’ve had doing the same. To the extent that I can help lower the barriers to cooking through technology, content, and inspiration, I will, and this is just the start.
Take a look/listen to the presentation and let me know what you think. Would this approach be valuable to you? Leave us a note in the comments.
All presentation photos by Steph Goralnick
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Gabriel Heinze and French full-back Loic Nego have officially signed for Roma.
The Giallorossi have been in advanced negotiations with both players and the Lega Calcio has already received the contracts.
A statement on the Roma website this evening confirmed Heinze has signed a one-year contract with an option for a second term.
Former Manchester United defender Heinze is a free agent after terminating his contract with Olympique Marseille.
The 33-year-old landed in Italy and already underwent a medical, while he has already joined his new teammates at their training camp in Riscone di Brunico.
20-year-old Nantes right-back Nego has also completed his transfer to Roma.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Serie A, Cesena have officially signed midfielder Roberto Guana from Palermo on a two-year contract.
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Shakers stun stuttering Cherries
16 Jan 2010 - 17:25:40
Bury moved into play-off contention by securing a 2-1 win over Bournemouth thanks to first-half goals by Stephen Dawson and David Worrall.
Brett Pitman scored an injury time consolation for the hosts but it made no impact on the outcome of the match.
Barnet lost out to Lincoln City at home after a late Lenell John-Lewis goal snatched victory for the visitors.
It looked as though Ismail Yakubu had secured a draw after cancelling out Lincoln's opener by Cian Hughton but the home side couldn't hold on to secure the point.
Burton's Greg Pearson scored a second-half equaliser to secure a point against Shrewsbury who had taken the lead through Dave Hibbert just before the half-hour mark.
Barry Conlon scored the only goal of the game as Chesterfield edged past relegation-threatened Torquay United at Saltergate.
Dagenham & Redbridge beat Crewe Alexandra 2-0 thanks to first-half goals by Josh Scott and Danny Green, while the match between Grimsby Town and Cheltenham Town ended goalless.
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Published : 14 Aug 2010 15:01:07
Paddy McCourt seized an early chance to prove he can fill Aiden McGeady's boots as his superb strike earned Celtic a winning start to their Clydesdale Bank Premier League campaign at Inverness.The winger was handed the left-wing berth 24 hours after McGeady completed his £9.5million move to Spartak Moscow and he repaid Neil Lennon in style in the 56th minute head knock that ended his involvement.Lennon would have been equally pleased to see his defence keep their first clean sheet since the summer break, a run that included eight friendlies and two Champions League games against Sporting Braga.
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Published : 12 Jan 2013 00:05:39
A look at Carlisle v City
Sunday will see the 13th league and cup game between Carlisle United and Coventry City.
City have won seven of those games, and drawn three. The last time, City played at Brunton Park was for a League Cup second round tie in 2007, City won 2-0 with both goals from Michael Mifsud.
The teams that night were;
City: Marshall ,Osbourne, Page (Hall 19), Ward (Turner 80), Borrowdale, Cairo, S.Hughes, Doyle, Tabb, Adebola (Simpson 70), Mifsud Subs McKenzie, Konstantopoulos
Carlisle Westwood, Arnison, Raven, Liversy, Arnalde, Brittain, Lumsden, Thirlwell (McDermott 67), Hackney (Smith 60), Graham (Gall 60), Carlton SNU Kirkup, Howarth.
That was one of three City wins at Brunton Park with City winning 1-0 on April 27th 1963 and a 6-1 win on Feb 14th 1959.
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McCammon rejects Dover loan move
Published : 01 Apr 2010 13:25:57
Blue Square South side Dover Athletic have made an ambitious bid to sign Gillingham striker Mark McCammon.The 31-year-old has only played one league game for the Gills since the New Year and recently returned from a loan spell with Bradford. Gillingham agreed to the move but McCammon turned it down. "I made the call and Mark Stimson was happy for us to have him but sadly the lad didn't want to come," Dover boss Andy Hessenthaler told BBC Radio Kent. "That's his prerogative. It was another .... read more
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Brown thinking of January
Published : 29 Jul 2009 10:03:48
Phil Brown has admitted that he is already looking ahead to the January transfer window as a crucial period in Hull City's campaign. The Tigers made a stunning start to the season 12 months ago but then suffered a dramatic slump and only just avoided relegation. Brown hopes his men will get off to a flyer once again but then realises he will have to be more proactive in bringing in fresh faces in the New Year. He explained: "The lesson I learned from the majority of last season was to improve in January in terms of the transfer window. "We only brought maybe one or two in the January transfer window last season. "One of the main deals we were trying to get on the table was Jimmy Bullard and obviously it is well documented that he picked up an injury in his first game. "If." Survival Brown accepts that he will need a larger squad to remain competitive for the whole season, although he is refusing to set any targets other than survival. "In terms of the numbers of the squad last season, it was critical towards the end that we were using the full squad as opposed to using the same 12 to 15 players and consequently that took its toll on us at the end of the season," he said. "The powers that be turned against us to a certain extent last season however there were three teams that were worse off than us. "So long as we improve on last season that is the main aim this year. That leaves it wide open from 16th first."
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Republic of Ireland 0-0 Slovakia: Match Report
Published : 02 Sep 2011 22:00:41
Robbie Keane passed up a glorious opportunity to snatch victory against Slovakia as the Republic of Ireland's hopes of automatic qualification for Euro 2012 were dealt a major blow.
The Los Angeles Galaxy striker headed wide from just five yards with 16 minutes of the game remaining, with the visitors having enjoyed the better of the game until that point.
Damien Duff had earlier forced a good save from goalkeeper Jan Mucha with a 38th-minute shot which clipped defender Martin Skrtel, but Slovakia were more than value for their point with Shay Given having to make first-half saves from both Vladimir Weiss and Filip Holosko.
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Inter supporters waved inflated bananas and whistled at Balotelli during the 1-1 draw at the San Siro.
However Balotelli, who played for Inter between 2006 and 2010, helping them to a treble in his final season with the team, kept his composure and responded simply by holding a finger to his mouth during the second half.
Balotelli has already scored four times since joining Milan from Manchester City last month but he failed to find the target on Sunday.
The 22-year-old had three chances in the derby, drawing a great save from Samir Handanovic at one point with a header.
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Lane Johnson and D.J. Fluker were selected high in the draft, but both have troubling flaws in pass protection according to Word of Muth.
28 Jul 2005
by Al Bogdan and Vivek Ramgopal
Also check out last week's look at the AFC West and NFC West. Lines come from VegasInsider.com.
O/U: 8.5
2004 Record: 6-10
2005 Home Opponents: WAS, PHI, NYG, ARI, DET, DEN, KC, STL
2005 Away Opponents: SD, SF, OAK, SEA, PHI, NYG, WAS, CAR
Vivek: So we have Drew Bledsoe reunited with Bill Parcells, the team signs Jason Ferguson and shifts to a 3-4 defense, and all of a sudden this is supposed to be a .500+ team? I just don't see it. This is a good up and coming team with Julius Jones in the backfield and Roy Williams hitting everything in sight in the secondary, but Dallas is a year away. Its success depends on the development of first round defensive ends Demarcus Ware (who may move to the linebacker spot in the new 3-4 defense) and Marcus Spears. With change to a 3-4 scheme, Parcells is effectively reducing the role of Greg Ellis, his leading sack man for the past four seasons. I am curious to see how he and veteran La'Roi Glover handle this.
What does Bledsoe have around him on the outside? Whatever it is, he will have to find it quickly as the not so fleet footed Bledsoe will have the aging Marco Rivera and Larry Allen protecting him. The Buffalo offensive line wasn't the only factor in opposing defenses sacking Bledsoe almost three times per game during his tenure there. That is the whole key to Bledsoe's success --give him time, and he will produce. Keyshawn Johnson, Terry Glenn, and Quincy Morgan are all nice pieces, but will not be able to bring Bledsoe back to his form from six years ago. Add in the fact that all three are coming off of surgeries, and that cannot make Bledsoe feel too confident. Tight end Jason Whitten might be Bledsoe's most reliable weapon, similar to what he had in New England with Ben Coates.
I might be being too harsh on this team, but out of division games against the Broncos, Chiefs, Rams, Raiders, Charger,s and Panthers do not hurt my case. A year from now I'll take the over but for 2005, I'm predicting a .500 record and the UNDER.
Al: Finally, some serious disagreement between us. I'm expecting Dallas to be one of the top teams in the NFC and possibly the favorite to be playing in February if Terrell Owens isn't lining up wide in Philadelphia for a full season.
There are a lot of reasons, other than the personnel upgrades, to expect Dallas' offense to significantly improve this year. (For more details, read the Dallas (written by yours truly) and San Diego chapters of the top-selling football book on Amazon.com). As is pointed out in much more detail in the book, Dallas was terrible passing the ball on third down last year. Even a moderate improvement in that category could lead to significant overall improvement in the team's offense. Also, Vinny Testeverde was atrocious in the fourth quarter last season. With a younger quarterback than Vinny behind center, Dallas could expect to have more consistency in game performance across all four quarters from Bledsoe than they got from Testeverde.
I am concerned about the secondary, which was Dallas' weak link last year. Their starters should be improved with the additions of Anthony Henry and Aaron Glenn, but I have serious concerns about the depth behind those starters. If Henry, Glenn, or Terrence Newman gets injured, things could get ugly real fast in Dallas.
In any event, this team should go at least 9-7, even if they don't reach the Super Bowl contender status that I'm expecting from them. OVER.
O/U: 11
2004 Record: 13-3
2005 Home Opponents: SF, OAK, SD, DAL, GB, SEA, NYG, WAS
2005 Away Opponents: ATL, KC, DAL, DEN, WAS, NYG, STL, ARI
Vivek: T.O. isn't the only one who has to take care of his family this year. I have a down payment and wedding to plan for, and if Terrell Owens doesn't suit up for the Eagles, I'll have to keep my day job because I am sticking with the Eagles this year. T.O. or no T.O, This team is a regular in the NFC title game, and the secondary of Lito Sheppard, Sheldon Brown and Michael Lewis can ensure that the Eagles will not need to score 30 points to win. This will essentially be the same defensive unit went to the Super Bowl last year, minus a handful of players who did not make much of an impact. If the defense can execute Jim Johnson's pressure filled schemes, you should see a something along the lines of last year's 17 interceptions and 47 sacks.
Even with a first place schedule, this team can approach last year's win total. OVER.
Al: This team has won at least 11 games for five straight years. The presence or absence of Owens probably will be the difference between this team having a tough run in the playoffs, or having a cake walk to another NFC Championship. Last year's Super Bowl team is returning virtually intact. The only off-season departure of any significance was Jermane Mayberry who left for New Orleans. But the Eagles have a replacement waiting in the wings with last year's first round pick Shawn Andrews. Add in the best secondary and special teams in football and there's just no way I could take the under here. OVER.
O/U: 6.5
2004 Record: 6-10
2005 Home Opponents: ARI, STL, DEN, WAS, MIN, PHI, DAL, KC
2005 Away Opponents: NO, SD, DAL, SF, SEA, PHI, WAS, OAK
Vivek: 698 and 860 yards in the past two seasons. Does that sound like #1 receiver stats to you? Plaxico Burress missed five games last year, so even projecting his stats across a full season gives you a hair over 1,000. The combo of Burress and Amani Toomer is an upgrade from last year, but not one that would vault Eli Manning into the top half of NFL quarterbacks. You know that your 2004 wide receiver corps struggled when Ron Dayne found the end zone (1) more often than the top two receivers (0). Nobody ever knows what to expect from Jeremy Shockey, so the Giants cannot depend on him as a safety net for Manning. And if Jim Miller is slow to heal from hip surgery, the Giants will be forced to go with the reality star Jesse Palmer or husband-of-a-reality-star Tim Hasselbeck. New tackles Kareem McKenzie and Bob Whitfield should, however, help sure up an offensive line that allowed 52 sacks last year.
Can Tiki Barber pile up the same yards with defenses not as concerned with Manning? He averaged 91 yards rushing and receiving for the final five games of last season (versus 150 the rest of the year) and more alarming was his four fumbles during that span. The Giants would have to give the ball to rookie Brandon Jacobs, who looks more like Julius Peppers than a running back, if Barber goes down.
Towards the end of last season, Al played "What would Ernie Accorsi do?" and wrote, ." Well, Al was ten for ten on those guys, and the Giants build around them by signing Antonio Pierce in addition to McKenzie and Whitfield on the o-line. The losses of Norman Hand, Omar Stoutmire, Ike Hilliard and Terry Cousin will have a minimal impact. OVER.
Al: It's all about Eli this year in New York. As I've mentioned elsewhere -- yes, I wrote this chapter in the book as well -- the Giants have brought in new personnel to improve every one of their weaknesses from last season save one -- starting quarterback. If Manning is the quarterback this season that he was against Pittsburgh in Week 15, the Giants will be championship contenders. If Manning is the quarterback that he was against Baltimore in Week 14, Tim Hasselbeck will become the most talked about backup quarterback in the history of sports radio. I'll split the difference and say Manning plays like he did against Dallas and Cincinnati in Weeks 16 and 17: right around league average. As long as Eli doesn't stop them, this Giant team should make the playoffs or at least be in contention for a spot until the last week of the season. OVER.
O/U: 7.5
2004 Record: 6-10
2005 Home Opponents: CHI, SEA, SF, PHI, OAK, SD, DAL, NYG
2005 Away Opponents: DAL, DEN, KC, NYG, TB, STL, ARI, PHI
Vivek: Al, make sure to temper your enthusiasm a bit after last year's Skins' love fest. Sorry for the cheap shot. I'll note that I also predicted the demise of Curtis Martin last year.
The nation's capitol did have a good offseason in terms of made for television drama -- the drafting of a quarterback of the future when the head coach had given his endorsement for the incumbent, two star players departing for "greener" pastures and what plotline would be complete without an assault/weapons charge for last year's star rookie.
While the potential of the 2005 players might be greater than last season, this team took a big step backwards in terms of on-field talent. Patrick Ramsey only had three wins in his half season of starting, so barring a Drew Brees-like resurgence, how long until Joe Gibbs hands the ball over to Jason Campbell? And even if he does, what weapons does he have on the field with him in the aerial game? Newcomers Santana Moss and David Patten are nice second and third receivers, but cannot carry this passing game. To say that the 2004 offense never got in synch is an understatement. All season the offense looked confused, especially on third downs, an anomaly for a team with a featured back the caliber of Clinton Portis. The Skins converted less than a third of their third down attempts, which can be linked to Portis's drop of 1.7 yards per carry from his other two seasons in the league. Joe Bugel will have to simplify the offense in order to reduce the training camp errors.
The team's best cover corner, Fred Smoot, jumped ship from a Redskins team that has gone downward since his arrival there, finishing a total of 12 games under .500 his four seasons. Linebacker Antonio Pierce followed suit and headed up I-95 to Giants stadium. Because of Dan Snyder's earlier open-wallet policies, the Redskins have limited resources to replace their offseason losses. Almost a quarter of the 2005 cap is allocated to players who are not on the roster or who will not see much action. The return of LaVar Arrington (we think) should soften those blows, but do not expect a defense that will mirror last year's.
The odds makers are being pretty generous with this line, so definitely the UNDER.
Al: Don't worry Viv, I'm not making the same mistake twice. Washington appears to be the weakest team in the division. While their fellow teams in 6-10 land spent their offseason adding to their team through free agency and the draft improving their team's weaknesses, the Redskins went around trading away their one effective offensive player to give them less cap space with which to improve the rest of the squad. The defense has seen departures, injuries and legal troubles this off-season, but very few additions. On offense, Casey Rabach and a returning Jon Jansen should lead to an improvement in the running game, but Washington has replaced the departed Laveraneus Coles and, according to a report on Redskins.com, Rod Gardner with Santana Moss and David Patten. At best it's wheel spinning for the sake of salary cap inflexibility. At worst, one of the league's five worst passing offenses from 2004 will find itself sliding even further down the rankings this year.
Is there anything I like about Washington this season? Sure. Robert Royal is my fantasy sleeper TE of the year. He finished last season with four touchdowns in Washington's last five games. With an increased role in the offense, Royal is a great pick as a #2 TE in leagues where you're forced to carry a backup. UNDER.
O/U: 10.5
2004 Record: 14-2
2005 Home Opponents: OAK, SD, BUF, IND, NO, NYJ, TB, MIA
2005 Road Opponents: CAR, PIT, ATL, DEN, MIA, KC, BUF, NYJ
Al: We're completely into uncharted territory here. Only one other team has won at least 14 games in consecutive seasons like New England has: the 1985 and 1986 Chicago Bears. The next year for Chicago was the strike year, when they still managed to pull of 11 victories. The Bears kept it going into 1988, winning 12 games. What does this mean for New England? Absolutely nothing.
I want to go under, but I just can't do it. Sure, you have to wonder how the team will do after losing both their coordinators. But the personnel is just as good, if not better than it was last year, despite the departures of Tedy Bruschi and Ty Law. The wide receiver corps is deeper than ever with the additions of David Terrell and Tim Dwight. That should make up for the inevitable decline of Corey Dillon as he turns 31 after logging a career-high number of carries last year. The offensive line is back pretty much intact from last year, possibly improved with the addition of first round pick Logan Mankins.
The biggest question marks are on defense, where Bruschi is done for the year and Law is out looking for a job elsewhere. But the secondary was effective without Law for most of last season, and New England has brought in a number of linebackers to fill in for Bruschi as well as Ted Johnson, who surprised the team by retiring today. It would be nice for the Patriots if Chad Brown could stay on the field for a full 16 games for the first time since 2001, but even if he doesn't, newcomer Monty Beisel should be effective, at least on pass coverage.
The schedule looks tough, but the Patriots are still the toughest team any of their opponents will play this year. I'm glad this line isn't a half point higher. OVER.
Vivek: Have we all learned yet not to bet against Bill Belichick? The Patriots will probably slot in Deion Branch in the secondary to replace Ty Law and Patrick Pass at linebacker for Teddy Bruschi. Ok, there was sarcasm there, but how many of you would have believed that Troy Brown would make a greater impact on defense than offense last year? We are all waiting to see how Belichick will do without his right-hand men, Romeo Crennel and Charlie Weis, and that might be Belichick's greatest personnel loss during his years in New England.
So how do you beat the Patriots? You cannot stack their schedule with playoff teams, as New England has compiled a 16-1 record against playoff teams during the past two seasons. You cannot rattle Tom Brady unless maybe you bring back Tara Reid into the picture. And Bridget Moynihan may be the only one who can break through the offensive line to get to Brady. Last year the Steelers handed the Pats their worst loss when Corey Dillon sat out with a thigh injury. If Dillon misses an extended period of time, Brady and the Patriots will find life a little harder. Al is more confident about the WR crew than I am. Branch, Givens, and Terrell should not be a comforting sight if Brady has to revert to the shorter passing game from 2003. Tight end Ben Watson, who lost his 2004 campaign to a knee injury, would have to develop into a deep threat quickly.
On the defensive side, the Pats will slot in free agent signees Brown and Beisel while Bruschi sits this season out recovering from his stroke. Brown help will keep the pass rush at the top of the league, having averaged almost three a game last season. Law was the only other significant defensive loss, but Asante Samuel is emerging as a solid corner.
Another 13-14 win season is within reach. OVER.
O/U: 9
2004 Record: 10-6
2005 Home Opponents: MIA, JAC, TB, SD, NO, OAK, NE, BUF
2005 Road Opponents: KC, BAL, BUF, ATL, CAR, DEN, NE, MIA
Vivek: This Jets team is one of the hardest to predict in the league, one that could end the Patriots' run as the toast of the AFC or one that could fall flat without its leader Chad Pennington. After Pennington's rotator cuff surgery, there is still an outside chance that Jay Fiedler opens the season as the starter. Regardless of whether or not he will be under center in Week 1, Pennington has missed all of the offseason workouts with new offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger and his downfield attack. Heimerdinger's offense requires a quarterback with good arm strength and that's not Pennington's game. The return of Laveranues Coles and potential comeback of Wayne Chrebet will mean nothing if Pennington's shoulder does not allow the team to be aggressive. A few interceptions downfield, and Jets fans might not miss Paul Hackett's play calling so much.
Curtis Martin has to slow down one of these years, and this might be the one. Martin could miss last year's starting right tackle Kareem McKenzie, with an unproven Adrian Jones now in that spot. At least if anything does happen to Martin, Derrick Blaylock can easily step in as a different style runner.
The Jets made huge strides in 2004, but regressed this offseason. Pardon the pun, but the team is thin at the tackle spot after Dewayne Robertson. The defection of nose tackle Jason Ferguson will not only hurt Robertson, but also rising linebacking stars Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma. Opposing teams had to devote multiple offensive linemen to take care of Ferguson, but now they can focus their efforts elsewhere.
I am not sold on Pennington's shoulder, and for that reason, I'll take the disappointing UNDER.
Al: What are you talking about Viv? This team is deep everywhere. So deep that they could spend their first draft pick this year on a kicker! (Yes, Mike Nugent bashing by Football Outsiders. Big shock there.)
Seriously, though, I agree that the Jets didn't do enough to fill the hole left by McKenzie. The Jets had one of the best offensive lines in the league last year according to the new and improved adjusted line yards. They were third in the league running behind right tackle and the best in the league running outside the right tackle. Now, a lot of that has to do with Kevin Mawae's amazing pulling, but McKenzie has to be given some of the credit as well. With an unproven right tackle, you have to expect the Jets rushing numbers to decrease, especially to that side of the line.
I really like the Blalock signing, though. He was in the top 10 in DPAR and top 5 in DVOA last year and had a positive DVOA in 2003, albeit in limited playing time. (DVOA and DPAR explained here.) He'll more than make up for the departure of LaMont Jordan and should end up with a good number of carries backing up and eventually sharing time with the sure-to-decline Curtis Martin.
That road schedule is sick. I wouldn't pencil in a single victory. The Jets aren't going to reach 10 wins without going at least 4-4 on the road, and with this schedule I just don't see it. Especially if The Chad misses more than a game or two with his inevitable annual injury. UNDER.
O/U: 8
2004 Record: 9-7
2005 Home Opponents: HOU, ATL, MIA, NYJ, KC, CAR, NE, DEN
2005 Road Opponents: TB, NO, OAK, NE, SD, MIA, CIN, NYJ
Vivek: Run, defend, and protect young quarterback J.P. Losman. The game plan is pretty simple for the Bills in 2005. Willis McGahee gets his long awaited full-time starting job in 2005. He may not, however, put up the eye popping numbers that he did as the starter last year with this downgraded offensive line. Other than quarterback, the only other position that will feel a drop-off from last year is the offensive tackle spot after Jonas Jennings signed with the 49ers. McGahee needs to run between the tackles, and we will wait to see if Mike Gandy and Mike Williams can step it up.
I like the pickup of Kelly Holcomb to back him up if head coach Mike Mularkey feels the need to sit Losman for a bit. Losman will have a good group of receivers around him, though. Eric Moulds pulled in 88 catches last year, and the Bills will finally end their efforts to make Josh Reed a solid #2 wideout with the push of Lee Evans and rookie Roscoe Parrish.
This team was very close to the playoffs last year, and I think Buffalo will be competitive again this year, but it is hard to take the over with the Jets and Pats on the schedule for four games. UNDER.
Al: Why do odds makers think this team will do worse than last year? The loss of Drew Bledsoe and Travis Henry? I can understand the hesitation to wager that a team with essentially a rookie quarterback will have a winning season. However, J.P. Losman is unlikely to decide the fate of this team. Not when virtually the entire defense, number one in DVOA last year, is coming back for 2005 and they have a running back that PFP 2005 projects to finish among the NFL's top five in rushing yards.
The Bills' road schedule is much easier than the Jets' looks to be. As you'll read sometime in the next few weeks, I'm not sold on Tampa, New Orleans is perpetually mediocre, and I think Oakland will still struggle, especially on defense, despite their recent additions. If Buffalo can win those games and squeak one road victory out against a division rival or either San Diego or Cincinnati, they'd be 4-4 on the road and half way to hitting the over/under number. Should be an easy OVER.
O/U: 6
2004 Record: 4-12
2005 Home Opponents: DEN, CAR, KC, ATL, NE, BUF, NYJ, TEN
2005 Road Opponents: NYJ, BUF, TB, NO, CLE, OAK, SD, NE
Vivek: Grass Valley, California. There, I got that obligatory Ricky Williams joke out of the way.
Gus Frerote or A.J. Feeley? Ronnie Brown or Ricky Williams? Marty Booker or David Boston? If you like camp position battles, then this will be a fun team to watch. Frerote, Brown and Booker should be the opening day starters, and those are all the right calls. Feeley has proved nothing as a starter in the NFL, and Williams is nowhere near the physical shape that he was in two years ago (not to mention the mental shape).
With all the offensive struggles from last year, the defense carried this team (if you can say "carried" for a team that won four games). The Dolphins went out and signed pass rushers Kevin Carter and Vonnie Holliday, but will miss corner Patrick Surtain. Opposing quarterbacks will light up when they see an aging Sam Madison and unproven Mario Edwards and Reggie Howard lined up against wide receivers. UNDER.
Al: Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm expecting the Dolphins to be at least mediocre this year. Williams has been knocked on more than one occasion on this site. But after Williams has had a year to recover from the wear and tear of two 380+ carry seasons, and with Brown sharing the backfield, Miami could actually have a decent running attack.
Of course, this team will only go as far on offense as their line will take them. The Miami offensive line has been awful, finishing at or near the bottom of our offensive line rankings for the past two years. Stockar McDougle will be an upgrade over John St. Clair on the right side of the line. Sprinkle in a little more Vernon Carey and a little less Wade Smith, and maybe this won't be the worst offensive line in football.
On defense, the Dolphins has as deep of a defensive line as you'll find anywhere in the league. They have two lines worth of starters on their team. An effective rotation will keep the linemen on the wrong side of 30 like Jason Taylor, Keith Traylor, and Carter fresh and more effective. The secondary was effective last year and should remain so despite the losses of Surtain to free agency and Will Poole to injury.
Miami has the easiest road schedule of any of their division rivals. If they can find a way to go just .500 at home, this team should be able to squeak out 7 wins. OVER.
Next week: AFC North and NFC North.
38 comments, Last at 20 Nov 2011, 4:17pm by Bet in Vegas
Am I the only one that thinks the Jets should sign Jeff George? Yeah, probably. But really... Jay Fiedler?
I'm very surprised the Redskins over/under was so high and the Giants were so low. If I were to set them myself, I'd probably go with five for Washington and eight for the Giants.
I'm a Dolphin fan, and feel that they should be able to win 6 or so games. I think there was a lot of "give up" on the team last year. They seemed to play a little better with Bates coaching. The QB play was pretty bad. Frerotte should be able to turn it up a notch. The Dolphins go from no running backs, to 3 (Brown, Williams and Gordon). They still have lots of solid veterans on defense. I see no reason why they won't be much more competitive than they were last year.
6 seems a little low for the Dolphins line. Dolfans are pretty high on this season. Any thoughts to why it's 6 games? For the record Mario Edwards has been in the league since 2000. I thinks it's safe to say he's proven how much value he has.
6 seems a little low for the Dolphins line. Dolfans are pretty high on this season. Any thoughts to why it’s 6 games?
To balance out the betting. You've got to balance Dolfans who would bet the over on a 14.5 line, with (New England) fans of other (Patriots) teams who would take the under on 4.
I wouldn't be hugely surprised by anything from 3 to 9 wins from this Miami team, so 6 seems as good a place as any to start the line at.
The Jets have been one of the best road teams for quite some time now.
Heimerdinger adjusts his playcalling and schemes. He's not a square-peg-into-a-round-hole kinda guy. He'll attack defenses in different manners on a week-to-week basis. You'll see in due time. Chad Pennington can throw the deep ball. He threw the best pass in the NFL last season. Check out the AFC Wild Card game vs San Diego.
Any thoughts to why it’s 6 games?
Probably because most people don't think they'll make it. I'd bet the under, for sure. I think 0-8 at home is a real possibility.
Am I the only one that thinks the Jets should sign Jeff George?
I am sure a certain ESPN.com columnist from the Atlanta area agrees with you.
RE: 6
The best pass in the nfl last year was an 80 yd td bomb from culpepper to moss that traveled about 65 in the air in detroit. But the jets pass was in a higher stakes game so i see your point. But for pure artistry i'll go with the minnesota pass.
The Jets have been one of the best road teams for quite some time now. Heimerdinger adjusts his playcalling and schemes.
The first part might be true. I don't feel like looking it up. But it's a little early to suggest how Heimerdinger is going to handle the Jets, considering he just joined the team this year. Let them play before crowning the new offensive coordinator as an improvement.
It won't take much to be an improvement over Paul Hackett.
Paul Hackett managed to direct the Jets' offense to the playoffs, then to a playoff win on the road. That puts him ahead of 28 other offensive coordinators last year, including Heimerdinger.
You may argue that the success was not Hackett's, and you may blame him for the loss in Pittsburgh. But Herm Edwards was on the sideline in Pittsburgh, too, piddling away the chance to move closer for that last FG attempt, and he still can overrule his OC.
Don't pin all your hopes on Heimerdinger.
I think Lavernio, Laverana, Lavern.. well, Coles and McCarens and Curtis Martin are going to help Heimerdinger make a splash right away. He has some weapons.
Look out Pats !
& for those of you that weren't watching the Jets every week -Hackett was awful. Painful to sit through... good quarter back coach, but I seriousely question if he will ever be an OC again.
Sometimes I wonder how Curtis Martin must feel, knowing that if he wasn't traded away from the Pats he could of had a couple of superbowl rings now...
The Cowboys won't be a playoff team unless Drew Bledsoe suddenly improves to mediocre. His passing DVOA was -0.2% and VOA was -6.4%. Testaverde was 3.2% and -0.3% respectively. Incredibly, Testaverde was a better runner too with a DVOA of -12.3% and VOA of -18%. Bledsoe's numbers were -41.5% and -42%. And Bledsoe had superior receivers in Buffalo. Looks like I'll enjoy another season of laughing at Cowboy fans. Go Eagles!
Heimerdinger has run two distinctly different types of offenses in Tennessee, so there is no reason to think he's inflexible about fitting a scheme to his personnel. (Of course, anyone who has watched Bill Parcell's post-1990 career would say the same about him, but for some reason every commentator's brain seemed to freeze right after the victory over Buffalo.) And for what it's worth, I think that Pennington is going to succeed far better in a vertical offense than he is given credit for. He spent his entire career at Marshall out of the shotgun and throwing the bomb to Randy Moss. He throws a good deep ball, and he hit on them with a high frequency last year (everyone remembers the Moss pass against San Diego, but Pennington was deadly early in the season with strikes downfield). The routes he struggles most with are deep intermediate routes, deep outs and comebacks, but even then he shows an ability to complete them. On deep passes outside the hash, Pennington tends to put a hump in the ball, with the result that the receiver is the only player able to make a play on the ball. It assures that there won't be any yac, but he can throw those routes for completions. Maybe I'll be proved wrong, but I think Pennington is going to be a much better fit than people give him credit for.
I'm not so sure the Bills had better receivers. Yes, they had good 1 and 2 receivers, but they had the worst 3 and 4 receivers in the league, no pass catching tight end to speak of, and no backs who were receiving threats out of the backfield. The Cowboys have three receivers that fit their roles well, and they have one of the best pass catching tight ends in the league (and if for whatever reason they end up re-signing Richie Anderson, they'll have a quality safety outlet). The Cowboys have a much better ability to attack all parts of the field with their passing personnel than Buffalo did.
OK, Al, you've penciled in the annual injury to CP. Three other QB's with no injuries? What are the chances of that? If TB is one, who is his backup? What do you think their record becomes then? I think you are entirely too locked in on last years news.
Looks like I’ll enjoy another season of laughing at Cowboy fans. Go Eagles!
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A man is shot and nearly killed, and you're telling a football fan it's his fault for being rude? This is classless, tasteless, offensive, and worst of all, not funny in any way.
I'm surprised at the lack of outrage (thus far) at the Patriots' low O/U. You guys (Pats fans) just so used to be underestimated that you no longer bat an eye when you get a 10.5 O/U, or some bored columnist launches into one of those "Payton > Brady" articles?
For the 2-time defending champs, winners of 14+ both times, with no major personel losses, and a proven ability to overcome injuries, to get an expectation of hardly enough wins for a wildcard spot seems low.
Then again, pretty much every O/U line tends to err towards the side of caution, with no team really low or high, for obvious (gambling-related) reaons. And it's not like the casinos are in the business of losing money.
When gauged against the Eagles' 11, I think it is pretty fair. When the one good team in a horrible confrence is only pegged at 11 wins, then a good team in a conference full of competitive teams only getting a half-game demotion is a pretty nice endorsement. Also, the "no major personell loss" forgets the coaching staff and the brutal schedule of the first month.
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Since when does losing both starting inside LBs not constitute a significant personnel loss? And that assumes Richard Seymour is ready to play before the start of the season--something that doesn't look like a guarantee at this point. Not to mention losing both the O and D coordinators.
Having said all that, I still like the over. 10.5 is pretty low for NE until proven otherwise. I agree that O/U usually bunches toward the mean a little too much. Fact is, most seasons there are at least a couple 13-3 and 3-13 teams. At least.
Considering the Jets road schedule and the uncertainty surrounding Pennington's shoulder injury, I like the UNDER here.
Still don't understand why Buffalo gets no respect. Their D and special teams look outstanding. Admittedly their offense looks unsettled, but I still like the OVER.
Washington at 7.5 wins O/U ??? The writer must be on crack or something. They just lost key parts of their D, and their offense still sucks. They'll be lucky to win 6 games again.
I have a suspicion the Football Giants will exceed their meager 6.5 O/U. I think their offense will improve--that Eli will develop.
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Also remember that the bookies offer different odds depending on which one of the Over and Under you take...
Heck, I think the reason the O/U for the Pats is so low is because they simply can't pick NE sweeping Buffalo, Indianapolis, and the Jets again. That, and the NFC South looks like a better division than the NFC West.
Then again, I think the NFC South has just as much potential to implode just like the NFC West, with Carolina the only team I'd put any trust in. So maybe it will be another cakewalk season for the Pats.
Al, you’ve penciled in the annual injury to CP. Three other QB’s with no injuries? What are the chances of that? If TB is one, who is his backup? What do you think their record becomes then? I think you are entirely too locked in on last years news.
Chad's never played a full season and is coming into camp with a reconstructed rotator cuff. His offensive line took a huge hit in the off-season with the loss of McKenzie. Not pencilling in an injury for him would seem foolhardy.
Will New England be hurt if Tom Brady goes down with an injury? Most likely. But Brady has played in every Patriot game since becoming the starter in 2001. New England has ranked 5th, 12th and 8th in adjusted sack rate the past three seasons.
Could Brady get hurt and miss the entire season? Of course. But there's little evidence to believe that it's more likely to happen to him than anyone else in the league.
Any one else around the league? Anyone, in you estimation, besides CP. Wouldn't you think the odds for Brady getting injured would be going up? Certainly the league odds put him in the "lucky, so far" category.
Heck, I think the reason the O/U for the Pats is so low is because they simply can’t pick NE sweeping Buffalo, Indianapolis, and the Jets again. That, and the NFC South looks like a better division than the NFC West.
Indy isn't in the AFC East any more, though at times it seems like it is.
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Well, this consideration is only the East divisions. Of the 8 current pencilled-in QB starters, two (Losman, Manning) are second-year starters who should have the health of the young. Two (McNabb, Bledsoe) missed substantial time from big injuries, but otherwise were pretty steady as starters. Two (Frerotte, Ramsey) are widely believed not to really matter if they start or not, since they're essentially replacement-level anyway. Brady hasn't missed a start in 68 straight games, despite playing with a shoulder separation in much of 2002.
And then there's Chad Pennington, who if he starts every game this season, it would be the first time. Chad Pennington in the only QB in the combined Eastern divisions who both routinely misses games, and actually makes a difference if he starts. It's not a gratuitous dig to pencil in CP for his annual injury; it's a perfectly valid dig based on his performance over 4 years, compared to other QBs in the East.
"His offensive line took a huge hit in the off-season with the loss of McKenzie".
How do you know? Seems to me the Jets have him replaced already, and since no one knows what the future will bring -- this may not be such a "huge hit."
Last year the offensive line took a "huge hit" with the sudden retirement of Dave Szott, but then in came Pete Kendall and the "hit" in reality became an upgrade at the position.
I wonder how many people thought it was a "huge hit" to the Pats when Bledsoe got hurt. In steps Brady, and the rest is history.
Let Ricky Williams be the expert on "huge hits"... as for me, I'll watch the game and see what happens.
That's why you play the game !
As a dig, I'm fine with the humor of it. As fact, that you can expect an injury of a player, even a penciled injury, I have a problem with it. Also, he has recovered his form each time, unlike Bledsoe. You can call Favre lucky and Pennington unlucky, but you can't expect an outcome for either.
While the concern about Pennington's recovery from shoulder surgery is certainly valid, I don't think there's any particular reason to conclude that he's injury prone. The "never played a full season" line is a little silly inasmuch as the games missed in 2002 were not due to injury. He played 14 games that year without incident. So we're talking about two injuries, which may or may not have been flukey bad luck. The fact is that there's really no way of knowing. We do know, however, that he has no history of injuries prior to reaching the pros and that neither recent injury is of the degenerative (e.g., knees, back) or recurring (e.g., hamstring, achilles) kind. So if his shoulder is fully healed from the surgery I don't think he's at any greater injury risk than any other QB.
Football is a collision sport, and a player's ability to avoid injury generally amounts to luck and knowing how to take or avoid a hit. However, in CP's case, I'd be concerned about the health of his rotator cuff, as it sounds like something that's caused by his throwing motion. Will Carroll did some more writing on this, and I recall he said that a rotaror cuff isn't as bad for a QB as it is for a pitcher, but we'll see.
I just wanted to point out that the 1989-1990 49ers also had consecutive 14-2 seasons, like the current Patriots and the '85-'86 Bears. Like the Bears, I don't think any conclusions can be drawn from those Niners teams (who subsequently had seasons of 10,14,10,13,11,12,13,and 12 wins). Among other things, the NFC West was fairly weak during most years of the Niners great run of the 80's and 90's. Though like New England (and unlike the Bears), they had pretty good consistency at the quaterback position...
Taking the over for the Cowboys is almost as much of a gimme as the over on the Chiefs
Interesting that both the Eagles and Patriots ended up under the Vegas projections. I guess the numbers weren't that far off after all.
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Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports. What does this mean for the smart phone and mobile search/apps commerce market in the People’s Republic of China?
Earlier this year, Motorola’s announcement that its Android smart phones for China Unicom will embed Baidu as its mobile search engine was lost in media reporting regarding Google’s issues in China. This decision reflected Motorola’s bet that Baidu’s familiar search bar shall sell more Motorola phones among Chinese consumers.
However, Google’s Android platform raison d’être is to highlight the Google search engine (and various apps developed for Android OS), so that the user continues on both mobile and Internet with Google search and apps, like email. This is especially critical in the mainland China market, as it is one of a handful where Google does not reign supreme in search; China also follows the emerging markets model, where PC penetration follows mass mobile phone uptake.
As Baidu’s name evokes a Song Dynasty poem, which lyrically describes the search for the ideal amidst chaos everywhere, Baidu leaders envision China inundated by low-cost high-powered smart phones, which allows mobile search to “highlight” each user’s “ideal.” It is not just about Android, as Baidu is also working with the Symbian Foundation to integrate Baidu search into Symbian-OS phones (Symbian and its new owner Nokia have no search engine of their own to promote). According to Beijing research firm Analysys International, Symbian phones (Nokia) made up 72.1% of the smart phones sold in China during the fourth quarter of 2009. During the same period Android phone shipments were a miniscule 0.4% of the 7.25 million smart phones sold in China, yet Baidu projects more lower-cost smart phones made by many Chinese firms – based on Taiwanese Mediatek chipsets with Android OS plus radio frequency software and antenna plus touch-screen hardware case for a total bill-of-materials price of less than $60 — with volume shipments occurring by the fourth quarter this year and into 2011, in time for the Chinese Lunar New Year festival month.
By putting Baidu’s search bar into these new low-cost Android phones and possibly audaciously fielding its own mobile OS, Baidu would have extensive mobile branding and penetration with Chinese smart phone users, and retain them as desktop Internet users. Also, Baidu can embed in smart phones its Facebook-like “Baidu Space,” a SNS site that allows Chinese users to create personalized homepages with blogs and photos in a Web community.
A smart phone with a new Chinese operating system may also result in consumers using bundled Chinese “domestic” apps, like email, games, search – is this why the rumored Baidu project will most likely receive Chinese official blessing?
Having long memories, China’s Ministry of Information Industry officials recall their selection of GSM, the 2G European digital standard, under the brilliant former MII Minister Wu Ji-chuan, as the Chinese mobile standard in the mid-1990s. The GSM selection ushered into China foreign network equipment and mobile phone vendors (Ericsson and Nokia, by holding important GSM patents, occupied an advantageous position for GSM network and handset development, which left Chinese firms in catch-up mode). MII grudgingly worked with foreign suppliers, which made possible the enormous increase of Chinese mobile subscribers, and also concluded that a domestic mobile industry was strategically important for the Chinese state and economy. So this nationalist outlook led to MII adopting a Chinese 3G standard — TD-SCDMA — which became a long saga for network deployment.
Crucially, all current mobile smart phone platforms – Android, Symbian, iOS 4, Windows Phone 7, WebOS, BlackBerry, and others – pose a problem to Chinese authorities: like the 1990s GSM and CDMA network standards, all are foreign-made. Foreign firms, according to MII, take revenues from Chinese enterprises (like carriers’ networks) and consumers, as well as having the potential to embed socially “harmful” software apps into handsets, including mobile search for politically sensitive topics. Ultimately, a China-domestic smart phone operating system (with Chinese-made apps) plus a domestic mobile search engine will be the best strategic 3G smart phone combination for MII. Hence, MII will certainly lobby China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom (the three Chinese mobile carriers) to push handset suppliers like Lenovo and Huawei (plus other OEMs for new tablets, auto apps, TV set-top boxes) to adopt new Chinese mobile platforms.
Baidu’s 2009 revenues reached $631 million (comparatively, Google’s global fiscal 2009 revenues totaled $24 billion). Both Baidu and Google are clashing in a market of 450 million Chinese Internet desktop search users. Moreover, by 2014, the iSuppli research firm projects 110 million 3G phone users, all busily conducting mobile search. In the second quarter of 2010, according to Analysys International, Chinese mobile users chose Baidu first for mobile queries (34.3%). Shenzhen-based firm Easou.com (with WAP-based mobile search partnering with Chinese Web portal Sohu.com) was the second most popular choice, followed by Google.
The Chinese Internet and mobile search business currently totals $1 billion. So is the $1 billion market Baidu’s sole focus, or is the goal to buy time until revenues flow in from markets outside China?
For Baidu, success in the mainland China Internet market in the long term will not result in wildly successful revenues. But China is the one market Baidu knows best and if it lost China search market to a competitor, it can’t make up revenues in another market like North America. The challenge for many Internet players (including many game firms) in the China market is that simply, the payment and revenues model does not work in the same way as in North America, Europe, and Japan – where Internet advertising, metrics, ROI, and payments are all highly developed. Likewise in the m-commerce market, the Apple App Store model is not successful in China, as payment issues continue to plague all Chinese m-commerce sites with industry insiders whispering about recent high bad debt figures generated by Chinese iPhone users utilizing fake credit cards for game downloads.
Baidu’s longer-term strategy is to launch Internet search sites in other countries with developed advertising and revenues markets. This is why Baidu launched a search site in Japan, not an easy market (Baidu currently ranks last among Japanese consumers) – yet Japan is the second-largest advertising market in the world, dominated by Yahoo! Japan, plus Google chipping away at No. 2.
Recently Baidu announced that it will hire 30 software engineers in the United States, and this group will probably be the core team for developing search engines in other languages. However, this “globalization” recruiting project highlights Baidu’s uber-Chinese identity, as among 8,000 Baidu employees, probably only a dozen have non-PRC passports.
Many Chinese firms exhort on their company Web sites that they can develop the right products for Western and Japanese consumers. In the search world, the fundamental reason why a consumer chooses one search engine over another is “intuitiveness,” or how the algorithms “learn” by conducting searches again and again to present the “desired” information in the shortest list in the shortest amount of time — not tens of millions of irrelevant links. In a universe where most Japanese now choose Yahoo! over Google, or a South Korean favors Naver, a Russian goes to Yandex, or a Chinese user picks Baidu, or an American goes for Google (with others for Microsoft’s revived Bing), Baidu’s challenge is how quickly the highly-successful Chinese search player creates a better product so that consumers select Baidu as the top search engine across multiple markets and languages.
Breaking news: On July 27 2010 Yahoo! Japan announced that it is switching to the Google search engine as the back-end search technology. Through this significant coup Google will power more than 90 per cent of all Internet search queries in the Japan market, but the consumer user interface would be different on Yahoo! Japan and Google Japan sites. During 2001 to 2004 Google’s search engine powered Yahoo Japan’s queries until the Japanese-language site completed its installation of Yahoo’s back-end technology.
Ray,
As always, a thorough and clean assessment of the situation. But you failed to note that foreign companies can co-operate with the PRC as well as Chinese companies. I think the bias is against equity control of the asset, rather than lack of compliance with political or nat sec aims.
What I mean is, the Chinese want to own the whole thing no matter how co-operative the foreign company might be.
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Controversy today emerged over the language used by -, ‘girlfriend ‘girlfriend’ ‘girlfriend.
Non-issue, even more so than the last few times this came up and you’ve written about it, luckily this time around the majority seems to agree going by comments on say Kotaku or RPS:
The more militant certain people quibble about trivialities, the more it is likely to derail any bigger issue (if there is any) into ridicule and the less people are going to agree.
All that is going to come from this is that studios/publishers won’t let developers speak to “journalists” freely anymore out of fear of some misguided righteous backlash and instead send steeled PR people trained in the ways of the tongue to do the talking and one can expect even more politically correct but inherently meaningless interviews instead of honest pieces. But go on preaching if you want.
I think the “trivialities” are often the most stark examples of endemic thought-patterns, and the dismissive attitude with which people treat “trivialities” underscores how insidious these ways of thinking are.
This is the same fundamental problem as using “fag” to insult someone. The defense is, “I’m not literally saying they’re gay.” but that was never the issue; the issue is that a word which means “a gay person” is being used to insult someone. That implies that being gay is negative and to be avoided, whatever meaning you claim to hang on the word when you use it to deride.
Language is non-trivial when it reveals unacknowledged prejudices.
Entirely through? And while you started out alright trying to relativize it somewhat and put it into perspective you still got from the harmless act of a developer uttering the words “girlfriend skill tree” upon which a large amount of journalists started a collective hissy fit (I’m just wondering what’ll be next to cause such a “controversy”, the barrier for entry seems to get ever lower) to somehow talking about “endemic sexism” in the entire industry and frustration and disgust this might apparently cause.
And if you are hoping “to have a conversation about who developers actually are developing for, how the market works, who they expect to play their games” etc. this will likely cause the opposite and lead to an even more locked process with only marketing bits getting through and developers not being allowed to talk at all (or even less than already).
This was an interesting glimpse into the decision process of one of the largest publishers, if you want to look for a problem maybe begin there:
Kotick also put it rather bluntly in another article: “Most of the 20 years, that I have provided for growth at Activision, we were content to make products that are attractive to the 16-35 year old guy who has gotten no date for Saturday night.”
Another recent game with a “girlfriend mode” is also Divinity: Original Sin:
Going to have to side with dexter in large part here. This might be a bit of a shocker but men and women are different! :-O
Being so consistently PC and thin-skinned is likely just to lead to people not wanting to speak to journalists for fear of being called racist/homophobic/sexist/whatever.
Fact is that many video gamers are male, and many women are just not as good at games. Heck, even my father who is not exactly a tech guru, knows more about gaming and the computer then my mother. It’s not a slight to her or any other woman, we’re just different. My wife is legally blind and her artwork is about 10x better then mine. It’s not a slight to me, we’re just different. Speaking of a “girlfriend” mode or what-not is shorthand. We understand what it means and we also all understand that there are women who are good at playing games. There are male and female pro League of Legends players who I’m sure could wipe the floor with me and my Kayle. However, such short-hand is still readily intelligible to any of us. Can we just speak without having to constantly check ourselves against the PC dictionary of today’s acceptable language?
P.S. Insults are obviously in a different category.
They could have named it “Significant Other Mode”, and with the tagline: “you have to play SOM to get some”
But you see, that’s actually mildly clever and takes a modicum of effort. Much easier to say “lol girlfriends can’t play video games.”
“But the culture that created the idea, and why it is perpetuated – and why it feels so natural as a way to explain the concept of variable-difficulty co-op: that’s an interesting subject.”
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It’s also something the gaming industry needs to seriously consider from a purely business prospective. In the USA 47% of gamers are women, so it makes zero sense to make sexist comments that could cost you almost half of your prospective customers.
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To the degree that traffic has declined over the last few months, there are a couple of factors that were probably influential, including the removal of some non-core features, which long-time and power users liked (blogging, for example), changes in referrals to StumbleUpon from places like Facebook and Google, and the rise of other companies competing for a user’s time.
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It would appear that Governor McDonnell was handed the plum assignment of firing the opening shot in the launch of Governor Romney’s TV offensive beginning today claiming that the President is doing away with the work requirements for welfare so that he can hand out taxpayer dollars to those unwilling to work and move his socialist agenda forward.
Can a Vice-Presidential offering for the Virginia governor be far behind?
The McDonnell editorial picks up on—and seeks to revive— last month’s failed GOP effort to create an overblown reaction to a tweak in the TANF laws. TANF is the Clinton welfare reform legislation—crafted through negotiation with Newt Gingrich into a bi-partisan Act of Congress—requiring that those receiving welfare assistance be actively seeking or performing work.. These states have discovered that the federal requirements are tying up too many welfare workers and resources with cumbersome paperwork, resulting in less time being spent by welfare workers on actually helping those getting assistance find the work they need to keep, and ultimately no longer need, the government aid.?
Not only are the Republicans going bananas over the President’ decision to show a little election year respect for the concept of more state control, they are doing so in typical, GOP fashion—a coordinated effort to make something big out of something remarkably small.
Say what you will about the well-executed GOP plan to oppose the President at every possible turn, but you certainly cannot criticize their ability to do so in an organized and coordinated manner. Run a Google check on the decision to permit the waivers and you’ll find page upon page of headlines utilizing the words “Obama Guts Welfare Work.” Nowhere will you find headlines or statements suggesting “Obama Modifies Welfare” or “Administration Gives More Control To States In Nod To Local Control”.
Rick, I stumbled upon your writings a month or so back, and oh what a relief it is to read the writings of someone so level-headed and calm nowadays. The misinformation one can find in the “news” as of late has made it mind-numbingly hard to find true news. Be it right or left leaning they just don’t take the time to tell all of the facts, rather cherry-pick what fits their agenda. Even sadder, they often ignore the facts and just make crap(grr, I hate changing my language for the delicate constitution types out there) up.
Anyhow, excellent reporting, and keep the truth flowing. I love the “Token Lefty” title.
I’m stunned and sickened by how the GOP has become a gang of lying thugs; maybe they always were, and I’m among the last to figure it out. I want to believe that I can learn something from everyone, and that no side is strictly “good” or “bad.” I’ve had a personal experience with the GOP’s deliberate misreporting of this issue. Here is a headline that was posted on the Eagle Forum (7/20/12, 9:17 a.m., PST), linking to Dick Morris (7/19/12): “Obama Repeals Welfare Reform.” At the time, I had Eagle Forum on my FB page (because I like to hear from both sides on issues, even some extremists). But the egregious lack of journalistic integrity took me aback, because this was merely a video of some evangelical (Dick Morris?) spewing opinionated rhetoric and avoiding specific detail. He posted no link to the Act or amendment that he spoke of! When I looked it up, myself, I could see that his assertions weren’t at all supported by the facts. “Repeals” was a blatant and malicious lie. And of course, he was peddling his book. I responded on Eagle Forum’s post, explaining that the word “repeal” was blatantly misleading, and I gave links to the black-letter law and explanations (Why did I think that they even cared about the truth?). I even used one conservative site’s link: I was respectful and tactful. That’s when Eagle Forum blocked me from commenting.
Rick, I think you actually make a very valid point here.
As you mentioned, it IS an election year. I commend Gov. Romney for running his campaign exactly like our current President runs his.
In the immortal words of Saul Alinsky: “The means justify the ends when it will work.”
I want to make sure I’ve got that right; Rick’s post is about an instance where the GOP is manipulating an Obama action that they actually WANTED just for the sake of making him look bad. And this isn’t the first time (let’s also remember that Obama’s evil ACA takes its basic design from Romney’s own health care reform in MA).
You’re going to have to tell me what the Dems are misrepresenting. I’ll agree Harry Reid may well have to “put up or shut up” over his claims that Romney hasn’t paid taxes, but it’s not impossible and we don’t know it’s not true. As for Bain… I see nothing being misrepresented at all. If Romney is running on his business experience (which is fair and worthwhile for him to do), he can’t ignore the damage that business went on to do after his “retroactive retirement”.
Oh yes, I have incredibly low expectations for almost any politician, especially in the midst of an election. Our President knows it; his challenger knows it.
Good job on this one Rick. Again, I think you described this situation clearly and fairly. I’m always on the side of the states to have the flexibility to adjust programs to meet the needs of their citizens.
Thank you for your vigilance. You have your thumb on the beat of insanity in this nation. I don’t think this issue would have popped up if it wasn’t for the apparent fact that the Republicans are growing desperate and would do anything to escape the consequences of your last article.
This man is insane. Mr. Romney’s for State’s Rights. He’s against State’s Rights. This is just an attempt to get the word “welfare” and “Obama” into the same sentence. The Republicans are banking on the belief that their supports will never understand the incongruity.
I think this column is an excellent companion piece to your previous column on Sen. Reid’s accusations on Romney’s taxes. This welfare modification and the Republican response is exactly why some of us felt schadenfreude at the mess Reid was kicking up. Yes, it was wrong and we’re above that, but it just felt SO good.
Now we are back to the current reality of Democrats doing good things to actually govern our country in a responsible and reasonable way only to have Republicans lie about what is happening to make us look bad. Seems the only choice we have is to play Charlie Brown with a football to the Republican Lucy or sink to their level. Frankly, I am tired of having the football pulled away and want to bash Lucy about the head and shoulders with it. This is wrong of me, I know, but I am at the end of my patience in dealing with the do-nothing Republican liars.
I wish the President would grab Willie Brown out of SF and fly him to Washington. Mr. Brown could show those folks in Washington really how to screw with a minority party.
OweBama (D) has NEVER done real work in his life — a yapper, not a leader.
He is a leadership FAILURE — food stamps, JOBLESSNESS and TAXPAYER DEBT are his accomplishments. He defeated a worn-out Navy pilot.
The faster OweBama (D) is separated from the public tax-teat, the better the USA will be.
If OweBama (D) is re-elected, the USA will be third-rate (D).
Great reporting, Rick. As an ex NYC street fighter, I would love to take this lying sack, Romney, into the school yard, and beat the living crap out of him. But, alas, I’m 50 years too late.
For a man like Romney, shameless as he is, and who claims to be so religious, perhaps he thinks in the end, he can buy his way into heaven.
The only reason any sane person would have voting for him? They must hate Obama so.
Ha Ha! I never said I was a GOOD street fighter. Where I grew up, you either fought your way to the end of the block, or talked your way to the end of the block. After a few busted heads, fat lips, and a broken nose, I became a pretty good talker.
Off topic, I know, but when Romney talks, ever notice that face he makes after a statement, where he purses his lips together, and nods to the audience? Classic body language indicating a lie. He does it ALL the time. Just sayin’
Rick, I commend you for including a link to the letter signed by Romney and most other governors, but apparently none of your commenters bothered to actually read it to see how you misrepresented what it said to make your biased “case”. The letter specifically asks the feds to provide ongoing vs. annual funding so the states can plan and execute TANF better. The “State Flexibility” paragraph asks for more state control over work requirements so more people can be moved “FROM WELFARE TO WORK”! They certainty did NOT ask for a waiver of work requirements as Obama has done, in the face of recent surveys that show over 65% of those surveyed favor solid work requirements for welfare recipients. And you are tying together two instances that were TEN years apart.
I encourage your readers to get the view of Heritage or some other reputable source for the basic facts on what the Republicans are arguing about before they once again drink the liberal Kool-Aid…
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Ram upgraded the the towing capacity of its 2013 3500 heavy-duty pickup truck to 30,000 lb., 3.5 tons more than its closest competitor among the Big 3 truckmakers. Gross Combined Weight Rating (weight of the truck, trailer, and cargo) is now 37,600 lb., 7,100 lb. more than the competition. Ram claims best-in-class brake life for the new trucks. A new conventional trailer hitch system is upgraded to Class 5 with a 17,000-lb. load capability and 1,800 pounds of tongue weight for use with 2- or 2.5-in. receivers. A factory-integrated 5th wheel and gooseneck hitch mount is available.
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!ENTITY % HTML.Version "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> Economics DepartmentUndergraduate ProgramsMinor in Economics Back to Undergraduate Programs Minor in Economics Minor in Economics at Fordham College Many students in Fordham College and in the Gabelli School of Business choose to complement their major with a minor in economics. The minor sharpens one's analytical skills and provides a clear and concise way of thinking that is helpful in addressing problems and issues throughout life. The economics minor is an excellent complement to a degree in philosophy, history or political science for students considering law school. The economics minor can provide a student with a competitive edge when applying to a graduate business school, indicating to such schools that the student is capable of rigorous analytical work in the demanding fields of micro and macro theory. Students interested in public sector or international affairs careers are well served by the economics minor, as they have been exposed to economic decision making and policy evaluation. Finally, the economics minor is favorably viewed by many corporate job recruiters as an indicator of the student's analytical abilities and commitment to a challenging academic program. Fordham College If you are in Fordham College, the minor in economics consists of six courses: Basic Macroeconomics Basic Microeconomics Statistics I or Macroeconomic Analysis or Microeconomics Theory Three upper level electives (3000 level courses) If Statistics I is selected for the core, then Macro Analysis and/or Micro Theory can be used as electives. The Basic Macro and Basic Macro courses also satisfy Fordham College's social science core curriculum requirement. Courses such as ECRG32240 World Povery, ECRG3210 Economics of Emerging Nations, ECRG3235 Economics of Latin America, ECRG 3242 Global Economic Issues ECRP 3570 Labor Market and Diversity,andECRP 3580 Economics of Diversity can be double counted to satisfy both Fordham College's global or pluralism distributive requirements and the economics minor. Students who are planning to complete an MBA in the future are advised to take Macroeconomic Analysis and Microeconomics Theory as two of their three upper level electives. A third course could be Math for Economists. Gabelli School of Business GSB students may minor in Fordham College. Because of its strong analytical content, an economics minor will complement the business concentration and enhance job search upon graduation. Because GSB students have already taken Basic Macroeconomics, Basic Microeconomics and Statistics I, they only need to complete three 3000-level economics courses for an economics minor. Note, however, that a course used towards the Business Administration concentration can not also be used to satisfy the economics minor. For example, if one wishes to use an economics course such as Money and Banking towards the Finance concentration, it can not also be double counted towards the minor in Economics. Course recommendations for different concentrations are as follows. Finance concentration Students should give serious thought to the following courses, especially if they are considering a career in Wall Street: Macroeconomic Analysis; Money & Banking; Financial Markets; International Finance; International Economics; Emerging Financial Markets; Issues in Financial markets; and Computer Applications in Economics. Accounting Complementary courses include Managerial Economics; Microeconomic Theory; Economics of Emerging Nations; Health Sector Analysis. Marketing and Management Systems Courses to consider include Managerial Economics; Microeconomic Theory; Health Sector Economics; Economics of Emerging Nations; World Poverty; International Economics Students who are planning to attend a graduate business school will find that Mathematics for Economists will provide them with the mathematical skills required by most graduate business programs. Macroeconomic Analysis and Microeconomic Theory are strongly recommended. There is no difference in course requirements between an economic's minor from Fordham College and a secondary concentration in Business Economics from GSB. One could argue that it is more interesting to potential employers that a student has received a minor from a liberal arts program, rather than a secondary concentration from the same school. Questions? Contact: Prof. Mary Burke Associate Chair Dealy 508 [email protected]
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For. Those who resisted or tried to hide food were deported to the Gulag or executed. Whole parts of the Ukrainian countryside turned into death zones. Millions perished, yet Stalin managed to silence all talk of the famine, sending those who breathed a word of it to labor camps in far-off Siberia. The census data, which would have shown a huge spike in mortality rates, were locked away for half a century.
But even before the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union, Communist Party leaders in Ukraine started investigating the famine in their own party archives. They found a wealth of gruesome documentation. Some of the most shocking evidence came from photographs of starving children with skeletal heads, ribs poking through their skin, begging for a scrap of food on the pavement in Kharkov, Ukraine's capital at the time of the famine. One picture showed emaciated corpses piled onto a cart, drumstick limbs akimbo amid a tumble of bodies. These were not a few isolated snapshots -- there were hundreds of images. Leonid Kravchuk, who would later become Ukraine's first democratically elected president, was one of the first to see this evidence. He was so haunted by the faces of the children killed by the famine that he persuaded Vladimir Ivashko, then the first secretary of Ukraine's Communist Party, to approve the reproduction of 350 photographs in a book released to the public in 1990. Today, the famine is officially and universally remembered across Ukraine as the Holodomor, literally "death by hunger."
A man-made disaster of even greater magnitude. As in Ukraine, everything was collectivized:.
Other documents presented the famine's horror in the sterile
language typical of communist bureaucracy. A police report I discovered in one
provincial archive listed some 50 cases of cannibalism, all in a city in Gansu,
a province in northwestern China:
Date: 25 February 1960. Location: Hongtai Commune, Yaohejia Village. Name of Culprit: Yang Zhongsheng. Status: Poor Farmer. Number of People Involved: 1. Name of Victim: Yang Ershun. Relationship with Culprit: Younger Brother. Number of People Involved:..
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Video: Criminalization of mentally ill
I just stumbled across an outstanding educational video on the mentally ill in U.S. prisons. Focusing on Texas prisons, it touches on the problems of isolation, decreased funding, and telecare. Brought to you by Al Jazeera.
Great documentary, 'dying inside, the elderly in prison' is another that you might be interested in. Here is the link
Very realistic view of mental illness in today's criminal justice system. This reality also exists for adolescents and teenagers today. They cycle in and out of juvenile detention centers and mental health needs go untreated.
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Forest Society successfully raises enough to close two of four easements to block Northern Pass.
Discussions with additional landowners ongoing
CONCORD, October 29, 2012 The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests announced today that they have successfully raised $868,500 through their Trees Not Towers campaign, enough to close on two of four conservation easements that would keep Northern Pass towers and powerlines from being built on the protected acreage.
“We are working on the due diligence required to close all the transactions,” said Jane Difley. “We are scheduling the closings over the winter, with the first to occur in December.”
Fundraising to complete the Trees Not Towers campaign to thwart Northern Pass will continue into the new year. Donations can be made via Forest Society website at.
“A number of key donors of told us that it would be helpful to be able to make donations in the 2013 tax year,” said Susanne Kibler-Hacker, vice president of development for the Forest Society. “landowners have signed purchase-and-sale agreements that enable us to meet our donors’ requests.”
The Forest Society also continues to engage additional landowners in the effort to thwart Northern Pass.
“As our blocking action falls into place, we fully expect Northeast Utilities and PSNH to attempt to squirm their way through in some other fashion,” said Will Abbott, vice president of policy/land management. “Other landowners are coming forward, and we are working with them to strengthen the block.”
"Our goal is to stop Northern Pass as proposed in the North Country in order to protect 180 miles of New Hampshire, including the White Mountains, from the unnecessary blight of more than 1100 towers,” Difley said. “Northern Pass’s proposal is outdated, and stopping them from moving forward would appear to be the only way to start a serious discussion of more common-sense ways to transmit electricity, such as burial along transportation corridors.”
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Farmington U-15s took their first competitive steps into 11-a-side football this morning at the Market Muir.
Starting on the front foot, the home side spurned a couple of early chances but did take the lead in the 5th minute when Rebekah Brown stroked home from 8 yards. A quick-fire brace from Jodi Allison put Forfar three ahead; a lead that was extended to four when Brown herself netted her 2nd goal of the game after reaping the rewards of some good interplay between Kerri Younger and Louise Falconer. Although not under any severe pressure, the Farmington defensive line of Thomson, Simpson and Keay was well marshalled by skipper Tami Guilcher.
Deeside looked to reassert themselves in the second period, however the home side continued their composed play, introducing all five substitutes in the process. Nikki Grant fired home number five with a cultured left foot strike, with the ever dangerous Younger notching number 6 with a powerfully driven shot. Wilson finished off the Forfar scoring knocking home at the back post after another good cross from Cattanach. Farmington Goalkeeper Rachelle Milton had a sharp one handed save to make after a shot in the box from a corner before Deeside scored a consolation goal in the last five minutes.
Farmington U-15s Coach Jeff Rioch commented "We were delighted with the performance with every player contributing to a convincing win - we really could not have asked for a better start to the campaign.”
“There were a lot of pleasing aspects in particular the passing, movement and communication which was good throughout and as the girls are discovering makes the game a whole lot easier. It was great to be able to fully use all sixteen available players and being able to rotate them with no real disruption to the flow augers well for the season ahead bearing in mind we had another three girls not stripped for action.”
“It was also great to see four girls make their competitive debuts for the club, Sydney, Nikki, Rhianne and Jodi have all slotted in extremely well with last year's squad. Amber Ogg, Hannah Robb and Danielle Grant will return to the squad next Saturady as we head to Westhill,Aberdeen to play Westdyke Girls where we will be looking for a similar performance as we saw today"
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You should download Firefox. It’s a web browser much, much better than Internet Explorer. At least I think so, and that’s all that matters..
yea i got that shit is pretty koo not like internet explorer fucks up you computer and shit that shit fucken sucks ass man!!! yea but I got that shit allready it pretty kool and shit!!! XD
Oh thank god finally I can switch to Firefox now that it has gotten the nod of approval from internet superstar Icarus
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American Standard has introduced the Seated Safety Shower constructed of cast acrylic. The 60- by 30- by 37-inch seated shower has a wide, contoured, full-sized seating area with recessed front to make standing or sitting easy. The Seated Safety Shower also features a low, 3-inch threshold and built-in wrap-around grab bar.
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The starting six for Morgan were Brianna Frick, Haley Harden, Kaelin Kuretich, Isabelle Garver, Nicole Kauffman and Danielle Gross.
First set:
Erie started the set with a serve and in less than two minutes into the game the score was 4-3 in favor of Fort Morgan. Garver stepped behind the line to serve and gained a point for the Mustangs before a missed dig gave Erie back the serve. After a strong series of volley's on both sides with a combination of passes and six spikes at the net, the Mustangs took the serve with just one more point on their board at 6-4. This was followed by another intense volley sending
Erie took the serve back at 9-6, but Fort Morgan quickly took the serve back at 10-8 with Gross at the line.
Kuretich dug a ball virtually out of the ground on defense to send it back over the net for an Erie flub for a point, and on the next volley Maddy Linton spiked the ball putting Fort Morgan ahead 13-9. Then Gross power spiked into the net, giving Erie the serve. Garver sent an ace out to Erie on their first serve for a point and to regain the serve where Kauffman stepped behind the line 14-10. Kuretich sent an ace over the net for another point putting Fort Morgan up by five points and Erie called a time out to regroup.
Kauffman continued her serve, and after another hard volley, Erie regained the serve at 15-11, but served into the net to give the serve right back to the Mustangs at 16-12. Frick stepped behind the line to serve and the Mustangs rallied a seven-point streak, before Erie regained the serve, but the damage was done at 23-14 with Morgan just two points away from the match point.
Erie volleyed their way to catch up by three points, but Fort Morgan regained the serve as Garver stepped behind the line at 24-17 to serving point 25, but after a volley the battle fell short for Fort Morgan, and Erie regained the serve at 24-18. The Mustangs struggle defensively giving up five points as Erie creeps up on their lead at 24-22, when Kuretich finally puts away the match point with a spike at the net ending the first set 25-22.
Second set:
Kauffman started the set behind the line serving up a point after five sets of volleys between the teams, but Erie quickly took the serve and tied it up 1-1.
A block at the net got Fort Morgan the serve back at 3-3 with Garver serving, but Erie took the serve back at 4-4. Kuretich with a spike at the net gained a point and the serve for Fort Morgan. With an awesome defense block at the net from Linton and Madalyn Brashears, Fort Morgan found themselves ahead by two points before giving up the ball and a point off their lead to Erie at 6-5.
Erie yet again caught up with Fort Morgan and the game -- for the next 19 points -- was a back and forth battle with each team gaining a lead by a point and then tying it and the switching leads by one point back and forth, until finally Gross served the 23rd point, gaining a two point lead. Frick and Garver put up a wall at the net, blocking a spike for the match point, with the final 25-21 Fort Morgan.
Third set:
Erie starts the serves but Frick powerfully sent it right back for a Fort Morgan point and serve. Brashears stepped behind the line and served up three points, making it 3-0 before Erie got the serve back at 3-1. After several volleys and points back and forth, Heather Coup shook up the Erie defense with her power and gained the serve back at 5-3, but Fort Morgan gave it right back with a mental collapse letting the ball drop between all six defensive players with no one making a move towards a pass.
After a few more volleys and points Kuretich served out of bounds, leaving Fort Morgan behind two points before another battle of point chasing for the next eight points for both teams and Erie took a time out.
After the time out Erie immediately regained the serve but Fort Morgan's defense shut down their lead streak and regained the serve coming back two points ahead with Garver behind the line serving. Abbey Tolson stepped in for Garver as a sub and continued Garver's hot serving streak with a streak of her own, putting Fort Morgan up seven points and two points away from the match point at 23-16 as Erie took the serve.
Karli Baker sent an ace over from the net to put the Mustangs at 24-17 with Kuretich serving. Fort Morgan flubbed a volley, missing the final point, but Erie served it out of bounds to give the Mustangs the match point in rally scoring with a final of 25-18.
"It was our first game and we were all a little jittery, but we've been working on our inner confidence at home, and I'm super proud they had each others' backs. The game is a roller coaster, but we can not be (a roller coaster) in attitude and intensity and focus, that's our new focal point and that helped us tonight," said head coach Tiffany Turner head coach.
Turner said she is really proud of the girls for their overall desire to defend the home gym and not sell themselves short, and to keep fighting. The Mustangs lost to Erie last year in a five-set match that kept them out of district play, so they came this year for redemption and earned it.
"Haley Harden did a great job, this was her first five to one setting gig on a varsity level, this was a long time coming for her with last year's setting now in college, she had to pay her dues. She knew this day was coming and she earned it. She's infectious and when she's confident it's a butterfly effect for the team, her intensity is great," said Turner.
Next game is at Sterling Thursday at 6:30 p.m. This is a team the Mustangs also lost to in a five-set match, and their looking for another redemption opportunity.
-- Contact Veronica Ivey at [email protected].
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Baker St. Pub and Grill
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Baker St. Pub & Grill serves up traditional British favorites such as fish and chips, bangers and mash, and shepherd's pie. This authentic British pub is complete with a large selection of draught beers and ales.
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15th May 2012
Brussels, Belgium
European Parliament Building
In light of the issues presented by the European Union's CEO Coalition 'to make the Internet a better place for kids,' as well as to discuss the importance of crafting a global response, to ensure children have safe and private online experiences, FOSI held a highly interactive forum to explore these issues with the EU Commission, Parliament, key industry players and civil society.
This event allowed an informal, off the record discussion to take place between the EU institutions, industry and the non-profit sector. It proved to be an opportunity for industry to demonstrate the steps that they are taking to ensure that children remain safe and private online, whilst the Commission and Parliament were able to outline their concerns, and aims, of some of their work. The forum also permitted for vital input from civil society.
This constructive dialogue encompassed a wide range of issues including the current EU initiatives, global nature of the problems and current international responses. It also focused on industry self-regulation and the important role that effective legislation can play in this field.
For a more in-depth exploration of these issues and the outcome of the forum, we encourage you to review the post-event FOSI Brief written by Emma Morris, International Policy Counsel, which can be found
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Updated: Monday, 12 Nov 2012, 11:52 AM CST
Published : Monday, 12 Nov 2012, 7:56 AM CST
Recipe from Viewer Mike Zaves.
Ingredients:
1 large head of cauliflower, cut into small florets
1/2 cup diced peeled carrots
8 cups chicken broth
1 stick of butter
8 Tbsp all purpose flour
1 pint half & half
8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
1 ring smoked sausage cut into coins (optional)
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Boil cauliflower and carrots in chicken broth until tender (15-20 minutes) reserving broth when done.
In soup kettle melt stick of butter over medium heat. Add flour whisking until smooth. Let this bubble for 1 minute. Slowly add half& half. Stir constantly over heat until mixture resembles mashed potatoes. Add in the broth and vegetables slowly until soup is desired consistency. Add cheese stirring until cheese is melted. Add sausage if desired. Salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 20-30
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Being from the East Coast, I have a rather simplistic notion of the Arizona climate.
I picture heat. Dry heat. Skin-leathering heat. Throw in a coyote, a cactus and some adobe and you have my version of Arizona.
Like I said, simplistic.
What I don't picture is snow. Lots of snow. Sideways snow. Enough snow to imperil a PGA Tour event.
But that's exactly what the WGC - Accenture Match Play Championship got on Wednesday when a mini-blizzard descended on the Golf Club at Dove Mountain, dropping over 1 1/2 inches of play-halting powder on the Marana, Ariz., resort.
Not a single match was completed before the opening round was suspended, and 22 golfers, including Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Luke Donald and Louis Oosthuizen, didn't even make it to the tee.
"It's absolutely remarkable to think one minute we're playing golf, and then within a space of 25 minutes, it turns from playable to cold drizzle to sleet and to snow," said England's Ian Poulter, who at one point refused to putt on an icy green. "It's just bizarre."
Organizers are optimistic that a Sunday finish is still possible, with PGA Tour meteorologist Stewart Williams saying he "thinks the worst of the snow is probably over for us now." But Sunday finish or not, the bizarre conditions seem avoidable and unnecessary.
Let's keep in mind, this isn't the first time winter weather has hampered play at this event.
In 2011, about an inch of snow fell before the final-round showdown between Donald and Martin Kaymer. The match started on time, but play was briefly delayed when sleet descended on Jack Nicklaus-designed Dove Mountain.
"A couple of years ago, I know that it snowed the final round here," Jason Day said Wednesday. "I've never actually played golf to the point where we've actually stopped for snow, which is kind of crazy. A little crazy for it to snow in the desert, as well. But that's just how it is. Mother Nature can just do whatever she wants."
Yes, Jason, Mother Nature is uncontrollable, but that doesn't mean we can't adjust to avoid her fickle whims.
According to last May's press release, The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain and the PGA Tour only have an agreement through this year's event. In the release, the Tour's executive vice president of championship management, David Pillsbury, stated that "We're excited to continue the long-standing tradition of world- class golf in this marketplace at least through 2014," but he didn't specify Dove Mountain as the 2014 host.
Regardless, it's time to make a change in the coming years.
The PGA Tour's winter stretch is designed to maximize optimal playing conditions while a significant portion of the country is still bringing a six- pack to the nearest indoor golf simulator. Hell, the Tour doesn't even sniff my neck of the woods until at least May, and that's the way it should be.
On Wednesday, guys had fun with the situation. Rickie Fowler had a snowball fight in the parking lot, and a slew of players took to Twitter and Instagram to document the wonderland.
It's always fun to see your favorite athletes with their guard down, but it's even more fun to see them do what they do best. In this case, what they do best is play golf, so let's get this event to a place where they can do just that.
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Travis Ruiz is the Social Media Manager and Interactive Managing Editor for FOX21 News.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- One of the men accused of kidnapping and murdering a man more than a year ago has pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping charges, according to the 4th Judicial District Attorney.
As part of a plea agreement, Xavier Rubalcaba-Lopez pleaded guilty to 2nd Degree Murder and two counts of Kidnapping, authorities said. His sentencing hearing is set for May 16. He faces 80-96 years in prison.
It was Jan. 2012, when police said 21-year-old Jeremy Naranjo was kidnapped from his Pueblo home. Police said he was killed and dumped on the side of a street in Colorado Springs.
According to police, the kidnapping and murder stemmed from a drug-related incident. Naranjo had dealings with at least one of the suspects in the past, police said.
Gustave Dreyer, Alfredo Velazquez and Xavier Rubalcapa were all arrested for first degree murder from the same case.
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WebMD Pet Health News
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Daniel J. DeNoon
Reviewed by
Laura J. Martin, MD
Nov. 23, 2010 -- Why are cats so aloof? It's not because they're smart.
A study of 511 mammal species finds that more social animals evolve bigger brains. Cat brain size has grown less than that of cows, rhinos, and dogs.
Atop the list of brain-size-evolvers -- by a long shot -- are humans and apes. Other animals that have evolved larger and larger brains over time are the wet-nosed primates (such as lemurs), toothed whales (such as dolphins and sperm whales), single-toed hooved animals (such as horses and donkeys), camels and llamas, and dogs.
Animal suborders that did not evolve significantly larger brains include cats, odd-toed hooved animals such as rhinos and tapirs, and grazing animals such as cows and deer.
Cats, in fact, are at the bottom of the brain-size-evolving list.
When plotted against the ability of each group of animals to form stable social groups, a correlation emerges. The more socially successful animals tend to be those that evolved larger brains over time.
"Groups of species whose brain size has been increasing most over evolutionary time are those that are typically very social," study co-author Susanne Shultz, PhD, tells WebMD in an email. Shultz is a fellow of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, U.K.
But do their big brains really make these more socially skilled animals smarter, or are they just a bunch of big-headed louts that hang out together?
"Intelligence is one of the difficult questions," Shultz says. "There is evidence from living species that those with large brains are better at learning, developing novel behaviors, adapting to new environments, and so on."
So if brain-size evolution is linked to smarts, cats would rank below cows, which would rank below dogs.
It's doubtful, however, that Shultz's research will settle the are-dogs-smarter-than-cats question. Cat lovers can always argue that cats were created smart and simply didn't need to get any smarter. Or more social.
Shultz and co-author Robin Dunbar, PhD, report their findings in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
SOURCES:Shultz, S. and Dunbar, R. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published online Nov. 23, 2010.Susanne Shultz, PhD, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkins Fellow, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, U.K.
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(BPT) - differences, according to the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans survey, could have a significant impact on their retirement years - and their family relationships.
Men vs. women
With women living longer than men, there should be some concern about who will actually foot the bill of the costs should a woman require long-term care. With married couples, the woman is more likely to need long-term care - she will likely care for her husband during his final days, and then may rely on long-term care herself since she is likely to outlive him.
Despite that, according to Thrivent Financial's survey, males seem more versed in the topic of long-term care insurance than females. The survey indicated that men are more likely than women to own or plan to buy long-term care insurance. For example:
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* 27 percent of both men and women surveyed plan to purchase long-term care insurance in the future.
In short, men seem to be coming around to the necessity of preparing for long-term care, while women appear to be slower to acknowledge the need.
The sandwich generation issue: stuck in the middle - but continuing to work?
When it comes to providing care, the differences between the sexes continue. When asked how they would care for both their children and one or both of their parents or another loved one at the same time, male and female respondents had differing opinions.
* 21 percent of women would rely on the savings and assets of those needing care and continue working.
And what will you do in retirement?
Long-term care in retirement is an important issue facing both men and women but it is often overlooked during the retirement planning process. According to Thrivent Financial's survey:
* Only 10 percent of women considered the possibility of caring for someone else while retired.
* Only 6 percent of men considered the possibility of caring for someone else while retired.
In contrast, 43 percent of women and 41 percent of men plan to retire fully and devote their time to travel, philanthropy and/or hobbies. Unfortunately, many don't stop to consider the impact to those plans should the need for extended care arise. What will be given up to pay the expenses? Are family members trained to provide the type of needed health care? Who is willing to alter plans when push comes to shove?
'The disconnect between our expectations for a long, healthy and independent life and the reality of the chances of needing long-term care is staggering,'.
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Lansing City 2014 Budget Projection Still in Hole, Not as Deep
The City of Lansing is still projecting a 2014 budget shortfall, but not as deep as first feared.
Randy Hannan, Mayor Bernero's chief of staff, tells Fox 47 News.
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Recipe from Kathleen McMahon of New York
Directions:
In a deep wok type pan pour enough extra virgin oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Saute chicken tenders seasoned with garlic pepper until just about done. Add chili powder (enough to cover all of the chicken) then add red peppers, green peppers and onion, saute with chicken until tender. Add tomatoes and beans, then add the uncooked rice and let the entire pot stew over medium heat. Cook until rice is done. You may need to add more crushed or diced tomatoes because rice will absorb fluid. If you want it spicier, add more chili powder and/or black pepper. You can also use jalapeno peppers to add real zest.
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SOURCE National Docketing Association
National Docketing Association to host conference with exhibitors catering specifically to legal docketing professionals and administrators.
CHICAGO, March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Docketing Association ("NDA") today announced its First Annual Conference for its members and guests to be held at the Hotel Sax Chicago on September 13, 2013. Featuring a full day of educational sessions and other learning opportunities, presentations by industry experts, panel discussions, networking prospects, and the chance to learn about the latest in docketing and legal management products, services and technology from well-known and trusted business partners, the 2013 NDA Annual Conference is the premier event for any docketing related professional and administrator.
"The NDA Annual Conference offers attendees the opportunity to share ideas with other docketing professionals and learn new ones, influence vendors on product development, and establish connections that will provide a valuable resource to enable problem solving and insight from people who understand the exact issues they face each day," said Chris Gierymski, the National Docketing Association president. "Sponsors will get the chance to meet directly with the people who use their products and services, understand the value of docketing support, and heavily influence the decision making process at their firms and legal departments."
"The NDA Annual Conference is a unique opportunity for docketing experts to gather in one location and experience the value of a tech show atmosphere with sessions and exhibits directly related to their profession," stated Alex Manners, Director of CompuLaw for ADERANT. "There has not been anything like this in the legal markets on a national scale."
There is no charge for media covering this event, including meals. For media credentialing, conference materials, or additional information, please contact Chris Gierymski as referenced below.
A complete schedule and further information about the NDA Annual Conference can be found at.
Established in 2011, the NDA is a unique association providing support, training and other high-quality resources to professionals involved in the docketing function, including specialists, technical staff, secretaries, paralegals, administrators, support managers and attorneys in the public and private sectors.
Contact Information:Chris Gierymski, PresidentNational Docketing AssociationPhone: 312.984.6095chris.gierymski@nationaldocketing
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Machines Take Over Wall Street
“[John, holding a gun to his head]
Terminator: You cannot self-terminate.
John Connor: No, you can’t. I can do anything I want. I’m a human being, not some . . . damn robot.
Terminator: [correcting him] Cybernetic organism.
John Connor: Whatever! . . . .
Terminator: Based on your pupil dilation, skin temperature, and motor functions, I calculate an 83% probability that you will not pull the trigger.”
“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”
If it weren’t so serious, it would really be pretty funny. Just imagine – computers controlling Wall Street trading go berserk – film at 11! Well, that’s pretty much what recently happened.
Within the last few years, some strange things have been happening on Wall Street. It seems that the computers which engineer trades faster than humans can follow, recently went stone cold bonkers again – the digital version. Instead of discharging their programmed duties, the trading computers on the morning of Wednesday, August 1, suddenly flooded the market with millions of trades . . .
The story has been unraveling ever since.
A maverick algorithm, those mathematical Zen koans, which guide so much of our computer technology well beyond the barriers of normal human understanding, repeatedly bought and sold millions of shares. Companies like Radio Shack, American Airlines, Best Buy and Bank of America, all saw their trading volumes explode beyond all comprehension. Human comprehension, that is. Advanced technology strikes again.
The trading algorithms are designed to make money on tiny fractional moves of a stock, focusing smaller, and moving faster, than any human can imagine.
We live in a 21stC world, where few of us understand anymore how any of our machines work, or how to fix them when they break. Even the supposed experts often just throw the machine in the garbage and substitute it with a new one, freshly burst free from its shrink wrapping. The product cycles of our electronic machines are now so short that one cannot become attached to any generation because there is always a generation coming right behind which will be promised to be better and more advanced. Who wants to be left behind? Not us.
Computers came to Wall Street long ago already. With them came the ‘Quants,’ former math and physics grad students, who tired of academia, and wanted to drive Ferrari’s and Maserati’s just like some of their far less intellectually accomplished classmates were doing, who were working on Wall Street during the gravy years. Presto, high finance meets modern computing power.
Periodically, regulators and the public have questioned the fairness of having computers, programmed to trade stocks, bonds, derivatives and all manner of financial paper, trading in competition with humans. The average Day Trader sitting at his or her computer from early morning on, cannot read and absorb enough information to be able to act as fast as a computer programmed to execute lightning fast trades – it simply cannot be done.
What we now call the “Flash Crash” of 2010 (a/k/a “The Crash of 2:45”) happened on May 6, 2010. On that Thursday, all of a sudden, the Dow Jones Index crashed some 1,000 points (9% of it’s then value), only to recover minutes later, to the astonishment of human traders standing around, who could only scratch their heads in amazement. This was the second largest intra-day point swing, a 1,010.14 point plunge, and the biggest one-day point decline, 998.5 points, in the Dow Jones’ long and storied history. Trillions of dollars were lost. The SEC (and the CFTC, overseeing commodities trading) studied the problem, and jointly wrote a big report – Congress held hearings. The cause? Still a subject for robust debate, several theories, and much speculation, I am afraid.
The recent Wild Wednesday berserk computer trades went beyond anything seen in the 2010 Flash Crash. “The machines have taken over, right?” speculated Patrick Healy, the CEO of Issuer Advisory Group, a consulting firm.
The crazy, out of control trading seemed to center around one New Jersey stockbroker, who specializes in computer trading..
In case you have forgotten about the serious threats of cyber-warfare against a civilization which became utterly and completely dependent on computers within practically a single generation, you can bet that some hacker in North Korea, or Lord knows where else, has not forgotten. ‘Pull the thread, and watch the whole sweater unravel.’ That’s the risk.
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A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a proposed $8.5 million class action settlement with Groupon Inc
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego found fault with a provision in the settlement that would have set aside $75,000 to be divided among two non-profit groups. The judge said neither of the organizations were "expressly committed to righting the specific wrongs alleged in this case."
While Sabraw denied other objections to the settlement by members of the class, he said he had to reject the entire settlement because he did not have the authority to strike just the charity provisions.
Representatives for Groupon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
John Stoia, a lawyer at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd representing plaintiffs who bought vouchers on Groupon, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The decision marked the latest by a court to address so-called cy pres awards in class actions, in which money is dedicated to charity rather than distributed to the plaintiffs themselves. Cy pres comes from a French phrase meaning "as near as possible."
The charitable awards have become common when the amount of money recovered is small and the class itself is large, making distribution impractical.
The charities are typically intended to represent the interests of the classes of plaintiffs.
But in several instances, courts have rejected the settlements after finding the money dedicated to the cy pres award should go to the plaintiffs themselves, or are going to inappropriate charities.
Groupon agreed to the settlement in April as the Chicago-based company sought to put behind it lawsuits alleging that its vouchers violated federal and state laws applying to the expiration dates for gift certificates.
Among the laws Groupon allegedly violated was the federal Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which restricts the sale of gift certificates that expire in less than five years. Groupon denied the allegations.
Of the $8.5 million, $75,000 was set to go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology, two organizations concerned with Internet rights.
But Sabraw said neither organization was focused on the core issue of the case -- expiration dates and other restrictions on consumer vouchers or misleading advertising related to vouchers.
"That consumers purchase vouchers on the Internet is not enough," he said. "Indeed, it is incidental to the claims at issue in this case."
Sabraw said he agreed with objectors who argued that the money should instead be distributed to the class itself.
Representatives for the non-profits did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The case is In re Groupon Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, No. 11-md-02238.
(Editing by Eric Effron and Richard Chang)
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ZURICH – Richemont on Friday named Cartier chief Bernard Fornas and deputy chief executive Richard Lepeu as joint CEOs to navigate the luxury goods group through a period of slowing sales growth in its important Asian markets.
They will take over from executive chairman Johann Rupert, who also held the role of CEO since 2010. He will step down from that role on April 1, 2013, but remain chairman, Richemont said.
The announcement came as the Geneva-based group reported a slowdown in sales growth to 7 percent at constant exchange rates in October from 12 percent in the first half.
The world's second largest luxury goods group after France's LVMH remained tight-lipped on its trading outlook, saying only that good growth in Europe supported by Asian tourists is compensating for slower domestic Asia Pacific sales.
"For the second half of the year, the comparatives are likely to be impacted by less favourable exchange rates," the group said.
Richemont said in a presentation overall growth in the Asia-Pacific region, which accounted for 41 percent of group sales in the first half, was "normalizing" after two exceptional years.
Growth in the region slid to 9 percent in the first half from 60 percent in the year-ago period.
"The slowdown to 7 percent in October appears reasonable enough - however, Asia Pacific and Americas appears to have declined at mid single-digit growth rates in October, which might raise eyebrows," Kepler Capital Markets analyst Jon Cox said.
"I think the slowdown is temporary and we certainly aren't seeing a repeat of 2007-8. Post elections in the U.S. and China, I suspect sentiment will improve," he said.
Strong sales growth between April and September helped net profit at the maker of Cartier watches and Montblanc pens soar 52 percent to 1.08 billion euros, beating a 1.04 billion forecast in a Reuters poll.
(Editing by David Cowell)
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During Hanukkah, Jewish children often play a simple gambling game using a 4-sided top called a dreidel. Each face of the dreidel has a Hebrew letter, one of which is called nun.
The dreidel game is played for small tokens; often toothpicks, chocolate coins or M&M candies are used.
To begin the game, each player places a token in the central "pot," similar to an ante in poker. The players then take turns spinning the dreidel, and the result is determined by whichever letter is facing up when the dreidel comes to a rest.
- Nun: "Nothing" -- The player neither gives nor receives.
- Gimmel: "All" -- The player takes the entire pot.
- Heh: "Half" -- The player takes half the pot.
- Shin: "Put" -- The player adds to the pot.
When the pot is emptied, the players ante once again, and play resumes.
Hanukkah recalls the reign of the Greek king Antiochus IV, who repressed the Jews and forbade the study of the sacred Torah. According to the jewish101.com Web site, people who gathered for Torah study would use a gambling game as a cover story. That has come down through history in the form of the dreidel.
Under the leadership of Matthias and his son, Judah Maccabee, a Jewish Army (the Maccabees) rebelled against Antiochus and reclaimed the holy Temple. Ritual required that a lamp be kept burning in the temple all night, but there was enough pure oil for only one day. Yet the lamp was said to have burned for eight full days.
The letters on the dreidel recall the Hebrew phrase Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, which translates to "a great miracle happened there." The nightly lighting of the Hanukkah menorah also recalls the miracle. Even some of the foods traditionally eaten during the holiday recall the miracle of the oil. Jews often eat fried foods, and fried potato pancakes called latkes are a favorite.
You can play an interactive online version of the dreidel game at the jewish101 Web site.
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DURHAM, N.C. –.
The 10thth-ranked Tigers (8-1, 5-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) had 718 yards — 379 through the air — during their 56-20 win at Duke on Saturday night. Boyd passed for five touchdowns to match the program record for the second straight game, while Hopkins had three TD catches to set a school record for most career touchdown catches.
That performance against Duke — Clemson had 28 points in the first quarter and 42 by halftime — was one reason Boyd sounded so pleased after the Tigers' fifth straight win.
. He had scoring catches of 5, 58 and 45 yards.
, had missed three games because of suspension and illness. He had his first touchdown catch last week at Wake Forest to go with a program-record 202 yards receiving, then had a 30-yard TD catch from Boyd in the final minute of the first quarter against the Blue Devils.
Hopkins had four catches for 128 yards, while Watkins had six catches for 97 yards.
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Black Caviar set to bypass Newmarket Handicap and have Melbourne swansong in William Reid Stakes
- Herald Sun
- February 19, 2013
Going around again ... Black Caviar's next race will be the William Reid Stakes. Source:News Limited
Champion sprinter Black Caviar will not risk her unblemished career record by running in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on March 9.
Trainer Peter Moody declared on Tuesday morning that the mare, winner of 23 consecutive starts, instead will head to the weight-for-age William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday, March 22 for her final race in Victoria.
Moody said the handicap conditions of the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) was the decisive factor.
She would be handicapped at 61.5kg, meaning she would have to give massive weight advantages to rivals, including another of his gallopers, Moment Of Chance.
Moment Of Change ran second to Black Caviar down the Flemington straight last Saturday in the Group I Lightning Stakes (1000m) and will contest the Newmarket.
The champ would have to give the Group I winner 9kg in weight, a huge turnaround for the race.
"She'll head to the Reid under weight-for-age conditions," Moody said, saying he would not continue speculation about the Newmarket race.
Bookmakers and the TAB had Black Caviar the favourite for the race - with the caution that she was a doubtful starter - and punters who backed her would have lost their money as betting is "all-in".
Moody reported that Black Caviar, who broke Special's track record at Flemington last Saturday, pulled up extremely well and was in great condition.
Moody reported that Black Caviar, who broke Special's track record at Flemington last Saturday, pulled up extremely well and was in great condition.
The Reid Stakes event will be a huge bonus for Moonee Valley, which has been promoting the night as Victoria's farewell race in Victoria.
She then is likely to run in the TJ Smith Stakes in Sydney and the BTC Cup in Queensland - an identical campaign to last year before retirement to stud.
A second trip to the UK is unlikely..
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Like Strauss-Kahn, Christine Lagarde Dragging Baggage Into Likely IMF Directorship
(Pictured: "Bilderbergers" building bridges.)
In the infamous column in which French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy cried his outrage at the public humiliation inflicted to Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the aftermath of his arrest, one sentence described particularly well the unspoken but unshakeable consensus governing politicians and the law in France. Levy expressed his indignation against: “The American judge who by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other.”
The idea that Strauss-Kahn should not be treated as “a subject of justice like any other” remained a leitmotiv through the flood of media reactions to his arrest in France. Because he had more to lose than “a vulgar delinquent” would have in a similar case, the argument went, because of his years of service to the world as head of the IMF and because of his prestige as future presidential candidate, he should be given special treatment. His disgrace should be hidden from public view; he should be spared the humiliation and disagreement of handcuffs, detention, and monitoring; and most importantly he should be given the benefit of the doubt.
This is nothing new in under the sun in French Politics. During his twelve years as President, Jacques Chirac was cited in nine different corruption cases while shielded both by presidential immunity and a merciful public opinion. One of his former Prime Ministers, Alain Juppé, was convicted of corruption in 2004, only to be recently welcomed back into Sarkozy's government in the key spot of Minister of Foreign Affairs. Other prominent members of the French government have been implicated in scandals in the past few years, from Minister of Budget Eric Woerth's shady dealings with L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to former Minister of Interior Brice Hortefeux's conviction for racial slander. While these cases certainly sparked media scandals, Sarkozy maintained his public support to the indicted ministers -- perpetuating the tradition of that political figures benefiting from impunity, proportionally to their rank. The message is clear: you might have to lay low for a couple of years after the scandal but you will be protected, and eventually come back safely to the front rows of power.
Another such disreputable figure is Bernard Tapie, a Berlusconi-esque figure who has dabbled in murky-yet-profitable business ventures, show business, politics and soccer club management. He last hogged newspaper headlines in 2008, for receiving 403 million Euros of public funds in compensation for having been cheated fifteen years earlier by the French Bank Credit Lyonnais in the sale of the firm Adidas, which he headed at the time. In a time of economic downturn, public opinion was outraged that Tapie would received such a colossal sum, coming straight from their tax-Euros. But most importantly, the procedure through which the settlement was made was shady: three arbiters were picked to review the case and come to a decision behind closed doors a process contested at the time by several legal commentators, since public funds were involved.
Most critical to the affair is who took these questionable decisions and personally picked the arbiters: France's Minister of Economy and Finances, and now leading candidate to take Strauss-Kahn's spot as head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde. Lagarde could face prosecution for “abuse of authority” in this case, as the Cour de Justice de la Republique (CJR), in charge of judging crimes and offenses perpetrated by Ministers in office, is evaluating the case and deliberating on the need for further investigation. More severe than the dubious process chosen to settle the case is the fact, revealed by french independent news website Mediapart (), that Lagarde knew of a relationship between one of the arbiters and Tapie's attorney and chose not to interrupt the process or appeal its outcome.
In the mainstream media's coverage of Lagarde's candidacy, the case is usually referred to as a detail, almost a footnote. Lagarde herself dismisses these accusations as innocuous. “I am perfectly confident and serene regarding this subject and this has absolutely no bearing on my candidacy” she declared on June 10th, after her audience was pushed back to July. Once again, just as Strauss-Kahn's widely known compulsion toward sexual harassment never impeded his political ascendency, we are faced with an example in which a political leader is not held to the rule of law because of a “special treatment” granted by her position on the national and now global political chessboard. There is serious evidence that Christine Lagarde, in the cesspool of corruption that is France's political landscape turned a blind eye on another instance of cronyism. Should it be disregarded as Strauss-Kahn's history of sexual “misconduct” was four years ago?
Jeanne Kay is an intern at Foreign Policy in Focus.
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- France - fraud - Jérôme Kerviel - justice - Société Générale - trial
Rogue trader Kerviel launches appeal
Société Générale rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel appealed his 2010 conviction in a Paris court on Monday, saying he was "not responsible" for the €5 billion in losses from risky trades that almost bankrupted one of France's biggest banks.
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AFP - Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel argued Monday at the start of his appeal hearing that his ex-employer Societe Generale bank knew he was making the risky gambles that eventually cost it five billion euros.
"I am not responsible for this loss and the acts I am accused of. I always acted with the knowledge of my hierarchy," he told the judge when asked why he was appealing his 2010 conviction.
The 35-year-old Frenchman was originally sentenced to five years in jail with two years suspended for breach of trust, forgery and entering false data into computers during the 2008 covert stock market deals.
The original verdict also required him to pay back the staggering 4.9 billion euros ($6.0 billion) which his market gambles cost Societe Generale and which nearly ruined the bank.
Critics of that ruling said it made him a scapegoat for a banking system based on pure greed.
Kerviel, who wore a dark-blue suit and white shirt for his Paris court appearance on Monday, has consistently argued that his superiors knew what he was doing and turned a blind eye as long as he was making them a profit.
Rejecting charges that he acted alone, he has insisted the firm knew all about his $50 billion in trading positions, and even encouraged him to take risks.
Kerviel, who told the court he was currently unemployed and had no source of income, has admitted regularly exceeding trading limits and logging false transactions to cover his gambles, but says this was common practice.
Societe Generale management has argued it knew nothing of what Kerviel was up to.
Two months ago, Kerviel changed his lawyer, hiring David Koubbi, who has launched two countersuits against Societe Generale.
One accuses the bank of.
Societe Generale, which said in 2010 that it would spare Kerviel paying the full compensation, has hit back with two suits for malicious falsehood.
Since the Kerviel case exploded, banks have insisted that internal safeguards have been reinforced to prevent a repeat.
Societe Generale was fined four million euros at the time by the French banking commission for failing in its internal checks.
If his appeal fails, Kerviel faces up to five years in prison and a fine of 375,000 euros.
The appeal is set to last until June 28.
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So you've seen the photos and thought to yourself, "How the heck did they do that?!?!" well, we are here to help
answer those questions with the FrankenFAQ. We hope that these nuggets of information help shed light on some of our creations.
FAQ #1
Q: What power does
it take to drive a disk can (cage) from a 6xx or 7xx machine so I can
hook it up to my 170?
A: The cage has a 9
pin connector on the back with one pin missing so you can't connect it
backwards. The pins need the following voltages applied:
+5V +12V G G G G Pin +12V +5V
We have found that a 250W PC Power supply can handle two cages along
with a couple fans to keep the cages cool. Be Careful to allow for the
fans to come off for drive maintenance. Also watch fan speed because
those that go like crazy get kinda noisy!
FAQ #2
Q: Can't I just
apply power to that 'PC Like' 4-pin molex power connector on the back
of the can?
A: No. That
connector is output power to drive a tape or CD Drive only. Applying
power to that connector doesn't do anything.
FAQ #3
Q: Some of my disk
cans have two SCSI ports. Which do I use?
A: On the top cages
in the 6xx and 7xx machines there is an input 68 SCSI connector
(female) and an output connector (male) The Male connector MUST have
an LVD terminator connected or bad things will happen. The lower cans
have no output connector and have termination build in.
FAQ #4
Q: Can't I hook
anything to the output connector of the disk can?
A: Yes you can. If
you want to add an LVD tape drive or CD Drive, connect it there with
an LVD SCSI terminator downstream of the drive. You MUST set the SCSI
address of the drive properly. It can be address 0 but CANNOT be
address 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7. These addresses are the 5 drives, the
SCSI backplane in the CAN and the SCSI controller.
FAQ #5
Q: My 720 has two
disk cans on the left which are full of drives but I am told I cannot
add a third can to the left side of my 720 model. But there is one can
on the right with no drives in it. Can I use that can?
A: Yes you can!
While iSeries Navigator will get all confused about the physical
location of the drives in that can you can run the SCSI cable from
that can through the center of the cabinet and connect it to port
three on the SCSI card (i.e. 2741, 2748). It already has power
connected to it.
FAQ #6
Q: What is this
high speed low speed slot thing? They sure look the same to me. Is
this to keep me from overloading the IOP or is IBM just limiting the
capabilities of my server?
A: The low speed
slots are missing some pin signals that certain cards really do need.
The reason for this is the SPD heritage of the machines where slots
have this designation (i.e. 6xx, 7xx, 170 and 250 machines with PCI
slots) If you put a 2838 in a low speed slot for example it will show
up and appear to be happy. However try to vary on an Ethernet line
description that uses the card and it will fail miserably even if you
configure the line for 10Mb.
FAQ #7
Q: I want to add
some extra disk units to my 170 but I already have 10 of 'em in there.
I've looked at FAQ #1 but I don't want to add another power supply.
Can't I simply draw power from one of the extra connectors inside my
170?
A: Maybe. The left
side power supply runs memory and processor and such and while it may
have extra power I would avoid overly stressing that power supply. The
one on the right side is usually a bit larger so it is a candidate.
Now if you have an Integrated Netfinity Card on the right you won't
have the extra power available to keep everything going. Without an
INS card there is enough power there to run one extra disk can and a
cooling fan. Frankie ran that way for over a year until we added
another INS card. We couldn't get the INS card to vary on in this
configuration - it would fail completely at some point during the vary
on.
FAQ #8
Q: Where does
Frankenseries.com run?
A: We at
Frankenseries.com eat our own cooking. Our web site, email, ftp etc
all run on Frankie. When we're messing with him you'll get an 'Oops'
page.
FAQ #9
Q: Does IBM support
Frankenseries.com?
A: Are you nuts?
They know we exist and think we're cool. When we call with problems
they laugh a lot. We have broken so many rules that even the local CEs
stand well clear of our stuff.
FAQ #10
Q: There is a big
UPS in the bottom of my old 720 which is being retired. Can't I use
that as a stand alone UPS?
A: While it is
possible, so far Dr. Franken has not yet ascertained the pin signals
needed to get it to fire up. Remember that an important function of
these UPS was to supply DC voltage to keep main storage powered during
a power outage. In addition to that you are messing with 240 Volts 20
Amps of AC power and 48 Volts (and 100 Amps?) of batteries either one
of which could cause big problems (serious problems like burns and
DEATH!) if improperly handled. If you aren't qualified to deal with
this stuff, keep your hands off! Also Dr. Franken has blown one of
those UPSs to smithereens, every single one of the 20 Power MosFets
inside the UPS exploded within about 3 seconds. They are about as loud
as a starter pistol and they throw flames when they go!! Fortunately
they are inside a stout metal box. (Thank you IBM.) In another
experiment my trusty assistant iGor caused the transformer in that UPS
to roll smoke.
Hmmmm. Do not try this at home, we're what you call 'experts.'
FAQ #11
Q: If I have more
drives in my system than IBM allows how can I maintain them if one of
them would fail?
A: Well you won't
maintain those through the iSeries navigator GUI! IBM has built in a
table of drive locations and tower layouts. Any disk unit above the
limit for the system clearly won't have an entry in the table.
Fortunately in Service Tools the drive will have an address and a
device name such as DD035. Service tools will happily allow you to
replace a failed drive using that name and then rebuild it if it's
RAID or MIRRORed. The only thing you cannot do is add more drives in
MT slots. This is since the MT slots aren't supposed to exist, the
drives that aren't in them don't have a name. You will need to put the
drives in and IPL the system for them to be recognized.
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You probably never even heard the name Costas Mandylor until the Saw films rolled around, but he's actually had a pretty storied Hollywood past and the Australian born actor has been in some major films and television shows that you've probably seen. To give a little pre-acting background, Mandylor played professional soccer for both Greece and Australia, before he suffered stress fractures to his shins. In 1987, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and it took just two years before he landed his first major role. That role was alongside Willem Dafoe and Edward James Olmos in the 1989 Holocaust biopic Triumph of the Spirit.
The fresh faced Mandylor portayed the real life character of enslaved Jew Avram Arouch, brother to lead character Salamo Arouch (Dafoe), who got shipped off to Auschwitz and seperated from his just married wife during the Holocaust of World War 2. Rather impressively for a big screen debut, Mandylor has a heck of a lot of screen time during the early parts of the film and he's a pretty pivotal and important character throughout and he turns in one hell of a performance.
In an incredibly intense scene about an hour into the film, Avram refuses to work in the ovens pulling gold teeth from those who were gassed to death and he is shot dead right on the spot. The death scene takes place entirely off screen, but its impact is felt for the remainder of the film and marks a huge turning point for Dafoe's character.
From there, Mandylor went on to have a role in 1991's The Doors as well as roles in the television shows Tales From The Crypt, The Outer Limits, Picket Fences (he starred in every episode), and most recently 7th Heaven, which i'm somewhat ashamed to admit I remember him from. Most interesting of all, Mandylor was featured as one of People Magazine's prestigious 50 Most Beautiful People In The World of 1991!
From most beautiful to the star of one of the most violent and bloody franchises in horror, Costas Mandylor's career path is certaintly an interesting one and I for one am glad to have such a talented actor in the horror world! I definetly have more of an appreciation for him now that i'm aware of his acting roots.
Check out Episodes ONE and TWO to find out where Tony "Candyman" Todd and Tobin "Jigsaw" Bell got their starts!
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One of a series of short talks given for the FWBO International Urban Retreat of 2009, where Order Members from around the world speak about their life and practice.
Vidyamala is an Order Member living and working in Manchester, England. Here she talks us through a day in her life applying mindfulness to her experience of severe chronic pain as a result of spinal injury. She also speaks movingly about her work passing on what she has learned to others through the Breathworks movement she founded and now directs.
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ps - we are getting an ice storm - I have to run to the bank, so I'm going to try to do it now before it gets worse out there. wish me luck, and I'll yell when I'm back. thanks sooooo much!! Cris ----- Original Message ----- From: ~OoO~ To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:41 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: how? laptop settings to print Alrighty... now we're getting somewhere. So, the laptop does not seem to be accessing the network. We need to check if the wireless connection is, well, connecting. Let's answer a few questions: 1. The laptop uses 802.11g, right? 2. With the wireless connection on the laptop, there should be some sort of monitor on the bottom right for the wireless. If you hover over it or open it, somewhere on there should says CONNECTED or DISCONNECTED. Can you verify that it says CONNECTED? 3. Checking in the same spot as #3, if it says connected, it should tell you what SSID it is connected to. What is the SSID name given? 4. At this point, with the laptop, can you access the internet? 5. Using the laptop, can you access the router? How would you know. simple. open your web browser on the laptop (IE or any other) and see if you can access the router settings. If you can access the settings, then you're at least connecting to the router. If you cannot access the router settings, then you are not even connecting to the router. To access the router settings on a Linksys, you should type in the browser <> 6. Assuming you can access the router settings, look somewhere in there at one of the settings tab. I don't have a Linksys, so I am going off the top of my head here. But, it may be a tab called SETTINGS or STATUS or ADMIN. Point is, you are looking for a setting called SSID. When you find it, tell me what it is, and is it the same as the SSID the laptop is connecting to. 7. And, last important, are you using Cable or DSL? PS: As we correspond back and forth, DO NOT trim the post by deleting the old content. Leave it all here so I can keep skimming back and forth with your responses. Just hit REPLY, type and SEND. :o) Thanks. ---Troth -----Original Message----- From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cris Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:28 AM To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: how? laptop settings to print Ok... Router is Linkseys Wireless G Cris-main-9-04 shows cris main, and allmine laptop. Laptop says - Schfam is not accessible, you might not have permission to use this network resource. countact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. the list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available. cris ----- Original Message ----- From: ~OoO~ To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:00 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: how? laptop settings to print Ok. back to the drawing board. Here's what I have. You have a workgroup name of SCHFAM. Now. you've made sure that BOTH the desktop (cris-main-9-04) and the laptop (crislaptop) have the exact same workgroup name, right? Assuming that's correct, we can move to the next step. The desktop is XP Home. So, that's already set up as using 'simple file sharing', as that's the only way XP Home can be set. How about the laptop? Make sure 'simple file sharing' is enabled. Open MY COMPUTER. Go to TOOLS > FOLDER OPTIONS. Click on the VIEW tab. In the bottom pane, scroll all the way to the bottom. If XP Media Ed is the same as the Pro version, the last option at the bottom should say USE SIMPLE FILE SHARING (RECOMMENDED). Make sure that's checked. If the option is not there, let me know. Ok. Once you have that all set, shut down BOTH computers. Make sure they are both off at the same time. Turn the first computer on, the desktop, and let it boot up all the way. After its completely booted, move onto the laptop and start that one up. Same thing, wait for it to boot all the way through. Now. on each computer. open up MY COMPUTER again. On the left side, under OTHER PLACES, you should see MY NETWORK PLACES. Select that. Doesn't have to be done at the same time on each computer. You're just checking something, but you need to check on both computers. Anyway. once you're in MY NETWORK PLACES, on the left side, click on VIEW WORKGROUP COMPUTERS. When you do that, you should see both computers (the computer you're currently on, and the other computer). Check and let me know if both computers are listed. After you respond to this one, we can continue. -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: To access our Archives: -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: To access our Archives: -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: To access our Archives:
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One of the best places to find excellent beauty tips is in beauty magazines. They also feature updates on the latest beauty trends, makeup products and styles. If you’re a beauty guru at heart, these publications can keep you up to speed on your knowledge and beauty looks.
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Legendary hip-hop collective Wu-Tang links up with sports watch brand G-Shock for an exclusive watch to commemorate the Wu’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The two decided to go with G-Shock’s classic DW-6900 model, using the color scheme of black & yellow (Wu-Tang’s signature colors) for the overall colorway of the watch. The wrist piece features the iconic Wu-Tang Clan “W” logo on the upper dial and G-Shocks signature “G” button on the bottom, which lights up the whole bezel when pushed. This looks like a perfect tribute to one of the most dynamic groups in rap history.
No official release date has been set for the Wu-Tang x G-Shock DW-6900, but it is scheduled to be sold in North-America exclusively. Keep your eyes open for this one.--
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1:33pm Monday 8th October 2012 in National Sport News © Press Association 2013 match referee Howard Webb did not see the incident during the game, but on reviewing television evidence he did not deem it worthy of a sending-off offence, so no further action will be taken.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew said after the game that he felt the incident warranted further investigation, saying: "He has looked at Yohan and he has elbowed him, and I think that perhaps needs to be looked at, if I am honest..
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For a long time, hibernation has been associated with proprietary operating systems. Now, the feature has started taking the front row in GNU/Linux systems too. What’s more, it’s fast, flexible and is a real time saver!
Introduction
Software hibernation or suspend-to-disk is a very productive operating system feature. It has many advantages over a cold system start or reboot. Not only does the hibernated system load up faster, the user also gets back to his previous session without much effort. This is important because of the time the user saves by avoiding the need to set up a work session again.
So, how is hibernation different? It is different because it saves the contents of the RAM (Random Access Memory) into some non-volatile storage medium before shutting down the system. Consequently, when the system boots up again, the operating system loads the suspended image from disk to get back to the previously stored session.
Software suspend, as hibernation is popularly known in Linux systems, has evolved a lot in present day kernels. It is constantly getting more and more stable and useful. Some implementations are available in the kernel while one is available as a patch that can be applied to the 2.4 or the 2.6 series. This article is meant to introduce you to the implementations available and the features that they provide.
Not only does the hibernated system load up faster, the user also gets back to his previous session without much effort
History and available methods in Linux
The history of software suspend in Linux can be traced to Gabor Kuti and Pavel Machek who developed a patch for the 2.2 series known as
swsusp. It was probably an abbreviation for swap suspend as the snapshot image was written to the active swap partition of the system. Gabor used to maintain these patches on his personal page. The code base for this patch became the basis for three different implementations that we have today:
swsusp,
suspend2 and
uswsusp.
swsusp was first incorporated in the 2.5.18 kernel. It subsequently became a part of the 2.6 stable release. Later, a fork of
swsusp, known as
pmdisk evolved. The difference between
swsusp and
pmdisk was that the latter’s code was much cleaner and well structured. Moreover, while
swsusp used the
/proc interface,
pmdisk used the
/sys interface.
pmdisk cleanups were eventually merged into the
swsusp code base.
Among all the available methods, the one that generates the maximum excitement is
suspend2 by Nigel Cunningham. It introduces some important changes in the way the snapshot image is handled and is also noticeably faster.
suspend2 is currently available as a patch for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels and will hopefully be merged into the mainline kernels in future.
Also worth mentioning is
uswsusp, abbreviation for
userland-swsusp. It is an implementation of an interface for software suspend in the user space. All kernels starting from 2.6.17 have
uswsusp merged in them. The module gives access to software suspend functionalities by exposing common file operation methods that can be used to operate on a character device. This is only useful for developers who would like to write their
software suspend applications in user space and hence I won’t delve into this topic in detail here.
swsusp
How swsusp works
swsusp works by taking a snapshot of the contents of the RAM. This snapshot or suspend image is copied and then saved in an atomic operation fashion to the active swap partition. Upon rebooting, if a valid image signature is found on the active swap, the image is loaded and the snapshot transferred back to memory. This gets back the saved state to the user. The following illustration shows the sequence in simple terms:
- User requests for software suspend
- All the running processes are given the
suspendsignal
- The devices are frozen so that they don’t change the system state when the snapshot is taken
- The memory image is atomically copied with interrupts disabled
- Frozen devices are awakened so that the image can be written
- The image is written to swap
- Devices are suspended and the system powered off
The resume process involves just the inverse of the above steps.
Configuration and running
Configuring and running
swsusp is a breeze since it is a part of the 2.6 vanilla kernel. If
swsusp has not been compiled in your running kernel, you will have to enable it and recompile your kernel. It is always a good idea to compile a fresh stable version instead of tinkering with the running version because that way you always have a backup with you.
To enable
swsusp, bring up the kernel configuration window:
$cd /your/linuxsourcedir $make xconfig
Enable Software Suspend under Power Management Options as shown in figure 1.
You can optionally add your swap partition path in Default resume partition. This step appends a
resume parameter to the kernel section in grub.conf. You may also enable Encrypt suspend image that would encrypt the image stored in the swap partition. The key that is used for encryption is stored temporarily and deleted after resuming.
swsusp will not work with Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) enabled in your kernel. So, you will have to disable Symmetric Multi Processing_support under _Processor types and features to enable the
swsusp module as shown in figure 2.
As
swsusp uses the AES module to encrypt the suspend image, you will have to select Cryptographic API and AES cipher algorithms as built-ins into the kernel (not as modules as they won’t be loaded). Refer to figure 3.
`swsusp` will not work with Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) enabled in your kernel
Now compile your kernel and if the compilation succeeds, install your kernel.
$make $make modules_install $make install
You should also check whether a resume parameter has been appended to the newly installed kernel’s entry in grub.conf. If not, you can add it manually as resume=/your/swappartition. (Refer to figure 4)
The default location of grub.conf is /etc. It may be different for your system. Finally, to hibernate, type the following command :
$echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
If everything is fine, your system should enter the hibernate process and after saving the image should power off. You should again restart your system to find out if it really worked. The boot sequence should load the suspended image and get back to your previous session.
There are a few other important points worth mentioning:
- To limit the suspend image size to N bytes, type:
$echo N > /sys/power/image_size
where N is the number in bytes.
- Instead of using
echo platform, you may use
echo shutdownto hibernate your system. (Refer to the command above)
- If the system becomes too slow after a resume, you may try turning off the swap and then turning it on again:
$swapoff -a $swapon -a
- You may try a SysVInit patch that would enable you to suspend using:
$shutdown -z now
The patch is available here
- Append the
noresumeparameter to your kernel if you would like to boot normally but be warned that something might go wrong!
suspend2
How suspend2 works
The fundamentals behind the working of
swsusp and
suspend2 are almost the same. However, there are some major differences in the way
suspend2 does things and the flexibility it provides to the user.
suspend2 first saves the lru (least recently used) pages in memory to the disk backstore, then does an atomic copy of the rest of the memory and then saves that. Since it is not doing an atomic copy of the whole of the memory, the process becomes much faster than
swsusp and the image size is not limited to just half of the memory. The module sees to it that once we start saving the page lists, no pages are added or deleted, hence maintaining the integrity of the saved data. To summarize the steps:
- User requests for system hibernation
suspend2waits for the number of processes in their critical paths to reach zero
- New processes are prevented from entering states that can cause deadlocks or inconsistent states
- The page cache is saved to disk
- Drivers are suspended and the processor state is saved
- The rest of the memory is atomically copied and then saved to disk
- The system is shut down
The resume process is just the opposite of the above steps.
Configuration and running
To enable
suspend2, you will have to patch and compile your kernel. Patches for many versions are available on the
suspend2 downloads page. However the stable version is suspend-2.2.5 for 2.6.16.9 kernel. Using the stable release reduces the chances of breaking the kernel compilation. First of all, you need to apply the
suspend2 patches using the apply script supplied.
$tar -jxvf linux-2.6.16.9.tar.bz2 $tar -jxvf suspend2-2.2.5-for-kernel-2.6.16.9.tar.bz2 $cd linux-2.6.16.9 $../suspend2-2.2.5-for-kernel-2.6.16.9/apply
If you have other patches on your kernel (such as the mm patch), chances are that the apply script will fail. In that case, patching the files individually would be a good idea. The patch file that refuses has to be manually applied by looking through the diff file and replacing code at the right places. After patching, you will have to configure your kernel. As shown in figure 5, enable Suspend2 under Power Management Options. From the options that show up in the Option window, enable File Writer and Swap Writer. You may ignore the rest of the options but feel free to go through their descriptions.
By default,
suspend2 uses the LFZ modules for compression and encryption which may be built into the kernel by selecting Cryptographic API and LFZ compression algorithm under Cryptographic Options.
Once you are done selecting all other modules relevant to your system, compile your new kernel and install it.
suspend2 gives you the flexibility to choose the location to save the suspend image. You can either choose the file writer or the swap writer for this purpose. While the filewriter can save the image to a normal file, the swap writer can save the image either to a swap partition or to a swap file. Unlike
swsusp,
suspend2 can write to any swap partition! It need not be the system’s active swap partition. I’ll cover the above three steps one by one.
Unlike swsusp, suspend2 can write to any swap partition! It need not be the system’s active swap partition
- Writing to a normal file: First of all create a file that is at least equal in size to your system RAM. Here, I create a 512 MB file called suspend-image.
$dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=512 >> suspend-image
Next supply this file to the
suspend2 filewriter target.
$echo suspend-image > /proc/suspend2/filewriter_target
Finally, you will have to get the actual physical offset of this file and append it to the kernel section in grub’s configuration file (grub.conf).
$cat /proc/suspend2/resume2
The above command gave me the following output:
file:/dev/hda5:0x3c000
So I need to append resume2=file:/dev/hda5:0x3c000 in my grub.conf. (Refer figure 7). Don’t just copy-paste the above output as it will definitely be different for your system.
- Writing to a swap partition: This is the easiest of them all and is recommended for first timers. You just need to append your swap partition path to the
resume2parameter for your kernel. Find out your swap partition:
$/sbin/fdisk -l | grep "swap"
and edit grub.conf accordingly. (Refer to figure 8)
- Writing to a swap file: The steps to this are similar to writing to a normal file except that here, you create a swap file instead of a normal one. To summarize:
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=512 >> swap-suspend-image $ /sbin/mkswap swap-suspend-image 512 $ sync $ swapon swap-suspend-image
The output of the following command tells you what to append to the
resume2 parameter.
$cat /proc/suspend2/headerlocations
The following output was obtained:
For swap partitions, simply use the format: resume2=swap:/dev/hda1. For swapfile `/home/bandan/PTPRO/FSM/swap-su`, use resume2=swap:/dev/hda2:0x1d92678
The second output is what you would append in
grub.conf.
After choosing from the filewriter and the swapwriter (a combination of both is also possible), you should take a look at the
hibernate script. This is a shell script that greatly simplifies the hibernation sequence. Get the latest version from the
suspend2 Downloads page.The script is available as RPM, SRPM, deb or tar.gz. Choose one of them and install it. By default, it should install in
/usr/local/sbin.
If you use initrd (common in redhat distributions), you need to tell it about suspend2. Open the mkinitrd script in a file editor and go below the line that says:
echo "echo Mounted /proc filesystem" >> $RCFILE
Add the following:
echo "echo > /proc/suspend2/do_resume" >> $RCFILE
The default location of
mkinitrd is
/sbin.
The advantage of suspend2 lies in the flexibility it offers. A set of configuration files are provided by default in
/etc/hibernate. Hopefully, suspend2 will work “out of the box” but it is always a good idea to go through these configuration files if you want to tweak suspend2 to get the best out of it.
Here is a brief summary of all the configuration files suspend2 offers. The verbose commented sections give a detailed explanation of all the available options.
blacklisted-modules: Lists all the modules that have been reported to cause problems while suspending or resuming.
hibernate.conf: The file actually read when the hibernate script is executed.
disk.conf: Used when using the hibernate script to suspend using swsusp.
common.conf: Includes list of common configurable options.
ram.conf: Used when suspending to RAM instead of disk. (useful for laptops)
suspend2.conf: Configurable options for suspending to disk with suspend2.
Now all you have left to do is reboot into your new kernel. Keep a close eye on the system output while booting up. You should see something like
Suspend2 enabled. Finally to hibernate, simply type the following as root:
$/usr/local/sbin/hibernate
The system should enter the hibernate sequence and shutdown. Reboot again to check everything is fine.
If you are having problems with the filewriter, you may switch to the swap writer instead. It is usually convenient to try suspending to the swap partition first because that’s the easiest. Then, you may try suspending to a normal file or a swap file. If the
hibernate script doesn’t work for you for any reason, you should try the following:
$/usr/local/sbin/hibernate --bug-report > suspend-debug
Go through the contents of suspend-debug and see what went wrong. The most important information will be towards the end of the file. If you find its contents meaningless, you would be better off sending it to the suspend2 mailing list. Most probably, someone will help you out.
Eye candy
Not only does
suspend2 work differently, you can also make it look different. You have the option of a text based user interface or a graphical interface to show during the
hibernate sequence. Download and install the Suspend2-User-UI package from suspend2 website. Additionally, obtain a theme from here and extract it to
/etc/splash. Create a symbolic link to it and name it as suspend2.
$ mkdir /etc/splash (in case it does not exist) $ cd /etc/splash && tar -zxf theme.tar.gz $ ln -s theme/ suspend2
Add the appropriate entry in
suspend2.conf depending on what user interface you would like to have.
For text UI
ProcSetting userui_program /usr/local/sbin/suspend2ui_text
For Graphical UI
ProcSetting userui_program /usr/local/sbin/suspend2ui_fbsplash
Now hibernate and see if everything goes as expected. If not, you can use the
--bug-report option with hibernate to diagnose the problem.
hibernate’s log file also provides a lot of information about what went wrong. Its default location is
/var/log/hibernate.log.
Some tips and tricks
- Using the power button to suspend: First of all, make sure you have compiled your kernel with acpi support. Then install acpid and add it to the default run level.
$ rc-update add acpid default
Edit
/etc/acpi/default.sh as follows:
#!/bin/sh # Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions set $* group=${1/\/*/} action=${1/*\//} case "$group" in button) case "$action" in power) /usr/sbin/hibernate & ;; *) logger "ACPI action $action is not defined" ;; esac ;; *) logger "ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined" ;; esac
- If you would like to reboot instead of shutting down your system, simply press “R” during the suspend process.
Conclusion
suspend2 clearly seems to be the successor to
swsusp. It provides a lot more features than any other available method and is also very configurable. It allows you to store the suspended image almost anywhere. A more interesting feature which is in the TODO list is suspending to a NFS share! However, kerneltrap reports Nigel as saying that he will devote less time to
suspend2 which may prevent its merging into the vanilla kernel.
The three different methods available target three different types of users. If you just want your system to hibernate and have no desire to tinker with your kernel,
swsusp is definitely for you. On the contrary,
suspend2 gives you greater speed and flexibility. If you are one of those who fancies writing his own userspace program, go for
uswsusp. Get set and take your pick!
Distros that already come with Hibernate
I just wanted to mention that for many users, Hibernate on GNU/Linux can be even easier. (Especially of interest to those who consider switching from Windows or the Mac and might be scared off by lengthy walkthroughs like this.)
gNewSense () and Ubuntu () both come with Hibernate already configured. So, for the user it's just a matter of clicking "Shut Down" -> "Hibernate". (I'm sure there are others too, but these are the ones I know.)
Distros that already come with Hibernate
Debian Etch (Testing still) also has the hibernate built in. It worked out of the box for me on my Thinkpad (R51)
Distro's that come with Hibernate
openSUSE 10.2 has it enabled by default too (I haven't tried it yet though), what I don't understand is this:
swsusp will not work with Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) enabled in your kernel
But openSUSE has 2.6.18 with SMP as default kernel
Mac Suspend Techniques
I hear the mack is always updating changes in ram to the hybernation partition so that when a hybernation action is called for there is less writing necessary. I'd really like to see this functionality brought to Linux.
-Joe Baker
Distros that already come with Hibernate
Tried nearly all recent versions of Ubuntu to try out the Hibernate feature..works like crap.
Went back to Windows just bcoz I wanted this feature rather than waiting for Ok, Linux booting now.
thanks
thanks
It was raining heavily with
It was raining heavily with lightning while my lengthy fortran code had been running on my dekstop pc for about a day, I simply hybernated Ubuntu and once the rain stopped I was able to continue from where it's left, This is a very useful feature which really worked and helped me,
I'm wondering what'll happen if I unplug the computer after hybernating, I'll see if writes the current state to the RAM or to the Harddisk. I'm assuming the latter is true.
Wanted to say thank you!
I know this probably wasn't the most up to date article on Linux hibernation, but it worked perfectly for me.
Followed the swsup method. I'm running SW 12.1 on a Toshiba Satellite MX40 series. Worked like a charm.
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Thank you to FreeSpirit Fabrics for asking me to be a guest blogger. I am so excited to tell you about my newest book for Creative Publishing International – Precut Patchwork Party. As the tag line says on the cover of the book, it’s full of “modern projects to sew and craft with fabric strips, squares and fat quarters”.
I have been a huge fan of FreeSpirit precut fabric bundles for a long time . I often pick them up with absolutely no idea of how I will use them. The colors and patterns just look so pretty all together in a bundle.
There are lots of patterns and ideas available for using precuts charm squares, strips and fat quarters to make quilts. But I wanted to design a collection of projects for this book that were everything but quilts. So Precut Patchwork Party will show you how to make a variety of home dec projects, as well as wearables, accessories and gift items. I’ve included lots of basic sewing information, tips of working with precut fabrics and several of my favorite sewing techniques like fabric rick-rack and rosettes that can be made from folded precut strips.Here is one of my favorite projects from the book:
Tisket Tasket Fabric Basket (Insert photo of baskets.)
Fabric strips from Kathy Davis’ Blossoming collection are used to make these woven fabric baskets. Make a few to organize your spools of thread and notions in your sewing room or use one to hold a casserole dish (and sew a coordinating lined napkin with a couple of fat quarters).
The projects in this book are perfect for a new sewist as well as someone who has been sewing for awhile. They all are constructed with very basic sewing techniques. Anyone who makes quilts and wants to do something new with their stash of precuts will find inspiration. So next time you can’t resist buying those beautiful bundles at the quilt store, know that there is a lot you can make with them, other than your beautiful quilts.
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I am fascinated with those pretty baskets! Pre-cuts are a 'go-to' with a few staple patterns for a quickly needed quilt - time savers as well as you get to taste all the fabrics of a line.
I love precuts because the hardest part - making sure my cutting is true - is done for me :-) i hate when I've fdone my cutting and realise that I've cut things an inch to short or have done a wonky line.
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I love sewing with precuts as I don't have to worry about coordinating the fabrics as I know everything will look good together. I also like the fact that they make the project faster to make.
I love precuts - they make making this so much faster, since you spend hardly any time cutting! I would love to make some not-quilty patchwork things for our house!
I love precuts because you get the whole fabric range in itty bitty squares, I like making wall hangings and I've just made a bag with a charm pack :)
I love sewing with precuts because cutting is my least favorite part of the process! I also love that you can get a little bit of every fabric without going broke :)
I love precuts! Obviously, I love not having to cut the fabric, but I also love that I can have the whole fabric collection in one bundle. Love them!
Sewing with precuts saves time and I am able to get a substantial variety of fabrics for my quilting projects without aggravating my LQS staff by asking them to cut small amounts of a whole line of fabrics.
I love precuts because of the accuracy of the cuts - no slipping of rulers, no being off just a hair - precision.
Pre-cuts save so much time and I agree FQ bundles are the best, enough fabric to make something wonderful and all matching fabrics. Thanks.
Precuts avoid some of the tedium of cutting and you get results fast!
I love precuts because they take the guess work out of what goes with what for me and then is already cut so I won't have slip-ps on my cutting. Thanks.
I love that those precuts can sit there quietly on my shelf, and then just come to my rescue when I need a quick project.
Cutting into fabric and getting absolutely straight and square cuts is still a bit intimidating to me, so buying precuts are a great way for me to just jump right in which makes the entire process FUN!
I love to sew with precuts because I don't have to wash them before sewing and I get a coordinated look without effort.
Precuts are great! The hard part of cutting is already done for you, and the fabrics all coordinate. Thanks for the givewaway.
Pre-cuts are so fun because I get some of each fabric in the line. They are easy to put together to make the many beautiful patterns availble using pre-cuts.
I am just beginning to work with some precuts - this book would be great - love the little baskets and napkins!
I am just beginning to work with precuts - would love the book! the basket and napkin are too cute
Having a little bit of this and that in my fabric collection, I've grown to love precuts. They give you new colors and designs to add to my less-than-up-to-date fabric. Though sometimes I love a line so much I design a project around the precut. Great way to buy just a bit of fabric!
I love precuts because at least half my cutting time has already been done for me. Plus I can get the scrappy look I love quickly & easily. Thanks.
I have not been quilting for a long time so I would love to try working with precuts! love the little baskets!
I love precuts because it makes it faster to make a quilt with the strips already cut and they are straight. I love the colors so coordinated
I LOVE precuts! All the tedious work of measuring and cutting has been done for you and you can get right to the fun part of sewing! I also love that everything is color/pattern coordinated. It really makes sewing and quilting and creating more fun!
I love the precuts because they cut the time it takes me to select fabrics as well as the cutting. They are great for quick and easy projects and they always look great because the colors are so coordinated. I love those baskets! Thanks for a chance to win a copy of the book.
Those little baskets are super cute.Precuts save time and the best is that you don´t need to coordinate,all match very well.
What a wonderful preview, baskets, and book. I would love some precuts and the book to try something new. Thanks for the opportunity.
I really haven't used precuts that much because I always cut my fabric to size. Using pre-cuts would make my life a lot easier and these projects are great.
what a delightful project! and i can imagine that the rest are just as wonderful. this would be great to have and the baskets would so much fun for my girls :)
this looks like so much fun - my girls would love these and i would love to see the rest of the book!
I love precuts since they take the prep work out of projects. I can usually open them and get started pretty quickly.
I love the simplicity of precuts. I can start with a charm pack and have a project going pretty quickly without too much prep work.
I usually can't wait to start a new project and to save time on the cutting part makes it even better. And matching colors is always right!
I love to sew with precuts because they are already cut and because you can get a great variety of prints without spending a ton of money!!
I love that precuts include every print from one collection! I also use them when I want just a little fabric, from a line I really like, to make something small and beautiful!
Love them
I would really love to try precuts. I'm very left brain and have a difficult time pulling things together. It would be a great help to have all the fabrics matched up for me ahead of time. Thanks much.
I LOVE the baskets and how easy with the precuts! Especially when you live an hour away from a fabric store!
Can't wait to tackle those super cute baskets for my sewing room!! Love! What other goodies are in your book?
Can't wait to make those super cute baskets for my sewing room! Love..love..love! What other fun projects are in the book?
Awesome giveaway! I can't wait to do my first precut jelly roll race.
Love using precuts in my projects. I am able to get the whole line for a reasonable cost and can quickly get to work because they are, well, pre-cut.
I love using precuts when I'm making quilts as gifts--it comes together so quickly! christina112358 at gmail dot com
Right now I'm dealing with both space and time constraints. Pre-cuts are the answer. I don't need a huge cutting area, so I can cut what is needed in the available space. And since I only spend a fraction of the time cutting, I can spend most of my time sewing. I really appreciate that.
I would like to see these projects especially to woven baskets that can be used for hot foods and be made to fit special dishes.
I love to sew with precuts because my cutting is not as perfect as it should be and because of that cutting is the part I enjoy less. Thanks for the chance!
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I like precuts, because it is one less thing for me to do wrong! The number of times I have cut something too short or too narrow because I'm not concentrating enough, well, lets just say you'd think I'd learn to pay more attention! Often I like everything in a fabric collection too, so I can have a little bit of everything with precuts :)
I love having a bit of each piece of a line. This book looks like fun.
Sewing with precuts puts you ahead. The cutting is (mostly) done for you.
This looks like a fun book! Pre-cuts just save so much time - they're brilliant!
Precuts are handy, ready to be used, save time and fabrics are coordinated beautifully.
I like to get the variety that pre-cuts offer for a project!
I love precuts! so easy to use and you get a sample of each fabric
I'm new to quilting and choosing right colours is difficult so the pre-cuts save me a lot of work and worry. And also they are always perfectly cut.
Less cutting, can use all the fabric in collection and not go broke and they are fun!!!!
Like you said in the post, cutting is my least favorite part of sewing. Plus, I'm terrible at coordinating fabric, so the bundles make that so much easier!
I love sewing with precuts because as a new quilter most of the hard work is done for me.... accurate cuts, colors coordinated, and straight seams. I also like that you get to see a whole collection of beautiful fabric. The projects in this book would be great for those single precut packs that aren't enough to make a whole quilt with. Thank you!
I love per cuts for numerous reasons. No standing in line to have fabric cut, wonderful bits of fun..... Elaine your book gives me more reasons to buy fabric precursor. Thanks
I like precuts as they all work together and you get a bit of a whole range rather than having to decide on just a few!
I love pre-cuts because they coordinate and I don't have to try and select just a few from the range!
I love pre-cuts because you they all work together and I don't have to try and select just a few from the range.
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