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POS System Trends 2009
By Abigail A. Lorden & Christina Volpe | December 10, 2008
POS System Trends 2009
As the end of a tumultuous 2008 draws near, most restaurant operators are happy to put a fork in it and call it done. The economic downturn that began with a credit crunch and sub-prime fiasco rapidly spread to most sectors of business, with those reliant upon discretionary spending feeling a good portion of the pinch. Unless you're part of the quick-service restaurant segment, which is benefiting from consumer trends towards low cost and high value, your hospitality operation is likely looking for ways to cut costs, curb waste, and coax consumers in your doors.
If you haven't already considered it, one of your heaviest pieces of artillery in the battle for share of wallet is your point of sale system. As 2008 comes to a close, and we usher in a new year with hopes of a speedy turn-around,
Hospitality Technology
puts a focus on the point of sale to find out what exactly this system can do to help hospitality operators sell more and spend less in 2009.
We're tracking the top trends related to point of sale software technology in the year ahead: get the inside scoop from POS vendors about their initiatives; hear from restaurant operators on the functionality that matters most; and bone-up on recent new product releases.
Whether you're looking to boost the functionality of the POS you already have, or invest in a new solution, Hospitality Technology is your advisor on the hottest POS system trends in 2009.
POS Features to Fight a Down Economy
Looking back on the events of the past twelve months, almost every restaurant operator will agree: the industry is in a bit of a pickle. From a downward spiraling economy that is leading more and more guests to cut back on their meals out, to a 27-year record-high of rising food costs, operators have been hit with challenge after challenge in 2008. With no end in sight, many will find that their first line of defense against excess spending and dwindling sales is a solution that is already used on a daily basis: the point of sale system (POS).
These are not your parents' POS systems. Technology that once was only able to track orders and process transactions is taking a lead role in the restaurant segment, thanks to a wide array of built-in functions that bring heightened levels of sophistication to the systems of yore. Systems that can manage forecasting, financials, marketing, customer loyalty and inventory control are being cited by operators as the most important POS features to fight the economy going into 2009.
Drilling for data
Across the board, financials and forecasting are among the most sought after POS functions for their ability to drill down data on both a store and corporate level. Through this function, operators have the ability to not only project anticipated sales based off of historical data, but plan business strategies accordingly to accommodate the ebb and flow of business.
The California-based, Mary's Pizza Shack (
) is able to forecast both sales and labor through their of the POSitouch point-of-sale software from Restaurant Data Concepts (
). Mary's Pizza Shack worked with POSitouch reseller Custom Business Solutions (
) to select and install the solution. "If I am looking at the last nine weeks we can arrange our labor schedules accordingly," says Bruce Lane, Mary's IT director. "We pick samples of what the productivity of a store is during busy times, like during lunch or dinner, and we know exactly where they stand to let people off and on the schedule. I think that during the late night and afternoon rush, this is important and we have a huge benefit from being able to do that."
An additional feature that operators enjoy is the ability to design custom reports that can be sent to multiple managers on a daily basis. Through an integrated back office solution from MenuLink and Radiant's Aloha POS (
), Goldco Inc., operator of 61 Burger King locations across the southeastern United States, is able to keep its managers up to speed on store performance. "When operators get up in the morning, they have a daily operations report and a detailed sales report that is emailed to them," says Dennis O'Keefe, VP of operations and business development. "If they see a cash shortage or an issue that they are not familiar with, then they can then go into MenuLink and investigate it."
Building profitable customer relationships
Another POS feature that operators are making use of is the ability to manage the profitability of store promotions. In an economy where consumers are always on the lookout for a discount, this function is helping operators avoid promotional campaigns that are not always profitable.
Pizza Inn (
), which uses SpeedLine POS system (
), for example, has the ability to create and track coupon use through a money market value pack. "You have to get creative in couponing, but you need to make sure that you aren't giving the farm away," says franchisee Viren Patel. "A lot of people in the area were offering $5.99 lunches and by looking at the coupon history in my POS, I found out that I wasn't getting any new customers from running this promotion so I changed my strategy."
Couponing is a functionality that ties directly into the challenge of creating a loyal base of customers that will keep coming back time and time again. Many of the POS systems on the market today also feature customer loyalty functions that allow operators to not only create special marketing promotions geared to create repeat business, but also to track and address customer satisfaction.
For its to-go business, Pizza Inn has the ability to warehouse client data in its POS system. Whenever a customer places an order, staff can pull up that customer's entire history, and if that customer is part of a rewards program, the POS will know to print out a coupon with a receipt whenever a specific dollar amount is met.
"We are also looking to address the lapsed customer who has not ordered pizza in a while," says Patel. "The computer will tell you that info and you can send them a post card for a free pizza."
The 85-location, Zpizza (
) recently began working with In Moment (formerly Empathica;
) to manage and import information about clients who place online orders into its FireFly POS system (
) for emarketing and surveying purposes. Management expects this move to provide them with a more accurate portrait of customer satisfaction and store performance.
"When you look at doing secret shopping, it gives you one day to look into store performance, and if you are pleased with what you are seeing then you may think that it is executing everything properly," says Chris Bright, president of Zpizza International. "If there are a large number of guests who are unhappy, it will survey guests. Now you have gone from one data point to another which will give us a real idea of how the store is performing."
Control inventory, cut waste
POS systems that can track inventory costs and address areas of waste are also in high demand as operators search for solutions to reduce ingredient costs and curtail waste.
"If I wanted to know what my theoretical costs are by item compared to actual costs, I can do that," says O'Keefe who also notes that Goldco's system can run a top 20 report of the most lost items. "I can ask for the top 20 items for my 61 restaurants for the month of October and from there I can initiate company wide programs," says O'Keefe.
Mary's Pizza Shack is able to complete a full inventory count once a week for food and liquor and does all of its receiving at the store level. Management is thus able to see where they are losing inventory and set a course to bring in more money to their bottom line.
"If a store is out of a variance, like cheese, then we can force them to take measures," says Lane. "We make them do inventory every day and it doesn't take long to get them back on track. One percent equals a lot of money."
Top 12 Trends of 2009
Hospitality Technology asked point of sale technology vendors to provide insights on the top trends that will impact their POS software solutions in the year ahead. Nearly all POS vendors identified the current economic climate as being the single most important factor influencing point of sale software trends. Restaurant owners are looking in every nook and cranny for ways to boost efficiency, including improved inventory tracking, reduced food costs, and better labor management. In response, POS vendors are focusing R&D into areas that will help operators boost efficiency. Here are some of the specific trends that POS vendors will respond to in 2009.
1. Labor management
The top two cost centers in any restaurant environment are labor and food. It comes as no surprise that restaurant operators identified labor management as the second most important feature of their POS systems (right behind accounting/financials) in Hospitality Technology's 2008 Restaurant Industry Technology Study. As a result, POS software vendors are investing in improved labor functionality. pcAmerica's (
) new labor scheduler enables restaurant owners to quickly coordinate staffing. It includes a visual on-screen interface with labor costs and is integrated with the company's POS solution, Restaurant Pro Express, at no extra charge.
2. Robust payment security
Once a back-burner issue, payment security and PCI Compliance have moved beyond merely being important to being essential. As a result, the vast majority of POS software providers are pushing hard to develop new payment applications or modify current ones to be in accordance with the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS, the program formerly managed by Visa known as Payment Application Best Practices or PABP). The goal of PA-DSS is to help software vendors and others develop secure payment applications that do not store prohibited data. The PCI Security Standards council is in the process of making a list of PA-DSS approved solutions available on its website,
, by the end of 2008.
3. Integration
Increased security requirements are accelerating the trend towards integration.
Vendors concede that, when operators desire a complete system refresh, a single-source, fully-integrated solution is generally the only type of purchase now considered. As such, many vendors are investing heavily in integration. Posera (
) is releasing a new version of its Maitre'D POS solution that's equipped with a SQL 2008 database; this will help the vendor address the growing demand for integration into third-party applications.
4. Centralization
POS vendors identify a steady, ongoing trend to expand centrally hosted applications to include fully functional back office products and management tools. Radiant Systems (
www.radiantsys tems.com
), for one, has brought to market two hosted applications: Aloha Configuration Center and Aloha Command Center. Both enable restaurant operators to centrally manage in-store data in real-time, allowing them to measure business results more quickly and efficiently.
5. Virtualization
) points to the support of server virtualization as a growing trend in the year ahead. Virtual applications will help larger operators reduce the footprint of their server farms. For smaller operators, the ability to consolidate all of their in-store systems onto a single piece of hardware will allow them to reduce the number of PCs and/or servers they support and maintain. For multi-unit operators, the combination of a virtualized server farm with an enterprise POS system deployment eliminates the in-store server requirement entirely and allows system consolidation above the store.
6. The expansion of self service
Many vendors note that the combination of advanced technology with operator and consumer awareness will create a growing trend toward self-service solutions. While kiosk implementations have the potential to boost sales and streamline operations in many quick-service and fast-casual environments, the definition of self-service will to continue to expand beyond kiosks to include online ordering and mobility. Likewise, Internet-based and mobile ordering (whether by SMS messaging or mobile web) will continue to grow.
7. Mobile marketing
New forms of marketing are expected to become widespread and require integration. The continuation of this trend will likely see targeted offers or coupons sent to guests' cell phones or PDAs, requiring redemption at the point of sale. NCR (
), for example, is working towards a solution that enables recognition of e-coupon barcodes at the POS. MICROS is also responding to the strong consumer drive toward mobile technology and online ordering, and is currently in development to accommodate mobile technologies.
8. Conversational ordering
Vendors such as Xpient Solutions (
) and WAND Corp. (
) expect conversational ordering to grow in importance. This technology offers the ability to allow the associate at the POS to quickly and accurately take an order in whichever sequence the customer prefers. Most POS systems currently present an order flow that the associate must follow. Conversational ordering allows the associate to press the menu items in any order and has intelligence to manage the order completion properly (for example, disallowing completion of the order if a required drink selection is missing from a combo meal).
9. Business intelligence
POS vendors identify business intelligence functionality as a core area of importance, focusing on functionality that enables operators to quickly identify industry trends, predict guest patterns, improve business processes and turn predictive analysis into data-based business decisions. Should the economy continue to trend downward, BI will become increasingly essential to successful hospitality operations. Agilysys (
), for one, introduced Hospitality Analytics earlier this year. The solution consolidates data across disparate systems and multiple geographic locations into a single, integrated source for comprehensive reporting, auditing and analysis.
10. Digital menu boards
The use of digital menu boards in quick-service environments is expected to expand, requiring integration with the POS to maintain pricing integrity and support different day-part menus. Nutritional information legislation may have an impact on implementation rates; if operators are required to post this information, digital menu boards could prove the most cost-effective method for providing it. For its part, Wand has tied its digital signage solution to the POS, pre-loading digital menu boards as a custom product called WANDisplay. The solution works with Wand NextGen POS and Wand Enterprise manager.
11. CRM & Loyalty
Going into 2008, most restaurant operators did not have a loyalty program, quick-service chief among them. According to Hospitality Technology's 2008 Restaurant Technology Study, only 36 percent of all restaurants offered loyalty programs (down slightly from 39 percent in 2007). The economy has changed the game when it comes to loyalty, however, as vendors are reporting a marked increase in interest from restaurant operators. Operators, they note, are looking for ways to extend loyalty functionality beyond the point of sale into more sophisticated CRM programs. To deliver on this need, a host of POS vendors are rolling out enhancements to their loyalty offerings. Agilysys has built its own loyalty application with integration to the InfoGenesis POS application. The integration is built using service-oriented architecture (SOA). The company intends to work with other providers and CRM applications to leverage the functionality. Meanwhile, FireFly Technologies (
) is releasing major enhancements to its customer loyalty program in 2009 that integrate into online ordering and e-marketing solutions.
12. Tableside ordering & payment
Mobility in the form of table side ordering and payment continues to have significant application in reducing human error, improving efficiency, and boosting payment security. What's more, in light of current economic conditions, restaurant operators are looking at tableside solutions as a way to up-sell products. For its part, mobile POS vendor Digital Dining (
) is focusing completely on features and functions of the mobile POS that increase sales and reduce inefficiency.
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Artist's BiographyJoseph Damian Foley is a native of Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Boston University as a Trustee Scholar (full four year academic scholarship), where he studied trumpet with Roger Voisin, Rolf Smedvig, and Peter Chapman, and composition with Samuel Headrick. He received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from that institution, and was twice given the award for \"Outstanding Brass Player.\" He has performed in more than a dozen countries on four continents.
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CPPIB, whose assets rose to a record C$170.1 billion in the third quarter from C$165.8 billion three months earlier, said its long-term investment horizon and increasingly skilled team of dealmakers will give it an advantage as improving U.S. and Chinese economies bring competitors back to the playing field.
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If you had to choose between living a life of restrictions and a life of freedom, you'd choose the latter right? This is a decision most patients have to take when diagnosed with heart disease. However, thanks to medical advancements such as the pacemaker, they get to choose a life of freedom too, just like you.
In simple terms, a pacemaker is a tiny device helps people with irregular heart rhythms to quite effectively, maintain the 'pace' of their normal lifestyle. It is best suited for patients suffering from arrhythmias or the abnormal beating of the heart and heart block as well. As a matter of fact, for many people who have had a pacemaker fitted, things such as fainting, dizziness and other undesirable symptoms which have been known to be part and parcel of arrhythmias have become a thing of the past.
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There is a short period of recovery following which a person can resume his or her normal activities. But just as the pacemaker goes a long way in making its wearer's life easier, the wearer has a few responsibilities but there needs to be minimal concern with respect to its maintenance.
The batteries of pacemakers last about six to seven years, and for some pacemakers which are not that active, the battery need not be replaced till about fifteen years after the date of implantation.
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With the New Orleans Saints' player suspensions overturned Tuesday on appeal, the case moved into the blame phase Wednesday. Saints quarterback Drew Brees lashed out at commissioner Roger Goodell for issuing the initial player punishments that wound up being lifted by former commissioner Paul Tagliabue. Meanwhile, according to numerous reports that cite the Associated Press, including one on NFL Network from New Orleans, former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams pointed the finger of blame at his former colleague, Joe Vitt, for the continuation of the team's bounty program. Williams reportedly told Tagliabue he tried to convince his fellow coaches to stop the system of payments for targeting opposing players for injuries or hard hits, but that Vitt forcefully disagreed. Brees told NFL.com that Williams and alleged whistleblower Mike Cerullo were merely "disgruntled employees." Credibility was a popular topic at the Saints' facility. "Right now, the league office and commissioner Goodell have very little to no credibility with us as players and some of the fans," Brees said. "The NFL, through this whole process, including commissioner Goodell, has been all about an outcome as opposed to a fair process. That's what we fought for. Finally, we got that. "What I'd like to see is a level of accountability on the part of the NFL and commissioner Goodell in regards to the mishandling of this entire situation. We as players are held to a strict code of conduct both on and off the field, and we have to be held accountable to that, as it should be. And I think they should be held to the same standard." Goodell didn't directly respond to Brees' attack, but he expressed his disappointment with Tagliabue overturning the suspensions. Speaking at the league's owners meeting in Irving, Texas, Goodell said, "I think his report made it quite clear, that he holds the management and the coaches responsible. My personal view is I hold everyone responsible. We have to have a personal responsibility here. Player health and safety is an important issue in this league, and it's going to take everyone. ... I fundamentally disagree that this is something that lies just with coaches and management. "I think when there's conduct detrimental, there should be associated discipline with that, and that's where we disagree. But I respect his decision and we're moving on." Vitt, speaking before Williams' accusation was reported, wouldn't comment on the ruling, saying only he felt good for the players. Williams is serving an indefinite suspension from the league. He left the Saints for the St. Louis Rams before he received his ban. Vitt sat out six games as punishment in the case, then took over as interim head coach in place of Sean Payton, who received a one-year suspension. Tagliabue overturned the suspensions of Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Anthony Hargrove and Scott Fujita, placing blame for the bounty system on the coaching staff instead of the players.
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As covetous children are often warned: "Be careful what you wish for." Its this very cautionary wisdom that sets the stage for Henry Selicks CORALINE, an eerily eye-popping stop-motion animation tale of fractured dreams and families made whole. As the films opens, Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) and her parents (Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman) have moved into the Pink Palace, a once-vibrant boarding house thats turned drab and dilapidated. As her parents work feverishly on a new gardening catalog, the bored and belligerent Coraline is admonished to explore her new worlds possibilities. Along the way she meets her fellow tenants, including two aging English showgirls and a mouse-training Russian acrobat, as well as an outcast neighborhood boy named Wybie. But it is a mysterious hidden door that most piques Coralines interest--a gateway to a parallel world where her "other" parents and neighbors live only to see Coraline well fed and endlessly entertained. All is not cakes and carnivals for Coraline, though, and the black buttons that have replaced the eyes of these otherworldly imitations hint at darker intentions. When these intentions are revealed, Cora and a friendly magical cat use their wits and willpower to defeat Coralines wicked "other mother" and restore balance in the real world. Based on Neil Gaimans beloved childrens novel, director Selick (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS) uses the stop-motion technique to bring CORALINE to life with amazing visual and emotional depth. The result is a frightfully magical adventure that will give the whole family plenty to shriek, cheer, and talk about.
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There were several frames exclusively full of nectar in the super, and some of them were beginning to be capped off. I presumed the queen was down below the super and placed the excluder on before replacing the supers. I'm guessing I can check back in a few days from now and see if there have been new eggs laid. If not, I'll know the queen is not in the supers. Will the excluder still act as a barrier to the bees working the supers because of the empty super right above it, or will the top box with nectar and brood in it still work as an incentive for them to start drawing out the empty box?By the way, I noticed that the frames in my super are in much better shape than the frames in the brood boxes. -- Kris
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Quote from: golfpsychoIf I'm reading this right, you have split the brood chambers with a super of undrawn foundation. I would probably reverse the supers, keep the brood closer to the brood boxes. That's was I was concerned about, splitting the brood in the honey super from the rest of the brood. -- Kris
[It depends, how big your colony is. How many boxes you have total in your hive?This is middle summer in your country and bees will carry honey over month to the hive. It is better to keep larvas in one place, because queen had just started to lay eggs. Brood rearing need warming and it is not wise to widen brood area artificially.Do you have one or two size frames , I mean equal size in whole hive? If they are same size, you just move brood frames down stairs.What you tell is very typical, and no prolem at all. You have time to rearrange farmes so that you get your honey yield from hive.
Still, I wonder whether I should extract the 3 full frames of honey that have appeared in the upper deep box, or should I just let them remain,-- Kris
My efforts would be to get her with room into the bottom box, making sure the second box either had room or would soon have room (emerging brood) to expand into. I would keep the medium with brood lower, and leave the excluder out. Then I would stay out of em for a while. Give em a chance to get their house in order and make some honey for you.


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Lowering the STF PAX doesn't make any sense... tracking Andy's results at Nationals is not the only baseline that should be followed. IMO there are better contenders than the Mazda2 in this class and it would be fun to see what Andy could do on another car...
Locally some people are yelling that STF is too soft, with my SVT being almost non-reachable in Street Touring, even by some well-prepped STX JCWs and last year's STR winner. I have PAXed top 3 overall out of between 60-100 drivers at almost all of 2 local championship events this year (around 10 events). I'm on my way to winning both Street Touring championships, maybe winning a club overall championship (with some luck, real position would have been 2nd), and ending 2nd overall in the other organization. I also won the ASN Canadian Autoslalom Championship by 0,5 secs in front of a crazy SM GC Subaru, a DS Type R with awesome drivers and a nice STR Miata.
Anyhow, I know that I wouldn't cut a top 20% at National level, with a fast DS JCW on Hoosiers PAXing within a sec in front of me and classing top 30 at Devens NE National event. This being said, maybe the STF index is not too far off... but should'nt be lowered.
If they lower the index to make the 2 more competitive, it could be considered to re-class some cars and keep ONLY the very low-powered FWDs in STF, and have a separate class for higher-powered non-LSD cars at maybe something between 0.800 and 0.810. Two fast drivers are running a 2002-gen Spec-V and a 2007 Civic Si locally and are always within 0,5 sec (in front or behind me), but STF PAX kills them. Only advantage with their cars IMO is the LSD, and they should'nt get a 0.030 higher PAX in STX. Usually I run the same raw times as prepped Coopers S's and new FR-S with good drivers on RS3s, 1.5 sec behind prepped John Cooper Works and within 2.5 sec of STU STI's.
With this increasing number of ST classes, I think that it could also be logical to re-organize them with the same structure as stock classes. Just sort all existing cars in A-B-C...-H street touring classes...
On my side I will be considering FSP next year if STF is made even softer, Street Touring competition would become hard to find... At some point leading your class and almost overall PAX, sometimes with runs with small mistakes that you know could have been better, is not more fun than fighting for a podium...
Oh, and that no-class-hopping rule this year is detracting... why not let play cars without OEM LSDs in STX if they want to? FSP is now the only option with a Quaife/Torsen in the SVT. We now have to choose to be over-competitive in STF or not even close to a contender in FSP.
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|I see changing my car from H-stock to STF will only make my car faster. But if they do decide to lower it, fine by me. I'll just dominate all my PAX classes next year.
hmmm.. May need to pick up another SVT or better yet.. a 2.3 durahatch.
that would be super soft..
Copied from our local autox forum. Discuss. I for one think the pax should be atleast .800
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My calculator and I have been following Andy Hollis (the other alien, Brian) around the country in STF. I've been paying attention to not only the competition he has (or does not have) in STF, but also the relevant competition in the related H Stock Open classes. Weight was given to any Minidrivers who were still or did previously run (and especially trophy) in the last SCCA Nationals in H Stock in these comparisons.From my desk, what I think I'm seeing, is that Andy's Mazda2 is NOT covering the "spread" of the .794 STF Pax Factor. In other words, it appears to me that it may indeed be too stiff, and may need to be lowered (like .788) next year to be statistically relevant.
|I run the R1R 195/50/15 on my Miata, and it is an outstanding tire, and stays that way until they cord. You're right about the compound changing on the bigger tires, but they absolutely do not suck... they are still very nice tires, just not as nice as the "secret" compound. Personally i think the tire will be a perfect fit for the SVT (225/45/16 r1r) i can't wait until someone tries it out.
|tukaniSVT, You run 225/50R16 RS3's currently in STF, correct? I see that Toyo's just came out with a 225/45R16 R1R. Any thoughts about running these to improve the SVT's gearing? I'm thinking that this is probably the way to go.
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I have looked at all the pics that I can trying to educate myself. I was close to buying CA boots until I saw psberetta selling Jango Wes Boba Fett boots. I can see the difference between the CA and what psberetta is selling. Is one better than the other? Which is better accepted? Heck, which is better?
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text: While impatiently waiting for the videos of Stéphane Lambiel's new program to "Puttin' on the Ritz" I recalled and watched some other programs to jazz music I liked. I love "light" jazz as a music and I love when it is performed on the ice. Not every skater does it justice though. You need to have good skating and dancing skills for this, to be able to feel the music and catch the rhythm which with jazz is not an easy task at all. Do you have any jazzy performances and programs that you like? Please, share. Some performances that I like: Stéphane Lambiel Tainted love Let the good times roll Don't stop the music Yuna Kim All of me "Take five" was popular recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9is97STMLQ - Patrick Chan, SP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpRKk1fdu0 - Takahiko Kozuka, SP


text: A. Mirai Nagasu's Junior World Record Short Program score (65.07 points-2008) is broken. B. Caroline Zhang's margin of victory record for an isu event (53.60 points-2006 JGP Mexico) is broken. C. Kim Yuna places lower than 3rd in a competition. D. Kim Yuna is beaten by an American lady. Personally, I think that Mirai's record could fall in the next 12 hours! Kim might finish lower than third if she fails to keep up with the Russian ladies. Ashley Wagner does stand a good chance of beating Kim if Kim skates badly. Ironically enough, Ashley is the only one of the 2008ers who has not beaten Kim ina segment of competition yet. Rachel Flatt beat Kim in the LP at the 2009 Skate America. Caroline Zhang beat Kim in the SP at the 2007 Cup of China. Mirai Nagasu beat Kim in the SP at the 2010 World Championships. Caroline's record will probably never be broken. Discuss!


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The trade I am making is for an almost finished Clone6 bucket in good condition, what I'm giving in a return is a Jinto (BGHUNTER) Jango Fett lid, is this a good deal?
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Canisius men's basketball team used a 26-4 run during the final 10-plus minutes of the game to defeat the University at Buffalo 69-55 at First Niagara Center on Wednesday evening. The Golden Griffins win their third straight game to improve to 6-3 on the season.
Senior Billy Baron scored a game-high 23 points, going 8-fo-14 from the floor and 4-of-6 from behind the arc. Senior Chris Perez had 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting. Redshirt freshman Phil Valenti scored 11 points, all coming in the second half.
"This was another hard-fought local rivalry game and our guys came to play in the second half," Canisius head coach Jim Baron said. "I thought we got a huge spark from Chris Perez with his ability to get to the basket and Phil Valenti provided us with some more great energy down the stretch. We didn't turn it over and our guys really dug in and battled."
Canisius struggled from the floor in the early going and shot 2-for-14 to start the game with both baskets coming on 3-pointers from Baron. The Griffs would control the glass with 10 offensive rebounds in the opening 15 minutes. Buffalo went on a quick 8-1 run in less than two minutes and eventually extended its lead to 27-18.
The Griffs would get 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions from senior Jordan Heath, with both treys coming off offensive rebounds. Canisius could never get closer than six points during the rest of the half as Buffalo took a 35-26 lead into the locker room, riding the strength of 16 points in the paint and 52 percent shooting from the floor.
Buffalo pushed the lead to 11 points before Canisius started to claw its way back into the game, getting a 3-pointer at the top of the key from Baron and a strong finish from Valenti to make it 42-37 with 16 minutes remaining.
Buffalo came right back with five straight points and held a 51-43 lead with 10:54 left, but Canisius kept the Bulls within striking distance. The Griffs would score eight straight points during a span of four minutes, including two layups from Perez, to tie the score at 51-51 with 7:24 remaining. The Griffs took their first lead of the night, 55-53, after Baron made two free throws with 5:43 left.
Valenti sparked the Griffs off the bench with 11 points and five rebounds in 15 second-half minutes. The redshirt freshman scored six straight points as Canisius pushed the lead to 61-55. Canisus scored 26 of the game's final 30 points by holding Buffalo to just four points during the final 10-plus minutes of the game and scoreless during the final 4:41. Canisius also forced Buffalo into missing its final 12 3-point field-goal attempts of the night after the Bulls made six of their first 11 from behind the arc.
Javon McCrea led Buffalo (4-3) with 13 points but was scoreless during the final 15 minutes of the game. Joshua Freelove had 11 points and Shannon Evans had six assists. Buffalo shot just 33.3 percent in the second half and went 2-for-16 with four turnovers during the decisive run.
Canisius returns to action Saturday, Dec. 14, as the team goes on the road to play at St. Francis Brooklyn. Game time is set for 4 p.m.Notes: Canisius and Buffalo met for the 46th time and Canisius not holds a 31-15 lead in the all-time series… The Griffs defeated the Bulls for the second consecutive season, which last happened in 2002 and 2003… Canisius played at First Niagara Center for the 45th time in program history and improved to 27-18 all-time in the building. Wednesday's game was the first in program history with Canisius serving as the road team… Baron scored 20 or more points for the sixth time this season and 21st time in his time as a Golden Griffin… Perez played in his 100th career game on Wednesday night… Canisius committed six turnovers (one in the second half) and now has 21 turnovers in the last three games.


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Were Iraq Election Candidates Blocked by Iran?
posted at 5:58 pm on February 17, 2010 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Gen. Ray Odierno, our top military commander in Iraq, has made a disturbing accusation that clarifies the previously inexplicable action by Iraq's Accountability and Justice Commission. In January, the AJC barred more than 350 Sunni candidates from the March 7th parliamentary elections, claiming they had "ties" to Saddam Hussein and the Baath Party.
While some of the banned candidates were high-ranking members, thus should be preventing from running, most were minor funcitonaries; during the reign of the Baathists, it was virtually impossible for Sunnis to serve in the government without joining, or at least having close ties to, the Baath Party… just as anyone wishing to progress in German politics under Hitler would have to be Nazi Party member or associate. By banning everyone who was in any way connected with the Baath Party, the AJC in effect banned every viable Sunni candidate from the election, a blatant political attack on the Sunni bloc.
Many Iraq-watchers were taken by surprise, because the action puts the entire election in jeopardy. Why would Iraqis want to throw a monkey wrench into their own political future? Gen. Odierno believes he has the answer; from the Washington Times article:
The Iraqi official in charge of a commission that blocked more than 300 politicians from running in next month's elections is working closely with Iran's Quds Force, prompting the top U.S. general in Iraq to voice concerns about Tehran's meddling in Iraq's fragile democracy.
Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, in a speech, accused Ali Faisal al-Lami, the executive director of the Accountability and Justice Commission along with Ahmad Chalabi, the panel's chairman, of being "clearly influenced by Iran."
Gen. Odierno said both men, according to intelligence reports, were in close contact with Abu-Mahdi al-Muhandis, the top Iraqi adviser to Iran's Quds Force commander. The Quds Force comprises Iran's unconventional military units, which have orchestrated anti-U.S. paramilitary and political operations in Iraq.
Ahmad Chalabi is working for Iran? Surprise, surprise, on the Jungle River Cruise tonight! But it's a grave turn of events that al-Qods is also working hand-in-sock-puppet with the Accountability and Justice Commission, who are running the election. As Odierno says, "It is disappointing that someone like [al-Lami] is put in charge of the de-Ba'athification commission."
Odierno says intelligence reports indicate that al-Lami, the AJC executive director, even planned an attack on American forces and Iraqi military and civilian officials in Sadr City.. which by strange coincidence happens to be the stronghold of Iranian minion Muqtada Sadr and his mighty "Mahdi Militia."
Here we see the dazzling genius of President Barack H. Obama's decision to pull troops out of Iraq according to a pre-determined timeline, regardless of facts on the ground: Iran's agents know that if they can ride out the next few months, America will quit the field. Iran will have a free hand to meddle in Iraq's internal affairs to their black heart's content.
Unless, of course, the Obamacle suddenly finds the huevos to stand up to Iran… as he has clearly shown so often in the past year.
But a military crisis may be about to overwhelm the Obamatrons; for Gen. Odierno plans to "re-evaluate the pace of troop reductions in Iraq within 60 days after the March 7 elections in Iraq." One presumes this will include a written report, the terms of which are sure to leak out.
If, as seems likely, Odierno recommends slowing the withdrawal and doing more to fight against al-Qods and other Iranian incursions into Iraq, then what will B.O. do? Will he cave, as he has so far on closing Guantanamo Bay, thus enraging the Left? Or will be be compelled by mounting leftist frustration to draw his foot in the sand, going ahead with the original withdrawal plan regardless of what his own top general says — thus further eroding voters' respect for his military acumen and leadership (such as they are)?
Either horn of that particular dilemma will damage his political standing. But then, actions — and particularly inactions — have consequences. In an ironic twist, Barack Obama may soon be forced to announce that the Obama who insisted upon a firm withdrawal date… is not the Obama he knew.
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Nathan Redmond in action against Leeds
04 Jul 2013
Redmond joins Norwich
Blues winger Nathan Redmond has joined Barclays Premier League side Norwich City on a four-year deal.
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Nathan Redmond's hopes of making progress with England in the European Under-21 Championships were dashed as the Young Lions were easily beaten by Norway.
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Blues winger Nathan Redmond made his England U21s bow during the 2013 UEFA European U21 Championships opener against Italy.
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text: Interesting side note about Harbaugh to consider. Many feel his star QB will return for his senior season, but HE must consider these possibilities. -An NFL lockout next year would certainly bring an end to the huge rookie salaries. -Expect to see a salary scale in place for all rookies... -The Last Big Name QB last year signed for 6 years at 78 million, with 50 million guaranteed. -After the Strike, the top pick will probably be looking at a 5 year - 15 million dollar deal, with only 5 million guaranteed. If he goes now, he'll sign for big bucks........ If he goes, it makes it easier for Harbaugh to leave also.


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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger has pledged to "do the maximum" to keep Theo Walcott at Arsenal.
The England international has been in fine form in recent weeks and is currently the first team's top scorer with eight in all competitions.
Walcott's contract expires next summer and he has yet to agree a new deal. Wenger hopes that will change.
"My desire is to keep Theo," he reiterated. "We do what's needed to keep him and hopefully [as] I told you many times, we can sort this situation out very soon.
"Very soon is before the end of December - one way or another, that is for sure.
"I don't want to go into any details but you can believe me [that] we do the maximum we can to keep our best players."
- Wenger was speaking at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where the Club opened a Lung Function Unit - a legacy from Arsenal's partnership with GOSH during the 2009/10 season


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I'm looking for a game with an old school RPG feel.I would prefer minor graphics ( character portrait, shows a sprite of my enemy in combat, etc.)
Please, no 'wait six hours for next action' bull crap. I'm playing this to kill time at work.I used to play dragon's call. Any others?