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Rick Beusman has been busy. In the last three years, he's gone from owning two clubs to owning five. Considering the time and effort it takes to start a new club, that's quite a feat.
However, Beusman, whose clubs are in New York and Connecticut, isn't alone in his expansion efforts. The number of health clubs in the United States grew by more than 2 percent (up to 18,203 clubs) during the first six months of 2002. That number was down from a 5.1 percent increase in health club numbers in 2001 (from 16,983 clubs in January 2001 to 17,807 clubs in January 2002).
While the economy may be to blame for a slowing in the number of new clubs, it hasn't stopped all club owners from forging ahead with expansion. Some are motivated by the desire for additional revenue and profits, others by the need to defend against competitors and still others by the desire to give employees and the company the opportunity to grow.
Regardless of the reasons for expansion, club owners must look first at internal and external strategic issues prior to going forward, says Beusman, whose clubs include Saw Mill Club, Mt. Kisco Athletic Club and three Sports Plex clubs.
"There's strategic issues that if you don't get them right, you'll be dead," Beusman says.
Before expanding, a club owner must ensure that he or she is capable of expanding internally. Is the club's culture one that supports growth and expansion? Is the staff on board with the idea? Is the culture one where growth and acquisition is seen with pride and ownership?
Administratively, the club also must be designed for growth. It must have information technology, payroll and accounting systems that are expandable and that will allow the club to expand. The business office must be centralized. The human resource system must be expandable and must provide training for employees.
Club owners also must look at two external issues: would growth help defend against competitors and do prime markets exist that aren't being reached? For Beusman's clubs, he wanted to secure the market and become the dominant player as well as give his employees an opportunity to grow. That led to the question of how to align the business, what types of clubs to add and whether to acquire existing businesses or build new ones.
For Beusman, the answer was to acquire existing businesses. The reason has to do with one of the first nuts and bolts issues that a club owner must deal with: financing.
The rocky economy has tightened bankers' grips on their wallets making it more difficult to obtain financing for a new club. For banks, it's all about the operator. Banks care about the history, past successes, equity positions, personal guarantees, personal assets and resources of the operator. A club owner starting up a second club must show good numbers from the first club or the going will be tough, says Bruce Carter, the founder of Optimal Fitness Systems International, a consulting firm specializing in startups, and Optimal Design Systems International, a design firm. In essence, a first club has to show profitability and sustainability over a long period.
"Banks will lend you money when you show you don't need it," says Dan Horan, owner of Hatfield Athletic Club in Hatfield, PA. That makes it tough to get financing for a fitness person who doesn't "come from money."
Horan opened his club five years ago, but it took him a good year or two to get the financing that he needed. He was turned down by bankers at least once, but finally landed a backer whose collateral made him more attractive to the banking community.
"I had the experience but not the collateral," Horan says. "My partner had other experience and major capital and collateral behind him." If a club owner must take on a partner, Horan suggests finding one with different strengths so each person brings something different to the partnership.
Years of experience in the club business give a club owner the successful history to make future loans easier to obtain.
"In the last three years, we were able to get a lot of financing with little personal guarantees," Beusman says. His past successes have shown his banker that his clubs are cash flow generators. "They know us personally and see our financial strength," he says.
Beusman isn't interested in investors for his club. Carter agrees that most club owners prefer to stay away from investor relationships because investors cut into the profits. However, sometimes club owners have no way around an investor arrangement. In that case, Beusman recommends a majority shareholder arrangement instead of a conglomeration of minority holders, which Beusman calls "a hard beast to manage because everyone has a say."
"You can get investors, but investors are a lot of work," Beusman says. "A good banking relationship is a lot less work. They just want you to pay the mortgage and meet the covenants."
Financing requires a compelling business plan that helps the club owner get equity, find debt and create a roadmap for senior management. The business plan is created for bankers, investors and senior management — each of which wants different types of information in the plan. A banker is interested in the concept and the total cost, but most importantly the club owner's ability to pay back the debt. Investors want to know what the risk is to them. They are concerned about cost overrun and they want to know about working capital, tax benefits and their returns. Senior management wants to see the operational numbers and plans. A business plan needs all of this information (perhaps in chart format) to satisfy each of these audiences.
A club owner should take just as much care in putting together the business plan for the second club as he or she did for the first. Too many club owners who have been successful with the first club get caught up with the excitement of their success and hurry the process along, becoming lax in the details for the second club, Carter says. While taking the time to create detailed and thoroughly researched plans for the second club may initially slow the growth process, in the long-term it increases the probability of success, he says.
In addition to a business plan, a club owner should develop a marketing plan. If the demographics of all the clubs are the same, a club owner can use the same marketing plan for each. By doing so, a club owner can cut marketing costs drastically by developing just one campaign and direct mail pieces or radio and TV commercials for all his or her clubs at one time.
However, if the demographics of the clubs are different, a different marketing plan will be needed for each, says Michael Scott Scudder, managing partner, Southwest Club Services, Taos, NM.
"You can't market in our rural locations like we do in our urban areas," Scudder says. "They wouldn't get what our message is. It wouldn't translate to them because they are not used to it."
A club owner should have an idea of what type of club he or she would like to open before selecting a site. That concept (desired demographics, service offerings, size of club) could change slightly as the demographics of a potential site become clearer.
Club owners must be careful about being "opportunistically driven," says Rick Caro, president of Management Vision in New York. Just because a realtor offers a building at a great price and a seemingly great location, club owners shouldn't snap it up if they haven't done their homework properly and if they don't know whether the location and market fit into their concept for a club.
Caro also warns against skipping steps in the plan and just going with a gut feeling. A club owner must do a market analysis each time he or she opens a club because the owner may be too close to the situation to analyze it with a dispassionate point of view.
"If a location isn't adequate in terms of being able to have a sustainable population to serve it, then it doesn't matter how terrific the offerings are inside the building or how experienced the management is or how much they spend on marketing to woo people or how cleverly financed it is," Caro says. "A business can be flawed from the beginning if the market conditions aren't adequate."
A market survey offers dispassionate clarity. Part of a market survey involves defining the physical breadth of the market. Generally, club owners and consultants use drive times to define the market area. The drive times should be determined by actually driving in peak time traffic from the potential site to the north, south, east and west. By doing this, the club owner emulates the way people would come from their residential areas. Caro chooses to use eight minutes as his drive time for his primary market. He then drives another 12 minutes from that point to find the secondary market. Caro also looks at the daytime market, particularly in an urban area where the potential members may be workers visiting on their lunch hour. For an urban market, such as New York City, Caro uses a five-minute drive time, considering that the majority of potential members may walk to the gym at lunch or after work.
Once the market areas have been determined, a club owner orders demographics for each area from a demographic company. The demographic information includes age, ethnic background, income, educational attainment and occupation — the last two factors Caro considers more important than the others in ascertaining whether a club's concept fits the market.
Most club owners then take the numbers and extract out those ineligible to join their club for one reason or another — wrong age group, physically unwell, unemployed, indigent, or loyal to another health club in the area — to ascertain the number of potential members in a market for the chosen club concept.
Scudder, however, says that club owners must dig deeper when looking at the market. They must determine the kind of buyers that are in the market, something that can only be gleaned through surveys, interviews, chat groups and cross-referencing. Using a company called Red Hot Marketing, Scudder can see numbers for each group of buyers identified by the company. Each group has distinctive buying patterns and lifestyles as well as response mechanisms to advertising messages. Therefore, information about the buyers in a market not only allows a club owner to determine if the market is appropriate for the club concept, but also how to market to that group.
"That's how I do demographics and it has avoided a lot of mistakes," Scudder says.
Club owners must work with several other individuals and groups to put together that additional club. Most important among these are the architect, builder and vendors. Word of mouth is vital when choosing the architect, builder and vendors. It's never too early to start asking around at other health clubs to see who they used for their new club or expansion.
It's also never too early to get an architect and a builder involved in the process. If a club owner does a phase one feasibility study, he or she will want an architect on hand to look at the possible site, hear the concept and create a conceptual layout to see if the plan and site are workable, Caro says. An architect can alert an owner to vital information such as whether the proposed site is level enough to fit into the concept for the club. The architect and builder also can give a club owner a better idea of cost, something required for the business plan.
Using a club-experienced architect is important, Caro says. "The more they've done facilities, the more they can organize you," he says. "They know what questions to ask, and it forces you to think about those things."
A club owner should get bids from several builders before choosing one, and he or she should ask about the size of past jobs the builder has completed to ensure that the builder can handle the size of the project.
Club owners should make sure to select an architect and a builder that share visions similar to their own and an architect and builder that they get along with. The process of building a new facility or renovating an existing building can be a long one so the three entities must be able to work together in a professional manner.
Once an architect and builder are selected, a club owner must select vendors for everything from exercise equipment to towels and toilet paper.
To find vendors, "be prepared to make half a dozen phone calls to people in the business, people you trust and think have done well," says Frank Bentkowski, general manager at Exude, a motivational fitness company, and a sales representative for Xercise Systems, a distributor. Both companies are in New York City. For supplies other than equipment, Bentkowski suggests looking outside the club business at building or hotel managers who are willing to share where they get everything from their light bulbs to their towels.
Horan found his vendors by referral and then by trial and error, building relationships as he went.
"It's about relationships," Horan says about vendors. "The people who have been good to me, who back up what they sell — I have people I deal with in every avenue — I usually end up giving all of them some business.
"Loyalty and trust is earned over time. "The business is very small so everyone knows everyone," Horan says. "You have to do right by people.
"Vendors should be able to help a club owner accomplish his or her objectives and get the owner the required equipment at an affordable price in the needed timeframe.
"A vendor has to be someone who cares about you and your interests and tells you the truth," Bentkowski says.
The selection of site, architect, builder and vendors doesn't happen in isolated moments. The process of starting a second club is made even more difficult because practically everything must happen at the same time. A club owner will simultaneously be working on the business plan, the architect and blueprint selection, the search for capital and zoning permits. The club owner also must create a marketing plan to sign up members — a process that may require leasing office space near the facility as it's built or bringing a trailer to the site. Prior to opening, key staff and hourly staff — including sales, housekeeping and maintenance — must be hired and trained.
It's clear the process is not a one-person operation. Assistance from partners or a trusted employee can prove beneficial, particularly since a club owner doesn't want to neglect the original club while planning for the new one.
In fact, Caro says that many club owners who are interested in expansion don't understand that when they make this decision, they are involved in two businesses: operation of the current club and expansion. He suggests maintaining two separate staffs.
"If you are trying to grow, you may need an acquisitions or new deal person so that you have a committed force that helps you grow as you want to," Caro says. "Otherwise, you are haphazard.
"The club owner also must have at his or her current club a well-trained staff that is empowered to make some vital decisions if the club owner can't be reached. For that reason, proper training of current staff is exceedingly important. Otherwise, the club owner will feel he or she must do it all, a feeling that can only lead to burn out and possibly failure of one or both clubs.
In the end, whether to expand or not comes down to how strong a passion the owner has and how long he or she is willing to be in the business, Beusman says.
"If they are doing this with the goal of flipping it in three to five years, they are doing it for the wrong reason," Beusman says. "You are prone to fail if you just want to build and then sell in three years."
Instead, a longer-term focus is more likely to end in success and the desired exit strategy. That longer term focus should always keep in mind the reason the club owner wants to be in the business and should help prevent the owner from side trips to "trendy" decisions that could get the owner off track on his or her way to success as a chain, a franchise or just a few good clubs in which the owner can take pride.
The business plan should be detailed, clear and concise, run no more than 12 pages, and include the following information:
- Executive summary
- Mission statement for the club and a plan for enacting it
- Market analysis
- Site and building analysis
- Competitive analysis
- Facilities and programs to be offered
- Management
- Rate structure
- Marketing/advertising plan
- Income projections
- Startup costs
- Exit strategy
- Appendix (which may include information such as consultants, whether a franchise or not, pictures of other clubs done in the past)
Several factors indicate that a club owner should either pull out of the deal or revise the plan.
- If the market and demographics aren't right in the selected location
- If the return on investment is low
- If the facility isn't unique from other facilities in that market
- If the existing building can't structurally be renovated as required for a club
- If locating in this space may require a zoning change that is too costly or not winnable with the neighbors
- If the right amount of financing can't be obtained
Rick Caro, president of Management Vision, also suggests that a club owner look at issues such as whether there will be adequate parking space, whether getting permission to use any planned outdoor facilities and their lights would be doable or whether there would be any other constraints on the planned club.
If you want to get into the club business but have little to no experience, your going may be rough. For starters, banks won't be lining up for your business."If I'm doing a club and I've never done one before, that's a big red light for the bank," says Bruce Carter, founder of Optimal Fitness Systems International, a consulting firm specializing in startups. The firm has helped newcomers to the industry with their startup plans. However, by just hiring a club-experienced consulting firm, a newcomer often becomes more attractive to banks and investors.
The process of opening a new club is similar to that of opening a second or third club. Homework must be done. The club needs a business plan, market survey, site selection, marketing plan, an architect, builder, contractor and vendors for equipment and day-to-day supplies. Calling upon the expertise of others already in the industry is a must.
Before Dan Horan, owner of Hatfield Athletic Club in Hatfield, PA, started his club, he tapped the experience of other club owners to put together his plan, even getting copies of their business plans to use as guides."I met with a club owner that was so helpful," Horan says.
"I met with six different people and picked their brain on this industry." He also went to trade shows and talked to club owners to get their insights about the industry.
"There's nothing wrong with not knowing," Horan says. "There's something wrong with not finding out."
A club owner can find a wealth of knowledge outside the industry as well by talking to hotel owners, bankers and attorneys. But, Horan cautions, be willing to get drilled about your business plans by these people who are looking at the plan from a dispassionate, outside perspective rather than an inside, passionate perspective. Their no-nonsense outsider view can help bring a club owner back down to earth about his or her plans and can put things into perspective.
TIP: Regardless of how many clubs an owner has, he or she shouldn't assume that every new club would be the same. As time progresses, club owners learn what works and what doesn't work. A new facility gives a club owner the opportunity to do things that he or she couldn't do in the old facility.
TIP: If you are leasing the space for your second club and the landlord asks to see your business plan, tell him or her no. The business plan not only will show the landlord how much money you project you'll make and when you project you'll turn a profit, but it will also show your equity. This knowledge could cause the landlord to up the rent.
TIP: The concept for the second club generally should be similar to the first club because it cuts down on the learning curve for a club owner and the staff.
TIP: Just like with most first clubs, it's often best if you put some equity in subsequent clubs rather than borrowing the full amount. Otherwise, your debt to equity ratio could be out of whack and you could become overburdened with debt.
TIP: Once you've developed a business plan for the new facility, put together a master business plan for all your facilities to take advantage of synergies.


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I had a horrible day yesterday. Just one of those days that was long and hard. Throw a bit of PMS into the mix and it was a recipe for disaster.
I have really struggled with the last 6 months of mothering 3 children. I found the first 6 months relatively easy. It was not without ups and downs (such is life)but I was not collapsing into bed each night exhausted or counting down the minutes until Luke arrives home. The reality of having 3 children born so close together has set in.
Yesterday there was retrieving chewed up pastels from the toddlers mouth, being drawn in to adjudicate fights between the older 2, endless requests for help, weeing into undies, being chastised for selecting the wrong cup for milk and sandpit toys being bought onto the couch. It all sounds pretty petty right?
And it is. But it's OK to feel overwhelmed sometimes. Being the main carer for 3 small people the majority of the time is hard work.
It's taken me a long time to realize that it is only that. It's hard, draining work sometimes. It just is what it is.
It doesn't mean that I love my kids any less or that I'm doing anything wrong. It is not an attack on friends or family to make them feel they're not doing enough. It is not a cry for help. It does not make me question how I parent. It is not a sign of weakness or whining. It is not comparing my situation to anyone else's. It doesn't mean I don't love my life and feel grateful everyday.
It just is what it is.
When Tannah was a baby I struggled. I really struggled. I find it painful to even think about how hard that first year was for me. Instead of saying "This is hard" I kept my chin up and soldiered on because I made that admission up to be something that it is not. And by doing that I made it harder for myself. Sometimes being a parent is hard. It just is what it is.
By making it OK for me to say that I can decompress. I can be honest. I can ask for help. I can take time out. By turning it into a statement and not a judgment of myself or my kids it takes the guilt out of that admission.
If you find parenting hard at times it's OK.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
It's OK.
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3 comments:
- Leah said...
What we say to ourselves is do important, I know sometimes when things are tough I get rough on myself cause I think it should be easier, 2 kids and a big age gap. I seem to forget one little redhead used to kick my arse good and proper all by herself lol
- November 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM
- Garden Pheenix said...
Glad to hear you supporting yourself and us :c) <3
- November 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Kestrel said...
**sniff** I needed to read that. I have been struggling with the overwhelm for a while now.
- November 14, 2010 at 12:15 PM
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We recently announced Project Holodeck, a photorealistic, collaborative virtual reality environment that incorporates the feeling of real-world presence through sight, sound and haptics.
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"Nvidia built a real Holodeck, aimed at creative collaboration"Nvidia Holodeck (yes, it's actually called that) in an "intelligent virtual reality platform" created by the GPU maker that offers collaborative virtual environments with simulated real-world physics, highly detailed models built using photorealistic graphics at life-size scale. It's not built to help Captain Picard live out film noir detective fantasies or swashbuckle the seas, however; Nvidia's Holodeck is aimed at helping designers prototype, review and tweak designs to make it possible to bring products to market faster.
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This isn't some video game replay, this is eight minutes of onboard footage of the Audi R18 TDi that won the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. We can tell you how quiet diesel Le Mans prototypes are and how low they rev, but you really just have to hear one for yourself.
Even though this is the winning No. 2 Audi of Tréluyer, Lotterer and Fässler, this isn't footage from any race. This is a test drive from the long-running French magazine AUTOhebdo. We don't know who they know at Audi, but the two must be pretty close, as the magazine also had twelve minutes of seat time with Audi's previous diesel prototype, the R15. You watch that car blast around the Paul Ricard circuit in the south of France and you can't even hear the engine over the wind.


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Shaykina Natalia V. - professional artist, member of the Professional Union of Artists of the Russian Federation.
Available work in painting as in the technique of oil and in watercolor.
I fully guarantee the quality of my paintings. I write his professional painting in oils on linen canvas of quality, with a gallery stretch.
All paintings are written by me manually (not painted print !, not a print on canvas!), without the use of digital technologies.
The pictures are easy to care for and durable.
The main areas of work - landscape and still life.
On request - writing on photography.
All works are distinguished by the freshness of color and materiality accurate image detail spelled out. I do not negligent in detail the picture is not worked in the areas of the canvas.
Sending of paintings abroad. My works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Germany, Poland, Australia, the United States.
About myself I can say that I love my family, my house, my job, I love nature and traveling home. All my feelings and impressions I try to move the canvas and, possibly, to make life a little bit better and more positive.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Zagora will take on the top three finishers from the Longines Just a Game and a pair of runners from Europe when she aims for a title defense in the Grade 1, $600,000 Diana on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.
The Diana, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares, was carded as the ninth race and has a scheduled post time of 5:12. p.m. MSG+ will broadcast the Diana and the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy, Saturday's 10th race, as part of The New York Racing Series presented by Foxwoods Resort Casino.
So far in 2012, Zagora swept Tampa Bay Downs' Endeavour and Hillsborough in February and March, respectively, before failing to fire when fifth in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley in April at Keeneland. The Martin Schwartz color-bearer regained the winning thread in her most recent start, rallying from last of seven to take the Gallorette on May 19 on Preakness Day at Pimlico.
"She came out of the Gallorette with a popped splint, and we freshened her for a couple of weeks to fix that," said Brown, who since last year's Diana has added Grade 1 wins in the Beverly D., Flower Bowl Invitational, and Gazelle. "She caught a slow pace [in the Jenny Wiley], and she's 0-for-3 at Keeneland. It's not her course. Otherwise, she's been perfect this year."
Ramon Dominguez will ride Zagora, the 5-2 favorite on the morning line, from post position 3.
Zagora's assignment will not be easy as she will have to track down Tapitsfly, who blazed on the lead and rebuffed Winter Memories in the stretch to win the Grade 1, one-mile Longines Just a Game on June 9 at Belmont.
Trainer Dale Romans expects Tapitsfly to employ similar front-running tactics on Saturday.
"I hope that she'll relax as well as she did in the Just a Game," said Romans, who trains the 5-year-old Tapit mare for Frank L. Jones, Jr. "Our plan for her this year was to get her to really relax and come from a little off the pace, and then we got to the Just a Game, a Grade 1, and there was no speed, so we threw that out the window. And I doubt there will be enough speed to run with her here, so she'll probably do the same thing."
Tapitsfly, the 7-2 morning-line third choice, will depart from the rail with Joel Rosario aboard.
Trainer Jimmy Toner fears his charge, Phillips Racing Partnership's Winter Memories, will once again have to try to track down a free-running Tapitsfly in the Diana.
"You have to give [Tapitsfly] a lot of credit [for her Just a Game win]," said Toner. "She was on the lead, nice and comfortable, and we just couldn't catch her. When they asked her, she had plenty enough to kick in. We just couldn't catch her. No excuses. I don't know if Tapitsfly will go [1 1/8 miles in the Diana], but if you have the same scenario as last time, she will go that far. And I don't see any pace in the race, truthfully. Unfortunately for us and fortunately for them, it could be the same scenario all over again."
The Longines Just a Game marked Winter Memories' first loss at Belmont, the site of her score in last September's Grade 1 Garden City. She has won six total graded stakes, including last summer's Grade 2 Lake George here at the Spa.
Javier Castellano has the call aboard Winter Memories, the 9-5 morning-line favorite, from post position 6.
Also exiting the Longines Just a Game is Hungry Island, an Emory A. Hamilton homebred who picked up the pieces to finish third after racing farther off the pace than usual.
"She broke fine [in the Just a Game], but then [John Velazquez] had to ride her to get her into the race," said her Hall of Fame trainer, Shug McGaughey. "You kind of have got to get her covered up. Nobody was going to beat [Tapitsfly] that day as fast she ran, but I think stretching [Hungry Island] out is going to help her. She's going to be back [in the field], but she's got to be back the right way. She had a pretty quick work earlier in the week [prior to the Just a Game], and maybe that took some of the sting out of her."
Hungry Island owns a pair of graded victories, having defeated Winter Memories in last year's Grade 2 Woodford Reserve Lake Placid and taking the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile in May at Churchill Downs.
Hungry Island, who will leave from post 6 at 5-1 on the morning line, will once again have Velazquez's services
The Diana will be Dream Peace's first start in North America since she finished third, beaten a head, as the 2-1 favorite in the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor last October at Woodbine. She raced twice this year, reporting home fourth in the Group 3 Prix Allez France at Chantilly in April and eighth against males in the Group 1 Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji on May 20. Her top victory to date is a score in the Group 2 Prix de la Nonette at Deauville last August.
Dream Peace, trained by Robert Collet for Etreham Farm, was installed at 6-1 on the morning line. Julien Leparoux has the call from post 4.
Rounding out the field is Chris McHale's Law of the Range, who was a listed winner and Group 3-placed in England. She enters the Diana off a sixth in the Group 2 Windsor Forest on June 20 at Royal Ascot. Rajiv Maragh rides the 15-1 shot from post 2.
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This charming hotel is situated in the centre of Wallingford, a pretty market town of fine Georgian and Elizabethan houses. A former 16th century coaching inn, The George boasts attractive bedrooms with every modern amenity, a first class restaurant and friendly bars. Ample free parking is available on site and the hotel has Wireless and Broadband Internet connectivity throughout.
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At 684 km², the City of Edmonton covers an area larger than Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto or Montreal, although less than one-third of Ottawa.
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There is nothing which deceives us as much as out own judgement.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as out own judgement.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
Truth was the only daughter of time.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Bountiful nature has provided that in all parts of the world you will find something to imitate
The intellect will always profit by the acquisition of any knowledge whatsoever, for thus what is useless will be expelled from it, and what is fruitful will remain. It is impossible either to hate or to love a thing without first acquiring knowledge of it.
Avoid studies the result of which will die together with him who studied.
So, today is (sort of) Leonardo Da Vinci's birthday. I consider him to be a pioneer of the note content type (AKA somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, usually with no title). So, to celebrate his birthday, I'm going to be posting some of his (translated) notes from Thoughts on Art and Life.
The source text I'm using is the gutenberg txt translation.
Faviki.com looks like an interesting take on tagging — the advantage being that everyone shares the same tags, the problem being that everyone shares the same tags.
Got a fun little project planned for tomorrow to celebrate a certain someone's birthday.
14844 #steps today — a comforting return to form after a couple of days of forgetting to record/my pedometer not working for some reason.
New theory: ultimately, the enemy is always assumption.
#listening to "The Great Fishfinger Disaster" by Hanging Johnny. Mentally substituting "fiskibollur", which I have just eaten for the first time.
Need to use require.js to load a bunch of scripts compiled via assetic into a PHP file, annoyed by auto-append of .js, don't want to set up irritating routing? Add a ? to the URL, require.js will add a .js to the query string, loading the file correctly.
Moved in to my more permanent apartment. It feels strange to move my stuff into a room rich with the owners identity — photos, clothes, book/film collection.
Neighbours pumping out Gangnam style. Not original, heavily remixed/cut up. Might be a late night.
Jovian Salak not working me hard enough? Why'dyou say that? :)
Sounds like you're seeing some bloodthirsty stuff at the "festival" :/
Spent ~3 hrs with the office arduino+ethernet shield and my old favourite pyo and I've got a light/flex controlled synthesiser over OSC. I dread to think how many weeks it would have taken me to implement this on a PIC.
Tom Morris or, indeed, us devs who eat meat but rarely (if ever), bacon


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Formidable is an extension for TYPO3 and is supported by Ameos
crdate : 2008/09/23
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Watch the podcast of Formidable from T3BOARD. Thanks to Kasper for shooting and editing.
Formidable Podcast is on screen since today.
Shooted at the T3BOARD08 in LAAX by Kasper.
It's starring Volker Biberger and Jerome Schneider.
This podcast will help you to understand the basis of Formidable and all it's possibilities.
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ChristianS needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
we are a partnership consisting of 2 lawyers and 3 accountants how want to offer smaller and bigger companies in a small town in northern germany a full service for things like accounting, tax-consult, payroll accounting, legal advice etc.
Smaller and bigger companies
* Important: Subtitle should be: "Wirtschaft - Steuern - Recht"
* you could use of course other symbols than - to seperate the words
* serious looking, serious nice colours
* should work on black/white printing, too
* a kind of a tower symbol should be in the logo. A little bit modern.
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The objective of the workshop is to ensure that a web site remains accessible throughout its lifecycle. The workshop deals with issues relating to the development and maintenance of the web site as well as to the on-going publication of information on the site.
Keeping the particular web site in mind, the workshop leads the participants through discussions of technology, target groups, design and information modelling, navigation and orientation on the site, policies on language and accessibility, and the definitions of accessibility requirements in the requirement specification, tender material and design manuals.
The workshop is a good foundation for everyone chartered with developing and running a web site. The workshops remain relevant irrespective of whether the web site is developed in-house or outsourced to a third party. Sensus recommends that the workshop be completed before the requirement specification is written.
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Nice to hear that the ESB wave is hitting other retailers besides WM.
I made my first SW purchase in a looooong time, picking up a Concept Johnston Snowtrooper and Willrow Hood at Target.
I forgot to mention that I picked up the TRU exclusive bikerscout/speederbike set yesterday. Also picked up the Han/Spacetrooper BOGO pack.
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Shelter trains pit bulls, finds them homes
By Sophia Chang
The rehabilitation of pets at the Brookhaven Town Animal Shelter marked a milestone recently with the first All American Shelter Dog Obedience Graduation Ceremony.
Volunteer trainers worked with shelter volunteers to train 20 pit bulls in the shelter and make them suitable for adoption.
The hard work paid off: Just before the June 11 graduation, 12 of the graduating dogs had been adopted already. One more was adopted at the graduation ceremony.
Town Supervisor Mark Lesko said pit bulls and pit bull mixes account for 95 percent of the approximately 200 dogs at the shelter.
"This program proves how easily they can be trained and how adoptable they are," he said, thanking the staff and volunteers who made the program possible.
The town shelter has launched programs to enhance the reputation of pit bulls and pit bull mixes, including the Brookhaven Bully Alliance, which encourages other animal rescue groups to help the shelter pit bulls find good homes.
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If your heart's set on the Factotum, then I'll withdraw my claim to the class and find something equally interesting to play. Hmm... another race/class combination I've been looking at would be a Changeling shapeshift variant druid. Would this be acceptable? In addition, would the "Wild Cohort" feat from the WotC site be permitted as the shapeshift variant removes the druid's animal companion, or would online material be banned?
Level 6 with 10,000 extra XP to buy extra feats and abilities. That's my vote.Also, maybe we should ask The Great Triangle if we can borrow the rules he posted in that one E6 game he ran.
Is Savage species out?
I want to be an artificer. Edit: actually, I'm going to drop out.
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Jon Benson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
I am re-running this contest with an increased budget as I am still looking for something very different for this design. The current page is: http://www.fit365online.com. I just slapped a fairly clean Word Press design into place but I need something much more branded to me and my products. If you look at http://www.jvprofitcenter.com (just create a login) you'll get a better idea.
The products on jvprofitcenter.com are only a partial list, so this must be set up to expand. Must be uber-clean, very 2.0, just a blog that doesn't even remotely look like a blog. This is also highly VIRAL -- the page that you need to look at for the viral component (no design as of now) is http://www.fit365online.com/friends. This needs to be fun and motivating with the whole points thing.
If you 'can' implement code, then we can work something out for that in addition to the design fee. This is for the design of the main page, the refer-a-friend page, and the pages associated with blog entries -- the entire blog minus the implementation.
- Something with my look and brand.
- Nothing generic and nothing too bloggish.
- 2.0 feel... ideas other than my products and image is general fitness, nutrition and motivation.
- Check out http://theemailwars.com -- NOT for colors or background design per-se but for the kind of creative flavor I'm looking for.
- Anything that looks like a Word Press blog or that is stale.


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Senate inquiry into state public servant sackings
THE Senate will investigate ways to protect state government-employed public servants from job cuts, after thousands were sacked across Queensland and New South Wales.
An inquiry was launched into the sackings, and how the Federal Government could potentially intervene to protect bureaucrats' jobs after the mass sackings by conservative state governments this year.
Greens' deputy leader Adam Bandt said the inquiry, instituted by the left-wing party, would take action where the Commonwealth had not.
"So far the Federal Government's response has been limited," he said.
"The Commonwealth could be doing much more to protect state public sector employees across the country and this inquiry will explore how."
Despite a recent review of the Fair Work Act being completed, Mr Bandt said the act needed to again be assessed on whether it was adequately protecting bureaucrats' jobs.
Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said the inquiry was an effort to ensure state government employees had the same workplace rights as their federal counterparts.
"Campbell Newman has slashed 14,000 Queensland public servants despite pre-election reassurances that he wouldn't," she said.
"These people provide crucial services to the Queensland public, and they deserve better."
It is likely the inquiry will be run by the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations committee, but has not yet been officially opened for consultation.


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Kyle S. needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
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Coupons need to be listed at the bottom or top of the design, just make fake cut out designs. I am going to upload a couple pics of others in the book we will be advertising in so you get the feel.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (KOMO) - Washington could become the sixth state to raise the minimum smoking age to 21.
Advocates rallied at the Capitol campus on Tuesday, hoping to sway lawmakers to pass 'T-21' Senate Bill 6048.
Each day about 40 kids in Washington start smoking according to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.
"40 kids. When I think about that statistic I think about my daughter,' said Mary McHale, the Network's State Government Relations Director.
McHale started smoking at 13, after a teammate offered a cigarette, but gave it up cold turkey 12 years later when she became a mother.
McHale wanted to be a good example and couldn't ignore the sobering statistics about teens and smoking.
The mom-turned-anti-smoking advocate said if current smoking rates don't change, more than 100,000 kids alive today will die early from tobacco-related illnesses in Washington.
"When you look at stats and see 90 percent of adult smokers pick up the habit before age of 18, and 95 percent of adult smokers before the age of 21, it becomes clear we need to raise the age to 21," said McHale.
That's why the American Cancer Society, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, some student groups, and some state leaders, including the Washington Secretary of Health are calling on state lawmakers to raise the smoking age in Washington from 18 to 21; that goes for tobacco, and e-cigarettes.
During a recent House Committee hearing on the SB 6048, Sen. Patty Kuderer (D-Bellevue) introduced the bipartisan measure.
"3,900 Washington minors become regular smokers each year. One in three will die as a result of their addiction," said Sen. Kuderer.
Washington's Secretary of Health calls T-21 his number one priority in 2018.
"This is really to keep tobacco out of our high schools and keep our kids free from a lifetime of addiction," said Sec. John Wiesman.
The Secretary told the House Committee members that too, during a recent hearing on the measure.
He told KOMO a National Academy of Medicine report is key when considering the legislation. He said the report found raising the age limit would translate into a 25 percent decrease in tobacco use among 15 to 17 year olds.
Former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna also supported the bill and told lawmakers no bill in Olympia will save more lives than T-21.
But some opponents, including one who said he wanted to see cigarettes kept out of the hands of minors, insisted there has to be a better way and pointed to projected state revenue loss and the impact passage would have on retail.
"The small convenient store will not only lose out on tobacco sales, but also other products they are in there to purchase," testified Mark Johnson with the Washington Retail Association.
Others who asked lawmakers not to support the legislation suggested that a minimum smoking age should be a national standard left to the FDA.
Larry Stewart, Executive Director of Association of Neighborhood Stores, told the committee if 18 year olds can join the military, why not decide for themselves if they want to smoke.
"The proposal would increase the age of adulthood for tobacco sales while leaving 18 as the age of adulthood for most other purposes, service in armed forces, they can vote, pay taxes," said Stewart.
"There are many things we don't allow 18 year olds to do, even though they can vote, whether it's not allowing them to gamble or drink," countered the Secretary of Health when KOMO asked him about the 18 as the age of adulthood argument.
Secretary Wiesman insisted the legislation would save lives, and said tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in our state. He said passing the measure could also reduce the amount of tobacco in high schools.
"It's something I'm really passionate about," said Richfield High School junior Madison Langer.
She is one of dozens of youth who made their way to Olympia to meet with lawmakers to ask for their vote for T-21.
Langer insists peer pressure to smoke is all around her, including at school, where she said it's not uncommon for younger classmates to ask older students to buy them cigarettes.
"You are at a party with friends, in a car, or someone offers you one and casually, you're not thinking too much," said Langer.
She said she wised up to smoking dangers, thanks to her mother who works in substance abuse prevention in Clark County.
When she meets with lawmakers she said she mostly listens, but if she could tell them one thing, it would be this, "It's such a casual thing until all of the sudden it's not."
Oregon just passed a similar measure, following Hawaii, California, New Jersey, and Maine.


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Did you miss the Vancouver Whitecaps vs. DC United? NWSB Insider and Whitecaps blogger C-Mac tells us that Jay DeMerit spearheaded defense and kept them sharp while Joe Canon made a terrific save in goal that surely made the highlight reels. The midfield was solid defensively but had little to offer moving forward.
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The short-lived NBC show featured Kermit and his puppet pals in a regular half-hour segment called MuppeTelevision, in which the Muppets ran an entire cable network instead of a variety show. Kermit tried to pull everything together, despite the usual distractions from his friends. MuppeTelevision featured a house band called Solid Foam and guest stars including Ted Danson, Bob Hope, k.d. lang, Dudley Moore and Smokey Robinson. Pictured above: Jim Henson and his Muppets.
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Remove default config for ppp
duh, idiot uber
no need for the sed using printf
use printf %s
As pppd is mainly a link controller, move it's startup to pppd_pre_start and have pppd_start as a dummy function for old configs.
printf is more portable than echo -n
Fix bridge some more, remove superflous warning from vewarn and error when no interface correctly
more pppd fixes
get pppoa the right way around
Try and fix pppd, thanks to zzam for the patch
Fix bridge, vlan and bonding modules to work together, #174792.
Don't search for a space after interface names in /proc/net, #174792 thanks to Mike Auty.
Include old file conf.d/wireless and warn the user
Move carrier detection back into net.sh. Reserve a new hook numbers
Misc network fixes so we work on my stable server. Splash plugin removed as splashtuils-1.4 now ships with its own.
Use character classes in sed
Rewrite the core parts in C. We now provide librc so other programs can query runlevels, services and state without using bash. We also provide libeinfo so other programs can easily use our informational functions. As such, we have dropped the requirement of using bash as the init script shell. We now use /bin/sh and have strived to make the scripts as portable as possible. Shells that work are bash and dash. busybox works provided you disable s-s-d. If you have WIPE_TMP set to yes in conf.d/bootmisc you should disable find too. zsh and ksh do not work at this time. Networking support is currently being re-vamped also as it was heavily bash array based. As such, a new config format is available like so config_eth0="18.104.22.168/24 188.8.131.52/16" or like so config_eth0="'220.127.116.11 netmask 255.255.255.0' '220.127.116.11 netmask 255.255.0.0'" We will still support the old bash array format provided that /bin/sh IS a link it bash. ChangeLog for baselayout-1 can be found in our SVN repo.
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Statements on Auditing Procedure February 1940 No. 3 Issued by the Committee on Auditing Procedure, American Institute of Accountants, 13 East 41st Street, New York, N. Y. Inventories and Receiva-bles of Department Stores, Instalment Houses, Chain Stores, and Other Retailers Copyright 1941 by American Institute of Accountants Query: Is it practicable and reasonable to observe the taking of inventories and to communicate directly with debtors, as added auditing procedures in the examination of the financial statements of department stores, instalment houses, chain stores, and other retailers? THE REPORT of the American Institute of Accountants dealing with extensions of auditing procedure indicates that, where "practica-ble and reasonable," observation of the taking of inventories and direct communication with debtors are to be considered "generally ac-cepted auditing procedures," meaning that they are normal, usual, or customary. The conjunction "and" is used; the procedures must be both practicable and reasonable. If they are both, their application cannot be avoided. Their omission under such circumstances necessi-tates a clear-cut exception. On the other hand, if these procedures are not practicable and reasonable in the circumstances of a given engagement, and if the auditor has otherwise satisfied himself, he need make no exception or explanation in his report. Under such circumstances, however, if he prefers to do so, he may make any explanation he sees fit. The primary meaning of "practicable" is: "capable of being put into practice, done, or effected, especially with the available means or with reason or prudence." The primary meaning of "reasonable" is: "endowed with reason, or rational, having or exercising sound judg-ment, or sensible." Rarely is a procedure impossible or incapable of being put into practice, but it seems that the auditor may view "practicable" in the light of "with the available means," or "with reason or prudence." The operations may be practicable, but they may not be reasonable, i.e., not "sensible" in the light of surrounding circumstances. Not-withstanding these refinements in meaning, it is believed that there 17


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2013-04-09 • Trees @ Ancestry
Start: 21:06:26
vkn: Howdy doo lady
daviss: hi there vkn!
vkn: http://tinyurl.com/cne4u22 Log of lunchbunch
daviss: I was hoping that the young lady would be here tonight
vkn: I just posted log to her... Also not sure we told her what room
daviss: oh ok
vkn: I am now thinking focus should be on the men in life of grandma and ee what newspapers hold
daviss: you mean your granmother
vkn: What papers hold Texas news? No her grandmother Selma howdy
daviss: what is her grandmothers first name
Selma: Good evening daviss and vkn..yes I am still up..
daviss: Heyy Selma!
vkn: http://tinyurl.com/cne4u22
daviss: ok thanks I will read
vkn: Oops my smiley thing not working
daviss: I see them in 1910 as a 35 yr old
vkn: What are the names daviss is she Jennie?
daviss: this one is with a G
Selma: Think the oldest child is 13..should be 3 in 1900
daviss: will try and find her
vkn: They may have moved to where he was employed. Soundex brought many spellings I did not try Beckworth/Beckwith as yet I note that Family search is putting some divorce recs on line
deannie: Hello Gen buddy
vkn: Howdy Deannie is Betty Craft in your group?
daviss: heyyy deannie
deannie: Yes she is, but I have not seen her in a while...she is still in the membership book
vkn: I ask Deannie because Betty is a Mississippi researcher
deannie: So am I...but not as good as Betty
vkn: Well Betty has been at it almost as long as I have Deannie
deannie: I know....she was one of the first people I met when I first start researching
vkn: and wanted her to know about the new Mississippi Facebook page
daviss: Is she on FB vkn!!
vkn: Prolly daviss Have not been in touch for a few years
deannie: I did not know she had a FB page
daviss: I was just asking deannie
deannie: Oop I should have it chat first...it's not her's....I will check it out what it the name
vkn: Daviss will post
daviss: https://www.facebook.com/groups/626111110737229/ It is strickly AA deannie
deannie: ok
daviss: I will have to ponder that other info vkn, I am not sure of the 1900 census for Hutchins
vkn: okies selma has doubt re age of eldest child
daviss: will if that is her in the 1910 the daughter is 13....
Selma: No I didn't have doubt..thought I saw the child was 13 in 1910 Figured she had to be 3 in 1900.
vkn: 'scuse
Selma: The poster needs to give us more info....
daviss: may be new
Selma: and not clear how she or he is tied into the Tree she found at Ancestry
daviss: yes but you should always verify
vkn: I am not trusting Ancestry trees for any peeps
daviss: I saw a tree with names that are in my family and one of the last names was mariah zepher now that really had me rolling
vkn: oh really did you explore daviss
daviss: That is the name I had for my blog vkn my mother is zepher and her great great grand is Mariah thats why i named it that
vkn: I remember
daviss: They just thought that was the real name and used it SMH and they had my mother listed as zeffie thats when I knew that they were full of cra)(*&___
Selma: Are they even related to you daviss? Were they just making up a tree
daviss: I did not even bother after that Selma...I have enough trouble on my own than to give them the correct names lol I think they just copied stuff another thing is that they had over 3000 names in the tree I thought that was strange oh well
vkn: not sounding good
daviss: I know vkn not in my view anyway nite ladies I need to take a deep breath
Selma: Nite all
daviss: take care and have a good night
vkn: Okies me too
deannie: I will be signing off also I have to pick up my sister have a great evening
vkn: See yall 2morry


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Travel with Speedlights and a Smartphone? Get One of These.
I very rarely review gadgets on this site. But this is something that may be new to many of you.
When I travel I try to take as little gear as humanly possible. But the Tekkeon MP1580, seen above at bottom right, is on my must-take short list every time I fly with a camera.
Here's why.
On the Road
I am teaching in Dubai at Gulf Photo Plus this week, which probably at least subconsciously explains this week's travel-themed posts. After my last few years' schedule, I have my gear (and clothes) pack list pretty much down to a science.
And as little as I take, the MP1580 TEKCHARGE Mobile Power Pack and Battery Charger has wormed its way into my bag. This sub-$20 accessory is small, weighs next to nothing and is something I use every single day.
On the Flight
Before I even get to my destination, the MP1580 is already working for me. It holds four AA's (something any speedlight shooter will have in their carry-on) and converts that juice into power for my iPhone.
How long will it power your device? That depends on the capacity of your AA's and the normal battery size of your device. But I'll typically get a full iPhone recharge-from-near-zero from a set of four Kodak 2000MAh NiMH batts.
And I'll typically have a set of AA's for each flash I am taking. So on a long flight I got that going for me, which is nice.
In the Hotel Room
The MP1580 is also a smart battery charger, and runs off of your laptop's USB jack. It's a slow charge (6 hours for a set of 4 AA's) but a charger is one more thing you do not have to pack if you take this little guy along.
To be fair, if I am traveling with several speedlights or expect to use lights a lot, I might bring another charger. But this gets me by more often than not.
In the Field
I'll typically use the MP1580 to house an extra set of AA's, as it is literally about as light as one of those plastic AA cases you keep your extra batts in—and not much bigger. Seriously, this thing is pretty much all battery weight when assembled.
So I have an extra set of AA's at the ready which can be used for my flash or my phone. I don't often need them, but just having it allows me to offload a dull, nagging worry. And any time you can do that while traveling, that's awesome.
Everything you Need
The accessory pack included with the MP1580 is perfect. You bring your own iPhone/USB cord (30-pin or lightning) and you are set. The pack comes with a retractable USB to universal "male pin," with included adapters for mini and micro USB on the pin end.
Thus, you can power any small gadget (like most smartphones, but check yours here) that use a mini or micro USB port with no additional cord needed.
If your device needs more than a 1000MAh charge current then you are out of luck. For instance, It won't charge up your iPad.
In standard USB to micro USB configuration, the retractable cord is what allows your laptop to charge your AA's inside the MP1580 via the USB jack. Obviously, any USB->USB mini cord will suffice, too.
When I first got this thing, I was ticked off at how light it was. As in, it feels like cheap crap—near nonexistent weight. But that is now seen as a plus to me for obvious gear-toting reasons. If you are not using it to carry an extra set of AA's, it feels like it's not even there.
But as a very lightweight device, there are caveats in the build quality department. Some have reported shorting when traveling full of batts (i.e., melty plastic). This has never happened to me. But just to be safe when I travel with a set of AA's embedded, I now use a strip of paper over the battery terminals as a precaution. Just common sense.
Don't Trust the Status LEDs
The power meter has three status LEDs. As soon as you plug your iPhone into it, they'll drop to a status of two LEDs. Disconcerting, but likely a result of the 1000MA current it reportedly delivers, which is awesome.
Can't think of anything other than that. I love this thing. And since I already carry lots of AAs in my camera bag around town, I feel like my iPhone has a bottomless pit of power at the ready.
The MP1580 (manufacturer's page) is typically priced under $20 at places like Amazon and NewEgg, among others.
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Liberty News
Liberty mourns loss of beloved professor Dr. C. Sumner Wemp
|C. Sumner Wemp is photographed in his office in June 1981 at Liberty University (then Liberty Baptist College).
Liberty University is mourning the loss and celebrating the homegoing of one of its first and most beloved campus pastors and Bible professors. Dr. C. Sumner Wemp, 90, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 25, in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Dr. C. Sumner Wemp was truly one of Liberty's most influential and inspiring founding professors," said Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. after family members informed him of his passing. "Dr. Wemp has been loved and respected for decades by so many in the Liberty University community. I have fond memories of Dr. Wemp as a friend and as one of my professors at Liberty. He will be greatly missed. An important part of this university's history was lost this morning but, when I spoke with Dr. Wemp recently, he sounded like we all remember him -- upbeat and praising God! He told me how proud he was that Liberty had remained true to its Christian mission."
The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to Liberty University in memory of Dr. Wemp.
Wemp first came to Liberty in 1973. He taught classes in pastoral theology and evangelism and served as vice president of Spiritual Affairs for 17 years.


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Mobile Phone Market Vendor Share, Dynamic And Dramatic
Mobile Phone Market Vendor Share http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
According to Asymco,companies like ZTE, Huawei and others continue to take volume share from the traditional incumbents mobile handset makers. Within the mobile phone market, Smartphones continue to capture value share. Dedicated smartphone vendors HTC, RIM and Apple combined would make the third largest mobile phone vendor in the entire market.
Looking over this three and a half year period, and hard to decipher color used in the graph (large blue is Nokia starts at bottom of the graph and others end at the top :) the mobile phone market is quite dramatic. The "OTHERS" make the top gainer.


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Too noisy for me. I also don't like that they are so rude to the other teams. -_-
Quote from: Joab on October 27, 2012, 12:40:41 PMToo noisy for me. I also don't like that they are so rude to the other teams. -_-I like them, but I don't know why they don't like Abbie & Ryan.
I was going back and forth between liking them and not liking them, but after this stunt, there's no way I can root for them.Between stealing another team's money, and their obsession with openly hating Abbie & Ryan, I don't really see any reason for me to like them anymore. I'm sure they're awesome people in real life, but I think the race is bringing out the worst in them.
I know some people will say it's stupid and they might keep it. But integrity wise, No. It really shouldn't be something that should be done. They weren't even sorry about it.I don't hate them for this stunt, but more like their integrity and character as a person.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
CPAN installation failures
So what can we do? One thing that I would propose is to stop using optional features and dependencies because they really get into the way of automatic installs. We can also simplify the dependency graph of some more important modules, make better statistics about the failure rates and they origins, but probably the most effective way will be to be just more vigilant about the test failures in our modules and in the prerequisites. The important lesson here is that a 1% failure rate seems like nothing important - but it can make our module inadequate to become a prerequisite for some more complex library.
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- dagolden said...
It looks like most of the high probability of overall failure is due to List::MoreUtils and Tree::Simple. The first has had some relatively recent problems that have put it at the top of the FAIL 100 list. The NA reports for Tree::Simple look like some sort of testing problem and may or may not reflect issues with Tree::Simple itself.
I think the broader lesson here is that a large dependency tree means that one or two small, even transient problems could make Catalyst hard to install and create a negative first impression.
- Matt said...
The checking on cpandeps isn't entirely sane - it calculates across all platforms, so if you have one platform with half a dozen deps dying and five that don't, you get the same result as one dep failing on six, if memory serves.
I spoke to Dave Cantrell about this, and he's aware that the algorithm could be more clever but doesn't have time to actually produce a better one - patches welcome very much applies.
-- mst
- zby said...
Hi mst - I did not want to single Catalyst out, but I needed a concrete example. I know the measure is not perfect (I did link to and explanation from Dave). I've just checked Jifty - and that one has 15% of chance of success. Catalyst with 78% is then comparatively rather bright spot on the picture.


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Monday, March 21, 2011
Thing I know-The AusBlogCon edition.
-it is possible to feel inspired, overwhelmed, moved, motivated and amused in the space of an hour
-my google reader and twitter accounts will never be the same
-if I knew that one day I was going to introduce myself as "Shae from Yay For Home" over and over I would have picked a different blog title. Say it 3 times fast. I am now known to some as "Shae from Yay from"
-that I am crap at commenting on other blogs and participating in online community-but not for long!
-That meeting some of my favorite bloggers IRL can make me a bit star struck, until the booze comes out
-that I am so grateful to all the organizers of this event
-that everyone there knows my children's fondness for the movie "Despicable Me" after watching me attempt the Gru double sprinkler dance about 4000 times.
-that being touched by someones story online is nothing like being moved by hearing them speak about it in person
-dancing for numerous hours and going up and down stairs after many wines may not be the usual way that people exercise but oh my SO SORE
-true friendship is after watching you pass out drunk they put a glass of water beside your bed and plug in your iPhone. Thanks Kate!
-if you arrive home with Happy meals in hand the picture in your head of kids running to meet you shouting "Mummy! We missed you!" followed by embrace is replaced with the reality of squeals of "MACCAS!!" and snatching.
-there is no better breast pump than your actual toddler
-that the Aussie blogging community is an incredible, diverse and inspiring group of people who have so many great things to say and stories and information to share. And they can all DANCE.
See you all in my hometown next year blogging peeps!
15 comments:
- amandab said...
Wow! I think we must both be geniuses as I know most of those things too! Ex cept the dancing. No amount of alcohol is enough to get me dancing anymore.:D
Was fab meeting you, hopefully there will be another chance in Melbourne some time in the future :)
- March 21, 2011 at 3:25 PM
- Sif said...
Oh man, I CANNOT wait until next year!!!
- March 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM
- edenland said...
Shaefrum Yayfrum.
I will never ... EVER, forget that tough look on your face when you bust out the Big Moves.
It was a delight, a pleasure to meet you. Rock on, girlfriend.
Rock it the mofo on.
- March 21, 2011 at 10:31 PM
- Jayne said...
Loved meeting you, Mz Shae, you are a bundle of fab energy!
And as for those infamously gorgeous tights of yours...!*snort*
- March 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- foxinflats said...
Hi Shae,
Lovely to meet you and your very cool pink hi-tops (sorry, was peerving at them during some of the presentations...the mind tends to wander).
Andrea (FoxInFlats.com)
- March 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Farmers Wifey said...
You and I rocked the stage doing the Nutbush! I was exhausted!!
- March 22, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Naomi said...
Just be grateful you didn't pick a blog title that you have to explain the meaning of to every second person. You can bust the moves alright!
- March 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Glowless @ Where's My Glow said...
No better breast pump than your toddler! I remember laughing with you about it on the dancefloor! Was amazing to meet you.
- March 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- SquiggleMum said...
SO glad I got to meet you and hang out with you on the weekend. You're fabulous.
- March 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- Veronica said...
I had so much fun with you this weekend and that photo I took in the restaurant? Turned out quite nicely!
- March 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM
- Kelley @ magnetoboldtoo said...
You, my love, feature in the majority of my favourite moments of the entire thing.
You rock. HARD.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Be A Fun Mum said...
Just have to say: YOUR STRIPY STOCKINGS ROCKED!!!!! I like you Shae. A lot.
- March 22, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Beet said...
You were awesome. And your stockings rocked! XX
- March 22, 2011 at 11:22 PM
- Carrie said...
Sounds like a blast Shae. You are such an inspiration!
- March 25, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- Toushka Lee said...
it was great to meet you, but now that I've read more of your blog I wish I had have talked to you more. I really love your blog. Looking forward to next year or meeting you along the way somewhere else.
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Cheese of the Month
"Gooey, creamy, rich — Murray's Cheese of the Month Club is the ultimate gift for food lovers. Three half–pound cheeses are sent every month with a description of each one. I'd encourage the recipient to either do a lot of sharing or get the name of a good cardiologist."
Joanna Goddard, A Cup of Jo, in InStyle Magazine
"An awesome wedding gift idea! When you're planning your wedding, everything revolves around the big day. A cheese of the month club gives the bride and groom something to get excited about after the honeymoon."
Delish's Gifts that Keep on Giving
"For the cheese lover comes Murray's marvelous mailing. Each month includes 1.5 pounds of tart, crumbly, and creamy cheeses in a variety of milk types (cow, goat, or sheep), textures (soft, hard, or medium), and flavor profiles. The assortment often is exclusive to cheese-of-the-month members."
Rachael Ray's Favorite Gift for Valentine's Day
Murray's Monthly Cheese Club & Meat Club makes a great gift because their cheese and meat experts recommend delicious selections that you would never think of trying.
"This Christmas, I felt luckier than ever when my friend Carolyn surprised me with the most generous food-related gift I've ever received: Cheese of the Month from my favorite cheese shop, Murray's Cheese. …the best gift idea EVER!"- Erin B.
"As a thank-you gift, we were given the greatest gift we, as lifelong cheese lovers, could possibly imagine: a membership to Murray's Cheese Cheese of the Month Club."- Adam R.