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Collected here are current Insatiable Critic columns and articles that have appeared in
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over the years going back to 1998, plus a few vintage favorites. (Eventually I hope to scan more.) Many of the restaurants I loved or skewered or had high hopes for are gone. Restaurants land with a splash and evolve or fade away, not necessarily because they can't find a following. Sometimes it's a feud between owners, bad chemistry in the kitchen, a chef on his own with no business sense, a divorce, or a landlord issue. These older reviews, roundups and Ask Gaels columns are here for nostalgia or visitors in search of history.
November 25, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Big City Almond
With its clamorous warmth, its eclectic American menu and reasonable prices, Almond is a haven for these nervous times…
November 17, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
10 Downing At Last
Slow-pokey delays dulled expectations. That's why food so carefully cooked and jumping with flavor in an early tasting is a wonderful surprise…
October 27, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
I Did It My Vai
Yes, it's dark in here but once we solve the menu hurdle, dinner by votives in the shadows seems almost romantic…
October 6, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Compass Gyrations
In yet another premature mid-life crisis, Compass has redesigned itself for the third time and emerged looking good with a new seafood focus…
September 30, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
The Most Important Restaurants in Forty Years
What are the dozen (or so) most important restaurants of the past forty years?. Before the reality of space requirements took over, this was what I wrote…
September 15, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Socarrat Paella Bar
This could be the best paella I can remember. It is lushly rich in socarrat--the marvelously crusty rice I'm scraping from the pan…
September 8, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Yerba Buena Beckons
I'll brave the street's remnants of grunge for serious cocktails and reasonably priced, fabulous Latino food by partner Julian Medina of Toloache…
August 18, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Sheridan Square Redux
Chef Franklin Becker inherited a dysfunctional work in progress when Gary Robins vanished…Becker has already tightened ship and put his own mark…
August 11, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Nouvelle Delicatessen
The crowd skews young and pretty at this lively new comfort food initiative from the folks at Cafeteria. And what a surprise, this grub is good…
August 4, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Tasting Convivio
Michael White wasn't happy with less than raves…so he and partner Chris Cannon bolted the door for two weeks and invented Convivio: new look, pared-down prices, a $59 four-course prix fixe, and a wonderful rustic style for the Southern Italian…
July 14, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Matsugen Does Noodles
Clearly, as landlord and partner, Jean-Georges Vongerichten is betting our town's noodleheads will be moved by the esoteric noodling of Japan's entrepreneurial Matushita brothers…
June 9, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Hundred Acres/No Mule
There is no mule tethered out front. Beyond that, Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman have gone all out to evoke their signature farm fresh image…
May 12, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Wildwood Barbeque
Faux smoke and applied grime above the raucous 50 foot bar, and a bold mix of rustic with industrial want to suggest that pit barbeque belongs to the big city…
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Ducasse's unabashed need to be embraced by New York has a real chance for fulfillment at Benoit once he whips the kitchen up a bit. Those of us obsessed by our stomachs and nostalgic for tradition have to be grateful he's salvaged touches…
April 28, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Padre Figlio
I'm transported to Sicily again as I swirl my fork in Gino's classic bucatini con sarde - sardines, fennel, caramelized onions, pine nuts (too many) - nutty with toasted bread crumbs…
April 21, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Tet/Letter from Home
Tet is the most ambitious effort yet from Steven Duong who won neighborhood hearts when he opened Nam in Tribeca so soon after 9/11…
April 14, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
La Rural On the Grill
An Argentine bistro named for the livestock show in Buenos Aires, looks a lot like its predecessor, Pampa. Same imported Argentine grill…
April 7, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
Madeleine Mae Recoup
Notoriously fussy Upper West Siders did not hesitate to chew out star chef Jonathan Waxman's uneven Southern Creole efforts early at Madeleine Mae…
March 31, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
New Deal at Commerce
If splendid food comes first, we'll write off the painful din and just shower this historic landmark spot with raves…
March 24, 2008 | Insatiable Critic
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Expect standing room only at Mia Dona, given Donatella Arpaia's East Side groupies... the impassioned fooderati fans of chef Michael Psilakis...
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Oculus Rift Shakes Up Gaming With VR Headset
Can gadgets like Oculus Rift breathe new life into gaming hardware? Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe demoed the headset to the crowd at D: Dive Into Media on Tuesday.
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French firm Ordissimo is bringing "the world's simplest laptop" to the UK, a small family of Linux-based laptops aimed at population of holdouts who find conventional PCs and the online world that comes with it too complex to bother with.
That means older users – Ordissimo reckons they will be over the age of 50 – and perhaps the very young, anyone for whom the internet, mainstream software and Windows is "still a mystery."
Back to basics computing the Ordissimo way offers users a simple range of applications that have, the company claims, been hugely simplified to reduce the number of mouse clicks necessary to perform basic tasks.
The system boots up to show mail, an Office-compatible word processor and spreadsheet, a Skype application, web browser, photo program, and an address book.
Underneath, the systems use the X86 processors found on any Windows PC and run a version of Debian-based Linux skinned with the company's GUI. The use of Linux is unsniffy enough to ship with Java and proprietary Flash ready to go; purist Linux distros expect the user to add the latter separately.
One aspect of hardware that is different is the keyboard, which dumps "confusing" function keys and Crtl/Alt. "If you want to copy and paste, there are keys for that, likewise if you want to print just press the print button," said the Ordissimo press release.
"You'd be wrong to think that Ordissimo is a type of 'kids' toy' with only a limited capability. On the contrary, our machines are real computers, compatible with most printers, scanners, SD cards and USBs and are designed with your average novice in mind," said Ordissimo's Shane Harrison.
A wrinkle with Ordissimo's laptops is their price. A tag of £599 for a 15-inch Linux-based machine running a netbook-class AMD E300 processor is steep against an identical Windows machine that might cost as little as £300.
The 17-inch running an Intel Core i3 isn't much better at £899, although that allows dual boot Windows and Linux. We couldn't help noticing that the Wi-Fi on both lacks support for 802.11n which is well below today's basic spec necessary for reliably streaming high-definition video but perhaps Ordissimo doesn't see its target buyers doing such things.
A selling point for 'Linux for dummies' might be security. Native Linux malware is unheard of (although cross-platform Java-based attacks have suddenly become more likely as Apple users are starting to realise), a dimension that will be hugely important to computer refuseniks terrified about "viruses" and worse.
Then again there are a number of much cheaper ways to get hold of Linux on a cheap PC, starting with nettop Linux PCs such as Acer's sub-£200 Revo RL70. Au contraire.
Perhaps tablets will be a better battleground for Ordissimo in the long term (the company also has its own £399 tablet computer) but it could be up against simple products such as the XO-3 from the One Laptop Per Child project not to mention a new generation of Windows 8 systems that might finally throw off the PC complexity that spurred Ordissimo in the first place.


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Evan Musolino joined the Worldwatch Institute in January 2012 as a Research Associate with the Climate and Energy Program. At Worldwatch, Evan is working on issues related to the deployment of renewable energy. He is responsible for managing the Developing Renewable Energy Indicators project.
Prior to coming to Worldwatch, Evan spent time analyzing government support programs for advancing renewable energy. He worked as a Consultant to the REN21 Secretariat where he tracked worldwide developments in the renewables sector for the annual Renewables Global Status Report. He has also researched implementation strategies for rural off-grid renewable energy in the developing world. Evan holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Vermont and M.As in International Relations from The American Graduate School in Paris and Strategic Negotiation and Diplomacy from Université Paris Sud-XI.
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2008 is already a bad year for aviation safety in the United States.
That may strike readers as a strange statement. The traditional measure of safety, certainly in the public mind, is accidents, and this year has not been exceptionally bad. Helicopter accidents continue at what appears to be a steady rate, but there have been no headline-grabbing airline crashes in the United States.
The damage that this year has brought, however, is to the underpinnings of the safety efforts that made the past several years among the safest ever for fixed-wing operations and have inspired the helicopter industry toward a similar achievement. The underpinnings at risk are the increasing and highly effective collaborative initiatives of FAA inspectors and aircraft operators
The utter failure of FAA oversight of maintenance at Southwest Airlines has wrought much of that damage. The decision of chief agency inspectors of that airline to allow Southwest to operate hundreds of flights in violation of airworthiness directives and attack other inspectors who challenged their actions is widely viewed as a despicable set of acts. But all FAA inspectors are being painted with that brush, prompting many of them to seek cover behind strict interpretations of Federal Aviation Regulations and pull back from any effort to work closely with operators to identify and fix safety problems. The flaw in this approach is that the FAA has never been effective in advancing safety by playing traffic cop.
The other danger lies in a court challenge of aviation safety action programs in the wake of a 2005 regional jet crash in Kentucky. Those programs are built on the assumption that airmen, operators and regulators can most effectively find and fix safety problems if a transgressor can come forward with details of the problem without fear of losing his or her livelihood. Such programs are widespread in airline operations, and the EMS operator STAT MedEvac and Era Helicopters have recently brought them into the helicopter world. They, too, have proven highly effective in advancing safety. They could be scuttled if participants fear their confidential dealings may one day have to be revealed in court.


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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Seniors Chad Mercado (Orlando, Fla.) and Juan Ramirez (Miami, Fla.) posted match-highs of nine kills and digs, respectively, to celebrate their senior day and lead the Lees-McRae College men's volleyball team to a straight-set sweep of Pfeiffer University in Conference Carolinas play on Saturday afternoon.
Lees-McRae (14-7, 4-1 CC) extended its winning streak to five matches, moving into a tie for first place in the conference standings, earning the victory by scores of 25-16, 25-20, and 25-22. The Bobcats posted seven blocks and six service aces on the day, while holding Pfeiffer (8-7, 0-3 CC) to a .198 clip on the attack.
Mercado tallied a match-high nine kills to move within 10 smashes of the 1,000-kill mark for his career, as Chris Flood (Louisville, Ky.) and Matt Harpenau (Cincinnati, Ohio) chipped in eight and seven kills, respectively. Randy Ramirez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) added a match-high 33 assists, while Juan Ramirez chipped in a contest-best nine digs. Flood and Harpenau each tallied a match-high three blocks for Lees-McRae.
Eric Edelman (Henrietta, N.Y.) and Drew Burdette (Greer, S.C.) paced the Falcons with eight and seven kills, respectively, while Evan Fullerton (Ambridge, Pa.) posted a team-high 23 assists. Edelman, Fullerton, and Lance Johnson (Harrisburg, Pa.) each tallied a match-high three blocks, as Mark Hess (Lebanon, Pa.) paced Pfeiffer with six digs.
Lees-McRae started off strong, opening an early 9-2 lead in the first set following a service ace by John Lucas (Cincinnati, Ohio). After Pfeiffer cut the margin to 12-7 with a 5-3 spurt, The Bobcats launched a 9-5 run to push the lead to 21-12 on a block by Harpenau and Eduardo Gonzales (San Juan, Puerto Rico). Gonzales then capped the set with an emphatic kill to give LMC the 25-16 first-frame victory.
The Bobcats carried the momentum into the second set, claiming a 14-9 lead on a Flood smash. Pfeiffer answered with a 10-8 run, cutting the margin to 22-19 on an Edelman kill before the Bobcats closed out the set with a 3-1 spurt that was capped by an Edmund Walkley (Glenbrook, Australia) kill.
Pfeiffer battled throughout the third set, staying within striking distance and cutting the lead to 22-21 late in the frame on three straight blocks from Edelman. A well-timed timeout by the Bobcats quelled the rally, as Lees-McRae closed out the set and the match with a 3-1 spurt that was capped by Mercado's ninth kill of the afternoon to wrap up the 25-22 third-frame victory.
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LEOMINSTER, Mass. -- Steve Colella's collegiate career hasn't gone exactly how he envisioned it would.
There's been plenty of rocky times for the 2011 Leominster High graduate, who was an ace pitcher for legendary coach Emile Johnson.
Colella has bounced around to four different colleges while chasing his baseball dream and also had to endure the dreaded Tommy John surgery.
But Colella finally found a home on the mound this spring at UMass Dartmouth, and the powerful righty also made an immediate impact after signing last Sunday with the Wachusett Dirt Dawgs of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League with a solid, five-inning effort to earn the victory over North Shore Friday night.
"It is a great story," Dirt Dawgs manager Kevin Barnaby said. "It just shows that with a lot of hard work you can be successful. Coming back from injury can not only be physically demanding, but also mentally demanding. There's setbacks and all those things, but Steve handled it very well and had a great year at UMass Dartmouth and had a good game here in his one start. Hopefully he can continue to work hard throughout the rest of his college career."
The struggles, hard times and the mental obstacles have made Colella a much stronger person and baseball player.
"I think I'm a better pitcher than I was before," Colella said after getting his running in before Saturday night's doubleheader at Doyle Field. "I used to throw a little harder, but I think I'm a better mental pitcher. I have a better approach to the game. I wish I could still throw as hard as I used to, but I hope to work back up to that.
"Being out of the game for a while -- I coached for a while (Babe Ruth in Leominster, head coach of the 13-year-old all-stars in 2013) -- and I think that helped me develop as a player more to see both sides of the field."
Colella caught the attention of his new Dirt Dawgs teammates and coaches after firing five strong innings for the victory at North Shore. Colella scattered six hits and allowed three runs (one earned) with one walk and two strikeouts.
"His slider and his changeup were his two best pitches the other night and he situationally threw his fastball very well," Barnaby said. "He had a good two-seam run on it, but his changeup and slider were lights-out."
Maturity as a player is a big key now for the 21-year-old Colella.
"When he was at Leominster High and Leominster Legion, he was a thrower," Barnaby said. "(On Friday night) he was a pitcher. In this league you can't be a thrower because everyone can hit a fastball really far. He's matured into a pitcher."
The key for Colella now is health.
The 6-foot-2, 225-pound righty says he feels outstanding with his "new arm."
"There's no pain in my arm, which is a lot different," Colella said. "I think that's good. I definitely feel better now than I did before surgery."
But there will always be a reminder of how far Colella has come after surgery. Just like any Tommy John surgery, there also is a lasting scar -- a very noticeable one on his right arm.
"It's huge. It's ugly," Colella said. "Everyone likes to see it because it's the grossest scar they've seen. It's worse than all the other Tommy John surgeries I've seen. I like it. It shows what I've been through and what I had to go through."
Colella said it took him about 18 months of rigorous rehab to get back to full strength.
"It was difficult," he said. "The leg rehab was probably worse because they took my hamstring out and put it in my arm, so walking for the first month was tough. That put a lot of doubt in my mind whether I'd be able to play again. Throughout surgery -- the whole 18 months -- that's a long time. It felt like I would never get it back, but I finally did."
Colella first went to Franklin Pierce University out of high school, but then transferred to Darton State College in Albany, Ga. That's where he found out he would need major arm surgery.
Colella went under the knife on Sept. 27, 2012.
"It was scary. I played a little bit to try and see if I could go without it, but eventually I couldn't really even throw a ball," he said. "At first the thought of having a couple of months off from baseball was good -- I thought it was going to be fun -- but once you go to the field and see all your friends playing and you're sitting in a cast and can't do anything, it's real depressing and it's hard to get through."
He went to his third college, Savannah State University, in the fall of 2013, before finally finding a home at UMass Dartmouth.
This spring, Colella regained his old high-school magic on the mound, going 5-1 with a 2.06 ERA in 52 1-3 innings pitched for the Corsairs. In the process, Colella was named to the 2014 Little East Conference first team.
"It was tough. Going to a lot of different schools, everyone started to doubt that I'd still go because people still don't know the reasons why," Colella said. "They think I wasn't good enough to play here so I went to a different school. It was hard to play against that, but my dad always had my back through everything.
"UMass gave me the chance to start and left me in when I was struggling and let me fight out of jams. When you go to big-time schools like Franklin Pierce and Savannah, when you start getting into jams, they're not going to leave you out there to see what happens. At UMass, they let me fight through and let me get a name as a pitcher there."
Colella, who started his summer in upstate New York in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, jumped at the chance to come home and pitch on his old high school field.
"I had the opportunity to come here and play at Doyle, so I wanted to do that," Colella said. "This could be my last time playing here, so I wanted to take advantage of it."
Now, Colella is just trying to do his part to help the Dirt Dawgs make a run at the playoffs.
"He's definitely going to get at least two or three more starts, hopefully four if we make the playoffs," Barnaby said.
With good health and happiness, Colella's collegiate career is finally back on the right track.


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The kingdom of Madison: a southern mountain fastness and its people
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It is only November and we have already experienced five major climatic abnormalities that have been at the forefront of discussion across America. Since the beginning of this year, wildfires have burned through an area the size of Maryland. On August 14th 2012, 25 percent of the land area of the lower 48 states was experiencing extreme or exceptional drought (which in turn knocked off 0.4 percentage points from third quarter GDP growth). Arctic sea ice melted to the lowest levels ever recorded. And most recently, a late season hurricane swept across the East Coast and caused billions of dollars of damage that will take weeks or months to recover from. Unsurprisingly, the problem at the root of these events is related to one simple factor that we have known about for years: a warming climate. The first nine months of the year have been the hottest the United States has ever experienced.
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post highlights these starting events and notes that while these events are not a direct result of how much CO2 we are emitting this year (which is actually on pace to be the lowest total in 20 years), the fact that we continue to affect the climate with greenhouse gases is making the atmosphere more unstable and prone to natural disasters. Studies have shown that continuing to pollute our atmospheres will make drought and wild fires more frequent and severe. Global sea level is rising, meaning that powerful storms are more likely to cause the intense flooding seen during Hurricane Sandy.
Despite this overwhelming amount of evidence linking greenhouse gas emissions to global warming, and thus extreme weather events, neither political party has done much to address the topic on the campaign trail. The topic of climate change did not surface at any of the debates, despite the presence of these climate-related disasters. The only real mention of energy policy came when both President Obama and Governor Romney boasted that they would expand the US natural gas industry. There were only vague mentions of wind and solar power, with Governor Romney asserting that he will fight for coal, oil and gas, give the EPA less power to regulate coal plants, and bring the Keystone Pipeline in from Canada. And though President Obama has implemented some of the most important energy legislation to date (including fuel efficiency standards and $90 billion for clean energy), he too was notably absent on the topic of greenhouse gases and climate change.
In order to have a real discussion about climate change, we need our political leaders to take a stance and propose solutions. The climatic events seen in 2012 have accelerated the timeline that scientists have given for climate change; dramatic shifts in our climate are happening right now. We need a president and Congress that would be willing to pass legislation like the Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act of 2012 in order to start building an energy future that reduces our reliance on emissions-producing fossil fuels. In order to increase the stability of our climate and remove dangerous heat from our atmosphere, we need to invest in technologies that do not contribute to the warming of the planet. We have more than enough renewable resources throughout the world to meet our power needs with technology that is already available. Getting the public to realize that we need to make the switch as soon as possible will be the most important challenge of the next decade for our climate change leaders and our elected officials – starting with the office of the President.
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Kreisberg Scores 14 Points To Pace Yale
DURHAM, N.H. – After falling behind early, Yale seemed on the verge of a run several times in Saturday's game at New Hampshire. The Wildcats, though, had an answer every time. Ferg Myrick was a big reason why. He scored 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Wildcats held off the Bulldogs 64-56 in a matinee at Lundholm Gym.
Six early turnovers had Yale playing from behind throughout the game. UNH (4-5) led 15-6 midway through the first half and 21-8 with 9:48 left. The Bulldogs, though, clawed their way back and were within seven, 28-21, at halftime despite 12 first-half turnovers.
Eighteen of New Hampshire's 28 points came following a Yale error.
"Defensively in the half court, we did a pretty good job, but they were able to get out in transition," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "Our bad offense led to their good offense."
The Bulldogs (3-7) took better care of the ball in the second half, but still couldn't catch the Wildcats. Yale was within four, 31-27, after a Justin Sears layup early in the half. UNH, though, scored the next eight points.
Yale cut the lead back to single digits, 46-38, on a free throw from Sears with 9:05 left, but New Hampshire answered with a 5-0 run.
Still, the Bulldogs made one more push, closing to within 60-54 on an Armani Cotton free throw with 1:20 left. Patrick Konan then hit four free throws in the final 46 seconds to seal the victory for the Wildcats.
"In the second half, we got going a little bit," Jones said. "We had some shot opportunities that we just didn't make."
Jeremiah Kreisberg had his second straight strong game for the Bulldogs, finishing with 14 points and eight rebounds. Kreisberg, who was 6-of-11 from the field, also had 14 points in Wednesday's win at Bryant.
Austin Morgan finished with 12 points, Sears scored 10, nine of which came in the second half, and Cotton had seven points and a career-high nine rebounds.
New Hampshire's starters scored all but five points in the game. Konan had 14, Chris Pelcher added 11 and Chandler Rhoads contributed eight points, six rebounds, six assists and six steals.
The Wildcats, who entered the game leading America East in field goal percentage defense (.373), held Yale to 37.8 percent from the field, but it was more the turnovers that doomed the Bulldogs.
"We did a poor job of taking care of the ball, and that sealed our fate," Jones said.
NOTES: Yale got 25 points from its bench… The Bulldogs also outrebounded the Wildcats 35-32… Brandon Sherrod returned after missing one game with an injury… The two teams were playing for the first time since 1998... The loss snapped Yale's four-game winning streak against UNH… The Bulldogs now have a 10-day break for final exams… Yale is next in action at home against Albertus Magnus on Dec. 18. Tipoff at the John J. Lee Amphitheater is slated for 7 p.m.
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Macedonia and its relations with Greece
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We have been invited to participate in the Largo High School Car Show this September 24th. All proceeds from the show go to the school's booster program, which helps kids go on mandatory field trips to community events to accumulate volunteer hours needed for Scholarships.
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Whenever they're fussy (no matter what season),
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It can be in the form of a sprinkler, the wading pool,
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sand and water table on the deck,
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Even though owner Jeffrey Lurie made it clear that the Eagles needed to show improvement from last year if they wanted to avoid major changes, tight end Brent Celek didn't think that the team would be playing for Andy Reid's job.
That's where Celek and his teammates find themselves at this point in the season. At 3-6, it is going to take one massive run to the finish in order for the Eagles to fulfill Lurie's desire for progress. The chances of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.
There are several reasons why that's unlikely — just type Michael Vick or Juan Castillo in that search box for some of them — but one that's been an issue of late has been their effort level. Martin Frank of the Wilmington News-Journal reports that some of Celek's teammates are finding it hard to keep fighting with defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins saying it feels like he's stuck in the same day. Celek doesn't think it should be that hard to find motivation at this point in the season.
"I hope it's personal for guys," Celek said. "I hope they understand that other guys' jobs are on the line. Their jobs are on the line. My job's on the line. Everyone's is. We've got to start playing."
With change likely coming to Philly, current Eagles will be playing for their current jobs as well as trying to put things on film that will entice future employers. That should be plenty of reason to keep showing up to work in body and mind the rest of the way even if it ultimately doesn't do anything to change the course of the Eagles season.


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For two similar-sized schools, each with a proud football tradition, and situated an easy drive down Interstate 81 from one another, it's somewhat surprising that Grayson County and Chilhowie have met only three times on the football field, with two of those meeting being playoff matchups.
Grayson County will try to pick up its first win in this abbreviated series tonight when the Blue Devils take on the Warriors in a 7:30 nondistrict game in Chilhowie.
Both teams are coming off opening-night wins, the Warriors knocking off Smyth County rival Marion 14-0 and Grayson County fresh off a 34-14 whipping of Alleghany, N.C.
A power-oriented offense by tradition, Chilhowie was able to use its speed and quickness to its advantage in the win over Marion. A big reason for that was ex-Marion runningback Brett Johnson, who transferred to Chilhowie over the summer. The combination of he and quarterback Reid Sturgill make for a potent 1-2 attack.
"They've got a little more athletic ability in the backfield," said Grayson County coach Brett McPherson. "I don't think they're quite as big up front, but they've got some athletic ability back there. They're just competitors. That's what I've noticed about them. But basically the same old Chilhowie. They'll try to get numbers on you and if they can run you over, they'll run you over."
For that reason McPherson feels the Blue Devils had better strap it on tight Friday.
"I think it will come down to who is the most physical," he said. "We need to go down there and match their physicality. Traditionally we haven't been able to go up against nondistrict opponents and match them physically, and that's what it'll come down to."
From what he's seen so far, Grayson is capable of holding its own in that department.
"At the Floyd [benefit] game they got down there three or four times pretty deep on us," McPherson said, "and we were looking at each other, you know, 'Are we going to fold?' But when the going go tough we kind of bowed our back a little bit.
"I think we've got a little more resiliency than in the past. I'd like to think we're a little bit tougher, but I'm not ready to say that yet. I want to be physical and nasty and tough on defense, but it's one thing to say it and another thing to see it three or four games in a row."
The Blue Devils have also showed the ability to put points on the board, averaging nearly 30 points in wins over Floyd County and Alleghany.
"We've just got some kids who have been playing for a couple of years, and we've got some home run hitters like we haven't had in the past," said McPherson.
In the first two games, Xavier Rodriguez has three touchdowns of at least 35 yards, including a 95-yard kickoff return.
"A 12-yard carry has been a big play for us the last couple of years," McPherson said. "We've got some guys that can go a little but further with it now."
Wideout Eric Harvey averaged nearly 25 yards on his four catches against Alleghany, and quarterback Ethan Hash is showing the progress of being a three-year starter.
A key for Grayson's offense will be taking advantage of the coverage that Harvey will draw.
"We're not going to see a traditional defense because nobody's going to play Eric a straight cover-3 and nobody is going to play him one-on-one," McPherson said. "It took us a little while on Friday to find out where we could get the mismatch because of the numbers thing with him, but we've got to probe around and find out where that is, and get some big plays out of it."
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Last week
Grayson County defeated Alleghany, N.C. 34-14
Chilhowie defeated Marion 14-0
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2001–#Chilhowie 28-15
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D Alleghany NC 34-14 8/27 D Marion 14-0
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Rural Retreat 9/10 at Twin Springs
at Glenvar 9/17 Fort Chiswell
Carroll County 9/24 Northwood
Radford 10/1 at Virginia High
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Apple needed its Mac business to drive growth during the March quarter, and it came through: The company sold 2.29 million Macs last quarter, up 51% year-over-year and above the 2.0 million they needed to sell to impress investors.
Overall, Apple (AAPL) reported $7.51 billion in March quarter sales, up 43% year-over-year and beating both the Street's $6.95 billion consensus and whispers up to $7.2 billion.
Less impressive: The company's 32.9% March quarter gross margin, down from 34.7% the prior quarter. Apple blamed most of the decline on slower software sales, the iPod shuffle price cut, and other international price cuts.
Apple also guided June quarter profit to $1.00 per share, less than the $1.10 analysts were expecting. Apple is known to guide conservatively, though, so this shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Shares are drifting between 0-1% gains and losses in after-hours trading.
From the call: Apple confirmed that iPhone demand was outstripping supply, thanks in part to people buying multiple iPhones at U.S. Apple retail stores to unlock and sell overseas. But Apple didn't offer an estimate as to what percentage of phones sold were being unlocked. It did, however, reaffirm its goal of selling 10 million phones this year, which we think it can reach.
Key metrics:
Revenue: $7.51 billion, vs. $6.95 billion consensus, $7.1-7.2 billion whisper numbers
EPS: $1.16, vs. $1.07 consensus, $1.25-1.30 whispers
Mac sales: 2.29 million units vs. 2.0 million units consensus
iPod sales: 10.6 million units (up 1% y/y) vs. ~10 million consensus
iPhone sales: 1.7 million, even with consensus
Q3 guidance: $7.2 billion revenue, above $7.15 billion consensus; $1.00 EPS, below $1.10 consensus, $1.05 lowball whisper
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4:59 Awaiting call. Muzak.
5:04 Call begins.
5:05 Standard disclaimers.
5:06 Highest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple history.
5:07 50% of retail CPUs to customers new to Mac. Mac unit growth 35% y/y from education, highest growth rate in last 8 years.
5:08 Mac sales representing 51% growth y/y. 3.5x times March quarter PC market growth from ICD. Up from 2-3x market rate growth from prior quarters. iMac demand drove desktop sales up. Portables grew 61% thanks to MacBook, Pro.
5:09 Same iPod decline as last year. Higher ASPs due to success of iPod touch.
5:10 Share of U.S. MP3 market 73% according to NPD. Outside U.S. gained share. 4-6 weeks of iPod channel inventory.
5:11 iPhone customer momentum good. Confident of selling 10 million iPhones this year.
5:11 Developer response tremendous. 200k+ downloads of SDK. Off the charts interest in iPhone enterprise beta program. 1/3 of Fortune 500 interested.
5:12 Apple retail: 74% up y/y. 458,000 Macs sold, up 68% y/y. Opened 4 stores during quarter to end with 208. Avg rev per store $7.1 million, compared to $4.8 million a year ago. Operating profit doubled to $334 million.
5:14 Opening about 45 stores during fiscal 2008. Comfortable with investment. Total company GM 32.9%, stronger than guidance due to components, weaker dollar.
5:15 Targeting Q3 revenue of about $7.2 billion, or 33% growth over prior June. Gross margin about 33%.
5:16 Expect to generate EPS of about $1.00 in Q3.
5:17 Q&A begins.
5:17 Some negatives for gross margin? What gives you confidence of 33% next quarter? DRAM and NAND pricing hit low levels during March quarter. Expect to remain favourable.
5:19 Did lower priced shuffles cause problem? Peter: We expected gross margin to decline by about 2.7%. Exceeded by 90 bps. Better than expected results thanks to favourable commodity environment, etc. Change in Leopard in other Apple software accounted for 80% of gross margin decline. Other factors: Shuffle price change, International price reductions, higher mix of iTunes, which has lower gross margin, and sequential decline of revenue. Somewhat offset by favourable component pricing, which was ahead of guidance.
5:21 iPhone: Less availability. Widely expecting new products. Anything you could say that you could grow that sequentially? Anything you're worried about in terms of shortages? Tim: Confident in hitting 10 million for the year. Shortages: Expected iPhone to decline more than it did, so we really beat our unit expectations. Started to experience some stock out. At this point, inventory currently low in stores and channel. Believe the reason more phones being bought in US to be unlocked, which remains a significant number. Can't clarify how many. Very difficult to come up with very precise estimate. Continues to be significant. View continues to be that this is a proxy for the worldwide demand of the phone and our focus is very much on roling out to more geographies. More European countries, entering Asia later in the year.
5:23 Direct sales 53%, up from 49% a year ago. Ended with 400 Best Buy stores, targeting 600 in the summer. Rollout is going extremely well. Education: Can you delineate between student programs and institution? Numbers that Peter quoted — up 35% — both categories strong. This is a big K-12 quarter.
5:24 Passed Dell last year in portable edu spending. Always worried about budgets but results we've seen to date… we have not seen any issue today.
5:25 Why going to delay revenue recognition on iPhone 2.0? Doing this because we announced specific new features that will be included for free. Will delay revenue recognition on phones sold between March 6 and day we deliver the software.
5:27 Haven't said anything about economy. Peter: We're going to leave economic commentary to others.
5:29 Traffic to stores up 12 million people year over year.
5:30 Intend to deliver iPhone 2.0 in late June. Included delay of revenue recognition in 33%.
5:31 Guiding to $7.2 billion for Q3. Factor several things into thinking: Mac channel inventory increased about 60,000 thanks to Macbook Air launch and greater sales. iPhone won't be recognised until late June. Sequential decrease in iPod expected. Full quarter impact of iPod shuffle and international price reductions.
5:32 More chatter about gross margin. International store openings will be greater this year than last. 27 of 208 were outside U.S. Increased store opening forecast to 45 stores this year.
5:35 Leopard revs in Dec quarter was $170 million, and they were just over $40 million in March quarter. By far the best selling release in history. Also iLife and iWork in third quarter… impact of sequential gross margin decline a little bigger.
5:38 Why will pricing be favourable still? Doesn't mean will go later… envision it trading in a fairly narrow trading range and not increasing that much as we head into the quarter.
5:40 Getting a little testy!
5:43 Nope, not charging for iPhone 2.0 software.
5:44 Not going to forecast exact in-stock levels; have factored current thinking of supply/demand in guidance.
5:45 Who bears cost on iPhone price cuts in Europe? Carrier partners are free to price iPhone as low as they wish; wouldn't comment on specific commercial agreements between Apple and carriers. 3G??? We don't comment on new products! Where seeing strength in channel? Comments in linearity? Strength in all geos. In Americas mac up 52%, Europe 48%, Japan 47%. Consumer appears to be strong. Pro business had nice pickup. Mac Pro sold more units.
5:47 Started shipping Macbook Air late in January, a lot of shipments went out in March. By end of March were at near a supply-demand balance on it. iPhone linearity: Outstripped supply toward the end of the quarter because we sold more than we had expected. Thought there would be more of a sequential decline there than there was.
5:50 Other big reasons for gross margin decline than software? Hard to do y/y gross margin comps because different points in product cycles, commodity cycles. Will stick to sequential comments.
5:51 Comments on P.A. Semi? Nope, no comment on purpose or plans.
5:53 Really hard to estimate unlocked iPhones and we don't want to throw a number out. Unlocking is occurring, and it's significant. Clear interest in demand globally for the iPhone. We're hearing reports of iPhones being used in many countries. Confidence in goal of selling 10 million in 2008.
5:54 Why more supply in Europe than U.S.? Noticeably different demand profile in U.S. versus Europe? Why couldn't you ship phones from Europe to U.S.? Stockouts were occurring in own stores, believe that stores more succeptible to people buying multiple units, then unlocking and exporting. Currently, inventory low in both stores and channel. Also the case in European channel? Don't want to be specific. In aggregate, Europe and U.S. are both low. Was channel also low at end of quarter? Why not better able to allocate? Once shipped and designated, ability to move them from carrier to carrier is low. Some cases with imbalance. Major point is that we sold more than we thought we would; today inventory low in Europe and US.
5:56 No comment on iPhone demand in Europe.
5:59 Any demos on Macbook Air purchasers? Appealing to all sorts of people from college profs to students to people who travel a lot. Caniballization factor very low.
6:00 Call over.
Preview, Updated financial model. Stay tuned for LIVE analysis and coverage of Apple's conference call at 5 p.m. ET., too.
The big question: How many Macs did Apple sell? The Street expects sales of 2.0 million, but we've seen estimates as high as 2.2 million (RBC's Mike Abramsky) and whisper numbers up to 2.3 million. Anything below 2.0 million would be disappointing. But anything over 2.1 million Macs would be "a significant positive," says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Selling 2.1 million Macs represents 38% year-over-year growth, significantly higher than the average 26% y/y Q3 growth the last three years.
Also critical: guidance. In January, when Apple demolished its Q1 numbers, the stock still tanked 11% after-hours, thanks in part to weaker-than-expected guidance. The Street expects Apple to guide to $7.15 billion of revenue and $1.10 EPS for Q3, but Apple is known for conservative guidance, often guiding below consensus. Anything below $7 billion/$1.05 could be disappointing, according to AmTech's Shaw Wu, who downgraded the stock yesterday.
iPod and iPhone unit sales will be interesting, but not essential. Investors already know that iPod growth has slowed — and Apple could easily sell fewer iPods during Q2 2008 than it did in Q2 2007. And while the iPhone makes for great conversation, it's still too small to make a dent in Apple's quarterly results. It will, however, become more important later this year (when the 3G version comes out) and next year.
Key metrics:
Revenue: $6.95 billion consensus (32% y/y growth), $7.1-7.2 billion whisper numbers (AmTech)
EPS: $1.07 consensus, $1.25-1.30 whispers (AmTech)
Mac sales: 2.0 million units consensus, 2.2-2.3 million units whispers (AmTech)
iPod sales: ~10 million (down 5% y/y) Street sentiment (Piper)
iPhone sales: 1.7 million consensus (Piper), 1.8 million bull case (RBC), above 2.0 million a surprise (Piper)
Q3 guidance: $7.15 billion revenue consensus, $7 billion lowball whisper; $1.10 EPS consensus, $1.05 lowball whisper (AmTech)
See Also: RBC: Apple's Mac Thriving In Tough Market, AAPL To $190
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I bet that many of my fellow tech bloggers spend a great deal of time at their PCs', often working into the late hours researching and writing their next article… I know myself, I fly with the owls and hang with the opossums. A lot of this has to do with the mind of the geek not shutting down; BUT, have you ever thought that your computer monitor may be playing a part in this and is actually keeping you up?
Think about it, most everyone owns the big LCD and LED monitors that are very bright and that brightness stays at the same level both day and night. At night, the level of brightness becomes even more radiant and glowing and can actually impact and stress your eyesight and cause headaches; resulting, in sleeplessness or the delay in falling asleep.
Some studies indicate blue light is beneficial during the day, but late at night it can negatively affect your sleep pattern.
There is a software solution, that I have used for the past three year, called F.lux that I will not live without.
F.lux is a FREE software application that you install on your PC that makes the color temperature of your computer's display automatically adjust and adapt to the time of day at your location. There is a feature built into the software that allows you to pinpoint your exact location down to the longitude and latitude. Once the location is entered, F.lux does the rest.
f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.
In a sense, as stated on the F.lux web site "warm at night and like sunlight during the day". The nice thing about this app is that you can manually adjust the color temperature to tweak it to the level you desire. You can even temporarily disable F.lux or exit F.lux and your color temperature will return to its' normal settings. The night setting is the setting where you will initially notice that the display gives off a fleshy tone and you may not like it at first; BUT, with continued use it may make a difference in both your vision and health. I can honestly attest, after 3 years of using this app, it is a big help!
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Anywho, what's been up with you? I'm still doing the same shit I babbled about in the last post. Since Blogger went all cra cra I just been chilling watching The Real Housewives of EVERYTHING! Ugh I love guilty pleasure/reality TV...it's like my nemesis. They say blogging is the new reality TV but I think it's little different than just embarrassing yourself on national TV for my entertainment. There's no producer sitting next to me telling me what to write. Also I heard that some bloggers have agents!! Is this true?? Like WTF for? NO WAY! Ummm I just wanna blog, hehe!
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Small Houses for the Next Century
McGraw-Hill, 1995 - Architecture - 244 pages
The American home is getting squeezed from all sides. Tight zoning restrictions, lack of available land, and cost constraints are just some of the forces driving this inevitable trend to downsizing. The forward-looking architect, planner, developer, contractor, or housing consumer needs to know everything there is to know about the unique challenges of small house design in the 21st century ... beginning now! This innovative book provides you with the comprehensive, practical, and thoroughly detailed guide you need to understand and master those challenges. Following in the success of The Small House, this strikingly illustrated sequel is packed with ideas - ideas that will appeal both to the house-buying public and to the professionals in architecture and real estate who serve it. In Small Houses for the Next Century you will find in-depth analysis of award-winning as well as never-before-published projects ... including project histories, client requirements, site selections, budgeting concerns, construction approaches, and technical innovations; statistical analysis of residential space allocation - living space, circulation, bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens; future trends in prefabrication, environmentally sensitive design, and the response to changing demographics; and sometimes surprising perspectives from architects and owners as to why projects succeed ... or fail - with a wealth of specific case examples. Professionals in the field should know that all plans included in this book are drawn to the same scale. Beautiful illustrations abound, and are used to reinforce specific concepts and to provide a comprehensive analysis of the changing features of small house design. AuthorDuo Dickinson's formulaic and numeric technique recognizes the perceptual impact of designed space - space that is felt and experienced rather than calculated two-dimensionally. This idea of perceived space is enhanced by the concept of a house's fit - that quality that makes living in it effortless. One-, two-, three-, and four or more bedroom single-family residences are explored in every imaginable context, including urban infill sites, rural developments, poorly sited lots, standard subdivisions, coastal sites, second homes, home offices, subsidized housing, luxury housing, owner-built housing, and design/build housing.
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The following press release regarding the upcoming Georgia Family History Expo is courtesy Family History Expos:
Your Family History Starts in Duluth, GA
Georgia Family History Expo Nov. 9-10
Davis is director of the Genealogy Program of Wallace State Community College, Hanceville, Ala. The historian has more than 1,000 publications on records and research to his credit. He will kick off the Expo at 2 p.m. Friday in the Gwinnett Center Ballroom.
"We're so lucky to have such an experienced historian address us at this Expo," Family History ExposFounder and President Holly T. Hansen said. "We've got a spectacular lineup at this event and I couldn't be happier."
On Friday, 6:30 p.m., Davis will lecture on, "The Secrets to Research in Alabama." At 7:50 p.m. he will present a course titled, "Crossing the Great Divide: Little Known Federal Sources for Place of Birth before 1850."
Davis will return on Saturday to teach Expo participants about "Research in the War of 1812 in the Deep South." At 11:20 a.m. he will discuss "The Thirteenth Colony: Exploring the Colonial Georgia Records."
On Saturday at 10 a.m. Adjei will offer a lecture titled "Echoes from Africa." This course will help participants discover the kinds of roots available to assist researchers of African Roots.
Gracy is the external chief technology officer and vice president of business development at Pitney Bowes. He has a master's degree in computer science and a master's in e-commerce. In addition to his work as a Fortune 500 executive, he is an accomplished genealogist.
Expo participants will also be treated to lectures from a wide variety of other professional genealogists and family historians including (but certainly not limited to) the following:
"Where Do I Start?" by Billy Dubois Edgington for beginning family historians
"Georgia Land, Maps and Technology," by Jennifer Dondero
"Reading Old Style Handwriting," by Sharon D. Monson
"German Church and Civil Records," by Fritz Juengling, Ph.D.
"Using the Neighbors to Find Your Ancestors," by Monica L. Hopkins
Hansen will share her personal research magic during a closing keynote address in the ballroom on Saturday at 3:50 p.m. She will also draw for door prizes offered by sponsors and supporters of the event.
"At a time when the Georgia Governor has decided to close state archives to the public, it is more important than ever before that we come together in numbers and talk about the importance of the preservation of records and public access to them," Hansen said.
The cost to attend this two-day event is just $89 with pre-registration and $110 at the door. Pay only $60 for one day. Onsite registration will begin and the exhibit hall will open at 1 p.m. on Friday. The event will close at 9 p.m. Exhibits and registration will re-open at 9 a.m. on Saturday. The exhibit hall will close at 4 p.m. Prizes donated by exhibitors will be given away both days and Grand Prizes donated by sponsors will be given away at the closing ceremony. This event is sponsored by Family History Expos and supported by FamilySearch.
Register now at www.FamilyHistoryExpos.com or call 801-829-3295 for telephone registration.


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We do the meat CSA thing, from a local farm. It's more then $20 a week (closer to $40), but it's worth every penny. I get a mixture of pork, beef, and chicken, in ground meat, sausage, and roast form (the chickens come whole), with the occasional other stuff (they do great hot dogs, sometimes we get bacon, a few times I've gotten liver, and almost always we get some extra bones for soup). We actually pay by the month, and usually have some meat left at the end, so every once in a while I just skip a month and we finish emptying the freezer.
Reasons it's worth it:
I don't have to scour my fridge/freezer every time I see Yet Another Meat recall.
It's local, and we usually go to the open house every year to visit.
This one is subjective, but my grocery bill has actually gone down, because the meat tastes better. Instead of buying cheap pork chops from the grocery store, and making some complicated dish to cover up the fact that they're bland, I take the good pork chops, dust them with salt and pepper, and toss them on the grill, which comes out cheaper then the casserole in the end.
Also, because all my meat is in the freezer, I don't have to plan as much ahead. Before we did the CSA, I'd go to the grocery store with good intentions on Sunday, and buy meat for 4-5 meals. Then something would come up, I'd have to work late, we'd get invited to dinner, or I just wouldn't feel like making whatever I had in the fridge, and inevitably something would end up going bad. This way, I only pull out one day of meat at a time, and if something comes up, I just eat it a day later. It doesn't "bunch up" in my fridge.
I have nothing but good things to say about the entire experience - I can't imagine going back to buying grocery store meat again, ever.
Now I just need a local vegetable CSA to supplement it, and I'll have it made (and yes, I've looked, and I look again every 3 months - one will be available eventually).


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Today was the last day of cycling for our Tuscany tour, but we ended it with a bang. We started with a big breakfast at our hotel and then a 14km downhill ride out of San Gimignano. We rode north to Certaldo and as always our trusty guide George was waiting there with snacks and water. But today he was also holding tickets to the funicolare, which took us up to the top of Certaldo.
After taking the funicolare down the hill, we set out for Montespertoli to have lunch. We had lunch at La Terrazza, where we got to enjoy tagliatelle with truffles, quite the treat after riding all morning.
From Montespertoli we rode to Signa, where right before our last big hill of the trip; Robin showed what the e-bikes are really capable of. A "real biker" all set up with a nice road bike and jersey passed us at the bottom of the hill, I jokingly told Robbin to go pass him. Next thing I now she was flying up the hill passing the guy! The look on his face as he got passed was priceless, he couldn't believe his eyes that some lady with a pink jacket on was passing him. These e-bikes are the real deal, the power they give you is ridiculous. Now the average or even not so average biker can handle a real cycling tour like Tuscany.
We ended our cycling in Signa and our guide drove us up to our hotel in Artimino. It was quite sad finishing our last day of riding, after riding for 5 days you don't want to stop! Once we settled into our rooms, we met up for a wine tasting at the hotel. A little wine and cheese put a big smile on everyones face.
Our farewell dinner was the perfect end to a perfect trip. Our guide George, gave everyone a little personal gift and a wooden Pinocchio. Then we went over the weeks WOW's, from seeing the Mangia Tower in Siena to Robbin blazing through the hills of Italy on the e-bikes; the whole week was full of WOW moments. I really couldn't have asked for a better trip! The weather was wonderful, all of our guest had a great time and ending a trip in better shape always helps. The best part is we have one more day in Italy, so check back soon to see how my Tuscany adventure ended.
I'm headed to Pisa tomorrow, so check back to see some photos and stories. I promise you'll see a cheesy photo of me holding up the tower!


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Once Apple ( AAPL) proved its retail store idea was valid back in 2001, it was inevitable that other consumer-oriented manufacturers would look to become their own middlemen, too.
But it's not just consumer-technology companies like Microsoft( MSFT) that have recognized there's a clear advantage in controlling the point-of-sale experience. Undergarment wholesale supplier Spanx decided to take a shot retailing. Electric car makerTesla Motors ( TSLA) set up a handful of sales offices in a few of the nation's higher-traffic malls last year and this year, some complete with demo vehicles.
Even a handful of insurance companies are opting for retail stores in malls rather than the more traditional office/agent model.
Given just how far an automobile maker and an insurer stretch the limits of what qualifies as a marketable retailing premise, the fact that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ( GMCR) is planning on opening a store to sell coffee-makers and K-cup refills doesn't seem farfetched at all.
Say What?
Yes, you read that right — the company that makes Keurig coffee makers and K-cup coffee packets has decided to take a shot on dealing its goods directly to the consumer by opening one Keurig store in a Massachusetts mall.
So far the company has said little about the shop other than letting coffee drinkers in the area know it will offer all of the company's brewers, as well as refill packs that shoppers can piece together themselves with a full variety of flavors. Fans and followers can reasonably assume the Keurig store also will be an experienced-oriented setting, complete with lots of hands-on demonstrations, wonderful smells and plenty of well-qualified salespeople.
In other words, it'll be the Apple Store of the coffee world.
What's not been said is whether this store is the shape of things to come. It's a pretty good bet Green Mountain Coffee Roasters wouldn't bother setting up one such shop, however, unless this was going to the prototype for an eventual nationwide network of Keurig stores.
So, the question investors should be asking isn't if more stores are being planned, but rather, if the (no pun intended) brewing effort will take Green Mountain's revenue to the proverbial next level.
Most likely, it will.
Why Retail Stores Are a Great Idea for Green Mountain
A new retail arm for a coffee maker company that has to date relied entirely on other retailers to hawk its goods may seem like a misguided notion … on the surface. After all, coffee makers have been around for decades, and coffee itself has been around for centuries. How much specialized attention can these very basic consumer goods need? It's not as simple as that, however.
While a Keurig machine is broadly categorized as a coffeemaker, with a retail price starting at $109 and going as high as $290, these are clearly not your ordinary coffee machines. The average consumer might be willing to drop less than $100 for another brand of coffeemaker, but passing that $100 threshold is when most potential buyers might need a little extra convincing.
For evidence of that idea, one only has to look at the relative success of Apple Stores, where most everything costs more than $100. Through the first nine months of the company's current fiscal year, the company's 407 retail locales have generated $15.7 billion in sales … about 12% of the company's revenue. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of other retailers and wireless service providers also offer Apple's product line, and haven't produced anything close to comparable success on a square-foot or per-visitor basis. The difference is simply that Apple has established an environment that's actually conducive to selling.
If you doubt me, go to your nearest Walmart ( WMT) and see what happens when you ask for an iPad demo.
It's not just the price point that lends itself to specialty shops, though. It's likely that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will be able to shape its retail locations as a vanity-driven, premium experience, not unlike what consumers find at a Starbucks ( SBUX). That's something the brand hasn't been able to do for itself yet.
In all fairness, the coffee at Starbucks is very, very good. Comparably good coffee is available in other venues, however, and at lower prices. It's just that Starbucks has created such a strong positive consumer experience, holding that white cup with a green logo on it simply makes customers feel good. Look for K-cup refill purchases and Keurig shopping bags to become a similar feel-good, indulgent experience that drives lots of repeat business.
Bottom Line
Keurig stores might not be seen as a real game-changer, but the advent of the retail effort is apt to make a bigger impact than the market's giving it credit for. Green Mountain has learned a great deal from all the other companies that have thrown their hat into the retail store ring, and the fact that it's doing it at all speaks volumes about the company's expectations.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.


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Elijah Craig 12 Year Bourbon, 47% abv (94 Proof), $25/bottle
Elijah Craig 12 year is deep amber in color with one of the best noses in bourbon. It floods your nose with vanilla, caramel, oak, char and spiced fruit, with backnotes of dried fruits, flint, and mineral. Burned sugar, rye, vanilla, and spices assert themselves with the first sip. Maple syrup, char, and oak further anchor this whiskey giving it depth and heft that usually comes with far more expensive bourbons. The finish is long and intense with dry spice, char, and burned sugar. Elijah Craig 12 year is one of the best value whiskeys on the planet with richness, depth, and intense character.
Sour Mash Manifesto Rating: 8.9 (Superb/Outstanding)
Elijah Craig 18 Year Old Single Barrel, 45% abv (90 Proof), $50/bottle
Elijah Craig 18 Year Old Single Barrel takes time to open up. At 18 years on the barrel it's a little bit understandable that this one would need more oxygen to really unfold itself to the sipper. The nose is tight to begin with and very barrel heavy – oak, char, cedar, and dryness. Light maple and vanilla tease but never quite assert themselves fully. An almost nail polish or acetone scent is given off that is actually very intriguing. Still the nose disappoints with its one sidedness. The flavors of char, resin, barrel tannin, light caramel, and pepper continue this one sided aspect with the first taste. Once again maple and vanilla linger in the background to add some depth and sweetness. Elijah Craig 18's thin and light body yield a finish of moderate length with leather, spice, and oak. While a good bourbon, the one dimensional aspects left me wanting a bit more richness and sweetness to balance things out.
Sour Mash Manifesto Rating: 7.8 (Good/Solid)