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Mining for (Source) Content Gold
As a writer or editor, it's ideal to get solid content strategy and background information before you start creating content. But sometimes you need to fend for yourself.
The scenario plays out like this: You've been assigned to write the content for a website, and you're ready to get started (hooray!). Even if there is no strategy, you hope there's loads of source material. Or at least enough to support the proposed site structure and objectives.
Then, you're presented with one measly PDF. Good luck!
Not exactly enough to create a website with, is it? If your source content is non-existent, then you're going to have to find it. You can do it. Here's how.
Identify subject matter experts (SMEs)
Whether you're working with a client or an internal team, you'll need to identify your project's key players. And they aren't necessarily the ones that give sign-offs and approvals. You're looking for the people that know the product or service inside and out—researchers, product developers, customer service representatives, marketing folks. People who spend their days immersed in the very stuff you need to write about.
Sit down with your project sponsor and talk about who these people might be. Get a list of names and job titles. Then schedule some time to chat with each one of them.
Create a discussion guide
Once you've determined who you'll be interviewing, it's a good idea to create a discussion guide. Nothing too rigid or overdeveloped—think outline or talking points. Something that will help you keep the conversation on track, and get to the heart of the information you really need: content priorities for both users and the business, as well as tangible knowledge about the product or service.
Ask simple, open-ended questions like:
- What is the <product or service>?
- What are the benefits to consumers? How is this <product or service> different from similar offerings in the market?
- What is some typical feedback (positive or negative) that you hear from consumers about the <product or service>?
- If you could convey one key message, what would it be?
- Are there any existing written materials or other information about <product or service> that you could share with me?
Whether it's a module, a few web pages, or an entire site, the content needs to exist for a reason (this, of course, in an ideal world where pet projects and knee-jerk reactions to competitors don't exist). It's your job to find out why—and why users should care.
Talk … and listen
You'll be leading the discussion, but let your SME do the talking. Ask questions—and let the silence sit. Give them time to process and think. Count to 10 in your head. This may feel a little awkward (OK, it does feel awkward), but you'll get better, more thoughtful answers in the end.
However, sometimes, you'll find that people need a little coaxing. This often happens when they're unsure about their own knowledge. Many times, we've come across situations where people are hesitant to answer certain questions because they don't think they're the "expert" on the topic. And each time, we assure the person that any perspective they offer can be helpful.
In fact, it's often those "non-expert" interpretations that help us develop the most user-focused copy—because they're free of details that are too specific, complicated, or just plain unnecessary for the average consumer. Wherever your SME may reside on the corporate or organizational totem pole, their opinion matters. Make sure they know that, and encourage them to share.
Begin writing and reevaluating
Once you've gathered all of your source content, it's time to get to work. And once you begin writing, you'll quickly realize what's possible and what's not, in terms of initial priorities and site structure.
For instance, maybe the proposed sitemap doesn't really support the content you've gathered. Maybe the priorities are different, now that you've heard from the actual people in the trenches.
Don't be afraid to recommend structural changes. Just as your SMEs understand the product or service, you understand the content and what it needs to do to be the most effective, for users and the business. If you see an opportunity to make the content (and user experience) better, don't ignore it.
So, eureka! There you have it. With a little initiative, nurturing, and planning, you can create relevant, focused source content. And that's pure gold.

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KFA2 GeForce GTX 670 EX OC review -
Hey all, come on in and say hello to another GeForce GTX 670 review, in this article we'll look at a really pleasant offering from KFA2. The product is a factory overclocked, custom cooled, custom designed PCB GeForce GTX 670, yes this is the EX OC edition.
The GeForce GTX 670 is the little brother of the GTX 680 and comes a tiny bit castrated. See, NVIDIA disabled a couple of shader processors and designed a more cost effective and smaller PCB.
The card itself remains very beefy in terms of performance though, which you'll understand once we go through the specifications. The GK104 GPU based graphics card has one SM/SMX cluster disabled. This gives the GK104 GPU 1344 CUDA cores to work with, with in total, 112 texture and 32 raster operating units.
The reference graphics card also has slightly slower clock frequencies than big poppa GTX 680, with a reference baseclock speed of 915 MHz. However the GTX 670 as well comes with a Boost clock which is set at 980 MHz -- not far off from the GTX 680 at all (I'm talking about the reference clocks here).
NVIDIA's board partners are however allowed to create their own designs with their own preferred clock frequencies, and that changes stuff as today's product for example is roughly as fast as a GeForce GTX 680. The EX OC editions come factory overclocked pretty intensely towards 1006 MHz on the GPU base clock and a nice 1058 MHz on the boost frequency. The memory clock remains standard at 6008 MHz btw.
With a slightly higher TDP at roughly 170~180 Watts the card won't draw too much power either. We'll have a peek at the product after we dive right into the review, next page please.
In this review we benchmark the new KFA2 / GALAX GeForce GTX 980 Ti HOF, a product that impresses by design as it offers great game rendering performance at quiet noise levels. Hey with its white desi...
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KFA2 aka GALAX releases their mid-range GeForce GTX 960 EXOC edition, yep as in Extreme Overclocked. The product comes factory overclocked with a boost clock of 1266 MHz. The product has a custom and ...
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In this article we review the KFA2 GeForce GTX 760 EX OC edition, this particular model comes with a dual-slot two cooling solution. That boils down to a silent product versus and more than excellent cooling performance. KFA2 offers the card factory slightly overclocked at some pretty impressive clock frequencies. Join us in this review and let's see if the 259 USD Gaming edition model will be worth it for you.
KFA2 GeForce GTX 770 EX OC review
In this review we take the KFA2 GeForce GTX 770 EX OC edition for a benchmarkin' test-drive. This model graphics card comes with a factory overclock and a new design cooler with dual 90mm fans. Overall the card is sitting in-between the GeForce GTX 680 and GeForce GTX 780 , 100% cool and 100% silent. We test the product with the hottest games like Metro: Last light, Battlefield 3, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Hitman Absolution and many more.


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Avril Lavigne rocks the iHeartRadio Village crowd to classic staying-young anthems
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Canadian pop-punk goddess Avril Lavigne, backed by a plethora of camo-clad backup dancers equipped with T-shirt guns, still knows how to entertain a crowd as she dove into a string of her hit singles - even bringing out a boombox-carrying shark during "Here's to Never Growing Up."
As much as we love chanting along to "Girlfriend" and "What the Hell, nothing could top the end when she went in to her classic first hit, "Sk8r Boi" - can you believe that song is 11 years old and it's still awesome? We can.
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GSA Publishes 2001 Edition of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
July 23, 2001
Contact: Eleni Martin (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON - Are you looking for federal grants or loans for flood control, food and nutrition programs, education and training, or small business development? Or how about help for community development programs, child care, or mental health research? These are just a few of the Federal assistance programs described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance published by the U.S. General Services Administration. The online Catalog always contains the most current information. It is available at www.gsa.gov/cfda, or through FirstGov.gov.
The 2001 Catalog contains information on more than 1,450 domestic assistance programs sponsored by 57 Federal departments and agencies. It includes qualification requirements and suggestions for writing grant proposals. Designed to make finding information easy, the Catalog's four indexes (agency, function, subject, and applicant eligibility) will help you quickly locate potential Federal assistance for your specific need. For each program listed, the Catalog provides: program objectives and goals, types of assistance offered, eligibility requirements, examples of funded projects, criteria for selecting proposals, phone contacts for applicants and information, and related programs.
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Both the June basic edition and the December update edition will continue to be published in various electronic formats. Catalog contents and accompanying documentation are available from GSA on high-density floppy diskettes ($50) and CD-ROM ($45.) To order the floppy diskettes or the CD-ROM, contact the Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Staff (MVS), U.S. General Services Administration, Washington DC 20407; phone (202) 708-5126. Inquiries may also be made by leaving a voice message at (800) 669-8331. For additional information, contact Donna Davis at (202) 708-5126.


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LISTEN: Will Ferrell + The Lumineers = comic mashup gold
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(Yahoo!) - Pair a modern folk-rock classic with some hilariously erratic outburst from a "Saturday Night Live" vet, and you've got a solid musical mashup, as demonstrated by a new potential YouTube classic: "Ho Hey Harry Caray."
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Will Ferrell created a fan favorite with his impersonation of Cubs announcer Harry Caray back in the early 2000s, and now the spastic exclamations he delivered as Caray are making an online comeback. With the help of some well-timed video edits, they're the perfect addition to the original "ho's!" and "heys!" of the Lumineers' catchy chorus.


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Lol @ 5-6 figure income. I don't believe any of them have ever said how much money they received from doing this, except Comex, I believe he estimated about how much he received from his jailbreakme ones, not even close to 6 figures.
The alleged income level that they make is something I actually picked up from the forum here. Several have posed it. Of course we can't prove it. But do the math.. Even at $1 donation from 75% of jailbreakers.. that would be quite a pile of cash each new release yearly. It's just simple math, guys.
Suffice it to say that they're not in the same category as the poor Cydia devs that barely make anything. The jailbreak devs make a boatload of cash - or should I say "take in" a boatload of cash. Can't be sure what they do with it. But they receive hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
BOATloads of cash.. No doubt in my mind. Believe what you will.
You really overestimate the number of people that donate massively.
Even at 20% donating $1.. Is a BOAT LOAD of cash yearly.. Simple math my friend.. Somebody's making a PILE of cash as there is 0 overhead expense - except their valuable time. This is really a no brainer to me.. And I will keep "expecting" things from the devs as paid professionals.
But I respect your view. I just don't share it.
Even at 20% you are wildly overestimating from what I have heard.
They deserve the 6 or 7 figure sums after all the effort apple those dum pricks better help them slyly but I think they've done it just tying up the loose ends want no come backs I my self have sent and will continue to support financially keep it up boys
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You are greatly over exaggerating the generosity of people. If people who donate are anything like people who use Cydia (which is safe to assume I think), then you are looking more at the 5-10% range of jailbreakers who actually donate.
People's perceptions of these guys is so completely different from the genuinely decent guys I used to have the pleasure of talking to, it is a different world. MN and PlanetBeing would not be working with others if they did not think they were 'genuine' - ie totally the opposite of the money grabbing people that some people seem to think they are.
I have nothing but respect for all of them, I have vague ideas of what they are going through and doubt if things have changed to much from when my opinion was sought and thrown into the mix. Decisions were always made for the greatest good and I have no reason to suspect that that has changed.
New people have come along and I am sure they have a lot of influence, but the originals would not work with them if they didn't believe in their principals.
I could be wrong.
But I don't think so.
But it doesn't diminish my respect at all for them. And as I said a couple posts back the "Making loads" phenomenon is more of a recent thing. In the early days it wasn't the same.
I just got off the phone with Jesus. He said the jail break will be here in January. Since he Is a god and all , ima take his word on it. Lol
Grant, you are doing it again.
He isn't doing it again, he is just being himself.
By the way, I just spoke with Obama and he assured me the healthcare website will be completely fixed by next week. No need for evidence, when I speak its the truth, when others speak I have the right to demand proof(Grantology).
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I realize this question has been asked, but thought it was worth revisiting since the landscape changes so rapidly. I am investigating different options to add CMS capabilities to a few websites I work on. They are currently built utilizing PHP includes for different sections, but I am looking to add CMS type functionality as well.
I am liking what I see with services such as Perch or Pulse CMS, but am curious what other options (similar to those where you insert a snippet of code which then retrieves the appropriate details for the page being called). Does anyone have any open source styles of CMS that work similar to these that can be "added" to an otherwise mostly static website design?
While I am focusing right now on the main site content being easily editable by the websites owner without having to mess around with the HTML/CSS/PHP behind the site, I also want to keep in mind that some of the sites we may desire to add blog type functionality to the site, so not having to implement another solution would be good. Applications such as Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress fit that nicely, but (at least in my opinion) are a little bit more "horsepower" than is required, and includes the potential for quite a bit of unnecessary code bloat.
Thanks in advance, I always appreciate the feedback from the forum community, it invariably leads me to find exactly what I was looking for (and quite often, in services/features I didn't even know existed).
Personally, for a small CMS option, I think Perch and Pulse are brilliant. You can have a blog with Perch, too (but not sure about Pulse). There are some other CMSes that work in a similar way, although they are hosted by third parties, like CushyCMS, SurrealCMS and PageLime. There are also other simple CMSes like GetSimple (a flat file rather than database system) that look interesting, although I think you build your whole site around that.
If you are looking at expansion, though, it's still worth considering a more powerful system like MODx or ExpressionEngine, though you basically build your site from scratch using those.
Yes, I had found a couple different options, but most of them seemed to require that I "build" my site inside their environment. What I am looking for is more like Pulse CMS offers (and I believe Perch works the same way as well) where I can build the site, then designate certain areas as "editable" and the end user would then use the admin interface to change those sections. I've found an older "free" version of Pulse that I have been messing with and am really liking how it functions.
Currently I am leaning towards just utilizing Pulse (though Perch is tempting, I'm not sure what additional features it would have to make the additional cost for licensing worthwhile. I was mainly trying to see if anyone had any other options that function similar to these two CMS's they may be able to suggest.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm taking a look at the other options you mentioned just so I have an idea of what other options there are. I'm a firm believer that you can never know too many different options. And having a familiarity with some of these may allow me to match them with a future project where they are exactly what would be needed.
I too have a need for a really simple CMS that I can add to an existing site. It really just needs to be able to edit blocks of content, but in addition it should be able to handle uploading images and including those images in the edited blocks (and of course it should also allow deleting uploaded images that are no longer needed).
Perch looks good but I'd prefer something that was free (yup, I'm a cheapskate!) I'm also not sure what would happen if they ever disappeared, would my website stop working?
Pulse also looks good. I've just tried a quick test and the editor they use doesn't seem to work very well in Opera (my main browser). Inserting objects (images, tables, etc) seems to always add them to the top of the block and not where my cursor was when I inserted the object.
Are there any other simple CMS packages around that are like Perch and Pulse?
Others were mentioned in post #2.
If this is a non-commercial site, I recommend you check out the core version of ExpressionEngine, which is free on non-commercial sites.
I just tested out PageLime and Surreal CMSs (while looking at Perch). Surreal and PageLime had similar features although I found Surreal easier to use. I did find that PageLime would allow you to have multiple editable regions within a repeatable region, where as Surreal did not, but I went with Surreal anyway for the cleaner interface.
Perch allows you to make inpage templates (I think that is what they call them) and this allows you to have multiple fields within 1 editable item which is pretty sweet. I didn't go with Perch because I liked that you could edit the page while looking at it (in the other two) where as with Perch you are mostly using a back-end tool when making your edits (which isn't as easy for clients) - this is why I counted out CushyCMS as well. Perch does have a one time cost which is attactive, but Surreal was only $10/month for 5 sites, which is nothing really - and that includes customizing the interface with your logo etc.
Someone above suggested ExpressionEngine which I tried about 2 years ago. I found it crazy complicated and the back-end was not remotely client friendly. They may have changed it since then though. Concrete5 looks like EE, but you do the edits on screen like PageLime and SurrealCMS. I count it out because it seemed like it would be really tedious to make their in page "blocks" (what Perch calls templates and are far easier to make in Perch from what I saw).
you should definitely checkout Cockpit <snip/> ... great to make any site manageable/editable.


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Thread: Help with Solids...
28th February 2012 12:36 AM #1
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Help with Solids...
My baby poops a lot, I think it's after every meal (solids). So it's like 5 times a day. Is it normal? When should I start worrying?
29th February 2012 12:55 AM #2
Yes this can be normal for many babies. Some baby's poo after every feed/meal and others go every few days.
As long as he seems happy and is pooing consistently then this should be fine. A change in stools which is more watery could be due to an infection.
The only thing you might want to keep an eye out for if your baby is pooing this frequently is nappy rash. If he suffers from this you can use a cream with zinc oxide in it to protect his bottom.
I hope this helps with your questions.
2nd March 2012 03:38 PM #3
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I agree with ljmarsden. Some babies have a bowel movement frequently, even at 6 months, especially if they are having a lot of breast milk.
Watch the consistency and if it changes this could be cause for concern. However it will change as you start to introduce more solids. Tell us a little more. Is he only on breast milk? Have his bowel movements changed (become more frequent or changed in consistency) in the past 2 months? If things have change, what concerns you and what do you think could have caused the change?
Post back and I'll see if I can help.
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The text below was put together by former SCI employee Ramon Coyle.
What can one person do to promote solar cooking?
The first answer: Join with others! Then you won't be just one person anymore.
The second answer: Devise an action plan.
- Make or buy a solar cooker. Congratulations—you have just done more than the average person to increase the number of cookers in the world.
- Save money on cooking fuel by using the cooker often. Congratulations—you have created a living example in your community of the value of solar cookers.
- Use that money to 1) Pay yourself back for what you spent on your cooker and; 2) Repair or replace your cooker when needed and; 3) Make or buy one extra cooker
- Teach someone else to use the extra cooker and to save money with it. Work out a plan for that person to pay you back for the money you spent on that cooker and to save for their own future repairs. Congratulations—you have just doubled the number of solar cooks in your community. Few communities have done as well.
This four point plan can be adapted for larger goals. If you have enough money, you could start with 5 cookers and 5 cooks who will each save money by using the sun for fuel instead of paying for cooking fuel. Or with 100 cookers and 100 cooks.
This plan can work more rapidly in connection with my first answer: join with other people. For example, some people will find it very difficult to come up with the money to buy the supplies to make even one cooker. Perhaps 5 or 10 people could put their money together for the first cooker. They could take turns using the cooker, but each user would have to pay an amount equal to the amount of money they saved by not having to buy fuel for that day's cooking.
This pool of money could be used to
- Pay back everyone the amount they contributed to buy or make the first cooker.
- To pay for a second cooker that they would share the same way as the first cooker.
Yes—this would be a very slow way to bring solar cookers to your community. But it is a way to begin. And the process speeds up. With two cookers in use, your group should save enough money to buy a third cooker in half the time it took to buy the second cooker. When your group members are using nine cookers to save on fuel costs, the time needed to save for a tenth one will be short. And then—many congratulations to you, for you have built a base of 10 experienced, knowledgeable solar cooks where there had been no solar cooks before. Other people nearby may learn from you.
I admit there could be problems with these examples. One big problem is money. I will discuss that problem in the last section of this essay — a section called "A Problem with Money."
Another problem could be that your climate may not be suitable. The pattern of clouds in your area may make solar cooking much more difficult. Even in the hottest countries, the climate might not be right because of frequent clouds, unpredictable clouds, or clouds that come at the time of day people would want to use their solar cookers.
The answer to this problem is to not try to promote solar cookers in these areas. An article called Predicting the usefulness of solar cooking in a given locality has a helpful checklist of questions to help you decide how well solar cooking suits your climate. This article can be found in the Project Resources section of this wiki.
If the climate is not right, alternatives to solar cooking may be better for you. The main alternatives are the "improved woodstoves" (such as the Rocket Stove and the "mandaleo jiko") and heat retention cookers also known as "hay baskets" or "hay boxes." Information about these alternatives can be found on the internet at here and at http://www.bioenergylists.org. There are many helpful articles at bioenergylists. (You can read articles without needing a password or login for their internet site. I recommend the section on "references" and the list of other useful internet sites — these are found on the right side of the page right under the password and login area.)
There could be other reasons why people do not use the solar cookers very often. The "predicting usefulness" checklist that I mentioned two paragraphs ago gives some of the reasons why solar cookers might not fit well with some cultures and lifestyles. If there are strong cultural reasons why solar cooking does not fit, consider hay baskets or improved stoves. Even if the weather and culture are right, some people might get little use from the solar cookers because of personal reasons. Maybe they do not want to learn the new skills. Perhaps they are not really interested. Maybe they would rather cook the old way. The answer to this problem is to work with other people--people who are interested, people who will make an effort to learn.
Group Process
I have been strongly suggesting joining with others, but some new problems can come from joining with others. In the United States, we call these problems and ideas for dealing with these problems "group process."
By the time I was 40, I had slowly learned that there are some people who talk a lot but do little. Some people do great work, but are very good at making other people angry and driving them away. Some people get along very well with some people, but fight with others. Some people are good in every way, but they just have strong disagreements about what needs to be done and how to do it. Yes, joining with other people to work together is not always easy. There are no perfect answers.
People who seek other people to join in working together often find it easiest to accept anyone who offers to help. I am not sure this is always a good idea. The purpose of working with other people is to achieve greater goals. People who are difficult to work with can make it harder, not easier, to achieve goals.
I like to work with people I trust. Trust is especially important when a group is collecting and spending money. I like to work with people who will actually do the work they promise to do—and I very much like people who tell me when they can not do the work I ask instead of telling me "yes" and then not doing it.
I never like it when someone agrees to do something and then does not do it because they had never really agreed that doing it was a good idea. If there are disagreements about the work of a group, those disagreements must be discussed. I have learned helpful things from disagreements. Sometimes I learn that the other person has good reasons for disagreeing. Sometimes I learn that agreements can be reached by being careful about our words and making sure we mean the same thing when we use the same words. Sometimes disagreements develop because one person is thinking long term and the other short term. Sometimes in a disagreement about my way or your way, we can find agreement in a third way. Sometimes I learn that this is one person or one group that I should not be working with because the disagreements are so basic or so frequent.
I like to work with people who are pretty smart, who make good choices and who do the group's work well—people who care about the group and do their best for it. If there are people I am not sure about, I try not to give them a lot of responsibility at first. I try not to put myself in the position of having to depend on someone who is not dependable. I might ask an experienced, trusted member to work with and watch over a new or untrusted member of the group. If I have two good people who do not like each other, I will create two sub-committees or sub-projects, one for each of them.
When possible, I like to recruit new people to a group who have the skills my group is lacking. Before doing this, I first have to admit to myself that I am not good at everything. For a good solar cooking group getting started in a sunny but low-income village or town, I would look for people with the following qualities:
- At least one person who is good at judging character to help me figure out who is honest, who is reliable, who is a trouble-maker and who is lazy. This person would help me look for a few people who have the gift of having people like them quickly—the gift of making people want to help them and join in what they are doing. I wish I had that gift, but at least I have had the good fortune to work with a few people who did have it.
- At least two people who know the community very well—they know who the important people are in town—who makes the decisions. They know which people are influenced by other people and they know how things really get done—whether it matches the official story of how things get done or not. It helps if people in your group are friends or relatives of important people and the people who get things done in the community.
- Two or more people "who know how groups work." Everyone who gives time or money to a group wants to be treated fairly and have a chance to voice their opinions, ask questions or make complaints. They want to know that the group is doing something useful and that the group's plans make sense. It is not unusual for groups to become dominated by 1, 2 or 3 people, and that causes others to give up and quit the group. Groups usually are so busy with other worries that they forget to be completely fair and hear opinions, answer questions and resolve complaints—unless they make a special effort to pay attention. "People who know how groups work" are well aware of these facts and have learned or developed methods for limiting the damage—methods of "group process." People who are good at "group process" teach as much of these skills as possible to as many of the other group members as possible.
- At least two or three people who understand money. Someone has to keep track of all the money that comes into the group and the money the group spends. Someone has to keep the money safe and make it clear to all the other members how much money comes in, how money is spent, and how people can be sure none is being lost, wasted or stolen. Someone has to make sure that the money saved by using the cookers is enough to pay for the group's expenses (so that all the members get a cooker and can get repairs when needed—with money left over to keep the project growing. The other two people who understand money would help watch over this "someone" so that the group is very, very certain that the money is well managed.
- At least one person who is good at making things and fixing things—like making and repairing solar cookers. Two, three or four people like this would be better. Best would be to teach many people how to make and repair cookers.
- At least one person who is good at getting supplies--who can find the best place to buy things at good prices and bring the supplies to where they are needed.
- Most importantly, the group needs people who are very interested in cooking. These people will learn and teach the best ways to solar cook the favorite foods of everyone in the community. Their love of cooking and skill in cooking will inspire others to solar cook.
- One or two people who understand teaching, because teaching different skills is so important to a strong and growing group.
Not everyone in the group must have all these skills--for a strong group, you will want a variety of people with varied skills who are still able to understand and cooperate with each other.
In practice, most good projects start with 2 to 5 smart, hard-working people who can work together. Their energy draws others--more often as helpers than as new leaders, but developing new leaders is usually very valuable. I can give examples of strong solar cooker projects that developed from the initial efforts of a few dedicated people: the EG Solar group of Germany (begun by Ulrich and Lisel Oehler), the transformation of the city of Baroda, India, into a solar cooking city (thanks to Javahar and Aruna Maniar), and the Cedesol groups in Bolivia (led by Ruth Saavedra and David Whitfield) and Paraguay (with an effective partnership between Martin Almada and Jean-Claude Pulfer. Almost all of these people worked on their projects for 20 years or more.
When I was a group leader, I tried to match the interests and skills of each member to the different types of work that needed to be done. Difficult, important jobs would usually go to "the people who can do that job best." I tried to make sure that "the people who can do that job best" taught several others in the group to "do that job best," too. The more people who can do more jobs "the best," the stronger the group is. It is likely that most cooks in the community are women. It is likely that the best people to help these women learn about solar cooking and how to be effective, money-saving solar cooks are other women. The women who teach solar cooking skills to other women are key to the whole plan working. It is unlikely these women will do their best teaching if the group does not respect them and does not seriously listen to them. I know gender roles and limitations vary from place to place in this world. In some places, there are jobs men will not do and there are jobs women are not allowed to do. It can be very challenging to know how to balance these roles and limitations against the need to be fair to all group members. No one from outside your culture can tell you how to answer these questions. I will say one thing and repeat two others.
- If your group wants to make solar cooking work for hundreds of families, you will need many women teachers and will have to be very sensitive about how the group treats these important members.
- Important jobs should be done by those who do that job best.
- The more people who can do more jobs "the best," the stronger the group is.
If the group has very big goals for spreading solar cooking rapidly or to large areas, it may want to look for help from sources outside the community. In this case, the group would want a few members who have skills or experience in dealing with large institutions like government offices, UN agencies, large non-governmental organizations, banks, big church organizations, etc. Large institutions often are demanding and odd in their expectations. Having someone who understands them and has dealt with them will help any group that does business with large institutions.
Often, the best way to get the right help is to ask a particular person who has control of resources that your group needs (money, for example, or a truck or a good location for teaching a group of people how to solar cook).. If you are friends with that person, it is easier to ask. If you are not friends, then you might get help in asking from someone who is your friend and the friend of the ally you want. Many successful groups have gotten much valuable help by first thinking about who they need to be friends with (or have some influence with) and how they can work with the friends they have now to become friends with the people who will introduce them to the particular person they want to reach. In the United States, we call this type of thinking "strategy". Strategy can be used for other purposes beyond getting to know the right friends, although having the right friends is helpful for many purposes
Every solar cooker group must have a goal to achieve or a need to be met. Many have more than one. Choose a goal that is possible to achieve. Choose a goal that is clear and specific so that you know how close or far from it you are. To achieve the goal or meet the need, the group must have some resources—money or supplies, knowledge about cookers and most importantly the time and the abilities of people.
Whether it was a solar group or not, the great majority of all groups I have been in or have observed or have read about have had goals that were bigger than the group could achieve with the resources it had. For example, a very large group called the government of the United States runs into this problem so often that it uses the special term "budget deficit" to talk about it. There are 3 practical ways to deal with the gap between big goals and small resources.
- Adopt smaller goals.
- Increase resources.
- Combine those two ways wisely. This is strategy.
In the second paragraph of the first section (What Can One Person Do) I gave an example of a strategy for gaining the resources needed to make a second solar cooker after a small group already had their first cooker. I continued with other examples of how to increase a group's resources by repeating simple steps. My next example starts with just one person who wants to bring solar cooking to a district of 1000 families. I will call this person Toni. Perhaps in this district, 100 families are too rich to worry about the cost of their cooking fuel, and 100 are not willing or able to try any new cooking system. Perhaps another 100 families could not be trusted to pay their fair share of the cost of bringing the benefits of solar cooking to the district. With these thoughts, Toni can set an ultimate goal of spreading solar cookers to 700 families.
Toni could follow the strategy of starting with 1 cooker and making more one at a time. However, Toni would need many years to build 700 cookers and teach 700 people to use them. Toni decides that to meet this big goal, more help is needed. The work will go faster
- if other people join Toni in doing the work
- if some important or influential people praise the project and encourage people to support it
- if no important or influential people oppose or ridicule the project
- if other people join with Toni to contribute to buying supplies for the first cookers
Instead of simply making as many cookers as possible, Toni makes one cooker and then begins showing solar cooking to people who can help — the elders, the religious leaders, the school teachers. Toni makes an effort to find influential women who will favor and not oppose the new way of cooking. Toni knows that the women in this district know all about cooking. Toni will also seek women who are eager to try the new way to cook and to learn solar cooking skills. From the most eager learners, Toni will find future teachers who will help the project grow. Toni spends 6 months showing how solar cooking works and talking to people
Instead of going directly from 1 solar cooker toward the goal of 700 solar cookers, Toni has taken an intermediate step: gathering resources that will help the project. This is strategy at work. Maybe in 6 months, Toni has made sure that many important people and influential women are friendly to the idea of solar cooking. Maybe Toni has found 20 families who want to help. Toni and each of the families agree to give a little money to buy supplies to make some cookers—but they only have enough money to buy two. They plan to share the cookers and to use the money they save on cooking fuel to buy supplies for more cookers. With Toni's cooker, the group nhas 3 cookers. They slowly save enough money for a 4th cooker and then a 5th cooker.
But 20 cookers—one for each family—would let the group save money faster. So Toni and the group keep talking to all the important people who like the idea and a few of them give a little money — enough for cookers 6 and 7. And a few of these important and wise men and women have an idea: ask the wealthy merchants in the district to contribute. Toni and these wise people discuss the idea and choose 5 merchants to ask. The group chooses which elders and religious leaders will talk to which merchants. These leaders will tell the merchants that the merchants will benefit the most from solar cookers. The merchants will be able to sell solar cooker supplies. The money people are saving with the solar cookers will be spent for the merchants' goods instead of being paid to the wood-cutters. 2 of the 5 merchants agree to give to the solar cooker project.
Now the group has enough supplies for 40 cookers—enough for the whole group and for 20 other families. Because they have been talking to so many people and winning friends for the project who tell other people, it is easy to find 20 more families to join the group. Some of the first to join are those who gave money to make cookers 6 and 7. Each of the 40 families agree to use some of their solar cooking savings to help 2 more families get solar cookers—if those families agree to keep contributing part of their savings to the solar cooker project until they've given enough to help 2 more families. The first 40 families will help 80 families get cookers. By giving part of their savings to the project, these 80 families will help 160 families get cookers. The number of new cookers will double as each group completes its promise to help the next group. The goal of 700 will be reached much more quickly because Toni thought more about gathering help at the beginning instead of simply counting cookers.
This story is about strategy. The goal was 700 cookers and 700 skilled solar cooks. To reach this goal, Toni wanted a team of 20 to 40 helpers who would contribute steadily to the project for a few years. Developing a good team was an important sub-goal (or "objective"). To reach this objective, Toni talked to the elders, teachers, religious leaders and influential women in the district to get their help in identifying and recruiting members for his team. Another objective was to get the supplies for 20 to 40 cookers. To reach this objective, the group needed money. To reach the objective of money, the group had to get help from people who had money — the wealthy merchants. To get help from the wealthy merchants, the group got help from the elders, teachers, religious leaders, etc.
Toni and the group took steps that were possible for them, such as simply talking to people, showing how solar cooking works and developing support for solar cooking. This step allowed the next step: asking for help. First Toni got help in finding members for the team. As the team grew and developed more friends and supporters, it could take the next step of finding the right people to get support from the merchants. The result was a strong start with 40 cookers and 40 solar 40 cooks. Step by step, progress was made. Each step the project took led to a larger step until the steps were big enough to reach the goal.
That is strategy. Strategy is valuable. When you are recruiting new members to your group, try to find a few people who are good at this type of thinking. Even with a good strategy, good helpers, and the right climate and culture another problem is possible--Money. I will add a few words on this topic in the final section of this essay called "A Problem with Money."
What can a small group do to promote solar cooking?
A theme throughout this essay has been "join together with others." So it is not very surprising that most of what I have written has been about how one person can join with others to form a group, how groups can grow and how they can work smart by thinking carefully about their goal, sub-goals and a strategy that shows the steps to get from the present condition to the group's future goal. The remaining topics I have concern money (next section) and some thoughts related to something I learned when I worked at Solar Cookers International in the job of answering questions from a thousand people around the world who wanted to promote solar cooking. I learned that there are 4 types of small solar cooking groups:
- Groups from rich countries that want to spread solar cooking "where it will do the most good."
- Groups from rich countries that want to promote solar cooking in a particular country, district or village which the group is interested in.
- Groups from poor countries that want to promote solar cooking where they are.
- Groups from poor countries that want to promote solar cooking where it will do the most good."
My advice to Type 4 groups is to become a Type 3 group if your climate and most of your food supplies are suitable for solar cooking. If not, my advice is to find another type of project that will benefit your local community. The best work in economic, social and community development is always done by local people who know what they are doing and care deeply about it—but the project must be relevant and workable in local conditions.
My advice for the other 3 types of group is to join together with other groups. Type 1 groups would probably have the most impact by devoting themselves to identifying and then supporting a larger, effective group with the same goals. Ten small groups trying to do the same thing are likely to do many of the same things—but ineffectively and redundantly compared to what would be possible by pooling and coordinating their efforts.
Type 2 groups will definitely need to join with a Type 3 group in their town or district of interest. (See the last sentence of the next to previous paragraph.) Type 2 groups may also find they have much to learn from larger solar cooking groups that have experience in introducing solar cooking in districts, towns and villages around the world or in the country of particular interest. Type 3 groups can benefit by learning from and possibly working with:
- the type 1 and 2 groups, large or small.
- other Type 3 groups in your district, country or region
- other types of organizations in your country—religious, secular or government development agencies, alliances of farmers, women's organizations, environmental groups, health and nutrition promotion groups, etc.
All 4 types of small solar groups can do better by being fully informed. There are many valuable articles posted on the internet at solarcooking.wikia.com That is the home of the solar cooking archive. On the top left of the archive's home page is a menu or list of topics. Most essential are solar cooking basics and solar cooking in depth. In solar cooking in depth, I especially recommend the promoting solar cooking section. In that section, I recommend scrolling down to the "Advocacy and Publicity" section to select two of my favorite items — Solar Cookers International's Trainers Manual: Teaching Solar Cooking and Solar Cookers International's Field Guide: Spreading Solar Cooking
If a small group from a rich country works to help a small group in a poor country, my first recommendation is that both groups show a lot of patience with the other group. I suggest that both groups think about a long-term commitment. Unless the goals are small, solar cooker projects may take five or ten years or longer. When two groups from different cultures start working together, it might take the first 2 or 3 years just to learn how to trust each other and understand each other. In these situations, the "wrong communication" is possible, but "too much" communication is not possible.
When two solar groups are in partnership, one may provide most of the money and one may provide most of the crucial work of distributing cookers and teaching people to use them. The group that gives most of the money may think that it should therefore make most of the decisions. The group that receives money may develop the feeling that getting money is easy and that there is no reason to be careful with it. These two responses are common and difficult, but probably not the only difficulties when two different groups try to work together.
Still, I believe strongly in the possible value of partnerships between small groups in rich countries and small groups in countries where solar cooking will make the most improvement in people's lives. For example, it does not seem unlikely that the members of a single church in the United States, with effort, could raise US$1,200 each year for a project in another country. That could provide 60 cookers or more per year if very low-cost cookers are selected—and if the group that received the money worked well and wisely. If there were 200 partnerships like that, families needing solar cookers could receive them at a rate of 12,000 per year. If those 12,000 families also contributed a part of what they saved in their first year, perhaps 20,000 new cookers could be produced in a year.! This would be a significant help in spreading solar cookers. As far as I know, no large solar cooking non-profit organization has produced 20,000 new cookers and 20,000 new solar cooks in a year.
I believe that partnerships between type 2 and type 3 groups can be productive because it has already happened. For example, two church organizations in the United States supported solar cooking projects in Haiti that helped thousands of families obtain solar cookers and learn to use them (before the 2010 earthquake). A group in Majorca, Spain, partners with solar cooker projects in Latin America. A core group of five people in the Netherlandsf ormed the KoZon foundation and developed a productive partnership with an organization of women engineers in Mali to make cookers and teach solar cooking skills. KoZon later worked in Chad with refugees from Darfur, Sudan, to equip thousands and thousands of families to solar cook. Yes, international cooperation is possible and can produce valuable results.
However, before two groups in a partnership like this get too involved in making cookers, they must start with the basics: commitment, understanding and trust. Both groups must have leaders who are committed to the project and committed to having a good relationship to the other group. There should be face to face meetings between members of the two groups as often as possible.
A Problem with Money
In some sections above, I presented a variety of examples of how one person or a small group can take small steps that add up to big results. These examples depend on the belief that a tiny solar cooker project can gain the money it needs to grow if it can capture a portion of what solar cooks save by solar cooking instead of buying fuel.
There are many things that might keep this plan from working. If people do not reduce their expenses for cooking fuel by 30 percent or more, this plan will not work well. Without at least that much savings, there might not be enough money to pay for cookers, supplies and repairs and to contribute to increase the number of cookers.
As stated before, this plan will not work if your climate is not suitable for solar cooking. Because of this money problem, the plan will not work if your local foods do not cook well with solar cooking or if cooks are not able to do their cooking while the sun is strong. It will not work if there are strong cultural pressures not to use the solar cookers.
The plan will not work if people do not cooperate. Maybe some will not make the effort to learn solar cooking and to make solar cooking a habit. Then they will not save any money by reducing their need to buy cooking fuel, and they will not contribute to paying the cost of their cooker or to help bring other cookers to the community. Maybe some people will save money but will keep it all for themselves—if many do this, there will be no source of money to repay people for the cost of the original cookers, to repair cookers or to make more cookers.
This plan is least likely to work where people do not buy fuel, but instead do the work of gathering firewood or dried dung for themselves. If they do not pay money for the fuel they use now, they will not save any money by switching to solar cooking. People who collect their own cooking fuel are often people who have little access to money. But some money is needed to pay for solar cooker essentials like wood or metal for the cooker structure, some aluminum, foil or mirrors for reflectors and in many cooker designs, glass or plastic to capture heat. Solar cookers would save time for the people who gather their own cooking fuel, but unless there is a way to convert the savings of time into money (for example by spending the saved time producing farm or craft products that can be sold), then my self-help funding plan would not work.
Having said that, let me give one example of how this plan could work. This example is general, but is based on real conditions in a low-income African country as described to me around 2004. In my example, I will use US dollars as my currency. The numbers are not exact, but they are not unrealistic.
A family of five spends 120 dollars per year to cook. With help from the knowledgeable people like Toni and the helpers (see "Strategy" section), this family will learn to save 35 dollars per year with a solar cooker that costs $12. In one year, the family can pay for the cooker and still have saved $23. The family could put $12 away to pay for its next cooker and give $5 to the committee. The family would keep $6 in savings that first year.
In the middle of the second year, the family might spend the $12 it saved to buy a new cooker. This cooker might last to the end of the third year. So after 3 years, the family has spent $24 on cookers and has saved $105 on fuel costs—a gain of $81. Perhaps the family would keep $45 of these dollars and contribute the other $36 to the cooker project. That $36 would pay for 3 more cookers to get 3 more families involved in saving money with solar cooking.
If the family saves 40 percent of its cooking fuel costs, it would be $36 ahead after the first year. That could be equal to 5 or 6 days pay for the average laborer. Is that enough incentive to use solar cookers? If not, solar cookers might be difficult to promote in your area. In some places, the savings may be less, in some places more.
The example shows that a group with a few solar cookers should be able to save enough to replace their cookers when needed and have money left over to help others get cookers and join in the savings. But people must cooperate with the money questions and people must use the cookers often—perhaps 250 times per year. In most places, the cost of traditional fuel is rising. In ten years, solar cookers will save more money than they do now.
On the internet at solarcooking.wikia.com, there are other articles with ideas about how small solar cooker projects can bring in money. In the Business Resources section of Promoting solar cooking, I suggest the articles Income Generation, which I wrote years ago as a letter to someone in Mali, West Africa, and the article Solar Restaurants and Bakeries. In the Project Resources section, see the article I wrote called Raising funds for your project.
[The text for this article was orginally written by longtime SCI staff member Ramon Coyle.]


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I'm writing this in the days leading up to Christmas. I'm a little more scatterbrained than usual, so I have few coherent thoughts about anything.
With that in mind, here are a few ramblings about several things on my mind.
Tiger Woods. A lot has happened in the news world of late, but all anyone really seems concerned about is Tiger Woods cheating on his wife.
Now after reading the title of this article, you might wonder about my sanity. You might be saying to yourself, "Yeah right, I am already abundant. So where's it at?"
Well, the short answer is, right in front of you.
That's right, your abundance stares you in the face, each and every day, but if you are like most people, they never even see it.
You see, if you live in pretty much ANY industrialized nation, you have so much abundance at your fingertips already that to some people it would seem outrageous for you to claim otherwise.
As I sit here, trying diligently to concentrate on my work, there is a container of chocolate covered Oreos screaming my name. I'm desperately trying to ignore their call, but they are begging me to come rescue them from their Tupperware prison and devour them and their double stuffed goodness.
Oh, and sitting directly beside the chocolate covered Oreos are Magic Bars that have done a trick on my taste buds, since all I can think about is their perfect layers of graham cracker crumbs, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips and coconut flakes.
Dear Santa,
I hope you're well this year and aren't too worn out by the time you reach Taylor County on Christmas Eve. There are a few things I'd like to ask you to bring some of the people who live here.
Local school systems - A winter of healthy students and snow only on weekends. Santa, it would also be a good idea to keep the state legislators from taking the school districts' contingency funds. They worked so hard to save that money all year, it really wouldn't be fair to yank it out from under them after you demanded that they save it.
With Christmas just days away as I write this, the thought of writing a full column on one topic just wasn't going to work. Or maybe it's just the distractions that come with the holidays have rendered me incapable of staying focused on one topic.
Either way, instead of a full treatment of anything, I'll offer a few "stocking stuffers" on some items that have caught my attention.
-- The Jefferson Circuit Court has provided a gift on behalf of open government.
Seems that every time we have an election, I do this. And since I'm a creature of habit, I guess I'll do it again.
Tuesday's special election saw a higher turnout than expected. A whopping 23 percent. Of the county's 17,000-plus registered voters, only 4,000 of them bothered to cast their votes. Statewide, the turnout was only slightly better at 24 percent.
OK, quiet down. I can already hear your arguments.
"It was a special election and there was only one race on the ballot."
Every year about this time, great debates arise about keeping "Christ in Christmas" and whether it is proper for stores to use "Merry X-mas" or the more generic "Seasons Greetings" in advertising or for clerks to greet customers with "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
I think we should be grateful for clerks who are polite enough to offer any greeting, much less pick apart how they say it. Friendly clerks are a blessing.
Christmas gifts come in a variety of packages, but the best ones come as surprises, off the cuff, bouncing off the wall, the where-did-it-come-from kind of surprises.
My wife asked me the other day what special Christmas memories I had. No way, stressed as I was with getting ready for Christmas, could I think of any Christmas memories. But, Christmas gifts, like memories, most often come in unexpected ways.
Don Hughes has cancer. That's why I know him. I visited him for the first time over a year ago.
I love to go to movie theaters. There's just something about seeing a movie on the big screen that is exciting to me. Surround sound speakers and larger-than-life picture make the stories seem so much more real than watching at home.
I also love to read mysteries, crime dramas and real-life survivor and hero stories. You can escape to anywhere in a good book.
And I love to listen to all genres of music, but my favorite is country. Give me anything by Sugarland, Keith Urban and Little Big Town, and I'm set.
It's quite a humbling experience to get caught doing something wrong in front of one's children. But about four years ago, that's just what happened.
The kids and I were traveling home from a soccer game when blue lights flashed in my rearview window. I glanced down. Uh oh. While we were laughing and talking about the game, the speedometer needle had crept upwards without my realizing it.
The kids were shocked: Mom was getting pulled over by a police officer.
Of course, they laughed about it later, and they still won't let me forget it.
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This is the only way to get ALL the princesses! This was perfect for our Disney Trip Scrapbook!
A beautiful princess paper pad.
If you want all almost the Disney Princesses for your next scrapbook or any craft project, this is the pad for you!
I love this paper pack! It's perfect for my projects. Many pages with glitter and sparkle. So girly and fun!
It's nice. Exactly what I was hoping for.


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As we all await the results of Shea Weber's arbitration hearing we are all speculating the salary that the arbitrator will award Shea Weber. Speculation is that Shea Weber is asking for $8.5M and the Predators are asking for $4.75M. Damien Cox believes he is probably going to get awarded $7.5-8M.
Dion Phaneuf makes $6.5 million per (all figures U.S.), and Weber is a superior player from the same 2003 NHL draft class. The same goes for Weber as compared to Brent Burns, and Burns signed a five-year, $28.5 million contract (cap hit $5.76 million) with the San Jose Sharks on Monday, eight years after being the 20th pick in that '03 draft.
So we know the floor here for Weber's services has to be $6.5 million, and the ceiling around $7.5-8 million.
That seems to be the common sentiment around the league.
Notable Nashville Predator blogger Dirk Hoag from On The Forecheck tweeted his prediction of $7.25M.
I'll guess Weber gets $7.25 million. Phaneuf's a comp at $6.5M, but Shea also has the "C" & a Norris nomination.
Personally, I believe these numbers are significantly higher than an arbitrator will award Weber. First off, Damien Cox uses Brent Burns contract as a comparable but it is not a valid comparable because Burns' new contract is considered a UFA contract (he would have been a UFA next summer) and thus cannot be used as a comparable in arbitration.
Phaneuf is a decent comparable and I'll also toss in two additional comparables of Brent Seabrook and Keith Yandle.
|Year Prior
|Two Year Prior
|Three Year Prior
|Shea Weber
|82GP, 16g, 48pts, 56PIM, +7
|78GP, 16g, 43pts, 36PIM, even
|81GP, 23g, 53pts, 80PIM, +1
|Dion Phaneuf
|82GP, 17g, 50pts, 182PIM, +12
|79GP, 17g, 50pts, 98PIM, +10
|82GP, 20g, 49pts, 93PIM, +5
|Brent Seabrook
|82GP, 9g, 48pts, 47PIM, even
|78GP, 4g, 30pts, 59PIM, +20
|82GP, 8g, 26pts, 62PIM, +23
|Keith Yandle
|82GP, 11g, 59pts, 68PIM, +12
|82GP, 12g, 41pts, 45PIM, +16
|69GP, 4g, 30pts, 37PIM, -4
The closest comparable to Weber as far as their stats in the years prior to signing their contracts is Phaneuf. Their goal and point totals are very close though Phaneuf has far more PIMs and a better +/- rating. Seabrook has lower point totals 2 and 3 years back and is much less of a goal scorer than Weber. Yandle on the other hand signed his contract after a great 59 point season in which he was third in points by a defenseman. He is a better goal scorer than Seabrook but not quite to the same level of Phaneuf and Weber and has a shorter track record of performance.
As far as contracts go, Phaneuf signed a 6 year contract with a cap hit of $6.5M, Seabrook signed a 5 year deal with a cap hit of $5.8M, and Yandle signed a 5 year contract with a cap hit of $5.25M. Based on the stats that can be used in any comparison, it is difficult to argue that Weber is measurably better than Phaneuf was in his pre-contract season(s). From that one would suggest $6.5M is an upper limit on Weber's contract. Under normal circumstances one would suggest that Seabrook's contract is a lower limit but we must remember that Seabrook's contract eats up several seasons (4) where he could have had UFA status where as Weber's contract only covers a single RFA season and Weber would still be an RFA next summer. In that respect, Yandle's contract might actually be a better comparable, plus is it based on more recent market conditions, not 3 years ago. Yandle is one year younger than Weber and has 3 more RFA seasons to Weber's 2. Yandle's contract pays him $4.75M, 5.0M, 5.25M, 5.5M and 5.75M over the next 5 seasons. The overall average is $5.25M but his 3 RFA season average is $5.0M.
Two other possible comparable players are Duncan Keith and Dustin Byfuglien. In Keith's case he signed a 12 year deal with a cap hit of $5.538M but I really don't know how to compare a 1 year deal with a 12 year deal. In Byfuglien's case he signed a 5 year deal with a cap hit of $5.2M but with his history of playing both forward and defense makes any comparison much more difficult.
So with that we have the best comparables being Phaneuf at $6.5M and Yandle at $5.25M and that I think is the range I think the arbitrator is looking at. There is only one defenseman in the NHL with a cap hit over $7M (Brian Campbell at $7.142M) so I would be shocked if there was an award above $7M. Furthermore, there are only 8 defensemen with a cap hit over $6M (Campbell, Chara, Bouwmeester, Boyle, Phaneuf, Redden -not really in NHL though, Timonen, Lidstrom) and only Phaneuf signed his contract as an RFA so even arguing that he is worth $6M is a tough sell IMO. In the end I suspect Weber will get awarded a contract somewhere around the $6M point, possibly a little more, possible a little less.
Update: The arbitrator awarded Weber a 1 year $7.5M contract. This tells me that the arbitrator is using actual dollar figures in his decision and using players like Duncan Keith ($8M) and Seabrook ($7M) and their front loaded contracts. This means front loaded contracts are hurting the NHL owners in arbitration now. This means had Parise gone to arbitration he could have used Malkin ($9M) and Spezza ($8M) as comparables and got a contract significantly higher than the $6M he agreed to with the Devils.


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I've Always Wanted To Know:
What is quality control? How can items leave the factory defective?
Quality control is the process where manufacturers verify that an product conforms to the expected standards and functionality. Almost all factories and manufacturers have some form of quality control but why is it you still receive defective merchandise? Do the quality control employees and systems fail? Is quality control a lie? Is there some other secret to why it always seems like if there is a bad one you'll end up with it?
So what types of quality control are there?
Let's start by looking at how quality control is done in a manufacturing environment.
Raw Material Sample Testing: The raw material used to create the basic components may be tested per batch that comes into the factory to determine it is the right make-up and consistency as ordered.
Sub-Component Random Sampling: The components which make up a final device are randomly tested to verify they perform and are physically as requested. One out of every 100 or one unit per batch may be randomly sampled to determine this. The number and frequency of the random sampling is controlled by the manufacturer.
Sub-Component Full Testing: All of the components which make up a final device are tested to verify they perform and are physically as requested. This testing may be complete or may just check certain aspects of the sub-components.
Final Product Partial Random Testing: The final assembled product is randomly tested to verify that certain known possible manufacturing faults are not present. These faults are usually known to the manufacturer and may be visual inspections or certain electrical or performance tests.
Final Product Full Random Testing: The final product are randomly tested to verify they perform and are physically as requested. One out of every 100 or one unit per batch may be randomly sampled to determine this. The number and frequency of the random sampling is controlled by the manufacturer.
Final Product Full Testing: The final device are all tested to verify it performs and are physically as requested. This testing will be complete and verify the product conforms to all specifications.
Your final product can go through multiple of these steps and combinations of these steps depending on the product being manufactured. For example in a spark plug factory the spark plugs may be regularly tested with low voltage and once per hour a sample of each batch at high voltage with the plug being split open to verify internal construction (a more accurate but time intensive and destructive test.) In a medical instruments factory a kidney dialysis machine will have all components thoroughly tested on each and every machine produced.
Why the difference? Simple: If your low cost spark plug malfunctions the manufacturer is willing to accept the returns/faults to keep the price low. If your kidney dialysis machine malfunctions then someone may die and the resulting law suit would cost the company more then the intensive quality control testing.
The percent of defects acceptable (no one is perfect) for a product will vary as each company and manufacturer sets a standard they are willing to accept and quality control test to meet or exceed that standard. Time is money so the longer they spend testing the more expensive a product will be. It's a tricky balance that depending on the application sometimes leads to "better 1 out of 1000 be defective than all 1000 cost 10% more."
Do you have a general technology or electronics question you always wanted to know like "How does a Microwave work?" or "Why do LED's last so long?" Write me at email@example.com and your question may be answered in an upcoming "I Always Wanted To Know." For specific computer support questions ask our writers by clicking here.
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Descent, Scene #03
- : 01/01/2007 |
- : 22:48 min |
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Scene Info
It's an epic, stunning threeway when Iron finds himself in bed with Blake Harper and Jason Branch. First Branch takes turns sucking both Iron and Harper, before he ends up on his back with Iron in between his legs, sucking on Branch's cock while Harper teases his ass from behind. Harper and Branch then get into a 69 position and Iron fingers Harper's hole. The scene then flips to show Harper on his back, taking Branch's cock up his ass while Iron hungrily kisses his mouth. This goes on for some time, with Branch thrusting in and out while Harper moans out in ecstasy. The versatile Harper then climbs in behind Iron, who fucks himself back and forth on Blake's dick before they move into a position where Branch takes Harper's cock up his ass while he fucks Iron. Yowzers! The men flip around so that Harper is then standing while Iron works on his cock in front and Branch rims him from behind. Then both men share Harper's cock between them, licking, slurping and sucking until Blake pumps a load out as Iron fingers his hole. Then the boys flip around once again so that they can work each other's cocks over with their mouths, sucking in a variety of positions until Branch ends up sitting on Iron's face to get rimmed while he jerks his load onto Marcus' chest. There's even more maneuvering, as Harper fucks Branch from behind while Iron rims and fingers Blake's hole. After some more kissing, Branch moves around so that he can fuck Iron while Harper lies on his back jerking off while enjoying the view. The scene comes to a sensational finish with Iron and Branch stroking themselves over Harper until Iron shoots a great load onto Harper's dick.
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Starring : Aiden Shaw, Blake Harper, Chris Rock, Clay Powell, Damian Ford, Jason Branch, Marcus Iron, Mark Mason, Nick Moore, Rick Allen
The controversial classic comes of age in this special, expanded, two-disc collector's DVD set that features previously unreleased footage in a new presentation of Steven Scarborough's best-selling masterpiece. XXX superstars Aiden Shaw, Marcus Iron, Blake Harper and Jason Branch are among the amazing hot studs in the cast, and the film's haunting, moody videography is a stunning achievement in adult film. An absolute must-have for any porn lover's collection.


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The Band Perry plays Super Bowl pre-game show
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The Band Perry is praising the Super Bowl 48 halftime show headliner, tweeting:
Great job tonight @brunomars!!! pic.twitter.com/xOou8UaBiD
— The Band Perry (@thebandperry) February 3, 2014
But the country group also took part in the big game, which aired Sunday on Fox. Their set at the NFL Taligate Party included their hit "Done."
The Band Perry also tweeted a photograph of the group on the Tailgate stage.
#SundayFunday on @FOXTV pic.twitter.com/EvPH9ybFkE
— The Band Perry (@thebandperry) February 2, 2014
The sibling trio joined former "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips and cast members from the Broadway musicals "Jersey Boys" and "Rock of Ages" for the Tailgate Party, but only The Band Perry and Phillips were featured on TV.
The Super Bowl 48 pre-game also featured Queen Latifah singing "America The Beautiful" and soprano Renee Fleming, who became the first opera star to sing the national anthem at the start of a Super Bowl game.


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LISTEN: Lucy Hale drops her debut single 'You Sound Good To Me'
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America's favorite pretty little liar Lucy Hale reigns in her country roots for her debut single "You Sound Good To Me," the lead-in to her forthcoming debut album on Hollywood Records.
The single, which could fit perfectly in Taylor Swift's catalogue, has that pop-country fare, with strings tingling against thumping drums wrapped tightly in a luscious melody.
"I'm going to do a country/pop album, and I couldn't be more excited," the actress-turned-singer told MTV News in 2012 about her upcoming record. "I grew up in Tennessee, so that's always been my heart and soul. It's hard to come across a true country fan in L.A., but it's true that the fans are so loyal, once you're in their circle, you're in for your entire career. It just really speaks to me."
She continued, "Country music has so much soul and is so heartfelt. I think it's a perfect fit for me. I think it will surprise people."
The song's official music video, which will also feature appearances by Swift, John Mayer and Band of Horses, will premiere during the Pretty Little Liars winter kickoff on ABC Family Tuesday (Jan. 7) at 8 p.m. EST.
Take a listen, and don't forget to grab your copy in iTunes:
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What I Did This Summer: Financial analyst intern
"What I Did This Summer" follows a number of University of South Carolina students as they work, travel, and explore the world during the summer. Many of them blogged about their adventures. This is the thirteenth story in the Summer 2010 series.
In late May, Jackie Parnell walked into the Honors College to say goodbye to his professors for the summer.
He walked out with a summer internship.
"I interned in the finance department at First Citizens Bank on Main Street in Columbia, and I learned so much every day I was there," said Parnell, a third-year finance major who is minoring in computer science.
"The finance department is like the brain of the company. It receives all information from every branch in South Carolina and Georgia. People in the department then analyze that information and pass it on to the corporate office so they can make strategic decisions for the bank."
Parnell's summer experience began with Beth Hutchison Watson, director of internship programs for the South Carolina Honors College. She casually asked him what he was doing for the summer.
Jackie Parnell was a little kid when he first said he wanted to go to USC.
"Both of my parents graduated from USC, and we were sitting in the stands at a Carolina football game when I announced I was going to Carolina. I was five years old.
"Once I grew up, I found that USC has a very good business school and an interesting Honors College. That made it an even better option for me."
That little boy who sat in the stands has been on the President's 4.0 List every semester of his college career. He is a National Achievement Scholar and a Carolina Scholar. And he was crowned the 2010 USC Homecoming King.
"As I talked with Jackie, I realized he would be a perfect fit for the great internship opportunity that First Citizens Bank has established," Watson said.
"We talked about it and I told him right then, 'I think this is the one for you.' He interviewed with them and they realized immediately that he would be a great addition to their team for the summer.
"We love to see our students get this type of learning opportunity where they can experience real-life work," she said. "I think it helps them shape their ideas for their career future. It is part of their complete education."
For Honors College students, it is also a requirement. There are four ways students in the Honors College can satisfy their learning beyond the classroom requirement: study abroad, research, service learning, or internship.
Parnell supports the additional Honors College requirements.
"After you graduate, having a 4.0 GPA can land you an interview," he said, "but I believe an employer wants to see that you've filled up your resume with internships and experience."
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RSC Publishing announces online publication of the first issue of new journal, Metallomics – 16 Jan 2009
Princeton has: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/MT/Index.asp
Scientific publisher RSC Publishing, UK, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has announced the online publication of the first issue of a new interdisciplinary journal – Metallomics: Integrated biometal science. The journal will appeal to chemical scientists, bio-scientists and environmental scientists from across academia, industry and government.
While Metallomics will publish 6 issues in 2009, it will increase its publishing frequency to 12 issues in 2010. Metallomics issue 1 contains 3 critical reviews and 8 primary research articles. In a landmark new paper, Hiromu Sakurai and colleagues in Japan describe how a drug based on a chemical found in garlic may be a potential new candidate for treating both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, while Jennifer A. Meyer and Dana M. Spence review the role of metals in diabetes.
Metallomics comes just one week after RSC Publishing launched Integrative Biology, a new journal covering the quantitative biosciences. The journal also published its first issue online. The current issues of both journals will be freely available to all web users throughout 2009 and 2010. Institutional online access to all 2009/2010 content is also free following a simple registration process.
Wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Publishing publishes a wide range of journals, magazines, databases and books. It claims to be one of the largest publishers of chemical science information.
Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter Jan. 16th.


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Obsessed Led Zeppelin fan ordered to stay 300 yards away
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(TMZ) - Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant just bought himself a stairway to stalker-free heaven - because the obsessed fan he accused of following him around the world has just been ordered to stay the hell away, TMZ reports.
TMZ broke the story that Plant obtained a temporary restraining order against 40-something-year-old Alysson Billings earlier this month, requiring her to stay 100 yards away from the singer at all times.
But, according to TMZ, today a judge made the restraining order permanent, ordering Billings to stay even farther away - 300 yards - for the next three years.
TMZ reports that Plant claims Billings has been harassing him for the last 3 years - showing up at his concerts around the globe, sending him bizarre gifts and increasingly threatening messages.
He says the woman believed they were in a relationship, even though they never met.
Now that's a whole lotta (unwanted) love.
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