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Free Flow Fridays (Wines + Beer + Antipasto + Pasta) - 13th October 2017
*Please kindly note that there are only limited discounted tickets (non-refundable). Purchased tickets must be scanned by outlet staff for entry, http://help.peatix.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1214600-how-to-use-the-peatix-app-to-access-your-tickets-iphone-
A cosy wine bar, tucked in a charming heritage building, with a breathtaking view. Like its name, Panorama will bewitch you with a picturesque scene of the Singapore River with its surrounding historical landmarks.
Sip a glass of wine and relax to Italian jazz music. Located at Singapore's historical port just 3-mins walk from Raffles Place Station, it is an ideal spot for a night to unwind among friends after a long day at work. Panorama offers a wide selection of wines and liquors, specially curated from Italy.
Bring your friends for a night of laughter and fun while learning about wine pairing every Friday. With 3 free flow wines (1 Red Wine, 1 White Wine and 1 Sparkling Wine), beer, sangria, antipasto and pasta, you get to explore wine pairings without worrying about your budget at Panorama's popular Free Flow Friday events.
Scroll down for the extensive menu
MENU (For 3 hours of Free Flow)
Italian Gourmet Cheese:
Sweet Gorgonzola (Blue Cheese)
Smoked Scarmoza
Pecorino L'Alveare (Honey Sheep Cheese)
Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan Cheese)
Mini Fuochino (Chilli Cheese)
Mini Nocerino (Walnut Cheese)
Cold Cuts:
Beef Bresaola
Prosciutto Cotto (Ham)
Beef Salami
Pork Salami
Vegetable Antipasto – Sott'olio:
Sundried tomatoes
Assorted Olives
Focaccia Bread
Taralli (Italian Pretzels)
Spaghetti Vegetariana
Assorted seasonal vegetables tossed in zesty tomato sauce.
*For individuals with specific dietary need, we strongly suggest contacting us at 6532 6283 before the event to check on confirmed dishes
**Buffet items are subjected to change, depending on stock availability and wine pairing suitability.
which includes
- 1 Type of Free Flow of Red Wine
- 1 Type of Free Flow White Wine
- 1 Type of Free Flow Sparkling Wine
- 1 Type of Free Flow Sangria (For a limited time only)
- 1 Type of Free Flow Beer
- Venue
- Tickets
10% Discounted Ticket (Discount is not available at the door) SOLD OUT $44.49
- Venue Address
- 30 Boat Quay Singapore 049819 Singapore
- Directions
5 Mins Walk from Raffles MRT Station

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StatFame necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
We're a Seattle-based startup that has been cooking for about a year now on the backed build, but are now ready for a way to bring our product to the world! We've got a spec mockup of how we originally thought it'd look, but a lot has changed in a year and we're looking for something new and fresh!
We'll most certainly have more work to be done, and quite frankly, looking for a permanent addition to our team - Are you that person?
We're looking to target the athlete in all of us - Our one-liner is "we provide a detailed record of your sports career statistics and promote it through your favorite social media outlets."
That means that if you have ever played or currently play in ANY sport at ANY level and have kept statistics from it, we'll hold that data for you from the past, and track it going forward! We'll then give you a laundry list of ways to promote (or relive) your past sports moments through places like Twitter and Facebook!
Or, if you're tracking stats for your son or daughter, wouldn't it be neat to be able to show them their stats from a young age? We think so too!
- We need a graphic overhaul; like we said we've been building the backend for a year and a lot has changed, we started on our design and need to change before launch; we need a new fresh look!
- We need a new site layout (1 homepage design +1 additional page (player page): The homepage should look similar to: http://espn.go.com/mlb/
The player page needs to look similar to this page: http://espn.go.com/mlb/players/prof…yerId=3504
- We going to closely function like http://espn.com with the caveat of being able to span/play multiple sports and keep track of YOUR sports career and claiming the stats ON the site. Draw something up similar to how espn.com functions/looks and you're on the right track!
- need login/register/sign in button in top right (as it will be a dropdown like espn)
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Two laps down and one to go, not a whole lot of position changes in the second circuit... but now's your chance to help your favorites in a different way - by sabotaging the competition while they make a pit-stop! This special poll is all about dirty tactics and trying to knock the competition out of the race - or into a rocky outcropping for a nice big explosion.
In this poll you are voting to take points away from other racers!
(Now you really don't want to be voting for yourself!). You've all got three votes to dish out the pain! Pick your least favorite pods and these votes will be subtracted from their progress before they start the final lap... Here are the current rankings:
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Crashed in lap 2:
(There was a tie for 16th place and they actually ran into each other... so we had 8 drop out instead of 7!)
This is a special one day only chance - The final lap will be voted on Saturday and Sunday.
(*Please don't take this round of voting personally, it's just a fun way to spice up the polls and make it feel more race-like. Maybe your pod just looks like it will make the biggest fireball! )


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Classic & Modern: 5 Favorite Soup Bowls & Spoons
Soup is our absolute favorite thing to eat in the cold months and we're pretty particular about the bowls and spoons we use to eat it. The deeper the bowl the better, for most soups, and of course the wider the spoon (the better for dipping and slurping). Here are five favorites — all classic, yet modern.
• Set of 4 Mix Soup Spoons, $11.95 at Crate & Barrel - These spoons are our ideal soup spoons, mainly because of the narrow handle and wide, circular base. The base is perfect for picking up a large amount of soup. This is great for chunky soups, too; you can get every component in each spoonful.
• Sur La Table Porcelain Soup Bowl with Handle, $3.96 at Sur La Table - French onion soup just isn't the same unless it's prepared in a porcelain soup bowl with a handle. White is a good color because it brightens up (and modernizes) the bowls from the more traditional dark brown.
• White Kai Noodle/Soup Bowl, $6.95 at Crate & Barrel - Deep bowls are especially great for holding noodle soups. The built-in chopstick holder is a plus too.
• Williams-Sonoma Pantry Cereal/Soup Bowl, Set of 6, $29.00 at Williams-Sonoma - Oven, microwave and dishwasher-safe — these soup bowls couldn't be any more perfect. The wide and deep design makes these great for really loading up the bowl with copious amounts of delicious homemade soup.
• White Porcelain Soup Spoon, $3.95 at Sur La Table - Perfect for sipping on your favorite soup, no matter what the origin. We love these soup spoons because they allow you to scoop up as much as you want, while cooling the soup down just in time for your first sip.
Do you have any favorite soup gear
Related: Soup Gear: Farmhouse Double-Handled Bowls
What soup bowls and spoons do you use?
(Images: Crate & Barrel; Sur La Table; Williams-Sonoma; Sur La Table)


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by 11 races including five stakes
Wilmington, Del., October 18, 2012 — Five stake races, including the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes and two Delaware Bred or Certified Stakes, highlight the Owners Day card at Delaware Park this Saturday. The "Platinum Celebration" of the 20th anniversary of Owners Day has attracted a total of 94 horses on the 11-race card with $508,000 in purses, including $370,000 in stake purses. Post time for the first race is 1:15 p.m.
The feature race on the card is the mile-and-a-sixteenth $100,000 Barbaro Stakes.
Marc and Vinka Ferrell's Called to Serve tops a field of 10 3-year-olds in the race named in honor of the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who broke his maiden at Delaware Park in 2005. In his most recent, Called to Serve finished third in the mile-and-an-eighth $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park on September 30. Previously, the Kentucky-bred trained by Nick Canani ran third in the mile-and-an-eighth West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Park on August 4. The Kentucky-bred has a career record of two wins and three thirds from eight starts, with earnings of $198,430.
My Meadowview Farm's Stephanoatsee will be seeking his first career stake victory in the Barbaro. In his most recent outing, the Kentucky-bred conditioned by H. Graham Motion finished fourth, beaten by 2¾-lengths, in the mile-and-an-eighth Grade II Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on September 22. Previously, the son of A.P. Indy won a mile-and-an-eighth allowance by a length at Delaware Park on August 15. In his only other outing this year, he finished second, beaten 2½-lengths, in the mile-and-70-yard $150,000 Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct on January 7. He sports a career record of two wins and two seconds from six starts, with earnings of $138,000.
After finishing fifth over sloppy tracks in the Grade III Smarty Jones at Parx on September 3 and the Grade II Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 28, George and Lori Hall's My Adonis will seek to return to his winning ways. The son of Pleasantly Perfect won the mile-and-a-sixteenth $100,000 Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth on July 8. The Kentucky-bred trained by Kelly Breen sports a career record of three wins, four seconds and two thirds from 14 starts, with earnings of $404,500.
$100,000 Barbaro Stakes
For 3-year-olds
At one mile and a sixteenth
PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Stephanoatsee My Meadowview Farm H. Graham Motion Sheldon Russell 116 7/2
2 Road Worthy Anthony Demario Charles DeMario Xavier Perez 116 50-1
3 Casual Trick Roberrt LaPenta Nicholas Zito Daniel Centeno 120 6-1
4 My Adonis George & Lori Hall Kelly John Breen Alex Cintron 122 9/2
5 Called to Serve Ferrell & Vinka Nick Canani TBA 118 5/2
6 Key Donation Maggi Moss Thomas Amoss Jose Caraballo 122 8-1
7 Adirondack King MarchFore Thoroughbred John Servis Jeremy Rose 116 10-1
8 Traffic Light Trippi & Thayer Alfredo Velazquez J Biosono 122 12-1
9 Speightcity Team Stallion Racing Cor Gary Contessa Ricardo Santana 116 15-1
10 Conspiracy Gary & Mary West Chad Brown Kendrick Carmouche 122 12-1
Two Delaware bred or certified stakes with total purses of $120,000 will be on the undercard. In order to qualify for the Delaware Certified Thoroughbred Program, a horse must have been stabled on a Delaware farm for 90 consecutive days prior to March 31 of 2-year-old year.
A wide open field of eight has entered the five-and-a-half furlong $60,000 Small Wonder Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. The likely favorite will be Porter Racing Stable's Missy Rules. In her career debut, the daughter of Peace Rules broke her maiden with a 5½-length score at Delaware Park on May 30. In her most recent, the Florida-bred trained by Randy Nunley finished third in a six-furlong allowance at Parx. She has a career mark of a win and a third from three starts, with earnings of $28,270.
Michael Dubb's Escrow Kid tops a field of six entered in the six-furlong $60,000 New Castle Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward. In his last, the son of City Place was claimed for $50,000 after finishing sixth in a six-furlong allowance at Saratoga on July 28. The Florida-bred trained by Anthony Dutrow has a career record of six wins, four seconds and four thirds from 30 starts, with earnings of $234,357.
$60,000 Small Wonder Stakes
For 2-year-old fillies
At five and a half furlongs
PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Chifa Three Diamonds Frm Michael Trombetta Jeremy Rose 116 5/2
2 Gigi D Eagle Racing Stable Peter Walder Alex Cintron 114 6-1
3 Respect the Flag Shook & Holsclaw Vernon Allinson TBA 116 12-1
4 Missy Rules Porter Racing Stable Randy Nunley TBA 116 4-1
5 Lost Memory Gideon Racing Stable Juan Vazquez TBA 116 7/2
6 La Bella Chabella Agustin Solis Penny Pearce Jose Flores 114 10-1
7 Funny Lady Candy Stable Chris Engelhart Daniel Centeno 114 8-1
8 Reckless Gale Patti Gale Patti JD Acosta 116 8-1
$60,000 New Castle Stakes
For 3-year-olds and upward
At six furlongs
PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Jake N Elwood JAG Racing & Jetta Michael Petro Daniel Centeno 117 5/2
2 Escrow Kid Michael Dubb Anthony Dutrow Jeremy Rose 119 9/5
3 Out to Conquer You Rickman Racing Ronald Alfano Yomar Ortiz 119 6-1
4 Livonzin Jeff Larson McLean Robertson Alex Cintron 115 8-1
5 Dinny Dinosaur Porter Racing Stable Randy Nunley Ricardo Santana 119 8-1
6 Arturius Tim Ritchey Racing Timothy Ritchey Javier Santiago 115 7/2
Win Willy tops DTHA Governors Day Stakes
Jer-Mar Stable's Win Willy tops the mile-and-70-yard Delaware Thoroughbred Horsemen Association Governors Day Stakes for 3-year-olds and upward. In his most recent, the 6-year-old son of Monarchos finished third, beaten 3¼-lengths in the Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park on September 8. Previously, the Kentucky-bred trained by McLean Robertson notched a two-length triumph in a mile-and-70-yard allowance at Delaware Park on August 25. He has a career record of nine wins, five seconds and three thirds from 25 starts, with earnings of $908,627.
$75,000 DTHA Governors Day Stakes
(Restricted to horses which have started at Delaware Park in 2012)
For 3-year-olds and upward
At one mile ans seventy yards
PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Space Race Brushwood Stable Michael Matz Sheldon Russell 115 3-1
2 Forgotten Knot Barry & Joni Butznow McLean Robertson Ricardo Santana 119 4-1
3 Lord Justice Stronach Stables Jose Corrales Daniel Centeno 117 8-1
4 Win Willy Jer-Mar Stable McLean Robertson Alex Cintron 119 6/5
5 Bid Til Included CJZ Racing Stable Tim Ritchey Javier Santiago 117 6-1
6 Brave Tiger JC Squared Racing Joe Casey TBA 117 12-1
In the Rough tops Rosenberger Memorial
George and Lori Hall's In the Rough tops the mile-and-a-sixteenth George Rosenberger Memorial for fillies and mares on the turf. In her latest, the 5-year-old daughter of Stormy Atlantic posted a 1¼-length score in the one-mile $60,000 Forever Together Stakes at Delaware Park on September 1. Previously, the Virginia-bred conditioned by Kelly Breen finished second in the $50,000 Brookmeade Stakes at Colonial Downs on July 27. She has a career record of five wins, seven seconds and four thirds from 29 starts, with earnings of $313,445.
$75,000 George Rosenberger Memorial
(Restricted to horses which have started at Delaware Park in 2012)
For fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward
At one mile and a sixteenth
PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Mykindofladyfriend Douglas Seyler Douglas Seyler TBA 117 15-1
2 Crying Lightening Ninety North Racing James Toner Kendrick Carmouche 117 12-1
3 Rinella Bay Timber Bay Farm H. Graham Motion Jose Caraballo 117 12-1
4 Check Point Richard Santulli Alan Goldberg Jose Caraballo 117 12-1
5 Bryan's Jewel Barry & Joni Butznow McLean Robertson Alex Cintron 117 9/2
6 Riveting Ronald Glorioso Ronald Glorioso Roberto Alvarado 117 10-1
7 In the Rough George & Lori Hall Kelly John Breen Ricardo Feliciano 123 7/2
8 At First Speight Armstrong & Gavin Richard Vega Ricardo Santana 117 15-1
9 Eulonia Team Valor & Barber H. Graham Motion Jeremy Rose 117 6-1
10 Sky Willow Augustin Stable Jonathan Sheppard Alex Cintron 119 5-1
11 Dancing to Town Ramona Bass Michael Matz Sheldon Russell 117 8-1


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Basic ways to save on paper
Rule number one: remember that you don't have to accept the defaults on your computer
- Reduce the margins on your document. Instead of the using the 1-inch defaults top and bottom, maybe .75 will work just as well for you. Even adjusting the side margins down to 1 inch (from the 1.25-inch default) can be worthwhile in savings.
- Use a smaller type (font) size. Do you really need to print in 12-point or 14-point? Or would 10-point or 11-point work just as well? An easy shortcut for tweaking point size down is control plus ] (the close bracket character), which decreases it by 1 point.
- Change the line spacing; use single space instead of double. The newest version of Word defaults to 1.15 line spacing. Switching to standard single spacing can save space without sacrificing much readability. To tweak line spacing, choosing control plus 0 (zero) will add or remove 12 points of space above the line you are on.
- If your document is just slightly longer than will fit onto one page, use the "shrink to fit" feature that can be found in most Print Preview menu bars (on mine the "shrink to fit" icon is to the right of the ruler icon). Some browsers also now have this feature in the Print Preview dialogue box so you can shrink content to fit onto fewer pages.
Slightly less basic ways to save on paper
- This can vary by printer, but most have the option to print up to four pages of documents on each piece of paper by reducing them (this works well for printing PowerPoint presentations, for example, which tend to use sparse, big text on each page). Look in your print dialogue box under the Copies & Pages presets and choose Layout if it is available. It will give you options to choose how many pages of document per sheet you wish to print.
- Make sure the "print background images" option is off in the "print setup" for your browser.
- Consider switching to the landscape option in your print dialogue box if pages fit better in that format.
- Buy a duplex printer. These printers allow you to print double-sided sheets. They are fairly expensive (starting at about $250), but if you do a great deal of printing, the investment might be worth it in paper saved.
Ways to use less paper by printing less material
Choose only the pages you really need
- Use Print Preview before you print so you can determine which pages you actually need to print.
- If you want to print only a portion of a page or pages, you can use the print "selection" option that is usually available in the print dialogue box just below the spot where you can enter specific page numbers to print. Just highlight the portion of the document you want to print and then choose "selection" before you click on print.
Don't print if you don't need to!
Alternative ways to keep material
In your print dialogue box, save the document as a pdf and then keep the document on your computer without printing it out. You can also save onto a USB stick or simply attach the document to an e-mail and send it around that way.
If you don't actually need the material to be on a piece of paper but just want to save it for future reference, consider taking a "screen shot" of the material you want to save and just keeping it in a folder on your computer. A screen shot is like taking a photograph of anything being visually shown on your computer screen at a certain point. Here is how you can take a screen shot of a page:
On a Mac with OS X: Press apple (command) + shift + 3 to capture the entire screen. Press apple (command) + shift + 4 to change the cursor to a crosshair icon. Click and drag to select an area. When you release the click, the area highlighted will be captured. The "captures" are stored to the desktop as pdf or png files, depending on your version of the operating system.
On a Windows operating system: Press the print screen key (frequently labeled as prnt scrn or something similar). An image of a single window can be taken by pressing alt + print screen. This action will copy a screen shot to the clipboard, allowing it to be pasted as an image into any of the picture-editing programs. To view and save the screen shot, open up the Paint program under "accessories," which is under the "programs" tab in the start menu. Once it is open, go to the Edit menu and click on Paste. This will place the screen shot in the program, and it can then be saved as a gif-type file. To past from the clipboard, either press ctrl + v or go to the Edit menu and select Paste.
Want to know more?
For more info and tips on how to save paper, save ink, and help your printer last longer (all of which save you money), check out the links below.
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Today happens to witness the best and the worst of times. Whoever learns about the threatening recession and impending layoffs would really be terrified. But just like anything else, every cloud has a silver lining.
The internet has continued to become more pervasive and it has spread its power on letting you earn those extra bucks. One method of doing this is by selling other people's products online. This technique is like hitting two birds with one stone as you will also be able to improve your marketing skills along the way. So read this article so you will find out how a simple 10-minute period on the web could reward you with hundreds of extra bucks.
Advertising Revenues
In 2007, total revenue for advertising on the Internet alone reached to an enormous $21.2 billion. This means that Internet advertising showed no slump despite talks on financial distress and this trend will be applicable in 2008 and beyond. With this, would it be wonderful to have a share of this revenue?
If you have blogs and websites, you can actually sell the advertising spaces on those pages. The important point is that your content must be exciting, inspiring and unique from amongst all the blogs in the blogosphere, you know how to drive traffic to your website, and you can persuade visitors to click on the featured advertisements.
Among the high-earning websites are Perez Hilton (entertainment and gossip), Go Fug Yourself (fashion) and BoingBoing (technology).
Affiliate Marketing
This method is considered to be the best way to earn money online. Simply said, you get a cut for all products sold and for every time visitors purchase a client's products. Both ways, you earn extra money!
With affiliate marketing, you get to earn more at less time. Just be certain that you are well-acquainted of the technical terms and ethics of the industry.
Retail Commerce
This is where your accounting and marketing lessons in college can come to the fore. In essence, retail commerce involves the purchase of products in wholesale, the carrying out of inventory and the reselling of these merchandise. The stiff competition among other e-shops is present but with time, perseverance and expert marketing skills, you'll get by.
You earn money online by adding on a healthy profit margin to the products to compensate for the shipping costs. These shipping costs are minimal compared to what you can earn out of reselling more products.
The Magic of Drop Shipping
The major benefit of drop shipping over retail commerce is that you do not take care of heavy inventory expenses. You merely sell a supplier's merchandise to others, get the customers' orders and their payments, and then send the order details and the agreed price for the products to the supplier.
You do not have to shoulder the shipping costs as well. By giving a greater price – original price including your margin – you earn more profit. In short, drop shipping is merely wholesale business sans the inventory.
These methods are the four best ways of making money online. If you have a flair for business, an Internet connection and of course, a laptop, then you're good to go. So bid goodbye to recession woes and unemployment predicaments as a great combination of these items will undoubtedly bring you to the pinnacle of success!
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Office Depot announced Tuesday that it will expand FedEx services to its 1,513 retail locations throughout the country.
FedEx has offered its delivery services in OfficeMax stores since 2009. Boca Raton-based Office Depot acquired OfficeMax in 2013, and has been integrating the two office-supply retail businesses.
"The seven-year relationship with FedEx has proven to be beneficial not only for our companies, but for the customers we serve," said Ron Lalla, executive vice president of merchandising for Office Depot, about expanding the service.
During the company's second-quarter earnings call earlier this month, Office Depot CEO Roland Smith announced plans to...


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GOOG: Thumbs Up from JP Morgan, Cantor; Wide Range on Moto Estimates
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Google (GOOG) today got another couple of thumbs up, continuing a streak of positive views in advance of the company's Q3 report, due Thursday, October 18th.
The Street is looking for the company to report $13.61 billion in gross revenue and $11.46 billion in net revenue (when cost of "traffic acquisition," or TAC, is taken out), combining the results of Google itself and its newly acquired Motorola Mobility unit, and $10.63 per share in non-GAP revenue. How much each analyst estimates for Moto seems to be something of a wild card at this point.
Doug Anmuth with JP Morgan raised his price target on the stock to $850 from $670 while reiterating an Overweight rating, noting that Google's efforts in newer areas of display advertising and mobile advertising are now approaching 25% of Google's gross revenue.
Q3 probably saw an increase in volume for paid search for Google, but the lower prices for mobile probably brought another decline in cost-per-click, but not as bad as previously, he thinks:
3Q SEM checks were a bit more mixed on a Q/Q basis with some agencies showing flattish Q/Q spend. However, virtually all checks yielded search spend increases at least in the high teens/20%+ range with improvements in CPCs, even with some deceleration from 2Q growth levels. We expect overall CPCs to continue to decline on a Y/Y basis due to the mix-shift toward mobile, emerging markets, and new formats, but we believe 2Q12 likely represented the greatest Y/Y decline and we should see sequential improvements over the next few quarters. Our checks indicate that mobile CPCs continue to be at a discount to desktop CPC levels, with smartphones at ~50% of desktop pricing and tablets closer to ~85%. Conversion rates on tablets are high as those devices are much more desktop-like in nature. Our 3Q estimates call for 34% Y/Y paid click growth and an 11% Y/Y decline in CPCs. In 3Q12 Google laps the initial inflections in paid clicks/CPC dynamics from 3Q11 and we would expect growth rates to converge more going forward. However, we still model slight CPC declines over the next few years.
Anmuth is modeling $12.2 billion in net consolidated revenue, above consensus, and EPS of $10.54, which includes $150 million worth of amortization of Moto, and which cuts his own EPS estimate by 36 cents, he said. It's possible the consensus above does not include that amortization.
And Cantor Fitzgerald's Youssef Squali today reiterates a Buy rating and an $830 price target on the stock, writing that he sees a "strong" Q3 driven mostly by "high teens" growth in search advertising, as well as "growth in display and mobile, two multi-billion dollar segments, which we believe are growing at ~50% annually."
Squali models $11.4 billion in revenue for the quarter and $10.08 in EPS.
Even though those numbers are low compared to consensus, Squali adds "It's important to note, however, the wide range of estimates due to various MMI contribution assumptions. We're assuming MMI revenue of $2,452M and EBITDA of ($76.9M)."
Google shares today are down $3.82, or half a percent, at $747.66.


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Want to be sure of having enough money to fund a comfortable retirement? Take a deep breath: A recent study suggests that you need to save a total of 22 times the annual income you want to receive after you leave the office.
Much research in recent years has gone into "target" numbers for nest eggs. Fidelity Investments, for instance, recommends that workers should aim to save eight times their ending annual salary at age 67 in order to meet basic income needs in retirement. Aon Hewitt, a human resources consulting firm, estimates that 11 times salary is needed at age 65.
But as Jason Zweig reported this weekend in his Intelligent Investor column in The Wall Street Journal, a recent article in the Financial Analysts Journal posits a much higher figure: 22. In other words, if you want $100,000 in annual income in later life (not counting Social Security benefits), then you need $2.2 million in retirement savings.
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The AMA Monster Energy Supercross returns to Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Saturday for the second time this season and will feature a retro look, the same layout from 2001 when Ricky Carmichael won his first 450SX event and took the spotlight from Jeremy McGrath. It's all part of the 40th anniversary celebration of the sport at the venue,
Since 1976 when Marty Smith won the initial Supercross event, Anaheim has hosted 61 races in the 450SX Class and 52 Western Regional 250SX Class races. Since 1999, when the series started making multiple stops, there have been 26 sellouts, including the 2014 season opener earlier this month.
McGrath, Carmichael and James Stewart are the all-time winners in Orange County with eight main-event victories.
Saturday's event will feature a tight battle for the series lead. Kawasaki rider Ryan Villopoto, who passed eight riders to take the checkered flag in Phoenix last week, has a one-point lead over KTM's Ryan Dungey, who was third in the latest race.
Rookie Ken Roczen of Murrieta, who stunned a sellout crowd earlier in last month's season opener, is third with 40 points, three behind Villopoto. In fact, 11 points separate the leader from Chad Reed (Kawasaki) and Justin Barcia (Honda), who are tied for fifth at 32 points. Yamaha's Justin Brayton is fourth, three points behind Roczen.
Villopoto, the reigning three-time champion, started in ninth at Chase Field in the 20-lap finale. It was a tight battle but Villopoto was third by lap 7 and second after five more laps. Villopoto, who crashed while leading the opener at Anaheim, finally took the lead on lap 13 by moving around Brayton and then held off the field.
It was his 35th Supercross career win and first in Phoenix.
"Justin was riding a hell of a race. I have to give it to him, he made it tough," Villopoto said. "I didn't get the start I wanted because the (starting) gate was slippery, but I just needed to be patient. The Phoenix track gets really slick, so I had to take my time and make sure my passes stuck."
James Stewart, riding for the Chino-based Yoshimura Suzuki, finished fourth despite not feeling well and having his bike rebuilt after a practice mishap. Stewart, who also crashed while running up front in Anaheim, is ninth in the standings, 21 points behind Villopoto.
"Considering how bad I felt, to still get a top five was nice," Stewart said. "And I'm glad to walk out with some valuable points.
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It's becoming more common on the Monster Jam circuit, but Tom Meents turned a back flip with his five-ton Maximum Destruction at last Saturday in Anaheim. It was part of the show that featured Grave Digger defeating Time Fly's and Donald Epidendio driving Titan to the freestyle win.
"I can't tell you how many times I've done the back flip, but it's more than 20," Meents said by phone from his home in Paxton. Ill., where he learned to perfect the maneuver. He said he accidentally hit upon the idea while performing in Sweden when he rubbed the truck body on a hill.
"It wasn't clean, but I thought it was actually possible," said Meents, 47, who has been driving a Monster Truck for 20 years. "I went home and practiced."
At the 2009 Monster Jam World Finals in Las Vegas, Meents attempted the feat for the first time outside his shop. He over-rotated and landed on the tailgate, then rolled over onto the roof. But his signature move was born.
"That shocked the world," said Meents, who will not be in attendance at the second Anaheim show on Jan. 26 but will race Grave Digger on Feb. 8. "To flip a 10,000-pound truck was just unheard of."
In 2012 at East Rutherford, N.J., Meents attempted a double back flip, but landed on the roof after a full rotation.
"I was a Monster Jam fan before I was a driver, so we're always thinking about moves that will get them excited," Meents said.
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The 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series opener is three weeks away, but many teams are at the PRO Winter Warm-up at Palm Beach (Fla.) International Raceway. The fourth annual event is set for Friday and Saturday, but teams have been making various sorts of runs since Tuesday.
It will be the first time competitors have been down the strip since last November's Auto Club Finals at Auto Club Dragway in Pomona. The 2014 campaign will start Feb. 6 at the same venue with the Circle K Winternationals.
"I am ready to get back into my hot rod. I took some time off but now I am ready to get that 17th Funny Car championship," said 64-year-old John Force, who will be in his last year of racing for Castrol and Ford. "It won't be easy, especially when you look at my drivers, Robert Hight and my daughter Courtney. They are hungry for their own championships. There will be some heavy hitters at the PRO event and it will be a great way to get the season started,"
That will include all of the Don Schumacher Racing entries, including the return of Tommy Johnson Jr. to the Funny Car stable of Ron Capps, Matt Hagen and Jack Beckman, Also on hand will be Top Fuel dragster champion Spencer Massey, part of the Al-Alanbi Racing team.
"We have a few new things in the works and a brand new chassis to try out, so we're really looking forward to getting some laps under our belt this week," Hagan said. "The guys are working really hard and I'm just really excited to be back in a race car."
NASCAR notes
Speculation on who will replace Steve Letarde as Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s crew chief in 2015 is growing. Letarde and NBC recently announced he will be part of the broadcast team next season, joining play-by-play announcer Rick Allen and driver-turned-analyst Jeff Burton. The wildest rumor to date? Chad Knaus to move over from Jimmie Johnson's team. … Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced a three-year extension with Richard Petty Motorsports and an increased investment with NASCAR. Smithfield will be primary sponsor for the No. 43 Ford Fusion for 29 races in 2014-2016. … Two familiar teams will have new names in 2014. Chip Ganassi and Roger Penske have tweaked their team names this year. Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabtes dropped "Earnhardt" from the formal name of the last five years and will return to its original name, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. Penske Racing was changed to Team Penske as team owner Roger Penske wanted all of his teams — NASCAR and IndyCar — under one banner.


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Best Walks in the South Island
Looking for the best walks in the South Island? Here are four great walks offering real diversity and can be visited in a relaxed two week vacation.
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Looking for the best walks in the South Island? Here's a list of four great walks which offer a full range of experiences and can be visited in a relaxed two week vacation.
The walks we've chosen below combine spectacular scenery with accessibility, comfortable accommodation and interesting nearby activities. It's never easy deciding on the best walking tracks in a hiker's paradise like the South Island of New Zealand, but we've chosen our list thinking about the whole holiday experience. Stunning landscapes are complemented by comfortable, quality accommodation and easy accessibility; creating easy-going hiking experiences that make your New Zealand vacation truly unforgettable.
The Best Walks in the South Island:
Milford Track
Often described as the finest walk in the world, the Milford Track is on every walker's bucket list. Discovered by Scottish explorer Quintin Mackinnon in the late 1880s, the Milford is our oldest and best known walking track. From the top of Lake Te Anau, traversing the Southern Alps at the Mackinnon Pass, past New Zealand's highest waterfall and out to the Tasman Sea at Milford Sound, if there is one walk which represents the best of natural New Zealand then surely it is the Milford Track.
The Milford Track for a day
With time being our most such a valuable resource nowadays, a day hike from the Milford Sound end of the track end allows you to experience Milford Track, Sound and Road in 24 hours. Travel the striking Milford Highway in the beautiful afternoon light to overnight in Milford before a short boat ride across the sound to Sandfly Point the following morning. We begin our walk in pristine Fiordland rainforest, enveloped in a verdant world of lichens, ferns, moss and lower altitude podocarp forest. Glimpses of waterfalls cascading down the towering rock faces of the Fiordland mountains are above us, and the powerful Giant's Gate Falls – the turnaround point on our hike– is an impressive sight.
What we love about walking the Milford Track from Milford Sound
-Beat the rush by walking in the morning after overnighting in Milford
-Milford Track and Sound in the same day
-Experience all this in just two memorable days from Queenstown
Hollyford Track
In the heart of the South Island's best walking country, the Hollyford has a rich history and is truly is one of the South Island's last remote corners. The story of the Hollyford Valley is a real New Zealand story – visited by the Ngai Tahu and Ngati Mamoe people in their quest for Pounamu (Jade) and in later years the site of some over-ambitious and ultimately ill-fated development plans by British settlers. In the 1920s, 'the tramper's friend' Davey Gunn opened up the valley to tourism. There is really something about the Hollyford which slows you down and helps you breathe - this is the Hollyford magic.
The Hollyford Track for a day (and a night)
In the distant corners of the South Island we sometimes need a little help, in this case a friendly helicopter allows easy entry into the heart of this special place – Martins Bay – saving us the three day hike. We are now ready for a short coastal walk to Long Reef, where we encounter the Fur Seal (Kekeno) and, if we're lucy, the Fiordland Crested Penguin (Tawaki). After our walk who wouldn't enjoy a little luxury at Martins Bay Lodge with its fantastic food, wonderful hosts, hot showers and warm dry beds - who says you need to rough it in the wilderness! The next day we get going early with a blast of fresh Fiordland air on our exhilarating jet boat ride across on the Hollyford River and Lake McKerrow before our day walking on the Hollyford Track. The tranquility of the Hollyford is difficult to describe in words, our trek begins in the realm of friendly forest giants which sets the mood for the day. The excellent forest track is punctuated by crystal clear pools and captivating waterfalls, while the all-seeing Darran Mountains gaze down on us from above.
What we love about the Hollyford Track
-Up-close wildlife encounters - seals, penguins and even dolphins
-Nature in solitude, you won't see a lot of people out here
-Complement your walking with once-in-a-lifetime adventure activities like a helicopter flight and backcountry jet boat
Routeburn Track
A real notch in any global walker's belt and one of the South Island's 'Great Walks'. The Routeburn has always been a travel route connecting Fiordland to the Wakatipu. First used by early Maori in search of Greenstone and in the colonial days the route chosen for a road between Queenstown and Martins Bay for the export of gold. Nowadays part of Southwest New Zealand World Heritage Area (Te Wahipounamu), the Routeburn offers a unique array of forest and alpine walking unrivalled by any other walk in the South Island.
The Routeburn Track for a day
With easy access from Queenstown, the full day hike to Routeburn Flats or Falls from the Glenorchy is one of the best day hikes you'll find anywhere. Through ethereal Red Beech forest to the Routeburn River and moody, dramatic Gorge to the natural amphitheatre of Routeburn Flats, which looks positively Middle-Earth. If you'd like a challenge, your reward for honest effort on the climb to Routeburn Falls will be the vista which I think is the best on any day walk in New Zealand, let alone the South Island.
Why we love the Routeburn Track
-You simply cannot miss the 'Top of the Lake'
-Glenorchy, Paradise and the Mt Aspiring National Park
-A short and very spectacular drive from Queenstown
-You may even see Yellowhead (Mohua), one of our rarest birds
Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
No walking itinerary of the South Island is complete without visting the home to our highest mountain and most famous of national parks. Mount Cook is an integral part of the human history of the South Island, from the legend of Maui and his brothers to the exploits of the most beloved of all Kiwis, Sir Edmund Hillary. Our only true 'alpine' national park and quite compact, Mt Cook offers a stark contrast to the wide domains of other walking havens like Fiordland and provides a real mountain backdrop for even on shorter day walks.
Walking in Mount Cook for a day
To make the most of everything this alpine wonderland has to offer, we recommend spending two nights in the village. Our favourite track here is the Hooker Valley, a comfortable day walk with grand views at every turn. You won't find anywhere else in the South Island with the same easy access into a real alpine setting and your camera will bet a real workout all day with the vistas of our highest peaks and glaciers. Take a break by the Hooker Glacier terminal lake, just the right spot to enjoy a hot drink and marvel at the world around you. For flower lovers, the Hooker Valley is the perfect place to see the Mount Cook Lily (Ranunculus lyallii) in season - usually late spring to early summer.
Three more reasons we love Mount Cook
-Spectacular stargazing, you're in the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve
-The Snowline bar in the Hermitage Hotel, the perfect place to relax after a great day out
-The Sir Edmund Hillary Alpine Centre and Mt Cook National Park Visitor Centre, two of the best visitor centres in the South Island
My name is Andrew Wells and I've been working as a professional hiking guide here in New Zealand since 1999. This is my take on the best walks in the South Island, all of which are included in our 13 day New Zealand World Heritage Walking tour, along with iconic adventure activities, comfortable four star accommodation and great local restaurants. Small groups led by our friendly expert guides will make your New Zealand Trails tour a treasured travel memory for life. Please visit our website for more about our New Zealand walking tours, or for any questions or reservations please get in touch now.
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Title:Total intensity aeromagnetic profiles of Hogatza uplift, Alaska
Authors:Dempsey, W.J., Meuschke, J.L., and Andreasen, G.E.
Publication Date:1957
Publisher:U.S. Geological Survey
Comments:This publication was reclassified with a new publication number in 1975; see below for the updated classification number.
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Dempsey, W.J., Meuschke, J.L., and Andreasen, G.E., 1957, Total intensity aeromagnetic profiles of Hogatza uplift, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report: Technical Data Unit classification number 153, 1 sheet.
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- 8:35am. AM check of "the twitter" & email. Corresponding with film grad student over plans to do promo for Digital team. Start #libday4.
- 9:45am. Thinking re: how to present Herbarium project to Bio Faculty. Working w/team on collaborative indexing/keyword project. #libday4
- 12:35pm. Big win @ meeting w/faculty re: Herbarium. All metadata & scanning will be done by motivated faculty member. Lunchtime. #libday4
- 3pm. Drop ins & drop bys. Conversation w/team & colleagues re: new digital media service. How to launch, get buy-in, make it easy. #libday4
- 3:10pm. Filling out student time cards and reporting team leave for admin. Living the dream. #libday4
- 3:21pm. Hour or so in front of me. Time to work on topic recommending search engine (proof of concept). Work includes data entry. #libday4
- 4:17pm. Making Libguides API play nice with our database lists. I hate you unencoded &, but you are now fixed with urlencode(). #libday4
- 4:33pm. @springshare @LibGuidesFAQ Whom do I talk to about structured data coming out of your API? <LI> in caps is not valid HTML. #libday4
- 4:40pm. Broke search app. Checking error logs. Good place to stop for now. PM email check and then home to fam. Fix later. #libday4
- 4:46pm. tail -50 error_log command gives: "syntax error, unexpected ' on line 253 of view.php" Note for later. #libday4
- 8:57pm. Back in the saddle. Email colleague in Arts & Architecture re: people we met yesterday interested in go2collegeMT.org. #libday4
- 9:05pm. Tracking down parse error in "search for databases by topic" app. #libday4
- 10:05pm. Reducing noise to signal ratio in Google reader. Best signals get bookmarked at delicious/diginit/ #libday4
- 10:35pm. Final PM email check. Thread re: Bio faculty's flickr photostream @ http://bit.ly/aQeMVB ; metadata for plant repositories. #libday4
- 10:55pm. Falling asleep at the wheel. Will have to fix search tomorrow. End #libday4.
Pretty average day. Had some nice chunks of time, but I chose to do the face to face thing a little more. It can take more time, but the "Drop Bys" can be an effective means of getting a person's true feelings on a subject. No mediation by email or other tech, just one on one conversation. You can see some of my admin duties above as it's the end of the month. Necessary stuff, but not my favorite. Big news for the day was the meeting with a Plant Sciences faculty about digitization of Montana herbarium samples. He's already using flickr and has access to a high res camera. To top it off, he's motivated to do metadata. Huge. Subject specialist with integral knowledge of objects doing first batch of metadata. We have plans to go after grant, but will build prototype using flickr API. Tasks for the day included: programming, data entry, networking, negotiating org politics, debugging, "metadataing", admin documentation, prototyping, and sleeping. More tomorrow as I have my annual review with my deans… Bring it.


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This is a guest post by Dan Wang.
The shopping experience at IKEA is like no other.
Most of us have at one point gone to one of its giant stores, unmistakable in blue and yellow; wandered through its carefully-designed paths; tasted its Swedish meatballs and lingonberry preserve; and most importantly, assembled its beautiful, Modernist furniture.
Now did you know that IKEA is a company that practiced early methods of dropshipping?
IKEA was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad at the age of 17. Working out of his family farm near a small village in Sweden, Kamprad made his start by selling matches he bought from Stockholm.
He soon expanded as a mail-order business to fountain pens, udder balms, wallets, and other small items. Kamprad didn't always stock the items he sold, and he arranged for customers to receive their wares by bicycle, train, and often with the help of a friendly milkman.
After initial success, Kamprad scaled up, displaying his goods in a showroom. A few decades later, IKEA was growing so quickly that executives opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open it in Koblenz. Nowadays, IKEA has over 300 stores in 30 countries, and its catalogues are only slightly less popular than the Harry Potter books.
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So what can you learn from a company with such humble beginnings? We share five lessons.
Think you can be as cool as Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA?
1. Get Your Lista On
IKEA is obsessed with lista, which translates roughly to "making do". Here are a few examples.
First, IKEA uses employees as models for its catalogues. The happy people sitting by the dining table are available employees, not specially-trained models.
To see how much IKEA values practicality, look no further than its very name, which was the mailing address of Kamprad's farm. The "I" and "K" stand for "Ingvar Kamprad"; "E" for "Elmtaryd," the name of his farm; and "A" for "Agunnaryd," the name of the local village. Talk about simplicity.
One more story: In early days, someone once tried to sell Kamprad an intercom system for a store. Kamprad turned to a worker to bellow: "We already have one!" This is the billionaire famous for always flying in the economy class and who often recycles his teabags.
Here's the lesson:
Try to make do. You don't need special shots of your team in a studio setting for company bios: grab an iPhone and go outside on a sunny day for perfectly good pictures. Unless you're a Fortune 500 company, you probably don't need a subscription to an expensive media monitoring service; make do with Google Alerts. And are you sure that you need that (SEO consultant)? Really sure?
2. Leverage Local Colors
It's absolutely no accident that the IKEA colors of blue and yellow match exactly those of Sweden's flag.
Far from hiding its Scandinavian roots, IKEA embraces its Swedish heritage. Just take a look at these zany names: FYRKANTIG, DAGSTORP, and ÖDMJUK. (They're candles, a couch, and a cup, respectively.) Unmistakably Scandinavian, with those unfamiliar scrambles of consonants and umlauts.
And the Swedish meatballs and lingonberry sauce that's served in every store: Isn't it much easier to serve hot dogs and pizzas?
Here, take a look at this short IKEA ad directed by Spike Jonze, with an announcer whose accent to our ears might best be described as "Swedish Chef."
Finally, those of us who know just a little bit of Swedish probably picked it up in the IKEA stores. Hej – that means "Hello." And hejdå – that's "goodbye."
Here's the lesson:
Don't homogenize. Emphasize your differences.
You're not Walmart, you're special. You should be bold about what makes you different, so long as you do it tastefully. When you're authentic about your distinctiveness, your passion will attract those who love your products as much as you do. It's going to be a lot easier to build up your community, whether that's men who love their beards, who ladies who appreciate well-designed tights. Heck, the latter community was built without a cent in the marketing budget. That was pure love.
Having said that, you should probably make sure that you have a good grasp of Lesson 3…
3. Really Understand Your Customers
IKEA designers are among the foremost anthropologists of home life.
Designers create rooms for eight types of people: "baby," "toddler," "starting school," "tweens and teens," "living single/starting out," "living single/established," "living together/starting out," and "living together/established."
IKEA does endless research on each of these categories. It starts targeting its customers since birth. Per an internal memo: "Cots are our ticket to building a life-long relationship with our core customers."
Every year, IKEA conducts thousands of "home-visits," in which its researchers ask consenting customers to look around their homes and figure out their domestic habits.
That's in addition to the studies it runs to carefully create a path that curves at the right points so that every item in the store gets noticed. IKEA practices a technique called "bulla bulla", in which a bunch of products are jumbled together to create the impression of volume, and therefore inexpensiveness.
Here's the lesson:
You won't often understand your customers by giving them surveys. People aren't always conscious of their own habits, or care more about appearing normal. So go out there and make sure that your product has its community. It's much easier to do this if you have a loyal fanbase already and can easily leverage their insights. See Lesson 2 on using your authenticity and passion to build a loyal fanbase.
4. Let Your Customers Have Fun
Visiting an IKEA store is an experience in itself, almost like visiting an interactive art gallery.
The company likes it that way, and often looks the other way when customers treat the store as their home. Consider IKEA in China. Customers there are especially delighted with the company's patience.
For a family in Beijing, going to IKEA on the weekend is like going to the park: you have to dress properly, it's going to be a good time, and you don't need to buy anything. People go there to take a nap under the display beds, to enjoy the air conditioning, and to drink free refills.
The experience is even more extravagant in Shanghai. A tradition has somehow emerged that every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, 45 to 65 year old locals bring their lunch and take advantage of free coffee to seek new love. No, really.
The company's response? Instead of prickly signs telling people to lie on beds and asking people not to abuse free refills, the company welcomes them, and has set up designated corners for matchmaking.
Here's the lesson:
It's great (perhaps even necessary) to have a clear vision for the optimal use of your products, but if people are finding little ways to be creative with them outside of that vision, you should encourage it. Don't go crazy telling people something should be used. Make it clear, but you should be very happy if people are finding new and novel ways to play with your product. It's a great sign of engagement.
For a little more info, take a look at our post on growth hacking: How to Growth Hack Your Ecommerce Business for More Traffic and Sales
5. Supply Chain Matters
IKEA should be recognized to be just as innovative in supply chain management as it is in design. Not only is its furniture beautiful, it's also amazingly cheap. Price is as much a draw to IKEA as the shopping experience and the great products.
One of its major innovations came from the lista efforts (see above) of an early employee. In 1951, he tried to fit a table into his Volvo. When it wasn't going in, he removed its legs.
And so flat-pack furniture was born.
One of the goals of designers is to create products that can be as tightly-packed as possible to minimize damage and shipping costs. Its motto is: "We hate air!"
IKEA has been innovative in other areas as well: it was an early adopter of particleboards, and uses a construction technique called "board-on-frame," in which products with solid-wood exteriors are stuffed with paper innards.
Here's the lesson:
Shopify stores sell things. Not software, real things. That involves a minimum of obtaining supplies and assembling them in some way. Even when you think that you have the perfect product, you need to be thinking of ways to reduce costs, improve the ways it can be used, and think whether it can be relevant to a broader community. Shopify is taking care of building the store and processing your payments so that you can focus on making a better product.
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While the majority of IT organizations today are well into phase one of virtualization that is typically defined as deploying virtual servers to run non-essential applications, resistance to virtualization among owners of mission-critical applications has been stiff.
That resistance may finally be softening as more application owners realize that many mission-critical applications can run as fast or faster on modern virtual machine software than they can on legacy operating systems.
Once virtualization is adopted, IT organizations quickly discover the value of the agility that virtualization brings to IT operations. And at a time when many business executives tend to think of IT as too slow to respond to the needs of the business, virtualization finally gives the IT department a fighting chance to meet the agility demands of the business by provisioning and tearing down servers at a moment's notice.
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DistributionWatch Review: Red Hat Linux 6.2
Introducing Red Hat Linux 6.2
It is said that the only occupants of the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead critters of some sort (skunks in the north, armadillos in the south). Yet the middle of the road is exactly where Red Hat is positioning the latest and greatest version of Red Hat Linux, 6.2.
Of course, Red Hat is not alone in this pursuit: Corel Linux, Linux-Mandrake, and TurboLinux Workstation are all geared toward the same audience. That this audience is growing rapidly cannot be disputed; whether there's room for a slew of major Linux players certainly can be debated.
Judging by Red Hat 6.2, we know exactly what these users want. They're sick and tired of Microsoft's monopolistic and bullying actions are seeking a viable alternative to Windows, so they naturally turn their attention to Linux. But these same users are accustomed to the Windows graphical interface, the relative ease of Windows installation and the raft of applications available for Windows users. So when they come to Linux, they're expecting the best parts of other operating systems, without any of the drawbacks. They want it both ways.
Does Red Hat Linux 6.2 serve this audience? Yes and no. Red Hat Linux 6.2 continues to be a leading Linux distribution in terms of ease of installation. But when compared to other Linux distributions--Corel Linux, Linux-Mandrake, Slackware Linux, and TurboLinux Workstation--Red Hat Linux 6.2 is a surprisingly unsophisticated offering, sporting a stripped-down KDE interface and lacking many essential tools.
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Achievers International Exporting Success
UK based international trade program for students of all ages and abilities. Students form a company and trade products with their foreign partner school(s). Emphasizes modern technology through the use of e-mail, video-conferencing and on-line training materials.
- Age Level: 6 to 25 years old
- End Product(s) for Students: Demonstration of a variety of technology skills (email, WWW research, problem solving interaction, etc.). Demonstration of cross cultural awareness, respect, and appreciation. Partner schools form companies and work together to import and export articles for sale. Making students aware that they can run their own business and self-employment is a viable option for their future
- Timeline/Schedule: Program restarts annually (usually August to May)
- Webpage: http://www.achieversinternational.org/
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: Video Conferencing, Email, IRC or Other Real-Time Chat
- Supporting Organization: Achievers International Ltd.
- Longevity: 3 years
- Languages for Communication: Achievers International is currently an English speaking program, but developments over the next two years will see it transferred into Spanish and German.
Currency, Money and the Barter System
In this project you will be learning about how students use currency around the world and you will compare the values of money, goods and services while sharing ideas and collaborating on a project that looks at the history and value of money from around the world. This project includes the design of a "kid currency" to teach each other's epals about their own national history and landmarks.
- Age Level: 5-17 years old
- End Product(s) for Students: Survey and results.
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing, student involvement 3-4 weeks
- Webpage: http://www.epals.com/projects/currency/
- Contact: email@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: e-mail, discussion boards, WWW
- Supporting Organization: ePALS Classroom Exchange
- Languages for Communication: available in English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. ePALS also offers email with built-in language translation (16 language pairs)