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This applies to ALL your metrics, not just your funnels.
Based on your industry, business model, target market, and the alignment of the stars, you'll find a huge difference in metrics from one site to the next.
3. Look for Bottlenecks
I already alluded to the best way to prioritize your funnel improvements.
When you're looking at your entire funnel and trying to decide which step gets your attention first, start with the bottlenecks. In most funnels, there are one or two steps that aren't really steps. They're brick walls.
Your mission? Find your bottlenecks and patch them asap.
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Once you find your bottlenecks, you'll want to start launching improvements to see if you can fix them. The best way to do this is with an A/B test.
A/B tests typically track only the next step.
As soon as you start testing improvements in your funnel, test your changes on the ENTIRE funnel instead of just the next step. This way, you won't slow your customer growth by accident. And yes, I've seen this happen.
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There's a myth that most marketers automatically believe. As soon as you start to track your funnel, you'll assume that customers move orderly through it.
This is false.
People bounce around in funnels.
So how do we get around this? Use customer analytics so you can track people. Then you'll know how many people moved through each step, even if they're bouncing around beforehand…"
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30MB/s Read & Write Speeds and 32GB Storage Capacity Help Photography and Video Enthusiasts Do More With Their DSLRs
PMA, Sydney, June 25, 2009 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today introduced the fast est 32-gigabyte (GB)1 SDHC™ card on the market.The 32GB SanDisk Extreme® SDHC™ card at up to 30 megabytes per second (MB/s)2 read and write speeds combines industry-leading performance with massive storage capacity, helping digital photography enthusiasts utilize the advanced features of today's DSLR cameras.
"The market for entry to mid-level DSLR cameras is growing, and SDHC is becoming the de-facto card format for these devices," said Susan Park, director, retail product marketing, SanDisk."Our card's 32GB of storage and up to 30MB/s read & write speeds enable DSLR users to shoot without worrying about storage or speed limitations. SanDisk Extreme SDHC cards provide consumers with a more enjoyable user experience, letting them focus on what is really important - the images that they are capturing."
Lightning-Fast Write Speed Captures Images Quickly
A memory card's write speed plays a crucial role in the overall system of the camera when taking pictures in rapid succession. If a card cannot process data quickly enough then the burst mode shooting may pause unexpectedly as the card catches up to the camera. Burst mode bottlenecks can lead to missing "the" shot, especially at sporting or other fast-motion events. The SanDisk Extreme SDHC card offers maximum data-transfer rates, giving consumers a memory card fast enough to unlock the full capabilities of their DSLRs.
The 32GB SanDisk Extreme SDHC card adheres to the SD Association's new Class 10 specification, which exceeds requirement for today's high definition (AVCHD) video recording. The card offers a sustained write speed fast enough to ensure high-definition video recording and capacity capable of storing 160 minutes of full HD 1920x1080 pixels at 24Mb/s data transfer rate.
Big Files Require Big Storage
Recently-released DSLR camera models like the Nikon D90 and D5000 offer consumers the ability to record HD videos, producing large files that can fill lesser-capacity cards quickly. Today's high-megapixel DSLRs also can generate massive still images like those produced in the RAW format used by professional photographers who want to take advantage of the enhanced picture quality and flexibility that RAW allows during post production.
RAW images demand up to ten times as much storage space as regular JPEG images, and when taken in rapid succession during burst mode can quickly fill smaller storage cards. The 32GB SanDisk Extreme SDHC card can store up to 2500 RAW3 images, providing photographers with piece of mind and confidence that they will not run out of space for their images.
Renowned for their world-class durability, SanDisk Extreme SDHC cards guarantee operation at extended temperatures ranging from minus 13 F (minus 25 C) to 185 F (85 C). SanDisk Extreme SDHC cards are fully compatible with any camera, card reader or other device that supports SDHC cards.
When placed in SanDisk's new ImageMate® Multi-Card USB 2.0 reader/writer, the SanDisk Extreme SDHC card transfers images and video to a computer at rates of up to 30MB/s. The card's fast data transfer rates enable photographers operating under tight deadlines to maximize critical workflow and enter post production as quickly as possible.
Class 10 Performance Sets a New Standard
An SD™ card's speed Class is based on its minimum data-transfer rate, and is used to ensure high-quality video recording standards. The SD Association added Class 10 as part of the SD 3.0 specification released earlier this year. The SanDisk Extreme SDHC card's performance exceeds the requirements of even the highest-quality AVCHD video recording device, and is currently the fastest Class 10 card in the world.
The SanDisk Extreme SDHC 32GB cards will be shipping worldwide to major retailers in August. Also in August, the current 4, 8 and16GB capacity SanDisk Extreme SDHC cards will be upgraded from Class 6 to Class 104.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk (www.sandisk.com/corporate) is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company with more than half its sales outside of the United States.
11 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.
2 Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may vary depending upon host device.1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
3 Approximations: results will vary based on file size, resolution, compression, bit rate, content, host device, pre-loaded files and other factors. Based on 10MB per RAW file size assumption. See www.sandisk.com
4 SanDisk Extreme SDHC cards will replace SanDisk Extreme III 30MB/s Edition cards.
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Rhineland-Palatinate's Summer of Culture takes place every year from 1 May to 3 October and features well over 200 projects covering all kinds of different cultural aspects. The theme is revised annually to reflect new focuses for the content, and the venue for the grand opening also changes every year. A large cultural festival on the first weekend in May offers families their first peek at the summer's programme of events.
The Summer of Culture is extremely wide-reaching in its scope, with events held across the state covering cultural, religious, artistic and social themes. In early 1992 the Rhineland-Palatinate state government announced the staging of the first Rhineland-Palatinate Summer of Culture, the aim of which was to increase people's awareness of the region's attractive cultural programme. Rural areas were particularly targeted in the hope of stimulating people's interest and of spreading pleasure in art and culture, in discussion and debate. What the organisers had – and continue to have – in mind was a sort of 'citizens' movement for culture'. And the Summer of Culture is, in fact, characterised by the large number of small projects and ideas at its core that were themselves developed out of local or regional initiatives. With almost 250 events including concerts, readings, exhibitions, children's activities, theatre and much more, the festival is a marvellous melting pot of people and ideas.
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Verschiedene Veranstaltungsorte
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Whatever happens Sunday night in Los Angeles, Baltimore is already a winner when it comes to this year's Emmy Awards.
Last Saturday at the creative arts Emmys, which are awarded in off-camera categories, Baltimore casting director Pat Moran was honored for her work on HBO's "Game Change."
The film, which tells the story of the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin, was made here in 2011 and brought top-flight TV production back to the city after a four-year drought that came after the end of "The Wire." That renewal meant millions of dollars spent locally, along with work for hundreds of local actors, crew members and TV/film professionals.
The Emmy for Moran, who has cast virtually every major production filmed in Baltimore since "Hairspray" in 1987, was icing on the cake — Hollywood recognition for the kind of quality work that can be done here.
And there could be a lot more recognition for Baltimore on Sunday night at Los Angeles' Nokia Theatre and in millions of living rooms across the country during the 64th Emmy Awards telecast. "Game Change" has a total of 12 nominations, while "VEEP," a comedy filmed mostly in Baltimore that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as vice president of the United States, has three. The latter includes one for best comedy and another for Louis-Dreyfus as best lead actress in a comedy, where she is the odds-on favorite to win.
"HBO has always loved making movies and doing projects in Baltimore," Moran said last week. "The great thing is, HBO has stuck with Baltimore and came back with two big projects recently, 'VEEP' and 'Game Change.' And both have multiple nominations. ... That recognition for productions made in Baltimore does matter — it matters for everyone working in the business here."
The dozen nominations for "Game Change" in the movie and miniseries category include major ones for Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson for best actress and actor. Moore played Palin, while Harrelson depicted senior McCain adviser Steve Schmidt in the docudrama. Ed Harris (as McCain) and Sarah Paulson (as aide Nicolle Wallace) were nominated for best supporting actor and actress.
Jay Roach picked up a nomination for his direction, while Danny Strong is up for his script. The film itself is a contender for best movie or miniseries.
Analysts are saying "Game Change" could walk away with half a dozen Emmys in one of the night's most prestigious and star-studded categories.
Tom O'Neil, founder of the Hollywood website GoldDerby.com, is picking Harris, Moore and "Game Change" to win, with Harrelson a near toss-up as best lead actor. The consensus of all prognosticators at GoldDerby is that "Game Change" will take top honors, with Moore, Roach, Harris and Strong also winning.
"Julianne Moore is a shoo-in," O'Neil said in a telephone interview Friday. "No one even comes close. Remember, Tina Fey recently won an Emmy portraying Sarah Palin, and everyone agrees Julianne Moore nailed it far better than Tina Fey. So, that gets an automatic Emmy."
O'Neil is more cautious in picking "Game Change" itself, saying, "It looks like it's out front to win best movie/mini, but there's a lot of competition in that category, with 'American Horror Story' and 'Hatfields & McCoys.'"
Deadline, another Hollywood showbiz site, also sees a close win for "Game Change," saying: "Because this is falling so closely to a typically fractious presidential election, 'Game Change' gets the nod despite general acknowledgment that it's a less than great film. It's a very good movie filled with terrific acting work from Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore in particular."
The full field of nominees for movie and miniseries: "American Horror Story," "Game Change," "Hatfields & McCoys," "Hemingway & Gellhorn, "Luther" and "Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia."
"Game Change" is my pick without reservation, and I think it is a much better film than Deadline does. No movie or miniseries anywhere on TV last year generated the kind of conversation about political leadership and the lack of it on the 2008 Republican ticket the way this docudrama did.
Overall, HBO leads all networks and channels with 81 nominations, and it should once again lead in number of Emmy wins Sunday night, with several of them coming from "Game Change." The one Moran took home last week will be added to the Sunday night count.
Moran was also nominated but didn't win for her casting of "VEEP," which returns to Baltimore for its second season of production next month.
If "VEEP" is going to be a headliner at the awards telecast, it's going to come in the best actress category for Louis-Dreyfus. Her 13th nomination ties her with Lucille Ball as Emmy's most-nominated comedy actress, according to O'Neil, author of "The Emmy," a history of the awards.
"I think Julia Louis-Dreyfus is going to win," O'Neil said. "That's such a strong category, with five of those seven women capable of winning, but she's won twice, she's beloved, she's in an HBO show, which is catnip for the academy, and it's a comeback."
Analyzing the way Emmy voters seem to favor high-end, quality political productions like "Game Change" and "VEEP," O'Neil added, "She portrays the vice president in a show that is 'The West Wing' with laughs. And remember how 'The West Wing' swept the awards? The deep, dark secret of Emmy voters is that they are elitist snobs, and a show like this appeals to them. And they are fiercely loyal to their kin, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is kin."
Deadline sounds the Hollywood consensus, saying, "This is Louis-Dreyfus' 13th Emmy nomination overall. And while she's won only twice before — once for 'Seinfeld' in 1996 and once for 'The New Adventures of Old Christine' in '06 — her work in 'Veep' is as good as anything she's ever done ('Seinfeld' included). It's also precisely the kind of role that seems to have Emmy written all over it. This year, it will."
Having seen her on set here working with creator Armando Iannucci's demanding mix of scripted and improvised material, there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that Louis-Dreyfus deserves the Emmy. And after talking to O'Neil, I think she'll get it.
On the other hand, "VEEP" will not win as best comedy. That award will once again go to "Modern Family." But there's even some Baltimore attached to this groundbreaking ABC sitcom.
One of the stars, Baltimore native Julie Bowen, is the hands-down favorite to win again as best supporting actress for her performance as Claire Dunphy, the character at the center of this multigenerational, multicultural comedy.
Another Baltimore native, Jason Winer, is nominated for an episode that he directed last year. Winer, who won the prestigious Directors Guild Award for his work on the pilot of "Modern Family," is not expected to win Sunday night. He has already moved on from the series and is executive producer of a new NBC midseason entry, "1600 Penn," a family sitcom set in the White House.
Rob Berman, who like Winer grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Friends School, is already an Emmy-winning director for his work in 2012. Along with Moran, Berman was awarded an Emmy at last week's creative arts ceremony. He won for his musical direction of "Kennedy Center Honors," the celebrated CBS variety show that annually showcases the best of American popular culture.
The parents of Bowen, Winer and Berman all still call Baltimore home.
While that kind of local flavor can help generate rooting interest, the storyline that matters most to this area Sunday night is the one involving Hollywood's return to Baltimore in 2011 and the recognition those productions could garner on Hollywood's big stage.
"HBO brought in two projects last year, and both were nominated for big awards," Moran says. "HBO helped get Baltimore back in the game, and we should all be hoping they get lots of recognition Sunday for the shows they made in Baltimore."
Emmys broadcast
The Emmys, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on WMAR/Channel 2.


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When watching the NBC reality show "The Sing-Off," a singing competition featuring a cappella groups, it's incredible to hear how full a sound the singers can produce with just their pure voices and no musical accompaniment. The human voice is the only "instrument" used.
With a cappella singing "you're putting everything out in the open with nothing else but the voice box, lips, teeth, and tongue to shape the music being made," says Dr. Thomas Carroll, a voice specialist and director of the center for voice and swallowing at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Carroll should know. Before attending medical school, he majored in music and sang high tenor in the Oberlin Obertones, an all-male collegiate a cappella group.
According to Carroll, a cappella singing is not necessarily more demanding on the voice than singing with musical accompaniment. But, he says, it may take more athleticism from a vocal standpoint, especially to beat box, also known as vocal percussion, or mimicking the sounds of drum beats, rhythms, and other percussion instruments.
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Making those explosive drum set sounds is a unique skill, explains Carroll. You have to breathe more often than other kinds of singing and support the breath for a two- to three-minute song. "It's almost like running a marathon," he points out.
Endurance is one of the unique challenges of a cappella singing and another is top-notch technique, says Jodi Jenkins, an associate professor in the voice department of the Berklee School of Music in Boston, who has sung soprano in the a cappella quintet Vox One for two decades. Since singers are not supported by music, she explains, you need really good ears to keep everybody on key and together rhythmically.
And you need a good understanding of musical instruments to figure out how to mimic them without sounding cheesy, Jenkins suggests. She considers the electric guitar one of the harder instruments to imitate because making the sounds is rough on the voice.
A cappella, meaning "in the church style" in Italian, originated when musical instruments were not allowed at religious services. It has since evolved to include barbershop quartets and doo-wop groups, and the genre, which now includes everything from rock to jazz to gospel, has been enthusiastically embraced at the collegiate level and in some high schools.
"The Sing-Off" introduces the musical form to an even larger audience. But of the 16 groups competing this season, would coed groups have any physiological edge over single-sex groups?
Both Carroll and Jenkins believe that an all-female group might be at a slight disadvantage because they would not have a deep bass voice so they could be limited in lower vocal ranges. An all-male group without a falsetto voice might run into similar difficulties in the higher octaves.
Although a coed group gives you all the voice options, ultimately it comes down to talent, sound, and performance. During the show's first two seasons both winners have been all-male groups with six people.
While larger groups have more energy from more participants, Jenkins says they may also have too much going on and lose the music. She favors smaller groups with at least five people for all the vocal parts, which she considers more intimate so audiences can get to know the performers better.
Readers, have you tuned in and become a new fan of a cappella music? And a cappella singers, tell us how you make those instrumental sounds seem so authentic.


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Online activism isn't all about the reach
Years ago, it was "The Anarchist Cookbook."
In the dark ages before absolutely everything was available on the internet, it was an oft-photocopied volume of home-built explosives and other tools. It was a counterculture product of opposition to the Vietnam War, and, as teens, we regularly heard how dangerous some of its concoctions were, and that even possession of the thing was a supposedly criminal act. So, of course, we had to have copies, found them through the fledgling Usenet, printed them on dot-matrix printers and eventually did stupid and dangerous things.
Now, I think it's time for a social media activists' cookbook.
Social media has taken activism a big step forward because (sorry to say it like this) in addition to having great reach, it's also much more effortless and can take far less time.
Organization isn't as difficult as a phone tree or putting up posters in the cold and snow: it can be sitting at a computer keyboard.
Some are hugely successful: the women's march after Donald Trump's election is a good example of the sheer power of the internet as a way to demonstrate public support.
But for every huge success, there are small failures.
Social media may be a powerful tool, but, just like when you use a router or a lathe, you have to watch your fingers.
As an outside observer, here are what I believe should be the easiest accidents to avoid.
Don't react to every single thing that's in your batting range.
You may want to, but don't. You are what you eat – well, you are what you post, anyway. It's great to be first with a link to a topical piece on your favourite issue. But sometimes being first means hitting send before you've even fully read or thought about what you're putting up there.
Grab everything that moves on your trademark topic – government inaction, the inequity of the justice system, combatting the patriarchy, or whatever — and you run the risk of becoming an echo, adding little to the debate.
And more: you're not just posting links as you retweet and repost: you're also defining your online personality, and that's a copybook that is easy to blot.
I'm paid to monitor the news. I start really, really early in the morning, and it's reached a point now where I can watch a story appear in my feeds, and know in advance not only who in my social media community will repost it, but also what their posted reaction will be. When that reaction becomes constant and almost kneejerk predictable, I mute them: they're not adding to the argument, they're simply rebroadcasting. I need more than "Can you believe this?" repeated 20 or 30 times: valuable committed activists are becoming transmission towers for someone else's signal.
It's marvelous to be the activist canary in the coal mine. (Sorry, really bad example there. The only time the canary is successful at its job is when it, well, dies.) But it's also dangerous to be an amplifier in a feedback loop, especially if you accidentally amplify something wrong or outright dangerous.
(There's also the Chicken Little problem: the longer you tell me the sky is falling, the less likely I'll believe you, and the more outrageous you'll have to be to get my attention back.)
Don't get me wrong: social media does give people the tools to do good work, to do a type of activism that wasn't possible before social media arrived.
But good work is hard work, too. People only get out of it what you put in.
Too often, too little effort — and original thought — is going in.
Wide reach and little thought? It's a dangerous mix.


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Cake Wrecks readers, lend me your ears!
I will now field questions.
You there - yes, you - go ahead. Eh? Where did this cake pop up? I believe Wreckporter Carol Ann G. spotted it at her local supermarket. Yes, she is quite the Wreck stalker these days.
Sorry, your voice is a bit husky - what did you say? Oh, WHY did they make an ear of corn cake? Aw, shucks, how should I know? Maybe they just cobbled it together at the last minute.
Yes, Colonel? You had a question? No? Well, stop frittering away my time, then! Sheesh.
Hey, why are you all groaning? Don't try to butter me up, now: I know these puns are corny, but they're not THAT bad.
By my count that's 11. Happy punting (aka pun-hunting)!


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Rune sequel to have evolved combat, tactical options
Human Head expects its upcoming Rune sequel to build on the original game's "twitch" melee combat.
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First art for potential Rune sequel posted online
AGB's posted online potential first art for a promised Rune sequel. It's worth noting this art isn't available on the game's Facebook page. Get them at the link. A Rune sequel is now more likely to happen following rumours of Prey 2 being canned by Bethesda earlier this month.
Human Head considering sequel to Rune
Cult classic hack and slasher Rune may be set to make a comeback.


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It's no secret that It Brit Poppy Delevingne has been on our radar for quite some time now — the model and Fashion Week fixture never ceases to amaze us with her easy, covetable ensembles, and London Fashion Week is the perfect time to see Poppy step out and about amongst her peers and designer pals. From the front rows at Topshop Unique and Temperley to behind the scenes and on the streets of London, we're documenting (and swooning over) Poppy's polished looks this week. Click through to see Poppy's enviable London Fashion Week style, and keep checking back as the week goes on.


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Dodger Stadium has been transformed from a baseball stadium into a soccer pitch ahead of Saturday's Guinness International Champions Cup matches.
Earlier, I spoke with Dodger groundskeeper Eric Hanson on the preparation of getting Dodger Stadium ready for soccer.
My interview with him is below...
(On how the grounds crew began the conversion…)
HANSON: "We started immediately after the Yankees/Dodgers game on Wednesday at 10:45 p.m.. We spent three hours doing what we needed to do to prep the field for the sod that was installed early on Thursday morning. From that point on, we did detail work and looked at the grass closely, and then attended to anything that we think might help. Now the lines have been painted and the goals have come in, so it is completely set up."
(On how the reconfiguration was done…)
HANSON: "It mostly involves how we handle the dirt portions of the field because those areas had to be resodded, so to make that work we had to do some work on the skin areas and remove some of the material so the sod will transition nicely. The field runs over the pitcher's mound and we did have to remove that, so it will have to be rebuilt prior to the Dodgers coming back in town next Friday."
(On the challenges for the reconfiguration…)
HANSON: "The whole objective is that we want it to be as good as surface as we can possibly provide. We obviously have time constraints and we have to get it back in shape for the Dodgers on the following Friday, so we do the best that we can in the amount of time that we have. Our goal is to make that field as well play as well as it can."
(On how long it'll take to return the stadium to baseball shape…)
HANSON: "It won't take much time to get that turf off. The sod company will come in and remove it. Then we have to bring the dirt that we took out and put that in on all the places. Also, we have to rebuild the pitcher's mound. We'll spend till next Thursday working on that and doing our detail work to get it back in shape."
(On what it means for Dodger Stadium to host two soccer matches…)
HANSON: "It's a new challenge for us. This is what we do. This is why the grounds crew is here and it's not uncommon. Football has been played in baseball stadiums for many years and that's a conversion that used to occur all the time. Soccer is no different; it's just a different type of conversion. It's just a new challenge for us and that's how we view it. We're anxious to see how it all works out, and hopefully, we can do it again."


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Popovers on the Square is coming to Epping
By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
May 06. 2013 11:53AM
EPPING - A popular Portsmouth café and bakery will soon be opening a second location in the Brickyard Square shopping center.
Popovers on the Square, located in the heart of downtown Portsmouth, is expected to open an even larger restaurant in July in the Epping shopping center at the junction of Routes 125 and 101.
The new 3,200-square-foot restaurant, to be named Popovers on Brickyard Square, will be about 800 square feet larger than the one in Portsmouth, said Matthew Clark, general manager for Popovers.
Popovers has been hunting for a new location for a second restaurant in the area and inked a deal for Brickyard Square about two weeks ago. The shopping center is being developed by Waterstone Retail of Needham, Mass.
"We've been looking for the right location and we came close to a couple of different spots. We were very selective about where we were going to put our second spot," Clark said. "This was just a good location and a good fit for us. It's close to our home base, but not too close."
Popovers, which is owned by Seacoast restaurateur John Tinios and master baker Steve James, was drawn to Epping because of the region's commercial and retail development in recent years.
The menus of coffees, wines, European-style pastries and desserts, soups, sandwiches and salads will be similar to the ones offered at the Portsmouth restaurant, which opened in 2006.
However, Clark said that while the Portsmouth location focuses more on its breakfast and lunch menus, the new Epping restaurant will still offer breakfast and lunch but place more emphasis on dinner since it'll sit at the end of a retail building near the new O'Neil Cinemas. "It'll go hand in hand with the movie theater," he said.
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Five former governors assembled Friday at the University of Florida to discuss legacies they described as being under attack, including by the current holder of the office.
Five former governors assembled Friday at the University of Florida to discuss legacies they described as being under attack, including by the current holder of the office.
Former Florida Govs. Reubin Askew, Charlie Crist, Bob Graham, Buddy MacKay and Bob Martinez came together for a panel on the state's future as part of a legal education series.
They reflected on state regulations of growth and water use that they helped implement, warning about recent efforts to dismantle those laws.
"We've got a governor now who believes in the hidden hand of the marketplace … Some people think it's a fist," MacKay said. "Other people think the hidden hand is a fist with the middle finger sticking up."
Nearly 500 people attended the event, held at UF's Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.
MacKay is a former Democratic lieutenant governor who held the top job for three weeks when Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles died in December 1998, while the others had about two dozen years leading the state between them.
Crist is the youngest of the bunch at age 56, with the others ranging from 75 to 84 years old. Crist's political future has been the subject of speculation with his recent conversion from Republican to independent and his endorsement of President Barack Obama.
Crist, who served as governor from 2007 to 2011, was late to the event because he was coming from an Obama campaign event the previous night in Miami. He wasted no time condemning oil drilling off the Florida coast, declaring the BP oil spill to be "the greatest wake-up call of all time.
"There are just too many other ways to produce energy — solar, wind, things that the Sunshine State of all places should be leading in," he said.
Askew, a Democrat who served from 1971 to 1979, defended a merit selection and retention system for judges that he established. The state Republican Party is making a "terrible mistake" in its efforts to unseat three Florida Supreme Court justices who are up for retention elections this year, he said.
"I personally believe that it is critical that we insist on keeping the judicial branch out of partisan politics," he said.
Graham, a Democrat who served from 1979 to 1987, and Martinez, a Republican who served from 1987 to 1991, discussed a growth management law they both helped implement but recent legislative changes have gutted. Martinez said it was a mistake doing away with the law, arguing it would have been better to just eliminate redundancies.
Graham warned that the state is being short-sighted in decisions about the environment.
"We're more focused on avoiding having to make any sacrifices today, regardless of what sacrifices we're going to have to impose in the future," he said.
Later, Melissa Sellers, communications director for Gov. Scott, released a statement in reaction to the governors' comments.
"Gov. Scott came into office to turn around Florida's economy and create jobs," said the statement emailed to The Sun. "He inherited an unemployment rate of 11 percent. Now Florida's unemployment rate has seen the largest drop of any state in the country, and the private sector has created more than 150,000 new jobs. Until every Floridian who wants a job can find one, there is still more work to be done, but we are making incredible progress."
The Florida Law Review sponsored Friday's event at the Phillips Center, moderated by former law review editor-in-chief and UF law alumnus Ben Diamond. It was part of the Allen L. Poucher Legal Education Series.
Martinez said the governors at the event had done well facing a similar set of challenges.
"I think Florida has been blessed with good governors," he said.
Contact Nathan Crabbe at 338-3176 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.thecampussun.com for more stories on the University of Florida.


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Fox's Erickson Complains That Media Outlets Aren't Anti-LGBT Enough
September 13, 2013 11:19 am ET by Luke Brinker
Repeating the right-wing trope that the mainstream media "leans to the left," Fox News contributor Erick Erickson criticized media outlets for describing animus towards LGBT people as "bias" and falsely suggested that most Americans oppose LGBT equality.
In a September 13 blog post for his RedState.com website, Erickson misleadingly claimed that a majority of Americans oppose the affirmation of "alternative lifestyles" - and that media outlets should therefore avoid describing people who condemn homosexuality as harboring "bias":
Erin Burnett of CNN and formerly of CNBC is a wonderful person and a great reporter. But I'll never forget being on air the night of June 5, 2012.
John King and Erin Burnett were chatting as Erin promoted what was coming up on her show. A pastor was losing his church because he supported gay marriage. His congregation had left and there was too little money coming in. "It's a pretty powerful story of conviction and also the bias that is still very prevalent in certain places in this country," Burnett gravely stated. "Bias ... in certain places."
At the top of the seven o'clock hour, Burnett ran a David Mattingly story about Grace Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul, Minnesota. The real story happened seven years earlier. The pastor of the African-American church, way back then, supported gay marriage at the 2005 national meeting of the United Church of Christ over the desires of his congregation. Most of the congregation left his church. The week of June 5, 2012, would be perhaps, in David Mattingly's words, "the last service before the church closes its doors for good. What I saw was a far cry from the days when the seats were full."
It is not that Erin Burnett and David Mattingly's report clearly made the pastor who defied his congregation the hero and his congregants who demanded faithful adherence to their scripture the bigots. The media does this all the time. In a nation whose voters routinely tells pollsters they support gay marriage while routinely voting against gay marriage, most of the media is very much in favor of gay marriage. Stories about Christian pastors seem to focus on the bigoted and hateful few contrasted with a few open minded, tolerant Christians whose churches are dwindling as they embrace alternative lifestyles.
But we are a nation where a majority of states, through democratic processes, prohibit gay marriage. And the story was cast not as a preacher disobeying his congregation and dealing with the consequences, but as "bias ... in certain places" causing a church to close down. The presupposition of the story was against the congregation, not against the pastor who directly disobeyed the wishes of his congregation. [emphasis added]
As anyone familiar with the polling on marriage equality could attest, Erickson's depiction of an anti-equality majority is inaccurate. Indeed, Gallup found in July that a majority of Americans now support federal marriage equality, under which the rights of gay and lesbian couples wouldn't be subject to the state referendums. And even in states where voters previously backed anti-equality ballot measures, public opinion has rapidly shifted. In 2004, 62 percent of Ohioans voted to ban same-sex marriage, while 54 percent now tell pollsters they would repeal the ban. Mainers, meanwhile, defeated marriage equality in a 2009 vote, only to reverse course and approve it last November.
Moreover, contrary to Erickson's claim that media outlets ignore anti-LGBT voices, mainstream media have proven all too willing to provide platforms to fringe figures. Take the network Erickson cited as a paragon of pro-LGBT bias; CNN routinely invites hate group leader Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council (FRC) to spread smears and misinformation about LGBT people, and the network has also hosted the FRC's Peter Sprigg to comment on matters including marriage equality and the Boy Scouts' membership policy. Other hate group figures who have appeared on CNN include the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer and Save California's Randy Thomasson, who used his recent appearance on the network to call a transgender male guest a lady.
But for a man like Erickson, who recently solicited donations for a group working internationally to criminalize homosexuality, the media's willingness to mainstream hate groups still isn't enough to match the level of anti-LGBT coverage he'd like to see.
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Philip Morris USA Headquarters
National Register of Historic Places, 2002
Company headquarters commissioned by Richard Samuel Reynolds, Sr., founder of Reynolds Metals Company International. The main office building, set amidst 121 acres of pastoral land in the suburbs of Richmond, VA, was to serve as administrative headquarters for the company. Multiple minor service buildings are also part of the complex.
The result of a collaboration between premier corporate architect Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill), Richmond landscape architect Charles F. Gillette, and the company founder Richard Samuel Reynolds, Sr., the Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters occupies a 121 acre corporate campus in the suburbs west of the Richmond city center. Reynolds, Sr., desired to have a company headquarters that embodied the company's ethos and its products. Consequently, aluminum appears in furniture, window frames, bathroom tiles, and even the drapery and carpets (in the form of aluminum fibers).
The complex of buildings makes use of nearly 1.25 million pounds of aluminum, Reynolds' main product, in the design and construction. The historic property includes the Executive Office Building, located at the highest elevation, a service building, greenhouse, a landscaped park, and a reflecting pool (all listed as contributing structures by the US National Register of Historic Places). There are four other support buildings on the site that do not meet the National Register Criteria but are not detrimental to the character and reading of the property as a whole.
The Executive Office Building has been singled out as "an archetype of suburban corporate headquarters: a medium height office building in a park-like setting." (Sadler, National Register Nomination) In the words of architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson, "[the Reynolds Metals Headquarters] exemplifies the genius and promise of post World War II American modernism…. [U]tilizing modern materials such as glass steel, and especially aluminum, the Reynolds also makes use of time tested forms such as the palazzo type of format, an the courtyard" (Wilson, 1998).
Landscaping and site:
Gillette may have been hired for the project on account of his history with the Reynolds family, for whom he had designed gardens and mausoleums since the 1930s. Like Bunshaft in the New York corporate architecture circles, Gillette was considered to be the preeminent landscape architect in Richmond. As Bunshaft sought to establish a typology of American corporate architecture with his establishment of the International style –infused corporate Versailles, Gillette's gardens and landscape designs sought to develop a regional landscape architecture that communicated the characteristics of the Piedmont and the Tidewater (Longest 1992: 58). At the Reynolds Metals campus, the plantings serve a variety of functions: acting as a parking screen, controlling and framing views to the main EOB, articulating a formal entry, and embellishing the EOB courtyard as well as providing a landscaped park at the EOB's southern face. A 250 foot long reflecting pool flanked by willow oaks not only adds drama to the setting but also supplies the water for the primary grounds' sprinkler system. In this way even the Reynolds campus' seemingly superfluous elements—landscaping and a reflecting pool—serve a functional purpose while also continuing the gridded textures and structural bays of the buildings in parterre patterns that are asymmetrical but balanced, in the same way as the buildings.
The Executive Office Building is a steel framed building that used state of the art glass-and-aluminum curtain walls. The aluminum entrance canopy pushed the limits of the metal's structural capacities. Aluminum threads were also utilized in the fabrics.
Fourteen-foot high solar louvers on the east and west building facades shifted according to the time of day, controlled by an astronomical clock, which was overridden on overcast days by a light sensor that signaled the louvers to stay open to allow maximum natural light. At the time of the building's construction this respresented the largest installation of movable louvers in the world.
The Reynolds Metals Company was at the head of the metals industry not only in the US but also in the world. The company introduced aluminum siding in 1945 and aluminum -backed building papers a few years later. The Reynolds company desired a headquarters that would articulate its ethos of sound business sence and the focus on the packaging and marketing of products. The corporate campus, taken from the university model, indicated an increased concern for employee well being. On the other hand, the move to a more widespread but controlled environment meant greater efficiency and less distraction.
During the 1950s and 60s Bunshaft worked to persuade corporations that contemporary American architecture could serve as a company's signature. As corporations followed factories out of the cities mid-20th century. Bunshaft looked to the precedent set by Albert Kahn, who led the movement towards a horizontally oriented, single story factory, and Eero Saarinen, who pioneered the corporate campus at the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Michigan, 1948-56). In this new context, designs now had to acknowledge and respect a "natural environment that was cherished and often fiercely guarded by local inhabitants, and provide a stimulating setting for a workforce that had grown used to concentrated amenities...of most central cities" (Harris, 452). Bunshaft and SOM established the low-rise, suburban company headquarters in park-like surroundings and crafted in a desirable modern style. Bunshaft manipulated the International Style language he had previously employed in his renowned Lever House (New York, NY (1952)), to fit the pastoral setting of suburban Henrico County. As at Lever House, Bunshaft lifted the bulk of the building off of the ground and places the cube-like building atop slender columns. The ground level loggia provides a transition between the interior and exterior spaces at the periphery of the building as well as in the off-center peristyle courtyard. In the courtyard, Bunshaft makes one of his many references to Reynolds Metals' star product, aluminum, by cladding the loggia piloti in the material. The interiors of the building reinforce the International Style language of the exterior, and modular partitions and openings accommodated changes in size or functions of a space. In the words of historic architect Mary Harding Sadler, "Improbable combinations of aluminum, cherry panels, brick, plastic laminate, and striated black and white book-matched marble create an interior of undeniable elegance and sophistication" (Sadler, National Register Nomination). The majority of the original finishes and furnishings were designed or specified by SOM with original furniture from the hands of Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and Hans Wegner.
This is one of the first great examples of American suburban corporate campus as well as a major point of transition in Gordon Bunshaft's work in the International Style (particularly at his famous and ingenious Lever House skyscraper in Manhattan (1952) from urban to suburban contexts. Bunshaft essentially turned the corporate skyscraper on its side and thereby making circulation horizontal instead of vertical. Bunshaft also followed this approach in the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters (1957)
The Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters is important not only for its usage of cutting-edge building materials in a manner that adheres to the tenets of the International Style or simply because Gordon Bunshaft designed the Executive Office Building. The complex as a whole demonstrates a definitive moment in the evolution of the corporate campus strategy still in use today, and the buildings and landscaping successfully work together to deliver a deft design and a masterpiece of modernism.
Harris, Neil. "Architecture and the Business Corporation." In The American Corporation Today. Carl Kaysen, ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. pp.436-86.
Sadler, Mary Harding and Peter McDearmon. "National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters." Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. Richmond, VA, 1999.
Terry Pristin. "Philip Morris USA Starts Its Move to a Historic Building." New York Times. New York, NY. 26 Nov. 2003.
Wilson, Richard Guy. 1998. Letter to the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects. 25 July.


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Easter trophy stays home in Atwater
Many of the Atwater players were toddlers when the Falcons last won their own Easter tournament.
The Falcons ended a 14-year drought with an emphatic 7-1 win over Los Banos in the championship game of 55th annual Fran Oneto/Atwater-Winton Lions Easter Tournament.
"This means a lot," said Atwater senior Ryan Sanchez, who pitched the first five innings for the win and was named the Most Outstanding Pitcher of the Tournament. "Hopefully this can boost our confidence for league because we know we can do it as a team."
Atwater (15-5) took control of the game early, jumping on Los Banos freshman starter Steven Demanski for four runs in the bottom of the first inning.
Derek Molina, who was named MVP of the tournament, led off the inning with a triple to right field and scored on a wild pitch. A walk to Omar Sanchez, a double by Victor Tiscareno and a walk to Ryan Sanchez loaded the bases for the Falcons.
Wyatt Pimentel was then hit by a pitch to force in the second run. Atwater tacked on two more runs with RBI singles by JoJo Ochoa and Quinn Heckman.
"You can't place blame on anybody," said Los Banos coach Pat Fuentes, whose team dropped to 11-8. "He's a freshman and we kind of threw him under the lights. He's been with us all year but that's kind of a tough spot."
Ryan Sanchez was dealing early for the Falcons, retiring the first nine batters.
A couple errors and a hit batter gave the Tigers life in the top of the fourth inning. However, Corbin Lilledall was picked off third base by Ryan Sanchez for the first out. The base-running mistake stung even more when Michael Severino hit an RBI single later in the inning.
"I've got to take part of blame because I had other things on my mind and I'm not telling him to watch his lead," Fuentes said. "At the same time we're 90 feet away. It's not like we're going to steal home. I'd rather it happen here than in league and it cost a playoff spot."
An asthma attack took Sanchez out of the game after five innings. The Atwater ace said the attack came on after he got back to the dugout after pitching the fourth.
"Even though I couldn't breath I still wanted to go out and finish the fifth inning," Sanchez said. "It was like breathing through a straw."
Derek Molina came on to pitch two scoreless innings to close out the win. Atwater only gave up three runs in its four tournament games.
The Falcons offense put the game away with an RBI double by Omar Sanchez and run-scoring singles by Ryan Sanchez and Ochoa in the fourth inning.
After ending its tournament drought the Falcons can now focus on ending a 13-year playoff drought. Atwater has a one game lead over Pitman for the third and final Central California Conference playoff spot. The Falcons can clinch its first playoff berth since 2001 with a win at home against Pitman on Wednesday.
"Hopefully this is the start of something for next week," said Atwater coach Jarrod Pimentel. "It will be really nice if we can go into our game against Pitman on Wednesday with our bats hot."


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Co-insurance: Your share of the medical bill after you have paid your annual deductible. Usually shown in a percentage, as in 20 percent paid by you and 80 percent paid by the insurance company.
Co-op: A new kind of nonprofit insurance company run by members for members. Think credit union. Maine has one co-op: Maine Community Health Options in Lewiston.
Co-pay: That money you plunk down at the receptionist's window when seeing the doctor.
Deductible: How much you'll pay each year before the insurance company starts kicking in its share.
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The lowest insurance levels, bronze and silver, cost less each month, but you'll get fewer benefits and will pay more when you go to the doctor. The highest levels, gold and platinum, cost more each month, but they offer better benefits, and you won't have to pay a lot when you see the doctor. (FYI: No one is offering a platinum plan in Maine yet.)
Narrow network: Want to see Dr. Smith? Go for it, because your insurance company likes her. Dr. Jones? Nope, sorry (unless you want to pay the bill all by yourself). When an insurance company strictly limits the doctors and hospitals a patient can see in an effort to control costs, it has a narrow network.
Open enrollment: You can buy individual health insurance only during this time unless you lose your job, get married, have a baby or something else big happens in your life. Right now, open enrollment will last from October 2013 to March 2014. In future years it will go from October to January. (FYI: This is the rule for insurance bought on or off the exchange/marketplace.)
Out-of-pocket maximum: The most you'll have to pay for your health care in a year. Have a $6,350 out-of-pocket maximum with your insurance company? Everything after that is free until the new year rolls around again.
Plan factor: The things about you that can raise the price of your insurance. Typically your age, where you live and whether you smoke.
Premium: How much you pay each month for insurance. Think of it as the price tag.
Preventative care: Shots, colonoscopy, depression screening, counseling for alcohol abuse, diet counseling and a bunch of other services designed to keep you healthy or catch an illness before it gets to the crisis point. Preventative care is free, with no co-pays or co-insurance, even if you haven't met your annual deductible.
Private insurance: If it's not government insurance, it's private. This includes insurance paid by you or your employer. All plans on the exchange/marketplace are private plans, even if you get a subsidy for it.
SHOP: Small Business Health Options Program. It's where small groups can buy health insurance and get a tax break for it over the next two years. (FYI: Only the employer gets this refundable credit, not employees.) In Maine, SHOP is the same as the exchange/marketplace.
Small group: Fifty or fewer people. Usually means a small business. The definition will change to 100 or fewer people in 2016.
Subsidy: Money the federal government will give to people who need to buy their own insurance (because an affordable plan isn't offered through their job) and who earn between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level. You can get the subsidy in a tax credit or have it paid directly to the insurance company to lower your monthly bill. If you earn less than 250 percent of the poverty level, you can also get a subsidy to discount your out-of-pocket expenses. How big of a subsidy? Depends on your salary. It's a sliding scale.


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DEAR READERS: Here are a couple of responses that came in to a recent Sound Off about handicapped parking spots:
DEAR READERS: Here are a couple of responses that came in to a recent Sound Off about handicapped parking spots:
�Your column printed a letter complaining about able-bodied people parking in handicapped parking spaces while leaving the handicapped person in the parked car.
�My 90-year-old mother-in-law can walk only a few feet, but she still loves to get out. She loves to sit in the car and watch people while they go into a store. If I don�t park up front in the parking lot, she cannot see people coming in and out of the store. This is one of the few activities she can enjoy. � A CARING DAUGHTER-IN-LAW IN MONTANA�
�I do not want to leave my mom out in the parking lot by herself. I feel it is safer to have her closer to the store, where there are more people around. � Margaret in California�
Thanks for your letters and showing us a different point of view on the subject. � HELOISE
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DEAR HELOISE: Do you have any hints on how to care for your flag and extend its life? � Jim D. in San Antonio
I do, and I am happy to share this information from a major flag manufacturer! Make sure your flag is made for outdoor use before displaying it outside. Try to limit the flag�s exposure to rain, snow and high winds. The elements can shorten the flag�s life.
Clean your flag regularly. Hand-wash with warm water and a mild soap. Rinse completely and lay it out to dry. Make sure it is completely dry before storing.
Be careful where you hang your flag. You do not want your flag blowing into anything that will harm it.
Inspect your flag often. Check for damage and normal wear and tear. Remember that if a flag is too worn or damaged, it should no longer be flown, and should be retired properly. Check with veteran organizations or the American Legion to find out more. � HELOISE
DEAR HELOISE: My husband and I often rent movies on our television through the cable company. Whenever we rent a movie, I write the title on the calendar. When we get our monthly bill, I go over it and make sure we are charged for only what we rented. � CAROLINE IN GEORGIA
DEAR HELOISE: My hint is so obvious, I wonder why I didn�t see it sooner. All those hangers for pants have a clip on either end. Just cut off the clip � now you have two chip clips. You can have a never-ending supply. � LUCY M. IN SAN ANTONIO
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