That is, presuming the required customer recruitment was restored to support those revenues — unfortunately, a permanent step -
change in cost appeared to be necessary to produce that.
Not exact matches
The
changes appear in part to be an effort to offset the anticipated upswing
in labor
costs, according to a manager who was implementing the
changes at his store.
but this is all just one of the MANY problems the club
appears to be suffering from and remedying this
in itself won't
change the overall performance but would go some way towards perhaps starting the rehabilitation process, however this sort of thing
costs money and we all know the manager and the clubs policy on the spending of money don't we??
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is
in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis...
in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but
in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest
in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie
in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base...
in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has
cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player
in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)...
in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did
in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this
in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players
in the final third... he was never a good defensive player
in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely
in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and
change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)...
in their places we need to bring
in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model
in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has
changed quite dramatically
in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking
in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to
appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
Instead,
costs of mating
in females
appear to determine how patterns of parental care evolve
in response to
changes in mating behavior.
A
change in accounting procedures
in 2014 means that legal
costs now
appear far lower than they once were.
Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform
in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented
change appears to be
in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial
costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.
The rise
in medical
costs appears to be a function of a structural
change in deductibles and out - of - pocket expenses.
- first 30 mins or so can be confusing if you haven't played the demo - Yew Geneolgia is the leader of the Three Cavaliers, who guide the Crystalguard into battle - mission of the Crystalguard is to Protect pope Agnes Oblige from harm at all
costs - Agnes is captured by this game's new villain, Kaiser Oblivion - together with Cryst - Fairy Anne, they hatch a plan that becomes more apparent as you move along - one of Yew's longterm partners, Janne, has betrayed everyone and actually works for this newly formed Empire - he killed most of the remaining Crystalguard - Yew finds the final member Nikolai of the Cavaliers before his death and requests of him to simply walk away - Yew is determined to bring Agnes back from the airship she is being held captive on - Yew is young and gets easily scared - Edea Lee from the previous game returns - Magnolia Arch, a Ba'al Buster warrior who claims to come from the moon also
appears - between lines of English dialogue, she speaks lines of French as well - there is a long chat between all three characters about how adventuring and camping can be a ton of fun - Party Chat makes its return, and seems a bit more humorous this time - Tiz Arrior will also join your team - some things
in Luxendarc have
changed since the last game - the world is more united against this common threat - if you beat all enemies
in a single turn, it enables the «Bring It On!»
Both Deathscythe Hell and Heavyarms Kai are 2000
cost units that
appear to have very similar movesets to their Endless Waltz versions with some apparent
changes, such as a drop
in speed and the inclusion of the Buster Shield attack for Deathscythe Hell and the inclusion of the famous twirling knife melee attack for Heavyarms Kai.
It also
appears the team
cost has been increased from 1000 to 1500 to accommodate the
change in team size.
[ANDY REVKIN says: I was at the first Conference on the
Changing Atmosphere
in Toronto
in 1988, but mainly recall the worried look on the representative from the Maldives, and the statement by Michael McElroy of Harvard, quoted
in my 1988 Discover Magazine article on the greenhouse effect: «If we choose to take on this challenge, it
appears that we can slow the rate of
change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the
cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.
It might be interesting to some readers of this site to know that Crichton's comparison of global climate
change theory to eugenics
in Appendix I of his novel was adapted without attribution from an essay by Richard Lindzen, «Science and Politics: Global Warming and Eugenics,» which
appeared in R.W. Hahn, Ed., Risks,
Costs, and Lives Saved, (American Enterprise Institute, 1996).
A new study
appearing in Nature Climate
Change (of which I am a coauthor) explores how institutional considerations of risk affect the
cost of large - scale investments
in the power sector that increase or reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The appropriate time period to be used for evaluation of the risks underlying climate
change and for the development of policy responses and assessment of
costs and benefits of each option
appears to be more
in terms of a hundred years or thereabouts.
The latest issue of Passive House Plus includes several examples which
appear to contradict this claim — including a block - built passive house
in Co Kildare estimated by builder Pat Doran Construction, a CIF member, to have
cost $ 20,000 less to build than the department's own suggested specification from its regulatory impact analysis on the 2011
changes to Part L of building regulations.
By contrast, «Fatboy» ransomware, which
appeared earlier this year, is smart enough to
change the amount of money it charges so that recipients
in areas with a higher
cost of living will automatically be charged more to have their data decrypted.
While these
changes may not
appear to be significant when looking at the actual numbers, we see that 81,000 Nebraska kids were living
in poverty
in 2013, 100,000 children were living
in families where their parents lacked secure employment, 119,000 were living
in a home with a high
cost burden, and 4,000 Nebraska teens were not
in school and not working.
It went something like this: hotel check -
in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming
costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably
in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion,
change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague
in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get
in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming
costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine
in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office
in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they
appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up
in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the
in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails
in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (
in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.