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Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on January 6th, 2011 at 11:06 am
many films that will
screen during the
Bicycle Film Festival.
Get ready to be inspired and entertained by a wide variety of bicycle-themed films. The Bicycle Film Festival and Filmed By Bike are both gearing up for 2011.
The Bicycle Film Festival has just announced dates and screenings for their 2011 Portland stop. This two-day festival, founded by New York City resident Brendt Barbur, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a mind-boggling lineup of the best bike films gleaned from around the globe. I'm looking forward to this documentary about Italian frame builder Giovanni Pelizzoli, also known as "Ciocc" (a legendary brand that my stepdad happens to be a huge fan of).
Watch the trailer below...
There are six different programs and the action starts on February 26th. All screenings happen at the Clinton Street Theater in Southeast Portland. Check trailers and film details at BicycleFilmFestival.com.
On April 15-17th, Portland's homegrown bike film fest, Filmed by Bike will offer its legendary concoction of fun and film for the ninth year in a row. Event organizer and founder Ayleen Crotty says submissions are still coming in ahead of the January 20th deadline (you've still got time!). This year, Ayleen has been wowed by some great films already under consideration that have come in from as far away as Australia, Japan, and Spain. Even with a bit of global flair, Filmed by Bike is sure to feature many films from Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about this year's fest — and meet the esteemed jury who will select the films — at FilmedByBike.org.Email This Post Possibly related posts
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We finished our first projects and listened to the majority of them in class today. While most of the students created soundscapes involving walking, driving, or cooking, mine was somewhat of a black sheep, because whereas they inserted dialogue at an absolute minimum, mine was created around it. I recorded the busy environment of a house show in Olympia, weaving in and out of various conversations, kitchen happenings, and band setups. Th project then transitions into music played by one of the artists who performed that evening, Eleanor Murray. Finally, I recorded some final sound effects off location to add extra dimensions throughout. I really enjoyed doing this project. The finished version is on the Media page.
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Looks like Scar Jo and her supple cakes have found a new boo:
Scarlett Johansson was spotted making out with 50/50 star Joseph Gordon-Levitt in NYC last month. “They were kissing,” an eyewitness tells the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. “They were very lovey.” It wasn’t the first time Johansson, 26, and Gordon-Levitt, 30, hit the town together. The duo dined at Hundred Acres in NYC’s SoHo area in late July.
Although a source tells Us that Ryan Reynolds’ ex and Gordon-Levitt have been “discussing a project for a while [but] have never kissed,” another insider explains, “They first met about a film they wanted to do together, but it’s gone beyond that now.”
Well he’s one lucky son-of-a-gun if the rumors are true…
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Filed underPolitical Blog Progressive
Last night, Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan addressed the Republican National Convention. After a shaky start, Ryan became comfortable with the TelePrompter and delivered a talking points filled speech that was well received in the Convention Hall and drew positive reviews.
But if Paul Ryan tried to submit his speech as a school paper he would draw a F for failing to do even the most basic checking of his facts.
If Paul Ryan turned that speech in to an editor it would be either covered in corrective red ink or unrecognizable if the editor chose to use track changes and emailed it back. Or they would simply reply: start over.
If a CEO received a paper from his staff full of such glairing inaccuracies Paul Ryan would be looking for a new job this morning.
While Paul Ryan is entitled to his own opinions, he is not entitled to his own facts.
Maybe if he spent less time doing P90X and more time doing the most basic research his speech would not have been filled with little white lies.
He lied to America about Medicare. He lied to America about the debt commission. He really lied to America about the stimulus and America’s debt rating.
He went out of his way to lie and blame President Obama for a plant closing that happened when George W. Bush was President. That is a bold lie to tell America when your boss wrote an op-ed that demanded that we “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”.
Across the Midwest auto plants are adding jobs, like in Lordstown, Ohio where they make the Chevy Cruise and keep adding shifts. If W. Mitt Romney had his way those jobs would not be in Lordstown or anywhere else in the US.
When it comes to the stimulus, Ryan likes to call it “a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst.” He lied to a reporter’s face about requesting stimulus money and he lied to America about it last night.
Ryan also lied when he said the “American people were cut off” from the benefits. The payroll tax reduction that put dollars in people’s pockets hardly left them cut off from the stimulus. The stimulus built and repaired roads and bridges they use every day don’t leave them cut off.
Just another Paul Ryan little white lie to America.
The fact is, that Paul Ryan requested tens of millions in stimulus dollars, voted for an alternate stimulus in 2009 and spoke on the House floor of the benefits of stimulus and borrowing money to boost the economy, when George W. Bush was President.
Paul Ryan’s white lie to America on the Debt Commission is that he voted against it. He failed to mention that when he criticized Obama for not acting urgently on the recommendations that Ryan, himself, opposes.
That is a cleaver little lie to America for a deceitful person.
Paul Ryan blamed Obama for the decline in America’s credit rating. That is a big lie coming from the leader of the Tea Party House that scuttled a budget deal and threatened to throw America into default as a temper tantrum.
But Paul Ryan does not want America to know about his tantrums or his record.
The kid has a lot to learn.
But the biggest of Paul Ryan’s little white lies to America was saved for Medicare. Ryan criticized Obama for reductions in Medicare and lied when he said benefits were cut. The fact is, and Paul Ryan knows it, that the cuts are in fees for services and those reductions are used to create efficiencies in the way we deliver health care. That helps the economy and improves the long-term outlook for Medicare.
Raul Ryan, if he were an honest man, would tell you that in his budget roadmap he kept the Obama Medicare payment reductions but used the savings to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, not to reduce our national health care costs.
He also failed to tout his couponing scheme that ends Medicare and raises the cost of health care for seniors while lining the pockets of the health insurance industry.
But Paul Ryan knows that the truth is politically toxic.
So instead he tells lie after lie to America about Medicare, the debt, the auto recovery, the economy and the stimulus. But mostly he lies about his record.
There is a reason that the Obama campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wanted to make the Ryan Budget the focus of this election.
First, it is the most detailed policy outline of the Republican Party and every Republican has voted for a version of it or promised to support it.
Second, it is a political loser. It is the skunk at the garden party. And that is why Republican House and Senate candidates are not happy with a Romney-Ryan ticket (and Democratic candidates were, to say the least, overjoyed). It is why those Republican candidates have run as fast as they can away from their record of supporting Paul Ryan and his radical plan to end Medicare.
Even W. Mitt Romney immediately tried to distance himself from his running mate. He clearly believed that he could pick Paul Ryan to be a heartbeat away from the presidency but expect everyone to ignore the Ryan record.
A monumentally dumb belief.
About Bill Buck
Bill Buck is a Democratic strategist, President of the Buck Communications Group, a media relations and new media strategies consulting business based in Washington, DC, and Managing Director of the online ad firm Influence DSP. He has over twenty years of international and national communications experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CBS Local.
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The Grand Champion Steer was exhibited by Bailey Dent of Rolla. The 1,325-pound Crossbred steer sold for $20,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, according to a news release issued by the Missouri State Fair. The steer was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Youth in Agriculture and hometown supporters participated in all of the Sale of Champions purchases.
The 274-pound Crossbred Grand Champion Barrow, exhibited by Emily Tallman of Archie, was purchased for $19,000 by Monsanto and Farmland Foods. The barrow was donated to the Missouri 4-H Foundation.
Troy Sloan of Cameron exhibited the 137-pound Hampshire Grand Champion Market Lamb and sold it for $14,000 to Edward Jones & Associates, the Missouri State Fair Concessionaires and Commercial Exhibitors.
The Grand Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Ty Coats of Braymer. The New Zealand rabbits were purchased by the Missouri State Rabbit Producers Association and Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL, for $1,900. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Codi Coats of Braymer sold the Grand Champion Pen of Chickens. Her Cornish Cross broilers were sold to the MU Independent Aggies for $1,900. The chickens were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
The Grand Champion Meat Goat was exhibited by Kayla Morrow of Bronaugh. The Boer meat goat sold for $5,000 to the Missouri Meat Goat Producers Association with the animal being donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Evan Kempker of Jefferson City exhibited the Reserve Grand Champion Steer. The 1,295-pound steer was purchased for $17,250 by MFA Incorporated.
Marlena Long from Paris showed the Reserve Grand Champion Barrow. The 263-pound Crossbred barrow was purchased for $15,500 by Wheeler Auctions and Real Estate and MU Independent Aggies.
Brady Minear from Livonia showed the Reserve Champion Market Lamb. The Hampshire lamb weighed 136 pounds and was purchased for $11,500 by ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec. The lamb was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The Reserve Champion Pen of Meat Rabbits was exhibited by Codi Coats of Braymer. Her New Zealand rabbits sold for $1,200 to American Family Insurance and Heimer & Associates. The rabbits were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
Ty Coats of Braymer showed the Reserve Champion Pen of Chickens. The Cornish cross broilers weighed an average of 6.6 pounds and sold for $1,200 to Lewis Hybrids of Ursa, IL. The birds were donated to the Missouri Food Bank Association.
ADM Alliance Nutrition/MoorMan’s ShowTec, RIBUS, Inc. of St. Louis purchased the Reserve Grand Champion Meat Goat for $2,400. The 94-pound Boer meat goat was exhibited by Spencer Scotten of Nevada, and was donated to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The last lot of the sale was the Limited Edition State Fair Commemorative Belt Buckle purchased by Dr. Curtis Long, Briarwood Angus Farm of Butler, for a record $3,200.
Wayne Yokley, Chairman of the Missouri State Fair Youth in Agriculture Committee, and Superintendent of the Sale of Champions, said the Sale’s success is possible because of support from Youth in Agriculture sponsors. Proceeds from the sale go to the exhibitors and to Youth in Agriculture scholarships. Since 1992, the Youth in Agriculture Committee has awarded scholarships totaling close to $300,000.
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Baptism, baseball...they both involve dunking, right?
Ah, Niko. That boy is creeping up on death like a herd of geriatric turtles. Why, it seems like only yesterday you were playing with Thomas the Tank Engine, huh, Niko? Maybe because it WAS only yesterday, but still.
Whoops, Karen T., Karen G., & Tammy C., apparently geriatric turtles come in flocks.
- Related Wreckage: Mixed Signals
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Shame Itself #1A comic review article by: Jamil Scalese
I consider one of the most key traits of a likeable person to be their ability to be self-deprecating. Actually, I think this even more important for an aspiring comedian. People are more likely to laugh with you when they realize you aren't a pompous jerk. I learned that the hard way.
From one type of comic to another, hilarious and humility mixed to success in Marvel's satiric one-shot Shame Itself, a collection of rising talents and their various lampoons of the major company. The most recognizable of the creators is probably Wyatt Cenac, writer and correspondent on the almost always genius The Daily Show, but the roster is stocked full of long time comedy writers from around the entertainment industry. I had no idea what to expect from this type of book. As a regular buyer of Deadpool, I have been a little worried on what Marvel considers funny, and overall, in this age of serious sequential storytelling humor in comics have dwindled off to the occasional one-liner or comically awkward scenario. I will honestly say I was surprised that Shame Itself had me chuckling to the point that I started to look like a bit of a loon at the office.
The issue features about different 11 stories, ranging from a straightforward narrative about Reed Richard and Ben Grimm's college reunion to a series of one-pagers questioning the nature of the Marvel Universe. I'm normally all for spoiling the fun for you with my reviews, but I will stay away from detailing too many of the short stories because the absurdity, and appropriateness, of the pieces are bound to make you smile, if not guffaw. The absolute gem of the comic is a flowchart on how to create a major crossover event by Elliot Kalan (also a writer on The Daily Show) and Jacob Chabot (X-Babies). It might be one of the savviest things I've read from the publisher, and it does not hold back in the slightest. As Kalan jokes in his bio on the last page, the two-page spread might seal his fate in working in comics again, but man, what a way to go out.
The read had a few notable misses, like a prose story about the X-Men by Michael Kupperman, and a bit of a downer piece in a knock-off of a woman's fashion magazine. However, with any anthology there will always be stars that shine harder than others, and nothing was remarkably bad.
I'm not so much reviewing this as I am praising it, huh? Well, so be it! I loved this and it was well worth my $3.99. I want this type of thing to be an regular release for Marvel. You hear me Quesada? Huh? Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought.
And get Elliot Kalan on a Deadpool comic!
Jamil Scalese is just like you -- an avid comics fan and lover of sequential art. Residing in Pittsburgh, PA, he is an unapologetic Deadpool fan, lover of the Food Network and proud member of Steelers Nation.
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I have decided to go a different direction with the tangerine fabric. With the weather pretty much warmer these days, attempting a jacket seems like a waste of time. I just don’t wear jackets that much during the late spring and into summer.
So the fabric is going to become a dress. This is fabric acquired earlier this year from Gorgeous Fabrics.
I am going to take the design of using contrasting neck band and welt pockets shown on the black and white dress, and use this on the pink style. I am not a fan of v-necks on me so not using that look. Here is the contrasting fabric:
I fell in love with this color combo because of a pair of shoes I found on the web; and because that color is found in the dress I just completed.
I still need to make swayback adjustment and FSA. With my ongoing neck/shoulder pain, I have to do this in spells. It is very frustrating. More updates later.
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It occurred to me recently that my experience as a Rails developer may be somewhat unique.
I often get brought in to help preexisting Ruby/Rails projects evolve and mature in a sustainable way. As a result, the vast majority of Ruby projects I’ve worked on have been well-established by the time I arrived. In fact, offhand I can only think of one commercial greenfield Ruby project I’ve participated in. All the rest have been “legacy” from my perspective, in the sense that there was a sizable codebase in production before I showed up. (I’m not counting personal and internal projects.)
I’ve realized that in this my experience may be somewhat unusual among Ruby and Rails developers. With its fast churn and startup-heavy community, a lot of Rubyists are working on projects that they started recently. My work is more in the codebases where the original programmers have moved on.
Rails’ dirty secret
In the days before I got paid to write Ruby, I worked on some legacy codebases that had histories spanning multiple decades and 100s of KLOCs. That’s a lot of opportunity for bad code to accumulate; and in some cases, the accumulations were impressive.
But here’s the dirty little secret of Rails development: the messiest, nastiest big-ball-of-mud code I have seen in my entire career has been in Ruby on Rails projects. I’ve seen Rails projects that accumulated enough technical debt and waste in two years to make 10 year-old C/C++ programs look clean and elegant by comparison. And it wasn’t just one project. I’ve seen it over and over.
In a way I think this is a testament to the power of the platform. If you’re getting a 500 error in a Rails app, you can keep adding kludge after kludge and hitting “reload” until it works. No need to ever write a test or refactor. In languages and frameworks with a slower turnaround time, this kind of tweak-it-till-it-works workflow is simply impractical. Ruby on Rails has an impressively low barrier to fiddling.
Unfortunately, as a result a lot of projects I come to on have hit what I think of as the productivity crash. At some point the cumulative effect of all those little shortcuts catches up with the development team, and changes that would once have taken a day start taking two weeks as all the dependencies and unintended consequences are sorted out.
As a somewhat ranty aside: this is also the point where, often, original members of the team start moving on to bigger and better things. Meanwhile the crew that inherited the codebase is left to field questions from management about why they can’t seem to push out changes nearly as fast as the old team. The new team is confronted with the problem of getting the codebase under better test coverage and a little more modularized before they can ramp velocity back up; thus perpetuating the notion among the business types that testing and refactoring just slows things down. And/or that the original team were some kind of wizards.
Okay, rant over.
But Rails is different!
Rails developers are sometimes accused of being arrogant and judgmental. I’m not sure how true this is; I don’t see it all that much, but maybe I’m too close to the community and/or arrogant and judgemental myself to be a fair observer.
What I do see is a kind of “Rails exceptionalism”. Remember back in the first dot-com boom, when some economists were saying that no, this time it was different, the Internet had changed the game this time the markets would just keep going up and up? The phenomenon I see is similar in spirit. it’s a belief, perhaps not fully conscious, that Ruby on Rails development is somehow different, and not subject to the forces affecting other software projects.
Here are a few examples, just to give you an idea of what I’m talking about:
- “Design Patterns are a Java thing. In Ruby you just write code.”
- “The warnings Ruby produces are dumb; just disable them.”
- “Sure they aren’t technically Unit Tests, but isolating objects turned out to be kind of hard and besides nobody else is doing it.”
- “Monkeypatching is frowned on in other languages, but in Ruby it’s fine. The downsides almost never materialize.”
- “Stuff like the Law of Demeter isn’t really as important in Ruby code”
- “Dividing methods into private and public is for control freaks, you don’t need it in Ruby”
- “That’s only a code smell when it’s in Java code”
- “That’s only a problem in large projects” (implying that this project will never become large).
I also see a fair amount of project or subsystem-level exceptionalism: “I know they say classes shouldn’t be this big, but for this class it just makes sense for all of that stuff to be in one place”.
Welcome to Lilliput
The truth is, Ruby on Rails projects are exceptional in a way: they are really small. In James Gray’s terrific keynote at Lone Star Ruby Conf this past week, he mentioned “huge projects” of 40+ KLOC. That gave me a smile, because the first two Rails projects I was ever paid to work on were 50KLOC and 70KLOC, respectively. And while that may seem like a lot of code, that’s small by industry standards.
There are a few reasons for this. Ruby is a more expressive language than, say, Java, so to some degree Rails projects will always be smaller than equivalent projects in higher-ceremony languages.
It’s also possible that Rails programmers have embraced the wisdom of breaking systems many, small, intercommunicating apps. I’d like to believe this, but experience suggests this strategy has seen only spotty uptake.
No, I think the biggest reason for the diminutive nature of Rails apps is also the most obvious: they are all pretty young. It’s a young framework, and there’s a lot of churn in this community. A Rails app that lasts three years is ancient.
I think it’s safe to say that this situation won’t last. We’re going to see larger and larger codebases. And here’s a not-very-daring prediction: a lot of projects are going to hit the very same architectural roadblocks that Lisp, Smalltalk, Pascal, C++, and Java projects hit before them.
You are not a special snowflake
It’s funny reading programming literature from the 80s. Dynamic, object-oriented systems navigating the transition from “small” to “medium-sized”. Sound familiar?
Every revolutionary believes his revolution is special, and won’t devolve into the partisan bickering and venal bureaucracy that the last revolution led to. And it’s easy to believe at first. Everyone’s excited and eager to help; the problems are relatively small; and the marketing drones haven’t latched onto the movement yet.
The truth is, the problem you are solving probably isn’t as special as you think it is. And those byzantine patterns you thought were a relic of a bygone age were invented by people using languages surprisingly similar to Ruby.
Relax. I’m not here to tell you that the last few years were all just a lovely dream, and you’re really still strapped to a chair in the Ministry of UML.
Ruby is still a wonderful language, and the terrific thing about it is that it adapts to large-system design patterns remarkably easily, and with very little ceremony. Dependency Injection? It’s a one-liner. Object delegation and composition? Piece of cake. Contrary to misconceptions, Ruby doesn’t obviate solid design patterns and SOLID principles; what it does is make them very easy to express. In fact, the ease of expressing robust architectural styles was what attracted some of us early-adopters to the language in the first place.
Just please, do me a favor: before you tell me that Ruby and Rails doesn’t need any of this discipline, have a chat with the guy or gal who is still maintaining the first Rails app you worked on.
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posted: April 19, 2010
Inspired by David Gothard's post, "Most Unusual Working Conditions" I would like to share my own unusual work situation. On April 29, 1992 a jury acquitted four Los Angeles Police Department officers accused in the videotaped beating of African-American motorist Rodney King. The outrage that followed is now called the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. I was born in Pasadena, California and my youth was spent in and around the suburbs of Los Angeles. Los Angeles was my stomping grounds and I loved the city. At the time of the Rodney King trials I had been working weekly for the Los Angeles Times and that trial was definitely heating things up. The weekend after the acquittal the city was ready to blow and so many of us were outraged with the acquittal. I took off that weekend to San Francisco right when it blew. On Monday morning I checked my answering machine and I had gotten a call from Nancy Duckworth explaining that the Los Angeles Times Magazine was hiring 9 LA artists to depict their personal feelings and art in response to the verdict and the riots and that the artist, could do anything, no sketches just make sure that the art gets in by Thursday. I called Nancy, accepted the assignment and didn't tell her that I was in San Francisco. Next step, find all of the art supplies needed to create a mobile printmaking studio. I bought some plexiglass, a roller , speedball inks, paint thinner, pencils and I was able to find my favorite hand made Japanese paper in San Francisco. I worked that night on a card table under a single light bulb in my sister in laws garage with a bunch of makeshift supplies and I created this piece. Sent it out Fed-Ex the next day and the whole process was a complete artist rush to create. The other 8 artists commissioned were: Marty Gunsaullus, Todd Gray, Christian Clayton, Sherry Etheridge, Joel Nakamura, Greg Clarke, Scott Morgan and Greg Spalenka. Art Direction was Nancy Duckworth and Steven E. Banks.
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The Real Bill IV
Bill Long 11/07/04
Getting to the "Heart" of the Matter
If life were all mind and if all human passion could profitably be directed to learning and written/oral expression, we could all become disciples of Friedrich Nietzsche and live out of our backpacks in an Italian rooming house. But, thankfully, we are creatures of the heart. In my judgment, the mind works best when the heart is attuned to the rhythms of the world. It is in the realm of the heart that I am both charming but wounded, capable but afraid, strong yet vulnerable. This mini-essay deals with the shadow side of the gifts described in the previous three essays, a shadow side with which I am well-acquainted.
My Charming Self
There is a part of me, an important part of me, which is outgoing, considerate, compassionate, interested in others' experiences, non-judgmental and engaged with life. I can hold an audience spellbound when I talk about subjects from the Book of Job to the death penalty. I use humor, usually self-deprecating humor, effectively to charm an audience. My ability to listen to a person, a woman especially, to understand her world and join her in her thought process about that world is genuine. I believe I am a very sensual man and a more than adequate lover.
I think, however, that the major shortcoming I now face is that I tend to be like a gardener who digs up plants each day to check the roots to see if they are still growing and, by doing so, runs the risk of damaging or destroying the plants. That is, I have a tendency to live with great energy and focus, seemingly without regard to plaudits or acclaim by others, but then, almost every day, I think about how unfair it is that I have not received the kind of affirmation from others that I feel I deserve. Because I have not stayed at the same job for more than five years, I have not deeply rooted myself in any institution or with any group of people who could possibly have helped me establish myself in the recognized "grooves" of accomplishment which our society treasures. Fearing that the "grooves" were really "ruts," I have kept my distance from institutions even as I worked for them, believing that they want to suck energy and skill and repay you for neither.
The result of this kind of thinking and experience is that while friends of mine now have endowed chairs or are in "Best Lawyers of America," I teach in an adjunct capacity and with no "portfolio" to speak of. Recognition that I feel should have come has not arrived. I cannot let that thought go, and it sometimes has a most debilitating effect on me. It triggers a thought that the reason I haven't been so lionized is because of other people's limitations, their incapacities, their inability to recognize real quality. I think like this, and then the thought washes over me. "Of course they cannot grasp me because I am just too big too be grasped by these little people."
When I engage in this kind of thinking, I then tend not simply to isolate myself but to become incapable and indesirous [I just made up that word, and you all immediately know what it means] of intimacy. I tend not to want to "give myself" to people, believing that it will simply be a waste of time and effort. I become cynical, overbearing, self-absorbed and unhelpful. Because these folk have not accorded me the proper degree of regard, I need not pay attention to what they are doing. I train my considerable critical faculties on exposing their narrowness, incapacities, methodological weaknesses, faulty memories. It is not a good way to proceed. It is, however, how I can easily live.
Drawing Me Away from the Pit
Though I no longer have panic thoughts, I entertain these kind of thoughts with regularity. There are only two instances where the thoughts disappear: (1) when I am speaking to groups of people about Job/law/Shakespeare or a number of things I am engaged in or, as has frequently happened (2) when I unexpectedly connect with a person whose personal story is so compelling that it removes every trace of self-satisfaction/arrogance that I might feel. Let me give one example of the latter.
About two weeks ago I had a very fruitful time of writing in the morning but as I was walking across campus at noon, the thought returned to me that no one would read these beautiful essays I had just written. Feeling sorry for myself and superior to the world, I went into my office. As I ventured out to pick up my mail, I ran into a colleague, the senior member of the law faculty, who had unexpectedly lost his wife of 35 years just a few weeks previously. We talked briefly and I invited him to my office to give him a copy of my new book on Job.
As we talked in my office he unburdened himself with thoughts so raw, so powerful, so insightful about the dislocation he was now experiencing that I knew I was touching the very nerve of human emotion and life. Tangled threads of sadness, fear, and aimlessness were interwoven. It was as if a massive crater had been blasted in the middle of his life. No words, no thoughts could either change life or bring comfort at that moment. I sensed deeply our share humanity, a humanity that tries so hard, struggles so mightily, longs so deeply for expertise and integration and excellence--and then feels sometimes that the rooting principle (my friend's wife) is ripped out of life. There was no room at this point for anything other than heartfelt wishes for strength, insight and wisdom from this experience.
When I engage significantly with people, I never have narcissistic thoughts. Yet, my creative work often takes me into myself and into my own deep rhythms apart from people. Learning how to make both of those work for me--creative work and connections with others--is my current desire and struggle. I want to have both the flow of insight and the hearts of friends (and a special friend if that should come). I just don't know how, at present, to mesh these two.
Copyright © 2004-2007 William R. Long
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September 19, 2009
Behind dominant second quarter, UW crushes Wofford
MADISON, Wis. - The way the first quarter went, it seemed as though the Wisconsin football team was going to be in for another dogfight against a scrappy Division 1-AA squad.
With two fumbles in each of their first two possessions, the Badgers looked like they were hung-over from a tight double overtime battle a week ago against Fresno State. And Wofford seemed to have a growing confidence about them.
But a 28-point outburst in a penalty and turnover free second quarter extended a 3-0 first quarter lead to a 31-0 score at the break and eventual 44-14 win over the Terriers for UW.
"I thought it was great in the second quarter," UW head coach Bret Bielema said following the game. "I pointed out to our kids that we scored 28 points in the second quarter. We also had no penalties in the second quarter.
"It's amazing what we will be able to do when we play in a way that allows you to have success just by who and what we do."
After a first quarter that saw both John Clay and Zach Brown fumble, and one where the only points scored were on a Philip Welch field goal, the Badgers switched to the passing game to move the ball.
Scott Tolzien, in his third career start, was once again an offensive catalyst. He finished 15-for-20 passing with 159 yards and two touchdowns, both of which came in the second frame.
He consistently found Lance Kendricks open in the flat and seam and worked routes to Nick Toon throughout the first half. Wofford simply couldn't match up with those two players.
"It felt good being able to go out there and catch some balls," Kendricks said. "Today I really had fun."
After Tolzien's touchdown pass to Kendricks on the first play of the second quarter, the UW special teams made a play to jumpstart the offense. With Wofford lining up to punt, the Badgers decided to send more people than the Terriers could block.
Freshman linebacker Chris Borland broke through the line untouched, got to the final line of defenders and leaped into the air and got a hand on the ball. The ball ricocheted into the end zone where fellow true freshman David Gilbert pounced on the ball.
"I never dreamed of recovering a blocked punt for a touchdown," Gilbert said. "I guess it's just you using the technique that is coached so much. When you're in the position to make a play, you make it."
From there, the flood gates opened.
Redshirt freshman Erik Smith scored a touchdown from four yards out, the first of his career, to give UW a 24-0 lead. Then Tolzien connected with Garrett Graham for a seven-yard touchdown later in the quarter.
"Coming into the game, we knew it would be a long shot," Wofford head coach Mike Ayers said following the game. "We would have to play well (and) they would have to play down some. They gave us some opportunities and we didn't capitalize on them. I think (we) probably needed to (simplify) the game plan being a young football team and we didn't."
In the second half, freshman quarterback Curt Phillips got a chance to lead the team. During his time on the field, he became the game's leading rusher by running for 92 yards on only four carries.
"We had a good little lead whenever I got in," Phillips said. "We just tried to keep the flow of the game going and fortunately we got a couple of more scores."
Though UW coasted to an easy victory, not everything went well throughout the game. In total, the Badgers coughed up the ball six times, including three that were recovered by Wofford.
Clay, who finished with 70 yards in his first collegiate start, was responsible for three of those fumbles, and two of them were lost.
"It's an issue and we are going forward," Bielema said after the game. "There were a variety, some were caused by guys coming in. To me, I know that I have to get across as a head coach. That is ball security, one hand, and two hand.
"We have to do everything we can to make sure they understand."
Luckily for Wisconsin, the defense remained stout, particularly in the first quarter. Anytime a team gives the underdog a chance to jump on them early in the game, anything can happen. But the Badger defused refused to let that occur and recovered three Wofford fumbles and recorded an interception.
"The one thing is, we got out there and thought that we, for the most part, knew what we were getting into," Bielema said. "I thought the way our defense came ready to play (they) knew what they needed to do to have us get a win.
"I really thought the first half they played tremendous football defensively."
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Good morning friends! I hope that your week gets off with a great start! I wanted to share a little bit of manly inspiration with you today; my entry for the Hambo Hoedown (#5). I am LOVING this progressive challenge Hambo has going on, each week you get a new digi and a new challenge to play along with! Provided you continue to participate, you get the next week's digi in your e-mail, just in time to stamp some more! Can't be beat! Thanks Hambo. :)
Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a wonderful day, and I'll see you back here tomorrow for another Prettie Peek from Paper Pretties! Wednesday is release day!
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The kids had a blast tonight. Their favorite parts:
1. Getting candy.2. A neighbor in a ghost mask.3. Passing out candy.4. This barfing pumpkin.
heh! love those cautionary pumpkins :-)
#1 & #3 Those are the best parts! Re #2: I am hopeful for future Halloweens——Rosie didn't collapse weeping this year.
The barfing pumpkin pic is a classic.
I think that the getting candy and the barfing pumpkin would be a tie for first in my evening. Im glad they enjoyed!
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Posted by Pete Caldecourt, Director of Technology Assistance
Over the years, here at Binary Tree, we’ve learned many things. Most importantly, we’ve learned that in order to be successful and grow globally, we need to continue to develop and deliver leading email migration and application migration software products to our partners and customers. The software products that we develop and sell are essential to our growth and evolution as a key player in the migration marketplace. But, our success and growth aren’t just about the products we sell; it’s also about providing our partners and customers with an incomparable and exceptional customer support experience to help ensure that they have positive experiences with our products and their projects are ultimately successful.
With this philosophy in mind and as we continue expanding globally, it became essential for us to expand our Technical Services and Customer Support efforts into what we now call Binary Tree’s Technical Assistance Group, or “TAG Team”. The TAG Team excels greatly at many things, but one thing is most important – ensuring that our partners and customers have the best and most successful migration experiences possible from beginning to end.
So what is TAG? Here are some highlights …
Imagine a group of technical experts assigned specifically to your migration project who will assist you not only after you purchase the migration software, but will also be by your side during the evaluation phase of your project. Binary Tree’s TAG Team is available to ensure that our customers have the product knowledge needed to build business and buying cases internally, and to ultimately make an informed decision.
If requested or needed, the Binary Tree TAG Team provides our customers with pilot environments to help them get familiar with the software and the process, and to also assist with the delivery and execution with full knowledge transfers from beginning to end.
Even when the TAG Team leaves a customer site, they’re still available to provide assistance to ensure that your project is a complete success. With 24x7x365 global customer support, our TAG Team is available and ready to assist you via email, online web form, phone, and through our website chat client. Customers also have premier access to Binary Tree’s Online Knowledge Databases where they’ll find technical and how-to articles for our software.
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Song to watch
Throughout much of April it was very much the locals who shone the brightest, with killer new releases from Voltaire Twins, Messrs, Rufus and Jonathan Boulet. However, the end of April has brought us some brilliant music from overseas as well. Some of the standouts were Electric Guest, the new Nas track, another local in Owl Eyes, and this purely awesome little number.
The UK duo (although one is a Swede), Punks Jump Up have teamed up with the familiar soothing voice of Dave 1 from Chromeo. This track is everything that it needs to be; It is a very catchy song that will brighten up your day and, mainly thanks to the vocals, it starts with a lot of energy, which builds up and carries right through the song.
Punks Jump Up feat. Dave 1 – Mr. Overtime
HOT TIP: Go out and get Sydney lass Catcall’s new album ‘The Warmest Place’ when it comes out on May 4. I managed to get my hands on a copy and I cannot stop listening, every track is golden. Trust me, it will replace the void left by Ladyhawke and her lacklustre new album.
Best Video Clip
You all should have at least heard about Van She’s brilliant new single ‘Idea of Happiness’ by now so I don’t really need to speak too much about it, apart from discussing the clip. The accompanying film clip was unexpectedly weird, which I wouldn’t have gone with, but really works magically for the story that it tells, check it out below. Because I did blog about this song last month and because I was too torn to decide between them, Sydney band Rufus share best video for April.
Van She – Idea of Happiness
Rufus – This Summer
Since the track ‘Paris Collides’ that they released last year I have had my eye on Rufus, so I was very glad to get a copy of their latest EP BLUE. It is a dark and enthralling release that I am very fond of, with the stand out tracks being ‘Selena’ and the lead single ‘This Summer.’ The video for ‘This Summer’ is equally dark, haunting and enthralling as the song itself, making for an excellent combination by somehow making a party scene give you goosebumps.
Most favourable news
The most favourable announcement to hit our shores for some time is the Splendour in the Grass 2012 line-up announcement. I’m sure some people’s mouths are still wide open and plenty more people are still drooling at this. Splendour organisers have really gone all out for this years incarnation of the Byron Bay festival.
Bloc Party, the newly reformed At The Drive-In, Explosions In The Sky, Dirty Three and The Kooks will all be performing exclusively as part of the bill. Then there’s the return of some act we had started to forget about like Spiderbait, Gypsy & the Cat, The Beautiful Girls, Shihad, Wolfmother and Missy Higgins. In addition to this there are a bunch of newer artists and also familiar faces that will no doubt appease, such as Kimbra, DZ Deathrays, Big Scary, Pond, Yacht Club DJs, Emma Louise, Miike Snow, Muscles, Smashing Pumpkins, Yuksek, Ball Park Music and Zulu Winter. Plus, a selected crop of upcoming electronic artists and DJs with Gloves, Beni, Nina Las Vegas, Luke Million, Parachute Youth and Flume.
Did I mention it will be awesome? Didn’t have to. Yeah that’s pretty self explanatory, which is probably why every single type of ticket had sold out in a record 43 minutes. Devs.
Matt & Kim – Block After Block (Punches Remix)
Brooklyn boy Punches brings the goods for this rework of fellow Brooklynites Matt & Kim with a relaxed, summery dance vibe. Probably influenced more by indie than dance music, Punches perfectly underpins this track with plenty of airy synths and verb creating a feeling that would go perfectly accompanied by drinks on a sunny Sunday afternoon. A free download from Punches’ soundcloud is recommended.
Black Strobe – Italian Fireflies (Reflex Remix)
This tune has been out for a couple of months now but I’ve only just discovered it thanks to Rec Room Blog and it’s one of those memorable instrumental tracks that you want to keep listening to over and over again. The somewhat old school Black Strobe track has been given a true Reflex revamp with some huge electro-disco energy. This track may not be for everyone, but if you are keen on it, you can download all 7 glorious minutes from Reflex’ soundcloud page.
Blog to check out
5/4 are a promotions company from Adelaide, because of this they talk about a lot of their own shows, but they do put on some pretty awesome shows. However, they don’t just make posts with their own interests at heart, they also post good music. Whether it be a single or video from a heavyweight, a little known band from Perth, an upcoming artist from the states or a tour announcement, my musical tastes are usually pretty on par with what they find. They are also really relevant, which should go without saying, but the amount of blogs out there posting material ages after it has come out this is a big plus. So make sure you like them on facebook as well because their feeds will enlighten you. Their only flaw is really the Rihanna/Drake post that they did a little while ago, but we can forgive them for that.
Featured local band
Named after singer songwriter Annabelle’s dog, Archie are making their own mark in Adelaide. With quirky, soulful and catchy indie tunes, these are definitely one of the local artists that will no doubt be falling onto people’s ‘next big thing’ lists sometime soon. The songs are undoubtedly driven by the strong, flowing melodies of the female voice but the music itself is nothing but standard. The unique mix of retro sounding synths over what would otherwise be a casual guitar jam certainly catches your attention, this paired with some interesting chord changes almost make them sound like a happier, less boring Jezabels. I think they are taking a little break right now but they have been a busy little band so far this year so I’m sure they will be playing again regularly soon. Until they do have some more shows on the radar again however, make sure you suss the songs on their facebook bandpage and do the mandatory facebook ‘like’ just in case they drop something new.
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Schools and Students
Private schools in 1999–2000 were located primarily in central cities (42 percent) and the urban fringe or large towns (40 percent) (table 2). About 18 percent of private schools were found in rural areas. In contrast, 24 percent of all public schools were in central city locations, 45 percent in the urban fringe or large towns, and 31 percent in rural areas. Most schools—61 percent of private and 71 percent of public—were elementary, but 10 percent of private schools and 25 percent of public schools were secondary. Finally, a much higher proportion of private schools (30 percent) were combined schools (usually grades K–12 or 1–12), compared with only 4 percent of public schools.
Figures and Tables
Table 2: Percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000
Table S2: Standard errors for the percentage distribution of schools according to community type and level, by sector and private school type: 1999-2000
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70 Orchard St., New York, NY, 10002
nr. Grand St.
By heleneparis on 6/26/2011
I love this store. Original dresses by in house designer Richard Ives, the vintage paris jewelry, the chanel handbags, the chanel jewelry, the tons of vintage jewelry from paris that is very rare and the best quality. Truly a great store in New York and run by the nicest guys in New York! I love this store and stop in every time I am in New York.
By CharaJ on 9/29/2012
This store has the best vintage chanel handbags I've ever seen. Anywhere. They only get mint condition or unused vintage chanel bags from a dealer. I got one that is amazing red with gold hardware. Everyone asks me where I got it. I am so thrilled to walk around with this bag. Also, the clothes and the jewelry. Amazing. It is a very unique store. Very well curated. I love coming here whenever I am in New York. It is like no other store I've been to. Simply Divine!
By MonicaH on 10/23/2012
It's like being in the Marais in Paris! Very Tres Chic Boutique. Great selection of all types of jewelry, new clothing, vintage designer clothing. They even tend to favor french labels in jewelry and vintage. The Chanel handbags are exquisite -- I've never seen better even in Paris. Love this store. It's really great I could spend hours in there. Great soundtrack too!
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Exactly one month has passed since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. As a complete newbie in Africa, I had no idea what to expect when I first landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Before my arrival, I had done some research about the country that was going to be my home for the coming months. A quick google search on Nairobi informed me that Kenya’s capital is the 12th largest one in Africa, the name Nairobi is a Maasai phrase that translates to “cold water” and it’s located 1,800 meters above sea level. My internet search also informed me that the capital is commonly known as Nairobbery, due to the high level of crime, particularly armed robbery in the city. When I asked around amongst friends and acquaintances who had visited Nairobi, they described it as a dirty and boring city that should be avoided. For tourists, it is mostly used as a transit point for safaris in Maasai Mara, or beach holidays along the Indian Ocean coast. With this in mind, I did not have particularly high expectations of Nairobi when I first arrived on the African continent.
After four weeks in this city, I have now formed my own opinion. Nairobi has more to offer than I could ever have imagined. It is definitely a city of contrasts. Within a 15 minute drive you get from the modern city center, to the beautiful leafy suburbs to East Africa’s largest slum.
Nairobi City Center
The colorful Maasai Market in down town Nairobi
The leafy suburb of Kilimani
Rooftops in Kibera
There is only a well trafficked road that separates the two neighborhoods Kilimani and Kibera. Kilimani is one of the wealthiest areas in the country and is home to Mwai Kibaki, the president of Kenya. On the other side of the road you’ll find Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, where people live in unbearable conditions.
Kibera is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. Exactly how many people live here is impossible to say, but estimates range from 500,000 to 1.2 million. Only 20% of residents have electricity, and even fewer have access to clean water. Education is scarce, which traps the vast majority of people in a spiral of poverty. One in five children will not live to experience their fifth birthday.
Walking the streets of Kibera, Photo: Katarina Shakarian
During my visit to Kibera, I visited the organization “Shining Hope for communities”. Shining Hope founded “The Kibera School for girls”, where they give young, at-risk girls a brighter future through education. It’s an amazing organization that works to create a better life for the people of Kibera. Read more about them here.
Kids playing at “The Kibera School for Girls”
Pascalia from Kiva giving a presentation in Kibera about Kiva Zip
As I already stated, Nairobi is a city of contrasts. Just outside of the city center, not far from modern skyscrapers or Kilimani and Kibera, you will find Nairobi National Park. Here you can see giraffes, elephants, black rhinos, zebras and other wildlife attractions with the capital’s skyline in the background.
Nairobi National Park
Elephant Orphanage, Nairobi National Park
Nairobi has definitely given me a new perspective on life, and I would recommend anyone that has the possibility to visit this city. After spending a few weeks here I have learned that the city is not only know as Nairobbery, but also as “The green city in the sun”, which I think is a better description.
My new friends
Lend money to a low-income entrepreneur in Kenya here
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Knox College in Galesburg, IL was the site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate and conferred an honorary degree to Lincoln in 1860. Now it’s home to the Lincoln Studies Center, directed by two fine scholars, Rodney Davis and Douglas Wilson. Knox is therefore the ideal place for a whole slew of events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the debates this year and the Lincoln bicentennial in ’09.
This weekend Knox is hosting the Lincoln Colloquium, with presentations by James McPherson, Allen Guelzo, and Garry Wills, among others. The local paper has a story about it here. Steven Wilson (A Novel Idea of History ) is headed up for the festivities and generously offered me the chance to tag along.
I was hoping to head up to Galesburg, listen to the presentations, hobnob a little, and then return with a stack of signed books under one arm and an account for your edification and amusement under the other. Then circumstances got in the way, so it looks like I’ll be spending the weekend closer to home. Hopefully Steven will fill us in on the details when he gets back.
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Intel demonstrated a wireless electric power system that could revolutionize modern life by eliminating chargers, wall outlets and eventually batteries all together by 2050. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link at Intel’s 2008 developer’s forum.
During the demo electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. Most importantly, the electricity was transmitted without zapping anything or anyone that got between the sending and receiving units. “The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it’s can you do it safely and efficiently,” according to Intel researcher Josh Smith. “It turns out the human body is not affected by magnetic fields; it is affected by elective fields. So what we are doing is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field.”
Examples of potential applications include airports, offices or other buildings that could be rigged to supply power to laptops, mobile telephones or other devices toted into them. The technology could also be built into plugged in computer components, such as monitors, to enable them to broadcast power to devices left on desks or carried into rooms, according to Mr. Smith.
- Duracell, Energizer, Texas Instruments and Motorola Mobility in Attendance at the International Wireless Power Summit (prweb.com)
- British Start-Up Working to Bring Wireless Charging to the Racetrack (wheels.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The Benjamin Franklin Bridge lit up in red for national March is Red Cross Month 2012 (photo: Paul Loftland)
Welcome to the new blog of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Chapter of the American Red Cross. The SEPA Red Cross has a unique role in serving as the safety net for people in our region in their hour of greatest need.
As a partner of a network of 186 Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies worldwide, the SEPA Chapter was founded in 1916 as a chartered unit of the American National Red Cross and serves the nearly 4 million people of Montgomery, Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Bucks counties.
The SEPA Chapter of the American Red Cross is marking more than 95 years of service to Philadelphia, Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Bucks Counties. SEPA is one of the largest American Red Cross chapters in the country, and has a long and proud history of providing comfort and relief to those most in need. In addition to providing disaster relief services to thousands of people every year, up until December 2009, SEPA Chapter provided volunteer support to the Penn Jersey Blood Services Region.
In April 2003, SEPA Chapter became the only chapter in the country to have a Red Cross House, a temporary housing facility for victims of disaster.
SEPA Chapter sent hundreds of volunteers to assist following Hurricane Katrina, played an integral support and fundraising role following the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, and is consistently honored by local businesses and organizations for its commitment to helping those in need.
As reflected in the Red Cross mission, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter seeks to help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to natural and human-caused disasters through the immediate mobilization of people and resources and the provision of community, workplace, and school-based training.
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|Easton's Bible Dictionary|
Baalah of the well, (Joshua 19:8, probably the same as Baal, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:33, a city of Simeon.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ba'-a-lath-be'-er ba`alath be'er "lady (mistress) of the well"; (Joshua 19:8 (in 1 Chronicles 4:33, Baal)): In Jos this place is designated "Ramah of the South," i.e. of the Negeb, while in 1 Samuel 30:27 it is described as Ramoth of the Negeb. It must have been a prominent hill (ramah = "height") in the far south of the Negeb and near a well be'er. The site is unknown though Conder suggests that the shrine Kubbet el Baul may retain the old name.
Baalath-beer (2 Occurrences)
Joshua 19:8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. (ASV BBE DBY JPS WBS YLT NAS)
1 Chronicles 4:33 And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations. (BBE)
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Saatva (which means truth).
Our belief is that people can make an
intelligent mattress buying decision without high pressure or a phony sale.
Our extremely efficient online business model allows us to sell our luxury
mattresses online for so much less than our competitors who operate stores.
It's clear that more and more consumers are becoming e-commerce savvy.
Through our world class e-commerce site, we are able to make all the
necessary information clear and precise, so you can take your time and shop
at your leisure. We have made buying a luxury mattress easy. At Saatva, you
receive a 30 day home trial, with no pick up fees, no restocking fees. The
only cost you would be responsible for is your original delivery fee. This
is the friendliest return policy in the luxury mattress
Retail stores continue to charge excessive fees inclusive of
exchange/restocking fees and pickup charges for returning a mattress.
E-commerce businesses generally have better return policies, so we must
exceed your expectations. That's our philosophy, and that's what we do
every day. Buying online is simple, smart and efficient. We hope you enjoy
our web site.
Additionally, please know we take great pride in our ability to build the best
mattress available and that each Saatva
mattress is handcrafted in America. We select the best mattress
manufacturers in America that service our local distribution areas to craft
our proprietary product.
We promise to do everything in our power to exceed your expectations. Take
visiting a mattress store off your "to-do" list.
Please note: Our Saatva luxury mattresses are American handcrafted and
height measurements might vary slightly.
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I am a philatelist and have become aware of increasing offers of fake, forged and fraudulent items on internet auction sites such as ebay.
Many buyers are being deceived without their knowledge. The sellers have become aware that ebay takes no serious action, and happily continue. ACCC does not seem to want to know unless someone has actually been defrauded. Consumer Affairs likewise, and the Police are too busy with more important things.
These sellers need to be prosecuted to protect innocent buyers who are being defrauded ... not just deregistered on ebay. They just re-register with a new name and start over. It has become a significant problem within the on-line industry component of the hobby.
When I detect such a fraudulent listing (often many by the same seller), to whom should I make a report with some hope of being taken seriously?
Thank you for your email of 19 May 2012 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding your concerns with fraudulent retailers of stamps online.Your reference number for this matter is 08111. We unreservedly apologise for the delay in providing you with a response.
The ACCC is responsible for administering the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 which incorporates the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) in Schedule 2 of that Act. The ACL is a single national law which aims to protect consumers and ensure fair trading in Australia. Under the ACL, consumers have the same protections, and businesses have the same obligations and responsibilities across Australia.
Under section 29 of the ACL a person must not, in trade or commerce, make false or misleading representations in connection with the supply or possible supply of goods or services or in connection with the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services. This includes misrepresentations that goods are of a particular standard, quality, value, grade, composition, style or model or have had a particular history or particular previous use. Additionally section 18 of the ACL prohibits a person, in trade or commerce, engaging in conduct which is misleading or deceptive, or which is likely to mislead or deceive. It is these sections of the ACL under which such instances of potentially fraudulent conduct of the type raised in your email could be taken action against.
I note that you are primarily concerned with the fact that there has been an absence of action taken against individual fraudulent sellers, and are inquiring about the best avenue for ensuring action is taken against these sellers. One issue for our office is that the ACCC does not offer an individual dispute resolution service, but instead makes decisions on which matters will be investigated further based on the ACCC’s Compliance and Enforcement policy. A number of factors are weighed including whether conduct raises national or international issues, involves significant consumer detriment or a blatant disregard of the law. We certainly appreciate your assistance in bringing this issue to our attention, and your complaint has been recorded and will be used in monitoring whether there is a level of conduct by individual fraudulent traders or a pattern within the online stamp retailing industry which may raise concerns sufficient to warrant intervention by the ACCC.
However, individual instances of loss or damage as a result of misleading or deceptive conduct or false representation are best pursued ‚Äď where such matters are unable to be resolved with these traders through either verbal or written communications ‚Äď through Consumer Affairs agencies such as Consumer Affairs Victoria (1300 558 181; www.consumer.vic.gov.au
). Local fair trading or consumer affairs agencies can suggest a range of strategies that you may wish to explore to resolve your concerns. They can also provide information on how to make a claim through the small claims court or tribunal should this become necessary. In these matters, it is also recommended that eBay be notified of these fraudulent sellers; as you are aware, however, the capacity for various government agencies to enforce the ACL or the pertinent fraud sections of state and criminal law is limited by the relative anonymity afforded by internet retailing, and the ease with which fraudulent online retailers can create new user profiles.
Whilst individual complaints also form the basis of investigations, it must be noted that the ACCC does not comment on matters we may or may not be investigating and the ACCC is unable to provide you with further information of any action we may or may not be taking in relation to your complaint. Please also note that the ACCC will only contact you again in relation to your complaint if we require further information or evidence to assist in our enquiries.
Thank you for bringing this matter to the attention of the ACCC. I trust this information is of assistance.
Not much help I'm afraid.
Perhaps if they get enough similar queries they may think it serious enough to investigate?
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Post Reply: Post your boards (Pictures or GTFO)
|Topic: Post your boards (Pictures or GTFO)
Posted: May/01/2013 at 4:34am By fj5
Bought some neon yellow vinyl to cover up my 154 Thrive Renegade (wasn't a big fan of the original artwork) and used up pretty much the rest of my stickers.
Stickered up my 150.5 DC Ply too and cleared away most of the stickers from my 157 Burton Vapor.
2013 DC Ply 150.5
2010 Burton Vapor 157
2013 Thrive Renegade 154
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'Energy and ambition' attract young Americans
Updated: 2011-08-22 08:40
By He Wei (China Daily)
SHANGHAI - China has captivated the imagination of Hunter Levan for as long as he can remember.
Levan, 29, came to China in 2009, but the US citizen has been interested in the country since his childhood, when he was a fan of kungfu movies and started to practice martial arts.
Driven by a desire to learn Chinese, Levan quit his job as a government clerk in Washington and moved to Suzhou in East China to spend a year studying the language.
"I realized if I ever wanted to learn Chinese, I would have to move here and 'do as the Romans do'," he said.
After overcoming the language barrier, Levan turned his attention to finding a practical use for his new skill.
"I sent out e-mails and resumes in Chinese, and got feedback in less than five days," said Levan, who now works as a consultant for Spring Airlines in Shanghai.
Unlike Levan, Alison Watts, 28, knew little about China before coming to the country.
"But all my friends who have been here said it was incredibly fantastic, so I decided to take the big step forward," she said.
Watts' experiences of journalism in New York helped her land her current job, in which she hosts a show for an English-language television channel in Shanghai.
"Living and working here is like an adventure, where amazing opportunities keep popping up," she said.
"Some of the emerging sectors such as advertising, media, architecture, public relations, etc, are quickly gaining momentum," said Watts. The "energy and ambition" in China is like "the pioneering spirit in a bygone age of the United States", she added.
Levan echoed this sentiment, saying that it was very "exciting" to work in China's rapidly growing aviation sector.
Compared with these newcomers, Ted Hornbein, a US businessman, has a deeper understanding of how things have changed in China.
When he first celebrated US Independence Day in China in the early 1990s, he was one of a handful of people invited to the party at the US embassy in Beijing.
But this year, as a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, he and his colleagues organized an Independence Day celebration for around 2,000 guests.
"Today you have local and Western restaurants and your whole family here with you for the important holiday. I have seen a 180-degree shift from my first July 4 party in China," Hornbein said.
According to Watts, China-related news coverage in the US has surged only in the past two years. "I think that indicates how much attention the US has attached to this relationship."
Levan said that one thing he has learned in China is that you should never use one standard and apply it everywhere.
"We should learn more and understand more about each other," Levan said.
And that is why he smiled after learning that US Vice-President Joe Biden had tipped in a restaurant in Beijing during his current visit to the country.
"If you live in China, you'd know we don't do tipping here."
US Vice-President Joe Biden visits China August 17-22.
Li Xing, China Daily's assistant editor-in-chief and veteran columnist, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Aug 7 in Washington DC, US.
Tea-making treasures catch the fancy of connoisseurs as record prices brew up interest
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I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I can use (and tape in) any color system (NTSC - PAL - SECAM).
I am a Frank Zappa video collector, but I also look for 60s and 70s groups (especially european TV shows like Old Grey Whistle Test or Rock of the 70s).
The quality of my videos mostly goes from vg+ to x (excellent). If we make a trade and you happen to chose a video that is not actually vg+ or better I will let you know before sending.
ZAPPA / Beefheart / Steve Vai / Related list (warning: large HTML file!)
Zappa Video List (Microsoft Word 6.0 .doc zipped) much better to look at!
Video List of International Artists Live in Argentina or South America - includes live shows, press conferences, interviews, special TV coverages, etc. (This list does not include Jazz artists - Argentine jazz shows are in the jazz list below).
MY COMPLETE VIDEO LISTING - Includes official videos, TV shows, live camera shots, etc. From ABBA to ZZTop! (Note: this list does NOT include Zappa, Beatles, Rolling Stones or Jazz). This is a huge list (zipped) to download and view offline!
Jazz music videos zip file - this list
includes general modern jazz music videos from the USA and Europe PLUS live shows in
Argentina (example: Mike Stern, Alan Hodlsworth,etc.)
Rock Argentino - Listado de videos de rock argentino. Argentine artists video list.
Send wants, trades, listings, comments, suggestions, etc. to: email@example.com
back to my main zappa english page
back to previous page
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The White House’s $4B Better Buildings Challenge
Can the Obama administration spur $4 billion in building energy efficiency retrofits without being able to get the money out of a deadlocked Congress? Looks like we’ll have the next two years or so to find out.
That’s the gist of a big 'Better Buildings Initiative' set to be announced by the White House late Thursday evening. After months of working with former president Bill Clinton and a lot of private-sector and government partners, the White House says that more than 60 organization have pledged to spend $2 billion to retrofit about 1.6 billion square feet of commercial and industrial property in the next 24 months.
The announcement also comes with a commitment to move forward with $2 billion in federal building “performance-based contracting” projects over the next 24 months. Because private investors and companies will pay for efficiency upgrades at government buildings, then pay themselves out of the energy savings, those projects can go forward without new federal spending, National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling said in a Thursday press pre-briefing call.
Together, that $4 billion in projected commitments could add up to “tens of thousands of jobs,” Sperling said. Consider it a major new market opportunity for the building energy efficiency sector -- and a major new challenge in making private-sector economics work in the absence of direct taxpayer support.
That’s because the Obama administration has been unable to get Congress to act on many of the proposals in its Better Buildings Initiative launched in February. The Department of Energy initiative laid out a laundry list of building energy efficiency initiatives, all aimed at making the nation’s commercial buildings 20 percent more energy efficient by 2020.
Part of that plan was the 'Better Buildings Challenge,' launched in late June at the Clinton Global Initiative. On June 30, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that 14 initial private sector and local government partners had pledged to spend $500 million to retrofit buildings totaling about 300 million square feet.
That included big public-private partnerships in Seattle, Los Angeles and Atlanta, as well as buy-in by USAA Real Estate Company, Best Buy and other corporate partners. As for financing the projects, partners including Citi, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Metrus Energy, Transcend Equity and Renewable Funding agreed to provide at least $525 million in project funding in the next 18 months.
Presumably that figure is part of the $2 billion in new public-private sector financing announced this week, but there were some new funding promises as well. San Francisco-based startup Serious Energy, for example, on Thursday promised to execute $100 million in energy efficiency upgrades for customers as part of the initiative.
Indeed, the list of Better Buildings Challenge participants includes a who’s-who of startups seeking to revolutionize the way energy retrofits are financed, including Metrus Energy, Transcend Equity and Serious Energy (via its new Serious Capital model).
At the same time, energy services giants such as Siemens, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Johnson Controls and the like are doubtless participating as well in serving the federal building upgrade portion of the work announced this week. Schneider, for its part, announced it would also join the "Challenge" portion of the project with a pledge to cut energy use at 40 U.S. manufacturing facilities by 25 percent.
The $4 billion challenge is the latest move the Obama administration has made as part of its “We Can't Wait” campaign to bypass a deadlocked Congress and spur job creation, even as the President pushes lawmakers to pass a $447 billion jobs bill.
Sperling wouldn’t put an exact figure on the number of jobs the White House hopes will come from the $4 billion initiative, though he noted that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- not known as a great friend of green initiatives -- has estimated the $2 billion in federal building retrofits alone could create about 35,000 jobs.
The Political Economy Research Institute projected in June that the entire Better Buildings Initiative could create up to 114,000 jobs if implemented in full. Of course, much of that would have to come via legislation, which seems increasingly unlikely, at least this year.
Sperling did make clear that one proposal contained in the Better Buildings Initiative -- legislation to authorize up to $2 billion in federal loan guarantees for retrofit projects -- was not part of the new $4 billion announcement. Given the heat the White House is taking over Solyndra and Beacon Power, two companies that won separate DOE loan guarantees only to later declare bankruptcy, it’s not surprising that more loan guarantees aren’t on the table.
The big question, of course, is whether the economics of building energy retrofits are developed to the point where they can support a $4 billion boost in business without loan guarantees or other federal supports. Kudos to the Obama administration for bootstrapping these projects via any means necessary -- but we’ll have to wait for a few years to see how many billions of dollars in projects actually get done.
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A collection of news and information related to Rick Helling published by this site and its partners.
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1987 -- Larry Herndon knocked in five runs with two homers and Jack Morris checked Minnesota on three hits for seven innings as the Detroit Tigers snapped the Twins' four-game winning streak with an 11-2 decision. 1992 -- Dan Karst's RBI single in the...
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Joe Girardi hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth Sunday as the Cubs beat Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2, despite losing Sammy Sosa in an outfield collision. The loss ended Arizona's eight-game winning streak. Alex Gonzalez led off the ninth...
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Cal Ripken's first major-league hit came against Dennis Lamp of the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 16, 1981. His last hit came against Frank Castillo of the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Oct. 5, 2001. Ripken finished his career with 3,184...
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--- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 03/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Three-Tier Hand Grip is a wall grab bar for bathtubs, shower, and toilets designed for use by individuals with mobility and balance disabilities. These grips are made of ABS plastic. The Three-Tier Hand Grip has the appearance of three -shaped units connectected end to end and the Single-Tier unit is one U-shaped unit. Both models include anchors, screws, and screw caps. DIMENSIONS: Both models extend 3 inches from the wall. The Three-Tier model is 24 inches long. COLOR: White.
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TOURCOING.- Proximity and evidence make us blind: France is unaware of the inventiveness, the diversity and the current creative agitation of some of our closest neighbours. However, for the Northern region, with the ABC exhibition of Belgian contemporary art, there is real fraternity, a cultural permeability which, paradoxically, has not erased the borders in the way that, for example, American, German and even Japanese artists have done in favour of fashion and the art market. In many respects, Belgium has made an impact on all the current artistic disciplines: dance, theatre and the visual arts which including the invented forms where these practices merge. Collectors and amateurs in Belgium have been essential in accompanying this contemporary effervescence.
ABC is an exhibition that does not claim to be a comprehensive portrayal of the diversity of the contemporary scene in Belgium. The disciplines most particularly taught and practiced at Le Fresnoy have formed the criteria of priority for selection purposes: photography, film, video, installation, performance and choreography. And these are the exact areas where Belgium has recently been excelling, drawing from its inheritance of documentary film devoted to other disciplines - in this the work of Jeff Cornelis continues to maintain the tradition, - through experimental film (with his legendary festival in Knokke-le-Zoute) in a specific anarcho-dadaist tradition and finally quite simply with poetry of "beyond-the-limit" attitudes which, in the past, gave rise to spectacular provocations.
"I think that Flemish and Walloon artists are not particularly affected by internationalism. Belgium is possibly an artwork itself, and like every good artwork, it is a disappearing exercise which will continue to fascinate us and defy us."This is what Jan Fabre said one day and I retain two words that form a dumbfounding paradox, symbolist even: fascination and defiance. And we know how important art and symbolist poetry was for Belgian art, characteristics that continue to irrigate the most radical current practice. Further more, the exhibition is based on the hypothesis - and this was another factor of selection in the itinerary of the exhibition - that Belgium is probably the only country to perpetuate the cohabitation and mutual influence of two currents generally taken to be contradictory in post-1945 art: a conceptual, minimal trend and a post-dadaist trend with pranks verging on burlesque idiocy.
) It is a fragile country on the verge of implosion, drawn towards the idea of disappearing some say with an anarcho-poetical complacency that has become a cliché. In the last thirty years in Belgium there has been an exciting emergence of artists who do not wish to implode or disappear. A vitality based on a tradition of impertinence, provocation and nourished by the powerful and persistent belief in poetry, including the conjugation of visual forms where writing is the driving force. Symbolism, Surrealism and Minimalism form a specific trinity of which there is no equivalent in Europe and which forms the framework of ABC.
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Why Man U?
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"Gathering together at Old Trafford must have given these people something of the sense of community that they had previously known in their villages."
Visiting Manchester the other day, I was driving down a nondescript road past dreary shops and offices when I saw the top of a sports stadium poking into the gray sky. It was Old Trafford. Team buses carrying soccer players from more glamorous cities such as Barcelona have been known to echo with cries of disgust as they pull in here.
The home of Manchester United is rainy and underwhelming. The estimated 333 million humans who consider themselves United fans don’t all know that Manchester is a city in England, but many of those who do would probably be surprised to find just how mid-ranking a city it is. Yet when United’s American ruling family, the Glazers, sold club shares in August, United was valued at $2.3 billion. That made it the world’s most valuable sports franchise, ahead of Real Madrid and baseball’s New York Yankees, according to Forbes. In short, United is bigger than Manchester. So why on earth did this global behemoth arise precisely here? And how, in the last 134 years, has United shaped soccer, in England and now the world?
When a soccer club was created just by the newish railway line in 1878, the Manchester location actually helped. The city was then growing like no other on earth. In 1800 it had been a tranquil little place of 84,000 inhabitants, so insignificant that as late as 1832 it didn’t have a member of parliament. The Industrial Revolution changed everything. Workers poured in from English villages, from Ireland, from feeble economies everywhere (my own great-grandparents arrived on the boat from Lithuania). By 1900, Manchester was Europe’s sixth-biggest city, with 1.25 million inhabitants.
The club by the railway line was initially called Newton Heath, because the players worked at the Newton Heath carriage works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company. They played in work clogs against other work teams. Jim White’s Manchester United: The Biography nicely describes the L&YR workers as “sucked in from all over the country to service the growing need for locomotives and carriages.” Life in Manchester then was neither fun nor healthy, White writes. In some neighborhoods, average male life expectancy was just 17. This was still the same brutal city where a few decades before, Karl Marx’s pal Friedrich Engels had run his father’s factory. The conditions of the industrial city were so awful it inspired communism. (My own great-grandparents lost two of their children to scarlet fever in Manchester before moving on to much healthier southern Africa.)
Inevitably, most of these desperate early Mancunians were rootless migrants. Unmoored in their new home, many embraced the local soccer clubs. Gathering together at Old Trafford must have given these people something of the sense of community that they had previously known in their villages. That’s how the world’s first great industrial city engendered the world’s greatest soccer brand. Next Page >>
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All new and many used vehicles arrive with a warranty covering unexpected repairs. Be sure to understand the duration and covered components of the warranty. A typical warranty might be written "48/50,000" meaning that coverage lasts either 48 months from the initial purchase or until the vehicle has 50,000 miles, whichever comes first.top
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Destined to be chosen as an ideal take-along optic for anyone traveling light - the Monovid 8x20 Monocular from Leica will delight all-sorts of viewing enthusiasts with style, elegance, and a remarkable level of optical performance.
Sporting 8.0x magnification, the Monovid's optical system features a high-grade roof prism, AquaDura lens coatings, and nitrogen purging for clarity in any climate - it's fully fogproof and submersible to a depth of 5.0 m/16'.
Depending upon your point of view - The Monovid can be used as a mini-telescope, 1/2 a binocular, or a macroscope. Its light, small, stealthy, and quite luxurious - whether you're scoping a performer on stage, glassing the treeline for the Lord God bird, or investigating the intricate subtleties of a Nautilus shell - you'll be glad you didn't leave home without it.
Inside the Monovid's elegant leather carry case there's a special pocket for a very special attachment - the close-up lens. Installing this accessory onto the monocular allows viewers to achieve 8x magnification at distances as close as 9.8"/ 25 cm - this macro-effect viewing is excellent for observing the finest details that are often impossible to see through larger optics.
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I think you're wise to let this go through to the next service/ oil change. I would get them to properly document the paperwork to show the quantity & type of oil they used as well as the quantity of DEF.
Originally Posted by firstbimmer
You have a very good and valid point. Actually, I initially went to my salesman to complain about the situation since he was on vacation when the whole thing went down. He was very clear that next time this happens, or if I have a problem with service on this issue at the time of the oil change, that I should come see him and he will make sure all is right. He agreed that the 6000 miles didn't seem appropriate and that this should be addressed and under warranty.
The conversation continued and he knows I almost bought an M3 when I bought the 335d, but didn't because of my commute. I mentioned my upcoming transfer and we got into the M3 discussion. I was just saying maybe that all this happened for a reason to nudge me in to maybe making a change. Believe me, I'm not going to just blindly upgrade if I got a bad deal. It is already a bad enough financial decision to trade in a car in the second year of ownership, if they tried to fleece me, the deal wouldn't happen. I didn't get to a point of being able to afford an M3 by just throwing money away or rewarding bad service.
No matter what, I'll still have the 335d come the next oil change at my rate of mileage so we'll see how service treats me when the time comes. I won't hesitate to get my sales advisor involved, plus he's probably more likely to come in heavy if there's a potential sale riding on it
One other consideration... if you are thinking about an M3....I recall reading somewhere that M3s require more maintenance than the everyday 335. If this dealership is falling short on maintaining your D how are they going to do with an M3?
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Case study guru and strategy consultant Victor Cheng wrote this great item in his newsletter. The first part is an extract from a New York Times interview with the former head of the Bain Capital NY office, who has a new book out on the US economy. It also reveals how this ex-Bain consultant used a statistical approach to choosing his wife.
Here's Cheng’s excerpt from the newspaper (you can click through to the whole New York Times article here )
"There's also the fact that Conard applies a relentless, mathematical logic to nearly everything, even finding a good spouse. He advocates, in utter seriousness, using demographic data to calculate the number of potential mates in your geographic area.
Then, he says, you should set aside a bit of time for "calibration" -- dating as many people as you can so that you have a sense of what the marriage marketplace is like. Then you enter the selection phase, this time with the goal of picking a permanent mate.
The first woman you date who is a better match than the best woman you met during the calibration phase is, therefore, the person you should marry. By statistical probability, she is as good a match as you're going to get. (Conard used this system himself.)
This constant calculation -- even of the incalculable -- can be both fascinating and absurd."
Now, obviously not everyone from Bain actually uses this approach to choose a spouse. Some of us prefer the romance of falling in love. BUT, (and this is very important), everybody I know at MBB most certainly sees the logic behind this approach (even if they would not use it themselves) and many of them will use a similar logical approach to other aspects of their lives.
For example, you should have seen one of my former McKinsey colleagues. She was a woman who was planning her wedding and basically "estimated" how many people would attend her wedding.
She started with a list of everyone invited, estimated whether or not said person would bring a date based on their current relationship status, further estimated based on distance of travel needed what percent would actually make the trip to create an excel forecast model that estimated total headcount.
This in turn provided the assumptions for her wedding cost forecasting model which factored in the latest head count estimate and the cost per person for food.
Crazy? Maybe. Did everyone at McK who saw this, understand and at some level was secretly impressed (even if they wouldn't admit to it out loud)? Oh most definitely.
THIS is just how consultants think about things... or at least have the OPTION to think in this way when they want to. I hope this gives you a sense of the mentality MBB consultants have and how they approach (or have the option to approach) nearly any unstructured problem, and structure it in some logical way.
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Gold Level Application Development.
The Gold Level Application Development competency differentiates expertise in developing applications on Windows 8, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft Office 2013 and BizTalk. This competency can only be given to partners with at least four unique MCPs who each hold the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Web Developer 4 certification.
Silver Level Mid-market Solution Provider.
The Mid-market Solution Provider competency differentiates expertise in the most current Microsoft desktop, business-management, and server technologies. These expertise enable us to provide critical infrastructure solutions to mid-market businesses.
How can this benefit you?
In non-techy terms it means that Codehouse is an experienced IT-partner capable of delivering top of the line web-based business solutions built with cutting edge technology - from content managed websites to website integration and bespoke web applications. Some of our favourites are Sitecore CMS and Umbraco CMS but we like everything .NET.
Get in touch to find out how we can help your business create a valuable online-presence.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
Quinton Patton's wait to hear his name called in this weekend's NFL draft took longer than expected. However, his patience was rewarded by being selected by the 2013 Super Bowl runner-up San Francisco 49'ers in the fourth round.
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Raven coaches were giving the offensive line some love following Saturday's intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday at the Dick Foster Athletic Complex.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Coffeyville Red Raven fans may hear some familiar names get called during the NFL draft on April 25-27. Three, maybe four, maybe five, former Ravens could get their named called according to draft prognosticators.
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Iowa Community College Athletic Conference (ICCAC) and the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference (KJCCC) are pleased to announce that they have agreed, in principle, to a football scheduling agreement.
Friday, March 22, 2013
What makes the Red Raven football team's Harlem Shake video a classic?
Friday, March 15, 2013
Former Red Raven football player Michael Hall passed away on Feb. 25 in Kansas City, Mo. Hall, who had battled cancer for nearly a decade, was inducted into the Coffeyville Community College Lettermen's Hall of Fame during homecoming this past October.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens started their spring practice schedule on Tuesday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Several Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens have selected their next college football destination.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Red Raven football Hall of Famer Dr. Howard Holbrooks passed away on Feb. 7 in Lawrence, Kan. He was 44.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens were well represented on the Jayhawk Conference Fall All-Academic Team.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Current San Francisco 49'er and former Red Raven Dashon Goldson saw his team's rally come up just short this past Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII.
Friday, January 11, 2013
The Coffeyville Red Ravens 2013 football schedule was recently released. Next season's schedule features five home games out of a nine game regular season schedule.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Former Coffeyville Community College quarterback Cayden Cochran was a key member of Valdosta State's national championship team this past season.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
For the second season in a row, Coffeyville Community College linebacker Martrell Spaight was named a first team NJCAA All-American.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Former Coffeyville Community College wide receiver Quinton Patton was named a second team NCAA All-American by the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Red Ravens awarded top performers from the 2012 season at an awards banquet held at the CCC Student Union on November 26.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sophomore linebacker Martrell Spaight added to his long list of accolades in his Coffeyville Community College football career. Spaight was named Jayhawk Defensive Player of the Year by league coaches.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens scored three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to cut a 31 point deficit to 10 points, but the Hutchinson Blue Dragons would bounce back to win 52-28 on Sunday in a Region VI playoff game played in Hutchinson.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens and Garden City Broncbusters combined for over 1,300 yards on offense on Saturday night in Garden City as the Red Ravens held on for a 54-47 win. The win clinched third place in the Jayhawk Conference for the Ravens with a 5-2 record.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Two former Red Ravens are mentioned in this week's NJCAA Week 9 Preview Article on the NJCAA web site. Reggie Nelson and Quinton both had big games last week and the NJCAA recaps their accomplishments.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Ravens won their fifth straight game of the season against Dodge City on Sunday, and two Red Ravens were honored as the Verizon Wireless/Jayhawk Conference Players of the Week for their efforts.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The Coffeyville Red Ravens scored 45 unanswered points on the way to a 52-13 win over the Dodge City Conquistadors on Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The game was postponed from Saturday night due to lightning associated with heavy thunderstorms, putting a damper on Coffeyville's homecoming festivities.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
The Coffeyville Community College Lettermen's Club inducted new members into their Hall of Fame during a banquet on Saturday afternoon in the Student Union. The Lettermen's Club inducted the 1975 team, running back Muhammad Abdulqaadir, offensive lineman Michael Hall, and cornerback Travis Fisher.
Friday, October 12, 2012
Windsor Place hosted the CCC football team and cheer teams for a pep rally during homecoming week.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Coffeyville Red Raven sophomore cornerback Brandon Willingham was named the verizon Wireless KJCCC Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts last Saturday night against Highland.
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You make some good points, but... [img]http://126.96.36.199/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
"The scenario you describe - Dc cancelling all its books and going reprint is a credible one. So credible that I suspect it has already been examined seriously by both Marvel and DC and rejected."
True. But Time Warner have new management, which means new thinking, and a new look at everything.
"If they were that desperate to save money and they rejected the obvious option of sacking 90% of editorial and going reprint there had to be a valid reason."
Marvel were more of an indepedant entity that was far more reliant on new comics for revenue. But they are hanging on for the killing they expect to make from the X-Men and Spiderman movies.
"1. The domestic publication of the new material may not make money but it underwrites the international sale of the rights. A mid-level Marvel or DC title may (I'm guessing here) make or lose a few hundred dollars doemsticly - then the company sells the material again in 5 or 10 different foreign markets (everywhere from South Africa to Poland to the Phillipines to Israel to Brazil)."
Yes, but they don't neeed new material to do that - in most countries comics are far more disposable, and turnover their audiences every generation. You could keep reselling the same 60 years worth of back catalogue for generations. In Europe this is what Disney do - they package up old material and keep it in print, because they know that new readers will keep coming in who have never seen it before.
"As I understand it, the companies work similarly to the movie studios - if you want Superman or X-men you buy a package which might include several less popular series as well."
True, but you don't need to keep coming up with new series to do this - sell the rights to Hawkman or Silver Surfer again instead.
"I also think it's misleading to say that DC hasn't produced a successful media property since the'40's. It depends on your definition of success. For example, Warlord was optioned for a movie (several times I believe) and was the basis of a toy line."
I think a Warner suit would define success as a property that brings in large, regualr amounts of money because it has lots of merchandising potential. When was the Warlord toy line? Late 70s? How many non comics fans (or even current fans) know who Warlord is, could recognise him, and would buy merchandise (which is where the real money is, as I'm sure you're aware) today. Not many. Warlord hasn't slipped into the zeitgeist, hence he is not terribly successful from a suit point of view.
""Steel" may have bombed as a movie but Dc probably earned a six or seven figure sum from it anyway. Ditto for the Human Target tele-movie."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Warner's still paid for them. DC may have made some money, but at the cost of another division (film, TV). Why prop up one division at the expense of another?
"Remember that "success" to corporate suits doesn't mean critical or artistic success or even a completed product - it means a positive dollar return to the bottom line."
I agree completely - but DC is a small fish in a very big sea at T-W, and the overall bottom line is far more important than that of one division.
"Half the comics on the stands today are there as prospectuses for movie and tv properties. Whether they actually turn a proift from the comic is largely irrelevant provided the company's overall hit rate is acceptable."
But DC's hit rate is negligible (in the 90s: the Batman movies, Lois & Clark, that's about it). Even when they sell their rights, they mostly get sold to Warner Bros or one of their subsiduaries - so T-W loses. Like I said - why bother publishing comics, if you're only making money out of old stuff anyway?
"One "Blade" movie pays for an awful lot of comics."
Yet Marvel are still massively in debt.
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A deputy from the Carson sheriff's station who was assisting in the service of a search warrant during a narcotics investigation in Los Angeles was bitten by a pit bull Wednesday.
The incident occurred around 1:35 p.m., but officials declined to say precisely where it happened.
The deputy was helping to contain six pit bulls when one of them became agitated and bit him on the right elbow area and his left middle finger, said Deputy Kim Manatt of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.
He was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released, Manatt said.
The dogs were removed by county Animal Care and Control officers, she said. It was unclear what would happen to them.
Detectives arrested three people on suspicion of felony narcotics violations and one for a parole violation, Manatt said.
- City News Service
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View Full Version : site not sandboxed but i'm not hitting for my keywords -SEO woes
05-01-2011, 10:57 AM
so i decided do start clickjacking another site, this one movie related. everything was fine for a few days. i was getting ~2000 uvs a day organic for the keywords i was targeting. i am still way ahead of the competition for my keywords but now my site is not ranking anyore. it is not sandboxed as site:"mysite" still shows results.
so google didn't "sandboxed" me but decided to stop ranking me for certain keywords?
what should i do. obviously remove the clickjacking script, but will google automagically start ranking me for those keywords again or is there another step i can take. please help DG, this is one of my bigger money sites.
05-01-2011, 12:14 PM
i just checked search.yahoo and ALL of the backlinks are just gone? everyone.
i used the xrumer services worldismine recommended and just pinged the fuck out of all the results. i was first page for weeks and now ALL of them are gone?
how did this happen/what can i do?
please help, i'm losing money quickly.
05-01-2011, 12:24 PM
I've always said in my latest threads NOT TO clickjack your main site. AV companies (and many others) are scanning websites and adding clickjackers to a blacklist daily. I've lost some traffic due to this also.
And never ping xrumer blasts to a site ... It's an instant red flag. Let google find them slowly... Takes more time but it's more natural.
05-01-2011, 09:21 PM
i know, i learned my lesson with clickjacking on my larger sites, but is there anything i can do? i mean i'm not sandboxed, just checked search.yahoo and ~200 of my backlinks already made it back but i'm still not ranking for my big keywords.
what can i do? thanks worldismine, your a boss.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to worldismine again.
yeah man some of my sites seem to have dropped off the serps as well and competitors "backup sites" are hitting the top... pretty weird.
05-01-2011, 11:44 PM
I say keep backlinking, don't stop doing what you were doing. Thats the worst thing you can do. Check your reffs for URLS from AV companies, if there are any, contact their support to have the site off the list (TELL them you were hacked, its worked for me and I was off the list)
Competitors can whine to Google on you if your backlinks are shit. BUT, Google is so swamped they never do manual reviews unless it's a high target keyword / site... But there is always that 1 in a million that someone reported you and you got punished. (which I doubt)
I would just continue as usual and wait. There isn't much you can do anyway except work on the site to make it better.
05-01-2011, 11:46 PM
If it makes you feel any better, one of my main sites vanished from page one about 2 weeks ago. I had the position for MONTHS... All unique content, lots of backlinks (more than competitors) .. I was like WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????
I kept doing what I was doing. Blast a few links, updated every 1-2 days.. Finally yesterday out of thin air I am back to the same position. Ugh, it sucks NOT to know what is causing this.
05-02-2011, 12:40 AM
^ thank you, it feels good to hear that at least.
im seeing my sites in google webmaster tools showing positions i should be ranking for, but i'm not. perhaps it will come back up... but who knows. google been pissin me off.
05-07-2011, 11:26 AM
Didn't Google recently change their algorithm? I seem to remember reading that they did and site owners were flipping out because a lot of sites dropped in rank all of a sudden. The change was supposed to help weed out "content farms"
I know if I don't keep building fresh links to my sites at least once a month everything will be fine for a few months and then I'll suddenly drop from page one to page two, three, four or worse all of a sudden. Once I get some fresh links it recovers though, usually within a month.
As for the Yahoo links I had the same thing happen a few weeks ago and now they're all back I think there might just be an issue with Yahoo or something.
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Validity of Offers: 01 Mar 2013 - 22 Dec 2014
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2013 is the year to connect with your family ancestry at The Malton, Killarney. If you have family roots in County Kerry, wish to organize a family...
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Evergreen in the News
- Evergreen Grad Shook the Global Austerity Debate
- National Survey Reports High Level of Student Engagement at Evergreen
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What’s here is unique in the country. It’s about a sense of self and where you fit in the world. You get the school to work for you, not the other way around.
See for yourself: Visit Evergreen
Go beyond classes, majors, and grades and experience your education the way you imagine it.
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"Rape is not a joke," said Ohio NOW President Jackie Hillyer, echoing a chant from a dozen protesters gathered in front of the Rhodes Office Tower in downtown Columbus Monday afternoon.
The rally was organized to urge Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to investigate and file criminal charges against a man shown laughing at a 16-year-old rape victim in a video that has become infamous in social media.
"We believe that Michael Nodianos should be charged with failure to report a crime," Hillyer said. "The 12-minute video clearly shows that he knew what was happening."
The protesters formed a delegation and carried a letter asking DeWine to file charges against Nodianos into the Ohio Attorney General's office. The letter was accompanied by 85,000 signatures from supporters of the National Organization for Women, Justice for Children, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the feminist group UltraViolet. DeWine welcomed the delegation into his office and asked them to voice their concerns.
Jackie Hillyer spoke to DeWine about a pervasive rape culture that encourages sexual assault by failing to treat it as a serious crime. "It’s a culture that needs to be changed," she said. "We need to tell these young men that rape is not something they can be proud of and brag about. We need to get to the place where the culture changes enough so that bystanders feel comfortable intervening.
"The worst thing about this crime in Steubenville is not that it's so awful and horrible and disgusting, but that it's so ordinary," Hillyer said. "It happens all the time, across the state and across the country."
More victims and bystanders would be willing to report rape if they believed something would be done to the perpetrator, she said. "We're asking you to be at the forefront of getting the change to culture right in Ohio."
"This is a crime that I take very, very seriously," said DeWine. I agree with you that we need to continue to try to improve the culture and how we work this crime. This is something that all of us have a responsibility to do.
"We are also continuing to investigate what happened after the rape occurred, to see if there is culpability for anyone else. It would be unfair for me at this point to focus on any one individual. We've had dozens of investigators in Steubenville. We've completed 30 or 40 interviews. Our job is to leave no stone unturned, and find out what else happened.
Failure to report a felony "is unfortunately under Ohio law only a 4th degree misdemeanor, which is quite shocking to me," DeWine said. "I think that's something the legislature needs to look at."
The trial of Ma'Lik Richmond and Trent Mays for the rape of the underage victim is scheduled to begin March 13 in the Jefferson County Juvenile Court. DeWine said he will announce in a press conference after the trial whether there will be any additional prosecutions.
"I think it's very important, not only for the state and the country, but particularly for the Steubenville community, to feel that justice has been done," DeWine said.
"Outside of the prosecution of individuals who may have been involved as bystanders or witnesses of this crime, what would you propose to do to change the perception of rape from a joke and something to brag about to something that's a very serious crime?" Hillyer asked.
"This is something that's not just the Attorney General's area," DeWine said. "I think we all have an obligation to change the culture. We all have a responsibility. Parents, schools, clergy—anyone who has contact with young people has an obligation to make it very clear how serious this is.
"I would hope that what we're doing in Steubenville now, the prosecution of two individuals, will show that this is no laughing matter. This is a question of human dignity. It's a question of personal rights. We believe that the evidence will show that this young woman's privacy, her human rights, were violated.
"Anybody who's seen the video, as I have, thinks it's disgusting," DeWine said. "But we're not just focusing on that individual. We've been looking at anybody else who has any involvement, not only in the actual crime itself, but also anybody who has culpability after the fact."
However, there are limits to what the criminal justice system can do, DeWine said. "We have a moral obligation, as well as an ethical and legal obligation, only to press charges where we think the evidence is actually there."
"I understand that the criminal issue is the focus, and that's your particular role here, said OSU professor Pranav Jani, who was part of the delegation. "But a lot of us are also acknowledging, like you said, that it’s a question of human dignity and human rights. We have to address an entire culture that says it's okay to objectify women in this way, that allegations of date rape are part of a feminist conspiracy. I believe that all of these are things we need to challenge."
"I agree," DeWine said. "One of the disturbing things is that this is not an unusual case. Incidents like this occur every week in this country." DeWine attributed much of the extra attention on the Steubenville rape case to the influence of social media. "One of the problems with this is that the victim continues to be victimized by some things that are written on the social media," he said.
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Add comment December 10th, 2012 Headsman
On this date in 1900, John Filip Nordlund was beheaded with Albert Dahlman‘s axe at Sweden’s Västerås County Jail.
The second-last person executed in Sweden (English Wikipedia entry | Swedish) was the author of an infamously fiendish murder spree aboard a ferry steamer crossing Lake Mälaren for Stockholm on the evening of May 16, 1900: shortly after the Prins Carl‘s departure from Arboga, Nordlund, armed with two revolvers and two blades, went on a rampage through the boat (Swedish link), shooting or stabbing everyone he saw.
The spree left five dead, including the ship’s captain, and several others wounded. Then Nordlund lowered a lifeboat into the water and rowed away with about 800 stolen kronor … and the opprobrium of the nation.
Nordlund stalks the Prins Carl, from this verse pdf (Swedish).
Police were able to track him from the descriptions of witnesses to a train station and arrest him the very next day. Their maniac would turn out to be a 25-year-old career thief, only released the month before from his latest prison stint.
Although captured trying to flee, Nordlund from the first projected resignation — even relief, writing his parents that he would be well rid of a society he had never felt part of. Certainly the sentence was in little doubt given the infamy of the crime (Nordlund was almost lynched after arrest), and the man made no attempt to defend himself or mitigate his actions in court, nor to seek mercy after conviction.
Nordlund was the third person executed in Sweden in 1900 alone, but there would be no more patients for Dahlman for a decade … until 1910, when Sweden conducted its first and only guillotining. The country has not carried out a death sentence since.
Besides being the penultimate executee in Swedish history, John Filip Nordlund is also the last man in Europe beheaded manually (rather than with Dr. Guillotin’s device) other than in Germany.
Also on this date
- 1852: Jose Forni, the first legal hanging in California
- 1718: Stede Bonnet, gentleman pirate
- 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham, the Queen's lovers
- 1796: Jose Leonardo Chirino, Venezuelan slave revolt leader
- 1937: Teido Kunizaki
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May 15th (F1plus Team).- An now the Formula 1 goes to the “Iberian Peninsula” for The Spanish Grand Prix. Most of the teams will keep bringing their improvements and developments to their cars, and Force India, will also try to put theirs into action.
Adrian Sutil at Istanbul Park
The team had planned for a new wing for Turkey, but the wet conditions did not provide the best opportunity to analyse that addition, so the team decided not to use it and leave for a another race.
There’s a possibility that to the new package will be put into practice for this upcoming race at Catalunya, but it might be delayed to Monaco.
The team seems to be pretty confident that the overall upgrade will give them the edge and become more of a threat to the big teams as well as a chance to officially lead the middle pack teams.
“When our new aerodynamic developments are in place, I’m confident we can take a step forward in terms of performance.” Vijay Mallya, the team’s Principal, added.
FORCE INDIA drivers and the Circuit of Catalunya.
Adrian Sutil Q&A
Which part of the lap is most challenging?
The first three corners are quite difficult. It’s a quick complex and it’s important to get turn one right to have the correct line through the next couple of corners. In qualifying trim, turn three could be taken flat.
What's the secret to setting a quick laptime?
The first and second sectors are high-speed and you need to have the right aero balance. But the final part of the lap is quite slow and the mechanical set-up is more important. The difficult thing is to find the golden middle.
Overtaking has always been difficult at Barcelona – will that change this year?
Yes, I think we should see some overtaking. There is a long straight and tyre degradation will be high. I’m sure the race will be a bit different to what we have seen in previous years.
Paul Di Resta shares his impressions about the upcoming Race.
I’m really looking forward to this weekend because I probably know Barcelona better than any other track on the calendar. We did two tests there in the winter and I had four days in the car so I already feel quite well prepared. In fact, it’s a track that all the drivers know like the back of their hand and the teams have so much data already.
It’s usually a race where all the teams bring upgrades so we will need to take a step forward if we want to stay in the mix. We evaluated a new front wing in Istanbul and we hope to have more steps coming through in the near future. The team has been working hard on this new concept and everybody is quite upbeat about its race introduction, so that’s something to look forward to.
The aim for the weekend is to hopefully get back in the points. We’ve been pretty close to the top ten in all the races so far this season, so hopefully we can stay in the hunt.
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Boys' Toddler Nike Sunray Protect
If your kids are crawling, they're old enough for their first pair of Nikes, and these super-stylish Nike Sunray Protect Toddler Slide Sandals have all the features you want (and then some) for when your little guy or gal.
Totally durable and ready for anything, these sandals are like personal bodyguards for tiny feet. They're prepared to protect no matter what. No-slip rubber wraps around the toe for superior defense against stubbing, and the lightweight cushioning makes them comfy enough for all-day wear.
What's more, a Spandex backing makes these sandals fabulously flexible and the Velcro fasteners offer an easy, one-step adjustable fit. Who knew something so tough could also be so comfy?
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Pat Catans Catalog
Pat Catans catalog is filled with exciting craft supplies that can be used for all of your project throughout the year. You can find everything you need to create beautiful Christmas packages, and small accessories for things like school projects are plentiful. Material to make new curtains is also available in a variety of prints in Pat Catans catalog.Go to Digital Catalog
Catalog Review... 2012 September Circulars
These September circulars from Pat Catans are all about embracing Fall and Halloween. Stocked with Fall decor and fun Halloween decorations, I'm sure you'll see something that catches your eye.
Halloween on page 1 shows you an 8ft tall hanging ghost for only $5 as well as a 60inch big black spider going for $10. The kids will enjoy those cute guys.
Page 2 brings Halloween drip candles for spooky candle arrangements... only $2. Spiced pumpkin paper sachets, non-wooven bags for collecting candy, 14inch wood skeleton and 60inch witch broom are also available.
Wrapping up the promo piece is that on Saturday, Sept 22, they are having a make a Fall pumpkin or bandana ghost event as well as Sept 29 is a Halloween wooden mask event for the kids.
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I do like the amount of shade in this piece, lots of grey in between all the black and white, tho I think it could do with some stronger white in this piece.
Pandora I am seeing a habit from you and I don't think it's for the best.
You seem to always place your focals too far to the left or right, always leaving so much empty space not played with. I would strongly suggest to use up more of the space/cut off half the dead space/ or move your focal more to center.
I also agree with the above comments, this image has too much topaz, it is very strong and makes important details look messy.
I would suggest leaving topaz out when it comes to rl images if you haven't got a good setting yet that you know how to manipulate.
Radi's one of a kind gift <3 ^My Wish List^
Originally Posted by OGbyDesign
yeah. Dont get me wrong, I love these, but you kinda gotta ask yourself why they decided to give you so much costume with your naked woman.
i agree with slave on this totally if u use topaz i wold wait till the end when u are done and dont want to do any more stuff to the tag and dont use too much then it doesnt look like a real person anymore it will look animated like in this one
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Shelves stretch across the walls of The Pottery Piazza Studio, abounding with more than 1,500 bisque mugs, plates, and figurines in need of decoration. Beside them sit stencils, brushes, bottles of paint, and more than 100 types of glaze. At the tables, clients adorn their blank bisque canvases with paint while sipping from their favorite home-brought wine. Staff members stroll up and down the store, eagerly awaiting their chance to offer advice on the best ways to design a piece, perform artistic techniques, or accidentally drop incriminating evidence into the kiln. During fairer weather, painters lay claim to the tables on the front patio, painting, snacking, and socializing alfresco style. Throughout the year, the shop hosts special events, including private parties, kids' summer camps, and BYOB ladies nights.
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Grey and Soggy
We've just lived through an extremely rainy and cold week in eastern Newfoundland. "Well, there can't possibly be much more rain up there to come down, can there?", I thought to myself this morning as I trudged to the office in the mist and the fog.
No such luck.
Fall was a beautiful time of year when we lived in Ontario, and I always wondered why I hated the fall so much when I was growing up. Now I remember. Well then, I guess it's time that I gave up on outdoor running and went back to the gym. Hrmph.
We did get a bit of a break from the rain (but not from the freezing cold) on Sunday for the Run for the Cure. I organized a team at my workplace this year, and 20 of us, including some family and friends, participated. Nick and I both ran the 5 km. It was his first organized run, and I beat my previous best time by a couple of minutes, so we're both pretty proud of ourselves.
Since the weather has turned so chilly, it is a good time of year to have a newly completed woolly vest. My Ivy League turned out just lovely, a perfect fit.
I knit it exactly as written with no modifications, which worked well for me because I'm short. The vest is a very nice addition to my fall work wardrobe. I definitely like this Fair-Isle business, and there will certainly be more of it in my future. Steeks aren't so scary - you just have to show them who's boss.
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Last year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National Rifle Association's Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told America, "The guys with the guns make the rules." After Jared Loughner ("You don't have to accept the federalist laws") took the NRA's advice to heart and shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and federal judge John Roll at Tucson--along with 17 other innocents--LaPierre took the stage at CPAC again on Thursday to deliver an angry, fear-mongering speech that seemed to call the very legitimacy of our government into question.
LaPierre's invective touched on a number of emotional touchstones for the Conservative Movement in the U.S. "Government has failed us with our money," he told CPAC attendees. "It's failed us with our financial institutions. It's failed in running our post offices and our trains. It's failed in enforcing our immigrations laws and our drug laws, and our laws on the books against violent criminals with guns. Heck, they can barely get the snow plowed." In LaPierre's revisionist history, it wasn't loose gun laws and violent politic rhetoric that led to Tucson. It was the government's creation of "gun-free zones" and "anti-self defense laws" that were at fault. Such policies, in LaPierre's view, "condemned the victims [in Tucson] to death without so much as a prayer."
For a minute, forget the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Forget that Arizona has some of the weakest gun laws in the nation, allowing individuals to carry loaded handguns in public without any type of permit or screening. Forget that an armed citizen was on the scene in Tucson, and nearly shot a good Samaritan who had already disarmed Loughner. Forget that the NRA described the Brady Bill as an "executioner's tool" and filed lawsuits in nine states to void it entirely (the Supreme Court wouldn't go that far, but did agree with the NRA in Printz v. U.S. that the federal government couldn't compel local police to conduct background checks on gun purchasers). Forget that the NRA has fought vehemently against the renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban, which includes a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Forget even that LaPierre's sole motivation is profit for the gun industry.
Forget all that, and let's look at the crux of LaPierre's speech -- a disturbing call for the privatization of law enforcement through the implementation of a militia movement untethered to government authority.
LaPierre opened his argument at CPAC with the familiar refrain that government is an "abject failure" that "can't protect us." He suggested that the United States is currently in a state of lawlessness, rattling off statistics about murder, rape, assault and theft and telling CPAC attendees, "As soon as you leave this hall, your life is in jeopardy." Simultaneously, he lamented budget cuts to police departments across the country.
But LaPierre isn't seeking to use his organization's political muscle to restore this funding. Instead, his formula for securing communities is the activation of neighborhood militias. Referring to the current situation in Egypt, LaPierre stated, "Anyone who thinks the Second Amendment is outdated had better take a look at what is happening in Egypt right now." His takeaway from the revolution is an idyllic fantasy about "[armed] citizens coming together, in the face of lawlessness, to protect their neighborhoods." This is in stark contrast to the rest of the world, which witnessed (and documented) the awesome power of nonviolence as a force for democratic change in Egypt.
LaPierre's homage to citizen militias sounds curiously familiar. Following Hurricane Katrina, the NRA promoted a conspiracy theory about mass gun confiscations in Katrina and compared New Orleans officials to Mao, Stalin and Hitler. In reality, citizens who decided to remain in the city were well armed, including a private militia in Algiers Point, a predominantly white neighborhood that remained relatively dry and undamaged. In the words of a Nation reporter, "They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about fifteen to thirty residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply 'didn't belong.'" Evidence indicates that at least 11 African-Americans were attacked and shot in the neighborhood as they attempted to reach a nearby evacuation zone. The militia members openly bragged about their exploits, stating, "It was like pheasant season."
Algiers Point showed that government is a necessary ingredient in ensuring public safety. Without an impartial mechanism to resolve disputes and enforce judgments, there can be no individual rights. When the government is not present to enforce the rule of law, there is no such thing as the presumption of innocence or the protections of the jury system. As historian Saul Cornell put it, "Without legal authority, a group of armed citizens acting on their own [is] little more than a riotous mob." While it may be true that private arms can provide a measure of self-defense, in Algiers Point we saw firsthand how "law-abiding" citizens with guns don't always do the right thing.
This theme is not without precedent--it was an animating factor in the drafting of our own Constitution. The idea that Second Amendment author James Madison would have embraced the NRA's radical anti-government ideology ignores both our history and the Founding Father's own words. When asked about the potential power of the federal government at Virginia's ratifying convention, Madison offered the following: "There never was a government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty. A government leaving it to a man to do his duty, or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all." Furthermore, Madison described the lawlessness of armed mobs during Shays' Rebellion as a "warning" to our young nation. In the Federalist Papers he wrote--correctly--that, "Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty as well as by the abuses of power ... The former rather than the latter is apparently most to be apprehended by the United States." Undoubtedly, Madison would have been deeply troubled by the extralegal aggression of the Hutaree and other contemporary "Patriot" groups.
On February 10, when Wayne LaPierre declared, "I have a right to protect myself [with a gun] ... I won't give up my right to exercise this freedom, not one single inch," he was indicating that might makes right, and government has no business refereeing private violence, no matter what the collateral damage. This is completely antithetical to the very concept of government, which serves to safeguard us from the brutal excesses of the state of nature. We must recognize that the NRA's insurrectionist ideology not only presents a grave threat to precious human life, but also undermines the very purpose of our Constitution.
Follow Josh Horwitz on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CSGV
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We are looking for an Assistant manager/ Manager- Quality, for a Telecom Operator client of an MNC BPO.
Please find the details of the requirement below.
Position - Assistant manager/ Manager- Quality
Client - A reputed MNC BPO with a headcount of more than 50000 employees
Location - Mumbai
Experience - 4-5 Years in Music Company/ with a content Provider/ Telecom BPO
Qualification - Preferably Full Time MBA from a reputed institute.
Salary - Best in the industry
- Responsible for testing Menus, Voice Recordings, Song quality and overall quality of service for the Value Added Services
- Manage the Team and allocate responsibilities
- Conduct regular Audits and Checks on the team and Quality Assurance
- Be a Single Point Of Contact for the client
- Maintain Schedule of the daily routine, Prepare MIS and other reports
- Create product calendar and Brief relevant teams on new products and services
- Identifying process gaps
- Monitor performance of platforms, products and services
- Responsible for customer invoicing and collections
- Coordinating with vendors and closing open issues
If you are interested, please send your updated resume with salary details to firstname.lastname@example.org
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what's hot in the photo marketplace
by Diane Berkenfeld
a. APPLE (www.apple.com) has added two new PowerBooks to its notebook line. The 17-inch model features a lightning fast 1GHz G4 processor, backlit keyboard, built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth, and SuperDrive to burn and play CD/DVDs. The 12-inch PowerBook G4 offers an 867MHz G4 processor, Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW), and built-in Bluetooth in a small size.
Manufacturer: Apple Computer Inc.
CANON (www.cusa.canon.com) expanded its line of portable LCD projectors with the new LV-5200. An SVGA projector that offers Canon's high-quality optics, a 1.5x motorized zoom, multiple interfaces, and quiet operation. The projector features keystone correction, Contrast and Cinema modes, as well as a wireless remote control.
Manufacturer: Canon U.S.A. Inc.
ROLAND (www.rolanddga.com) added the 74-inch Hi-Fi JET Pro II pigment-based printer to its line. The printer is also able to print with dye inks. The 74-inch Hi-Fi JET Pro II outputs up to 300 square feet per hour at 450 dpi and offers resolutions up to 1440x1440 dpi.
Manufacturer: Roland DGA Corporation
SONY (www.sony.com) expanded its line of Vaio notebook computers with two new models. The VAIO PCG-V505 series features Pentium 4 processors, wireless capability, and an integrated DVD/CD-RW drive. The VAIO PCG-GRV680 notebook offers a dual-format DVD recordable drive that works with the four most popular types of DVD media.
Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
FACES ON TIME (www.facesontime.com) has added a sports model to its line of custom photo watches. The sports model is available in two sizes with different finishes, dials, and bands. Faces On Time uses an image suspension process to place the image of a pet's photo between the watch dial and crystal. The pet's name or other brief inscription may be added. The watches are made by Endura, a member of the Swatch Group of Switzerland.
Manufacturer: Faces On Time
MITSUBISHI (www.mitsubishi-imaging.com) expanded its line of printers with the new CP-3020DU Digital Color Printer. The new printer uses dye-sub technology and produces prints up to 8x12-inches on both glossy and matte surface papers. The printer, which allows for multiple-size prints on a single sheet of A4 paper, can be used in-studio or on location for fast color printing.
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Digital Electronics
EPSON (www.epson.com) introduced three new portable multimedia projectors. The PowerLite 52c, PowerLite 53c, and PowerLite 73c feature sleek designs and each weighs only 6.4 pounds. Designed for use on the go, the projectors use Seiko Epson's three-LCD projection system for a high level of image quality, true colors, and sharp text.
Manufacturer: Epson America Inc.
DELKIN DEVICES (www.delkin.com) has announced that firmware for the eFilm PicturePAD is now able to recognize RAW files created by high-end digitalSLR cameras. The eFilm PicturePAD, a mobile storage device, features a built-in hard drive (ranging from 20GB to 60GB) for storing digital images and a color LCD screen for viewing. The firmware may be downloaded from the website.
Manufacturer: Delkin Devices
NIKON (www.nikonusa.com) is developing a new wide-angle F-Mount autofocus lens series exclusively dedicated to its line of digital SLRs. The first lens will be a Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G lens, incorporating Nikon's Silent Wave Motor Technology, ED Glass, and G-Type design for compatibility with each camera model's built-in Command Dial aperture control. Nikon will deliver the new AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens this April, incorporating Silent Wave Motor Technology, ED Glass, and manual/automatic focusing mode.
Manufacturer: Nikon Inc.
MINOLTA (www.minoltausa.com) has added to its line of digital cameras with the introduction of the DiMAGE F300, a 5-megapixel model. The F300 features a built-in 3x optical zoom Minolta GT lens with additional 4x digital zoom capability. Other features include exposure compensation, self-timer, noise reduction, movie and audio recording, and date imprinting. The F300 records Jpeg and Tiff files to SecureDigital and MultiMediaCards.
Manufacturer: Minolta Corporation
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Community Education designs, develops and implements a wide array of non-credit classes that enrich the lives of all ages, including youth and mature adults. Program Coordinators collaborate with area businesses and instructors to ensure the delivery of innovative programming as well as traditional classes and lectures.
Senior Expo on March 27, 2013
Not sure how to register?
Follow our easy guide on how to register for non-credit courses.
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I loathe the "comments" on this article and all the others - they really show how ignorant and judgmental our society has become. Joe Citizen is now an expert on everything, knows "what really happened", and/or has some obnoxious, purposeless comment to make. Our men and women in law enforcement, despite years of training and experience, become bumbling gumshoes simply because Joe Citizen watches CSI. More often than not, the posts are incredibly insensitive and hurtful. Undoubtedly, these individuals wouldn't have a thing to say in person - they use keyboards as their shields. This small "window" on society is another reason to wonder where America is going. I hope that the moderators can get this under control a bit because I rarely read the paper online anymore, due to the ridiculous posts.
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KWTX-TV uses an automated system for school delays and closings due to weather emergencies. This system allows each school district to enter information specific to its situation using the internet.
Only schools, colleges and major businesses will be displayed on television. All registered organizations are displayed on this page below.
To access the system, your organization must be registered with KWTX-TV. Once the form is received, your organization will be issued a user id and password to access the system via the internet.
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"I like this site. Easy to use and easy to navigate. I searched and found my computer battery in less than 30 seconds."
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of the handful of Dow Jones Industrial Average components scheduled to report quarterly financial results Tuesday, three handed in their third-quarter report cards: Coca-Cola Co., Johnson & Johnson and UnitedHealth Group Inc.
The other two blue chips slated to report — International Business Machines Corp. /quotes/zigman/230066/quotes/nls/ibm IBM +1.83% and Intel Corp. /quotes/zigman/20392/quotes/nls/intc INTC +0.42% — will do so after Tuesday’s bell.
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As of Monday, nearly 59% of the 34 S&P 500 index /quotes/zigman/3870025 SPX +1.03% companies that have reported third-quarter results had beaten earnings estimates, according to Thomson Reuters. Nearly 18% reported in line with expectations as roughly 24% came in below expectations. See: Stocks face first peak of earnings season.
Pandit steps down as Citigroup's CEO
Citigroup Chief Executive Vikram Pandit is stepping down, effective immediately, and will be succeeded by Michael Corbat.
Early companies of note
Third-quarter results showed Goldman Sachs swinging to a profit of $1.51 billion, or $2.85 a share, a reversal following its year-earlier loss, as revenue reached $8.35 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had been expecting a profit of $2.19 a share on revenue of $7.24 billion. Goldman’s year-over-year revenue growth in investment banking and in fixed income, currency and commodities client execution rose by 49% and 28%, respectively. Goldman’s board also approved a 9% boost in the company’s quarterly dividend to 50 cents a share, payable Dec. 28 to stockholders of record as of Nov. 30. See more on Goldman’s results.
Johnson & Johnson /quotes/zigman/230812/quotes/nls/jnj JNJ +0.73% posted a lower third-quarter net profit as adjusted earnings showed a slight increase to a consensus-beating $3.52 billion, or $1.25 a share, from $3.44 billion, or $1.24 a share, in the year-earlier period. The health-care and consumer-products company’s quarterly revenue climbed to $17.05 billion from the prior year’s $16.01 billion. J&J also updated its 2012 profit outlook and now pegs earnings in a range of $5.05 to $5.10 a share; the consensus stands at $5.08 a share. See more on Johnson & Johnson’s quarterly results and outlook.
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Coca-Cola Co. /quotes/zigman/222647/quotes/nls/ko KO -0.28% served up a third-quarter net profit of $2.31 billion, or 50 cents a share, up from $2.22 billion, or 48 cents, earned in the same period during 2011. Earnings on an adjusted basis would have been 51 cents a share for the latest quarter, as quarterly revenue reached $12.34 billion. The consensus of estimates as compiled by FactSet had been for the beverages company to post earnings of 51 cents a share on revenue of $12.39 billion. Global volume growth came to 4% for the latest quarter. See more on Coca-Cola’s results.
Third-quarter earnings for UnitedHealth Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/258846/quotes/nls/unh UNH +1.13% came in well ahead of forecast. The health-insurance giant posted quarterly earnings of $1.50 a share, up from the prior year’s $1.17 a share. The profit easily exceeded the $1.31-a-share consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The largest U.S. managed-care provider also generated 8% revenue growth in the September quarter, to $27.3 billion. In addition, the company revised higher its 2012 profit forecast to a range of $5.20 to $5.25 a share. The company became a Dow component in late September, replacing Kraft Foods and signaling the importance of the health-care industry to the U.S. economy. See more about UnitedHealth’s results and outlook.
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/238602/quotes/nls/pnc PNC +1.49% tallied 11% growth in third-quarter profit, to $925 million, or $1.64 a share, from the prior year’s $834 million, or $1.55 a share. Total quarterly revenue generated by the Pittsburgh-based company rose 15% to $4.09 billion. PNC’s overall credit quality improved on a sequential basis, as reflected in a decline in nonperforming assets as well as a lower provision for credits losses.
Mattel Inc. /quotes/zigman/75129/quotes/nls/mat MAT +1.30% posted third-quarter net profit of $365.9 million, or $1.04 a share, up from of $300.8 million, or 86 cents, earned in the year-earlier period, as the toy maker’s sales rose 4% to $2.08 billion. Strength in other brands compensated for quarterly weakness in Barbie sales, the results showed. The FactSet-compiled consensus had been for Mattel to turn in earnings of 99 cents a share on sales of $2.07 billion. Read more on Mattel results.
Inside the Softbank-Sprint deal
Softbank's $20 billion investment will put Sprint Nextel on a path to rival U.S. giants Verizon Wireless and AT&T.
After the bell
— Intel is expected to report third-quarter earnings of 50 cents a share, a fall of 23% from the same period a year ago. Sales may drop 7% to $13.22 billion. Intel’s report will arrive following last week’s revenue warning from chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. /quotes/zigman/216580/quotes/nls/amd AMD +6.27% , which cited weaker-than-expected demand as reason for the move. Read: Intel results on deck amid grim chip outlook.
Intel in September pulled back its own sales forecast for the third quarter because of weak demand, excess inventory, and slowing emerging-markets growth. The warnings from both Intel and AMD underscored issues facing companies that make PC components, including growing competition from tablets. See story on warnings from chip makers.
— Earnings for IBM are expected to jump 10% to $3.61 a share. But sales are expected to dip 3% to $25.39 billion.
Focal points for Big Blue’s results will likely be the software and global business services segments, “which both underperformed in the last quarter,” Stifel Nicolaus analyst David Grossman told clients on Monday.
For software, which represents 24% of IBM’s revenue, growth in the second half of the year “should benefit from improving ‘transactional’ sales performance as the June quarter progressed,” and from $2 billion in “healthy acquisition activity,” in the first half of 2012, Grossman wrote. Stifel Nicolaus has a buy rating on IBM. Read blog post: Will Big Blue get a bounce from its earnings report?
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Joe Alosso cleared by ethics panel
State commission found no conflict while on town boards
More than one year after it first authorized an inquiry, the state Ethics Commission has ended a probe into whether Joe Alosso of Oak Bluffs violated the conflict of interest law while he served on the Oak Bluffs board of health.
The state inquiry arose in connection with Mr. Alosso's construction of a four-bedroom house in 2003, and against the backdrop of Oak Bluffs's rough and tumble brand of personal politics.
Mr. Alosso, facilities manager for the Oak Bluffs and Edgartown wastewater plants, learned of the probe in an Ethics Commission letter dated Feb. 10, 2006, which listed five allegations stemming from his role as a public official who served on several town boards.
At the heart of the probe was the allegation that Mr. Alosso abused his position on town boards to gain approval of a house with four bedrooms, more than ought to have been allowed by existing regulations.
The letter announcing the end of the probe, signed by senior investigator Geeta McGrath, stated: "... on the basis of the staff's report, the Commission voted to terminate the inquiry. This ends the Commission's inquiry, and all records thereof shall remain confidential."
The formal letter contained a handwritten postscript to Mr. Alosso that said, "It's been a pleasure. Good luck."
Monday, Mr. Alosso told The Times that he felt a great sense of relief when he received the letter. "Everything I've ever done for this town has been for the benefit of the town. I've certainly never done anything unethical, and I'm relieved the state Ethics Commission has agreed," Mr. Alosso said. "I felt euphoric. It felt like a huge weight off my shoulders."
Mr. Alosso's sense of relief is tempered by the fact that he is appealing a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) ruling and fines stemming from his construction of the same house. The DEP filed a motion in 2005, claiming that Mr. Alosso violated eight state rules, including using his septic system before obtaining a certificate of compliance and building too large of a septic system for the size of his lot. He was ordered to pay $28,000 in fines.
Mr. Alosso hired a lawyer, Donald Nagle of Plymouth, and appealed the ruling. In October 2005, the judge in the case ordered the investigation to stop, in order to attempt to resolve the case without a hearing. A decision from the judge and the DEP is pending.
All along, Mr. Alosso has claimed that the previously existing house he replaced had four bedrooms. The question of how many bedrooms existed in the pre-existing house and the documentation surrounding the project are at the heart of that case. He maintains that there were four bedrooms in the house when he purchased the property, and that he had done nothing wrong.
Mr. Alosso's critics, including Oak Bluffs political figure Linda Marinelli and Jonathan Revere of West Tisbury, a political gadfly who acknowledged contacting the DEP regarding Mr. Alosso, found a willing sounding board at the Vineyard Gazette.
The two probes and the accusations against Mr. Alosso received frequent and extensive news coverage. "People tend to believe what they hear, and they tend to believe what they read," Mr. Alosso said of the Gazette's news coverage. "I think a lot of people assume guilt, without knowing the real facts behind it."
Mr. Alosso said that what he considered negative and unbalanced coverage has had a lingering effect on him and his family. "I think the Gazette coverage was negative coverage. I think it hurt my reputation," Mr. Alosso said. "I hope deep down that those people who really knew me...knew that the story was a bogus story to begin with. It's a price you pay when you're in politics and you have a public official's position."
At the time, Kerry Scott, current chairman of the Oak Bluffs selectmen, was among those who publicly questioned Mr. Alosso's behavior. On Tuesday, Ms. Scott said she preferred not to comment on Mr. Alosso's exoneration.
Mr. Revere said Tuesday, "I'm looking forward to Mr. Alosso's final day in court."
The ethics commission ruling did little to lessen the rancor and distrust that has permeated the on-going story. In conversations with a Times reporter, Ms. Scott and Mr. Revere questioned the origin of the postscript on the Ethics Commission's letter, and both implied that Mr. Alosso might be guilty of forgery.
"I really think this letter from this chief investigator bears looking into, as to whether she really put that on there. I find that really quite egregious," Mr. Revere said.
Wednesday, a spokesman for the Ethics Commission told The Times that while he could not comment directly or even acknowledge the existence of the letter it would not be unusual for the postscript as described to appear on a letter.
Summing it all up, Mr. Alosso said, "Politics can be a really nasty game, and if you don't agree with everybody, then people will attack you personally, they will attack your family, they'll attack your job, they'll attack you any way they can to further their agenda. And that's sad."
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Every iPhone comes with one year of hardware repair coverage and 90 days of telephone technical support. AppleCare+ for iPhone extends your hardware repair and telephone technical support coverage to two years from the original purchase date of your iPhone1 and adds up to two incidents of accidental damage from handling coverage,2 each subject to a $49 service fee. With AppleCare+ for iPhone, Apple experts can help troubleshoot issues over the phone or at an Apple Retail Store. They'll answer questions about iOS, Apple iPhone apps such as Mail, iMessage, and Calendar, and help you solve interconnectivity issues between your iPhone and Mac or PC. And if your iPhone needs service under the AppleCare+ for iPhone plan, Apple technical support representatives can even set up a repair during the same call3. AppleCare+ for iPhone is just $99.
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Searching for a rewarding career in NYC? There could be a position waiting for you at NYCEDC. ›
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert C. Lieber, Deputy Mayor for Operations Edward Skyler and Tishman Speyer today announced the beginning of construction of the first phase of "Gotham Center," a major mixed-use development in the heart of Long Island City, Queens. Two Gotham Center is to be a 662,000-square-foot, 21-story tower on the corner of Queens Plaza and 28th Street in Long Island City. The Class A office tower will be occupied by the City's Health Department and will include about 9,400 square feet of ground-floor retail space and more than 180 parking spaces. The $316 million project will replace the Queens Plaza Municipal Parking Garage. The Health Department will relocate a significant portion of its staff to the new building from many of its 15 locations in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The project, which will create about 1,400 construction jobs, is the first phase of the proposed 3.5-million-square-foot Gotham Center development.
"For decades, Long Island City has been talked about as an area with growth potential," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Today, both the public and private sectors are making real investments in Long Island City that are transforming it from an area of substantial possibility to one of considerable activity. Gotham Center will be a further catalyst for growth in the area, and Tishman Speyer's investment signals a great vote of confidence in the future of Long Island City and the City as a whole. At the same time, the relocation of Department of Health staff to the state-of-the-art facility will increase its operational efficiencies, consolidating units that are now dispersed. The new space will incorporate our new open space standards for City office space, designed to foster greater collaboration and a better workplace environment."
"Gotham Center and the City's investment in this first-class property are further proof of the ongoing transformation of the neighborhood into a vibrant business district for New York City," said Tishman Speyer President and Co-CEO Rob Speyer. "We thank Mayor Bloomberg and his economic development team, Comptroller Thompson and Queens elected and civic leadership for their dedication to promoting development in Long Island City. We would also like to thank our partner, the Modell family, and our construction lenders -Wells Fargo Bank, HSBC Bank, Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, Landesbank Hessen Thuringen and Bank of Ireland."
"Tishman Speyer's commitment to build Gotham Center on the site of the decaying Queens Plaza Garage is a testament to what the City has long known, that Long Island City is well poised for continued growth and development into New York City's fourth largest business district," said Deputy Mayor Lieber. "Gotham Center will transform the gateway to Long Island City's commercial core while catalyzing private investments and bringing much needed retail amenities to the area. This critical project required a tremendous amount of work from several agencies including EDC, City Planning, DCAS and OMB, and I congratulate them all on this project."
"The relocation of Department of Health employees to a state-of-the-art facility in Long Island City will help us achieve our goal of creating greater operating efficiency and enhanced work environments for City agencies," said Deputy Mayor Skyler. "Today, Health employees work in 15 different locations spread around Lower and Midtown Manhattan. Gotham Center will provide new space for many of them to be consolidated under one roof."
Locating many of the Health Department's non-field-based staff in this new building in Long Island City is in concert with the City's goal of locating agency headquarters where possible under one roof for operational efficiencies and improved work environment. The five-level garage was first occupied in 1976 and has been vacant since February 2008. Demolition has begun, and construction of the new office tower will start by the end of the year. The relocation of Health Department employees is expected to be complete in late 2011. The precise number of staff to be relocated has not yet been determined.
The Department of Health's new space in Two Gotham Center will use the new open space standards - designed to create a better environment while increasing efficiencies - already employed by several City agencies including the Department of Transportation, the Department of Education, the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and the Mayor's Office.
"The New York City Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System are proud to partner with the City of New York and Tishman Speyer on the development of Gotham Center," said New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. "The New York City Pension Funds are dedicated to investing in New York City's infrastructure. Long Island City is one of New York's premier emerging neighborhoods, and Gotham Center will serve as the cornerstone of the redevelopment of Queens Plaza. I am confident that this project will be a success for the neighborhood and the City as a whole, and a prudent investment opportunity for pensioners and beneficiaries."
"I congratulate Mayor Bloomberg and Tishman Speyer for making this investment in the future of western Queens," said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney. "Long Island City's many possibilities are starting to become reality. I look forward to seeing work get underway both atGotham Center and on renovating Queens Plaza itself. The $19 million in federal funds slated for Queens Plaza will turn this once-blighted area into a welcoming gateway to the borough."
"This long awaited project will bring much needed economic activity in grand new buildings at the gateway to Queens," said Queens Borough President Helen Marshall. "It proves that our efforts to bring jobs and renewal through rezoning works. It will join our other marquee successes in the area including the new Citicorp tower and the United Nations Credit Union. Our thanks to Mayor Bloomberg, Tishman Speyer and the Modell family for making this happen."
"Moving City offices to Queens Plaza is a good idea," said Council Member Eric Gioia. "As the City grows, we must look to neighborhoods outside Midtown or Downtown for offices, and Long Island City - close to mass transit, and in the midst of an economic, residential and cultural renaissance - is where we should be growing. We want development that creates livable neighborhoods where people can live, walk to work, do their grocery shopping, and send their kids to a good school."
"This is a double win for the City," said Economic Development Corporation (EDC) President Seth W. Pinsky. "In addition to jump-starting the redevelopment of Long Island City and realizing Mayor Bloomberg's vision of turning the area into our fourth central business district, this impressive project will also help one of the City's major agencies."
"I am pleased the DCAS Real Estate Services group worked so successfully as key members of the City Administration team on this project," said Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Commissioner Martha K. Hirst, whose agency handles leasing for City agencies. "This development furthers the City's goals of consolidating city agency operations and improving the work environment for our workforce. When Gotham Center opens, several thousand Health Department employees will be working together in brand-new space that is designed to meet their operational needs. The new offices will also incorporate the open-space office design that Mayor Bloomberg has championed in the Mayor's Office, the Department of Education headquarters and elsewhere, which can reduce costs and increase workplace effectiveness."
"New, professional office space for Department staff will help improve the work of the agency in protecting the public's health," said Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden. "We look forward to working with DCAS and EDC to ensure that this project is successful in benefiting the City and the Health Department."
"Only minutes from Midtown, Long Island City is poised to be one of the most dynamic and successful business districts in the City" said City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden. "The new Gotham Center and Long Island City's future and existing corporate tenants will also benefit from the city's strategic investment in re-landscaping Jackson Avenue and creating a new lush, verdant park at Queens Plaza."
Designed by Moed De Armas & Shannon, the dynamic new tower will incorporate green building technology and achieve LEED Silver Certification from the U.S. Green Buildings Council for its interiors, as well as LEED Certification for its core and shell. Other members of the development team include Gensler, architect of record, and Bovis Lend Lease, construction manager. Tishman Speyer was selected to acquire the property and develop the project as a result of a Request for Proposals issued by EDC. The New York City Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System will commit up to $9.3 million each in equity towards the project.
Long Island City is already home to an array of corporate tenants, including Citigroup and the UN Federal Credit Union. In addition, the City is undertaking substantial capital improvements around Queens Plaza and Court Square that will make the area more attractive to businesses and inviting to residents. The $40 million beautification project includes a new public plaza, new plantings, lighting, street furniture and a public median from Queens Plaza to Court Street and a greenway from Queens Plaza to the East River. These improvements, combined with its proximity to Midtown Manhattan and accessibility to seven different subway lines and numerous bus routes, will serve to attract new businesses.
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baby im callin to let you know not
to worry cuz theres nothin wrong
just need to get away by myself
so imma take the long way home
nothin can come between us please
understand I need room to breath so
imma take a little time for me
its not like I dont wanna be
around you but every now and then
I need a little time to (figure it out) its
not as bad as it seems (but i'll be alright)
just need a moment for me.
you gotta know I dont mean what
I say when a say somthin mean its just one
of those days (gotta figure it out) its not as
bad as it seems (I'll be alright) just need a
moment for me.
baby out of loneliness can get a little cold but
screamin fussin and fightin can get a little old
so I gotta take some time to myself stead of
puttin the blame on you (never met wit someone
else) (chante) so please I hope your not upset with
me just gotta get over this thing imma be good in a
minute imma get it right my baby.
its not like you dont treat me right, its not like you dont
have the time just gotta get away to clear my mind my mind
its not that I dont wanna see ya and I know you'll be right
there when I need ya baby i just need some time to clear
my mind, my mind.
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"He Lives!" Cross Make-A-Sticker Scene
good purchase for mailing
Good item to send in an Easter card.
April 5, 2010
Very simple and no mess craft
This is a quick and easy craft that almost any child can handle.
April 10, 2012
Smaller than expected
I agree with the last review i thought they would be a little larger but nice detail
March 11, 2010
Not What I Expected
Smaller than I expected. One thing I wish Oriental Trading would do is put dimensions on the products like this. The product is very attractive but smaller than looked on the page. Cross in about 4 inches tall and the stickers are maybe 11/2 inches square. While I would recomed the product just be aware of how small it is.
February 28, 2010
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Explore Little India from the PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road Singapore hotel
Consider the PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road Singapore hotel your trusted local companion in the heart of Little India. Known as the centre of Singapore's Indian community, the area is sure to enthrall visitors with its colour, gaiety, aromas and bustle. Experience the spirit of an ethnic neighbourhood brimming with culture and dotted with quaint shop-houses, or visit some of the most famous mosques in Singapore.
You will also discover a wide range of shopping options in Little India. Walk next door from your hotel to find a retail haven sure to satisfy any shopaholic, or wander among the charming stalls of Bugis Village where everything from handmade trinkets to local delicacies can be found. Embark on a shopping adventure at the 24-hour emporium-cum-department-store-cum Aladdin's cave Mustafa Centre, where you'll encounter every conceivable item within walking distance of PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road.
The PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road Singapore hotel's convenient location in Little India will provide you with easy access to several key attractions. For more information, please contact us today.
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Our Trixie Pepino Scratching Post will provide endless opportunities for cats to play, explore, scratch or just relax. Felines can sharpen their claws on the extra-thick sisal scratching post instead of on your furniture or carpet, giving them a healthy outlet for their scratching instincts. The top platform even has a removable ring-shaped bed that can be used separately. We've included a plush cushion insert for added comfort (machine wash gentle). There's even a dangling plush toy and rope for added fun. The neutral tones are easy to integrate into your home décor.
Internet Price: $119.99 Today's Price: $77.99 (Save 35%)
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Phone: 503-823-PLAY (7529)
1120 SW Fifth Ave., Suite 1302, Portland, OR 97204
Hoyt Arboretum (4000 SW Fairview Blvd)
Saturday, December 8 2012, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Buy a Winter Wreath from City Nature and send a youth to Nature Camp!
Event Types > Arts/Culture/Recreation
Tree prunings fromPortland’s parks are recycled into beautiful, festive wreaths. Proceeds help those with limited opportunities enjoy Summer Nature Day Camp!
Prices start at $20. We have a wide variety of sizes and styles.
Call 503-823-6303 with questions.
Wreaths are available at other locations around town! Plus we offer classes! Please see the flyer.
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The Vibroscreen is a large circular unitized gyratory screen with three-component multiplane mechanical vibration. Motion is induced by a motor with a double-extended shaft that is fitted at both ends with eccentric weights. The whole drive assembly is mounted on a circular base by rugged springs that allow the unit to vibrate freely, while the springs prevent transmitted vibration from reaching the floor area on which the machine stands. Screens can be mounted one on top of the other within the screening assembly.
(Pennwalt) MPE Group USA
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I think this pretty well sizes them up..........
Why Liberals are Stupid
Currently under construction on Avon Mountain in Connecticut (there are mountains in Connecticut?) is a house. It is slightly larger than the home built by Bill and Melinda Gates and is only 4,000 square feet smaller than the White House. It boasts a two-story basement containing a 103-seat movie theatre among other amenities. Total square footage: 50,900. It is the largest single-family residence in New England and it is owned by real estate mogul Arnold Chase.
America is the land of opportunity. You do the work and you get the rewards. Mr. Chase has done the work and therefore he deserves the rewards. If he wants to share, that’s his business. One would hope that he would have it in his heart to share some of this wealth, but there are no laws on the books in America requiring the wealthy to share their rewards with anybody – yet.
Of course if the stupid Democrats get their way, Mr. Chase will be mandated to share his 50,000 square foot house with low-lifes, bums and other social vermin.
It is the full intention of morons like Shrillary Rotten Clinton and Barack Osama-bama to take everything in the possession of the wealthy and just start handing it over to lazy, worthless, unproductive, leeches in America. And college professors backing this stupidity every step of the way. University of Connecticut sociology professor Susan Eisenhandler told the Associated Press, “Do you actually need to have that amount of space to live a good life? There are homeless people. There are impoverished people. There are serious social concerns, and we're not addressing that.”
Hold on while someone shuts off the “stupid moron” alarm. CLICK!
It is people like Professor Eisenhandler who are the ruination of America. The bleeding heart liberal bull**** is getting so deep that it’s getting harder and harder to accomplish anything in America anymore. Poverty is a choice, professor and it’s time you learn that. No doubt you, professor, are living in a two-story Colonial-style house somewhere near Storrs and you drive a Lexus SUV with leather interior to work wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Coach handbag. Your husband probably has a BMW 5-series sedan also with leather interior that he drives to his job in Hartford. Yet I don’t see you opening your home to the homeless and impoverished people of Connecticut. As Sean Hannity would say, “Professor, you’re a hypocrite!” And as I would say, “Shut your damn mouth!” The foundation of America is that anybody who can come up with the idea to make life better should be entitled to profit from his or her idea. What Professor Eisenhandler and her stupid liberal cohorts propose is socialism and communism.
Consider these questions: In what nation was the airplane invented? In what nation was the automobile perfected? In what nation was the vaccine for polio discovered? In what nation was penicillin discovered? In what nation was the light bulb invented? In what nation was the telephone invented? In what nation was the Internet established?
The answer to all of those questions is The United States of America. Not Russia, not China, not Japan, not India, not any nation in Europe. The United States of America. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the industrial revolution only happened in the last 230 years because of the innovation that was allowed to reign freely in the United States? Without that kind of freedom, we would still be riding horses, writing with quill pens and inkwells, burning candles for light, chopping wood with an axe and all dying by the age of 40 from diseases that have no cure.
It is because of the free-enterprise system of America that the entire world is a better place. Stupid liberals don’t want to believe that because they are invested in the total and unilateral defeat of America on all fronts – military, social and economic. They will not rest until the United States is the same desolate, hopeless, rundown, bankrupt nation that was once the Soviet Union and East Germany. When that happens then everyone will be homeless and impoverished. That must be what stupid liberal Democrats really want.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
and Jonathan Riskind firstname.lastname@example.org
Washington Bureau Chief
Angus King answers questions during an interview Tuesday at the Press Herald offices in Portland.
John Ewing/Staff Photographer
King would top Pingree, Summers, poll indicates
WASHINGTON — A poll released Tuesday by a national firm indicates that independent former Gov. Angus King Jr. would narrowly win a three-way race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and Republican Secretary of State Charlie Summers.
In Public Policy Polling's survey of 1,256 Maine voters, King got 36 percent of the vote to Pingree's 31 percent and Summers' 28 percent.
King would take 35 percent of Democrats' votes, 53 percent of the votes from independents and 25 percent of the GOP vote, the poll indicates. But King might have to pledge to caucus with Senate Democrats to get that type of support, according to the poll.
While 51 percent of his supporters said they want King to caucus with Democrats, just 25 percent want him to caucus with Republicans. Independents favor King caucusing with Democrats by 40 percent to 27 percent, the poll indicates.
"Angus King and Chellie Pingree look like the early favorites in Maine," Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, said in a prepared statement. "King will have a hard time holding onto his early Democratic support without a pledge to caucus with the party if he's elected to the Senate."
The poll included 550 Democratic voters who usually vote in primaries and 369 Republican voters who usually vote in primaries.
It was conducted from Friday through Sunday and had a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points for the entire survey, 4.2 points for the Democratic sample and 5.1 points for the GOP sample.
The poll, done by automated phone interviews, was not authorized or paid for by any campaign or political party, said Public Policy Polling.
– Jonathan Riskind
POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS
These people have taken out nomination papers for the two U.S. House seats and one Senate seat that will be on Maine's ballot in November. The list does not include people who have expressed interest but not taken out papers, or those who took out papers but later withdrew. Party candidates need at least 1,000 valid signatures for the House seats and 2,000 for the Senate seat by March 15. Independents have until June 1, the date of Maine's primaries.U.S. SENATE
JOHN BALDACCI, MATTHEW DUNLAP, CHELLIE PINGREE, BENJAMIN POLLARD,
RICK BENNETT, MARGARET BYRNES, KAREN CARRINGER, GLEN CRAIG, SCOTT D'AMBOISE, DEBRA PLOWMAN, BRUCE POLIQUIN, WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, ROBERT SEELEY, MICHAEL STODDARD, CHARLIE SUMMERS
JULIA CARLSON, ANDREW IAN DODGE, ANGUS KING, AARON MARSTON, SEAMUS MAGUIRE, VERNE PARADIE JR.
HOUSE DISTRICT 1 (SOUTHERN MAINE)
PHIL BARTLETT, SHENNA BELLOWS, PETER CHANDLER, DAVID COSTA, CYNTHIA DILL, JON HINCK, BARRY HOBBINS, DAVID LEMOINE, HANNAH PINGREE, WELLINGTON LYONS, BRENDAN P. RIELLY, DIANE RUSSELL
PATRICK CALDER, JON COURTNEY, MARKHAM GARTLEY, ARTHUR KYRICOS, DEBRA REAGAN, JOHN VEDRAL
HOUSE DISTRICT 2 (CENTRAL/NORTHERN MAINE)
MIKE MICHAUD (INCUMBENT)
Former Gov. Angus King Jr., on his first full day as a declared candidate for the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday that he would consider dropping out of the race this fall if it appeared that he could not win.
"I am certainly not interested in being a spoiler and changing the dynamics of the race," the independent candidate said in an interview with The Portland Press Herald. King said he wouldn't be running if he didn't think he could win.
One factor in Pingree's decision is whether a three-way general election that includes her and King could split enough Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent votes to throw the race to a Republican.
In an interview, Pingree alluded to Maine's 2010 gubernatorial race, in which Republican Paul LePage won a close election over independent Eliot Cutler, with Democrat Libby Mitchell finishing third.
"That is the outcome I would not like to see," Pingree said.
Pingree also said the prospect of giving up her 1st District House seat, which she would be favored to win for a third term, also factors into her decision, now that King is in the race.
Pingree said she has talked about the race with King but they have made no deals.
"People end up deciding whether or not they want to run for office for the reasons that are important to them, and it's always good to stay in the conversation with people," she said, "but it doesn't mean that everyone gets in a back room, smokes some cigars and a deal is cut."
Pingree was gathering information and awaiting results from a poll that was supposed to be completed Tuesday night by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Her husband, S. Donald Sussman, a frequent Democratic donor, is buying a 5 percent equity stake in MaineToday Media, which owns The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, the Morning Sentinel in Waterville and other media outlets.
Former Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, also is considering running for the Senate seat.
The leading Republicans in the race appear to be former Maine Senate President Rick Bennett, state Attorney General William Schneider, state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, state Sen. Debra Plowman of Hampden and Secretary of State Charlie Summers.
Party candidates have until March 15 to submit at least 2,000 voter signatures to get on the June 12 primary ballot. Independents have until June 1 to submit at least 4,000 signatures to get on November's general election ballot.
Snowe, who has held the Senate seat since 1995, surprised the political word last week when she announced that she would not run for re-election. She expressed frustration about working in the Senate, which she said has become dysfunctional because of the polarization of the political parties.
King said Tuesday that he respects Snowe for making that decision. He said Mainers should express their frustration with party politics by sending an independent to Washington.
King would have a clearer path to victory without Pingree in the race. In addition to the political calculation, there is a personal one: King and Pingree are friends. King spent last Thanksgiving with Pingree and her family and close friends at her home in North Haven.
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Risk and Business Cycles
New and Old Austrian Perspectives
By Tyler Cowen
Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge – 174 pages
Risk and Business Cycles examines the causes of business cycles, a perennial topic of interest within economics. The author argues the case for the revival of an important role for monetary causes in business cycle theory, which challenges the current trend towards favouring purely real theories. The work also presents a critique of the traditional Austrian theory of the trade cycle. This controversial approach will ensure that the book is of interest to all those involved with business cycles, as well as Austrian economics.
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Your Secure, 24-Hour Personal Investment Centre
DS Online allows you to easily keep track of the progress you’re making towards your financial goals from any computer with a secure Internet connection.
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CLAIM TO FAME The first to take three championships in a row (1976--78), Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times, including in '68 (right). His duel with Bobby and Donnie Allison on the backstretch at Daytona in 1979 became one of the defining moments in NASCAR history.
MY DAD USED TO TAKE ME TO THE RACES WHEN I was a kid, and I just fell in love with them from the first time I went. I never have lost that love. I started off in a soap box derby when I was 10 years old [in Darlington, S.C.]. That was before they had go-karts. I built my first race car when I was 15 and raced on the short dirt tracks in the Carolinas. I got hooked at an early age. I still watch every race on television. I'm still a big fan.
There were some tough times in my early days as a driver. I had a wife and a young daughter, and we spent a lot of nights at the Holiday Inn. That is, in the car in the parking lot at the Holiday Inn.
As time went on I started getting better rides. The head of racing for Ford Motor Company, Jacque Passino, had an eye on me, even before I knew it, and he gave us a little help. When Herman Beam hired me [in 1963] to drive his race car—my first major team—Jack gave us parts and pieces. That made a big difference.
There were a lot of good moments [in the '70s] driving for Junior Johnson. We won a lot of races; we won a lot of poles. We had a good team. All three championships were special, but that first one was the real special one. It was the first for me and the first for Junior Johnson. Jimmie Johnson came along and broke my record—but didn't it last a long time?
What made the people I raced against special is they all had to be tough. To be able to run the long races that we ran with no air conditioning ... the cars were extremely hot. You had to be tough to run all day under those conditions.
Today's cars have so much downforce and so much more aerodynamics. The cars we drove back then didn't have any of that stuff. You had to be an excellent driver to do what we did with those cars. We were running faster than they are now with cars nowhere near [as technologically advanced as] what they got now.
At Daytona in '79 my take on the whole thing is, I knew I could beat Donnie, and instead of waiting to do it on the last lap, I should have just gone on and passed him [earlier] and had it over with. But the way it turned out was the best thing that happened to NASCAR. About half the country was snowed in that day, and people were watching racing who had never watched racing before. When they saw the excitement, they became race fans. It seemed like NASCAR's fan base probably doubled or tripled after that day.
It means an awful lot [to be in the Hall of Fame]. I started off on short dirt tracks and just climbed the ladder. Being inducted into the Hall of Fame is the last step on that ladder.
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November 5, 2011, Saturday, 8PM
November 6, 2011, Sunday, 2PM
Mt. View Center for the Performing Arts
Mountain View, California
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE at Mt. View Center for the Performing Arts
Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, considered by the San Francisco Bay Guardian having produced one of the best dance performances in 2010 is now creating a new passion-filled production that premieres this November. The esteemed company produces imaginative shows that utilize the talents of local and international artists, teach and mentor the younger generation, and maintain strong ties to the traditional dance communities of Spain.
This November, Theatre Flamenco celebrates four decades of artistic evolution and perseverance with the world premiere performance event “45 Años de Arte Flamenco” (45 Years of Flamenco), a tribute performance that reflects Theatre Flamenco’s creative progression and the evolutionary art of flamenco dance. The transition in styles – whether it is music, dance, costume and instruments – represent the growth and maturity of the society that connects with this art.
Carola Zertuche, Theatre Flamenco’s Artistic Director, confronts the traditional anniversary retrospective from a wide angle. “45 Años de Arte Flamenco” (45 Years of Flamenco) is rooted in the soul of flamenco with an eye on the past, present and most importantly, future. Rather than present highlights from the company’s extensive repertoire, Zertuche will feature her world premiere productions, and pay tribute to the traditional dance performance of the founders through a series of original works inspired by Theatre Flamenco’s legacy.
Four dancers – Carola Zertuche (Artistic Director), Manuel Gutierrez, Juan Siddi, and Cristina Hall- will be joined by five musicians and two singers in a remarkable event that looks back at the roots of flamenco to the modern style we enjoy today. Gypsy singers José Cortes and Kina Mendez will be accompanied by percussionist Sudhi Rajagopal, pianist Alex Conde; violinist Treggar Otton; cellist Jesse Wolff. For this concert, Theatre Flamenco is especially honored to present master guitarist José Luis Rodriguez, in performance with the company.
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Natural History Courses to Inspire
The Field Studies Council (FSC) is pleased to announce its exciting new programme of natural history courses for 2013, presenting a unique opportunity to learn and be inspired by the natural world.
The 2013 programme has a wide range of courses to help discover all aspects of nature from walking and exploring the countryside to more specific courses on plants and animals from winter birds to wild flowers.
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Each Centre location has been carefully chosen for its stunning surroundings and wealth of wildlife in the nearby area.
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There are getting popularity great Couder's experiments about classical objects having wave-particle duality: oil droplets on vertically vibrating liquid surface - constantly creating periodic waves around. interaction with these ("pilot") waves allows us to observe 'quantum effects':interference pattern in double-slit experiment (particle goes a single trajectory, but it interacts with waves it created - going through all trajectories), tunneling depending on practically random hidden parameters (highly complex state of the field) or orbit quatization condition - that particle has to 'find a resonance' with the field - after single orbit, its internal phase has to return to the initial state.
It's difficult to find good intuition about these experiments from only static pictures - the first time I had occasion to see videos was recent congress on emergent quantum mechanics where Couder had the opening lecture and most of speakers were excited about these experiments. Fortunately I've recently found a youtube video of these experiments:
Some free materials: two-slit experiment paper, Europhysicsnews general paper, slides.
The main qualitative difference with microscopic physics is that while Couder uses external clock, particles should rather have internal one - such understanding of wave-particle duality was started by de Broglie in his doctoral thesis:
that with particle's energy: E = mc^2
comes some internal periodic process: E = hf
It is reminded in very interesting Hestenes paper, in which there is also described recent experimental confirmation of this effect (called e.g. zitterbewegung): http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-f..._time_essa.pdf
Such internal periodic motion creates periodic wave-like perturbations of surrounding field - giving localized entity also wave nature ... localized constructions of the field are called soltions, so it suggests to search for particles solitons models, which often have such internal periodic motion, like breathers.
What do you think about these experiments? About such understanding of wave-particle duality?
Have particles both natures simultaneously, or maybe only one of them in one time?
In such case, when and how it is switched? What about Afshar experiment?
update: there has just appeared proceedings (with summarizing article) from mentioned recent Emergent Quantum Mechanics congress in Vienna in which Couder had the opening lecture: http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/361/1
update: good fresh 108 pages presentation http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~coll...der/Couder.pdf
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I bet you haven’t seen anything like this before:
WE TURNED THE WHOLE WORLD INTO AN OPTICAL ILLUSION!
ThinkInvisible is a unique trivia game where you can discover how you imagination works and what your brain is capable of.
Browse through 9 unique sets of pictures, pick one that looks promising and try to recognize it by the small parts we show you. Think of it as a spotlight: it’s showing you only the most important details, forcing your brain to uncover and complete the rest!
By mixing up optical illusions with a puzzle game, we created something so genuine that you have to try out if you’re into unique things.
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A logic puzzle board game for the PC
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A logic puzzle board game.
Guaranteed to make your neurons fire faster. This little strategy game is great fun for hours, weeks, and years to come. Bang your head against 4 challenging levels of play and enjoy different backgrounds and colors.
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hey everyone, i just joined this gym two weeks ago. i have never felt better in my life. first time i have decided to do something for myself for a change and honestly i'm very glad that i chose vie fitness centre to make that change for the better for myself. the staff members are fantastic people, who are always ready to help you out when needed, and they're presance and appearance is always very welcoming. the gym has both a unisex section downstairs and a women's only section upstairs. the changing area and the toilets and showers are always clean. the sevice is always very friendly indeed. and the great part is they have a cafe right next to it called "cafe on the rox" full of healthy stuff to eat as well as your cakes for the sweet tooth, which gives you a great reason to catch up with your friends and have a coffee before or after you do your training or your classes. i have become much more energettic, much more vibrant and full of life, and feeling great and constantly smiling since i've made the decision to join the gym. i wish i had done it sooner. i love all the classes especially pilates and express abbs. the instructors are very encouraging and motivating. and i love the way they explain everything in detail so that you are doing it the right way. bottom line is don't tell yourself lies if you want results and you want to acceive your goals just get up and go. just do it. don't make excuses, instead make and appointment now to have a fitness examination and join this fantastic gym today. you wont regret it. i don't.
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BOSTON — Ian Bowles, the state's top environmental official, is stepping down.
"I've got a number of entrepreneurial ideas that I want to pursue, things like making energy efficiency something that homeowners have more options to peruse," Bowles said. "So I'm interested in the entrepreneurial side of it. So I think I'll continue working on the same issues that I care a lot about, but I'll do it on the private side."
When Gov. Patrick first took office four years ago, Bowles says the goal was to align the state's energy, economic and environmental policies. He hoped to reduce energy bills while also driving down greenhouse gas emissions.
Bowles says the effort has been successful -- beginning with the state's energy-efficiency program, which is expected to save residents $6 billion in energy costs over three years.
"When we took office, green buildings were an exception and a cause for a press release, now they are very much the norm for hospitals, universities and others," Bowles said. "So I think we are making a transition to where clean energy is a central part of our state's identity."
In a statement, Gov. Patrick called Bowles a" star" of his administration's last four years. And Bowles says that the governor's reelection now secures their green and renewable energy agenda for the future.
Gov. Patrick has announced that Rick Sullivan, the head of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, will replace Bowles in January.
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BLIND AS BATS. (Halloween night, 1998) Instead of disguising ourselves for
Halloween, we bagged our bottles...and flitted over to a friends for a bang-up
dinner and blind tasting.
No mischief here just some of the best wines Ive
tasted all year, including a couple of tricky ringers that won their flight.
FLIGHT 1 is Alsace whites, accompanied by a
wickedly tasty pumpkin soup:
WINE 1. Very light gold and initially very tight in the aroma
department. But take a sip and WHAM what a wine! Incredibly thick, highly
structured, with a finish that went into Sunday. A huge bowl of roses. I figure it has to
be ***+ZIND-HUMBRECHT 1994 CLOS WINDSBUHL GEWURZTRAMINER (no, not a tough
guess, since I brought it). My #1of the flight and the group pretty much agrees.
WINE 2. About the same color as wine 1, but much leaner and mellower.
Seems to be out of its peer group, emphasizing melon flavors instead of classic Alsace
Gewurz flavors. Not a bad wine, but definitely the odd one out. Sure enough, it turns out
to be MARTINELLI 1996 GEWURZTRAMINER DRY SELECT. Nice try, California,
but no one does Gewurztraminer quite like Alsace. My #3 of the flight.
WINE 3 is the darkest, softest and sweetest of the flight. Soaring
lychee and rose petal aromas. Softer, more lush, more flavorful than wine 1. Well yes,
its Gewurz, but lets get specific. I guess Albert Mann. Nope, I shouldnt
have showed off. Its *** ZIND-HUMBRECHT 1989 HEIMBOURG VENDANGE TARDIVE.
A couple of folks pick it for number 1, but I rank it second by a whisker.
IN BETWEEN COURSES, we taste another blind
white, very different from all the above. Peach and apricot flavors. I suspect Viognier,
but note its not quite as thick and slippery as Id expect from this varietal.
But wait, lets consider what we just tasted. Okay, and I make the palate correction.
Yes, I say, Viognier, and sure enough its *VERNAY 1996 CONDRIEU LES CHAILLEE
DE LENFER what an appropriate name for tonight!
FLIGHT 2 is served alongside a
fantastic-tasting, feather-light shrimp mousse. Its supposed to be all Chardonnay,
WINE 1 sure isnt! Deep gold with a huge nose of honey, spice and
orange peel. Definitely not a Chard. I knew just from swirling it that this wine would
overpower my palate, so I waited to taste it last. When I did, big sugar and botrytis
flavors took charge totally. Okay. I guess its a botrytis Semillon-Sauvignon blend
and I love it. Turns out to be *RAYMOND-LAFON 1986. I dont rank it
as part of this flight, but put it aside for dessert.
WINE 2 is light gold and decidedly Burgundian. Very complex, developed
nose. Plenty of oak, nuts and lots of fruit on the palate. We debate this wine a lot. It
actually tastes a lot like a mature Mt. Eden to me could this be a California
ringer but its so long and loud, I figure it must be something rarer. Yes it
is. **NEILLON 1991 CHEVALIER MONTRACHET! Yet, believe it or not, my #2 in
WINE 3 is about the same color as wine 2 and I figure this one just
has to be Burgundy. Starts out shut tight but then opens gradually to a subtle fan of
flavors and an almost hurtful sting of fruit on the finish. This is a tight, tight, great
young wine. I hear whispers about Verget, but theres really not enough oak here.
Canny Michel is about to guess, then says "I believe this is a great producer."
Well guess what. Its **FLOWERS 1995 CAMP MEETING RIDGE and
the table buzzes with astonishment. I feel humiliated. After all, I tasted this wine just
a week ago! # 3 of the flight, just behind the Neillon Chevalier. I gotta find some of
WINE 4 sneaks up on me. At first I dont like it. Tight, almost
soapy aromas. But that phase passes and I get perfumed oak, then a flinty blast of mineral
flavors and a long, long stony tail. Oh YES! But what is it? The mineral flavors are so
pure that Im tempted to guess a great Chablis, but its really ***COMTE
LAFON 1991 MEURSAULT DESIREE and easily my #1 of the flight.
FLIGHT 3 is served with char-grilled steaks.
All Pinot Noir and the most devilishly deceptive flight of the evening.
WINE 1 is medium ruby, light at the rim, and if this isnt
Burgundy, well, I give up. The funky, sweaty nose could hardly be anything else. Leathery,
gamey and you know what? really good! Its **MUSSY 1990 POMMARD.
(Les Epenots? Didnt get to see the label!) Tied for my #3 of the flight.
WINE 2 might have won the flight if it had been more open. Deep ruby,
with classic, down the middle Burgundy flavors, but a tannic clamp on the palate. Swirl,
swirl, swirl yep, heres more but I have to give up and go on. Spicy,
pure raspberry fruit. Very focused. Most flawless, perhaps, of the flight. Ill put
it alongside Wine1. Its **MEO-CAMUZET 1991 AUX MURGERS. Would like
to revisit this wine in a few years.
Theres nothing so elusive about WINE 3. Darkest wine of the
flight and kicking tail. Aromas of raspberry, plums, spice. Very ripe and all about deep,
deep fruit. I think I can tell what it is I brought it but lets play
the game and shut up. Folks vote it a Burgundy and #2 in the flight. Hah! Its
***1992 BEAUX FRÈRES.
WINE 4 is also deep red, but much funkier than wine 3. Cinnamon and
leather alongside the fruit. Nice wine, but compared to the others, a little dull.
Its 1988 ADELSHEIM ELIZABETHS RESERVE. Not bad at all for an
88 Oregon Pinot, but not in a class with the others. Last in the flight.
And yes, there is a WINE 5 and oh, what a winner. Very, very
sexy fruit plus exotic spice, flowers, berries, you name it. Michel comments that
theres even a hint of Chardonnay on the nose. "Close your eyes and smell
it," he says. Hes right. Could this be a Leroy? Ponsot? Who knows? But
its no contest this is my WINE OF THE EVENING. Then off
comes the cloak and tada! Its ***+WILLIAMS-SELYEM 1986 ROCHIOLI VINEYARD.
What an amazing Pinot Noir!
We finished up with Creme Brulee, the remainder of the
Raymond-Lafon and a sensational 1976 **DE FARGUE. If you didnt love
the wines, food and company tonight, well, boo on you, child!
BISTRO BEAUTIES. (October 30, 1998) A back-in-action Phylis and I repaired
to our local bistro last night. We found it mobbed populated by, among others, the
staff of Chaddsford Winery, who were celebrating the close of what promises to be a
memorable harvest. (DIGRESSION: Weve had an unusually warm and dry October here in
Pennsylvania, and our summer was sunny , but not overly hot. Winemaker Eric Miller says
the grapes were tasting fantastic.)
Anyhow, we did finally nab a table, and proceeded to open:
**NEYERS 1997 CHARDONNAY CARNEROS "EL NOVERILLO VINEYARD".
First bottling from the vineyard for Neyers and what a sexy lady it is. Like a barrel
sample? Yes, and I like barrel samples. Cloudy, yeasty, but shows real class on the attack
and has decent grip on the mid-palate. The main show is the fruit platters of it,
ranging from mango to citrus. This may be the most complex wine Ive tasted yet from
*LYNMAR 1996 QUAIL HILL VINEYARD PINOT NOIR. Medium ruby color leads
me to expect something, but theres plenty of pure, focused, cherry fruit on the
palate and a decent finish. Oak is a bit overdone a slight taste of ashes pokes
through now and then but this is a minor flaw and the wine may well integrate
better in another year. All in all, a very satisfying Russian River Valley Pinot, and
decent value at $27. I also bought some of the Reserve from this vineyard and now
cant wait to taste it.
CANT GET ENUF...(October 26, 1998) ...o dat Cantemerle! Nine years
out, the *1989 CANTEMERLE still needs a few more to be called easy
drinking. But haul out the big Riedels, be patient, and here come the chocolate, minerals
and roasted meat. One glass is not enough. Sipped another after dinner while munching
peanuts and watching the biography of Joan of Arc. Call me a heathen. It worked.
GIMME ANOTHER MERLOT! (October 23, 1998) Ye who scorn the Napa Valley
product, get humble if you plan to sample **PALOMA 1994 MERLOT. Dark as molasses,
its too young yet to sing the high parts of the National Anthem, but the bass notes
are ringing loud and long tonight. Needs red meat, 2 hours decanting or 5 more years in
BOGART THAT BORDEAUX! (October 24, 1998) Even wine-maniacs can get tired of
I mean, I attend a lot of dinners where we open loads of
different wines and they can be fun.
Sometimes at these affairs I catch myself wishing that I could
just grab a bottle of the legendary best, Bogart it for the rest of the evening, forget
about taking notes and relax with my dinner.
So thats what we did last night at Mortons in
Just a few bottles. Just the best. And just heaven.
First, with the bacon-wrapped scallops, a white:
***MARCASSIN 1992 GAUER RANCH UPPER BARN. Its nice in a
melancholy way when the last bottle in your bin is the best. This one was just where I
wanted it. Fruit is still huge, but all the oak has been soaked up and the splinters
sanded off. 45 seconds of creme brulee on the finish.
Then onto the main thing. Serious Bordeaux, alongside a 24-ounce rare porterhouse:
***1983 PALMER. Layers of lead pencil and mineral, gradually yielding
to reveal the sweet core of cassis. On top of its game and fully mature. What Margaux is
***1990 PICHON-BARON. Revealing its glories at last. Sexy coffee
aromas swirl above a glorious pool of blackberry. Jump in! Structured for a long lifetime,
but why deny yourself now?
Finally, with the flourless chocolate cake, ***DOW
1984 QUINTA DA BOMFIN. This single quinta was so smooth, so sweet, so full of
cherries, Im tempted to name it wine of the evening, but nah. Tonight was just about
loving each wine for itself.
CA VS. WA. There are those who say Washington State will one day be home to
the best Cabs and Merlots in America.
Okay, whatever you say someday. But right now there are
some very heavy-hitters from California that show no signs of rolling over and playing
We staged our own little bout last night at Saranac in Bryn
Mawr. Lets see what happened...
The opening act:
*NEYERS 1996 CHARDONNAY "THERIOT VINEYARD." Looks Ive
I gone through a year (and 3 bottles) already without posting a note. Previous tastings
have been pleasurable and promising but the wine seemed to be still at sixes and sevens.
Let it be said that tonight this wine finally delivered, made its best showing yet,
flavors finally integrated. Wonderfully complex with a lemon squirt attack, tropical
flavors on the mid-palate and a fairly long, custardy finish. Wowed the table.
Havent seen a 97 Neyers Theriot. Wonder if there will be one?
PETER MICHAEL 1995 SAUVIGNON BLANC "LAPRES MIDI." For
about 30 minutes this wine was an admirable match to my oysters, with lots of grapefruit
and grass...then lapsed into vague melon-type flavors...then expired. Uh-oh. Drink up,
Onto the main event:
*½WOODWARD CANYON 1995 "CHARBONNEAU" Weird name for a
Cab-Merlot, since it sort of rhymes with "Charbono." But I gotta say, I was
impressed by this contender from Walla Walla. No cheap tricks here. Sweet, seductive fruit
and beautiful balance. Deep, ripe blackberry flavors with a kiss of kirsch on the finish.
Just 12.6% alcohol according to the label. Very sexy. Finished the rest tonight. Still
But now lets talk about...
**NEYERS 1995 CABERNET SAUVIGNON. Bang! Big, joyous mouthful of
cherry-berry fruit with a lingering finish. plenty of streucture for aging too
ought to be even better in 5 or so years. Fruit comes from a favored place a little
southeast of Calistoga. Its more flamboyant and more alcoholic at 14.%. But, you
know? It works really well.
Nice going, Washington. I like you a whole lot but
better luck next time. [NOTE: We did it again a few weeks later. Click here to hop to next time.])
DIAMOND MT. DEELITE. (October 14, 1998) Found a fabulous new butcher up in
Malvern, Pennsylvania. Stuck a 2-inch-thick cow strip on the grill beside Phylis
salmon steak. Now how to honor this grand hunk of meat? Maybe its time to test-drive
**VON STRASSER 1994 DIAMOND MT. CABERNET SAUVIGNON? Sure, why not. I feared it
might be too stern, and tannins there are, but after about an hour in the big glass,
Im getting beautifully focused fruit blackberry, cassis and then,
after another half hour, a wild, meaty perfume, part flower, part who knows. Texture gets
velvety. What torture to put the rest away till tomorrow!
DEI 1995 VINO NOBILE DE MONTEPULCIANO. (October 13, 1998) The wines from
this small producer have consistently impressed me in past years, so I was expecting great
things from the 1995 Vino Nobile. Well...uh...I have to say Im a little
disappointed. Its a very good wine, but seemed at first taste to be thinner and more
acidic than, for example, the 1990. The fruits there but not quite as ripe and lush
as I hoped for from this vintage. Maybe its just a little tight? Ill revisit
the rest of the bottle tonight.
PONSOT &. BERTAGNA. (October 12, 1998) Just when I think the days of
good deals in Burgundy are over, along comes a wine like **BERTAGNA 1995 VOUGEOT
"LES CRAS." Its got everything nice, fleshy fruit for now,
with plenty of structure and depth for aging. Theres so much spice and cherry stuff
swirling around in the glass that you almost forget the tannins on the finish. Plus,
its got a racy attack cut that cuts to the heart of your meal. Went beautifully with
yellowfin tuna last night. Not cheap, but didnt cost the moon.
A very different character was *PONSOT 1989 CLOS DE LA
ROCHE. Started out a lot milder, with some notably sweaty aromas. But these
dissipated, Im happy to say, leaving a lively yet elegant wine. Lacked the power,
but showed a little more complexity than the Bertagna tonight.
GOOD OL CAB & COW. (October 10, 1998) With Phylis still
convalescing, steak is an easy standby and when the wines are good, its
awfully tough to get tired of it. This weekend, a visiting friend and I chowed down on New
York strips, while staging a bout between the two heavyweight wineries of Highway 29.
**MONDAVI 1987 RESERVE CABERNET SAUVIGNON. Opened
restrained, but quickly asserted itself, pumping on the sweet cassis and olive notes,
finishing long. Didnt seem to fade over four hours...but its missing a step,
maybe, from bottles previously tasted. Think its probably bottle variation, as the
one before seemed a lot younger. Nevertheless, its the winner and still champeen.
*½ BERINGER 1990 RESERVE CABERNET SAUVIGNON.
In comparison to the Mondavi, this came across as sterner, but after about three hours
began gushing fruit. Similar flavor profile, with a lick more licorice and mineral. A
touch shorter, too. Tonight it bowed to the Mondavi but wait till I open a
PHYLIS DINES OUT. (October 4, 1998) Yesterday, at long last, my favorite
convalescent felt well enough -- and bored enough -- to brave an evening out. We kept it
low-key and local, meeting a couple of friends for dinner at the Chadds Ford Café. I
selected the Angus filet with Portabellos and Gorgonzola; she chose the yellowfin. And
yes, we did open some wines. In honor of Phylis, our friends had brought Flowers:
**FLOWERS 1995 CAMP MEETING RIDGE CHARDONNAY. A very classy Chard,
reminiscent of Mt. Eden, with good acid bite, nutty nuances and a lengthy, custardy,
finish. My first experience with Flowers and we were all impressed.
*SAINTSBURY 1996 CARNEROS RESERVE CHARDONNAY. Softer, leesier, with a
distinctive coconut note. Worthy wine, but decisively trumped by the Flowers.
We had named Pinot Noir for the red theme, but were a little disappointed:
ROUMIER 1995 CLOS DE LA BUSSIERE. Nice dark color with a muted nose of
black cherry. Acidic attack, very little oak, tannic finish. Mighty tight. Theres
fruit behind the structure and this could develop into a fine bottle of Burgundy, but if
so it needs at least a couple of years. Tough to read tonight. So we went on to...
DU MOL 1996 DUTTON RANCH PINOT NOIR. Medium ruby color leads me to
expect a lighter wine and thats what I get. The fruit is very pretty and varietally
correct -- with tangy red cherry flavors. Structure is good but not overpowering and the
oak is way in the background. A very well made wine, but lacking in complexity.
Fearing that a white might be the wine of the evening, I
reached in my bag for the secret weapon:
**1990 MONTELENA CABERNET SAUVIGNON. Super-dark. Swirled, sniffed,
sipped, and looked up at friend Al who had just done the same. Almost simultaneously, we
grinned and intoned "Doesnt s*ck." Its just beginning to open for
business, but flavors are flooding out over the transom. Deep, ripe cassis and other black
fruit surrounding a core of packed-up goodies that are waiting to explode five years down
the line. If you want to open one now, reach for the oversized Riedels and have yourself a
WHO WOULDA THUNK... (October 1, 1998) That two such delicious-tasting Pinot
Noirs would evolve on such shockingly different course? Two years ago, I would have ranked
**MARTINELLI 1994 RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY and W.H. SMITH 1994
HELENTHAL VINEYARD OLD VINES at the same outstanding level. Both were ripe, rich,
bold Pinot Noirs with lots of glycerin.
Two years later, the Smith seems to be thinning and fading,
showing more oak, not less -- but the Martinelli has never been better! Medium ruby in the
glass, it offers beautiful red cherry and cinnamon aromas, then fills up your mouth with
delicious, complex, fruit. Acidity seemed kind of low at release, but now this is one
nervy critter. Flavors remind me of a Rochioli reserve wine, although this stuff
isnt quite as extracted. Glad I have another bottle; sorry I dont have six!
SULTANS OF STAGS LEAP. (September 29, 1998) Ask
anyone four years ago to name the premier producer in Stags Leap District and most would
have told you "Stags Leap Wine Cellars." Youd probably get the same
answer today, but Im here to tell you theyre wrong. The heavyweight crown now
belongs to SHAFER.
Why? Well, first, because Shafers flagship wine,
Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon, has been going from strength to strength since 1986.
It over-achieved impressively in the subpar vintages of 1988 and 1989, then went into
overdrive starting in 1990.
I would name 1992 as the year that Hillside Select finally
overtook the long-reigning local champion, Stags Leap Wine Cellars Cask 23. Then, in
1994, Hillside Select simply shot out the lights -- it could well be the wine of the
94 Napa Valley vintage -- while Cask 23 was, well, disappointing.
But wait, were not done. All through the 90s,
Shafers less expensive Stags leap District Cabernet bottling has been outstanding as
well -- easily, the best value for money going in SLD Cab.
Then, in 1994, Shafer started producing one of the best
Chardonnays in the valley, and possibly the single best non-malolactic Chardonnay produced
They have also introduced a Sangiovese-Cabernet blend called
Firebreak, which, if it doesnt deliver quite the value of some of my favorite Tuscan
blends, is nonetheless one of the best Sangiovese-based wines coming out of California
All this brings me to the wine Im drinking tonight, SHAFER
1996 STAGS LEAP DISTRICT MERLOT.Deep ruby, with yummy chocolate-cassis aromas,
followed up by a violet-kirsch perfume that rewards those who sniff twice. On the palate,
its got medium weight and is very supple indeed. Concentration isnt equal to
the divine elixir that Shafer gets in its Cabs, but its not bad, and the finish is
pretty decent too. While this is probably the smallest-scale red in Shafers muscular
lineup, its nonetheless a delicious wine and fair value at $24.
Nice going, Doug.
LIBATIONS (September 21, 1998) If ever I had something to be thankful for,
it was the news from the surgeon on this Rosh Hashana. Operation successful my
wifes going to be just fine.
Later that evening, a couple of friends joined me for dinner
and helped me unwind. We dug into some steaks and poured a few glasses of the good stuff.
True, just about any decent wine would have tasted like nectar tonight, but I figured it
was as good a time as any to uncork the **1992 COLGIN.
Its a big, deep, dark, red wine, but the readiest of any
released to date. Beautiful black cherry aromas are followed up by gusher of fruit on the
palate. Still a bit tight but opens enough to make you push your chair back and say
"ahhhhhhhh...." Finishes long. Yes, I think I will have another sip.
Also consumed that evening was a *1996 ETUDE PINOT
BLANC. This is Pinot Blanc in a rich, decadent, leesy California style. Not a
whole lot like the Alsace product, but I liked the difference a lot.
GIMME A MERLOT! (September 18, 1998) You know what I mind the most about
wine snobs? Theyre so predictable. Much more so than the poor shlubs they look down
their snoots at.
Take Merlot. Sure, its demonically popular at weddings,
bar-mitzvahs and chain bistros. Sure, people order it just because its easy to
pronounce. Sure, a lot of it tends to be overcropped, overpriced and, well, awful.
But surer than all of these verities is the reaction
youll get when you say the word to a wine snob. The twitch, the sigh, and the little
disclaimer, "Well, of course, Petrus is nice." (I agree. At least I would
if I were able to drink enough Petrus often enough to generalize so broadly.) "But,
Then, maybe, if the snob is really cool, youll start
hearing about how you ought to be drinking Riesling or Gruner Veltliner.
WELL, dear snobs, there was a time when Riesling was Merlot.
(Remember the 70s? No? Well, you missed a lot of bad Riesling.) And someday
maybe 10-20 years from now Merlot will become Riesling. It will be wonderfully
cheap, because the world will be bristling with mature vines. And very cool, having long
since passed out of fashion. And consistently terrific tasting, because only the best will
find a decent market.
Meantime, we unflinching Merlot-lovers can make do with *RAVENSWOOD
1991 PICKBERRY. (Yup, heres the tasting note at last.) Still very dark
ruby, with a little lightening at the edge. And, finally, drinking just swell. Thick and
smooth as hot fudge. Berries below. The tail-end is barbed with just a lick of tannin.
Lots of life left, but Im drinking this sucker tonight and loving every sip.
Okay, its only 60% Merlot, but the Merlot defines the
Anyone else tired of Merlot-bashing?
See more tasting notes (July-Aug 1998)
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cancer survivor who founded a range of e-commerce companies
including CommerceNet and Veo Systems. He also
founded Enterprise Integration Technologies, the first company
to conduct a commercial internet transaction, in 1992. More
recently he has focused on transforming healthcare, launching CollabRx, which uses computers
to personalise cancer treatments and accelerate research (and which
powers Cancer Commons).
Tenenbaum argues that there are thousands of studies that are
published each year, with only a handful of them getting national
or international attention. Furthermore, there are hundreds of
thousands of individual "trials" being conducted by doctors (some
30,000 oncologists in the US, where the program is limited to for
the time being) who are experimenting with different cocktails of
drugs on their patients. Without one central place to store
and access these studies, scientific and clinical advancement in
this field is being artificially held back.
A major hurdle for the project is getting researchers to supply
their data to the site, rather than hold out for a career-making
article in a peer-reviewed journal. Tenenbaum is frustrated by how
little data is shared between peers and hopes that Cancer Commons
could mark the dawn of a new era of open-source science.
Tenenbaum told Wired.co.uk: "There is lots of talking in
fragmented silos, but we want to capture all of that in one place
and expedite the process through which science turns into
The first stage of Cancer Commons is to create a database where
each different type of cancer has a "Molecular Disease Model" (MDM)
-- an expert-curated reference node that catalogues the known
molecular subtypes of a particular cancer, linked to relevant
pathways, diagnostic tests, approved and experimental therapies and
current clinical trials. Each is akin to a dynamic research paper
that reflects the latest scientific, clinical and technological
advancements. A rapid submission and dissemination process allows
each MDM to be maintained online and continuously updated by cancer
specialists and moderated by editors.
The project is governed by an editorial board with an impressive
set of credentials. The 18 specialists -- chaired by George
Lundberg, former editor-in-chief of Journal of the American Medical
Association and of WebMD's online properties
and e-Medicine --
include a former FDA Commissioner, a former editor of
Science and a former president of the American Society of
So far, only one model has been created, for melanoma. It
incorporates 78,185 abstracts from research papers and information
relating to some 1016 clinical trials that are ongoing in the
field. Some 11 expert editors have been assigned to that particular
MDM, including Dr David Fisher, the head of the dermatology at
Harvard Medical School and Dr Keith Flaherty, from the department
of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Over the coming year the
plan is to create MDMs for other cancers including lung, breast,
sarcoma, and lymphoma -- each with their own experts overseeing
In order to harness the power of the MDM, CollabRx is developing
apps that tap into the data to aid decision-making. For example,
the "Targeted Therapy Finder" can be used by doctors to help
identify genetic tests that map an individual tumour's unique
characteristics, and then select potential treatments based on the
findings. By entering information about the particular tumour,
they'll be given options of tests that'll help narrow down the
particular subtype of cancer being dealt with (as categorised by
the MDM), and therefore find out which treatments are the most
promising. They can then find information about trials that are
looking for patients with that particular subtype.
The view is to develop further apps that allow doctors and
researchers to submit clinical observations and outcomes and then
collaboratively analyse them to fine-tune the MDMs. Tenenbaum would
also like to see patients report how they're responding to
treatments. He tells Wired.co.uk: "Over time I'd like the
results of lab tests to go directly into the database."
He doesn't underestimate the enormity of the task, admitting
that not all of the details are worked out yet and that the initial
MDMs will "almost certainly be incomplete and wrong in places". He
adds: "We don't pretend that we are going to cure cancer. But we
ought to be able to improve the outcomes for some patients."
Tenenbaum wants to make applications that are so compelling to
doctors that they'll have to use them to stay relevant in their
fields. "I see possibilities to slash time and development of new
drugs and improve patient care."
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2001 December 20
Explanation: Viewed from Earth, the solar system's planets do a cosmic dance that is hard to appreciate on any single night. But consider this well planned animated sequence combining 23 pictures taken at approximately 2 week intervals from June 2000 through May 2001. It reveals the graceful looping or retrograde motion of bright wanderers Jupiter (leftmost) and Saturn. Loitering among the background stars are the familiar Pleiades (above right) and V-shaped Hyades (below left) star clusters. The planets didn't actually loop by reversing the direction of their orbits, though. Their apparent retrograde motion is a reflection of the motion of the Earth itself. Retrograde motion can be seen each time Earth overtakes and laps planets orbiting farther from the Sun, Earth moving more rapidly through its own relatively close-in orbit. Astronomer Tunc Tezel captured Jupiter and Saturn's "paired" retrograde loop in this remarkable series made after the close alignment of these gas giants in May 2000. The next opportunity to see these two planets dance such a pas de deux will be in the year 2020.
Authors & editors:
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Take a Ride with the Paperboy
The Book: The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found dead on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is swiftly arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Ward James - hotshot investigative reporter - returns to his rural hometown, intrigued by the proposition from a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free her convicted 'fiancé'. Together, they barrel down Florida's back roads and through its seamy underbelly in search of The Story, racing flat out into a head-on collision that will make headline news.
The Film - by our very own film critic Richard B:
Twenty years ago or so Pete Dexter was hot property, as were violent almost B-Movie cinematic outings. I refer to The Kill-Off, The Grifters, and more particularly The Hot Spot and Dexter’s own Paris Trout. The last two were directed or starred Dennis Hopper who at the time was still buzzing on the Amyl nitrate Frank breathes in Blue Velvet.
And it’s Dennis Hopper who comes to mind watching The Paperboy; there’s a semi hallucinatory feeling to it, drugs and alcohol permeate it, but not as much as does Sex. Nicole Kidman in the blondest of wigs, shortest of skirts, and faked fellatio lips, the shackled con John Cusack behaving as if in a strip bar, or the graphic S&M Gay sex McConaughey’s character gets involved in- sex is everywhere, love nowhere- at least not requited love.
Pumping 60’s Soul, William Eggleston colours, powerhouse acting, and most importantly a true Southern Gothic story to tether it, to stop it sliding sweatily into the Everglades make this an absolute delight.
The movie comes from Pete Dexter’s The Paperboy just reissued by Atlantic, and this excellent author is well served by an imaginative intelligent rendition.
Any other budding film critics, should enter this Guardian competition
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Not Just for Kids
The Hunt for Falling Leaves...
Nature's Color on the Ground
by Mary Catherine Ball
Being a reporter, I am always looking for an adventure. Last week, I found one.
I left work to go on a simple journey, but it turned out to be much more.
First, I crossed a mud-ridden stream. Then, I came face to face with flying creatures, fighting to get near me. I even endured webmakers spinning my hair into a shiny maze.
Where did I go? Into the woods, of course. Why? I wanted to gather some fallen leaves.
My luck was good that day. I was able to spy lots of different kinds of leaves lying on the ground. Some were leaves I had never seen. Some were still green, while others were changing to their autumn colors.
Have you ever hunted for leaves? I wonder if you know the names of five of the trees that live in your neighborhood? I bet the answer is no.
Well, me neither. So I had five of the leaves analyzed. I had found the leaves from an oak, a beech, a sweet gum tree and more.
Now, I invite you to make this journey.
Narrow body with pointy edges
Narrow body with pointy edges
May grow berries
Good for sap & color
3 distinct leafs
May grow nuts
This is your task...
Travel to the deep, dark woods (in the daylight) to find these 5 leaves. Cut out the page and take it with you. Make sure you can match your discovery with mine. Happy leaf-hunting!
Stone Soup October 9 (11:30am)-Enjoy lunch and a show. After you eat peanut butter & jelly, watch Stone Soup, performed by the Lost Caravan. Lunch is at noon; show starts at 12:30. Chesapeake Music Hall, Off Rt. 50 approaching the Bay Bridge: 410/406-0306.
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Tiny Tots Fall for Nature Tues. Oct 12 (10:30am-noon) Three- to five-year-olds (and their adult) hike into the woods to hear autumn stories, gather leaves and make a craft. Bring a bag lunch to enjoy w/apple cider @ King's Landing Park, Huntingtown. $3 rsvp: 800/735-2258.
Spooky Stories in the Woods Tues. Oct. 12 (10:30-noon)-Hike with a ranger to a clearing in the woods. Listen to autumn stories and drink warm apple cider. Gather leaves to make a craft. Bring a bag lunch. Kings Landing Park, Huntingtown: 410/535-5327.
Musical Minds Wed. Oct. 13 (4-4:45pm)-Music makes the world go round. So sing, listen to stories and play musical instruments. Ages 2-4. Chesapeake Children's Museum, Festival at Riva. $8.50; rsvp: 410/266-0677.
Nature Designs Deadline Oct. 15-Create your favorite nature scene out of clay or on paper to win prizes. Age categories are 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12 years. Place winners win nature books or statues. All art forms accepted. Take your masterpiece to Wild Bird Center, Annapolis Harbour Center: 410/573-0345.
Tiny Tots get in Touch with Mother Nature Sat. Oct 16 (10-10:30am)
Tiny tots (2-3 w/adult) learn nature by touch, feeling the many different
textures rough and soft in the world around us. @ Battle Creek Cypress Swamp,
Prince Frederick: 800/735-2258.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Good news about on the gallery front, I've got an upcoming show at the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 19th.
I'm excited to get my work out there and see how it does in the real world. I got a feature in this months American Art Collector which is a very nice magazine. I'm a little uncomfortable with my comments, it's like watching yourself on tape, my own direct quotes always sound bad to me.
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what is wrong with killing players? to be clear, i don't mean somehow treating them unfairly but instead mean simply having players die in an encounter?
what is wrong with wiping out a party?
when you soft ball an adventure, when you artificially weaken a module, you cheat the players of a sense of accomplishment. what if another party had to use guile, strategy, or just plain well built characters to overcome the same module.
do we really have such a low opinion of our players that we think they can't handle challenge?
i am the crazy person who makes posts about using coup de grace on downed players because it is obviously the best strategy for a monster to use. i am the person who rolls in relatively plain view of my players so that they know when i missed a critical attack, it was because i missed and not because i have no respect the maturity of my players. so far they don't bother too look.
apparently i am also the bad guy.
i long for game balance, i want intimidate to surrender clarified (and removed). i want saving throw penalties removed completely.
i wish more of you were the bad guys too.
when you keep lowering the bar, people dont bother to rise above it. they lower themselves to it.
Killing players is murder and you shouldn't do it. You'll go to jail and nobody would want to play D&D with you.
Killing characters is something different.
Snark aside, when showing someone new to D&D how to play, I do play it soft. You want to show them the game is fun. Killing their characters means they're not playing. The point is to let them play.
I think you are seriously underestimating the amount of "bad guys" (by your definition) that are here for starters. Secondly I don't quite see where you get your need to tell "most people" (again your definition) that they are doing it wrong, but I am happy that you have found the one true way and are willing to evangelize. As soon as I recover from the revelations I will consider converting, if the D&D inquisition does not have me on the rack before then.
On a less sarcastic note; What I see most people on these board advocate is not soft-balling or lack of respect for player maturity. What is being touted as a Good Thing(tm) is being able to adapt, adjust and generally create a fun experience. This can mean being less than 100% cutthroat effective with your monsters, or it can mean trying to be 110% deadly. It can be choosing not to recharge that burst 3 stun power, it can mean making a paralyze attack into a minor rather than a standard. It can be a lot of things. It depends on reading the players, the situation, the adventure, etc. etc. In my experience it is fairly complicated and almost impossible to define. Still it is generally held by your "most people" to be something to strive for.
Personally I see no problems with coup de grace or wiping out a party if that is how it plays out, but its not a goal. The intimidate thing, i think it is fine as is, the rules give a solid RAW basis for a DM ruling as they see fit. I like it that way and have no difficulty with the word NO.
Longing for game balance is a good thing, but from your words it seems to me you are looking for game balance to come from the rules and their application. Almost as if the interaction between DM, players and adventure is a hindrance to that balance. To me that interaction IS D&D, if I want a game balanced on rules alone, I can play checkers...
This seems to be an issue that crops up now and then and as such has been debated in excruciating detail before. One of the more active threads was: Dale 1-5. You may have already read it, if not, have a gander. No solution is reached in that thread and I am sure we won't find consensus here either, but if its time to re-debate this, then I guess we shall
WotC established three principles or premises which I believe are germaine to your concern.
One, there is no single, right way to play D&D. In the DMG, pages 7-10, the different perspectives of players are highlighted. A group of powergamers who have optimized their characters and coordinated their team will desire a vastly different adventure game experience than a group made of actors and storytellers. No one, not the Global Admins, not me, not you, has the power and authority to say one way is the correct method and all others are incorrect. Once you accept that principle or premise (and it is possible you may not), then it should be easy to accept that we (authors and Writing Directors) cannot tailor every adventure to every style of play. But our not-so-secret weapon is the DM--that human agent who is present at each game table, who hopefully has the knowledge and skill to make those final adjustments and adjudications needed to tailor to the specific players.
In this regard, we tell the DM in the adventure boilerplate:
"You are empowered to make adjustments to the adventure and make decisions about how the group interacts with the world of this adventure. This is especially important and applicable outside of combat encounters, but feel free to use the "scaling the encounter" advice (usually for adjusting to different-sized groups) to adjust combat encounters for groups that are having too easy or too hard of a time in an adventure.
Don't make the adventure too easy or too difficult for a group. Never being challenged makes for a boring game, and being overwhelmed makes for a frustrating game. Gauge the experience of the players (not the characters) with the game, try to feel out (or ask) what they like in a game, and attempt to give each of them the experience they’re after when they play D&D. Give everyone a “chance to shine.” "
Two, the objective of the game is to have fun. To that end, we tell the DM in the adventure boilerplate:
"As the DM of the session, you have the most important role in facilitating the enjoyment of the game for the players. You take the words on these pages and make them come alive. The outcome of a fun game session often creates stories that live well beyond the play at the table. Always follow this golden rule when you DM for a group:
Make decisions and adjudications that enhance the fun of the adventure when possible."
and at the end of that section of boilerplate:
"In short, being the DM for a Living Forgotten Realms adventure isn’t about following the adventure’s text word-for-word; it’s about creating a fun, challenging game environment for the players. Chapters 1 and 2 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide are filled with good information about being a DM for a D&D game."
Third, WotC decided that with LFR, they did not want the perception of a competition between players--these are not tournaments where there will be winners and losers. That freed us to move away from saying every DM must present the adventure as written to strive for consistency of the presented challenge. Instead we strive for maximizing fun with tailored challenge.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Keith (and Claire) have been so prolific in the RPGA and so sought-after as writers and administrators over the course of several campaigns. This post should be placed somewhere that everyone who plays (and especially DMs) in the Living Forgotten Realms campaign can see it. Heck, everyone who plays D&D at all should read it.
I ran the brutal Dark Sun Arena at PAX nine times in two days. The encounters were in general very difficult and the terrain often favored the monsters significantly. Players were often fairly new to 4E and sometimes to D&D and most were using pregens that were released back in January. This was a competitive event where you could win a prize. Thus, I ran it with very little DME, if at all. Keep in mind I am a fairly tactical and experienced DM and I prepped the adventures and monsters very carefully.
The result was a series of bloodbaths. I only had one run that was not incredibly hard run for the table. I had one TPK, one failure due to time (which would have been a TPK), 2-3 additional outright PC deaths, and six tables that were desperate come-from-behind victories. In all honesty, at three of my tables I pulled punches slightly, though nowhere near what I would consider a reasonable challenge level. In every case there remained a huge possibility of failure.
What did I learn from this? I saw a lot of players really surprised and even offended by the difficulty. A lot of players felt frustrated. Some spent several turns taking no action but death saves. Some felt cheated by the difficulty. Some felt their choices in builds mattered little, because the monsters would kill anything they brought to the table.
In all cases I had to work incredibly hard to keep things positive. I did things like ask the person that went down to RP what memory went through their PC's mind as they saw their life flash before them, then used it once they came back up. Often I assured them I am a kind DM in other situations. I underscored the difficulty of this game and the achievement they were after. I suggested things they could do. I celebrated every monster they killed and had the arena respond to every act of courage. It was a lot of work to keep them going in the face of such adversity and run the game. (I will say the need varied from table-to-table). I tried to run different arenas to keep myself from getting too good at running the same encounter.
I came away more convinced than ever that players really have an awesome time when they have a reasonable but difficult challenge. They love a hard-fought victory. But, they do not want to ever feel the game is unfair. They do not want to run out of options or sit out several turns. They want to be heroes and feel like they do cool things. Tables would sometimes go from near giving up in the second round to cheering wildly when they finally won. But, it was overall too much. The Dark Sun Arenas were fantastic but should not be the norm. The regular delve should be easier and more reasonable. LFR should continue to offer DME and to provide tips for DMs to achieve reasonable play levels. DME allows the challenge to really meet the needs of the players. The game is more fun and will attract more players to the game that way.
@Mirtek, if you're not looking for a challenge in gaming, may I suggest pop-cap games or farmville?
I've had bad character deaths at the hand of cheating DMs or imcompetent party members who were the opposite of heroic (cowardly or mean spirited). I've never had a bad character death at the hands of monsters and I don't believe it's possible for that to happen. Sometimes you sit down at a table with 3 dragonborn bravura warlords and a paladin that thinks he's god. Sometimes despite the best planning, the fickle dice gods turn against you.
Point is, Sometimes the good guys fail, that's the nature of storytelling, and that's what D&D (and pretty much every RPG) has always been, creating a story with your characters. There's no rule in any book that says the PCs should win, challenging but fun should result in as many TPKs as utter victories, and very few of both. Modules have failure xp, gold, conclusions, and Story Awards for a reason, it's expected to happen from time to time.
I will never advocate, as a DM, going out of the way to kill PCs (pretty much impossible in LFR, DALE 1-6 and SPEC 1-3-4 excluded), at the same time, I'll never let the players get too cockey, and sometimes a player needs to spend 3 rounds on the ground to realize he shouldn't charge his Barbarian past 3 soldiers to get the Artillery. Hell, that can make for some good, intense and dramatic, moments, and lets a good leader be the hero once in a while (after all, if no one is at risk of dying, he'll never get to shine, which means (s)he probably isn't having fun).
If the PCs (barring Convention PUGs) are a motley crew of poorly made substandard characters, I consider it unjust to allow them to win just because the game isn't supposed to be "too hard", if you aren't going to try to win, you don't deserve to. With the exception of Ms Spellfire, D&D Heroes have a history of "momentary setbacks" as long as their triumphant victories. I for one think LFR needs a little less "here's 5 lurkers in a well lit 8x8 room" and a little more Mr Smith, because anyone can beat the lurkers that couldn't, but beating Mr Smith? That takes a Neo, I mean Hero.
First and foremost D&D is a game of adventure.
I think some players put a little too much effort into their builds, so in a way, I agree with Mirtek. All characters welcome. Not only is the 16 Intelligence Wizard welcome, the 12 intelligence wizard is welcome. It shouldn't just be about the build.
However, I'm also completely on board with "let the dice fall where they may". Roll them in the open, and if characters die..they die." I mean, that's fair too.
Over-optimization can be it's own trap, by the way. You'd think it would make a battle get over with sooner, but then somehow, it ends up doing the opposite while the player pores over his strategic options. And then the DM thinks he has to "beef this up" to "provide a challenge". And then you end up with Paragon level adventures that never quite get done during the convention slot.
That is a real problem, at least to me.
I'm all for changing encounters around, especially to make them more interesting, but I am hoping the optimizers play Glory Tier and I never have to run it Because pacing is far more important to me than strategy and optimizination. As a DM I want to make every run of an adventure unique (even if it's the same adventure you've played 10x already) and when it's at a convention, I want the PCs to reach the ending by the time the slot is over with. Oh and if an encounter is running long? Surrenders and retreats are entirely possible. As a DM, I'd prefer if players spent less than 30 seconds deciding what to do, because I'm going to go as fast as possible myself. I don't "take back" moves in order to avoid opportunity attacks or penalties or situations like "my paladin has you marked, you take damage.." whenever possible. I don't think players should either. Sometimes we blunder. That's ok.
I don't sweat it too much when I've gotten my characters killed (3 times over the courseof the campaign..so far). I've been responsible for a few character deaths. Nobody seems to have taken it too hard.
Something to bear in mind here is that while suboptimal tactics might might seem like "softballing it", the truth is that poor choices are going to happen all the time. So the question might not be, "Should I coup de grace because it is the optimal tactic?", but rather "Would this enemy coup de grace in this situation?"
Remember it is not about what the DM would do or knows. Sure the DM knows that the Uncouncious player is about to be saved by the Cleric who happens to be up in the initiative. But does the Troll know this? Would it attack the downed player?
Or sometimes the enemy just simply makes a poor choice. It happens. I sure seem to do it more often than I like. So if the Orc decides to attack the fighter that has him marked instead of the Squishy rogue who only has a few hit points left... It might be that the fighter just simply made the orc mad and orc's don't like that, tactics be damned! Is this "Soft Balling"?
i appreciate the reasoned and thoughtful responses, despite the fact that i strongly disagree with your positions i still appreciate your polite responses.
mirtek, i think deserve is a poor choice of terms in your example with a rogue and a wizard.
i think we can safely assume that in your example the rogue is built in a fashion that would be generally agreed to be mechanically superior to the wizard. regardless of whatever anyone "deserves", unless you are "soft balling (we could use a better term for that)" the rogue will be more effective. not overwhelmingly more effective, but more effective none the less.
but what is the point of being more effective, of being better than, the wizard if it doesn't matter what character choices you make because the dm will just change everything to be easier to accomodate the weaker characters?
and why aren't you bored?
do we want to promote a style of game where people don't care? i view that as a recipe for long term failure. certainly people should simply stop looking at books and other resources for ways to improve their characters if it doesn't matter what choices they make. taken to an extreme (and adding that caveat to make clear i do not intend to set up a straw-man, but only to make a point), we don't even need to make remotely functional characters, or for that matter roll dice or have rules.
i mention all of this not only as a hypothetical, but because of a practical issue. most characters where i live are sub-optimal. not usually aggressively awful, but certainly a little on the weak side. however there is one person who has made a new level 11 ranger whose character is borderline useless. his to hit with twin strike (after we virtually forced him to take twin strike) at level 11 is +11. there are fights where he can only hit on a 20 and when he does it isn't a crit. should we all lose any comprehension of challenge to accommodate his inability to function?
what about the players who learn the rules and make good decisions, but are sitting at a table with people who dont bother to learn how to play beyond a most basic level and just sit there and use some bad at will attack all the time (to be clear, they are in fact ineffective. they do not have a character that is optimized to use a specific at will). for over a year we have sucked all the challenge out of our games if these players were at our tables.
for what seems the millionth time, it is a slow persons responsibility to speed up and not a fast persons responsibility to slow down. as long as you keep catering to the lowest common denominator quality of experience will only go down and no one will ever have an incentive to improve or get better.
finally, the serious players are the core of your community, we are the glue that holds this increasingly thankless enterprise together! but even if we were not, even if our ideas were in a minority, that would not mean we were wrong! and i absolutely guarantee that after a short adjustment period to having their decisions matter, the players who adopt their extreme laisez faire attitude would still find a way to have fun.
players don't deserve to win or lose. success in a module is not a players divine birthright. and if you dont have to work for it, it has a lot less meaning!
As a DM I am not a good tactician and I don't aspire to learn how to be one. Frankly, I DM because we always have less DMs than Players and it's fair that everyone takes his share behind the screen so that others can play. I often don't even read the combats in advance, just a short glance to see what minis I need to bring and 95% of my time preparing an adventure is spend on getting the stuff between the combats into my head. If you mind my style, feel that my battles are too easy (even when I don't actively softball, I am just not good at running monsters anyway) then feel free to be the DM instead (although better not for me, I don't think we would have much fun with each other) because I do it as a service to our little LFR community and not because it's a great job I'd die to be allowed to do.
This leaves only the question which should be used as the default assumption. And here I still say err on the side of the slow players. Even if a DM fails to recognize the boredom of the fast players and fails to hard ball the mod for them, then they have nothing lost but having had a mod that was overall too easy for them. And that's it, a closed case not carrying over to the next mod when it will be more to their liking.
If a DM fails to understand how close a slow group is to disaster and kills a few of them, this might have no mechanical effects on the following mods they play, but it can have a lasting impact on the stories they had in mind for their PCs personality and further development.
hmm, i think i need to clarify. i did not intend insult, and my position was not sarcastic. i do appreciate your candor and your polite replies. i am sorry if you took offense, that was not the intention. the "wrong about everything" comment was intended to express my disagreement with your position in a light hearted fashion through an absurd exageration.
since tone does not translate in text i realize i should have made a different choice of words. to that end i will edit the orriginal post.
thank-you for the rapid response mirtek, and your point about how the rogue would still proceed to dominate the encounter is actually at the crux of the matter. in the example presented, i assumed that there was a risk of failure in the hard ball version, and thus a challenge, while in the soft ball version whatever risk of failure is largely negated. it is true that the rogue may further dominate the encounter in a soft ball version, but the point was that the rogue gets robbed of the opportunity for challenge and a sense of accomplishment in order to accomodate the wizard.
i believe it is wrong to hold the rogues intersts as secondary in importance to the wizards, and this goes to the heart of the fundamental disagreement.
I respect both play stiles, I just have a different view on which one used as the default assumption causes the least harm. Maybe my opinion is currently skewed from my very last LFR mod being a quasi-TPK (3 of 6 dead, one making death saves for most of the encounter and the last two winning a fight they should have lost if not for the DM being shocked of how the battle turned out starting to soft ball them to victory. Really, 1[w]+10+1d6 (for flanking) for monsters in a 1-4 mod? That's what my striker will do at level 10! So mods like this becoming the norm scares me a little)
PS: Thx to (technically improper) DME I once had a player (out of six) to ask the DM to just hardball only his character because he can take it and at the same time be softer on everyone else.
PPS: Now I will withdraw until tomorrow after work, so at the moment no further answers from me,
If I now react with "wow, this PC looks effective, I better up the challenge", am I not robbing him of his intended result? If I just increase the attack bonus or pretend to have rolled higher numbers to still hit the maxed defenses PC, where's the point in maxing defenses in the first place? If I challenge the maxed attack bonus with higher defenses on the monsters, why should he have bothered to get such a high attack bonus?
In praxis I would try to give the rogue player a higher challenge if he asks for it (to the best of my limited tactical ability) while going softer on the wizard at the same time.
IMHO there's also an important difference between wanting to be challenged and being happy when one gets it and wanting to be challenged and still being unhappy when one gets it as long as not everyone else is forced to to be challenged in the same way (aka why does he get the same reward despite having an easier time? Because you asked for a harder time for yourself and he for a softer time for himself, that all).
I don't think anyone in favor of DME is advocating letting a weak table that plays high have an easy time of it. Choices have repercussions - they should just be reasonable given the various factors.
Ok here is the primary problem that I see with what the OP is asserting.
DM vs Player mindset.
Allow me to explain. I have come to realize that I have a very tactical mindset when it comes to 4E. (and other games) I can often bowl over a group of reasonable gamers with tactics when I run an encounter. I can intuit how best to use the encounter against the players with relative ease. Now I say this not to brag, because often it is a bad thing. I have been a Delve judge at several major cons now (Gencon, DDXP) and have learned a lot in doing so. One of the things that surprised me is how different the same encounter could be. The characters were the same and the opposition the same, but I witnessed a massive variance in the result and not one that I could blame on luck/dice. The players and their tactics really did account for the remarkable variation. That is what the OP is not taking into account. By playing all-out all the time, the OP is pitting his skills against the players to see who can "metawin". What they should be doing is pitting the encounter against the characters to create a fun play experience.
Couple of notes here. I am not trying to offend, just explain my position and perceptions. Also, sometimes players want the meta-challenges. I had several table, while judging the Delves, ask me to pour it on. They wanted no punches pulled and my best effort. Yet I seem to remember myself and the players having fun.
In the end finding a balance between fun and challenging is crucial to the art of DMing. The old addage "know your audience" is an important part of finding that balance. At the end of the round a "win" is not calculated by the hit points of the survivors, but the adulations and gratitude of the players at the table.
Honestly, are we talking about a Role-Playing Game or a War-game here?
The goal in an RPG is not to win, it is not a competitive game and people play to have fun.
Since each person has a different definition of fun, it's the DM's job to adapt the game to the group's tastes.
Some players love to play a hardcore, challenging and fully optimized game. Others don't. Some people enjoy the "realism" of a TPK when players make terrible tactical decissions. Other people simply swear they will never play the game again after suffering a TPK.
Builds, challenge level, game balance... all those terms are just tools you use, reject or modify depending on your group's tastes.
If you don't enjoy playing with a particular group, your only option is to go and find a new one that fits your style.
This is weird... Am I not repeating the first entry in every RPG rulebook: What is Role-Playing Game?
I'm with ya, Nolorfin. The discussion is here because historically the vast majority of RPGA adventures where meant to be run exactly as written so that every table had a "fair" run. Your sitting at Mika's table or Bob's table would not matter in terms of fairness. The concept was firmly in every run being pretty much the same, minus the skill with which the DM presented the material (descriptions, RPing NPCs, etc.).
In many cases this was entirely desired. Look at many of the classic modules that came from RPGA and you will see they were scored - you could win the event. Players of LG often both expected and demanded a fair run because there could be a competitive aspect - in Geoff there were clear (though friendly and fun) competitions between adventuring companies and groups of players to see who could best take on a B.I. or premiere module.
LFR from the very beginning said this was not the case. Playing one time at Enrique's table is not supposed to be the same experience as the game going on at Sarah's table. Variance is even desirable when you are replaying.
Similarly, in olden days the prime directive was arguably to run the adventure as written as well as you could. Language emphasized running the adventure with care, precision, and professionalism. The prime directive now is clearly to achieve "fun".
The question isn't whether each adventure should be run consistently but how much variance to allow. The guidance from just about everyone in charge suggests they intend a pretty high amount of variance in order to achieve fun.
Don't get me wrong, I have no issue with players being able to win, however I'm not going to naievely say that the 12 int wizard has any *right* to win at an APL combat, it's certainly possible and I'm not going to penalize them any more than they did themselves. The player clearly built the character around succeding/having fun at other things and they are likely going to do so, but combats shouldn't be any easier for them because of it. Unless of course you're also advocating trivializing skill challenges for groups that are optimized for combat but may be sub-par both at roleplaying (as players) and skill challenges (as characters).
Part of the reason LFR mods have Low and High tiers, and options for 4/5/6 players at the table is this specific reason, so that you can adjust the module to allow the players a better (or worse) chance of succeding. Along with that bgibbons said, Risk is tied to Reward, if you play Low or treat the module as having fewer monsters, you also reduce the XP gain, in most cases this is built in, but if you let 6 players play as if there was 4 you have to, by the rules, also adjust their XP gain. Players get to choose the difficulty, queue the Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Choices have consequences, that's life folks.
This is a lot of the same issue I saw with the High-Level pre-gen characters, people being able to play at a certain level without ever having had to put in the effort to get there. I am certainly not alone when I say that it ruins my fun (since we like to use that word here) in the game when, not just at my table but, I see someone else is literally handed what I've had to work my butt off for.
Wizards with 12 int are NPCs that give me quests to rid their basement of giant rats, they aren't Heroes.
I understand, Trollbill, but are living campaigns the place for competitive play? Trying to prove yourself against other tables... in a campaign that sees a lot of new and casual players, that has RPers as much as optimizers... that is a really nebulous and widely ranging target.
I think those wanting a competitive spirit should just ask their DM to run things hard. You can even come up with a set of Glory type of changes. For example, try asking your DM to do the following:
You can come up with other things, such as reducing recharge rates for non-controlling powers, but the above changes are less swingy and in general are more reliably challenging. You could even have this on-call. Maybe you insult the ancestors of the monsters and that triggers the above, so you can do it only when needed.
To me, that kind of change is much more of a "proof of how good you are" than asking the entire campaign to consistently hit some specific level of challenge. A specific level of challenge will undoubtedly miss the mark of what is reasonable for many levels (and will likely not be what "very strong" tables desire).
What we have currently is difficulty based on XP guidelines. That is what really sets the limit, but it is a very limited determinant in that the same XP can produce an easy encounter or a very difficult one (with monster synergies, terrain synergies, good tactics, strong monsters for the XP cost, etc.). Personally, I think this is an ok way to do it, with playtesting being used to verify the challenge is reasonable and the overall target being that an average appropriately-tiered table can succeed. In a few cases (specials, story arc conclusions) you have higher XP and should also see a harder challenge design. Here it may be ok to aim for an average table to succeed less often - but such a measurement is really very rough. Playtesting can only really tell you "it is hard" and maybe why, but won't give you anything like "60% of casual tables will succeed". It is very common for the feedback from three tables to be "very easy, put in more x", "very hard, take away x", "seemed fine".
Bgibbons makes good points about tier. I feel comfortable enough with tiering and DMing to be able to take tier into account when determining how to DME. I don't know if others feel this way. When a table is of low average party level but wants high, I take that into account and won't make the same adjustment I would make if a reasonable-for-tier table is up against a very cheesy/unfair encounter. If a table playing up is having a hard time, my general approach is to run the first encounter as written and then ask them if they want to switch to low tier (and only get low tier rewards) or continue on and face likely death. If a table playing at-tier or down is having a tough time, then I am more likely to pull a few punches to make it fun.
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Kmart Corporation is seeking compensation for flood damage at the Fulton Crossing location, the store's closure for about 10 months, and flood prevention efforts in April 2011, when the store was also threatened by flood waters.
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SmartLeaders inaugural podcasts feature three interviews with Allison on e-learning.
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Connection without caution? The role of mobile phone involvement in predicting young people’s intentions to use a mobile phone while driving
White, Katherine M., Walsh, Shari P, Hyde, Melissa K, & Watson, Barry C (2012) Connection without caution? The role of mobile phone involvement in predicting young people’s intentions to use a mobile phone while driving. Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 23(1), pp. 16-21.
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