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One thing that was absent from the first presidential debate was truth—the word, that is. A glimpse at the debate transcript reveals that the word never came up at all, while true came up only twice in an exchange of more than 16,000 words. Each candidate used it once, Mitt Romney indirectly to accuse the president of lying about his platform, Barack Obama overtly in his admission that health care premiums have risen since the passage of Obamacare two years ago.
The Obama campaign has announced plans to change all that in the second debate. They intend to make the event a referendum on the truth, which they claim is in short supply in the Romney camp.
"Mitt Romney didn't tell the American people the truth on Wednesday night," The Hill quotes an Obama campaign official as saying. "He lied his way through the debate because he knows his ideas would hurt the middle class. Romney doesn't want to be held accountable for wht he's been saying for the last year because he knows that voters don't want what he's selling."
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jan Psaki expanded on that theme on Friday, telling reporters:
If he's unwilling to tell the truth about his record, tell the truth about his plans and the fact that he wants to put in place a $5 trillion tax cut for millionaires and billionaires and leave the burden on the middle class, then we're happy to do the work for him.
This is a tall order. Part of the challenge is getting Romney somehow to own up to the profile of him they have crafted, which is daunting considering it's predominantly fiction.
Take the talking point about his $5 trillion tax cut for the rich. Obama's own deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, has already admitted on CNN that the effect of lowering tax rates across the board by 20% (which is actually what Romney has proposed) will not raise taxes anywhere "near $5 trillion." In addition, the Tax Policy Center, the group that originally posited that the only way to offset the costs of this proposal was to raise taxes on the middle class, has walked back that claim.
A second challenge for Team Obama is that this line of attack could easily blow up in the face of the president, who himself has been—to put it delicately—less than totally honest in his dealings with the American people. A falsehood that he gave utterance to in the first debate was that he has cut taxes for small businesses 18 times. But this claim can be explained away as double-counting (an "accounting technique" the administration used often), and Investor's Business Daily called most of the cuts "worthless" by any measure.
He also repeated the half-truth that his proposed tax hike on the rich would mark a return to Clinton-era rates. But this is an apples-and-oranges comparison, since Clinton also lowered capital gains taxes, which Obama intends to increase, given the chance.
Obama can't even level with voters on the reasons for his desire to raise taxes on the rich during a fragile recovery. One day he claims—falsely—it is to lower the deficit. (The proposed increase would generate $31 billion in revenue, about one day's worth of government spending using 2008 statistics.) The next day Obama insists that the move is based on "economic fairness," though he never explains who appointed him the arbiter of what's fair or how it is fair to raise taxes on the top 5% of earners, who currently absorb 60% of the nation's tax debt.
For a president who has stretched, bent, folded, and manipulated the truth as often as Obama has, shouting "Liar!" in a crowded amphitheater may day more harm than good with an electorate that has already seen one side of him they didn't like. The reason Obama lost the first debate is because no one had ever before directly challenged his half-baked and harmful policies. If he opens the door to a discussion of which candidate is the biggest liar, he will likely walk away from the podium a sadder, if not much wiser, man.
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Players like Kozma, Freeman can be sent down without being exposed to waivers
ST. LOUIS -- Having stressed the value of creating competition in Spring Training, the Cardinals leave themselves with a handful of roster spots up for grabs as the organization prepares for the start of camp. Several factors will be considered as the Cardinals go about filling those holes, though one oftentimes influential one will be excluded from this year's mix.
For the second straight year, the Cardinals will not have to consider option years in the decision-making process. None of the players on their 40-man roster are out of options, and that will allow the organization maximum flexibility in sending players to the Minors.
Rules stipulate that once a player is added to the 40-man roster, he gets three options. Each season in which he is sent to the Minors costs that player one of those option years, regardless of how many times he is demoted/promoted during the year. The one exception is if a player spends less than 20 days in the Minors during a season. In that case, an option is not used.
Once a player is out of options, he cannot be sent to the Minors without first being placed on waivers. There is substantial risk in the waiver process, of course, because it allows another club to snatch that player away. That's why, when most everything else is equal, teams will often give a roster spot to an out-of-options player over one who can go to the Minor Leagues unimpeded.
Keep in mind, too, that all of this is irrelevant for players with at least five years of Major League service time. In those cases, a player, regardless of how many option years he has left, cannot be demoted to the Minors without his consent.
For the Cardinals, however, all this talk of options will be a non-issue in 2014. In fact, only three of the team's players have as few as one option year remaining. That short list includes Pete Kozma, Sam Freeman and Shane Robinson.
This is particularly significant for both Kozma and Freeman, both of whom will enter Spring Training with a tough task at cracking the Opening Day roster.
Though Kozma spent the entire 2013 season in the Majors, the additions of Mark Ellis and Jhonny Peralta, as well as the ascension of Kolten Wong, have created a crowded infield. With Ellis and Daniel Descalso projected to take spots on the bench, Kozma could be left out.
Freeman, too, could be squeezed because of surplus. The left-hander made it onto the Cardinals' roster late last season after a strong showing in Triple-A, though he had the numbers to warrant an earlier promotion. There simply wasn't room. The plethora of bullpen arms also pushed Freeman out of a spot on the Cards' postseason roster.
How the Cardinals construct their rotation will affect the makeup of the bullpen, and that trickledown effect could make it tough for Freeman to dent the Opening Day roster.
Even with Robinson, that option year could prove relevant this year. While he is on the short list of players competing for a bench spot (and a favorite to win one), Oscar Taveras' eventual arrival could take one outfield bench spot away.
For future reference, here is the full list of players (with less than five years service time) who have two option years remaining: Matt Adams, Peter Bourjos, Joey Butler, Keith Butler, Matt Carpenter, Allen Craig, Tony Cruz, Eric Fornataro, Jon Jay, Tyler Lyons, Carlos Martinez, Rafael Ortega, Jorge Rondon, Trevor Rosenthal, Kevin Siegrist and Michael Wacha.
Those with all three options left include: Angel Castro, Descalso, Greg Garcia, Randal Grichuk, Joe Kelly, Lance Lynn, Seth Maness, Shelby Miller, Mike O'Neill, Audry Perez, Taveras and Wong.

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This story appears in the October 1997 issue of . Subscribe »
Americans are the hardest-working people on the planet. If you doubt this, read The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet Schor (Basic Books, $14, 800-242-7737). Schor says Americans are working harder and longer than ever before. Many Americans are putting in 14- and 16-hour workdays just to get by. For the majority, this means 60 to 90 minutes less sleep per night. Schor isn't joking when she says that many Americans are working themselves to death.
Therein lie the seeds of an incredible business opportunity. The harder people work, the more services they need to make their lives easier. Hence, the market is ripe for service businesses--like corporate and personal concierge services--to take some time-consuming chores off their backs.
Ponder this: About 60 percent of American women work outside the home. That number is expected to climb to 65 percent by the year 2000, compared to 20 percent in 1950, according to Louis Harris and Associates, a public-opinion pollster in New York City.
The average person who works 10 to 12 hours a day will jump at anything to make his or her life easier, says Marge Lovero, president of the Entrepreneurial Center, a small-business training center in White Plains, New York. "If the product is excellent, the service exemplary and the price competitive, there is no reason why you shouldn't be successful," she says. "The rocket-like growth of the fast-food and take-out industries over the past decade proves that people will endorse any concept that simplifies their lives."
This doesn't only hold true for speedy food preparation, but for virtually anytime-saving service. When Mary Naylor observed the frantic pace of most professional people's lives in her native Washington, DC, she saw an untapped business opportunity. She launched Capitol Concierge in 1987 with $2,000 of borrowed money.
Capitol Concierge places concierge services in office buildings to provide personal and business services to their tenants. The concierges offer a host of services, from picking up dry cleaning and managing catered business lunches to picking up theater tickets, ordering dinner and shopping for clothes. "Personal service is the hallmark of the business," Naylor says.
It took almost three years for Naylor to get her company off the ground; now it boasts concierge desks in more than 85 buildings, housing 3,000 companies. Naylor charges property managers fees ranging from $2,800 to $3,000 per month (which just about covers her costs) to place an on-site concierge. The fee mostly involves services of the hunt-and-fetch type. "We are a broker of services," Naylor says. "We charge market-level prices. There are no markups or tips. We make our money on the service side."
Beyond the management fee Naylor is paid, she receives a 15-percent commission from the vendors--florists, travel agents, courier services--she recommends to her clients.
In the beginning, winning new clients was like pulling teeth for Naylor. It took her seven months to land her first client. "Building owners were reluctant to try me out because it was a new concept," she says. "I was an unproven entity without a track record. My first client was taking a big risk."
It was slow going at first but, once she proved herself, it was a lot easier to capture new clients. By 1991, she had concierge desks established in 55 buildings.
"Initially, it's very difficult selling a personal service, because it's an intangible," Lovero explains. "It's not like Naylor could show someone a product beforehand. First you have to get a client to allow you to perform your service successfully. Once that's accomplished, selling additional services is easy."
Naylor quickly learned that her first challenge would be selling value to her clients. That means daily problem-solving for her busy clients. Every client had raging fires in need of squelching: A busy, fast-track attorney needed an expensive gift for his boss' spouse. A high-level manager tied up in back-to-back meetings needed to have his kids picked up from school, delivered to a birthday party and returned home; just knowing the chores would be successfully executed amounted to a monumental load off the manager's back.
It sounds simple enough, yet Naylor also had plenty of moments of nail-biting angst while getting her company started. There were occasions when she'd spend an entire night shivering in the rain outside RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, trying to score a client a hard-to-get concert ticket.
Initially, Naylor defined "success" simply as "satisfying most clients' needs. "But there were times when she wasn't able to deliver. Promising to find a certain delicacy from an out-of-the-way gourmet shop or a rare flower from an exclusive florist is one thing, but delivering it is another. Naylor couldn't fulfill every client's difficult wish. In these cases, the client usually appreciated the fact that she'd tried her best. After years of ironing out the kinks in her business, she says her batting average is excellent. Today, she seldom disappoints her customers.
Lovero says Naylor has unearthed a gold mine of a business. "More important, it points out the need for personal-service businesses in the 1990s," she says. "It's an inspiration to other entrepreneurs searching for unmet services to provide. A personal-service business doesn't have to be as complicated as Naylor's. A simple, one-service business that lifts a time-consuming chore off someone's shoulders can be the foundation for a multimillion-dollar business."
There were no shortcuts in building Naylor's business. At first, each client was hard-won. Because there was no blueprint for starting this type of personal-service business--and no trade association to dispense helpful information--she had to learn on the job. In the beginning, she says, it was critical to keep her costs down. Concierges--her employees--were only hired as she landed new clients.
Naylor says long-term success rests on knowing what her customers--the tenants of those buildings--need. She provides a host of services by working closely with her vendors; her network of more than 50 vendors was critical in building her business.
It's up to the individual concierge in each building to develop relationships with and provide a shopping list of services to tenants. A skilled concierge is in touch with the tenants' needs, and those needs differ from building to building. The goal of Naylor's concierges was to find products and services for their customers.
Naylor quickly discovered the importance of hiring qualified concierges who had the skills to do the job. The ideal concierge, says Naylor, is extremely outgoing but also a team player. Most important, they not only enjoy meeting their customers' needs, but anticipating them as well.
As Naylor's business expanded, she built a database of her customers' needs. Knowing whether a particular customer spends more on catering than on flowers amounts to critical marketing information in terms of improving her service. "Success for the entrepreneur running a personal service rests upon constant vigilance," she says.
"The personal-service market is growing fiercely competitive," adds Lovero. "You can't take your hands off the reins for a second. If you do, you risk losing a customer to a competitor."
Lori Krolik offers many of the same services Capitol Concierge provides to her own corporate clients. Her San Francisco company, More Time For You, was launched in 1995 and offers a range of personal services for busy working professionals, including grocery shopping, errand running and home-office organizing.
The premise of Krolik's business is providing her clients with essential services. "The majority of my clients are professional people juggling their careers and personal lives," she says. "They don't have the time to shop and take care of basic housekeeping chores. They welcome someone who can come in and take them off their hands."
Krolik charges $25 per hour to run errands and $35 per hour to organize a client's home office. To handle all the errand work, she contracts a good portion of it out--at half her hourly rate. She performs most of the in-house organizational chores herself.
The good part of running a personal-service business, Krolik says, is that the operating expenses are minimal. Because most of her time is spent visiting clients, it doesn't pay to maintain an outside office. Working from home, it took less than $5,000 to get her business going; She spent $3,500 to buy a used car and used the rest of the money to pay for office supplies and the printing of a brochure to advertise her business.
But aggressive networking and public relations played the largest role in building her clientele. "I tried advertising, but it didn't really work," Krolik says. She found a hands-on promotional strategy that she engineered herself to be more effective. She mailed press releases to San Francisco newspapers and trade publications. One of the releases was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle and resulted in hundreds of interested prospects. But the bulk of her clients were acquired through networking and word-of-mouth. Krolik joined local women's groups and business organizations and attended trade conferences. "I was very aggressive about spreading the word and telling people about my business," she says. "I haven't stopped to this day."
Because of the personal nature of her business, Krolik says most of her new clients come from referrals. "I offer a very specialized kind of service," she says. "My clients give me the keys to their homes so I can shop for them and take care of their chores while they're at work. That trust can lead to other clients." Publicity is great, she says, but a referral from a satisfied client almost always leads to new business.
"The ultimate key to success for any personal-service business is understanding your customer," says Charles Hofer, a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Georgia in Athens. "The concept of providing personal service is not new. Yet it's even more important today, because the average American is time-starved. The trick is first finding a personal service that people need and then matching it with an appropriate market."
Hofer advises investing time getting a precise picture of your average customer. "Their educational level, how they earn their living and what income bracket they're in tells you a lot about their needs and goals," he says.
Once you have your product and have identified customers who'd benefit from it, the next vital step is finding the best place to market it. Lovero suggests checking out real-estate developers who own corporate parks and office complexes. "Forward-thinking real-estate agents, especially the ones who've created industrial complexes in suburban communities, are looking for entrepreneurs who can provide personal services for their tenants," she says. "The more services they can offer a prospective tenant, the more attractive the building. It's smart business, plain and simple."
Suburban and even urban office complexes allow a host of personal services to be offered to their tenants, including massage therapy, dry cleaning and barber services.
Lovero describes an enterprising woman who set up a shopping service in a tiny stand in a busy suburban office complex. "It sounds mundane, but busy working people, especially single mothers holding down full-time jobs, don't have the time to stock their homes with groceries," she says. "This smart entrepreneur has set a minimum order at $25. While her customer is working, she'll do an entire week's worth of shopping." When her part-time employees return with their orders, she packs them in her van. "At the end of the day, the groceries are bagged and waiting to be loaded in the customer's car. She makes a decent profit by employing a team of high school and college students, and marking up each order between 10 percent and 20 percent."
Business consultants advise starting off slowly and keeping costs down. "There are no rules for starting up a personal-service business in a new office complex," Lovero says. "Often, a real-estate manager will give you a small section of the lobby and not charge you any rent because you're adding value to the building. But that could change once your business takes off. He might charge a small rental fee, or maybe take a commission on your sales. It's up to you to cut a deal that allows a decent profit."
Lovero suggests establishing relationships with local real-estate agents and land developers so you can stay abreast of commercial building projects in your area; once a site is selected, buildings go up practically overnight. "It's imperative to move quickly, to make your pitch before a competitor gets there first," she says. "A good way to find out about building projects in the works is by checking with the chamber of commerce or a local chapter of a contractor or builders' association."
Hofer estimates that you can start a personal-service business for less than $10,000, and recommends working from home at first. "Be frugal," he says." Make only critical purchases, such as computer, phone, fax, paper, postage and basic office supplies."
Beyond prudent spending, Hofer emphasizes the importance of pricing your services appropriately so you can earn a decent profit. "This is where many novice entrepreneurs get into trouble," he says. "Typically, they tend to under price their services, which could eventually drive them out of business."
Do a cost analysis of your service. Look at the time it takes to perform a particular service, the number of working hours in a day and, most important, how much you need to mark up a service so you can realize a profit.
Pricing a personal service can be tricky. "You must look at everything connected to the service," Lovero says, "from equipment costs to, most important, the time that performing the service takes." She cites a student who contemplated creating a business that delivered complete dinners to busy suburbanites as they departed their trains in the evening. That involved meeting the customers when they arrived at the train station in the morning, taking their orders, then returning with their dinners when they came back in the evening. "The problem was that she couldn't figure out how to make time work for her so she could buy the food, cook it and then deliver it at the end of the day. Once she masters the logistics of her business, she stands a chance of making it a success."
In the beginning, Hofer recommends offering premium pricing to lure new customers. "For your first month in business, consider offering 10 percent to 20 percent discounts to attract customers," he says. "Once you've proven yourself to satisfied customers, they won't mind paying more when you raise your prices."
Also, don't make the mistake of expanding too rapidly. "Make sure you have the customer base and cash flow to support growth," Lovero advises. "If both these ingredients aren't working together, you'll fall on your face."
Lovero advises running your business from home until you can confidently project sales 12 months in advance and comfortably support a monthly rental. Don't hire employees until you have the sales to support them. In short, the best advice is to keep your concierge business lean and mean until you're on secure ground.
Start-Up Costs
Depending on the personal-service business you're planning to launch, stick with essential supplies to get your business off the ground.
- Computer for bookkeeping and maintaining a customer database: $1,200
- Printer for mailings (preferably laser or inkjet): $350
- Telephone (two lines): $150 per month
- Business cards (1,000): $125
- Letterhead and envelopes: $150
- Equipment (cart or stall) for a business-on-wheels in a mall or an office park: $500 to $2,000
Bob Weinstein wrote about starting a Web-site design business in the August issue of Business Start-Ups.
Contact Sources
Capitol Concierge, 1400 Eye St. N.W., #750, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 712-9001
The Entrepreneurial Center Inc., 108 Corporate Park Dr., White Plains, NY 10604, (914) 694-4947
More Time For You, 1440 Broadway, #204, San Francisco, CA 94109
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Department of Management, Athens, GA 30602, (706) 542-3724


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Could the fight for Colorado's Browns Canyon finally be over?
The struggle to protect Browns Canyon, a rugged stretch of the Arkansas River in central Colorado, has been waxing and waning since the area was first studied for wilderness designation in the 1970s. Several attempts to create a new federal wilderness have been floated since then, and though they've come tantalizingly close, none have yet passed.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., wants to change that. A former Outward Bound director, wilderness proponent and mountaineer (he's climbed Denali, Aconcagua and 26,000 feet of Everest), Udall announced on Tuesday the culmination of a project he's been working on for 18 months: a bill to create a brand new, 22,000-acre National Monument in Browns Canyon, including 10,500 acres of wilderness. After soliciting thousands of comments and holding several public meetings, Udall seems to have found a recipe for success – the support of local businesses, national monument designation (which offers more flexible management than pure wilderness), and unchanged access for hunters, ranchers, off-roaders and human-powered recreation such as rafting.
"There's tremendous support on the ground," says Matt Keller, the national monument campaign director for advocacy group The Wilderness Society. "Senator Udall and his staff have done a tremendous job listening to people's concerns and addressing them."
But noticeably absent from the discussion has been Rep. Doug Lamborn, the Republican who represents Chaffee County, where the Canyon is. Though he has yet to make an official statement, Lamborn's spokesman told High Country News Wednesday that the Congressman does not support Udall's bill, and still has "concerns over the lack of consensus … from certain residents."
Lamborn's disapproval presents a fairly significant hurdle, because while most national monuments are created by presidential decree under the Antiquities Act, Udall wants to take a different route: Congressional approval, for which he'll likely need Lamborn's support. Without it, the bill – which proponents have heralded as a groundbreaking step in the 40-year battle to protect Browns Canyon from drilling and development – may suffer the same fate as past attempts, like a 2006 push for wilderness designation that once seemed destined for success.
That bill, written by Republican Senator Wayne Allard and Rep. Joel Hefley, was co-sponsored by every member of the Colorado delegation. Passage seemed imminent until, in the 11th hour, the National Rifle Association got involved. Amid concerns that limitations on road building would prevent some hunters from hauling out big game, progress ground to a halt. Or as longtime contributor Ed Quillen wrote in his final High Country News column before his death last year: "Even though big-game hunting would still be permitted, wilderness would infringe on the Second Amendment rights of geriatric ATV-driver hunters who were too cheap to rent pack horses and mules."
Udall hopes that compromises in his legislation – such as protecting existing uses and adjusting the boundary to exclude cattle watering tanks – are enough to garner a wide net of supporters, including skeptics like Lamborn. Proponents of the designation cite the financial boon of national monuments (though as the most popular whitewater rafting destination in the U.S., Browns hardly needs additional promotion), the relatively inexpensive cost of adding new protections to existing federal land, and the need to protect what former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called a place that's "quintessential Colorado." The area would also be one of the few low-elevation regions protected in the state, offering prime winter wildlife habitat.
If Udall succeeds, Browns Canyon could become the first piece of wilderness protected by either this or the previous Congress – the first Congresses since the 1960s to not protect a single acre of wilderness. Udall spokesman Mike Saccone says the senator is now focusing on building Congressional support and is working directly with Lamborn's office: "We're hopeful when he sees the community support he'll come around."
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Lean Hog futures are down 77.5 cents to $1.40 at midday on Friday. The CME Lean Hog Index was up 89 cents from the previous day @ $55.99 on January 9. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was up $2.59 on Friday morning at an average weighted price of $73.05. The belly was up $10.90, with the picnic $6.62 higher. The national base cash hog carcass value was 40 cents lower in the AM report, with a weighted average of $50.68. This week's FI hog slaughter through Thursday was estimated at 1.9 million head, which was 91,000 head larger than the same week last year.
Feb 19 Hogs are at $63.025, down $1.050,
Apr 19 Hogs are at $67.075, down $0.775
May 19 Hogs are at $72.575, down $1.325
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Hi! Karen Burniston here with another Pop-up 2Torial!
This video shows two techniques you might try with pop-up cards. The first is to make a spring-loaded card that opens automatically as soon as the closure is released. The second technique is how to split and move the card folds to allow for two pop-ups inside the card!
The card I make in the video is for my friend and Design Team member Gretchen's birthday earlier this week. Happy Birthday, Gretchen!
I kept the front of the card very simple, with just a square of patterned paper and the closure. The closure itself is explained in the video. The decorative clip is self-adhesive, but I found that the bead closure was pulling the clip off the paper so I shellacked it with Glossy Accents and let it dry overnight. Much better!
Inside the card are two Raising Platforms that pop up in opposite directions. Gretchen's favorite color is green and her favorite crafting color is (pun intended) kraft, so I incorporated both into this card. To decorate the platforms I went diving into my stamp collection for birthday stamps. The fistful of candles is one of my all-time favorite Stamp Oasis stamps, but it is sadly retired.
I had already installed the Raising Platforms in the card before deciding on the "candles" greeting so I didn't want to risk pulling the label off the platform to stamp it. Instead, I stamped the greeting on a transparency and added it with glue that dried relatively clear. The edges of the labels are glittered for some extra sparkle.
I used colored pencils to color everything. The mottling on the balloons is made by layering and blending several layers of colored pencils and then hitting them with an eraser. It takes off some of the layers of pencil and leaves behind an interesting texture.
In keeping with the hand theme, I used a Stampin' Up! hand stamp on the stem of the second platform so it could be holding the balloon strings.
Hopefully these ideas will inspire your own spring-loaded double-pop-up creations! (say that 5 times fast!)
Thanks for watching,
Extension springs - Ace Hardware
Patterned Paper - Basic Grey "Out of Print"
Rubber stamps - Lawn Fawn (Happy Birthday), Stampin' Up! (Wish Big, Candles greeting), Stubby Stampers (balloon), Stamp Oasis (fistful of candles)
Cardstocks - Bazzill
Baker's Twine - The Twinery
Glossy Accents - Ranger
Metal clip - 7Gypsies
Tiny Attacher - Tim Holtz/Advantus
Stash items (source unknown) - Beads, elastic, eyelets, inks, glitter, transparency


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Silverstick is an environmentally conscious brand with the natural world at its core. Designed to be worn outdoors, Silverstick's clothing works from one adventure to the next, come rain or shine.
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Seun Kuti at WOMAD
Neil McKim enjoys a performance by saxophonist Seun Kuti at this year's WOMAD festival
'This is not African Jazz! This is not African Soul! This is original African music!' – this was the defiant proclamation of 30-year-old Nigerian musician Seun Kuti (pictured above and below) on the main stage at this year's WOMAD festival. Kuti has an incredible legacy, performing since childhood with his late father Fela Kuti's legendary band – Egypt 80. And this 12-piece band belts out 'Afrobeat' grooves (a genre that Kuti senior invented), which is a fusion of African styles. Seun continues his late father's biting political comment. In this (slightly incongruous) rural Wiltshire setting, he rants against 'imperialists' and sends up Nigeria's political corruption.
Afrobeat may not be 'African Jazz' but it's certainly an inspiration to any aspiring jazz musicians, as its origins undoubtedly draw from, among other things, jazz styles. As the grinding conga-driven grooves propel the music on, the band blasts out tight brass flourishes and members take stunning solo turns, never losing the audience's attention, in songs such as 'International Thief Thief' and 'African Airways'. And aside from Kuti's own charismatic sax playing, the trumpet work is up there with top jazz performers. But what is so impressive about this band is the level of expertise and heritage that the musicians share. Egypt 80's keyboardist, Lekan Animashaun (now in his 70s), goes right back to the roots of Afrobeat, having played with Kuti's father since the 1960s.
And it's this sense of musical exploration that is tightly woven into the history of WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance), since it was founded by rock musician Peter Gabriel in the early 1980s. The festival's programming of artists from all areas of the world gives a refreshing insight for anyone interested in discovering new music. And, as always, this year was awash with music from around the globe. From the headline acts, such as Brazilian guitarist (and former minister of culture) Gilberto Gil, to the countless small workshops that take place through the day around the festival site, this is an inclusive musical experience.
It was sad that one of the headliners, UK jazz singer Alice Russell, had to pull out because of illness but there are always myriad other discoveries. On the Charlie Gillett Stage (dedicated to the late BBC radio world music enthusiast), the (Scottish) Hidden Quartet performed with two drum kits, mixing in electronic effects on their hauntingly jazzy anthem 'Antiphon' while, in contrast, an earlier stage highlight came from Congolese singer Fredy Massamba.
WOMAD is full of contrasts. Its daytime lines of vast colourful flagpoles give way, at night, to the magical lighting of the arboretum where giant flowers illuminate the woods. And it's fair to say that this year had equal contrasts of weather, with Friday's summer heat giving way to Saturday downpours.
Radio 3 has had a connection with the festival since the 1990s and annually hosts its own stage near the magical arboretum, combining the broadcast talents of World on 3, World Routes and Late Junction. And in sharp contrast to the vaguely hippyish attire of the crowd, the fast-paced Croatian band Zykopops took to the Radio 3 stage with a set of volatile folk music while wearing ties, and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers (doing bagpipe versions of rock classics) arrived with kilts and sporrans.
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Hi all
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 C# and was wondering how to make a grid that can be turned visible and invisible. I have no problem creating the grid using graphics and buffers and all that, that's all done. I'm having a hard time being able to remove the grid afterwards. Essentially what I am doing is trying to create a grid that the user can activate and deactivate to help guide their drawing.
So far what I am doing right now is I have two buffers. The one that is continuously updated with mouseclick drawing is placed into the griddrawing buffer. This grid buffer then takes the image and the drawings on it and creates a grid. However while the grid is showing you can't see any drawing changes on the image because I've switched buffers.
I'm wondering if there is an easier way to create a toggleable grid or if I'm headed in the right direction, or if I'm completely off base.
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In the last post, I ranted about time travel and lore. This time, I'm going to talk about some of the mechanical changes that were announced at BlizzCon.
Stats, Reforging, and Gear
There were a lot of different gear-related changes that I'm lumping together in this one category because they're all somewhat related. It's hard to say which is the "biggest" or "most important" of these changes, because several of them are (literally) game-changing. So we'll go through them in no particular order.
First, gear will no longer have a specific primary stat. If a piece of plate drops, and you're in Holy spec, it'll have intellect and stamina as its primary stats. If you switch to Retribution or Protection, the item will suddenly have strength and stamina as primaries. This is a pretty huge change, because it basically makes the big three primary stats irrelevant on the bulk of gear. Every piece of plate, leather, and mail will always have stamina and whatever primary stat your spec uses. In some sense, it consolidates strength, agility, and intellect into one flexible primary stat.
I don't think many players will argue that this is a bad thing. You'll automatically have up-to-date gear for all of your off-specs, so hybrid classes aren't punished as much for wanting to be fluent in more than one spec. The gear may still not be ideal because necks, rings, cloaks, and trinkets will only have secondary stats, some of which are only relevant to certain specs. But it'll be a large improvement over always using last-tier's gear for your off-spec, especially since you'll have current-tier set bonuses.
We're also getting a few new secondary stats, with the major three being Amplify, Readiness, and Multistrike. These should work much the same way the Siege of Orgrimmar trinket procs do. Readiness is just the cooldown reduction effect we've seen on trinkets, and will apply to a select few abilities based on your spec. Adding X% multistrike will give you two chances (X/2% each) to do an additional 30% damage (or healing) with each attack (or heal). And X% amplify increases your crit and multistrike multipliers as well as giving you X% more haste, mastery, spirit, readiness, and armor from gear.
It's worth noting that all three of these stats can be considered "tanking" stats. Readiness gives you more frequent access to cooldowns like Guardian of the Ancient Kings, Divine Protection, and Ardent Defender. Multistrike works on healing as well as damage, so while the details are still a little vague, it's likely that it will work on effects like Seal of Insight and Eternal Flame. Sacred Shield is a little dicier, but it could be made to work by simply having a chance to apply multiple absorb bubbles; it's just not clear whether it will or not. Amplify is obviously a tank stat because it gives you more of everything: haste, mastery, armor, readiness, as well as larger crits (for Eternal Flame) and larger multistrikes.
Armor is also making a return as a secondary stat on specific items (namely necks, rings, and other non-plate gear), so we'll have another secondary stat to throw into the mix. I didn't lump armor in with the "major" three simply because armor isn't really new. It's still nice to have it back though, armor was always a powerful stat even though it's passive.
Having four new "tanking" secondary stats is good, because the other bombshell piece of news is that four secondary stats are being removed entirely. Hit and expertise are gone, making juggling the hit and expertise caps a thing of the past. I predicted we'd see a change to these stats, but I didn't anticipate both of them disappearing because it would reduce the number of possible stats on gear too much. But the addition of three new stats more than makes up for that. Also note that while bosses will still have a chance to parry attacks from the front (so that melee DPS still have to stand behind them), tanks will have a passive that bypasses that effect. So as a nice little side effect, the "tank expertise" penalty is going away as well.
I didn't expect dodge and parry to be completely removed for similar reasons, though I did expect a change. But again, given four new secondary stats to play with, we really won't end up missing these two. It's worth noting that the dodge and parry mechanics aren't going to be completely gone – we will still dodge and parry attacks passively, we just won't have the ability to stack them via secondary stats. It's likely that we will still build up dodge and parry over the course of an expansion through our primary stats just like we do today. So strength will essentially be our avoidance stat, and we won't have to worry about choosing it since it comes on gear by default.
Of less concern to tanks, they're changing the way that DoT snapshotting works. In short, it won't snapshot anymore, it will dynamically update the tick amounts based on your current stats. This will mean that specs like Affliction Warlocks won't be quite as skill-dependent, because your DPS won't drop as much if you accidentally re-apply DoTs a little too early after buffs wear off. That's good and bad – good if you think the skill differential between an average Affliction Warlock and an expert one was too big, bad if you didn't think it was large enough. Since I don't get enough time to play my Warlock enough to keep in practice anymore, it's arguably a buff for me, so I'm not too worried. But I can see how some Warlock mains might be peeved.
Again, while it's not of that much relevance to us, it's worth discussing how the new mechanic will work. The tentative model I overheard during BlizzCon discussions is that every DoT/HoT will have its usual fixed duration, and we'll just get partial ticks at the end. So for example, let's consider Eternal Flame, a 30-second HoT that ticks in 3-second intervals. If we have 20% haste, those ticks will occur at 2.5-second intervals (3/1.20), so we'll get 12 ticks instead of 10. If we increase that to 25% haste, the ticks will be 2.4 seconds long (3/1.25=2.4), so the first 12 ticks will take 28.8 seconds. Then we'll get a partial tick at 30.0 seconds that will be half-strength (because it will be a 1.2-second long tick rather than a 2.4-second long tick, and 1.2/2.4=0.5). Presumably Sacred Shield will work in a similar fashion.
With the changes to hit, expertise, dodge, and parry, they've also decided that reforging isn't necessary, and have removed that in 6.0. This sparked mixed reactions from the players I spoke with. Sure, we don't need it to maintain hit and expertise cap anymore, or to balance our dodge and parry ratings. And the changes to DoT/HoT snapshotting will get rid of most (but maybe not all) relevant haste caps in the game. But reforging still narrowed the gap between a well-itemized piece and a poorly-itemized piece of equal ilvl. That has its advantages, especially when it comes to allocating loot in smaller raids. I'm not sure reforging absolutely had to go in this environment. But it seems the decision is that keeping reforging just isn't worth the hassle when its impact is so marginal. It's not a decision I'll argue against, since I don't have strong feelings about reforging either way.
They also talked about having fewer gem slots on gear and paring down enchants to cover fewer slots, though with more options for each slot. That means the level of customization we have on gear will be going down a little bit. Whereas now, we can stuff every socket full of haste gems and use haste enchants to rack up an extra 8% haste or so, we probably won't be able to do the same thing in Warlords of Draenor.
Tanking Mechanics
One of the most significant announcements is something that wasn't actually said outright, but merely implied. You see, one of my predictions was that all tanks were going to move to a "DPS tanking" model similar to what Monks, Druids, and now Paladins use. And while I don't remember them explicitly addressing that topic (maybe they did in a panel that I've forgotten), they almost didn't have to. The removal of dodge and parry from gear itself was enough to guarantee that such a transition was happening. The fact that all of the new secondary stats have a clear impact on survivability as well as damage output just further reinforces it. So we can expect to see big changes to Warrior and Death Knight mechanics once 6.0 goes into beta to embrace haste and crit as true survivability stats.
It's not clear yet whether every stat will have to have a tanking impact. For example, right now Paladins don't benefit much from critical strike rating unless they take Eternal Flame, and even then the impact is fairly small. It may be that crit rating will still be our dump stat in Warlords of Draenor. But it wouldn't take much to make it at least a contender. If Seal of Insight were able to crit, that would give crit rating some baseline value. We could also get a secondary mechanic to help bolster it – something like a small HoT effect when certain spells crit, for example. We'll just have to wait and see what Blizzard decides on that front, I guess.
Vengeance = VICTORY!
There is, however, no question as to my favorite change. While it wasn't announced outright during the convention (again, maybe it was during the Q&A and I just missed it, but it's doubtful), it came out during discussions with developers at the after-parties. While I got a chance to talk with a few devs in various degrees of detail at BlizzCon, I wasn't the only one, so I don't feel bad about sharing it.
-Vengeance changed to increase tanking abilties, rather than pure AP. He wants Tank DPS to be roughly 75% of a DPS' output.
Is it tacky to declare victory? Because we've suggested exactly this solution several times before.
In all seriousness, this is a huge change for a number of reasons. Mel and I have been blogging about vengeance for a long, long, long, long time. Many of the more blatant problems have been cleaned up by hotfixes along the way, but some of the core problems remain. One of those is that our DPS as tanks depends sensitively on taking damage. That makes our damage drop off during off-tanking periods unless we play awkward taunting games to keep Vengeance high, and more importantly it makes playing through solo content infuriating because we do so little damage.
When 80% of your damage comes from having a raid boss nearby, dailies become an infuriating exercise. I no longer even think about doing dailies as prot, because for an entire expansion now, I've had to switch to Ret to be even remotely efficient with my time. And as I've mentioned in earlier blog posts, the feeling of loss of control over your own DPS potential is somewhat demoralizing, because it takes control away from a role that is obsessed with having control in the first place.
This change reverses all of that. If our default output is nearly 75% of a regular DPS class, we'll actually be able to perform solo content in a sane amount of time. The only concern I have is that we may be too strong in PvP situations, but maybe that's intentional. Players have been bemoaning the inability to PvP as a protection spec, so maybe this will bring that back. And anyway, it's not like balanced world PvP exists anymore.
I'm ecstatic about this change for another reason: I'll finally be able to evaluate my performance easily with logging sites again. It's incredibly annoying to realize that you have absolutely no idea what DPS you should expect to be able to do on an encounter. You can compare to other guilds' logs, but there are so many variables involved that the comparison is nearly meaningless. Your DPS swings drastically with a number of different factors, including your guild's strategy and which of your tanks happens to be tanking first.
Un-linking Vengeance from DPS fixes a lot of that, which means I can finally make more useful comparisons between myself, my co-tank, and other tanks. It will also make tank DPS balance a little easier to achieve on Blizzard's end, because the range of AP values over which the five tanking classes need to be roughly equivalent just became a lot smaller.
Looking Forward
There's really no connecting thread that links all of these different ideas, so it's hard to come up with a conclusion for this post. The best I can do is to say that there are a lot of different exciting and awesome changes coming in Warlords of Draenor, and you should be as excited about it as I am!
Even though I think the story is sort of hackneyed, the mechanics changes are great and foreshadow what will likely be the the best expansion for tanks yet. We're getting many of the significant changes that we've asked for during MoP: a less frustrating and more functional version of Vengeance, consistency between the stats we want and the stats that show up on our gear, the removal of boring stats like dodge and parry, the elimination of the tank expertise penalty, and much more.
That's not to say there aren't changes we can still hope to see. I plan on vigorously campaigning for Holy Wrath to lose/modify its meteor effect so that we once again have a functional many-target snap aggro tool. And Meloree will tell you that the game still lacks a good mechanic to tie DPS to tanks, completing the DPS-Tank-Healer trinity. That role used to be filled by threat, but I think that ship has long since sailed. But it's hard to look at the wealth of other quality of life and toolkit improvements we're receiving and not be very pleased with the direction Warlords of Draenor is taking.


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A Love Simulations and Sci-fi Mystery Visual Novel. Story: Yukina Kudou looks like your normal high school student, but she has a huge secret. She was ordered by someone to be the girlfriend of Youji Kataoka. She doesn't know why, nor what the true purpose behind it is. Everything begins from a mistake of the past and continues on as an eternal lie. In the end, What will she find beyond the lies? Play hours: Estimated to be 7-10 hours. Event CG: 67 (including variations) Endings: 15 *The demo is including 2 endings (General Good Ending and General Bad Ending), but both of them is not the real endings of the game. The full version game would be around 8 times or longer than the demo.
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Bullied GHS student commits suicide after first day of school
A Greenwich High School sophomore who for years was relentlessly bullied by his peers committed suicide after the first day of classes Tuesday.
Bartlomiej "Bart" Palosz, 15, shot himself to death Tuesday night at his family's home in Byram, police said.
First Selectman Peter Tesei said he has been told by people in the community who knew Palosz that bullying might have contributed to his decision to take his own life.
"It's just a really horrific tragedy, and I'm deeply saddened to hear of it," Tesei said. "I extend my condolences to the family."
The circumstances that precipitated Palosz's suicide are under investigation by Greenwich Police, who were reported Wednesday to be probing the bullying allegations and planning to interview students.
A preliminary investigation into Palosz's death has revealed the shot gun used in the suicide was family-owned and had been stored in a gun locker inside the home, Greenwich Police said.
Lisa Johnson, whose 13-year-old son, Izzy, was a close friend of Palosz, said Palosz had been bullied since he moved to Greenwich from his native Poland when he was in elementary school.
"He always was kind of awkward in his body and kind of clumsy and how he carried himself," she said. "He didn't exude confidence but he was a total sweetheart of a guy. But kids never appreciated that."
She added, "He was really polite and one of those people who always said `What can I do to help you?' He was above a lot of the pettiness. Adults appreciated that, but his peers didn't see that. They just saw him as different or weak."
Palosz had a close and loving relationship with his sister, Beata, who graduated this year from Greenwich High, Johnson said.
"They used to eat lunch together at school," she said. "She was one of his allies. She was like his protector."
School crisis teams on Wednesday convened at Greenwich High, Western Middle School and New Lebanon School, which are the schools that Palosz attended. Mental health personnel are providing counseling to anyone in need.
"We are looking very carefully at what has happened over the last number of years here," Superintendent of Schools William McKersie said, "so we can make sure that all our students going forward do not have to face the kind of decision that Bart made (Tuesday)."
Kim Eves, director of communications for the public school district, said the school system takes seriously the importance of fostering a positive school climate.
"Any indications that a student is experiencing significant mental health distress is addressed at the school level by personnel trained to recognize and respond to these concerns," she said. "Importantly, if any staff member believes that a student poses a danger to him/herself, or others, parents are notified and the student is immediately referred to outside supports and providers."
Growing up, Palosz became active with the Boy Scouts. He liked to play video games and volunteer at tag sales and the Byram Shubert Library. He was also an active social media user.
Palosz's Google+ page tells the story of a lonely kid suffering from frequent, often violent, suicidal thoughts. In between posts about anime characters and hunting for pheasants, he discussed his failed suicide attempts and the relentless bullying that precipitated them.
"Hey if I were to stab my eye out due to school caused insanity, who would miss me?" he wrote July 3 beside a photo of himself holding the tip of a knife to his pupil.
Four days later, Palosz posted a goodbye note on the social network.
"I have chosen to go with 3 peoples advice and kill myself," he wrote July 7 after telling his friends on the network that he had swallowed pills. "I just wish it was faster."
When other Google+ users in his network assured him his troubles would subside, he replied that he had been bullied at school every day for the last 10 years.
"I'm still alive," he reported the next day, "never trust my mind."
He then agreed with a user's request that he never attempt to kill himself again.
It seemed like Palosz's disposition had brightened last month when he offered his own advice to a Google+ user on how to stop bullies: "talking out of experience all you can do is ignore them and remember when your in the darkest part follow a small light and ignore the demons that keep you in the darkness," he wrote.
It was through social media that one of Palosz's friends learned of his death.
"He was my son's best friend," said a woman who visited the Palosz family's home Wednesday in hopes they would be there. "He was just at my house for a sleep-over this week."
Fighting back tears, the woman, who would not give her name, said she was in shock and did not believe it when her son told her Tuesday night that Palosz had killed himself. She visited the family's home Wednesday because she wanted proof that he was really dead, she said.
The family was not home, but a worker from Aftermath Services who was sanitizing the home told the woman it was true.
Johnson, whose son met Palosz when they were both students at New Lebanon School, said Palosz never fought back against his bullies. Instead, she said he tolerated the torment and hid under a happy disposition.
"We just saw Bart walking in the neighborhood the other day," she said. "He was by himself, with his headphones on. I think he was more in another world."
Palosz seemed overcome with the darkness in his world when he replied to a YouTube user who said she would like to get to know him and become friends.
"not much to know," he wrote a week before taking his own life. "I do most things alone, most people I ever met hate me and yeah thats pretty much it, any questions feel free to ask I have nothing to hide."
Staff writer Dan Tepfer contributed to this story.


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All Wet: The Hook's guide-o-rama to the Film Festival
With over 60 Virginia Film Festival events, how do you decide what to attend? To help you home in on the best choices, The Hook has blatantly stereotyped moviegoers based upon the broadest of generalizations. It all starts with whether you say "movies" or "film."
If It's a Wonderful Life is your favorite movie, and you often lament how they don't make them the way they used to, you're in the traditionalist section.
Perhaps you often talk about making a film and shudder to think it might be appreciated by the masses. For you, technology is just a new art medium. Check out the techno freak section.
Date movies and too much dialogue bore you to tears. You like a high body count and wrecked cars in the wake of your movies. That would be the action dude section.
The indie snob wouldn't be caught dead in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie and considers subtitles a plus. You've come to the right place, and don't forget your reading glasses.
Finally, typical of our celebrity-obsessed culture, some come only to glimpse the stars or at least someone with quasi-Hollywood connections. We call you the autograph hound, and strongly discourage you from pursuing signatures, or you may end up an embarrassing Film Festival legend, like the num-nut two years ago who handed a piece of paper to Anthony Hopkins to sign when he was onstage at Culbreth.
And here's one other tip: Don't be all wet. Part of the fun of the Film Festival is to defy stereotypes like these and get outside your comfort zone. See something that isn't your typical Saturday night video. We insist.
African Queen - Yep, they knew how to make 'em back when Bogie and Hepburn were making movies, when the characters didn't automatically hop in bed five minutes after they met. Bogart is the riverboat captain with a drinking problem; Hepburn is the prim missionary in this John Huston 1951 classic adventure. The only thing that's steamy is the African jungle. (10am Friday, Culbreth)
Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart star in the 1951 classic African Queen .
Steamboat Bill Jr. - Comic genius Buster Keaton is the effete, city-boy son of a cantankerous steamboat captain in this 1928 silent classic. Naturally, mayhem will ensue. Live musical accompaniment by Anne Watts and her "avant cabaret" band, Boister, takes you back to the days of your youth. (7pm Friday, Culbreth)
Silent mayhem ensues as Buster Keaton stars in the 1928 classic Steamboat Bill Jr.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - You can always count on Disney for some good clean fun (at least you could until it bought that smutty Miramax), and this 1954 movie is no exception. Based on the Jules Verne classic, it stars a young Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre, and James Mason as the misanthropic Captain Nemo. The technical effects were quite something in their day. (10am Saturday, Culbreth)
Captain Nemo (James Mason) goes up against the massive squid in the 1954 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
All that Heaven Allows - A 1955 Douglas Sirk tearjerker from the time when family and peer disapproval meant something. Jane Wyman plays a wealthy widow who falls in love with that good looking, but younger and socially inferior Rock Hudson, causing tongues to wag at the country club. Quelle horreur! (4pm Friday, Newcomb Hall)
L'Atalante - Some call it the greatest French film of all time. We know, you traditionalists don't usually go for subtitles or calling your moving pictures "films," but you do like nostalgia. Roger Ebert says, "This is the kind of movie you return to like a favorite song, remembering where you were and how it made you feel." Director Jean Vigo died at age 29 shortly after his masterpiece was released in 1934. (10am Sunday, Vinegar Hill)
Techno Freak
Teknolust - Shown at Sundance and Toronto, Teknolust seems to be a film festival kinda flick. Tilda Swinson of cross-gender Orlando fame gets four screen credits for playing a scientist and three different self-replicating automaton versions of herself in this sci-fi cyber comedy. Festival perennial and multimedia artist Lynn Hershman Leeson wrote and directed the film, which features Karen Black as conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick. (7pm Friday, Regal Downtown 6)
From Sundance to Toronto to Charlottesville, Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinson in four roles, has been a festival favorite.
Tuvalu - "The film is relentlessly arty and much too stylistically bizarre for mainstream taste..." says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Perfect for the techno freak filmgoer. The New York Times even bestows potential cult status à la Eraserhead on German director Veit Helmer's surreal movie shot in a Sofia bathhouse. One of the most visually stunning films of the whole festival. (7pm Friday, Vinegar Hill)
Bizarre, arty, visually stunning Tuvalu is a techno freak filmgoer's dream come true.
Liquid Light - The festival offers eight programs to showcase experimental and avant-garde wet-themed films. Best picks are Liquid Light 2, The Garden in the Machine, because programmer Scott MacDonald is the clearest evangelist of experimental film to non-connoisseurs (not that that's you, techno freak), and it has the obligatory Kenneth Anger film (1pm Friday, Vinegar Hill); Liquid Light 3, Throwing Water into the Sea, because it features the best experimental films submitted to the festival, and Luis Recoder will do a live performance involving a glass, water and projector beam (4pm Friday, Vinegar Hill); and Liquid Light 7, the George Kuchar Program, because the underground avant-garde filmmaking legend is inspired by gastrointestinal conditions, and because John Waters calls him and his twin brother Mike "the only real underground filmmakers left working in America today."(10pm Saturday, Vinegar Hill)
Mexterminator: A Living Diorama Performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Peña, whom the Utne Reader places on its List of 100 Visionaries, and Juan Ybarra confront viewers with characters based on cultural and ethnic stereotypes contributed by visitors to mexterminator.com. They call them "multicultural Frankensteins" or "ethno-cyborgs." Part of the Fringe Festival, it's a Freak Show too hip to miss. (8pm Saturday, Frank Ix Building)
Action Dude
Lawrence of Arabia David Lean's 1962 epic is a quintessential guy movie except for being almost four hours long. Peter O'Toole plays T.E. Lawrence, a renegade British officer who dons Arab robes and tries to unite Bedouin tribes against the Turks, and in doing so, drifts from hero to madman. Blood, torture, seven Academy Awards, and the desert as it has never been shot. (1pm Friday, Culbreth)
The Long Voyage Home Don't let the fact that this movie is based on four Eugene O'Neil one-act plays fool you. While O'Neil may not be an action dude, John Wayne and director John Ford are. Danger is all around in this men-and-the-sea flick. (1pm Friday, Regal Downtown 6)
John Wayne makes Long Voyage Home seaworthy.
Psycho Okay, so most of the action takes place in the shower or when "Mother" leaps out with a butcher knife. Still, this is Hitchcock at his best, the movie that scared the weasels out of a generation, and kept Janet Leigh from ever taking a shower again. (10pm Friday, Culbreth)
If there'd been water restrictions, there might never have been the shower scene.
Deliverance This 1972 movie is the action dude's nightmare. Four city boys Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox set off on a canoe trip in the backwoods of Georgia, where they learn real men don't squeal like a pig, and the terror of hearing, "He's got a real pretty mouth." Strangely, the folksy "Dueling Banjos" is in no way as menacing as the soundtracks from Psycho or Jaws. Directed by John Boorman, and based upon the James Dickey novel. (1pm Saturday, Culbreth)
Nearly 30 years later, Jaws still has bite.
Beach Dance Party Dry off from Jaws and take a walk on the wild side at the Fringe Festival's dance party. Groove to beach music and a light show. Bonus: more coeds dancing like Annette Funicello. (10pm Saturday, Frank Ix Building)
Indie Snob
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Critics call 75-year-old director Shohei Imamura one of Japan's best. He dips into magic realism and the metaphors of life with the story of a young woman whose orgasms feed the river by which she lives. Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance) is the beleaguered businessman who helps relieve Misa Shimizu's liquid buildup. (10pm Thursday, Regal Downtown 6)
Maelstrom "If you're in the mood for a melodrama narrated by a talking fish, this is the movie for you," says the Christian Science Monitor. Plus, we don't see many Canadian films, and director Denis Villeneuve won five Genies, the Canadian Oscar, for this 2001 black comedy. We're there. (7pm Saturday, Vinegar Hill)
Narration by a talking fish makes Maelstrom out of the ordinary.
The Weight of Water One of the festival highlights is being able to premiere new films even if they've been floating around for a couple of years. Strange Days' director Kathryn Bigelow interweaves the present day with an 1873 double ax murder. Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, and Elizabeth Hurley's nipples star, but the indie film snob would go just to see Sarah Polley. (10pm Saturday, Newcomb)
Rabbit Proof Fence Director Phillip Noyce breaks away from his Tom Clancy oeuvre in this sneak preview of a Miramax release about Australia's Stolen Generations. The government takes three Aboriginal girls to be trained as servants. They escape and attempt a 1,500-mile trek to get home, with Kenneth Branagh in hot pursuit. (10pm Friday, Regal Downtown 6)
Aboriginal girls, kidnapped by the Australian government, run for home in Rabbit Proof Fence.
The River The Wet-themed festival offers four films called The River, and three have subtitles, really making it tough for the indie snob. There's the Jean Renoir, the Taiwanese, and Jarmo Lampela's River. As hard as it is to choose, we're going for the latter because, well, how often do you see Finnish cinema? And it's Finland's official entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. (1pm Saturday, Regal Downtown 6)
Autograph Hound
Sonny Academy Award winner and versatile comedy/drama/action star Nicolas Cage comes to town for the premiere of his directorial debut. Sonny stars hunky James Franco, American Beauty Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn, and Harry Dean Stanton. But the real stargazing will be in Culbreth with Cage. Special bonus: his wife, Lisa Marie Presley, the King's daughter, could join him. And Roger Ebert will interview Cage after the screening. And get this: UVA grad Samuel Goldwyn Jr. will distribute the film nationally. (7pm Saturday, Culbreth)
Nicholas Cage adds sparkling star power to this year's festival, and he'll be interviewed after the Sonny screening by Roger Ebert.
15th Anniversary Opening Night Tribute to Virginia Filmmaking Until a month ago, you'd probably never heard of Jeff Wadlow, nephew of Katie Couric and son of the late state Senator Emily Couric. After winning the Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival, he's being hailed as the next big thing, and will screen his short film, The Tower of Babel, and a scene from his upcoming Living the Lie.
The late Emily Couric's son Jeff Wadlow's future feature-length film, Living the Lie, will be distributed by Universal.
Director Ron Maxwell is best known for his Civil War epic, Gettysburg. He screens scenes from his new movie and Gettysburg prequel, Gods and Generals, which stars Robert Duval, Jeff Daniels, and Mira Sorvino. Actor Stephen Lang, who portrays Stonewall Jackson, will be here, as will actors Brian Mallon and Karen Hochstetter. (6:30pm Thursday, Culbreth)
Early buzz on Gods and Generals: the story of Stonewall Jackson could be the best Civil War movie ever.
The River Mark Rydell's 1984 movie stars Sissy Spacek and a fresh-faced Mel Gibson struggling to hold onto the family farm. Spacek, who owns her own farm in Albemarle County, will be present to discuss the film along with screenwriter Steven Peros, who was here last year for his Cat's Meow and who wrote Spacek's new film, The Gardener's Daughter.
Ms. Spacek will be on hand to discuss her 1984 film, The River.
Producer Glenn Williamson, Focus Features (formerly USA Films) president of production who's worked on American Beauty, Almost Famous, and Road to Perdition, will join in. (4pm Saturday, Culbreth)
Far from Heaven Director Todd Haynes, whom one critic accuses of having a thing for torturing Julianne Moore, screens his newest movie that was influenced by Douglas Sirk's All that Heaven Allows and stars Moore as a torn asunder '50s housewife. Haynes, who also directed cult classic Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, is a "figurehead in the new queer cinema," according to the festival program. Producer Glenn Williamson will be there, too. (7pm Friday, Newcomb)
Chinatown, shot-by-shot with Roger Ebert Better than an autograph, spend three days with the best-known film critic in the world, gabbing about one of the all-time film classics and the symbolism of Roman Polanski slitting Jack Nicholson's nose. (4pm Friday, 10am Saturday, 10am Sunday, all at Regal Downtown 6)


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Flipping tables. It's about as perfect a rage moment as you can get. And now, in WoW's upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion, you'll be able to do it in a video game.
While there's actually a Japanese arcade game centred around this very premise, it's a Japanese arcade game. This will be a little more accessible.
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AllThingsD Week in Review: Wearable Computing Comes to Clothes, and Yahoos Hate Yahoo Mail
In case you missed anything, here's a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week:
- Change is hard for many, but the latest iteration of Yahoo Mail has collected a chorus of complainers — including quite a few Yahoo employees, only 25 percent of whom have heeded management pleas to switch away from Outlook.
- Nokia's first phablet, the Lumia 1520, boasts a six-inch full-HD display and a 20-megapixel camera. In All Things Reviewed, Bonnie Cha found it to be "a solid phablet" with "fast performance and good battery life," but that, like other phablets, it can be cumbersome to handle.
- What's next for wearable devices? They're already on our wrists, but what about activity trackers in our clothes? That's the idea behind a startup called Athos, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions about how to turn that idea into a consumer-friendly reality.
- Black Friday has once again come and gone, but some of the deals on videogame consoles that rolled out on Thursday and Friday are still available today. This buyer's guide explains the differences among all the different types of consoles, and which games work with which systems.
- If you did line up for doorbuster deals on Black Friday yesterday, though, you might have wasted your valuable time, according to one business school professor. Sorry!
- According to teardowns by research firm IHS, both of the big new gaming consoles are only barely profitable. Last week, we learned that Sony's $399 PlayStation 4 costs $381 to build. This week, it was Microsoft's turn; the $499 Xbox One similarly costs $471, according to the teardown.
- As AllThingsD reported it would, Yahoo this week announced that Katie Couric would become its "global news anchor." Details about the hiring were scant, but, like many other media stars, Couric has a long history of dipping her toe into the online space.
- Apple lost its antitrust e-book trial over the summer. Part of its punishment? Paying for a court-appointed "compliance monitor," whose $1,100-per-hour fees and demands for corporate access are making Cupertino very unhappy.
- The law firm Morrison & Foerster recently surveyed around 200 senior tech executives and other dealmakers about the pace of mergers and acquisitions, and their results suggest that M&A might see a surge in 2014.
- Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Microsoft's enterprise chief Satya Nadella are still the insider favorites as the software giant looks for someone to replace outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer. But more than a dozen tech leaders outside Microsoft, as well as some high-ranking folks within, told Kara Swisher this week that former Skype boss Tony Bates might be the dark horse to watch out for.
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Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes has been formally charged with 24 counts of murder, 116 counts of attempt murder.
Holmes is accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at the Batman movie premiere in Aurora, Colorado.
Legal analysts believe the case will be dominated by arguments over his sanity.
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Who We Are?
Robert Irwin Jewelers is the only independent jeweler in the Memphis area with 5 locations and over 33 years of jewelry experience. The owners of Robert Irwin Jewelers are members of the Memphis and MID-South community and know what it means to be a community jeweler.
Our Mission:
Robert Irwin's formula for success pairs the comfortable friendly atmosphere, credibility, integrity, and commitment to customer service of a neighborhood family jeweler, with the huge selection of fine jewelry usually only found at chain and department store jewelers all showcased in a non-intimidating store atmosphere, where friendly knowledgeable associates are available to help you make the perfect selection for that perfect person.
What We Carry?
Our fabulous selection of diamond jewelry, gold diamond studded jewelry, diamond bracelets, diamond necklaces, diamond pendants, diamond earrings, diamond anniversary bands, certified loose diamonds, gold wedding bands, tungsten and titanium wedding bands, stainless steel jewelry, and branded collections are all hand picked and personally selected to make sure that every piece that comes from Robert Irwin is of the highest quality. Even better than that....WE GUARANTEE YOU WILL SAVE 20% to 40% OFF MALL AND CHAIN STORE PRICES.
Our target audience are the local trade areas that our stores are located. These small booklets will be given away as prizes at charity events, to employers to give to their employers as incentive rewards. They will also be given to local beauty shops, boutique stores, car dealerships, as a customer reward for a purchase.
For example....a store may hand one of these booklets to any customer that spends over $200 as a gift for being a preferred customer.
Target Market:
- Location - Southeastern US
- Income 40K plus
- Age - 25 - 55
- Sex - Female and Male
- Jewelry buyers
- Women who get weekly manicures.
- People that purchase automobiles.
- People who work in boutique stores.
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We want a 4 page booklet that can be printed on heavy card stock with a gloss finish. The size of the booklet will be 4x6 inches with bleeds. The 4 pages will be:
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We want it this piece to portray excitement through romance and love. The design should attract attention, but also be elegant and classy. See below for the specifics for each page.
Let your creativity flow on this page but be sure to include our logo and the following copy.
"A Gift For you"
Inside Front Cover
This page should have our logo toward the bottom, and should have a blank space where the gift card can be glued.
"Treasures for Life For Less"
"For a list of locations go to RIJewelers.com/locations."
Inside Back Cover
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"Save 20% to 40% off Mall Prices"
"Sparkling Diamond at Dazzling Prices."
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"Treasures for Life For Less"
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By Popular Demand: The Six Dollar Thickburger is Back at Hardee's
May 18, 2009
Hardee's reintroduces the Six Dollar Thickburger, the chain's original sit-down restaurant quality burger at a fast-food price
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – May 18, 2009 – Getting a quality burger shouldn't break the bank – or cost people an hour of their time. Hardee's® heard customers' hungry cries and is reintroducing the popular Six Dollar Thickburger® - so named because six dollars is about the price consumers would expect to pay for a similar product at leading casual-dining restaurants.
The Six Dollar Thickburger consists of an almost half-pound, charbroiled, 100% Black Angus Beef patty, topped with two slices of American cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, red onion, pickles, tomato, and crisp lettuce on a large toasted sesame seed bun. While it may taste like it costs six dollars, the Six Dollar Burger is available at participating Hardee's restaurants for just $3.99.
"This is the burger that really started it all because its success led us to create the entire menu of sit-down restaurant quality Thickburgers available at Hardee's today," said Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing. "Since we deleted it last year, we have continued to receive guest requests to bring it back, so we are happy to do so now. In fact, when we first introduced the Six Dollar Thickburger back in 2002, it received rave reviews from customers and critics alike. So, it's not surprising that so many of our competitors are still trying to copy this awesome burger, but none have come close yet."
The Six Dollar Thickburger is also available in a small combo for $5.99 including Natural Cut Fries and a beverage. Prices may vary by location.
About Hardee's
Celebrating more than 48 years in the quick-service industry, Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the fourth fiscal quarter ended January 26, 2009, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,116 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,195 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,908 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.