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Critter Comforts
This story appears in the November 2005 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Editor's note: What kind of pet business should you start? Read "10 Pet Businesses to Start" to get some ideas.
Susan Benesh, president of Posh Poochy Inc., a Columbia, South Carolina, manufacturer of clothing, collars and accessories for dogs, thanks her beloved bichon frisé and pug for their inspiration. The idea of launching a pet company began when strangers stopped Benesh in the street to ask her where she bought the cute sweaters and collars her two pooches were wearing. Benesh realized that the items she enjoyed crafting for her own canines could make her some money.
Benesh, who formerly owned a small publishing company, began investigating the field by visiting independently owned, high-end pet boutiques in cosmopolitan markets such as Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York City. They instantly wanted to carry her items, and she soon had trouble keeping up with demand. She sent out free samples to other retailers around the nation and listened to their feedback. In addition, she conducted Google searches to obtain information and statistics on the pet industry. Benesh also compared her pricing and offered a differential that other high-end dog apparel makers didn't provide. For instance, instead of charging $1,200 for dog beds that few people will buy, Benesh's beds cost between $195 and $225.
With sales already surpassing $1 million this year, Posh Poochy's merchandise is sold at 400 pet shops in the United States and around the world, as well as online. Benesh and her three employees work out of an office and warehouse, totaling 3,000 square feet.
"You've got to have a specialty, be more affordable than what's out there and not try to compete with the big pet stores if you're starting out," says Benesh, 47, who launched Posh Poochy in 2003.
Hot Market
Benesh is part of an explosion in pet businesses that is inspiring many new entrepreneurs to start their own ventures offering a product or service for Rover, Fluffy or almost any kind of animal you can think of. Since many animal businesses can easily be launched at home with little capital, entrepreneurs are lining up by the dozen to sell their wares. Based on attendance at the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association's recent annual trade shows, an estimated 125 to 150 new pet business are created each year, and there are no visible signs of a slowdown anytime soon, says Andrew Darmohraj, vice president and deputy managing director of the Greenwich, Connecticut-based organization.
Just look at the numbers spurring this continuous growth. Pet spending has more than doubled in the past 11 years--from $17 billion in 1994 to a projected $35.9 billion by the end of this year, according to statistics from the APPMA. Fueling this trend are empty nesters lavishing attention and money on their pets, young adults who are having children later and currently put their time and energy into their animals, and a pet industry that has become more sophisticated at consumer marketing, points out James Chung, president of Reach Advisors LLC, a Belmont, Massachusetts, business strategy and research consultancy. The influence of mass media--including popular cable channels like Animal Planet--has also made the family pet more revered than ever, Darmohraj adds.
In fact, the pet business is now the seventh largest retail segment in the nation, with consumers spending more on their beloved creatures than they do on candy or toys, according to the APPMA. And a whopping 63 percent of all U.S. households--or 69 million homes--have a pet.
But don't think it's too late for you. There is still plenty of room for new ventures--as long as they offer something novel or really useful. "The pet industry, unlike many others, is almost recession-proof," Darmohraj says. "Consumers will always be willing to spend money on their animals no matter what, like they would on their kids."
Despite the existing demand, you need to carefully research a product or service to find out if there is enough of a need for it, or conversely, if your segment of the market is oversaturated. You also need to put aside the notion that just because you adore your dog or cat, owning an animal business will automatically be fun and easy.
"People think, 'Oh, I love dogs, so I'll start a dog-sitting business in my home.' It's not that easy when you're dealing with animals that aren't your own, and you shoulder a tremendous responsibility when you're taking care of someone else's pet," says Gene Fairbrother, Dallas-based lead business consultant for the National Association for the Self-Employed and president of MBA Consulting Inc. "You also have to check with your state licensing board to make sure you have the proper license and liability insurance."
For instance, about half the states have some kind of kennel ordinance and licensing, says Jim Krack, executive director of the American Boarding Kennels Association in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dog day-care and boarding centers are rapidly expanding to include services like hydrotherapy for dogs, even offering video access for pet owners who are traveling and want to see their pets in action at such facilities. If you are considering starting a business with such services, Krack says, you definitely could have a leg, or paw, up on the competition.
Pet Project
Scott Smith, 34, CEO and co-owner of New York City's Biscuits & Bath, can attest to the long hours involved with running a canine overnight, day-care and grooming center. Even though he and COO and co-owner John Ziegler, 34, unequivocally adore dogs, operating the three locations of their full-service facility and managing their 95 employees is a nonstop commitment.
"I love dogs and am fascinated by this industry, but it is hard work," says Smith, who owns a black Labrador retriever. "I sleep with my cell phone on right next to my bed. After all, the dogs we handle are like children to their owners, and we have to treat them as such, with the utmost care and attention."
The business began in 1990 with Ziegler dog-walking and pet-sitting in other people's homes. He eventually opened a dog gym and boarding facility in 1998, after his clients complained that they had no reliable, comfortable place to leave their pets when they traveled or even while they were at work. He conducted more research, speaking to Manhattan doormen, who are often left with the responsibility for apartment owners' dogs when the owners are away. They, too, attested to the lack of quality boarding facilities. Ziegler began paying doormen $50 referral fees when they recommended clients to him, and the business grew from word-of-mouth, Smith says.
But Biscuits & Bath also blossomed due to major points of distinction that set it apart from other Manhattan boarding centers. It had staff working in the locations 24 hours a day; provided cageless boarding with large corrals instead of harsh, steel cages; and charged affordable rates ($55 for a day of boarding)--even for pricey Manhattan. Armed with a background in consulting and an MBA, Smith joined the business in 2003 with hopes of growing it even more. The company, which had sales of more than $3 million in 2004, plans to open two more locations by year-end, and hopes to add two or three more centers in the New York City area next year, says Smith.
Just as Ziegler spoke to doormen for feedback, you need to query your market. If you are looking to distribute a product or service, for instance, talk to independent pet-shop owners or kennels to obtain their input. They also can distribute your product or help you promote your service, with a cut of sales given back to them. It's easier to break in this way than through the large pet-store chains, which have a set protocol for buying products on a national level and are usually less likely to take on the wares of a local entrepreneur.
"This is a very fragmented industry, and it makes the most sense to sell your product or service through the mom-and-pop retailers first, not the big guys," Chung says. "You also want to test the waters before you invest your money in your own shop or kennel, since that requires a much bigger capital investment."
Alisa Puga Keesey, 41, owner and founder of SheaPet, which manufacturers natural shea butter skin-care products for dogs and cats, test-marketed her merchandise in about 20 pet shops across her state before she began her company three years ago. She also sent product catalogs to 1,000 high-end boutiques nationwide. Puga Keesey's three-employee Santa Cruz, California, company projects sales of $1 million for 2005, and her products--which include shampoos, sprays and creams--are currently sold in 300 pet stores and at 30 veterinary practices worldwide.
"We even hired a publicist to get the word out on our products, which had never been seen before in the pet industry," says Puga Keesey.
In addition to surveying your market, experts recommend that you attend some of the many pet expos offered across the nation. There are 30 trade and consumer shows held every year both regionally and nationally, Darmohraj estimates. You'll have the chance to see what other entrepreneurs are offering, and which products or services are popular with the buying public. For instance, the World Wide Pet Industry Association Inc.'s annual trade show, called SuperZoo, is held every September in Las Vegas. It attracts 10,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors, says executive vice president Doug Poindexter. The Arcadia, California, organization also sponsors three large annual consumer shows--two in Southern California and one in Michigan. And there's the APPMA's Global Pet Expo, which is the largest and most attended annual pet products trade show in the world.
Says Puga Keesey, "By going to about three shows in our first year of business, we soon realized that we had a unique kind of product that was attracting a lot of attention."
Secrets to Success
If you have no background in the pet field, first consider working part time for a noncompetitor for a few months to see what is and isn't selling, and what you can do better or differently with your proposed product or service, Poindexter says. This is especially true if you are considering opening a day-care or boarding facility. These are labor-intensive businesses and may not be quite what you had expected, Krack says.
It also helps if you've been a consumer of the product or service, either through your own pets or through others you know. For instance, Puga Keesey found that shea butter soothed her Rhodesian Ridgeback's itchy skin. She then brought in a chemist to refine the shea butter into a sellable product and launched her company. Doug Grabe, 40, chairman of Bridgeport, Connecticut-based Atomic Pet--which manufactures illuminated pet collars and leashes--first used his merchandise for his two dogs. If you don't have personal experience like Puga Keesey or Grabe, form a focus group of pet owners, and ask them what they want and don't want.
A related background can also serve you well. Grabe, who has 10 employees and expects sales to reach $2.5 million in 2005, used his experience as a sales and marketing executive in the technology field to help promote his products. He was able to sell his items through small retailers as well as big-box stores like PetCo by knowing how to approach their buyers. His high-tech know-how even enabled him to create the special power pack that illuminates his accessories, which sell for $20 (collars) and $25 (leashes).
"If you have a passion for pets, related skills, and an innovative product or service, you can enter this industry and make real money," says Grabe, whose company manufactures about 400,000 leashes and collars a year that are sold through distributors worldwide.
In addition, observe the market closely by visiting several competitors in your area--perhaps with your own pet. "If you notice that a doggy day-care center or pet boutique in your area is getting a high volume of business--but no repeat business--then you know there is a demand out there and they are just not doing something right," Chung says. "That may leave an opportunity for you to come in and do it right."
Also, be willing to tinker and alter your product or service often, since trends in the pet arena can come and go quickly. "You want to keep tabs on any population shifts, to make sure that item will still be popular in a couple of years," says Poindexter. "This is why you need to be flexible in the pet world and go with the flow. It's just that kind of industry."
What's Hot?
While kitty litter and dog and cat toys have become oversaturated segments of the pet industry, Andrew Darmohraj, vice president and deputy managing director of the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, says the following areas are growing fast and continue to offer opportunities for entrepreneurs:
Fastest-growing pet service businesses
1. Grooming shops
2. Dog day care
3. Dog hotels and spas
4. Care and maintenance of high-end aquariums
5. In-home and mobile grooming services
Fastest-growing pet product businesses
1. High-end clothing, beds, jewelry and other accessories for pets (largely dogs and cats)
2. High-tech convenience gadgets, such as self-cleaning kitty-litter boxes and automatic water dispensers for dogs
3. Leashes and carryalls (for instance, tote bags to carry dogs in)
4. Natural and organic foods, soaps, shampoos, lotions--all designed to mimic similar human products
5. Nutritional supplements
For More Information
- American Boarding Kennels Association
- American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
- National Association for the Self-Employed
- World Wide Pet Industry Association Inc.
Laura Koss-Feder is a freelance business and features writer in Oceanside, New York, who has written for Business Week, The New York Times and Time.


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The Decatur Public Library Writers' Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 6 pm! The Writers' Group provides a creative atmosphere to share and perfect your writing craft. The group discusses and critiques original works, and is intended for adults, anyone 18 years old and over. Contact Denice at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions.

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Human Desire, another noir-ish effort from Lang, a German in exile who seemed at home in Hollywood. It's based on the Zola novel, La Bête Humaine, which I have not read, but I've read enough of Zola to know the terrain. As for that title…is there another kind of desire? Zola's title, The Human Beast, seems to capture the logic more accurately.
Zola's realist novels usually present a milieu in tremendous detail, with lots of atmosphere: a mining town; an enormous urban food market; a department store; and the setting is almost a character in the book. In this film, the world of railroading is the setting, and we get into it by way of the credits followed by a long sequence that shows the men at work driving a train to its destination. Glenn Ford plays Jeff, the Korean War vet, happy to be back home at work.
While riding home as a passenger on a train, Jeff meets Vicky (Gloria Grahame), the wife of a fellow railroader. She has obvious charms…
…but he doesn't know that she and hubby have just murdered someone on the train. As in M, the killer has a special relationship with his knife and what it represents. Vicky's husband (Broderick Crawford) is much older than she, jealous, and not up to keeping her satisfied, but he's very handy with a blade.
The whole town knows what's going on between Jeff and Vicky. While he's been at war, the little girl in the rooming house where he lives has grown up, and she tries to save him from himself, for herself. She comes to meet him at work, a little girl dwarfed by the big machine. They have their talk, but Vicky has her hooks into Jeff. She retreats, defeated, a nice contrast of womanly flesh and brute machinery.
Grahame is marvelous as a brassy fatal woman, but she just can't get Jeff to knock off her husband, although he is tempted.
He's a flawed noir hero, but not flawed enough for her. He sends her walking. As usual with Zola, there is a churning pot of sex, lust, greed, spiritual corruption, and violence, but Jeff is too good for it. He goes back to the working life, and we know he will return to that spicy brunette who wants him. Now I have to read the novel.
Grahame's life might be the stuff of a Zola tale: it was stormy, and included a divorce from one husband who caught her in bed with his thirteen year old son.


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The Crew Soccer Academy swept its matches for the second-straight weekend. The U-16 squad defeated the Cleveland Internationals 1-0 behind Jalim Bayo's tally. Nathan Kohl assisted on the match's lone goal. The U-18 side took down the Internationals 4-2 with Nicholas Parianos, Thomas Wiseman, Andrew McKelvey and Alex Bumpus scoring in the affair.
In other news, CSA goalkeeper Carter Richardson earned an invite to the United States U-17 Residency Program in Bradenton, Fla. The Dublin native will join fellow CSA product Benny Swanson playing under Richie Williams for the Stars & Stripes.
On the college stage, plenty of Crew Youth alumni were in action over the weekend, here are some of the highlights:
Akron Zips (7-1-2) This Week: 5-0 W vs. Florida Atlantic
Chad Barson, Wil Trapp, and Eric Stevenson all started in the Zips' weekend win over Florida Atlantic. Stevenson scored two goals and added an assist in the victory to earn TopDrawerSoccer.com National Team of the Week honors.
Louisville Cardinals (8-4-0) This Week: 3-0 W vs. DePaul, 2-1 W at Syracuse
The Cardinals earned a pair of Big East wins last week to move to 8-4-0 on the season. Alex Obbey came on as a sub in both matches for Ken Lolla's side. Louisville will host Indiana on Wednesday night
Xavier Musketeers (8-0-2) This Week: 3-2 W vs. Saint Louis, 2-1 W vs. Butler
Xavier opened Atlantic 10 play with a 3-2 victory over Saint Louis at home. Will Walker tallied twice, while his brother Matt chipped in an assist in the win. Matt Walker added another assist in Sunday's win against Butler. Will Walker's brace earned him a spot in College Soccer News' National Team of the Week.
Boston College Golden Eagles (6-3-2) This Week: 1-0 W at Wake Forest
Senior Justin Luthy made eight saves to hold No. 15 Wake Forest scoreless as the Golden Eagles improved to 6-3-2 in 2012. The Crew Youth product has posted two clean sheets on the season.
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"Mystery shoppers" sounds like a new reality television series, but it is actually one of the tools the U.S. Postal Service uses to gauge customer service. Mystery shoppers are customers unknown to the retail staff and who fill out evaluations on their shopping experience, which helps determine how well retail units are performing.
The Postal Service's Retail Customer Experience (RCE) program uses mystery shoppers to objectively collect data on retail customer experiences. This information is used to drive behaviors for improving customer service, increasing retail revenues, and correcting unfavorable conditions. What kinds of things are these mystery shoppers evaluating?
How long did they wait in line? Was it over 5 minutes? This makes up 40 percent of the RCE score.
Were forms and supplies available? Were promotional messages neatly displayed? This makes up 25 percent of the score.
Was the Postal Service employee attentive and did he or she interact pleasantly with the mystery shopper? Was the retail area neat, clean, and well maintained? This "image" part of the survey makes up 20 percent of the score.
Did the Postal Service employee ask the mystery shopper if the package being shipped contained hazardous materials? This represents 15 percent of the score.
Although not factored into the overall score, mystery shoppers also record their experience in these categories:
Product offering – To what extent were mystery shoppers offered certain products and services?
Product explanations – To what extent were benefits and features of products and services explained?
Overall experience – Mystery shoppers provide their view on the overall experience, including whether their expectations were met and their likelihood to return.


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Michelle Williams and Matilda Go For A Walk
It's so crazy seeing Michelle Williams and Matilda without Heath Ledger. I really can't get over how much she looks like Heath. It's when I see pictures like this it reminds me he's really gone.
Check out the mitts on Matilda...they don't match...just like how Heath would dress her.
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Over the past couple of days, we've been exploring the question of how Emmy voters' love affairs with a handful of shows or actors might create a sort of Emmy carousel, with the same few favorites winning over and over while others are forever kept off the ride. While there have been a lot of repeat winners over the past two decades, nine different women have won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Comedy in the last nine years. Does this signal a new dawn of diversity for the Emmys?
We're especially curious about how these patterns work for supporting categories. Not only are ensemble shows where all of the actors submit in supporting categories common (think Modern Family, for example, where everyone from Ed O'Neill to Nolan Gould submitted in the supporting category last year), but shows that center around a lead character, such as House or The Closer or The Office, are often successful because of the strength of their supporting casts. There are so many supporting roles and so many excellent performances in them that we often have great difficulty narrowing down these categories to just a few nominees. With so many possible nominees, repeat winners might be an even bigger problem in supporting categories. So–are they?
Supporting Actor in a Drama: 5% repeat winners, 5% multiple winners
I would have sworn on my grandmother's grave that William Shatner had won multiple times, but nope–only Ray Walston for Picket Fences all the way back in 1995 and 1996. We have tons of complaints about who doesn't get nominated, but the wealth certainly gets spread in this category, at least in terms of wins. And last year's winner, Aaron Paul, can't repeat this year because of Breaking Bad's broadcast schedule. So much variety might point to the popularity and quality of ensemble shows, with many deserving performances from which to choose. But since the Academy shows here that they can be eclectic, why aren't they in other categories?
Supporting Actress in a Drama: 10% repeats, 15% multiple winners
In fairness, this is probably less balanced than it seems, as Allison Janney might have dominated for years if she hadn't started entering in the lead category after winning here twice. Still, it's much more balanced than the lead category, where 65% were multiple winners. I blame Blythe Danner, who won in 2005 and 2006, for blocking CCH Pounder, Chandra Wilson, and Sandra Oh, but mostly I blame her for foisting Gwyneth Paltrow on the world.
So far, it seems like things are looking up–there are many more winners in the supporting categories as compared to the lead categories, where more than three times out of five we're getting repeats. Rather than greater numbers of terrific performances leading to greater numbers of actors left in the cold, the ensemble shows are producing a greater variety of winners. This might be plain old common sense, since there should be many more supporting performances to choose from than there are lead performances. That doesn't mean the Academy would have to use common sense, though, so hooray for them. It's all good from Diego to the Bay, right? Right?
Supporting Actor in a Comedy: 25% repeats, 65% multiple winners
Really? Really. Puzzling. This category is regularly at least as difficult to narrow down as the supporting actor in a drama category–let's examine the possibilities this year. Aziz Ansari. Ty Burrell. Chris Colfer. Ted Danson. Charlie Day. Garrett Dillahunt. Peter Facinelli. Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Zach Galifianakis. Donald Glover. Ian Gomez. Neil Patrick Harris. Ed Helms. John Benjamin Hickey. Josh Hopkins. Ken Jeong. Nick Kroll. Stephen Mangan. Rob McElhenney. Nick Offerman. Ed O'Neill. Oliver Platt. Danny Pudi. Stephen Rannazzisi. Paul Scheer. Adam Scott. Atticus Shaffer. Eric Stonestreet. Brian Van Holt. Rainn Wilson. I know I watch too much TV, but that's 30 excellent actors in excellent performances of excellent roles just this year–just off the top of my head. That doesn't count previous winners who just aren't to my taste (Jon Cryer and Jeremy Piven, for example), or probably good performances on shows I just don't like (the Big Bang guys or the great Weeds ensemble), or good actors I just don't think are getting good enough material (former nominees Tracy Morgan and Jack McBrayer, or Cory Monteith), or the fourth person from the same show who is great but doesn't rank quite as highly as his brethren (Chevy Chase or Mark Duplass), or actors and performances I like that I've just never thought of in terms of Emmy quality (the guys from Chuck and Psych, for example). Add those in, and you're up to around 50 actors off the top of my head who could have a justifiable claim on a nomination this year…and yet a handful of winners take home the hardware over and over (and over).
David Hyde Pierce won four times for his role as Niles Crane on Frasier, and Michael Richards, Brad Garret, and Jeremy Piven won three Emmys each. During those same years, actors who didn't win included Jeffrey Tambor, Phil Hartman, Peter Boyle, John Mahoney, Bryan Cranston, Will Arnett, Rainn Wilson, and Neil Patrick Harris. Shoot, I can't stand Seinfeld and I still feel sorry for Jason Alexander. And that's just among the actual nominations, which also tend to circle around the same people over and over. With so many worthy performances to choose from, why is this category so stuck on the same winners over and over?
Supporting Actress in a Comedy: 25% repeats, 65% multiple winners
The same as their funny brethren. Double winners include Bebe Neuwirth, Kristen Johnson, and Megan Mullaly, while Laurie Metcalf and Doris Roberts won three apiece. While there has been more variety recently, nominees who never won in those repeat years include Faith Ford, Estelle Getty, Rhea Perlman, Janeane Garofalo, Jennifer Aniston (who finally won in lead), Kim Catrell, Wendie Malick, Cheryl Hines, Vanessa Williams, Amy Poehler, Elizabeth Perkins, and Jessica Walter. (And, again, that's just among the nominees, most of whom were nominated multiple times.)
So…what the what? The idea that Emmy voters just get stuck on the same few winners, whether that's because of buzz, comfort, or plain old love, makes sense, as the supporting comedy numbers are similar to those in all four lead categories. But then why are the supporting drama categories so different? The theory that the wealth will be better spread in supporting categories makes sense, too–the numbers for the drama categories suggest that when there are lots and lots of great possibilities, Emmy voters are capable of enjoying a large variety of performances. But then why are the comedy supporting categories so much different than the dramatic categories? Friend O' Bacon Bgirl suggests that people who make TV have little time to watch TV and tend to vote based on buzz and social networks. Even though voting panels change annually, there's probably not a huge shift in the overall population of Academy members from whom those panels are drawn from year to year, so that explanation makes a lot of sense for the categories that are stagnant–people vote for their friends or what they hear is good year after year without seeing other notable performances. But if that's the case, why doesn't it hold true for the supporting dramatic categories? We'd love to hear your explanations.
Sunday: Is this a problem? I mean, it's not like According to Jim ever won for Outstanding Comedy. Maybe Academy voters just recognize the best quality, and quality doesn't go away from year to year. But if stagnation is an issue, or if there are lots of high-quality programs and performances that could be equally honored, are there solutions to break away from repeat winners and spread the wealth?


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Outlander (Cross Stitch in the UK) is the second highest rated book on Amazon UK, and I have seen nothing but praise for it. I was really looking forward to discovering the magic that everyone talks about, but I'm afraid that I wasn't very impressed with it.
I loved the light humor of the first few pages, but the book quickly went downhill – it was just so unrealistic. I'm not talking about the time travel, as I think it can be used as a useful plot device, but Claire's reaction to being transported back 200 years was totally unbelievable. She didn't come across as scared, or devastated that she wouldn't see her family and friends again. Her whole life had changed forever and she just took it as though she was on an interesting holiday.
The speed with which she was accepted in her new time also failed to ring true. Perhaps I just don't know enough about the 18th century, but almost everything that happened to her seemed a bit far fetched. As I failed to connect with her, I became bored by her adventures. The plot did move fairly quickly, but I just didn't care what happened. I found the writing to be of poor quality and the Scottish accent drove me mad! By the half way point I was ready to give up, but I happened to have a copy of the abridged audio book, so decided to give that a go instead.
The unabridged audio book contains 28 CDs, while the abridged version contains only 6! I never normally listen to abridged audio books, but in this case I would rather listen to the last 3 hours of an audio book, to get a vague idea of how it finished, than give up entirely.
The abridged audio book suffered from it's own problems though – there was annoying music over large portions of the narration and the Scottish accent was even more annoying to listen to than read. I'm not sure if these problems are present in the unabridged book, but I couldn't cope with 28 CDs of this.
I have no idea what was cut from the book, but I didn't feel that I was missing out on anything. Claire's annoying personality remained in the audio book – there were so many times that I just wanted to slap her!
People describe this as one of the best romances in existence, but I didn't find either member of the couple attractive, or the romance believable. There was also a lot of sex in the book, but it was just weird!
The intrusion was startling. Hot and slippery as our skins were, we drifted over each other with barely a sensation of touching or pressure, but his presence within me was solid and intimate, a fixed point in a watery world, like an umbilical cord in the random driftings of the womb. I made a brief sound of surprise at the small inrush of hot water that accompanied his entrance, then settled firmly onto my fixed point of reference with a little sigh of pleasure.
"Oh, I like that one" he said appreciatively.
"Like what?" I asked.
"That sound that ye made. The little squeak."
Is it just me that found all the sex odd? It wasn't erotic and if it did manage a sentence of 'normal' sex, the atmosphere was immediately ruined by words that have no place in a sex scene – I bet that no-one else can find a mention of umbilical cords in a bedroom scene!
Overall, I was very disappointed in this book. I won't be reading the rest of the series.
I know I am in the minority with this opinion, so please can you explain to me: Why do you love this book so much?
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Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Liberation Trilogy (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, and The Guns at Last Light) will be speaking at Knoxville's historic Bijou Theatre on Sunday, May 19 at 2:30 P.M.
Admission is free, but you'll need to call (865) 215-8883 or click here to reserve a seat.
The guy's a stellar writer and speaker. Don't miss it.


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OMAHA, NEB. — — It hit him several minutes after Friday night's ballgame ended — Brian O'Connor had been here before.
The same emotions, the same frustrations the same disappointment and sadness that his Virginia players were feeling as he sat at a podium answering questions in the belly of TD Ameritrade Park, were felt by him exactly 20 years prior.
"Very similar game as the game that I lost in 1991," O'Connor said, reflecting back on an extra-inning defeat his Creighton Blue Jays had in that year's College World Series. "It's harder as a coach losing a game like this because you want the opportunity for these players to compete for a national championship."
It is an opportunity that will have to wait.
After dueling South Carolina for 13 innings in a CWS semifinal that will go down as one of the national tournament's more memorable games, a pair of extra-inning errors hurt the Cavaliers' chances at proving to the world they deserved their lofty No. 1 national seeding.
In improbable, unexpected fashion, they lost 3-2 on a walk-off E1.
"I mean, it's simple," Virginia pitcher Cody Winiarski said. "Those are plays we practice every day and just didn't execute."
Minutes before, he was on the mound in the bottom of the 13th when South Carolina's Peter Mooney had just attempted to bunt the inning's leadoff hitter, Brady Thomas, over to second base. Thomas had just walked and was looking to get into scoring position.
When the ball got down in front of Winiarski, he picked it up, got his legs tangled underneath him, double-clutched and errantly threw the ball into center field. Runners were now at first and second with no one out.
Then, just when it appeared matters couldn't get any worse, Winiarski tried to pick himself up an at-bat later, when Gamecocks catcher Robert Beary dropped bunt down the third base line. Winiarski picked the ball up, threw it low at the feet of third baseman Steven Proscia and watched helplessly as the ball skipped away. Ruled out of play, the errant throw permitted Thomas to take an extra base.
Thomas jogged home for the game-winning run.
"It's difficult," O'Connor said, asked about propping up Winiarski after the errors. "(On the second bunt) I absolutely take the hit, it's my decision to make what bunt coverage we're supposed to have. … Quite frankly, I went against my baseball book that I use. Typically I collect the out (at first) and we might walk somebody and set up the double play."
The errors came after an already frustrating night on the mound and at the plate for the Cavaliers (56-12).
On the mound, they took a hit early in the game when starter Danny Hultzen had to come out of the game for an undisclosed illness. Three sparkling innings behind him, Hultzen — who had been feeling ill before the game, O'Connor said — was unable to finish an outing that had the makings of a special performance.
Eight of the nine outs he recorded were strikeouts.
"My plan coming into the game was for him to have a short stint," O'Connor said. "He was feeling under the weather. He was gutting it out as best he could."
Once Hultzen left the game, former Poquoson High standout Kyle Crockett entered given the biggest of tasks. He was charged with slowing down an offense that could catch fire at anytime and was threatening to pull away with Hultzen finally out of it.
"We get in the box and it's strikeout, strikeout, strikeout, and the shadows are coming in," South Carolina coach Ray Tanner said. "I'm thinking: 'Wow, he's outstanding.'"
But the Gamecocks (53-14) would find themselves singing praises about Crockett and the rest of Virginia's bullpen, too. In four innings, Crockett struck out three and allowed just four hits and a pair of runs.
"Crockett came in and pitched extremely well," Tanner said.
Despite his somewhat rocky fourth, the left-handed freshman barely was phased by the big CWS spotlight.
"I was calm," Crockett said. "All the coaches have prepared me for the moment. It was a little exhilirating to be out there. Of course it was a little exciting."
Offensively, the Cavaliers stranded 15 runners in the game. Three particular extra-inning frames really highlighted that fact.
South Carolina reliever Matt Price got his team to get out of bases-loaded jams in the 10th, 12 and 13th innings. He got out of the 10th by striking out pinch hitter Reed Gragnani. The 12th ended when he got Kenny Swab to ground into an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play. And the 13th finished when Price forced John Barr to line a rope right at second baseman Scott Wingo. Catching the ball before Colin Harrington could react at second, Wingo flipped to Mooney, who stepped on the bag just ahead of Harrington's dive.
"There were certainly some fundamental things that we did not do well (Friday) night," O'Connor said. "That (double play) being one of them. You can't get doubled off."
With the win, South Carolina advances into the best-of-three title series where it will face Florida. The Gators won earlier in the day Friday, beating Vanderbilt 6-4 to advance to the championship series.
It will be Florida's second appearance in the final after being swept by Texas in 2005. The Gamecocks won last year's national title.
OMAHA, NEB. — — It hit him several minutes after Friday night's ballgame ended — Brian O'Connor had been here before.


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Old Man Winter stepped on the gas pedal the past month! Solid storms pummeled most mountain regions of the world in February. The Jones team was spread far and wide lapping up the fresh tracks. Here's a collection of photos from their travels:
BOOM! Forrest Shearer detonates a turn on a mid-month bluebird pow in the Wasatch, Utah. Photo - @andrew_miller
Crested Butte, Colorado got dumped on. Gareth Van Dyk aka @oldcbpro caught more than a few hometown faceshots.
After a nearly two month drought, the California Sierra finally had a fat storm push through. Allison Lightcap blasted overhead turns in the Lake Tahoe backcountry mid-month. Photo - @sethlightcap
The same storms that hit the Sierra crushed Central Nevada. Chris Ondercin ripped a classic line in the Ruby Mountains on his Hovercraft.
The Pac NW also came back alive after a dry January. Ryland Bell found killer pow pillows in Washington.
Italy is still going off. Liz Daley got it good on the Hellbroner, Mt. Blanc. Photo - @marcdiamond
Ralph Backstrom has been lapping it up in Italy too. The Aosta valley delivered fresh tracks nearly all month for Ralph.
Ralph's group set off this avalanche in Italy on a moderate avy danger day. Good example of the dangers of 'spooky moderate' when persistent weak layers are lurking in the snowpack. No one was caught in the slide.
Japan is still leading the league for most dumpage this winter. It snowed all month…again. Alex Yoder returned to Japan in February for another round of soul surfing and pillow popping.
Chris Christensen scored quintessential conditions in Japan as well this month - blower and bottomless. Photo - @tarotamai
Switzerland got pounded. Miikka Hast found fresh tracks and faceshots in Engadin. Photo - @daviddoom
And the Powder Hole of the Month award goes to…Jackson Hole! Jackson got crushed in February. But of course, Rob Kingwill took full advantage. Photo - @kyehalpin
Swell was pounding so hard in Wyoming…Jeremy Jones and Forrest Shearer busted out the new secret weapons. Photo - @andrew_miller


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Owen Ngau-Tidfore Group Office Building
At Design Interviews
Interview with owen ngau : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. owen ngau : main inspiration is from the client's company motto, " innovation, speed, cooperation, passion" .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. owen ngau : keep the balance in between China and international .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. owen ngau : actually, no plan at the moment, but try to show others what we have been done in china, especially in Hunan, as it is the place that is very meaningful for Chinese people.( chairman moa born place) .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. owen ngau : first idea is fast, but take lots of time to develop .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. owen ngau : Actually , we need to meet the client's thinking, ( a lot of chinese philosophy is within), then we break it down and reconstruct in a new identity. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. owen ngau : no .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. owen ngau : ........... .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. owen ngau : a lot...... .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. owen ngau : company, enterprise, institute .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. owen ngau : Hard to say, but it is our own feeling on particular clients...... so i could have different idea on different client, so there design is more unique. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. owen ngau : client's name .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. owen ngau : pencil .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. owen ngau : ............... .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. owen ngau : yes, mainly technical people .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. owen ngau : to support my idea .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. owen ngau : i couldn't say is influenced by data, but influenced by people, culture and history. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. owen ngau : mainly is the balance of the culture different .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. owen ngau : try to let more people know what we have been done .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. owen ngau : understand more about culture and human .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. owen ngau : no .
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STAMFORD -- The lightning that forced the football game between Fairfield Prep and Stamford to be halted Thursday night and postponed until Friday afternoon gave the Jesuits a chance to shake off some of their first-game jitters. The result was a Jesuits squad refocused on the task at hand.
Prep (1-0) came out swinging once back on the field, rolling over the Black Knights (0-1) 28-0 in game that took nearly 24 hours to complete.
"I think they were a little more focused today," Prep Head Coach Tom Shea said. "We were a little shaky and Stamford was sky-high last night. I thought we were in a better mental frame today."
Prep quarterback Colton Smith threw for 106 yards and two touchdowns, making good use of play action to free up his receivers.
Smith agreed his team was more relaxed after the overnight delay.
"The play-action pass definitely helped," Smith said. "First we had to spread them out, but we threw a couple quick screens and just got up the middle and our line blocked well. We got the opening jitters out and came back today and we knew what to expect."
Prep opened the game running on six of its first seven plays, with Joe Ganim getting the bulk of the carries, but slowly began to go to the pass as the Knights defense cheated up on the run.
Before the lightning came, Jesuits' wideout John DelliSanti took an end around 65 yards to the end zone for the game's first score.
For the Knights, the delay seemed to take the wind out of their sails and slow any momentum they felt they had built in the early going.
"I think we lost our momentum," Stamford coach Jamar Greene said. "Before the lightning hit I think we were moving the ball a little bit and today we just came out flat. I think it also gave them a day to prepare a little bit for us. They went and watched film, and we did the same, but they just came out better prepared today for us."
Three series after the game resumed Prep scored again on a two-yard run by Andrew Vegliante that made it 14-0 at halftime.
Prep's Colin Ihlefeld picked off a pass early in the third quarter and took it back 37 yards, setting up Prep on the 19 yard line.
A sack two plays later put the Jesuits in a 4th-and-18 from the 27 but Smith hit Brendan Beiser in the corner of the end zone for a touchdown that put Prep up 21-0, demoralizing the Knights, much to the dismay of their coach.
"Right now as a program this team is on a nine-game losing streak," Greene said. "They have to understand that when you are down it does not mean you are beaten. They have to learn how to fight through adversity and battle back."
The Jesuits rounded out the scoring a series later when Smith hit DelliSanti for a 20-yard touchdown.
The game was part of the FCIAC-SCC Challenge and Smith said he and his teammates take a lot of pride in representing their league.
"It means a lot (to represent the SCC)," Smith said. "It has always been the talk, who is better the SCC or the FCIAC and we just wanted to come down and do our part."
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Fairfield Prep 28, Stamford 0
FP -- John DelliSanti 65 run (Sean Morrison kick)
FP -- Andrew Vegliante run 2 (Morrison kick)
FP -- Brendan Beiser 27 pass Colton Smith (Morrison kick)
FP -- DelliSanti 20 pass Smith (Morrison kick)
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Nov. 19, 2013) - Alissa Carr, a 15-year veteran of marketing and advertising, has joined the newly formed Office of the Executive Vice President under the leadership of Kimberly Dumpson Esq. Carr will serve as director of marketing and external relations.
"I am delighted that Alissa has joined our team at UMES," Dumpson said. "Her background and expertise will help the university shape its marketing efforts, resulting in the increased awareness of our outstanding programs, faculty and students."
Carr comes to UMES from Peninsula Regional Medical Center, where she quickly rose from community relations and marketing specialist to marketing manager, a position she held for the past two years. As marketing manager, Carr was responsible for brand identity and marketing functions, including the medical center's YouTube channel and other video productions. She researched, developed strategies and wrote advertising messages for targeted audiences.
Prior to PRMC, Carr was an independent marketing and public relations professional working with non-profits and businesses to improve communication efforts and grow her client's market share. She also worked as director of advertising for South Moon Under, a retailer, and an advertising agency in the Annapolis area.
"I hope to utilize my past experiences to help propel UMES forward," Carr said. "It's about developing the appropriate message for each target audience, sharing information that is relevant and meaningful."
At UMES, Carr will plan and implement strategies for social media, advertising and online formats. She will oversee and maintain the university's branding, printed material production, photographic and video services and provide marketing materials to the university leadership. Carr will also provide leadership to Discover UMES, a student experiential video production learning opportunity and Title III activity.
Carr graduated from Towson University with a bachelor's degree in mass communication with concentrations in public relations and advertising. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America.
On her first impression of UMES, she said, "Everyone is so nice and the campus is truly beautiful. I'm excited to be part of the UMES team. I can't wait to get started-to dig in and make a difference."
Carr lives in Berlin with her husband, Mike Phebus, and two sons.
Gail Stephens, assistant director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-651-7580, email@example.com.


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Friend of the Month: Ashley Abendschein
Meet Ashley Abendschein, the Monroe Library's Friend of the Month! This program recognizes students who frequently borrow a variety of library materials.
Tell us about yourself: I'm from Texas, near Austin. I came to Loyola to play volleyball, but then I got injured. Since then, I've had time for other things and I've become more involved. I chose Loyola because of its small-school atmosphere and its strong academics. I'm a senior and my major is Marketing.
How do you use the library? I'm constantly borrowing laptops right now because mine is getting repaired. I check out group study room keys and on the weekend, I check out DVDs.
How can the library help further student success? It took me a while to realize what the library offers. As a freshman, you kind of have to step out of your comfort zone to learn what available to you. Lots of students don't realize the extent of the resources available to them in the library, even some seniors!
Thanks for using the library, Ashley!


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"How fortunate we are . . . that Luce is now the subject of a monumental, magisterial biography, the finest ever written about an American journalist."
—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
"Brinkley has a gift for restoring missing dimensions to figures who have been flattened into caricature. . . . The book does full justice to Luce's outsider insecurity, his blind affinity for men of power and his defects as a family man. But it is a humanizing portrayal, and it credits the role his magazines, Time and Life especially, played in a country growing uneasily into the dominant geopolitical force in the world."
—Bill Keller, The New York Times Book Review
"Brinkley's wonderfully insightful and judicious biography is more than the story of a life; it's a political history of modernity."
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
"Graceful and judicious . . . Mr. Brinkley is dauntless in assessing Luce's most important accomplishments."
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"A finely calibrated book. . . . [Brinkley] brings an even-handed synthesis and a dispassionate sense of history."
—Gene Krzyzynski, Buffalo News
"Alan Brinkley has done history and media buffs a tremendous service with this well-written and balanced biography of Henry Luce. . . . [Brinkley] is especially effective at placing events in historical context, and rarely does his narrative bog down with too much arcane information . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in learning about modern mass communication though the prism of the life of one of its founding fathers."
—Claude R. Marx, Boston Globe
"Brinkley re-creates Luce as an Eminent American, royally and sometimes picturesquely flawed."
—Nicholas Fraser, Harper's
"Brinkley's thoroughly researched work charts the intersections of the man, magazines and world events that were inextricably bound together, leaving the reader inspired by Luce's hard-won success and the author's sense of detail in brining Luce's story to life. . . . While Brinkley writes with the confident voice of an experienced storyteller and the attendant thoroughness and impartiality of a historian of his caliber, his quiet admiration for his subject lies just beneath the surface throughout this account of Henry Luce and his times."
—Lydia Beyoud, The Oregonian
"The triumph of Brinkley's biography is not in a single thesis but in the disciplined, well-judged way the author presents and knits in telling fragments from the millions of words, letters, interviews, and documents. . . . Ambitious, authoritative, and enjoyable."
—Harold Evans, The Daily Beast
"A superbly engrossing biography."
—Philip Seib, The Dallas Morning News
"Commanding . . . a memorable march through Time."
—Andrew Burstein, Baton Rouge Advocate
"A largely sympathetic and terrifically engrossing biography."
—Maureen Corrigan, npr.org
"Brinkley tells of a life once well-known but now as dimly remembered as Life magazine . . . refreshingly nonacademic."
—Harry Levins, St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Brinkley has told Luce's saga with scrupulous fairness, compelling detail and more than a tinge of affection for his vast ambitions and vexing frailties . . . with the rigor, honesty and generosity that Luce's own magazine's too often sacrificed to the proprietor's enormous ego and will to power."
—Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal
"A real gift. . . .Brinkley has given us the enviable model of a man of his moment."
—James R. Gaines, Columbia Magazine
"Brinkley appears to have read every issue from the early decades of Time, Fortune, and Life cover to cover, grounding his criticisms of Luce's social and political vision in rigorous detail. He's equally solid on Luce's personal life. . . . A top-notch biography, and a valuable addition to the history of American media."
—Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"This brilliant and absorbing book sets Henry Luce in his true historical context. Brinkley brings Luce vividly back to life, unveils his complex marriages and glittering social circles and shows us how much Luce changed American society. The Publisher recreates the seemingly now-distant moment at which traditional American media were at the peak of their power."
—Michael Beschloss, author of Presidential Courage
"A thoroughly researched, nuanced appreciation of a complex, talented and troubled man."
—Kirkus (Starred review)
"In this superb biography Alan Brinkley, a Columbia University historian, has told the curiously depressing story of a brilliant man who got everything wrong, including so many of the things that mattered most to him. Mr Brinkley has an eye for both the telling detail and the broad sweep of Luce's role as the man who saw the need for a national news magazine and foresaw the American century."
—The Economist
"Alan Brinkley is the modern master of 'Not-so-fast.' Caricature and dinner-table gossip and received opinion never satisfy him for a moment, as this deft, vivid and admirably fair-minded portrait of the cofounder of America's most influential magazine empire makes clear. Brinkley has pinned the authentic Henry Luce to paper—gifted as well as grandiose, simultaneously vain and vulnerable, dogmatic and deeply curious, an essentially lonely man who seemed to know everyone but never found the warm companionship he craved."
—Geoffrey C. Ward, author of A First-Class Temperament
"Alan Brinkley's portrait of the remarkable Henry Luce is never less than captivating. From Luce's childhood in China through prep school and Yale to the founding of TIME, the battles over FORTUNE and the spectacular success of Life (a success which proved disastrous for the first year's profit/loss statement), the narrative pulses forward, never flagging for an instant. The analysis of the reasons why all three magazines succeeded by catching hold of the American 20th century zeitgeist is nothing less than extraordinary. And Brinkley does it all without Whiggish presumptions or larding his narrative with triumphalism or condescension."
—David Nasaw, author of The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
"Rarely have author and subject been so ideally matched. Alan Brinkley, one of our most distinguished historians of 20th Century America, here explores the world, the mind, the magazines, the business empire and the remarkable ambition of Henry Luce, one of a tiny number of media titans who leave a palpable mark on their times. The book is paced like a thriller; it tells a story that is funny and appalling and fascinating by turns, an only-in-America account of an enormous ego at work. This is the way history should be written."
—Robert G. Kaiser, author of So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
"Alan Brinkley's The Publisher is an exquisite work of scholarship—widely researched and even-handedly descriptive of the controversial Henry Luce. The book is a window on the life and times of the man who did so much to shape 20th-century magazine journalism. No one interested in recent U.S. history will want to miss this splendid biography."
—Robert Dallek, author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963


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Dean McDermott, the husband of Tori Spelling, has checked into rehab less than a month after he was accused of cheating on her, People reports.
"I am truly sorry for the mistakes I have made and for the pain I've caused my family," McDermott, 47, said in a statement. "I take full responsibility for my actions and have voluntarily checked myself into a treatment center to address some health and personal issues. I am grateful to be getting the help I need so I can become the husband and father my family deserves."
Report: Dean McDermott accused of cheating on Tori Spelling
McDermott is receiving treatment, but is allowed to leave the facility to visit their four children at home.
In December, McDermott was accused of cheating on Spelling with a 28-year-old woman in Toronto. The allegation followed several reports earlier last year that they were headed towards divorce. However, Spelling wrote an open letter to Star last March denying the rumors. In the post, Spelling wrote that upon seeing Star's report of a split, she told her children, "Daddy and I are very happy and in love. There will be no divorce and all of us will remain together as a family."
McDermott and Spelling married in 2006. He also has one son, Jack, from his first marriage to Mary Jo Eustace.


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Departure Time
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Luis and Tony argue about Bulgarin.
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Ray Bulgarin
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Departure Time is the final storyline mission in The Ballad of Gay Tony. It takes place after the final mission of GTA IV.
Luis and Tony set off to Funland in Hove Beach to take out Ray Bulgarin and save the Tony Prince Empire. Once arriving in Funland, Luis tells Tony to hide in Meadows Park and if he doesn't come back for Tony, he didn't make it.
Luis must clear his path and destroy 3 theme park bins filled with heroin situated in the West areas of Funland. Shoot your way through Ray's guards, sticking to cover, as the theme park is a maze with dozens of ways to be flanked and surrounded. (You can also climb up on some of the surrounding walls and shoot down into the park). Rifles and explosives are a good way to clear a path. Taking out the nearby vans often destroys the bins and is fairly simple, especially if you have the Explosive Shotgun, which can wreck the vans in a few shots from a considerable distance.
After taking out all three, Luis discovers that Ray isn't there. Take a moment to recuperate health if you need to, from the First Aid Kit near the last van, or with the food vendors on the boardwalk, who can be accessed during the mission, and pick up the body armor. Shoot your way through the east side of Funland, taking down more guards and destroying one last bin at the far end of the area. In a minor cutscene, Timur arrives with backup and tells Luis that he's too late - Bulgarin is about to escape back to Europe in a private jet. Quickly, equip a weapon and kill Timur before he has a chance to get away, then take control of a Bati Custom found nearby.
Luis is now ordered to drive to Dukes Expressway, and along the way Yusuf Amir calls him and asks if he needs any assistance, and consequently Luis will decline the offer. However, upon reaching the Expressway, Yusuf will appear in his gold Buzzard. The player now must follow him - he will destroy any Russians along the way with homing missiles.
After finally reaching the airport you'll see Bulgarin's blue Ghawar preparing to take off. During this time you must catch up to it before it departs. Make sure to lean forward on the bike during straight to get a little extra speed boost. Luis will then shoot a hostile seen inside and will jump onto the jet. With only three more goons left in the plane, this final section is surprisingly simple, just shoot them. Bulgarin will then appear - with a grenade in his hand which he is prepared to use. A cinematic execution will take place, with Ray falling to the ground with the grenade with the safety pin removed. The jet then explodes upon detonation - blasted in half. Miraculously still alive, Luis finds a parachute and dives out of the jet as it nosedives into the sea. The player must then safely parachute down and get to Dukes Globe where Tony will be (it is possible to ride the parachute all the way to the globe, but this is not mandatory; you can also simply land safely on land and obtain a vehicle. Note that this is one of the few moments in Grand Theft Auto where there is omnipotent music, or music not generated by a radio.
Upon arriving, a cutscene will be played that shows a homeless man walking the street, looking for food. Luis bumps into him, spilling the trash. Luis will help him up and walk away, and during this the man's finds the pouch of diamonds - Bulgarin's diamonds. He then walks away laughing with joy.
Tony will meet Luis and make amends, Tony reflecting on how he squandered his ambition to see the world by going to Algonquin, where '...the world came to me.' Luis still remains a little cynical, amused that two such different people have become so close. A little while later, Yusuf gatecrashes their reunion, still set on franchising Tony's clubs around the world. When Tony points out that his clubs are more about the people than the style, Yusuf dismisses him, stating '...piss on them!'
Timur informs Luis that Bulgarin is on a jet and leaving Liberty City.
Yusuf Amir arrives in his gold-plated Buzzard to assist Luis on his way to the airport.
Luis descends towards The Monoglobe where Tony is waiting for him.
Secondary objectives
|Target score
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|Player Damage
|Damage attained by the player.
|Number of headshots needed by the player.
|Amount of accuracy needed by the player.
- Completing this mission also unlocks Yusuf's Buzzard, much like his car, to be collected from the Helipad on the West River in Algonquin - and as a result replaces the Swift (a parachute also now spawns nearby). Also the player can now call Henrique for an APC, call Armando for a Gold SMG and finally the ability to replay all the storyline missions is now available from the phone.
- The 100% completion "reward" (the ability to purchase unlimited ammo) is also unlocked if all conditions are met before completing the mission. Needless to say, if one is playing for 100% completion, these tasks should be finished before triggering Departure Time (note: a 100% score on each mission is not required). It should be noted that, with no further missions to shore up Luis' bank account, the amount of money available to Luis going forward to buy ammo, food, etc is limited (unless one spends excessively, Luis should end the game with at least $500,000).
- The song featured in the parachute scene after Ray's death and Luis' clever remark was No Security by Kelis ft. The Crookers, this song can also be heard on Electro-Choc.
- Ray's clothes might be different depending if you play this mission a lot.
- It is possible to kill the guy shooting at you on the runway, and his body will fly off the plane, but the cutscene of Luis shooting him still plays normally.
- Strangely, Luis asks Tony to hide from Bulgarin not far from Bulgarin's house.
- The Bati Custom used in this mission is scripted to never outrun Yusuf's Buzzard, meaning it will never get caught in Yusuf's rocket blasts, possibly to make this mission easier. It is also the only mission to obtain it.
- Oddly, Luis didn't wear a parachute before entering the plane, And there wouldn't have been any time to take one inside the plane as by having an explosion inside the plane, there would have been no chances of Luis to survive. As everyone inside would have been sucked out.
- The four-star wanted level attained upon entering the airport is scripted so that no police officers spawn in the airport. This is likely to not make the mission more difficult as normally the police officers doing drive-bys while the player is on a bike would make the mission impossibly difficult. In any event, no police pursue Luis on the tarmac.
- This is one of the few missions in the game series where the protagonist has to invade a plane. The others are Stowaway and Freefall, both in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- In the post-mission, aside from text messages from Armando and Yusif notifying Luis of the new equipment available, Luis will also get a phone call from Mori Kibbutz and learns he's turned a new leaf and joined, appropriately enough, a kibbutz. Luis may also receive a text from one of his Booty Call girls, breaking up with him.
- The Weazel News update says it has been a week since the clubs were closed, meaning, despite when Departure Time is triggered, it's still been a week since the events of Party's Over.
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- Basically, you need to go for the 3rd bin, to your left where you start, the 1st bin. Straight ahead where you start, the 2nd bin, in between bins 1 and 3 , and then the 4th bin, to your right where you start. Chase after Timur and kill him.
- The amusement park is full of propane tanks, and enemies just love to stand by them- shoot the tanks to save bullets.
- Many surrounding buildings are climbable- stand on them to quick kills to make the time limit, stocking up on sniper rifle ammo beforehand will assist you further.
- Whilst chasing Bulgarin's jet, push the left stick (XBOX 360/PLAYSTATION 3 controller) or Right Shift (PC Keyboard) forward to increase speed.
- As you're parachuting to the Monoglobe, hold the left stick (XBox 360/PLAYSTATION 3 controller) back or S Key (PC Keyboard) to save airtime and not have to find a car and follow the rules of the roads.
- After destroying all bins, and Luis and Timur's conversation, quickly get out of cover and use any powerful weapon to kill him around the corner.
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I might just have to take a drive over to Nashville next weekend.
If you don't get a chance to see the document, you can console yourself by visiting the spot where the state's first constitutional convention hammered the thing out back in 1796. It's a parking lot at the corner of Gay St. and Church Ave in downtown Knoxville. That's what I've read, anyway. Somebody really needs to put up a marker or something.


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Maybe if Paul Westhead or Roy Williams were in this league, you could get a coach worked up about the way Big Ten games are being played. And called.
Maybe if Paul Westhead or Roy Williams were in this league, you could get a coach worked up about the way Big Ten games are being played.
And called.
Ask defensive stalwarts Tubby Smith and Bruce Weber about Thursday night's 52-41 Illinois win over Minnesota, and they might not call it a thing of beauty. But they call it reality.
"It's fine. It's fine," Smith said of the Big Ten way. "You've got to be ready to play the game the right way. Basketball is basketball. It's a contact sport. We just haven't adapted to it yet."
Nor have the fans, it seems. All around the Assembly Hall, veteran observers of Big Ten battles are murmuring about how tight things have become. How low the scores are.
"What are we going to do about this?" asked David Dorris, a Bloomington lawyer, U of I trustee and witness to more Illini games live than anyone this side of Rod Cardinal the last 25 years.
Weber does not want to hear it. Never truly angry eight days prior when his team held Penn State to 38 and lost, Weber was fit to be tied when it was suggested the Big Ten's national reputation is taking hits.
"I'll be honest. I'm sick of hearing all the junk," Weber said, his voice rising. "Go look at the scores in the nonconference games. Go look at that stuff. Do your homework. Look at Michigan State vs. Kansas. Look at us and Missouri."
Walks in the park, both. As you see Missouri pick off win after win in the NIT gridlock that is the Big XII, remember that Braggin' RIghts night was just about Illinois' easiest game of the year.
MSU had Kansas crying uncle well before halftime in December, not long after North Carolina waltzed through the Spartans. To be fair, KU has improved since then, a natural progression with so many new parts.
Weber reiterated what he always says about Big Ten ball: The difficulty in scoring is a product of intense scouting.
"I've always said: We prepare," Weber said. "Every possession means something. Whether it's right or wrong."
He never offers why similar familiarity doesn't produce the same tooth pullings in other leagues. But I would submit that the most wrong stat I've heard this year came in the ACC: Duke let Wake come into Cameron, shoot 61 percent and score 91.
And Duke won by 10.
Weber has a point. This is not wrong. It's feeling a lot less right as 60 becomes a dream total, but whether these scores mean the teams are bad will be determined in the back half of March.
"You've got to do your talking on the court and do your talking in the tournament,"
Weber said. "We did plenty of talking in the nonconference season. We'll see about the tournament."
Indeed, nonconference play made for a league RPI rank of second for the Big Ten, ahead of the ballyhooed Big East, which a certain sports network seems to feel can do no wrong. (If we all had a nickel for how much ESPN has debated the tournament merits of 14-11 Georgetown, the stimulus package would look like petty change by comparison.)
The difference, unfortunately for the Big Ten, is the Big East has a few teams that could cut the nets down in Detroit in early April. The Big Ten has none. Don't say Michigan State. Take away the Spartans' transition, and they're a 50-point scorer like the rest of this league.
The Big Ten's lack of title contenders is OK, so long as the seemingly endless list of standout sophomores in the league grow into players who can make plays. Who you want to watch.
"We run a play and the play breaks down and we try to go 1-on-1," Smith said of the Gophers. "That's our problem. Because we don't have 1-on-1 players."
Weber evaluated his team the same way.
"We don't have the slasher that can get to the basket and beat people," the Illini coach said.
So let's be honest. It's not all about the scouting.
Kudos to this Illini team for its 23 wins and still possible Big Ten title. Kudos to Trent Meacham for waking up halfway through his last Big Ten go-round and scoring a few points lately.
Kudos, even, to the Illini and their third-in-the-nation defensive average of about 56 points a game.
All that said, a groaning Assembly Hall still makes it clear that D.J. Richardson and Brandon Paul can't get here fast enough.
Bill Liesse is sports editor of the Journal Star. Contact him at (309) 686-3213 or bliesse@ pjstar.com.


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Must See for Learning Practitioners and Educators: Remembering Rita Pierson
If you love everything about learning, whether formal or informal, and you haven't already seen it, you really need to take 7 minutes and 48 seconds right now and watch Rita Pierson's TED Talks Education talk called "Every kid needs a champion" (recently broadcast on PBS 7 May 2013).
I learned about this video only a few days ago on NPR's TED Radio Hour - this is a curated, thematic one-hour programme that mashes up a number of TED talks, compares and contrasts their messages and goes a bit further with their authors.
This particular episode was called Unstoppable Learning, and Dr. Pierson's NPR conversation explored what role relationships play in learning. As you can imagine I pricked up my ears at this. How people learn best is one of my enduring sources of deep curiosity. And developing good relationships and "being nice" are values that our Bright Green Learning team hold dearly. And of course you can't just appear to be nice, you have to really be nice, caring and interested in the people who are doing the learning (because after all, we are learning too). I was just trying to explain this to a potential new collaborator a week ago. Dr. Pierson put her finger on it in one of the most memorable quotes of her talk, "Kids don't learn from people they don't like." This is a profound observation from a career educator (and in my experience it also holds true for adult learners).
Rita Pierson also argued for teachers to take a more positive and appreciative approach with their students, even those - or in particular those - who are not excelling in their work. She gave an example of a time that she gave a student a +2 and a smiley face, instead of minus -18 on his test. She said that's because -18 "sucks all the life out of you" and +2 says "I ain't all bad".
I love this reframing, which is so motivating and still somehow such a rare approach for educators and learning practitioners to take. There is a reflex in many educational contexts to focus on what learners missed or need to improve, rather than on what they are doing right (and as they say in Appreciative Inquiry, in every organization or situation, something is working, even if it is only +2 out of 20).
Rita's short talk brought tears to my eyes. I also grew up the daughter of two educators and see how students were touched by their work. Her words sounded absolutely right to me and I realised that she had articulately described my values around learning and education and those I would hope all teachers would take (including those teaching my own children).
I wanted to write this blog post to remind myself of where I could go for inspiration in my own learning work, and to connect to Rita's talk so I could listen to it again. I didn't know when I started this research that I would also be writing it in memorium, as Dr. Rita F. Pierson died unexpectedly last Thursday, on the day I discovered her on the NPR TED Radio Hour. Her death has left a gaping hole in the progressive educational community. She was a real thinker, shaper and feeler in the field of education and someone that everyone working in learning should listen to...have YOU listened to her amazing 7 minute 48 second TEDTalk yet?
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Hope College's Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts have been chosen the Outdoor Tennis Court of the Year by the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA).
The 12-court, outdoor facility at the Etheridge Tennis Complex was selected out of 14 distinguished tennis facilities in the United States honored this summer by the ASBA's annual awards program, which helps promote the highest standards of construction by recognizing excellence in design, construction and renovation in the sports facility industry.
The Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts, which opened in 2012, features elevated seating for spectators. They are designed for competition, instruction and casual play alike.
The Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts were made possible through many generous gifts, including from the families of former Hope doubles partners Earle Vande Poel '35 and George Heeringa '36, for whom the facility is named.
The Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts are making a significant impact, DeWitt Tennis Center manager Jorge Capestany said.
"The state-of-the-art Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts have already made a difference in recruiting, lesson programs and enjoyment for the Hope tennis community," Capestany said. "College players, juniors and tournament players are all enjoying the amazing new complex with world-class viewing. Perhaps the biggest benefit is to those who attend the Hope College Summer Tennis Academy because they are there a full 25 hours a week in the new facility which offers an incredible learning environment."
Architectural design for Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts was by GMB Architects and Engineers of Holland, in consultation with Alex Levitsky of Global Sports and Tennis Design Group of Fair Haven, N.Y. The construction manager was GDK Construction of Holland.
Earlier, the ASBA also recognized Ray & Sue Smith Stadium, Hope's home for football, as one of 15 Distinguished Single Field Facilities. GMB Architects were the design architects for the renovations to Ray & Sue Smith Stadium.
The ASBA is a national, non-profit organization for builders, designers and suppliers of materials for tennis courts, running tracks, synthetic turf fields, and indoor and outdoor synthetic sports surfaces.


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Archeology for Interpreters > 7. What Are the Issues of Sensitivity?
Native American cultural traditions
Nez Pierce tribal traditions are preserved at Montana's Big Hole National Battlefield.
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) formally affirms the rights of lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations to custody of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. In enacting this legislation, Congress and the President acknowledged that over the course of the nation's history, Native American human remains and funerary objects have suffered from differential treatment as compared with the human remains and funerary objects of other groups. They also acknowledged that the loss of sacred objects by Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations has negatively impacted Native American religious practices. They further acknowledged the failure of American law to recognize concepts of communal property that were traditionally and still are in use by some Indian tribes.
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Monday - The main focus of the lesson was Tides. First we reviewed, updated our moon phase of the day, then I showed a Promethean slide show I made on the subject and embedded a short tide video clip from streamline. We read the left hand side information, looked at the textbook information about tides, and I had students draw a diagram of the moon pulling at the tides on the right hand side. One class was done early so we played vocabulary BINGO.
Tuesday - The main focus of the lesson was Shadows. I had students tell me what they already knew about shadows. Then students took turns being the sun and my shadow as I verbally went through how shadows change as the position of the sun changes in the sky. I showed a Promethean Planet download about shadows. We went outside to see if we could spot our shadow (no luck...cloudy all week...but it did get students outside :) We watched a streamline video about shadows and direction (approx. 15 minutes long). I did not do a left or right hand assignment for shadows. I think my brain might be ready for the holiday break because I could think of NOTHING students could do on the right hand side. Although, had it been a sunny day they could have sketched a partners shadow in their book with the time noted.
Wednesday - I was at all day Promethean Board training so I had a substitute. I had the substitute play a Magic School Bus video called "Out of this World" (they also have another one titled "Lost in Space") and then I had her get the students started on their SOLAR SYSTEM acrostic (rough draft). This is going to be their last page in their astronomy unit so I wanted them to rough draft it out first on recycled paper (I had the sub put them in clock partners).
Thursday - We had our science fair on Tuesday and I did not have time to get all the science fair projects presented last Friday so I put aside this day to present. All classes were at different stages of presentation so it either took the entire class period or about half. Those who were done early continued on their rough draft of the solar system acrostic. If they were done I would approve and they could do the final version in their notebook.
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