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Apple users are buying 61 percent more mobile applications and paying about 14 percent more per app, a recent report said.
The report by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, an analyst known for his bullish views on Apple's iOS, says that the average iOS owner will download 83 apps in 2011, a jump of 61 percent from 2010, and will pay an average $1.44 per app, according to Fortune. About 18 percent of the App Store's apps are paid.
The news coincides with another report from Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore, who writes in a note to investors that Apple users are unlikely to abandon the iOS because they have put in $100 worth of content on each device. Instead that $100 investment seems to keep them from jumping ship to Android, according to AppleInsider.
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"This averages to (about) $100 of content for each installed device; suggesting switching costs are relatively high (not to mention the time required to port)," Whitmore wrote. "While Apple's best in class user experience is combined with these growing switching costs, the resulting customer loyalty is unparalleled."
The rise in app prices has more to do with the average iPad app being more expensive -- apparently the average Top 10 iPad app sells for $6.32, up 36 percent from $4.66 last year, AppleInsider reported.
Some took the news as another opportunity to point out that Android users seem to be painted as cheapskates, but there's no proof of that in the Piper Jaffray report. However, the argument that Apple users expect to invest money into their handheld and do so, thereby keeping them tied to and almost cultishly loyal to that platform, could explain a lot about Apple's customers.


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The Priest Alumni Association of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception was started over thirty years ago as a means for the priest alumni of the Seminary to support the work of vocations. Over these thirty years the Alumni Association has continued that focus as well as assisting the bishops in promoting priestly fraternity among the priests of our two dioceses.
Each year the Alumni Association works with the Rector of the Seminary in coordinating two special events, the Mass for Deceased Priest Alumni and Fall Lecture and the Annual Day of Priestly Fraternity in the Spring.
The Priest Alumni Association is also the primary sponsor of the Monsignor George Denzer Annual Lecture in Sacred Scripture (open to the public).
All priests of both dioceses are invited to join us in assisting our bishops in supporting the work of our Seminary and in supporting our seminarians.

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Miss South Texas' amazing weight loss transformation
Houston woman drops 100 pounds, vies for Miss Texas title and now has a book deal
A Houston woman who dropped 100 pounds and 10 dress sizes is on the road to becoming Miss Texas with her eye on the Miss America title.
In eighth grade, Keli Kryfko weighed 230 pounds and could barely do a sit-up measuring a size 24, but the bullying taunts of her classmates didn't get her down.
Kryfko says the "fat girl" name calling just spurred her to make a change.
"I decided enough was enough, I didn't want to let other people have the ability to define me anymore," said Kryfko, arriving back in Houston today after two weeks of TV appearances.
Kryfko started small, first giving up Dr Pepper -- which she says was the toughest breakup of her life. After years of effort, she is now appearing across national networks to tell the story of her journey which she hopes will end with the Miss America crown.
"Initially I wasn't sure why I wanted it but then I realized it's so much bigger than the title," Kryfko said, "It's for the girl who doesn't get asked to the school dance, the kid who's being bullied and for the people who are overweight everywhere to know that they can do it and they don't have to be afraid to go for the big dreams."
Kind is the new cool
The Dallas born 23-year-old, who now lives here in Houston, became Miss South Texas in January and has already appeared on Fox and Friends, ABC's Good morning America and Inside Edition on CNN. She also has a book in the works.
Kryfko's blog, "High heels and Treadmills" details some of the philosophies that have helped her on the road to transformation and gives an idea of what her printed work will be about.
Top of the list is "believe in the impossible" followed by "kind is the new cool." The beauty queen notes that kindness will take you further than 6-pack abs ever could.
Kryfko keeps to a rigorous schedule to keep her in shape though, doing 30 minutes of cardio every morning along with an hour of weight and cardio circuit training in the evening. She says even in the middle of pageant season she will make at least an hour at the gym every day.
Right now she's training for the Miss Texas pageant which opens July 1. If she wins there, it will be on to Miss America which takes place in Atlantic City in the fall.
"I would love to be the right person to represent Texas at Miss America ... to be able to represent a place I love so dearly, that would be the ultimate experience," Kryfko said.
At the heart of it all though Kryfko says it is her 14 year old self that drives her on.
"I really admire that girl who was 230 pounds who said enough was enough and decided to make such an adult decision at such and early age and put down the can of Dr Pepper. Sometimes when I'm feeling down, I really have to dig deep and find that girl and say I'm doing this for her." Kryfko said.


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"Free" reign: how to cancel CompuServe
The computer that Elizabeth Petofi bought from Circuit City in February 2002 came with one free year of the CompuServe online service. As part of the deal, she was required to furnish her debit-card number. Little did she suspect that when her free year was up, CompuServe (or, more precisely, parent company America Online) would use it to begin charging her $21.95 a month– for a service she claims she tried repeatedly to cancel.
According to Petofi, she first emailed CompuServe to say that she did not want to continue after her free year expired on February 19, 2003. (Because she later erased everything CompuServe from her computer, she no longer has a copy of the email.) In reply, she says she was instructed to write a letter, which she claims she did– only to be told that she would have to call Member Services to cancel her account.
"I called their number," she wrote me, "[and] I got what I believe were actual Indians in India, with very poor English, who– conveniently for CompuServe– could not understand me. I could understand them well enough to realize they were an upgraded voice-mail hell."
In any case, Petofi's cancellation request didn't get through– though, at first, she assumed it had: Her February 21 SunTrust statement showed no deduction for CompuServe. Her relief, alas, was short-lived. The next statement, which was dated March 24, reported two such deductions (on February 24 and March 24), for a total of $43.90.
Petofi claims that she called CompuServe five times in all, and during every call tried to cancel her service– only to realize, with each new bank statement, that she had failed. Her account was charged $21.95 in April and again in May, bringing the grand total to $87.80.
If she'd used a credit card, she would have been able to ask the card issuer to intervene. Because she was using a debit card, however, there was no third party to appeal to– and, she claims, SunTrust told her that the only way she could stop the deduction was to close her checking account.
"Closing an account" she wrote, "is such a hassle– and I had that account for over 10 years!" Her social-security check was automatically deposited to that account, so closing it created more headaches than simply opening a new account and buying new checks.
I spoke with Josh Danson in America Online's corporate communications department, and, in a follow-up email, asked him why, if Petofi had in fact instructed CompuServe to close the account, she had been charged. I also asked what system is in place for customers to cancel their account, and how she should go about getting a refund.
"I have spoken with our billing department," Danson's emailed reply began, "[which] has checked the call-center records for Mrs. Petofi's cancellation request and found no record" that she had asked CompuServe to close the account.
"After her free year ended, we began automatically charging $21.95 per month, a policy which is made explicit in the literature accompanying the offer for the free year.
"Cancellations must be made over the phone; we don't accept requests via letter. We do have a record of Mrs. Petofi contacting our call center on 6/24/03, but we suspect she called Member Services and chose the 'billing' option on the phone tree instead of 'cancel,' and then dropped off before she could be transferred to the appropriate department."
Danson concluded by stating that since there had been no usage since March, the company was going "to clear her outstanding balance of $43.90 and issue her a check for $21.95 for the month of April.
"We try to be as fair as possible in these situations," he stated in his email, "but we also have to follow strict procedures when it comes to canceling accounts in order to avoid any mistaken or unauthorized cancellations."
But what about the $21.95 they'd collected for May? I wondered. I called Danson back, and he agreed to research the situation. I'll report next week on the results.
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Caseworkers Make a Case for More Child Welfare Funding
PORTLAND, Ore. - More state requirements and fewer people to carry them out. That's how child welfare workers summarize what's happening in Oregon, and they're in Salem today to make their case to lawmakers.
For two years, they have been under a hiring freeze like many state agencies, with two caseworkers doing the work of three. Add a challenging new software system, and mandates to remedy racial inequalities in the foster care system and find more relatives to place children with – and Barbara Casey, an in-home caseworker at the Alberta Child Welfare office in north Portland, said they have their hands full.
"All of that, they're all good mandates, all good goals: preserving families, reunifying families, strengthening them," she said. "It's just compounded to get to it, when you just don't have enough people there."
Almost 1,300 case workers respond to more than 75,000 reports of child abuse and neglect in Oregon, and they supervise about 13,000 children in foster care. Gov. John Kitzhaber's proposed budget for Child Welfare services would bring the agency to 80 percent of its staffing needs, up from a current level of 67 percent.
One area affected by the staffing cuts is the amount of time at-risk parents can spend with their children, Casey said. The visits have to be supervised, she explained, and there aren't enough workers - called social service assistants - to meet the needs. Child welfare workers play an important role for Oregon families, she added, and many resent being called "bureaucrats" during budget debates.
"We're not pushing papers - we are intervening at a very difficult time in people's lives," she said. "To me, it's a sacred trust. I have children and I have moms and dads that I want to reunite and keep at home."
The governor's budget includes money for a new approach to dealing with suspected child abuse cases that focuses on early intervention for families and keeping children out of foster care. The number of suspected child abuse cases in Oregon has risen for a decade, which could mean that more people are coming forward to report abuse and neglect.


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This week, Congressional leaders are due to meet with President Obama in The White House for talks about resolving the so-called Fiscal Cliff, the series of tax hikes and spending cuts that will go into force on January 1 if there's no change to current law.
However, even before this happens we're already learning a lot.
For example, John Boehner reportedly held a conference call with his house caucus telling them that although the GOP would resist any efforts by Obama to raise taxes, this was not the time for a brutal showdown, a la the debt ceiling fiasco from last year. Not only that, Boehner apparently didn't get much resistance. This seems like a good sign for a deal getting done.
And in fact "conciliatory" is the meme of the moment, as other folks in Congress expressed similar optimism about a deal getting done.
Senators Bob Corker (R) and Kent Conrad (D) both suggested that some kind of "framework" for a deal was possible.
Interestingly, one of the biggest early roadblocks may not come from the raucous GOP house, but rather Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate.
JPMorgan notes:
Republican Senator Minority Leader McConnell hasn't been as conciliatory as Boehner re the fiscal cliff; McConnell conducted a long interview w/the WSJ this weekend and while he said a fiscal deal is certainly possible Republicans weren't going to countenance higher tax rates. McConnell said he doesn't trust the White House on fiscal matters after the break-down of 2011's "grand bargain" deal. McConnell wants all the Bush rates extended for another year as a "bridge" w/negotiations taking place in 2013 on comprehensive reform. WSJ http://goo.gl/aiTeB
One thing to know about McConnell is that he faces re-election in 2014, and therefore a possible Republican party primary challenge.
Finally over the weekend, we had writer Bill Kristol asking why the GOP was falling on its sword for millionaires, a quote that got quite a bit of play, as a conservative wondering why taxes can't go up a little bit on the rich is interesting.
Kit Juckes of SocGen has a good line on how he sees things: "You can't be sure there won't be an outbreak of narrow-minded thinking but I remain ludicrously optimistic that the US can avoid the Cliff Crisis, and surprise on the upside on terms of growth in the New Year."


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Here are words I don't often get to type: There is good news from Washington.
Earlier this month, about 70 members of Congress braved brutal heat to stand in the shadow of the Capitol and pledge their allegiance to work together amid a climate of hyper-partisanship.
They gathered under the banner of No Labels, a nonpartisan nonprofit that strives to remove compromise from the list of dirty words. When I participated in the group's launch more than 2 years ago, I joked that I had attended my first political protest, which was, appropriately, on a college campus (Columbia). But I didn't have to carry a sign, sleep in a tent, or get locked up.
It was a demonstration against gridlock caused by rigid ideology and party identification, and the headliners that day included New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an Independent; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat; U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Joe Manchin, D- W. Va.; Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat; and former Florida Gov. Charlie Christ, a Republican. Their desire to re-establish consensus-building was not well-received among those whose livelihood depends on the continuation of a divide. The cynicism came from the left and right. Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times:
"The notion that civility and nominal bipartisanship would accomplish any of the heavy lifting required to rebuild America is childish magical thinking, and, worse, a mindless distraction from the real work before the nation." To George Will, it was all just "gaseous rhetoric."
In the intervening time, No Labels has set about organizing supporters in congressional districts across the country, while enlisting elected officials willing to embrace civility and compromise. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican, and Manchin are now the co-chairs of No Labels. On July 18, the group assembled its congressional "Problem Solvers" — Republicans and Democrats from the House and Senate who come together regularly to try and bridge the gap. In front of a crowd of more than 500 people on the Capitol grounds, about 70 of the 81 members of this caucus pledged to compromise.
Three congressmen from Colorado have joined, two Republicans (Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner) and one Democrat (Jared Polis).
Pennsylvania's Mike Fitzpatrick lamented the "frustrating" change in Congress he has seen in just the last few years. "I was here, then I was gone for four years, and I came back. I noticed the left had gotten further left and the right had gotten further right and the … unwillingness of those fringes to listen to others and respect their opinion," he told me.
The regular meetings of the No Labels congressional members have already been productive. Under the heading "Make Government Work," they have hammered out nine proposals to cut government waste and inefficiency, which have now been introduced in Congress. One calls for withholding congressional pay in the event Congress can't make spending and budget decisions on time. Another would enact biennial budgeting. A third would promote energy efficiency in federal buildings. While they've yet to solve meaty issues, such as immigration, at this stage we'll take their collaboration as a start.
The National Journal reports that, in 1982, most (58) members of the Senate fell somewhere between the chamber's most conservative Democrat and most liberal Republican. Today, zero members fill that space. In this year's analysis, and for the third year in a row, no Republican member of the Senate had a more liberal voting record than any Democrat — just as no Democratic senator had a more conservative voting record than any Republican. That leaves those in the middle without representation.
Which is why it's great news that 81 members of Congress want to chart a new path. But their willingness to work together now needs support from the part of the electorate that wants them working together.


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I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) since March 2002. Both of my sons also got ME/CFS at ages 6 and 10. Our younger son fully recovered after 10 years of mild illness. Our older son still has ME/CFS and also has Lyme disease plus two other tick infections. This blog is about how our family lives with chronic illness, with a focus on improving our conditions and enjoying our lives in spite of these challenges.
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- Ms.F. said...
Hi Sue, I've been reading some of your older posts. You mention that both your sons also suffer from CFS. that must be incredibly difficult - for them as well as for you!
I was wondering - do you know if there is any chance that CFS is hereditary? Or if a child has a greater chance of recovery?
I am planning to start a family, but want to first fully understand the possibility of passing on the CFS.
thanks so much!
- Sue Jackson said...
Hi, Ms. Fabulous -
Yes, there is a genetic component to CFS. Researchers have identified the genes in people with CFS that are different from other people. Although there are still plenty of questions about who gets CFS and why, they now know it is a combination of a genetic predisposition and some sort of infectious trigger (though sometimes an accident or other trauma can trigger it). So, having the genes doesn't mean you'll definitely get CFS, only that you might in the presence of certain triggers. It seems that about 10% of the population is genetically predisposed to CFS because they've found that for every triggering infection, 90% of the people recover normally and 10% go on to develop CFS. Some of the known triggers include mono, Lyme, parvovirus, and Q fever, but many times (as with myself and my younger son) you know that a virus started the CFS but don't know exactly what the virus was.
Here's a good article at a great CFS website:
Here's another summary of a study conducted by the NJ CFS Association that explains how both genetic and infectious components interrelate:
(if that link doesn't print fully in the comment box, e-mail me)
Bottom line is that your kids might get CFS...but they might not. Hope this helps you -
- Ms.F. said...
Thanks so much! :)


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Cobra Marital Arts is, as its name implies, a martial arts dojo in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
It is located in the Garcia neighborhood of San Fierro, State of San Andreas, just down the road from the driving school. Carl Johnson can work out in the dojo to increase his strength and fitness or receive training from a sensei who teaches him advanced fighting moves.
- Another one of Rockstar Games' jokes, instead of M-A-R-T-I-A-L, it's spelled M-A-R-I-T-A-L, probably as a reference to "Marital" as in "Marital aids".
- The dojo's sensei looks identical to the Snakehead, as they use the same model and even the same voice.
- The gym is probably a reference to the Cobra Martial Arts gym in the movie The Karate Kid.
- According to police records the dojo is regularly frequented by police for training purposes. It is said to have great showers which they share and somebody seems to always drop the soap.
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Here's a 360 look at the entrance to the welding shop including the new expansion, now totaling 25 bays! #CTEMonth - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA
IMPORTANT NOTE: The American Welding Society Level 1 may be of interest to you. Industrial Welding Technology is currently under review. Please contact the Welcome Center (309.345.3500 or firstname.lastname@example.com) or your advisor for more information
The Welding Certificate program is designed to provide the graduate with skills needed to enter employment in local industry as an entry-level welding supervisor for construction firms, agricultural enterprises, and heavy machine fabrication. This certificate program is designed to provide students a hands-on welding certificate that emphasizes training and the mastery of welding techniques. Students will specialize in ARC, MIG, or TIG welding. This welding program emphasizes welding skill proficiency. The students will be provided with the capability needed to enter employment in industry, construction, and agriculture fields. All the courses contain essential components required for success in industry today such as mathematics, communication, attendance, and productivity.
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Area industrial leaders, Carl Sandburg College, and the Galesburg Business and Technology Center have joined forces to provide state-of-the-art industrial training. The Center for Manufacturing Excellence (CME) offers a variety of industrial training opportunities for employees of area industries, as well as for the general public. The 30,000-square-foot Center for Manufacturing Excellence facility is located on the Main Campus of Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg to house short-term and long-term industrial training programs and a manufacturing incubator. Cutting-edge technology will allow companies to meet their customers' needs and demands.
Short-term Benefits:
- Increased training opportunities for existing employees
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- State-of-the-art training for the region
- Reduced travel costs associated with employee training
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- Increased labor pool to replace retiring workers
- Increased selection for new hires
- Overall increased quality of work force
- Overall increased quality of manufacturing in western Illinois
- Increased technical expertise of existing work force
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Bones' Booth and Brennan (David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel) will soon discuss spending eternity together — not necessarily as a husband and wife, but as corpses. When two bodies are found together in a single grave — in a January episode involving organic funerals — the crime-solving lovebirds debate their conflicting burial plans.
"Their relationship makes them rethink how they would deal with their deaths," executive producer Hart Hanson says. In fact, the entire Jeffersonian team ends up sorting out their wills and burial plans. "The episode ends with an extremely moving scene involving Booth," says exec producer Stephen Nathan.
The prospect of dying hits close to home for Brennan during February sweeps, when she's shot in the lab one night. "It's very fortunate that Booth finds her," says Hanson. Plus, Ryan O'Neal will be back as Brennan's dad, and producers have begun crafting the role of Booth's mom, whom they hope to introduce before season's end. "She's very strong-willed," Hanson says. "A lot of Booth's qualities, not all good ones, came from her."
As for the other members of the team, Camille and Arastoo's secret relationship will be exposed in an interesting way; Angela will ponder a career change; yet another new intern (this one brainy and irreverent) will be added; and serial killer Pelant's latest macabre stunt will profoundly change Hodgins and Angela's life.


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Archos will launch two Android 3.2 tablets this month, the company announced today. The Archos G9 line will come in both 8-inch and 10-inch screen variations, with the base model priced at $299.
The 8-inch 1024x768 resolution G9 tablet is named the Archos 80, and the base version will come with 8GB of flash storage with a 1GHz Cortex A9 dual-core processor. The larger models of the Archos 80 and the 10-inch Archos 101s with a 1280x800 screen resolution will have 1.5GHz OMAP 4 dual-core processors. The tablets will also be somewhat thick and heavy: the Archos 80 is 0.46 inches thick and 17 ounces, and the Archos 101 is 0.5 inches and just under 1.5 pounds.
The Archos G9 tablets will also feature a USB port that can accommodate an Archos 3G stick for access to data networks (the tablets are also WiFi-capable). Both models will have a front-facing camera capable of 720p video, and have batteries rated for 10 hours of Internet browsing and 7 hours of video playback time.
Customers that have been leery about flash storage in tablets may find solace in the Archos G9 line—the very highest-end (and highest-priced) models will feature good old 250GB hard drives.
The Archos G9 line will hit stores and online retailers September 20. The 8GB Archos 80 will be priced at $299, and models will top out at the 250GB HDD Archos 80 for $369, and the 250GB HDD Archos 101 for $469.


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A convicted sex offender from Waterloo who fled probation in 2008 and abused a child in Wisconsin is back in Iowa to face charges.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Anthony Sanders was convicted of lascivious acts with a child in December 2008 in Waterloo and placed on probation. But police say he removed his tracking device and disappeared.
Later that month, he was arrested in Janesville, Wis., for abusing a 13-year-old. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child and was sentenced to four years in prison.
On Wednesday, authorities brought Sanders back to Waterloo after he had completed his Wisconsin sentence.
He's charged with theft for taking the tracking device, fleeing authorities and failing to register as a sex offender. He is being held without bond.


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With his job in peril, Obama will use the Democratic National Convention to counter the cutting Republican charge that though his election was historic and rightly celebrated, his presidency is a bust. The first African American president will insist that votes of starstruck supporters four years ago were not a waste, despite what his Republican foe Mitt Romney says.
"Those who oppose change have always bet on your cynicism," Obama told a young crowd in swing state Virginia last week in a possible preview of his convention tone.
"They always bet on a lack of hope – and throughout American history, they have lost that bet." But Obama has said he believes, that despite his reputation as a soaring speechmaker, he has not adequately communicated to voters the stakes and achievements of a term haunted by economic crisis. Republicans simply ask: what achievements?
So Obama's prime time convention address in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday represents a priceless chance to reset the political narrative two months before Americans vote in a race currently too close to call.
Job number one: rebut the anti-Obama rhetoric pumped out by Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan last week in Florida. "The president does have some work to do in Charlotte after the Republican convention," said Michael Kramer, a professor specialising in presidential communications at St Mary's College, Indiana. "He needs to counteract the message that Romney and Ryan impressed on voters that he has done nothing, that his time is up and that he has disappointed Americans."
Romney's most effective charge was that Obama, despite vowing to reverse the rise of the oceans and heal the planet, simply did not deliver what Americans care most about: economic prosperity. "You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him," Romney said, in the sorrowful manner of a father figure admonishing a younger man.
Personification of hope
Vice presidential nominee Ryan surely stung Obama when he tweaked the president's self created image as the personification of hope and change. "College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters," Ryan said.
Leila Brammer, professor of communications and rhetoric at Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, said the Republican critique resonated with swing voters and Obama needed to do more than defend his administration and talk economics.
"He really has to find a way to strike an emotional chord," she said, of a president who once promised to unite a nation that seems ever more divided four years after he won power.
"People are disappointed in him. They are not only focused on the economy. They are also saying, 'we had faith in this guy, it was almost a religious faith, and he has let us down,'" she said.
Obama will try to revive the old magic on Thursday by, as he did in 2008, leaving the confines of a convention hall for a huge outdoor football stadium packed with 70 000 people.
He will defend his crusade for change, highlighting his historic health care reform and his orders to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, to halt the Iraq war, to decimate al-Qaeda and kill Osama bin Laden.
Obama will frame his record, and call for higher taxes on the rich and to safeguard health care for the elderly, as more sympathetic to the middle class than that of multi-millionaire Romney. "The message we want to hammer home is that this president is committed by experience, by belief and wholeheartedly to rebuild an economy in which every person who works hard can get ahead, in which the middle class is secure," said Obama aide David Axelrod.
The president has a strong support cast. Popular First Lady Michelle Obama will laud him as a man and a leader. Ex-president Bill Clinton, remembered for steering a more prosperous age — will also make the case for four more Obama years.
Obama goes into his convention starting Tuesday with significant political advantages. But he has one huge liability, the sluggish economy which had 62% of voters in a recent CBS poll believing their country is heading in the wrong direction.
"Obama's great advantage is that his convention comes second. He knows the Republican strategy and can expand his own argument," said Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia.
Obama leads or ties Romney in polls of national public opinion and he has multiple and easier paths than his rival through the battleground states that will decide the election.
He is seen as more likable, stronger on foreign policy and more sympathetic to the middle class than Romney, meaning all may not be lost for a presidency that Ryan claims is adrift, trying to sail on "yesterday's wind". – AFP


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This weekend, Brave became Pixar's 13th feature film, the latest addition to an impeccable body of work that started nearly twenty years ago with Toy Story. Given the storied history of everyone's favorite animation studio, I think this is the perfect opportunity to try out a new feature, By the Numbers. Essentially, I will go one by one through each of the Pixar movies and provide a numbers-based snapshot of its place in the filmography by looking at the box office, critical reception, and miscellaneous facts. Four thousand words later, I hope you'll agree this is a comprehensive review of Pixar's work over the last two decades.
Hit the jump for a detailed look at Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monster's, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, and Brave.
Toy Story
Year: 1995
Worldwide Gross: $362 million
The numbers:
- 1991 – Year that Disney and Pixar signed a three-picture deal, the first of which was Toy Story. The deal awarded 10% of Toy Story's profits to Pixar.
- 77 – Runtime in minutes, making this the shortest Pixar movie by more than 10 minutes.
- 11/19/1993 – The day the movie nearly fell apart. The Pixar team presented an early draft that Disney hated, partly because Woody came across as a "sarcastic jerk." Production was nearly shut down, but Pixar instead promised an entirely revamped story in two weeks that looked a lot closer to the final version.
- $30 million – Listed production budget. Toy Story is by far the cheapest movie Pixar ever made, paling in comparison to the $200+ million budgets of the recent movies.
- 110 – Staff members who worked on the film, including 27 animators. That number also grew considerably over the years.
- 114,240 – Frames of animation in the final film, requiring 800,000 machine hours to render at 2‑15 hours per frame.
- $75 million – Break-even point specified by Pixar co-founder Steve Jobs: "If it gets $100 million, [Pixar and Disney will] both make money. But if it's a real blockbuster and earns $200 million or so at the box office, we'll make good money, and Disney will make a lot of money."
- ∞ – Where Buzz Lightyear will go to. (And beyond.)
Ah, the one that started it all. I wish I could give you the exact number of times I watched this on videocassette as a kid. I would need three digits. Given that this was the first feature film to be entirely produced with computer animation, it looks a little rough around the edges compared to the new stuff. But boy, is the story timeless.
A Bug's Life
Year: 1998
Worldwide Gross: $363 million
The numbers:
- 1988 – Year that Disney conceived of Army Ants, a movie about "a pacifist worker ant that teaches important lessons to his militaristic colony through his independent thinking." The idea never made it out of development.
- 7 – Samurai in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which serves as the basis for the story of A Bug's Life.
- 8 – Number of general designs of individual ants used for crowd scenes. The animators only needed to draw 4-5 groups of these 8 universal ants and replicate to represent 800 ants of an ant colony in the frame.
- 2.40:1 – Aspect ratio of A Bug's Life, the first computer animated movie to use this anamorphic ratio.
- 54 – Days between the release of Antz (October 2) and A Bug's Life (November 25). Dreamworks moved its bug movie Antz from March 1999 to October 1998 to beat A Bug's Life to theaters.
- $185 million – Difference in worldwide gross between Antz ($172 million) and A Bug's Life ($363 million) despite the date shift.
A Bug's Life often gets lost in the shuffle when rattling off a list of the great Pixar films. But it proved that Toy Story was not a fluke, that this Pixar company was on to something with their computer animation. Plus, it introduced the idea of a fake animated blooper reel, which at the time, was the most ingeniously funny idea 10-year-old me had ever encountered.
Toy Story 2
Year: 1999
Worldwide Gross: $485 million
The numbers:
- 03/12/1997 – Date when Disney and Pixar officially announced they would make a sequel to Toy Story with Ash Brannon in charge as director.
- 9 – Months taken to complete the entire movie. Toy Story 2 was originally supposed to be a direct-to-video sequel, but Disney liked the early footage and renegotiated for a theatrical release that ended up creating a time crunch. Pixar was internally unhappy with the product, so Lasseter took over the production as director and rushed it through production. Brannon and Lee Unkrich were credited as co-directors on the final product.
- 2 – Days taken for the "story summit" at John Lasseter's house. Lasseter invited Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft and others over one weekend to hammer out the finished story that they pitched to the studio on Monday.
- 2 million – Dust particles animated for the scene where Woody meets Wheezy on the dusty top shelf.
- 3:02 – Length of "When She Loved Me," the song that plays uninterrupted over Jessie's flashback. Composer Randy Newman was concerned that young children would grow restless during a 3-minute ballad.
- 12 – Years Pixar took to sequelize any of their other properties until Cars 2 in 2011. The Monsters, Inc. sequel Monsters University is due in 2013.
There is an argument to be made that Toy Story 2 is the best sequel of all time. I can't find another case where both the first movie and its sequel earned a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. [Edit: Of course a reader found one. Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.] But back in the days before the Best Animated Feature category was created, Toy Story 2 landed just one Oscar nomination, for Best Original Song. The "When She Loved Me" scene is a contender for the most beautiful sequence Pixar ever created, but the song lost to fellow Disney nominee "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan.
Monsters, Inc.
Year: 2001
Worldwide Gross: $525 million
The numbers:
- 30 – Age of the man who had to deal with monsters in writer/director Pete Docter's original idea for the movie. The idea was the monsters this man drew as a boy came back to haunt him as an adult.
- 3 – Age of Boo in the movie. They considered having an older child at the center of the plot, between the ages of 6-12. In the end, Docter decided Boo should be 3 because, "The younger she was, she became the more dependent on Sulley."
- 1998 – Year when the character Mike Wazowski was added to the movie. Docter and his team started working on the script in 1996. It wasn't until development artist Ricky Nierva sketched the character in April 1998 that Mike was created, and soon became the co-lead in the story.
- 0 – Arms Mike had in the original character design. The plan was for Mike to use his legs as appendages, but that caused difficulties in animation, so they gave him arms.
- 6 – Legs on the octopus behind the bar in the scene at the restaurant. The restaurant was named Harryhausen in tribute to Ray Harryhausen, a legend for his stop-motion monster creations in such movies as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. The octopus he designed for It Came from Beneath the Sea also only had 6 legs due to budget restrictions.
- 2,320,413 – Individually animated hairs on Sulley. It took 11-12 hours to render a single frame with Sulley in it.
- 2319 – The code number called out in the scene where a monster leaves the human world with a white sock stuck to his back. The 23rd and 19th letters of the alphabet are W and S, respectively, perhaps standing for "white sock."
- 4 – Movies that feature both John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. Monsters, Inc. was the fourth teaming of Goodman/Buscemi and the first that wasn't a Coen brothers movie.
If you discount my nostalgia for Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. is my favorite Pixar movie. It has so much heart, and the chase through the doors is such a thrilling climactic sequence. And the look on Sulley's in the very last shot of the movie… gets me every time. I am nervous about Monsters University, the upcoming prequel set ten years before the events of Monsters, Inc., because Docter isn't returning to direct and there's no Boo. But I am also very excited to revisit the remaining characters and this ingenious world.
Finding Nemo
Year: 2003
Worldwide Gross: $868 million
The numbers:
- 1992 – Year when director writer/director Andrew Stanton took his son to Marine World. Stanton imagined that the underwater world would look beautiful in computer animation.
- 1997 – Year when pre-production began. Stanton took his son for a walk in the park earlier that year, but found he ruined the opportunity to bond with his son by worrying too much about protecting the boy. He incorporated that theme into the story.
- 150 – Age of Crush, the sea turtle that helps Marlin and Dory in their search for Nemo. Stanton did the voice of Crush for the story reel with plans to cast a voice actor later. The character was popular in test screenings, so Stanton kept his voice for Crush in the final film.
- 3 – Types of shapes used for the coral reef: "Tall vertical things, big flat horizontal things, and round masses." The artists went scuba diving to study the look of the ocean and derived that simple formula for designing the coral reef.
- 40 million – Copies of the DVD sold as of 2006. As far as I can tell, Finding Nemo is still the bestselling DVD of all time. It broke the first-day record for home-release sales with 8 million copies.
I would say this is when Pixar became PIXAR, the company we speak of in hushed, reverent tones. The prior movies did very well with critics and audiences, but $868 million is rarified air. It shot up into the top 10 of both the domestic and worldwide box office charts. And it's amazing. I never saw it in theaters, so I am very excited for the re-release in September.
The Incredibles
Year: 2004
Worldwide Gross: $631 million
The numbers:
- 1993 – Year when writer/director Brad Bird first drew the superhero family that became The Incredibles. Bird initially set up The Incredibles as a traditionally animated movie at Warner Bros. A tribute to the original hand-drawn design of the characters is in the end credits.
- 2003 – Year when Warner Bros. shut down the animated feature division due to the financial disaster of Looney Tunes Back in Action. Lasseter, who was friends with Bird at CalArts, used this opportunity to finally convince Bird to come to Pixar and make The Incredibles computer animated.
- 89 – Sets built for the production. A physical set would be built so that, with a camera, the team could see what each location should look like from different angles. For comparison, Monsters, Inc. had 31 sets.
- 4 – Days it took for Jason Lee to record his vocals as Syndrome. Craig T. Nelson recorded his vocals as Mr. Incredible over the span of two years.
- 1/10 – Fraction of a second to display images with LPICS. Pixar designed LPICS so lighting designers could make lighting changes and see the new image instantly. Previously, the process required 2000 seconds.
- 17.38 million – Copies of the DVD sold. The Incredibles was the highest-selling DVD of 2005.
- 866-787-7476 – The toll-free on Mirage's calling card. On a phone pad, one can spell out "suprhro" with the digits. The official web site initially required the user to input the phone number to access a deleted scene not included on the DVD. The requirement has since been removed and the phone line no longer works.
The Incredibles was the first PG movie in the filmography, and Pixar took the opportunity to target an older audience. The central theme, as voiced by the villain of the movie, is essentially "When everyone's super, no one will be." Take A.O. Scott's response to that declaration:
"The intensity with which The Incredibles advances its central idea—it suggests a thorough, feverish immersion in both the history of American comic books and the philosophy of Ayn Rand—is startling. At last, a computer-animated family picture worth arguing with, and about!"
The Incredibles cemented Pixar's reputation as masters in the greater world of cinema rather than just kids' movies.
Head to page 2 for the numbers on Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3, Cars 2 , and Brave.


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- 16-01-2006
Entirely religious material - Not what I expected
I listened to another Zig Ziglar tape a few years ago and I liked it, so I gave this audiobook a chance. The previous tape I listened to was inspiring and Zig was full of energy. It was a lot of common sense material.
THIS audiobook "Staying up, up, up,..." is almost ENTIRELY a mono-tone, religious review of biblical scriptures.
"Psalm 23 says"
"Mark, chapter 2, verse 10 says"
"Paul, in Leviathon 5 tells us that"
On and on......
I did not enjoy this audiobook at all.
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- Greg
- 22-12-2012
Zig has a lot of wisdom to share
Where does Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
This is an exceptional book to encourage you to do your very best.
What did you like best about this story?
Zig is always very candid about life lessons he has learned. He had great advice on the type of person we should go to when we are looking for help and direction in our lives.
What about Zig Ziglar's performance did you like?
A great story teller.
What's an idea from the book that you will remember?
It's important to get advice from those that have gone through similar situations. This helps them them to understand the heart and emotions of a matter. Good advice without firsthand experience can be the wrong advice at times.
Any additional comments?
This is a great book and worth the read for anyone desiring to live a life of integrity.
1 person found this helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 19-12-2018
Very uplifting and insightful!
I'm replaying always! It's amazing how added thoughts on life can help us in our daily life!
- Blake
- 20-12-2015
Mr. Ziglar brings positivity like a favorite uncle
Mr Ziglar tells inspiring stories like a favorite uncle or grandfather in order to help make our lives better, either by the improvement of our actions or merely our perceptions. Thank God his inspirational message has been recorded for posterity.
1 person found this helpful
- Nicole
- 09-05-2013
very religious
What disappointed you about Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World?
I didn't realize it was going to be about the bible and religion. I was extremely disappointed and I couldn't finish it cause this is not what I bought the book for. The book should have been called, what the bible and religion and can do for you to stay up in a down world. But, if you like bible talk and religion, you might like it.
2 people found this helpful
- Eemer_CA
- 06-11-2011
I want my credit back!
The only thing I liked about this book was the author's name. Although this book is supposed to be a 'self-help' book, I felt the author's overly "superiorly virtuous" attitude and self- righteously pious condemnation of some public figures was inappropriate. I do not listen/read a self help to hear the author's opinion of who behaves badly and who does not. This guy is a republican to the core. If he wants to help and/or inspire people, he can leave out the political banter and the religious superiority. May I have my credit back?
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What is it?
Noisebridge: In-Depth is a monthly lecture series and round table discussion.
When and Where does it happen?
Noisebridge: In-Depth takes place the first Thursday of every month at 7pm, at Noisebridge.
This means the next event will be on April 7th, 2011 at 7pm.
Why are we doing this?
There are many reasons:
- It provides a deeper look at what people are working on.
- This is the next step after Five_Minutes_of_Fame.
- To expose new people to the space
- Most of the talks have a community outreach slant on them. There are lots of communities that could use skills that Noisebridgers can offer. This is a venue for them to come in, explain their project, and see if they can find help.
How can I participate?
Sign up to give a talk! Contact Zedd by email (zedd [@] HAT-Labs.com).
Include your name (or handle), talk title, your website/url, and a short description.
In your email, use the subject line "Noisebridge: In-Depth"
Speakers will be notified as to the status of their talks before the schedule is released. If your talk was not accepted, feel free to submit next month!
Talk schedule will be finalized and released at least 1 week before the talk.
How can I attend?
Just show up!
If for any reason you're unable to attend, you can usually watch it live on our UStream Channel.
How can I help?
We always need people to help with set up and tear down. We also need people to help us find people that are willing to come give a talk. If you know someone, point them at this page.
The Next Lecture
"Anarchism & technology: An unbridgeable chasm"
- Aragorn! (aka Aragorn Bang) is an anarchist technologist and publisher. He can be found producing http://theanvilreview.org, http://ardentpress.org, and the family of sites around http://anarchyplanet.org


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Cut Medicare? No Way! Make It "Medicare for All"!
House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, proposes to undermine the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, with an eye toward enriching the insurance companies that so generously fund his campaigns.
The American people are not amused. They have sent a clear signal that they want to maintain Medicare and Medicaid.
And rightly so. despite the battering they have taken from misguided and malignant policy makers, the Medicare and Medicaid programs still provide the rough outlines for a single-payer health care program that keep costs down while expanding access to prevention and treatment for millions of Americans.
So, instead of gutting Medicare, as Ryan proposes, why not expand on what works.
That's what Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing.
"The United States is the only major nation in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care as right to its people. Meanwhile, we spend about twice as much per capita on health care with worse results than others that spend far less," Sanders explained Tuesday, as he announced plans to introduce the American Health Security Act of 2011, would provide federal guidelines and strong minimum standards for states to administer single-payer health care programs. "It is time that we bring about a fundamental transformation of the American health care system. It is time for us to end private, for-profit participation in delivering basic coverage. It is time for the United States to provide a Medicare-for-all single-payer health coverage program."
Sanders' plan is the right response to America's health-care crisis -- and any country where tens of millions of citizens lack health-care coverage, where tends of millions more lack adequate coverage and where costs are skyrocketing because of insurance-company profiteering has a crisis.
Don't get the independent senator wrong. He voted for the health-care reform legislation that passed Congress last year and that was signed by President Obama. He even improved that legislation by fighting to include funding for public-health programs and community clinics.
But Sanders also recognizes flaws in the 2009 reform -- which, reformers note, keeps the for-profit private health insurance industry at the center of the U.S. health system. And the senator argues that the ultimate cure for what ails American health care is a "Medicare for All" approach that ends the profiteering and focuses on prevention and treatment of disease.
And he is not alone.
Congressman Jim McDermott, the Washington Democrat who has for two decades been one of the House's steadiest backers of real health-care reform, will introduce a parallel bill in that chamber. Says McDermott: "The (2010) health care law made big progress towards covering many more people and finding ways to lower cost. However, I think the best way to reduce costs and guarantee coverage for all is through a Single-payer system like Medicare. This bill does just that - it builds on the new health care law by giving states the flexibility they need to go to a single-payer system of their own. It will also reduce costs, and Americans will be healthier."
The Sanders-McDermott initiative in Washington, DC, comes as the Vermont Legislature has taken steps to make the senator's homestate the first in the nation to develop what advocates desctibe as a state-based variation on the single-payer approach. Vermont. Sanders applauds the move, and thinks it could serve as a national model. Others agree, while noting that Medicare provides another model.
Sanders and McDermott were joined at the announcement of their new "Medicare for All" push by Arlene Baker-Holt, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO; Jean Ross, co-president of the National Nurses United; and Greg Junemann, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. All three groups are encouraging this fight for real reform.
Providing a single standard of high quality care for all is a priority for registered nurses who have seen their abilities to act as patient advocates made more difficult as for-profit interests control more patient care decisions," says Ross,whose union has been in the forefront of the fight for single-payer. "We commend Senator Sanders and Representative McDermott for their vision and passion to help registered nurses create a more just healthcare system through the American Health Security Act and applaud our brother and sisters in labor for their support,"
Physicians for a National Health Program, the movement of doctors and medical students for real reform, welcomed the national legislation.
At a time when the airwaves are filled with talk about cutting or even ending Medicare, said Dr. Garrett Adams, PNHP president, ?Senator Sanders has boldly stepped forward with the seemingly paradoxical proposition that the best way to financially strengthen the Medicare program is to upgrade it and expand it to cover everyone.


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The rebel, rule-breaking chef who melded street flavors into genius korean-mexican cuisine, and trailblazed the whole gourmet food truck craze, had in his latest creation sort of come out of left field. The concept of Sunny Spot as most people initially understood it, is Caribbean flavors in a "roadside cookshop" style venue. As a huge marketing geek, I was at first a little put off by the garish pink and red branding of the place - thinking it would be a gimmicky monstrosity with over-the-top flavors and presentation.
But I did like the food from his other restaurants/trucks: A-Frame, Chego and Kogi - and I figured dineLA was the time to check Sunny Spot out (the $35 3-course prix fixe deal meant lower investment and unlike many other restaurants in the program, their menu actually looked exciting!).
I hadn't decided what day I would go, and figured I could sidle up to the bar if I went on my own after work one day. Apparently the main dining room is a first come first served open seating area - so I got a table pretty easily early evening one weeknight. The decor was actually more elegant than I expected - bright colors, yes, but pretty tastefully done, clean lines, in a cheery, airy space bathed in natural light pouring through the floor to ceiling windows via the open back patio.
I started with a Ting grapefruit soda, a refreshing accompaniment to What a Jerk Wings ($12 on regular menu) - double coated, double fried. Three giant wings that could have been a meal in themselves. Crispy with bold, in your face flavor like Roy Choi does it best. Underneath in case you didn't get enough flavor? Sinus-clearing aioli made with three kinds of chilis tempered by orange juice. This was definitely not date food - I dug in both hands and elbows and killed several trees' worth of napkins before leaving nothing but bones and sauce on the plate (I can't really handle that much spice...).
To cool the heat of jerk wings, came a side that was also pretty huge - could have been a starter on its own: Sesame Coleslaw. This was a nice accompaniment to the jerk wings, and I appreciated the generous portion size, but as I'm not a big salad/veggie eater (sorry chef!) I couldn't finish this. Oh and apparently they make their own ginger beer in house too, so I got that, downed it. Lovely and refreshing.
Then came my favorite dish of this entire dineLA summer session: Pan Roasted Skate (not on regular menu, next closest item is Whole Roasted Fish Red Snapper $35) coconut carrot puree, watercress, gremolata. I LOVE skate and had been excited to see it on the dineLA menu, a beacon of light in the drudgery of "beef or chicken" menus. AND I had to have it after my fabulous server Shannon confirmed that this is not offered on the regular menu. This was a plate so beautiful it could reduce *ahem* "a" grown woman to tears (ok, "this" grown woman to tears). Perfectly roasted so that it's intoxicatingly flavorful outside, and super tender and juicy inside, and its gorgeous 'panelled' texture featured to full dramatic effect. Coconut gave it island flavors, tempered by carrot puree to balance it with savory deliciousness. Love the accompaniments too of watercress cooked to a spinach-like consistency and gremolata (condiment made from lemon zest, garlic, parsley) for layers of flavor.
The skate was also generously portioned and came with a cup of Black Bean Soup - made with coconut cream, black bean and apparently Red Stripe?! I liked the flavors, but it was a little too thick for me after the preceding hefty courses. The thing that I did love and wanted to note was the presentation - in this gold-gilded, elegant tea cup and saucer set. Love it. Touch of luxe in dishware made it felt like I was at some country club in the Caribbeans - without the stuffiness, as the dining room is fun with pops of color that feels very unpretentious. And I love any place or anything that makes me feel like I'm on vacation, while right in town.
And for the sweet finish: Coconut Sundae (next closest dessert on regular menu is Hot Fudge Sundae $7) - toastd coconut ice cream, raspberry jam, and shortbread crumble
Sounded simple, but turned out to be one of the best desserts I've had this dineLA - textures and flavors just worked perfectly together so that you get the creaminess, rich chocolateyness, fruity goodness from the jam acounterbalanced by the crunch of shortbread crumble. Plus I think it was a liquer-soaked cherry? on top. Amazing.
Last but not least, I wanted to acknowledge excellent service by Shannon. UNLIKE the front hostess, who was sort of cold and I suspect most recently worked at some Hollywood hotspot and thought to apply the same level of 'hospitality' - Shannon was warm, friendly - seemed like a genuinely nice person who was, yes, a ray of sunshine on any given day - and definitely throughout my meal. I didn't feel at all like a second class citizen just because I was there for dineLA, and she struck just the right level of attentiveness, making sure I had extra napkins for the wing-destruction, and checked in to make sure I was enjoying each course - and because I was by myself she came by to chat as much as I wanted but didn't overstay.
All in all, a shining example of dineLA dine right, and could be my second favorite after Craft.
I would definitely come back to Sunny Spot again even at regular price/- I didn't choose the Jamaican Oxtail Stew this time, though it sounded delicious, because it's offered on the regular brunch menu - so I'll definitely have to go back to try that. And see how the Hot Fudge Sundae stacks up to the Coconut one.
Flavor - 6 bites
Presentation - 5.5 bites
Originality - 5.5 bites
Ambience - 6 stars
Service - 6 stars
Overall experience - 6 bites
Price - $$$ (3 bite marks)
Probability of return visit - 100%
Sunny Spot
822 Washington Blvd, Venice, CA 90292
Ph: 310.448.8884
Parking: Valet $5 is probably easiest in this area
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Toxic Plastics Chemical in Infant Formula
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August 8 2007. Laboratory tests of canned infant formula conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a certified commercial laboratory reveal that a plastics chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from metal can linings into formula. According to a new EWG analyses, the amount of BPA ingested by some bottle-fed infants exceeds the doses that caused serious adverse effects in animal studies.
EWG's analyses of BPA levels in ready-to-eat and concentrated formula, paired with government data on infant formula consumption show:
- One of every 16 infants fed ready-to-eat canned formula would be exposed to BPA at doses exceeding those that altered testosterone levels, affected neurodevelopment, and caused other permanent harm to male and female reproductive systems.
- Infants fed concentrated formula mixed with water would also be exposed to potentially unsafe amounts of BPA, in excess of standard government safety margins. While water added to concentrated formula lowers BPA concentrations in the final mixture, our analyses still show that one of every 16 infants fed concentrated formula would be exposed to BPA at doses within a factor of 2 of harmful doses.
- At the highest BPA levels found in formula, 17 parts per billion (ppb), nearly two-thirds of all infants fed ready-to-eat formula would be exposed above doses that proved harmful in animal tests (Figure 1).
These analyses, coupled with exposure estimates in other studies, demonstrate that bottle-fed infants likely face higher BPA exposures than any other segment of the population, and highlight the urgency of setting standards for this chemical to protect babies who are overexposed through canned liquid formula.
Figure 1. BPA has been found in infant formula at levels ranging up to 17 parts per billion, a concentration at which nearly two-thirds of infants would exceed doses shown to harm test animals.
Source: EWG analysis of BPA exposures based on government and commercial lab tests of BPA in formula, and formula consumption rates and body weights measured in government surveys. This graph reflects procedures described in the methodology section of this report, with the exception that exposure estimates for individual infants created in the exposure model were based on incremental, assumed BPA concentrations in formula, and grouped as a function of BPA concentration for purposes of graphical display. Estimated single-day exposures are compared against BPA dose of 2.4 ug/kg body weight / day linked in lab studies to alterations in testosterone levels and referenced as "toxic dose" in figure above (see Section 3 of this report). Note that results shown above will underpredict infants exposed above even lower doses found harmful in animal studies, including a dose of 2.0 ug/kg/day linked to permanent damage of reproductive system from in-utero exposures.
Failures to protect infants from BPA risks. FDA last assessed the safety of BPA in infant formula in 1996, based on tests of 14 infant formula samples (Bailey 1996). Dozens of peer reviewed studies published since that time reveal adverse effects of BPA at exposures dramatically lower than those known at the time to be harmful, and, significantly lower than exposures for infants drinking BPA-contaminated formula.
Yet despite scientists' dramatically altered understanding of low-dose BPA toxicity, FDA has not tested additional samples of infant formula for BPA, and has failed to reassess the safety of BPA-contaminated infant formula since its original assessment 11 years ago. FDA does not require infant formula manufacturers to test their products for BPA.
Instead, in 2006 the federal government launched a BPA health risk assessment under the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR). From the outset the assessment process has been plagued by concerns over scientific credibility and conflicts of interest:
- The contractor in charge of the assessment both helped form the panel, which lacks BPA experts, and prepared the initial draft assessment for the panel's review. This contractor was subsequently fired by CERHR over concerns about potential conflicts of interest, but the panel was allowed to continue with its initial membership, working from the draft assessment prepared by the fired contractor.
- In external review comments submitted to the panel, BPA experts revealed that the CERHR assessment appears to contain nearly 300 errors of fact and interpretation; is biased, inconsistent, incomplete; and clearly fails to meet the most basic scientific standards. [see EWG's full review]
What could have been the first opportunity in a decade to advance public health protections for this problematic chemical instead ended in CERHR issuing a final assessment on August 8, 2007 that fails to support stronger public health safeguards for bottle-fed infants, pregnant women, and other at-risk populations.
BPA has been detected in thousands of people worldwide, including 93 percent of 2,500 people in the United States. More than 100 peer-reviewed studies have found BPA to be toxic at low doses, some similar to those found in people, yet not a single public health agency has updated safety standards to reflect this low-dose toxicity.
This country's toxics law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, fails to require that chemical companies prove thier products are safe before they are sold, even when these chemicals end up in people's bodies, as is the case for BPA. This law was passed in 1976, and 31 years later is the only major public health and environmental statute in this country that has never been updated. This panel certainly has not done their part to help fill the gaps in this broken system of public health protections.
As a result of these policy gaps, BPA is now one of the most widely used industrial chemicals, is found at unsafe levels in people, is allowed in unlimited quantities in a broad range of consumer products including infant formula, and is entirely without safety standards. BPA provides irrefutable proof that our system of public health protections must be strengthened to protect children and others most vulnerable to chemical harm.
Lab tests of canned food — BPA contamination in more than half of 97 name-brand canned foods: https://www.ewg.org/research/timeline-bpa-invention-phase-out
EWG comments to CERHR summarizing nearly 300 errors of fact and interpretation in BPA assessment identified by BPA experts: https://www.ewg.org/news/testimony-official-correspondence/ewg-letter-cerhr-re-interim-draft-report-bisphenol


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Savannah O'Gwynn popping in quickly to share some IMPORTANT info.
1. Due to my move, there will be NO July winner/featured player post today.
2. Due to my move, we are continuing the July challenge into August! So the ANYTHING GOES challenge continues the entire month of August. We will post winners (one for July and one for August), as well as featured players, on the 30th of August.
NEW deadline for challenge: August 28 at 11:59pm PST.
Click HERE to link up or link up below!
Thank you so much for your grace and understanding as I move into our new house! My entire studio should be set up the first week of September... but I will keep you posted!
THANKS again! I can't wait to see what you create for our challenge!
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UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. The winner (selected by Random.org) of the Hershey's baking package is Christi D. who said: "I am making toffee bars…chocolatey goodness!" Congratulations, Christi! Please check your email for instructions on how to claim your prize. Thank you to all who entered. If you didn't win this time, come back next week for two more great giveaways!
Can you believe it is December already, and the weather outside is not at all frightful? Our fires have yet to be delightful. And, we all have places to go, yet there is no snow? Do we dare request, "let it snow, let it snow, let it snow?"
Actually, here in Mississippi, snow rarely happens anyway. But, I'm pretty shocked to see Facebook status updates of many of my friends and family in the north about their 60 degree weather in December! Good for you, my friends! Enjoy it while you can…
Since it seems no one has any real snow quite yet, how about we enjoy them in cookie form instead? These snowball cookies were inspired by a friend of my mother-in-law's, who served something very similar to us years ago. She wrote down the recipe for me back then, and I recently came across it deep down in my recipe files.
This turned out to be a great way for using the chocolate kisses Hershey's sent to me along with a few other baking goodies. And, guess what? They want to send the same treats to one of you, to help with your holiday baking adventures.
Here's what one winner will receive:
- Hershey's®Cookie Headquarter Apron
- 1 pkg. Hershey's® Baking Melts Chocolates
- 1 pkg. Hershey's® Bits 'o' Brickle® Toffee Chips
- 1 pkg. Hershey's® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 pkg. Hershey's® Kisses® Chocolates
- 1 canister Hershey's® Cocoa
- 1 set of recipe cards featuring the core Hershey's® holiday recipes
Okay, how about that to get you started baking? And, all you need to do to enter the giveaway is leave me a comment below (attached to this post) telling me one thing you plan to bake this year for the holidays. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator, but I still read every single one of your comments, so entertain me! 😉
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- To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment attached to this post telling me one thing you plan to bake this year for the holidays. (If you are reading this through email, you must visit the blog to leave your comment.)
- Giveaway is open to US residents only.
- Contest closes Thursday, December 6th at 10:00PM EST.
- Winner will be announced at the top of this post. Winner will also be notified by email. If a response is not received within 1 week of being notified, a new winner will be chosen.
- This giveaway is sponsored by Hershey's.
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Here's the recipe:
Secret Kiss Snowball Cookies
- 1 cup butter , at room temperature
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 24 Hershey's Kisses (any flavor, I prefer chocolate), unwrapped
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream together the butter, granulated sugar and vanilla until smooth. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and cocoa powder. Gradually add to the butter mixture until combined.
- Drop tablespoon dough balls on to a parchment lined baking sheet. Place one chocolate kiss on top of each dough ball then mold the dough around the chocolate kiss, covering completely. Bake for 8 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on wire rack. When cool, roll in powdered sugar to coat. Best served within 1-2 days.


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Serenade Mixed Bill
Serenade was the first ballet that George Balanchine made after arriving in the United States in 1933. It was created on students in his newly formed School of American Ballet and retains a hint of its classroom origins. The opening tableau – 17 dancers assembled in slanting lines – was determined by the number of students who came to the first class. When one girl arrived late and another fell and started to cry, Balanchine absorbed the incidents into his choreography.
Balanchine described Serenade as 'dancers in motion to a beautiful piece of music'. The corps de ballet is in near-constant movement, flowing in and out of patterns with an extraordinary sense of speed. Although 80 years old, Serenade is one of Balanchine's most popular works – as loved by audiences and dancers as it was by its creator. Balanchine continued to rework the ballet throughout his lifetime, and it is now regularly performed by companies around the world.
Show Information
Monday, 26th May 2014
Monday, 26th May 2014
Venue Information
Royal Opera House
Bow Street
Map | Seating Plan
(3 mins) The Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.


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close off
1. To prevent access to a particular area or thing. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "close" and "off." We had to close off that section of the restaurant for a private party. I had to take a detour on my way home because the water department closed a bunch of streets off.
2. To avoid emotional connection with others; to isolate. In this usage, a reflexive pronoun can be used between "close" and "off." Todd really closed himself off after his last break-up. I have a hard time making friends because I usually close myself off from other people.
3. To refuse to listen to viewpoints, ideas, or opinions that differ from one's own. In this usage, a reflexive pronoun can be used between "close" and "off." Grandpa, you can't just close yourself off to the ways of the modern world. Can you please listen to what I think, instead of automatically closing yourself off?
close something off
to prevent entrance into something; to block something off. Please don't close this passageway off. They closed off the passageway anyway.
close off
To prevent passage along or through something: The police closed off the main avenue for a parade. Park rangers closed the lake off to motorboats.