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The Three Bears Holiday Bash
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
11:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
This event repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 11/27/2017 and 12/29/2017.
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The Three Bears Holiday Bash is a variety show that celebrates the holiday season in song, dance and puppetry. This production quickly becomes a comedy of errors when Baby Bear invites Santa to star in Mama and Papa Bear's annual holiday show. The audience also gets to join in on the fun with a "12 days of Christmas" sing-a-long during the performance!
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The Toybiz line was just not the right scale for me.
IMO...even looking at Hasbro's stuff beyond Joe and SW (MU, the Marvel Movie lines, Indy) there is a quality drop off...
is "Toy Biz" even around anymore or did the Marvel sale phase them out?
Nick not to pick nits but the Toy Biz stuff was 6" not 8" But I agree...they really really kicked it up a notch starting with TTT...I remember that the FOTR figures were good but not great likenesses...some of the ROTK and Trilogy figures are almost lifelike in their likeness
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RAYMOND WEIL sponsors 2013 Labyrinth Theater's Celebrity Charades
Celebrities Paul Rudd, Chris Rock, Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell all come out to play.
On January the 15th, RAYMOND WEIL celebrated their partnership with the Labyrinth Theater Company with the sponsorship of their annual benefit gala at Capitale. Four celebrity teams participated in a fearsome and hilarious speed charades competition to support the Labyrinth Theater Company's 2012/2013 season.
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The theme for this year's event was titled "Celebrity Charades 2013: Gladiator". Players including: Paul Rudd, Chris Rock, Bobby Cannavale, Billy Crudup, Eddie George, Michael Shannon, America Ferrara, Josh Charles, Richard Kind, Padma Lakshmi and Rosie Perez battled it out in a highly-competitive and animated speed charades competition in front of a live audience. Each celebrity player battled to the end wearing a RAYMOND WEIL luxury timepiece from the freelancer, jasmine and maestro collections.
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My latest baby shower was cupcake themed. If you've followed my blog for some time, or if you know me personally, you've probably guessed that I take the theme and run with it. This time I had two other sweet friends helping with this endeavor. Here are some pictures from the party.
This was a Pinterest idea. A 100 ct. light string with colored strips of tulle tied onto it:
Tissue paper pom-pom balls:
The cupcake diaper cake:
Cupcake liner topiary. We did 4 total of these:
Of course cupcakes for the sweets! I made the cupcake picks:
Another Pinterest idea. The baby's name is Mollie so we made a letter "M" from cupcake liners with some added embellishments:
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The weird thing is, I picked Stephanie & Cindy for my team & just put "Climbs Ruins" as a throwaway pick. I got 80 points for those throwaways! :]
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There's a new buzzword in President Barack Obama's re-election campaign: "Romnesia."
Thousands of supporters who went to the second rally at George Mason University in just two weeks roared as the president introduced the new term, one he says describes Republican candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's shifting position on certain issues.
"He's changing up so much, backtracking, sidestepping," Obama said. "We've got to name this condition he's going through. I think it's called Romnesia."
Obama then used his new word in a series of sentences.
"If you say you are for equal pay for equal work but you keep refusing to say if you'll sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work, you might have Romnesia," he said.
The President wrapped up his riff saying, "If you come down with a case of Romnesia, here's the good news: Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions.
"We've got a cure," he shouted. "We can make you well Virginia!"
But the Romney campaign had some choice words of its own, calling the president's speech a "comedy routine" intended to distract from the nation's economic woes.
"When you have no record to run on, you try to distract, divert and to attack the other side," said Del. Barbara Comstock, a Romney campaign co-chair. "And that's clearly what the campaign has done all summer and now through the fall you've seen that again. We're focused on talking directly to the American people."
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I'm going to the California League of Cities gathering in San Diego on Thursday. Looking at the list of presenters, I noticed that there's a presentation from a firm that provides library resources to local governments.
Could this be a way to save money while preserving service, at a time library systems are cutting services? I can't find enough data to make up my mind. Riverside County long ago contracted out for library services; what reviews I can find are mostly good. More recently, the city of Santa Clarita, in Los Angeles county, followed suit. But Prop Zero would love to hear from people around California and the country who have experienced outsourced libraries.


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There are apps that you want to use, and then there are ones you hope you never have to use (unless you get a kick out of faking your own kidnapping). Sillens AB has just released an iPhone app that could potentially come in very handy in times of crisis/distress.
Safety Button is your new way of feeling safe when moving about. With Safety Button you always have someone who knows exactly where you are and if something should happen; your iPhone will contact your chosen person for you, with your location and much more.
Using external servers to trace your steps, it starts collecting your position every 20 seconds via GPS whenever you start Safety Button. The moment you hit the big honking red "Help" button, the servers will relay an SOS message via sms and/or email, stating your current position to a preset family or friend. According to Sillens AB, the app comes with 3 pre-paid smses and works in any country where an iPhone is available for purchase. While most people won't see a need for Safety Button, $2.99 does buy a piece of mind for the paranoid or those who attact trouble like a magnet. More screenshots and an faq after the break. [Safety Button, $2.99]


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Is true that Moria instances would be next to 85?
Why is Flight t2cm the hardest meanwhile the easiest on tier 1?
What going on with update on new looting system?
Is true that Moria instances would be next to 85?
Why is Flight t2cm the hardest meanwhile the easiest on tier 1?
What going on with update on new looting system?
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." -???
It's sad Turbine isn't working on pvmp. I agree with Turbine that it is pointless to work on a balancing act right now due to upcoming class changes with freeps. However, a balancing act isn't the only quality of life change that goes a long ways. No matter how hard turbine or anyone tries to balance an open-world pvmp area it will always be unbalanced due to numbers (which is part of the fun at times imo). Turbine should use the time to better other aspects of the Ettenmoors.
1. Remove the individual icons saying which keep/outpost is giving you how much renown/mastery and do a total "+60% renown/glory gain" or "+6800 tact/physical mastery." I personally don't care if the text looks slightly sloppy but it could go something like this"
Renown Icon
"Renown buffs = 90%
-Tree boss
^^but type out the actual names of keeps + delving boss the side owns.
Outpost Icon
"Mastery buffs = 6800
-River OP
-Isen OP"
^^again, type out the actual names. I just logged into my BA; I have 9 icons for infamy gains & mastery gains. Changing this could potentially remove 7 icons that nobody needs to see.
2. Freepside: Move the battlefield promotions buff to the war-tab or character journal. Creeps don't have the icon and I like it that way. I feel that is unecessary to display under character name. Rank doesn't change very often and war-tab is easy to access.
3. Terrain features: It'd be nice to have an area dedicated to empty ruins. Maybe at old EC x-roads? The map already contains trees, big rocks to circle around, and keeps with hallways/stairwells but nothing with many corners in one location. It'd kinda be like a broken maze.
Btw, what is considered rank farming? Is that like being on a captain + LM (same person) multi-boxing and grouped together but he keeps 1 parked in GV and PvPs with the other getting free points for the toon he doesn't play?
Or is it when 24 creeps raid together to kill 2 freeps in order to maximize the amount of total points received from those freeps?
I'd like to know what Turbine considers rank farming.
That's why someone up-thread compared it to having a coordinated team. If you could find five friends (or train five monkeys) who are willing/able to press whichever button you call out and set things up properly (target forwarding, for instance), you could achieve the same effect without involving any additional hardware/software.
Basicly, you just place the skills of other characters into your own screen with software/plugins for the single purpose of just boosting your original charachter. There is absolutly nothing that is being controlled from these multi-boxed charachers, it's simpely abused to give your already hard to kill RK ( for example ,like what happend on our server ) a couple new skills such as : cappy bubble/shield wall/Fellowships hearth etc.
P.S. This isn't intented as a discussion between you and me , i mean to say these things in general about multi-boxing and rank farming.
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Add it to the list of things that QA needs to test
Make sure the change is documented in the release notes
and make sure the release notes are in three languages
review all the comments that come back saying the change is bad just in case someone has a good point.
BTW, I really enjoyed the twenty questions....
I think a couple of great questions for the next one of these would be:
1) What is Turbine's process for tuning landscape/quests/instances/raids to an appropriate level of difficulty. Especially considering the huge gulf in the level of equipment within the player base. On group content do you have an ideal class composition in mind when you tune the content?
2) Do you ever review your educational material to see if its current with the game and/or doing the job that was expected? Or do you just rely on new players understanding that they should directly go to community developed overviews/run throughs/how-tos/etc?
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"It will never work, change always makes things worse, and Turbine doesn't care about us anyway…." Eeyore
"But maybe it will have honey or even something better!!" -- Pooh
I'm a bit disappointed on Q18. It seems like the major burden in the process is... the translation :/
Quests relying on a particular skill - I don't get that.
New animations, new sounds, new icons... Rarely the first two are necessary, and the last one often uses the same icon or another already used for something else icon (RKs ring a bell here, I guess).
By the way, trash the LI-system altogether and 75% of these problems will vanish.
& ps. I've subscribed for more than 3 years, (hug, pat on developers' backs, hug, hug)
Just a thought.
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Why can't we mail more than one item? Please increase to at least two, thanks!
Something I posted some time ago on my server's pvmp thread that I thought would be worth repeating here, it got me 3 trolling lolpics as first responce there ^^ :
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Keep getting losing connection to server-The game is loaded an play maybe half hour where that about screen locks up as in freezing up, you can not move, screen goes black an then all you see black screen an in the middle of the screen it says loss connection to server an below that it says quit.i love the game an a VIP member threw my husband , I also when I play the game,I also get in middle of game screen goes white locks up, when you go to the merchant to repair in any character im on I have 7 same white screen as in faded lotroclient.com not responding. thank you hope it can be fixed.thank you cuddlebears level83
can you share with us on this?
"It will never work, change always makes things worse, and Turbine doesn't care about us anyway…." Eeyore
"But maybe it will have honey or even something better!!" -- Pooh
Q2: How does the bug process work? (From reported to fixed)
A2: Step 1: Bug Entry
The majority of bugs are found by individual QA testers during the test cycle and are personally entered. Bugs are also reported by players on palantir, bullroarer, and live servers. Each bug is reviewed by the QA team and entered in to the database if it has not already been entered. Each bug, regardless of where it came from will receive a detailed analysis and writeup from the QA team before it reaches the developers. - Temerity
Step 2: Bug Triage
Producers and development leads review each bug to assign them out and prioritize them against all other work being done. This is the step where we decide whether the fix will need to be hotfixed, patched, or go out with the next major update. Fixing bugs in a hotfix or patch carries a higher cost than fixing in the next major update, so a cost/benefit analysis is key here.
Step 3: Bug Resolution
Developers will fix the bugs that are assigned to them.
Step 4: Bug Regression
QA double checks that the bug is fixed and that no new bugs were created in the process.
Step 5: Players Rejoice! – Temerity (para)(sorry, forums misbehaving ) THIS was very enlightening to me. I recently submitted a bug about a problem I'm having with just one of my toons at the suggestion of a GM who answered my ticket. It's not a bug that would be affecting the general player populace and against the backdrop of the entire LotRO game, it seems it would actually be rather insignificant, unless a number of players are experiencing the same problem and I have no way of judging that. However, since it affects one of my mains, it's huge to me. (para) My further question at this point is, how do I track where a bug is in this chain of events? Do I need to call support? Do I need to PM someone? Do I submit multiple bug reports? I'm very much at a loss on how to rectify this in-game problem for which the GM had no answer except put in a bug report. Any suggestions out there? Thank you in advance.
[charsig=http://lotrosigs.level3.turbine.com/02204000000001766/01008/signature.png] "Never meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup." Unless you play LotRO! [/charsig]
Lately when I think about it there is only one answer that really needs to be answered, one question that creates all the others, one question to rule them all if you will.
Why, Turbine, why do you never finish anything you start?
Almost every system in the game is either half done, abandoned in its infancy or abandoned before polishing.
I'm not talking about bugs or half finished landscape etc.
Think about it folks, almost every system in the game, LIs, MC, Fellowship manouvers, Hobbies, Skirmishes, Festival token revamp, the list goes on.
This is the real problem with the game and everything else flows from it.
Lack of direction.
my 2 cents
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Thank you Turbine.
I really like this form of communication , and you've answered some critical questions , not just the ones that suit you :-)))
Looking forward for more!
PS.However , i have to say , this whole process for bug fixing justifies why things are so slow x)))))))))))) It all makes sense now!!
Good stuff, can't wait to see whats new in beta this year.
Bring back pvp 2k17
Moors sucks worse than buggy overpriced expansions . That said. The main reason i HATE moors is there is no leveling up there. IT should be start there at level 1 and play and level. AND as a newb to moors one should not have to die ever 2 seconds trying to figure out where he is and where he is supposed to go . There are quests there that many players never get to do because they have no groups to do them and they cant solo even easy quest because they get jumped ever few mins.
I have all but quit playing because the content sucks these days and gameplay is becoming too WOW ish. I HATE THAT &&&& STOP IT
And i am sick of F2P players whining about VIP get a life free loaders GEt a dang job and pay for the content . If you want it , pay for it your self. GHEESH this is not a commune.
The new content is almost a joke these days. The ToO instances were pretty hard but at least were fun and entertaining and took some time . The raids with RoR are too fast to do. actually the 3 12 mans could be put together and make 1 raid almost as much play time as a ToO wing lol
Not sure you guys will get any more money from me ... sorry to say I love Lotr but getting yo despise Lotro. Also think F2P should be eliminated
Devs play the new Neverwinter MMO?^^ Well it's probably the best F2P MMO I've ever played (excluding Lotro of course ).
Nice Q&A. Thanks.
Some people have thrown ideas for a revamp here:
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You say that as though such an observation obviates the need for the canceled "phase 2" of the LI revamp. . . as if the issues people have with the LI system has anything to do with such things.All that we can't do is turn a minor into a major, and pick our passives (for LIs that have passive stats).
But it's moot. They canceled phase 2.
The LI system as it currently exists is a cash cow for Turbine. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any substantial revisions to it now.
My question would be whether there are plans to add the other half of Mirkwood, which we can see on the world maps but which is not currently in game, after the other Hobbit movies come out.
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To eat all of the food that is on one's plate. He's usually a really picky eater, so I'm shocked that he cleaned his plate! You'll have to clean your plate up if you want dessert.
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text: BHLDN… WTF? LOL! #WTF!?#decor Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted May 17 2011) Guest post by BabySmalls So they are now selling wedding decor at BHLDN, Anthropologie's foray into the wedding world. Personally, I sort of love them in a very conflicted way. In case that site makes you want to barf, I have looked at every object and collected some of the dumbest things, so you don't have to! What can I say, I live to give. There are some super-cute things that I would definitely consider buying/DIYing, but I wanted to share two hilariously "Wha?" offerings: This is a stick. With a bottle tied to it. It costs $68. Actually it's $68 for four, but that is still bananas for four sticks, four empty bottles, and eight pieces of twine. I could go outside right now and get that off my neighborhood hobo for the cost of a 40 ounce beer! This is a bucket. It costs, I shit you not, $128. It's a bucket that costs $128. I have nothing else to add. This is a bag of colored clothespins. It costs $28. But they are hand-dyed by an artisan! Did she sign each one? If not, how will my guests know I am clipping their escort cards up with artisan clothespins, not just some crap I got at… wait, where do clothespins come from? Maybe they are no longer available in America, and their rarity makes them precious, like diamonds. Oh my god, diamond-encrusted wedding clothespins! I am going to make a million dollars. (If you love BHLDN, don't get huffy. I'm sure I'll be buying something from them before it's all over.) Guest post written by BabySmalls Book nerd, fashionista, estate-sale snooper, lover, grad student, amateur interior designer, music dork, friend, writer, bargain hunter, science geek, hippie. http://offbeatbride.ning.com/profile/BabySmalls PREVIOUS Chantel & Mike's DIY Asian-inspired love-bird wedding NEXT DIY tableware from RestaurantWare.com, including awesome eco-friendly options Show/Hide comments [ 58 ] YES. Honestly, pretty much everything at Anthropologie drives me crazy, but this is the epitome of ridiculous wedding branding. "Here, pay lots of money to have your stuff look DIYed AND to have everyone know it came from Anthropologie!" It's like they took the DIY trends coming out of the recession and stripped all the personalized, meaningful, NICE things out of them. 🙁 Also all the work, but still. $128 for a MFing bucket. Reply It's a stoneware bucket. Not metal. Still ridic, but… Reply That is pretty much the exact same thought I had looking at their site. Some stuff is cute, yes, but ALL is ridiculously expensive. Let's get real here. Reply But they are perfectly formed, coordinated, and quality controlled sticks! Reply I won't lie, I really love their regular dresses and skirts. They're adorable and well made for the most part. One of my bridesmaids even got her dress there when I told them to get whatever they want. But I've always thought their housewares were overpriced and pretty ridiculous. Seems they've upped that ridiculousness by twenty bajillion percent for their wedding crap. Reply Thank you for this post! I really do like some of their stuff but the prices are insane. However, I am grateful for the inspiration because we're re-creating their Pegged Legged Placeholders for our wedding (at a fraction of the cost). Reply haha Thanks, I needed that. Reply Lol, I see a lot of things recommended on this site that I think are very overpriced. OBB, not anthropologie (bc that goes without saying for them, lol.) Reply HAHAHAHA Right? The clothes are amazing (and worth the price; if you've ever purchased clothing from Anthro, it starts to make sense why they're priced like they are), but sometimes their accessories and decor make me go, bwa? Reply Since when does OBB do snark? This is the kind of post I'd expect to read on regretsy. Yeah, it's funny, but I thought OBB was supposed to be non-judgemental Reply We've done snark since 2007. Take a look back in this archive: http://offbeatbride.com/filed/wtf We don't do it often, but it's certainly not unprecedented. That said, I don't see this post as judgmental — the author begins by saying she likes BHLDN, and ends with an acknowledgment that she'll likely make a purchase from the site. Reply I like this -because- it reminded me of Regretsy! Reply Hahahaha! BHLDN is fun to look at but ultimately ridiculous. Bottle-tied-to-stick is my own new coveted item. Reply I plan to try and work this into every conversation from now on. "Oh, but that is NOTHING compared to my bottle-tied-to-stick! Isn't it just TO DIE FOR?!?!?1ELEVENTY" Reply this isn't snark – it's a reality check. a very funny, wtf, don't-say-wedding-or-the-price-goes-up, lol, reality check. bottles on sticks? wedding clothes-pins? a girl named John? (Buckaroo Bonsai reference) Reply Rediculous. $70 for a glitter banner? Why would you ever take the love out of the DIY projects? They look no more lavish, in fact they loose their appeal in their uniformity. I could do one for $20 at the most…and do it with friends. Way to miss the mark Anthropologie–but hey, thanks for the inspiration. I think in this case to DIY from this inspiration is not taking away from an independent artist, so I can feel ok doing it. Reply hmmmm it is weird I have never heard of BHLND? Guess I am not disappointed that the stick is not in my budget 🙂 Reply You must have missed this post: http://offbeatbride.com/2011/03/bhldn-vera-wang-wedding-dresses 🙂 Reply Wow, sticks are pricey these days. I could make a killing off all the sticks in my fiancés backyard! LoL Thank you for pointing out their ridiculous pricing. I've been on some artsy forums (which shall remain nameless) that basically praise and covet all things anthropology/bhlnd. Blarg. Reply It's not just a bucket…it's a Wedding Bucket. Got to have your wedding mark-up. 😉 Reply Oh! A wedding bucket. I missed that! The white paint must be what costs so much! 😀 Reply The fact that someone will no doubt buy a $128 wedding bucket is a serious sign of de evolution. Reply And on the topic of special wedding pricing… Cake sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimiDBAK2wA Flowers sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ff13zZ0h0k Band sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzeMHB22MhI Reply http://offbeatbride.com/2007/11/wedding-tax 🙂 Reply guy: but these are the exact same cakes. cake lady: no no no this is our WEDDINGGGGGGGG cake. lol. i officially spewed my drink at the ribbon part. Reply It's really not difficult to see where the inspiration comes from for a lot of these. They're fun, DIY-inspired pieces that make sense if you have more budget than time, and you don't mind paying the "white dress mark up." While this post really does summarize exactly what I was thinking when I saw the range… I am sure the whole thing is a dream come true for someone with the right circumstances. Reply Here here! I can't believe how much BHLDN is trying to rip people off with some of their new decor merchandise! XP I hope most starry-eyed brides out there are smart enough to realize that some of these items just aren't worth it! 😛 Thank you for not mindlessly drooling over the items like 90% of wedding blogs out there! Tell it like it is! 😀 Reply Hehe. This is great. I think what annoys me is when I see brides on other blogs work so hard to DIY their day & someone has to comment, "omg… That is SO Anthropologie!"Is that supposed to be a compliment?? Reply I would take it as a compliment, though I can see why not everyone would. Anthropologie's displays are extremely intricate, designed to immerse the customer in a feeling of fantasy-home-best dress up chest ever. It's easy to misinterpret the idea as, "Someone else has done it," but I'd say that it implies that someone put a whole lot of time and vision into making a special place where people want to spend time. Reply I guess it depends on if you like Anthropologie to begin with. I feel like they rip off DIY brides and up sell at a ridiculous cost, not the other way around. Reply Ha ha! I've been seeing promotions for this stuff all over the blogosphere. Today, I actually scrolled the site and my jaw dropped at the prices! Then I saw this and laughed out loud (can you tell I thought it was funny, I just spelled out LOL!) 😉 Reply Occasionally, the Regretsy Lady does an "Etsy or Anthropologie" post. I think my favorite was a necklace on etsy that cost $70, and then the EXACT SAME necklace in a different color on anthropologie that cost $170. Also, pretty sure the nursery I work at has sold those buckets for twenty bucks. Boy are we undercharging… Reply But they aren't WEDDING buckets! Reply I think their items are cute, and definitely my style, but so not my price! I mean, I know some people aren't crafty/diy types but seriously, spray painitng a bucket would be the easiest thing in the world even for a diy-phobe. Reply I was SO excited when BHLDN became official! And then I died a little inside because there is no way I could afford anything from there with my budget. It's still fun to lurk and get inspiration. They didn't have decor at first that I remember, but I was still looking for jewelry and I think I crapped my pants at some of the prices for necklaces. Literally everything cost more than my dress, which isn't saying much because I got it for $42. Still this post made me LOL. Say wedding and the price sky rockets, it's so true! Why wouldn't you buy a cheap bucket and spray paint it? Exact same thing… except it's from Anthrolpolgie I guess. Paying for the name. You could always lie, it's not like people would know lol. Reply I agree, everything from Anthropologie, *particularly* BHLDN, is extremely overpriced. BUT, I give them credit — ask any one of their employee's, and they'll tell you outright that they target working women who make over $200,000, who are busy enough to drop a ton for a 'dyi' look. In other words, NOT MOST OF US, lol. As an interior designer/occasional wedding stylist, I LOVE them … because their gorgeous stores are awesome inspiration! They really create *amazing* environments, and most of the things they do can be re-interpreted for way less! Reply Are those sticks organic? Is the twine free-range? ARE THE BOTTLES ECO-FRIENDLY? Yea, even if the answer is yes, it's still almost $8.50 a stick-and-bottle. Reply haha free-range twine. I'm imagining balls of twine loping across the prairie. thanks for the late-afternoon pick-me-up. 😀 Reply Wow. Okay lets see if I can get this jumbled idea from my brain to your brain. A long time ago people WITHOUT money diy-ed stuff for their wedding to make it look like fancy stuff bought in the store that people WITH money bought and used at their wedding….. Now people WITH money are buying stuff that looks diy-ed at a much higher cost…. ?? As a die hard diy-er I really don't know whether to feel cheated or smug. Not that either is a good characteristic but I'm conflicted. I love all things diy and I would rather have it look diy-ed than store bought. (as my whole wedding is going to be.) Btw, stick bottle thingy is cute in an odd way but seriously? I think we should start tying other things to sticks. Waffle irons, unruly children, tires, paperclip chains, you know really get into the mentality of bottle on a stick! Reply Similar progression: back in the '70s, it was hard to get health food, so people started food cooperatives. Then, the concept of healthy eating got so popular, that there was a market for corporations like Whole Foods to open health food stores across the US. Now, co-ops are closing because you can get healthy food at chain stores. Win for healthy food's prevalence, loss for indie businesses. Reply Apparently if you lose a 2 e's and an o, you can add several zeros! Reply http://instantrimshot.com 😛 Reply Until I read this post, I had no idea whatsoever that BHLDN was actually intended to spell/mean "beholden". Thank you! (I kind of felt like an idiot for not knowing and so was always too embarrassed to ask lol) Reply This is the best post ever. That is all. 🙂 Reply Love this post. The stick/bottle thing I can kind of get, but it is still obnoxiously expensive. The bucket and clothespins… I don't even know what to say about that. Reply I adore you for this post. I've been having the exact same thoughts, but all of the usual wedding blogs and sites are loving the BHLDN pieces. I thought I was the only one — Emporer's New Clothes style … Admittedly, there are some good ideas in the BHLDN line. But nothing you couldn't easily and cheaply DIY. The bottle/sticks and buckets SLAY me. Reply My favorite is the mismatching silverware for $68. Good Lord. Reply Long time reader, first time commenter…this post was hilarious, and so very true. It hits the nail on the head and does so with humor! Love it! Reply While I completely agree that the pricing of the bottle-sticks and clothes pins are thoroughly ridiculous, I strongly disagree regarding the "bucket." I think it's misleading of you to point a finger at the price but neglect to include any of the readily available information about the object. Right there in the listing it tells you while it's in the shape of a bucket, it's handmade stoneware ceramic and by Mud studio in South Africa, facts I think some customers would find value in. But more impressive, and valuable, to me is that with a quick search I found out that Mud seeks to create sustainable employment practices in some of the most impoverished communities in South Africa. IMO it is above scoff-worthy. Reply Is BHLDN overpriced? Yup. That said, I am a loyal Anthro shopper, mostly because their clothes are well-made, and they actually *fit* my body without me spending a shit-ton of money at the tailor's. I feel that BHLDN is awesome for inspiration. Whoever is doing the art direction there has a fabulous sense of color and putting-together-of-things (if this is your style, of course!) Would I spend that kind of money on a bucket? Hell, no. I'd go to the flower market, buy my own damn bucket and paint it mahself. But I don't really see the point of getting pissed at a company for provided beautiful items, even at a serious mark-up. There are some folks who simply don't have the time, community, or creativity to put something lovely together themselves, and I imagine BHLDN and the like are a wonderful resources for them. *meh* To each his or her own, oui? Reply this amused me so much i was browsing around the regular anthropologie site. check this out – $1450 for a hanging glass terrarium (no plants). Reply LMAO!!! this is tooo funny!!!! Are these people for real???? Are they really selling this stuff?!?!?!? =0 Reply I saw an old scrub brush aka "pen holder" for $68 on anthropologie Reply This post made me laugh SO HARD. especially the hobo part, seeing as how my guy is hobo-like. I could just imagine telling him "Hey babe, check out this new stick I got for the wedding decor. It only cost $68, Isn't it great?! Him: Facepalm. For some reason the image of the bottle tied to the stick makes me laugh so much. I think I need to save it! Reply I know I'm late to the party with this one, but it's kind of ridiculous to me that I can't even FIT into any of their clothes… But the more simple stuff is easy to DIY or you can find similar styles for less money elsewhere. But God knows I will want to buy some of that stuff anyway because I LOVE Anthropologie and BHLDN. They are great for inspiration and their shoes are to DIE FOR. 🙂 Reply Oh my God that bucket post almost made me pee my pants. $128? I think some of the stuff on here is beautiful (especially the clothes and jewelery) but so much of this gorgeous stuff is something I could find on Etsy! $600 for some of these bracelets when I could support a DIY goddess off of Etsy as opposed to stuffy Anthropologie? That is an easy choice for me. Reply Guys, their dresses are THE BOMB.COM and as wedding dresses go, are cheap-ish. The bucket? Embarassing. However, they have to make money on lazy people. Just focus on the affordable, beautiful dresses. You won't get anything better south of David's Bridal. Reply The weird thing is, I got my dress at a reasonable price from BHLDN but everything else from there is insanely overpriced.. My dress was 1,000 (and it's a designer who usually charges a LOT more for that dress) but some of their VEILS are nearly that much.. I don't get it. Reply Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign me up for your offbeat awesomeness newsletter! No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy. Biz owners & wedding bloggers Please just use your real name in your comment, not your business name or blog title. Our comments are not the place to pimp your website. 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Samsung unveils new Smart Cameras at CES
The first cameras in Samsung's new line-up are the WB250F and the WB200F – their flagship ultrazoom with an 18x lens. The WB250F offers a 14.2 Megapixel BSI CMOS, whereas the WB200F has a CCD sensor and 24mm lens. Both cameras have a hybrid touch interface consists of a touch LCD screen and navigational keys. This gives users the ability to take controls of their images. The WB250F even has a full manual mode option for photographers that require complete control.
Both WB cameras also utilize features such as Best Face, SMART Mode and Motion Photo features. Both the WB250F and WB200F have Wi-Fi capabilities. The WB250F has with pop-up flash and is available in four colors; white, cobalt black, gun metal and red.
The WB800F is a sizeble ultrazoom camera with 21x optical zoom and a 16.3 Megapixel BSI CMOS sensor. Like the previous WB cameras, the 800F has a hybrid user interface that includes both a touchscreen and manual navigation keys. As you can tell it looks very similar to its counterparts. The WB800F will be available in white, cobalt black and red.
The WB30F is Samsung's smallest WB model. With the same abilities of the other WB models, the only thing this camera is lacking is size. Coming in at only 17 mm, the WB30F is a pocketable camera that includes a 10x optical zoom and a 24mm, wide angle lens. Extra shooting and editing features include Magic Frame and Live Panorama. The WB30F will be available in black, white, red, purple and pink.
The DV150F debuts as one of Samsung's compact point and shoots. The DV150F features a 2.7-inch back LCD screen and a 1.5-inch front LCD screen, which makes taking those "selfies" easier than puckering your lips. Eyes aren't wide enough? Teeth aren't bright enough? No problem! The DV150F is even equipped with a Beauty Palette feature which enables users to "enhance" their images by applying make-up type effects to the subject. Other creative features such as Smart Filter 3.0, Motion Photo and Magic Frame allow users greater control over image editing. The DV150F hosts a 16.2 Megapixel CCD sensor, F2.5 25mm lens and 5x optical zoom. The DV150F is available in five different colors including white, black, plum, lime green and light pink.
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Sixty years ago, the BBC filmed a train journey from London to Brighton, squeezed into just four minutes. Thirty years ago, we did it again. Now we are bringing it up to date, to see how much has changed – and how much is still the same. Here's all three journeys side by side.
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Photographer Sergey Semonov is responsible for the above image that makes the heart of New York City look like a spline that's just been reticulated.
It's not technically a single photo; instead, it's a composite of a number of photos taken during a helicopter ride. Sergey presents it as a stunning interactive panorama on his site, but the image above—which has won Epson's Pano Award for photography—has been flattened.
You can see the complete panorama at Sergey's website, while there's a higher resolution shot available here.
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Doing good versus making money—that was the topic on Monday at the Javits Center in New York. In a sometimes feisty Oxford-style debate, portfolio managers and professors sparred over whether socially responsible investment has any business contributing to—or subtracting from—a company's bottom line.
Co-sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Corporate Responsibility (CR) magazine's COMMIT!Forum , the debate pitted two teams against each other to argue the merits of shareholder advocacy, environmental sustainability and ethical governance.
(Who won the "Tea Party versus European social" debate? See audience poll results on page 3.)
Debate moderator John Harwood, CNBC's chief Washington correspondent, presented the topic—Resolved: When companies expend resources on corporate responsibility and sustainability, they destroy economic value—and summed up the two sides as "the Tea Party argument versus the European social argument."
The Javits audience of about 150 included financial analysts and executives from what CR calls "the world's best corporate citizens," such as event sponsors Hewlett-Packard, SAP AG, State Street Corp. and Zurich Financial Services.
"To use a Dr. Seuss term that I've made up, we're seeing the 'businessfication' of sustainability. It's not just a fluffy conversation anymore," said Michelle Greene, head of corporate responsibility for NYSE Euronext, in remarks just before the debate started.
Greene asserted that there is more focus on corporate responsibility than ever before. "Companies are placing greater value on it because customers care, employees care and shareholders care," she said.
Indeed, a survey released Tuesday supports Greene's claims. According to human resources consulting firm Mercer and the Social Investment Forum Foundation, four out of five retirement plan sponsors expect demand for sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) options to grow over the next five years. The survey said 14% of defined contribution sponsors already offer one or more SRI options, while an additional 13% either are discussing adding an SRI option or intend to do so in the next two to three years.
But that sort of evidence hasn't yet convinced the "vice" side of Monday's debate. Arguing the case that shareholder value is eroded by sustainability and corporate responsibility were VICE Fund (VICEX) portfolio manager Gerry Sullivan and University of Michigan Prof. Aneel Kamani, and the two had plenty to say about how the capital markets reward companies that exceed expectations, regardless of holding to SRI standards. Business has no business engaging voluntarily in such oppressive standards, they insisted.
Kamani mocked corporate responsibility as "an intensely confused concept," saying the jumble of initials used to define it—CR, SRI, GRI and ESG, to name a few—show how hopelessly vague the notion is.
'There Is No God'
Good company management takes care of itself, Kamani said, asserting that corporate responsibility reporting is itself a "dangerous fallacy" that assumes companies are bad. When companies don't work as they should, he said, government regulators should force them to take mandatory actions to resolve their problems. Expecting companies to voluntarily join along on sustainability efforts, he added, is a scattershot solution and doomed to fail.
"There is no God," he said. "I think we should convert to being pagans and go back to a secular belief system of shareholder value and market regulation. The means to get there is not corporate responsibility initiatives."
Before the "nice" team argued its side, Sullivan also got in his digs, pointing to GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt's "Ecomagination" campaign that followed CEO Jack Welch's departure from the corporate giant. The green energy campaign might have looked good to the company's marketing department, Sullivan said, but GE stock plummeted to about $20 per share versus Welch's glory days when it was trading around $160.
"In the kumbaya moment when everybody joins in a group hug, the first thing you should do is check for your wallet," Sullivan said.
Sustainability Is the 21st Century's Mainstream
Nice guys R. Paul Herman, CEO and chief investment officer of RIA firm HIP Investor Inc. and Vinay Nair, CIO of Ada Investments and professor at the Columbia Business School, countered that sustainability is a market reality in the 21st century, and that GE's stock plummeted not because of the Ecomagination campaign but because the company was overleveraged.
"Investors care about long-term shareholder value, not short-term profits," said Nair, whose Ada Investments firm believes that consistent and superior risk-adjusted returns can be achieved "by focusing on ideas that are less crowded and by employing a holistic view of firm valuation."
"The drivers of sustainability are creating the fastest growing category of everything in all consumer sectors," Nair said, adding that companies often lead government to regulatory reform rather than the reverse. "Sustainability is moving to the center mainstream from both the left and the right. Government has limitations due to lobbying and competition with other governments."
The problem, said Herman, is that professional money managers haven't yet bought into the corporate responsibility mindset, as evidenced by Sullivan's VICEX strategy of investing in guns, booze, cigarettes and gambling.
"Two-thirds of consumers want to do good with their purchases, and two-thirds of investors see doing good as a positive indicator of a company's performance. Unfortunately, two-thirds of institutional investors do not," he said.
In an unexpected act of niceness, Herman went on to favorably compare VICEX's performance against that of Portfolio 21's sustainable PORTX global fund. Both funds have both outperformed the SPY S&P 500 this year, Herman noted.
"Theoretically, you could buy 'vice' and 'nice' and not the S&P 500, and you'll outperform the market," he said.
Who Won the Commit!Forum Debate on Corporate Responsibility?
According to audience polls conducted via text message before and after the debate, "nice" won out over "vice"—and even more so the second time around.
On the issue "Resolved: When companies expend resources on corporate responsibility and sustainability, they destroy economic value," the results were as follows:
Disagree Before 82.3% After 90.2% Plus +8 for NICE team
Agree Before 14.7% After 2.4% Negative -12 for VICE team
Don't Know Before 2.9% After 7.3% Plus +4 for NICE team


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Rev. Dr. William Barber, head of North Carolina's NAACP, speaking on Amendment One.
I know some members have difficulties accessing youtube videos, nonetheless, I suggest they take a chance and follow the link to this one.
[I know the moderators actually have the ability to embed such videos, I would call on them to consider taking the time to embed this one]
[your wish is my command, bk -- <3 CF]
North Carolina voters have approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, making it the 30th state to adopt such a ban.
With most of the precincts reporting Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 61 per cent of the vote to 39 per cent against. North Carolina is the 30th state to adopt such a ban on gay marriage.
Unlikely that an appeal to the tea party, I mean the US Supreme Court, will succeed in striking down these so called 'constitutional' amendments.
Oh don't worry. They aren't actually homophobic.
They are just doing this to prevent white people from being outnumbered:
Apparently, North Carolina's John Edwards cheating on his wife while she was dying of breast cancer and then denying paternity of his love child didn't destroy marriage in the state but I guess letting loving gay couples tie the knot would just be too much...
Sure, it's all about protecting marriage, isn't it?
Bill James held off an aggressive challenge from Ed Driggs to win the GOP primary for the District 6 seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, with the eight-term incumbent commissioner capturing nearly 52 percent of the vote.
But less than eight hours after taking the win in the heavily Republican district, James' attention wasn't focused on his General Election opponent, Democrat Connie Green-Johnson, but on how the results of Tuesday night's Amendment One vote would impact Mecklenburg County employee policy.
The constitutional amendment, which makes marriage between a man and a woman the "only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized" in North Carolina, easily won approval at the polls with a 61 percent margin.
In that light, James is already pushing Mecklenburg to scrap its policy that provides domestic partner health insurance benefits to employees in same-sex relationships. The county has been offering same-sex benefits to employees since commissioners approved the policy in 2009.
James fired off the following email to County Manager Harry Jones and county legal staff early Wednesday morning:Quote:Since Amendment One has passed when will we get a memo or something that outlines what changes we need to make to our health plan to be in compliance? I recall when the Democrats on the Commission forced the issue and added these benefits for homosexuals that a number of legal experts said it was illegal then - including the City attorney. Now that Amendment one has passed it obviously is illegal to offer this benefit as there is now only one 'domestic legal union' recognized in the state.
Prior to the vote most scholars (left and right) said that Amendment One would eliminate local faux 'marriage' benefits for homosexual employees. I would cite them but you know them all too well.
Still, I would like to know when the Board can expect information on the changes Amendment One wrought (or are we going to break the law and spend scarce resources on litigation we will likely loose)?
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A review of the "pro-marriage" argument in NC from The Economist.
ETA: And for the record: I think the thread title "North Carolina affirms marriage as a sacred union between a man and his sister" is much funnier than this thread's title...
Well Sven, I wasn't trying to be funny... I was attempting to draw attention to Barber's remarks - not least to draw attention to how false the "black preacher = homophobe" meme is. I found his critique significantly more interesting than the Hallmark moment advertising that characterizes much of the equal marriage chat on the other side of the medicine line.
CF, thanks for making the link more visually compelling.
Thx Bagkitty for the link. His talk was great too bad it didn't sway more voters.
Like he said it was 1875 when they pased the last such amendement in NC.
I don't mean to derail this thread, which I really appreciate. I do mean to derail the privileged, ignorant and abusive notion that incest is funny. To me, it's kind of like laughing at any other rape joke. It is a fine illustration of how rape culture works. Humour often demonstrates who gets to laugh about what. And who gets put down for "not getting the joke" (i.e. who isn't prepared to play the oppressor's game, or doesn't have the privilege of ignorance that allows something horrific to be toyed with and minimized).
Whether you are aware you are doing it or not, you are communicating to a whole host of people that their suffering / history of abuse is something to laugh about.
In their 2001 report on Family Violence in Canada, The Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics found that family members, including relatives, constituted the vast majority (93%) of alleged perpetrators. Another statistical study conducted in 2001 by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics found that:
- among family assaults parents were the perpetrators in 56% of physical assaults against youths and 43% of sexual assaults against youth victims 12 to 17 years of age;
- siblings were responsible for approximately 25% of physical and 26% of sexual assaults in the family that were perpetrated against youth
- extended family members committed 8% of physical, and 28% of sexual assaults against youth
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Hah hah! Hilarious!
Sorry, writer, but sometimes I forget that many people would like babble to be an irony-free zone (or, as M. Spector more accurately called it, an intentional-irony-free zone)...
Well Sven, I wasn't trying to be funny...
Oh, I know that. And I wasn't criticizing you with my comment. It was merely an aside regarding the thread-title "controversy" in the other threa(s).
I actually appreciate all of your postings on this subject.
We are going to have our own vote in Minnesota on this subject in November. I think it's too early to tell where it will shake out. But, one thing I am confident of: The trend is very good and opponents of SSM don't have time on their side.
Thanks Writer for the statistics.
As always Sven thanks for bringing the piece of shit into this thread. Scatology seems to be one of your fortes.
Writer: There is a discussion about the thread title you are referencing HERE (the actual thread being referred to was closed by the moderators - although the motivation for closing it seems to be that it was considered a "duplicate" thread rather than it having been flagged as offensive). What I am taking to be the decision on the part of the moderators appears to be contained in post #21 of the thread I have linked to above.
Thanks for acknowledging the potential of derailing this thread (which, by the way, was started before the vote in North Carolina, and was motivated by a desire to draw attention to the argument(s) being used as opposed to the actual result of the vote).
Sven, it isn't ironic when you are triggered. This is a board that aims to make even survivors comfortable, and maybe not think about their brothers' cocks in their mouths, all the while seeing self-regarding fools snigger about it. I do presume you will never, ever understand how you can behave in a way that is respectful, equity driven, and humorous. It is beyond you.
I am sorry for your loss.
Apologies, bagkitty. In a fit of fantasy, I had thought that the other thread had been closed. I am sorry that it was raised here, and followed up by me here. I will take the stink over there.
I watched the video at the OP. Incredible. It moved me to tears.
Unlikely that an appeal to the tea party, I mean the US Supreme Court, will succeed in striking down these so called 'constitutional' amendments.
Well Proposition 8 was overturned in California.
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Unlikely that an appeal to the tea party, I mean the US Supreme Court, will succeed in striking down these so called 'constitutional' amendments.
Well Proposition 8 was overturned in California.
That issue was overturned - twice - by California's Supreme Court.
Now if the U.S. Supreme Court were to rule on it - something that has not happened yet - I believe that ruling would determine the issue in all states.
Lesbian seeking marriage license arrested in NC
... Christine Regan, 35, and Megan Silbert, 34, of Winston-Salem, were rejected for the marriage license while a heterosexual couple a few steps away were receiving theirs.
Nate Bounds, 29, and Alicia Picou, 32, of Winston-Salem said they planned to marry May 19, when his father could arrive from his home overseas.
Picou said she did not object to same-sex couples being allowed to wed.
"Why not? I don't think it's really anybody's business," she said. I don't think it's the government's business to be telling people what to do with their private lives."
Well Proposition 8 was overturned in California.
Not the same gang of criminals as John Roberts and the Supremes.


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Melissa Rosenberg, who adapted the Twilight books into five movies, is writing and producing a movie of Pamela Sargent's young adult novel Earthseed for Paramount Pictures. Rosenberg also wrote for Dexter, and is writing a Highlander reboot.
Like the hot Hunger Games series, Earthseed is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where a group of teenagers are heading for a new homeworld. The book was published in 1983, but the two sequels weren't published until 2007 and 2010 respectively. Here's the book's official synopsis:
Ship hurtles through space. Deep within its core, it carries the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth over a century ago, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children—fifteen-year-old Zoheret and her shipmates—whom it has created from its genetic banks.
To Zoheret and her shipmates, Ship has been mother, father, and loving teacher, preparing them for their biggest challenge: to survive on their own, on an uninhabited planet, without Ship's protection. Now that day is almost upon them...but are they ready to leave Ship? Ship devises a test. And suddenly, instincts that have been latent for over a hundred years take over. Zoheret watches as friends become strangers—and enemies. Can Zoheret and her companions overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of the human race—themselves?
This could be a seriously cool film — fingers crossed!
Top image: Earthseed cover art by Dan Dos Santos. [The Wrap]


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Mike Tyson strolled into the empty VIP room of San Francisco's Orpheum Theater on Thursday for a string of publicity interviews on the eve of his one-man show ,The Undisputed Truth.
Among the journalists and handlers scattered in the room, was a disheveled man who wandered off the street, wearing a hoodie and aiming a smart phone in the champ's direction.
As the theater staff hustled to remove the uninvited guest, Tyson huddled in close with the man, happily posing for pictures with the man's fist pressed against his tattooed cheek.
This was the kinder, gentler version of Tyson - the boxer who once bit the ear off Evander Holyfield, the convicted rapist who spent three years in prison - the brute who once pummeled paparazzi.
This was Mike Tyson - thespian.
"I don't look at myself as Mike Tyson when I'm on the stage," said Tyson dressed in a black sports jacket, jeans and blindingly white tennis shoes.
"I look at myself as a starving actor trying to get a break." This down-and-out actor certainly isn't starving for material for his one-man show - which sounds like a conversation been overheard in a confession booth.
As he prowls the stage over two hours, Tyson squares up with the demons of his past.
"I just want to be at peace with myself," Tyson said. "And you just have to embrace who you are. The good, bad, whatever situation you have to embrace who you are."
Tyson comes off like the eternal seeker - a man who emerged from the fog of youth and is now paying down his bad karma by talking endlessly about the error of his ways.
His monologue addresses all the heavyweight topics of his life; prison time, the millions of dollars he blew, infidelities, failed marriages, drugs and the mistreatment of various folks.
"It all happened for a reason and now I'm here," said Tyson. "I don't have all the money I once had, but I couldn't get anything done when I did have the money."
As he scanned the room of Bay Area journalists, Tyson revealed he'd never been to San Francisco before, and was struck by its laid-back, liberal nature.
He said the liberal members of his family would appreciate the vibe, while the younger version of Mike Tyson might once have taken advantage of the anything-goes-vice smorgasbord. But this was the grown-up Tyson.
The conservative Las Vegas dweller who was now in the midst of a 36-city mea culpa. And this Mike Tyson was no longer in the ring - he was going shopping.
"I want to shop down that pretty street there," said Tyson, presumably referring to Union Square. "I don't have much money, but the money that I get from this show maybe I'll spend some there."


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(This story first appeared at USAToday.com.)
The Ultimate Fighting Championship's long-running reality competition series, "The Ultimate Fighter," is widely credited for the promotion's recent popularity boom
But with the 16th U.S. edition of the series set to debut Friday on FX, some pundits have expressed doubt in regards to the remaining viability of the show and its ability to find quality prospects and expose the sport to new eyes.
To hear "The Ultimate Fighter 15" winner Mike Chiesa tell it, the importance of the show to the sport's future remains at an all-time high.
"You look at guys like Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, Michael Bisping – guys that have won world titles, guys that are top contenders in their weight classes – they've all been through the show and been through the process," Chiesa told USA TODAY Sports. "By all means, I am not categorizing myself with those guys. I have a long way to go. I haven't even fought a fight outside of the 'The Ultimate Fighter' banner yet, but people need to tune in because these are the prospects.
"All these guys they bring in, these guys are prospects that the UFC is looking at. You're watching the cream of the crop for up-and-coming prospects, and you're putting them in this pressure cooker and making them fight each other."
The new season features 32 welterweights all vying for one six-figure UFC contract. Friday's debut episode, a two-hour special that airs on FX (9 p.m. ET), sees the 32-fighter field cut in half by way of 16 elimination fights. The winners then move into the "TUF" house, where they are cut off from the outside world while working their way through the remainder of the tournament under the tutelage of opposing coaches Shane Carwin (12-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Roy Nelson (17-7, 4-3), who also will fight at the conclusion of the series.
Chiesa, whose father died on the fighter's first day in the house just one season ago, said the atmosphere is among the most intense any prospective UFC fighter ever will face.
"Honestly, it's a really hard thing to prepare for," Chiesa said. "I thought the seclusion from reality wouldn't get to me, but it really gets to you. There's really no way to prepare for 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
"I think it's best if guys just go in there open-minded. Don't commit yourself that you're prepared to be secluded, away from your family, away from your training partners. Just go in with an open mind and soak it in. Still, I think that no matter what you do, at some point the show is going to creep up on you. At some point, you're going to have some kind of a breakdown."
Nelson, who earned his way into the UFC as the winner of "The Ultimate Fighter 10," said his time as coach on the series was even more difficult than his stint as a contestant.
"I'd rather be a contestant than a coach again," Nelson admitted. "As much as fighters say it sucks, it's because they haven't experienced both of them. When you're a contestant, you only have one goal, and that's to win the whole thing. As a coach, you have so many other goals you're trying to accomplish, and you have to have the whole team working with you."
Carwin admitted he also initially struggled with the decision to take a role as coach and leave his family behind in Colorado during the six-week filming session in Las Vegas. Still, when the taping wrapped earlier this week, Carwin said he enjoyed the experience.
"I was a little hesitant at first," Carwin said. "I have a family that I have to take care of first, so making sure they were taken care of and knowing what my roles and responsibilities were was a priority if I was on board. But it was a great experience. It taught me a lot about myself and little things that may even be a little life-changing in regards to dealing with people and managing situations.
"I think this season is different from some of the other seasons. Fans will have to tune in, but I think there were some things that happened this season that have never happened before."
Next week, the UFC launches its second international version of "TUF" with "The Ultimate Fighter: Australia vs. U.K." debut, which airs on FX in Australia, ESPN in the U.K. and streams on TUF.tv worldwide. The company also recently announced plans to debut "TUF: India" in 2013, and "TUF: Brazil" also returns next year. UFC President Dana White has mentioned the ultimate goal is a "TUF" world cup, pitting international winners against each other in a global tournament. It's an ambitious plan, but one which the fiery executive truly believes will happen.
In the meantime, Chiesa recommends fans tune in to keep an eye on future superstars of the sport.
"You get to see good fights," Chiesa said. "You get to see these guys and see what kind of people they are and see how they evolve as individuals. It's cool to say you watched them go from being on 'The Ultimate Fighter' to doing big things.
"People need to tune in because it's good fighting, and you're seeing the future of the sport right before your eyes."
Of course, if you like your entertainment a little more elementary, Nelson believes "TUF" is still the right show for you.
"It's like 'Jersey Shore' meets real life with real fighting," Nelson said. "It's just more exciting when you get the dynamic of 16 guys' attitudes and seeing how they correspond with everyone else's. When you have 16 men and a lot of testosterone, a lot of things kind of jump off – especially when you have a bunch of young guys. It's like a bunch of schoolgirls going at it."
For more on "The Ultimate Fighter 16," stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
(Pictured: Mike Chiesa)


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124. TAYLOR MALI: What Teachers Make
Taylor Mali (1965-) is a an American slam poet who has been part of four winning teams at the National Poetry Slam competition. What Teachers Make is Mali's most well-known poem and was born out of an actual dinner conversation he had. You can view Mali performing the poem in this video and more of his work on his YouTube channel. The poem was also the title of a book Mali wrote: What Teachers Make – In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World. Mali worked as an English, History and Math teacher for nine years and continues to be an advocate for teachers all over the world.
I thought this poem would make a good follow-up to last week's Erica Goldson graduation speech. While the system might not be perfect, teachers are the unsung heroes of the education system and I have nothing but praise and respect for the profession. Teachers can make all the difference – having a mediocre one can really damage a student's potential, but the right one can inspire a child to greatness.
I'm really honoured that a lot of teachers have told me they use Zen Pencils comics in the classroom. It's something I never planned on happening and is such a thrill. It also makes perfect sense – I would have paid way more attention to poetry and history if they were taught with the aid of cartoons. If you're one such teacher (or a student on the receiving end), then please share how you use them in the comments.
UPDATE: I've been in touch with Taylor Mali and he has kindly given me permission to make this available as a print. He also will be donating his share of the profits to The Atlantic Center for the Arts, where he is currently teaching poetry. Taylor even told me that he has used the comic as a slideshow while performing the poem – which is pretty freakin' awesome!
– Taylor Mali's official website.
– Thanks to George for submitting the poem.
– Zen Pencils is on GoComics! My archives will be updating regularly on the biggest comics website in the world, where you can also read the entire archives of hundreds of famous comics such as Calvin & Hobbes, Dilbert and Peanuts. It's really an honour to have my work alongside these legendary strips, especially Calvin & Hobbes, which is my all-time biggest influence and inspiration. There's also a great GoComics app you can download so you can read all your favourite strips on your phone or tablet.


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Preparing for the Sochi Winter Olympics
The countdown has begun — only 30 days remain until the opening ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Eighty-five countries are expected to bring 5,500 athletes and team members to Russia in early February. They will compete in 98 events spread over seven winter sports.
But numbers tell only part of the story.
"In Sochi, the athletes will once again discover the magic of the Olympic Games," said Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee. "In turn, the athletes will share this magic with the rest of the world."
Over the next month, The Times will offer daily stories on the competitors and issues central to these Games. The series begins with a primer that answers 30 basic questions.
1. Where is Sochi? The coastal resort is on the Black Sea, about 1,000 miles south of Moscow. It is one of only a few Russian cities with a subtropical climate, but the Caucasus Mountains are nearby.
2. Will all of the competition take place in the city? As with many Winter Games, the events will be split. Figure skating and other indoor sports will be held in a "coastal cluster" of Sochi arenas. Outdoor sports such as skiing will be contested in a "mountain cluster" about 30 miles away.
3. If Sochi is subtropical, will there be enough snow? Last year, some test events had to be canceled. But this winter, early storms have blanketed the mountains and forecasters wonder if so-called "snow cyclones" will create weather problems.
4. What if the weather turns warm? The Games' organizers have stored about 450,000 cubic meters of last winter's snowfall under thermal blankets. They have also installed a massive snow-making system.
5. How much will these Olympics cost? Originally budgeted at $12 billion, Sochi could now top the $50-billion mark. That would make these Games the most expensive ever, exceeding the cost of all previous Winter Olympics combined.
6. Why are they so expensive? Hoping to showcase his country, President Vladimir Putin has spared no expense, taking the opportunity to build Sochi into a year-round tourist destination. There have been reports of widespread corruption, critics alleging that much of the money has found its way into the pockets of Putin's cronies.
7. Will the facilities be finished on time? Last week, Putin toured Sochi and declared it ready. Almost. There have been delays with some facilities, including Fisht Stadium, where the opening ceremony will take place.
8. Why is terrorism of such concern? Sochi is considered vulnerable because of its proximity to the North Caucasus, where Islamic militants have waged a violent insurgency. Recent bombings in Volgograd, about 400 miles away, have heightened concerns.
9. Can the Russian government keep athletes and spectators safe? Security forces are creating a lockdown zone around Sochi this month. Tens of thousands of police and army troops have arrived from throughout the country to patrol the city's streets.
10. Why have gay rights become an issue with these Olympics? The Russian government recently adopted legislation that criminalizes the discussion of "nontraditional sexual relations" around minors. Critics say the law effectively bans events such as gay pride parades.
11. Will there be protests? The legislation has drawn criticism from around the world. Some athletes might speak out or show support for gay rights by wearing pins on their uniforms.
12. How might the Russian government react? Government officials plan to establish one or more protest zones in the city. But it isn't that simple — demonstrators must receive permission to gather.
13. As for sports, will these Winter Games look any different? The IOC has added 12 events: figure skating team competition, luge team relay, biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping and men's and women's competitions in ski halfpipe, ski slopestyle, snowboard parallel special slalom and snowboard slopestyle.
14. Why were the events added? The figure skating team competition expands a highly popular event. IOC executives hope that new extreme sports — ski halfpipe, slopestyle, etc. — will attract a younger audience.
15. Who will be the biggest U.S. star? With no favorites in figure skating singles, others must shine. Shaun White on his snowboard? Shani Davis in long-track speedskating? The U.S. men's hockey team?
16. Will America have a breakout star? Two teenagers show potential. Mikaela Shiffrin has become a force in the slalom. And if Sarah Hendrickson recovers from knee surgery, she will be a favorite in the inaugural women's ski jumping.
17. Who will be missing for the U.S.? Three of the biggest names and defending gold medalists. Skier Lindsey Vonn and skater Evan Lysacek are injured. Short-track speedskater Apolo Ohno has retired.
18. Can the men's hockey team avenge its gold-medal loss to Canada in 2010? Team USA executives have focused on speed, fielding a roster that theoretically suits the larger Olympic rinks. Thirteen players return from the Vancouver squad.
19. Will Jonathan Quick be ready to play? The Kings goalie was sidelined by a strained groin for almost two months. He began his comeback with a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.
20. Are any other Kings or Ducks on the U.S. team? Kings forward Dustin Brown and Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler made the roster. Other local pros, such as Anze Kopitar and Jonas Hiller, will represent their native countries.
21. Who are the favorites in women's figure skating? Yuna Kim of South Korea is the defending gold medalist and world champion. Italy's Carolina Kostner and Japan's Mao Asada could contend for the title.
22. What about the men? The early favorite is Patrick Chan of Canada, but he could face heavy competition from Spain's Javier Fernandez and two Japanese skaters — Daisuke Takahashi and Yuzuru Hanyu — among others.
23. Will the Americans go without a singles figure skating medal for the first time since 1936? On the women's side, Ashley Wagner and Gracie Gold figure to make the team and be competitive. Max Aaron and Jeremy Abbott could lead the men. None are favored to reach the podium.
24. Will the U.S. win the overall medal count? It will be tough for the Americans to top the 2010 Vancouver Games, where they set an Olympic record with 37 medals. But they have veteran athletes and talent in the new events.
25. How will Russia do? The Russians ranked sixth in total medals with 15 in Vancouver. Research has shown the home country enjoys an average gain of 13 medals, which would put them near the top of the standings.
26. What about the prospect of drug cheaters? Bach, the IOC president, has called these the Games the "toughest ever" in terms of scrutiny. The IOC has increased pre-competition testing by 57%.
27. A luger died at the Vancouver Olympics — could the same thing happen in Sochi? Organizers have taken steps to make the sliding sports safer. The Russian track includes brief uphill sections designed to limit speed.
28. How much of the Games can we watch? NBC Universal plans to offer a Winter Olympics-record 1,539 hours of coverage — an average of 85 hours a day — on various broadcast and online platforms. Televised events will be spread over NBC, NBCSN, MSNBC, CNBC and the USA Network.
29. What about live streaming? NBCOlympics.com will provide more than 1,000 hours of live streaming events, rewinds and video highlights.
30. What do the medals look like? Russian craftsman have created a mosaic of cultural designs. The medals depict both the mountaintops above Sochi and the Black Sea beaches below.
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WRI's Bradbury says EPA regulation could spur domestic manufacturing
Can the U.S. manufacturing industry afford to comply with U.S. EPA's pending greenhouse gas regulations? During today's OnPoint, James Bradbury, senior associate in the climate and energy program at the World Resources Institute, discusses new research on the impacts of EPA regulation of emissions on U.S. manufacturing. He explains why he believes industry could actually benefit from the new standards and discusses how efficiency improvements could balance the costs of compliance.


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Close to the central bus station in Ramallah, youth teams warm up for the annual football competition Sawa Sawa, or 'together.'
Tamara Awartani, manager of Sports for Life Palestine which organises the tournament, explains that it "brings young Palestinians, especially girls, together from different parts of Palestine and from different social backgrounds."
Players have travelled from Balata refugee camp in Nablus, Bethlehem, Shuafat, to participate in the tournament which is supported by the local governance and civil society development program, GIZ, implemented on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic cooperation and development.
"They are given the opportunity to play football competitively and see a different part of the West Bank," Awartani said, "in an effort to overcome growing social fragmentation."
There are not a few barriers to playing football in Palestine, Omar, 13, tells Palestine Monitor. "It's hard for Palestinian players to actually have a career because Israel stops them leaving," he said.
In addition, Palestinian teams are often unable to host teams from other countries that don't maintain diplomatic links to Israel. As a result, the Palestinian national team often has to forfeit its home advantage.
Video by Jordan Woodgate.
For women and girls, however, there are additional barriers to overcome. Violette, 14 explains that "in Palestine there are many stereotypes," and that when girls play football, people say, "look at her, she's wearing shorts and playing football, it's a boys' game, why is she playing it?"
The rural-urban differences can also be problematic, she said. "Girls in villages they're not supposed to play soccer, as society says," Violette added.
Amar from Balata refugee camp contests this, and tells Palestine Monitor that there is plenty of opportunity for girls to play in her village. This is evident on the pitch in her deft control of the ball and her powerful and accurate shot.
Omar, 13, hails the progress made in women's football in Palestine saying, "there's an international team for small girls and big girls, so it's good. It's [getting] good."
Violette hopes to play for the Palestine national women's team in the future, but "want[s] to be a professional football player in the European countries, because [she has] more opportunity to play there."
Despite the recent progress in the acceptance and popularity of female football, there is a long way to go to keep Palestine's rising stars playing on home soil, the aspiring footballers told the Palestine Monitor.
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Deep within the latest iOS 5.1 betas are code references that appear to suggest that Apple is readying its mobile operating system for quad-core processors. According to "knowledgable and reliable" sources speaking to 9to5Mac, the reference are evident in processor management software that previously only referenced one- and two-core processors.
The code references are found within a file labelled "
/cores/core.3." Since programmers, by habit, generally start counting at 0 instead of 1, "
/cores/core.0" references single-core processors like the A4, and "
/cores/core.1" references the dual-core A5 processor used in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. Theoretically, "
/cores/core.2" would refer to a three-core processor, but iOS doesn't contain any such reference.
According to 9to5Mac, the fact that these references exist in iOS 5.1 betas are an indication that Apple is already testing its mobile OS on quad-core chips. We tend to agree.
This theory is further corroborated by evidence that recent internal versions of Xcode and its Clang LLVM compiler could generate code optimized for Marvell's Armada XP quad-core ARM processor. When this discovery was revealed in September, it seemed likely that Apple was using the Marvell chip to develop prototypes of future iOS devices that would eventually use an Apple-designed processor.
Apple is believed to have already begun trial production of a next-generation mobile processor dubbed "A6." The information we have so far suggests the A6 is most likely a lower-power die shrink of the existing A5 dual-core processor. However, the die shrink could allow room for additional cores.
9to5Mac believes that Apple may have designed the A6 to be quad-core all along, and could introduce it to the iPad 3 expected in early spring. The reasoning is that ASUS has already shipped its Transformer Prime convertible Android tablet featuring a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, and Acer and Lenovo have plans to ship Tegra 3 tablets in early 2012, so Apple won't want to appear to be behind the competition. But that doesn't necessarily mean that Apple will immediately follow suit—several dual-core Android smartphones shipped well before the iPhone 4S and Apple still managed to sell record numbers of the single-core iPhone 4 in the interim.
We think it is at least plausible that Apple could be readying a quad-core iPad 3 for early in the year. The company certainly possesses the technical know-how from its PA Semi and Intrinsity acquisitions, and evidence in software suggests the necessary bits for support are in place. We believe the extra processing power won't be critical, however, until applications that take full advantage of a long-rumored 2048 x 1536 pixel "Retina" display begin pushing the performance envelop. A quad-core iPad will certainly be welcome in 2012, but we wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't come further down the line.