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Robert Vaughn expected for 'Bullitt' screening
When it comes to predicting box-office success, iconic actor Robert Vaughn is not exactly Nostradamus.
Vaughn -- probably best known for his roles in the classic TV show "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and the films "Bullitt" and "The Magnificent Seven" -- made no bones about the fact that he thought those two films would bomb at the box office.
"Both those films, I predicted they would be flops, so my predicting abilities are nil," Vaughn said in a recent interview.
"Bullitt" will be screened at the Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, April 16, as part of the Ridgefield Film Society's film series. Vaughn will be on hand for a question-and-answer session following the screening. He'll also be signing copies of his autobiographical best-seller, "A Fortunate Life."
Vaughn, who lives in Ridgefield, thought "The Magnificent Seven" -- a Western retelling of Akita Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" -- would be a flop because it started production right after a Hollywood strike, and lacked a script.
"For the first month, we were in Cuernavaca (Mexico), we mostly played poker, drank margaritas and talked about what a bad picture this is going to be because there is no script," he said. "What they would literally do is put onion skins, hand-written, under the doors of our apartments at night, and that's what we would shoot the next day."
On the set of "The Magnificent Seven," the long friendship between Vaughn and the "King of Cool," Steve McQueen, was formed. McQueen produced "Bullitt" and got Vaughn on board with the project.
"In 1968, he sent me this script called `Bullitt' and asked me if I would read it and consider being in it. While I read it -- and it didn't make any sense to me, the plot was so unclear -- I couldn't imagine why he wanted to do it."
Vaughn said when he told McQueen what he thought of the script, McQueen said, "Well, what's the matter with it?" and Vaughn replied, "It doesn't make any sense."
Vaughn continued: "There was a long pause, because Steve was given to long pauses. And he said `Well man, what can I do about it?' I said, `Well, I suggest you have a script doctor look at it.' "
A script doctor looked at the script and then McQueen sent it back to Vaughn with a higher salary offer. Vaughn said no changes had been made and suggested another script doctor take a look. Another script doctor checked it out and McQueen sent it to Vaughn yet again.
"There still were no changes made," Vaughn said, "but, once again, they elevated the salary. Suddenly, for some reason, after the third raise of salary, the script became much clearer to me."
To this day, the film doesn't make a lot of sense, Vaughn said, "but it's a hugely successful picture throughout the world, because this was the first car chase in a major movie, and it was a wonderfully done chase in the sense that what you saw was what you got -- there was no tampering with the film or speeding up or slowing down or anything that we have today, that can make everything look very different.
"This was just two guys in two cars having a big chase through San Francisco on four consecutive weekends when they blocked out all the streets."
Born into a family of entertainers in New York City in 1932, Vaughn knew he wanted to be an actor by the age of 5. His TV and film career began after Burt Lancaster saw him performing in a play and signed him to his production company.
Vaughn and his wife, Linda Staab, moved to Ridgefield in 1981 to get away from big cities.
"Our children were very young, one was 3 months, the other was 4, we wanted to raise them in the countryside instead of Beverly Hills," he said.
The Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield. Saturday, April 16, 7:30 p.m. $10 adults, $7.50 seniors, $5 students. 203-438-5795, www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org.


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City of Portland seeks community members and technical experts to join advisory committees for the Comprehensive Plan Update
October 25, 2013
Rachael Hoy
City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
Portland, Ore. — The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is currently recruiting Portlanders to fill vacancies on an existing Community Involvement Committee for the Comprehensive Plan and three new advisory committees as the project moves into Task 5: Implementation. Community members and technical experts are needed for the Transportation System Plan, Mixed Use Zoning Code Project and Campus Institution Zoning Update advisory committees. More information about these projects, applications and key contacts are included below.
Community Involvement Committee (CIC): This is an existing committee with vacancies. Members will review and provide input on the public involvement efforts for the Comprehensive Plan Update. The CIC makes recommendations to the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) and project staff on ways to maintain and improve public involvement activities to ensure outreach efforts for the plan are as inclusive and effective as possible. Application deadline is Nov. 1, 2013. Please contact Marty Stockton (503-823-2041, firstname.lastname@example.com) for more information about this committee.
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New Advisory Committees Forming
Transportation System Plan (TSP): The Bureaus of Transportation and Planning and Sustainability are establishing a TSP Expert Group as part of the City's Comprehensive Plan update. Interested community members should formally apply to be part of the committee. Application deadline is Nov. 8, 2013. Please contact Courtney Duke (503-823-7265, firstname.lastname@example.com) or Rachael Hoy (503-823-9715, firstname.lastname@example.com) with questions.
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Institutional Zoning Project: This project will develop new campus institution zoning procedures and standards, and identify infrastructure investments that could facilitate institutional employment growth. Application deadline is Nov. 22, 2013. Please contact John Cole (503-823-3475, firstname.lastname@example.com) with questions.
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Mixed Use Zones Project: The Mixed Use Zones Project will develop new mixed use planning and zoning designations that can be used to implement the Centers and Corridors concepts that emerged with the Portland Plan and are being proposed with the Comprehensive Plan Update. The project will focus on the city's commercial and central employment zones, and the places outside the Central City where these zones are applied. The online application will be available by October 28. Application deadline is Dec. 6, 2013. Please contact Barry Manning (503-823-7965, firstname.lastname@example.com) with questions.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — When it comes to those 2013 Minnesota income tax filings, state officials say there's no rush.
In fact, the Minnesota Department of Revenue says it won't begin processing paper filings before Jan. 30. People looking to claim residential energy credits or other property or business credits may have to wait until late February or March because of extensive IRS changes stemming from recent congressional action.
As in the past, the state is urging people to use electronic filing instead. Tax refunds are typically sent out faster that way and can be done through direct bank deposit.
Tax filings are due by April 15.
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Lakrids Luxury Licorice Lands in the U.S.
Lakrids by Johan Bülow, the handcrafted luxury licorice and chocolate brand from Denmark, formally arrives in the U.S. market. Having established his company in 2007 on the Danish island of Bornholm, Bülow aims to elevate the centuries-old Scandinavian candy from a mostly misunderstood and under appreciated confectionery to a gourmet treat favored in Denmark and beyond.
Upon opening his first shop in his native Svaneke, Denmark, and cooking the first batches of licorice right on the premises, Bülow enticed customers from half a mile around with the sweet smell of fresh ingredients. The sweet yet salty treat sold out within two hours of opening; a decade later, Lakrids by Johan Bülow ships to 36 countries globally and can be found in over 2,000 retailers worldwide — now including the U.S.
Over the years, Bülow has created an international name for Lakrids through interesting flavor combinations and smart, minimalist design. Using real licorice root in its confections, Lakrids works closely with specialty farmers to ensure the best-tasting, most-authentic sweet licorice root is used.
Lakrids' product assortment ranges from traditional flavors like sweet, red, habanero chili and salty licorice to the ever-popular chocolate-coated versions, which include dark chocolate and coffee, white chocolate with passion fruit, milk chocolate with salt and caramel, and limited seasonal editions like caramel rouge and dark chocolate with sea salt.


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'Active' Student Engagement Goes Beyond Class Behavior, Study Finds
Some warning signs are easy to spot: It's well-established that the kid goofing off in the back of the classroom, who plays hooky and turns in homework late, is disengaged, and at a higher risk of falling behind and eventually dropping out of school. But where are the red flags for the student who sits quietly, answers when spoken to, and politely zones out?
A new study, published online in the journal Learning and Instruction, probes how more subtle facets of student engagement can be harder to flag, but just as critical for their long-term academic success.
"When we talk about student engagement, we tend to talk only about student behavior," said lead author Ming-Te Wang, a Pittsburgh education psychology assistant professor, in a statement. But, Wang added, "that doesn't tell us the whole story. Emotion and cognition are also very important."
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Michigan tracked more than 1,000 mostly minority students from 23 public middle schools in a Maryland suburb of Washington. At the beginning of 7th grade and the end of 8th grade, the researchers interviewed the students about their school climate, such as the emotional support they felt from administrators, teachers, and other students, their ability to choose projects and teammates for class assignments, and whether they considered the material they learned relevant to their lives. Separately, the researchers assessed the students on three areas of school engagement:
• Behavioral engagement, including how often the student completed homework on time, followed school rules, and responded in class discussions;
• Emotional engagement, including whether the student felt interested in his or her class subjects and accepted in the school culture; and
• Cognitive engagement, including how well the student managed and monitored his or her own learning.
What works to improve students' behavior only sometimes engages them emotionally and cognitively, the researchers found. Students who reported that their teachers set clear expectations and responded to them consistently were more likely to participate in class and feel connected with school. But a teacher's emotional support didn't directly affect students' cognitive engagement with their coursework; rather, students were more likely to voice interest and take greater ownership of their learning when they considered what they were studying to be personally interesting and relevant.
Similarly, giving students more choices and control over their schoolwork did not improve their motivation or make them feel more academically competent unless the choices were aligned with the students' personal interests. "Opportunities for decisionmaking or freedom of action are less important than the extent to which the decisionmaking and action opportunities available reflect personal goals, interests, or values," the authors write. For example, the authors recommend that teachers might "explicitly illustrate and explain the relevance of tasks to the personal goals and interests of students when providing them with choices."
Moreover, the researchers found different approaches effective for different types of students: "Usually people say, 'Yes, autonomy is beneficial. We want to provide students with choices in school,' This is the case for high achievers, but not low achievers," Wang said. "Low achievers want more structure, more guidelines."
The full article is scheduled to appear in the December 2013 print issue of Learning and Instruction.


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Ana Veciana-Suarez: Books, the gift that keeps on giving
I give books. For birthdays. For Christmas. For baby showers and retirement parties. Even for those you-need-a-little-cheer days that pop up randomly.
I give them because they are one of life's great treasures. More than a gift of paper, ink and binding, the present of a book spells a quick and satisfying escape, a door to an unknown world, the joy of solitude and, also in equal measure, the sweet sharing with like-minded readers.
I cannot think of another tangible item — not the feel of a silk dress, not the smell of a new car, not the taste of a dark chocolate truffle (which is saying a lot) — that provides me such pleasure. Perhaps that is why I told my family, a family comprised of number crunchers and stethoscope wearers, that I wanted to be a writer when I could barely draft a paragraph.
Imagine possessing the power of persuasion, the ability to create entire universes peopled with flawed, interesting characters! I laugh now at the blind brazenness of such hope.
I discovered books — rather, the wonder of reading — when I was in second grade, as I struggled with a new and undecipherable language, the language that would afford me a good living decades later. Those ant-sized letters that marched down the page with the certainty of avenging angels turned into words that shaped into sentences that created paragraphs that grew into stories that sneaked into my soul and stole my quivering, impressionable heart.
They're tugging at it still, those delightful stories, pinching the tender spots, nicking the scars and calluses, but also lifting that heart, everywhere and always. When I enter a bookstore or a library, the special musty smell of paper, so welcoming, so familiar, is enough to send me spiraling back to the cramped public library of my early childhood, now an urban building that houses the Miami offices of Avon products. Back then, before Twitter and YouTube and Facebook, before the instant gratification of tablets and smart phones, there was the slow, slippery immersion into plot, into character, into the lyricism of thoughts simultaneously resting and taking flight on the enchanted rectangle of a page.
There still is that immersion, that satisfaction. I know this to be true even as others bemoan the death of print and lament the muscling in of digital, of Google Books and a host of other technologies turning the world of words topsy turvy. Maybe I remain optimistic because I know our need for stories will never cease and that information is the most viable currency of our culture.
These days I'm fortunate to witness the magic of literary encounters with my granddaughters. At a year old, the youngest maps out new territory with all her senses. She tastes, rubs and sniffs her books with glorious abandon. The 2-year-old outlines each letter with a stubby finger, awed by the journey. The 4-year-old turns the page with the authority of the converted, inventing a story to match the pictures.
And the twin kindergartners? Lucky them, they're old enough to sound out vowels and consonants, practically singing through the rhythm and melody of a sentence.
"This," I recently told them, opening a copy of the P.D. Eastman 1961 classic, Go, Dog. Go! "was your father's favorite book when he was about your age."
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The history of Parker pens can be traced back to the end of the nineteenth century, when the Parker company was founded. Established in 1888 by a former telegraphy teacher George S. Parker, whose philosophy was to 'build a better pen', Parker is a world renowned producer of fine writing instruments. The insight and commitment of its founder led Parker pens to become a global leader and an icon in the history of writing instruments.
Parker patented his first fountain pen in 1892, and the Parker Pen Company emerged. In the following years through Parker's endless determination and passion for innovation the brand developed further supported by the founder's constant drive for excellence. Parker is famous for its innovative technologies and designs. The first major innovative break-through came in 1894 with the invention of the Lucky Curve - a break-through ink feed system, designed to drain the ink back into the reservoir by capillary action when the pen was kept upright. This invention made Parker a major player among the producers of fountain pens.
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Out today on iTunes and via our own web-shop: Fashionfacts – Besame
Fashionfacts (part of Lovely Chords) is an electro producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Influenced by many disco and electro artists from the 70's and 80's combined with his own sense of style; Just stating the Fashionfacts as they are, seen for what they were.
For this release Fash (short for Fashionfacts), utilizes Filter-Cumbia, Cut-up disco and Sunday morning break-beats to ride along this summer's waves of warmth. Making it one of the most unique releases so far as well as one of the most danceable ones.
You can find it in the Prowess Records webshop, iTunes, Junodownload and you can listen to these songs on Spotify. We hope you enjoy hearing these tracks as much as we do!
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The warning signs were there, but no one expected it to happen this soon. The Financial Times is reporting that the Nintendo Wii is now the number one selling console in the world, even though the Xbox 360 enjoyed a full year head start. Based on sales data from the NPD Group, Enterbrain, and GfK, here is how the console sales break down:
- Nintendo Wii: 9 million units
- Xbox 360: 8.9 million units
- Playstation 3: 3.7 million units
Combine that with the epic sales of Nintendo's DS portable, and it looks my childhood, when Nintendo dominated the marketplace. Nintendo is also enjoying rapid sales of its first-party games, so all those Wiis aren't sitting in people's homes going hungry.
It may be time to rethink what the mass market is actually looking for in a videogame system.


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Titan Tires
Titan has a heritage of over 100 years in the off-highway wheel manufacturing business. Since Titan's entrance into the tire market in 1993, we have evolved into a leading global supplier of complete wheel and tire assemblies for off-highway vehicles. Titan's primary markets include agriculture, earthmoving/construction and consumer applications. Strategic acquisitions have built Titan into a successful worldwide corporation serving the most respected names in the original equipment industry. With that support, Titan is expanding its focus in the off-highway markets.
Titan traces its roots to the Electric Wheel Company in Quincy, Illinois. Founded by John A. Stillwell and three associates, the company originally produced wheels for wagons and farm implements, later progressing into the manufacture of wagons, tractors and other implements.
Electric Wheel became a division of Firestone Tire & Rubber's Steel Product Division.
Due to setbacks caused by several strikes in the farm implement manufacturing industry, Firestone shut down its operations and sold off certain assets.
Certain assets of the Firestone facility were purchased by Titan Proform of Toronto, led by the late Canadian industrialist Joseph Tanenbaum and Maurice Taylor Jr., current Titan chairman and CEO. The new company was named Can-Am Industries.
When Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company decided to exit the steel wheel and rim business, it provided an excellent opportunity for Can-Am to purchase certain agricultural wheel-making assets. Can-Am installed the Goodyear equipment to manufacture "power adjust" wheels at the Quincy facility.
Can-Am purchased certain assets of French & Hecht is wheel plant in Walcott, Iowa, an indirect subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation. This purchase added to the capacity to manufacture wheels and rims for the agricultural industry.
Can-Am entered a joint venture agreement with New Warrington Wheel Company of Merseyside, England, marking the company's expansion into the European market. Ownership was increased in 1991, and the Titan name was added.
Tanenbaum began restructuring his holdings in Can-Am. MascoTech, Inc., a leading auto parts manufacturer headquartered in Taylor, Michigan, split ownership with Tannenbaum and Taylor through a leveraged buyout. The company was renamed Titan Wheel International, Inc. and a new era began.
Titan acquired certain assets of Berkeley-Davis International, Inc., a specialist in welding and technology equipment. This expertise was used to strengthen Titan's technological abilities in steel welding. This subsidiary was sold in 1996 as Titan redefined its focus on wheel and tire assemblies.
Taylor and MascoTech bought out Tanenbaum's interest in Titan, thereby resulting in Taylor holding 53% ownership.
Titan acquired certain assets of Auto Wheel Group, Inc. from NI Industries, Inc., a MascoTech affiliate. As Automotive Wheels, the company manufactured steel and aluminum rims sold to wheel manufacturers in the automotive and light truck aftermarket, as well as assemblies and steel wheels for sale to OEMs in the North American automobile industry. Titan became a publicly traded company on NASDAQ in May of 1993. The initial offering included 2,700,000 shares of common stock offered at $15 per share.
Titan also announced the stock exchange purchase of Dyneer Corporation, a manufacturer of small diameter off-road wheels and tires for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), lawn and garden equipment, golf cars, recreational and utility trailers, as well as mechanical differentials, clutches and brakes. The purchase of Dyneer extended Titan's product offering into the smaller wheel market and marked the entry into the tire business. Titan acquired certain assets of Dotson Wheel of Saltville, Virginia, now known as Titan Wheel Corporation of Virginia. This acquisition added to the company's strength by expanding the ability to produce wheels for the construction and mining industries.
Titan announced the purchase of Nieman's Ltd. with its two facilities in Ventura, Iowa, and Elkhart, Indiana, a national distributor of tires, wheels, axle assemblies and component parts to OEMs. In March, the company's growing size and revenues prompted a move to the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol TWI. In July 1994, Titan acquired certain assets of the Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corporation facility in Des Moines, Iowa, under the name of Titan Tire Corporation. The facility specializes in manufacturing agricultural tires, complementing Titan's line of agricultural wheels. This allowed agricultural equipment buyers to receive the added service of a wheel and tire assembly both manufactured by Titan. Also in 1994, Titan purchased a facility in Greenwood, South Carolina, in order to expand Titan's wheel production and distribution network in the southeastern United States. Titan expanded its manufacturing base in Europe in November of 1994, buying 50 percent of the Sirmac Group of Italy, a major European manufacturer of specialty wheels and other products for the agricultural and construction markets.
In February of 1995, Titan purchased from Lemmerz Holding GmbH, Lemmerz UK Limited (now Titan Steel Wheels, Limited), an England-based manufacturer of steel wheels for off-road specialty vehicles. Titan Steel Wheels, Ltd. is now the largest manufacturer of construction wheels in Europe with an 80 percent market share. In December, the company purchased certain assets of Metallbau Grasdorf GmbH near Hannover, Germany. Titan Germany GmbH manufactures wheels and rims for the earthmoving and agricultural markets, supporting Titan's facilities in England and Italy. Titan stock split three-for-two twice in 1995. The first stock split was effective on February 15, 1995, with a March 15 payable date. The second three-for-two split had a record date of July 31, 1995 and a payable date of August 31.
In July, Titan completed the acquisition of the Sirmac Group of Italy. Sirmac, in Modena, produces idler wheels for Caterpillar, Inc. Siria, in Bologna, manufactures agricultural wheels. In September, Titan announced plans to build an agricultural and construction tire plant in Brownsville, Texas. Tractech, the subsidiary which manufactured differentials, was divested as Titan chose to concentrate on wheel and tire assemblies. This marked the elimination of Titan's engineered products sector.
Titan acquired the wheel subsidiary of the French manufacturing company, Delachaux, which has been renamed Titan France SA.
Titan reorganized its operations into separate wheel and tire groups, Titan Wheel Corporation and Titan Tire Corporation, to provide the framework for continued world-wide expansion in both sectors. The wheel and tire groups have individual presidents, while Taylor serves as chairman and CEO of the parent company. A breakthrough concept in wheel and tire assemblies, named the Grizz LSW series, was unveiled. The assemblies, which were designed to meet the needs of off-highway vehicle applications, feature a larger wheel and a lower tire sidewall than traditional designs. A corporate name change to Titan International, Inc. was approved by the shareholders in May to more accurately reflect the identity as a manufacturer of both wheels and tires. Titan acquired certain assets of American Welding of Warren, Ohio, which served as a development center for patent-pending multi-piece off-highway wheels, utilizing the plant's capacity to produce rolled and seamless rings. Titan divested the Automotive Wheels facility in a continuing effort to concentrate on core business.
Titan purchased the assets of Condere Corporation, including Fidelity Tire, through U.S. Bankruptcy Court and renamed the Natchez, Mississippi, tire manufacturing facility Titan Tire Corporation of Natchez.
Subsidiary Titan Europe Plc acquired 35.9% of the stock of Wheels India Limited, the largest manufacturer of steel wheels for all applications in the Indian sub-continent. Caterpillar Inc. became one of the first original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to take advantage of Titan's private branding program for LSW and standard assemblies, resulting in tires bearing the Caterpillar name.
In April 2000, Titan exited the lawn and garden and ATV wheel and tire business for original equipment manufacturers with the sale of certain assets of facilities located in Clinton, Tennessee, and Slinger, Wisconsin, to Carlisle Tire & Wheel Company. Titan remained active in the aftermarket for these products.
Labor strikes brought against Titan in 1998 by the United Steelworkers of America at facilities in Des Moines, Iowa, and Natchez, Mississippi, were settled resulting in five-year contracts.
Titan became the only tire manufacturer to receive the Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food and Biological Systems (ASAE) AE50 award for innovation in product technology four consecutive years.
Titan flagship wheel facility in Quincy, Illinois, expanded manufacturing capability in December when Titan Wheel Corporation of Iowa ceased wheel manufacturing in Walcott, Iowa.
Titan Europe Plc, previously a wholly-owned subsidiary, was admitted to trading on London's AIM Exchange. A Titan subsidiary retained a 30 percent interest in this new European public company.
Titan Tire Corporation closed on the acquisition of Goodyear's North American farm tire assets, which included the manufacturing facility in Freeport, Illinois.
Titan Tire Corporation of Bryan acquired the off-the-road (OTR) tire assets of Continental Tire North America, Inc. in Bryan, Ohio. This acquisition expanded Titan's product offering into larger earthmoving, construction and mining tires, in addition to the added manufacturing capacity of the Bryan, Ohio, facility.
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Chris Jericho plays in a rock band, Diamond Dallas Page is a yoga guru, and Jesse (The Body) Ventura is the former governor of Minnesota.
So it's not a stretch that Mick Foley, the Hardcore Legend, has made the transition from pro wrestler and best-selling author to performing comedy on stage.
"It's more of a one-man show with stories from my career, so it's not the giant preposterous leap that it might seem like," Foley, 48, told the Sun on Friday during a tour stop in Kalamazoo, Mich. "It's really a natural extension from me being a storyteller in the ring, to a storyteller on the written page, to being a storyteller on stage."
Foley's Tales from Wrestling Past Tour hits the Park Theatre for two shows on Feb. 19 (call 204-478-7275 for tickets). A 7 p.m. show sold out, so a 9:45 p.m. show has been added. He performs at The 40 in Brandon on Feb. 18 (call 204-727-3800).
Foley doesn't consider himself a traditional comedian.
"People in Winnipeg can rest assured that I will not be in a bad bow-tie telling one-liners," he said with a chuckle. "Don't get me wrong, the stories are funny and other comics who watch my show say storytelling is a form of standup, but it's an image that I dread of the guy saying 'Hey, how about this weather?'
"That's not what I do."
Foley has been doing his shows for a few years, while maintaining a connection with World Wrestling Entertainment. He has performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Fest — two of the largest comedy and theatre festivals in the world. He's also headlined tours of the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and South Korea.
"I'll be trying harder in Winnipeg because I want people to like me more than they like (hometown wrestling hero Chris) Jericho by the time the night is over," Foley said. "I can almost guarantee I'll surpass their expectations.
"I'll ask my friends in Winnipeg to kind of take it easy on the strong Canadian beer. My show is best enjoyed with one or two beverages, not a slew of them ... there are stories that require listening. They're not jokes. There is some depth to some of the stories."
Foley's sense of humour was often evident during his wrestling career of almost three decades, but his hardcore style also caused numerous serious injuries.
"I'm moving a little slowly and that's why I found this way of connecting with fans and getting the same reactions I loved as a wrestler without getting hurt," he said. "A couple of nights ago, I got off the stage in Detroit and I felt like I used to feel emotionally after a really good pay-per-view show."
In Winnipeg, Foley intends to "get some laughs at Jericho's expense," he said.
"He and I have a very friendly rivalry. I never once defeated him during my career — a fact he made obvious dozens of times during the course of his last book, so I have to win moral victories on stage over him."
Foley, who lives in Long Island, N.Y., was high school pals with comedic actor Kevin James. The two were briefly reunited last July on Katie Couric's show, Katie.
After the show, Foley bumped into Shaquille O'Neal, and the retired basketball star asked to get a photo with him.
Foley got a kick out of it, but laughed when Shaq posted the photo on Twitter, identifying Foley as (Hacksaw) Jim Duggan.
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Why we won't wait: Resisting the war against the Black and...
Wait. Patience. Stay Calm. We've been waiting for dozens, hundreds, thousands of indictments and convictions. Every death hurts. Every exonerated cop, security guard or vigilante enrages. The grand jury's decision doesn't surprise most Black people because we are not waiting for an indictment. We are waiting for justice – or more precisely, struggling for justice. The young people of Ferguson continue to struggle with ferocity.


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Badly Organized Contest by AirAsia
No funny stuff this time. Instead, it's a personal rant regarding a recent contest organized by AirAsia on Twitter.
In August 2010, AirAsia organized a contest called "AirAsia Rocks Hadyai" and the requirement to win is…
Just tweet why you want a free flight to Hat Yai, together the following keywords. As easy as that.
And the prize for 50 winners…
Actually it's not entirely free, winners and their guests will still need to pay for other taxes and fees.
But it's so professionally written. Should have just written it like this…
More understandable right?
Anyway, I decided to try my tiny luck and just tweeted once.
And as promised, the winners list was announced on September 3.
The amusing thing about this announcement is that it was tweeted just ONCE. Since I didn't receive any Direct Message (DM) from them on Twitter, I assume they didn't DM the 50 winners as well.
As we all know, if you're not viewing your Twitter timeline when it was announced – you'll definitely miss it right?
Without proper information (Direct Message in this case) to the winners, I guess AirAsia was hoping that some winners missed the tweet and totally forgot about it? Then they don't have to give out all 50 x 2 free return flights. Smart move.
Fortunately for me, I was on Twitter, checked the link and saw my name!
I felt so excited because never in my life I'd expect winning a flight. And I'm finally able to fulfill my wishes of visiting Hat Yai as well!
So on September 4, I sent the required email to them, stating the necessary details of my guest and I.
4 days later, on September 8, they replied with an email asking for more details and most importantly, the preferred travel dates.
Okay, I replied on September 10 and picked the last 3 days of the month (September), which is virtually the last dates to travel/redeem the prize.
But after that, there wasn't any response from them anymore. So on September 20, I emailed them again.
Still no reply. How come? If the travel dates are not available, at least have the courtesy to inform me right?
Then I went on AirAsia's Facebook page and commented on the contest thread, hoping for a confirmation.
One of the other winners replied me. No response from AirAsia Facebook team at all.
Then September went by without any news and confirmation from AirAsia. So I gave up and decided to forget about it.
But just recently, in October 2010, I got another email.
This is absurd. They didn't even confirm anything, no proper response, left me hanging without knowing whether I'm getting to fly or not and now asking me about a trip that didn't even happen?
Thai massage, shopping spree and mouth delicious Southern Thai cuisine? Hell no!
And so I replied…
Then, Mr Low replied…
Yes, I also have no idea what happened and I understand that there's nothing else I can do, except to blog about it.
Anyway, I know the prize is not THAT expensive coz it only costs about RM200 (2 return flights). Some of you might even think I should just forget about it.
But hey, it's a contest organized by AirAsia – known as the world's best low-cost airline in 2009 and 2010! How can they grant someone a prize and do nothing about it?
AirAsia, why organize such contest when your team can't handle it properly and fulfill the winners' prize? Where is your credibility?
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Why 14th Street is Washington's New Restaurant Hub
Washington's 14th Street was once home to the rioting that followed the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and, later, a crime hotspot with next-to-no foot traffic. Now, it's the city's hottest new place to dine out. WSJ's David Wessel sampled the delights on offer.
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I ... David Wessel for The Wall Street Journal thinning on fourteenth Street in downtown DC ... about a mile from the White House ... forty five years ago this neighborhood was bombed out ... and burned out ... following the assassination Martin Luther King ... twenty years ago these buildings were largely board adopted a band ... today it's an incredibly vibrant neighborhood a lot of condos going up ... and there's been an explosion of restaurants ... behind me here is Bryce one of the first open a Thai restaurant ... next to that give only a small plate Tuscan trust or react ... and behind that his pearl diver oyster bar ... a seafood place with a panel Louisiana gumbo ... across the street ... a huge Do French bistro with diplomat open by Philadelphia restaurateur ... and down a couple blocks ... there since the IPO ... at the small plates Spanish restaurant ... opened by a guy who used to be a tax lawyer ... open a restaurant in Washington called proof few years ago ... it has an extraordinary ... wine cellar ... hundreds of miles of wind ninety percent of them from Spain ... across the street from that ... perch and barley a noisy place ... the food's okay but the beer selection is unbelievable ... you can even get ... the air ... flights and you can get beer pairing with your dessert ... and then there's the to a new Belgian place ... that offers all sorts of waffles ... including waffles with muscles baked into them which I stride and don't recommend ... for more of these restaurants see my piece in the Wall Street Journal's weakens ... for The Wall Street Journal ... and David Wessel on fourteenth Street in Washington DC ...


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The security firm Javelin Strategy and Research has released its 2008 report on identity fraud. This is the fifth year running that Javelin has tracked identity fraud in the United States, and while the company did note a total increase in the number of victims this past year, there are positive trends among the negative. The total number of Americans affected by identity fraud rose to just under 10 million in 2008, up from 8.1 million in 2007, but consumer cost has fallen to around $500—a trend Javelin notes is "much lower than in years past."
Then again, Javelin's measurement criteria may not be the best way to examine the question of identity theft.
When Javelin says "identity fraud" the company is referring to something it considers distinct and different from identity theft: "Identity theft happens when your personal information is accessed by someone else without your explicit permission. Identity fraud occurs when criminals take that illegally obtained personal information and misuse it for their financial gain."
Javelin notes that the majority of information is acquired through traditional, physical means rather than through hacking, spyware, or any other "modern" avenue. The company has chosen to lump the two categories into a single category of identity fraud.
Before we dig into the data, take note of how Javelin explains the growth in the total number of Americans who have suffered identity fraud. Page five of Javelin's 22 page report (PDF) preview states: "More consumers are becoming victimized by this serious crime [identity fraud] reversing a previous trend in which identity fraud had been gradually decreasing. This makes sense because overall criminal activity tends to increase when there is a recession."
How we lose our data
The only way to adequately safeguard oneself from identity theft (despite its own previous definition, Javelin itself seems to flit from term to term) is to determine where and how one's personal information is being acquired. Javelin interviewed a total of 4,784 people for its 2008 survey, of which 482 had been the victim of fraud. That figure was then weighted according to national demographics. The report's footnote states, "Responses were adjusted to be nationally representative based on respondents' age, gender, income level, and race/ethnicity as reported by US Census on 12/11/2006." Of those 487, 35 percent of them (170.45) knew how their identities had become compromised.
Now, just for fun, we pulled the 2007 chart from Javelin's equivalent report back then.
The total number of Americans impacted by identity fraud may have risen considerably from 2007 to 2008, but the data on how the theft actually occurred is something of a muddle. Based on these two pie charts, it would seem that your friendly neighborhood identity thief increased his pickpocketing skill by about 25 percent (he must've leveled) from 2007 to 2008, possibly in an attempt to compensate for his considerable nearsightedness (paper mail theft and data theft during transactions both fell). Alternatively, our hypothetical purse-snatcher might have gotten himself slapped with a restraining order as a result of all his gratuitous leaning in 2007; friendly theft fell four percent over the same period.
There might be evidence for a growing amount of online identity fraud: if we subtract the "Other" category, non-traditional thefts accounted for 22 percent of all theft in 2008 compared to 19 percent in 2007. Before claiming such, however, we'd need to see data on additional years, especially given how these other categories are sliding around.
Javelin's willingness to blame the recession for a category that includes both lost and stolen wallets seems dubious. There may be some evidence to suggest that incidents of random mugging increase as the state of the economy worsens, but the relationship between crime and economic performance is extraordinarily complex. Should online identity theft and data breaches be lumped in with what amounts to mail theft? I don't think so—but Javelin's data got me thinking.
Business is business everywhere you go
If botnet sales and malware creation have become a business, as all available evidence suggests, than they are now subject to the negative effects of a downward business cycle. Falling consumption—whether measured in hamburgers or fake Indian Viagra—means fewer sales. Identity fraud/theft has never been about the personal information of any one particular person; the goal has always been to seize vast amounts of information and sell it online in prepackaged bundles of one sort or another. Ironically, this is beginning to sound a bit like the market for mortgage securities; if the recession were to turn even worse and become a full-fledged depression, a comparison between the two could be downright apt.
Part of what precipitated the banking industry's collapse and continues to plague the system today was the buying and selling of mortgage securities that were seeded with an unknown (but increasingly higher) amount of bad debt. When a black hat buys identities for fraudulent purposes, he's aware that a certain number of these names and numbers will either be invalid or will immediately become so the moment he knocks gently on the door. If the number of invalid identities in any given group begins to rise, the value of all identities becomes depressed. Pre-sale validation can only accomplish so much—in a true depression, credit card ID that validates on the first of the month might be dust by the third.
A potential drop in total identity demand is only one problem the malware industry faces. If malware "customers" aren't buying, the botnets that serve them may have difficulty funding their own continued operation; we covered a security paper last year that proposed disrupting botnets simply through a small additional charge inserted at some point within the process. If botnets have difficulty selling snake oil, the black market's profits decrease which, in turn, could put downward pressure on total demand for new identities to process through the gristmill. Less demand for identities means less reason to steal them.
Any future attempts to monitor the total amount of identity theft in a given country (identity fraud if you prefer Javelin's term) should, at the very least, attempt to filter out those attacks that occur online vs. those that require physical access to the victim or the victim's immediate property (i.e, wallet). If Javelin actually wanted information on whether or not identity fraud was rising due to economic stress they'd be well-advised to gather additional information on whether the victim's information was obtained violently or under threat of violence. Such data wouldn't establish the link between identity theft and economic performance that Javelin implies here, but it would at least be a start.


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We've used the stickers to promote bananas for school lunches, celebrate major anniversaries, advertise our sponsorship of the Olympics in 1980, celebrate Miss Chiquita's 50th birthday and feature our different campaigns from Quite Possibly The World's Most Perfect Food to Just Smile and our partnerships, like Minions. Some of them have become real collector's items!
We even organized a challenge to create and select our Eat a Chiquita 2010 sticker edition. We set up a web tool for people to whip up their own sticker drag-and-drop mixes. In less than five months, more than 25,000 of them were created. This enthusiasm led to a competition in which 1,355 entries were submitted and? online voting determined the final 18 designs that made it onto actual Chiquita bananas.
In 2017 Chiquita wore pink in order to support the Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout the month, one hundred million Chiquita bananas labeled with a pink sticker were be distributed to grocery stores and other markets across the globe to raise awareness among Chiquita lovers everywhere.?
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Our blue stickers have become an iconic symbol for high-quality fruit and produce. Our well-known label is our calling card. In 1944, we introduced Miss Chiquita and became the first company to brand a banana. In the early years, we experimented with putting our name and Miss Chiquita on a paper band and wrapping it around hands of bananas. The idea of sticking labels on bananas only started in 1963. Machines are just too rough and can bruise the delicate fruit so that's why we still place our blue sticker on them by hand.


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Fired highway chief referred by public safety boss
Secretary Mary Beth Heffernan: Burgess hiring mistake
Public Safety Secretary Mary Beth Heffernan was one of two people who former highway safety director Sheila Burgess said referred her to the job, but Heffernan said Friday that Burgess should never have been hired given her spotty driving record.
Burgess was removed from the highway safety job last month and later resigned. Her personal driving record includes multiple accidents, traffic violations and license suspensions. In August, she sustained a head injury in a crash while driving a state vehicle.
"While Ms. Burgess performed her duties well, given what I now know, it was a mistake to put her in this job," said Heffernan, who was undersecretary when Burgess applied for the job in 2007.
Until Friday, when the state released a copy of Burgess' job application and other documents upon media inquiries, it was not clear how Burgess came to be hired or that any hiring records existed. Gov. Deval Patrick said previously that many of the records related to her hiring were destroyed after meeting policy requirements that documents related to the hiring of executive branch employees be kept for three years.
Patrick, who has described Burgess' hiring as a "screw-up," also said in a Friday statement that Burgess should not have been hired given her driving record.
"The breakdown in protocol is extremely frustrating," the governor said, adding that corrective action has been taken, although he did not elaborate.
The highway safety director's duties include overseeing public campaigns on the dangers of speeding, impaired driving, texting while driving and not wearing seat belts.
Heffernan said in a statement Friday that Burgess' driving record and criminal record were checked as part of the screening process, but the driving information was not shown to the hiring manager at the time.
"While she had no criminal record, Ms. Burgess did have a history of speeding and at-cause accidents on her driving record," Heffernan said. "This information was properly collected but was not flagged for the hiring manager as it should have been per our hiring policy. Had the hiring manager been aware of the record, Ms. Burgess would not have been offered this job."
Where the job application asked who referred her for employment, Burgess listed Heffernan and U.S. Rep. James McGovern, D-Worcester, who previously employed Burgess as a fundraising consultant. Burgess did not list Heffernan as a professional reference.
Public safety spokesman Matthew Moran said Heffernan, as undersecretary, met Burgess professionally and was familiar with her work for McGovern and for the late U.S. Rep. Joe Moakley. Moran said Heffernan conducted an "informational interview" with Burgess in May 2007, about a month before Burgess applied for the highway safety post.
A spokesman for McGovern told The Boston Globe last month that the congressman recommended Burgess to the Patrick administration but not for any specific job.
In another section of the application, Burgess listed as professional references McGovern; Jack Connors, a well-known Boston advertising executive; and Deborah Spriggs, an aide to then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The administration has pointed to Burgess' success in securing millions of dollars in federal funds for the state. To that end, the state also on Friday released a favorable 2010 audit of the state highway division by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.


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Movin' right along - EA Sports MMA is revealing its roster piecemeal. This week we're shown 22 fighters eligible at the game's middleweight class, eight of which were also revealed as light heavyweights last week.
Cung Le, Nick Diaz, Frank Shamrock, Ronaldo Souza, Tim Kennedy, Pat Miletich, Jake Shields, Nick Thompson, Robbie Lawler, Benji Radach, Luke Rockhold, Frank Trigg, Joe Riggs, Kazuo Misaki and Lyman Good (no relation) are the new middleweights. They join Jason Miller, Gegard Mousasi, Melvin Manhoef, Murilo Rua, Matt Lindland, Dan Henderson and Scott Smith, announced last week also as light heavyweight fighters.
By comparison, UFC Undisputed had 33 fighters eligible at the light heavyweight division, 34 with an exclusive fighter on the PS3.
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There are some things that every citizen should have a right to: quality health care, a job that contributes to society, and night vision goggles. Before now, the ability to see in the dark was kept only for survivalists, hunters, and, of course, the armed forces. Luckily, Jakks Pacific has finally given the country what it needs: affordable night vision for the entire family.
It seems there are two types of people on the planet: those that wonder why children would want a toy that lets them see in the dark and those that buy night vision goggles from toy stores because they're under a hundred dollars. I will admit to drooling over the Eye Clops Night Vision goggles every time I've been in a toy store for the past few months, but I couldn't bring myself to spend the $79.99 on a product that was most likely a gimmick. However, when the company offered to send Ars a review sample...
The goggles are technically a toy and aimed for children, but I found it easy to adjust the straps to fit my larger noggin. The battery pack sits behind your head, and the goggles take five AA batteries to operate. Since I received my unit in the middle of the day, I went to the only place that's pitch black in a suburban home: the bathroom. Putting in the batteries, sliding the goggles over my eyes, and then turning them on, I was excited to finally see what sub-$100 night vision looked like. I turned the power switch to "on" ...
You may look like a dork, but you can see in the dark. Fair trade
Unfortunately, we weren't able to get good pictures of the display while in use
... and I was right; it was a gimmick. A little LCD screen turns on inside the goggles, and in the ghostly green glow of the mirror, I saw a bright light on the goggles. That's it? An LCD screen and a flashlight? Lame. Then I took the goggles off, and saw that I was standing in complete darkness, a perfect black. The light I saw was from the array of infrared lights on the goggles, and it was invisible to the naked eye. I put them on again and looked around. I could see everything!
The look and feel of the goggles are surprisingly high-quality
You can flip a switch on the side of the goggles to turn on a barely-noticeable red glow on the top of the unit, and this looks like a floodlight when viewed through the goggles. That night, I grabbed a friend and explored the back yard in the middle of the night. Since there is only one screen, you lose depth perception, and the image is slightly magnified so it's hard to judge distances, but the unit does what's advertised. It provides real, working night vision. It was time for Nerf-gun wars in my jet-black basement.
With the goggles, you'd see three ninjas in this picture
If you become disoriented when walking around with the goggles—and with the smallish screen and lack of depth perception, it takes practice to move around effectively—you can flip up the plastic piece above your left eye to see things normally, though I did have problems with that flap falling off now and again. My other minor complaint is that while you can switch the view to a green mode from the standard black-and-white display, it doesn't do anything except mimic what you're used to seeing in movies when people wear night vision goggles. Unlike more expensive sets, this doesn't amplify light as much as it simply picks up on infrared light, which gives the goggles some neat properties: on the highest setting, everyone's eyes look like hollow pools of light, and your television's remote control lights up the room like a strobe light. In normal light, you see everything in full color, at regular brightness.
Despite the issues with the eye cover and the heavy strain on normal batteries, this is a very high-quality toy that can satisfy some serious geek lust. Who doesn't want to see in the dark? Testing the goggles, we turned all the lights in the room, and had my friend's wife stand ten feet away holding up differing numbers of fingers. She stood out in the goggles like a flare, and it was fun to tell her what she was doing when she couldn't see us at all. The possibilities for shenanigans are nearly infinite.


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Disney's epic failure to launch with "Mars Needs Moms" suggests the flick is sputtering toward becoming the "Ishtar" or "Heaven's Gate" of the motion-capture animation genre.
Which is a shame, because the bomb apparently has claimed another casualty: Disney has nixed plans to bankroll "Moms" producer Robert Zemeckis' 3-D motion-capture animation remake of the Beatles cartoon classic "Yellow Submarine," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
We were looking forward to seeing how Disney and Zemeckis, who gave us "Back to the Future," would breathe new life into the 1968 trippy voyage to Pepperland. No matter what sunk "Moms" – whether story issues or a movie market flooded with animated films or audiences sick of paying extra for 3-D glasses – "Yellow Submarine" arrives with a lot more going for it: a proven tale and 16 Beatles songs.
If there are any doubts of the Beatles' durability and appeal to audiences born decades after the band's breakup, check out the success of the release of the group's songs on iTunes as well as the popularity of the animation-heavy "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game. The built-in audience for "Yellow Submarine" also includes a couple of generations raised on the movie.
Part of the disappointment in the production snag is that innovative Disney is out of the game 43 years after it finally became the right studio for "Yellow Submarine." In 1968, Disney was a moribund operation whose past glory days were both inspiration and satirical fodder for the psychedelic Pop Art cartoon, a "Fantasia" on acid, with a rock soundtrack.
It's hard to blame Disney suits for being wary. "Moms" cost $175 million to make and promote while bringing in $6.9 million in its first weekend, according to The New York Times, which reports that the flop could have a Hollywood-wide chilling effect on the production of computer-enhanced films, even in the age of "Avatar."
Zemeckis has been an pioneer in motion-capture animation movies, beginning in 2004 with "The Polar Express," which was marred only by the weird, otherworldly eyes of the human characters. His 2009 effort in the genre, "A Christmas Carol," did reasonably well at the box office.
As for "Yellow Submarine," Zemeckis clearly comes to the source material as a fan. He memorably weaved footage of John Lennon into "Forest Gump," and his first major movie was the quirky, special effects-free 1978 comedy, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," about a group of friends' quest to meet the Fab Four.
Disney reportedly has told Zemeckis that he's free to find another studio. So all he needs is cash – and all we need is some hope that he'll be able to reanimate "Yellow Submarine" for a new journey below the sky of blue and sea of green.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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May 26, 2011ThursdayOut In Hampton RoadsFor the first in its 23 year history, the LGBT group Hampton Roads Pride will hold its annual "Out in the Park" festival at Norfolk's Town Point Park. The larger venue is not only expected to draw more people in the area, but more attention from others outside the local gay and lesbian community. On Thursday's HearSay, we'll talk about the evolution, the current state, and the ideas about the future of the LGBT community in Hampton Roads.
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Jonah Goldberg has sumpin' to say to all the 'mos:
You know, I'm really damn tired of all the people running around making other people extremely uncomfortable then screaming about their rights and privileges when called out. If you want to go around making people uncomfortable, you've got the problem, not the rest of us.
It all starts with Mike Enzi who has enraged the BLT&GQ [Ed: Note that Doughy doesn't correctly use the usual Alphabet dismissal.] community by declaring a simple fact. If a guy walks into a bar in Wyoming, he's probably going to get punched. Enzi said the person would deserve it, which he apologized for, and the guy would not deserve it. But it is probably going to happen and yes, the dude wearing the tutu shoulders some of the responsibility. He should have known better.
And spare me the tirade about Matthew Shepherd. [Ed: Are there no editors? His name is Matthew Shepard; at least have the courtesy to correctly ID the person you are hating-on, especially since he is DEAD, you know, because of his sexuality.]
I know liberals in their coastal bubbles of homogenized whiteness and skinny jeans think everyone else has to think like them — not does, but has to — but the reality is we don't. We are a culturally heterogeneous nation with diverse cultural norms. If a guy walks into a bar in Wyoming wearing make up and a tutu, he's probably going to be asked to leave, if not picked on or punched. If you don't like that, don't go to a bar in Wyoming wearing a tutu. It really is that simple. This is not a justification of violence, but let's not kid ourselves that there won't be an expectation of violence, however unjustified.
I'm sure everyone already sees this is a variation of the scold that women have faced since forever: by wearing X you deserve to have Y happen. Skirt, blouse, bikini, burka, it doesn't matter, because ever since Eve, these knuckle-draggers have no control over their actions when they see temptation. We can now add men in tutus to that list.
Odd how sex and violence intersect in the minds of conservatives, innit?
But being Doughy, he cannot leave bad enough alone; he sees a chance to attack The Skirts and he takes it, what with being an equal opportunity, pluralistic, kinda guy:
Now the latest outrage is a mom who decided to openly breast feed in church. While I have no problem with a mother doing this, a lot of people do. It is why even freaking Obamacare demanded businesses have lactation rooms where women could breastfeed in private.
But what does this mom do? Instead of realizing she was making a church full of people uncomfortable, she ran to the internet to shame the church. Lady, you are not a victim. You are just rude and inconsiderate of others. And now you're going to lawyer up against a church? The rest of the congregants have a right not to be made uncomfortable by one self-centered mother.
So Doughy, did you stand up for the ACA (with the lactation rooms)? Asking for a friend.
So ladies, your right to feed your kid is interfering with Doughy's right to be a troglodyte. Why don't you just stay at home tethered to your spawn as Doughy's Gawd intended. By the way, no maternity leave for you! Better get a good man to take care of you.
How does the Pantload end this Pas de Derp, you ask:
If you want to breastfeed in public, go to a different chuch. [sic]
If you want to wear a tutu in a bar, go to San Francisco.
But stop your bitching that others have to go along with your "rights." Get over yourself.
Yes, everyone Doughy disapproves of needs to accommodate HIM. It's his straight [white] male rights that matter.


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Oneida Community Mansion House expands store with more books, collectibles, local crafts
ONEIDA -- With 24 years of bookstore receipts, a few grants, some individual gifts, and the help of dedicated volunteers, the Oneida Community Mansion House has moved and expanded its store.
Opened in 1988 in a small space adjacent to the library, the original store gave new meaning to "window shopping" as customers were only able to look through a window at the merchandise, which mainly featured books on the Oneida Community. Today, the relocated store features nearly 500 square feet of space designed by Doyle & Associates of Philadelphia to highlight an expanded library of books as well as an interesting assortment of merchandise.
Local artists provide woven baskets, handcrafted jewelry, soaps, salves and lotions, and beaded bouquets. A variety of children's toys are made in the USA; there are note and post cards relating to the Oneida Community and its Mansion House, and several prints of vintage Oneida Ltd. advertisements are matted and available for framing.
"With the closing of Yankee Ltd., we are pleased to be able to offer a place for people to shop for unique gift items," says Patricia Hoffman, Oneida Community Mansion House executive director. "Our selection of merchandise is continually growing and we are committed to featuring the work of local artisans."
Look for all shapes and sizes of candles soon to be made by the recent winner of the Martha Stewart American Made Award, the Bee Man Candle Co., located in Canastota. The museum store is open during regular business hours at the Mansion House.
The Oneida Community Mansion House was the home of the 19th century utopian Oneida Community (1848-1881). Today, the 93,000 square foot brick building houses a museum, residential apartments, overnight lodging, and banquet and meeting space. Guided tours are available Wednesday through Saturday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The Oneida Community Mansion House is located at 170 Kenwood Ave. For information, call 363-0745 or visit:


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