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Pinnacle Airlines Inc. has reached a tentative labor contract agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association as part of the ongoing bankruptcy reorganization of its parent company, Pinnacle Airlines Corp.
Word of the agreement, still to be ratified by the union came Monday, Dec. 17.
That announcement came just hours after the Memphis-based regional air carrier and Delta Air Lines announced an extension of the deadline for a final order approving Pinnacle's bankruptcy settlement in federal bankruptcy court including new contract agreements with Pinnacle employees.
The previous deadline was Dec. 13.
Delta, which is Pinnacle's major customer post-bankruptcy, agreed with Pinnacle executives to extend the date to Jan. 17.
The union pilots are scheduled to vote on the new contract in January.
Pinnacle filed for bankruptcy reorganization in April.
The airline's original reorganization plan was scrapped after Delta reached a new contract with the Air Line Pilots Association in June that allowed Delta to drop flights using smaller 50-seat jets sooner than expected.
Those smaller jets make up a sizeable part of Pinnacle's fleet. As a result, Pinnacle went back to its employee groups seeking further wage and benefit concessions.
The 26 children and adults who died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut will be remembered locally Friday, Dec. 21, with several ceremonies.
One bell of Idlewild Presbyterian Church's carillon in Midtown, 1750 Union Ave., will ring 26 times at 9:30 a.m. for each of the lives lost.
Shelby County government employees will observe a moment of silence Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. And Forest Hill Funeral Home, 2440 Whitten Road, will hold a remembrance service Friday evening at 5:30. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell will attend.
Also, Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe is asking places of worship in that state to ring their bells 26 times at 9:30 a.m. Friday. He has declared Friday a day of mourning in Arkansas for the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has issued a proclamation calling for a statewide moment of silence at 9:30 a.m. Friday. Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy has asked governors across the nation to make similar proclamations.
Brent Leatherwood, the spokesman for the state House Republican Caucus, has been named executive director of the state GOP.
Leatherwood succeeds Adam Nickas, who left to run the Tennessee office of the Jackson, Miss.-based lobbying firm Capitol Resources.
Leatherwood, of Chattanooga, is a former congressional staffer and has worked on several U.S. House and Senate campaigns. He joined the state legislative staff after running Republican Scott DesJarlais' successful campaign to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis in 2010.
State GOP Chairman Chris Devaney said Leatherwood's expertise in both congressional and state legislative issues will be key to the party's efforts heading into the 2014 campaign cycle.
Leatherwood begins his new job at the party in January.
John Barker, chief of staff for Memphis City Schools, is leaving the school system in January to become chief of accountability for Chicago Public Schools.
Barker was named chief of staff in 2011 by Memphis City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash. Before that, he was a research evaluator and director of the department of research, evaluation and student information. He began his work with the school system in 2003.
Black Caucus of State Legislators Names New Pres.
Democratic Rep. Joe Armstrong of Knoxville has been selected to be the president of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators for the next two years.
Other Tennessee lawmakers will also have leadership positions.
Democratic Reps. Brenda Gilmore of Nashville and Johnny Shaw of Bolivar will serve as executive committee members at-large.
Democratic Rep. Karen Camper of Memphis will continue to serve as Region IV chair for Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The NBCSL was founded in 1977 to develop and promote educational, research and training programs that help African-American lawmakers be more effective when introducing legislation.
U.S. sales of previously occupied homes jumped to their highest level in three years last month, bolstered by steady job gains and record-low mortgage rates. The report was the latest sign of a sustained recovery in the housing market.
The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that sales rose 5.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million in November. That's up from 4.76 million in October.
Previously occupied home sales are on track for their best year in five years. November's sales were the highest since November 2009, when a federal tax credit that was soon to expire spurred sales. Excluding that month, last month's sales were the highest since July 2007.
Sales are up 14.5 percent from a year ago, though they remain below the roughly 5.5 million that are consistent with a healthy market.
"The report is encouraging, and the positive momentum established in the housing market during 2012 appears likely to continue into 2013," Michael Gapen, an economist at Barclays Capital, said in an email.
Superstorm Sandy delayed some sales in the Northeast, the Realtors' group said. Those delayed purchases will likely close in the coming months, though the increase will be modest, the group said.
Even so, sales rose 6.9 percent in the Northeast last month compared with October. Sales increased 7.2 percent in the Midwest, 7.9 percent in the South and 0.8 percent in the West.
Job growth and low home-loan rates have helped drive purchases. Prices are also rising, which encourages more potential buyers to come off the sidelines and purchase homes. And more people may put their homes on the market if they feel confident they can sell at a good price.
In addition, the excess supply of homes that built up during the housing bubble has finally thinned out. The number of previously occupied homes available for sale fell to nearly an 11-year low in November. The supply of new homes is also near its lowest level since 1963.
At the current sales pace, it would take 4.8 months to exhaust the supply of homes for sale. That's the shortest such span since September 2005.
At the same time, more people are looking to buy or rent a home after living with relatives or friends during and immediately after the Great Recession.
As low supply and rising demand push up prices, builders will likely be encouraged to start work on more homes in coming months, economists said.
Builder confidence rose in December for a seventh straight month to the highest level in more than 6 1/2 years, according to a survey released Tuesday by the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo.
Amro Music made a donation to the Mid-South Food Bank this month as part of a unique food collection.
Amro ran a food drive for the food bank whereby, in exchange for canned goods, people could bring in their orchestra instruments and get new strings put on them for free. New strings on an instrument can cost anywhere from $20 to $90, so bringing in the cans was a great deal for both sides.
On Dec. 1 and Dec. 8, Amro traded strings for cans, replacing strings on nearly 200 violins, violas and cellos in exchange for donations. For as few as three cans, musicians could get a brand new set of violin, viola, cello or bass strings put on while they waited. D'Addario Strings and Amro provided the strings and the specialists to change the strings.
After boxing up more than 1,000 items, Amro employees loaded two trucks to deliver 1,057 pounds of food – or 864 meals – to the Mid-South Food Bank.
The Memphis City Council has accepted $311,704 in funding from the Center City Revenue Development Corp. for the Main Street to Main Street Multimodal Connector project that links Main Street Memphis to Broadway Street in West Memphis. It includes a Harahan Bridge boardwalk for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The $30 million project has secured $15 million in federal government funding.
In a related resolution, the council accepted $650,000 in funding from Charles McVean, the commodities trading firm founder who has been the major force behind the boardwalk, and the Hyde Family Foundations for the design of the trails connecting to the bridge boardwalk.
In other action, the council approved a planned development on the northwest corner of Union Avenue and Lauderdale Street for an expansion of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car business.
The council delayed to Jan. 8 a final vote on a "wage theft" ordinance that was also delayed Monday by the Shelby County Commission.
The council also put off a vote on a resolution that would either reopen or permanently close Whitehaven golf course during the winter until after the new year as the council seeks an independent audit of golf course operations and finances.
The city golf course and three others – Riverside, Pine Hill and Davy Crockett – will remain closed with a decision to come on their long-term future in March.
The countywide school board gave preliminary approval Tuesday, Dec. 18, to seven merger recommendations in the areas of career and technical education, fine arts programs and schools security.
Of those seven, the fine arts one would mean hiring 61 teachers at a cost of $3.8 million more to the district.
Board approval at this stage is not final. It means that the board will later weigh the items they have approved as they put together a budget for the first year of the schools merger, which begins in August.
The board also approved the closing of Humes Middle School at the end of the current school year. The closing is a first step toward reopening Humes as an optional school in the first year of the merger as a musical arts school open to all seventh and eighth graders in the school system regardless of where they live.
The board also delayed until February action on the charter school renewal application of MASE, Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering, the state's first charter school, which was founded in 2003. The board approved the charter school application of Vision Preparatory charter school.
Southern College of Optometry recently earned reaccreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools-Commissions on Colleges. The accreditation will last for 10 years, through 2022.
The reaccreditation follows a reaccreditation earlier in the year from the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education, the accreditation organization that oversees optometric education.
The accreditation process ensures that Southern College of Optometry maintains a clearly defined mission, succeeds in educating its students to prepare them for work as optometrists and meets all established criteria during external reviews. The designation ensures that Southern College of Optometry students will have access to federal financial aid dollars and to various internship and externship programs reserved for students of accredited institutions.
Southern College of Optometry is one of only 21 optometry colleges in the nation. Founded in 1932 in Memphis, the college awards the post-graduate, four-year optometry degree to approximately 130 optometric physicians each year. The college is currently constructing a $9.4 million classroom and academic project at its Midtown Memphis campus.
EmergeMemphis has announced its new board of directors officers for 2013.
The officers include chairman Scott Fountain, senior vice president and chief development officer for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.; immediate past chairman Amy Howell, CEO of Howell Marketing Strategies LLC; secretary Joey Dudek Jr., attorney with Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada PLLC; and treasurer Joe Lyons, chief financial officer with True Temper Sports.
Two new EmergeMemphis board members include Fadi Kiameh, business development manager of building efficiency with Johnson Controls Inc., and Andy Barger, chief intellectual property counsel with Thomas & Betts Corp.
Employees of Memphis-based human resources management and outsourcing firm Adams Keegan are using a fun holiday competition to help the less fortunate.
Five charities are benefiting from a company fundraising contest. Randomly assigned teams brainstormed to select their charity of choice. The ones chosen were the American Red Cross, St. John's United Methodist Church Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry, Wounded Warrior Project, Bold Initiative and S.A.V.E. (School Advocates for Vision & Education).
Adams Keegan will donate matching funds to the winning team's charity.
The American Red Cross team raised funds by selling pizza by the slice to fellow employees. The team received support from Brendan Dulin, general manager of Papa John's on Poplar Avenue in East Memphis, who donated pizzas to the effort. Other teams raised money for selected charities with creative ideas including selling jewelry, home-cooked food and baked goods.
Hotel development and management company Cooper Hotels has promoted Kurt Harrop to general manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton Memphis.
Harrop brings more than 23 years of industry experience, most recently six years as food and beverage director of the 266-room hotel. In his former position he was responsible for all food and beverage services including catering and the hotel's Lynchburg Legends Bar & Grill. Prior to that he served in management positions with Radisson Hotels and Choice Hotels.
Replacing Harrop in the food and beverage position is Mario Grisanti, who has served as assistant food and beverage director for more than three years. Grisanti's background includes working at his father's restaurant Dino's Grill and at Harrah's Casino. Grisanti attended the University of Memphis/Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management.
Obsidian Public Relations selected The Blues Foundation and the Fire Museum of Memphis as the 2013 recipients of its annual PR 180 Degree Project, a pro bono public relations initiative that provides two Mid-South nonprofits with six months of free PR to help the organizations achieve a 180-degree turn in publicity success.
Both organization will receive about 180 days worth of marketing services based on each groups' particular needs, from foundation building to event promotion to social media expertise.
"Sometimes, not-for-profits see PR as an expense they cannot handle," said Obsidian founder Courtney Liebenrood Ellett. "When we're able to offer pro bono services throughout the year, it's almost like a luxury they wouldn't have been able to afford, and so I see great need in that."
Leaders at Memphis-area nonprofits submitted 25 e-mailed nominations. The public then voted on nominated organizations through Obsidian's Facebook page. After tallying initial votes, the five organizations with the most votes moved on to a two-day runoff vote to determine the two winners. More than 6,000 people voted. The Blues Foundation received 1,111 likes and the Fire Museum of Memphis received 764 likes in the Facebook voting.
Brentwood Funeral Services LLC has acquired Memorial Gardens Cemetery of Clarksdale, Miss., the second acquisition by Brentwood this year in North Mississippi.
Memorial Gardens is the only perpetual care cemetery in Coahoma County.
Last month, Brentwood bought Kimbro Funeral Home of Marks, Miss.
Kimbro had been family owned and operated since the 1930s.
Brentwood is owned by former Shelby County Commissioner and Memphis City Council member Brent Taylor and his wife, Kimberly.
Brentwood owns six funeral homes and two cemeteries in West Tennessee and North Mississippi.
Paragon National Bank's Saddle Creek branch at 7600 Poplar Ave. is showing art pieces from Dogwood Elementary School students through January.
The display marks the fourth student exhibit hosted this year by Paragon, which also featured monthly art installations from Houston Middle School, Bodine School and St. Louis Catholic School.
Paragon partnered with Dogwood Elementary art teachers Dotty Coulson, Aimee Jones and Norma Powell to select and display artwork created by 27 students. The inspired artwork was created using various mediums including chalk pastels, oil pastels, watercolor and tempera paint.
In addition, students used printmaking techniques to create the fall leaf projects and the collaged compositions were constructed with cut or torn paper.
Tennessee homeowners facing possible foreclosure can call a free hotline for help.
According to the state attorney general's office, Tennessee's Mortgage Assistance Hotline offers reliable information and referrals to free foreclosure prevention counseling.
The hotline is staffed Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Callers can get free counseling or get a referral for in-person counseling at a local nonprofit.
The hotline is a partnership between the state of Tennessee and the Homeownership Preservation Foundation – a nonprofit that has been operating a national hotline for the past five years.
The number for the Mortgage Assistance Hotline is (855) 876-7283.
Tennessee schools need to upgrade technology in time for new online student assessments in the 2014-2015 school year.
According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, there's no clear indication yet where the money is coming from.
The state committed to students taking a new, more universal exam when it applied to get federal funding through the Race to the Top education initiative.
State officials then joined the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career consortium.
There are 23 states working together to create a common assessment in reading and math skills.
State officials say it's too early to talk about possible technology funding in the new fiscal year budget. Cash-strapped local school systems would be hard pressed to bear the expense.
Seedco Mid-South is bringing the nationally acclaimed Operation JumpStart program to the Memphis area. Enrollment for selection is now open through Dec. 31.
Operation JumpStart helps entrepreneurs realize the dreams of small-business ownership, and the 36-hour curriculum called Operation JumpStart: First Step is a training model delivered to individuals considering starting or expanding a small business.
The curriculum teaches small-business planning and preparation skills with hands-on training. The fee for Operation JumpStart: First Step is being offered at a reduced rate of $375, and a limited number of scholarships are available.
To apply, contact Genarda Wright at 255-2955 or email@example.com.
Office Depot opened its new Poplar Avenue store Monday, Dec. 17.
The Delray Beach, Fla.-based office products company relocated its East Memphis store from 5014 Poplar Ave. next to Whole Foods to 5510 Poplar Ave. near Yates Road. Office Depot took 18,666 square feet of the 22,000-square-foot space vacated by Samuel's last year. The balance was filled by Hollywood Feed.
The Office Depot store No. 3297 employs 28 associates and houses nearly 9,800 products. Store manager Brandon Kee has managed this location for most of his five-year career with Office Depot.
Store hours are Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Memphis Area Home Builders Association presented lifetime achievement awards to Jim Reid, Dudley Schaefer Sr., Monroe Pointer and Tommy Cox at the trade organization's annual holiday gala earlier this month.
Other winners included Spike of the Year, Joe Callaway of The Callaway Group Inc.; Associate of the Year, Myra Kissire with Boral Building Products; and Builder of the Year, David Clark of David Clark Construction LLC.
The 2012 Presidential Award was given by 2012 president Jimmy Moore to Pat Mahoney of Remodeling Consultants Inc.
Barge traffic along a key stretch of Mississippi River is about to be restricted as crews prepare to begin blasting large rock formations that have threatened shipping on the drought-plagued waterway.
The Army Corps of Engineers says contractors will undertake urgent demolition of the submerged granite pinnacles near Thebes, Ill., as early as Tuesday. That means that portion of the river south of St. Louis then will be closed to shipping for all but eight hours each day.
Months of drought have left water levels up to 20 feet below normal along a 180-mile stretch of the river from St. Louis to Cairo, Ill. The problem worsened when the corps recently cut the outflow from the Missouri River, meaning far less water flowing into the Mississippi.
And amid the concerns, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi.
Corps of Engineers officials on Saturday began releasing water at Carlyle Lake in southern Illinois, saying the additional water will provide the depth needed for barge traffic to safely pass Thebes.
The corps says the additional water from Carlyle Lake is expected to fully reach Thebes by Christmas Eve, providing an additional six inches of depth to the river.
Business economists believe the country will see modest growth in 2013 with strength coming from a further rebound in housing, which will help offset weakness in business investment.
In its latest survey of top forecasters, the National Association for Business Economics says it is looking for the economy to grow in 2013 by 2.1 percent after 2.2 percent growth in 2012. That would continue the same tepid growth the country has seen since the Great Recession ended in mid-2009.
Growth at that pace is not strong enough to make a significant improvement in unemployment. The NABE economists believe unemployment will average 7.7 percent for all of next year, right at the level it reached in November.
The 48 NABE economists on the survey panel had essentially the same outlook as their previous forecast in October. While they have modest expectations for 2013, they do see growth slowly improving as the year progresses.
The economists forecast growth in the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, at 1.6 percent in the current October-December quarter, down from 2.7 percent growth in the July-September period. Part of that slowdown, the economists believe, will reflect the disruptions caused by Superstorm Sandy, which slammed into the Northeast on Oct. 29.
About half of the economists surveyed believe Sandy will cut growth by 0.2 percentage point to 0.5 percentage point in the current quarter and about one-third of the survey panel believe rebuilding from the storm will increase growth by a similar 0.2 percentage point to 0.5 percentage point range in the first three months of next year.
A delay in state Rep. Curry Todd's court case on drunken driving and gun charges will move proceedings until next month.
The Collierville Republican was arrested in October 2011 after failing a roadside sobriety test. A loaded .38-caliber gun was found stuffed between the driver's seat and center console.
Todd is best known for sponsoring a law that allows people with handgun carry permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of drunken driving, possession of a firearm while under the influence and refusing a breath alcohol test. Todd had been scheduled to appear in court on Friday, but the hearing was moved to Jan. 11. His attorney said he was still in talks with prosecutors.
William Sherman Morris has joined Husch Blackwell LLP as the newest partner in the firm's Memphis office.
Morris joins the firm's aviation group and brings more than 11 years' experience handling business transactions.
For the past five years, Morris served as in-house counsel with FedEx Express, most recently as senior counsel in the business transactions group. Morris served as the lead counsel for FedEx's air operations, where he was responsible for all aspects of aircraft transactions. Before FedEx, Morris practiced commercial transactions and commercial real estate law at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC.
A lawyer for a former Memphis public school assistant principal said Friday he's seeking a plea change to federal charges that he helped current or aspiring teachers cheat on tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms.
A lawyer for Clarence Mumford Sr., Coleman Garrett, asked District Court Judge John Fowlkes for a new hearing in which Mumford could change his plea to either guilty or "no contest." Garrett said he did not anticipate a trial in the case and said that he and prosecutors are in the process of trying to work out a plea agreement.
Federal prosecutors say teachers from three states paid Mumford to send someone else to take the exams in their place at testing centers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
The judge set the hearing for Jan. 25.
Authorities have said for 15 years, teachers in Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee paid Mumford to send someone else to take the tests in their place. Mumford would get a fee between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with fake identification to the Praxis exam.
Fourteen people have been charged with mail and Social Security fraud, and four people have pleaded guilty to charges associated with the scheme.
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The suggested minimum for running E17 on is 16megs of RAM and a 200mhz ARM processor for embedded devices. The recommend RAM is 64megs (and a stripped down version of E17 can be happy running on 8 megs of RAM). From personal experience E17 utilizes around 100megs of RAM on a fully loaded desktop install. Meaning if you have at least 128megs of system memory in your computer E17 will function fantastically. Because of this E17 makes for a great choice on older computers.
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This is one of the reasons many use Linux in the first place, because it is quicker than some other operating system. With E17 your Linux desktop will be running faster than ever. E17's low system requirements leave more power for the rest of your applications to utilize.
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Don't ask me how it is done, but E17 provides elegant window effects and desktop transitions regardless of your hardware and driver setup. Intel, nVidia, or ATI chipset - closed source or open source driver, they will all give you a sleek looking desktop with E17. Through the itask-ng module E17 can also provide a dock launcher that has a sleek look without a need for a compositing window manager to be enabled.
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If configured properly E17 can be so much more than just a desktop environment. In fact many consider it to be a work of art. E17 is designed to be pretty and to this end it does a fantastic job.
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Not using some of the features E17 has and don't want them taking up unnecessary resources? Not a problem! E17 allows you to easily load and unload each and every part (module) of the desktop through the configuration menu. This way, only the parts of the system you are using are loaded at start-up.
6.) - It is 100% Configurable
Should you want to, you can easily spend days tinkering with your E17 configuration. You can adjust anything and everything. Most notably appearance wise, E17 allows you to easily theme each individual module with a different theme (should you want to).
7.) - Core ELF are now Beta
For many years now, people have been saying that they will not use Enlightenment because it is "unstable". At the start of this month, October 3rd, the Enlightenment foundation finally released a "beta" version of their libraries. To quote the Enlightenment homepage:
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- MacPup - Minimal CD built on Puppy Linux
- Bodhi - Minimalistic Ubuntu 10.04 based
Pretty isn't it? If I persuaded you to give E17 a try, let me know what you think about it. Also, if you are looking to chat in real time about Enlightenment - drop by #e over on Freenode
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Ideal For Writing, Drawing/Painting, Gaming, Medical and Photography Apps.
Greater accuracy.
The Capacitive Stylus rubber tip is firm and responsive, without a sponge-like texture, for the same feel as using a pencil. The satin texture glides easily along the screen surface.
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Attach it directly to your device.
If you prefer to attach it directly to your device, we've added an alternative option with the 3.5 mm headphone jack tether attachment.
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Clip it. Wear it.
The built-in clip makes it wearable and portable allowing it to go wherever you are. The capacitive stylus can clip to a case, shirt, jacket or strap and won't slip off.
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Elegant. Stylish design.
The body is constructed from anodized aluminum with a slightly textured shine.
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Bold Orange
Crimson Red
Lunar Blue
Jet Black
Metallic Silver
Available in five dazzling colors.
The stylus' body has several color options to help accessorize with various fashion tastes. Choose from Bold Orange, Crimson Red, Lunar Blue, Jet Black and Metallic Silver.
Integrated pocket clip allows it to be worn or attached to your case.
3.5mm headphone jack attachment.
Anodized color-coated metal construction.
Firm, responsive tip is durable and does not easily wear off.
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Tweets and expert reviews
Our Capacitive Stylus has generated quite a buzz. Here are just a few of the positive things that we have heard from gadget review sites and ordinary customers.
I'm definitely going to enjoy doing more handwriting and doodling on my iOS devices now. So, if you're in the market for a stylus to use with your iPhone/iPad or any other device with a capacitive screen, I would highly recommend the capacitive stylus from BoxWave.
- Jezlyn Jones
Taking notes with the Pogo was workable but the BoxWave just feels so much more enjoyable and productive. My handwriting comes out clearer, too... I think this one is a keeper.
- Vic
I would have a hard time finding anything bad to say about the BoxWave stylus pen... if you want to eliminate that panicked search for a writing tool, it's hard to beat.
- Adama D. Brown
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Full Drill 5D Rose Diamond Painting Kit (DIY) - Flowers
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"Daring" isn't a word you would use very much to describe 2011's "The Hangover Part II," the disappointingly lazy, beat-for-beat rehash of the wild and wildly successful original "Hangover" from 2009.
And yet, here we are with "The Hangover Part III," which runs a different sort of risk by going to darker and more dangerous places than its predecessors, both artistically and emotionally. It dares to alienate the very audience that made "The Hangover" the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time because, well, it isn't exactly a comedy.
Sure, there are some outrageous lines and sight gags, mostly courtesy of Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong, who function as central figures this time when, previously, a little bit of them went a long way. (This was also a potentially alienating decision.) But director and co-writer Todd Phillips signals early and often that he's much more interested than ever before in exploring matters of real consequence, rather than simply mining them for brash laughs.
Phillips and co-writer Craig Mazin have placed the unusual challenge on themselves of trying to create something bold and new while simultaneously remaining true to the trilogy and wrapping it all up in a satisfying way. They succeed somewhat; simply trying to be creative marks a huge improvement from part two.
This time, Galifianakis' insufferable, inappropriate man-child Alan has gone off his meds and is out of control. His family and friends – including fellow "Wolfpack" members Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) – stage an intervention and offer to drive him to a treatment center in Arizona. And so the four venture off on yet another journey, once again assuming their familiar roles: arrogant English teacher Phil is the de facto leader, Stu is the cautious and neurotic dentist and Doug is the bland and stable voice of reason.
In theory, this should be a pretty innocuous trek through the desert. But this is a "Hangover" movie. So, naturally, they get run off the road by masked thugs who work for crime boss Marshall (John Goodman, who improves everything merely by showing up). Turns out, some of their actions in Las Vegas four years ago have tied them to the evil, effeminate gangster Leslie Chow (Jeong) and put them in trouble with some powerful, volatile people. (Chow, we see in the prologue, has escaped a Bangkok prison, sparking an epic riot captured in dramatic, visceral detail by Phillips' frequent cinematographer Lawrence Sher.)
Now, they must make things right by finding Chow. And of course, there's a deadline, with Doug serving as collateral. Their assignment takes them to Tijuana and the rolling hills of northern Mexico until, inevitably, they must end up back in Vegas. In keeping with the tone of part three, this depiction of the city isn't sparkly and full of promise, but rather seedy and foreboding.
Las Vegas does, however, serve as the location for some rare moments of heartfelt emotion. One comes courtesy of Melissa McCarthy, in typical scene-stealing fashion, as the pawn-shop clerk who turns out to be Alan's trashy, mulleted soul mate. The guys also revisit Stu's first wife, ex-stripper Jade (Heather Graham), and find that she's living a happy suburban life with her son, who's now 4. The child actor who plays him, Grant Holmquist, was one of several infants used in the original "Hangover" as Baby Carlos and is the one featured prominently in that film's posters. It's a nice touch.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Chow is more than just a silly, bisexual cokehead this time around. He's clearly a sociopath, and the group's association with him is more than just a nuisance. Jeong gets a bit more room to explore the role and finds a bit more shading, but if you hate this character, you might just hate this entire movie, as well.
Similarly, Galifianakis gets way more screen time here; he's essentially the star of "The Hangover Part III," with Cooper and Helms fading into reliable supporting roles. (Bartha once again misses out on the adventures.) The character of Alan is still odd and off-putting, unorthodox and unpredictable. But his loneliness and neediness shine through, which makes one of the more out-there figures in the "Hangover" universe unexpectedly relatable.
Your expectations – and keeping them in check – are a crucial factor here. This isn't a party: This finally, truly is the hangover. And it's also the recovery.
"The Hangover III"
R: pervasive language including sexual references, some violence and drug content, brief graphic nudity.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, John Goodman, Melissa McCarthy, Jeffrey Tambor, Heather Graham.
Director: Todd Phillips.
Running time: 1 hr. 40 min.
Playing: Areawide.
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text: DOWNLOADS Article (PDF-282KB) Alberto Alessi is the third generation to lead his family's iconic design firm. Founded and still based in Crusinallo, about an hour north of Milan, Italy, the firm remains privately owned. In Alessi's view, both the ownership structure and the location of his company have imbued it with a strong tradition of artisanship—and given its designers the freedom to create as they see fit. Together, those traits have allowed Alessi to produce some of the most popular houseware designs of the past few decades, as well as some of the most exclusive and sought-after ones. The firm is perhaps best known for its invention of the first home espresso maker, as well as for a certain sense of humor with which it approaches the design of common kitchen utensils. Nearly 30 years ago, Alessi began shifting away from in-house design and became one of the pioneers of open innovation. Today the firm has relationships with some 200 external designers, many of whom are much better known for expertise in fields such as architecture than in houseware design. A tea kettle by Frank Gehry and a vase by Zaha Hadid are just two products of those relationships. Alessi met with McKinsey's Marla Capozzi and Josselyn Simpson in his office, in Crusinallo, to discuss the sources of good design, how he assesses an innovation's potential, and why more companies should take design risks. Sidebar LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Email Biography of Alberto Alessi Vital statisticsBorn in 1946, in Arona, ItalyDivorced, with 1 childCareer highlights• Alessi (1970–present)Managing directorGeneral managerFast factsAuthor of several books and a member of the Scientific Committee for the Domus Academy in Milan and of the Academic Board of the University of Industrial Art of HelsinkiSenior Fellow of the Royal College of Art in London; Honorary Professor of the Hochshule de Bildenden Kunste in Saarbrucken, Germany; member of the Honorary Committee of the Design Museum in LondonReceived the Design Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Brooklyn Museum of Art (1998) The Quarterly: You seek out designers from many fields. How do you figure out what to ask them to design? Or do they say, "I'd like to do spoons," or, "I'm interested in coffee pots"? Alessi: Basically, it's like two sides of a coin. One side is the classical way of working with designers: to have them come to the company for a new product briefing. When we have an idea, I start thinking about whom I could ask. Usually I come up with two or three people. I discuss it with them. If the designers are interested, they start. After a few months, I receive their reactions and then I decide whether to continue or not. But there is another way. All of the 200 designers who work with us know they can call me and say, "Alberto, I have a fantastic idea for you." Then we start talking about it, designing it by telephone. If something interesting comes out of this, we start developing it over fax or through the mail. Then we meet. Over the past 20 years, half of the interesting items from Alessi came from the second way, half from the first.The Quarterly: As a firm that primarily designs products for people to use in their homes, how do you think about the designs consumers will like? Alessi: I should start by explaining that Alessi is an example of an Italian design factory, meaning a small or medium-size company that specializes in one area, such as furniture, lighting, or, for Alessi, accessories. In my opinion, there is a kind of historical DNA in Italy, dating at least from the Italian Renaissance, when workshops that had these very specialized, niche production factories originated. Our approach, like that of other Italian design factories, is very different from that of a mass production company. I sometimes compare the process of making a new car with the process of making a Pablo Picasso painting. When a car company sets out to make a new car, what do they do? First of all, the top person asks for market research to understand what the customer is thinking. So market research people go around asking the consumers, "What would you like?" And what do the customers do? They look around at the existing cars and say, "OK, I like this part of that car," or, "I like this part of another car." And so on. The research people put all this together in a shaker. They shake. Then they pour out the recipe for the new car design and give it to the car designers. Our way is closer to the way of Pablo Picasso. Imagine Picasso waking up in the 1920s on a nice, sunny morning in a village on the Côte d'Azur and feeling strongly the wish—the need—to start painting. So he starts painting. But he's not asking himself, "To what target customer will I address my new painting?" Picasso shows us a completely different approach: starting from yourself, as a creator, and using your sensibility and your intuition in order to touch other people's hearts or sensibility or intuition. And by the way, he also built an interesting business. I'm not saying that we are like Picasso. Not at all. We are simple, humble mediators. But what I want to say is that all the designers working with us are like little Picassos: their creation process starts from intuition, not from market research. Sidebar LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Email Designing for Alessi: An interview with Hani Rashid Hani Rashid is a cofounder of Asymptote Architecture, a firm that has received international recognition for designing buildings such as 166 Perry Street, a nearly completed luxury residential building in Manhattan's Far West Village, and several new projects now in the works in Asia and the United Arab Emirates. He was also a cofounder of the Advanced Digital Design program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and has designed desk products for Alessi, as well as Alessi's award-winning New York flagship store. Rashid spoke with the Quarterly about what it's like working with Alberto Alessi and why design is valuable for business.The Quarterly: How did you start working with Alessi?Hani Rashid: I have always been attracted to what the Alessi company has done historically, to Alberto's passion for and interest in architecture and design, and to the innovative thinkers he has gravitated toward. We met at a gallery opening here in New York for new Alessi tea services. A friend of mine was in the collection, and Alberto and I happened to sit next to each other at dinner. At the time, in 2003, I was a little concerned about what the brand was becoming. Other companies were taking to the mass market Alessi's mission of bringing new kinds of designers to housewares, and I thought that the Alessi brand was being diluted and losing some of its edge. I pointed out to Alberto, carefully, that a return to the roots of the company might be interesting. Alberto called me up a bit later and said, "Would you be interested in doing some products?" And I said, "Well, it really depends, since what I would really like to do is create a 'city' of abstract and enigmatic objects, as opposed to little, colorful flexible things or kitchen items." And Alberto wholeheartedly agreed, and we then set out to develop ideas centered on what we called, at the time, a home–office line: a series of objects with which you could essentially populate the otherwise banal landscape of the desk—at home or at work. The idea being that one is actually placing little building-like pieces that also operate functionally as paper trays, pen holders, or whatever one might want them to be. Then, more importantly, and a little later, Alberto asked me to come up with a proposal for a new flagship store in Manhattan—only it wasn't just a store. He said, "Can we think about prototyping a new direction for the brand by virtue of your ideas about it?" And we put together a proposal for the New York flagship store, as well as new ideas for branding that would take Alessi in a very novel direction into the future with a nod to its heritage and remarkable past. The idea I had was for customers at the Alessi store to experience the authenticity and depth of the brand, as well as the importance of its pedigree. You can buy a clock or a spoon or a cup anywhere. But to buy something that has this remarkable aura of design sophistication is unique. Also, I was keenly aware that a newer generation of consumers doesn't even know the Alessi history. That was important to comprehend and deal with—I think it is crucial that the store and brand as a whole exude this sense of sophistication and dignity implicit in Alessi's history and legacy.The Quarterly: What made your working relationship successful?Hani Rashid: It was my real interest in Alberto Alessi as a creative entrepreneur and the conversations he and I were able to have though the design process. He just has a real passion for what he does, and his thoughts and ideas are essential to working with him as a creative person in collaboration with the brand. You can always tell the difference between that aspect of leadership and drive versus someone who's just doing a CEO's job. I have similar relationships with other people who are passionate about whatever it is they're doing. And when that focus and ambition lines up with mine, that's what really charges up the situation and creates a kind of electric spark in the dialogue and outcome. That sort of relationship between architect and client allows us to really perform at our best.The Quarterly: What makes a valuable design?Hani Rashid: What we are in search of is how to solve creative and design problems with elegance, producing something that inspires. For example, when one can't really say why something around them—be it an object, space, or form—simply works and is a pleasure to have, yet that coveted thing is imbued with thought, culture, or, to put it simply, a sense of beauty, then I think it's valuable as design. The notion that one likes to live in a specific place, loves going into a specific building—or simply looking at it or having it present—is key to value in design and aesthetics. This is, I believe, what the Alessi company has historically been able to do with remarkable accuracy and precision, and that's why we are here talking about Alessi and design. The Quarterly: What do you mean by "mediator"?Alessi: We consider our core activity to be mediating between, on one side, the best possible expressions of product design from all over the world and, on the other side, the final customer's dreams. I prefer discussing "customer dreams" instead of "the market," because market is so rough. Deep down, I feel that my activity as an artistic mediator in product design is not very different from the role of a museum director or even a filmmaker—putting together and organizing talents in different fields to get to a result, which is not a mass-produced product in the traditional sense, but a product that's trying to speak to the masses in a new sense, like a well-made film. To do this, we make use of some qualities that are more and more rare in industrial culture today, such as sensibility, intuition, and the desire to accept a bit more risk.The Quarterly: How do you assess the potential of product innovations? Alessi: We have a very helpful tool that we call, ironically, "the formula." It's a mathematical model that we use once we have a well-done prototype. Not the first or the second prototype, but from the third one on. The purpose of the formula is to understand what the reaction of our final customers could be toward this new product and what the product's life could be should we decide to start production. The Quarterly: How did you develop "the formula"? Alessi: It all started in the beginning of the '90s, when my brothers were curious why I was doing certain projects and not other projects. And of course, I didn't know. Because everything was happening in my stomach. But it was a good question. So I started thinking how to answer. And what I did was put together all the 300 projects I had developed during my career until then. These 300 projects had very different lives. Some were big successes. Some a bit more than that. Some were big fiascos. 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Because people freely choose certain objects from the ones they come across, they tend to charge them with social meaning, as signs for communicating—in a visible, intelligible way—their distinguishing values. Objects can have status value or style value. By way of example, a gold Rolex watch is a status symbol, which suggests economic wealth, whereas a style symbol may be exemplified by an Aldo Rossi teapot, which reveals cultural sensitivity and familiarity with the architectural domain. Jean Baudrillard, a French sociologist, brilliantly expounded concepts like these. The peripheral parameters are function and price. Each of these parameters has five degrees. The formula doesn't work for everything. But when we have a long history with a product, it works perfectly. If I have to evaluate a pot or a coffee maker or a kettle, for example, the score indicates exactly the number of pieces that we can sell. When we are exploring a new area—for example, when we were designing a pen, which was completely new terrain for Alessi—then it becomes more difficult. The formula needs to be tuned in a different way. But the principle is the same. The Quarterly: How does the formula differ from traditional consumer testing or market research?Alessi: Testing isn't really appropriate as a description. Unlike typical market research, which is often conducted by outside experts, this is organized by us, drawing on our experience. Our reactions to the test are very different too: a lot of companies would develop a prototype and test it with consumers, and, if the initial consumer reaction was negative, they would pull the plug on that product. On the other hand, we and our designers are extremely interested in understanding, in advance, what the reaction of final customers would be—but not necessarily to help us decide what to produce or not produce. If I believe it is a good project and that it has to be done, I will support it. But negative feedback can be useful in helping the designers to modify something. Not all the time, but sometimes. Fundamentally, we use the formula so we can afford more risk. I don't want to reduce the risk. Given my business, it makes no sense for me to reduce risk. I just need to determine where I am in order to have the opportunity to take a bit more risk. The Quarterly: What portion of your sales comes from new products?Alessi: Every year, we present two new collections, which represent 10 to 15 percent of Alessi's total turnover. Of all the new items we introduce every year, half are lost in the following ten years. Half continue. The Quarterly: What's the average shelf life of a product? Alessi: Very long. In metal, 30 to 50 years; in plastic, we have only 20 years of experience, but we have 20-year-old plastic products that are still well alive. Sometimes we are trendy. 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But later on, obliged by the contract constraint, the designer discovered a way to produce a melody mechanically, through one of his sisters who was living in Germany. And so we made the kettle. To produce it, we found an artist who made a pipe. There is a gold-plated part inside that is used to tune musical instruments. It produces the perfect note, and when the water boils, the steam produces a melody.The Quarterly: How do your failures influence you? Why are they important?Alessi: To understand why fiascos matter, I need to explain my theory of the borderline—which divides the areas of "possible" and "not possible." The area of the possible is represented by those new projects that final customers will be ready to understand, to wish for, to love, maybe to buy. The area of the not possible is represented by new projects people are not able to understand. I admire some marketers and designers whom consumers find extremely difficult to understand. 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And it doesn't change anything for myself, personally. My future is to continue to be a gardener. A gardener has to properly prepare the ground, then plant the seeds, then wait. Then, as the flower appears, a gardener has to take care of it—in a way that will permit it to express its nature, its best possibilities. If I could decide my fate, it would be to have a smaller company than the one I have today. I could take better care of it.


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