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ASHTABULA — George Edward Joseph Stecki Sr., age 85, of Ashtabula, Ohio, passed away on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012, in the Hospice Unit of Ashtabula County Medical Center with his family by his side.
George was born on April 16, 1927, in Chicago, Ill., the son of Alexander and Lorean Stecki. He later relocated with his wife and family to Ashtabula in 1969 and has been a resident since.
George worked for Sherwin-Williams Paint/SCM/Millenium for 46 years and retired in 1995.
His interests included racing stock cars, CB radios (his handle was "Polish Ambassador"), bowling, poker, the Cleveland Indians, gardening and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Virginia (Jewell) Stecki; three sons, George (Regina) Stecki Jr. of Ashtabula, John Stecki Sr. of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Ben Stecki Sr. of Ashtabula; one daughter, Kathy (Mike) Headley of Greenville, Pa.; six grandsons, Luke, Matthew, Alexander Jr., John Jr., Ben Jr. and Kaylor; three granddaughters, Tiffany, Stacy and Tabitha; and nine great-grandchildren.
George was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Alexander W. Stecki; brothers, Frank, Fred and Louis; a sister, Rosie; and a daughter-in-law, Patricia (Heim) Stecki.
Funeral Services are 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4th, at POTTI LAKESIDE FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICE, 1329 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, with the Rev. Tim Kraus officiating. Burial will follow in Edgewood Cemetery.
Calling Hours are 11 a.m. until the time of Service Thursday.
Contributions may be made to Hospice of the Western Reserve.
The family would like to thank the staff of the ICU and Hospice Unit of Ashtabula County Medical Center for the kind and caring help. They would also like to thank neighbors Jerry and Phyllis Miller for being the best of friends and for their help with Mom and Dad.
Obituary and condolences at starbeacon.com.


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The upcoming readings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol at the Katonah Museum of Art promise to do much more than get folks in the holiday spirit.
The presentations, slated for Sunday and Monday evenings, are set to feature four actors from the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (HVSF). Sans costumes, props and a set, they will take turns narrating and reading as various characters in a rendition that emphasizes the author's descriptive voice.
"It's very fast-paced, very moving," Terrence O'Brien, artistic director for HVSF, said. "The audience can hear Dickens' narrative...They get a lot of interesting, beautiful commentary and description."
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Three of the actors, Eleanor Handley, Katie Hartke and Stephen Paul Johnson, have been a part of the reading since it began four years ago. They know the script by heart, for the most part—as does Jason O'Connell, the latest addition to the cast.
In trying to fit a reading meant for four actors, O'Brien didn't alter or rewrite the script. He simply "trimmed and divided" where necessary. But he wanted to be sure the presentation reflected the classic's depth—something he noticed not during a production, but when he sat down with a copy of the literature.
"We wanted to make sure that we had the whole story, all the major events," he said. "I think you need those in order to feel what the important things are, and to feel the transformation that [Ebenezer] Scrooge has at the end of the story."
That transformation is one of many topics audience members may broach with actors once the reading wraps up. A feast focused on foods from the era, as well as beer, wine and mingling, will follow.
"The actors are so gracious," said Allison Chernow, director of development at the museum. She was recalling last year's performance. "Not only do you get to see them up close in the gallery [where the interpretation unfolds], you get to talk to them afterward. I think that's unique."
The interaction is an important aspect of the production from the actors' perspective, too, O'Brien said. It gives them a chance to hear directly from the audience.
Katonah resident Maria Kronfeld was part of the audience at the museum last year. She, too, had a positive experience. A big fan of the company and the shows at Boscobel house and gardens in Garrison, Kronfeld had been hoping to attend a reading ever since she learned Dickens hosted public readings often.
"It's different than what you'd think the reading would be like," Kronfeld said, adding that the actors use lots of body language. Their recitations brought the audience to tears at some points, and drew big laughs at others. "I think the language, the turns of phrase, are so beautiful. It's sort of awesome to hear it from the actors."
Kronfeld won't be able to make this year's reading—and it's "killing" her. She knows her teenage daughter, who is set to attend with a friend, will enjoy it, though.
"I would recommend it to everybody," she said.
The readings will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 2) and Monday (Dec. 3). Tickets are $50 ($40 for museum members). Reservations are requested, so call 914-232-9555, extension 0, or visit this site. Click here for details on presentations happening at other locations between now and mid-December.

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I remember the incident in the K&C, and I remember the fluff piece you are talking about but I don't remember the sequence. I do remember some fluff piece where after Oleg's accident with Elena he felt he was the injured party. I guess that's why I thought the K&C incident came after the accident. In any event Oleg was a scary guy. I hope he never got married or skated with another partner!
They were 2nd or 3rd after the SP and had a catastrophic FP and fell to 9th in the standings.
Here Elena is alone in the kiss'n'cry
I remember that one. I still have the tape. They were 3rd in the SP. Elena looked incredibly happy in that program. I have never seen her that happy at any other time. In the LP they had a total meltdown. He fell on both sbs jumps. She fell on both throws. Anton didn't wait in the K&C to watch the scores. Elena bravely sat there to face it. However, there is a big difference between Anton walking out of the K&C and Oleg not even accompanying Elena to the medal podium at one time; Elena had to be escorted by another skater (I forget who). Anton was just upset in general, but Oleg took out his anger and frustrations on Elena. He used to even hit her. Anton treated her like a "crystal vase" (Tamara's words)
Vasiliev talks about the Latvian federation and a season coaching Shilakov in a couple of his recent interviews.
It looks like Anton is having a difficult time politically and his divorce does not help matters.
Also referencing another thread, in her recent interview Moskvina mentions Elena's students so clearly she is doing some teaching which is great - she has so much beautiful technique to pass on to her students.
When they were skating together as pros, I was thinking that Anton would make a good coach. I had not thought of Elena as a coach, but apparently she is doing well with it. I hope Anton has success in whatever he decides to do.
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Employees of the Raley's-Nob Hill supermarkets have been on strike since they walked off the job Sunday morning after a disagreement over wages and medical benefits.
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"Come out and support your local grocery workers as they fight back a vicious attack on them by a company Hell bent on reducing benefits, wages and busting the union. Make no mistake this attack engineered by the former head of the Oregon GOP. It is Wisconsin in California!"
The workers have been joined on the picket lines by other union members such as firefighters, teachers and teamsters. Employees who did not want to participate in the strike were given a letter of resignation they could sign.
The union is using a format called "Picket Line News" on their site to disseminate daily updates about the strike. In the most recent news posting, they encouraged workers to take time to vote on election day. The news also lists a "Strike Hot Line" for the workers to call and a "War Room" number for workers to speak to union personnel.
About 15 to 15 workers stood in front of the Raley's in Pleasanton at 6 a.m. Sunday morning after being called at 3 a.m. to be notified of the strike, while picketing workers at the Nob Hill market in Walnut Creek were passing out fliers Sunday morning that asked shoppers to support their "neighborhood grocery workers."
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President Obama was eager to meet real, suffering Americans in the troubled Midwest, and when he got there he promised "to do everything" he could to address the economic crisis that he had "inherited," one that he said was "as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression."
The date was February 9, 2009; the place was Elkhart, Ind. It was the newly inaugurated president's first trip out of Washington. This week, as Obama returns to the Midwest for another attempt at assuaging the nation's economic distress, the issue that he once said he had inherited—and few people disagreed with that assessment then--is seen by more and more people as his own problem.
So a new cynicism greets the president on his bus tour through the heartland. Still, even at this late date it is fair to ask: In purely economic terms, how much of this crisis is really Obama's problem, and how much better might he have done to fix it? The answer is: probably not that much.
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The traumatic events around the world that have been exacerbating the recovery, especially Europe's debt crisis, are mostly out of Obama's control. That too was more or less predetermined, Rogoff said. "The sovereign debt woes in Europe are prototypical of a financial crisis of this size," he said. The only difference this time is that the new fact of the eurozone might have made things worse, Rogoff added, because it prevented individually troubled nations such as Greece from devaluing their currencies and recovering faster.
But there is general agreement on both sides of the aisle that Obama could have done a better job of leadership, both at home and globally. That he could have done much more to make Americans and the rest of the world believe he was indeed doing "everything" to tackle the toughest issues and thus restore what JPMorgan Chase Chairman Jamie Dimon, a sometime Obama adviser, last week called the "secret sauce" to any economic recovery: confidence.
As Obama himself seemed to understand at the outset, the economic devastation he faced was the worst in 80 years. It was far worse, in other words, than anything Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, or George H.W. Bush had to overcome. And because this recession was caused by an unprecedented financial collapse, history shows that it was destined to be longer-lived than most.
The numbers tell part of that story. What Rogoff calls the Great Contraction is essentially an inversion of the debt-inflated consumer bubble of the 2000s, a continuing collapse of demand that has lingered longer than many of Obama's top advisers or the Federal Reserve thought would occur. Though the recovery technically began in June 2009, the reason for this "jobless recovery" is pretty straightforward: Consumers aren't buying, stores aren't selling, and as a result companies aren't making—or hiring. That has been exacerbated by a credit crunch that is also historic. Consumer confidence is at the lowest level since 1980, new data show.
Unemployment trends also indicate that it is somewhat unfair to accuse Obama, as his GOP opponents are wont to do, of driving up the jobless rate beyond what it was when he took office. The official recession began in December 2007, more than a year before he became president, and ended in June 2009, some five months into his presidency. But the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator; in November of 2008, the month of Obama's election, it was still only 6.8 percent, though it had slowly climbed from December and it reached a height of 7.8 percent in January, just before Obama was sworn in. Still driven by what began as George W. Bush's recession, it didn't bottom out until nine months into Obama's term, 10.1 percent in October of 2009, and then barely began to decline over the next two years.
Today, the unemployment rate continues to hover above 9 percent, below the worst levels at the recession's bottom. Elkhart itself is down to 10.1 percent from the 15 percent level it reached during Obama's inaugural visit, although that's still double what it was in the 2000s.
This doesn't mean, however, that there was nothing else Obama could have done. In retrospect, that Elkhart speech in early 2009 presaged the president's biggest current problem: the perception that he is a naïve, weak leader who has allowed both the GOP and Wall Street to get the better of him, and who by trying to do too much at once did too little. Even then, trying to be all things to everyone, Obama was muddying the message and leaving himself open to savage Republican counterattacks. In Elkhart, he tried to sell what was actually a giant shot of adrenalin to an economy with a stopped heart—in other words, a pure emergency measure, the nearly $800 billion stimulus package—as a long-term restructuring plan that would "lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth." Obama thus fed GOP suspicions that he was just another Big Government liberal.
After the stimulus passed, Obama and his team took great pride in preventing the economy from falling into another Great Depression, while at the same time fighting two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he quickly grew distracted by other issues, especially by health care reform. Obama seemed to pay less attention, as if just successfully avoiding the abyss were the main job. "The plan that we put forward will save or create 3 to 4 million jobs over the next two years," Obama had pledged that day in Elkhart. According to Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, "there is pretty strong consensus in the economics community that the stimulus did pretty much what it said it was going to do. It created or saved between 3 to 4 million jobs. But the gap in the labor market is 11 million—that's how many payroll jobs we've lost since the start, plus the number of jobs we didn't add."
Obama, in other words, failed to keep his eye on the biggest thing on his agenda by far: an ongoing historic disaster, created by an out-of-control era of credit expansion and a predecessor administration that seemed not to care a whit about fiscal responsibility or oversight of the financial system. Above all, Obama left himself to appear weak—hardly confidence-instilling—by constantly appealing to Republicans and especially to Wall Street, one of the biggest culprits in the crisis, for help.
In a speech at Cooper Union in New York in April 2010, he spoke again "of a financial crisis as dire as any we've known in generations. And that crisis was born of a failure of responsibility--from Wall Street to Washington--that brought down many of the world's largest financial firms and nearly dragged our economy into a second Great Depression." Yet even there Obama seemed to pretend that Wall Street was on his side. "Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street," he declared. "We rise or we fall together as one nation. So I urge you to join me."
Meanwhile, health care reform totally dominated the Washington agenda for the next year, sapping Obama of what remaining political capital he had if he wanted to bring additional stimulus measures. Did the health care system need attention? Of course, but not necessarily in the middle of an unprecedented economic disaster, and not at the expense of permitting the chief culprits in the disaster to escape whipping. Surveys show that both Left and Right, liberals and conservatives, were united in wanting to see fundamental change to Wall Street and big finance. Yet rather than seizing the chance at the kind of leadership that might have unified a good part of the country, Obama threw himself into an issue that divided Left and Right as never before, and which was not directly related to the historic crisis at hand. "He was too generous to the financial system. He followed a set of policies aimed at preserving the status quo," Rogoff said.
It is a status quo that much of the country now identifies with Barack Obama.
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Friday, April 19, 2013 —
As spring has rolled into Stanly County, the Stanly County's farmer's market opened for the first time in 2013 last Saturday.
With a colder than average March, farmers were primarily offering cold winter vegetables. There were other tables at Market Station offering crafts and other health items.
The Dezern family, owners of Dezern Farms in Asheboro, had one of the larger tables at Saturday's market.
Blaze Dezern, 11, was assisting his parents, letting shoppers know what they had to offer.
"We got an arrangement of herbs, we got flowers, all kind of hanging baskets," Dezern said.
"On the food side, we have sweet potatoes, purple cauliflower, some chai tee, and my dad makes all kinds of jam and jelly."
Bracelets and key chains, which were made by Blaze and his sister, were also out for sale.
"We have a little bit of everything," Dezern said.
Having just filled out several greenhouses, Dezern Farms hopes that the weather cooperates, which for their efforts, means little rain.
"No more rain," his father Shawn said.
"Last year was good, and if it goes the way it's been going, we'll have a really good year," Dezern said.
"If we get any more rain, it'll drain out all the stuff we've planted."
Toward the back of the market, Hope Farms had other "greens" for sale.
"Cold season greens. Mustard grain, Swiss chards, your spinach," Sheila Menendez of Hope Farms said.
"Lettuce, romaine lettuce, radishes, green onions."
As for the warm season vegetables, Menendez said they likely won't be ready for another month.
"We'll probably have some early cucumbers, maybe some early squash. And in the height of the season, we'll have your typical okra, tomatoes, so forth," Menendez said.
But Saturday at the market wasn't conducted by only those with a farm or garden.
Fair Meadow Bakes, which is in Mt. Pleasant, had a table where people could buy a variety of breads.
Fair Meadow began in 2008 from a love of pizza.
Pat Gaddis and her husband Jay constructed a brick oven, where they began baking combinations of homemade pizza.
"We decided to start making breads and it kind of morphed from there," Gaddis said.
One Friday night per month, Fair Meadow hosts an open pizza night, where they bake pizzas as long as people continue to show up.
Gaddis said they've continued to show up to the market because of the people they meet.
"We've been coming here since 2009 and we do very well here. We have a pretty loyal following," Gaddis said.
The Stanly County Farmer's Market is open each Saturday through October from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. The market will be open on Wednesday beginning in June.
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Earlier this week, I described the India drug controller's, GN Singh, plan to prohibit the use of brand names in selling drugs. This is an effort to promote generics' use to reach a greater portion of the population and to save money for the government. I had the impression that it was aimed at the multi-nationals operating in India.
Indian Drugmakers To Fight Brand-Name Rule // Pharmalot.
However, the local Indian Drugs Manufacturer Association is the first to voice a vehement dissenting response to this concept. They contend the controller has NO jurisdiction on the use of brand names and pledge to fight this legally if necessary.
"Just as you cannot tell a carmaker or a chocolate maker to stop branding their products, you cannot ask pharma companies to do away with branding their products," said Vinay Pinto, managing director of Wallace Pharma.
Ironically, the trade association that represents foreign multi-nationals is taking more of a wait and see approach. The government has indicated a desire to get comment on this proposal and the MNCs want to participate in that exercise first. This story has more to come.
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|Good - 749 reviews
Located in Napa, Silverado Resort and Spa is close to Black Stallion Winery and Darioush Winery. This 4-star resort is within close proximity of Andretti Winery and Scientopia Discovery Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 380 air-conditioned rooms featuring iPod docking stations. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable p...
Overall Rating - Good - 749 reviews
Good 7.0
Quiet, secluded room with very nice view of the pool. Beautiful grounds kept immaculate!
Concierge was a bit stuffy and not very helpful when I asked about where to have a quick salad before our wine tour. Gave us directions to a deli which was complete opposite direction we needed to go for wine tour.Huge, lovely grounds with very friendly staff (except concierge). We were in a room away from the main large complex but that was fine with us because it was quiet.
Excellent 8.3
I didn't like the room not being a part of the hotel. Because I was traveling alone, I was concerned about my security. Normally, I would prefer this set up for couples or families.
|Excellent - 775 reviews
Located in Napa, Embassy Suites Hotel® Napa Valley-Wine Country is in a rural location, minutes from Napa Premium Outlets, and close to Quent Cordair Fine Art Gallery. This family-friendly resort is within close proximity of Uptown Theater and Napa Opera House. Make yourself at home in one of the 205 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwav...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 775 reviews
Excellent 10.0
I really love the cleanliness. I'm a clean freak. the location is nice, the hotel is nice, my 3yrs old keep talking about it and she ask us all the time to take her back to Embassy Suites Hotel Napa Valley. We love it here. i guess my 3yrs old said it all
the price is expensive but overall everything is great. i wish the price is a bit lower so more family can afford to stay at Embassy Suites Hotel Napa Valley.Very nice place to stay at and family friendly place. oh! this hotel have FREE BREAKFAST and FREE HAPPY HOUR any kind of drinks you want. BIG PLUS
Mediocre 3.0
Lovely outdoor space although only one firepit was working outside.
The level of service by the staff was appalling. I've had friendlier service at McDonald's. Unlike most Embassy Suites, the only option for hot breakfast was to wait in a huge line-no trays of scrambled eggs or sausage for those not wanting to wait.Not what I expect of a typical Embassy Suites and blemish on the Hilton name. It's not worth more than--- a night and I'm upset that I paid almost twice that.
|Excellent - 577 reviews
With a stay at The Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, you'll be convenient to Napa Symphony and Napa Golf Course at Kennedy Park. This 4-star resort is within close proximity of Napa Valley College and Eagle Vines Golf Club. Make yourself at home in one of the 322 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Your pillowtop bed com...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 577 reviews
Good 7.6
I had specifically booked a room with two queen beds and a hillside view, but received a room with a king bed and courtyard view. The hotel did not provide body lotion. The first day I thought it was an oversight, but on the second day they replenished the shampoo and soap, but still no lotion. Very long wait for valet parking at 10:30am. About 45 min. Chose to self park the next day.
Excellent 10.0
The staff and their customer service was phenomenal! The resort was beautiful and the spa was amazing!
No, we loved our stay!My husband and I were there to celebrate our 10-year anniversary and we truly had an amazing time! We were very pleased with the exceptional customer service we received and the staff acknowledged our anniversary. We will stay here again!
|Good - 887 reviews
For your next trip to wine country, let this Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Napa Valley hotel take care of the details. Wireless Internet and a hot breakfast buffet are complimentary at this completely non-smoking lodging, just off Route 121, minutes from historic downtown Napa and a short drive from world-class wineries, restaurants and shopping. The hotel also...
Overall Rating - Good - 887 reviews
Good 8.0
friendly service, cleanliness, price
noise, it was very loud beginning at 6am each morning. Also a bit far from downtown area and difficult to find cabs.
Excellent 9.0
Handy location good prices for the Napa Valley. The breakfast buffet is a bonus.
Nothing to complain about.This is about the 4th or 5th time staying at the Hawthorne and it is always consistant.
|Excellent - 576 reviews
Experience Napa Valley charm at the Ascend Hotel Collection. This intimate wine country hotel is ideally situated in the heart of Napa Valley on Highway 29 with a location convenient to all the area's wineries and attractions. This Napa, CA hotel is only one hour from San Francisco, three miles from historic downtown Napa, and within minutes of Yountville's...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 576 reviews
|Excellent - 1550 reviews
You deserve to go wine tasting in wine country, which is exactly what's in store for you around this gorgeous Napa hotel. Wineries, world-class restaurants, and hiking and cycling trails abound in this region. Your Napa hotel is close to the entire splendor of the area. Spend an afternoon touring different wineries and selecting a new favorite merlot. There...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1550 reviews
Excellent 9.0
The location was perfect and hotel offered breakfast included as well as having option for two beds.probably needs a little more attention by maintenance staff. We had entry light out and the phone didn't work. There was also food left in the refrigerator - however I can see how that happened as we didn't find it until we were taking out stuff out the final morning, kind of blended in on top shelf. so, honest mistake.
Excellent 10.0
Great breakfast, location, price.
They could clean out the outdoor ashtrays more regularly.
|Good - 474 reviews
Overall Rating - Good - 474 reviews
Okay 5.0
Twice I requested that we not be placed in a room on the parking lot. I called two days before our arrival and requested again at check in. It was clear that we had least priority, as they put us in a room overlooking blacktop. It was noisy and ugly.
Excellent 10.0
Lovely hotel - very clean and very helpful staff. Easy check-in.
Parking lot got full so we couldn't park real close to our car but we checked in very late.The restaurant is very good and love the fact they serve Starbucks coffee and pastries.
|Excellent - 925 reviews
Located in Napa, The Westin Verasa Napa is minutes from Napa Valley Wine Train and Napa Skate Park. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Oxbow Public Market and Scientopia Discovery Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 180 air-conditioned rooms featuring DVD players and flat-screen televisions. Satellite programming and video-game consoles a...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 925 reviews
Excellent 10.0
They wee super nice. We had our room upgraded which was awesome!
No we had a great experience.
Good 8.0
Room was excellent and the bed is comfy!
Resort fee, no self parking.
|Good - 2070 reviews
Located in Napa, Wine Valley Lodge is convenient to Uptown Theater and Quent Cordair Fine Art Gallery. This hotel is within close proximity of Napa Valley College and Napa Opera House. Make yourself at home in one of the 54 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite...
Overall Rating - Good - 2070 reviews
Excellent 9.0
The price
I would have liked a room with 2 beds but we were told that would be an additional $50+ when we arrived. We would have liked to have that as an option when we booked it.Nice continental breakfast and quiet location. Easy access to the freeway and local tourist spots. I would stay there again. And the bed was very comfortable!
Good 8.0
We were very tired and had stayed in several hotels on our trip. It was nice to be able to pull up the car right to the room.Breakfast is decent. All the continental b'fast options plus sausage, egg, and cheese croissant sandwhiches to warm.
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Located in Napa, The White House Inn is minutes from Uptown Theater and Quent Cordair Fine Art Gallery. This 4-star inn is within close proximity of Napa Opera House and Oxbow Public Market. Make yourself at home in one of the 17 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable pro...
|Excellent - 216 reviews
Located in Napa, Hilton Garden Inn Napa is in the suburbs and convenient to Alston Park and Westwood Hills Park. This hotel is within close proximity of Andretti Winery and Scientopia Discovery Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 80 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Cable programming...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 216 reviews
Excellent 10.0
I was really nervous with the 2 1/2 star rating, but the price was so much better than the other hotels. It FAR exceeds the 2 1/2. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and would absolutely recommend to anyone traveling to Napa!The staff was incredibly friendly and knowledgable. The rooms were fantastically clean and very nice. Needless to say, we were more than pleased.
Good 8.0
The bed was super comfortable and the staff was very friendly.
Just off of the freeway so not terribly scenic in the immediate area.
|Good - 223 reviews
River Pointe Napa Valley is a luxury 5 star resort that will suit any type of vacation. We offer studio, one-, and two-bedroom cottages. Guests enjoy room amenities such as an outdoor deck, fully-equipped kitchen, king/queen sized bed, sofa sleeper, and deluxe bathrooms. Additionally, on-site amenities include wine tasting, indoor/outdoor games, outdoor heat...
Overall Rating - Good - 223 reviews
|Excellent - 482 reviews
The Andaz Napa is a 141 room boutique hotel located in downtown Napa. Centrally located in the revitalized "West End" the Andaz provides an excellent location to explore and discover all that Napa has to offer
Overall Rating - Excellent - 482 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Great location and very nice
Concierge came in at 10:30.... That's no help
Good 7.0
Location was great. Nice bar on level 2
Rooms are very small for the money. In room AC very noisy.Just returned from a weekend in Napa. The Andaz is a nice hotel, but for the money not nice enough. First is the check-in. There is very limit parking in front of the hotel and Valet get backed up very quickly. There is no 'desk', just people wandering around with iPads. This process was pretty pleasant. We were placed on the third floor. There was no view at all, just the side of a building. The room had a king bed and a chair cramped into it. Maybe 2 feet on each side of the bed. The bathroom was nice, with a great true rain shower.
|Excellent - 71 reviews
Located in Napa, La Residence is convenient to Trefethen Family Vineyard and Andretti Winery. This romantic hotel is within close proximity of Alston Park and Darioush Winery. Make yourself at home in one of the 24 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring iPod docking stations and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 71 reviews
Excellent 10.0
La Residence was such a great find - really a hidden gem, tucked out of the way in a great location which is very accessible to the wineries. The property has beautiful grounds and the rooms are well-appointed, but cozy and comfortable. There is a lot of history at the property, especially the mansion which has historic charm combined with all the upgrades that make it modern-day comfortable, including plush, cozy robes. Each room seemed to have access to outdoor seating which added to the charm of La Residence. There is a pool and hot tub on the property - we wish we had brought our suits for a hot tub dip after dinner. We received a complimentary room upgrade upon our arrival and we were in a beautiful room in the mansion, complete with complementary Internet. And the La Residence staff is charming and friendly, too. The daily wine reception is a nice touch, with cheese and crackers, and both a red or white wine you can enjoy on the terrace, when the weather is nice. It's a nice way...
Excellent 10.0
Wonderful place at a reasonable price for Napa. Beautiful grounds, very peaceful despite traffic noise from highway. Our room was upstairs in the 'mansion' house, with a great porch and seating right outside our room: clearly every guest has a bottle of wine and enjoys the view - in our case amazing fall foliage. Large room, very nicely updated old school, which could be called a suite. Management even put two slices of delicious cheesecake in the mini-fridge with a lovely note for my wife's birthday. Unfortunately we had just stuffed ourselves (and you should too) at Bistro Don Giovanni, walking distance just down the same street. Likely to become an annual event for us - we will absolutely be back!
|Excellent - 277 reviews
Overall Rating - Excellent - 277 reviews
Poor 1.0
have not been to the hotel
confirmation process is totally wrongCannot rate the hotel but the confirmation process as I have been charged for a reservation on a wrong date
Good 8.0
Good location out of the way. Bartender was really friendly and gave us a good tip for a restaurant close by. Free breakfast and a beautiful courtyard to enjoy it in. Free parking.
Breakfast was a free-for-all and might benefit from having someone oversee the lines. My husband thought the waffles were being made for us and accidentally stole a lady's waffle when she walked away to get other items - she wasn't very happy about that!We were in town for a Segway tour and decided to spend a night in Napa. Wine tasting and a quiet Italian dinner made this trip a memorable mini-getaway.


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This documentary photography project was in association with the Mucharambeyi family in Rusape, North East Zimbabwe and sponsored by U.S.I.S., Harare, Zimbabwe as the inaugural exhibition/event for the United States Information center [1995]. The Mucharambeyi family attended, and Johnnie Carson, U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, opened the exhibition.
Chambers considers this project one of his more meaningful ones since he spent several days with the Mucharambeyi family in a rural setting that had him traveling from village to village for his assimilation into their culture and customs to provide photo documentation.
Hyperlink: PhotoForum Worldwide Exhibition (Southwest of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection [SWRMC-1]) (group show), first, on-line/hyperlinked exhibition under the auspices of PhotoForum/Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. (initiator/coordinator), 1997.
Southwest Of Rusape: The Mucharambeyi Connection (solo show), Corridor Gallery, United States Information Service (USIS), Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa (Received a United States Government Grant ; officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe; and accepted as a part of the USIS Archives.), 1995.


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Gary V loved the 2005 vintage, now let's see how the 1969 Chateau Doisy Vedrines is holding up.
Chateau Doisy Vedrines Sauternes 1969
Wine Library TV is Changing the Wine World!
What motivates this revolution, you ask? Our movement seeks to break down the barriers, stereotypes, and misperceptions that otherwise prevent people from exploring and enjoying the exciting and rewarding world of wine. Gary Vaynerchuk (VAY NER CHUK), the star of Wine Library TV, is Director of Operations at Wine Library in Springfield, NJ. With his unconventional, often irreverent commentary on wine, Gary has attracted a cult-like following of more than 80,000 viewers a day. In the name of "expanding one's palate", Gary convinced Conan O'Brien to lick salted rocks and shared samples of dirt and grass with Ellen Degeneres. He routinely pans popular wines (even ones sold by Wine Library). He interrupts his webcasts with rants about his beloved New York Jets. This is not your typical wine expert.
Gary's roots in wine tasting come honestly - his Russian immigrant parents owned a liquor store when he was growing up. Bored at the cash register, Gary began reading Wine Spectator and Wine Advocate and realized collecting wine offered an allure similar to his previous hobby of collecting baseball cards. As a teenager, tasting wine was legally impossible, so Gary set out to train his palate "backwards". To study various flavors associated with wine, Gary tasted obscure fruits and vegetables, along with earthly influences, including grass, dirt, rocks, tobacco and wood. "I probably consumed more New Jersey grass in my teens than any lawn mower." By familiarizing himself with the numerous tastes that contributed to a specific wine, Gary was able to detect subtleties that an ordinary palate wouldn't recognize.
With a wealth of knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit, Gary spent every weekend of his college years at his parents' store, rebranding the family business as Wine Library and establishing himself as a respected expert. As the store's only wine buyer, he sampled every wine that entered the store. Customers depended on Gary for his advice and within a five year time period, Wine Library grew from a $4 million dollar business to a $45 million business.
But Gary's career took a new turn with the advent of Wine Library TV. Gary's key goals are twofold: "First, I want people to try different wines. How can you have a favorite if you only know a few? Second, I tell people to trust their palates. If a wine appeals to your palate, then it's a good choice. Don't feel pressured to like popular brands or what experts recommend. Buy what 'brings the thunder' for you."
It always troubled Gary to observe the stuffiness of the industry-conceited sommeliers, snobby shopkeepers unwilling (or unable) to educate their consumers, and seemingly mystical conventions all combine to make wine seem intimidating to the uninitiated. Wine Library TV has reinvented the concept of wine tasting for a new generation. In addition to encouraging straightforward wine tasting, Gary educates viewers about the effects of regional factors (soil, sun, wind) on wine flavors, and how to buy wine. Debunking myths (red vs. white, big name brands vs. independent growers, the pitfalls of wine ratings, etc.) is another ongoing theme of the show. Specific episode topics have included decanting, how to train your palate, the impact oak aging
and barrel fermenting have on wine (Beware of the Oak Monster!), and comparisons of wines made from the same grapes grown in different regions.
WLTV has blossomed into a full-fledged community. The viewers (self-named "Vayniacs") convene on an extremely active forum, and have organized numerous off-line gatherings. Gary and the viewers have teamed up with Crushpad to create the first ever community wine, Vayniac Cabernet.
National TV Appearances by Gary Vaynerchuk:
* Late Night with Conan O'Brien - May 12, 2008
* The Ellen Degeneres Show
* Mad Money with Jim Cramer
* Nightline
* The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
* Late Night with Conan O'Brien - August 1, 2007
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This week my son buttered his own toast and my daughter tied her own shoe laces. Both kids could have mastered these tasks sooner but my husband and I took a mellow "let's not push it" approach that seemed like smart parenting while we were doing it. Then I read " Spoiled Rotten," a book review that appeared in the New Yorker. Uh-oh. Author Elizabeth Kolbert studied the abilities of children living in "privileged" American families to those living in "primitive" Amazonian tribes. It's not a pretty picture.
Kolbert referenced a quote by Twenge and Campbell who note that in our kid-centric society, "Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval."
I finished the article and as so often happens, thought of a dog. Specifically, Jo-Jo.
Jo-Jo is a four-year old Cocker Spaniel mix with a serious housebreaking problem. Pam, his loving and long-suffering owner, had long grown weary of the problem and decided that the best course of action was to just accept it. After all, Jo-Jo had a tough puppyhood.
Plucked from a high-kill Southern shelter, he had never been properly socialized. His list of fears included linoleum flooring, coffee grinders and house guests. He didn't "do stairs," he suffered from severe separation anxiety and he regularly pooped in the house.
Jo-Jo would go outside to do his business but only if Pam accompanied him. And only if he was allowed adequate time—sometimes 30 minutes—to locate the perfect spot. And not so much in the rain. Or snow. Or … well, you get the picture. Jo-Jo was the unwitting victim of the canine version of "spoiled rotten."
As I sat listening to Jo-Jo's story, I noticed his overall anxiety: he was completely preoccupied with sustaining physical contact with his owners. They petted him on cue to sooth his anxiety but that didn't resolve the anxiety … it only sustained it.
I learned that Jo-Jo was "getting a little heavy," but Pam continued to carry him up and down stairs. The family stopped custom-grinding fresh coffee beans in favor of store-ground. They laid strips of carpet on the linoleum floors. They spent hours circling the block waiting for Jo-Jo to relieve himself. They cleaned up gallons of pee and poop and finally picked up the phone and called me.
It took a few lessons to get to the heart of dear Jo-Jo. His owners were not intentionally encouraging the helplessness of this anxious, discombobulated dog but that was the result. Hoping to build Jo-Jo's confidence with oodles of unconditional love, attention and support they instead created an overly dependent and fearful dog.
Jo-Jo needed a confidence boost. To encourage his can-do spirit (which has been almost entirely snuffed out), we created a basket of "fester" bones. When Jo-Jo was anxious, he would seek reassurance through petting… but petting did not relieve his apprehension.
Now when Jo-Jo is anxious, Pam encourages him to slide under her chair and chew a bone until his nerves steady. Then she pets him to reinforce calm. This seemingly simple change is really quite significant: Jo-Jo is slowing learning to seek his own comfort rather than wait for someone else to give it.
Next we took on the stair phobia. After some enthusiastic encouragement (of both Jo-Jo and Pam), tubby Jo-Jo was leaping—OK, maybe leaping is overstating it—over some simple agility jumps. Creating a positive, successful association with non-flat surfaces helped Jo-Jo feel more able around stairs…literally, one step at a time.
And then we addressed the primary frustration: Jo-Jo's housebreaking problem. We created a small, mulched patch in the yard, not too far from the house. Instead of walking, walking and walking until Jo-Jo finally made his choice, Pam brought him to the spot and stayed there until he did his business. She did not pet, play or walk him until he did his business. Pee and poop parameters set, Jo-Jo will continue to gain confidence knowing what is expected of him.
An overnight solution? No. But within a month, Jo-Jo was playful where he had been anxious, cooperative instead of clingy, can-do rather than I-don't-wanna. The solution to Pam and Jo-Jo's problem didn't involve harsh corrections or oppressive training techniques, just a simple change in mindset.
The opposite of spoiling isn't bullying, it's understanding and encouragement. When we step in and do it all — be it buttering toast, tying shoelaces or circling the block for hours — we slowly sap the confidence and initiative of our two- and four-legged kids. As Jo-Jo came to learn that he could solve a few of his own problems — I feel anxious…I better go find my chew bone! — his self control increased.
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It's a stark verdict from a prominent source. "There are hundreds of thousands of people who were trained and mentored, and studied classical marketing, and they got good at it," says Clark Kokich, chairman of digital agency Razorfish. Unfortunately, the world has changed – and that education is no longer relevant. "If your self-worth and your confidence is based on you being an expert, you're in deep trouble, because there aren't any experts," says Kokich, author of Do or Die: Surviving and Thriving in a World Where the Old Ways of Marketing Aren't Getting It Done. "Sure, there are experts in some fields. Someone may be really good in SEO or in mobile. But there aren't any experts in making this transition."
In the late 1990s, digital marketing debuted to great fanfare, but it was still fundamentally about advertising to customers. But in the past several years, new social and mobile tools have upended that paradigm. "The focus has really changed," Kokich told me in a recent interview at the Inbound Marketing Summit, where we were both keynote speakers. "It's less about advertising and more about creating an experience that transforms what it means to be a customer of a brand. And that change has really caused a lot of consternation in marketing because none of us were trained to do that."
As a model for the future, he cites the iconoclastic examples of Richard Branson's Virgin; Nike's "Write the Future" campaign, in which youth competed to be identified as a rising soccer star; and the "Epic Mix" campaign by the Vail ski resort, which leveraged digital technology to help friends connect, track each other, and compete on the slopes. To succeed in marketing moving forward, he says, "What you need more than expertise is curiosity, someone who's interested in what's happening, loves change, and wants to develop ideas and drive change. If you're not one of those people, you're going to hate what's going on in marketing and you won't be effective. I have friends who have told me they're just trying to hang on before people realize they don't know what they're doing. But I don't think you can fake it another five years. You're just not relevant if you're fighting the reality of what's happening."
So how do you begin to "create brand experiences" instead of relying on past methods of advertising? The first step, says Kokich, is to "ask a different question." He advises companies to pull together a cross-section of company and agency staff – "everybody that's responsible for building anything that touches the customer" – put them in a room and ask: "What do people hate about doing business with us, and can we use digital to fix it?"
The wrong frame, which too many companies use, is "This is what we are, and how do we shine it up?" Kokich believes more fundamental change is necessary. "We talk a lot in marketing about the importance of being good storytellers. Well, we need to be good story changers, because telling a story isn't enough. Customers can see right through a great story about a lousy product."
If you succeed in the new marketing, Kokich says, the benefits can be profound: "Companies like Virgin or Vail fundamentally altered their market position, because they fundamentally altered the way they did marketing."
Dorie Clark is CEO of Clark Strategic Communications and the author of the forthcoming Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). She is a strategy consultant who has worked with clients including Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation. Listen to her podcasts or follow her on Twitter.
Wonderful article. We have a marketing agency in San Francisco and what is exciting to me is how important content becomes in all this. The medium shifts, the vantage point of the communication between business and customer changes, and in all this the quality and relevance of the content only becomes more and more vital. If there is an "expertise" to be found in all this it is the expertise of communicating.
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Wonderful article. We have a marketing agency in San Francisco and what is exciting to me is how important content becomes in all this. The medium shifts, the vantage point of the communication between business and customer changes, and in all this the quality and relevance of the content only becomes more and more vital. If there is an "expertise" to be found in all this it is the expertise of communicating.
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I have to respectfully disagree with a lot of the points you make in this article. While I do respect your credentials and what not…as an entrepreneur on the ground in many different businesses (I've owned a restaurant, an internet marketing company, and a cruise sales business as well as worked for Walt Disney Company) I think you're MASSIVELY overcomplicating "marketing and branding."
While this isn't a surprise since you're a branding expert, I'm kind of shocked that with this many words…you said absolutely nothing that someone can use.
The fact is…building a brand comes down to 3 steps.
1. Provide a great service (you cite Branson and Virgin which is basically what they do in a nutshell)
2. Provide a great product (not hard when most businesses are absolutely terrible)
3. Get your customers to tell their friends (manipulate the compare and contrast principle by being so much better than your competition and they'll do this without any fancy contest or bullshit gimmick)
The fact is…the digital world is making brand building virtually automatic. You either do good by your customers and get repeat business or you don't.
Fancy ad campaigns, contests, etc only work if you have absurd amounts of money to put into them which most smaller entrepreneurs don't have.
That all being said…I don't think you mean to do all this stuff.
Let me give you some examples of what "bugged me"
1. Telling people (i know you didn't say this specifically but your quoted person did)
"What do people hate about doing business with us, and can we use digital to fix it?"
This is absolutely idiotic. Here's why. If you have to ask this question, you've failed…digital can't fix a crappy product or crappy service.
The basics eliminate the need for asking this question.
2. "We talk a lot in marketing about the importance of being good storytellers. Well, we need to be good story changers, because telling a story isn't enough. Customers can see right through a great story about a lousy product."
One word= DUH!!!!
Stories about a business (b/c they are a business first and a brand is a description) happen because of great service and great products.
You can't "tell a story" because that's not how the world works. It's not a "push" world any more where you can dictate the tone. The tone is dictated to you through social media and other channels.
There are more things and plenty of things to argue here but the main point is that this article basically just shows what entrepreneurs have known since the dark ages…
Your customers talk…now the digital world means they can talk to 7 billion people instead of their local community.
Let's cut the marketing crap and get down to business…
Don't sell shit and you'll be fine…it's not hard at all.
All that I said above…I hope it's absolutely clear that it wasn't personal toward you but rather the content.
I just think this area of marketing is really really "fluffy" and full of people (not saying you just speaking purposefully in generalities) who haven't sold anything.
I just looked and opened a few of your "popular posts" and look forward to reading them.
I'll agree with you on that.
I think though that the simple things are coming back into vogue.
So I guess my point is that digital medium is extremely over-rated in its ability to drive sales (all marketing and advertising is only good for that…thus why I disagree with a lot of the fluffy story stuff that is common in branding training/discussions).
When I worked for Disney, one of the things they give you when you hire on is a values card…I still have mine and it reminds me often of what my grandparents (both of whom were blue or pink collar employees for GM for their entire working lives…no college…not much in the way of formal education) taught me.
Basic human principles will make you a fortune. Upon reading your comment I think we are on the same page just call things differently…which is perfectly A-OK.
I just always worry when I read branding because as soon as you get on the ground…all the academic/ad agency crap doesn't work when it comes to making the cash register sing… :)
Have a great day and thanks for replying to my comment (and for taking it in the spirit I intended…always worry about that in written text)
EXACTLY. Brad took the words right out of my mouth.
Marketing started being misapplied when companies stopped wooing the customer and started viewing them as "consumers" instead. I get so tired of seeing those surveys that ask all the wrong questions as they focus on how their product is perceived rather than how much actual value it holds for the customer.
In school, we discussed the reasons behind "which ad pulled best" and examined the idea of brand positioning as tools used in conjunction with a product that still had some inherent worth. These strategies were looked at as a way to bring the value of the product to people's attention, but I always recognized that as long as there WAS a value, there was a way to make it known in a creative manner. Even among competing products, the most effective ads were those which highlighted the benefit of whatever they were advertising, and sometimes the difference came down to image and brand, but it was never ONLY that which was the motivation behind the idea.
The effectiveness of any strategy always starts with the value of what you are selling. Sometimes it doesn't need to be interesting or fancy at all, just informative about the products value. A good product sells itself, but sadly, it seems that companies no longer care about the product, only about how to make people buy it through manipulation. This last presidential election is a perfect example of that kind of thinking and how it serves NO ONE well.
I am an expert in how to talk to people. If you give me something that people need, want, or can USE, or something that is better than what they already have, I can find you a path to those people every time because I know how to share good news. That has only become easier in the digital age.
However, dressing up garbage is harder because it's easier for word that it's garbage to spread as well.
Focus on making something people actually want, and anyone you hire can end up looking like a marketing expert. It doesn't even have to be "NEW" or unheard of, it just has to be GOOD. If you have a history of making stuff that is GOOD, you will earn trust and people will even be willing to a pay a little more for YOUR thing than a comparable competitors product based on that reputation of being GOOD. But your brand is only as good as what it represents when it comes down to it.
Obviously you can't sell a lousy product. However, there is not much difference between most businesses, products and services, in a category anymore. If your goal is to scale up and become a big business a good product and the average word of mouth simply isn't enough. You have do have effective marketing to be top of mind and make yourself or your business the one "they" pick out of the list of options.


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He soon breaks free and into clearer view after meeting a woman named Ruth (a sharp and vital Elizabeth Morton) with whom he falls instantly in love. Ruth is losing her hearing, but coming from deaf parents, she is well acquainted with the community and culture of the deaf. This does not make her transition any easier, however. Indeed, it complicates it in subtle ways. More than any other character, she straddles both worlds: the hearing and the non-hearing. It makes her both threatening and attractive to Billy's family, who fear Billy's categorization and cooptation as part of a deaf minority.
Billy, unusually adept at lip reading and emboldened by his love for Ruth and the community she provides access to, takes a job with a law court providing crucial transcriptions from audio-less video for criminal trials. This allows him to move out of the family home for the first time. Ruth teaches him ASL, which he begins to use more and more exclusively. Both he and Ruth meanwhile confront a family that places a premium on the connection between language and feeling. From this constellation of voices and positions, a serious split emerges that throws the family into a tailspin while asking a series of stimulating questions about where, and how, we belong.
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Excellent review. One correction: Ruth (Elizabeth Morton) is Billy's sister. The woman he meets and falls in love with is Sylvia (Nell Geisslinger).
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Your chances to see a movie nominated for an Oscar as Best Film of the Year are running out if you want to see one at a Gwinnett County theater before Sunday's Academy Awards Show.
And if you want to see "Amour" (nominated for both best picture and best foreign film), or "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (with 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis a best actress nominee), you're going to have to pay a little extra ... but it's worth it, if you have the time.
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AMC Colonial 18 in Lawrenceville is showing five of the nominated movies in a Saturday (Feb. 23) marathon beginning at 10 a.m. According to its website, "AMC Best Picture Showcase" charges $40 for back-to-back showings of "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Life of Pi" (3D), "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
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- "Beasts of the Southern Wild" *
- "Django Unchained"
- "Life of Pi" (3D) *
- "Lincoln" *
- "Silver Linings Playbook" *
- "Zero Dark Thirty" *
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AMC Sugarloaf Mills (formerly Discovery Mills), Lawrenceville
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- "Life of Pi" (3D)
- "Silver Linings Playbook"
- "Zero Dark Thirty"
Big Cinemas Peachtree 8, Peachtree Corners
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- "Les Miserables"
- "Lincoln"
- "Zero Dark Thirty"
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- "Silver Linings Playbook"
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Best Motion Picture
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Directing
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Michael Haneke, Amour
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Denzel Washington, Flight
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Alan Arkin, Argo
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams, The Master
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
Sally Field, Lincoln
Best Animated Feature Film
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph
Original Screenplay
Amour, Michael Haneke
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Flight, John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal
Adapted Screenplay
Argo, Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, David Magee
Lincoln, Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, David O. Russell
Best Foreign-Language Film
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
Amour (Austria)
No (Chile)
War Witch (Canada)
Kontiki (Norway)
Original Score
Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli
Argo, Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi, Mychael Danna
Lincoln, John Williams
Skyfall, Thomas Newman
Original Song
"Before My Time," J. Ralph; Chasing Ice
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend," Walter Murphy and Seth McFarlane; Ted
"Pi's Lullaby," Mychael Danna and Bombay Jayashri; Life of Pi
"Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth; Skyfall
"Suddenly," Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boulil; Les Misérables
Achievement in Production Direction
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Achievement in Cinematography
Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained, Robert Richardson
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins
Achievement in Costume Design
Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables, Paco Delgado
Lincoln, Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood
Best Documentary Feature
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for a Sugar Man
Best Documentary Short Subject
Kings Point
Mondays at Racine
Open Heart
Achievement in Film Editing
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Misérables
Best Animated Short Film
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Best Live-Action Short Film
Buzkashi Boys
Death of a Shadow
Achievement in Sound Editing
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Zero Dark Thirty
Achievement in Sound Mixing
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Achievement in Visual Effects
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life of Pi
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What's the hot new flavor that's sweeping the nation? If the nation you're talking about is Iraq, then American-style restaurants are shaping up to be the latest trend alert. According to an interesting new report, the average Baghdad citizen is craving hot dogs and fried chicken, and American-style restaurants are cropping up to meet that rising demand.
The Huffington Post reports that the rise in American-style fast food joints has multiple causes, ranging from a simple desire for something new to more deep-seated sociological implications:
A wave of new American-style restaurants is spreading across the Iraqi capital, enticing customers hungry for alternatives to traditional offerings like lamb kebabs and fire-roasted carp.
The fad is a sign that Iraqis, saddled with violence for years and still experiencing almost daily bombings and shootings, are prepared to move on and embrace ordinary pleasures – like stuffing their faces with pizza.
The most interesting thing about this trend is that, unlike similar growth in Asia, this uptick in American-style fast food cuisine isn't primarily driven by Western multinational franchise invaders swooping in to build their brands. The report notes that Yum Brands has no plans to expand in Iraq after shutting down their military base outposts last year; meanwhile Subway (currently known to be focusing its Middle Eastern growth in Kuwait and the UAE) did not respond to questioning. Instead, growth is coming from within the Middle East itself between entrepreneurs and relatively local chains:
The traditional Arabic restaurants long popular here now find themselves competing against foreign-sounding rivals such as Florida Fried Chicken, Mr. Potato, Pizza Boat and Burger Friends. There is even a blatant KFC knockoff called KFG, which owner Zaid Sadiq insists stands for Kentucky Family Group.
One of Mansour's newest additions is Burger Joint, a slick shop serving up respectable burgers and milkshakes to a soundtrack that includes Frank Sinatra. It is the creation of VQ Investment Group, a firm with operations in Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. […] The group also runs the Iraq franchises of Pizza Pizza, a Turkish chain, and is planning to launch a new hot submarine sandwich brand called Subz.
Is everyone excited about this new development? Of course not: wherever there's an upswing in fast food, a denouncement of obesity and poor health won't be far behind. This is just as true in Iraq as it would be anywhere else. But there is a location-based difference: in Baghdad, even otherwise wary physicians are conceding that the mental benefits of a carefree casual meal could perhaps outweigh the physical health risks:
"The opening of these American-style restaurants ... will make Iraqis, especially children, fatter," said Dr. Sarmad Hamid, a physician at a Baghdad government hospital. But even he acknowledged that the new eateries aren't all bad.
"People might benefit psychologically by sitting down in a quiet, clean and relatively fancy place with their families, away from the usual chaos in Iraqi cities," he said.
If everyone in Baghdad switched over to eating nothing but Kentucky F
ried Chicken Family Group all the time, there might be a problem. But in the meantime, Baghdad citizens seem to be happy just adding a little multicultural spice (and a fresh take on mindless comfort food) to their daily lunchtime lineups.
[SOURCE: Huffington Post]