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In the early days of television, it seemed like every episode existed to teach some sort of lesson. To whom, I have no idea, but you'd always find Dennis Mitchell or some other kid doing something stupid only to have the parents stage some elaborate plot to teach him or her the right way to act, but always in a safe and pleasant manner so that everybody can have a good chuckle at the end. It was a dumb but common way to write television back in those days, but those kinds of dedicated ham-fisted stories are kind of rare in the movies. Sure, there are lessons, but there's at least a little bit of an actual movie behind it. Not so with Circumstantial Evidence. Like an overlong pilot for a series nobody ever wanted to see, this film is boring, trite, and not worth watching. And yet here I am writing about it.
Little Pat Reynolds (Billy Cummings, Oregon Trail Scouts) is a good boy, but is always getting himself into trouble. When he gets caught breaking boxes outside the general store one day, the owner yells at him and slaps him across the face. When his father, Joe (Michael O'Shea, The Model and the Marriage Broker), here's about it, he goes down there, threatens him, and the two fight. The old man falls, hitting his head and killing himself, but witnesses swear they saw Joe hit the guy. Now, sitting and waiting in jail to die, his son and mentor Sam Lord (Lloyd Nolan, Peyton Place) hatch a scheme to prove to those eye witnesses that what they think they see might not actually be what happened.
It's unclear what director John Larkin (Quiet Please: Murder) was trying to accomplish with Circumstantial Evidence, but entertainment certainly wasn't particularly high on his priority list. It seems like the message what was important here, like a producer told Larkin that his job was to explain to moviegoers the definition of circumstantial evidence. If that was the case, then he performed his job admirably, with all the subtlety and finesse of Reefer Madness.
Really, though, the movie is awkward all the way around. Joe's past is incredibly unclear; he's definitely some kind of ex-hoodlum, but what happened and why he's in this sleepy little town is left unspoken. Billy Cummings was clearly not equipped to carry an entire movie on his young shoulders. His entire direction appears to have consisted of "yell your lines," since that's all he does, but it's not as though the script lends itself to insightful readings. Boring and essentially worthless, there's absolutely nothing here worth recommending.
Circumstantial Evidence comes to DVD as part of the Fox Cinema Archives collection and the results are on par with what we generally get from the on-demand service. The standard def 1.33:1 full frame image is average, with decent contrast and a minimum of damage for a movie that has seen no restoration. The sound is similar, with little background noise and no hiss or pops, but little in the way of dynamic range, either. There are no extras on the disc.
The best thing I can say about Circumstantial Evidence is that it's short, but that's hardly a virtue when it's such a painful hour to sit through. The overbearing amount of child acting is bad enough, but when the adult performers are such a small improvement over them, it's clear that even the best story would fall apart under this weight. Unfortunately, the story isn't particularly good in the first place, so I can see absolutely no reason to watch this movie.
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While I am opposed to gay marriage, I am puzzled by the French protest. This is the same country where it doesn't seem to matter whether one is married as a condition to living with someone, and when having a mistress is "normal." See the articles in the French media showing photos of the widow of Francois Mitterand and his mistress arm in arm at the funeral, and expressing approval.
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Would be great to witness similar demonstrations here.
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I'm happy to see this! It's heartwarming. Thank you Parisians for standing up for stability in society instead of degradation.
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So, the Right says we can now NOT hate France for not getting in line over our little "regime change" venture in Iraq? Bon!
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Field Hockey To Open 2015 Season At #13 Boston College And UMass Lowell
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As a Sophomore: Started all 18 games for the Friars... Recorded career highs in points (18), goals (seven) and assists (four)... Her 18 points and seven goals were third-best on the team... Led the team, and finished tied for second in the BIG EAST, with five game-winning goals... Scored at least one point in nine of 18 games... Tallied a single-game career high of three points in games vs. Holy Cross (1g, 1a) on September 11 and Towson (1g, 1a) on September 16... Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll, twice (9/17 and 9/24)... Member of the U.S. High Performance Training Squad (New England).
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Russian Rocket Fails After Launch, Breaking Up Over China
With an expensive communication satellite as its payload, a Russian Proton-M rocket broke apart during its third stage last night. The unmanned rocket failed at an altitude of 100 miles — video of the launch showed it flaring across the night sky.
The failure occurred about nine minutes after takeoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and officials say the rocket was over China at the time. There are conflicting reports about whether debris from the rocket might have hit the Earth's surface.
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"Roscosmos chief Oleg Ostapenko said the stage and its payload burned up in the atmosphere above China, with no debris reaching Earth. The Proton has been grounded pending results from an investigation into the failure. The next Proton launch was scheduled for July 15."
But Britain's The Independent says, "Parts were found scattered across the far east of Russia, Siberia and even in the Pacific Ocean."
And Radio Free Europe adds, "In Australia, witnesses described seeing what appeared to be large chunks of satellite debris crashing to Earth."
The newspaper notes that the rocket's payload was an advanced satellite that was intended to bring Internet access to remote parts of Russia. According to Ria Novosti, the rocket had been insured for around $225 million.
The failure was due to "malfunction of the steering engine unit of the third stage of the Proton-M. It malfunctioned at the 545th second of the flight," Russia's state-run ITAR-TASS news agency says.
This is the second mishap involving a Proton rocket in the past 12 months; one of the rockets exploded shortly after liftoff last July. And another one broke apart in 2012, creating what Space.com called a "cloud of debris" — or space junk — in the atmosphere.
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The engine turn has been "weak" the last week or so. This morning it was kinda cold and it wouldn't turn at all; I'd hear a slight buzzing sound and the dash lights would kind of flicker when the ignition was turned. Without performing any troubleshooting at all I got a jump and the engine turned over without issue. Do you think it's just a bad battery?
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Check and test the battery as it's likely to be the problem. If it tests okay and is fully charged, the next likely culprit will be the starter motor solenoid. Assuming the battery is all good, remove the starter motor and have the brushes checked/replaced by a local business who do electrical repairs.
It is probably just a bad battery, but make sure to check the terminals and cables for corrosion. Be sure to check the ground cable not only at the battery, but also at the points where it connects to the body and engine/transmission!


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — And then the skies cleared and the sun shone. Or so it may seem this week, as Democrats stage a convention aimed squarely at countering the dark-and-stormy vision presented by Republicans.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Amid lingering angst over the primary process, Bernie Sanders has a chance to encourage his supporters to embrace party unity.
By Thomas Krumenacker, Andrea Shalal and Andreas Burger BERLIN/ANSBACH, Germany (Reuters) - A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, an official said, in the fourth violent attack in the country in less than a week. Police said a dozen people were wounded, including three seriously, in the attack in Ansbach, a town of 40,000 people southwest of Nuremberg that is also home to a U.S. Army base. The incident will fuel growing public unease about Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy, under which more than a million migrants have entered Germany over the past year, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.


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Brad Renfro, teen hearthrob.
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From today's LA Times:
Undercover detectives posing as drug dealers launched the first phase of a new LAPD crackdown on skid row's massive drug marketplace Thursday by arresting 14 buyers, including a Hollywood actor…. Among those held on suspicion of felony attempted possession was actor Brad Renfro, who has appeared in such films as "The Client," "Apt Pupil" and "Ghost World."
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Sean "H.R. Puff'N'Diddy" Combs ALLOWS Justin Timberlake to use HIS catchphrase, "Sexy." Meanwhile, the Nortorious BIG will still allow Puff Daddy to use his career.
Is David Hasselhoff the Anti-Christ? Well… DUH!
Kristin Cavallari and Brody Jenner break up! 98 percent of America wonder, "Who are Kristin Cavallari and Brody Jenner?"
Saved by the Bell's Screech gets mugged; Slater called in for questioning.
Jennifer Aniston finally gets engaged to that fat hairy guy with the hair in his nostrils.
Angelina walks out on Brad Pitt! Angelina? A HOMEWRECKER? That's so unlike her!
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The first scandal of the Twitter era.
"New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (WEE'-nur) has hired a lawyer to investigate what steps to take regarding a lewd photo sent from his hacked Twitter account," the Associated Press reports. Here is the New York Times's tasteful description of that picture:
A sexually suggestive photograph of a man from the waist down, in nothing but underwear, was sent from Mr. Weiner's Twitter-related photo-sharing account to a woman in Seattle. Mr. Weiner dismissed the picture, saying his account had been hacked and writing on Saturday in a Twitter message (of course): "Tivo shot. FB hacked. Is my blender gonna attack me next?" . . . His office issued a statement on Sunday saying, "Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked."
Having seen the photo, we'd say "suggestive" is an understatement and "lewd" perhaps an exaggeration. The Times seems to take Weiner's word for it that he did not send the photo, which was directed to a 21-year-old college student. Peter Ingemi, a blogger and radio host who styles himself "Da Tech Guy," is skeptical. In a New York Post op-ed, he lists "an array of odd elements that an increasingly tech-savvy public may find suspicious":
* Not just the offending picture but most of the congressman's pictures were removed from the site.
* Not only did the young lady's Facebook and Twitter accounts disappear from the 'Net (she's apparently since started a new Twitter account, and may go back on Facebook), but also her bylines on articles in her college paper.
* The congressman made it a point to tweet what time an East Coast interview would be shown in Seattle, where the young lady's from.
* [The young lady] reportedly wrote in the college paper in March about Twitter's verifiable accounts giving access to celebrities.
Ingemi also notes that "if two people follow each other on Twitter, they can send private messages unseen by others," and that "the difference between a direct message, seen by only the recipient, and a public tweet, seen by the world, is a single character."
Pajamas Media reports that the recipient of the tweet was one of "just 91 people" Weiner was following at the time and that the tweet in question would in fact have been private with a change of one character. So it's possible this is a sex scandal of the pathetic and preposterous sort that ended Chris Lee's congressional career.
If Weiner is on the level, it is a scandal of a different sort. Just how easy is it to defame a prominent person by hacking into his Twitter account? Incidentally, the Weiner tweet the Times quoted read, "FB hacked," presumably referring to Facebook, which is prone to hacks of various sorts. If you're a Facebooker, chances are you've received fake messages ostensibly from your friends. But it is beyond our technical knowledge whether a hijacked Facebook account can be used to send fake messages on Twitter and photos on yfrog.com (the photo site where the naughty pic appeared).
Sexually suggestive photos (albeit usually of women) are often an element in Facebook spam. One wonders if this same photo showed up on other people's accounts, in which case the reasonable conclusion would be that it's a generic bit of spam.
Blogress Ann Althouse, meanwhile, offers a completely different theory:
The innocent explanation is: He doesn't write his own tweets. He's got a ghost-tweeter. . . . He doesn't want to admit he's not writing it. You know, there's another meaning to the word "hack." There are hack writers. It's normally a noun, but I'm sure I'm not the first person to say it could work as a verb.
My Twitter account was hacked could mean: The hack writer I hired wrote the tweet.
To use this explanation, Weiner would have to concede that his clever tweets were not--or not always--his. I note that he could use this explanation even if it isn't true. Get some 21-year-old fall guy to say he got drunk and let his crush on that cute girl in Seattle go to his head.
Inevitably this kerfuffle has provoked plays on Weiner's name, whose pronunciation is the same as "wiener." We've heard some bad puns in our day, but this has to be the wurst.
This Week, Weather Is Climate
"Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year," Newsweek's Sharon Begley informs us:
In the U.S. alone, nearly 1,000 tornadoes have ripped across the heartland, killing more than 500 people and inflicting $9 billion in damage. The Midwest suffered the wettest April in 116 years, forcing the Mississippi to flood thousands of square miles, even as drought-plagued Texas suffered the driest month in a century. Worldwide, the litany of weather's extremes has reached biblical proportions. The 2010 heat wave in Russia killed an estimated 15,000 people. Floods in Australia and Pakistan killed 2,000 and left large swaths of each country under water. A months-long drought in China has devastated millions of acres of farmland. And the temperature keeps rising: 2010 was the hottest year on earth since weather records began.
From these and other extreme-weather events, one lesson is sinking in with terrifying certainty. The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone. Which means you haven't seen anything yet. And we are not prepared.
Just last week, MediaMutters.org got a scientist to rebut one of our amusing headline pairings as follows:
Tim Barnett, research marine physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography said Taranto is comparing "apples and oranges" and that "the difference between year to year changes in the weather and long term changes in climate are not really comparable."
Tell it to Sharon Begley, why don't you. This heads-I-win-tails-you-lose con is at the core of global warmism: Weather isn't climate except when they say it is.
Don't Scorn That Mean-Spirited SOB
Joe Nocera, a new arrival on the New York Times's op-ed page, had a column the other day titled "Don't Scorn Paul Ryan." Nocera thinks the House Budget Committee chairman's proposals for Medicare reform are "wrongheaded." But "I found myself disheartened as I read about the Democrats' gleeful reaction to the victory in New York," he writes, because Ryan is "right that Medicare is headed for trouble."
Nocera's conclusion:
It would be nice if we could treat the Ryan plan not as an object of derision but as a launching off point for a serious debate. That way, maybe for once we could avert a crisis instead of acting shocked when it finally arrives.
If only Nocera had followed his own advice! In the penultimate paragraph, he informed readers that a pair of Washington elders, Democrat Alice Rivlin and Republican Pete Domenici, have put forward "a less-mean-spirited variant" of Ryan's plan. Is Nocera's idea of a "serious" debate one that centers on who's less "mean-spirited"?
A Parable of Modern Government
This story from the Philadelphia Inquirer is both maddening and weirdly inspiring:
Three years ago, after complaints that some tour operators dotting Independence Hall were giving an unauthorized, revisionist history, a group formed the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides. . . . Last month, the organization issued its first exam to certify their skills.
Most passed the test.
"This was a way to make sure tour guides were educated," says Frey, "that if they didn't have an answer, just not make up something."
In 2008, Mayor [Michael] Nutter signed a bill requiring tour guides to pass a history test, a common practice in cities such as Washington and Savannah, Ga. Three operators challenged the law in federal court on free-speech grounds. This year, a judge dismissed the case. The city didn't have the financial resources to implement the test, making the case moot.
The government intervenes to solve a problem the private sector has well in hand. It brushes aside concerns about constitutional rights, and then turns out to be too broke to infringe them anyway. If only the federal government had as little money as the Philadelphia one, maybe it would be merely ineffective instead of downright harmful.
One More and It's a Trend
"Another international moneyman has been busted for sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel," the New York Post reports:
Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar--the 74-year-old former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria--allegedly groped and "gyrated" against the maid in Room 1027 at The Pierre hotel on Fifth Avenue, a law-enforcement source told The Post.
He was wearing a bathrobe at the time, but it was not clear what, if anything, he had on under it.
Meanwhile, London's Daily Mail reports that sex-assault defendant Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund, has hired "an all-male team of cleaners at his New York townhouse."
Doesn't he know that sex discrimination is illegal in America?
Great Moments in Socialized Medicine
"The most striking thing about the 'Save our NHS' protests is how small they are," reports Brendan O'Neill of London's Daily Telegraph;
From the handful of professional activists who stormed a branch of NatWest at the weekend, symbolically draped in bloodied bandages, to the various "die-ins" staged by anti-cuts protesters who claim that "the poor" (a horrible Dickensian phrase) will kick the bucket if the Lib-Cons trim anything related to health, the protests have been noisy and headline-grabbing, yes, but tiny in terms of turnout. It isn't hard to see why. The NHS might be of profound symbolic importance to left-wing activists, but to the general public, to the masses who make up its clientele, it is a patronising, snooping and increasingly politically motivated institution. Save it? Why, exactly?
If only the British middle class read the work of former Enron adviser Paul Krugman: "In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We've all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false."
Out on a Limb
"Official Warns of Heat Waves in Some Areas"--headline, Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), May 29
The Third Bush Term
- "Well, actually, he forgot Poland."--George W. Bush, first debate with John Kerry*, Sept. 30, 2004
- "Obama Turns to Poland for Help on Arab Uprisings"--headline, Associated Press, May 28, 2011
* The haughty, French-looking then-junior senator from Massachusetts, who by the way served in Vietnam.
Is Our Children Learning?
"Is Detroit Public Schools Worth Saving? Charter Process Sparks Debate"--headline, Detroit Free Press, May 31
It Takes Two to Tango
"Dodd-Frank in Limbo"--headline, New York Times, May 28
'If He Really Loved You, He Wouldn't Insist on a Prenup'
"Staff Says to Reject U2 Guitarist's Proposal"--headline, Associated Press, May 27
Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
- "Time to Introduce Reality Into the Debt-Limit Debate"--headline, National Review Online, May 31
- "It's Giuliani Time Again--for Now"--headline, Commentary website, May 27
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "If a Machine Can Sign for the President, Could Sasha, Too?"--headline, CBSNews.com, May 27
- "Can Drinking Donkeys' Milk Help You to Stay in Shape?"--headline, Daily Mail (London), May 27
- "CNN's Zakaria: Couldn't He Just Call Netanyahu a Slut?"--headline, AmericanThinker.com, May 28
- "What Did Qaddafi's Green Book Really Say?"--headline, New York Times, May 29
- "How Vulnerable Are Superheroes' Crotches? A Vulture Investigation"--headline, New York magazine website, May 26
- "Hamas: Agents of Terror, Partners in Peace, or Both?"--headline, Globe and Mail (Toronto), May 28
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
- " 'I Drank My Own Urine': University President Describes How He Survived for Days Lost in a Swamp"--headline, Daily Mail (London), May 27
- "Daniels: I Could Have Beaten Obama"--headline, Politico.com, May 29
- "Why Herman Cain Could Become America's First Black President"--headline, Yahoo! News, May 30
Dog Bites Han--Now That Would Be News
"Chinese Dog Eaters and Dog Lovers Spar Over Animal Rights"--headline, Washington Post, May 28
It's Always in the Last Place You Look
- "Aussie Student Finds Universe's 'Missing Mass' "--headline, Agence France-Presse, May 27
- "800-Mile-Wide Hot Anomaly Found Under Seafloor off Hawaii"--headline, NationalGeographic.com, May 26
Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control
- "Pelosi Steps Back Into Limelight"--headline, TheHill.com, May 27
- "I Hereby Take Back All Canada Jokes"--headline, LegalInsurrection.blogspot.com, May 28
Breaking News From 1966
"Romney Still Leads, but It's Early"--headline, WSJ.com, May 27
Breaking News From 1981
"Carter: Economic Stagnation Explained, at 30,000 Feet"--headline, Bloomberg, May 26
Breaking News From 1999
"Texas Governor Hints at G.O.P. Run for White House"--headline, New York Times, May 28
News You Can Use
"Drinking and Driving? There's an App for That"--headline, KSL-TV website (Salt Lake City), May 27
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "New UF Dorm Furniture Starting to Be Put Into Place This Summer"--headline, Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, May 29
- "50th Anniversary of Hemingway's Suicide Will Go Unobserved in Oak Park--and Nearly Everywhere Else"--headline, Chicago Tribune, May 30
- "Iran Cleric: Killing Israeli Children OK"--headline, YnetNews.com (Israel), May 31
- "Obama Closes Out the Holiday Weekend With a Round of Golf"--headline, TheHill.com, May 30
- "The New York Times Is a Dirty, Dirty Paper"--headline, The New Republic website, May 30
It's a War of Words. Literally!
London's Daily Telegraph reports on the latest in high-tech weaponry:
A little-known agency is developing The Metaphor Program to "reveal the underlying beliefs and world-views of members of a culture" by examining the subtle differences in their choice of metaphors.
It will pluck figures of speech from vast numbers of statements by Farsi, Russian, Spanish and English speakers, label them with precise meanings, and store all this in a computerised "metaphor repository".
Analysts would then be able to compare real-life statements against the database to predict the intentions of people who may represent a threat to the US or who are involved in international conflicts.
America's enemies have already developed an advanced system to counter our efforts at making sense of metaphors. This terrifying doomsday weapon is called Thomas Friedman.
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OK, this may be a dumb question but I'm wondering if I can export /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow from an NFS server and mount those files over the local ones on the client machine. The goal is a simple centrally managed list of users and groups.
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I know that this is what LDAP is supposed to do. I have been able to successfully install and configure almost every open source server software imaginable. MySQL, Apache, Asterisk, NFS, Samba, KVM host Machines, DNS, etc. No problem. But OpenLDAP has caused me no end of misery, and I have never been able to get it installed and running. No matter which OS you use, which version of LDAP, which tutorial you follow, it always ends the same way. You slap this and ldif that and sooner or later one of the instructions (which you were following to the letter) produces some ambiguous error that no one knows how to solve but you can't ignore and you end up giving up. Then you still need a central user management system, do research, see that LDAP is (supposedly) the answer and start the whole thing again and get nowhere.
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I'm sick of LDAP. What I want is to say "useradd jdoe", and then give him a password on one machine. All other machines use that same userlist so you only have to add jdoe to one computer. So what I want is a solution that doesn't require overly complicated schemas, is easy to setup, is reliable, and most importantly, just works.
So I was wondering if anyone had tried making client machines use a central server's passwd file remotly over NFS? If it would work and be reliable? Or is there a functionality for doing this type of setup already built in to Linux?
I've read about something called NIS but people have said its way out dated. Is there no better way?
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David Mazouz says Lucius Fox will "go on a journey" with Bruce; Steven Yeun's favorite zombie fight took place way back in "TWD" season 3.
The "Civil War" screenwriters and directors hint at the Marvel movie's connection to the upcoming "Avengers: Infinity War."
Before Chris Hemsworth brings the thunder to "SNL," check out these 13 other hosts that have spent screentime in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Gwyneth Paltrow says she would play Pepper in the "Cap" sequel; Grant Gustin promises "Flash" fans have no idea what's coming and more.
After opening to a non-record $15.6 million at midnight, analysts state "Iron Man 3" is currently set for $165 million to $180 million opening weekend.
Marvel and Disney's "Iron Man 3" is a genius action flick from director/screenwriter Shane Black that is as good, if not better, than the first "Iron Man" film.
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The stars of "Iron Man 3" discuss fictional versus real world terrorism, Paltrow's initial distrust of director Shane Black, the possibility of War Machine joining "Avengers 2" and the Iron Man movie franchise's future.
In the first full clip from "Iron Man 3," Tony Stark challenges The Mandarin during a "holiday greeting," intending for a one-on-one battle for good, old-fashioned revenge while speaking with assembled reporters.
A newly-released IMAX "Iron Man 3" poster combines nearly every character poster released thus far, including Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James Rhodes, Aldrich Killian and the Mandarin.
Marvel Studios has debuted its latest trailer for "Iron Man 3," Robert Downey Jr.'s fourth big screen turn as Tony Stark and director Shane Black's first Marvel film, showcasing multiple armors and story points.
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The Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
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Director Jesse James Miller's bio of '80s-era World Boxing Council lightweight champ Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini connects on emotional levels in the telling of an up-from-nothing brawler whose colorful career climaxed in tragedy.
Jesse James Miller's moving documentary "The Good Son" is like a brisk novel with a bigger-than-life protagonist.
The Good Son is Mancini's mea culpa memoir; a grand act of self-vindication that succeeds because the boxer is sympathetic and asks respectfully for forgiveness and absolution.
The final scenes, when Mancini meets Kim's son, have the awkward feel of an "Oprah" episode, with the editing and music suggesting a catharsis that isn't always backed up by what's on-screen.
The odd and disturbing thing about the film is just how comfortable [Mancini] — and we — have become putting moments on camera that, once upon a time, were meant to be shared between two people.
Mancini, who served as an executive producer, is glorified and exonerated, yet it's his inability to render either process interesting that ultimately sinks the picture.
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Growth is often a difficult concept for start-ups. Many unjustly believe that their business will grow organically and that they will simply add additional resources as the business expands. But once you reach a certain size, upscaling needs to become a conscious choice rather than a reaction to growing market share. So, how do you control the expansion of your business and manage sustainable growth?
To determine if your business is ready for growth, you need to have a clear picture of where it is now. It's all very well making a steady income on a day-to-day basis, but that doesn't necessarily mean your business is ready to expand. You need to consider the effect expansion will have across the board. Do you have enough capital to invest in upscaling? Will the expansion divert too much of your time away from your core business?
Getting too big, too fast has been the downfall of many small businesses. To grow sustainably, you need to keep a tight rein on your operations and don't let booming sales lure you into making rash decisions such as taking on too much debt. For example, if you take out a loan to upscale operations to meet current demand, you need to work out how much return you need to get from that investment to keep the business running. Getting more customers is great, but if you need additional resources to serve those customers, you may end up increasing your debt rather than your profits.
To work out how fast your business can grow without losing money you need to work out your affordable growth rate (AGR), a term coined by Hewlett Packard in the 1950s. This is a simple calculation where you divide this year's net profits by last year's equity. You can then limit your growth to ensure that your business remains sustainable, without having to raise additional funds.
The key to successful expansion is to keep your original mission in mind. This defines what is important to your business and allows you to plan ahead accordingly. With a clear vision, external or internal changes won't be able to distract you from achieving your business goals.
When you're starting out as a small business, most entrepreneurs have a clear idea of what their product/service is and the market they want to target. This means they can focus all their energy in getting that particular product to their target customers.
However, once you become more established, it's very tempting to start pursuing related revenue streams that open up new opportunities. For example, if you started out successfully selling blinds to consumers, then you might think "hey, why don't I sell the same blinds to commercial customers?"
Many businesses have had great success branching out into unknown territory but it is a huge risk nevertheless. If you decide to pursue a new direction, you must bear in mind that a certain amount of time needs to be allocated into researching current market conditions, the customer base and competitors to build a plan for sustainable growth. On top of this you may have to invest in new machinery, additional staff and various other resources. Businesses often underestimate the amount of cash and time that will be needed to break into a related market, so plan carefully.
Copyright © 2015 Helen Naylor. Following a number of years writing for leading industry magazines, Helen has extensive experience with SMEs and now works with various organisations to provide commentaries and information covering a range of industry topics including business solutions, advice for SMEs, business development, manufacturing, technology, logistics and careers.
A business plan is the equivalent of a roadmap for businesses. It is a document that provides vision, goals and benchmarking. It creates momentum and also provides an opportunity for a reality check – what worked last year, where the gaps are and what next year is going to look like.
Many start-ups fail because they lack a map to guide them through their new business venture. A research study conducted by simplybusiness.co.uk with 400 British entrepreneurs shows that 54% have no written business plan and more than two-thirds make decisions based on gut instinct alone. According to the Federation of Small Businesses: "Britain's best performing small companies are being hampered by a failure of the planning system to allow them to expand".
Writing and maintaining a regularly updated plan can have a profound impact on business success, helping to demonstrate the viability and value of a business to potential investors and illustrating how investment will be used to grow sales and profit. It also provides a useful reference point and motivational tool for the business owner.
In terms of content, a plan should document objectives and strategy across three key business areas; marketing, operations and finance. These aims should be quantifiable and split between short term (next 12 months) and longer term (next three years). Other sections can include:
In summary, a business plan helps to focus clear roles and goals and motivates business success. As Matthew Brearley, former board director of Vodafone, said: "With a great plan you can engage others with a sense of direction and purpose, align all activities and review progress."
John Davis is managing director of Business Centric Services Group.
My jewellery-making business, Mama Jewels, is nearing the end of its first sixth month of trading, so I thought I'd share an update on our progress so far.
This week my youngest son had his first birthday and I had my first day off Twitter, Facebook and my laptop for as long as I can remember. It felt good to leave my iPhone in the drawer and go out for the day. He was three-months-old when I decided to start Mama Jewels and both my sons are very much part of the journey. I'm hoping to have them trained in jewellery-making very soon!
Very good things are happening all the time, but I am finding myself in a constant juggling act, having to work some very late nights and early mornings to keep up. Sales are increasing, but they're still not at the levels I wanted at this stage. I keep hoping this will eventually improve.
Visits and online sales are rising steadily after the launch of our new website, which took three (very long) months to develop and even then it didn't launch on the date planned or the revised date. If you're planning to launch a new website, build in plenty of spare time, especially for setting up payment accounts, which took longer than I'd expected.
Mama Jewels is currently stocking in 11 online boutiques, which is steadily increasing as we follow up new leads each day. We also have three independent baby shops stocking our products offline. This number is still low, because my ability to make visits is very limited because of my childcare commitments. Over the next couple of weeks I've temporarily arranged some extra childcare so I can make more sales visits.
We've plenty of events planned coming up to Christmas, including home parties, markets and fairs in targeted areas. We're starting to get approached by mum and toddler groups to exhibit directly, so word is getting out there, which is great.
I am currently working on improving my Ebay shop, too, which has proved very successful so far and I have approached a friend who is an expert on selling via Amazon.
Progress is good, with daily glimpses of new opportunities. Generally, consumers are feeling the pinch and they're more cautious than ever. Hopefully, the upcoming season will give us that extra little boost and encourage shop owners to trial my products in a few more retail outlets before Christmas. We'll see.
Amanda Waring, Mama Jewels
You can find out more about Amanda on the interactive business website www.inafishbowl.com
Are you prepared to work hard? And not just hard, harder than you have ever worked before in your life?
Are you prepared to experience and savour the intense highs of business success?
If yes, then read on...
Your first 18 months of business life will be a roller coaster ride. Being your own boss brings you true freedom to do what YOU want with YOUR business and take it to where YOU want to take it. Being your own boss is addictive and compelling, and after six months you will know for certain whether you ever want to go back to corporate life.
As your own boss you are not just plotting a course and steering the ship, but deciding what ship to steer and the reason why you need to steer it in this destination. Sometimes luck plays a part in business success, but more often than not any luck is underpinned by a lot of hard work and dedication. Your role as boss is to provide the drive, vision and motivation to take your business through the storm into the next port.
However, when it is just you in your business, with potentially a mortgage to pay, you need to be very focused and disciplined. This means motivating yourself to get up each morning and get to work – even if this is your kitchen table or study. It also means being able to finish what you have started, and focus on the strategy and plans which will build your business. Only your energy will take your business forward, no-one else will.
Discipline is more than focusing on a strategy or plan until you get the required results, it's also about making sure the tasks that you don't enjoy get done, and they get done on time. To survive the first two years in business, which 70% of businesses don't, you need to keep an iron fist on your finances, and regularly monitor your incomings, outgoings and your cash flow.
Your time does now really equate to money. If you are focusing on something that is not directly linked to running or building the business, this is costing you money. Discipline is needed from you to work to your business plan, and make sure that you give yourself re-charge, reflection and planning time. This time is just as important as time working 'in the business'.
Does the thought of building something from scratch for yourself appeal? Or are you scared at the thought of having to put in your own processes, systems, plans in place and constantly use your own initiative? If you are not 'turned on' by the thought of building it all from scratch you may benefit from buying a franchise – i.e. getting a ready-made business in a box.
Rejection is part and parcel of life as a business owner. To succeed as a business owner you have to connect with your inner tigger. I can guarantee that as your own boss, you will 'suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'. Your inner tigger will help you bounce back and re-motivate the troops when your business has hit a setback. Because, if you don't inspire people to get back up and going again, no-one else will.
So to summarise, you will need drive, passion, enthusiasm, vision and bucket loads of discipline and focus.
Are you up for the challenge?
Heather Townsend, The Efficiency Coach
After a very busy period planning for a major consumer show at the NEC and other important activities, I was looking forward to a few quieter days in the office, whilst Tony, my production guy come right hand, was fulfilling weekly orders and perfecting the new product to send samples of later on this week.
However... best laid plans. A large order arrived today marked URGENT and I need to drop what I'm doing yet again and come to the rescue.
My customers come first. But the stuff I need to do this week is strategic stuff, things that move the business forward. I'm torn and, quite frankly, I'm tired. If I don't come to the rescue the orders won't be complete in time and, if I do, then I have to work all hours to do the strategic stuff in the night. And to make matters worse, Tony in production told me ages ago that he needed two days off this week.
You may think that this is partly due to bad planning on the production side and that I should hold stock. However, our products are chilled, with no preservatives, and have a short shelf life (30 days from production), so I need to produce and ship quickly so the distributors and the shops get products with a decent shelf life.
It looks like I'm up until 2am again working for a few days! Oh well, I don't mind, it's a super exciting time and being stretched to fulfil orders is a nice problem to have. I just have to make sure I do the strategic stuff as well so that I am working on my business as well as in it!
You can find out more about Marcela on the new interactive business website www.inafishbowl.com
I am sure we have all driven in fog. Near me, there is a notorious black spot. It's often foggy, and when it is, it's like pea soup. As I carefully pick my way along, I'm usually passed by a few nutters doing more than 70mph. There've got no chance if they come across anything solid. It's a way of playing probabilities that doesn't appeal to me.
I know quite a lot of entrepreneurs that have started their own businesses. The successful ones always seem to have a deep knowledge of the key numbers for their business. As soon as you are talking business, they start telling you their figures. But this isn't boring, geeky stuff. The numbers at their finger tips are the ones that show if the business is starting to work. They're usually about the cost of getting new customers and how many were recruited last week. Then they explain how profitable it is, and whether more money should be poured in, or plans changed.
Starting a business is hard. You have to be both driven and confident to succeed. But confidence must be tempered with the reality that we all make mistakes. We need to measure things all the time. That way we can correct those mistakes and make adjustments as soon as possible.
Entrepreneurs that do everything by gut instinct are missing a trick. Like the maniac drivers in the fog, they feel invincible. But unlike most of the drivers, the majority of them won't survive, at least in business terms.
Chris Barling is Chairman of ecommerce software supplier SellerDeck
Business planning is very important for all businesses, and franchise businesses are no different. The business planning process helps ensure that sufficient thought is put into all aspects of the franchise. While it is tempting to assume that because a franchise is based on a successful, proven business model, it is guaranteed to deliver results once you are up and running, the reality is very different. All businesses need a business plan, developed to reflect their unique circumstances and to help them succeed, regardless of whether they are a franchise business or not. A business needs to have a plan with specific objectives, milestones, responsibilities and the like.
All business plans are different
The content of a business plan is shaped by its purpose. So if the intention is to use a business plan to raise finance, then the plan's composition will vary from one being used predominantly to decide internal priorities, to allocate resources effectively, or to manage cash flow. Typical uses of business plans in the franchise context include:
So depending on which of the above three business planning events is of most relevance, the content will vary slightly.
What are the key elements of a franchise business plan?
One of the benefits of franchising is that some of the challenges associated with a conventional new business are removed such as decisions regarding product, pricing, branding, marketing collateral, signage, etc. In essence you are acquiring a number of intangible elements which, in theory, should serve to help you reduce your business risk.
However, having these several elements optimised in advance in no way guarantees success. While these elements will help you in terms of brand awareness and will help ensure you have a compelling marketing mix, they still only represent a part of the overall picture.
If you are looking to raise finance, prospective investors will be keen to understand more about the management team, their investment, and also the cash generation prospects. Those franchisees using a business plan to manage their business will be more interested in the creation of a strong marketing plan as well as sales forecasts.
Ultimately it's about an ability to generate cash
A business relies on its ability to generate cash flow at a satisfactory level so as to prosper. Hence the emphasis many franchise owners place on cash flow generation, sales forecasting, and marketing plans when writing a business plan. The bottom line is that you will need to run a successful business, and this means attracting paying customers in sufficient numbers to generate a return on your investment. Naturally you will be able to receive some support from the franchisor as part of the franchise package. They should also be able to provide access to demographic information to help you with your analysis.
Many franchises are allocated on a territorial basis so you'll need to have a clear feel for some of the following:
It will be important to set financial goals and forecast the sales levels necessary to successfully manage your franchise. Franchising has become very popular in recent years, and many franchisors will have access to data which can help determine if there is a profitable market within a proposed territory. It will then be up to you to capitalise on this market opportunity by successfully targeting customers.
You will also need to be aware of local nuances as these can play a role in the success or failure of the operation. For example, when Starbucks® initially launched in Japan it was very keen to cater to local tastes and sensitivities. Recognition of these local factors such as menu make up, local branding, consumer tastes and cup sizes helped shape a unique Starbucks® proposition in Japan. Japan, along with the UK, are now key countries in the Starbucks® worldwide operation.
In summary, business planning is good business practise regardless of whether or not the business is a franchise. Even if the franchisor does not insist on a business plan it is recommended that you apply the key elements of business planning to your franchise to help you ensure its success.
This article was originally published on BPlans.co.uk


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One Man Killed In Early Morning Shooting
Updated: 09/22/2012 - Pueblo police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and the other with serious injuries early Saturday morning.
Updated: 09/22/2012 - Pueblo police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead and the other with serious injuries early Saturday morning.
Posted: 09/20/2012 - A Pueblo man was intentionally struck by a pickup truck and then assaulted early Thursday morning, according to police. Police are now seeking the public's help in locating the suspect.
Posted: 09/20/2012 - Pueblo County sheriff's officials say a malfunctioning smoke detector prompted an evacuation at the county jail for about 30 minutes.
Posted: 09/20/2012 - A man accused of abusing an 8-month-old baby found with cocaine in his system will return to court Thursday.
Updated: 09/15/2012 - Republican Mitt Romney has chosen Pueblo for his first campaign visit to Colorado since accepting the Republican nomination for president.
Updated: 09/12/2012 - Pueblo police were able to coax a man with a gun out of a house after an early morning standoff.
Posted: 09/10/2012 - A fallen officer who had a love for flying was remembered in Pueblo Monday, after dying in a tragic plane crash just over a week ago.
Updated: 09/08/2012 - A Southern Colorado man who dedicated his life to public service, and died in the line of duty, was honored Friday in Pueblo.
Posted: 09/02/2012 - A community is sending their condolences after the loss two Southern Colorado lawmen, who were long-time public servants. The two men were killed while on an air-mission Friday morning.
Posted: 09/02/2012 - The bodies of Pueblo County Sheriff Captain Leide DeFusco and retired Pueblo Police Captain John Barger were recovered Saturday morning.
Updated: 08/28/2012 - A man tries to rob a store at gunpoint but doesn't get away with anything; in fact, he leaves behind a pretty big clue.
Updated: 08/27/2012 - Pueblo Police looking for help locating an armed robbery suspect.
Updated: 08/27/2012 - Two suspects are caught in a rash of storage unit burglaries and now investigators say they have quite a bit of unclaimed stolen items.
Posted: 08/27/2012 - A nutrition program that helps provide healthy food for families who can't afford it is forced to close its doors due to budget cuts.
Updated: 10/02/2012 - An 8-year-old Pueblo boy is safe and has been returned to his father after a more than two-hour-long search Monday morning.
Updated: 08/25/2012 - Colorado State Patrol is investigating a accident that took the life of a man Thursday afternoon about 20 miles outside of Alamosa, Colorado.
Updated: 08/24/2012 - A 28-year-old died of stab wounds Friday morning in Pueblo's Parkview Hospital.
Posted: 08/24/2012 - A former Pueblo County deputy accused of leaving a thumb drive containing almost 7,000 pornographic images of children connected to a work computer will be sentenced Friday.
Updated: 08/23/2012 - Thousands of marijuana plants found during a raid last week were destroyed Wednesday in Pueblo County.
Updated: 08/22/2012 - The Pueblo Memorial Airport is conducting a full-scale mass casualty exercise Wednesday.
Posted: 08/20/2012 - Police say the man in this surveillance photo snatched a woman's purse and used the credit cards inside.
Updated: 08/19/2012 - A woman saves a black lab's life after the dog was left to die on a busy Pueblo street.
Updated: 08/18/2012 - Adventurer Jason Lewis is the first person to circumnavigate the entire globe by using only human power.
Updated: 08/17/2012 - A small wildfire on the 1200 block of Beech St. in Pueblo was rapidly extinguished by firefighters Thursday night.
Updated: 08/17/2012 - An organization that helps at-risk boys in our community is going to shut down.


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If there's a better 20th-century ballet than "Jewels," I haven't seen it. George Balanchine's evening-length showstopper premiered at New York City Ballet in 1967, three pieces - "Emeralds," "Rubies," and "Diamonds" - that illuminate every facet of the master's genius. Boston Ballet first performed "Jewels, "triumphantly, in 2009, its final season at the Wang Theatre. Now the company is presenting Balanchine's triptych as the Boston climax of its 50th anniversary season, and the production, led on opening night by a dynamic Misa Kuranaga in "Rubies" and a sublime Kathleen Breen Combes in "Diamonds," speaks to how far Boston Ballet has come in 50 years.
At first glance, "Jewels" might look like three ballets rather than one. "Emeralds," to music by Gabriel Fauré, seems to be taking place in an Arthurian French forest; it's courtly, medieval."Rubies," to Stravinsky's "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra," is 42nd Street, all neon lights and Broadway pizzazz. "Diamonds," to the last four movements of Tchaikovsky's Third Symphony, is the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, a grand ball in tsarist Russia.
But throughout the evening, men are the hunters and women are their quarry. Balanchine may have had the unicorn tapestries in Paris and New York in mind: the women paw the earth and pony-step, and the corps's brief unicorn pose in the opening section of "Emeralds" is mirrored by the ballerina in the pas de deux of "Diamonds." Even when the women are captured, the men wind up kneeling in adoration. "Jewels" is also unified by the four elements. "Emeralds" is earth and water, "Rubies" is fire, and "Diamonds" is air.
Balanchine set "Emeralds" to music from Fauré's incidental music for two theater pieces, Maurice Maeterlinck's "Pelléas et Mélisande" and Edmond de Haraucourt's "Shylock." It's a dream ballet whose characters - women and their cavaliers - move as if in a trance.
Thursday night, Ashley Ellis and Yury Yanowsky were grounded and yet liquid as the first couple. (Mélisande, who loses her crown in a well and her wedding ring in a fountain, appears to be part water fairy.) Dancing the role Balanchine set on former Boston Ballet artistic director Violette Verdy, Ellis was willowy soft in the port de bras of the Prélude and then in her spinning solo.Yanowsky, in the same part he danced in 2009, was far more commanding this time out.
As the second lady, Lia Cirio wafted through the Sicilienne and then, with Lasha Khozashvili, sleepwalked hypnotically on pointe in the Nocturne. The "clock" movements that Cirio mimicked with her arms and legs and the repeated distant horns suggest that time -and hunters - have come to the forest. Set to "The Death of Mélisande," the unnerving final section of "Emeralds" sees the ladies go off in one direction while the men kneel facing opposite, as if in search of the Eternal Feminine rather than the women they've just danced with.
"Rubies" is Balanchine's salute to the Broadway chorus line, with pelvises shifting as quickly as Stravinsky's score changes time signatures. Boston Ballet's corps ladies pace and prance and kick like Rockettes. I wondered whether Dusty Button might be too reserved to portray their sashaying, shimmying leader, but she tapped her inner showgirl. Near the end of the first movement, where four hunters hobble the lady and put her limbs on display, Button was steady and insouciant, and then she floated through her difficult set of pliés and flat-footed penché arabesques. As the Adam-and-Eve couple who tango, skip rope, and make like bronco busters, Kuranaga and Jeffrey Cirio were close to perfect, pushing their choreography to the limit, Kuranaga playfully seductive, Cirio innocently comic. Freda Locker gave point to her piano solo without pounding, and she was as tongue-in-cheek as Stravinsky could have wished.
"Diamonds" is an austere celebration whose centerpiece is the"Andante elegiaco" slow movement. As the principal lady and man enter from opposite corners of the stage, to the call-and-response of bassoon and horn, you wonder whether the hunter has captured the unicorn or vice versa. Breen Combes, reprising this role from 2009, was skittishly spontaneous, both animated and enigmatic, plunging into penchée arabesque one moment, nuzzling Alejandro Virelles the next. Virelles shone in the control of his jumps and his soundless manège during the Scherzo.
In the exuberant concluding polonaise, Balanchine's homage to the great Petipa, the 16 couples sizzled through Tchaikovsky's fugue as Breen Combes cancan-kicked like the "Rubies" ladies. Jonathan McPhee and the Boston Ballet Orchestra, superb all evening, had no trouble shifting first into the majestic chorale and then into the fleet-footed coda. Balanchine conceived this finale as the apotheosis of dance. Boston Ballet made it look divine.


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An Insight Into The Cake Design Process
While some brides come to us with a clear idea of the wedding cake they'd like, many don't. In this case, we will draw on details from their Big Day to create a cake which complements it beautifully.
Weddings are always an honest reflection of the couple getting married, so we start by getting to know them and their Big Day by asking questions such as:
– What colour are your bridesmaids dresses? What style are they? What fabric are they made from? Are there any unique details on them such as beading or embroidery?
– Out of earshot of the groom, we ask for similar details of the brides' dress
– What flowers are you having? What colours will they be?
– Where is your wedding reception being held? What type of venue is it?
– What time of year are you getting married?
– How many guests are you having to your wedding?
– Do any guests have dietary requirements?
– Will your wedding cake be served as dessert?
We then compile a mood board of all the details and sketch a design of the proposed cake. This gives the couple a clear indication of what their finished cake will look like, to ensure there are no surprises on the day. We'll then discuss the sketch with the bride and groom where they have the opportunity to make any tweaks as necessary, before they sign it off.
While we are not able to share the full moodboard with you, we can bring you some of the images we included in it for a wonderful wedding we did one summer. It was being held in a converted barn in the beautiful Cotswold countryside, and had the most incredible views.
The barn had tremendous character with high beamed ceilings and exposed stone work, and had been lovingly restored in a neutral style.
The bride and groom wanted cupcakes, which we could afford to display on a high tier cupcake tower, for maximum impact. The bridesmaid's dresses were navy and white roses featured heavily in their bouquets, so both of these elements were incorporated into the final cupcake designs.
The bride's stunning wedding gown had delicate beading detail on the straps and down the sides of the bodice, so we used silver cupcake cases and incorporated some pearlescent royal iced detail to contrast against the navy icing.
To balance the navy cupcakes and to provide flavour variation we also introduced vanilla buttercream iced cupcakes, simply decorated with a navy rose and a green leaf. The bride and groom also wanted a cake to cut, which sat atop the 9 tier tower. This was iced very simply and elegantly in white, and finished with a navy satin ribbon, diamond brooch and hand-made rose.
If you'd like to know more about the cake design process, why not drop us a line?
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Who do you give this trophy right now Los Angeles Clippers Rookie Blake Griffin or Washigton Wizards John Wall? Right now it's Blake Griffin he has like (20 double doubles) and is explosive with his Dunks when you go onto Staples Center or LA is on the road. I am happy I got to see him play vs. my team suns when I was in LA. So right now it's all Griffin and I think Blake is the Rookie of the year. What do you think is the Rookie Of The Year?
they both good but blake griffin all da way
I'd say it would HAVE to be Griffin. He's the reason why they win ANY games at ALL.
Wall's fun to watch, but Griffin is the best big man to come out in several years. And while good point guards suddenly seem to grow on trees, I think you still need a presence in the paint to be successful. It'll be fun to watch these guys as their career's progress; hope Blake can survive the Clippers, though; that team has bad karma thanks to worst owner in pro sports.
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I am trying to draw more attention to a feature request. It was ultimately declined by Jeff, and since he's not here anymore I want to get the team to reconsider.
When there are several comments some of them get hidden, which I don't mind, except when comments in the middle are hidden and I don't realize it till I get to the end. Then I have to unhide the comments and try to figure out which ones I haven't read.
Ultimately this might be the best idea.
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During an attempt to get a journalled extended os-x external SSD recognised by Windows in order for files to be accessed, it was unwittingly initialised in windows7.
The data was subsequently recovered using macdrive.
The hope is to be able to reinstate the mac [os-x] file system on the drive, and then put the data back. is there any tool that can be used to do this, from within windows? note: no mac machine is available for the job.


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Audition for WSU Symphony Orchestra
2015-16 Season
Friday, August 14 (winds/brass)
Monday, August 17 (strings)
Experienced string, woodwind, and brass players are invited to audition for the 2015-16 WSU Symphony Orchestra. The upcoming season includes opera, oratorio, and popular performances. Repertoire highlights include Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol, Guettel's A Light in the Piazza, and the Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra by faculty composer Walter Mays. Soloists will include violinist Evgeny Zvonnikov, Associate Concertmaster of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, as well as faculty artists Geoffrey Deibel, alto saxophone, and Deborah Baxter, soprano. While the majority of orchestra members are music majors, students from all academic disciplines are welcome to audition. Private lessons are also available to all instrumentalists regardless of major.
Audition Information
WSU Symphony Orchestra auditions for string students will be held Monday, August 17. Students interested in auditioning for the WSU Symphony Orchestra need to sign up for an audition time on the orchestra audition schedule, located on the bulletin board outside of Dr. Laycock's office (B105). The orchestra audition will consist of a major scale (two or three octaves) and requested passages from Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 (available for download below). Violinists may choose to audition on either first or second part; some rotation of seating will occur from concert to concert. For further information, contact Dr. Mark Laycock, Director of Orchestras, at 316-978-6202 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Woodwind and Brass
WSU Symphony Orchestra auditions for woodwind and brass students will be held Friday, August 14. Students interested in auditioning for the WSU Symphony Orchestra need to sign up for an audition time on the orchestra audition schedule, located on the bulletin board outside of Dr. Laycock's office (B105). The orchestra audition will consist of a major scale (two or three octaves), a prepared solo or orchestral excerpt(s) approximately five minutes in length, and a short passage of sight-reading. For further information, contact Dr. Mark Laycock, Director of Orchestras, at 316-978-6202 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Eighty members strong, the Wichita State University Symphony Orchestra is an auditioned ensemble comprised of undergraduate and graduate students. The orchestra performed in Carnegie Hall in May 2011 and completed a concert tour of the Aragon region of Spain as invited participants in the 2008 International Youth Orchestra Festival; other notable performances include the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago and numerous appearances at the state conference of the Kansas Music Educators Association. Recent collaborations include performances with the classic rock band Kansas and the arena multimedia concert Video Games Live. The orchestra presents a minimum of three major concerts each semester, together with opera productions, oratorios, and an annual concerto-aria competition. Recent repertoire spans nearly 300 years of standard orchestral literature, including Puccini's opera Suor Angelica, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ("Choral"), Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique, Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, Stravinsky's Petrushka Ballet Suite, and Dean Roush's Ars Poetica.
Boasting the only comprehensive College of Fine Arts in Kansas. Wichita State University also supports one of the most respected schools of music in the nation, featuring an exceptional faculty whose work is recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and national and regional symphonies, theatres and opera companies across the country. The size and international reputation of the School of Music create an exceptional range of opportunities with faculty who, while internationally reputed in their own right, are intensely focused on the individual student. Located in the largest city in Kansas, WSU offers students and faculty exposure to and participation in a stimulating variety of professional artistic and cultural endeavors. WSU students also have extensive opportunities for internships with a myriad of organizations in the metropolitan area. The longstanding partnership with the professional Wichita Symphony Orchestra, whose membership consists largely of WSU faculty, students, and alumni, is but one example. The WSU School of Music is a living laboratory for learning, where musicians explore the unknown, learn how to develop their talent into professional skills, and discover first-hand the true meaning of artistry.
Dr. Mark Laycock is an Associate Professor of Music at Wichita State University, where he holds the Ann Walenta Faculty of Distinction Endowed Professorship. He was recognized with the WSU Excellence in Creative Activity Award (2012) and the College of Fine Arts Excellence in Teaching Award (2007). He serves as Director of Orchestras and Coordinator of Strings. WSU Symphony Orchestra appearances under his direction include the 2008 International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Zaragoza, Spain, a May 2011 concert at Carnegie Hall, and multiple invited performances at Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshops. Dr. Laycock is a member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic; he serves as Chair of Orchestra Activities. His work as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator spans 24 states, including the leadership of all-state orchestras in Alabama, Arizona, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, and Washington; recent engagements include the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and district and regional ensembles in Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Nevada, as well as the Arkansas All-State Orchestra. He was an adjudicator for the 2011 National Orchestra Festival and a clinician for the event in 2012. His appearances with professional ensembles include the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Grand Opera, and Opera Kansas, as well as orchestras in Slovakia and Canada.