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Job's friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with it, that the eyes of the wicked shall fail, Job 11:20. This principle Job here opposes, and maintains that God, in disposing men's outward affairs, acts as a sovereign, reserving the exact distribution of rewards and punishments for the future state.
I. He asserts it as an undoubted truth that wicked people may, and often do, prosper long in this world, Job 12:6. Even great sinners may enjoy great prosperity. Observe, 1. How he describes the sinners. They are robbers, and such as provoke God, the worst kind of sinners, blasphemers and persecutors. Perhaps he refers to the Sabeans and Chaldeans, who had robbed him, and had always lived by spoil and rapine, and yet they prospered; all the world saw they did, and there is no disputing against sense; one observation built upon matter of fact is worth twenty notions framed by an hypothesis. Or more generally, All proud oppressors are robbers and pirates. It is supposed that what is injurious to men is provoking to God, the patron of right and the protector of mankind. It is not strange if those that violate the bonds of justice break through the obligations of all religion, bid defiance even to God himself, and make nothing of provoking him. 2. How he describes their prosperity. It is very great; for, (1.) Even their tabernacles prosper, those that live with them and those that come after them and descend from them. It seems as if a blessing were entailed upon their families; and that is sometimes preserved to succeeding generations which was got by fraud. (2.) They are secure, and not only feel no hurt, but fear none, are under no apprehensions of danger either from threatening providences or an awakened conscience. But those that provoke God are never the more safe for their being secure. (3.) Into their hand God brings abundantly. They have more than heart could wish (Ps. 73:7), not for necessity only, but for delight—not for themselves only, but for others—not for the present only, but for hereafter; and this from the hand of Providence too. God brings plentifully to them. We cannot therefore judge of men's piety by their plenty, nor of what they have in their heart by what they have in their hand.
II. He appeals even to the inferior creatures for the proof of this—the beasts, and fowls, and trees, and even the earth itself; consult these, and they shall tell thee, Job 12:7, 8. Many a good lesson we may learn from them, but what are they here to teach us?
1. We may from them learn that the tabernacles of robbers prosper (so some); for, (1.) Even among the brute creatures the greater devour the less and the stronger prey upon the weaker, and men are as the fishes of the sea, Hab. 1:14. If sin had not entered, we may suppose there would have been no such disorder among the creatures, but the wolf and the lamb would have lain down together. (2.) These creatures are serviceable to wicked men, and so they declare their prosperity. Ask the herds and the flocks to whom they belong, and they will tell you that such a robber, such an oppressor, is their owner: the fishes and fowls will tell you that they are served up to the tables, and feed the luxury, of proud sinners. The earth brings forth her fruits to them (Job 9:24), and the whole creation groans under the burden of their tyranny, Rom. 8:20, 22. Note, All the creatures which wicked men abuse, by making them the food and fuel of their lusts, will witness against them another day, Jas. 5:3, 4.
2. We may from them learn the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, and that sovereign dominion of his into which plain and self-evident truth all these difficult dispensations must be resolved. Zophar had made a vast mystery of it, Job 11:7. "So far from that," says Job, "that what we are concerned to know we may learn even from the inferior creatures; for who knows not from all these? Job 12:9. Any one may easily gather from the book of the creatures that the hand of the Lord has wrought this," that is, "that there is a wise Providence which guides and governs all these things by rules which we are neither acquainted with nor are competent judges of." Note, From God's sovereign dominion over the inferior creatures we should learn to acquiesce in all his disposals of the affairs of the children of men, though contrary to our measures.
III. He resolves all into the absolute propriety which God has in all the creatures (Job 12:10): In whose hand is the soul of every living thing. All the creatures, and mankind particularly, derive their being from him, owe their being to him, depend upon him for the support of it, lie at his mercy, are under his direction and dominion and entirely at his disposal, and at his summons must resign their lives. All souls are his; and may he not do what he will with his own? The name Jehovah is used here (Job 12:9), and it is the only time that we meet with it in all the discourses between Job and his friends; for God was, in that age, more known by the name of Shaddai—the Almighty.
IV. Those words—(Job 12:11), Doth not the ear try words, as the mouth tastes meat? may be taken either as the conclusion to the foregoing discourse or the preface to what follows. The mind of man has as good a faculty of discerning between truth and error, when duly stated, as the palate has of discerning between what is sweet and what is bitter. Job therefore demands from his friends a liberty to judge for himself of what they had said, and desires them to use the same liberty in judging of what he had said; nay, he seems to appeal to any man's impartial judgment in this controversy; let the ear try the words on both sides, and it would be found that he was in the right. Note, The ear must try words before it receives them so as to subscribe to them. As by the taste we judge what food is wholesome to the body and what not, so by the spirit of discerning we must judge what doctrine is sound, and savoury, and wholesome, and what not, 1 Cor. 10:15; 11:13.
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Just a few months ago, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put out a request to designers to try and figure out how to shrink down an apartment to its legally smallest size for a new "micro-unit" building, and now the winning design has been chosen in all its teeny tiny glory. It'll be perfect for anyone sipping a small soda on their cute little couch, see? [More]
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Outlook Exchange Online
I recently purchased a HTC HD2 (a good) phone running windows mobile 6.5. More importantly I upgraded to Outlook Exchange Online edition. Now my phone syncs thru the web and not thru the PC. This is fantastic. If your pc is on and downloads emails or contacts or tasks, it doesn't disapear off the web. If you change anything on the phone or the pc, it is immediately available on either of the 3 devices. And then there is the online version of Outlook which is truly the most feature rich web program that I have ever used by a long way and it behaves almost the same as Outlook on the desktop.
Monday, August 09, 2010
Google vs Bing Images
Have a look at how google images has changed to look like Bing. There are now selections down the LHS for country and image size just like Bing had a while back. Now google images are laid out in a really cool way that seemed to copy the Bing image display. Search for "fox cartoon" and select Image to see what I mean.
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Thu 4 Nov 2010 in Oslo:
Forest, close to Nesodden, Norway.
- Blóðøx
- eiggen
- Bønna
- Isdronningen
- anon
We are going by ferry from Lysaker to Nesodden at 4:45 PM, and will there borrow a car from Bønna's father. The small hamlet of Svestad is a 15 minute drive from there, and the hashpoint seems to be in a wooded area about 500 meters from Svestad.
Blóðøx is bringing a camera, but as it will be dark by the time we get there, don't expect meaningful pictures.
We took the ferry from Lysaker to Nesodden, where we were supposed to borrow Bønna's parents' car, but soon discovered that its battery was empty: the car would not start. We were thinking of abandoning the quest when we saw a neighbor drive by and park his Toyota Prius nearby. We asked him if we could try to jumpstart the dead car using the Prius, but he was a bit uncertain about the idea, not really knowing if an hybrid car would be a good candidate to bless another car with a new life... would the advanced electronics of the Prius survive this?
True to the Norwegian spirit of 'we trust each other,' he instead proposed to lend us his car! Of course, he asked where we were heading, to which Bønna replied, 'Oh, we are going to reach a point in the forest near Svestad.' Surprisingly, no more questions were asked and we could proceed with the hybrid and reached Svestad. On the way, most of us kept staring at the dashboard console of the car in awe: it showed the flow of energy from the different engines and the recharging of the batteries from braking: sweet treat for engineering-types.
We parked near some sort of lumberjack house and walked straight in the wet forest, in the most complete darkness. Well, there were some stars in the sky, but they did not help much in terms of lighting under the treetops. We erred a few hundred meters and reached a tractor track which lead us a bit closer to the hashpoint. We chose to dive in the forest once more to try to reach the point. On the way, some of the headlights we carried went dead, so it became a bit challenging for everyone not to stumble on slippery rocks and fallen trees.
We managed to finally reach the hashpoint after changing heading a few times, only to discover that we forgot the celebration beer in the car! Noooooo!
We took a few pictures and walked back towards the car. We then realized that the tractor track was serpenting almost right next to the hashpoint. Why all the pain of walking through the forest?! We followed it all the way back to the house, making the return journey a piece of cake.
We celebrated with a few beers and greasy Swedish 'cheese balls' and head back to the ferry port. We took the ferry again, this time in the direction of Aker Brygge, downtown Oslo. With dirty pants and wet shoes, we parted ways in the cold night.
No tracklog is available, as it would be shameful to show all the detours we made through the dark and wet forest... only to find out later that there was a large tractor track passing really close to the hashpoint.
| Bønna earned the Land geohash achievement
| Isdronningen earned the Land geohash achievement
| anon earned the Land geohash achievement


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DH - Vladimir Guerrero - Rangers
Once one of the five or so best players in baseball, Vlad's production took a nosedive the past two seasons, and at 35, one could be forgiven for thinking his career was almost over. The Rangers took a flyer on the veteran during the offseason and it's paid dividends to the tune of 328/372/560 with 18 home runs. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
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FOOTY tried to spruik itself as a world spectacle watched by beefy NFL stars this week, but last night Essendon and Richmond returned to the game's beating heart.
FOOTY tried to spruik itself as a world spectacle watched by beefy NFL stars this week, but last night Essendon and Richmond returned to the game's beating heart.
The 11,000 rusted-on country fans who crammed every corner of Wangaratta's Norm Minns Oval were given a spectacular contest for their patience after last year's aborted game.
A Ricky Petterd supergoal capped Richmond's last-quarter surge to topple Essendon in a eight-point victory, snapping a run of close losses for the Tigers dating back to last year.
Given Richmond had at least six of their Round 1 side out and rested Dustin Martin and Chris Newman at half-time, even an honourable loss would normally be enough.
But as the behinds mounted up for Richmond in the last term - eight in all as well as a Matty White goal - suddenly this contested threatened to heighten Richmond's mental fragility.
Then Petterd gathered, running away from goal, turned and darted past an Essendon defender and finally broke the Dons' resistence with a bomb from outside 50 metres.
Given Essendon was missing just David Zaharakis from its Round 1 side and has only a clash with Greater Western Sydney before its season-opener, no wonder James Hird was frustrated with the last term.
But bottom line - both sides got star performances from some youngsters, with no match review panel or injury worries.
For Essendon, Jobe Watson made a successful return from knee issues and Brendon Goddard was again impressive.
Richmond counterpart Jack Riewoldt - leading his team in the absence of Trent Cotchin - was well beaten by emerging defensive star Jake Carlisle.
Carlisle and Dustin Fletcher were defensive rocks in a side that had its backline decimated last season.
The win from Richmond showed plenty of heart, given they had already given up a 20-point second-term lead, then let Essendon kick five straight to grab back the ascendancy.
Early on, Orren Stephensen took control in the ruck, Martin continued his excellent pre-season form, and the Tigers' swarming defensive pressure saw them jump out to a 20-point lead late in the second term.
If not for inaccurate kicking at goal and acting captain Riewoldt's determination to pass to teammates when within range, they could have built a match-winning lead.
But just as they did against North Melbourne last week - and so often last year - they let an opponent back into the match with a five-minute brain fade.
The impressive Nick Vlastuin missed a set shot that would have put Richmond 25 points up, and the ball was immediately spirited down field where Michael Hurley scrounged a goal at ground level.
Two minutes later Brent Stanton had goaled too, and when Leroy Jetta slipped a Richmond tackle then kicked a supergoal from 55 metres, Essendon had hit the front by a point.
From there the game opened up and Richmond just ran Essendon off its feet.For Richmond, Vlastuin kept knocking up winning hard possessions, Shane Edwards continued 2012's exceptional form, and Stephenson had six first-half clearances.
David Astbury at least broke even with Hurley at centre half back, all of it highly encouraging for a side missing Trent Cotchin, Brett Deledio, Ivan Maric, Reece Conca, Troy Chaplin and Dylan Grimes.
Goddard's super start to his new career in red and black continued, with Dyson Heppell's midfield education continuing apace.
If Zaharakis can make a successful return and Heath Hocking or Jake Melksham can rebound from poor 2012 seasons, Essendon will finally be building some impressive midfield depth.
The revelations yesterday were tall defender Carlisle, staunch on the last line, and last year's pick 73 Nick Kommer.
With a shag of dirty blond hair and a willingness to apply forward pressure, he might just sneak into a Round 1 debut.
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The 4020 Retro EQ is a 4-band EQ and filter set. The high-frequency (HF) and low-frequency (LF) bands are shelving EQ, with two additional high-mid and low-mid frequency parametric EQ bands. All EQ bands operate on a gain dependent variable Q system for a vintage smooth sound. The HF and LF filters use a split-octave design that provides a 12dB/octave slope near the selected frequency, with a maximum slope of 24dB/octave.
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Brazil-based aircraft manufacturer Embraer on Friday said its profits dropped 36 percent last year, to $248.5 million, versus $388.7 million in 2008, while net sales last year stood at $5.47 billion, down from $6.34 billion in the previous year. Although revenues from commercial aircraft sales fell, the fortunes of the executive aviation division actually improved. Despite some delivery postponements and cancellations in the segment as a result of the sour economy, Embraer's executive aviation segment net sales reached $896.3 million, up nearly $20 million over 2008, while deliveries of business jets at the company reached new highs. In terms of revenues, the lower number of Legacy 600 deliveries–18 last year versus 33 in 2008–was offset by the deliveries of three Lineage 1000s, 93 Phenom 100s and the first delivery of a Phenom 300. Overall, the manufacturer delivered 115 business jets last year, just short of tripling the 36 it shipped in 2008. Embraer said its executive aviation division also increased its market share based on total revenues from 4.1 percent in 2008 to 6.4 percent last year; based on delivered aircraft, market share increased from 3.3 percent to 14 percent. The company expects executive aviation net sales to climb to $1.1 billion this year and projects shipping 137 business jets by year-end.
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Come on I'll tuck you in 😊
You can, since you are obvioisly older than a couple of weeks and is still alive
I can't sleep? was your question.
You can. was my answer.
If you wanted an answer on how to fall asleep, you should've said so.
What for?~ xDDDD
Lol. No, I wasn't, I was trying to be boring~
On how to fall asleep - doing it deliberately won't help it. Turn off your computer, take a boring book, a cup of warm milk, leave all the thoughts that bugged you during the day for morning. Calm down.
Can you help your problems right now, at night? No. Just leave it for tomorrow, your problems won't run away, tho it would be nice if they did.
But you can't solve them right now... I know, waiting for something bad that you can't do anything about is stressing, but well... Think that now you're simply adding to your suffering.
Me to . Already 2am
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Photigy Online Workshop: Practical Studio Product Photography
Instructor: Alex Koloskov
You will learn the most effective techniques in product photography, find out why many photographers struggle to get professionally looking images, and get a list of everything you need to start your own product photography studio:
Find out what equipment you'll need to start in product photography
Understand how to use the most effective techniques is studio lighting
Learn how to photograph and retouch glass subject
Instructor: Alex Koloskov
This course – Practical Studio Product Photography is a free course that is built off of several years of tutorials and behind the scenes videos that Alex Koloskov has shared on his blog.
These come both as video training as well as blog posts with images and text discussing specific topics that target on individual areas where you can improve your product photography
Practical Studio Product Photography contains a wide range of topics and will be good for both total beginners as well as those who have some photographic skills, but who want to learn some additional tips and tricks to better their skills.
After successfully finishing this course you will be issued with a professional certificate from Photigy Photography School.
Professional certification shows potential clients that you are committed to your profession and are well-trained.It gives them confidence in your abilities because it proves that your skills have been evaluated and approved by a well-regarded professional organization.
Total Running Time: Various videos and Blog Posts
Level: Beginner
If not done correctly, photographing shoes, the images can come across looking flat and having no texture. This video highlights the mistakes that people make when shooting textured subjects as well as the best way to fix this problem.
This is the results I've got on this demo (no post-production of any sort)
This blog entry on how to create shot of a Motorola Droid X2 Phone in a multimedia docking station.
This is a blog entry that also includes video that looks at the different ways a softbox highlights an object versus using a softbox along with a diffuser to add more of a gradient on a glossy subject.
examines how to shoot an object that is primarily glossy with some textured surfaces that you also have to take into account.
This video looks at how to shoot a glossy product – in this case a Photigy student wanted to know how to shoot a silver cup and saucer. You will learn about the law of reflection and how that will affect you when working with glossy subjects.
This posting shows how to capture a glass object that has glossy, clear, and frosted parts.
This time, you will see how to shoot on a white background using strobes and a macro lens. Here you will see how to balance the white background without overexposing the product.
This posting takes you through how to find the areas of a shot that are not quite totally white (RGB Codes of 255,255,255) and make them white.
This post examines how you can clean up the dust that will occur on your product during a shoot. While you try to get the subject as clean as possible, there will always be something to clean up and this post gives you methods to accomplish this.
Through the use of Curves adjustments in Photoshop you will be able to see any kind of imperfections that exist in your image.
Finishes up with using an action script to help you sharpen your images before posting on the web. There are also some tips on getting a cleaner shot in the first place.
In Practical Studio Product Photography you will learn the basic skills of product photography that you can take with you for free. The wide range of topics provides you will techniques that will improve your images making them more professional. You will also learn valuable lessons that you can use should you choose to continue your education at Photigy.com.
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Topsham St James Under-15s edged out by Bradninch despite a Cam Robison hat-trick
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Bradninch U15s 97-7, Topsham St James U15s 88-5
Despite the bad weather surrounding Exeter, Topsham St James pitch remained dry and enabled the game to go ahead, writes Sam Sterrett (aged 15).
Bradninch won the toss and elected to bat on a good wicket. The opening batsmen Will Birley and Owen Buxton got Bradninch off to a flying start and put on 59 before Buxton fell for 31.
It was the introduction of Cameron Robison that brought a change of fortune for the home side.
Robison was introduced by skipper Aiden Pring in the 11th over. His first three balls went for a four, a two and another four. However, with the third ball he clean bowled Buxton. His next delivery sent the number three bat straight back to the pavilion and his final ball caught the edge of the number five's bat, wicket keeper Ben Haig took the catch and Robison had a hat-trick!
Birley was fourth out for 28 in the 15th over with the visitors score on 81. Audie Campbell, batting at number five, scored what proved to be a crutial eleven runs as Bradninch closed on 97-8.
Robison finished with a five wicket haul with his impressive figures being four overs and five wickets for 19 runs.
Topsham's openers Pring and Sam Sterrett put on 22 runs in the first fiver overs which meant the run chase got an ideal start. However, the games key moment came with the introduction of Birley at one end and Owen Buxton at the other for the visitors. The pair sent down four successive overs and the breaks were well and truly put on the home run chase!
From that confident start of 22-0 from five, the scoreboard, after eleven overs, showed a score of 25-2 as six overs were sent down with just three runs added to the total.
Sterrett was the first wicket to fall, he was run out not facing and James Wright was bowled Birley for two.
Ben Haigh hit a fine 27, giving great support to his skipper Pring who top scored in the match with 34, but the visiting skippers four overs for just six runs and a four over spell from Buxton for 13 runs left Topsham St James to much to do.


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Ice-T And Coco Please The Crowd In Las Vegas
Rapper Ice-T and his voluptuous wife Coco Austin were spotted in Las Vegas last night, hosting at Vanity Nightclub at the Hard Rock Hotel. The couple, who recently renewed their vows, started off the evening at 35 Steaks + Martinis, causing the patrons to stop and stare. Erik Kabik was on duty at the Hard Rock that night and noted that the Ice Loves Coco stars are a "perfect match".
PHOTOS: Ice-T and Coco at the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Canada
The night continued at Vanity where the couple took over hosting duties. Ice-T busted a few rhymes with DJ Eric D-Lux and then headed into the crowds on the dance floor. He paused for pictures with fans and danced with others, only to join Coco once more and remain by her side for the rest of the night.
PHOTOS: Ice-T and Coco Renew Their Vows
Videographer Richard Corey recorded the couple's arrival and said: "It's shock and awe. It's amazing to watch the reaction to the two of them wherever they went in the Hard Rock. People just got out of control loving them." I'm sure you're bound to get attention looking like Coco! Check out the photographers cat-calling Coco after the jump!


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London - Parenting, a child psychologist told me last week, is a series of successful failures.
Your job, she explained in a maternal and comforting way (she was that kind of woman), is to love them but always be in the wrong, to let them test their independence by rebelling against you, and to be the person they know loves them whatever they do.
To say I hung on her every word would be an understatement. "Come and live with me," I pleaded, clinging to her ankles as she tried to leave.
Radio 4 had invited us both on to Woman's Hour to debate under-parenting versus over-parenting.
The wonderful psychologist sat opposite me smiling kindly as I burbled on about accidentally finding out how to under-parent with my second two children after over-parenting the first two.
Under-parenting - when you let them discover the world for themselves - seems to work better for us than over-parenting, where you structure their days and never let them say "I'm bored".
A child who has been under-parented might say: "Mom, look, I cut my hair," while an over-parented one would ask: "Mom, am I going for my hair-cut before or after my extra Mandarin lessons/swimming/piano/circus training?"
Under-parenting is letting them watch meaningless American TV (Hannah Montana, I'm talking about you) at the end of term when they are so tired they barely know their own name, and over-parenting is scheduling their weekends to within an inch of their lives while taking pictures of everything they do.
I exaggerate, of course, probably because I feel guilty about taking no pictures of baby Mabel (she's number four and, anyway, as most siblings are pretty similar as babies, I can always say the pictures of the oldest one are her when she's grown up and her boyfriend asks to see them).
I argued on Radio 4 that under-parenting may sound the easier option (and an excuse for working moms like me to rely on when I have things to do) but in reality it's the much messier and more time-consuming maternal choice.
The noise with under-parenting is of an "Olympic-Stadium-here-come-the-Spice-Girls" level.
The chaos of DIY entertainment means the house looks like it's been burgled by a team of clumsy chimpanzees with hygiene issues.
With mine you also have to be made of stern enough stuff to watch the dire Monty Python-esque plays they write after three hours of being under-parented.
It also requires a complete loss of control and the ability to happily pick glue off the sofa in a non-judgmental, relaxed fashion.
Fundamentally, when you under-parent, you are their audience; when you over-parent, you are their director. You can be the master of their universe, or they can.
Personally, I think it's easier to over-parent and ferry them from activity to activity than be in the house with them all day as they rampage about discovering themselves - but I've learned more about my kids doing that than talking to them from the front seat of a car in between swimming lessons.
It works for us. It may not work for you.
Each to their own (as I said to the mom who told me she's convinced her two under-fives they are allergic to sugar and therefore must never eat sweets).
I have just spent 48 hours alone with the children (Mr Candy was on a stag do) and we did nothing. Nothing.
We made one trip out for sugary supplies but otherwise we occupied ourselves, never being more than about two metres apart.
Mabel, 14 months, learned how to come backwards down the stairs on her own, Henry, aged five, beat a personal best on his favourite computer game, while Gracie, eight, wrote a song called That Is Inappropriate and Sky, nine, made 18 cupcakes.
I wept as the Olympics drew to a close and I realised I wouldn't see Tom Daley for a very long time. No one went to bed until 10.30pm.
We had fun, it was free and, apart from a few times when the children yelled "stop looking at me" at each other, we enjoyed each other's company.
"All you need is love," the psychologist told me earlier that week; everything else is a bonus.
What a relief. I really thought there was a right way of parenting, but now I am closer to believing there isn't, perhaps I will feel less guilty about the whole process. - Daily Mail
* Lorraine Candy is editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine.


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LOS ANGELES — Car sales may be in a slump, but the hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volts are hot, and that's leading to shortages — and in some cases extreme dealer markups.
Several dealerships have priced new Volts more than $20,000 above General Motors' suggested $41,000 retail tag. Others are selling the vehicles as used, claiming a $7,500 tax credit for themselves and leaving the eventual buyers ineligible.
And there's not much GM or regulators can do about it.
"We want our dealers to be transparent about the whole sales process," Volt spokesman Rob Peterson said. "But they are independent franchises. They can set their own prices."
High fuel prices have increased demand for the vehicle, which can get 93 mpg-equivalent on battery power and 37 mpg on gasoline. GM's decision to gradually roll out the vehicle a few states at a time is also causing a supply crunch. The automaker expects to produce only about 10,000 Volts this year, rising to 45,000 next year.
Town & Country Chevrolet in Milwaukie, Ore., is asking $51,999 for a 2011 Volt — "pre-owned" with less than 100 miles — because local demand is high, a dealership manager said.
Glendale Hyundai in Glendale, Calif., has four used Volts, all with low mileage, priced at $44,995 in what might seem like a bargain compared with some other dealers' prices. But customers interested in the vehicles, which were bought at auction from a used-car dealer, will not be eligible for the $7,500 federal credit, according to a salesman who declined to give his full name.
Mark Modica, an investigator for the watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center, said dealerships are buying Volts from other dealers, claiming first title to qualify for the incentive, and then reselling the vehicles at inflated prices.
Dealers are legally allowed to title a car to themselves and thus qualify for the credit, though they have to pay a use tax, according to the California DMV.
GM's Peterson called the notion of dealers gaming the tax credit an "exaggerated claim" because no customers have complained.
Dealers that are planning to claim the Volt tax credit for themselves are not likely to hide the fact from potential buyers, said Bill Visnic, senior analyst with Edmunds.com.
Passing off the vehicles as new would be "a fairly overt act of deception," he said — "basically fraud."
"The idea is to prey on the desperation of people who want to buy the car," he said. "It has all these conspiracy elements. But most people will know exactly what they're entitled to, so it's hard to imagine that this is going to be much of a widespread problem."
To avoid accusations of price-gouging and a potential consumer backlash, some major chains, such as AutoNation, which operates in the Tampa Bay area as AutoWay, are asking their Chevrolet dealers not to charge a premium on the Volt.
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When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
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She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's "Détective" at the age of fourteen. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's "The Three Musketeers", "Killing Zoe", "Three Colors: White", and the "Before" series, alongside Ethan Hawke: "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", and "Before Midnight".
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Founded by Derek Greenwood on July 8, 1988, EON Systems has grown from a true Mom an Pop into a thriving business averaging thirty employees. Derek had studied aerospace engineering in college and had then moved into management consulting. Since both parents were chiropractors, they called upon him to help with the management of their practice. The original software provided tools for billing, scheduling, and practice management. At first aimed at chiropractic, the software now serves physical therapy, speech therapy, acupuncture, pediatrics and multi-disciplinary offices.
Derek Greenwood, Founder and CEO of EON Systems, began with organizing and reorganizing that office until the flow was smooth and direct for the administrator, the practitioner, and the patient. In creating the software, he developed it to retain the same efficiency as an office, requiring as few mouse clicks as possible while flowing along correctly with a successful office. He coined the term Flow Sensitive to describe this.
As Derek moved more deeply into software design and out into sales, Rose Greenwood, now President of EON, started picking up aspects of running the day to day operations. From there EON evolved, creating the leading edge of practice management software as they went. This went so far as to have programming written for a computer mouse.
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Islamabad, July 17 (ANI): The US State Department has reportedly said that there has not been any discussion of civilian nuclear technology with Pakistan.
US State Department, spokesman Patrick Ventrell said that US was aware of Pakistan's energy needs and wanted to help Islamabad overcome the energy crisis but said that there had been no discussion, The Dawn reports.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had earlier said that Pakistan and US had agreed in principle to continue dialogue on cooperation in civil nuclear technology but he said that no timeline could be given for any agreement on the issue.
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The 6'4' Kaepernick seems to be everywhere, endorsing Jaguar's new F-Type roadster and posing nude in ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue." But he ticked off some fans by tweeting a photo of himself wearing a Miami Dolphins lid. Forget "Tebowing."
He inspired "Kaepernicking," where fans (including first lady Michelle Obama) kiss their flexed muscles the way he does after a touchdown.
The former backup is one of the biggest steals in the NFL. He averages $1.3 million a year under his current deal, according to Spotrac.com, which tracks athlete salaries. That's $6.7 million less than the QB he supplanted, Alex Smith, who'll average $8 million annually with his new team, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another One Bites the Dust
S2E11: After 10 episodes chock full of philosophical discussions and the physical embodiment of those discussions errupting last week, one would think that The Walking Dead would put a little more money where its mouth is. That's not to say that I have an issue with Rick's final decision regarding Randall, the stowaway, during this first episode of March, "Jury, Jury, Executioner." I don't even have an issue with the inundation of discussions – the whole point of the episode is to discuss and decide whether or not to kill Randall to keep him from leading his group of blood-thirsty hooligans to the farm. Discussion is paramount. What I did take issue with is the quality of the conversation. We've spent all season in dress rehearsal for this insurmountable issue. All that moral ambiguity and constant questioning was preparing our group for this decision: kill or be killed. Yet, when they get here, the quality of the dialogue digresses.
The conversation simply becomes too overt. We find Dale reminding Andrea that she used to be a Civil Rights Lawyer as a sole argument. We've got Rick mentioning Lori's former views on the death penalty. It sounds like a checklist of their former selves instead of getting at the heart of the matter: if they kill this man, their humanity is at stake. The episode finally gets there, but it lopes through this listy place for the first 30 minutes before honing in on emotional core. Of course, once we finally jump over to the mushy side of things, the episode drives that stake in as hard as it possibly can. The final moments are completely, mercilessly vicious.
"The world is gone, but keeping our humanity? That's a choice." -Dale
This quote is the nut of the argument that Dale needs to be working with. He's only got an afternoon to convince the entire group that instead of killing stowaway Randall, they should find another solution. His desperation leads him into logical territory, which is where the dialogue also gets a little dry. Despite his best efforts, he has almost no luck. Even Hershel is in agreement with Rick because he wants to protect his daughters and he made a huge mistake with the walkers.
Daryl continues on his pathy of vicious apathy and accepts the role of torturer to Randall to find out whether the kid's allegiances lie with Rick's group or his original group. In the course of the beating, Randall says the group he was with raped a group of teenage girls in front of their father and swears he wasn't a participant, but the damage is done. Daryl's message to Rick is that the opposing group is 30 men strong and they're fully armed. Everyone seems to be settled: the kid has to go for their own safety.
Andrea agrees to watch Randall while Dale tries to convince everyone to change their minds. Shane and Carl show up and he reiterates his concern that Hershel and Rick make the rules but they're always wrong. His talk with Rick has clearly done nothing – even thought later in this episode Rick tells Lori it's fixed. Shane all but confirms that his plan is to lock them and wrest control of the group. As he says this, Carl sneaks into the barn and talks to Randall. We're supposed to be uncertain about Randall, but watching him look at Carl like the child-catcher makes it difficult to sympathize with the prisoner. Shane pulls Carl out and almost shoots Randall right there on the spot. Luckily, Andrea stops him. If Carl saw Shane shoot Randall, it would only speed up his sudden turn towards his apathetic view of death and murder.
"Carl, quit trying to get yourself killed, man." -Shane
Carl continues his bad streak when he refutes Carol's claim that Sophia is "in a better place" with "Heaven is just another lie and if you believe it, you're an idiot." When Rick confronts him about it, Carl first lies about it. Rick does the fatherly thing, tells Carl to think before he speaks and to make it right with Carol, but the Randall dilemma gives Carl and excuse to question his father's morality. Is killing Randall doing the right thing? Rick says it can't compare.
Frustrated with the double standards of his father's realm, Carl wanders off alone, takes Dale's gun and happens upon a walker trapped in the mud. He gets closer and closer, just like he tried to do with Randall and experiments with torturing the walker by hitting it repeatedly with stones. The walker eventually breaks one foot free as Carl is attempting to shoot it point blank in the head. It almost grabs him, he loses the gun and manages to escape without being bitten – and without killing the walker. It's almost Carl's micro version of what's about to happen with Randall. First, Daryl tortured him, then Rick will attempt to shoot him.
"This is a young man's life. It's worth more than a five-minute conversation." -Dale
Before they gather for the final vote, Hershel sort of joins the two groups when he tells Glenn that he approves of him dating (if we can even call it that) Maggie and hands him his father's watch. Could this gesture be enough to get him to let the group sleep in the farm house as the winter rolls in? That's a question for another episode, but this seems to change Glenn's mind when it comes time to vote. When Maggie and Hershel stay on the side of putting Randall down, he sticks with them, saying that they have to protect their own over all else. He's almost become the mouth for the family since Hershel decided he'd keep his mouth shut.
Dale finally gets emotional in his arguement – and I would have preferred skipping all the previous attempts in favor of this truer one. His final argument is the solid one. He makes his appeal: they can't kill the kid to prevent a crime he might never even commit. If they do it, he says they're completely relinquishing the world they once knew. All grip on their old reality is gone. He doesn't want to live in world that's determined by survival of the fittest, but he's in that world.
Shane, Rick and Daryl take Randall out in the barn to shoot him. And Rick is about to shoot him when Carl comes in and says,"Do it, Dad." Hearing his formerly innocent son say that almost kills Rick. In his son's callousness, he sees that Dale is right. They need to hang onto their humanity, so he has Daryl take Randall back to the shed for the time being. Of course, it's not a final decision, but an extention of the discussion about how to decide Randall's fate.
Perhaps the group isn't so broken after all. Dale told Daryl earlier in the episode that he's "good like Rick" and Daryl expresses his dismay at Rick's inability to see that of course Shane killed Otis to get away when they sought medical supplies at the high school. Daryl is almost a hybrid between Rick and Shane: he's without Rose-colored glasses, so he can make the tough decisions (like shooting Dale), but he's not as dark and demented as Shane apparently is. Where this dynamic will lead us is uncertain, but it's sure as hell going to be messy.
Do you think Daryl is ready to be part of the group again? What do you think will happen if they don't kill Randall? How possible is it that Randall's group of merciless men will find the farm without or without his help? Let us know in the comments or get at me on Twitter @KelseaStahler


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Federal officials are wrapping up an investigation into allegations that Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies brutalized inmates and committed other misconduct in the nation's largest jail system.
U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/15G82AC ) that the probe will end before the end of the year. He's not discussing details, however.
The investigation has been under way since at least 2011but it's resulted in only one conviction. That was a jailer who acknowledged taking a bribe to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate.
The Times says Sheriff Lee Baca and many of his top commanders have been interviewed and the sheriff has agreed to sweeping reforms aimed at preventing abuse.
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I am looking to get a rifle for hunting this year and plan on using it for deer. I was looking at keeping it around or under $450. Any recommendations? I checked out the Marlin X7, Savage Axis, and Savage 11 Hunter XP. I liked the Marlin X7 the best but don't know much about them. Any other rifles I should check out?


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The Playtime chain once boasted 12 sites in Australia. It is now down to two, after selling a pair of its Sydney branches to AMF Bowling. Similarly, Timezone, which used to be everywhere you turned, has dramatically dropped in numbers.
A man who can vouch for the decline of video game arcades is Wisconsin Concordia University communications professor, Dr Mark J. Wolf. He has written numerous books on the video games industry as well as its cultural impact.
"Arcades continued, but redemptive games that give players tickets to win prizes displaced arcade video games somewhat in the 1990s... Arcades are still looking for the special unique experience home systems cannot do," Wolf said. "But home systems are evolving very quickly with peripherals, controllers, cameras and online capabilities so it's hard to see how arcades will be able to stay ahead of them.
"If they don't find out how, they may lose their role or have it reduced even further."
Dr Wolf tipped changing gaming technology and player expectations as the main reasons for the decline of the arcade and the growth of home gaming.
"There's always been an economic fact hampering arcade games: keep the players turning over," he said. "You can have short bursts of intense action but nothing as contemplative and immersive as you have at home, where it is better for games to last longer, since they are already paid for."
Juan Uribe owns and runs Timezone in Surfer's Paradise, one of the most successful outlets of the arcade gaming franchise. The place grew from a 500 square-feet shop to a goliath 5000 square-feet facility containing a laser skirmish maze, a putt putt golf course and a bumper car rink.
It spurns the term 'arcade parlour', preferring to be called a 'family entertainment centre'.
While Uribe recognises home gaming as conducive to the decline of arcades, he is unperturbed by it. "We don't consider [home gaming] as an enemy for the industry," Uribe said. "It's a little bit like when videos were introduced and cinemas feared it would go out of business. The human race needs interaction; which is what we offer."
Wolf is pessimistic, however. "The social aspect of the arcade can be found online though it is not quite the same, of course," he said. "But are younger players even looking for this kind of social setting?"
Turning over a new leaf
Gone are the days where cabinet games like King of Fighters, Metal Slug and Raiden lined arcades; cartridge games are so yesterday.
Arcades are keen for reinvention, which means distancing themselves from the types of games that put them on the map.
"For us, traditional video games have been confined to just a few," Uribe said. "We have over 450 games and only one is what you will call a traditional game [Tekken 6]."
This directly relates to arcades' active shift from attracting predominantly younger, male gaming enthusiasts to casual family groups. With most gamers more interested in obsessing over the latest console release or PC game, amusement machines have exploded in numbers. Skill testers, basketball hoop-shooting games and a variety of ticket redemption machines all require less practice than the average video game and they now dominate arcade parlours.
Instead of a bunch of lanky teenage guys flanking a King of Fighters 97 cabinet grinding away at the joysticks , you now have a nuclear family guffawing around a Deal or No Deal machine.
Oh, how times have changed.
Location, location, location
An arcade parlour's survival also seems to hinge on being complementary to other entertainment facilities. "The future for arcades is really next to cinemas and shopping centres; a bit more upmarket than those older places and catering to families," Hankin said. "That is where it is going and has been going on for a few years now."
Standalone arcade parlors outside the confines of a shopping complex or cinema are indeed rare. Some of them have been reduced to a cordoned-off corner without as much as an attendant.
Even with the change of direction, arcades are not drawing the crowds they used to.


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Tomorrow all political attention will be on Iowa as voters attend caucuses and mark the beginning of the GOP presidential nominating process. The race has seen candidates rising and falling over these past few months including Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Minnesota Public Radio has sent a team of reporters, producers and hosts to Iowa for caucus coverage including Morning Edition's Cathy Wurzer.
MPR's Phil Picardi spoke with her about her travels and reporting in Iowa. Wurzer will broadcast live on Tuesday and Wednesday morning from Des Moines. She spoke to Picardi from Fort Dodge.


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I do have to wonder what happened to this judge in the weeks that passed since the first motion for preliminary injunction. It's as if it's not even the same judge.
She went from cautioning the defendants that in the "very very near future" that injury could occur, etc.. . . to this.
I smell a rat. Either someone's had a talk with her, or she is setting up the case to fail in a higher court. As of now, my money's on the former.
Perhaps I should have expected this, but I am disappointed. When does the amendment finally mean what the frig it says?
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The Sterling girls tennis team took silver in all four divisions and turned it into overall gold, claiming the team title Saturday at the LaSalle-Peru Invitational.
Sterling's 16 points beat out the host Cavaliers (13 points). Maura Scanlan (No. 1 singles) and the No. 2 doubles duo of Charish O'Neil and Katie Schauff both lost title matches to Princeton, while Erin Ansusinha (No. 2 singles) and the No. 1 doubles team of Grace Steinke and Allie Shank lost championship matches to LP.
Dixon placed fourth with nine points, two short of third-place Princeton. The Duchesses got third-place finishes at No. 1 doubles (Hayley Kent, Jessica VanOosten), No. 2 doubles (Maribeth Johnson, Stephanie Tressel) and No. 2 singles (Katie Hammitt).
Kent and VanOosten almost made it into the finals, falling in a 13-11 third-set tiebreaker to LaSalle-Peru. They beat United Township 6-1, 6-1 for third place.
Newman 2nd in Rochelle: Behind a pair of runner-up finishes and two more thirds, the Comets scored 16 points for a runner-up finish to Kaneland (25) at the Lady Hub Invitational.
Mary Alice Oswalt (No. 1 singles) and Rachel Heiderscheit and Chantel Ordean (No. 2 doubles) lost championship matches, while Anne Vits (No. 2 singles) and Christina and Emily Long (No. 1 doubles) won third-place matches.
Girls golf
Sterling 15th in Freeport: The Golden Warriors shot a 523 in the 16-team Lady Pretz Invite at Park Hills West.
Michala Smith's 112 led Sterling. Crystal Lake Central had six of the top 10 golfers, including winner Lexi Harkins (77) to win the team title with 327.
Girls swimming
Sterling 6th at Freeport: Charli Wike had a first and a second, and Morrison's Michaela Busch also won an event at the eight-team Freeport Invitational.
Wike won the 100 breaststroke in 1:11.36, and took second in the 200 IM (2:18.59). Wike also swam on the runner-up 200 freestyle relay team (2:04.13), along with Jordan Totten, Erin McCawley and Emily McDonald. The Warriors scored 178 points, well behind winner Freeport (460) and runner-up Byron (272).
Busch won the 50 freestyle in 26.74 seconds, as the Fillies finished with 72 points.
Newman was eighth with 65 points. The Comets' best finish came from the 200 freestyle relay team of Kyle Lehrke, Carly Schaab, Linnea Larson and Alena Jensen, fifth in 2:02.04.
Dixon High School students Kaylyn and Kaylee Rice contributed to three top-four finishes for Byron. They both swam on the third-place 200 medley relay team (2:04.19), while Kaylyn and fellow Dixonite Alissa Helfrich were on the third-place 200 freestyle relay (1:52.03).
Kaylee added a fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:16.67).
Milledgeville wins Polo Invite: The Missiles lost just one set in four matches en route to the title at Polo.
Milledgeville beat River Ridge, East Dubuque and Durand, and split two sets with West Carroll. Kayleigh Leddy and Hailey McAuliffe were all-tournament selections.
The Thunder tied for fourth place, winning five out of eight sets. West Carroll beat Polo and Paw Paw and lost to East Dubuque in addition to the split with Milledgeville.
Rachel Badtke and Abby Maike were named to the all-tournament team.
Polo won two sets, beating Paw Paw 25-16, 25-23. The Marcos lost to River Ridge, East Dubuque and West Carroll.
Polo's Alli Reeder was an all-tournament selection with five aces, while Carly Hinrichs paced the Marcos with seven kills. Jozi Grobe stuffed seven blocks, and Lana Scholl added four kills and four aces.
Oregon second at Harvard Tournament: After losing to Antioch 22-25, 27-25, 15-6 in their first match, the Hawks won their next four to take second at the Harvard Tournament.
The only other Oregon (18-5-1) match that went three sets was a 25-23, 15-25, 15-12 thriller against Genoa-Kingston.
Oregon's Delaney Mahoney amassed 81 assists over the five games, while Emy Wright and Whitney Long added 25 and 20 kills, respectively. Jordan Wilken had 31 digs for the Hawks.
Saturday's stars
Charli Wike, Sterling swimming, 1 win, 2 runner-up finishes at Freeport
Delaney Mahoney, Oregon volleyball, 81 assists in Harvard Tournament


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Fairfax County police are searching for a man who they say broke into a woman's home as she and her children slept and attacked her. The case appears strikingly similar to other break-ins in the area.
A masked man with a weapon broke into an apartment on Lewis Chapel Circle in Lorton early Saturday morning. The man slit the screen to a locked window on the first floor of an apartment around 6 a.m.
He threatened the young children who live there, then sexually assaulted their mother, the woman's husband said.
The husband, who wants to keep his identity private, was away at work at the time. He said his wife is scared, can't sleep at night and neither can the couple's children.
Neighbors in the complex off of Lewis Chapel Circle say they called police when they heard screaming.
"He was trying to escape... escape from the back window," the man said of the intruder. The children were not hurt.
Fairfax County police are looking at the similarities between this crime and several others in Woodbridge. The apartment complexes are almost identical. The intruder cut the window screens and bent the frames. Both a complex in Woodbridge and one in Fairfax county are located off I-95.
"We do not believe it was targeted attack. We believe that this would have been random," said Officer Shelley Broderick of Fairfax County police.
Those who live in the Lorton community say they are especially concerned because the crimes defy locks on doors and windows, and the masked attacker is breaking into homes where children are present.
"I have four kids, I hear about that, it's like 'oh my God,'" said neighbor Abibatun Kamara.
The victim's husband says he brought his family here from Afghanistan to escape danger. Now, after what happened, he is looking at moving his family back.
"I'm sure we cannot live anymore here. They have a very bad memory from living in this area," he said.
Fairfax County Police describe the suspect as a black man, 6 feet to 6 feet 3 inches tall, muscular build, wearing black clothing and a mask over his face.
In one of the Prince William County crimes last month, the intruder climbed on top of a woman while she slept, then attacked her. In a second crime, the attacker was scared out of a woman's apartment by a male friend.
Neighbors in the Lorton complex say there has been at least one similar attempted break-in near where Saturday's attack occurred.


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Former United States congressman Anthony Weiner has graduated to the Presumably Self-Deprecating Cameo stage of his inescapable return to public life. Weiner, the "Nan Goldin of the 2013 New York City mayoral race," will appear on Alpha House, the "House of Cards of Web-only political satires."
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December 08, 2011
Establishments in Institutional Investor's World's Best Hotels 2011 ranking are using renovations and renewed dedication to service to fuel a rebound.
By Kristin Baird Rattini
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Its a common occurrence: A guest leaves a piece of
luggage behind in his room. Housekeeping finds it and places it
in lost and found. What happened next, however, at the China
World Hotel in Beijing was hardly standard procedure.
When the guest arrived in Hong Kong, he called to say
hed left his bag and needed the papers inside the
suitcase for an important meeting, recalls John Rice,
general manager of the Shangri-La property. This was
a regular guest of ours. So our concierge booked an air ticket,
flew to Hong Kong and hand-delivered the bag to the home
of the guest.
After the financial crisis first erupted, in 2007, it was
easy to argue that the luxury hotel market lost its way.
Occupancy rates fell sharply. Monthly cancellation rates at top
U.S. properties hit an unprecedented 20 percent. The luxury
segment became a prime target in the political backlash against
executive compensation.
Lately, however, the market has found its footing again. In
the U.S. occupancy rates for 2011 will end up at close to 70
percent, well above 2010s rate of 66.2 percent and just
shy of the peak of 71.8 percent reached back in 2006, according
to STR Global, a Hendersonville, Tennessee, hospitality data
research company. Premier hotels are leaving nothing to chance,
though. They are going the extra mile or 1,224 miles, in
China World Hotels case to provide the
extraordinary service that has earned them customer loyalty as
well as coveted spots on Institutional Investors annual
ranking of the Worlds
Best Hotels.
The top spot on this years list belongs to Rosewood
Mansion on Turtle Creek. The 31-year-old boutique hotel is a
Dallas institution. Texans pack the house on weekends, and its
fiercely loyal base of repeat clients accounts for 35 percent
of overall business. A three-year, $30 million overhaul,
completed in 2010, updated the lobby from its 1980s origins and
modernized the 143 rooms. The renovation has been a huge
success, says managing director Duncan Graham.
People whod been here 250 times worried it
wouldnt be the mansion anymore. But it was done in
degrees we never closed and I think the design
is timeless.
When the economic crisis first hit, some groups became
sensitive about staying at a place with
mansion in the name, Graham says. But since
2008 occupancy rates at Rosewood Mansion have been on the rise.
Midweek business travelers have returned. The hotel has
landed some significant new accounts, including a large
out-of-state bank whose employees generate 50 to 60 room nights
a month. Yet the battle over patronage remains fierce.
Graham estimates that the supply of hotel rooms in his
competitive set has increased 125 percent since 2006
with no accompanying increase in demand. We are at
pre-2007 occupancy levels, but softer in rates, he
Average daily rates: Theyre the Achilles heel of
the recovery for the upscale sector. In the U.S. market
rates will probably end this year at $258, says Bjorn
Hanson, dean of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for
Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York
University. That represents a decline of nearly $30 from the
peak rate of $286 set in 2008. Never before has there
been that large, nor that sustained, of a decline,
Hanson notes.
Many luxury chains insist that rate integrity is an
absolute. You would never see a For Sale sign
on a Rolls-Royce dealership, says Heinrich Morio, general
manager of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, No. 5 on IIs
roster. Likewise, the Burj Al Arab is not a product that
can have a For Sale sign.
Yet in these times when hotels are fighting harder than ever
for business and online travel agencies have made pricing even
more transparent, guests are expecting more for their
money and getting it. A free extra night? That
once-elusive incentive has become more commonplace among
premium hotels even at the Burj Al Arab, where room
rates average $2,000 a night. Breakfast? Its now included
in the Burj Al Arabs base rate. Free transportation? The
Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, which ranks 47th
on the list, provides a complimentary green limo,
an electric car that transfers guests to three nearby tourist
spots. Free Wi-Fi? Claridges was one of the first
hotels in London to offer it.
Value add-on is really in demand, particularly among
leisure clients, says Thomas Kochs, general manager of
Claridges, this years third-place hotel. Leisure
travelers account for 55 percent of Claridges mix;
they have returned with fatter pocketbooks than corporate
guests. Leisure clients are spending more, staying longer
and treating themselves to suites a little more often, he
Kochs has made goodwill visits to the U.S. this year to
confer with his top bookers members of networks like
Virtuoso, Signature and American Express
Centurion and to promote the 113-year-old property
as a destination for modern and traditional travelers alike.
That means providing butlers who are as adept at
troubleshooting iPads (which are provided in the hotels
limousines) as they are at manning the 5:00 p.m. rounds of the
sweets trolley. It means cutting-edge fare from Gordon Ramsay
as well as the best afternoon tea in London, according to the
prestigious Tea Guild. Our heritage, history and the
royalty that stays with us definitely help make Claridges
attractive, Kochs says. But we are actively working
at keeping our name and our brand relevant to the needs
travelers have today and tomorrow.
Although exquisite service remains part and parcel of the
luxury image, the segment is starting to fine-tune its
marketing message. Pampering is now complemented by
something that conveys productivity, NYUs Hanson
says. The message is: If you stay at our hotel, we
will have the service you need and will make your time more
Thats certainly the mantra at the China World,
No. 42, where corporate guests have reduced both the
frequency and duration of their stays. They want the best
value and best quality in the shortest length of time,
says general manager Rice. Since those guests are eating
in-house more during their short stays, the hotel now changes
its recommendation menu every two weeks to offer more variety.
An 8,000-square-foot executive lounge, due to open mid-2012,
will connect directly to the business center and the newly
refreshed conference facilities. The hotel also added a
dedicated concierge to serve as a single point of contact for
organizers of meetings and conventions. Physical product
will always be there, new hotel or old hotel, Rice says.
But guest experience and service will always
differentiate one property from another.
The Mount Nelson Hotel has assigned a staff member to assist
production crews for films, advertisements and photo shoots,
which account for 25 percent of the hotels clientele.
(Cape Town is considered the Hollywood of Africa, thanks to its
tax incentives and skilled English-speaking talent.)
Theyre long-stay guests, so I like to take care of
them, says general manager Xavier Lablaude. I give
them small discounts at the bar, special rates for laundry and
10 percent off on food and beverage.
What happens, though, when theres too much of a good
thing? STR Global has cautioned that oversupply could spoil the
recovery in the high-end market as new properties continue to
open their doors around the globe and around the corner
from some of the hotels on this years list.
Competition is our top preoccupation, says
Vincenzo Finizzola, general manager of the Four Seasons Hotel
Milan (No. 61). The luxury 95-room Armani Hotel opened in
November just a five-minute walk away. The Four Seasons
courteously tweeted its very best wishes to our new
neighbors, even as the 18-year-old property is freshening
up for the fight. A 7,000-square-foot spa will open in 2012,
just as renovations begin on all 118 rooms.
Once the sole luxury property in lower Manhattan, the
Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park which
ranks 64th now has several competitors for the business
thats expected to come with the opening of 1 World Trade
Center, the 1,776-foot skyscraper currently rising on the
site of the old Twin Towers. However, continuous delays have
pushed the towers opening back to April 2014
adding insult to the injuries suffered by downtown business
hotels as a result of the financial turmoil on
Wall Street.
As a $10 million renovation revamped the hotels
298 rooms in 2009, the Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery
Parks management team overhauled its food and beverage
and sales approach as well. The high-priced steakhouse?
Gone. 2 West is now a more moderately priced American bistro.
Its giving customers a lot more options, says
general manager Greg Mendoza. Financial and corporate groups
disappearing from the reservation books? Call in the lawyers.
The sales team has booked several legal groups and associations
for functions at the Battery Park property. In July the hotel
even marketed a package for trial lawyers, which included
everything from a free shoeshine to a noncompete clause
excluding opposing counsel from booking at the hotel. Those
wholesalers that were unnecessary in the past? Ring them up.
They are bringing us business from Germany, Brazil and
Mexico, Mendoza says. Its a new segment, and
its working.
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Photo by Ken Howard/SCRFathers! Sons! Jews! Guilt! Writers! New York! Yeah, we know—like these subjects haven't been mined in a theatrical work before. But hey, when you're Broadway-bound like Donald Margulies' Brooklyn Boy is—the play premieres there in a couple of months—it certainly helps to know your audience. All that's missing are the queers!
Queers or no, it's still a lot of fun—Margulies has penned some sharp one-liners that make him sound like an old Catskills vet. Even the moments that could have easily been overwrought with sentimental squishiness thankfully aren't (and who wouldn't expect overwrought sentiment from a play whose quick-shot summary would be "man seeks love from distant father"?).
It begins with Eric Weiss (Adam Arkin) sitting at the hospital bedside of his dying pop, Manny (Allan Miller). He's there to give him a copy of his first best-selling semiautobiographical novel—unsurprisingly titled Brooklyn Boy. Eric wants validation from the old man, who belittled him throughout his upbringing and isn't about to stop now, no matter how successful his son is or how dead he gets, putting Eric down with a stream of cruel-but-funny-as-hell retorts and snappy comebacks. "What do you got to say that'll take 384 pages?" Manny asks. Even the book's dedication isn't good enough for him ("'To my mother and father'—where are our names?!?").
A fast-rising writer he might be, but after Eric leaves his dad, we meet a gamut of characters who are not only similarly unimpressed by Eric's accomplishments, but they're also pretty damn hostile. Old-school chum Ira (Arye Gross) is happy for him, but he can barely mask his jealousy—Eric remembers Ira as a good artist, but 25 years after they last talked, Ira's raising his family in his parents' house and runs the same deli his hated father ran (made worse for him whenever longtime customers tell him how much he looks like the bastard). Ira never "made it" like his old buddy, but he's happy Eric modeled one of his novel's characters after Ira, even though Eric insists he didn't.
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Brooklyn Boy is partially about fame and how even the smallest amounts of it can not only fuck you up, but also everyone else around you, as friends, relatives, even total strangers try to filter their lives through yours—not the most ideal of situations, especially when you're not even sure if the success you have is completely deserved (Eric is both complemented and damned, often by the same person, often in the same sentence). Yet by the time Eric can reach any semblance of personal relief, you get the feeling he'll always be miserable. But as his father at one point notes, that same misery can make a pretty good book. Not a half-bad piece of theater, either.
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Democrats are also faltering in two states they hoped to pick up. In Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes declared on July 29 that, "The Iron Dome has been a big reason why Israel has been able to withstand the terrorists that have tried to tunnel their way in." But Iron Dome is a missile defense system and useless against the tunnels built by Hamas. This adds to existing questions about her command of the issues.
In Georgia, Democrat Michelle Nunn suffered a self-inflicted wound when it turned out that in December her campaign posted online a 144-page strategy memo. It suggested that she came across as "a lightweight" and "not a real Georgian," listing as weaknesses her support for ObamaCare and her vulnerability to being depicted as "a rubber stamp for Democrats." And Georgia's GOP runoff yielded a Republican, businessman David Perdue, who can win.
Nationally, Mr. Obama's job approval rating remains dangerously low—41% in Wednesday's Gallup tracking, 4% less than at this point in 2010. He is in worse shape on major issues. In the June 1 ABC News/Washington Post survey, the president's approval rating on immigration is 38%, down 10 points from April 2009. An Aug. 3 NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll put his approval rating on foreign affairs at 36% and on the economy at 42%, both down from 56% shortly after his 2009 inauguration.


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