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Why pecan pie potato chips spur grocery sales
Notice anything different at the grocery store this time of year? A hint of pumpkin spice? A peppermint twist? An abundance of eggnog flavored items?
"This is something that happens every year and companies such as Kellogg's and Kraft don't mess around" says Venessa Wong, associate editor at Bloomberg's Businessweek. She wrote about the trend.
The last quarter of the year -- October through December -- tends to be the busiest time for grocery stores says Wong. Their success over competitors can have a lot to do with the special "holiday" foods the grocery store has to offer and how it's displayed. And Wong says, "it totally works."
Both grocery stores and food manufacturers have figured out how to tap into customer loyalty through these yearly flavored offerings.
Starbucks is one example of a retailer that's figured out how to do holiday flavors right with their Pumpkin Spice Latte and other flavored coffee beverages. And back at the grocery store, coffee creamer companies have followed suit with their own versions of the flavors.
But all these holiday-themed food items don't sit well with everybody. Kai Ryssdal, for one, is not a fan.
Look at what we bought!
This final note, a sequel of sorts to our YouTube science videos story.
Just to completely dispel any notion you might have had that the internet is a force for good, Buzzfeed talked to the folks at YouTube about what are called "haul videos." Shoppers showing off what they've bought.
There are 800,000 haul videos on YouTube, which have more combined views than Gagnam Style, the South Korean music video which just passed 1.8 billion views.
Vice President Biden walks right into China-Japan airspace conflict
Vice President Biden is in Tokyo today -- the first stop of a week-long Asian tour.
Little did he know when he planned this trip that he'd be walking into the middle of a spat between the world's third and second largest economies (China and Japan) over China's newly declared air defense identification zone. Beijing is warning that it'll take defensive action in the zone, which covers a big part of the East China Sea that both Japan and South Korea also lay claim to.
But why would China pick now to do this, knowing that Vice President Biden was coming and that the Japanese wouldn't like it. Schmitz says it all circles back to President Xi Jinping's agenda to push the "Chinese Dream".
"Part of that dream is to be seen and treated by the international community as a global power" said Marketplace's China Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz.
Schmitz explained that ever since the 1960s Japan has had a similar air defense zone in the East China Sea. One point the Chinese made when they announced their zone is that it's zone would be as close to Japan's shores as Japan's zone is to China's.
"So they're saying 'look if the world's third largest economy can have air defense zone that comes right up to our territories then we can too' said Schmitz.
China Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz spoke to Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal from Shanghai.
One student's path to an elite university
When George Alvarez was in high school and starting to apply to colleges, a top university like Johns Hopkins wasn't even on his radar.
"I actually never heard about Johns Hopkins until my senior year, when my history teacher told me to apply there," he says.
George grew up on Long Island, just outside New York City, the son of a housekeeper and a retired mechanic. He knew he wanted to be a doctor and was looking at a low-cost program nearby, where he could earn a bachelor's degree and an M.D. in seven years.
"And my history teacher was like, 'you could go there, or you can go to Hopkins and experience college life and then apply to medical school,'" he says.
He applied to both schools, and got into both. Johns Hopkins -- with its sticker price of more than $50,000 a year -- turned out to be cheaper. With grants and scholarships, he would pay around $5,000 for tuition and room and board.
So George and his parents -- immigrants from El Salvador whose own schooling stopped at sixth grade -- headed for Baltimore to visit. It was George's first time out of New York.
"The first thing I noticed was there were no metal detectors in the entrance, as there were in my high school," he says.
That was four years ago. George is a senior now. I meet him at the university's plush new undergraduate teaching labs, where students lounge on rocking chairs and sip lattes in a glass atrium. Looking back, George says that first visit almost kept him away.
"I was intimidated," he says. "Especially once I was here, once I was immersed with my other classmates, who I felt were better than me."
George had been a straight-A student at Uniondale High School. Even so, his guidance counselor advised him not to go to Hopkins -- to pick the local program instead. It was competitive, but at a less selective school.
"'It's not a good fit for you, you're going to be alone.'" he recalls the counselor saying of Hopkins. "And I was like, 'I'm going to prove you wrong.'"
George thinks now that counselor was probably trying to protect him.
"It's not at all unusual to have guidance counselors advise low-income students to go to the kinds of colleges where other low-income students go, instead of going to the sort of colleges for which they are best prepared," says Caroline Hoxby, an economics professor at Stanford University.
Hoxby's research on so-called "under-matched" students has shaken up the college admissions world this year. She says most low-income, high achieving seniors don't even apply to the Harvards and Macalesters and UCLAs of the world -- even though they tend to fare much better at highly selective colleges.
"They're more likely to get good academic advice," she says. "They're more likely to be in a cohort of students where everyone believes that they're going to complete on time."
And they're more likely to land better jobs, with higher pay. Hoxby says if you're qualified to go to a top college and don't, "our minimum estimate is that you're giving up half a million dollars over your lifetime in net present dollars."
Hoxby says sometimes all it takes is the right information. She's been working with the College Board to send out customized packets to top, low-income students comparing financial aid and graduation rates at various colleges.
Johns Hopkins is part of the effort. George's story of finding Hopkins is common, says David Phillips, the university's vice provost for admissions and financial aid.
"That's almost an accident, right? A happy accident that he ran into the right teacher to steer him in the right direction," he says. "That too often is the case." He says Hoxby's research is helping universities reach out to students in more systematic ways.
"And schools need to do that," he says.
But of course getting students to campus is just the beginning. For George, it was a rocky start. On his third chemistry exam, he scored a 10 out of 76. That first year, he thought about quitting every night.
"I thought this was too hard," he says. "I thought I'd be a happier person being back home in New York." And not having to adjust to a completely different life, he says.
His adjustment came thanks to another happy accident. Eventually he found his way to the Office of Multicultural Affairs, where he met other students from backgrounds like his. He's now a leader there.
On a recent night, George advised freshmen and sophomores at an event for underrepresented students thinking about medical careers.
"I wish someone mentored me," he says. "I needed a role model to look up to, and I didn't have it so it was difficult to me, and I want to be that role model for them."
George is set to graduate in the spring with a degree in biophysics. He plans to take a year off and apply to med school.
Why more auto sales don't mean more auto jobs
A spike in sales by the Big 3 U.S. automakers was driven by pick-ups.
Americans were buying trucks: Sierras, Silverados, Rams, and F-150s. But last month's pick-up in pick-up sales probably won't lead to more jobs making trucks.
"You don't want to have this layoff, recall, layoff, recall situation," says Art Schwartz, an economic consultant who was fomerly GM's director of labor relations. "You want to get a more regular kind of employment level and production level."
Rather than hiring more workers or opening new factories, manufacturers are running existing plants at full capacity. Some of them are open six days a week, three shifts a day.
"They are less likely to bring on people unless they think this is going to be a permanent increase, and even then, it is going to be a slow go," Schwartz says.
That's because of lingering uncertainty. But November's sales numbers are a good sign for the labor market writ large.
"You know, the majority of buyers in the space use a pick-up as a tool," says Mike Jackson, who directs North American vehicle forecasting for IHS Automotive. "Contractors of every sort, who have delayed purchases in the past, are now seeing very, very definitive results, very strong demand.
"And so, they feel confident enough that they can make a big-ticket purchase," he says.
Truck sales also signal growth in the energy sector. According to Jackson, if you do hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, you probably own a truck.
And while a spike in truck sales may not necessarily result in more jobs making trucks, it is good news for the auto sector for one very important reason.
"Companies make a lot of money on trucks," says David Cole, chairman of AutoHarvest. The profit margins on pick-ups are huge -- at times close to $10,000.
Dow: Time for an industry built by plastics to move on
Dow Chemical, founded in 1897, is one of the most iconic companies in the United States. But after 116 years, the largest chemical maker in the country is considering dropping the word "chemical" from its name. It's not a marketing ploy or a rebranding scheme; Dow is selling off its commodity chemical business, which is responsible for things like epoxy and cheap plastic grocery bags.
In the early years Dow made its money selling two products: bleach and potassium bromide, an over-the-counter sedative. And with both products, foreign companies tried to undercut Dow's sales. When German bromide producers flooded the U.S. with cheap bromide, Dow bought it and sold it back to competitors of the German companies. The strategy kept Dow alive and taught it a valuable lesson: diversify.
In 1953 Dow created a consumer products division that gave birth to a string of wildly popular products like Saran Wrap, the Zip Lock bag, and a whole range of plastics it sold to manufacturers.
"Suddenly the world was very alive to the possibility of replacing natural materials with synthetically produced materials, and plastics were a big part of that," says Duke business professor Ashish Arora.
Because Dow could produce chemicals cheaply, it had an advantage over competitors. But as technology spread, foreign companies were able to produce those chemicals for much less. "The significant advantage that Dow had in producing those chemicals," says Arora, "diminishes to the point where it's no longer advantageous for the company to be in those businesses."
Dow plans to exit the chlorine business, the foundation of its original product, altogether. Instead Dow wants to develop products with higher profit margins, like agricultural seeds, electronics and packaging made from, you guessed it, plastics.
"As far as standard plastics, Dow is actually making major investments on those in the U.S. Gulf Coast because of all the shale gas development that's going on," says Frank Esposito, a senior reporter at Plastics News.
According to Esposito, no one thought companies would be investing in plastic manufacturing in the U.S. five years ago. But with the abundance of natural gas from shale, there is an unexpected source of the raw materials needed to make plastics.
Dow Chemical is making a major move in deciding to remove itself from the chemical industry. And re-branding a company that has become so synonymous with chemicals will be challenging. A window into Dow Chemical's past...
A Dow Chemical commercial that's out of date now. For more reasons than one.
A vintage Dow Chemical advertisement
PODCAST: Consumers fight back in shopping
Stores are counting receipts from the four-day shop-o-rama. Five days if you count so-called Cyber Monday, when everybody used work computers to get through their holiday list digitally. IBM reports the online sales were up 20 percent from a year ago. Juli Nieman, analyst at Smith Moore and Company in St Louis, says consumers are holding the line on some things.
Also, China is responding to an American trade grievance by taking the issue to the World Trade Organization. U.S. officials believe China has sold solar panels and other goods below cost and has hit $8 billion worth of Chinese imports with punitive anti-dumping duties. China will argue that's not fair.
They call them "native ads." Advertisements that wear camouflage. They blend in with the main content of the site … like a sneaky promotional Tweet from a smartphone company about the awesomness of its phone. Now, the Federal Trade Commission digs into native advertising.
"Tragedy as a generation" for U.S. youth
Most corporations make their voices heard loud and clear in Washington. So do many demographic groups -- think retirees and the AARP. But advocates say young Americans, aged 16 to 24, are "rapidly becoming the most disadvantaged group in America."
Host David Brancaccio spoke to journalist and economic policy consultant Jeff Madrick, who writes a column in Harper's Magazine, about the travails of today's youth.
"The elderly and lots of other groups have strong lobbying efforts in Washington. The young certainly do not, and we're only becoming aware of that."
Keeping an eye on student loans from non-banks
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to expand its supervision of student loans to those servicers that operate outside of the banking system.
A new CFPB rule would give the agency new oversight over student loans from Sallie Mae, NelNet and a few state and non-profit agencies. Most student loans are processed by these non-banks. Starting in March, the government will gather reports and conduct exams on how they do business.
Altogether, the institutions subject to this new monitoring manage more than 49 million borrower accounts.
Americans owe more than a trillion dollars in student debt. And in the past year, watchdogs have been looking in to thousands of complaints. There have been lots of complaints that the institutions who collect people's monthly payments try to maximize late fees and that paperwork often gets lost when loans are being transferred.
One of the biggest complaints involves what happens when a borrower has multiple loans she's trying to pay back, all with different interest rates. People have complained that payments they make to knock out a specific high-interest loan, are instead getting spread out across all their loans.
Video games and the autism spectrum
This week we're looking at the relationship between video games and mental health. We're talking to game designers, researchers and occupational therapists.
Amanda Foran is an occupational therapist who works with children and adults who are on the autism spectrum. Foran, at Motion Therapy in Rockville, Maryland, has found that video games can be a meaningful physical activity for people on the autism spectrum, and can help them engage socially:
"To start out, look for games that have simple rules. Games like tennis and boxing tend to be very easy for everyone to learn quickly and they also tend to be highly interactive. Games that offer the motion capture technology, that shows the individual on the screen instead of an abstract character."
Foran favors the Xbox Kinect because it encourages full body motion and eliminates the need for a controller, which can be inhibiting for people with autism who may have more difficulty with fine motor skills or button sequence memorization. She also recommends playing with a partner:
"Since many individuals on the spectrum are already skilled at playing video games, families can encourage them to play with siblings or neighborhood peers, and it really might give them the opportunity to act in the expert role."
We'd love to hear about your own experiences with video games and mental health. Fill our our Public Insight Network survey, drop us a line @MarketplaceTech or comment below.
Japan's economic plans: Sales tax plus stimulus
Japan's government debt equals about 230 percent of its gross domestic product. To raise money to pay that down, the government will increase the national sales tax to 8 percent.
Paying off massive debt seems prudent, but to avoid slowing the economy with the higher taxes, Japanese officials in the next day or so will propose a $53 billion spending package. Host David Brancaccio speaks with the BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Tokyo.
Scientists quit their day jobs, head over to YouTube
For the past seven years, Joe Hanson has been tied to the lab bench, inching toward his Ph.D in biology. But he was one of those people who just couldn't keep his geeky enthusiasms to himself.
"I was always that guy at parties who wanted to tells you about the cool article he read," Hanson says, "And instead of having people walk away, I decided to put this online."
After a few years writing a popular science blog called It's Okay to be Smart, Hanson got a call last November from PBS Digital Studios. They asked if he would want to host his own science show—on YouTube.
"I didn't see myself at the bench working with my petri dishes anymore," he says, "I had a real chance to do this for a living."
As soon as Hanson was crowned with a doctorate this fall, he went straight to a teaching career on YouTube. On his weekly show, which is part of a PBS line-up on YouTube, the tall, bespectacled Hanson delivers fast-paced science lessons on subjects like color, space or the odds of finding love. It's a job that, according to him, puts all his Ph.D-honed talents to use.
In the last year, YouTube has become the place to watch really smart people with advanced degrees hold forth on science. The top science channels got hundreds of millions of views with their zippy explanations of dark matter and the periodic table. "Education" videos on YouTube now get twice as many views as "Pets & Animals" videos, according to the company. Science nerds are officially beating out the cat playing a piano, that old juggernaut of online video.
Vsauce, the top YouTube science show, averages 20 million viewers a month—something in the range of NBC's Sunday Night Football audience. Minute Physics, Crash Course, SciShow and The Brain Scoop are a few of the several shows producing fun, compelling science videos. Even Bill Nye the Science Guy, who hosted an Emmy Award-winning show on PBS in the nineties, has made guest appearances on online shows like ASAP Science.
The migration of Nye and these other pop scientists to YouTube has happened within the past two to three years. Kevin Allocca, the head of Culture & Trends at the company, says there have been a few big science moments where millions of viewers went to YouTube to see viral videos: the rover landing on Mars, the Red Bull "Stratos" jump from space, and the Russian Meteor.
At the same time, the trends group within YouTube was seeing the steady rise of these science shows that were regularly producing original content. "As viewers, we've come to understand we're interested in this kind of stuff," says Allocca, "And people have been getting really good at feeding it to us."
YouTube seems to have become a destination for science, but can these online science teachers actually make a living doing this?
Henry Reich runs Minute Physics, one of the most popular science shows on YouTube. He uses stick figure drawings to explain the physics behind Schrödinger's Cat or parallel universes. The show, which began in 2011, was successful enough that Reich was able to start another show, Minute Earth, and hire a production team to make its videos.
Reich still produces the Minute Physics videos himself. His budget is basically zero, he says, with the only expenses being printer paper and Crayola markers—and lots and lots of his time.
Minute Physics videos average a million views every week. Reich can't disclose how much ad money he earns. In general, a million views on YouTube brings in between one to two thousand dollars in ad revenue, though in some cases, the number can be as low as $200 or as high as $8000.
Add to that corporate sponsorships and viewer donations via sites like Subbable, and the top science channels are doing pretty well for themselves. But that doesn't mean it's easy for any science enthusiast to pull this off.
"Getting a million views is still really hard," says Hanson, the PhD-turned-YouTube-host, "And the bigger YouTube gets, the harder it is to discover things."
But Hanson adds that this doesn't seem to keep the science lovers from trying. Nowadays, the two most common emails he gets are, "Hey, should I get my Ph.D?" and "Hey, how can I do what you do?"
After giving similar responses week after week, Hanson says he's now working on a YouTube video that'll share his advice -- in a most scientific manner, of course.
YouTube channels like Crash Course give viewers a fast tutorial on scientific topics. Here's one recent upload explaining topics in chemistry:
Quiz: Is this story an ad?
Native ads are ads that don't look like ads. They blend in with the main content of the site, like a promoted Tweet from Samsung about its new phone, or an article about a miracle weight loss drug on a news site.
>This week, on December 4, the Federal Trade Commission is hosting a kind of town-hall meeting about native advertising -- which is starting to look like the goose that lays golden eggs to online advertisers and websites.
Advertisers love them because they work, users interact with them more than they ever did with banner ads; sites love them, because they pay; site owners can charge more for these ads than they ever did for banners.
"I believe, in 6 to 12 months, there will be no other advertising than native advertising in social media, because it's just becoming so effective," says Jan Rezab, CEO of Socialbakers, a social media analytics platform.
Companies are currently spending $2.5 billion a year on these ads and that's expected to double in the next few years. That's gotten the attention of the FTC.
The fear is that users are going to get hoodwinked," says Jed Williams, vice president and senior analyst at BIA/Kelsey, a consulting and research group that focuses on local and digital media. "They're going to think a piece of content is something that it's actually not."
Williams says it should be really clear whether an article about, say, the health benefits of grilling was written by a journalist or brought to you by Weber.
Advertisers are worried too much regulation could simply cook their goose.
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Native ads are ads that don't look like ads. They blend in with the main content of the site, like a promoted Tweet from Samsung about its new phone, or an article about a miracle weight loss drug on a news site.
This week, on December 4, the Federal Trade Commission is hosting a kind of town-hall meeting about native advertising -- which is starting to look like the goose that lays golden eggs to online advertisers and websites.
Advertisers love them because they work, users interact with them more than they ever did with banner ads; sites love them, because they pay; site owners can charge more for these ads than they ever did for banners.
"I believe, in 6 to 12 months, there will be no other advertising than native advertising in social media, because it's just becoming so effective," says Jan Rezab, CEO of Socialbakers, a social media analytics platform.
Companies are currently spending $2.5 billion a year on these ads and that's expected to double in the next few years. That's gotten the attention of the FTC.
"The fear is that users are going to get hoodwinked," says Jed Williams, vice president and senior analyst at BIA/Kelsey, a consulting and research group that focuses on local and digital media. "They're going to think a piece of content is something that it's actually not."
Williams says it should be really clear whether an article about, say, the health benefits of grilling was written by a journalist or brought to you by Weber.
Advertisers are worried too much regulation could simply cook their goose.
Are community banks 'too small to succeed'?
How many banks exist in America today? A lot fewer than any other time since the federal government started keeping track back in 1934, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out. Based on the latest data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as of September 30, 2013, there are 6,891 U.S. banks. That's down from a peak of 18,000 banks a few decades ago.
It's mostly smaller, local banks that have been disappearing since the mid '80s. They've consolidated, merged with bigger banks, or collapsed altogether. The result for the average American, says bank analyst Nancy Bush, is that "it's tougher to find the little bank on the corner that knows your name."
That can make a difference for small business owners in particular, Bush says, since the smaller banks have traditionally been the ones that would "sit down with you, and look at the intricacies of the way you have to finance your small business.
"I think there has been an impact on our economy as a result of this," she says.
Record low interest rates have made it hard for smaller banks to earn revenue -- since they make most of their money through charging interest on loans. Another factor, Bush says, is "the steady ratcheting up of regulations in the banking industry, with more scrutiny, more paper work," and ultimately, more costs to run a bank.
Ironically, these regulations were largely meant to reign in the risk taking behavior of banks considered "too big to fail." But those bigger banks can also handle new regulatory costs more easily. As one community banker told The Wall Street Journal, the question for the little guy now might be: can you be too small to succeed?
Detroit bankruptcy given the go-ahead
Updated Tuesday, November 3, 2013, 11:00 a.m. ET:
A judge in Detroit has ruled that the city is eligible for bankruptcy protection – something it filed for in July.
The decision by U.S. bankruptcy judge Steven Rhodes sets the stage for battles over pension reductions and other tactics Detroit will pursue to raise money,
Since it's bankruptcy filing in July, the city has had something of a reprieve, says David Skeel, the Caryl Louise Boies Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School.
"Creditors have [had] to stop trying to collect what they are owed, and Detroit also stopped paying a number of its obligations," he explains.
The Motor City has tens of thousands of creditors.
According to Eric Scorsone, who researches government finance at Michigan State University, with bankruptcy protection, Detroit's emergency manager will draft a restructuring proposal.
"And that is really going to be, 'Okay, who are we going to pay?' and 'How much are we going to pay them?'," asks Scorsone.
Scorsone says there is one thing the creditors all know – "that Detroit is, you know, insolvent."
And that, he adds, is in large part, because of pension obligations.
Detroit bankruptcy could become free-for-all
A judge in Detroit is set to decide if that city is eligible for bankruptcy protection – something it filed for in July. Since then, it has had something of a reprieve, says David Skeel, the Caryl Louise Boies Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Law School.
"Creditors have [had] to stop trying to collect what they are owed, and Detroit also stopped paying a number of its obligations," he explains.
That could change if Judge Steven Rhodes decides the city is ineligible for bankruptcy protection.
"Everybody would be banging at the door,"Skeel says.
The Motor City has tens of thousands of creditors. Losing bankruptcy protection would have another effect, Skeel says: it would be harder for Detroit to borrow money.
According to Eric Scorsone, who researches government finance at Michigan State University, if the city does get bankruptcy protection, its emergency manager would draft a restructuring proposal.
"And that is really going to be, 'Okay, who are we going to pay?' and 'How much are we going to pay them?'," asks Scorsone.
Scorsone says there is one thing the creditors all know – "that Detroit is, you know, insolvent."
And that, he adds, is in large part, because of pension obligations.
What if the U.S. and Canada merged?
We talk mergers and acquisitions on this program all the time. Company A buying Company B for so many millions or billions of dollars and so and so forth.
But in the grand scheme of things, corporate goings on are chump change. Let's talking about merging nations: Say, if the U.S. bought Canada.
In her new book "Merger of the Century," Diane Francis says that's a fine idea. She says an economic union between the two countries is not as far-fetched as one may think.
"I think they're both terrific countries. To me it's a no-brainer going forward for a lot of reasons why these countries should be more integrated than they are," she says.
Francis says that in 50 years she said could see a North American monetary union, like the Euro. She says people think it won't happen because they have the wrong idea about the European Union.
"I think it's a miracle what's happened in Europe," says Francis.
Francis says West African countries and Caribbean countries have monetary unions and no borders. And the fact the U.S and Canada don't is "head scratching."
Another Christmas, another year of rising prices
If you were in the market for a turtle dove, a swan-a-swimming or piper piping, keep reading.
PNC Wealth Management took a look at how the prices behind the carol "Twelve Days a Christmas" has changed over the years, and this year was one of the larger jumps on record: Almost 8 percent.
Since PNC launched their index in 1984, increases in the so-called 'Christmas index' have matched inflation in the U.S. at about 2.9 percent.
According to PNC, if you wanted to buy all the goods, services, animals, etc., listed in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" box-set it would have cost you "$27,393.17 in 2013, $1,192 more than last year and the largest increase since 2010 when the index jumped 9.2 percent."
"We were surprised to see such a large increase from a year ago, given the overall benign inflation rate in the U.S., but the dancers in the index took a huge leap this year to play catch up from paltry increases the previous few years," Jim Dunigan, managing executive of Investments at PNC Wealth Management says.
We'll stick to bitcoin for our speculative investments though, thank you very much.
Arrested on Black Friday, for throwing money at the mall
This final note: One last Black Friday item to leave you with, from Bloomington, Minn.
Security at the Mall of America arrested Serge Vorobyov on Friday afternoon for throwing $1,000 in $1 bills off a balcony at the mall.
He'd had a bad year apparently, and says he just wanted to raise people's spirits. Security charged him with disorderly conduct, saying that people could've been hurt. (Or, you know, a $1,000 richer.)


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"The French Democracy," released mere weeks after the release of Lionhead's "The Movies," gives evidence for the potential of game movies as commentaries on current events. Inspired by the recent riots in the Parisian suburbs, this movie tells several stories about the victimization of French minority groups through harassment, job discrimination, and daily events and depicts circumstancs that make them feel like second-class citizens. Implicitly, this movie attempts to explain the tensions and emotions that fueled the riots. It also hits a note of deeply-felt sorrow for the loss of historical French ideals such as liberty and fraternity. The English subtitles, obviously written by a non-native writer, lend surprising authenticity and immediacy to the movie. -- HEL
"Though 'The French Democracy' is a rough bit of work that might not win over many film critics, some folks are hailing it as a milestone for being the first politically motivated film in this newish and mostly obscure medium, called 'machinima' by its fans. Hugh Hancock, who runs a Web site called Machinima.com, rated the piece as 'a fantastic step forward.'" -- Mike Musgrove, Washington Post (1 Dec. 2005).
"This is an original French movie about the recent French riots in the suburbs, it is also fully subtitled in English. A powerful film and very educational!" -- Planet The Movies (25 Nov. 2005)
"This is a movie about the recent French riots in suburb. It is fully subtitled in english(sorry for my english, i had some training to do). I hope you will enjoy this movies and have a better understand of what is happening in my country!" -- Koulamata, The Movies website (22 Nov. 2005)
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It's amazing what can be done with these copmputer graphics. A great video that attempts to explore the inner frustrations that goes on with these minorities, how they are pushed to the edge. Unfortunately, their attempts will not be a solution to the problem, it will only create more chaos.

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Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre
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November 24, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving, Internet! Most of you are probably already on your way, over the river and through the wood, to Grandma's house or wherever you're eating your turkey this year. It's Thanksgiving Eve as I write this, but in the morning Team Cheung will brave the traffic, the rain, and hours of the Wiggles on our way to my brother's house in Port Angeles, Washington.
Now, some of you may be familiar with the town of Port Angeles. Some of you may be scratching your heads wondering where you've heard the name, others of you are all, "KISS EDWARD FOR ME!" Port Angeles makes a fleeting appearance of two in some of the Twilight books - this is both a fun little fact with which to tease my brother and the inspiration behind today's Thanksgiving blog post, which no one will read because HELLO IT IS THANKSGIVING. And if you ARE reading this, what are you doing?! Go eat your turkey! (Or maybe you are hiding out from the in-laws? I understand. Stay as long as you like.)
So anyway. I may be eating my Thanksgiving in Port Angeles this year, but that is the ONLY Twilighty thing about my holiday. And now may I present a few other reasons to be thankful?
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come to him, he'll dig in and fight. But you've got to stay after him. This is
the third Del Mar Mile in a row for me, so you know I like this race. And Mike
(trainer Mike Mitchell) and these owners (Anthony Fanticola and Joseph
Scardino) have been so good to me for so long; especially with a horse like
this. I owe them a lot." VICTOR ESPINOZA (He Be Fire N Ice, second) – "That
wire just came too soon. I couldn't get it to be a little farther along. I
saved all the ground I could and then made my run. I thought that was the best
way. But that winner runs in 1:32 (1:32.64). What are you going to do with a
horse like that?" RAFAEL BEJARANO (Silentio, third) – "I thought that 5
horse (El Commodore) was going to put more pressure on the winner. But after
the beginning, he didn't. I needed some help that way and I didn't get it." MIKE MITCHELL (Obviously, winner) -- "He didn't open
up like he usually does. He didn't have that (winning) margin that he usually
has. But he fired and he dug in when (He Be Fire N Ice) came at him. It was a
real good horse race. I don't tell Joe (Talamo) how to ride him, it's totally
up to him, and I think he found out something today." (On to Santa Anita and eventually the Breeders' Cup?)
"That's the plan." SPLITS: :23.35 :46.96
1:09.72 1:21.15 1:32.64 The stakes win was the second of the meet for Talamo, but
his third (straight) in the Del Mar Mile. He now has 32 stakes wins at Del Mar.
The stakes win was the first of the meet for Mitchell and
his second (straight) in the Del Mar Mile. Mitchell, Del Mar's all-time leading
winning trainer with 473 wins, now has 23 stakes wins at Del Mar. Obviously won the Del Mar Mile last year in the time of
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North Hobbs, New Mexico is located in Lea. Nearby cities and towns include Denver City, Hobbs, Lovington, Monument and Nadine. North Hobbs is a suburban community with a population of 5,614. The median household income in North Hobbs is $51,794. 67% of residents are married and families with children reside in 41% of North Hobbs households. Half the population of North Hobbs commutes 15 minutes or more to work, with 70% of residents holding white collar jobs and 30% residents holding blue collar jobs.
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Mad Catz' Modern Warfare 2 peripherals won't know what hit them when Black Ops debuts this fall -- the quality of the company's gamepads has increased yet again, and of course, this year the Call of Duty-flavored lineup ships with a genuine R.A.T. mouse. We snuck down the streets of San Francisco for a top secret rendezvous to test these controllers out, and discovered a pair of the most comfortable gamepads we've tried for our trouble. Read our full impressions after the break -- totally declassified.
At $50, the Call of Duty: Black Ops PrecisionAim gamepads cost nearly as much as first-party controllers, but we wouldn't hesitate to say they feel just as good if not better, with nigh-indistinguishable buttons and analog sticks (Mad Catz says the sticks are actually the same) plus a generous coating of soft-touch plastic, and newly-redesigned soft rubber grips with ridges and grooves to let the hands breathe. Revamped triggers actually trump Microsoft and Sony pads (in our honest opinion) with a solid, spring-loaded pull that's neither squishy nor clicky, and the titular PrecisionAim feature (hold down buttons under your middle fingers to lower either stick's sensitivity) works just as advertised whether your avatar is shooting, driving or flying. While obviously designed for headshots -- like the sniper button on the R.A.T. mouse -- the large, textured touchpoints can also still be mapped to controller face buttons like the Modern Warfare 2 models. As is the case with most third-party controllers, the Xbox 360 pad is wired, while the PlayStation 3 model uses a USB dongle to connect wirelessly over 2.4GHz frequencies.
Meanwhile, it turns out the $100 R.A.T.-powered Stealth mouse isn't quite the rebrand we thought -- it's got most of the features of a R.A.T. 7 (including that 5600dpi sensor and higher-quality components) but without the adjustable thumb section. Intriguingly enough, though, it's got one feature you won't find anywhere else in the Cyborg R.A.T. line -- that sensitivity-dampening sniper button is completely customizable. We asked, and apparently this feature is the result of special firmware that can't be flashed to the existing R.A.T. 3, 5 or 7, and won't even appear in the as-yet-unreleased wireless R.A.T. 9. The mouse also comes with a Black Ops dogtag with a slide-out 2GB thumbdrive, and while we suppose you could put top secret intel in that oh-so-generous amount of flash storage, Mad Catz tells us it's actually designed to carry your programmable mouse button profiles when you travel to and from LAN parties. Because dog tags carry your personally identifying information. Get it? Expect to see all three peripherals on store shelves in time for Call of Duty: Black Ops's slated November launch.


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