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Why We Buy: The Science of Shoppingby Paco Underhill
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture. Why We Buy is based on hard data gleaned from thousands of hours of field research — in shopping malls, department stores, and supermarkets across America. With his team of sleuths tracking our every move, from sweater displays at the mall to the beverage cooler at the drugstore, Paco Underhill lays bare the struggle among merchants, marketers, and increasingly knowledgeable consumers for control.
In his quest to discover what makes the contemporary consumer tick, Underhill explains the shopping phenomena that often go unnoticed by retailers and shoppers alike, including:
For those in retailing and marketing, Why We Buy is a remarkably fresh guide, offering creative and insightful tips on how to adapt to the changing customer. For the general public, Why We Buy is a funny and sometimes disconcerting look at our favorite pastime. Review:"[A] testament to the nobility, the courage — yes, even the heroism — of the average shopper....At last, here is a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves." Patricia T. O'Conner, The New York Times Book Review
Review:"[Underhill's] dissection of the retail industry finds much to criticize, but the book also dignifies shopping as a central focus of human activity....A strong portrait of consumers as the most efficient arbiters of what to sell and how to sell it." Kirkus Reviews
Review:"[F]ascinating....Intriguing for both lovers and haters of the game of visual stimulation." Barbara Jacobs, Booklist
Review:"What Underhill offers in this delightful and engrossing book is a primer in the science of shopping....The effect of reading this book is that of being alternately entertained by hilarious stories and enlightened by trenchant observations." Erica Marcus, Newsday
Review:"The guru of retail consulting offers a wealth of insight into what makes a successful shopping experience for both buyer and seller." Craig Ryan, The Oregonian
Synopsis:A witty and pragmatic report from the retail trenches on consumers' tastes and habits--what makes them tick, how to influence or change customers' buying habits, and how to win--and keep--customer loyalty.
Synopsis:If you walk in the door at CompUSA thinking you're going to buy a Canon, and walk out with an Okidata, something has happened in the store; it's that "something" that urban geographer and retail anthropologist Paco Underhill has made his life's work. Why We Buy, the culmination of fifteen years of meticulous research and observation, reveals not only the fascinating findings of Underhill's studies, but offers hilarious anecdotes and amazing hard facts about one of America's favorite pastimes.
In a riveting read for anyone who's ever shopped for anything — or tried to sell anything — Underhill explains why men who take jeans into the fitting room are more than twice as likely to buy them than women who do the same; how men are learning to shop like women; how working women have altered supermarket layouts; why the Internet will never replace the shopping mall; what the "butt-brush factor" is; and much more. About the AuthorWith clients ranging from McDonald's to Starbucks, Estée Lauder to Blockbuster and Citibank to Wells Fargo, Paco Underhill has been profiled in The New Yorker and Smithsonian Magazine, has written for American Demographics and Adweek, and lectures widely. He is based in New York City.
Table of ContentsI. INSTEAD OF SAMOA, STORES: THE SCIENCE OF SHOPPING
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Lumbar puncture (spinal tap). A lumbar puncture is a procedure in which a doctor uses a needle to take a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to look for cancer cells, blood, or tumor markers (substances found in higher than normal amounts in the blood, urine, or body tissues of people with certain kinds of cancer). CSF is the fluid that flows around the brain and the spinal cord. Doctors generally give the child an anesthetic to numb the lower back before the procedure.
Ultrasound [5]. An ultrasound uses sound waves to create a picture of the internal organs.
Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan [6]. A CT scan creates a three-dimensional picture of the inside of the body with an x-ray machine. A computer then combines these images into a detailed, cross-sectional view that shows any abnormalities or tumors. Sometimes, a contrast medium (a special dye) is injected into a patient's vein to provide better detail. It is important to have this test done in a pediatric specialty center where they can be supervised by pediatric radiologists. These centers are aware of the potential risks of radiation exposure from a CT scan.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [7]. An MRI uses magnetic fields, not x-rays, to produce detailed images of the body. A contrast medium may be injected into a patient's vein to create a clearer picture.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scan [8]. A PET scan is a way to create pictures of organs and tissues inside the body. A small amount of a radioactive substance is injected into a patient's vein. This substance is absorbed mainly by organs and tissues that use the most energy. Because cancer tends to use energy actively, it absorbs more of the radioactive substance. A scanner then detects this substance to produce images of the inside of the body.
Scans or radioisotope studies. In these procedures, a material (called a tracer) is injected into the body and then followed with a special camera or x-ray to see where the material goes. These studies can find abnormalities in the liver, brain, bones, kidneys, and other organs.
Many of these tests may be repeated during and after treatment to determine the effectiveness of the treatment.
Learn more about what to expect when your child has common tests, procedures, and scans [9]. In addition, review tips and guidance [10] on how to prepare your child for medical procedures.
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Eckert resident E.J. Bilberry Jr. died Feb. 26, 2013, at Horizons Care Center in Eckert at the age of 91.
Funeral services were held March 4 at the Taylor Funeral Service Chapel in Delta. Interment followed at Eckert Cemetery.
Eleck J. Bilberry Jr. was born in Spur, Texas, June 18, 1921, to Eleck and Millie (Stinnett) Bilberry.
He married Ruby Brown June 22, 1940, in Spur, Texas.
He was a member of the VFW and attended First Baptist Church in Delta. He was a Christian and enjoyed gardening and his dog, GeeGee.
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The worst of the problems that have plagued the revamped USAJobs federal job search website may be easing a bit, as government authorities have stepped up their response in recent hours.
But many users continue to report problems with USAJobs.gov 3.0 since its launch last week, and job search experts and legal advisers suggest that job applicants may wish to try out alternative measures while the difficulties are addressed.
Some of the latest problems users experienced were deliberate measures that the Office of Personnel Management took to lighten the demand on the system. After the user complaints began to flood the USAJobs Facebook page and elsewhere, OPM installed a gatekeeper application to reduce traffic congestion, said Angela Bailey, chief human capital officer at OPM.
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The application blocks 6 percent of users from accessing the site on the first try, said Bailey, who described the application in a Facebook posting on Oct. 18. It accounts for the users who report getting messages saying the site is too busy and urging them to try again later.
"We put a 'governor' on the site to help slow down the traffic coming in the front door," Bailey wrote. "You can think of it like the lines installed at your favorite amusement park...they don't let everyone rush the front door of their favorite ride, they slow you down by having you go through turnstiles, etc. This is what we are doing for about 6 percent of you."
She outlined additional steps, including the installation of additional search servers and additional capacity for the system, to reduce traffic congestion. The new servers were put in last week, are being tested and will be fully functional in several days, she added.
Bailey also suggested that users hit the "Refresh" button on their browser, or the F5 function key, to improve performance of the website.
Leigh Moore, a federal job search consultant in Atlanta, Georgia, said most of her job-hunting clients have been upset by their inability to use the redesigned USAJobs website since it was introduced on Oct. 11.
"People say they cannot access the system," Moore said in an interview on Oct. 18. "There have been timeouts, errors and confusion. It has been very frustrating for most people knowing they cannot trust the technology." She has been advising job hunters to try searching for jobs on federal agency websites as an alternative to USAJobs.gov in the interim.
Errors and downtime at the USAJobs website are "definitely a big problem, especially in this economy," added John Mahoney, partner in the Tully, Rinckey law firm in Washington. He is advising several options to job seekers to deal with the situation as well.
Meanwhile, federal job search experts have been suggesting alternatives to search for jobs, such as using federal agency websites directly, major search engines Google or Yahoo, job search aggregation sites such as AvueCentral.com or Indeed.com, and social media networks that mention job openings such as LinkedIn.
"Do not assume that every federal job is listed on USAJobs.gov," suggested Moore. "If you want to find a job at the Centers for Disease Control, you could go to the CDC website directly."
Linda Rix, co-chief executive of Avue Technologies Inc., which handles job listings for some federal agencies, said many federal jobs can be searched directly from Avue's site or from Google, MSN, AOL or Yahoo.
"Given the options, there is no reason to be completely despondent," Rix said. "For most of the jobs that are posted on agency websites, Google will pick them up."
As for legal options, federal job applicants may want to consider some possibilities if they believe they were negatively affected by the USAJobs.gov technical problems, Mahoney said.
First, he suggested that applicants contact agencies directly and apply by mail with paper applications if necessary. He also suggested trying alternative websites and contacting congressional representatives to bring attention to the issue.
Applicants would not be advised to sue the federal government for mistakes made in handling a job application, unless there is indication that the problem was intentional or discriminatory, Mahoney added.
On the other hand, many federal agencies have a grievance process that can be utilized by job applicants who believe they were negatively affected by technical glitches in the application process, Mahoney suggested.
Acknowledging that such grievances can be "a touchy issue" and may require professional legal assistance, Mahoney said that some frustrated job applicants might benefit by writing directly to an agency official describing the problem and requesting remedial action.
"A letter of complaint is technically a grievance," he said.
OPM debuted the new USAJobs on Oct. 11, following 18 months of development of the system. Previously, the job listing and search system was housed on Monster.com's computers under a contract, but now it is hosted by OPM's own servers.
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I've recieved many "ineligible" email notifications because my qualifications exceed the minimum requirements that are listed for the jobs i have applied for. If i exceed the minimum,shouldn't i be more likely to get a job? I can only conclude that i must meet only the minimum requirements or i just simply need to "know" someone.
The VA in Dublin,GA seems to be overlooking VETERANS and participating in the age old good old boy system. Cronyism is the politically correct term used now. I and many other VETERAN'S are passed over while civilians receive most jobs
The DLA analyst positions that are supposed to be open, never are. I have applied multiple times and cannot get consideration. Many times, I find that I am not able to complete the appliction process. The applicaion process is: 1)1-boring; 2-has too many time outs between pages; 3- when you hit refresh, you see the screencome up with a message that :you need to resend information over an unsecure link - are you sure you want to do this?"
That solution throttle traffic is terrible. Better code runs faster allowing many more users to be able to use the system at the same time. The know how much hardware they need for certain amounts of traffic and they know how much traffic they get based on previous records from Monster.com. The problem is that they do not know how to put all that together into a system that actually works as expected. These are not the problems that seasoned proffesionals run into. Not even close. Wow they have a LONG ways to go!
can't wait for them to take over our health care. aloha
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Post-it Note Diaries is the culmination of almost two years worth of work. It features 20 essays by some of my favorite writers, comedians, performers and artists and one by yours truly. I illustrated each story on a series of yellow Post-it Notes and laid the whole thing out like a comic. To find out more about the project, preorder a book, or to read a sample chapter please visit the book's website. |
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What's the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it's about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other external costs of gasoline use in the U.S. The talented David Fischoff composed music for this but it was cut at the last minute for editorial considerations. Reported by Sarah Terry-Cobo Produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo Sound mix and editing by Carrie Ching Animation and illustration by Arthur Jones |
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This is an installation made in collaboration with artist Agnes Bolt at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. During the summer of 2010 Agnes and I interviewed dozens of kids at the museum then edited their voices into sound bites around themes like "laughing/crying," "saying I love you," "animal sounds," "ohs/ahhs" and "diseases that old people get." We placed sensors on the stairs and assigned selected sound bites to each step. As the museum patron ascends or descends the staircase the sounds grow in intensity and the themes are programmed to rotate every hour. To make everything work we wired the sensor pads on the stairs to midi-controllers that were run through a PC.http://www.agnesbolt.com/ The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is a great institution that balances fun, education and shear chaos in equal parts. Whether young or old it deserves a visit the next time you are in the Steel City. |
Here are a few other items I designed for This American Life. Slide 1 is a letterpressed postcard I made for TAL's subscriber program, where fans of the show received a CD of a new TAL episode every month. Slides 2 and 3 are shirt and patch made as tour merchandise. Each depicts a flaming squirrel made famous in "Squirrel Cop," TAL episode 115. Slide 4 is a business card I designed for them when they moved from Chicago to New York. |


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Almanac of the Dead is a sprawling, nontraditional novel set amid geopolitical changes and apocalyptic visions of the future. While Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko was writing it, she told an interviewer that it was a "long and complex novel" with "five or six distinct narrative lines" that was "hard to even tell about [it]." The completed novel is still hard to "tell about."
Silko did not set out to write a traditional western novel, which is inadequate for telling the stories that her ancestors have handed down through oral tradition. Silko instead chose the structure of ancient Mayan almanacs because they would free her to employ multiple narratives. The almanacs were compiled long ago by Mayans watching their culture slowly disappear through Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas. They were trying to preserve the stories they had in their heads and the glyphs that they had carved into stone. Silko's novel, like the ancient Mayan almanacs, is a fragmentary collection of stories, dreams, characters, maps, lists, and prophecies.
Almanac of the Dead is ultimately a metanarrative, an attempt to comprehensively explain historical experience and knowledge through stories. Silko claims that the stories came to her through Native American spirits when she began thinking about writing the work. Because Native Americans believe that history is experienced through storytelling and that time is circular (defined by experiences that do not occur linearly), dates and chronology are not important in the novel. The Mayans did not think of days in terms of 24-hour periods. Rather, a day was a being with a personality and that being eventually would return, even if it took centuries. Although the structure of Silko's work is nontraditional, a novel is nevertheless a Euro-American art form. Using such a vehicle to tell Native American stories presents some challenges to Euro-American readers accustomed to structure, chronological timelines, well-developed characters, and storyline resolutions. Almanac of the Dead has none of these. The novel covers five hundred years of history and incorporates dozens of themes, motifs, ideas, cultures, ideologies, and discourses into a vast mural of revisionist history, told from the viewpoint of the world's marginalized groups—from the indigenous peoples to the handicapped. To a Euro-American reader, the novel's multiple settings might seem disorganized and haphazard, yet in the Native American circular time frame it makes sense.
Almanac of the Dead chronicles an incredibly corrupt and depraved legacy handed down by the United States in the twentieth century, a legacy that in Silko's view sums up the white man's treatment of the Native American people. It is the era of what Native Americans call "Death-Eye Dog." Violence, greed, and bloodlust have permeated every strata of society. Traditionally loving and nurturing relationships such as the family have been either destroyed or reincarnated as crime families or human networks for weapons smuggling, pornography, and drugs. Children are abandoned and murdered. Sexuality is no longer an intimate expression of love but a manipulative tool and an instrument of torture. Women are objectified and left out of the reproductive process. Governments are corrupt. Scientific advances meant to alleviate human suffering have been perverted into black market enterprises selling human organs. The world is in chaos.
The Native Americans are not entirely innocent in this story. Silko blames the Aztecs for bringing the European "destroyers" to the Americas because the Aztecs were destroyers themselves, lovers of blood who perverted the true religion by instituting human sacrifice. They beckoned to their fellow destroyers in Europe who followed the lure of bloodlust, sailed to the Americas, and stole the land from the indigenous peoples. Those groups of indigenous people that did not agree with the Aztecs, that did not have the same bloodlust, fled North. These tribes became the Native Americans of the United States, tribes that over the years became, as Silko says, lazy and complacent and too occupied "with the white man's toys"—television, gambling, alcohol, and drugs. All of this has been predicted in prophecy and chronicled in The Almanac of the Dead.
Silko calls her novel "my 763-page indictment for five hundred years of theft, murder, pillage, and rape." As one character says, there never has been a legal government established by Europeans anywhere in the Americas "because no legal government could be established on stolen land." As the novel ends, various groups of indigenous people are simultaneously planning to overthrow the U.S. government. Twin Yaqui Indian brothers guided by revelations from the "spirit macaws" are leading Mexican revolutionaries as they march North. Radical eco-terrorists are preparing to blow themselves up to destroy Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam. An army of homeless veterans is camped out in the hijacked summer homes of Tucson's elite, poised to take over U.S. military bases. A genius Asian computer hacker has created a mega-virus that will shut down power throughout the country. All of these "crazies" have assembled in a Tucson hotel room during the International Holistic Healers conference. They form an alliance. They know they must work together to achieve justice for indigenous people.
Silko believes the American Indian Movement has failed to achieve justice for Native Americans. In Almanac of the Dead, she hopes to show that only international indigenous alliances are capable of taking back the land. Rather than "rant and rave" about injustice, Silko explains that she would rather tell a story because "it is more effective in reaching people."
Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Almanac of the Dead remains Silko's longest and most ambitious novel, with hundreds of characters populating multiple plot narratives with overlaying cultures. Structuring the book as nineteen books within six parts, Silko truly provides a "Five-Hundred Year Map," not only literally within the outside covers of the published book but also in the multiple narratives that describe a moral history of North America as individual characters reveal the ideas, the passions, and their own understandings of history. Tucson provides the geographic center of an intersection of cultures that brings together Mafia capo Sonny Blue from Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Pueblo gardener Sterling down from Laguna Pueblo; Wilson Weasel Tail the Barefoot Hopi down from Winslow, Arizona; and Seese from California, seeking her missing child and connecting with Lecha, the television psychic who may or may not be able to aid (or be interested in aiding) her, among sundry others.
Bartolomeo's Freedom School, a Cuban-influenced and-financed school of revolution in Mexico City, provides the setting for the beautiful, intellectual architecture student Alegria, who sells out by marrying wealthy Menardo and building an incongruous and doomed luxury retreat in the jungle outside Tuxtla Gutierrez. Silko shows how cocaine is smuggled northward across the border to Tucson by revolutionaries, who then use the money to finance the purchase of arms for their continuing insurrection...
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The narrative of Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead centers on Tucson, Arizona, and the intertwining lives and events of its numerous people, among whom are "speculators, confidence men, embezzlers, lawyers, judges, police and other criminals, as well as addicts and pushers." Hauntingly, Silko's novel depicts a society of almost utter depravity, identifies as the source of this state the atrocities committed against Native Americans, and finally predicts the coming end of this cruel reign with the rise of indigenous peoples and the endurance of the sacred Earth.
Almanac of the Dead begins with a prophecy contained in the ancient tribal texts of the Americas: "Ancient prophecies foretold the arrival of Europeans in the Americas. The ancient prophecies also foretell the disappearance of all things European." Silko's story echoes that of the prophecy, depicting the downfall of the "criminals" in her novel and the commencement of indigenous people's struggle to regain stolen land. The novel consists of six sections, each divided into books and further divided into short vignettes that adopt more than thirty characters' points of view. Silko uses this structure to approximate oral tradition, thus making Almanac of the Dead a calendar of movement through the motion of people, events, and spirits that make up the book's present, past, and future society.
Tucson, the location to which all the characters have some tie as well as the place where the majority of the action takes place, is established as a city of witchery, presently and historically. It is peopled with whites and "breeds" whose ancestors profited from the U.S.-Apache wars and with Indians who deny their heritage. The majority of the characters, of European, Mexican, and Native American descent, participate in illegal activities: smuggling of guns, alcohol, and drugs; murdering for hire or for...
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Tucson, Arizona, is "home to an assortment of speculators, confidence men, embezzlers, lawyers, judges, police and other criminals." It is also the home of "addicts and pushers," and they all have been coming here since "the 1880's and the Apache Wars." It is now the 1980's, one hundred years later, and unrest is increasing in South and Central America. The U.S. government is sending drugs and arms south across the U.S.-Mexico border to support right-wing regimes.
Meanwhile, refugees are fleeing north, crossing into the United States legally if they can, but by whatever means if they cannot. Transients, too, are drawn to Tucson because of its proximity to the border, and huge encampments of people with...
(The entire section is 1036 words.)
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Part 1: The United States
A great change is coming. It has been predicted by the "old ones" in The Almanac of the Dead. Grandmother Yoeme has chosen twin sisters, Zeta and Lecha, as the new caretakers of the ancient almanac. The sisters must work together to transcribe it. The almanac contains ancient secrets that are the answers to many of life's mysteries. Estranged from her family for many years, Yoeme has been secretly returning undetected to observe her grandchildren. None of the others has been worthy until the twin girls come along. Lecha and Zeta seem to have inherited Yoeme's psychic abilities. Yoeme takes the girls under her wing and when she is finally convinced she can...
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Favorite Sports Stories of 2013
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Tonight we continue our look back at the best of 2013, and we invite you to laugh along with us. Lalalalalala, good vocals? Man that's good.December 29, 2013
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West Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - The brave journey of one area girl, who helped get the Fargo Marathon running on the right foot. Annabelle Hanning loves to run around and play just like any ordinary 3-year-old. She'll even show you her special collection, if you ask.December 25, 2013
WDAY's High School Football Plays of The Year
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Every Wednesday through the fall we brought you the best plays from the gridiron and tonight, it's the best of the best--the WDAY plays of year, put together for the final time by Trevor Peterson.December 18, 2013
Mahnomen football trying to repeat as Class A state champs
Mahnomen, MN (WDAY TV) - Saturday, the Mahnomen football team will try to repeat as Class A State champs.November 26, 2013
Concordia's Gotta battling two opponents
Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) - If you're a student-athlete, it's hard enough to balance the demands of school and your sport; Now imagine you have to do it while checking your blood sugar and giving yourself insulin shots several times a day, every day.November 19, 2013
Beyond the Game: Fargo North freshmen football team features female player
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Tonight we introduce a new weekly segment on WDAY Sports, called Beyond the Game, where we'll go away from the scores and stats. And tonight, we introduce you to a Fargo North football player who's definitely not your typical freshman.October 16, 2013
Cobbers prepare for matchup with St. John's
Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) - It's rivalry week at Concordia as the Cobbers have a huge matchup with St. John's. Each team enters at 3-0.September 26, 2013
Area teams finish high at Minnesota High School State Track
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - The finish line was a busy place today at Hamline University where champions were once again crowned at the Minnesota State Track and Field meet.June 08, 2013
Trevor Peterson caught up with some of the "characters" who took part in today's Half Marathon
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-- Many of you know there is a lighter side to marathon day. Our own Trevor Peterson caught up with some of the "characters" who took part in today's Half Marathon.May 18, 2013
Three-year-old giving hope while running in Fargo Marathon Youth Run
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Runners of nearly every age and every state will participate in this weekend's Fargo Marathon. The festivities get started tomorrow night with the World's Largest Youth Run.By WDAY Staff Reports , May 15, 2013
Tomorrow begins the Kentucky Derby
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV)-- Tomorrow brings us one of the great sporting events on the calendar; the Kentucky Derby.May 03, 2013
Fargo free-throw ace shooting for second straight national title
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Not many 13 year-olds can say they've won a national title. Next weekend Fargo's Grace Geffre is trying to one-up that statement as she goes for her 2nd national championship in the Elks hoop shoot free throw competition held in Springfield, Massachusetts.April 15, 2013
During snowy weather, Fargo hosts many golfing options
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Masters weekend is big for golfers in this part of the country. Not only is it the first Major of the year, but it's typically close to the time when the first driving ranges and golf courses open, but not this year. However, golfers in the area are lucky to have some other options.April 11, 2013
Fargo North relay team's close-knit past helping in winning run
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Passing a baton while running as fast as you can is one of the most difficult things in track. But when you've been handing it to the same person for years, it's almost second nature.April 10, 2013
WDAY Sports Basketball Plays of the Year
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - The college basketball season wraps up this weekend and so with that it's time for us to bow on the year with the plays of the year as edited together by Trevor Peterson.April 04, 2013
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Whose Display?
And now for the biggest problem: How do I tell x11vnc to use a separate display server and not the one the other logged-in user has spawned? In this case, my girlfriend has a normal user account without administrative privileges. Because I have administrative rights on my Ubuntu laptop and my girlfriend's user has limited access, my session is the one that logs in first. That would be display 0:0. Her user account loads the desktop in the next available display, which is 2:0 on my machine. X11vnc already starts with display :0 automatically if launched without arguments or with the x11vnc -many -rfbauth /home/user/.vnc/passwd command. The issue is that if I connect through Jaadu VNC (or any other VNC client for that matter), when she changes to her account, the VNC client also changes the display, showing me her user desktop. I need to tell x11vnc to search for the display associated with the remote user and keep that display. The -find argument tells xllvnc to find the appropriate desktop for the user account.
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Back on the client side, enter the password in Jaadu VNC. The server will check the password against the /home/user/.vnc/passwd file and authenticate the session.
Whenever I need to get up from my laptop and leave running processes while my girlfriend switches to her account, I can check on the progress on those ongoing processes from the palm of my hand. Besides a brief flickering of the screen when a desktop user changes back to my account in the exact same moment I'm viewing the iPod Touch, the method works perfectly. X11vnc will autostart on port 5900 and I can make a preset in the client application to remember that 192.168.1.10:5900 is the address for the remote connection.
If you don't want to use the default 5900 and would prefer to change the port that x11vnc starts on to 5933, for example, you can do it easily with the -rfbport 5933 option. Also, you can tell x11vnc to scan automatically for a free port (assuming the 5900-5999 range is accessible by the device on which the client runs) by attaching -autoport 1234 to the command string, where 1234 is an open port on your router.
- Jaadu VNC: http://www.jaaduvnc.com/
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Fat Girl is a French film with English subtitles about two sisters from opposite ends of the physical spectrum; both looking for a boy to love and both with different perspectives on how to find and keep one. Anais Reboux plays 13 year old Anais and Roxane Mesquida plays Elena, her older sister. Elena is the typical beautiful slim girl who looks like a runway model and catches the eyes of boy and men. Anais is the fat girl who everyone tries to avoid. She doesn't fall into the typical mold but is definitely a pretty girl with rosy cheeks and pink lips. She would rather be floating in the water than anywhere else.
They live outside of Paris and are vacationing at residence with their parents. They meet a young man named Fernando, a Law student from Rome, at an outdoor café where Elena orders coffee and Anais orders a banana split. Fernando becomes immediately intimate with the flirtatious Elena as they make-out in the café in front of Anais who continues to eat and to watch with a glare in her eyes. Elena ditches her sister to go for a corvette ride with her new beau.
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One of the longest scenes in the film is when Fernando sneaks into the girls' room to lie in bed with Elena. Anais listens to them talk about sex and watches them fool around. When Elena changes her mind the older guy continues to pressure the young virgin. He threatens to get an older girl if he doesn't get any "proof of love" and after much frustration finally talks her into letting him take her from behind. The whole bedroom scene is very long and we only see glimpses of Anais. The film should really be called Fat Girl's Sister. Fernando returns another night and Elena finally has sex with him while Anais cries in the next bed.
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The cinematography in Fat Girl is full of lovely colours and wide angle shots of Anais watching. Red and light green are recurring colors throughout the film (swimsuit, dress, scarf, night gown). Overall, Fat Girl is a strange film which focuses on the love-hate relationship that can be present with some sisters (I've seen it). And the secrets that sisters often conceal about one another. It is a film about desire, acceptance, love, hate, change, sex and violence. It has a horrific ending I was not expecting which I guess is the point but still it left me with a sick feeling. Don't watch Fat Girl expecting to find some fat-positive inspirational movie. It's not. It is dramatic, artistic and definitely crosses the bounds of comfort with its sexuality and violence.
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The two met in 2006 on a dating website, which Parsons joined at the urging of her friends after her husband passed away the previous year. Parsons and Slayton now own six Tibetan mastiffs. This is their first time at Westminster since 2008, when they showed Major's dad as part of the first group of Tibetan mastiffs ever invited to Westminster.
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Whistler will be packed with thousands of long-distance triathletes next August as the resort has been selected as the next host of Ironman Canada.
The Ironman — generally regarded as one of the most challenging athletic accomplishments on the planet — was awarded to Whistler for the next five years by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) over Kelowna and Huntsville, Ont., the two other finalist communities bidding on the event.
Whistler takes over an event that had been hosted in Penticton for the last three decades. Organizers are expecting at least 2,000 participants in next year's event, which will put the Sea to Sky corridor on full display during a gruelling test of stamina.
"Having produced … and raced a number of these events, I'm really excited about the course that we've got," said race director Keats McGonigal. "I think the athletes are going to feel the challenge of the hills, yet appreciate the beauty that's all around them for the entire day."
Competitors will attempt to complete a 3.86-kilometre swim in Alta Lake from the start at Rainbow Park, followed by a 180-km cycling leg — that's 50 per cent longer than the RBC GranFondo Whistler distance — and conclude with a full-marathon distance run.
The bike route will head south to the Callaghan Valley before heading back north to Pemberton and then returning to Whistler. The two-loop running course will incorporate sections of the Valley Trail and Lost Lake area before finishing close to Whistler Olympic Plaza. Finish times will range from nine to 17 hours.
The municipality and Tourism Whistler (TW) jointly bid on the event and TW president Barrett Fisher was no doubt excited by last Thursday's (Oct. 11) official WTC announcement.
"We feel it is an exceptionally positive opportunity for the resort," said Fisher, adding that the event "will clearly showcase our summer products."
Fisher also said that Ironman events typically drive up to 15,000 room-night hotel stays, and that's not including those making visits to train here prior to race day.
The event will be held annually in July starting in 2014, but next year's Aug. 23 date will coincide with the new iron-distance triathlon being held in Penticton, potentially diluting the number of athletes who may compete in Whistler.
However, McGonigal said he expects the allure of a new location will keep participation levels high.
"Having the opportunity to race an event of this calibre, in this location, is very exciting for (athletes)," said McGonigal. "I'm sure there will be some people that have done Ironman Canada in the past that will come out to race.
"The other thing we see in a lot of our new-location races is a lot of first-time Ironman participants who live locally — here, either in Whistler, Squamish or Vancouver — will participate because it's right in their backyard."
The municipality is putting $250,000 of RMI funding towards the event, $100,000 of which is collected by the WTC as a licensing fee. The remainder will be spent by way of municipal services in support of the race.
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WTC officials have said previously that at least 3,000 volunteers are required to successfully stage an Ironman. Fisher said that based on Whistler's strong history of volunteerism, highlighted especially during the 2010 Olympics, the resort should have no trouble finding enough help.
"We are … confident that an event like this will also attract many local and regional volunteers, (and) will also attract former Ironman participants that are no longer competing in the event but want to be involved," said Fisher.
McGonigal said some of the other issues, such as athlete transport to the Rainbow Park start and establishing of spectator areas, will be addressed in the months leading up to the event.
Registration opens Thursday (Oct. 18) at www.ironman.ca, where additional event info can be found.
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