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Yogurt expiration dates are to be taken most seriously.
The only thing I like about the bible is that it is a book.
The Pumpkin Muffin has 600 calories, but McDonald's famous burger has a mere 540! If you hold the cheese and the special sauce, the Big Mac is a full 200 calories less than the muffin! ( 1, 2)
"I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both." Linus Torvalds
WRONG. As people who have freedom of speech, we should be going out of our way to mock and humiliate those who oppose the idea of freedom of speech. They should be shamed back into their caves.
Inside Opinion - » In Seattle, terror drives the First Amendment underground The News Tribune Blogs, Tacoma, WA
Let me be clear. NOBODY has theb right to not be offended. Not you, not me, not anybody.


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Red Wine Braised Cabbage
This tasty little side is one of those recipes that has been in my repertoire for a long time and don't think I'm ever going to stop making it. I learned how to make it at the first restaurant I ever work at and I still use it today. I'm a big fan of cabbage in all it's guises - coleslaw, sauerkraut & braised - and this is one of my favorite ways to cook it. Cabbage works best whe


text: Simon's tucked away on the south west coast of England in Exeter making rad illustrations. Beautiful color and super fun themes. We actually did an art show together in 2010 in NYC at the old Giant Robot space. You can see more of my friend, Simon Pepperpot's visual tinkering here, follow what's going on in his world here, watch a SoyJoy commercial/animation he made here, or take a glimpse into his previous life as a pro skater here, (0:47 seconds in).


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M83 – Midnight City (Trentemoller Remix + Bonus)
This is your End-of-the-weekend Track. We will try to bring you one "chill" track every week. Perfect when you feel sad and lonely thinking about Monday and your boss shouting at you. Tracks delivered here are sometimes brand-new, sometimes old but they are all comparable to a glass of whisky at the end of the day. Chill…
Remixing a track is an art. French band M83 has received 2 wonderful renditions by Eric Prydz (read post) and Trentemoller. This particular rendition of M83's 'Midnight City' by Trentemoller is one of the very few remixes that really immerses you somewhere else. It is pretty hard to describe what i'm feeling right now. The remix is downtempo and filled with pads, plucks and eerie noises from another galaxy. 'Midnight City'…..
Note: I'm musically high when writing this review.
Midnight City (Trentemoller Remix)
Bonus content: Wow… This is some quality !
Midnight City (Team Ghost Remix)


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The coolest place on the internet, according to this tagline.Ask • Archive • FAQ
Idea: What if the federal government gave someone like Neil DeGrasse Tyson a "Science Laureate" role, like we do for poets? Sound like a good idea? Fortunately, members of Congress are already working on it.
YES. Do this.
It's a Neil de Grasse Tyson kind of day, apparently
AWESOME. And he's not picked to fill that roll, I will eat my tongue.
aww shit yes SCIENCE except it would probably be scientist laureate


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Day 5: Favorite fairy type Pokemon
Shiny Gardevoir
Day 2: Favorite dark type Pokemon
I forgot to upload this yesterday so today you get a twofer.
This is an edit of this.
Ahhhhhhhhh I'm so excited I pre-ordered this and its scheduled to arrive on October 1st, just a little after my birthday!
Reshiram is my favorite legendary I think.
This is my first real one layer painting, except I added a few effects layers.
I want to wi-fi battle on Pokemon Black/White but my brother lost my copy.
Also I looked at the pokemon tags on here and there's POOORRRRRNNNN.
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Teen Books, Teens Know Best Author Series
After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
Sequel to Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie.
Brooklyn Burning
Sixteen-year-old Kid, who lives on the streets of Brooklyn, loves Felix, a guitarist and junkie who disappears, leaving Kid the prime suspect in an arson investigation, but a year later Scout arrives, giving Kid a second chance to be in a band and find true love.
Also available as an ebook.
I Hunt Killers
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Beka, having just lost her fiance in a slaver's raid, is able to distract herself by going with her team on an important hunt at the queen's request, unaware that the throne of Tortall depends on their success.
Book three of the Beka Cooper series. Also availble as ebook and audiobook.
Everything Conotus stands for is at risk, and Ember must involve herself in a deception that ultimately brings about the Witches' War.
Nightshade series prequel.
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.


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Turning NYC's Iconic MetroCard Into A Massive Urban Game
Willy Wonka would approve.
Last week, New York's beleaguered Metropolitan Transit Authority announced plans to sell advertising on the front of the MetroCard. Soon, for prices ranging from 18¢ to 51¢ per card, advertisers will have free reign to replace the MTA's ubiquitous blue-and-yellow swoosh (which hasn't changed since 1997!) with a design of their choice.
How did New Yorkers react to the news? Much in the same way New Yorkers react to any news relating to the city: by fighting with each other about it. Pragmatists pointed to the cash-strapped MTA's desperate need of funds. Nostalgists--among them, the New York Times--called the ads a "defacement" of a classic piece of New York ephemera. Cynics saw the decision as another step towards the city's total corporate sponsorship.
Wayne Congar and Brendan Bilko, two young Brooklyn designers who run a creative and branding consultancy called Mayday Mayday Mayday, think the plan suffers from a simple lack of imagination. "Let's face it, most MetroCard advertising is going to suck," says Congar. Shrinking a poster-sized ad and reproducing it on millions of cards? Yep, pretty boring. And, as the duo point out, a huge missed opportunity for the city. "The MTA prints around 170 million MetroCards each year," explain Congar and Bilko. "The cards' circulation is immense, the compounded advertising space is incredibly large. It's a ripe opportunity to create a collective experience or game or public work."
Mayday is proposing an alternative that could please critics on all sides of the table. Their idea is to let advertisers engage New Yorkers in an urban game, where each rider holds a key to unlocking a larger image with some embedded value. Think of it as a giant puzzle, where every MetroCard is a unique puzzle piece. "We started thinking about the excitement of Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets, maybe the most engrossing participatory marketing campaign of all time," Congar tells Co.Design. "Scavenger hunts and high-profile public art works can take over the city. Remember Christo's gates? I think it was the lead on both Letterman and Conan's monologues for a week." They imagine using the MetroCard system as a tool to promote events, make announcements, and yes, even advertise.
While it's only a theoretical proposal, and it's still unclear whether the MetroCard printers are capable of supporting individualized card designs, Congar and Bilko hope their idea will turn heads within a cash-strapped city government, where advertising is a major source of income. In the age of participatory marketing, that can mean more than just extra Dr. Zizmore ads on your way to work. "Consumers have a lot of options to either ignore or engage," adds Congar. "What's interesting, then, is to find incentives for people to engage that have more to do with making a choice to be part of something, than getting a deal or cash back."
More on the project on Mayday's website, here.
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Oh No! What will become of the Metro Card Bike? http://pinterest.com/pin/72480...
Iconic? 1997 was 15 years ago. Tokens were iconic. This is just replacing one mediocre design with an even less attractive one.
I would keep part of the Metro card transparent, allowing for translucent stickers ("game pieces") to be placed on the card.
Sell the translucent stickers almost like lottery tix, or discount them partially (ad-supported). A transparent pattern on the
mass-produced card + pattern from custom sticker + strategic placement on the card = complete game piece, which then needs to be matched with billboards/whatever scattered around the city.
To elaborate, purchase of the card gives the customer a FREE entry piece, albeit a partial piece. The FREE part is important. Thereafter, customer has the option to actively acquire the "add-ons" and participate in a promotion, which could be varied by location, time, even by "partial codes" that are disseminated through social networking.
Would be happy to continue the conversation. I'm @3sarkar on Twitter.
This is the MTA we are talking about, the same people responsible for the Long Island Rail Road. Talk about shitty service.
While a city-wide game sounds like fun, this proposal strikes me as a typical "let's replace the revenue-generating ads with something more fun, but with no clear revenue stream" idea. The whole point of the advertising is to generate the revenue, guys.
Also, did Congar and Bilko consider what would happen with several million hyper-competitive New Yorkers all trying to "win"?
So every card will have a different image? If they're trying to keep production costs down I don't think this is the way.
They aren't paying the production costs, sponsors are.
"Please stand clear of the closing budget"


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Newman, Denise
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Newman, Denise
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- found: [Author of The blood flower]
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- found: OCLC, May 23, 2008 (hdg: Newman, Denise J. ; usage: Denise J. Newman)
- found: www.apogeepress.com, Apr. 24, 2009 (Denise Newman is a poet and translator of Danish literature; she lives in San Francisco)
- found: [Cast member of Shirley Adams]
- found: Shirley Adams, 2011: end credits (Denise Newman, cast member)
- found: Gauteng Film Commission South Africa website, Apr. 16, 2012 (Denise Newman, South African actress who won the best actress award at the eighth African Film Festival of Tarifa in Spain for her title role in the feature film Shirley Adams)
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Display Settings
Read more at the source.
Display Settings. Windows 7 will make it easier to work with multiple monitors.
More granular DPI Scaling control panel. In Windows Vista, it was possible to choose between the default scale (96 DPI) and a larger scale (120 DPI), or use a Custom DPI scale to configure scaling between 100 and 200 percent. In Windows 7, this system is simplified to include presets for Smaller (100 percent), Medium (125 percent), and Larger (150 percent).
Aero themes. Windows 7 will make it easier to match custom Aero window settings with background images, colors, and sounds via a new set of custom Windows themes. You will also be able to create your own themes. (Windows 7 will also support the Windows Basic and Windows Classic themes from Windows Vista.)
Wallpapers. Windows 7 will include new wallpaper background images.
Later Ted
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Vista X32. Windows 7 32bit
"Follow-up on High DPI resolution
We don't have a way of knowing for sure why users adjust their screen resolution down, but many of the comments we've seen match our hypothesis that a lot of people do this to because they have difficulty reading default text on high resolutions displays. With that said, some users probably stumble into this configuration by accident; for example due to a mismatched display driver or an application that changed the resolution for some reason but did not change it back. Regardless of why the screen resolution is lower, the result is blurry text that can significantly increase eye fatigue when reading on a PC screen for a long period of time. For LCD displays, much of the blurriness is caused by the fact that they are made up of fixed pixels. In non-native resolution settings, this means that the system must render fractional pixels across fixed units, causing a blurred effect. Another reason for the relative blurriness is that when the display is not set to native resolution, we can't properly take advantage of our ClearType text rendering technology , which most people (though not all) prefer. It is interesting to note that the loss of fidelity due to changing screen resolution is less pronounced on a CRT display than on an LCD display largely because CRTs don't have fixed pixels the way that LCDs do. However, because of the advantages in cost and size, and the popularity of the laptop PC, LCD displays are fast gaining market share in the installed base. Another problem with running in a non-native screen resolution is that many users inadvertently configure the display to a non-native aspect ratio as well. This results in an image that is both blurry and skewed! As you can imagine, this further exacerbates the issues with eye strain.
Looking beyond text, in these scenarios the resulting fidelity for media is significantly reduced as well. With the configuration that many users have, even if their hardware is capable, they are not able to see native "high def" 720p or 1080p TV content, which corresponds to 1280x720 and 1920x1080 screen resolutions respectively. The PC monitor has traditionally been the "high definition" display device, but without addressing this problem we would be at risk of trailing the TV industry in this distinction. While it is true that only about 10% of users have a truly 1080p capable PC screen today, as these displays continue to come down in price the installed base is likely to continue to grow. And you can bet that there will be another wave of even higher fidelity content in the future which users will want to take advantage of. As an example, when displays get to 400 DPI they will be almost indistinguishable from looking at printed text on paper. Even the current generation of eBook readers with a DPI of ~170 look very much like a piece of paper behind a piece of glass
From this we see that there is a real end user benefit to tap into here. It turns out that there is existing infrastructure in Windows called "High DPI" which can be used to address this. High DPI is not a new feature for Windows 7, but it was not until Vista that the OS user-interface made significant investments in support for high DPI (beyond the infrastructure present earlier). To try this out in Vista, rt. Click desktop -> personalize and select "Adjust Font Size (DPI)" from the left hand column. Our thinking for Windows 7 was that if we enable high DPI out of the box on capable displays, we will enable users to have a full-fidelity experience and also significantly reduce eye strain for on-screen reading. There is even infrastructure available to us to detect a display's native DPI so we can do a better job of configuring default settings out of the box. However, doing this will also open up the door to expose some issues with applications which may not be fully compatible with high DPI configurations."
Read more at :-
Engineering Windows 7 : Follow-up on High DPI resolution
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Good article, thanks Norm!
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Nice work will help alot of new users
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About Carol Taylor
- Business Philosophy Owen & I work as a team. We apply the same team principles from our successful 33+ year marriage to our real estate business. Our clients benefit from our individual strengths and combined efforts
- Community Involvement We have lived in Warren County all our lives and specialize in its many fine communities. You may view thousands of Warren County listings directly from our Web site. Interested in property in other areas? Our Web site also offers residential listings for Hamilton, Butler and Clermont Counties. Make our Web site your Tristate Resource information on area schools, services, plus local events and attractions.
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Happy Monday morning everyone!
If you are doing the Sunday cheat-day you'll be really keen to get back to our healthy eating schedule today! I know I am.. so I thought it'd be a great opportunity to talk about GRAINS.
If you've read the SLINKII 7-Day Diet you'll know that we like to keep our carb intake at a minimum. Except for breakfast, when we need some good, slow-releasing energy that will ensure we stay satisfied for longer.
This is where the benefits of wholegrains come in, that's right.. not grains.. WHOLE grains!
Personally, I can't say 'no' to some rolled oats, a few nuts, and a dollop of yoghurt topped with some berries for breakfast! YUM!
Whole grains are healthy for us because they're loaded with immune-boosting vitamins, energy sustaining carbs, and filling fiber to encourage weight loss, and they are a low-fat source of protein.
These benefits are derived mainly from wholegrains and largely diminished when grains are refined. The refining process removes the bran, which is the outer layer of the grain, and the germ, which is rich in vitamins and minerals, leaving only the endosperm- so that soft, fluffy white flour is basically only starch! Not exactly what we want to be eating!
So make sure when you're buying your cereals or rice that you avoid the refined grains and always opt for whole grains. This small swap will make a huge difference to your overall diet as its not just the quantity of carbs that matters- but also the quality.
I know there way too many different grains to choose from, so I thought it might be helpful to draw up a little table so you can find out which wholegrains are lowest in calories and which offer the most fiber and protein…
See why I like rolled oats! Just add some protein powder to your yoghurt
Remember, be careful about portion control here, this table indicates the nutritional value based on 1/4 cup, which is 30 grams- so don't mindlessly pour an entire bowl of oats (or any wholegrain you choose), make sure you measure your quantities!


text: Unto all interested gentles, HE Alys and HL Muireann will sponsor a Charter Painting table at Steppes Artisan, August 24, 2002. Both novice and experienced painters are welcomed to join in this valuable and enjoyable endeavor. You will be providing a true service to your kingdom. Blank charters will be available and there will be supplies on hand to share, but please feel free to bring your own if you wish. It is also rumored that there may be some chocolate for the assembled brush wielding masses. Gouache! We thank you for your kind attention. For event details please see the webpage at http://www.steppes.org/artisan/index.html -- Alis volat propriis - She flies with her own wings.


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Head & Shoulders Classic Clean Anti-Dandruff Shampoo
£2.99 (£1.33 per 100ml)
Brand Price Match - Checked Tesco.com 22/10/2014
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Head & Shoulders shampoo classic clean
Aqua, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycol Distearate, Zinc Carbonate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Xylenesulfonate, Zinc Pyrithione, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Dimethicone, Parfum, Sodium Benzoate, Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Hydrochloric Acid, Hexyl Cinnamal, Linalool, Magnesium Carbonate Hydroxide, Magnesium Nitrate, Sodium Polynaphthalenesulfonate, Methylchloroisothiazolinone, Magnesium Chloride, CI 42090, Methylisothiazolinone, CI 17200
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- Apply on wet hair. Gently massage into your scalp and work though to the tips ofyour hair. Rinse and repeat if desired. Avoid contact with eyes. If contact occurs, rinse thoroughly with water.
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In the first picture I can see cauliflower, the second picture shows brussel sprouts. In the third photo I see a l
I love fruits. I like oranges, apples, peachs, cherries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, kiwis, watermelon
Hi, I'm Kuba, I'm twenty years old, I'm from Poland, I'm foreigner, I speak Polish, but I try speak English.
In the first picture I can see white blender
In the second picture I can see corkscrew, which is for opening bott
In my house I most hate wash the dishes and dust.


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I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
As seen near Kezar, an Aston Martin:
As seen in GGP:
Via Peter Chu:
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
As seen near Kezar, an Aston Martin:
As seen in GGP:
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Oh wow, man. I'm not used to seeing outer Post Street from the pre-Redevelopment era.
Western Addition: Cherryland Sukiyaki (Japanese and American), 1650 Post St., sake and beer
Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel—Streets of San Francisco, 1942
(Then the people from SPUR came along with "ideas and action for a better city" to Urban Renewal this place with big, hulking, earthquake-unsafe buildings ("The Mall Has It All!" – that's what the SPUR people used to say before they changed their name to hide from their legacy) and garages and that's where we are today.)
Esquire: "For Sukiyaki complete with chopsticks, visit "Cherryland," where only Japanese food is served."
The More You Know:
University of California officials have decided to shut down a 20-year-old nuclear reactor on the Berkeley campus, saying the "political hassling" it sparked outweighed its usefulness. University of California officials have decided to shut down a 20-year-old nuclear reactor on the Berkeley campus, saying the "political hassling" it sparked outweighed its usefulness.
"The gymnasium-sized basement of Etcheverry Hall (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering) once housed a complete nuclear reactor. It was removed when the City of Berkeley declared itself nuclear-free…"
So Louise Davies gave us $8,000,000 back in the '70′s so that we could build a hall that would host Jordan fucking Belfort in 2014?
OK fine.
"The Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort To Embark On His U.S. "The Truth Behind His Success Tour" Launching September 15 In Tampa, Florida
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1049 Market STREET Tenants Win a Reprieve in Their Mass Eviction
San Francisco – Tenants of 1049 Market, who are facing eviction at the hands of a landlord wanting to turn their live/work apartments into office spaces, will be holding a press conference today at 4:30pm on the steps of City Hall (Polk Street side) to announce that they have won another reprieve in their battle to stay in their homes. Their landlord has withdrawn his appeal of the suspension of THE permit that would have allowed him to demolish their apartments and evict them.
The appeal on that suspension was scheduled to be heard today at the Board of Appeals at 5pm.
Officials of the Department of Building Inspections (DBI) suspended the permit after a walk through of the building. DBI officials DETERMINED that they had discretion in requiring the landlord to install light wells, a very expensive renovation, to fix a major code violation cited in a 2007 Notice of Violation: the lack of natural light in some of the apartments. Other violations are minor and can be easily addressed by the owner.
Tenants received eviction notices last September, but with the help of Housing Rights Committee, legal support from Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the involvement of Supervisor Jane Kim and DBI, they organized to stay in their homes and fight back.
"It's a clear victory for us tenants," said 1049 Market resident Marcele Wilson, "This is about evicting working-class tenants and artists so that they can convert our apartments into offices and cash in on the mid-Market tech boom. But these are our homes, we're not leaving."
Tenants will be on hand for interviews today at 4:30pm."
As it looks this season:
August 17th & 18th, 2013, Dahlia Society of California, County Fair Building/Golden Gate Park, 9th & Lincoln Avenues, San Francisco
But whatever you do, don't ask about the Walk of Shame at the next meeting! It's just too shameful:
"Program: Deborah will present her interactive Walk of Shame where you learn which are major show sins and which are minor ones."
Now check out the flowery language used to make the dahlia San Francisco's official flower:
"The dahlia partakes essentially of the character of our beloved city, in birth, breeding, and habit, for it was originally Mexican, carried thence to Spain, to France and England in turn, being changed in the process from a simple daisylike wild flower to a cosmopolitan beauty."
As seen just east of our Conservatory of Flowers:
Golden Gate Park has tons of dahlia now – check out the Yelp-approved Dahlia Dell when you have the chance.
An annual eardrum buzz in GGP:
Colour hidden in the park.
See you there!
CONTACT: Anna Bakalis, SEIU 1021 (510) 387-5341 for City of Oakland; Cecille Isidro, SEIU 1021, (510) 289-8767 for BART in Oakland; Carlos Rivera, SEIU 1021, (415) 260-7134 for BART in San Francisco
SEIU 1021 Strike Expected to Stall Bay Area Today
– More than 5,000 City of Oakland and BART Employees are expected to strike throughout the day. Workers will set up picket lines at 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall at 7 AM.
WHO: City of Oakland and BART workers officially go on strike, starting midnight July 1. Community supporters, elected officials and labor allies, join workers at the picket lines.
WHAT: Workers, represented by SEIU Local 1021, are protesting unfair labor practices and demand greater investment in critical public services. The separate contracts for the City of Oakland and BART expired at midnight, June 30.
A press tent on Frank Ogawa Plaza with electricity and WiFi will be set up for media, starting at 7 AM.
WHAT: Mass Strike Begins
WHEN: 7 AM Monday, July 1
WHERE: Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza
VISUALS: Workers picketing, chanting in front of City Hall, near the 12th St BART station
Interviews with workers for the City of Oakland and BART are available at Frank Ogawa Plaza all day.
The following are key press conferences throughout the day in Oakland and SF:
4:30 AM – Civic Center BART Station-UN Plaza in San Francisco
7 AM– Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland
12 Noon – Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland/Community and Labor Solidarity Rally
5 PM – Civic Center BART Station-UN Plaza in San Francisco
7:30 PM – Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. Press announcement regarding strike
This is just my WAG.*
Oh, Meet London Breed, courtesy of the Western Edition.
And Meet London Breed, through her own words, courtesy of the Twitter.
Now, let's let Lee Hubbard of the Oakland Post Online take over:
"Among those reportedly interested in the District 5 seat are Julian Davis, president of the board of Booker T. Washington Community Service Center; Gabriel Haaland, political director of SEIU Local 1021; Phil Ginsburg, Recreation and Park Department Director; and Michael O'Connor, the co-owner of the Independent Music Hall. Breed, who directs the African American Cultural Center on Fulton Street, has expressed interest in the position. She has a large segment of the Black activist community behind her, pushing Mayor Lee to appoint her as supervisor. "London is a woman who is definitely qualified to sit in that seat," said Bridgette LeBlanc, with Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA). 'She is a native San Franciscan who was raised and works in the community. She is a leader who is electable, and she can build bridges.'"
OMG, it's LB with the POTUS!
Here are the reasons:
1. She is the choice of Willie Brown.
2. She is the choice of Willie Brown. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, but why should Chinatown power broker Rose Pak have any say in D5, which, historically, anyway, is/was, along with D10, an "African-American district?"
3. She is the choice of Willie Brown and she has waaaaaaaaay less baggage than recent mayoral appointee Mohammed Nuru. I mean, how could she have as many closet skeletons as he? So, he makes the cut and she doesn't – would that make sense?
4. She is the choice of Willie Brown and as a matter of fact, about four years ago, Willie the Sorting Hat actually tried to place London into the Assembly(!), or into the Tri-Wizard Tournament or somewhere. That seemed a stretch at the time, but appointing LB as Supe doesn't seem a stretch at all right here and right now.
5. She is a 2008 "graduate" of Emerge California, which encourages women to run for elective office. And when I say "encourages," I mean pressures. (Signing up for Emerge** is kind of like saying that you plan on running for office (or higher office) sooner rather than later.) Anyway, the questions Mayor Ed Lee's people would have for London concern her commitment for becoming and maintaining her position as Supervisor, right? So, London, if not now, when?
6. She is the Worst Case Scenario for San Francisco's progressives, IMO. She would be a train wreck for them, actually. So as far as Ed Lee's political faction is concerned, picking anybody else would be an unnecessary risk.
7. She is the choice of the Internet, más o menos.
Those are the reasons – the strongest are #1 and #6.
So, if I know my Ed Lee, London Breed will be the appointee.
Bank on it.
As that Omar Khalif guy recently said:
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*Which means I've figured this out on my own, unlike say, a year and a half ago when I got a phone call telling me the game plan about how Mark Farrell was going to win in District 2, which he did.
**And pay your money, but, srsly, it's a pretty sweet deal, if you're a woman planning on running for office soon, and if you're not a Repub or a Green, and if you're fortunate enough to get picked.
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The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
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By the time Danny Kaye's third feature film, The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), was released in April 1946, Kaye was already a beloved box-office draw. His first two pictures, Up in Arms (1944) and Wonder Man (1945), had established his particular brand of frantic Technicolor musical comedy, and producer Samuel Goldwyn wasted no time in continuing the trend. Goldwyn also saw no reason to tamper with the winning combination of actors he'd used in Wonder Man, so he brought back Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen and Steve Cochran to team with Kaye once again. (Mayo had also had a bit part in Up in Arms, one of her earliest appearances.)
In this one, Kaye plays a shy milkman who accidentally becomes the world middleweight boxing champion after he is credited with knocking out the reigning champ (Steve Cochran) in a street brawl outside a nightclub. Kaye then wins a series of (unknown-to-him) fixed fights, convincing himself he really can box, which leads to a revenge bout with Cochran for the middleweight title. Along the way, we are treated to five musical numbers written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, and one by Sylvia Fine and Max Liebman.
Sylvia Fine was also Kaye's wife, and she managed his career, often writing songs for his movies, television and stage shows and taking a hand in editing and producing. Jule Styne once said that Kaye "would read the script through, and then he would turn to Sylvia and ask her to read it, and she would make all the suggestions." In later years, Fine would garner two Oscar® nominations for Best Song. Her number in The Kid from Brooklyn, "Pavlova," is a musical fable about ballet.
The Kid from Brooklyn has several influences and forerunners. To begin with, it's officially a remake of the Harold Lloyd talkie classic The Milky Way (1936), itself based on a play by Lynn Root and Harry Clork. But the plot also bears resemblance to The Kid from Spain (1932), starring Eddie Cantor, and Kaye's comedy style is strongly inspired by Cantor himself. Cantor, a key Goldwyn star of the 1930s, developed a persona of a blushing, stammering, wisecracking young man who delivers rapid-fire comedy patter -- all of which was mastered by Kaye in the 1940s. It was no accident; Goldwyn developed Kaye as Cantor's successor. (Kaye's first feature, Up in Arms, had even been a loose remake of the Goldwyn-Cantor film Whoopee! [1930].)
The Kid from Brooklyn was the second film for actress Vera-Ellen, born Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe, She was a personal discovery of Goldwyn's, and at the time she made this she was five feet four and one-half inches tall, 111 pounds, and almost 25 years old. Her physical appearance, however, was so petite and childlike that she and her mother (who managed her career) had already shaved five years off her official age. And the studio was happy to carefully guard this image. "My age depends on whoever is talking to me at the time," Vera-Ellen once said.
According to biographer David Soren, Ellen resembled 1930s child star Shirley Temple enough that Brooklyn director Norman McLeod encouraged her to borrow from Temple's "gee-whiz screen persona." Her voice was dubbed by Dorothy Ellers, who dubbed many famous actresses in this era, but according to Soren, Ellen's real voice can be heard early in the song "Hey, What's Your Name?" -- a number that also features the (dubbing) voice of Frankie Laine in his first Hollywood job.
But Vera-Ellen was being built up primarily as a dancer, and she has plenty of opportunity here for acrobatic hoofing including splits, somersaults, prop dancing and tapping. At one point in the number "Milk Fund Charity Dance," she swan dives thirteen feet down to be caught by male dancers. She would later co-star with Kaye again in White Christmas (1954).
The other major name in The Kid from Brooklyn is actress Virginia Mayo, still in the pre-westerns/film noir stage of her career. Her singing voice was also dubbed, by Betty Russell. Mayo enjoyed teaming with Danny Kaye, telling an interviewer at the time, "He's wonderful to work with, never seems to tire and is as funny between shots as when the cameras are clicking."
But Mayo clicked even more with actor Steve Cochran, with whom she had first worked on Wonder Man. "He would become a dear friend for all the rest of my life," Mayo later said. "I loved him. (Like a brother.) He was polite and sensitive, and very kind. But indeed, he was extremely sexy and women just couldn't get enough of him. I loved acting with him, and we went on to make many films together... I know there's been speculation over the years that I had an affair with Steve Cochran, but I didn't. Perhaps the thought crossed my mind from time to time, but he was married, and besides, he had so many girlfriends behind his wife's back, I'm not so sure I could have really fit in with his very busy schedule!"
Mayo and Cochran made a terrific pair and would team up four more times, in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), A Song Is Born (1948), White Heat (1949) and She's Back on Broadway (1953). And Mayo would meanwhile appear with Kaye twice more, in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and A Song Is Born.
But in the end The Kid from Brooklyn is Danny Kaye's show, and his singing and brilliant physical comedy -- as in the scene where he memorably teaches Fay Bainter how to dodge around a boxing ring -- are the main attraction. Audiences certainly loved it and turned the picture into a $4 million-grossing hit. Critics heaped praise on the film as well, although they liked Kaye's performance a bit more than the movie itself. The New York Times' Bosley Crowther gushed over Kaye's "best opportunity...yet...upon the screen to show his superior talent for broad and beguiling burlesque." And Variety proclaimed, "Goldwyn-Kaye combine has outdone itself... The film is aimed straight at the belly-laughs and emerges as a lush mixture of comedy, music and gals, highlighted by beautiful Technicolor and ultra-rich production mountings... Gals wear gowns that should panic the femmes and Goldwyn's sets are something to talk about."
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Screenplay: Grover Jones, Frank Butler, Richard Connell (screenplay); Don Hartman, Melville Shavelson (adapted); Lynn Root, Harry Clork (play); Ken Englund, Everett Freeman (additional sequences, uncredited); Eddie Moran (contributor to screenplay, uncredited)
Cinematography: Gregg Toland
Art Direction: Stewart Chaney, Perry Ferguson
Music: Carmen Dragon (uncredited)
Film Editing: Daniel Mandell
Cast: Danny Kaye (Burleigh Sullivan), Virginia Mayo (Polly Pringle), Vera-Ellen (Susie Sullivan), Steve Cochran (Speed McFarlane), Eve Arden (Ann Westley), Walter Abel (Gabby Sloan), Lionel Stander (Spider Schultz), Fay Bainter (Mrs. E. Winthrop LeMoyne), Clarence Kolb (Mr. Austin), Victor Cutler (Photographer)
By Jeremy Arnold
A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography
Martin Gottfried, Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye
Dick Richards, The Life Story of Danny Kaye
LC Van Savage (As told to), Virginia Mayo: The Best Years of My Life
David Soren, Vera-Ellen: The Magic and the Mystery
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Roc Nation buddies J.Cole and Wale attended the BET Rising Icons Concert in New York on Tuesday night that featured Melanie Fiona. Not only are both rappers signed to Jay-Z's new Roc Nation venture but they both happened to be wearing Air Jordan's to the event. J.Cole arrived wearing a pair of the Air Jordan VII Olympic's, however judging by the pictures we're not sure if he was wearing the new For the Love of the Game pair of the original Olympic Retro's that were released years ago. Wale however alluded to what he was wearing on his Twitter and brought out a pair of Air Jordan III True Blue's. Also in attendance was Terrance J from BET's 106 & Park, Estelle, Laura Izibor, and more.


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Im A Furry
ok sooo im 15. i know its a bit young but yes i am a furry. i was looking up wolves (love wolves) and anthropomorphics and i found a site on furry fandom then i noticed this was explaining my life. i always thought it was weird for me to have a connection with animals. i realised i wasnt alone. many thoers share the feeling of a connection with animals.
i want to know some things tho. any one know any good fursuiters. also i want to know how many of you furries are straight. from what ive heard a fair few furries are homo/bi. im not. and finally can i get your opinion on how i should tell my parents?
see im a bit shy. only a few friends know of my furryness. i need to know how to tell my parents so they can help with my fursuits and i wont need to hide my furry stuff. the thing is i feel guilty not telling them and hiding it but i get nevous thinking of how to tell them because i will need to explain what it is if they dont know and that will be very awkward.
so any other young furries ou there tell me your story of telling your parents and the out come. also give me some tips on fursuit making, hiding furry stuff and how to tell them or let them know without telling them. by that i mean like leaving things out on purpose for them to find
please give feedback
My names Eric I'm 14 and I'm not gay or bi but my story isn't so much as telling my mom (my parents are divorced) as much as it is about me not telling her, you see my mom is really...well...not excepting other "type" of people. She doesn't like homosexuals and doesn't understand bisexuals (oh and my big secret is that I'm a furry) I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I did tell her she would insult me till I'm thirty shell use it agents me in any and all arguments my moms a good person she was just raised at a bad time ;(
I'm 12 and I'm a furrie; not gay; I was making furry art before I told them what a furry was than basically explained it as being a person who's interested in antromorphic art.
Hi kingwolffyx. I am an older furry and staight. My opinion is that furrys (however you wanna interpret that) are into a lot of art that is sexually ambigious so it makes the lines kinda blurred on gender and species. As for telling your parents, I think tell them. Do it in a way that you most feel comfortable with and I feel they will understand. DO NOT let them their own research online. Anyway hope that helps bro.
hey im pippy aka pipsqueek! im a 14 year old fur and it has just been my first year into the fandom. my fursona is a fox/wolf hybrid. i can give you a few tips on fursuit construction. thats my main art! i love foam ba<x>sed heads because they are sooooo comfy!!!! but if you like the more realistic look i would check out monoyasha or quarezel (they are expensive but you can just take a look at their stuff and get a feel for it). enjoy all the time you spend in the fandom and don't forget to be yourself!!!

p.s: i told my parents at a younger age, (around 12 or 13) about the furry fandom. be sure to back it up with research. they seemed more cool with the fact when i told them that a lot of girls like me are interested in furries. when i move to seattle i will problably join furlife or something. if you want to hide your furry stuff i would hide them in your dresser, closet, under bed. thats where i store some of my fursuit stuff. just be natural about it and know you aren't alone!!!
There are plenty of straight and gay and bi and other kinds of furries, it really doesn't matter.

And there's really no reason to tell your parents. People who are punks or really religious or anything else don't have to come out to their parents about it. You should just be furry and do what you want and not worry about the title. It's most likely just going to cause a confusing mess.
Im a furry and im straight. My fursona is a fox and i must say i do love your avatar kingwolfyx. As for telling your parents. I only told my mom and to do that i just walked into the room with my ears and tail on and told her out right. Shes not to happy about it ( i think its because she watches CSI to much) so really i suppose its to what degree of a furry you wan to show your parents. I want to get a fursuit but i havent told my mom yet. Im still trying to find the best way to tell my dad though? Good luck
Err I had a longer thing but it messed up >.>

I'm 15 years old and a Furry I like to imagine myself as a fox, 2 friends in real life know that i'm a Furry (I live in Kentucky and this is a very hateful place) so I won't tell anyone else.

I'm also a pet and I have a online Pet to Master relationship with a rich 14 year old in Texas.

I wear a collar when I can and i'm planning on asking my parents if I can wear one (They don't know so i'm afraid to ask)

I don't care much for suits but I need to wear my collar or I will lose my mind (Proven fact I tried going a night without it and seen things) I'm a bit crazy I think.

If you would like friend me on here and i'll talk to you. I'm going through the same thing you are. No money or anything, Not to mention I live in a ba<x>sement in a small room.

I think thats all. Please friend me if you want to talk.
I'm a 14 year old bi furry, but I never had difficulty telling anyone. I told me best friend, and once I explained it, he was OK with it. As for your parents, it's entirely YOUR CALL! I myself haven't told them as I don't deem it necessary. But if you want a fursuit, just tell them that animals are a hobby of yours. There's no need to explain that you're a furry. We always lay the wrong impression on people. They all think that we're wierdo perverts... So don't get your parents thinking that!

Cheers mate!

hi kingwolfyx i like your avi. i am a black and grey wolf glad to meet other furs.
Hai!

My name's patrick. I am 16 now and i been a Furry for a long time. I started believeing myself as one when i was 11.

For myself, being a Furry is just meaning of being yourself, being WHO you are and not making a big deal of WHAT you are. I always felt i was like that, i always felt its how i am, in my heart.

I also read TwoKinds, how cute and sad story at the same time.

Well i had some real weird experiances! Funny ones ^^' Like the day i left a Yiff site on my PC cause i was going somewhere for 2 DAMN minutes! And it was way enough for my dad to go PC at that time and telling me something like : '' Hey hum.. I have nothing againts the fact you watch ****.. But could you just tell me what tha hell is that..? ''...

Well! I was glad he didnt got it bad. I love Yiff, i do. But i am not a freak! I mean, i am a Furry, not a Yiffing-machine. ( Lol =p) And i was glad i could explain him in a right way; I been lucky, it wasn't too hard for me.
theres never an age limit for a fandom just cuz anime is on adult swim dosent mean you have to be 18 to watch it you can like or be whatever you want at what ever age
I'm straight and I'm a furry, I just told my mom that I am a Furry, and she now says that I can't be one :( She can't really keep me from it though, if you are a Furry it is something youy are born with, not something that can be changed. I am 17 and I am moving out for college soon, so I can take all of my furry related stuff with me. But i definately WOULD NOT tell them until you are ready to accept no for an answer. I explained it and sent her websites and tried really hard for her to see the true side of Furries, but all she saw was the yiff yiff, so now all I have to do is wait till I move out.
hey kingwolfyx i am straight. i think that that most furries become that and have a really open mind. my fursona is a little wolf that is 2 yrs old
I am 13 and I'm kinda a furry I read twokinds I draw (but am terrible at is) and I have an intrest in anthropomorphic animals and I have 3people I know that are furries...
ok i have the same problem as fingwolfx im 13 and i nead to tell my parents im a furry so i dont have to were me tall wen my parents arnt home. can u help?
I'm 13 and a furry. Really young. I know. I'm just obsessed with the idea of anthropomorphic animals, especially coyotes and wolves. And fursuits. I asked for a partial, without directly saying it was a fursuit, but my mum looked at me like I was a freak and said it was hideous. It was only a white wolf, not anything unusual like a snake or an owl. I love owls, though. ^ ^

Yiff is an awkward subject for me. I won't say anything about it.

Telling parents... I don't think I'd do that. It was hard enough telling my mum that I was a therian (therian and furry, yes), and even worse saying I was bi... had to do it over email, I was so scared of her reaction. No. I don't think I'd ever tell my parents, at least not until I was a legal adult and lived away from home.

Anyway. Um. That's my viewpoint. Uh... bye!

*runs off to roleplay as a werecoyote*
Im straight and im a furry.
I'm actually pretty interested in the furry fandom. I love the idea of anthro animals, might have something to do with all the Pokemon I watched :D
my people found out by my purpose leaving a site up on the screen so they would see it (e621.net furry **** :[ )
well... if your gonna tell them... please please PLEASE time it right.... dont do it when they are stressing out about bills or fighting about something.... a nice down time like when they get out of a shower or when they are gonna get a DVD to watch at home..... make the room as dark as possible so they dont see your eyes because they are gonna be darting around... but look them in the eyes... beat around the bush a bit and then tell them.... straight up..... theres also a good video on youtube to show them.... its.... "anna meets the furrys"....show them that(all parts)... and tell them... its nothing bad and you wont be a yiffing dumbfuck (kinda like me =3) and just give them time to take it all in...but... i've been a furry ever since i remember... not KNOWINGLY.... i've always been 100% attracted to Miles Prower (aka Tails. yea the one offa sonic) but its up untill a year ago that a couple of my friends on steam just told me a few things about "furrys" so i just chose to be a furry... hehe! [ADD ME ON XBOX LIVE : MR SGT BEEFNUTS LVL 50 LEADER(SOLDER)(BORDERLANDS)]
I'm sort of in the same position as you I'm 17 straight I'm into anthropomorphics and foxes and would like to get a fur suit I don't have eney tailes but would like to make some but I'm to shy. As for telling my parents I sort of give them hints thru my art and drawings so far they know I like anthropomorphics but I think I'm going to wait a while till I tell them any more.
I'm with Capt. KJ here; what your parents don't know won't hurt them. I live in the american southeast. And my mom is asian. It's silly at how closedminded people are about things. I don't mind though, if I hafta keep it my 'dirty little secret', offline, then so be it. I have a lot of fun with it, and no one can prevent me from enjoing myself. ^.~ While I don't keep any physical props, I get my furry fix through online RP.

Also love your avatar as well, kingwolf. ^.~
Wherever it is make sure it's good...

I had some stuff hidden in a big plastic trunk, underneath all my camping equipment, in the back corner of my closet with stuff piled on top of it and clothes hanging in front of it and my mother still managed to find it while I was out of town for basketball.

I don't know what all you have or anything but you might try behind or under drawers, buried deep in the closet, in your brother's room so if it gets found he gets yelled at instead (just joking about that one by the way :p).
Absolutely... Don't. :-p

I personally wouldn't tell them. I just think sharing something like this with them would be a bit awkward. If you do though, make sure you are prepared for questions, do your research, have information or informative websites to show them and be prepared for a less than enthusiastic reaction. They may take it just fine, they may not. I don't know how your parents cope with new and different concepts.

Good luck to you


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After 10 years, maximum level for public sector pay enshrined in law
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Salaries in the public and semi-public sector are to be restricted to a maximum of 130% of a government minister's pay packet under new legislation passed unanimously by the senate on Tuesday evening.
The new law, which has been 10 years in the making, effectively seals top pay scales in the public sector at around €190,000.
The legislation also fixes golden handshakes in the public sector at a maximum €75,000 and bans bonuses, profit sharing schemes and other forms of performance-related pay.
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The new rules will cover all government departments, plus the healthcare system, housing corporations, education and other public sector bodies. Voluntary agreements are already in place in most areas but are widely flouted.
For example, in September the Financieele Dagblad reported one third of housing corporation chiefs earned more than the maximum agreed for public sector officials.
Of the 285 pay packages which came under the spotlight, 83 broke the official pay barrier. And 25% of the big earners were in charge of small institutions with fewer than 10,000 houses, the paper said.
The new cabinet has plans to reduce the upper limit in line with a ministerial salary at a later date.
A Dutch government minister earns €144,000 a year plus expenses.
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Look at all the messup and one know that senior staff are being overly paid. However, it is good to have a benchmark. It should also cover insurance companies and any corporations that received a certain amount from the government.By 14 November 2012 8:30 AM |
bravo! fantastic development to control the little boys at the top and their little egos. upper management has been grossly overpaid far too long in NL. it took some time but this is a great step towards a more equal fair and social society.By 14 November 2012 10:11 AM |
It should further be expanded to cover the health insurance companies, ABN/AMRO, ING, and other "private" companies that exists solely thanks to handouts from the tax payers.By 14 November 2012 3:29 PM |
@ufo: private companies should have their wages restricted by public compensation.
130.000/year is not much if you are in finance (or else you go to London earn much more than that)By 14 November 2012 5:09 PM |
Banning all forms of performance-related pay is a very, very bad idea. Those jobs will become some cushy jobs once you take away any incentive for increasing efficiency, productivity and competitivity - basically to work harder, innovate become better and better at what you do. Long live the bureaucracy, complacency and mediocrity! Gosh!By 14 November 2012 6:35 PM |
Sounds like the key issue here is bad HR/ management of salaries across the public sector. To need a national law to regulate this is amateuristic.By 14 November 2012 7:42 PM |
The good ones will leave for greener pastures to be replaced by cronies. Ah, to be in power and help your family and friends get a better job with some kickback for you. Wonderful.By 15 November 2012 4:52 AM |
@AL: if they think London pays more, they better go and let the more decent people take over their (banker) jobs which they messed up big time so far. London housing also costs much more.By 15 November 2012 8:50 AM |
Most of the good ones have already left - take a look at the present cabinet for proof. God help us all if the mediocre take over.By 15 November 2012 3:32 PM |
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Given it's guilty of spawning a glut of domestic psycho imitators, it's easy to forget how shocking Adrian Lyne's shocker was in the late '80s. Not only did we see the hero being unfaithful to his wife in the first reel, we then watched his life fall to pieces as his one night fling came back to haunt him. Again and again and again. Seen by some as a metaphor for AIDS, by others as a feminist-bashing tirade, Fatal Attraction reached out beyond the box-office to grab headlines by the throat. Still tight, still fraught, it's easy to see why it revitalised the once-tacky erotic thriller genre.
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Next up for Funner in the Summer- Kim from 733 is here with fun a fun kids craft: Painting with Ice. How cool is that? I'm for sure going to do this with my kids sometime over the summer. Make sure to head over to 733 for tons of printables, party ideas, kids crafts and more. Hello everyone! My name is Kim and I blog over at seven thirty three, [Read More...]
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There's not a whole lot going on in Marlins news today, but I owe everyone a few Bites, so here we go.
– Let's first start with a preview of tonight's game versus the New York Mets. Ricky Nolasco takes the mound versus John Maine. The Maniac expects a bounce-back win, but we could miss out. Really hoping Cameron Maybin has a better game as well.
– Speaking of Maybin, if you couldn't tell, he had a tough time in the outfield on Monday. He said there was a lot of wind and there was trash on the field as well. To be fair, I thought it looked difficult too. Hopefully he plays better as we move forward.
– Here we have a survey of shopping habits of female Marlins fans (H/T Craig). I'm not sure what this is for, but for you female Maniacs, give it a shot I guess.
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MUST have 5 years experience in Marketing and Product Development. Consumer Packaged Goods experience is ideal. This role will have primary responsibility for managing all of the hiring company core product lines as well as product development of product line extensions.
You will need to be a detail oriented self starter that needs minimal supervision. Able to make decisions on your own.
MUST be able to travel at least 24 -30days a year. You need an outgoing personality as they will be interacting with the sales team as well as customers (both at trade shows and customer visits).
You will need a professional appearance and excellent communications skills. Also need to be able to lift at least 50 pounds. You will do several trade shows a year and have to do a lot of the set up so must have a professional attitude and work ethic.
The Associate Product Manager will be responsible for the effective product management and product development of hiring company core Supermarket/Retail Food product lines.
Duties and Responsibilities
These are intended only as illustration of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.
1. Develop core/stock product offerings including design, specifications, and merchandising solutions.
• Work with Marketing Specialist and/or third party design firm on concept and graphics.
• Provide information to package engineering and product development for accurate development of product specifications.
• Collaborates with Manufacturing, Scheduling, PrePro and Product Evaluation Teams from concept to production to get quality, cost effective products manufactured. Continues to work with those teams until products are fully commercialized.
• Provides information to Communications for the development of Brochures, PR, and market trends/data.
• Work with Sales, Product Development and outside vendors to develop merchandising/racking solutions for our core product lines.
2. Manage products/product lines from launch through the entire product lifecycle to discontinuation.
• Monitor inventory levels and work with customer service to set reorder points
• Utilize information from SalesForce.com to build demand forecasts for new and existing products
3. Identify customer needs and wants, and translate these into products, services and information to be provided by hiring company.
• Supermarket experience – Visit customer sites with sales people to gain knowledge of customer experience in the field.
• Consumer experience – Gather feedback from consumers using the product.
• Define the identified solutions clearly to collaborate with Product Development, Manufacturing and Communications on the products to be developed, the quality required and the information that needs to be communicated by Communications Manager.
• Key member of Product Development team managing the Innovation Pipeline for core product lines.
4. Gather market trend and competitor information and work with SVP of Sales and Marketing Director to establish effective pricing, margin, volume, packaging and labeling policies.
• Pricing – Establish pricing policies and develop pricing sheets
• Margins – Establish margin policies and target gross margins
• Volume – Develop market forecasts and provide input for Min./Max. policies
• Packaging – Develop product packaging and packaging policies
• Labeling – Develop product labeling
5. Effectively prepare Customer Service to service customers for new and current product offerings.
• Develop forecasts for products and provide information to customer service for setting min/max inventory levels.
• Develop and provide training on all new products and product enhancements.
6. In coordination with the Sales Assistant, establish pre-implementation, implementation and post-sale processes and monitor the execution of these by the Sales team.
• Pre-implementation would include film structure, film sizing, design, equipment needed, etc.
• Implementation would include communication to stores, POS, customer training, and store visits.
• Post implementation would include telemarketing for customer satisfaction and course correction, new applications at store, consumer acceptance, and reporting to chain management.
7. Lead cost reduction efforts for product line in collaboration with manufacturing, product development and supply chain management.
• Using market and competitor information, set target goals for cost reduction.
• Establish a team to consider and implement ways to reduce cost of the product in order to gain competitive advantage in the market place.
8. Gather information on all direct and indirect competitors' current offerings; including product offerings, strengths, weaknesses and pricing.
• Test direct competitors' products no less than once per year and each time a new competitive product is introduced.
• Communicate test findings through written reports to sales and leadership team.
9. Travel with sales team to evaluate customer and consumer needs, and product performance.
• Will require 24-48 days per year in the field participating in trade shows and sales presentations to customers, as assigned by Director of Marketing.
Skills, experiences and qualifications that are essential to the job.
• Four year degree in marketing, business, communications, related field or combination of education and experience.
CPG experience in a product manager role
• Minimum of 5 years prior experience in a marketing, product development, inventory control, customer service, sales support, or inside sales role.
• Minimum of 2 years prior project management experience.
• Proficient to Advanced Microsoft Office skills, aptitude for technology.
• Excellent listening skills with demonstrated ability to ask the right questions to determine needs.
• Exceptional internal collaboration skills. Having the ability to influence without formal authority in order to complete projects and assignments.
• Marketing research skills using resources such as internet, trade journals, face-to-face customer interaction, consumer intercepts/focus groups, etc.
• Experience with developing and giving presentations to small and large groups.
• Good to excellent presentation skills – especially with customers in selling situation.
Decision Making Accountability
(routine decisions to be made autonomously)
• Authority to make decisions as needed to satisfy customer requirements within reasonable boundaries.
• Authority to make decisions about vendor relationships and contracted work, within established budgetary guidelines.
(decisions for which prior approval should be made)
• Decisions involving the sharing of hiring company customer, new product, or trade secret information with vendors or others outside hiring company.
• Spending decisions outside established budgetary guidelines.
Working Conditions
• The Associate Product Manager position will require a minimum of 24-48 days travel per year by plane and car.
The following physical requirements are necessary to perform the essential functions of this position:
• Required extended periods of time working on a computer.
• Physical health requirements needed to fly as a passenger on an airplane and ride in a motor vehicle for extended periods of time.
• Requires extended periods of time standing in stores, trade shows and/or manufacturing plants.
• Requires lifting of crates/boxes of 50 pounds or more.
Associate Product Manager
The following are performance expectations for the position:
Identify customer needs and wants
• Personally spend 24-48 days in the field with customers to research information on market needs.
• Utilize superior listening and inquiry skills to obtain information on market needs.
• Formulate product and service ideas based on market research and clearly communicate in writing (on a quarterly basis) these ideas to the Sales and Leadership Teams, providing compelling evidence for ideas generated.
• Compare information collected in the field against indirect research methods using internet, trade magazines and industry trend reports.
Establish effective pricing, margin, volume, packaging and labeling policies
• Use industry knowledge and competitor information to position hiring company products in the market so we can succeed long-term.
• Provide quantifiable data to support suggested policies on the above.
• As market conditions change, proactively work with the EVP of Sales to adjust policies and then disseminate this information to all interested parties.
Prepare Sales Team to sell
• Use compelling graphics and language to develop marketing presentations Sales Team can use in the field to gain business.
• Personally provide training that ensures the Sales Team clearly understands the market and product benefits/features.
• Continually update training materials as markets and product offerings change.
• Provide ongoing training to Sales Team as markets and product offerings change.
• Personally contact direct and indirect Sales Team members for success stories and publish to all on at least a quarterly basis.
Prepare Customer Service to serve customers
• Develop and share forecasts for products to Customer Service Team Leader as they are finalized. Answer any questions and provide input for inventory levels. Final decision on min/max levels will be set by CSTL.
• Personally provide training that ensures Customer Service clearly understands the market and hiring company product benefits/features.
• Continually update training materials as markets and product offerings change.
• Provide ongoing training to Customer Service as markets and product offerings change.
Provide input to Director of Marketing
• Use market expertise to provide timely input on broker sourcing, trade show selection, sales collateral development and advertising campaigns/venues.
• Collaborate with Communications and provide pertinent information on product lines.
Manage pre-implementation, implementation and post-sale processes
• Establish processes and then conduct spot audits to ensure that all processes are followed.
• Adjust and update processes as information from the field warrants. Disseminate to the Sales Team.
• Gather pertinent customer feedback from telemarketing team and disseminate valuable information to Sales Team and Leadership.
Cost reduction efforts
• Use competitor information to set target goals for cost reduction efforts.
• Collaborate with a team made up of manufacturing, product development, supply chain and package engineering to identify areas where cost could potentially be reduced in a product line.
Exercise influence without direct authority
• Collaborate with peers in ways that inspire and foster win/win solutions.
• Clearly articulate what is needed from each party and provide reasons for what is needed.
• Work diligently to understand the needs of others and bring forward any points of resistance, so they can be resolved.
• Build positive relationships both vertically and horizontally throughout the organization.
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in my experience, lots of people are quick to tell you how much they'll miss you if you die, but when they all stop talking to you over something, it quickly becomes apparent how much of what people say is utter bullshit. it becomes a matter of making better friends. friends who won't abandon you, who are willing to deal with your shit, with your light and your dark. people who won't, or people who can't--they aren't your friends. you're worse off with people like that. no one should have to feel like a burden or an embarrassment. you should trust your friends, trust them to love and miss you. it sounds like you don't have that. your long post was in august. i hope you're doing better now.
It's strange that some of the most touching things I've heard are said to me over the internet, but there you go. I have talked with him, and it didn't really help much, truth be told. But it's off my chest, and I reached out, and I know that it's all I'm capable of.
I realize now that I've been putting too much stock in what people say rather than what they do, and I've sort of reclaimed one of my best friends as a result of it, and I'm glad because I love her to a ridiculous extent. I've lost some, too, and I know that this whole situation is gonna bite me in the ass later, but yeah, I'm doing better now.
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Martha Stewart went to prison (not for long, admittedly) for not telling the truth to federal investigators about a supposed crime that she was not even being accused of; the chief executive of Boeing has had to resign because he was having an affair with a senior director, though there was no question of sexual harassment or improper pressure.
I could cite a long list of others in the private sector who are being forced out or punished not for real crimes like the various high-ups in Enron but for a slight mis-step or dubious misbehaviour. Who, after all, apart from Harry Stonecipher, his wife and his mistress really care about his affair, as it did not affect his work or hers?
Now let us look at the organization that claims to be the ultimate moral arbiter in world politics. Yes, of course I mean the United Nations.
The second of the three reports the Paul Volcker commission is planning to produce this year has finally, after much leaking, appeared and you'll never guess it, but it has "exonerated" the SecGen, Kofi Annan.
Actually, it was more a question of no documents being found that would point to the SecGen directly. The shredders must have been working overtime.
While he has been at the helm the biggest humanitarian exercise, the food-for-oil scheme has collapsed into fraud and grand larceny, that has involved, among others, some of Mr Annan's closest advisers, Iqbal Riza and Dileep Nair, respectively Annan's chief of staff until last December and head of the United Nations' watchdog group, the Office of Internal Oversight Services.
Two high-ranking UN officials have already had to be suspended though we understand that the organization using our money will pay their legal expenses, presumably because the huge salaries they received for many years, the various perks plus the money they managed to skim off during the food-for-oil scheme cannot cover it.
Finally, there is the involvement of the SecGen's own son, who was paid a retainer for several year by the Swiss company Cotecna, that had been tasked with monitoring the scheme and a fine mess they made of it, too.
Ah but there is no evidence that Kofi Annan intervened in any way with the choice of Cotecna. But there is excellent evidence that son Kojo's involvement has been in public knowledge for at least six years. And what did daddy do? He had a one-day internal enquiry that dismissed the matter out of hand as being untrue and a wicked libel.
Paul Volcker's report does rather mildly criticize the SecGen for that and for not realizing that there could have been a clash of interests there. Poor chap, how could he realize that? Such an innocent.
Let us add to this all the other scandals: the behaviour of the UN troops in Africa and the Balkans, the accusations of sexual harassment of staff within the UN itself, the complete inefficiency and concentration on their own creature comforts shown by the UN's people after the Tsunami, the knowledge we have of the UN's failure in Rwanda (that was on Boutros's watch but Annan was directly responsible), the farcical situation whereby some of the world's worst tyrannies are members of the UNCHR, and so on.
One cannot help asking oneself: what will it take for SecGen Kofi Annan to do the honourable thing and resign? And if he will not do it, what chance is there of any other highly paid, corrupt, unaccountable UN official doing the same?
What is the point of all those high-falutin' reform proposals if we know, and the present situation shows it all too clearly, that nobody, but nobody will ever be held to account, no matter what crimes are committed in the name of transnationalism?
Remember that next time some ridiculous politician or commentator or just some fool who has nothing better to do except to go on yet another anti-American demo starts bleating about morality equalling multilateralism and the source of it being the United Nations.
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- The EU constitution as an American plot
- "We have ways of breaking people like you"
- Something's rotten in Brussels
- Let's call the whole thing off
- These are our friends - part 2
- They are building a continent
- And while we're at it
- This story has been viewed 4332 times
- Neither dead nor buried
- The Dutch are undecided
- Rank hypocrisy
- We have become more powerful IX
- Worth a bet
- Gazing into a yawning chasm
- A look in her own back yard
- Booker
- We can reliably inform you…
- We have become more powerful VIII
- Is Wallström lying?
- When thieves fall out
- NGOs feel the cold wind of reality
- Losing faith in Europe
- The bloggers are on the march
- Worth noting
- EUnuchs
- Surely terrorists fear European integration
- Groundhog day?
- Retro Europe
- Miss Constitution?
- A very unhappy bunny
- These are our friends - part 1
- We have become more powerful VII
- Not an issue
- The farce continues
- In the national interest
- The real face of the EU?
- English as well please
- Too little pain
- An unhappy bunny
- The price of membership - £180 billion
- Flying pigs
- The EU's judicial land grab
- Hope for us yet?
- That software "stitch-up"
- Progress… in the wrong direction
- Gnashing of teeth
- They are not playing soft ball
- Our money in its mouth
- Happy Birthday to the IEA
- One that got away
- Poor dears
- Brussels calling
- Shooting fish in a barrel
- Not a pretty picture
- EU's anti-terror chief keeps complaining
- Generation Games
- A matter of perspective
- PC Witney
- White man speak with forked tongue
- Happy Sunday
- That French referendum
- Interesting times
- The pain in Spain II
- Banging your head against the wall
- France names the day
- We have become more powerful VI
- Euroscepticism in the world
- Welcome to reality
- Money isn't everything
- In the service of integration
- A Bill of Frights
- Disingenuous and misleading
- More trouble than it can deal with
- Poles apart
- Time for the sham to end
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
- Fantasy politics
- UNICEF is on the march again
- Bovine democracy
- The number one environmental issue for farmers
- The great "democrat" writes
- Common cause with the Europhiles
- Where is that street?
- Master of the universe
- The wages of appeasement
- But why is it "the only way forward"?
- The advantages of being left behind
- Why can't we do it here?
- The EuroCop speaks
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Surprise, surprise
Martha Stewart went to prison (not for long, admittedly) for not telling the truth to federal investigators about a supposed crime that she was not even being accused of; the chief executive of Boeing has had to resign because he was having an affair with a senior director, though there was no question of sexual harassment or improper pressure.