text:
Magento 22.214.171.124-beta1 was released today, and has some pretty nifty features. One of those is an implementation of "Minimum Advertised Price", or MAP. Many vendors enforce restrictions on how low of a price you can show on your site, until either adding it to your cart or performing come action. Here's how to take advantage of this feature:
First, enable MAP. It's under Admin > System > Configuration, on the Sales tab. There's an accordion panel titled Minimum Advertised Price. Here's your options:
- Enable MAP – Yes / No
- Apply MAP (default value) – This is the master switch. (For some reason, I couldn't get it working unless this was set to yes – even if it was set to yes at the product level.)
- Display actual price – This is another default setting. Your options are "In Cart", "Before Order Confirmation", and "On Gesture". I'll cover these in a minute.
- Default Popup Text Message – This is the text that will show up at the bottom of the popup when "On Gesture" is enabled.
- Default "What's This" Message – This is the text that shows when you click the "What's this?" link.
Next, create your item. I'm going to assume that you are familiar with this process. When you get to the Pricing tab, you'll see three new options:
Under Apply Map:
- Yes – This option will apply MAP to the product page
- No – This option will cause MAP not to apply
Display Actual Price – In Cart
Display Actual Price – Before Order Confirmation
Display Actual Cart – On Gesture
Keep in mind that you shouldn't rely on any beta functionality as it may go away in the stable version!
If you like information like this, subscribe to our feed or join our mailing list.


text:
10-Strike SearchMyDiscs 3.0
Catalog your disks. Create CD/DVD database and search needed files and disks easily. SearchMyDiscs helps you maintaining big collections of CD and DVD disks and other file resources (local and network folders). Browse and search for files, photographs, and folders on the disks of your collection without getting the disks from their cases, loading them into your computer, and having to view the disks one by one.
See also: catalogue, 10-Strike, SearchMyDiscs, photo, digital, report, id3, exif, thumbnail, cataloguer, cataloger, mp3, folder, collection, maintain, organize, dvd, file, find, disk, disc, catalog, search
Junk Mail Remover 1.2
Delete junk mail (spam, virus, trojan, and e-mails with big attachments) fast and easily. If your connection is slow (dial-up, GPRS, etc) or you have to pay for internet traffic, this program will save your time and money.
See also: junk, spam, delete, e-mail, mail, remove, clean, virus, worm, message, 10-strike
10-Strike LANState 2.4
LANState is a network mapping and monitoring program which allows you to see the state of network in visual form at any time. Monitor hosts, shared resources, traffic, get MAC-addresses, scan TCP and UDP ports, and be notified on events. The program also contains many useful tools for administrators such as sending messages, shutting down and turning on remote computers, ping, name lookup, trace route, obtaining information on remote hosts etc.
See also: network, map, mapping, lan, monitor, monitoring, host, traffic, connection, tcp, scanner, mac, remote, shared, resources, computer, lanstate, 10-strike, shutdown, administrator, dns, lookup, device, restart, event log, diagram
Harrier Strike 1.1
Isometric game in which you fly a Harrier plane and must destroy enemies.
See also: Harrier Strike
100% Anti-Spyware 2.0.24
100% Anti-Spyware is a powerful anti-spyware solution that lets you request a professional spyware removal procedure with just one click. Professional support team guarantees successful removal of all spyware on your computer. The program is compatible with Windows 98, ME, and Windows NT, 2000, and XP.
See also: best anti-spyware, best antispyware, best spyware removal, spyware doctor, adware spyware, anti spyware, spyware, destroy, spyware removal, anti, hijackthis, adware, doctor, cleaner, detecting, detect, antispyware, detection, nuker, protection, hijack this, killer, detector, scan, blocker, blaster, eliminator, delete, strike, removing, spybot, scanner, stop, virus, blockers, block, checker, spyware cleaner, detecting spyware, detect spyware, best spyware blocker, best spyware killer, best spyware detector, best spyware cleaner, fix spyware problem
10-Strike Log-Analyzer 1.5
Raw (Apache) log files analyzer. Get statistics from your logs easily. There are many options and filters available to help you getting exact information about your site. You can easily determine the most popular files and referrers and build reports for every file requested. The program has a friendly and easy to use interface, so you can start working immediately after installation without a huge learning curve.
See also: 10-strike, log-analyzer, raw, log, file, analyzer, apache, logfile, log-file, ncsa, logs, analysis, web, statistics, stats, site, reports
10-Strike MP3-Scanner 2.0
Search your local network for MP3 files and other music file formats. Multi-threaded engine searches MP3 files in LAN very fast. Create reports, save playlists, monitor the new files appeared. Discover music you did not even know was on your LAN! If you are an network administrator, find MP3 files that your users hide on servers hogging up space.
See also: search, mp3, network, LAN, files, find, 10-strike, scanner, wma, music, download, playlist, free
MS Access Extract Email Addresses Software 7.0
Search and find email addresses in Microsoft Access databases. Emails are saved to text file.
See also: microsoft, msaccess, address, database, information, info, files, find, search, getting, data, outlook, finding, searching, strings, field, table, improt, export, importing, exporting, multiple, many, various, few, one, two, three, four, messages, text, query, queries, server, user, collection, procedure, function, method, bulk, sender, attributes, e-mails, web, internal, input, output, replace, connect, connecting, connection, other, users, locate, vba, application, arrive at, bump into, chance upon, collar, come across, come upon, corral, descry, detect, dig up, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, expose, ferret out, happen upon, hit upon, identify, light upon, locate, make out, meet, notice, observe, perceive, pinpoint, recognize, recover, run across, run into, scare up, sight, smoke out, spot, strike, stumble upon, track down, trip on, turn up, uncover, unearth, chase, examination, exploration, fishing expedition, frisking, going-over, hunt, inquest, inquiry, inspection, investigation, legwork, perquisition, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, research, rummage, scrutiny, shakedown, wild-goose chase, witch hunt, beat, beat about, cast about, chase after, check, comb, examine, explore, ferret, fine-tooth-comb, forage, frisk, go through, grope, grub, gun for, hunt, hunt for, inquire, inspect, investigate, look, look for, look over, poke into, probe, prospect, pry, quest, rake, ransack, rifle through, root, rummage, run down, scan, scour, scout, scrutinize, seek, shake down, sift, smell around, study, track down, assay, breakdown, dissection, dissolution, division, inquiry, investigation, partition, reasoning, resolution, scrutiny, search, separation, study, subdivision, test, advice, ammo, break, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt, dope, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, hash, hookup, hot poop, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, news, notice, notification, orientation, pipeline, poop, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, skinny, the latest, tidings, tip, tip-off, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word
Strike Ball 2 Deluxe 2.12
The brick-busting fun for which Alawar is famous is just the beginning in Strike Ball 2. The makers of this new Arkanoid game have improved the visuals and crafted some amazing 3D levels. Although the three-headed, fire-breathing dragon is sure to be a hit with fans, the lifelike aquarium is going to drop jaws! New blocks, including explosive and magnetic variations, are on hand to spice up the level design and the gameplay.
See also: strike, ball, alawar, arkanoid, classic, game, remake, advanced, alawar, entertainment, games
Snow Patrol 1.0
Hello and welcome to Snow Patrol team! In these highlands covered with snow, near to a holiday resort, we play snowballs with people who came here to have a rest from their everyday life and office routine. And from now, you're one of us!
See also: snow, snowball, snow ball, winter, aim, strike, arcade, coffee break
10-Strike MP3-Scanner for tomp4.com 4.39
Using one of the fastest LAN searching engines available, 10-Strike MP3-Scanner searches your LAN for MP3s and other music file formats
See also: Using one of the fastest LAN searching engines available, 10-Strike MP3-Scanner searches your LAN for MP3s and other music file formats
Excel Compare Two Worksheets & Find Differences Software 7.0
Compare 2 Excel sheets / files and show the differences for each cell. The comparing process will produce a report that is easy to understand.
See also: workbooks, sheets, books, files, versions, values, rows, columns, cells, list, different, between, comparison, spreadsheets, comparing, tables, documents, compare.xla, macro, microsoft, 2000, 2003, 2007, same, separate, seperate, similar, missing, data, vba, common, items, numbers, highlight, fields, info, function, edit, combine, merge, fuse, match, equal, unequal, different, cells, xls, update, sych, sync, synchronize, syching, syncing, synchronizing, several, output, method, option, side by side, missing, contents, generate, exceldiff, finding, differing, merging, combining, generating, updating, part, whole, characters, remove, text, string, letters, words, truncated, quick, replace, application, one, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, nineth, ninth, tenth, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, differentiation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unlikeness, variance, variation, variety, correspondence, likeness, resemblance, sameness, similarity, arrive at, bump into, chance upon, collar, come across, come upon, corral, descry, detect, dig up, discern, discover, distinguish, encounter, espy, expose, ferret out, happen upon, hit upon, identify, light upon, locate, make out, meet, notice, observe, perceive, pinpoint, recognize, recover, run across, run into, scare up, sight, smoke out, spot, strike, stumble upon, track down, trip on, turn up, uncover, unearth, analyze, approach, balance, bracket, collate, confront, consider, contemplate, correlate, divide, equal, examine, hang, inspect, juxtapose, match, match up, measure, observe, oppose, parallel, ponder, rival, scan, scrutinize, segregate, separate, set against, size up, study, touch, weigh, allegorize, approach, approximate to, assimilate, balance, bear comparison, bring near, compete with, connect, correlate, distinguish between, draw parallel, equal, equate, identify with, liken, link, make like, match, notice similarities, paragon, parallel, put alongside, relate, resemble, show correspondence, standardize, tie up, vie, advance, approximate, be like, bear, border, buzz, catch up, close in, come, come at, come close, compare with, contact, converge, correspond to, creep up, draw near, equal, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, match, meet, move toward, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, verge upon, old, new
10-Strike SearchMyDiscs 3.1
See also: catalogue, catalog, search, disk, disc, find, file, dvd, organize, maintain, collection, folder, mp3, cataloger, cataloguer, thumbnail, exif, id3, report, digital, photo, SearchMyDiscs, 10-Strike
Bombstrike 1.03
"Bombstrike: arcade shoot'em up on steroids. If you want intense shoot'em up action--did I say intense?--look no further: Tomcat Interactive has sprung their virgin release, Bombstrike: "The ultimate 3D helicopter action game." The graphics are gorgeous, the bass is headache-inducing, and the action is fast and furious. If that sounds like your cup of tea, then check out the demo now (16 MB)." (The Independent Gaming Source)
See also: Action, Game, helicopter, combat, chopter, comanche, shooter, 3d-shooter, fight, bomb, attack, strike, air, arcade, terror, army, military, fun, free, helicopter game, airstrikemsimulation, action-simulation, fly, flight, flightsim, aktion, baller, spiel, win
Ultra Core Protector 6.3
UCP Anti-Cheat for multiplayer online games
See also: ucp, ultra core protector, anticheat, anti-cheat, ucp anticheat, ucp anti-cheat, free anti-cheat, freeware anti-cheat, anti-cheat for counter-strike 1.6, anti-cheat for counter-strike source, steam anti-cheat, non-steam anti-cheat, valve anti-cheat
jalada Air Strike Afghanistan 1.7.0
jalada Air Strike Afghanistan is your action flight simulator and combat game. It puts you directly behind the trigger, in the fighter pilot's seat. Your goal is to destroy enemy targets dispersed throughout the various challenging campaigns leading through Afghanistan. In each mission you must score points to be promoted and to get new technology. Fight for glory to compete for the best pilot ever on Earth.
See also: flight simulator, Air Strike, combat game, Air Combat, Dog fight, game, strategy, air, combat, wargame, military, aviation, aircraft, airforce, free download, luftwaffe
10-Strike FTPrint 3.45
10-Strike FTPrint allows you to print text files under Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 in a printer's text mode. Usually, when printing text files under Windows, printer operates in a graphics mode. For dot-matrix and ink-jet printers text mode printing is faster than graphics and more economical. SAVE TIME AND MONEY! If your printer is dot-matrix (or ink-jet) and your text doesn't contain complex formatting (source code, documentation, logs, books, et
See also: strike, ftp, print
BackSpin 5.1
Pogo Bowl Cheat Backspin is the best Cheat out there! We are there for you when you need to get a GOOD score and Win more Strikes. This cheat is for use on the Pogo.com Bowling game. Run your Pogo Bowl game and use the Pogo Bowl Auto Cheat Program Backspin to help you win!
See also: pogo bowl cheats, pogo bowl strike tips, pogo bowl tips, pogo bowl help, pogo bowl bot
Lightning 1.10.1
Can you press the shutter when you catch a glimpse of the lightning? As an enthusiast of photography, your goal is to take a beautiful photo of the lightning during a thunderstorm. Since the lightning may strike at any moment, you need to get ready and prepare to hit the shutter. Remember not to shoot before the lightning appears, or you will lose. Click to take a photo when a bolt of lightning lights up the sky; the quicker you react, the better
See also: bolt, camera, flash, image, lightning, millisecond, photo, photograph, picture, reaction, shutter, strike, thunder, thunderstorm, action games, reaction games

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bible Verses About Being Happy
Bible verses related to Being Happy from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance
John 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Revelation 21:4 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Proverbs 3:13 - Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.
Isaiah 40:31 - But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.
Psalms 32:1-2 - ([A Psalm] of David, Maschil.) Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered. (Read More...)
Romans 8:1-39 - [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Read More...)
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Romans 10:13 - For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.
Isaiah 45:7 - I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
1 Peter 1:1-25 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, (Read More...)
Psalms 1:6 - For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Luke 23:43 - And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Joshua 1:8 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Hebrews 10:26-31 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (Read More...)
Matthew 10:28 - And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew 17:1-9 - And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, (Read More...)
Isaiah 42:8 - I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Numbers 25:4-9 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. (Read More...)
Revelation 13:8 - And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Revelation 11:7 - And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
1 Peter 3:18 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Galatians 5:19-20 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (Read More...)
Romans 9:27 - Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Acts 17:29 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Luke 16:19-31 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: (Read More...)
Matthew 25:41 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Matthew 19:28 - And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 19:18 - He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Zechariah 5:3 - Then said he unto me, This [is] the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it.
Hosea 13:16 - Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea 13:14 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Lamentations 2:20 - Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Isaiah 59:1-2 - Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (Read More...)
Psalms 51:5 - Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Genesis 2:17 - But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Revelation 17:8 - The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Isaiah 66:24 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Psalms 89:48 - What man [is he that] liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible .info under CC BY 3.0
Related Bible Dictionary Terms:
Search the King James Version (KJV) for more references about Being Happy...


text:
EW exclusive! Fresh looks at Shailene Woodley and Theo James from adaptation-in-progress of YA fave by Veronica Roth. (For the inside scoop and more photos, pick up this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly mag.)
Image Credit: Jeff Riedel for EW
Copyright © 2014 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
adverb \ˈfȯr\: toward or at the front part of a boat, ship, or airplane
Full Definition of FORE
obsolete : at an earlier time or period
: in, toward, or near the front : forward
Examples of FORE
- The plane's exits are located fore and aft.
Origin of FORE
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old English for
First Known Use: before 12th century
prepositionDefinition of FORE
chiefly dialect : before
: in the presence of
Variants of FORE
fore also 'fore
Examples of FORE
- <fore the baby's arrival, the young couple had been able to cope with their problems>
- <fore the stranger there swarmed a gaggle of curious street urchins>
First Known Use of FORE
before 12th century
adjective: located at the front of a boat, ship, or airplane
Full Definition of FORE
: situated in front of something else : forward
: prior in order of occurrence : former
Examples of FORE
- the fore and aft cabins
- <cats have five fore toes but only four hind toes>
Origin of FORE
First Known Use: 15th century
nounDefinition of FORE
: something that occupies a front position
— to the fore
: in or into a position of prominence : forward
First Known Use of FORE
interjectionDefinition of FORE
—used by a golfer to warn anyone within range of the probable line of flight of the ball
Origin of FORE
probably short for before
First Known Use: circa 1878
adjective \ˈfō(ə)r, ˈfȯ(ə)r\ (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of FORE
: situated in front of something else
Learn More About FORE
Ask The Editor Videos
Seen & Heard
What made you want to look up fore? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).


text:
2011{Web Design Company CMDS Launches Newly Designed Site for Jersey City Self Storage Company}
By enlisting the help of award-winning web design company, CMDS, the new, sleek A-1 Self Storage website allows them to stand apart from competitors.
Jersey City, NJ (Vocus/PRWEB) January 05, 2011:
A redesigned website was recently launched by web design company and online marketing agency CMDS for A-1 Self Storage. Conveniently located in Jersey City, NJ A-1 Self Storage provides customers with a wide variety of sizes in the storage facility for personal items and belongings, exceptional customer service support, different leasing options and outstanding security measures.
The new website for A-1 Self Storage was designed by CMDS, a Middletown, NJ-basedweb design company.
Recently launched on December 15th, 2010, the website design is sleeker, more attractive and very user-friendly. The self storage company has been gaining more leads already as a result. The A-1 Self Storage website stands out from the crowd of other storage facility websites.
The founder and president of the web design company CMDS, Christopher Mulvaney, was eager to take on the redesign project for A-1 Self Storage. Mulvaney said of the project, "We looked at the old website and envisioned ways to make improvements to attract more attention. We wanted to make the site visually appealing to visitors while also being easy to navigate for users. Because of our abilities, I knew a simple redesign would spike their online inquiries." Both parties are very pleased with the finished product.
CMDS has worked diligently on the designs for the new A-1 Self Storage website. It will undoubtedly generate positive results and more client leads for the self storage company. CMDS' graphic designer Walter Deyo spoke highly of the design, "I worked with Mulvaney on the new design to help set it apart from the antiquated designs of competitors. A-1 Self Storage has an advantage based on the design alone."
Peter Mocco of A-1 Self Storage has worked with CMDS before on several other projects. CMDS has been committed to making this website and all other projects for Mr. Mocco of the highest quality. The web design company always remains professional and interested in the complete satisfaction of the client.
CMDS has helped produce the positive results of the website that align with the goals of A-1 Self Storage. The self storage company is set apart from other run of the mill storage facilities thanks to the redesigned website accredited to web design company CMDS.
About A-1 Self Storage:
A-1 Self Storage is a private company located in Jersey City, New Jersey. The company has been serving clients since it was established 1990. The self storage company makes certain that personal items are kept safe and secure. A-1 Self Storage can be reached online at http://www.a1selfstorageonline.com or by calling the company directly at (201) 963-2201.
About CMDS:
CMDS is an award-winning online marketing agency, web design company and seo company dedicated to generating leads for businesses. Services include website design, online advertising, marketing services and search engine optimization. For more information, contact Christopher Mulvaney at (732) 706-5555 or visit CMDS at http://www.cmdsonline.com.


text:
Why not View a video about this product?
Connects to your Samsung Smartphone for weight measurement and monitoring
These genuine Samsung Body Scales for use with the Galaxy Smartphones are designed to intelligently measure your weight and keep you informed of tracked progress. It measures your body weight and sends it to your phone via the S Health app. Additionally, it also maintains the weight history so you can keep track of your weight over time.
Designed for use with the S Health app
Stay motivated and keep informed of your activity with the Samsung S Health app. By connecting the scales to the app, key weight information can be communicated to your Samsung Galaxy device in order to track progress.
Note: Please make sure your device is compatible. Your phone should be running Android 4.2.2 or later.
Supports monitoring of up to seven users
The Samsung scale will automatically recognise up to seven users, so you need only step on it to send your latest weight statistics to your S Health account to monitor your results on your phone.
Official Samsung accessory
This is an official Samsung product and as so it is made to the highest product quality and safety standards.
Colour: Black
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (range - 10m)
Batteries included: AAA x 3
Battery life: 1 year (if used 10 times a day)
Weight: 2kg (Body Scale only)
Compatibility: Android Jelly Bean + 4.4.2 version
Samsung: Galaxy, Galaxy Europa I5500, Galaxy Extreme, Galaxy Fame, Galaxy Grand, Galaxy M Pro, Galaxy Mega 5.8, Galaxy Mega 6.3, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy R, Galaxy S Advance, Galaxy S I9000, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S3 Mini, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S4 Active, Galaxy S4 Mini, Galaxy S4 Zoom, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Xcover, Galaxy Xcover 2, i5500 Corby, I9003 Galaxy SL, Mega 6.3
NEW! Add a video – upload your video file or send us a web link


text:
Oct 23, 2013 9:52 AM by MTN News - Billings
BILLINGS - Cape Air announced on Monday that flights from Billings to five Montana communities will begin Dec. 10.
The Massachusetts-based airline is one of the largest independent regional airlines in the country and is making its first venture into Montana.
All seats on flights will be priced at $49 each way, which includes taxes and fees.
Cape Air's president, Linda Markham, says, "We are viewing the start of service in Montana as an exciting chapter in our organization's history. The opportunity to provide frequent, consistent air service, create new jobs and become a community partner to these six cities is one that we eagerly welcome."
Here are the flight schedules:
Billings (BIL) - Sidney (SDY): 5 daily, round-trip
Billings (BIL) - Glendive (GDV): 2 daily, round-trip
Billings (BIL) - Glasgow (GGW): 2 daily, round-trip
Billings (BIL) - Wolf Point (OLF): 2 daily, round-trip
Billings (BIL) - Havre (HVR): 2 daily, round-trip
Cape Air operates a fleet of 75 Cessna 402s, three Britten-Norman Islanders, and two ATRs.
Call 1.800.CAPE.AIR for more information, or visit their website.
19 hours ago


text:
When you and your child chose Pepperdine, your entire family became part of our family! You are valued members of our community- friends who are important to us and partners who will join us in our mission of preparing students for lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Our goal is that you AND your student will take from this place experiences, memories and lessons that will remain with you for a lifetime. As such, we seek to find ways that will connect you to us while your student is here and keep you connected in the years to come. The Seaver Parents Association is the way we establish and maintain that connection.
Composed of parents, grandparents and guardians of current and graduated Seaver college students, the Parents Association is dedicated to providing a range of opportunities for families to interact with Seaver students, with the University community, and with each other. Events are designed to strengthen communication with parents, promote parent participation and to support your student's university experience. There is no cost to be a member.
Meet the 2014-2015 National Chairs
Paul and Dannette Chambers have once again accepted the appointment of leading the Seaver Parent Council for the 2014-2015 year. Paul and Dannette have three children. Aaron is a 2013 graduate of Seaver College with a degree in International Business. Katie is a senior who studied in Lausanne her sophomore year and is an Advertising major with a Multi Media Design minor. Annie, their youngest daughter, has her mind set to begin Pepperdine in Fall 2015. They love being a part of the Wave family! Be on the lookout for this wonderful family at NSO!
Meet the Parents Program Team
Parents Program Team Members from left to right: Willie, Lou Drobnick, Kim Barkis, Sara Jackson, Lacey Von Lanken, Amy Clark, Kelly
Semkiw |
University Parent Guide
Parent Program News
For the most recent news and information sent to parents click on the button below:


text:
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music's Tribute to Francisco Tárrega
Classical Preview
Tárrega's knowledge of the piano helped him tremendously in composition, especially so in his enlargement of the guitar repertoire through the transcription of piano works by other composers. He eventually composed some 78 original guitar works and 120 transcriptions, and today is considered the father of 20th-century classical guitar music and technique.
It is to Francisco Tárrega that the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music turns for the opening concert of its "Guitar Legacy Series," for all the obvious reasons. "A Tribute to Francisco Tárrega" is in the talented hands of teacher, conductor and Conservatory librarian Raymond Mueller, who will be playing a classical guitar constructed c. 1900—the recital's tripartite format follows the pattern so common a century ago as well.
The first part of the program is all Tárrega: Lagrima (prelude), Marieta (mazurka), Pavana, Three Mazurkas, the Prelude in E Major, Maria (gavota), three short preludes, and the posthumously published Danza Mora; the last a piece inspired by the rhythmic playing of an Arabian drum Trrega heard in 1900. After this, the audience will be treated to several of Tárrega's transcriptions: Bach's Sarabande and Bourree from Violin Partita, BWV 1002, Mendelssohn's Venetian Barcarola from the Lieder ohne Wrte, Op. 19, Albniz's Granada from Suite Espagnola, Op. 47. There is also an original guitar work by Tárrega's great predecessor Fernando Sorthe famous Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9. The concert concludes with three additional short preludes, Pepita (polka) and Capricho arabe, all original Tárrega compositions.
"A Tribute to Francisco Tárrega" takes place in the Helen Bader Hall of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music on Aug. 2.


text:
In most theaters, the sight of someone pulling out a cellphone and texting during a performance is very much frowned upon. In the world of Christopher Durang, the guy texting is actually onstage interrupting a play he's watching.
That's typical of the things flipped around in the playwright's utterly refreshing farce "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," which happily has made the leap from off-Broadway to open Thursday at the Golden Theatre.
It's a sweet, witty play with a huge pop culture appetite. Durang flings all kinds of references into his word processor: Angelina Jolie, Snow White, Maggie Smith, global warming, Norma Desmond, William Penn, "Peter Pan," the HBO show "Entourage," Lindsay Lohan, ancient Greek drama, voodoo and, as the title suggests, a big dollop of Anton Chekhov.
It centers on three middle-aged siblings named after Chekhov characters who are uneasily negotiating with age. Two of them — Vanya, a perfectly laconic David Hyde Pierce, and Sonia, a sweetly sensitive Kristine Nielsen — have been sitting around their Pennsylvania home and bickering for years ever since their parents died.
The sibling who escaped, Masha, has become an insufferable movie star and has returned to sell the house, leaving her sister and brother with the prospect of being homeless and penniless. Sigourney Weaver, a longtime collaborator with Durang, plays Masha with flamboyant overacting. She's clearly having a ball; the whole cast is.
Rounding up the cast is Masha's boy-toy Spike (a splendidly buoyant Billy Magnussen), a housekeeper convinced she can see the future (a very game Shalita Grant) and an ethereal neighbor (the fairy-ish Genevieve Angelson).
Director Nicholas Martin thankfully doesn't rush things, allowing the actors the freedom to extend a scene just a little further with merely a look. The company also seems to have added their own little physical jokes to Durang's script, such as some recurring hair-mussing and flirtatious touching.
It helps if you know something about Chekhov — when Sonya wails "I am a wild turkey," it's more fun if you know that's a riff on his "Seagull" — but Durang's genius is the ability to write highbrow and low at the same time.
Masha's arrival unsettles the stifling life of Vanya and Sonia. Vanya shakes off his complacency by dusting off a play he's written and gets everyone to perform it — Spike cloddishly interrupts the show with his cellphone — and Sonia snaps out of her ennui by putting herself out there at a fancy party.
Durang has given Pierce a simply lovely rant about how great growing up in the 1950s was — "We licked postage stamps, and we sent letters!" — and Nielsen has a touching phone call — we only hear her side — from a potential suitor that becomes a touching aria about hope and fear and love.
It's all a bit silly, a tad daffy and very, very sweet. Thankfully, for a show that both lampoons and honors Chekhov's themes, it doesn't end with the sadness that usually dominates that revered playwright's work. In fact, you can hear the Beatles sing "Here Comes the Sun."
Churning Chekhov into modern-day chuckles is the essence of Christopher Durang's slight and happy diversion, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Seen Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center last year, the play opened Thursday on Broadway with ample yuks, snazzy design and a six-actor cast, led by David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver, intact.
Hulking sweet fizzy drinks and their nasty side effects have lately come under fire. But as in the show's earlier run, the only downsides of Christopher Durang's gleefully silly, if mostly empty-caloried, Big Gulp of a comedy are smile lines and overstimulated funny bones.
And maybe mild orbital ache from rolling eyes at the sheer scope of the mugging. This riff on the Russian writer's mopes and dopes isn't subtle.
Set in bucolic Bucks County, Pa., in a charming old house made to inspire real-estate envy, the story follows three fiftysomething siblings whose crosses to bear began with their names drawn from Chekhov.
"Such was the burden of having two professor parents, and so active in community theater as well," says droopy gay Vanya (Hyde Pierce) to his loopy lovelorn sister, Sonia (Kristine Nielsen). They've idled away their lives, while sister Masha (Weaver), an insecure, much-divorced movie actress, has gotten rich and famous starring in the cheesy "Sexy Killer" franchise.
Masha arrives with ripped boy toy Spike (Billy Magnussen, irresistibly dippy) and a disturbing plan to sell the family home. It's "Uncle Vanya" meets "Cherry Orchard."
And when doe-eyed neighbor Nina (Genevieve Angelson, a delight), a wanna-be actress, drops by, "The Seagull" gets in on the act. Don't forget nutty cleaning woman Cassandra (Shalita Grant, wonderfully wacky), who forecasts doom and dabbles in voodoo.
In his more provocative past plays "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" and "Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them," Durang bared his fangs. Here, he's at his sweetest and most generous. All six actors are gifted with juicy lines and, under the smart direction of Nicholas Martin, deliver on them.
Weaver, who goes way back to college with Durang, is her most amusing when she's at her most controlled — think "Working Girl" — and not at broad strokes. She pushes hard — sometimes too hard — as Masha, but scores points for socking it to her own starry aura.
Huggable Hyde Pierce infuses sad-sack Vanya with radiant warmth and goodwill. He's so good at playing it buttoned-up, it's fun to watch him lose it in a shamelessly nostalgic rant against the age of social media.
Saving Ms. Invaluable for last, Nielsen, another Durang go-to girl, dazzles with over-the-top antics, Maggie Smith mimicry and assorted outbursts. But she knows how to milk a poignant moment, too — specifically Sonia's phone call from a man she's met at a party.
Watch and learn: Like the best comic pros, Nielsen breaks your heart as she tickles it in the funny-sad scene. And, briefly, she elevates "V&S&M&S" to more than just a feather-light fancy.
Few Chekhov-inspired shows make you laugh out loud, and repeatedly at that. In fact there's probably just one such rare bird on the planet: Christopher Durang's riotous "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." Luckily for us it just opened on Broadway, after a recent run Off — and it's the rare transfer where the show improved.
What's changed? At first glance, nothing: Cast, director and set are repeats from the Lincoln Center stint last fall. And yet Nicholas Martin's production has gotten noticeably better: It's simultaneously sharper and smoother, and the one weak performance — that of Sigourney Weaver — has grown more nuanced and funnier.
As before, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen play Vanya and Sonia, sad-sack, middle-aged siblings who share a bucolic Bucks County home (rendered by set designer David Korins with life-size accuracy).
A visit from their movie-star sister, Masha (Weaver), threatens to upend their quiet life.
Oh, those Chekhovian names? The trio's late parents were college professors who dabbled in community theater. But Durang ("Beyond Therapy," "Miss Witherspoon") treads lightly, and the show's a ton of fun even if you can't tell your "Seagull" from your "Uncle Vanya."
That's because, aside from its bittersweet Russian undertones — paralyzed by inaction, Vanya and Sonia think they've missed out on life — this is the kind of full-on comedy that's sadly rare on Broadway.
Durang pulls all the stops: one-liners and their matching outlandish reactions. Outrageous dress-up. Zany slapstick.
Much of the last is supplied by the irrepressible Billy Magnussen as Masha's much younger boyfriend, Spike, a blissfully stupid stud who flirts with everybody.
"He's so attractive," sighs Nina (Genevieve Angelson), a young neighbor. "Except for his personality, of course."
But the comic business only looks carefree: After months of doing this play, the actors are in total sync not only with each other, but with their roles.
Hyde Pierce and Nielsen make the most of their monologues — his a fierce tirade about how Vanya preferred the life of his youth; hers a heartbreaking phone call setting up a date — and their timing is flawless. Hyde Pierce is a master of the slow burn, while Nielsen's wild-eyed Sonia often looks as if her train of thought has a loose caboose.
As their cleaning lady, Cassandra — a seer prone to seemingly random warnings — Shalita Grant has dialed down the kooky, but the award for most improved goes to Weaver.
Masha's business is pretending, starting, of course, with her age: "I'm only 41," she declares. "Possibly 42."
This character has turned her life into a performance, but Weaver makes it clear that Masha is, in fact, a terrible actress who can't convincingly fake anything. When poor Sonia upstages her at a costume party, there's poetic justice in that reversal — not to mention richly earned laughs.
Did you hear there's been an outbreak of mugging in a certain bucolic neighborhood of Bucks County, Pa., where many a moneyed Manhattanite has a summer retreat? I guess you're not safe anywhere these days.
Kidding! The mugging I refer to is not in the actual Bucks County, but in the fictional version found in Christopher Durang's comedy "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," which opened on Broadway Thursday night at the John Golden Theater after a sellout run Off Broadway. And the only people getting conked on the head in this epidemic are audience members, fielding a barrage of theatrical in-jokes. They seem to be taking to it quite nicely.
The lapel-grabbing style of comic acting known as mugging is not always a theatrical offense. In fact when undertaken by the Durang specialist Kristine Nielsen, who brings much of the helium to the play's series of variations on Chekhovian themes, broad comic acting is raised to the level of high art.
I can think of no more deliriously funny moment from this theater season than what transpires when Ms. Nielsen, playing Sonia, a middle-aged, morbidly depressed woman, swans onstage in a sequined evening gown, with a tiara shimmering on her head and a new glitter of self-confidence in her eyes. When Sonia proceeds to explain why she is thus attired, the theater erupts in booming gusts of laughter that practically shake the seats. It would be unfair to spoil the fun for those holding tickets to the show, but I can reveal that Sonia is dressed for a costume party in a highly conceptual manner, and that Maggie Smith figures prominently in the concept.
Ms. Nielsen's lunatic riff may be the highlight of this uneven but intermittently delightful comedy, which is directed by Nicholas Martin and also stars David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver as Vanya and Masha, siblings of the sad Sonia. The names, of course, are all swiped from notable characters in Chekhov plays. The country-house setting is also borrowed from the work of that Russian master, as are the self-delusions and self-pity that plague the central characters, all of whom have reached the difficult age when life's path has narrowed uncomfortably, and there is little point in turning around and looking to take another, more rewarding course.
Vanya and Sonia have been living in their pajamas, spiritually speaking, for their whole lives. They essentially never left the home in which they grew up and in which their parents died. The house's upkeep — and theirs too — has long been financed by Masha, a movie star who returns home soon after the play begins with a shiny new boy toy, a set of walking and talking pecs and abs with the refreshingly un-Chekhovian name of Spike (Billy Magnussen).
Masha's preening egoism ruffles the feathers of her siblings, who have always envied her the shining success that reflects back to them their contrastingly miserable lives. ("I am a wild turkey," Sonia madly mutters repeatedly, echoing Nina in "The Seagull.") When Masha blandly announces that she thinks it's time to sell the house — the upkeep has begun to strain her finances, now that her action-movie paychecks have evaporated — Vanya and Sonia find themselves facing a future even bleaker than their dreary pasts.
In Durang Land, of course, heartache is generally fodder for belly laughs. There are enough sprinkled throughout his latest play to keep the temperature in the theater from cooling for long, although this romp through an Americanized version of Russian anomie is more a series of loosely connected set pieces than a cogently put-together play. (With little more than a postage-stamp of plot to embroider, Mr. Durang has his characters dress up as Disney cartoons and wander off to a costume party.)
Mr. Pierce delivers Vanya's enraged rant about the debased nature of contemporary culture with sputtering, funny zest. Playing Cassandra, the housekeeper who dabbles in both classical Greek drama and voodoo (go figure), Shalita Grant swaggers away with just about every scene she's in, thanks to Mr. Durang's hilariously demented monologues full of fantastically dark premonitions and mashed-up quotations from the theatrical canon. Mr. Magnussen bounds around the stage gymnastically as the self-satisfied Spike, crisply capturing the Teflon egoism of the young and the gorgeous. (He doesn't notice the shiv buried in the compliment when Sonia, after hearing for the umpteenth time that Spike "almost" landed a role in "Entourage 2," sweetly observes, "Maybe you'll come close to getting another part soon.")
I wish I could say that Ms. Weaver holds her own amid this skilled comic company, and in a sense she does. The audience laps up her character's absurd narcissism, delighting in the way Masha sprinkles Splenda over every patronizing swipe at her beloved brother and sister. But while Ms. Nielsen and Mr. Pierce can do big, broad acting and somehow give it the texture of finely spun glass, it comes across less felicitously in Ms. Weaver's hands. (This surprised me, given her history with Mr. Durang dating back to their days at the Yale School of Drama.)
At one point Masha is asked by the aspiring actress Nina (a charming Genevieve Angelson) to define the difference between film and stage acting. "In film you are acting in front of a camera, and you need to speak in a normal voice," she earnestly explains. Raising her voice, she adds, "And onstage you are in a sort of wooden box in front of people who are looking at you, and you must speak more loudly. So that they can hear you."
This dum-dum explanation would be much funnier if Ms. Weaver had not seemed to be taking it so literally from the get-go. Throughout the play, she bellows her lines as if she had a megaphone stuck in her throat. To be fair, it cannot be easy to play a character who is in some sense a sendup of yourself. But I found Ms. Weaver's athletic attempts at physical humor to be a bit embarrassing.
Still, like everyone involved with "Vanya and Sonia," which has been smoothly transferred to a proscenium theater after its premiere at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi Newhouse, Ms. Weaver certainly seems admirably game to try anything for a laugh. Judging from the jubilant reception the play received both times I saw it — Off Broadway and now on — audiences tired of reading headlines about the stalled recovery are up for anything that delivers the release of a heedless good time too. I can imagine many satisfied patrons leave the theater muttering, "Now if only real Chekhov plays were this funny, maybe I wouldn't keep falling asleep."
Christopher Durang, of all unrepentant scamps, was inducted into the very upright Theater Hall of Fame in January. And now, with a cast including Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce, he has one of the funniest comedies that Broadway has seen in seasons. This is all delightful.
It matters, but not enough to hurt, that "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" is not dangerous enough to count as one of my favorites of his blithely demented satires. And, true, Broadway hasn't exactly been luxuriating in a golden age of comic delirium these days.
But the new play, which seemed too tidy and almost mellow in its Off-Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater last fall, feels bigger and broader and more -- dare we say it -- commercial within Broadway expectations.
This is Durang's deadpan mashup of Anton Chekhov's themes and his own, directed with exquisite glee by Nicholas Martin, set in the yard of a gentrified stone farmhouse in Bucks County, Pa. Pierce (irresistibly long-suffering), Weaver (young Durang's formative muse) and Kristin Nielsen (his current one) play aging siblings whose parents, amateur thespians, named them after Chekhov characters.
Masha (Weaver, majestically foolish) is the glamorous visiting actress who escaped without having to care for their dying parents. Dreary Sonia (Nielsen, a gelatin mold of shimmering passive aggression) moans, "I am a wild turkey," if not a seagull.
Masha brings home her hunky boy-toy -- played with a spectacular sense of raunch-puppy awareness by Billy Magnussen. The ethereal young Nina (Genevieve Angelson) brings artistic idealism from next door and, just to mix up the references, the housekeeper named Cassandra (the irrepressible Shalita Grant) reels with premonitions and a voodoo doll.
Masha is going to a costume party as Snow White (mercilessly perfect costumes by Emily Rebholz), which gives us the rare chance to see Weaver unhinge her fine sense of the ridiculous as her narcissistic beauty collapses into acting its age. Nielsen has a lovely monologue as the dull sister blossoms, and Pierce delivers a stirring, climactic speech about a world "with no shared memories."
Alongside the sentiment is Durang's deeply touching faith in the ability of a cartoon style to sustain serious -- no cosmic -- purpose without sacrificing trust in the transcendent pleasures of the wicked and silly. Broadway can handle that.
Don't be deceived by the dazzling zaniness of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. In Christopher Durang's hugely entertaining new play, which opened Thursday at Broadway's Golden Theatre, there's a perilously fine line between comedy and tragedy.
And why shouldn't that be so? After all, three of the four title characters were named, by their late parents, after Chekhov roles; and few contemporary playwrights have proven as deft as Durang as mining both the absurdity and the dangers of human folly.
That's not to say that Durang's Vanya approaches the depth of Uncle Vanya -- or The Three Sisters or The Seagull, to cite two of several other Chekhov classics that Durang alludes to here. But in its own deliciously madcap way, the new work offers some keen insights into the challenges and agonies of 21st-century life.
Director Nicholas Martin, helming the same fine cast that introduced Vanya last year -- first at McCarter Theatre, then at Lincoln Center -- fully serves the wit and whimsy of the text, which Durang has sharpened. David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen play Vanya and Sonia, two middle-aged siblings -- Sonia was adopted, as she will repeatedly remind us -- who still live together in their elegantly rustic childhood home.
That house is now owned by another sister, Masha, a movie star who has supported, from afar, Vanya and Sonia's lifestyles, which seem focused on moping -- Vanya in that dry, deadpan manner in which Pierce excels, Sonia with a more melodramatic sense of self-pity, which the superb Nielsen captures to comic perfection.
Their domestic tension is heightened when the pathologically self-absorbed Masha -- played to the hilt by a hilarious, and astonishingly well-preserved, Sigourney Weaver -- flits into town, accompanied by her latest, much younger beau. That would be Spike, an aspiring actor and full-fledged doofus whose vanity and cluelessness are vividly embodied by a frequently underdressed Billy Magnussen.
There's also a neighborhood ingenue, Nina, portrayed with wry wonder by Genevieve Angelson, and a soothsaying housekeeper, fittingly named Cassandra, who keeps warning of impending doom.
Despite Cassandra's dark premonitions -- and with a little help from her voodoo skills, with which actress Shalita Grant has great fun -- Vanya ends on an upbeat, even uplifting note. Mind you, that's only after the three central characters have had moments of painful self-awareness -- some quite humorous, but all poignant in their fashion.
Vanya's meltdown provides the emotional climax. In a desperately nostalgic, mordantly funny rant, he laments the lack of true community in a culture that is, technologically speaking, increasingly connected. "I'm worried about the future," he admits.
We all should be, Durang seems to tell us -- but not so much so that we reject it. "You must always get your hopes up," Nina says near the end; and that, for all of Vanya's exhilarating irony, is its ultimate, unironic message.
Christopher Durang's play "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" opened March 14 at Broadway's John Golden Theater following an Off Broadway run at Lincoln Center Theater, where the show opened in the fall. The following is Marilyn Stasio's review of the Off Broadway production, which ran in Variety Nov. 12. Credits have been updated below to reflect changes for the Broadway transfer.
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" is brainy and witty and clever and cute. Christopher Durang's surreal comedy of manners answers that perennial prayer for shows with higher aspirations than to pass themselves off as sitcoms. In a great leap of imagination, Durang lifts characters and storylines from four Chekhov plays (plus a tragedy by Aeschylus) and transplants them from provincial Russia to present-day Bucks County. In this hilarious mashup, classic themes of existential loss and longing are given a modern spin and endlessly inventive comic twists for an inspired cast led by Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce.
David Korins' romantic set (bathed in Justin Townsend's limpid lighting) of an old stone house in bucolic Bucks County is an authentic American version of those Russian country estates that represent heaven-on-earth to characters in Chekhov's plays.
Vanya, who is played by that king of deadpan, Pierce, and his half-sister Sonia (Kristine Nielsen, another regal clown) are also familiar figures. Like their namesakes in "Uncle Vanya," they're the poor, forgotten drudges who have wasted their lives working to keep up the family estate while their glamorous sibling, Masha (frequent Durang collaborator Weaver, as funny as you've ever seen her), swans around the world becoming rich and famous and completely forgetful of them.
Vanya and Sonia are the very models of midlife discontent, disappointment and despair. As perfectly matched as a salt-and-pepper set, Pierce and Nielsen play the pathos of this wretched pair without acknowledging the howling humor of their lugubrious characters.
Borrowing freely from other plays, Sonia sighs over the beautiful blue heron that comes to feed at the pond, and compares herself to a wild turkey. She also declares herself to be in mourning for her life. Which causes Vanya to snap: "I hope you're not going to make Chekhov references all day." Durang is a master of the whiplash one-liner, and Pierce and Nielsen are masters at delivering them with perfectly straight faces.
Observing her own midlife crisis in her own flamboyant style, Masha bursts on the scene in a spectacular wardrobe (by Emily Rebholz) and towing her current boytoy, Spike, a narcissistic exhibitionist in Billy Magnussen's uninhibited performance. Ignoring the dark warnings from housekeeper Cassandra (Shalita Grant), Masha bullies everyone in her domestic kingdom. Eyes glittering with gleeful malice, she takes satisfaction in admitting that she's a monster — "but a lovable one."
Monster she may be, but Masha is also tragically funny when Nina, a lovely naif played by Genevieve Angelson, wanders in from "The Seagull" to dash her schemes to bits. It's youth and innocence against age and exhaustion, and we all know how that's going to end. But not without a fight — and many, many laughs.


text:
Ambassador Haqqani Quits
November 23, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Pakistan's envoy to U.S. quits in coup memo controversy
By Chris Allbritton
Husain Haqqani |
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan's ambassador to the United States resigned on Tuesday, days after a Pakistani-American businessman said the envoy was behind a controversial memo that accused the Pakistani military of plotting a coup in May.
Envoy Husain Haqqani said in a Twitter message that he had sent his resignation to the prime minister. State television said his resignation had been accepted.
"I have much to contribute to building a new Pakistan free of bigotry & intolerance," Haqqani said on Twitter. "Will focus energies on that."
Haqqani became entangled in controversy after the appearance of a column in the Financial Times on Oct 10.
In the column, businessman Mansoor Ijaz said a senior Pakistani diplomat had asked that a memo be delivered to the Pentagon with a plea for U.S. help to stave off a military coup in the days after the May 2 U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Ijaz later identified the diplomat as Haqqani.
No evidence has emerged that the military was plotting a coup and Haqqani denies involvement in the memo.
"I still maintain that I did not conceive, write or distribute the memo," Haqqani told Reuters shortly after he resigned. "This is not about the memo," he continued. "This is about bigger things."
He declined to comment further.
Haqqani's resignation follows a meeting with Pakistan President Asif Zardari, the nation's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and its intelligence head Lieutenant-General Ahmad Shuja Pasha.
A spokesman for the prime minister's office said Haqqani was asked to resign and there would be an investigation into the memo.
Haqqani is close to Zardari but estranged from Pakistan's military.
Tensions between Pakistan's civilian government and military have bedeviled the nuclear-armed South Asian country for almost its entire existence, with the military ruling the country for more than half of its 64-year history in a series of coups.
Haqqani's resignation was seen by many analysts as further weakening the civilian government, which is already beset by allegations of corruption and incompetence.
"They (the military) may expect much more from the government, much more beyond the resignation of Husain Haqqani, because they see that everybody perceived to be involved in this affair will be seen as anti-military and by implication anti-state," said Imtiaz Gul, a security analyst in Islamabad.
Haqqani's successor might include a diplomat with a less complicated relationship with the military, perhaps Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir or Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations, Hussain Haroon.
"Whether Pakistan's people or its military will be represented in DC will become evident when Husain Haqqani's replacement is announced," Ali Dayan Hasan, representative for Human Rights Watch in Pakistan, said on Twitter.
It is unclear how far beyond Haqqani "memogate," as it is called in the Pakistani press, goes.
Ijaz initially said that Haqqani was acting under the authority of Zardari, which has opened up the president to public criticism in Pakistan that he was plotting against his own military.
But Ijaz retreated from that claim and later said he wasn't sure how involved Zardari was in the memo controversy.
"I don't know if Haqqani had a blanket power of attorney with Zardari, whether he ever discussed this with Zardari or whether he was acting on his own," Ijaz told Reuters on Nov 18.
Mark Siegel, a lobbyist who represents the Pakistani government in Washington, said Zardari called him when the Financial Times story appeared, asking his law firm to initiate libel proceedings against the paper and against Ijaz.
Siegel advised Zardari against filing a case because he judged it difficult for a public figure to win a libel case in a U.S. court.
"He was irate and said the memo was a total fabrication," Siegel said. Siegel, who has known Zardari for 25 years, said he was absolutely certain that Zardari had known nothing about the memo.
(Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider, Qasim Nauman and Augustine Anthony in Islamabad and Missy Ryan in Washington; Editing by Peter Graff)
12 Officers Charged, Turkey Coup Plot
February 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Daren Butler
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Twelve senior Turkish military officers were charged on Wednesday over an alleged plot to topple a government that secularist hardliners fear is pursuing a hidden Islamist agenda.
Turkey's top military commanders, who have seen the army's role as ultimate guardian of secularism eroded under European Union-backed reforms, held an emergency meeting late on Tuesday and warned in a statement of a "serious situation."
With tensions hitting investors' confidence and feeding speculation that elections due next year could be brought forward, Prime Minster Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul will meet Turkey's top military commander on Thursday, a government source said.
Turkish stocks closed down 3.4 percent and the lira weakened to a seven-month low against the dollar, while bond yields rose.
Adding to uncertainty, Turkey's chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya said he was looking into statements made by deputies from the ruling AK Party, but had not reached the stage of opening a formal investigation against the party.
Yalcinkaya tried to have the party banned for anti-secular activities in 2008. Speculation that he could try again has prompted talk that the government could call a snap election.
The AK Party, first elected in 2002 in a landslide victory over older, established parties blighted by corruption and accusations of misrule, is also embroiled in a dispute with the judiciary — another pillar of the orthodox establishment.
The military has ousted four governments of various political hues since 1960, although the army says the days of coups are now over.
While the chances of another coup are seen as remote, anxiety is growing over what the generals might do next and what strains the situation might put on the armed forces' leadership.
Turkey's NATO allies, particularly the United States, want the overwhelmingly Muslim nation to mature as a democracy.
Its prospects of entering the EU depend partly on ending the special status that made the arrest of military personnel, still less a former force commander, by civilian authorities inconceivable until recently.
Tensions were triggered by an unprecedented police swoop on Monday that detained around 50 serving and retired officers.
A court late on Wednesday ordered five officers, four of them retired and including former Rear Admiral Feyyaz Ogutcu, to be sent to jail pending trial. Another two were released.
The most senior detainees, retired Air Force Commander Ibrahim Firtina and ex-navy chief Ozden Ornek, are being held at police headquarters in Istanbul and are expected to be brought to the court for questioning on Thursday.
The other seven officers charged in the early hours of Wednesday consisted of four admirals, two retired and two serving, a retired brigadier-general and two retired colonels.
Pending a formal indictment, the detainees are accused of belonging to a terrorist group and of attempting to overthrow the government by force.
Six officers were released from custody on Tuesday after questioning. It was unclear if they would face charges.
The army leadership has said previously that probes into a series of alleged coup plots is hurting morale in the ranks.
In a characteristically veiled and brief statement on its web site on Tuesday, the General Staff said its top commanders had met to "assess the serious situation that has arisen."
"What do you mean? Are you going to carry out a coup?" said a headline in Taraf, a low-circulation newspaper that has broken several stories of alleged coup plots.
The current investigation into the so-called "Sledgehammer" plan, allegedly drawn up in 2003, was triggered by a report in Taraf last month. The military has said the plan was just a scenario drawn up for an army seminar.
Retired military officers are among around 200 people indicted over separate plots by a far-right group known as Ergenekon. Critics say that trial is being used to target political opponents, an accusation the government rejects.
(Additional reporting by Pinar Aydinli, Zerin Elci and Ibon Villelabeitia in Ankara, Alexandra Hudson and Thomas Grove in Istanbul; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore, Ralph Boulton and David Stamp)


text: Where the Xda story began. This model is now retired but many of its features can now be found in newer models. To find out which current model might be best for you, go to our comparison tool. However, if you own an Xda, you can still get the most out of it by using this page to find out about its accessories and FAQs.


text:
on November 7, 2011It finally kind of feels like fall, doesn't it? But just because you've got to throw on the tweed and the overcoat these days doesn't mean you don't need something else to go with 'em something to shield your eyes from those still-looming rays. The time change is only making things more complicated, anyway. Herein, some of the latest and greatest from the world of sunglasses a collaboration or two, a couple new colors, and, you know, a hand-crafted pair that takes three months to make just for you....
Soloist sunglasses ($455) by Oliver Peoples, barneys.com
Follow The Style Blog on RSS, Twitter, and Instagram at @ESQStyle.
What To Read Next


text:
Front-Row Fashion: Paris Couture Fashion Week
No maternity-wear for this chic mom-to-be. Also sticking to a minimalistic black-and-white palette, Kim Kardashian dressed her bitty bump in chic menswear-inspired separates. Long leather gloves, a fur-trimmed cape and Veronica Lake-esque waves upped the glam factor of the reality star's borrowed-from-the-boys ensemble.
Source: FameFlynet