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Posted onTotal attendance for the Progressive Insurance Chicago Boat, Sports & RV Show increased 7 percent despite slower days Thursday and Friday because of bad weather, the National Marine Manufacturers Association reported.
The NMMA said 35,402 people attended the event, which ran Jan. 12-16 at McCormick Place. The show switched its date pattern this year, moving from Wednesday-Sunday to Thursday-Monday to take advantage of the Martin Luther King holiday.
More than 500 boats were on display and more than 100 RVs were for sale. The NMMA said it is receiving reports from exhibitors that dozens of boats were sold at the show and heard good reports on the RV side as well.
"[We] talked to many people from not only all surrounding states, but as far away as Iowa. The buyer is back," Duane Krueger, of Premier Pontoons, told the NMMA.
"We are excited to see the turnout that the Chicago Boat Show brought, and boat buyers are definitely shopping again," added Betsy Arvai, of Skipper Buds. "Looking forward to the potential opportunities in the marketplace in 2012. We had a great selling show."
The next shows up for the NMMA are the Progressive Insurance Baltimore Boat Show, the Progressive Insurance Kansas City Boat & Sportshow and the Progressive Insurance Minneapolis Boat Show, all of which start Thursday and run through Sunday.
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There are 5 main phases that you will typically go through when conducting your product launch. Those phases are pre-prelaunch, prelaunch, launch or cart open, cart close and post launch. All of these phases should have a good sound strategy as to how to execute each of them and then how they transition from one phase to the next. If you get this wrong, your chance for a successful product launch can be reduced.
Getting Set Up In Your Pre-prelaunch
The first phase is the pre-prelaunch phase. This is where you start your product launch planning, gathering your launch team, preparing your product or service, creating your offer and getting your technical systems set up. It is important at this point to also let some information leak out into the market about what is coming, or to generate some buzz around any key aspects of your product or service just to get some people talking in public mediums so when you deliver your first prelaunch message, people will have already been discussing something in relation to your product or service.
Your Prelaunch Buzz
Once you transition into prelaunch and you begin to warm up your market, your prospect list and your customer list you will be engaging them and looking for feedback in the mediums you engage them such as your blog or on any social media platforms that you manage. Here you can ask questions, answer questions, conduct surveys to uncover needs and objections they might have and then address them in a webinar or subsequent blog posts. You also want to put out notifications that you have an early bird list that your prospects can sign up to if they want to be notified before the general public about the opening to your product or service.
So by the time you are finished with your prelaunch, you should have given away an extreme amount of value to your market, you should have engaged them and answered and asked questions, created buzz and excitement to buy your product or services and also collected a list of hot buyers on an early bird list.
Product Launch Frenzy, The Opening of Your Cart
Now moving along on your product launch checklist, the next phase is when you finally launch your product or service and open the cart to start taking sales. Here is where all the technical work you did will pay off if done right. You do not want to have servers crash on you or your sales systems not set up right because this is when your prospects are most rabid to buy and any flaw in the system that causes them to not be able to complete the transaction could seriously damage your initial sales.
Make sure you engage your audience later in the day after you open the cart and let them know how things are going. At this point they're in this with you. They've followed along your prelaunch and they're now with you on a journey where you are now linked together through a buyer seller relationship and they need to know that they've made a good decision or that so many people have already made a great decision.
This is where you can use social triggers to elicit further action for those who were on the fence to buy, but see so many others have. Also, if you have a limited number of spaces available for people to buy, scarcity may cause them to move forward and buy.
Cart Close and Turning on the Mental Trigger Amplifier
Now you've moved through your launch phase, continuing giving out content, letting your prospects know what those who have bought are saying and really working with the mental triggers to engage your prospects. It's now time to close the cart and this is where your big push will happen and get another spike in sales. If you haven't already ran out of spots available for your service or product, the time factor will come into play here and scarcity again will push those on the fence over to buy. You want to recap on answering all objections, instill a need for reciprocity by getting as personal as you can on your communications mediums such as your blog and social media platforms to show that you do truly care and want to answer questions. Do these things with the greatest intentions; do not be evil in your execution of these strategies.
Post-Launch Stick Strategies & System Improvement
During your post launch you have a lot of work to do still. You will want to find out why people bought and why people didn't buy. Your engagement with your market isn't over quite yet. This is important as you can address any further objections people had as well as really capitalize on why people did buy. You want to use this to reassure those who bought made a good choice. You also want to address any concerns or issues anybody had who asked for a refund.
At this point you want to set up your stick strategies to keep those who have bought engaged, interested and hungry to keep your product or service past the guarantee period. This isn't to be devious in any way and should not be used so, but it is imperative that you leave some highly valuable parts of the equation to be delivered upon until after you deliver your initial services or products. You want your new customers to have a great experience and to get the most out of your products and services right away and not just toss them to the side or not use them.
If you follow these phases in the above product launch example, your product launch will have a higher degree of success rate than if you did not conduct proper product launch planning. Make sure to break down each of the 5 phases and plan for each but make sure to leave some flexibility as you will always encounter needed changes that you must adapt to quickly during a launch.

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I want to write down some quick points while my memory is fresh. I will try to add more later, also I will possibly run another demo Sunday.
First I should say that I feel I did not have enough time to prepare for the demo 100%. This was not for lack of trying, just time constraints. I read through the entire rulebook up to the Equipment chapter, and then went back over key points to set it in memory. Then I read the demo adventure cover to cover. About this time I briefly read through the equipment section. After that I began reading parts of the Tome of Adventure, but in all honesty I left it mostly unread. At this point I reread the adventure and took down copious notes for myself. All throughout this time I rolled sample dice pools, made sample characters, ran through brief encounters (either by myself or with a friend), and played with the play peices, cards, and dice to familiarize myself with them.
I should also say that from the outset I looked through every bit of the game paraphinelia to make sure I had everything before getting into it all. At this point I actually spoke with Scott Clifton and helped him find two typos on the back of the box cover (the set includes 152 action cards not 154, and there are 5 party sheets not 4). After all this it would seem as though I should have had enough time, but I would have preferred to reread the entire Rulebook and at least sped through the Tome of Adventure. I did manage to squeeze in some time to learn how wizards cast their spells, but the rest of that book plus the entire book for priests went completely unread. I also wished I had more time to read through each of the different type of Talent and Action cards as well, mostly I left this to my players (did drop the ball here, I should have found more time that).
- Again most of my above complaint is about time not quality (I wish I had gotten the game earlier).
- everybody seemed to enjoy the new dice and dice pool system to some degree or another, basically I had a one person who was really excited about it, another that enjoyed it, and the others had no complaints. Everybody seemed to understand the dice pool system quickly (within two to three rolls). Personally I love it. After gaming for nearly 25 years it is a breath of fresh air. Especially since I rail against the ubiquitous and seemingly all powerful d20.
- we all enjoyed the flexibility and uniqueness the Action, Talent, and Career cards brought to the game. Again this is another innovation that helps put the game a step ahead of most others.
- besides playing in the demo a few of my players have made new characters using 3rd edition (although we stuck with the premade PCs for the demo) and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Choosing which Action and Talent cards to take was an agonizingly pleasurable time for them...Arrowstorm or Accurate Shot?!?!? It was fun. Making characters has always been half the enjoyment for me and 3rd edition delivers!
I'll now throw in a few Cons, but I will try to be fair and realistic
- the books and the cards are mostly well written and easy to understand but I did find a few gaps in the rules, however I was able to determine the answers to most of my issues in fairly short order, either through talking with my gaming friends and players or using the WFRP forums. There are some lingering issues but nothing that held up the demo and I'm sure I'll be able to resolve them with a more studious reading of the rulebook and Action cards or with help from other forumites. These rules questions crop up in every new game so this type of thing is of no consequence really and although they can be annoying basically it just makes the GM have to make some judgment calls, which is his job anyway.
- all the "stuff" that goes along with the game can become...cumbersome during play, but at the same time these very same tools make the game quick to play while offering each player unique and interesting things their characters can do. This might makes the game unattractive to certain gamers who like their RPG's rules-lite, but really (and I know I've stated this before) from what I've seen and experienced from other games WFRP 3rd Edition offers unparalelled diversity in both character creation and game play. This comes at a price maybe, but I'll pay it.
- that goes for the cost too, I'd pay for it at full price, $100. Although I'd probably go the Amazon route to be honest. I hear all these people complaining about the price and I say to myself, "wait, I know you play D&D for which you paid $35 for each rulebook." $100 dollars is expensive no doubt, but so is $105 for D&D 4th edition. The difference is that with FFG you get what you pay for if not more. I have one complaint here and it is very small in my opinion: I wish the game came with enough basic Action cards and character boxes for 4 players. Everything else you get more than makes up for this but I felt I should still point it out.
To sum up: I like the game, it is unique and exciting.
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A team of foodies based in Brussels with an international appetite for everything foodie.
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The swedes themselves are a bit weird when it comes to their food, but that's OK.
We tried surstromming and that was horrendous. But then we also tried fish roe from Kalix and that was stunningly good.
So we didn't want to give up completely and so we came across a low-cost brand in Sweden called Garant, which is not only very tasty, but it also looks pretty nice. We tried some pickled fish and we loved it. I was tempted to buy more of their stuff just because of the design of their labels.
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MHN Government Services and Managed Health Network Overtime Wage Lawsuit
Baron and Budd attorneys Allen Vaught and Roland Tellis, along with their co-counsel at Outten & Golden LLP and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, are currently pursuing a class action lawsuit against MHN Government Services, Inc. (MHNGS) and Managed Health Network, Inc. (MHN) over the misclassification of employees as independent contractors and the failure to pay those employees overtime wages. The case, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that MHNGS and MHN knowingly violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by misclassifying workers as "independent contractors" in order to avoid paying federally mandated overtime wages.
MHN (with its related entity, MHNGS) operates around U.S military bases as a subcontractor to the United States Department of Defense. MHN employs individuals as Military and Family Life Consultants (MFLCs) as part of a service provided for military personnel. Our lawsuit alleges that MHNGS and MHN misclassified MFLCs as independent contractors exempt from overtime pay. We allege that, under federal and state law, the nature of the work MFLCs perform for MHN means that they should be paid for all overtime hours worked (hours over 40 each week under federal law). In addition, the lawsuit alleges that MHN should pay all MFLCs double the overtime pay they are owed, to include "liquidated damages" under the law.
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Axl Rose on That Metal Show Tonight – Explaining Guns N' Roses Lateness
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Axl plays a little blame game, as he blames the band's notoriously late concert start times on various daily mistakes, and also says their reputation for such behavior developed twenty years ago, partially as a result of problems with former guitarist Slash. Really?


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For those of you who knit, I need some recommendations on how to get started. I bought some yarn and size 8 needles and I've watched a couple of how to videos online. I think I've successfuly figured out how to cast on using the long tail method. And I'm trying to learn the continental knit stitch. I was wondering if you knitters think the continental stitch is the way to go? It seems awkward to me and I'm having trouble picking it up. Is the English method better? Also, is there a certain website or book that seems to be the best regarding learning to stitch? Any advice on getting started would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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There is actually a Knitting and Crocheting forum here. Someone should be able to help you there :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Knitting and Crocheting
Oh, thanks. I didn't even know about that forum. I'll head over there. |
- Posted by aleksandraa (My Page) on Wed, Oct 31, 07 at 22:34
Here's a great site http://www.knittinghelp.com/ Have fun! |
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Breakfast Topic: I threw that away, d'oh {WoW}
Mar 31st 2010 8:40AM My husband still mourns the children's week pets he sacrificed for bag space.
Choose My Adventure: Who, when and where {WoW}
Mar 29th 2010 2:07PM I love being a Shammie healer. I'm not one to try for all the most critcal thing. like spellpower and getting the best gear. That's a whim for me. but I'm all about the Shammie healing. It's the bomb.
Breakfast Topic: Preparing for the storm {WoW}
Mar 27th 2010 9:03AM I've reserved a couple names and actually trying to level some alts so I have whatever skills I want available to me at that time. For my Goblins I will either have Shananigans(slight spelling modification) my Rouge or TahDa a mage. Then I have Domino for a Worgen Warrior, or as of yet an unnamed Druid or a hunter which I've already been leveling but might re-roll (Shotzee)
Can't wait to have the new guild system though. I'm really into guild loyalty.
Choose My Adventure returns {WoW}
Mar 27th 2010 8:44AM This seems alot of fun. Almost like project lore with a twist. Maybe some game came for a cute little, "Last week on Choose My Adventure". Also maybe some rp writing style with side comments on playing the class through the leveling process.
Breakfast topic: Your favourite patch 3.3.3 change? {WoW}
Mar 24th 2010 8:26AM I have my 2 new (once engineer only) pets. PET LOVERS REJOICE!!!! Now if only we were allowed to get a Driver's licence after training for some sort of secondary skill to ride those Engineer only mounts. LOL
Breakfast topic: Stat and system changes for Basic Campfire {WoW}
Mar 13th 2010 10:26AM not so much as I miss this feature but one I wish it would add. The Basic Campfire should have a buff to enemies. Beasts would within range would would move a certain distance away and humanoids would be drawn to it. So if you put a campfire need Quillboars don't be surprised if you were then attracted by those investigating. But I guess that would be a little too much programming.
Will WoW ever have a 'DPS to heal' model? {WoW}
Mar 11th 2010 12:33PM Monks. cross between Rouge and Priest. Able to wear Leather and use fist weopons, thrown wepons and blunt weapons (maces and staves) and others. Uses more of a rage then a mana for healing, will call it Qi. (not a good name I'll admit but I need something there). But the DPS would gain Qi. To balance that only the dps he gives less the dps he recieves would be gained Qi to help him to heal those of his party. Most heals would be group blasts only while heals to a single target would be HoT. Both would be a mixture of channeled and instant spell.
Attacking a target would be melee mostly with only certian attacks which would be like a charge. These 'jump kicks' for example would have CD's but can be used when in battle. You just have to be far enough away from target to use.
Breakfast Topic: Loremaster for a day {WoW}
Mar 7th 2010 4:18PM I was going off the history from wiki really about what the Nightelves themselves believe about being the first awaken race and coming from the forest to the shores following the Goddess Elune. That's always been to me a sign that they turned their back on a culture they didn't want to talk about anymore and became who they are now.
Breakfast Topic: Loremaster for a day {WoW}
Mar 7th 2010 9:07AM I've always believed that the night/blood elves were evolved trolls. So I'd like to see a story/retcon showing the point in history where the trolls splintered off. The old Gods and Elemental being involved and the moonwell changing the Trolls to the nightelves they are. Also a side note that lead to the cannibalism that many of the Trolls empires are famous for now. I can imagine what a power boost it would be to eat a nightelf -snicker-.
The Queue: An unrelated Q {WoW}
Feb 25th 2010 11:18AM When it comes to why worgens/goblins are deathknights? Why wouldn't they be. There's are worgens in Silverpine Forest now. There are Goblins from Bootybay, Ratchet Wintersprings. These may not be their locations of Birth. A worgen tired of the way Gilneas sneaks out on day and becomes one of the many in Silverpine or tries to live a hermit life with his curse only to be found during a Lich King Battle.
Plus I think the time lines are being misjudged. If you're only 55 the Lich King isn't dead for you yet is he? Otherwise how can more deathknights come to be. How can Northrend be in danger?


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Yesterday, Afrojack revealed the title of his debut album, Forget The World, which is set to drop on May 19. The interesting part of this news was the fact he also mentioned that the cover art would be revealed via Snapchat, making him the first artist to do so. While we thought this would be a simple throwaway Snapchat of a .jpeg file, this turned into something bigger.
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I've been wondering if this is possible. Right now I have an .ogg file(about 5mb) that plays when the player gets into a fight. The first time it plays during the session, it freezes the game for about 2-3 seconds, then the rest of the time it it plays instantly. I close dreamseeker and run the game again, and it has to go through the same procedure of loading the .ogg the first time, and not having to the rest of the time.
What I want is for the player to only have to run the .ogg the first time they open the game, then from there on, it plays instantly.
I don't understand how it has to reload every session? I'm guessing it's loading as a temporary resource and gets removed when the session is closed?


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Blizzard on 2200 rating PvP weapon availability {WoW}
Jan 27th 2011 1:03AM That's a great idea. Let's also make a rule that no gear not earned with honor can be used in Battlegrounds or Arena. After all what's good for the Goose is good for the Gander.
Patch 4.0.6: Bloodlust's arena nerf {WoW}
Jan 7th 2011 2:06AM Enhance is awesome at the moment because you essentially have a free purge in a world where there is no dispel protection, and three of the healers rely on enchantments to actually, you know, HEAL. Your wolves currently heal for more than most Priests do in an entire arena match. Your CC is instant and undispelable by most comps, not to mention on a ludicrously short cooldown considering the length of it.
Resto gained all the advantages of a defensive dispel in Cataclysm, gained healing power, and has the only effective dispel protection right now in Earth Shield. Not only can they defensively dispel, between Grounding, Tremor Totem and Wind Shear a good one can effectively render his entire team invulnerable to CC for the entire game.
Elemental is crap, and could use some help. Maybe it will get it now that Bloodlust is going away.
Frankly you should be damn grateful that you didn't eat more nerfs already. You WILL get them in the future, but Blizz has other things on their minds right now. People tend to complain more about overwhelming damage than an effective immunity to CC, but your time will come.
I played a resto shaman in S7 and S8. We were good, now we are amazing, and it's gonna get nerfed. It's just a matter of time.
Patch 4.0.6: Bloodlust's arena nerf {WoW}
Jan 7th 2011 12:13AM This is pretty much crap.
It doesn't hurt Shamans in the slightest, as they are already in a great place and will have to be nerfed again anyway. What it actually does is screw Hunters who are already struggling in Arena.
This entire expansion could be called "Great in Theory, Cataclysmic in Practice". At least as far as PVP is concerned. They constantly miss the mark, and end up shooting random passersby.
Gala-Net enters agreement to publish Prius in North America {Massively}
Aug 18th 2010 1:39AM Yeah because the failure of Allods is the failure of Rappelz, Flyff, and Aika. Oh wait... those are actually good games!
You are either a paid troll, or a entitled crybaby. I doubt you are getting paid.
China's Ministry of Culture to introduce stricter gaming regulations {Massively}
Jun 25th 2010 12:07AM What they are doing is pretty standard Chinese stuff. Closing the market to outsiders, and keeping it closed. Chinese produced games will continue to feature exactly what they ban, and be ignored until they offend somebody in the Ministry. At which point the game will be shut down.
It's just the way business is done there, and really no different than having to have a license to cut hair here in the U.S.A. It's a move by a lobby to gain influence within a market.
E3 2010: Perfect World Entertainment introduces Swordsman Online {Massively}
Jun 18th 2010 12:16AM I'll play this because Swordsman II was one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. Jet Li and Bridget Lin at their best. If they can keep it true to that vision and the novels of Louis Cha I'll pay for it.
What I'd love to see now is somebody get a Pili puppet drama mmo going. Somebody in Taiwan needs to step up to the plate on that.
Faxion Online announced, promises a divine struggle {Massively}
May 27th 2010 12:46AM That is a well thought out reply.
The only point I will take with it is "it's an easy way to ensure balance of power by limiting how many players from each faction can play in a given area."
The factions in these systems tend to be unbalanced. In this particular game I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the Hell side is overpopulated. If a game is PVP oriented and the best rewards are to be had by sieges or whatever, you can limit the number of people from one faction, but you can't magically create members of the other. As members of the weaker faction tire of being squashed and transfer to the other faction or servers where their faction is dominant, the developers have to come up with more solutions to balance that out, effectively adding development time in another position.
If factions must be had, I personally like there to be 3 factions. However, WOW has two factions and who can blame developers from sticking to a tried and true formula, even if it's stale?
Thanks for the reply.
Faxion Online announced, promises a divine struggle {Massively}
May 26th 2010 12:20AM I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Dueling factions are a bad idea for a PVP game. They stifle the real reasons that people fight, and substitute artificial racism. Not to mention that it's old, boring, and smells of wow cloning.
Give people real reasons to fight and you get wars. Give them artificial reasons and you get ganking.
TERA's Patrick Wyatt talks security, RMT {Massively}
May 4th 2010 1:05AM You don't even realize that as someone completely intolerant of RMT you are just as much a part of the problem as the people buying the gold. Your intolerance is what keeps companies from taking reasonable steps to combat the problem, like using Eve's Plex system.
If you legalize the market, you can do something to control the market, and suddenly there is no profit in hacking accounts, phishing, or spamming. The sellers then dry up.
Pretending that a grind in a game is somehow more noble than a grind you already have to do in life is the height of self delusion.
TERA's Patrick Wyatt talks security, RMT {Massively}
May 3rd 2010 12:18PM It's nice to see that they are taking a realistic approach to the gold selling problem. I've gotten really tired of my games feeling like a police state.


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That's Shrek, of course, who, in his third big-screen adventure, found himself thrust into the position of leading the kingdom, a position he was none too happy with, by the way. That sent Shrek and his pals Donkey and Puss in Boots off on a hunt for Artie i.e., the future King Arthur, whose voice probably sounded pretty familiar ... because it was the voice of the ever-so-yummy Justin Timberlake. Shrek's third movie hits DVD this week, with the movie and a slew of bonus goodies, including Artie's yearbook, a guide to parenthood (from new papa Shrek!), "lost" scenes, bloopers, a how-to-dance video from Donkey, a feature that lets you make your own video, a crystal ball feature, and lots of Shrek-themed games to play in between your many repeat viewings of one of the most fun flicks of the year!
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Call for papers Historical Lab 5 "Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art Nouveau architecture" in Rīga – 5 September 2014
In the framework of the project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the programme Culture 2007-2013 of the European Commission, the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, organises a one-day symposium on 5 September 2014 on "Consistency of inner and outer spaces in European Art Nouveau architecture" in Rīga.
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Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 1 in Ljubljana – from 20 January to 19 April 2015
Travelling exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau 2 in Aveiro – from 1 December 2014 to 27 February 2015
Exhibition Hans Christiansen - The retrospective in Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt – from 12 October to 1 February 2015
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I have to say I'm loving Demi Lovato right now. She's the former Disney princess who starred in Camp Rock and Sonny With a Chance, ended up going out on tour (because pretty much all Disney princesses and princes at some point end up going out on tour), got into a well publicized scuffle with one of her dancers on the tour who she ended up punching, and then was shipped off to a hospital to deal with her issues, the least of which were anorexia and bulimia.
I figured that was the end of Little Miss Demi Lovato, but surprisingly she's come back from the brink better than ever and seemingly much more wise. She has a new album out that has one of my favorite songs of the moment on it, Skyscraper, and she's making the media rounds actually owning up to the issues she's had in the past and trying to share the lessons to maybe help other kids who are facing some of the same problems.
Hopefully it's not all just an act.
Well in her excitement for being alive, Demi is weighing her options for the future and one of those options may just be to record a country album.
I like to experiment with my music. Someday, I joke around, but I'm actually pretty serious about coming out with a country album. I want to do everything. I love music & I love all types of music, and I love where this album went.
I would ho and hum about the news like I normally do, but I actually think Demi should give it a whirl. Experiment, have fun, and all that jazz. I'm sure she'd record the sort of album country purists would hate with a passion, but you know, bah humbug.


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Makes 6 servings
active time
20 min
total time
1 1/4 hr
- 4 cups water
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup coarse stone-ground white grits*
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Bring water, salt, and 1 tablespoon butter to a boil in a 3- to 4-quart heavy saucepan, then add grits gradually, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Reduce heat and cook at a bare simmer, covered, stirring frequently, until water is absorbed and grits are thickened, about 15 minutes.
Stir in 1/2 cup milk and simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally to keep grits from sticking to bottom of pan, 10 minutes. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup milk and simmer, partially covered, stirring occasionally, until liquid is absorbed and grits are thick and tender, about 35 minutes more. (Grits will have a soft, mashed-potato-like consistency.)
Stir in pepper and remaining tablespoon butter.
*Available from John Martin Taylor (800-828-4412; www.hoppinjohns.com).
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- Calories83
- Carbohydrates7 g (2%)
- Fat5 g (8%)
- Protein2 g (4%)
- Saturated Fat3 g (16%)
- Sodium316 mg (13%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber0 g (1%)
- Monounsaturated Fat1 g
- Cholesterol14 mg (5%)
recipe at a glance
main ingredients: Cornmeal, Milk/Cream
cuisine: Southern/Soul Food
dietary considerations: Vegetarian


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Wash clothes in warm or cold water and you will use 80-85% less energy compared to using hot water. Only use hot water if you are washing out oily dirt or stains.
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