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OK ok so I figres since I missed the spring swap I would start this post 2 months early. Remember you can always trade early.
So I have Plenty of Basjoo's so anyone who got one from me last year that didn't make it through the winter be sure and speak up. I also have Musa Velutina Pink and Purple. I have Chinese yellow banana, Saba, Orinoco, Ornata, along with plenty of different types of colocasia (elephant ears). I am always looking for tropical plants so feel free to make an offer. |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by rootdiggernc Z-7A NC (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 08 at 16:09
Hey Chris, my Velutina (pink) didn't make it from last year, but not sure what I'll have to offer just yet. I've tried to behave this year with the drought. Is your Orinico the dwarf type? I've read that they do really well. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 08 at 20:15
Rootdigger, great to hear from you again. I wasn't offering Velutina's last year but would be more than happy to trade you one this year. My Orinico's are the full size variety, last year the pop was 13' tall and should be alot taller this year as I stored it in my crawl space over the winter. It has 2 pups currently so find something tropical to trade and your on. I also like hybrid daylilies. |
- Posted by rootdiggernc Z-7A NC (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 08 at 21:58
Thanks Chris Once we find something you'd like of mine I'd love both the Velutina and the Orinico. I do have a rooted cutting of Mars Rose brug if you're interested. I'll look tomorrow and see what 'named' daylilies I have. What kind of elephant ears do you have? I know I have some of the Remusatia vivipara or hitchhiker (they're finally coming up). They're hardy but really struggle some years coming back. They might do better in your area and you can grow new ones from the little hooked bulbils they produce. I also have some Xanthosoma jacquinii lineatum but they still haven't come up. Gorgeous EE's but I winter that one in a pot in the greenhouse or under the house. |
- Posted by tophersmith (My Page) on Tue, Jun 17, 08 at 22:39
Rootdigger What I would really like is Xanthosoma Lindenii Magnificum, Xanthosoma Atrovirens Albo Marginata Monstrom as far as Xanthosoma go. |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Wed, Jun 18, 08 at 15:46
Chris - does your M. veluntina ever fruit? I really want to grow some from seed. I need very little in trade but have tons of stuff to find homes for - Tibouchina (big leaved form and the normal); Pondranea (pink flowered trumpet vine, hardy for me in Garner, also called Port St John's Creeper). |
Hey, John- can i get a tibouchina or 2 for the fair plot? They should be blooming by then. |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Thu, Jun 19, 08 at 13:43
Tammy - I've got plenty of the normal leaved one. They may not be full sized but they should be blooming. I've got a few of the T. grandifolia but they bloom earlier and only bloom once. |
Great, John- I like the regular one better for flowers anyhow. I don't care how big they are as long as they bloom come fair time. That purple sizzles! |
- Posted by tophersmith (My Page) on Fri, Jun 20, 08 at 10:48
John, I already have Tibouchina, but if my Velutina gets fruit you are more then welcome to some seeds (it's flowering right now). Just keep me in mind for future considerations. |
Topher - I have some Mickey Mouse EE pups / Xanthosoma Atrovirens Albo Marginata Monstrosum (I LOVE these guys) that should be ready for the swap - I'll put your name on some. If you'd rather have it before the swap, just know the pups aren't huge yet. I though I had lost the Basjoo I got from you, but two sprang up in it's place! I am always open to more Mexican Petunia. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Wed, Jun 25, 08 at 15:25
magick, You sohuld swing by as I would very much like to see the size of your Xanthosoma Atrovirens Albo Marginata Monstrosum. Perhaps there is a different type of Banana I could trade with you. I'll be around this Sunday, feel free to call me during the day 473 0115 or night 854 2666 to set up a time. |
Sunday works for me. I'll bring the parent plant as well so you can see what it looks like. |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (email@example.com) on Fri, Jun 27, 08 at 12:54
Hi Chris, The patio peaches you gave me are thriving! Thanks! I too, would like to have a couple of bananas. I have basjoo and orinoco. So maybe some of the others. I have tons of Hybrid daylilies. Is there anything you're especially interested in or a certain color? If you don't have 'Alna Pride', that's one you really should have. She's gorgeous and increases like crazy. Tall scapes and heavy branching and buds. John, what else you need a home for? magick, I would love a Xanthosoma Atrovirens Albo Marginata Monstrosum. I have mexican petunias. mine are just beginning to bloom. I'm also going to have a ton of stuff that I'm going to have to thin. Especially my daylilies. I'll try to list them for trades this weekend. Thanks, Vickie |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 28, 08 at 21:13
Vickie, I do have 'Alna Pride' already, but would definately like to see what else you have (looking forward to seeing the list). Regarding other Bananas do you gave Veluntina or Lasiocarpa? |
Vickie - I have one tiny one left - it grew up from some roots that were left behind. I'll warn you it's TINY - but too cute for words, and I'm sure it will grow some before the swap. I'll put your name on it and update you as to the size status closer to the swap. |
- Posted by rootdiggernc Z-7A NC (My Page) on Mon, Jun 30, 08 at 8:22
Chris, I emailed you a list and I checked those daylilies I have 'Jumping Jehoshaphat' and 'Siloam Amazing Grace'..... the others I either can't read the tags or they are gone. A couple of them are hybrids that another gardenwebber crossed themselves. Another no name is a pale yellow with a burgundy eye. I don't do a lot of daylilies, but the ones I have were from people that collect them. I also have some pots of tuberoses that are growing gangbusters and some Princess Lilies. The PL's have wintered in a pot outside with no protection, so I know they are winter hardy. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Mon, Jun 30, 08 at 13:55
Rootdigger, I never received your emails I really like hybrids, spiders and doubles. The ones you mention 'Jumping Jehoshaphat' and 'Siloam Amazing Grace' I already have a similar one. What type of Princess lily do you have, I have 2 types but am always looking for more. my email is email@example.com |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (email@example.com) on Tue, Jul 22, 08 at 17:41
magick, sounds good. little will grow. especially if I put it in the greenhouse. :-) Thanks! Chris, Later, |
- Posted by laineyplantgrower 8- Charlotte, NC (My Page) on Thu, Jul 24, 08 at 17:05
Hi all! Are there any rumors of the date of the fall Raleigh swap yet? I'm planning a swap in Charlotte for September and would hate to miss the Raleigh swap if they're on the same day! Is it usually in October? Thanks! -Elaine |
usually mid to late september, Lainy. |
- Posted by brenda_near_eno Z7a (My Page) on Thu, Aug 14, 08 at 7:05
Swap....swap....swap....swap....Swap....swap....swap....swap....Swap....swap....swap....swap....Swap....swap....swap....swap....SWAP! Date.....date....date....date.....date.....date? |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Fri, Aug 15, 08 at 14:41
Have you ever thought you had done something and then realized that you hadn't?? oops. Guess I need to post all the info about the swap, huh! |
and we REEEEALLY need to get brenda some help..... LOL |
- Posted by brenda_near_eno Z7a (My Page) on Sat, Aug 23, 08 at 6:54
Yep, I need some help. And I'm willing to trade a Rehmannia elata seedling for therapy. This plant is just the cutest sinnigia-like blossom, and reseeds all over in dappled shade, thru dry spells. You want it. I'm rooting up some Fchsia 'Sanihanf' and Salvia 'Maraschino.' What else? I have agastache 'Honeybee Blue', Prunus mume seedlings, and lots of different tiarella seedlings. The Tiarella are crosses between 'Iron Cross' (originally from Reba) and native - I get pretty color combos and leaf shapes, and all look great thru shade and dry clay. (I have baked some to death, but it isn't easy.) |
Brenda, I have some therapy I'm not using and would love to trade for Rehmannia elata. Always in the market for your tiarella seedlings too. |
Brenda, can I bargain for one of those Rehmannia seedlings? I have several hardy red amaryllis, some canna Stuttgart, hardy tapioca, white Texas hibiscus, jewel of opar, and white calla. Surely you need ONE of those! ;-) Sally |
I am looking for some echinacea, any color is fine, and some gaillardia as well. I also have an area that has become increasingly shady as some trees have gotten bigger, so some part-sun to shade plants would be great. As noted above, I have several hardy red amaryllis, some canna Stuttgart, hardy tapioca, white Texas hibiscus, jewel of opar, and white calla. Sally |
Sally, I've been looking for white Texas hibiscus. I probably have some Echinacea purpurea seedlings I can dig up, or I can find something in the shady parts of the garden you might like. I haven't had much time to think about the swap yet, but will go see what's out there next weekend. |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (email@example.com) on Mon, Aug 25, 08 at 17:37
I'm updating my swap list and my want list this evening. I dug out an entire bed and where I thought I might have a few hundred bulbs, I have thousands. However, my daughter's boyfriend was so kind to dig it out for me. Therefore, I have a wheelbarrow load of bulbs, and 3 - 5 gal buckets full. I know what they all are and will try to separate them, but it's bulb time with no cultivar names. I know which are daffodils (mixed cultivars), which are lycoris (all the lycoris are th radiata), I have tons of muscari (all americana - the plain purple), crocus (mixed cultivars), lilies (mixed orientals and asiatics), daylilies (mixed hybrid cultivars - no ditch lilies), etc. So, depending on if Rootdigger wants to ride with me or not, (maybe we can tone down some on the getting and split the gas costs, we can get there - root, maybe we can take Terry's truck, not as comfortable as the car, but easier on gas and more room in the back for plants - email me). topher, I'll still have some named daylilies for you. Do you have Lee Pickles? Mister Lucky? God is Listening? Laura Harwood? More to list later. |
Sally, I'll try to get one of my Gaillardia 'Goblin' babies up for you. They don't always make it but the plant is in an awkward place and I keep digging the new ones out(and they keep growing back,lol) |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Mon, Aug 25, 08 at 22:41
Vickie, Lee Pickles, I am not sure I have one that's close, I do have the rest. Lycoris radiata now your talking what type of growing conditions do you find work best for them? Count me in for some. I also love Orientals and Asiatics any idea what types you have. Hey John do you know when the Arboretum plant giveaway is this year? |
- Posted by brenda_near_eno Z7a (My Page) on Tue, Aug 26, 08 at 6:53
Sally and Karen, I have you down for Chinese Foxglove, and also Tiarella for Karen. I'd love some white Texas hibiscus, Sally. Vicki, anything you'd like to trade for either some lycoris or muscari? |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Tue, Aug 26, 08 at 11:56
topher - I don't think the Arb has had their big giveaway the last two years due to the drought. I could be wrong and just missed it but I remember someone saying something about not being able to propagate too much stuff because last summer they were on strict water restrictions (they are not legally considered a nursery so they had to use only handwatering and with limited volunteers it just didn't get done. I sure wish they would bring it back, it was the highlight of my summer. I'll ask around and see what I turn up. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Tue, Aug 26, 08 at 12:15
John, I met you there last fall remember? I came away with 7 plants. |
John and Topher, the JCRA plant giveaway this year is scheduled for Oct 11th. Last year it was the same day as our plant swap if I am not mistaken. Since the propagated plants are in pots and many are kept in the greenhouses, I believe that they are allowed to water them as needed. |
- Posted by dtpforu 7a NC (email@example.com) on Tue, Aug 26, 08 at 19:09
Well, boys, what are you going to come home with? Better yet, call me while you're there and I'll tell you what to pick up for me. Hahahahahahahaha I'm not even sure I'm going to be able to get there yet, but Brenda, I'll have some lycoris and muscari for you - Chris, I'll have some lycoris, lee pickles and some lilies for you. Sorry, don't know what they are since Jenn's boyfriend dug them up for me and didn't keep the bulbs with the labels. |
ralph how did the various grases do for you this year ? your e e did great i purchased some new ones from plants delight this year some have put out pups colocasia snsulenta diamond head also purchased new varities of yucca ont that is really nice is red yucca have some pups if you intrested have a soap aloe from africa about 15 to 18 inches tall does well down here on the island very tropical zone 8 also puts out pupa have an extra wahles tonuge have some exrta yucca recurvifolia soft not sharp also some small sego palms and a new agave opal pup century plant plus some new grases and day lilies hope to get to johns swap let me know if any thing intrest you and what you have to swap |
Hightider, the grasses are doing great and withstood last year's drought better than most things. It sounds like you have picked up some interesting stuff since the last swap that we attended together. I have been concentrating on propagating just a few things this year including fig trees (Celeste and Brown Turkey). I have a lot of rooted large flowered bi-colored Portulaca which can be wintered over with protection from freezing and a new multi-colored Tradescantia which makes a good, spreading ground cover. I have multiples of a hardy perennial Impatiens arguta, but I am not impressed with its flowers. I also have several kinds of Salvia which might tolerate your salty environment better than most. I will look around at what I have and email you further. |
Brenda and Karen W, I have your white hibiscus put aside. Shari, thanks, I would love the Gaillardia! What can I bring for you? I am also looking for Gaura, more Mexican Petunia and some blood grass or other short grass that turns orange/red or bronze. In addition to my 'haves' from an earlier post, I also have daylily Inniswood and also daylily Point of View, and canna Intrigue. Sally |
Sally, I would love a start of Canna 'Intrigue'. I'll try to get more than one Gaillardia for you to make the trade more even. |
Sally, I should be able to get you some blood grass. I'll know for sure when I get out there this weekend. |
Sally, I may have some Mexican Petunia in pots that you can have. I know that there are several "sprouts around the ones in the ground. How many would you like? I may still have the pink flowered ('Chi-Chi') as well as 'Purple Showers', if you are interested. |
Shari, sounds good. Ralph, I would love some pink, too. I need a good sized chunk for one area I have in mind in my garden. What can I bring for you? Sally |
vickie, I would love some of your bulbs, especially the lycoris. My trade list hasn't been updated but most everything should be the same. I also have rainbow pineapple for anyone interested. Tanya |
Tanya- i'd love one of your pups. What can i get for you in return? |
Tammy, did I see somewhere that you are growing stevia? If so, is it the variety used as a sweetener? I don't see it on your trade list, so maybe I'm confused. I'd love some of that or solidago 'fireworks'. I'll pull out my leather gloves and bring you a rainbow pineapple pup. |
I'd be happy to bring you some of both. I have stevia seeds from last fall and a big plant i can most likely divide. Yes, it's the kind used as sweetener. I always have lots of the fireworks so getting some of it is no issue at all. :) My fault- i haven't updated my trade list for this fall yet. However anything that's on that bottom section i pretty much always have extras of to dig. |
topher, which Colocasias do you have to trade? I was wondering if I may have a daylily to trade you for an EE. You mentioned you like spiders and doubles- do you have a preferred color? Shari |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Tue, Sep 2, 08 at 13:49
Shari, Where do you live? As I would prefer you swing by and see what I have available. Some of them I get confused on as I pay more attention to my bananas. Do you have pics of your daylily's? |
Chris- I live in Johnston County and I doubt I would be able to visit you before the swap. I would be happy with any of the colocasias with dark stems but especially the Fontanesii or black stem one. I've put a link to my photobucket page here. There are many albums with pics of the daylilies but I would only be able to trade a few of them since I've only had most of them a year. |
Here is a link that might be useful: daylily pics
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Wed, Sep 3, 08 at 15:54
TriangleJohn, I know have your pink Veluntina seeds, I will have enough for anyone else as well, just speak up. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Wed, Sep 3, 08 at 16:01
Shari, I may be able to dig up some maroon stem or back magic for some Helix, just let me know which ones you would like. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Wed, Sep 3, 08 at 17:04
Shari, ok both for Let it Rip and Helix |
Chris, the maroon stem for Let it Rip will be fine. I have plenty of Black Magic. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Thu, Sep 4, 08 at 10:33
Shari, Ok what would you like for Helix then? |
Chris, I don't want to trade Helix since it's in the ground and hasn't increased from the double fan that I planted last Fall. It needs time to settle in before I dig it back up. |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Thu, Sep 4, 08 at 13:25
Shari, OK I understand To everyone else I still have Colocasia Black ruffles, Chicago Harlequin and Cranberry stem |
- Posted by ncgardengirl z7 NC (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 12:26
Topher hi again, What would you want in trade for any of those? I don't have everything on my page but if you will get back to me I will see what I can do. Ok, ya'll I am as of now planning on making the trip for this one...YEHHHH... Tammy, hint, hint..lol. :) Fran |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 18:47
Fran, Ok I am getting back to u what else do you have, also what are u looking for? |
- Posted by ncgardengirl 7b 8a NC (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 21:20
Hey again topher, I don't know if you have these or if you'd be interested but I can offer you: Tropical White Canna Colocasia esculenta 'Nancy's Revenge' Colocasia Fontanesii Black Stem That's the only good stuff I have except for baby Mexican Bird of Paradise. They are babies really, and 1 baby Musa Zebrina. That's it. :) Fran |
I have several white to apricot-white potted climbing roses that need more light! These are named varieties (I'll update names on my page when I get home). I also have one more Mickey Mouse EE that I am willing to part with - 2 are already spoken for. I also have plenty of wild ginger. Let me know if anyone is interested. |
- Posted by ncgardengirl 7b 8a NC (My Page) on Mon, Sep 8, 08 at 15:33
I would love a Mickey Mouse EE. I will look at you page and email you with an offer. :) Fran |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Tue, Sep 9, 08 at 12:35
Magick Wild Ginger? Do you have Pics? |
Topher - I can snap a pic tomorrow after work. NCGardenGirl - How about Mickey Mouse EE for Colocasia esculenta 'Nancy's Revenge'? |
- Posted by tophersmith 7b (My Page) on Wed, Sep 10, 08 at 13:40
Does anyone have any Caesalpinia Pride of Barbados they waould like to trade? |
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kpandya Posts: 19thanks for the reply guys,
kydfx - it is copied from the ad that was posted on nissan usa - cpo search results.
thanks shamcy for letting me know :surprise: , I am interested in this car, after looking at the photos. However the dealer is abt 50 miles from me, so I am planning to pay them a visit.
I will update the details of the car if I go visit them.
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edcrewguy Posts: 3I got mine from Smithtown Nissan (that's Long Island, NY) and had a very smooth experience. I leased a 2011 Maxima 3.5 SV with monitor package, spoiler, and cold package in October 2010. I had 5 remaining lease payments on my old Nissan. I put $0 down and payments are $365/month (39 months). Dealer also threw in free oil changes for the first 30,000 miles of the car after I asked for it.
I'm very happy with the deal. -
nychrisinaz Posts: 1Wow! That's a smokin deal. I am from LI and know of Smithtown Nissan but have been in AZ for the past 5 years. I am currently in the market for a 2011 Maxima (coming off lease on a Pathfinder with 4 payments left) and am getting pricing upwards of $500/mo and it's killing me. Was your deal a special the dealership was running? Any advice is greatly appreciated, I am at a loss. If not for the mileage, at that rate I would just fly in, pick it up there and then drive it back!
foldog22 Posts: 1Ok, so this is my first lease and I don't know a lot about them. Here is my deal. I got a 2011 Nissan Maxima Premium w/ Premium Tech package, Rear Spoiler & Floor Mats. MSRP $40,080. I leased this vehicle for 39 months w/ 22,000 miles per year (yes 22,000 miles per year). My monthly payment is $510.00 per month. I did get $1,000 trade in credit. I feel like this is a great deal as I didn't even think about leasing because I didn't realize they offered that high of leases and didn't know that it would be affordable.
skooba83 Posts: 1I was quoted $33,060 + TTL. For a 2011 Maxima SV w/ Premium Package + Tech Package. It's my choice of color, and allows me to use my own financing (2.9% through CU). I'm in FL, and need a new tag on this car, so my OTD price is $35,830. Is this the going rate now? Or should I negotiate for a lower price?
I really don't care if I have the Tech Package or not. I understand it costs more, so if I feel like I'm getting a good price, I'll pay for it. -
waynejs Posts: 5Hey guys,
I just purchased a new 2010 Maxima SV Premium Package in dark slate with rear spoiler, splash guards, floor & trunk mats, and trunk sub floor organizer for $30K + $190 doc fee + TTL with 2.99% APR for 60 months with $7K down. Here is the breakdown:
$34,814 Invoice
$33,000 Sale Price
-$2,500 customer incentive (in lieu of 0% APR for 60 months)
-$500 bonus customer incentive
+$190 doc fee
+$1,660 taxes
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I live in Wisconsin and looked up dealer inventory for 2010 Maximas for dealers around the midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa). I e-mailed about 8 dealers last week and got prices. I was able to negotiate this price based on this thread and prices at cars overstock. It seems like prices aren't as competitive in the Midwest as it is at a place like Northern Virginia, so I feel like I got a fair deal.
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ahashmi Posts: 82I leased my 2011 Nissan Maxima for those looking to compare. I got it end of May 2011, here's the details:
2011 Nissan Maxima SV Sport with Monitor Package
Term: 39 months
Mi/yr: 12,000
Due @ Signing:$2000
Monthly Payments: $300.88
If I had gotten it this month, it would have been $297/mo but oh well -
max_owner Posts: 2if you look around and wait, you'll find great deals out there.. i just purchased the 2011 Nissan Maxima SV with Tech AND Premium packages, including spoiler. $39910 is MSRP and price sold is $30285 plus additional funds on the trade in.
This is a very fun car to drive and glad I purchased up from the Ford Fusion.
I love the extra power, cooling seats and sound system... -
icemaker Posts: 1i agree to wow. i just leased a fully loaded 2011 nissan maxima yesterday. MSRP was 41K and change.
i put 4K down, and my monthly payment is 370/month.
My good friend works at the nissan dealership and gave me this deal. did i get ripped off/did i do something wrong?
3 years ago, i leased a 2009 altima. base model. 22K msrp, with 260/month.
i figured i'm getting twice the value of the car, for only 110 dollars more a month.
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simmer Posts: 10Hi, I started a search for a new ish Maxima at 2009, then decided the carbon fiber looked pretty lame and came over to the SV model with Premium package. From there I moved onto the 2010 because I liked the Crimson Black color, (still not set on color, but today its 2010 or bite the bullet and go 2011 used. I've got a pretty had line at under 30K. The 2010 with Prem + nav are hovering around 27 to 28K asking price. The base 2011's with low miles can be had for close to 27 (28, 29K) so I decided to look at possible 2011's. I think I can be happy with the Technology package with nav, think this gets me in my ball park price wise. Today a dealer presented (in an email) a 2011 with 16K miles on it, Technology package with Nav for 30,852. Were pretty close to each other now. I would "think" that I could get this for 29999 or 30K just not sure I want to even go that high as sales tax will kill me. Massachusetts, Sales tax is going to be $1950.00 I think for 28K I would sign on this one.
Is it unrealistic to think I can get this car for such a good price? I am not in any rush to buy, only started research and driving around to dealers about a month ago. Been a real eye opening experience. Maybe I have to take a 2010 similarly setup with over 30K miles to make my numbers, or save up an extra 2 K to cover the sales tax. Was hoping a dealer would want to sell bad enough he might split the sales tax (offer me an extra 1K off) so I could afford the 2011. What's your take ? (I almost wish I had not seen a new Maxima on my trip up from Florida in July. Those tail lights got me. Now I want one pretty badly, and I don't need a car. Its just I have a 2003 Pathfinder in mint shape, to pull my boat, and I am tried of driving a truck daily. Spoiled I know, but I know what I like. Maxima fits the bill perfectly for me. Its not the 440 a month payment, its really the 2K sales tax that has the brakes on for this deal. -
simmer Posts: 10I dont know manny. I would think a 2011 (NEW zero miles) should be somewhere under 35K. Book on a loaded Max 2011 (and I would guess its loaded eg: premium package) is about 41K. 8500 off of 41K is 32.5K. Dont forget there is a 2500 dealer incentive I think on the 2011's These are really last years models. If you could wait until January, Ill bet you can get an even better price. They need to move the 2011's out to make room for the 2012's
simmer Posts: 10Well I pulled the trigger about two weeks ago. I bought my 2009 Dark Grey SV with Premium (and Tech I think cause of the 9 gig HD) with 38K miles on it for 24K even. Much as I loved the Crimson black, It just narrowed my choices down too much. I was so close to driving 300 miles to find "my color" it just was a risky idea. Turned out where I bought was in NH and only 45 minutes from my mechanic. Got this car on the lift before I purchased, made a low offer (22.5 and stopped at 23.5) dealer was stuck on 24K. I figured I should not lose this car over 500 dollars, so I negotiated on having some things fixed on the car before purchase.
(new battery, pop out a bump in the rear bumper (was not even see until I placed this car on the lift. What I learned from this is I will never buy a car without my mechanic taking it up and looking over it. This gave me some confidence in what the story was on this car and helped me to maintain a pretty low price offer. Was not emtionally attached to this car that I couldnt back out if they didnt meet my demands. Really was maybe 800 dollars of work on thier part--- at least 500. Hated paying thier "Doc Fee!" but really there again , not about to lose a deal over that (399.)
I think it was a fair to good price on this car. It is pristine and everything works. LOVE all the bells and whistles on the Premium package. Bought my first apple product to use the Ipod input. Sold on how this all works. So glad I did not compromise on the NAV as well. Awesome ride! the Dark gray metalic is a sleeper color too. Inconspicious, businessman looking outside but luxurious inside.


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RC, any decent little 7" tablets out there that you have seen on CG with Android 2.3 or better for a steal???
Think I finally got the 10" Flytouch 3 working the way it was supposed to with a hard reset to factory..Still not a whiz with androic like I imagine you are...lol |
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- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Mon, Dec 19, 11 at 15:37
well I just ordered the other day this one which is a refurb but if you go to amazon and some of the other sites with user reviews you will see it has a good over all review. It is an 8" size. It has a 1Ghz processor rather than the 8. Not a dual core but at least more powerful. Plus it has the higher resolution and does a lot of interesting other stuff. Vizio 8-inch LED 4 GB Tablet Computer (Refurbished) w/ free Folio Case |
Looks good, kinda rich for a little toy..lol...should have mentioned, I am in Canada so that creates some problems with online ordering from some of those stores (including Amazon)...Not in any big rush, so maybe I will keep my eyes open and China Grabber may have some good deals soon..Thats where I got the Flytouch..since the reset, its actually doing pretty good..biggest complaint so far with it is the wifi reception distance..not very good...Will have to try hooking up the GPS antenna and see if I can get rid of that Shanghi location..bugs the crap out of me... |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Tue, Dec 20, 11 at 12:28
my sylvania has the Shanghi location but I set it in the settings and after a brief time at the boot up it then switches and gives the correct location and time and weather but it does always start on boot with the original location info. Well I just got a notice that the Vizio is now at Buy.com for $179.99 China Grabber always has a good selection I was going to get one from there but then I saw some info on the vizio and decided to give it a try. Hopefully they will do an update to it in th future to 3.0. I have seen a few that had a mash up with 2.3 and 3.0, interface was 3.0 the rest 2.3. I know from what I have read the launcher for the vizio is not the best so I will probably go with a launcher from the market like launcher pro. |
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Awful packaging. The lead just fell out when I got the thing. it kept sliding out. Imagine how hard that is to use. The lasting power is sub par. The pigmentation is nothing to brag about- I can say that for all three that I tried. The texture can get weird. There are alot of products like this- some cheaper- that are WAY better.
I love this product! I bought this in bulk over the internet since we don't have Cover Girl here in Hong Kong. I don't know how to put on eyeshadow, so a pencil eyeshadow stick is perfect for lazy girls like me! This is a very quick fix, and I'm loving the color!
I bought this shadow in Mink. Actually the color is more golden than to be called Mink. It is a most lovely color. It isn't fine-milled and this bothered me at first, so I put it aside. Then one day I could not find my regular hazlenut eyeshadow that I usually use. I used this over another neutral shadow - and it was so very beautiful in this two-color combination. I am surprised it looked silky given the gritty appearance of the shadow. I have put this over El Copper Penny shadow, and Merfle Norman Tea Rose shadow and l love th effect for my hazel eyes. I guess a shadow is not always known for its texture. This is in a single pan and I took a lippie off for the composition anhd packaging.
This eye pencil is too soft and crumbles away when sharpened, wasting a lot of product. It needs to be in different packaging, perhaps a swivel up type pencil. I love the Olive color, a slightly shimmery neutral green.
I have this in brown smolder. This is a beautiful sexy colour that goes fantastic with blue eyes. Only downer is you have to reapply often. But worth it I think.
I have this in Midnight Metal, a gunmetal gray w/ silver sparkles. In order to apply it easily, I have to dip the stick into water first. The color seems dark in the stick, but it goes on w/ a subtle smokiness highlighted by fine glitter (I'm MAC NC45/NW40). It looks good in the crease of an otherwise nude (looking) lid. Sometimes I even use it to line my eyes as a change of pace from the typical deep black.
It sharpens easily (w/ an oversized sharpener) and lasts long.
I bought this in Midnight Rose (a pretty plummy mauve kind of color), and it is quite flattering to dark brown eyes. The cooling effect is kind of strange, but not unpleasant, and the pencil is easier to use than some of the clumsy eyeshadow pencils I've tried in the past. I'm very pleased with it, and will probably repurchase.
I like these pencils. I find them very easy to blend together, but if you're using a regular powder e/s and trying to blend with these, it doesn't work as well.
I have several shades and people always comment on them when I'm wearing them. The colour is very true. They go on just as bright as they look.
The only thing I don't like is the sharpening factor. Impossible to keep them sharp.
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Ran Lomar wanted only to be left aloneto get away from it all. That's why he volunteered for duty on Pia 2, the most remote, isolated world in the Galazy.
His assignment was simple. The problem on Pia 2 was redwing, a plant used throughout the Galaxy as a medical fixative. Redwing grew only on Pia 2 and lately, less and less was being harvested. Lomar's job was to find out why, and to do something about it.
A simple job. Or so it seemed. Tan Carlo… (mehr)
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9 Creative Cinematic Portrayals of Prehistoric Times
Cinematic Listology By David Christopher Bell on January 10, 2013 | Comments (6)The great thing about prehistory is that you can speculate pretty much any old hogwash about it. Sure – science has given us a reasonably educated guess, but when has science ever stopped us from making shit up? Who's to say that dinosaurs didn't talk, or that mankind wasn't created by a super-species of cat-like beings? That would certainly explain their sense of entitlement. The film industry knows what's up, and has given us some great depictions of pre-life over the years. Some are unique in their beauty and/or accuracy, while others are just downright silly. Both are great, so let's celebrate 9 creative ways to look at the world before we came to be.
Culture Warrior: George Lucas's Problem of Mass Appeal
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on January 31, 2012 | Be the First To CommentA week and a half ago, Anthony Hemingway's Red Tails was released. On the surface, the film breathes Hollywood oxygen through-and-through. It's a WWII era action film that uses its setting for broad family-friendly cheese-banter and CGI-heavy eye candy rather than an opportunity for a sober interrogation of history. Red Tails looks and feels like any Hollywood film geared toward as mass an audience as possible. But the studio that's distributing it – 20th Century Fox – didn't pay a dime to produce it. The reported $58 million cost to make Red Tails came solely out of the pocket of producer George Lucas, who had been attempting to get a film about the Tuskegee Airmen made since the early 1990s. He was continually met with resistance from a studio system that saw anything less than the biggest guaranteed appeal to the largest possible audience as a "risk," including a heroic true story about African-American airmen. The ideology that closed the doors on George Lucas of all people reflects the same business mentality that inspired Jeffrey Katzenberg's lengthy warning to other studios in a memo written during the same years that Lucas was first trying to get Red Tails financed. In the memo, Katzenberg warned studios regarding their practice of exponentially centralizing all their resources in a few very expensive projects, resulting in high risk, little room for experimentation, and an increasing reliance on that coveted monolith known as the "mass audience" (which, to make things even more complicated, now includes […]
Year In Review: The Best Official Movie Posters of 2011
2011 Year In Review By Robin Ruinsky on January 1, 2012 | Comments (1)Movie posters can rise to level of works of art, can be tame or daring. They are of course advertising. A good poster makes you want to know more about the movie and the more you want to know the more you'll want to spend your money to see the film. With that in mind, we've assembled our favorites of 2011, broken down into fancy categories for your reading and viewing pleasure.
Year In Review: 11 Movies You People Wouldn't Shut Up About In 2011
2011 Year In Review By FSR Staff on December 28, 2011 | Comments (4)This started out as a list of overrated movies, but we ("we" being Rob Hunter and Kevin Carr, rabblerousers) decided fairly quickly that "overrated" is an overused and abused term. Who are we, or anyone, to tell you that you like a movie too much? It's a rude thing to say regardless of whether or not we're right. But thanks to the internet sometimes one person's exuberance can find a virtual megaphone in all the tubes and anonymous users online, and that misguided praise can become deafening. And yes, we're just as guilty as the rest of you…especially in regard to our first pick below. To be clear, most of these are not bad movies. The majority of them are actually good. But none of them deserved the near-constant accolades that seemed to echo from one corner of the web to another ad nauseum. So without further ado, pomp, or circumstance, here are 11 12 movies (in alphabetical order) you people wouldn't shut up about in 2011. (**Note, there may be a few minor spoilers below.**)
Year In Review: The Top 11 Trends, Topics, and Debates of 2011
2011 Year In Review By Landon Palmer on December 28, 2011 | Comments (1)Usually I'm quite cynical about end-of-year lists, as they demand a forced encapsulation of an arbitrary block of time that is not yet over into something simplified. I typically find end-of-year lists fun, but rarely useful. But 2011 is different. As Scott Tobias pointed out, while "quiet," this was a surprisingly strong year for interesting and risk-taking films. What's most interesting has been the variety: barely anything has emerged as a leading contender that tops either critics' lists or dominates awards buzz. Quite honestly, at the end of 2010 I struggled to find compelling topics, trends, and events to define the year in cinema. The final days of 2011 brought a quite opposite struggle, for this year's surprising glut of interesting and disparate films spoke to one another in a way that makes it difficult to isolate any of the year's significant works. Arguments in the critical community actually led to insightful points as they addressed essential questions of what it means to be a filmgoer and a cinephile. Mainstream Hollywood machine-work and limited release arthouse fare defied expectations in several directions. New stars arose. Tired Hollywood rituals and ostensibly reliable technologies both met new breaking points. "2011" hangs over this year in cinema, and the interaction between the films – and the events and conversations that surrounded them – makes this year's offerings particular to their time and subject to their context. This is what I took away from this surprising year:
Culture Warrior: 'Melancholia' vs. 'Tree of Life'
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on December 20, 2011 | Comments (2)As the final days of the calendar year wane to a close, efforts are made by anybody with Internet access to summarize and rank 2011's products of popular culture. Two titles that have shown up repeatedly on end-of-year movie lists are Terrence Malick's Tree of Life and Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. While one was a summer release and the other a quite limited fall release, both these films in several ways have occupied conversations about film throughout the year: Malick's film was highly anticipated not only because it was a new entry by a notoriously un-prolific director, but was staged as his magnum opus, and Von Trier's film was anticipated not only because it was a Von Trier film, but was the follow-up to one of the most contentious and challenging films released thus far in this 21st century. In May, both films drew headlines after their Cannes premieres: Tree of Life for getting booed before taking home the top award, and Melancholia because of the utter shock of a career provocateur acting provocatively at a press conference. Having just recently seen Melancholia and in reflecting back on Tree of Life, I noticed that these two films interact as two piercing sides of the same vast coin which make them, perhaps more than any other roundly acclaimed and contentiously fought-over pair of films this year, speak to each other about the worth of human existence in a way that renders them inseparable.
Movie News After Dark: Djimon Hounsou Brings Death, Zod in CG, Robot Boxing and Movie Line Rhymes
Movie News By Neil Miller on August 22, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news column, sure. But at its core, it is a hunter. A hunter of the most interesting film-related tidbits of the day. Can you feel the heat? It's not enough for director Alex Proyas will make Paradise Lost, the story of the break between Heaven and Hell. But he's also bringing Djimon Hounsou as the Angel of Death. If there is one actor that I look at on a consistent basis and think, "that man would bring death to me," it's Hounsou. It sure beats Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, so we'll see how it shakes out.
Terrence Malick and Christian Bale Are Not Done With Each Other Professionally
Movie News By Nathan Adams on August 19, 2011 | Comments (4)Usually when a filmmaker goes on a string of making a bunch of movies it's nothing to bat an eyelash at. Hey, he's a filmmaker, what did you expect? But when that filmmaker happens to be Terrence Malick, then it's a whole other story. Malick is an infamous perfectionist who usually takes at least five years or so between everything he makes. Dude even waited twenty between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line. It's weird that despite the fact his newest film Tree of Life was just in theaters, he already has his next picture in the can. But it's even weirder that before that picture has been put together and given a release date and what not, Twitch has already unearthed some information about the next movie he's making a move on. Once he gets his Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams romance Voyage of Time out of the way, he's said to be starting up a new film, which will star Christian Bale. That Bale is in the film shouldn't come as a surprise, he's worked with Malick before in The New World and he almost took the role Affleck eventually filled in Voyage of Time; but the fact that we look to be getting three Malick movies in two years is a gigantic shock. Who put what in this guy's Wheaties? Does Malick know something that we don't, or did he just blow all his money on a gambling debt or something?
Culture Warrior: Forget the Box Office
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on July 5, 2011 | Comments (3)I'll be the first to admit that the title of this post is a tad hyperbolic. The box office should not necessarily be forgotten, and it does, to an extent, matter. Predicting openings, percentage drops, and analyzing receipts present an interesting way to interact with movies as well as provide one of many ways to attempt an understanding of audiences in terms of evolving trends and patterns, as our own Jeremy Kirk does so astutely twice a week. Waiting until the early afternoon every Sunday to see the weekend's estimations has been part of my weekly Internet routine for as long as I've been a movie nerd. Box office is, simply put, a part of the conversation. But we aren't movie executives. Our investment is the box office is tied only to our social, emotional, and intellectual engagement with the films that sell tickets. The amount of tickets sold to see the product should never be confused with the product itself, and box office has severe limitations and problems in terms of understanding audiences' relationship to a film. My concern with the ways we interact with and form conversations around box-office is not in regard to whether we should have such conversations at all, but the problematic meanings we routinely extrapolate from these numbers. To be frank, unless you work for a movie studio, a movie's worth is never measurable in numbers. I concede that this is an obvious point, but unfortunately the box office continues to disproportionately dominate so […]
Culture Warrior: 'Midnight in Paris' and 'The Tree of Life' Are (Sort of) the Same Damn Movie
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on June 14, 2011 | Comments (2)You'd be hard-pressed to find two filmmakers who are more wildly different than Woody Allen and Terrence Malick. One is a notably prolific and economic filmmaker who still releases one movie a year well into his senior years, while the other is a perfectionist who labors over his films and has thus far released, on average, barely more than one movie per decade. One has an unmistakable public persona, while the other is a notorious recluse. One makes films about life in a great city, while the other turns his lens to nature and the experience of the rural. One is as much an atheist as his characters, while the other is a spiritualist who searches for "God," whatever that may be, through the lens of the camera. Allen and Malick are, in many ways, perfect opposites. But after watching the strong new work by each of these talented filmmakers this past weekend, it became apparent that, at least in the shared thematic preoccupations of Allen's Midnight in Paris and Malick's The Tree of Life, these two ostensibly dissimilar filmmakers may have more in common than meets the eye.
Movie News After Dark: Green Lantern, Michael Fassbender, #Super8Secret and Doctor Who Anime
Movie News By Neil Miller on June 5, 2011 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Movie News After Dark? It's a movie news round-up column that comes to you from deep space. It comes as a protector of all that is good and interesting in the movie news world. It also totally swoons over Michael Fassbender. Seriously, have you seen this guy act? He's the man… man. As my good friend Rusty Gordon pointed out to me this evening, "this summer is already better than last summer," and it's just now June. With two-thirds of its movie releasing to go, Summer 2011 is already coming along great. With that, there's plenty to still be excited about. Like Green Lantern, which continues to look cool as WB dumps a giant batch of photos on the web. So much detail, so much cool.
Box Office Results: 'First Class' Gets a B in Box Office Earnings
Box Office By Jeremy Kirk on June 5, 2011 | Comments (2)Could have been a B-. Maybe even a C+. The point being X-Men: First Class rose to a somewhat acceptable occasion, about what was expected. Especially by analysts who realized the film wasn't being backed by Hugh Jackman, the first time in the franchise, and was comprised of an entirely new cast. Add into that mix the idea that X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were both such colossal disappointments, and it seems X-Men: First Class did rather well despite all it has going against it. It still opened larger than 2000's original X-Men, but the film still came in fourth among the franchise's debuts.
News After Dark: 3D Fizzles, Retro Blockbusters, Dark Knight Villains Rise and Tron Goes Street Art
Movie News By Neil Miller on May 30, 2011 | Comments (4)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news round-up that, for the time being, is keeping things brief. Memorial Day weekend is one that Hollywood generally takes off, so news is light. That said, there was plenty of discussion and artful expression happening all weekend that didn't require us to sift through the virtual pages of The Hollywood Reporter. Read: there's some cool stuff in tonight's edition. The Times has a report that, for some of you, can't come soon enough. 3D is fizzling and Hollywood is scared. The report focuses on the lopsided box office of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which took in far more dollars in 2D despite a major push in the other direction from Disney. Even Kung Fu Panda 2, an animated 3D family adventure, opened soft in the additional dimension. Perhaps this will prompt some changes to be made. It probably won't, but a guy can dream.
News After Dark: The Dragon Tattoo Trailer, Daredevil, The IT Crowd and The Old Spice Guy as Luke Cage
Movie News By Neil Miller on May 30, 2011 | Comments (8)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news round-up that comes from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. A-ah-ahh-ah! When it first hit the web, the consensus was that this red-band trailer for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was nothing more than an illegal leak of someone video taping in a European theater. But since then, after some inspection, speculation and hearsay, it's now believed to be a strategic leak in accordance with the styles of Lisbeth Salander. That could be the case. Lending credence to that theory is the fact that the audio is pretty clean, there's an MPAA warning on the trailer (which was supposedly recorded in Europe) and days later, Sony has not taken it down. Either way, it's a wicked trailer. If it's a plant by Sony, it's a brilliant maneuver.
Movie News After Dark: Spielberg and Abrams, Tree of Life, Avatar 2, Bioshock and The Fuzzy Pack
Movie News By Neil Miller on May 26, 2011 | Comments (2)What is Movie News After Dark? It's a nightly movie news round-up column that didn't mean to take the night off last night, but was forced into it by some "internet connectivity issues." Which means, plainly, that its internet provider sucks sometimes. And things happen. Like trains — sometimes they get blown up in small town in Ohio, unleashing unknown terrors upon small-town, late-70s folk. Shit happens, y'know? My confession of the evening is that I was able to see Super 8 this morning. Reviews are under embargo for now, so I can't share too much, but know this: whatever level of excitement you hold for it, you're probably on the right track. Moving on, but not too far, Empire has a great interview with producer Steven Spielberg and Spielberg Jr., director J.J. Abrams. You can check it out after the jump. It's not spoilery, as Abrams is a good keeper of secrets. But if you want to go in completely untainted, skip ahead and there's plenty of other news to read.
Criterion Files #536: Ruminations on Nature and Happenstance in 'The Thin Red Line'
Criterion Files By Landon Palmer on May 18, 2011 | Comments (2)In anticipation of Terrence Malick's much-buzzed and much-argued-about Tree of Life, Adam and Landon are doing a two-part series on Malick's films in the Criterion Collection. Part 1 – The Thin Red Line. The Thin Red Line (1998) is a film that accomplished many things. Least of which is the fact that, as the film was released twenty years after his previous completed work Days of Heaven, it established Terrence Malick as still a working filmmaker. While Malick had developed and abandoned several projects in the two decades that straddled his second and third feature films, the notoriously private director temporarily retired to France and workshopped a variety of screenplays and stage plays that, for one reason or another, never manifested. Though Malick's sparse filmography hardly grants him a persona of being a prolific artist, his twenty-year filmmaking "hiatus" was never a hiatus at all, but was instead brimming with activity for potential projects. The Thin Red Line, then, should be thought of not as a decided return to filmmaking which assumes that the film is either a project twenty years in the making or the only thing he came across in twenty years worth making (as an academic who almost completed his doctorate and as a working journalist before becoming a filmmaker, part of the mystery surrounding the very private Malick is that filmmaking is simply one of several trades that define him – he's like a far less public James Franco). The Thin Red Line may be more […]
Culture Warrior: 6 Movies That Were Booed at Cannes
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on May 17, 2011 | Comments (9)Yesterday the Twittersphere (a place where topics are only discussed in rational proportions) was abuzz with the news that Terrence Malick's long-awaited magnum opus Tree of Life was booed at its Cannes premiere. While the reaction to Malick's latest will no doubt continue to be at least as divisive and polarized as his previous work has been, for many Malick fans the news of the boos only perpetuated more interest in the film, and for many Malick non-fans the boos signaled an affirmation of what they've long-seen as lacking in his work. (Just to clarify, there was also reported applause, counter-applause, and counter-booing at the screening.) Booing at Cannes has a long history, and can even be considered a tradition. It seems that every year some title is booed, and such a event often only creates more buzz around the film. There's no formula for what happens to a booed film at Cannes: sometimes history proves that the booed film was ahead of its time, sometimes booing either precedes negative critical reactions that follow or reflect the film's divisiveness during its commercial release. Booed films often win awards. If there is one aspect connecting almost all booed films at Cannes, it's that the films are challenging. I mean challenging as a descriptor that gives no indication of quality (much like I consider the term "slow"), but films that receive boos at the festival challenge their audiences or the parameters of the medium in one way or another, for better or […]
Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as DogEatsHeart and 5Obstructions5 in order to discuss some topical topic of interest. This week, the pair apply some sun screen and some green screen in order to forecast how the movies of Summer 2011 might shape up. Is there a secret weapon to its inevitable success? Is its success inevitable? Anything would be better than last year, right?
The Big Bad Cannes 2011 Preview: Where Blockbusters, Auteurs, and Dangerous Filmmaking Mingle
Cannes Film Festival By Simon Gallagher on May 4, 2011 | Comments (3)With a little less than a week to go until I land at Nice Airport and get the hugely unglamorous Hack Bus into Cannes along with my boys from ObsessedWithFilm.com to begin FSR's official Cannes film festival 2011 coverage, now is surely a prudent time to offer my thoughts on the biggest and brightest films showing on the Croisette this year. You already know what films are showing, so I won't exhaustively trawl back through the list, but I wanted to take the opportunity to announce what I am particularly excited about. This also gives me the opportunity post-festival to look back at happier, simpler times when my optimism at seeing four films a day wasn't yet destroyed by watching three incredibly boring flicks in a row, followed by a blockbuster during which I fell asleep (as happened in 2009). Anyway, lesson learned, and this year I'll be packing as many natural amphetamines as possible. If you're heading out there look for me, I'll be the guy with the grinding jaw, the sallow eyes and the notepad full of doodles/plans to change the future of cinema. So anyway, here's what I'm looking forward to most.
Cannes 2011: More Rumored Movies Include 'Pirates 4,' 'Kung Fu Panda 2,' and Gus Van Sant's 'Restless'
Cannes Film Festival By Simon Gallagher on April 13, 2011 | Be the First To CommentHoly Hollywood, the selections for this year's Cannes Film Festival (both confirmed and mostly-confirmed) are a star-studded bunch so far, if the rumormongers are to be believed, anyway. The news is coming pretty quick-fire at the minute, so I'll run down the latest… First off, yesterday French site Le Figaro announced that Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides will play on the Croisette out of competition on Saturday May 14th, before it opens to French cinemas on May 18th and in the US on the 20th. This is one I was half-expecting, given the coincidental release dates, and the fact that there are traditionally a couple of mainstream releases showing out of competition at the fest. The third out of competition (joining Pirates and Terrence Malick's already announced Tree of Life) looks likely to be Kung Fu Panda 2, according to Thompson on Hollywood, who say the 3D Dreamworks sequel starring Jack Black will follow Jeff Katzenberg's tradition of bringing a DreamWorks project to Cannes to take advantage of a "worldwide marketing blitz."
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Pamela RiemenschneiderConsumers may find themselves paying more for some Thanksgiving staples this year, thanks to brisk demand and Mother Nature.
Sweet potatoes
Faison, N.C.-based Burch Farms expects to have adequate supplies for Thanksgiving, but demand will be high, said Jimmy Burch, co-owner.
"I think we'll be OK, but it's going to tight," Burch said. "The market will be up."
Thanksgiving f.o.b.s will likely be in the $16-17 range, he said.
Due to a combination of acreage cuts and aftereffects from June and July rains, the North Carolina crop will be about 20% lighter than last season, said Sue Johnson-Langdon, executive director of the Benson-based North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission.
As a result, demand in the runup to Thanksgiving should spike, Johnson-Langdon said.
"Prices are likely to go up and they will remain high for the remainder of the season," she said.
Prices were running about $2 higher per box than last year at this time, and that shouldn't change much heading into Thanksgiving, said Benny Graves, executive director of the Vardaman-based Mississippi Sweet Potato Council.
"We've been pleasantly surprised with demand," Graves said. "In general, supplies nationwide are on the tight side."
Still, there should be plenty of product for Thanksgiving, even with lower acreage in Mississippi and a late start, Graves said. Shippers are taking advantage of quick-cure rooms more than ever to get product ready for market, he said.
The quality of sweet potatoes shipping for the holiday will be good, though jumbos will be very scarce this season, Burch said. Mississippi quality is better this year than in the past two years, Graves said.
Burch Farms expects its 2013-14 volumes to be at least 15% short of last year, which will likely affect who gets sweet potatoes this season and who doesn't.
"I'll take care of my year-round customers, the customers who buy every week," he said. "The guys who just shop around, they're going to do without."
Strong markets this season will be a welcome change from the 2012-13 season, Burch said.
"We'll end up making a little money this year," he said. "We didn't make any last year. Sometimes these bumper crops, you don't make anything."
On Oct. 22, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $19-22 for 40-pound cartons of sweet potatoes from California, up from $18-19 last year at the same time.


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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Florida avocado grower-shippers are keeping an eye on a disease that could destroy their industry.
The tiny redbay ambrosia beetle, which spreads the laurel wilt fungus that destroys avocado trees, has been spotted on the northern end of the South Florida production area.
Money supporting research being conducted by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences originates from specialty crop grants in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's farm bill, said Alan Flinn, administrator of the Florida Avocado Administrative Committee.
Last season, the committee financially supported removal of infected trees, he said.
"We are searching hard for a remedy to this problem," Flinn said. "We are hoping to eradicate it as soon as we can. We are optimistic, and we think we will get a handle on this."
Alvaro Perpuly, general manager and partner at Fresh King Inc., said the industry is doing as much as it can to control the disease and to try to survive.
"Through the research, we've made some progress in the knowledge of this beetle, but it's not definitive to stop it yet," Perpuly said. "We don't have anything scientifically proven to be able to stop it. We lose trees every day, but we're still working on it."
Ongoing concern
Jessie Capote, executive vice president and co-owner of J&C Tropicals, Miami, said he attended a committee meeting on the subject on May 21.
He said the committee is soliciting for increased university research support.
"There continues to be a need for more funding to find other ways to combat the virus. Right now, all they're doing is cutting down trees. They certainly know more than they did a few years ago, but I don't think we're at the point to where it's stabilizing," Capote said.
Bill Brindle, vice president of sales management for Brooks Tropicals Inc., said the disease remains an ongoing industry concern.
"Fortunately, to this point, we have been able to contain the spread of the laurel wilt," he said. "It's something we're managing. It's an issue that this industry can deal with. For the most part, we will be able to control it.
"We can't prevent it very effectively, but we can keep it under control and have a vibrant industry even though this disease is present."
Neal Palmer "Pal" Brooks, owner, as well as other Brooks personnel, serve on subcommittees that deal with the issue.
Documented spread
Charlie Caves, plant manager of New Limeco LLC, Princeton, said the Florida Avocado Administrative Committee is sponsoring aerial surveys that show the disease continuing to spread.
He said growers continue to apply different sprays.
Caves said grove scouting remains key.
If any tree is suspect, samples are taken, sent to the University of Florida for testing. If a tree tests positive, growers immediately destroy it to prevent jeopardizing other trees, he said.
"We are taking it seriously and are doing whatever we can to take action on it and prevent it from spreading," Caves said. "It's still sporadic, and we've had it like everyone else ... If people don't do something about affected trees, it can spread. It hasn't reached the point of citrus greening, though."


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The members of Fingers of the Sun love to push themselves.
"The fun is in the challenge of utilizing everybody's instrument without making it excessive," says Suzi Allegra, one half of the songwriting team for the band. "It takes thinking more like an orchestrator," agrees Nathan Brasil, the other half. "I have a sound in my head, and my whole goal in life is to hear it. But when a song only needs one guitar, what do you do? You have to double up stuff and get new and different sounds."
To spend even the smallest amount of time with Brasil is to know how passionate — at times unnaturally obsessed — he is with getting this sound out of his head. And yet he and Allegra understand that messing with that sound, complicating the arrangement with several instruments and other creative minds, is a challenge that improves their songwriting skills.
This is nothing new. Jack White has spoken about challenging himself by placing his piano just a little too far away on stage, and Bob Dylan used to rehearse songs with his band one way, then announce a completely different time signature minutes before showtime.
As the songwriters for the six-piece band, Allegra and Brasil have developed an amazingly effective method for cranking out infectious, highly memorable pop songs. Fingers is often described as a throwback, '60s-styled group, and had Allegra and Brasil actually lived during that decade, they would have had an in-demand career as songwriters. It seems a shame that these two didn't live in the era before songwriter and performer became synonymous; they could have cranked out hits the way Carole King did for Aretha Franklin, or Kris Kristofferson for Johnny Cash and Janis Joplin.
That's not to say that Brasil and Allegra are at a loss with Fingers of the Sun. The challenges they face in manipulating their songs to fit a six-piece band are often offset by the benefits of pulling from such a pool of talent. Singer/percussionist Meghan Wilson adds a warm layer of harmony and all-smiles energy to live performances; Jamie Bryant's steadying, Al Kooper-style keyboard work provides an expansive foundation for the songs, affording lead guitarist Marcus "The Snail" Renninger the opportunity to decorate each song with some sparkly, glam-rock-inspired licks. "I like being the window dressing," he says.
Drummer Fez Garcia faces his own set of challenges in keeping the beat. "It's kind of ironic, but it's actually harder for me to play more reserved and straightforward," he says, referring to the band's more poptastic sound. "I come from bands where I just pound the shit out of [the drums], really loud, really fast. I hate to use the term 'hold back,' because it's not like I'm holding back creatively, because this opens up new options."
"It's the same for me with guitar playing," says Brasil. "Because if I were doing lots of crazy shit, I'd be cutting into Marcus's and Jamie's space."
And though Brasil is very careful not to cut into his bandmates' musical space, he does cut in verbally. The others seem ill at ease trying to explain their musical approach with words (seemingly wishing they could just talk through their instruments), but Brasil always has a response to or a comment for any inquiry thrown his way. It's obvious that he spends a large portion of his time not only playing and listening to music, but also thinking about music. "He's a little more intellectual about it," Allegra concedes, "whereas I'm a little more emotional. But I think it works together a lot of the time."
The two were working together well before Fingers of the Sun formed, back in the spring of 2010. Playing first in Games for May, then later in the Pseudo Dates, team Brasil-Allegra has maintained a fruitful musical partnership spanning five years and three bands.
In February 2011, Fingers of the Sun documented its catalogue of intently crafted songs on a self-titled LP. Widely considered one of the best releases of the year, Fingers of the Sun was the kind of infectious, headphone-worthy masterpiece that only got better with each listen. From the Hollies-style sunshine melodies of "Cup of Tea" to the adorkable soul ballad "Dinner and a Movie," the album was without a single bit of filler, a truly inspired yet mathematically calculated effort.
But while critics and wide-eyed fans eagerly soaked up the album, there were those who saw Fingers' music as cheap and derivative. Citing the undeniable influence of '60s radio pop in songs like "The Leaves Were So Green" and "Goodbye Summer," and even the post-postmodern influence of '60s revivalist bands like Brian Jonestown Massacre in the song "Cashmere Paisley Polyester," the band was dismissed by some as simply not worth paying attention to.
"I think for us to bitch about being called derivative or whatever is dumb," Brasil says, referring to earlier days when he would bristle at such criticism. "The way I look at it is, I write and make the music that I fuckin' want to hear. And if that's derivative, then so be it. I mean, every band is derivative; it's just a matter of whether your derivativeness is in style at the moment."
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Novelist and poet Darnell Arnoult '00 ma on finding the cowboy of her dreams.
I was raised on TV westerns like some folks are raised on religion. Rawhide. Wanted: Dead or Alive. Sugarfoot. Lawman. Bronco. There's something about a cowboy-independent, vulnerable, hero to the underdog, survivor against the odds, able to sit a horse for the long haul. At 25 years old, I was a divorced mother of two small children, and I made a subconscious decision to wait for my cowboy. I talked about wanting a cowboy but, looking back, I was more comfortable with the waiting.
The spring I was 42, an Arizona psychic gave me an accurate and plausible account of my life. He used tarot cards, spread on a table, as visual portals into my life. When I stood to leave the reading, I jarred his table, sending an unturned card to the floor. He retrieved it as I reached the door.
"You didn't want to know about your love life," he said. "Why?"
"I've been a single mother for over 17 years," I said. "I don't have that kind of love life."
"You will, soon." He eyed the card in his hand. "All I can say is, he's on a horse and riding toward you."
The last night of November, I stayed late at my Durham office to research a short story about a woman who answers personal ads on the Internet. After reading ads from a few other cities, I clicked on those from Nashville, Tenn. They were mostly vulgar, sometimes sad and often poorly written. After 30 or so, I thought, "One more and I'm out of here." The next ad read, "Do you like horses, fishing, sitting on the porch watching it rain? Do you like fine dining, concerts, the theater? I wear both kinds of clothes. Let's talk." It was signed "Cowboy." I was so tempted to answer that I packed my things and headed home so I wouldn't do anything foolish. Cowboy could've been an ax murderer or a teenage girl with a mean streak.
At the front door of my office building, I thought about the triptych, the poem and the psychic's prediction.
I went back and wrote to Cowboy that I'd had a mean pony as a child and my father sold it, then saddled the back of our Naugahyde sleeper sofa, which I rode until my legs were too long and the couch broke. I signed it "TV Cowgirl."
Cowboy and I exchanged e-mails daily for two months. I found out later that I answered the ad, as did 34 other women, on the day he posted it. After reading the responses, he replied to six. He never read any of the hundreds of responses that came after that first day. A month later, he was writing only to me.
In December, on my 44th birthday, he told me his real name. He called on Christmas Day, and I heard "home" in his voice, that beautiful way of talking, rich with the sound of the past, like the speech of my native Virginia foothills.
What began as a computer-age blind date turned into an old-fashioned courtship of beautiful letters with an occasional touch that required a four-hour drive or a plane ticket. On April Fools' Day in 2000, it became a marriage grounded in the best kind of romance and the deepest friendship.
As our sixth anniversary approaches, folks still consult an almanac before planting their seeds, just like my grandmother did, and our romance continues to blossom. As a 50-year-old woman who waited a long time, I can say that I believe in a large design. I believe in its signs and wonders. And I believe in the power of love, in spite of all else, to reach out to the loneliest of hearts-when the time and signs are right.


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Little Man is adorkable. Yes adorkable. Also known as "The Mayor" because he is such a gentleman, always making sure that he says hello to anyone who comes to see him. He is also pretty much described as a real life teddy bear. He is missing his eye so he can occasionally get startled and we recommend just going slow with him to avoid that. But he is a trusting, playful and wonderful little companion just waiting to make you smile every single day! We are not sure about his exact birthday but our vet estimates that he is about nine.
We really appreciate your wanting to give a shelter animal a home and encourage you to search for just the right pet.
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Cutter brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to hosting Hangar 19. The guy lives and breathes heavy metal. After spending his teenage years not going to school and playing guitar in punk and metal bands, Cutter got an almost real job working for a classic rock radio station. After a few years of overnights and filling in for other people, plus complaining there wasn't any Iron Maiden in the station's library, he moved onto Assistant Program Director and eventually to Morning Show Host for an active rock station.
During this time, he also created his first metal radio show. His show became so popular that it spawned its own concert series and broke bands like Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, Bullet for My Valentine and countless others into the radio station's playlist. The new metal stuff was cool, but Cutter realized its old school roots are where it's at.
Watching his own son wear skinny jeans and seeing new metal become flavored with pop and bad rap, Cutter wanted to show the world where metal began, where it was brought to and why it is where it is now. After getting laid off in 2009, Cutter began working on a show to bring metal back to the mainstream. This is how Hangar 19 was born.


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WEAPONS OF CHOICE John Birmingham A wormhole experiment goes awry, sending a coed, multi-ethnic U.S. naval fleet from 2021 back to 1942 to battle the Axis Powers -- not to mention prejudiced American jarheads.
Logline ''Pearl Harbor'' meets ''The Philadelphia Experiment''
Source of Angst ''...It was a hell of a thing to ask a man to accept, that he'd been ripped right out of time itself.''
Key Concepts Time travel, smart weaponry
Lowdown Birmingham's enthralling battleground mixes provocative historical fiction and socially conscious futurism. A
IRON SUNRISE Charles Stross After a terrorist bombing decimates the planet Moscow, counteroffensive missiles are automatically sent to destroy nearby worlds -- unless a crew of special ops and a Goth teen named Wednesday can stop them.
Logline ''When Worlds Collide'' meets ''La Femme Nikita''
Source of Angst ''Let's hope we can get to the bottom of this before the assassins murder 800 million people.''
Key Concepts Eugenics, personal digital jewelry
Lowdown Sunrise, while unnecessarily complex in spots, is a Hollywood thriller with a cyberpunk heart. B+
RADIANT James Alan Gardner A superintelligent alien moss, the Balrog, leads the elite but expendable Explorer Corps on a perilous trip to uncover their godlike origins.
Logline ''Aliens'' meets ''Clash of the Titans''
Source of Angst ''The very thoughts I was thinking had to pass through Balrog spores: like a computer network where every transmission was compelled to run along channels controlled by the enemy.''
Key Concepts Parasitism, Buddhism
Lowdown The tenacious Explorers propel the Trek-like saga forward, though Gardner's emotionless prose would make a poet out of Spock. B-
IRON COUNCIL China Mieville Insurrectionists foment rebellion in New Crobuzon, a Dickensian urban-blight land where criminals are turned into slaves and given horses' bodies with steam-piston legs.
Logline ''A.I.'' meets ''How the West Was Won''
Source of Angst New Crobuzon is losing the war with a mysterious foe armed with magical weapons.
Key Concepts Alchemy, class war
Lowdown Mieville's phantasmagoric story is eclipsed by a glut of flawed heroes and an invented vernacular that impedes its own progress. C+


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