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Thompson Square tickets are a must have item for country fans. With the success of their first two singles Let's Fight and Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not, this duo is making themselves at home at the top of the charts. Check the Thompson Square schedule for Thompson Square concert tickets in your neck of the woods!
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Thompson Square | Friday, January 30, 2015 at 8:30 PM Hoosier Park | View Tickets |
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Country Fest - 4 Day Pass | Thursday, June 25, 2015 at [time TBA] Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds | View Tickets |
Country Fest: Rascal Flatts, Brett Eldredge & Thompson Square | Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 3:00 PM Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds | View Tickets |
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Husband-wife duo Thompson Square have broken into the country scene in a big way. Their first two singles, Let's Fight and Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not both charted and the latter was nominated for two Country Music Television awards. Not bad for the band's first album. The husband and wife in question, Keifer and Shawna Thompson, met in (where else) Nashville, Tennessee. Keifer had come from Oklahoma and Shawna from Alabama and they met during their first week in the music capital. Fifteen years after getting by as a wait staff and struggling in other creative industries the couple hit as Thompson Square. Their debut album was produced by members of Jason Aldean's backing band who do double duty on the album as house band for Thompson Square. With friends like these and early breakout hits, it won't be long before Thompson Square tickets and Thompson Square tour dates are selling out. Don't get left behind, keep an eye on the Thompson Square schedule and pick up your Thompson Square concert tickets at TicketLiquidator. |
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I am going to have a 10 foot by 5 foot island. The only slab I could find that was a light color and that was long enough was Kashmir. Has anyone used this in a kitchen? honed or polished. What color on the cabinets? I am thinking BM Dove White? Thank you so much for your help |
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We just had Kashmir White put in a few weeks ago. Polished. They are beautiful, if I do say so myself. Our cabinets have a cherry stain, but we are considering painting them. I think you could go with either a grayish white or a creamy white. Our Kashmir has some warm sandy tones in it as well as the cooler gray. We liked Cloud a White with it. I guess it depends on the other colors in your kitchen |
Thank you so much for telling me you were pleased with your countertops. I have been really worried about our choice. |
We have Kashmire white with painted gray cabinets and they are beautiful together. We were considering white cabs until we tried the gray, then realized we had found our color. |
Which gray did you use? I am really having difficulty trying to find the "right color" Are your counters honed or polished? Also what backsplash. I was thinking about subway tile. I am trying to keep the kitchen light and airy since there is not much natural light. Thank you |
Countertops are polished. Backsplash decision is a work in progress. The backsplash is the only thing my DH really cares about. He wants them to be a soft brownish color (he's from NM and loves the dessert). I'm not sold, so we are without backsplash right now. One of my concerns about the brownish backsplash is that it will darken the room. Cabinets are Conestoga, Hearthstone Grey. We have tons of light, but the gray is really soft anyway so the room appears light. Some people who've seen it haven't picked up that it is gray, they think off-white. |
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We chose Kashmir White for our 2007 kitchen remodel (we've since moved). We had it with natural maple floors and cherry cabinets. We enjoyed it, but learned that it is definitely one of the more porous granites, which means that you'll get a temporary dark patch where it gets wet. The stains fade away after the slab gets a chance to dry, but it can take a day or two. This was particularly noticeable around the sink, which never really has a chance to dry out. After we purchased ours I did some online research and learned that that some granite professionals consider KW too porous for kitchen use at all (!) and that others say that if you're going to use it, you need to seal it with a product designed for porous stone (like limestone). We used "511 Porous Plus" from Miracle Sealants, which made a big difference. |
Here is a link that might be useful: 511 Porous Plus from Miracle Sealants
Thank you so much for letting me know about the sealant. I will talk to the granite yard. They mentioned sealing it with Dupont 15 year sealer. Is any one familiar with Dupont sealer? |
The guys who installed our Kashmire White used the sealer from Lowes. We have absolutely no spotting or staining, even when water sits over night. |
- Posted by bridgehook (My Page) on Sat, Feb 8, 14 at 16:23
Using the 511 Porous Plus was something like waxing a car. For the first month or so after application, water would "bead up." After 3-4 months, it would become less effective. We applied it about twice a year. With that in mind, I'm skeptical about something called "15 year sealer." |
Our installer sealed it 4 times. I'm not sure what he used, but he said it should be good for 15 years or so. He said if we ever see darkening from water he would come seal it again. We've only had it for a few weeks, but it doesn't darken at all with water so far. My DW accidentally got wood stain on the counter last night while staining our new kitchen table. It sat for a few hours before we realized it. I was scared, but it wiped right off. |
I was looking for a warm, soft gray for my cabinets and my favorite was Behr 'Campfire Ash'. My cabinetmaker couldn't match it, though, which is how I ended up with Martha Stewart 'Gull' (which is not so much grey). All the granite fabricators that I spoke to said that River White (which I loved) and Kashmir White were more porous and would need more attention to sealing. Plus, they were both becoming hard to get -- political issues at the mines they said. |
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If you love hip-hop, dance music, and the Internets, you should have been in DC last night at the Trillectro festival. Of course I wasn't (I barely like going to the club), but Terio was. Oh, you're not up on Terio? He's the Internet sensation that, in the brief period where people thought Instagram Video was going to kill Vine, single-handedly saved the video platform with his viral clips.
Somehow, some way, Maleek and Terio showed up at this turnt up festival. While we won't comment on this child be out at 3AM with so many grown folk, you can't not mark that this happened. Of course, there are a couple of Vines to prove this, including people trying to document Terio's, um, unique dancing, including this first clip from A$AP Ferg (who, if we're not mistaken, didn't attend Terio's birthday party when he said he would):
Admit it, that Terio shirt is kind of tough. Here's one with more of his dancing.
How long before he gets tired of this, though? The kid is only six. Do you remember when there was something "cute" you'd do at that age and how annoyed you would get when people kept making you do it? Time will tell.


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Difficult family dynamics and the subsequent impact on caregiving was the focus of our #eldercarechat in late February. If you missed the chat, check out the transcript: #eldercarechat.
Most of us have family, whether we like them or not. And you may or may not love having holiday dinners together, but having a discussion about who gets Mom's house when she passes away or who is in charge of making Dad's caregiving arrangements when his dementia worsens…well, even for the most loving families, these are tense topics.
Consequently, business is booming for elder mediators, says the Wall Street Journal's recent piece, "A. Referee for Family Disputes."
Writer Anne Tergesen gives us the lay of the land – why more and more people are engaging these professionals (i.e. they're avoiding the cost and lack of confidentiality that litigation incurs), why some of them aren't the most professional of folks (i.e. it's currently not a regulated industry), and what these mediators will/will not do (i.e. facilitating conversations, not giving advice).
If your family chooses to hire an elder mediator, it doesn't necessarily mean there is trouble in paradise. Consider this quote from 60-year-old Polly Osborne:
"…she and her siblings, though close, had 'no idea how to solve the issues we found ourselves facing,' such as how to bequeath a family compound with three residences to a younger generation with seven members."
Having an impartial third party at the table can be very helpful, especially if your family is close. A good mediator can preserve the family bond while guiding the group through a stressful scenario like the Osbornes faced.
What I believe makes this process work is that, ideally, everyone is at the table together, discussing the situation at hand, rather than resorting to placing blame/avoiding responsibility via "he said, she said" or "you just want Dad's money" cop-outs. Those things probably come up – and I imagine that elder mediators witness some pretty heated debates, depending on the family history and chemistry – but the mediator's presence will hopefully offset some of this conflict, or at least corral the chaos and move the herd towards collaboration.
In our #eldercarechat conversation, we determined that denial is an underlying cause for many family conflicts in these caregiving situations. Siblings in denial about the severity of Dad's dementia can wreak havoc on decision-making and, subsequently, the decision maker. Adult children who cannot accept Mom's decision to stop cancer treatments may argue with or lash out at their father, who stands by his wife's choice.
There is a fine line between a peaceful acceptance and a hopeless surrender, an issue we also confronted in our #eldercarechat, but ultimately, denial that is not properly dealt with can really shatter and splinter the family unit in times when solidarity and support would better serve.
Find out more about elder mediators: EldercareMediators.com or Mediate.com
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Civilization Comes to Steam
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104Gamespot reports that yet another publisher has joined the ever-growing stable of Steam fans. 2K games is working to bring some of their games to the service, with Civilization III and IV coming to Steam this week, and other titles to follow. From the article: "Also included will be the high-seas adventure Sid Meier's Pirates! and the alternate-history real-time strategy game Shattered Union ... According to a statement released today by Valve, Steam currently has some 10 million customers for both its 'core' products--which include advanced shooters such as Half-Life 2--and casual games, such as PopCap Games' Bejeweled and Zuma. "


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As noted in Feedback on February 12, Jacor Concerts had big ambitions. Rob Buswell and Jeff Krump, two former employees of Fey Concerts who'd been hired by Jacor to run the new branch, denied that they wanted to compete directly with Denver firms such as Universal Concerts, Bill Graham Presents/Chuck Morris Presents and nobody in particular presents--but the aggressiveness with which they did business suggested otherwise. In fact, insiders feared that a pumped-up Jacor Concerts could turn the Denver promoters war that had flared up in the wake of Barry Fey's semi-retirement into an unprecedented bloodbath.
Instead, Jacor Concerts suffered some unprecedented setbacks. Buswell and company had advertised that the annual KTCL Big Adventure bash would take place on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus, but the show had to be moved to Fiddler's Green after Jacor received a thumbs-down from CU administrators (for more details, see the May 7 and May 14 Feedbacks). Worse, two large-scale events--the Spirit of Unity reggae fest and an R&B extravaganza at McNichols Arena featuring L.S.G. and Patti LaBelle--went straight down the tubes. According to a reliable source, Spirit of Unity, which was originally slated to take place at Red Rocks before being moved to Mammoth Events Center because of anemic ticket sales, ended up $46,000 in the hole, and the L.S.G./LaBelle pairing lost a staggering $178,000. Howe will not confirm these figures, but he concedes that the shows were exceedingly unsuccessful. "They weren't specific to any of our stations," he says. "And consequently, we weren't able to drive them very well."
With losses like these, it's no surprise that changes followed. Krump was fired, and Buswell was ordered to, in his words, "pare back our events a little bit." He adds: "Some of the shows where we lost money prompted us to focus on where our strengths are. For a company like Universal, their strength is in their volume of shows. They've taken some bigger losses than we did on Patti LaBelle, but because they have so many other concerts and own some of their own buildings, it's not that much of a problem. But we don't have all of those advantages. The main thing we do is radio stations, not concerts.
"The concert division tried to spread its wings a bit with some stand-alone concerts that didn't fit our formats, and a lot of them didn't work," Buswell continues. "But all of our station festivals made money. We took that as a lesson--to get back to doing what we already know works."
For his part, Howe, the consummate spin doctor, refuses to admit that any changes are being made. "We've never had any designs to compete in the concert business," he maintains. "We just wanted more control of our own events, and that continues to be our primary goal as it relates to our concerts. We have to defend ourselves against the gossip about what people say our intentions are as opposed to what they really are. Nothing's really changed."
That's a laugh. In February Buswell said that Jacor Concerts would double the number of events it was promoting, from forty in 1997 to eighty in 1998. Next year, though, Jacor will again be putting on around forty shows. As Buswell puts it, "We're going back to the roots of what the concert program was when it was first developed."
When Jacor Concerts was at its most aggressive, rumors flew that the outfit was using the threat of airplay boycotts to prevent artists from signing up with other promoters. In the June 11 edition of this column, Buswell scoffed at the charge. But recently, the aforementioned Barry Fey shared recollections about just such an incident--one spurred by a 1996 concert with the surviving members of the Who that was sponsored by the Hawk.
"When Jacor found out about the show, they called me up," Fey says. "It was a conference call, and Don Howe and all the program directors were on there screaming at the tops of their lungs about how they were going to fucking teach these guys a lesson--that they'd yank everyone on the Who's label off the air in Denver and out of all the other Jacor stations in the country, too." He chuckles. "The funny thing was, the Who didn't have a label then. I tried to tell them that, but it took them two and a half hours to figure it out."
Even more intriguing are Fey's comments about what he says was a secret deal between Jacor and Fey Concerts that was in effect prior to the 1996 sale of Fey's namesake corporation to Universal. According to Fey, "The agreement said that if we had a show, Jacor wouldn't present a show for another promoter within a certain time period. It said that they had the right to do, I think, three concerts a year that we weren't promoting if they thought it was central to their format, and we had the right to let another station present something like Neil Diamond, that wouldn't have fit any of their stations. It was an exclusive first-right-of-refusal contract that was never finalized because the lawyers were worried about anti-trust problems. But we used it as a gentleman's agreement for over a year."


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GOT TOY STRESS? Try this antidote:
The former Bellevue elementary-school teacher invents toys and leads educational toy-making workshops for children around Seattle and across the nation. He tosses lessons about math, art, history, patents and inventing amongst flying red puffballs. In seven years, the toymaker figures he's taught some 20,000 children how to make their own bull roarers and other folk toys. This summer, he taught a workshop at the National Museum of American History, as part of a Smithsonian symposium on "The Playful Mind." The toymaker's workshop is filled with button gyroscopes, "pet" Pringles cans (rigged to roll with rubber bands and weights), zigzagging clowns, marble mazes and enough spare parts for hundreds of school children to make toys with. But Hartman looks nothing like Geppetto, the elderly toymaker of "Pinocchio." In fact, with his lanky limbs, boyish grin and quick step, Hartman more closely resembles one of Geppetto's loose-limbed puppets. Toy-making these days has gone far beyond Geppetto's lantern-lit workbench. Americans buy more than $20 billion worth of toys a year. Most sales go to huge toy manufacturers such as Hasbro and Mattel, where design teams take a corporate approach to toy making, slapping a "Baywatch" theme on Barbie, for example, because the television show sells. Still, more than a sleighful of toys start off as light-bulb ideas in unheated garage workshops. Hartman's own patented toys include a mini thumb-wrestler complete with stretchy ropes encircling its pro-wrestling-style ring; a one-handed gyroscope; a hoop-to-hoop ball-and-cup toy, a gadget that weaves friendship-bracelets, and, most recently, a motorized ice-cream cone (U.S. Patent No. 5,971,829) which uses a battery to slowly spin scoops so you don't have turn the cone as you lick. You may have seen "Turbo Twist" featured on the Aug. 2 "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
Leno: Now wait. Now wait. Back up. Now why motorized? For what reason?
HARTMAN CAN'T REMEMBER a time in his four decades when he hasn't been enamored with toys, whatever form they took.
"People have been playing with toys for as far back as recorded history," Hartman says. "The roots of that, I'm not sure. Play is a way of exploring the world and finding out about how things work in a very easygoing way. Maybe survival of the fittest. He who plays survives." Ancient Sumerians made animal-shaped rattles as early as 2,600 years ago. Archaeologists at Thebes have unearthed model tigers and horses carved from wood. Pottery from the Sung Dynasty depicts little boys riding hobby horses. Even Tutankhamen's tomb contained a simple cascading Jacob's Ladder tucked among the jewels, gold masks and elaborate chariots for the 18-year-old boy king. Given the toy overflow in many households, it seems toys have always been part of American culture. But toys were largely absent from the lives of early settlers. The Puritans didn't believe in toys, play or, for that matter, childhood. Dolls were suspect as fetishes of witches. Games were considered a distraction from work and church. Children weren't encouraged to explore and discover at their own pace, but rather, punished if they didn't behave as adults. This repressive vision of childhood was swept away by the Enlightenment. John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau promoted the idea that children will naturally develop motor skills and smarts if given safe and intriguing objects to stimulate their curiosity. Rich American families purchased porcelain dolls from France, tiny tea sets from England and Switzerland and tin soldiers from German toy factories. Most everyone else made their own toys. Farming families used scrap wood and fabric to fashion rocking horses, marble rollers and tops. Parents copied Native-American and African-American designs in dolls made of rags and corn husks and games from balls and baskets. By the 1920s, kids played with marbles, jump ropes, wooden yo-yos, string games, miniaturized trains and other models. The post-war baby boom, of course, sparked a major American toy boom. Some 76 million babies were born to parents who had struggled through the Depression and World War II. If these children weren't the most indulged in the planet's history, it wasn't for their parents' lack of trying. One hundred million Hula Hoops. Troll dolls. Mr. Potato Head. Wham-O Super Balls. Plastic Frisbees. Slinkys. Silly Putty. Barbie. Erector sets. A Lego explosion. Tonka trucks. Etch-A-Sketch. Howdy Doody. Space toys. Flintstone figures. Nerf bounced onto the scene in the 1960s. The feminist 1970s brought educational, craftsy, nongender modeling clay and bendable sculpture sticks. By the mid-'80s, mass-marketing and television had created one-season, gotta-have-it-wonders. Cabbage Patch kids. Furby. Tickle Me Elmo. This season continued the summer's retro flash on chrome scooters and street-flying roller shoes. Older kids coveted Sony PlayStation 2; younger children wanted interactive Poo-chi and Tekno dogs that walk, dance and wag their tails on command. Why the bottomless appetite for toys? "My guess is that we need diversion," says Mark Hebenstreit, founder of HogWild Toys, a small company in Portland. Hebenstreit joined the toy world after a 14-year career as an investment broker. "We need diversion from everything. People revert to drugs and alcohol, movies. Kids, even though you don't see the stress and pressure of sixth grade, need diversion from the day-to-day, too."
Under Hartman's direction, these Discovery Elementary School students have constructed their own simple hammers and saws and are now using the tools to make bull roarers, ice-cream-spoon puppets and film-canister catapults. Because they are at the age of enthusiasm, 8 to 11 years old, the kids are completely engaged. Bull roarers whirl and hum. Dillon saws a yardstick for the catapult as if he were logging. Leslie Jo decorates her puppet's body with rainbow stripes to match her own rainbow sweater. Scarlet puff balls zoom through the air. Here on the Issaquah plateau, where children hold birthday parties at riding stables and keep up with premium hand-held video games, it's astonishing they have so much fun with the same humble toys loved by children in slums and refugee camps all over the world. Hartman: "It cuts across age barriers, cultural barriers, language barriers, gender, socio-economic levels. It's not just the kids, it's the parents and the teachers. Invariably they ask, rather sheepishly, if they can have an extra set of materials to make their own toy." While decorating the age-old playthings, the kids chatter. About guess what? Jess: I just got Pokemon Gold. Alex: I got the silver version yesterday. Jess: You, LUCKY! CLEARLY AN EXPERT in the field, Jess Little gives me a tour of his extensive toy collection one day after school. (He's the only grandchild on both sides and that's reflected in the size and scope of his treasures.) Legos, radio-controlled Legos, Lincoln Logs and Duplos (jumbo Legos). An old stomp rocket, play swords, a light saber. A musical fish, a Jar-Jar Binks watch, a Nerf hypersight gun and an Earth Day balloon. Shelves of Harry Potter, Shel Silverstein poetry and Dinotopia. A spy kit with telescope, microscope, penlight, hearing device and spy notebook. ("It's got everything you need," Jess says. "You can pop it all in your handy-dandy suitcase and put on your Rollerblades.") He emerges from under his bed clutching a sheaf of Pokemon stickers. Jess also has Pokemon magazines, hundreds of Pokemon cards, electronic versions of trading card-games, jungle booster packs. The array is more complex than the human genome. Crazy Bones are what's really cool now. He spills a pouch of small colorful plastic figurines on the carpet: dragons, aliens, mutant penguins wearing tuxedos. Kids play with them the way grandparents used to play with marbles. "Aliens are good, they're so technical. I flicked my best friend Troy Silverman's Java. It flew off a jump, hit a side wall and knocked down his mutant fly. We aren't allowed to play for keeps." Why do people like to play? "It's sort of obvious," Jess says. "It makes time fly. It's just really fun and, I mean, what else would we do if we didn't play?" Jess strokes the stuffed orca that holds place of honor on his pillow. "Orca was my first first thing," he says. "My parents got him for me as a present as soon as I was born." What makes a good toy? Different toys give you different feelings inside, Jess says. Reading Harry Potter makes you feel mysterious and playing Zelda, you feel medieval, which is light years from Mario and Pokemon, which make you feel cold. "With Orca, I snuggle and feel warm and happy. I'm glad he's still around here." I ask Jess what kids want for Christmas and Hanukkah, since he celebrates both. Surprisingly, he doesn't mention any of the toys pushed by high-pressure multi-million-dollar ad campaigns. "Books are always good," he says, "and music." By this point, Jess is looking restless, so I ask if he's bored. "Sort of," he says. "But playing cards always perks me up . . . Hey! Look at this tiny deck of cards. They're all here. So, we can, like, play a card game or something. "Do you wanna play?" Of course. |
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Nanban Completes 100 Days!
Friday, April 20th, 2012Ilayathalapathy Vijay's Nanban has successfully Completed 100 Days in Box Office. Nanban is Vijay's biggest box office hit film of his career till now. Nanban is also the second highest Box office hit movie in Tamil Cinema after Rajni's Enthiran.
Kollywood celebrities choose twitter to wish Nanban.
Actor Sibiraj tweeted: 'Vijay Anna has once again proven that he can outperform anyone with his casual style and cute expressions..THALAIVA..U R GREAT!!!' Read the rest of this entry »


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It's so interesting when facts shed light on the political stereotypes and myths that so many people assume are the truth. That is, if people are even willing to consider the facts! That is what I truly consider "not smart" - when people refuse to look at the facts and data and open their minds to an objective reality - because they are too invested in their own personal belief or opinion, or when they think they know it all. And people are prone to do this whether they have a low or high IQ. |
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And people are prone to do this whether they have a low or high IQ. As one of THEM has pointed out, Ambassador Christopher Stevens was dragged through the streets of Benghazi and raped! This 'FACT' has been posted on thousands of THEIR websites. This is the kind of garbage that gets my blood pressure boiling. Then they post it on here and expect us to slurp this garbage up too. -Ron- |
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It has been announced on 6th December, that the shares of the Picturehouse cinemas (City Screen Ltd) have been acquired by Cineworld Plc. This exciting change will enable us to open more Picturehouse Cinemas – we are currently exploring opportunities in 10 locations.
Lyn Goleby, Managing Director – Picturehouse, said:
"The Picturehouse cinemas, and all that we stand for, will remain as before and will operate as a standalone division of Cineworld. Everyone recognises that the success of this change depends on the unique nature of the Picturehouse cinemas being protected; the programming policy will not change, the membership schemes will remain in place and the independent identity of the cinemas will be protected. The existing management teams are all staying in their current roles and will continue to ensure that 'business as usual' is maintained."
What changes will I see at my local Picturehouse?
Cineworld values our independent identity and the way our cinemas are operated, so there are no plans to change this.
We will continue to offer the Picturehouse experience; the films and events that we screen, our food and drink, our unique community venues - they won't change. We will still be keeping the identity of our existing cinemas and preserving their spirit of independence.
What it does mean is that it offers us the chance to open more Picturehouse cinemas, more quickly than before.
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Hello and welcome back to the disappearing world of the Dogpound. You remember the old song with the catchy phrase…"Na, Na, Hey, Hey, kiss him goodbye" by the Steam; well, you can apply that to our Saturday Post Office delivery in a few months. Oh wait…don't kiss the mailman too soon because the Post Office still has to get Congressional approval before they can do anything. With that being said you can easily guess that outcome; our government who has not had a budget in years, is ringing up deficit dollars like there is no tomorrow, and they are going to give financial guidance to the Post Office?? Hmmmm?? Anyway, we in the Dogpound understand why the Post Office has to take these steps; they face continued pressure from Email, Facebook, and companies like FedEx and UPS.
The old models will not work today. I know everyone rags on the Post Office, but they have provided a vital service to this country. At one time they were the foundation for many small towns; they connected us not only to the outside world, but they were often the focal point of the local community. I grew up in a small town of less than 100 people…but we had a post office that also served as the gas station, with a car repair shop, and a rental apartment on the second floor. I would get the mail every day when I got off the school bus, or mom would send me up to the store to get a two-cent post card, and you would always meet someone from the neighborhood. A neighbor would be getting gas, picking up mail, delivering letters/packages to be mailed, waiting for their car or tire to be repaired, and/or just standing around shooting the breeze about the weather and the farm crops. I am not so sure our small town would have been the same without the post office and its ability to deliver the world to our doorstep. Despite the Internet world of immediate access I really do not think it is better than the old letters. I agree they are great for immediate sharing of pictures etc, but letters were not written in less than 140 characters...letters were not written while standing in line at the grocery store or waiting for your food at the fast food drive-in. No, it took time to write a letter…it took time to read the letters you received…it took time to put down your thoughts…there was more time to really communicate what is on your mind, which takes more than 60 seconds of LOL and BBF's.
I understand the Post Office is standing against a tide that it cannot fight unless it makes a dramatic change, but I still think it is a good thing to remember that we need to communicate…really communicate. Put down the iPads, the iPhones, pull out the ear plugs on your MP3, turn off the TV; sit down and look at each other. Take time to express how you feel, take time to actually listen, take time to ask questions, take time to really understanding what is being said, learn again how to communicate outside the boundaries of a tweet. Try it…you might like it.
That is a wrap for now. As always be good, play safe, and remember it is always nice to get a card or hand-written letter in the mail.
JR and Max
If only all post offices were in locations that could offer all of the simultaneous services you mention then perhaps they might survive. Except for a small percentage of locations nearly all post offices are single purpose facilities and generally in leased locations. Given that most Americans these day receive and pay all of their bills online, communicate via email and text, and received parcels through FedEx and UPS there's little need for a complex network of postal facilities scattered across the land.
Indeed, go into any post office this week and look around: the first thing you'll notice is how few customers are there and how few staff are at the counter. My experience has been in a purely unscientific visual survey that more than 50% of people walking in are headed to the PO boxes and then back out again. The others tend to fall into a couple categories: people picking up packages that require signature and they weren't at home at the time (the PO forgets that despite our "recovery" roughly 60% are at work during the day), older folks who have not converted to online (and I'm not being disparaging), and foreigners arguing with the postal clerk as to why its so expensive to mail their box of items purchased at Wal Mart to some unknown village in their third world country.
Do we really need the 35,000 postal facilities that the postal service reported in 2012 that were in operation? Compare that to 1971 with 42,000 facilities in an age of NO email, NO direct debit for bills, NO FedEx or UPS. Other than delivering a few bills, some junk mail, and political ads every two years (or every year for Virginians) the postal service has been relieved of much of its responsilibities, at least in terms of volume.
Where I live there are at least six post offices within a 15 minute drive. These are full retail offices. There's really no need for this many.
You look at how many of the postal services in socialized Europe have privatized and now run at a profit as they have found unique ways to run their business (first of all, they think like a business not a government program). For example, so are combined with convenience stores and small shops. Some offer products, like banking, other than traditional postal services. And some, pray tell, even close down unprofitable locations.
It's time to face reality and adjust to changes in our society and economy. It's time to allow the postal service to remain viable by stopping Saturday delivery, raising postage rates, laying off workers, and closing unprofitable branch locations...all without Congressional interference.
The idea of the small town post office as the center of community life where neighbors who actually know each other exchange news and get hand written letters from distant friends is quaint. But it belongs more to a Norman Rockwell romantic view of American rather than today's flat-broke postal service used as a jobs program for people who cannot tuck in their shirts.


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Acer Repair Center Address
So I called Acer a couple times but I never really understood the people there. I tried taking notes on my PDA but I cannot read them... they're all scribbled and out of order, plus I couldn't heart the person so it all make this a much more difficult ordeal.
I was wondering what address I should send my Aspire one to, I think it's in Temple Texas, but... street, Zip?
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puppyluv2620 on 2/15/2010 1:05:00 AM more reviews by puppyluv2620
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
my hairdresser had used this on me after she highlighted my hair and it was so cute in the little bottle and it smelled amazing so i just knew i had to try it. i saw it on sale at ulta when i was about to pick up my hg panteen and decided what the heck. what can i say? i'm a sucker for cute packaging. but this stuff is crap! i got sucked in because of the cute packaging and it smells good but no way never again. it made my hair flat and just gross feeling. it didnt do anything for me except dry out my scalp. it lathers ok not as good as other shampoos but at least it did lather. i so wanted to love this but i cant. it doesnt work for me at all. i honestly dont have anything good to say about this. maybe i should have gone for a diferent one instead of the reparative formula or maybe i should have just used it once a week but there is no way i'd repurchase anything from this brand ever again or put this stuff on my hair anymore even if it was once a week. i might have considered repurchasing something if it hadnt dried out my scalp so bad but seriously it hurts in places because i scratched it so hard. it gave me the worst hair days i had ever had in my life. i know how awful this stuff was for my hair because tonight was the first time i went back to my panteen and my hair feels 100 times better and different already. i can tell it is softer and has a lot more body. my scalp still hurts but it will prob take a while for that to heal since i was mean to it lol but yeah skip this stuff, its not worth the money becuase not only does it suck its also on the pricey side. i wish i could give this a 0 rating.
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apo1 on 4/5/2009 11:45:00 PM more reviews by apo1
Age: 19-24 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium Hair: Blond Eyes: Brown
I love this product! I color treat my hair a lot, and use all the tools, blowdryer, curling iron, flat iron, daily. I bought this and the first time I used it my hair looked and felt healthier! I would recommend using the conditioner with it too for best results.
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mikala17 on 12/30/2006 2:32:00 PM more reviews by mikala17
Age: 25-29 Skin: Sensitive, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Green
My hairdresser suggested it during a recent cut. I was skeptical because my hair is in decent condition and isn't colored or permed but it has worked well for me. I use it once or twice a week and agree with the others who felt it might be too much to use every day. My hair is shiny and behaves well if I use it sporadically but looks dull if I use it too much. I love the smell and the scent sticks to my hair after rinsing.
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EmiIy_MicheIle on 8/10/2006 5:12:00 PM more reviews by EmiIy_MicheIle
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Blue
WOW. I've never used a shampoo that leaves my hair feeling as though i just conditoned it,i never even knew it was possable! but this totally does! i lather this on, rinse and my hair feels so soft it's crazy,i hate the smell, and the bottle, but the produtc is definatly worth it will definatly repurchase!
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pamcake44 on 8/7/2006 10:57:00 PM more reviews by pamcake44
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
I used to love the Halo Drench, and decided to try this since my hair was a little dryer and more damaged. Well, bad idea! The smell is kind of similar, but more tropical like coconuts, but not overly so. This along with the matching conditioner left my hair very dry and frizzy. NOT a good look!
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kristi1285 on 4/23/2006 11:37:00 AM more reviews by kristi1285
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
I guess I'm just about the only person who doesn't like this shampoo! I've tried this several times now because it's got such good reviews but I've had the WORST hair days each time I use it..it's really dissapointing because i LOVE how it smells. I have fine, highlighted hair but this just makes it so unmanageable and flat. And my curl never stays in when I use this. Don't know why it works for everyone else but not me :(
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jamie1519 on 2/17/2006 10:19:00 PM more reviews by jamie1519
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
As stated below - the packaging of this product is terrible. It is hard to get out, and it always falls over in the shower. But, I aboslutely love the smell, and it leaves my hair feeling so clean. Not sure how repairative it is,having only been using it a few weeks, but I am pleased with it so far.
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*TOP REVIEWER* cahoulie on 8/28/2005 12:55:00 PM more reviews by cahoulie
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My HG shampoo! Rich,thick lather= soft,smooth,shiny hair.
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I have tried every brand of hair products, and then some. After a few weeks of use I have to say that there is something in this stuff that makes it different. I saw a picture of myself and the first thing I thought was how great my hair looked. It is usually really dry and damaged but this gave it great shine. It is also really concentrated so just a small ammount will go a long way. If you flat iron your hair and get it highlighted then give your hair a break and splurge for this stuff. It really makes a difference.
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I love this shampoo. My hair is so soft and shiny since I started using it and the smell is fantastic! My hair has never looked better.
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When James Campanella founded Lawn Dawg in Nashua, N.H., in 1997, the goal wasn't simply to be competitive in the regional market. "My plan was to become the dominant lawn care business in the Northeast," he states plainly.
It was a bold plan, but not an unrealistic one given the experience that Campanella had gained earlier in his career working for a number of local and national lawn care companies. He says he used that experience when starting and growing Lawn Dawg, which specializes in fertilizer applications, weed and insect control, soil testing and related lawn care services.
Campanella got his start in the green industry in 1983 working as a lawn technician for Old Fox Lawn Care in Chelmsford, Mass. He eventually worked his way up to a management position with that company. In 1987, after Old Fox was sold to Tru-Green, Campanella helped the former owner, Dr. Jim Wilkinson, start a Lawnmark franchise in Portland, Maine. "That was a great learning experience, being able to start a business from scratch," Campanella recalls. "In just a few years we were able to build that business up to become the largest lawn care company in Portland." He credits Wilkinson, a former turfgrass professor at Ohio State, with helping to teach him the science of caring for turf. "I was very fortunate to learn from the best," says Campanella.
In 1993, when Wilkinson sold the business, Campanella went to work directly for Lawnmark as a regional manager based in Albany, N.Y. "This really allowed me to learn about the marketing side of the business. Lawnmark was a marketing machine and really knew how to drive new customers to the business," he says of his time in that role.
Two years later, Lawnmark was sold to Barefoot Grass, which was the second-largest lawn care company in the country at the time. Campanella was moved to New Hampshire as the Northeast regional manager. "Barefoot was a public company, and there I really learned the financial end of the business," he recalls. Not long after, though, Barefoot Grass was purchased by Tru-Green, which already had a Northeast regional manager, leaving Campanella to ponder his future path.
"At that point, I had already had an opportunity to learn all of the major aspects of the business," Campanella explains. "I felt I was really ready to give it a try on my own." So he started Lawn Dawg in southern New Hampshire with, he says, "zero customers." Now, just 15 years later, the company has about 20,000 customers serviced by about 100 employees in 10 different locations across the Northeast (New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York). And that growth looks to continue. It's proof that Campanella's initial vision of building the dominant lawn care business in the Northeast wasn't far-fetched. "And it remains our goal," he emphasizes.
Campanella, who along the way served as national president of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America (PLCAA), says that his early career spent moving around the Northeast with various lawn care companies gave him an opportunity to learn different geographic markets, and to meet knowledgeable, influential people in various locations. "When I started opening branches, it's no coincidence that I now have branches in Portland, Maine, and Albany, N.Y., and in Connecticut and Massachusetts - all of the places that I worked or had responsibility for within my region," he explains. "I'm pretty confident [about identifying] the places that will work for us, and where we can be successful." He opened one branch a year for the first seven years after he founded the company.
In spite of the impressive growth, Campanella is quick to point out that there have been many lessons learned as the company has evolved. For starters, Lawn Dawg has had to adjust its expansion strategies over the years. "It was easier to start up a location from scratch before the 'Do Not Call Registry' was passed. We were very good at telemarketing - excellent at it - so we were able to grow a business pretty quickly with the exact customer accounts we wanted," recalls Campanella.
Since the advent of the Do Not Call Registry has limited telemarketing, he says it's now easier for Lawn Dawg to buy its way into a market by acquiring an existing company and work to grow that customer-base. Not that that's an easy prospect, either. "It's not just a matter of finding a business for sale. It has to be the right fit, it has to be the right people that fit our culture and out team, and it has to be a good, well-run business. We're not interested in buying someone's problems," says Campanella. He feels fortunate that in three of the four acquisitions he's made, the previous owners have stayed on board to manage the new branches. "They loved lawn care, just not so much running the business," Campanella summarizes.
Another challenge that Lawn Dawg faced in the mid-2000s was a failed foray into adding additional landscape maintenance services such as mowing and landscape design/construction and even irrigation work. "We took a pretty hard hit to our cash reserves," Campanella says of the investment involved in mowers and other equipment needed to get these additional services up and running.
Beyond that, he also soon realized that some of these services required a completely different business model than the lawn fertilizer/chemical applications he had built the business around. "Despite people thinking they're similar in nature, they are very, very different and require completely different models. So we went back to our core business, what we're good at. That will remain our focus and only focus," says Campanella. The only category of the new services that he decided to retain is tree and shrub spray services. "They are a pretty easy add-on to lawn services," he points out.
In the majority of cases, Lawn Dawg has started new branches from scratch. In four locations, however (mostly after passage of the Do Not Call Registry), it was able to acquire existing lawn services companies. In most of these cases, he used a broker to help identify such opportunities. Often it's a small but successful company where the owner doesn't have the financial resources or the expertise or, perhaps, the desire to grow the business larger. "It comes to a point where taking the next step requires a tremendous investment in infrastructure," says Campanella. "A one- or two-man operation can get to about $250,000 to maybe $300,000 in annual revenue ... through referrals or knocking on doors. After that, to get to next level - north of half-a-million dollars a year - you really have to invest in infrastructure and marketing and create a business plan."
Whether a new branch is started from scratch of purchased as part of an acquisition, having a capable manager on site is extremely important, says Campanella. "We actually tried to run a couple of satellite branches, where a branch manager would oversee the office from an hour or two away and it would only be field staff in that location. On paper, it looks great because it's a profitable model, but in application it doesn't work. You need a boss who is in charge and onsite every day running the business," he says. Campanella says that Tom Bucci, Lawn Dawg's vice president of operations, visits each location on a regular basis (a different branch each week) to meet with the site manager and staff and ensure things are running smoothly.
While each office is run as a standalone profit center and a standalone business, there are several key ways in which efficiencies can be realized in running the different branches. Most notably, says Campanella, is the fact that all sales, customer service, billing, etc., is done through the company's central headquarters in Nashua, N.H. This office serves as something of a nerve center, with all customer calls being routed here and staff in Nashua using that information to send out bills to customers and work schedules to each branch. "That way customers are talking to a specially trained customer service representative and every customer is getting a response that is consistent, honest and polite," he explains. "It allows us to provide the best quality customer service with the most efficiency."
Campanella credits the use of Real Green System's Service Assistant software with helping Lawn Dawg to manage so many customer accounts in so many locations from one office. "It's a fantastic program," he says. "We send out 70 routes a day which are handled by two routing managers here at the headquarters. We've built a great network, so they can print right to the printers in our branch offices. It makes us very efficient." Even more important that the technology, though, is the executive management and marketing team and headquarters staff that really make Lawn Dawg's model work so well, Campanella emphasizes.
Operating numerous branches also allows the company negotiating strength when purchasing products such as fertilizers and pesticides. It also allows Lawn Dawg to create one large company account with vendors and get better rates on everything from vehicle oil changes at Jiffy Lube to company uniforms. "We also get great deals on our trucks and equipment," Campanella adds. "For example, we have a credit line with General Motors and reached a certain limit with them that allows for some really substantial discounts on trucks."
Beyond improved buying power, Lawn Dawg uses its multiple branches as an opportunity to improve efficiency through uniformity. One example was the design of a special Unicell custom-built box body on a Chevrolet van chassis. "We customized the body inside with a ramp so that we can drive our Z-Spray [from L.T. Rich Products] ride-on spreaders right onto the truck," says Campanella. The interior is also customized so there's an organized place for every tool and product needed on the job. And by using an enclosed vehicle, the company is able to use the exterior as a driving billboard to help with marketing.
Putting the same vehicles and equipment at every branch, and ensuring that all employees look neat and professional in matching uniforms, helps to ensure consistency, which is critically important in multilocation businesses, says Campanella. "Lawn care owners often ask me how I make the business work at multiple locations without being there," he reveals. "Really, the answer is all about systems. All of our branches run exactly the same way, because we have a system or a policy for everything."
Patrick White is a freelance writer and editor who has covered every aspect of the green industry in the past 15 years. He is based in Middlesex, Vt. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Fall 2011 New York Fashion Week: Band of Outsiders 2011-02-12 23:04:20
Scott Sternberg Puts on First Runway Show, Complete With Rappelling Models, for Band of Outsiders' Fall 2011 Collection
>> Scott Sternberg has a love of elaborate sets and cookies, and his first ever Boy/Band of Outsiders runway show involved both. Meyer lemon cookies were on every seat, thanks to David Chang's Momofuku Milk Bar (the chef was also in attendance, along with Kirsten Dunst — the brand's latest lookbook model — Bee Shaffer, Kanye West, and Aziz Ansari, who wears the brand on his comedy tours); even Anna Wintour was spotted taking a bite. And then male models started rappelling 30 feet down from the top of the ceiling.
Thick knit sweaters, cropped plaid pants, fur scarves, silk print gowns, and slouchy fur beanies all pointed toward a grungy glamorous ski-inspired feel, while sharper looks, like a thin-wale corduroy suit, injected just the right amount of polish. A striped wool blanket poncho emoted the perfect sense of Winter cozy and semi-sheer maxi dresses were adorned with diminutive floral prints. Stylist Tina Chai topped off the look with chunky heeled hiking boots, pearls from Mikimoto, and pendants from Aesa.
Anna Wintour
Aziz Ansari
Band of Outsiders
Kanye West
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- It might be time to get your man a murse — The Cut
- Fast fashion vs investment pieces: this infographic breaks it down — Racked
- Lions, fire, and Lenny Kravitz? Katy Perry's halftime show sounds wild — InStyle
- What will it take for Gap to make a comeback? — Style.com
- Pregnant ladies, rejoice: Rachel Zoe has a maternity line — SheFinds
- Oops — you might be ruining your jewelry and not even know — Who What Wear
- Stock-photo models are people too! — Lucky
- Say goodbye to another brand: Jones New York is no longer — Fashionista


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Needs more Titus Andronicus (and Krill)
Rock and Roll
The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
As you said it yourself in the blurb, there's really no reason for Atlantic City to be here. Also, I'd take Spinners over Didn't Frighten You any day.
My list: Stuck Between Stations, Slapped Actress, Swish, Sequestered, Banging Camp, You Can Make Him Like You, Magazines, Stevie Nix, Weekenders, Party Pit.
God, that was tough. What a great band.
Nothing Ever Happened and Desire Lines are curious omissions. THM is good, but #4?
Bizarre bottom half of the list. Here's a quick idea of what I'd Have:
Fake Empire
Mr. November
Apartment Story
Slow Show
Afraid of Everyone
Secret Meeting
All The Wine
Abbey Road. Not only does it have the immaculate medley on Side B, but you have George's finest moments as a Beatle, the best harmonies of any Beatles album, and some Lennon classics ("Come Together," "I Want You.") Hell, even Ringo penned a good song here!


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[video] Film Executives Tread Lightly at Sundance to Avoid 'Mountain Fever'
This year may be different.
Coming out of the 2013 festival, Fox Searchlight paid almost $10 million for The Way, Way Back, a coming of age film starring Sam Rockwell that looked to be a charmer, possibly even the next Little Miss Sunshine. Fox Searchlight, the independent distribution arm of 21st Century Fox
(FOXA - Get Report), struck gold with Little Miss Sunshine, the hit of the 2006 Sundance Festival and was looking for a repeat performance.
But by the end of the year, The Way, Way Back had failed to catch fire. Box-office sales totaled just $23 million, according to Nash Information Services, a modest sum for a company like Fox even when accounting for television distribution and video-on-demand revenue.
"Little Miss Sunshine obviously paid off handsomely for everyone," John Sloss, an entertainment lawyer and founder of Cinetic Media who represented the movie's creators in its deal with Fox Searchlight, said in a phone interview. "Since then, there are a lot of people trying to capture that same lightning in a bottle, and maybe Searchlight thought they had that with Way, Way Back."
Relativity Media also made headlines a year ago when the film distributor agreed to pay $4 million for Don Jon in addition to $25 million to guarantee a wide theatrical release. Yet box-office sales for Don Jon, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore, were $26 million as of mid-January. Similarly, Sony Pictures Worldwide paid between $4 million and $5 million for Austenland, a film that has generated a mere $2.1 million at the box-office, according to Nash.
For distributors such as Open Road Films, The Weinstein Company and Focus Features, a division of Comcast (CMCSA), the temptation to overspend at Sundance can be irresistible. Teams of executives from New York and Los Angeles arrive at this resort town in Utah's dramatic Wasatch Mountains with layers of assistants, poised to buy the rights to a movie that may already be attracting lots of buzz. A first-class Sundance badge that affords its owner the convenience of skipping lines, costs $3,500. A more standard all-film pass is priced at $1,500. Housing, whether a group in a condo or at one of Park City's boutique hotels, can easily exceed $400 per person per night. Then there are the meals, the drinks and the car rentals. With all that money being spent, there's pressure to justify all those expenses. Heightening the pressure is the knowledge that making the right acquisition can make or break a career."The smartest film executives can get carried away by the scene,'" said Jason Resnick, a movie industry consultant attending the festival. "They go out and see something and think 'this is going to be the breakout hit of the festival,' and spend a lot of money. Sometimes they win but sometimes they get 'mountain fever' and miss badly." Part of the problem may come in the contrasting perspectives of the Festival's organizers, led by the actor Robert Redford, who trumpet Sundance, now in its 30th year, as a place that pushes cinema regardless of its potential commercial appeal, and the distributors, who are keenly focused on making a profit. "There's a real dichotomy between what the festival was set up to do and what it's become," Resnick said. "On one hand, Robert Redford wanted an environment where filmmakers could create something artistic and not be beholden to the studios, and then on the other hand, you have all these industry people who are trying to make money." So far, this year's Sundance Festival, which ends Sunday, has seen a handful of modest deals but nothing approaching Don Jon. Sony Pictures Worldwide agreed to spend $2.5 million to $3 million for the international rights to Whiplash, the directorial debut of 28-year-old Damien Chazelle about a young drumming student and his ruthless music school instructor.
The film Laggies, about a college graduate not particularly eager to move out of her parent's home starring Keira Knightley, went to the New York based independent distributor A-24, for about $2 million while Focus Features acquired Zach Braff's Kickstarter-funded Wish I Was Here for around $2.7 million, Variety reported. The Weinstein's Radius-TWC acquired Charlie McDowell's One I Love for about $2 million, according to Deadline Hollywood.
The absence of a large acquisition deal may be due to a crop of films that lacked a genuine breakout hit, or possibly to the realization among film executives that their industry is still making its way through an historic transition to video-on-demand away from theaters, and treading lightly is the best course.
"It's not surprising that the number of blockbuster deals has receded, that's just the new reality," Sloss said. "But there's no reason for me to believe that if the right film appeared this year that it wouldn't spark the same response. It's easy to say that people have learned, but I'm not sure if they ever learn."
At Sundance, "mountain fever" can strike at anytime. --By Leon Lazaroff in New York. Follow @leonlazaroff >Contact by Email.
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Name of Product: Can-Am ATVs
Units: About 1,600
Distributor: BRP US Inc., of Sturtevant, Wis.
Manufacturer: BRP Mexico S.A. de C.V., Ciudad Juárez, Mexican state of Chihuahua
Hazard: The Dynamic Power Steering (DPS) main shaft can crack and pieces can detach. Those pieces inside the DPS can block gears and cause limited steering ability, posing a loss of control hazard with risk of serious injury or death to the operator.
Incidents/Injuries: BRP has received two reports of broken DPS resulting in limited steering ability. No injuries have been reported.
Description: This recall involves 2010 and 2011 Can-Am Outlander and Renegade model ATVs. The ATVs were sold in black, yellow and red and have "Can-Am" and the model name printed on the side panels. Models included in the recall are:
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TENNASAW RIVER (May 18, 2002)
Kilpatrick wins Wal-Mart BFL Gulf Coast Division tourney
STOCKTON, Ala. — Jason Kilpatrick of Satsuma, Ala., topped 54 Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League competitors Saturday on the Tensaw River with five bass weighing 11 pounds. The catch earned him $2,045 and 200 points in the Boater Division.
Kilpatrick caught his limit on a 3/8-ounce spinner bait while fishing cypress trees. The catch topped second-place boaters Robert Robinson of Mobile, Ala., and Jerry Wigginton of Biloxi, Miss., by 9 ounces. Robinson and Wigginton finished tied with 10 pounds, 7 ounces each. Both men received $817. Robinson had five bass, and Wigginton had four bass. Wigginton also earned boater big bass honors and $270 with a 4-pounder that he caught on a crankbait.
Ted Marodis of Biloxi, Miss., (five bass, 9 pounds, 12 ounces, $491) and Lee Grandquest of Semmes, Ala., (five bass, 9 pounds, 10 ounces, $450) rounded out the top five boaters.
Steve Jones of Moss Point, Miss., received a $500 bonus from Ranger Boats as the highest-finishing participant in the Ranger Cup incentive program. He finished 11th with a five-bass catch weighing 7 pounds.
Chris Hults of Gautier, Miss., claimed first place and $1,022 in the 54-competitor Co-angler Division with five bass weighing 10 pounds, 3 ounces. He surpassed second-place co-angler Terry Lott of Ocean Springs, Miss., by 1 pound, 3 ounces. Lott finished with a four-bass catch weighing 9 pounds worth $511.
Boyd Phillips of Lillian, Ala. (five bass, 8 pounds, 12 ounces, $307); Sam Richardson of Vancleave, Miss. (four bass, 7 pounds, 7 ounces, $245); and James Gaines of Diamondhead, Miss., (four bass, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, $225) rounded out the top five co-anglers.
Gaines earned co-angler big bass honors and $135 with a 4-pound, 3-ounce bass.
Overall, 15 five-bass limits were caught during the tournament.
The Wal-Mart BFL will visit the Pearl River Sept. 28-29 for the Gulf Coat Division's season finale, a two-day Super Tournament, after which the boater with the most points will be declared the Yamaha "Be the Best" Points Leader and awarded $1,000. The co-angler amassing the most points by the end of the season will receive $500.
The top 30 Gulf Coast Division boaters and co-anglers will advance to regional competition Oct. 29-Nov. 2 on Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs, Ark., where they will go up against top competitors from the Louisiana, Okie and Ozark divisions for a shot at qualifying for the Wal-Mart BFL All-American — one of the most lucrative post-season tournaments in competitive angling.
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text: Nabucco is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the biblical story and the play by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. Its first performance took place on March 9, 1842 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. The best-known number from this opera is Hebrews' Chorus, "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" ("Fly, thought, on golden wings"). HistoryThe opera, Verdi's third, is considered to be the one that permanently established his reputation as a composer. Nabucco follows the plight of the Jews as they are assaulted and subsequently exiled from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco (in English, Nebuchadnezzar). Following the critical and public failure of his second opera Un giorno di regno, Giuseppe Verdi considered giving up opera. As a teacher, he fared no better; he left his post earlier in disgust as director of the Music School of Busseto after the Music Conservatoire of Milan rejected him. At the same time, other Italian contemporaries like Rossini and Donizetti were passing him by and becoming internationally famous. Realizing that the proceeds from the first and subsequent productions of his first opera Oberto would not last him forever, Verdi was unsure how to continue making a living in Milan. Bartolomeo Merelli, the impresario of the Teatro alla Scala, approached Verdi with a new manuscript titled Nabucodonosor (later Nabucco) by Temistocle Solera (the librettist of his first opera), which was based on a play of the same name written by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. Merelli had already approached the Prussian composer Otto Nicolai about composing the music but was turned down in favor of working on the opera Il proscritto (a move Nicolai later regretted). Verdi rejected Merelli as well but kept the manuscript with him. Verdi describes his decision to accept as a swift and dramatic one, in that he "threw the manuscript onto the table almost violently" and "read the libretto not once but two or three times so that by morning …[he] knew the whole of [the] libretto [...] by heart". This is likely exaggerated; the decision was a more cautious one, made over the course of days or weeks. Nabucco was finished by the autumn of 1841 at the latest. Unlike Oberto, which took three years for a theatre to agree to a performance, Nabucco's production started March 1842, six months after completion. The opera premiered on March 9, 1842 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Because a ballet based on the same play had been produced at that same theatre some months before, Verdi's opera reused many of the props and sets from then. Giorgio Ronconi (baritone) played Nabucco, Corrado Miraglia (tenor) played the king of Jerusalem Ismaele, Giuseppina Strepponi (soprano) Nabucco's adopted elder daughter Abigaille, and Giovannina Bellinzaghi (soprano) Nabucco's younger daughter Fenena. Critical reactionVerdi commented that, "[w]ith this opera, my artistic career may be said to have begun". He was right: Nabucco was an instant success, dominating Donizetti and Pacini operas playing nearby. While the public went mad with enthusiasm, the critics tempered their approval of the opera. Amusingly, one critic who found Nabucco revolting was Otto Nicolai, the composer to whom the libretto was offered first. A thoroughly Prussian-bred man, Nicolai felt at odds with emotional Italian opera while he lived near Milan. After refusing to accept the libretto proposal from Merelli, Nicolai began work on another offer called Il Proscritto. Its disastrous premiere in March 1841 forced Nicolai to cancel his contract with Merelli and flee to Vienna. From there he learned of Nabucco's success and was enraged. "[Verdi's operas] are really horrible", he wrote. "He scores like a fool — technically he is not even professional — and he must have the heart of a donkey and in my view he is a pitiful, despicable composer … ". Additionally, he described Nabucco as nothing but "rage, invective, bloodshed and murder." Nicolai's opinions were in the minority, however, and he has today become comparatively obscure. Nabucco secured Verdi's success until his retirement from theatre, sixteen operas later. Music historians have long perpetuated a powerful myth about the famous "Va, pensiero" chorus sung in the third act by the Hebrew slaves. Scholars have long believed the audience, responding with nationalistic fervor to the slave's powerful hymn of longing for their homeland, demanded an encore of the piece. As encores were expressly forbidden by the government at the time, such a gesture would have been extremely significant. However, recent scholarship puts this and the corresponding myth of "Va, pensiero" as the national anthem of the Risorgimento, to rest. Although the audience did indeed demand an encore, it was not for "Va, pensiero" but rather for the hymn "Immenso Jehova," sung by the Hebrew slaves to thank God for saving his people. In light of these new revelations, Verdi's position as the musical figurehead of the Risorgimento has been correspondingly downplayed. Today, "Va, pensiero" is regularly given an encore when performed; interestingly, it is the only encore Metropolitan Opera conductor James Levine has ever allowed. SynopsisAll events occur during 587 BC. Part One: Jerusalem 'Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I shall deliver this city into the hand of the King of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire' (Jeremiah 21:10) Interior of the Temple of Jerusalem The Jews are being defeated and Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar) is poised to enter Jerusalem. The High Priest Zaccaria tells the people not to despair but to trust in God. The presence of a hostage, Fenena, younger daughter of Nabucco, may yet secure peace. Zaccaria entrusts Fenena to Ismaele, nephew of the King of Jerusalem and a former envoy to Babylon. Although Fenena and Ismaele love each other and left alone, Ismaele urges her to escape rather than risk her life. Nabucco's elder daughter, Abigaille, storms into the temple with soldiers in disguise. She, too, loves Ismaele. Discovering the lovers, she threatens Ismaele: if he does not give up Fenena, Abigail will accuse her of treason. The King himself enters ('Viva Nabucco'). Zaccaria defies him, threatening to kill Fenena with a dagger. Ismaele intervenes to save her. Nabucco responds by ordering the destruction of the temple, and the Jews curse Ismaele as a traitor. Part Two: The Unbeliever 'Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth, it shall fall upon the head of the wicked' (Jeremiah 30:23) Scene 1: The Palace in Babylon Nabucco is away at the wars and has appointed Fenena as regent. Abigaille has discovered a document that proves she is not Nabucco's real daughter, but a slave. The High Priest of Baal, accompanied by the Magi, comes to tell Abigaille that Fenena has released the Jewish captives. Their response is to launch a coup to put Abigaille on the throne, while spreading a rumour that Nabucco has died in battle. Scene 2: A hall in the Palace in Babylon Fenena is converted to the Jewish religion, and Ismaele is reconciled to the Jews. However it is announced that the King is dead and Abigaille and the High Priest of Baal demand the crown from Fenena. Unexpectedly, Nabucco himself enters, scorning both sides, both Baal and the Hebrew god that he has defeated. He declares himself God. When Zaccaria objects, Nabucco orders the Jews to be put to death. Fenena says that she will share their fate. Repeating that he is now god ('Non son piu re, son dio'), Nabucco is promptly hit by a thunderbolt and loses his senses. The crown falls and is picked up by Abigaille. Part Three: The Prophecy 'The wild beasts of the desert shall dwell in Babylon, and the owls shall dwell therein'. Jeremiah Scene 1: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon The High Priest presents Abigaille with the death decree for the Jews and Fenena. Nabucco enters looking like a mad man, claiming his throne. Abigaille persuades him to seal the decree, but he asks that Fenena be saved. He tells Abigaille that she is not his true daughter but a slave. Abigaille mocks him, destroying the document with the evidence of her true origins. Understanding that he is now a prisoner, he pleads for Fenena's life. Abigaille exults. Scene 2: Banks of the River Euphrates The Jews long for their homeland ('Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate'). Zaccaria once again exhorts them to have faith: God will destroy Babylon. Part Four: The Shattered Idol 'Baal is confounded, his idols are broken in pieces.' Jeremiah Scene 1: The Palace in Babylon Scene 2: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon [This synopsis by Simon Holledge was first published on Opera japonica http://www.operajaponica.org and appears here by permission.] OrchestrationIt is scored for two flutes (one doubling as piccolo), two oboes (one doubling as English horn), two clarinets, two bassoons, four French horns, two trumpets, three trombones (two tenor, one bass), one cimbasso, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, side drum, triangle, two harps, strings, and an onstage band. Average performance time is 2 hours, 15 minutes plus one intermission. References


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