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Our first cruise, but not last!
This was my wife and I first experience with cruising. I had plenty of people tell us we would love it and few stating they would never do it again. So with that in mind we went for a short 5 day with carnival Triumph to western Caribbean. The folks in New Orleans were fantastic. We arrived at the terminal at about 1130 AM and were on the ship in no time. The bags arrived at the room about 6 that evening which I thought was a little slow. The ship itself was very clean the room was fantastic. I had researched the best cabins for quiet and I hit pay dirt! The room 8208 was much quieter than the Hilton hotel we had spent the previous night in!
Our cabin steward was great as well as all of the other crew members. Overall the food was good with the best in the dining rooms in the evening. Buffets were nothing fantastic, but good. The shows were OK, but the adult comedy shows are a must see. The only complaint I have with the entire ship would be the cigarette smoking in the More
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Saturday, September 18
Lincoln Financial Field
Attendance: 18,702
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Bernard Pierce rushed for 169 yards and scored a career-high three touchdowns to lead the Temple Owls to a 30-16 victory over the Connecticut Huskies at Lincoln Financial Field.
It is the first 3-0 start for Temple since 1979, and it was also the team's eighth consecutive home victory, which is a new school record. Also the victory is the first over a BCS opponent since 2004 when the Owls defeated Syracuse, 34-24.
One of Pierce's three scores came through the air, as the tailback hauled in a pass from Chester Stewart for 27 yards. Stewart was mediocre for Temple (3-0), completing 11-of-21 passes for 159 yards, to go along with his touchdown pass to Pierce.
In the loss, Jordan Todman was a menace for UConn (1-2), rushing for 192 yards and one score on 26 carries. Zach Frazer had some trouble for the Huskies, as the signal caller threw for just 150 yards on 16-of-31 passing.
The only points scored in the first quarter came off the foot of UConn's kicker Dave Teggart, as his capped off a 12-play, 71-yard drive with a 36-yard field goal.
Temple took its first lead of the contest early in the second stanza when Stewart connected with Pierce for a 27-yard pass and catch.
In the final seconds of the second quarter Teggart struck again, this time connecting on a 26-yard kick, sending the Huskies into the break down by a slim, 7-6 margin.
Todman's dominance over Temple continued in the second half, as UConn's tailback broke free from multiple tackles, en route to a 59-yard touchdown run less than a minute into the third quarter.
The Owls answered back later in the third quarter, as Temple used a 10-play, 60-yard drive that was led and finished by Pierce. The sophomore tailback punished UConn's defensive during the drive and put the Owls on top, 14-13, with a one-yard touchdown run.
However, Temple's lead was short-lived, as the Huskies marched down field on their next drive. Although the offense stalled in Temple's territory, Teggart was able to put UConn back on top with a 47-yard field goal.
Al Golden's defense stepped up its play in the final quarter, and even added to the scoring when Adrian Robinson striped Todman of the football and promptly ran 24 yards for a touchdown. Temple's two-point attempt failed, but the Owls still possessed a 20-16 lead.
After a quick three-and-out by the Huskies, the special teams for Temple wanted to join the party, and did so thanks to Delano Green, who broke free on a punt return, taking the ball down to Connecticut's four-yard line.
Two plays later Pierce found the end zone on a two-yard run, pushing Temple's lead to 27-16.
The Owls added a 32-yard field goal by Brandon McManus in the final minute of action for good measure, as Temple went on to win by a 14-point margin.
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Between this year's Halo Wars and Halo: ODST, Microsoft is working to establish a universe for its blockbuster sci-fi series extending significantly beyond the Master Chief character. Today the company revealed another step toward that, with the announcement of Halo Legends, an anime anthology focusing on different times, locations, and characters in the universe.
Like previous anime anthologies, The Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knights, Halo Legends taps a variety of notable Japanese creators and animation studios to produce short films for a compiled home-video release. Directors Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed) and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) will be working on the project, as will familiar studios like Production I.G. (Blood: The Last Vampire), Studio4˚C (Tekkonkinkreet), Toei Animation (Dragon Ball), Casio Entertainment (visual effects work on Big Man Japan), and Bones (Cowboy Bebop: The Movie).
Unlike those other projects, Halo Legends will also help Microsoft usher in Halo Waypoint, "a new destination for Halo fans on Xbox Live."
Launching this fall, Waypoint will host previews of Halo Legends, podcasts, news, and trailers for various projects in the Halo universe. It will also introduce its own leaderboards and achievement-style system for Halo fans to mark their in-game and out-of-game feats.
Both Halo Legends and Halo Waypoint fall under the purview of 343 Industries, which is--as rumored--the name of Microsoft Game Studios' new label covering the franchise. In addition to games, 343 will oversee the creation of Halo books, clothing, collectibles, and other content stemming from the series. The group has drawn some notable names to its ranks, including former Kojima Productions producer Ryan Payton and Bungie alum Frank O'Connor.


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Each of the partners has taken different steps and now mantain blogs that are visited daily by thousands of lovers of the good music.
Finally I've decided to reopen the old Power Pop Lovers Blog published simultaneously on wordpress and blogger with the same inputs in order to recover and keep those wonderful albums to enjoy the nostalgic and new discoverers of them.
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For that reason I'm going to close PVAc Blog slowly and move the old posts there reuploading those files whose links have expired with new servers more operatives than rapidshare, because Rapidshare has ceased to be an attractive host to upload.
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One of the things that makes Halloween and the Day of the Dead interesting in my family is the skeleton we've had in the closet for 3 generations running.
While this may sound sinister or downright peculiar, let me assure you that Felix, as he's known, holds a cherished position in our household. For starters, he's a silent but reliable teacher and a master at imparting lessons of impermanence.
Here's a short essay I wrote about this, which was published on Salon.com today.
Some of the readers suggest we should give him a proper burial. Others think that as long as he fulfills the role of a teacher, it's OK to keep him above ground. I'd love to hear your thoughts…
Maybe a little shellac. ... It will preserve anything for like agazillion yrs. Happy Halloween. Can't wait to share this with my kids tomorrow!


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Hi everyone,
Well, no new plants yet but I was having trouble what to call this thread. Anyways, I'm still hunting hoyas for my wish list. I am determined to find a Royal Flush or Ruby Sue and a pubicalyx White Dragon for my collection. If I don't find one, Plan B is to decide on one from Joni. I see she has White Dragon and both lacunosas. Kerrii I'm still looking for too. Like I said before, so many hoyas, so little space! I am seeing lots of new growth on almost all of my plants. The latest excitement being discovering peduncles on Nikki, my carnosa (see my other post). I've been ignoring them for the most part and have been focusing on the outdoor garden. My verticillata is not doing a darn thing! The cuttings are very woody and I got them in a trade last year. Black Dragon is really showing off with just sprays of lush green foilage. It's my favorite pubicalyx as of now! Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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I'm looking for those 2 lacunosas also here in Virginia-nothing to report yet! Those publicalyx's sound amazing. Do you have pics of the one you do have? Susan |
Hi Susan, Here's a picture I took yesterday of my Black Dragon. Not in bloom but a very nice plant! It starting growing like mad after I put it outside for the summer like my other hoyas. I have to add that I will be getting some Royal Flush cuttings from a nice member on here! Now if I can just root them, all will be well! Brad AKA Moonwolf |
Brad: Your Black Dragon is looking great. Beast of luck rooting 'Royal Flush' and getting Nikki to bloom. Susan: What part of VA are you in? In the Stafford area they have 'Ruby Sue'. -David |
Close, it's Culpeper. I was in Fredericksburg last weekend checking out the Lowe's and HD with no luck. Hmmm, Stafford is not too much farther. I have to restrain myself (yeah, right) because I have bought too many plants lately. Thanks for the tip, |
oops, forgot my manners... Brad, thanks for posting that picture. Love that plant, too. Very healthy! In regard to lacunosas, I have the regular one and the splash. I must say that splash is overtaking the regular one by leaps and bounds and blooming like crazy on my front porch. Susan |
You're welcome, Susan and David! Susan, good luck finding a Ruby Sue! When you say speckled, do you mean you have the Snow Caps version? Brad AKA Moonwolf |
Yes, that's probably the correct name of the one I have. It clearly out does the original lacunosa. Susan |
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LOL I was experiencing some envy at how big your Black Dragon has gotten, Brad. Then I pulled out my flat and realized mine has been growing up a storm, too. I agree that this is a nice looking plant, somehow, even though the leaves are very simple. I think, as you put it, it just has an aura of opulent health and vigor. Congrats on the new Royal Flush cuttings! My carnosa finally put out a peduncle this year, so I'm with you on the rooting for the late bloomers team. Goooooooooooooooo slowpokes! |
GG, that's great news! I hope your carnosa blooms for you too! I am very excited about my Royal Flush cuttings! Thanks for the cheer of support! Goooooooooooooooo slowpokes! Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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A group of Southwestern utilities is exploring the possibility of developing a 250-megawatt solar power plant in Arizona or southern Nevada, which would be one of the largest in the region.
The feasibility of such a plant, which could produce enough electricity to serve 160,000 to 200,000 homes, is being studied by a consortium of seven utilities, including Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project and Tucson Electric Power.
Barbara Lockwood, manager of renewable energy for APS, who provided details of the project to the Arizona Corporation Commission on Thursday, said the group is serious about pursuing the plant, which would far eclipse in size previous solar projects built in Arizona.
By comparison, the most recent APS solar plant, the Saguaro Solar Trough Generating Station at Red Rock in Pinal County, produces 1.3 megawatts. Another major solar plant under construction in Boulder City, Nev., will produce 64 megawatts. In California, solar projects of 500 megawatts and larger are under development.
Lockwood said the consortium has hired a consultant to study possible sites for the plant. Finding the right site will be critical in determining if the project is feasible for all of the partners, she said.
Also the group is drawing up a request for proposals to present to solar power plant developers, who would build and operate the plant and sell the power to the utilities under long-term power-purchase agreements. If the project proceeds on schedule, the utilities could seek commission approval of those contracts by early next year, Lockwood said.
The ACC has been pushing Arizona utilities to invest in solar and other renewable energies to reduce the state's dependence on fossil fuels, especially high-priced natural gas, for electricity production. Last year the commission approved a requirement that Arizona utilities obtain 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
Solar electricity is more expensive than power generated by conventional methods, but the gap is expected to narrow as larger solar plants are built, because of the advantages of scale.
Commissioner Kris Mayes said power from a 250-megawatt solar plant still is not likely to be as cheap as electricity produced with natural gas, but she added "we know we have to get off our addiction to fossil fuels. Down the road it (solar power) will be competitive."
Lockwood said the utilities have other problems to work out before the solar plant could be built including business and legal issues. Also she said the utilities are study a range of solar technologies that could be employed. Mayes urged the utilities to find a site in Arizona rather than building in Nevada. "It's hard to swallow the notion of putting these plants in other states," she said.
Kate Maracas, a member of the Western Governor's Association Solar Task Force, said more incentives will be needed to close the gap in price between solar and conventional energy. She said the state could further promote the solar industry by streamlining solar plant construction permits, creating renewable energy enterprise zones and strengthening the longterm certainty that existing tax credits will continue.


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Photoscape is a free basic photo editor whose range of tools includes batch editor, animated GIF creator, RAW converter, images combiner and so on. "Basis" is the key word when describing the application as you won't find any sophisticated features in it but if one of the main things you are looking for in a photo editor is simple and easy-to-use interface, it looks like a nice thing.
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Photo Art Studio is a simple image enhancer suitable for all types of users, though clearly aimed at those who enjoy one-click adjustments rather than cryptic editing functions. You are offered a wide variety of templates to frame and embellish your favorite shots, as well as simple editing tools (referred to as effects and filters) to perform minor lighting and exposure corrections.
Pos Free Photo Editor is a simple-to-use yet pretty comprehensive tool that lets you enhance photos by applying various effects and filters to them. It lets you modify parameters such as the brightness, the contrast or the saturation of a photo, as well as quickly and easily apply a large variety of effects and filters to the image.
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sob sob.. do you think we can have the 5000post thread again? It's the only place we can hang out freely.. PM-ing each and everyone is... difficult... >_< gomen.
mmm... I don't ask for an oversize boobs. ^^lll I'm one who like sports so--- it wouldn't want something obscent jumping in front of everyone. I only ask to be... 80-83cm ^^lll nothing more than that. ^^
Over sized boobs.... yea... you look down and you can't even see your feet! XD
But it does suck that if you look down to find the whole of your feet. That's how flat I am... (=_=) sob...
I just wanna have some figure .. I'm fat! >_<, *cries*
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The Army commander who led that assault on veterans was none other than Douglas MacArthur, a man who cried real tears when recalling his days at West Point. Guess his sniffles were reserved only for his reminiscences. No need to waste them on real, live human beings who had also worn the uniform…
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Coakley was the worst candidate evah! Voters were completely turned off by her because she so obviously hated to campaign. Guess she never got the memo that if you want people to vote for you then you actually have to ASK them for their votes.
She's a good AG. You've got to give her that. But Bay State voters were completely turned off by her assumption that she had been anointed as Ted Kennedy's successor. And they were completely pissed that Democrats in Congress weren't getting anything done. The message voters sent to Washington wasn't that they loved Scott Brown. That was completely misinterpreted.
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CFnative commented on the blog post Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who.
Powerful piece. Wonderfully written. Thanks for posting.
CFnative commented on the diary post Jonathan Chait Is a Moronic Tool: Reconciliation Edition by Phoenix Woman.
Oh now, Phoenix Woman, there you go being all logical and stuff.
We're supposed to feel sorry for Obama and find endless excuses for why He Is Being Thwarted At Every Turn — with his enthusiastic cooperation.
CFnative commented on the blog post Showing the kind of leader he'd be
President Really-a-Republican has opened the door to this crazee. Expect it to be repeated ad nauseum without any real pushback from the WH. Obama must either be primaried or somehow convinced to resign. There is no other option.
He is doing Job One — killing the Democratic brand. No other president could be positioned so well to do this.
The forces behind the GOP have played a long game for decades and been spectacularly successful. The way to beat them is twofold: play our own long game (which will take years and years that we don't have) or direct action.
If there's a Third Way, I don't know what it is and I don't think we have the luxury now of even contemplating it. -
CFnative commented on the blog post White House Pressuring Schneiderman to Drop Objections to Foreclosure Fraud Whitewash
Oooh! Snap!
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Hubby just said something interesting: How come there's one rule for funding benefits for USPS workers and another (called "raiding") for Social Security benefits?
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OK, can't help myself. Seeing those pix of RP for this diary just make me think of the dicks of the upper-class fraternity in Animal House. And the "military" uniform reminds me of the ROTC asshole who rode the white horse. And we all remember what happened to the white horse, right?
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I've been saying this for years, as I've watched the plutocrats and oligarchs strip-search America and demand total control:
There's nothing more dangerous than someone who has nothing left to lose.
And if you've ever been caught up in an event that suddenly turned into a riot, it's the most frightening experience you'll ever have — there is no thought, no rationale, no kindness or compassion; just raw power, executed in whatever way possible; beatings, arson. A volcano of rage. -
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My guess is that Jeb Bush will be "drafted" as the GOP candidate.
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Yes, I heard the dog whistle in King's speech, also. He's not worried about not enough babies being born. It's that not enough white wimmins are reproducing white young'uns. There's a white-baby gap and it must be filled!
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FDR, commonly referred to as "a traitor to his class," actually saved the asses of the Richie Riches of the 1930s. There was a lot of unrest then, violent labor protests, the military veterans' march on Washington (and campout in tents, where the term "Hooverville" was coined) and diaspora of farming communities due to the Dust Bowl and regressive banking tactics.
They never forgave FDR for creating the New Deal and have been trying to overturn it ever since. Obama is the guy who's going to do it for them.
After all, "government" is in place to protect the status quo, correct? And all those poor, elderly and sick people don't create wealth, do they?
No more talking. Time for pitchforks. -
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Sorry, I'm confused. Are you saying that Social Security has been raided, to the tune of $2.6T, in order to fund federal operations while Bush started 2 unfunded wars and threw in tax cuts for good measure? I guess what I'm looking for is: reducing your valuable info into an accurate, and easily understood, paragraph [...]
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I vividly remember attending a screening of 1976′s "Network" when it opened in Boston. A white-haired, well-dressed man sitting a few rows ahead laughed uproariously at screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's dark take on "entertainment" news. When the lights came up, I realized it was Kevin White, mayor of Boston. That said, Chayefsky's ad absurdiam projection of [...]
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When the Dems caved so cravenly on healthcare "reform's" public-option throwaway, after Obama dealt it away in closed-door meetings with health insurers and Big Pharma, they sent a message to our president:
We don't matter! You can do what you want and we'll fall in line right in back of you! Love! Love!
Then all the other cave-ins — extending Bush tax cuts, etc., etc.
So, here we are in 2011, Obama is selling Social Security and Medicare out, Dems express outrage. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The fix is in, and not in our favor. All we get are the bills. But hey, he's a hopey-changey guy! -
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Well, in 2007 he told The Boston Globe that presidential use of military power required the consent of Congress. But, that's just me talking — and history.
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I get that Repubs are full of it and that "trickle down" economics don't work. The problem is: They. Don't. Care. They've pursued this flawed model for 30 years without any evidence that it works. Why? The idea is to crush the economy because that way the rich get it all and we get turned [...]
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'scuse me, did I miss something? Ragging on Nancy Pelosi for caving to Rethuglicans vs. Harry Reid's real bona fides as a progressive firebrand?
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CFnative commented on the blog post The 2011 WellPoint/Anthem Shareholders' Show: "One Thing You Can't Hide is When You're Crippled Inside."
Well , it's a hard choice, isn't it? See Wall Street tank your pension fund (gosh, that never happened before!) or spend your pension wad on health insurance premiums.
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CGX's M&A Criteria -- Wanted: Industry Leaders
October 2008 By Jim Cohen For example, in the last year and a half alone, we have acquired companies with more than $320 million in revenues, increasing sales at Consolidated Graphics by 33 percent during this period. And what is most exciting about all of this activity is that we have maintained our traditional discipline and have only acquired commercial printing companies that are generally recognized as industry leaders: Annan & Bird, The Hennegan Co., Pikes Peak Lithographing, Cyril-Scott Co. and PBM Graphics, for example.
My goal has been to identify the best companies and proactively approach them, but I also learn of opportunities through intermediaries or directly from the owners themselves (there is an e-mail link to the M&A team from our Website).
The purpose of this article is to shed some light on what Consolidated Graphics looks for in acquisition candidates. But before I describe the generic characteristics of attractive printing companies, it will be helpful to first share a little background on some of our recent acquisitions because these companies share many of the characteristics that we look for generally.
In the case of Annan & Bird, for example, in Toronto, I had heard good things about their large-format capabilities. I was in Toronto looking at another business and decided to call John and Dave Bird, the two brothers running the business who also represent the second generation of owners. Annan & Bird does high-quality packaging and point-of-purchase, large-format printing on five presses ranging from 57? all the way up to 81?. Interestingly, for a Consolidated Graphics company, they don't even own a 40? press.
This company was attractive to us because it was highly profitable and operated in a niche (large-format packaging and POP), which we knew would be attractive to our 650 salespeople and 22,000 customers. It also isn't a cliché to say that it's all about management. With the Birds, for example, I knew early on that the cultural fit was ideal.
In the case of the Hennegan acquisition, I first reached out to the Ott family soon after I started at Consolidated Graphics because it didn't take long for me to figure out that they were running one of the highest quality printing companies in the United States (500-line screen, anyone?). What I really liked about Hennegan, aside from their stellar reputation and first-class customer base, was the fact that it was founded in 1886 and was being run by the fourth generation (Bob Ott Jr.).
Family Owned Businesses
Many of the companies that we buy are multi-generational family businesses, so Hennegan's history was something we could appreciate and understand. In my initial discussions with the Otts, I became even more interested as it became clear that they were committed to participating in Hennegan's future after the transaction was completed. Today, almost two years after the acquisition, not only is the fourth generation still leading the company, but the third generation (Bob Ott Sr., who is 85 years old) still works full-time and sells several million dollars worth of print.
The Cyril-Scott acquisition, like Annan & Bird, was a little different for us in that the company did not look like our typical acquisition (a commercial printing company with web/sheetfed/digital capabilities producing mostly marketing materials). Instead it had a specialized niche (direct mail) that we knew our 70 sister companies could cross-sell. The attraction here (and it was a favorite of our CEO's) was that Cyril-Scott was, in our estimation, the most sophisticated direct mail printer in the country (with 18 in-line webs that print, diecut, fold, glue and personalize--all in a single pass, often in patented formations).
Cyril-Scott can print from 200,000 to 40 million pieces and deposit them directly into the mailstream to be delivered within 24 hours to 80 percent of the U.S. population. These unique capabilities, coupled with their strategic location, made Cyril-Scott a very good fit for us.
Pikes Peak, too, was a little different because it is a large-format commercial printer, with no 40? sheetfed, web or digital presses. The business was attractive to us primarily because it had a reputation for high-quality graphics (from snowboards to museum-quality maps), and it provided us with additional large-format capacity in the western part of the United States.
PBM Graphics, operating in approximately 600,000 square feet of space over three locations, is our largest acquisition to date. PBM was appealing because it had a diversified commercial printing business that looked similar to our own, but also had a few niche businesses that were attractive (packaging, pharmaceuticals and collectible trading cards). I reached out to Terry Pegram on different occasions because I was familiar with PBM's success and tremendous growth (profiled in this magazine, as a matter of fact).
Stepping back from the specifics of these recent transactions, what is it that Consolidated Graphics looks for more generally? While there are no hard and fast rules, we tend to look for the following:
o Revenues in excess of $10-$15 million with a track record of profitable growth, as well as the prospect for good future growth. The exception is smaller companies that we "tuck-in" to existing facilities; they typically make less than $10 million and may or may not be profitable.
o Superior leadership that ideally will be willing to continue running the business on a decentralized basis after the acquisition is complete. Cultural fit is very important.
o Strong reputation in the local marketplace.
o Loyal and diverse customer base, ideally one to which we could also cross-sell.
o Web, sheetfed and/or digital capabilities targeting the same segment of the commercial printing industry as Consolidated Graphics (a $50 billion industry). Niches, however, that we are not in can be attractive if they involve products that our salespeople can readily cross-sell.
o History of investment in the business. Is the technology current?
Like most buyers, we review financial information and other objective data, but I tell potential sellers that only half of our analysis is financial/operational, while the other half is assessing the cultural fit of the owners and the management team within Consolidated Graphics.
Evaluating the physical plant, workflow, customer base and environment is important, but just as important is assessing the integrity of the sellers and their management team, their objectives and their prospects for success within our own organization. Do they care about their employees? Are they interested in preserving the legacy they have worked so hard to build?
Will the owners work with our 70 other company presidents and get engaged in strategic sales, CGX-Solutions and cross-selling with our sister companies? Will they help educate our 650 sales reps about their company? Will their own sales reps be interested in selling the strength of our national footprint and the offerings of our 70 other companies, including the digital network and our proprietary online storefront technology? Will they participate in our Leadership Development Program and hire bright young college graduates into their shops each year, and put them through our three-year training rotation?
These are important questions that are difficult to answer, but the success of any acquisition largely depends on our ability to do so. PI
About the Author
Jim Cohen serves as executive vice president, Mergers & Acquisitions, at Consolidated Graphics in Houston. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Re:The myths of Alexandria (158 comments)
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Re:The myths of Alexandria (158 comments)
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Re:Book burning... (158 comments)
Thanks for the thoughtful post.
Christianity definitely didn't start at 0 AD. If wikipedia serves, started at about 300 AD when Constantine started recognizing the group. There was that a council of scholars (I believe known as The Councils of Nicaea) that decided on what should be put into the compilation we know as the bible then the erection of the first church in 380AD.
Hypathia, the respected but troublesome figure, was murdered around 415AD, 35 years later. The Dark ages starting about a hundred years later (according to Wikipedia), presumably when a more widespread campaign of stamping out a competing vision of the biblical god becomes economically and politically viable. Join us or die ultimatum.
I contend is that there where repeated efforts to suppress or destroy information. Consider Galileo as an obvious example, and he was only put under house arrest because of his nobility. Furthermore, If you consider the most common method to convey information to be in the form of a story, killing people who know and tell stories destroys information.
I will admit, putting aside your interesting contentions for the moment, I may have applied the word you quoted in this historic context irresponsibly, not because I feel it would misrepresent what actually happened, but irresponsibly because of knee jerk reaction conditioning people have to defend their faith from such a challenge. And that is where the actual point gets missed.
Lastly, perhaps we both agree that history is written by the those who are victorious. The conclusions about central authorities with enough clout or central authority in regions being conquered will never paint a negative light on history retold, the requirement of being a truthful historic entry being optional, what is not optional is that their history be aligned to dogma of their allies, other church based political allies for instance.
In our time of government secrets, no credible historian will deviate substantially from official press releases in their interpretation of major events like 9/11 or even the Iraq war even though no threat has actually been issued against the lives of journalists or their families. The tin foil hat crowd is just ignored and make up that "static" portion of the bandwidth. If the message is still too clear, then attack a producer or directors credibility with more static.
In 500 years time, conjectures supposing the official view, for example, Iraq was invaded for oil can become another interpretation of how our energy dependency influenced historians to such conclusions. The declension may been be a part of a further hereto unfolding push to discredit such views.
In many ways, this latest trend of destroying information that doesn't suit the state, or whatever authority behind the state, is old hat, the only thing new these days is that we live in a world with the internet. For the most part, killing someone's image is more effective in killing their message without the martyrdom problem.
Book burning... (158 comments)
... is the cornerstone of decadence.
It actually started with the burning of the great library of Alexandria and the murder of Hypathia at the start of an era we call the Dark Ages when Christianity was born. Centuries of a murderous, and genocidal campaign was untaken to erase specific information from human knowledge and history.
I find it odd to read an article shared on
Re:Jeremiah (276 comments)
Could part of the problem be rooted in the nature of how the protagonists were fighting for basic principles challenged or perhaps infringed on by circumstances with real parallels in our society and/or that the fight could be viewed as motive or encouragement to fight these same parallels in our reality?
Our souls as part of everything out there. (276 comments)
I'm going out on a limb here.
So if accept that the soul is a measurable discrete entity, and we accept that in lower energy forms it is to be placed in a vessel or body that then becomes it's "home" for the duration of time the vessel can contain it, until death, then clearly the soul is somewhat a localized entity. As a body dies and decomposes, returning its material to the land from which it came, we can easily assimilate an idea that a soul would also return to its source.
On earth, its arguable that the source of almost all life/energy is the sun; it illuminates and heats our world, it is the power behind photosynthesis from which emerges the basic essential and energy of all foods through the food chains. We can call the sun a sort of energy portal where energy and life passes into this realm. Presumably we can even extend this analogy to suppose that souls, as higher level energy patterns, also transit this portal when incarnating a body and possibly would transit back to source when the body/vessel containment aspects collapse at or about the moment of death.
A great deal has been claimed about sacred geometries present in some form in all things, especially living things, on earth. A few artificial things, artifacts, The pyramids of Gaza and the Aztecs have sacred geometries built in them. Personally, I find a sacred geometry of striking coincidence in the sky observing the moon. It has the exact same aspect size and shape as the sun, it only shows one face to earth, a result of another coincidence of having the same rotational period as orbital period, and recently speculation that it may be an artificial satellite of sorts that was put in place sometime between 20K BC and 15K BC raises further speculation about what it really is. One could put forth a claim that there are too many coincidences about its existence for it to be purely natural, and yet, if one where to look into the sky and gaze across the moon, most wouldn't notice it to be out of place.
But the coincidence of being of the same aspect size as the sun is the basis of my question to you being that its aspect size may be related to "antenna" type characteristics of another kind. Can you imagine, if energy could channeled in a similar way to energy that is channelled from the sun, operating with a function similar to a portal, such that this energy would attract a disoriented soul recently liberated from its body that has just died. Perhaps attract such a soul much like a candle attracts a moth. A trap of sorts, that prevents the soul from rejoining with its source on the other side of the natural portal, the sun? As a part of an intergalactic struggle? Have you heard of such a thing elsewhere?
Re:Mission Creep? SSN (365 comments)
Next mandate, fixed IPv6 IP addresses for all devices. Your devices and their IPv6 addresses get added to the definition of "who you are".
No more internet anonymity except when using a proxy.
Which proxies do you trust?
Re:Full stop (1109 comments)
I think our "modern" notions of idealologies that describe a society, Communism and Capitalism, are both riddled with imperfection that manifests as the corruption that has destroyed them both. Corruption in our society is the thing that makes our idealologies imperfect and as a race we are too niave to accept that we are not as smart as we think we are, that our biggest enemy is human nature. That human nature is born harmless and innocent, but we soon grow out of that and I think that the expression "sinner" just means that we are imperfect. It is that imperfection that causes the corruption in our societies.
I hold that the ideas themselves are prefect. They have a necessary level of structure while leaving the rest open for implementation. Corruption enteres as part of that implementation; it's where the perfect idea becomes a tool for the to further channel those personal agendas.
I like your interpretation of sinner, but that too implies that submission to the greater and more perfect is mandated. A sort of, "know your place" and "fall into the pecking order" rationalization
Agree. I think what is at issue is what is the status quo? What is required to make it more fair to normal, everyday people whilst powerful people weild such influence.
I have a certain level of doubt that fair was ever the intention. Americans and Aussis always have taken the liberty to be oppressive in one form or another; Indigenous Native Americans 17 and 18 hundreds, aborigines, people of east temor, the idea that they would somehow take a stand against the oppression of their prole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Background [ see item III lower class ] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell) is a break from culture and tradition.
The falacy of "We do not negotiate with terrorists" has to be challenged because the reality is it is promoting more terrorism. Unless it is a random act of violence, terrorists have a motivation and I want to know what it is that has made them violent so that maybe we can remove that motivation to commit terroist acts in the first place.
It must be this way, the question is who you define as a terrorist and how you treat those terrorists. On one occasion in the recent past when ultra orthodox Jews committed acts of violence and terror against their neighboring Palestinians, the Palestinians came out and declared those actions that of terrorists and denounced those perpetrators as terrorists. The Israelis' response was simple: "Yes their acts are that of terror, you can say they are terrorists, but we will not treat them as terrorists."
The point of negotiating with terror is an oxymoron in a way. Under fear, nobody rationalizes correctly and that's why that phrase has validity. However if you redefine the terms you have an inflection that only causes a degradation in the quality and level of communications. Perhaps it's for this reason that we hear that phrase so much more these days. The powers that be find it convenient to legitimize their declension of quality communications. They prefer that messages are sent by the exploding of bombs.
I think this is the difference between a Civillian and a Citizen. A Civilian will sit around, watching their sport, and take pot shots a people defending democracy as "political" or "whiners" or some other term. I beleive a Citizen is someone who participates in a democracy, not just by voting, but by writing letters to politicians and trying to change things for everyone in a peaceful way through the legislative process. They are the partners of democracy.
I applaud you initiative!
I will try something like writing to my representatives.
I don't know if I wrote this in my prior posting but Citizen is a title of nobility. ei "Citizen" John Dow or "Sargent" Bill McLearner or "President" (to avoid the filters). Civilian is more a military classification of populations as required for their rules and regs. The prior carries some very very interesting implications. A title of nobility like "Sir" as in "Sir" Lancelot implies that Lancelot has pledged his loyalty and life to the servitude of his ruler, King Arthur in this example. Sargent Brown has pledged his loyalty and life to the military he has enlisted in in a similar way. "Esquire" Shapiro probably knows that his title demands his loyalty and life in allegiance with the Bar that gave him his privileges. That implication of devout servitude also applies to those who knowingly or unknowingly accept a title like Citizen. In light of the understanding that the uneducated don't really understand the ways, their unknowing acceptance is pardoned implicitly since keeping the ranks "in line" and "in order" is more important than a proper education or even a straight forward explanation.
After all the three duties of a Citizen (obey laws, pay taxes, and jury duty) are easy enough to enforce with fines and jail time. But the bigger issue that really begs a question is: Who do we serve?
Re:Some other relevant stories (270 comments)
A republic, by definition is a sovereign state where supreme power by the people and their representatives.
The USA (America) is in a bankrupt state operating under emergency powers, that supreme power is no longer held by the people or the representatives but rather the creditors owed.
It cannot be both bankrupt and sovereign, hence to call it a Democracy is more correct than to refer to it as a Republic of some sort.
Re:Full stop (1109 comments)
Just out of curiosity, what is your country?
My view is you can't meet imperfection with any form of perfection. Since human beings are imperfect, no perfect system can be expected to work. That being said, the justice system can't be perfect because it exists to resolve disputes between imperfect people.
There are a few examples of "perfect" systems that fail miserably, communism is idealistically perfect and yet the now defunct Soviet Union's implementation was riddled with corruption and inequity. Native american Indians lived in a very harmonious society, along came the europeans and took up a plan to wipe them out. Human beings are born completely vulnerable, harmless and innocent but the christian church has declared that everyone is born a sinner.
The reason justice is sometimes misunderstood is because we equate justice to fairness or equality. The hard truth is that justice is simply the maintenance of a status quo. In areas where that status quo is not understood, justice in that area is also not likely to be understood. If some force has caused the status quo be altered than the justice system is there to examine whether the forces involved are lawful or not and what "punishment" or reparations are required to re-establish that status quo.
With more laws being passed with secret or classified clauses we can be sure the status quo is changing into something that is less equal, less fair and more fascist. But how those changes will effect lives of Americans is still too subjective an issue to say anything definitive except that we continue to depend on the good judgement of our public servants and citizenry to take those issues and smooth them over by continuing to work for the good of the people.
Personally, I can't share any sympathy for either of the two brothers; their methods have caused more damage to the cause for freedom and the persistance of those values in the Bill of Rights than they can imagine. Their actions make everyone think that a war on terror is a good idea. Besides that, they have left only suffering and grief in their wake and their legacy will stand as that of a public villan.
There is a way to restore freedom. But it isn't easy and most everyone needs to want such a restoration and be willing to pay a price. People need to see the value in seeking more perfection in themselves before that perfection can have an effect on the freedom issue.
I'm still formulating my ideas on this. Possible.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
Ok 65 years. Timeline error aside, my point being nobody holds their dominance against them, rather to the contrary.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
You are correct.
Plus, words that where defined one way have gradually had their official definition altered over the years... Try looking at how definitions of certain words have changed from Blacks Law 3rd edition to the 7th edition.
You want control of the law? You need only rewrite the dictionary. adverb-verb fictions are your friend.
This gradual and constant inflection leads to the declensions of the self-evident in all areas, not just how government interpretes the authority granted to it. These change of the presumptions and interpretations occur in a way that only invades that which is self-evident.
The fact is most of what happens in court is based on presumptions that are only known by a few. Another example of segregation through information.
The trick works because these changes are done over a 200 hundred years so that any one generation just labels it as "the changing of the times" whereas the actuality can be much more sinister. And all this is done in the name of progress.
Re:There should never have been a non-fly list (216 comments)
Yeah, the problem is people put up fences so it's not as easy to cut across a field.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
I agree with your points about the law needing to be respectable and your surrounding viewpoints.
Nothing wrong with rants on
If a rev0lut!on of some sort is to happen, there needs to be a definite plan with a long term strategy. If your strategy is not sound, you risk committing your "fast adopter" contempt group into positions that will compromise those resources for no definite gain.
The best way to throw the bums out of office is to vote them out, but to do that, you need to put forth a champion who can withstand the election process and remain faithful to the true values of your movement.
The idea of a popular uprising needs to be done in a way that does not justify the use of armed forces to prevent social disruption. Regardless of any Weapons Ban Act or the such, the police and government are much much better suited to handle a fighting confrontation than a political one. They have all the guns and military leadership they need to take on entire countries. Throwing stones will just get you sent to the brig where you can contemplate whether the pain of getting shot in the shoulder or hip was worth it.
If you need proof: the Israelis successfully have managed to keep the Palestinians under control for more that 200 years through their various uprisings, and not because the Palestinians where not willing to give their lives for what they believed or because they are not organized, but because their strategy is to confront their opposition where they are strongest. Their strategy is to appeal to international sympathy. It does not work. Nobody is sympathetic to the trouble-makers.
People need to get organized in a political and economic way. The population need to channel their desire for change into an organization or organizations that can displace both political parties without succumbing to the temptations of corruption.
The people need to overcome the media induced fear, the propaganda on TV, and start to listen to a community leader who will obviously need to coordinate his/her community with the organizational goals. Because the issues are so polarizing, it should be quite a bit easier to put something together than if things where more moderate. But it still remains a monumental feat.
Re:There should never have been a non-fly list (216 comments)
Yeah well, the trend is to tighten everything up. I think you are probably right. Another poster sent me a link that showed me the tragic reality of things.
A very very sad day for all of us.
Re:There should never have been a non-fly list (216 comments)
I'm flabbergasted.
You win.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
You are right, of course.
The point is, without community level organization, people (the public) are disorganized. The first step is to bring everyone together.
One community may be easily ignored, but how about an entire state of communities, or the majority of communities in most states.
Think of it like a large corporation, except that it's corporate goal is not profit, but the interests of its members.
I would call it a church, except that that term comes with too many pre-conceptions based on the Christianity. Instead of worshiping a deity and the sacrifice of our savior, the worship would be directed towards our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the organization would work towards those ends.
The problem is people still think blowing stuff up or shooting is a better form of protest as though some savior would see the disperate plight behind such a protest and take constructive affirmative actions. That doesn't happen, the nail that sticks out get's hammered.
There is a reason our leaders have chosen to expand our prison infra rather than build new colleges.
Some people just figure, "hell with it" and do outrageous things and the rest of us get caught up with the TV based propaganda and become afraid to do anything, instead of take the first small steps.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
Are you sure about that? or is it just semantics.
We certainly don't have a direct democracy; your vote is merely an optional symbolic show of support for your "representative". Voting is not even an obligation of a citizen; they don't even try to hide how little it really means, or the minimal value our opinions hold.
A citizen has 3 obligations: obey the law, pay taxes, and subject to jury duty. One for each branch of government. I don't see voting anywhere in that list as a symbolic type of action for government related "decision making".
If your representative incidentally speaks or acts on your behalf and you can do nothing to intercede since you have neither the place or the means to make a protest, does it matter what it's called if people view their rule a militaristic or representative type of governance?
How often are public protests or even public opinion on a topic simply ignored by our "representatives" as they carry on with their day to day?
So yes, they are our leaders and we depend on their decisions as leaders so that our futures may be secure. And as a final point the term "Senator" or "Representative" as prefixed to the name of an elected official in the senate or house is a title of nobility. Citizen is another one. Why do you think that is? Do you even know that the implications of titles of nobility are?
Re:There should never have been a non-fly list (216 comments)
Are you suggesting that TSA has a presence in the non-existent train stations or that they put up checkpoints on our motorways?
Re:There should never have been a non-fly list (216 comments)
Travel on an airplane.
Try renting a car and driving, you will not find your travel impeded in any way.
Re:No-fly list should be a no fly (216 comments)
The constitution is alive and well; the First 7 articles are alive and very well. It's the bill of rights that was add as a compromise in 1792 so that a few state representatives would feel confortable with the document and sign that is "under fire".
However if you consider your rights to be self evident, you don't need a document defining those rights for you.
Understanding is not a requisite of cooperation or fulfillment of citizen related beneficiary obligations: obey the law, pay taxes and submit to jury duty. If you have a problem with the way government is conducting business, you should take more action about those issues than rant about stuff on
The single best way to make changes is to get people in your community organized in a way that can productively send a clear and constructive message to our leaders.
God bless security! I wonder how long it will take for roadside checkpoints to make it into our realities. I bet we will all bow down to the idea once a car base IED makes the news."
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Brochures and concert tickets trumpet TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 5. But those of us who treasure British music know theres joy lurking in the smaller print: Rebekah Newman plays William Waltons Viola Concerto Friday and Saturday night with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.
At 27, the CSOs principal violist is exactly as old as Walton was when he finished it in 1929. He brought the energy of the Jazz Age, the lyricism of earlier English composers and the spiky harmonies of Sergei Prokofiev (whose first violin concerto appeared just six years earlier) to this piece. Newman will dig into it with the gusto of a late convert not just to Waltons work, but to the viola itself.
She began with the smallest stringed instrument youll find: a Suzuki violin in Marquette, her home on Michigans Upper Peninsula. She was 12 when she decided this is what Im going to do forever. In high school, she coaxed her mom into making a 12-hour round-trip drive to Chicago every two weeks for a 90-minute lesson with respected teacher Hilel Kagan.
But the classical world teems with gifted fiddlers.
I became a small fish very fast, she says. I had gone to college (Cleveland Institute of Music) thinking Id play in a string quartet, but thats a marriage of four people who are together all the time not for me.
I had auditioned for colleges on both violin and viola. My viola teacher, Mark Jackobs, was in the Cleveland Orchestra and showed me what it took to be an orchestral musician.
New focus, more work
She found viola gigs aplenty after graduation: as a principal in orchestras in Erie, Pa., and Akron, Ohio, then as a section player under rising conductor Osmo Vanska in the Minnesota Orchestra, even on tour with the London Philharmonic. She was thinking of moving across the Atlantic when Jonathan Martin, then Charlottes executive director, rang her in 2011 after her Queen City audition.
Would she move to Charlotte? She would. Would she like to play a concerto in her second season? Oh, yeah.
She and music director Christopher Warren-Green, an advocate for British composers, settled on the Walton. It can be a bit thorny for traditionalists, so Warren-Green shrewdly sandwiched it between Ralph Vaughan Williams gorgeous Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Tchaikovskys comfortable harmonies. (Newman will play in the fantasia but not the symphony: I wanted to feel like a true soloist, who didnt come back after the intermission.)
In its early days, this concerto got little love. Walton asked Lionel Tertis to premiere it, but Englands foremost violist returned the score, grumbling about modernist excesses and far-fetched innovations.
Walton talked composer Paul Hindemith into playing the premiere in his London debut. Opening night was no triumph, partly because Hindemith used a small viola. (They come in sizes. Newmans larger one produces warmer tones that carry better.) But after Tertis recanted and championed the work, it took off for good.
Looking for beauty
Walton wasnt much of a viola player or much of any kind of player, though he could deedle along on violin and piano so the concerto is awkward to play at times, says Newman. But it doesnt sound awkward. My challenge is to make it sound like it works.
The general feeling is lyrical. There are moments of dissonance, but they resolve. The viola has such a warm sound, and having dissonance blossom and resolve brings out the beauty of the instrument.
Newman still keeps a hand on her fiddle her Celtic fiddle, which she played in the rock band Brace Yourself Bridget in Cleveland. But her viola skills have earned her a teaching job at Winthrop University and a tour of China with the Verbier (Switzerland) Chamber Orchestra later in February.
She hopes to revive the Walton sometime: When I started playing it, it fell under my fingers immediately. Shed like to do the viola part in Richard Strauss Don Quixote, her Charlotte audition piece. (A cello embodies the Don; the viola is waddling Sancho Panza.)
Mostly, Newman just wants to perform. A lot of young musicians here feel that way, she says. Wed love to work a 42-week season instead of 37. We really want to play.
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OMG exactly. My first thought was a a cute lil' fella, and my second was. WHOA!!!! where is Mama??? Does this happen very often?? Where do you live?? I think i would have been torn between sweet talking the guy and screaming as I ran away LOL |
Yeah...gotta take the feeder in. He's started coming around every afternoon around 2:00. He didn't completely destroy it, just a little bent out of shape. I called the sheriff's dept, spoke with someone in animal control, they don't do anything about the bears...."take your feeder in ma'am"....ummmm, he won't let me have it right now.... Last fall I think his Dad came to visit, He was eating out of the feeder, sitting on his butt on the deck. BIG GUY. He really scared me. This one made me quite nervous, got a little too close for comfort looking him right in the face at the top of the steps. Took a while for my heart to slow down. |
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Welll.....while doing my morning yard tour this morning, I found some pretty serious bear damage. Not sure if this young fellow did it, or maybe his mama. I have an area in the corner of my yard I affectionately call the "zen garden", I've had plans for it since we moved here 7 years ago...anyway, it had a nice wooden bench and a concrete Japanese lantern. I say "had". The bench is now firewood and the middle section of the lantern is broken. (it came in 3 pieces...very heavy). The top of the lantern looks as if it has been thrown into the bench, bench turned over in pieces, middle section of lantern broken, and base turned over but still intact. Very distructive behavior! This lantern has needed mosaiced since day 1...it's time has come. I think I can put the middle section back together with Bondo...then mosaic it. I'll keep you posted on this idea. |
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Just get an extra long line on your torch and chase em away!!!hee hee! Just kiddin'!!! But now that I've mentioned it, have you welded anything fun lately? Or have you been out riding? I have finally managed to foil the deer from being in my back yard, and have ROSES...and even leaves on the rose bushes!!!!! I still need tofence the 1/4 acre down below but the fruit trees are fenced and now are getting fruit. |
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Gorkha Palace, Heidi's and Salut Bar Americain are celebrating their anniversaries with specials for diners.
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Lovely Gorkha Palace is marking its second anniversary by offering a deal to its weekday lunch customers: 15 percent off the price of the restaurant's terrific, changes-daily lunch buffet. Other events include complimentary wine and tea tastings, door prizes and music. The celebration starts Monday and runs through Sept. 30.
23 NE. 4th St., Mpls., 612-886-3451, www.gorkhapalace.com
During October, five-year-old Heidi's is throwing a monthlong anniversary party by offering a $60, seven-course tasting menu. Chef/co-owner Stewart Woodman is promising to revive several greatest hits, including barramundi with mussel foam, and his divine vegetarian Bolognese.
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That brings to question as to how good is the picture from the S video compared to the Component using the 480i. There is a noticeable difference in the smoothness / less jagged text in the Guide and that is my end goal is to get it readable for her.
I personally never really saw any difference in PQ between s-video and 480i over component. In fact from from what I can remember s-video was actually brighter for some reason than 480i component.
But give it a try anyhow, as your friends might see it differently.
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House of the Devil Poster: Creepiest Poster of 2009?
Movie News By Neil Miller on August 26, 2009 | (7) CommentsThe folks over at Vulture have gotten their hands on a first look at probably one of the single creepiest posters I've seen all year. It is for the Magnet release House of the Devil, starring Jocelin Donahue and indie darling Greta Gerwig. From The Roost director Ti West, this new thriller has a very simple tag: "Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch TV. Die." It all seems too simple…
Sam (Jocelin Donahue) is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (cult actors Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) are the older couple who lure Sam out to their creeky Victorian mansion deep in the woods, just in time for a total lunar eclipse. Megan (Greta Gerwig) is Sam's best friend, who gives her a ride out to the house, and reluctantly leaves her there despite suspecting that something is amiss. Victor (AJ Bowen) at first seems like just a creepy guy lurking around the house, but quickly makes it clear that Sam will end this night in a bloody fight for her life….
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Betty's boyfriend Freddy's first appearance.
That last great sexual tease is offered when Betty's skirt flies up as she whirls around, showing a nicely formed "tush." After this cartoon, the Production Code's influence is seen.
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- Animated Characters: Betty Boop, Freddy, Judge, Jurors.
- Originally Released in 1934.
- Production Number: FL3416
- Running Time: 7 minutes.
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