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In association with the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, former Kid in the Hall Kevin McDonald curates and introduces five of his favourite comedy films at Cinematheque at 7 p.m. every evening from April 10 to 14. The diverse lineup includes: Woody Allen's Annie Hall (Wednesday, April 10); Billy Wilder's The Apartment (Thursday, April 11); Albert Brooks's Lost in America (Friday, April 12); Bill Forsyth's Local Hero (Saturday, Apr. 13) and Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve (Sunday, Apr. 14).
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Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 18A. 92 minutes
A remake of Sam Raimi's groundbreaking cabin-in-the-woods shocker from 1981 places five friends in an out-of-the-way retreat where each succumbs to demonic possession thanks to the presence of a powerful "Book of the Dead." Directed by Fede Alvarez and co-scripted by Diablo Cody.
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, Polo Park Imax, St. Vital, Towne. PG. 126 minutes
Velociraptors not only run amok, they get in your face in this 3D retrofit of Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster about a theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs and a handful of humans who fall prey to the best when the systems fail.
Cinematheque. 14A. 148 minutes
The three men wrongfully convicted of killing three children in 1993 (a case examined in the three Paradise Lost films of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky) finally succeed in an arduous appeals process which this doc by Amy Berg examines from the inside.
The following movies have been previously reviewed by Free Press movie critic Randall King, unless otherwise noted.
Grant Park, McGillivray. PG. 117 minutes
Tina Fey makes a smooth transition from outlandish TV sitcom (30 Rock) to mature movie comedy as a Princeton University admissions officer compelled to take up the case of a brilliant student who may just be the boy she gave up for adoption years earlier. Fey is dependably droll, but this film by Paul Weitz (About a Boy) allows her a rare chance to explore some darker, deeper shadings that take her well out of the Liz Lemon shallows. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Globe. PG. 125 minutes
Oscar winner for best foreign language picture this year, this quietly intense film by Michael Haneke examines the lives of an elderly couple (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) thrown into turmoil when she suffers a series of strokes, leaving him to struggle to care for her at home. In film, the visual language of love tends to be sex, but Haneke offers a bold and beautiful reconsideration. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
Polo Park, Towne. 14A. 94 minutes
Halle Berry is a 911 operator who confronts her tragic past when she tries to stand between a serial killer (Michael Eklund) and his next intended victim (Abigail Breslin) in a movie that starts out as a riveting, by-the-book kidnapping thriller. It's only when our Oscar-winning heroine puts down the phone and sets out to do some sleuthing of her own that The Call disconnects, turning into something far more generic, far more routine and far less exciting. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. G. 100 minutes
A stone-age family that's not the Flintstones, the Croods are a primitive clan forced from their cave by an earthquake, falling under the guidance of a charismatic nomad (Ryan Reynolds). The animated adventure features a strong, star-studded cast (including Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone) and dazzles visually in wondrously colourful, vibrant 3-D, but the script doesn't pop off the screen quite so effectively. 'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Christy Lemire)
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 111 minutes
This sequel puts Channing Tatum in the back seat to place Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis up front as members of the G.I. Joe team intent on reclaiming the country from the clutches of the sinister Cobra. Director Jon M. Chu (Justin Bieber: Never Say Never) stages action precisely as if he was using action figures instead of actors and the results are correspondingly silly and uninvolving. 'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. PG. 126 minutes
Adapted from the novel by Stephenie (Twilight) Meyer by brainy writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca), this blend of teen romance and science fiction posits a race of aliens who have taken mind control of earthly humans, except one young woman (Saoirse Ronan) who isn't quietly relinquishing her humanity. But there's only so much value that Niccol's slick presentation can add to Meyer's shallow material. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Colin Covert)
Polo Park, St. Vital. 14A. 111 minutes
A businessman (Jason Bateman) takes matters into his own hands when he discovers his identity has been stolen, only to discover an unlikeliest of perpetrators (Melissa McCarthy). McCarthy and Bateman bring their collective charm to bear, but as an escapist comedy, you probably have less stressful options, such as staying at home and paying bills. 'Ö'Ö1/2
Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. PG. 100 minutes
A once popular Vegas magician, Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell), attempts to regain his place against an up-and-coming street magician (Jim Carrey) in this generic, fitfully funny mainstream comedy that doesn't nearly get the best from its name-brand players but doesn't qualify as a desecration, either. 'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by Ann Hornaday)
Polo Park. PG. 114 minutes
Director Bryan Singer (X-Men) directs this fantasy about a likely lad (Nicholas Hoult) who ventures up a beanstalk to save a princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) and, oh yes, take on a race of malevolent giants. A solid, unpretentious entry in the busy bedtime story genre. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A. 120 minutes
Not even Die Hard movies are appropriating the Die Hard formula any more, leaving the field open for this enjoyable cinematic cheese plate about a disgraced secret service agent (Gerard Butler) who must step up go it alone when terrorists invade the White House and take the president (Aaron Eckhart) hostage. It's a far more satisfying action movie that A Good Day to Die Hard, and it's a particular relief to see Butler in This-is-Sparta mode after he has done hard time in the realm of the drippy drama/insipid rom-com. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Globe, Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG. 130 minutes
This prequel to The Wizard of Oz posits how a travelling magician of dubious character (James Franco) lands in the magical world of Oz where he is greeted as both a saviour and a menace by a trio of witches (Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz). Pity about Franco being miscast as a charismatic con man, otherwise this is a fun time with a touch of heart, brains and no small amount of courage in retooling cinematic sacred text. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Polo Park. 18A. 94 minutes
Harmony Korine drafts a pair of former Disney princesses (Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez) into this sordid movie about a quartet of college students engaging in a criminal good time under the influence of a gun-toting, grill-toothed gangsta (James Franco). Korine comes close to saying interesting things about race, gender and power, but alas, he still aspires to be an American Godard, which here translates into contempt for bourgeois notions of character and plot. 'Ö'Ö
Globe. 14A. 99 minutes
A young woman (Mia Wasikowska) begins to suspect the worst after her father is killed in an accident and an unknown "uncle" (Matthew Goode) moves in with her mom (Nicole Kidman). South Korean director Park Chan-wook balances knuckle-gnawing anxiety and florid melodrama, and he finds his characters charismatic and toxic, pathetic and frightening, absurd and overwhelmingly sad. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Colin Covert)
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In 1985, 13.4 out of every 100 000 children in Philadelphia were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In 2004, the rate was 17.2 cases per 100 000. Hispanic children had the highest diabetes rates across all ages whereas cases in black children aged four and under, which had historically been very low, rose by 200% over the past two decades. Cases among white kids under four rose by 48% in 2000-2004, however, making theirs the fastest recent increase. Children from Chicago to Colorado to Finland have similarly increased rates of type 1 diabetes, though the cause eludes researchers. "This younger group is a mystery," said Dr Carol Levy, a type 1 diabetes specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York who was not involved in the new study. Breastfeeding and overly-hygienic environments Several theories vie to explain the recent rise in diabetes among youth, including vitamin D deficiencies, lack of breastfeeding and overly-hygienic environments that might cause the immune system to backfire. "The data (are) controversial so that's why I'm certainly very reluctant to propose a theory when nothing has been proven," Dr Lipman told Reuters Health. "The take home message is not to be alarmist. These data confirm what has been reported worldwide and in other parts of the United States," said Dr Lori Laffel, of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, who was not involved in the study. "It is important to be aware of the symptoms of diabetes," she told Reuters Health. Symptoms can include extreme thirst, bed wetting or accidents in toilet-trained children or excessively wet diapers in babies, she said. 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Do you like fashion? Do you like glittering runway shows in Paris? Do you like designers being super passive-aggressive to each other in a totally entertaining way?
Then, you'll LOVE Robin Givhan's book, The Battle of Versailles. I had the chance to review the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion writer's latest work for the Tampa Bay Times, and it was a blast. The book tells of a fashion showdown in France in 1973, pitting established French couture designers against spunky Americans. A bunch of new black models never before seen on the stodgy French runways made the event not only a fashion touchstone, but a moment of cultural significance....
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Good news. Robin Givhan, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her Washington Post fashion criticism, has done the hard work. In The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into the Spotlight and Made History, Givhan distills cogent points about fashion against a backdrop of one real-life glittering showdown in Paris....
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To Quiet the Quiet
I toured the new Murray Theatre at Ruth Eckerd Hall recently, and, as promised when the $1.3 million project began in the fall, it's a vast improvement from the old space. The box office is in a more obvious place. The doors now open in the back, not next to the stage. The seats (no more squeaks!) can be configured in the black-box theater any which way, including cabaret-style. And there are lots of nice interactive elements for the students at the Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts. The theater, named for late supporter Ray Murray and his wife, Nancy, will give Ruth Eckerd a chance to experiment with all kinds of programming, including a resident theater and a rotating slate of regional productions. ...
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A cancellation is never fun news for the Florida Orchestra. But in this case, there's a pretty fun reason.
Damon Gupton has canceled jobs guest-conducting next week's coffee concerts with the Florida Orchestra because he landed a role in the upcoming NBC pilot Endgame, a Las Vegas drama starring Wesley Snipes.
How's this for a full resume? In addition to conducting for orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra, San Diego Symphony and Florida Orchestra, Gupton is an actor who plays Detective Calvin Walker on the hit Fox show Empire and played district attorney Adam Page on WE TV's The Divide. Maybe you also saw Gupton in movies including 2014's Whiplash, 2007's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and 2002's Unfaithful....
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TAMPA — It's no wonder adults try to get in the heads of children, to recall how it felt to dream big without the realities of maturity bugging you.
The latest Florida Orchestra masterworks program, conducted by Cristian Macelaru, gave the audience three chances Friday night at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts. The main event was Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4, a thrilling four-part vision of the afterlife that ends in the eyes of a child....
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TAMPA — The big uh-oh came in the second act of Motown the Musical. Diana Ross, clad in a sparkling white gown, slunk off the stage and into the audience. It was participation time.
She beckoned two guests from the crowd at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts to sing a line of Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand). Jill from Tampa and Donnie from St. Petersburg gave it all they had. Then Diana Ross told everyone in the crowd to grasp hands with their neighbor and sway in time....
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Rest in peace, Kimberly Hendrix, who died March 11 after a battle with cancer.
Here's the full story I wrote about her for the Tampa Bay Times. I got to meet Kimberly a handful of times, and always found her so sweet, kind and effortless. And her k.hendrix collections that went down the runway at Tampa Bay Fashion Week were always just heads and shoulders above the rest. Her stuff was gorgeous, things I wanted to wear. "Aspirational," is how her friend and Tampa Bay Fashion Week organizer Nancy Vaughn described Kimberly's pieces to me....
Experience Chinese treasures and tradition at Lowry Park Zoo's Zoominations03/17/15Events
The thing about the lanterns is, they deserve a second look. First a wide-eyed stare, and then a focused squint. What do you really see?
The 30 Chinese lanterns illuminating Lowry Park Zoo for the visiting Zoominations festival are stunning on first glance, colorful as rainbows at a Las Vegas after party, dotting the grounds of the zoo and twinkling high into the sky.
But when you get close, you really notice the materials, the pagoda made of 68,000 ceramic cups, bowls, spoons and plates, the mythical creatures made of tiny bottles of water, the delicate brush strokes that turn this ancient Chinese art form from glittering spectacle into something worthy of artistic appreciation. ...
Joshua Bell talks music, education and his 300-year-old violin03/17/15Stage
Joshua Bell, one of the most famous violinists in the world, also has one of the most famous violins.
It's a 300-year-old Stradivarius called the Gibson ex Huberman, an impeccable instrument stolen twice in its storied life. Bell paid $4 million for it, and it goes everywhere.
Surely it would start to talk to you, right? Like Tom Hanks' volleyball in Castaway?
Bell laughed. And then, he kind of agreed....
Soprano Talise Trevigne to join Florida Orchestra to make Mahler more heavenly03/17/15Stage
What could make Mahler feel even more profound? It could be adding vocals to the mix. Soprano Talise Trevigne (shown) is the guest soloist for the Florida Orchestra's latest masterworks concert this weekend. The program conducted by Cristian Macelaru includes Strauss' Serenade for Winds, a romantic mix of 13 wind instruments; Barber's ode to rural summers, Knoxville: Summer of 1915; and finally, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, where we learn through the singer what heaven must look like to a child. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday at the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, 8 p.m. Saturday at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg and 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. $15-$45. (727) 892-3337. floridaorchestra.org....
Review: 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' at American Stage full of subversive laughs03/17/15Stage
ST. PETERSBURG — Watching Gutenberg! The Musical! (both exclamation points essential) felt like snickering in the back of geometry class when something is obviously really funny. Like, teacher-has-pants-on-her head funny.
Come on, guys! Why aren't you laughing?
The Sunday afternoon audience didn't quite know what to think of this hilarious, subversive show at American Stage. The satire, directed by Steven Flaa, razzes every convention of musical theater, and the conventions of its fans. The crowd got into it more as it went along, thanks to the steady guide of heroic local funnymen Matthew McGee and Joey Panek....
Designer Kimberly Hendrix leaves behind a love for life03/17/15Obituaries
Kimberly Hendrix often rode her bicycle through the streets of St. Petersburg, platinum hair blowing all around. The fashion designer was known around town for her bohemian princess energy, her sequins and ripped denim, her barefaced ease.
Her designs represented imperfection, of making the most of what already existed.
Ms. Hendrix, 45, died March 11 after a battle with cancer. She spoke only occasionally of her illness, preferring to pour energy into her fashion line, k.hendrix. She wanted to leave the business in shape to benefit her 19-year-old son, Alex, and her 5-year-old daughter, Isabella, a blond-haired, blue-eyed miniature Ms. Hendrix....


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Follow this tutorial for creating elegant taper candles with inexpensive polyurethane molds. You will not need any special equipment, such as dipping rings for this craft. Taper candles are a timeless accent for home decorating and also make great gifts. You can add colors to match your decor and your favorite fragrances. A base former gives a professional-looking fluted end to the taper candle but is not absolutely necessary.The fluted end also makes it easier to fit in the taper candle holder.
- Polyurethane taper mold
- High melt point wax (>140 mp) or beeswax
- Flat braid wick
- Mold release
- Picture wire
- Color and fragrance to suit
- Additives to suit
- Wick bar
- Base former (optional)
- Prepare your wax with color and fragrance as you normally would for any other candle. Remember that it helps to add color and additives at a slightly elevated temperature for uniform dispersion. Let the wax cool in order to add your fragrance right before achieving the pouring temperature.
- Cut a piece of wire a little larger than twice the length of your mold and bend it completely in half. Insert the folded end of the wire through the hole in the mold, and use it to pull the wick through the taper mold. Leave an extra long length of wick so when you remove one candle it pulls enough wick through the hole so it is ready to be poured again without the use of the wire next time.
- Wrap the wick around the wick bar so it holds snug and give the inside of the mold a quick light spray of mold release. Pour the wax slowly into the mold. Keep an eye on the mold and top off as necessary.
- Use the base former to achieve a fluted end that looks very professional and aids you customer in the placement of their candle in a candle holder. Be sure the taper is burnt in a suitable candleholder.
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I thought I convinced my husband to do asphalt with the stone chips in it (can't remember the name) because I think it'd look better with our historic home. The landscape architect told us last year this was the way to go, said it lasts longer, looks better, etc. All of a sudden he's saying concrete is cheaper and a better choice. The architect says asphalt will ruin our marble floors if people go barefoot on the driveway and then walk in the house. I hate the look of concrete. We need something that will last with heavy plowing as we get a lot of snow. Sadly, this rules out crushed granite. Any thoughts? thanks.
My first thought is who walks barefoot on asphalt? I did a google search for black concrete driveway and there are alot of good examples.
This one is nice
Asphalt gets tracked in on shoes as well as bare feet. I've had light color floors and an asphalt drive and fought the walk pattern stain with little success. It probably doesn't show on darker floors but it still has to be there. You could do the asphalt on the long approach then change to concrete or pavers for your entry areas. We're looking to purchase a house and that's one of the first changes we'll make if there is an asphalt drive - I won't have it near the house but if it's a long drive it's fine coming in from the road. FWIW, where I live now you would not be allowed to do either a concrete or asphalt drive in new construction or a replacement at all - revised code says it has to be a permeable surface.
I was going to suggest an exposed aggregate concrete. You can use whatever color aggregate you like. It looks great I think. We ended up doing an integral stain in the concrete of our driveway (french gray) with a bluestone apron. We had to have a stone apron per ARB guidelines and there were limited stones that looked good with our house.
I am happy with how it turned out and it was much less expensive than an aggregate driveway. I have always heard asphalt is much less expensive than concrete. . . is that not the case where you are?
I live in NE Ohio, and one of my biggest concerns would be plowability, too. I don't see how aggregate could be useful when for 4-5 months of the year, a plow will go over the surface. Especially since the driveway will be long - you just can't do that with a snow blower.
I've seen both concrete and asphalt. Personally I think concrete looks nicer and I see concrete in many of the more expensive homes on the east side, but I suppose it's just opinion.
Our GC and DH wanted to do concrete. I wanted asphalt. Like the look more out in the woods. But they won, since asphalt is a wearing surface and would need more maintenance in the future. We did a stained concrete, ochre
Our POA requires asphalt or black concrete at the street for X yards to mimic asphalt (it's more dark gray than black). Black is more expensive to do - takes more to color darker.
The price of asphalt is tied to oil, and it was more 7 years ago when we did ours. Price wasn't the deciding factor, but we priced both at the time.
@ red_lover - permeable surface is anything that can allow water to drain through, unlike asphalt or concrete where it has to run off. Pavers, bricks, turf (where the grass grows through or around a hard surface in a grid or pattern) are types of permeable surfaces. Our neighbors added a parking apron with very large flagstones. With crushed limestone in the joints it's a permeable surface.


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After Earth's Chris Geere and The Newsroom's Aya Cash will star in the comedy about what happens when two self-destructive people fall in love, FX announced Thursday. Additionally, Pitch Perfect's Kether Donohue and Desmin Borges (Mr. Popper's Penguins) have booked co-starring roles in the half-hour pilot.
Geere will play Jimmy, a self-absorbed, outspoken and insensitive writer living in L.A. who is unsettled when he finds he has feelings for Gretchen (Cash), a one-night stand. Gretchen is described as a cynical and self-destructive woman who grew up believing she was perfect but who now realizes that things haven't worked out as she'd hoped, considering she's broke, approaching 30 and works as a publicist for an immature hip-hop group who make her life miserable. She also finds herself terrified whens he begins to have feelings for another person.
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Donohue will play Gretchen's best friend, Lindsay. She's the beta to Gretchen's alpha and is trying to be a proper married adult despite her friend's desire to see her revert back to her party-girl ways. Borges will play Edgar, Jimmy's childhood friend/roommate who is a war veteran suffering from PTSD and mild battlefield-induced psychosis.
Falk created and penned the pilot, which hails from FX Productions and will be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kings of Summer). Falk was a co-EP and writer on the Emmy-nominated Showtime pot-dealing comedy Weeds, which ended its run in September. His credits also include reteaming with Weeds creator Jenji Kohan on Netflix's latest original series, Orange Is the New Black, and he created NBC's short-lived Dane Cook comedy Next Caller, which was canceled before it aired.
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on Sep 30, 2011 at 9:55 am
This is great you are having this Tatcan Indian display for all to see what the life of this valley held many 1,000's of years ago. I have been busy recovering Tatcan ancient stones: grinders, scrappers, mortars and pestles, sandstones with pictograph art works, many other ancient stone tools, arrowheads, spearheads,etc.... Its truly exciting exploring for these. I look forward to your exhibit and I hope the children and adults of the area all enjoy!
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on Oct 4, 2011 at 8:40 pm
So deleted my last post about the model of the Casino that our Native Americian friends want to build at Pt. Richmond. Who would have thought 1000 years ago that the legacy would be casinos and tax free cigarettes
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Not sure if you want to sell your house? I'm jinxed!
So we just made our second offer on a future historic home. Both were very special houses, owned by old ladies in lala land. We offered appraised value on both, and within a week of our offer, both took them off the market after coming back with counters significantly over the market value that we turned down.
WTH!!!!!! I think I'm jinxed!!! I only make offers to delusional old ladies apparently (all four agents in each case were happy with our offers).
If you can't make up your mind about selling...let me make you an offer so you can pull it off the market heh heh
Now once again we have to start searching for the perfect house...grrrr
I sympathize-with you, with the agents, & especially with the "old ladies in la-la land".
Do you actually know, for sure, that they're "delusional old ladies"?
It's very easy to say that an elderly person is wacko, or a woman is emotional or hormonal.
For all we know, they may have been pressured by their children & children-in-law or by their nieces & nephews to sell their homes, & only found the courage to say "no" when confronted with signing on the dotted line & facing the reality of uprooting themselves & moving to a strange new place with which they have no emotional attachment & no history.
It happens all the time.
The first one has to sell the home based on conditions of a trust. It will still be sold but the family may have to evict her. Sadly she's not taking care of the house and so the pristine condition it was in is going downhill fast...The trust now has to deal with her and it will be relisted on the market. She told us (when we flew down to see it each of the three times) she was excited about moving because the house was too big for her (6000+ sq ft). But she also is using comparables in a large city, and not comps in her town for value, which is why it didn't sell (the agent eventually dropped the listing because of this)
In the second case, the owner never lived in the house. It's a b&b she purchased with her husband. He died many years ago and the b&b is running at about a fifty to sixty grand loss annually. She feels that it should sell for what she paid for it plus some, but almost 200,000 of that purchase price was for the business (non compete and goodwill). That might have been the case if the business made money, but after five years of significant losses, it's not going to be able to sell as a b&b to anyone needing financing (which most need) because banks won't lend on a failing business venture. And the house...it's lovely, but not worth what they paid for the business plus the house, and yet, that's what she wants. She just does not see it...she feels that anyone purchasing the home, business or as a private residence, must pay over what she paid, despite the losses (it used to be profitable) and the lack of maintenance and lower property values of this market.
Carol is correct about unrealistic expectations, especially during these economic conditions. Too many people, both young and old, can not separate their emotions from the economics of selling a house.
Some believe that they should get every penny that they spent/paid for a house. In some markets, house sellers are lucky if they can just break even on their mortgage.
I have seen educated, professional types let their homes go into default after turning down offers that were break even or better based on what their mortgage balance was vs. what they thought the market value was...go figure.
I think it really depends on what area you're in. My area seems to have hit bottom, bidding wars are starting again, homes are selling pretty quickly. Buyers are now at the point where they are unrealistic with their offers thinking they still have all the power. Just like it took the sellers awhile to figure it out and come down on their prices, it will take the buyers losing a few homes to higher bidders to realize things have changed again.
Thanks Linda, that's good to hear. Hopefully that means NJ will start leveling out.
There are some buyers in NJ that are delusional. One came here from another state, has no clue about prices in the area they are looking in.
They are usually the ones that cry/scream the loudest. Makes me wish the market will go back up a but and these snoozers will be locked out.
My end of the state has weathered the real estate mess fairly well. Numbers are out for the first quarter and, though down quite a bit from 2008 comparables in units sold, but both median and average prices have continued to climb. Apparently folks refuse to turn this area into a buyer's market (it was a seller's market until November when it went neutral) and have pulled their houses off the market as the number of homes currently on the market in the area is the lowest since 2002. Needless to say this is not a foreclosure area. The $8K for first time buyers apparently helped a lot because because future activity for April is up 44% over closed activity for February, and up 5% from April 2008 when it was still a seller's market. Looks like we'll be back to a seller's market as of right now once the final April numbers are in.
The house across the street from my parent's went up two weeks ago and lasted four days... and it was prolonged due to a bidding war. It may be people have spotted a bottom in some areas. In my market we were fortunate to never really have had a "bottom", just a slow five months.
I had a soft appraisal done by an acquaintence (it's a b&b and easily viewed). But I'm also a 20 year banker. My last position was in mortgage compliance and appraisal review so I'm fairly able to assess a value head on myself within a few thousand dollars. I used both a comparable property scenario and a market appraisal using the business figures (which is awful so I threw that out). It's a challenging market right now so you really have to put some time into value. I know it won't appraise over our offer and we'll have to pay a cash balance over the appraised value, but I'm not wanting that to be a huge amount. Current TAVs are about 15% over what properties are appraising for in the community unfortunately. Five homes in the same price range (upper in the market) have been pulled off the market after offers at appraised value didn't meet assessed value. (Basically the owners feel the tax assessment is appropriate, despite the drop in the economy...appraisors are not agreeing).
She put it back on the market today...at a higher price. ::eyes rolling:: maybe it will be available for another four years!


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Web Extra: Ducks at Disneyland!
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Earthquake Hits Northern California
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COLUMBUS – Today, Kathy DiCristofaro, Chair of the Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus, reiterated demands for an independent investigation into Mike DeWine's handling of harassment cases in his office. In a new case uncovered this week, an attorney repeatedly threatened a legal secretary with physical violence. Previously, ODWC members demanded an independent investigation into a mishandled claim of sexual harassment of a female intern. In response to this latest revelation, ODWC Chairwoman Kathy DiCristofaro released the following statement:
"There's a culture of harassment in the Attorney General's office, and Mike DeWine is doing next to nothing about it. We now have a second case involving senior DeWine aides where key people ultimately were not punished. Women – and all Ohioans – deserve an independent investigation of these incidents and DeWine's process for handling them."
On Thursday, the Associated Press uncovered that an attorney in DeWine's Employment Law section had repeatedly threatened a legal secretary with violence, making comments such as "You know you will do your job or you will be smacked," and "You know there is nothing more fun than smacking a woman — that is, except for punching them."
The attorney was disciplined, but remains an employee of the office.
Timothy Lecklider, a senior DeWine aide and section chief, was aware of the incidents. An internal investigation found that Lecklider failed to report them, which was a violation of office policy. In an unusual move, Lecklider's case reinvestigated and the original finding was overturned. This was the first time in at least five years such a finding was overturned in a harassment case.
Lecklider is a longtime Republican officeholder in Dublin, Ohio, where he currently serves as a member of city council.
DeWine's office botched a prior sexual harassment case. An intern alleged that a senior male employee who was a close, personal friend DeWine behaved inappropriately towards her. Despite his alleged close ties to the harasser, DeWine personally interfered with the investigation and demanded the name of a witness who had been promised confidentiality. Shortly thereafter, the investigation was closed without identifying the harasser.


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MURPHYS - In 1989, a team of miners using pickaxes and dynamite set to excavate wine-aging caverns on a ranch in Murphys, at the heart of the Sierra Nevada foothills. So hard were the limestone and Calaveras schist the miners were working through that, on some days, the team progressed only one, two or three feet. It was like cutting through iron, the miners said.
Ticket for the Ironstone Vineyards concert series can be purchased through Etix.com.
As the school year ends and summer plans are being made, it's time to get the kids outside and play. Swimming lessons can be a great way to get the kids exercising while helping them be safer in the water.
Interested in scuba diving? Curious about what lifeguard training involves? Want to swim laps for exercise? Need to learn how to swim? Or do you just want to splash around and have fun?
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OAKDALE - On a regular sunny summer day, the water atop Woodward Reservoir is calm.
STOCKTON – John, Michael and Wendy happened upon their fantasy land after a chance encounter with a flying boy dressed all in green.
MODESTO - Ice cream is nearly synonymous with summer. Nothing soothes the discomfort of a sizzling summer day better than a scoop of your favorite chilled dairy dessert.
LODI – Ever seen a golden mane tamarin?
COLUMBIA - Oklahoma! – Rodgers & Hammerstein's first masterpiece – sweeps onto the Fallon House stage this summer. Sierra Repertory Theatre is proud to present an outstanding cast in this finely crafted classic, a celebration of the American spirit of courage, independence and feisty good fun. It plays at the Fallon House theatre in Columbia State Historic Park from June 28 through August 18.
HILMAR - Looking to go on a picnic? Well, instead of scouring the aisles of conventional supermarkets why not add a local touch to create that perfect picnic basket? The Hilmar Cheese Company visitors center offers an array of meats, cheeses, spreads and other delectable delights that will make your picnic basket so tantalizing that Yogi Bear might even steal it.
CERES - Summer has often been considered to be the perfect time of the year for family bonding. No school means more time to take vacations, visit theme parks, or even just stay at home and barbeque with loved ones. For Greg Mathews, however, summer bonding with the family takes on a different form-the destruction derby.
STOCKTON - You can take Dad out to the ball game, to a soccer game, to the golf course, or to the movies.
STOCKTON - When Banner Island Ballpark opened some eight years ago, I quickly found Home Run Hill to my liking, especially on those warm summer evenings.
MURPHYS - Calaveras County has so many things to offer tourists, frog jumping, gold panning, cave tours, golf, boating, antiquing, but wine is one of the largest draws. Visitors may be surprised to find out that vines are hardly a newcomer to Calaveras. The oldest vines in the county are 110-year-old Zinfandel, organically dry-farmed in the old Italian tradition. Today, there are nearly 700 acres of vines and a yearly production of about 275,000 cases--still small compared to many other wine growing regions in California, but growing.
With Valentine's Day approaching, there's one thing the flower buyer shouldn't forget.
MODESTO - It doesn't matter if you think that Valentine's Day was created to sell greeting cards (it was).
Manteca is known as the Family City, and Ripon the Almond Capital of California. They are also communities that have plenty to offer for the romantic at heart.


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Lisa Tse, of the Sweet Mandarin restaurant and cookery school here in city centre Manchester, is teaching people to cook Dim Sum via Twitter this Saturday (28 thFeb) at 10 am (UK time). Follow @sweetmandarin for step-by-step instructions on the day andcheck out her website whilst you're about it. Very entrepreneurial – love it!
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growing morels from mailordered spores
steelskies(5)May 13, 2013
Has anyone had luck with this. I see there are some companies where you can buy morel "spores". I had some in my orchard but not in the last 2 years. And in my 10 acre woods, I haven't found any either.
Want to try growing my own. Any comments are much appreciated.
I know they are out now, since I've been reading about them being found in my area
keriann_lakegeneva(5B WI/IL border)
I have never heard of anyone having luck with spores.. I believe if it worked, there would be a lot more planting of them.. and a lot less chomping through the woods! I am headed up to Richland Center this weekend to go on a hunt, I hope I hit them at the right time !


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On a trip to Magic Island last February, I noticed a young gull working on a small sunstar (Pycnopodia helianthoides). It didn't seem too excited about it, but picked at the legs, and then didn't seem too excited about eating … Continue reading
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10 posts tagged with pakistan by bardophile.
10 posts tagged with pakistan by bardophile.
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Two Years on from the Baldia Town Disaster
9/11/2012 saw the deadliest factory fire in history, in Baldia Town, Karachi. In Quiet Burns the Fire, Karachi-based Herald's Danyal Adam Khan investigates the follow up to the fire. (Previously on Metafilter)
I am the gravestone and the photograph
I am Hazara Close to 1,000 Hazaras have been killed in targeted attacks and shootings in [Quetta] the capital of Pakistan's largest province [Baluchistan]. The indifference towards the atrocities has forced this shrinking community to take escape routes and gamble between life at the promised land and death at the ocean. Dawn, Pakistan's largest English-language daily, puts together an essay accompanied by short videos (subtitled in English).
Pakistan's DIY Generation
An independent Pakistani musician, Asfandyar Khan, writes up the indie scene in Pakistan.
Encountering Urdu poetry's modern heavyweight
Faiz for Dummies. Worth a read even if you don't know Urdu.
Zahida Kazmi, Taxi Driver
For the past two decades, Zahida Kazmi has been driving a cab in Pakistan.
Malay-Chinese blogger in Pakistan
What the Chinese Guy Said. Jia Wei is currently doing a six-month internship at Dawn, one of Pakistan's leading English dailies. This is his blog.
Not a sport for gentlemen
Asian Games Cricket Gold for Pakistani Women Pakistan beat Bangladesh to grab gold in women's cricket at the Asian Games.
Better a live goat than a dead one...
Two and a half million Muslims went on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca on Nov 14, 2010. The day after Hajj is celebrated as Eid-ul-Azha by Muslims all over the world. This year, in light of the flood aftermath in Pakistan, the Pakistan Animal Welfare Society is suggesting a substitute for the traditional animal sacrifice on Eid. [more inside]
Pakistan SCBA's New President
Dhan dhan dhan dhan!
The dhol has traditionally been played by men at Punjabi weddings and sufi shrines. Rani Taj, the first professional British-Kashmiri female dholi, trained by the Dhol Blasters and Azaad dhol, plays the dhol at public events.
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March 17, 2015
By Dino Flore, Chairman of 3GPP RAN and Balazs Bertenyi, Chairman of 3GPP SA
Last week, 3GPP endorsed a tentative timeline for the standardization of next generation cellular technology, also known as "5G" [1]. The tentative timeline is shown in the picture below. This article briefly summarizes some of the key milestones and how the work is expected to proceed in 3GPP working groups.
March 30, 2015
A copyright agreement is now in place that will allow the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Push-to-Communicate for Public Safety (PCPS) specifications - based on OMA Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) - to be used in 3GPP specifications for mission-critical Push To Talk (MCPTT).
The agreement, approved by the OMA Board and now out for signature among the 3GPP SDOs, is a vital aid to the progress of the work of 3GPP's new SA6 working group, allowing them to use PCPS 1.0 texts where needed to complete 3GPP MCPTT without having to 're-invent the wheel'.
March 27, 2015
3GPP is now actively looking forward to the use of LTE mobile networks to ensure connectivity between vehicles, roadside infrastructure and the people inside and around the connected car.
A new Study Item on "V2x" will particularly consider the usefulness of new LTE features to the automotive industry - including Proximity Service (ProSe) and LTE-based broadcast services such as Public Warning Systems (PWS) and eMBMS.
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How can I help my 2yr old learn to talk?
My son has recently turned 2 and doesn't seem to say much. He has the basics like momma, bye-bye, thank you... He also says phrases like: what is this, and where did ? go. I don't know if there is an average and I have never really held my son to any statistics, but I have been told by people(not doctors) that he should be talking more. I don't know how to help him any more than I already do. I talk to him like normal, read to him, and encourage his speech. Is there something I am missing?
My grandson was a slow talker. By his second birthday, he was even saying less than your son. The Pediatrician refered him to "Child Find". It is a federally mandated program to help children who are behind. He started speech therapy (free), but moved. Before they could get him in a program in their new location, he started speaking. It was like a light switch was turned on. He has new words everyday.
I do know that boys seem to talk later than girls. My SIL was a late talker, so there seems to be some genetic link. I would talk to the doctor. My grandson's Dr. said that he should know about 20 words by the age of 2. Do some searching on line, too. There is lots out there. My grandson is 29 months old. The progress in these last 5 months has been extraordinary. I wouldn't panic, but discussing it with his doctor would give you peace of mind.
I think there is a way mothers talk to a child that encourages talking......every time you pick him up say "up"....not I am picking you up now"...as you put his shoes on, say "shoe" not....shall we put your shoes on"....then graduate to "shoe on".....and "shoe off".
He sure should be saying more than that by 24 months. Talking baby talk to a 15 month old actually helps them learn to speak correctly......and once he has learned the basics, you are free to say.."Look! There goes a red car!"....but he needs to learn to say "look! Car!" first.
I have an inlaw's inlaw's child ( got that???LOL!) who is 2 and says almost nothing....no sounds.....no squeals of delight no giggles. He has been in speech therapy for a couple of months and is now saying things like "down" when prompted.....but is still very quiet!
Once I called someone with a baby a few months old.....and she answered the phone in a hoarse voice. I asked if she had a cold, she said it was the first words she had said that day....because, she said, there is no one hre to talk to but the baby.
Talk to your baby! They thrive on interaction!
Linda C
I just posted elsewhere that one of the smartest kids I ever knew said virtually nothing until he was past three.
He was alert, watching and listening -- absorbing the world before talking. (He also had a twin sister who did enough talking for the entire Western World.)
Sometimes we are too quick with children. If you say a word and ask him to say it back to you, count silently to ten before giving a questioning look. His brain has to process what he heard and how to mimic the sound.
I just read a book about the difference between boys and girls brains that suggested this trick: Cut pictures of common household items from a magazine. Show the child one picture -- let's say it is a book. Ask him to show you where in your house is something that looks like the picture. Then you can admire him, and name it: Book! Ask him to say it. Hooray! We put the picture up on the refrigerator and try another one.
This is supposed to work in part because it engages the boy in some physical activity -- looking for the matching thing. Boys need to *move*!


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Durable plastic cover. Fits all Nordicware 1/2 baking sheets. Makes storage and transportation a breeze. Proudly made in the USA. ...
Made in USA.Dark blue plastic color.Product Type: Baking/Roasting dish.Color: Clear.Material: Borosilicate glass.Number of Items ...
Breakfast pan with a stainless steel lid.Comes with two wooden staycool handles.Comes with lid.0.95 Quart capacity.Color: ...
Made in USA.Product Type: Baking/Roasting dish.Color: Clear.Material: Borosilicate glass.Number of Items Included: 1.Overall ...
Hot food serving / prep pan cover.Ultra durable, temperature resistant.Cooler to the touch than metal.Predrilled, NSF approved ...
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