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Lebanon County administrators have been discussing finding a cheaper way to serve bench warrants issued by magisterial district judges for several years.
On Wednesday, the county commissioners learned that may not be possible.
The county's constable bill has been skyrocketing since 2006 when the state Legislature changed the law regulating how they are paid. It increased the warrant fee from $15 to $25 and allowed constables to be compensated for multiple warrants served to an individual simultaneously. Previously multi-warrants earned just one fee charge.
The accused is responsible for paying the associated fees, but they often don't, leaving the county with the bill. In recent years, the county reported collecting only about 75 percent of fees.
Prior to the law's change, the county paid $130,000 in constable fees a year. In the first year following the new law the cost jumped more than 50 percent to $200,000. The cost has nearly doubled again since then, and in 2013 the county's constable fee was $389,000.
Several years ago, the county board of commissioners floated the idea of having the county sheriff deputies issue the warrants instead of the constables.
Because deputy sheriffs already serve warrants at the county court level, and because they are paid an hourly wage, the reasoning went, it was believed the county would save money if the task of serving magisterial district warrants was given to them.
Little follow up was done on the matter, however, until new Sheriff Bruce Klingler brought data to the county commissioners at their Wednesday workshop meeting.
Klingler said he recently spoke with the county's six magisterial district judges and learned they issue, on average, a total of 1,000 new warrants a month that are issued by 23 constables. About a quarter of them are multiple warrants for the same individual, he said.
Based on the fact that it takes three or four deputy sheriffs to serve about 350 court warrants a month, Klingler said, he would need to hire more full-time deputies to take on issuing warrants for magisterial district judges.
"I would have to hire at least six new deputies to do that work," he said. "And these would have to be full-time deputies who would be tasked only with going out and serving these bench warrants."
Adding to the cost, Klingler said, would be the need to purchase cars and computers for each new deputy, and to hire additional office staff to handle added paperwork associated with the task.
Klingler did not give a cost estimate but said it was unlikely the county could do it for less than they are paying the constables.
"I'll be perfectly honest with you," he told the commissioners. "With the deputies that would become involved with it, with the vehicles — that could not be done. We could not serve these magisterial district bench warrants. I did not mean to paint a negative picture for you, but I wanted you to be aware of the financial cost of putting together a program like this."
Another issue that would have to be addressed would be the need to require magisterial district judges to assign deputies to serve warrants.
That would likely take a court-order from President Judge John Tylwalk, and no one has discussed the idea with him, Klingler observed.
The commissioners were swayed, but not totally convinced by the new sheriff's presentation.
They asked Klingler to contact any counties where deputies issue magisterial district warrants, and come back with some hard numbers on the anticipated cost.
"I don't discredit your thought process, but I think if we had some real-life examples we would be able to compare that with your research and come up with some real solutions," Chairman Jo Ellen Litz said.
The commissioners were also informed by Klingler about a change in a lonstanding policy forbidding deputy sheriff's from being armed in the county courtrooms, where they serve as guards during trials and sentencings.
Klingler said he was concerned that it if "something bad" happened inside the municipal building, the deputies would have to rush from the third floor, where the courtrooms are, to the sheriff's office in the basement to secure a weapon.
"They would become part of the chaos," Klingler said. "Can you just imagine them trying to get down those steps or down the elevators when other people are scrambling to leave or get out? It's just a nightmare to even think about it."
Klingler said he has spoken with the county's four Court of Common Pleas judges and has been given the authorization to arm deputy sheriffs.
For security reasons, each deputy will be issued a specially-designed holster that has three-steps before a handgun can be removed. The method is so complex, Klingler said, it requires training to use.
"Only after he (a law officer) is trained can he use that holster effectively," Klingler said. "Otherwise, the weapon doesn't come out. Trust me, the weapon doesn't come out. So nobody else can grab that law officer's weapon."
Nineteen holsters are on order and should be delivered within a month. A local benefactor has offered to pay the $1,510 cost, Klingler said. He did not name the donor but said he would at a future date.


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What is Soft Tissue Sarcoma?
Sarcoma is a type of cancer that develops in bone or soft tissue. Soft tissue includes blood vessels, nerves, tendons, muscles, fat, fibrous tissue, lower layers of the skin (in other words, not the outside layer), and the lining of joints.
Several types of abnormal growths can occur in soft tissue, but if a growth is labeled a sarcoma, that means it's a malignant tumor or cancer. "Malignant" means that parts of the tumor can break off and spread into surrounding tissues. These escaped cells move throughout the body, lodging in the liver, lungs, brain, or other important organs.
Sarcomas of soft tissue are relatively uncommon, especially when compared with carcinomas, another type of malignant tumor. Sarcomas can be life threatening, especially if they are diagnosed when a tumor is already large or has spread to other tissues.
There are many kinds of soft tissue sarcomas, categorized by the tissue in which it has grown:
Malignant tumors in fat are liposarcomas. In smooth muscle (around internal organs), cancerous sarcomas are called leiomyosarcomas. Rhabdomyosarcomas are malignant tumors in skeletal muscle (in arms, legs, muscle that allows movement). Although they also occur in adults, rhabdomyosarcomas are the most common soft tissue sarcomas in children.
Other (very rare) soft tissue sarcomas include
- neurofibrosarcomas
- malignant schwannomas
- neurogenic sarcomas
- gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- synovial sarcomas
- angiosarcomas
- Kaposi's sarcomas
- fibrosarcomas
- malignant mesenchymomas
- alveolar soft-part sarcomas
- epithelioid sarcomas
- clear cell sarcomas
- pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcomas
- spindle cell tumors
What Causes Soft Tissue Sarcomas?
Usually, there is no known cause of a soft tissue sarcoma. The exception is Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma is a cancer of the lining of blood or lymph vessels. This cancer forms purple or brown lesions on the skin. It may be caused by infection with the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8). It occurs frequently in people with reduced immune function, such as those infected with untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) but can also arise without HIV infection.
Factors that Can Increase Your Risk for Developing a Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Genetic Risk Factors
Some hereditary genetic defects can make you more prone to developing a soft tissue sarcoma:
- Basal cell nevus syndrome increases your risk of basal cell skin cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, and fibrosarcoma.
- Inherited retinoblastoma causes a kind of childhood eye cancer, but can also increase the risk of other soft tissue sarcomas.
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome increases the risk of many kinds of cancer, often from radiation exposure.
- Gardner's syndrome leads to cancers in the stomach or bowel.
- Neurofibromatosis can cause nerve sheath tumors in one out of 20 people with the gene.
- Tuberous sclerosis can result in rhabdomyosarcoma.
- Werner's syndrome can cause many health problems, including an increased risk of all soft tissue sarcomas.
Toxin Exposure
Exposure to certain toxins, such as dioxin, vinyl chloride, and herbicides that contain phenoxyacetic acid, may increase your risk of developing soft tissue sarcomas.
Radiation Exposure
Radiation exposure, especially the intense radiation of radiation therapy, can be a risk factor. Radiation therapy is often used to treat more common cancers such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, or lymphomas. Unfortunately, this effective therapy can increase your risk of developing certain other forms of cancer—such as a soft tissue sarcoma. Patients who have received radiation therapy in the past should be checked for the development of new soft tissue sarcomas.
Recognizing Possible Signs of a Soft Tissue Sarcoma
A painless lump under the skin of your arm or leg may be the first sign of a soft tissue sarcoma. If a soft tissue sarcoma develops in the stomach, it may not be discovered until it is very large and pressing on other structures. You may have pain or breathing difficulties from a tumor pushing on your lungs. Another possible symptom is an intestinal blockage. This can occur if a soft tissue tumor is growing in your stomach. The tumor pushes too hard against your intestines and prevents food from moving through easily.
The most common types of soft tissue sarcomas are gastrointestinal stomal tumors (GIST) and tumors that affect the limbs. About 60 percent of soft tissue sarcomas occur in the arms, legs, hands, feet, or buttocks. These will show up as a lump under the skin. 20 percent of soft tissue sarcomas affect the stomach or chest and will press against the intestines or the lungs. Ten percent of these tumors are found in the head and neck.
If you feel a lump under your skin that doesn't go away, grows in size, or is painful to the touch, see your doctor.
Diagnosing and Staging Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Soft tissue sarcoma is usually only diagnosed when the tumor has grown to become fairly large, because there are very few early symptoms. By the time the cancer is causing recognizable signs, it may already have spread to other tissues and organs in the body.
If your doctor suspects a soft tissue sarcoma, he or she will interview you to get a complete family history to see if other members of your family may have had any rare forms of cancer. You will also likely have a physical exam to check your general health. This may help determine what treatments would be best for you.
Imaging Techniques
The tumor and its exact location will be studied using imaging scans such as simple X-rays or a computed tomography (CT) scan. The CT scan may also involve using an injected dye to make the tumor easier to see. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may also be done.
Ultimately, the diagnosis must be confirmed with a biopsy. A biopsy usually involves a needle being inserted into the tumor and a small sample being removed. Sometimes, a scalpel is used to cut away part of the tumor so that it can be examined. Other times, especially if the tumor is pressing on an important organ such as the intestines or the lungs, the entire tumor and surrounding lymph nodes are removed even before a biopsy is done.
The tissue from the tumor is examined under a microscope to determine whether the tumor is benign (meaning it doesn't invade other tissue) or malignant (when the tumor cells can invade other tissue).
Some other tests that are done to a tumor sample from a biopsy include
- immunohistochemistry—looks for antigens or sites on tumor cells that certain antibodies can attach to
- cytogenic analysis—looks for changes in the chromosomes of the tumor cells
- fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)—a test to look for certain genes or short pieces of DNA
- flow cytometry—a test that looks at the number of cells, their health, and the presence of tumor markers on the surface of cells
Staging the Cancer
After a biopsy confirms cancer, the tumor is then graded and staged by looking at the cells under the microscope and comparing them to normal cells of that kind of tissue. Stage I is a small tumor with cells that appear almost normal, whereas in Stage IV, the cells appear very abnormal and the tumor cells have invaded other parts of the body.
Treating a Soft Tissue Sarcoma?
Soft tissue sarcomas are rare, and it is best to seek treatment at a facility that is familiar with your type of cancer.
Treatment depends on the location of the tumor and the exact cell type that the tumor originated from (e.g., muscle, nerve, fat, etc.). If the tumor has metastasized (spread to other tissues), this also affects treatment.
Surgical treatment is the most common initial therapy. The tumor and some of the surrounding healthy tissue is removed and tested to see if some tumor cells may still be left in the body. If the tumor has spread to other sites and those locations are known, the secondary tumors can also be removed. Surrounding lymph nodes, which are small organs of the immune system, may also be removed. Lymph nodes are often the first places where tumor cells spread.
In the past, tumors in the arms and legs may have required a limb to be amputated. Now, the use of advanced surgical techniques, radiation, and chemotherapy can often allow a limb to be saved. However, large tumors that affect major blood vessels and nerves may still require a limb to be removed.
Risks of surgery include:
- bleeding
- infection
- reactions to anesthetic
Chemotherapy is also used to treat some soft tissue sarcomas. Chemotherapy is the use of toxic drugs to kill cells which divide and multiple rapidly, such as tumor cells. Other cells that divide rapidly—such as bone marrow cells, the lining of your intestine, or hair follicles—are also damaged by chemotherapy. This damage leads to many side effects. However, if cancer cells have spread beyond the original tumor, chemotherapy may effectively kill them off before they begin to form new tumors and harm vital organs.
Not all soft tissue sarcomas are killed off by chemotherapy. But one of the most common sarcomas, rhabdomyosarcoma, has been effectively treated with chemotherapy regimens. Drugs such as doxorubicin and dactinomycin have been used with soft tissue sarcomas. There are many other drugs that are specific to the tissue type that the tumor started in.
Radiation Therapy
In radiation therapy, high-energy beams of particles such as X-rays or gamma rays are used to damage the DNA of cells. Rapidly dividing cells such as tumor cells are much more likely to die from this exposure than normal cells, though some normal cells will die as well. Sometimes, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are combined to make each more effective and kill more tumor cells.
Side effects of chemotherapy and radiation include:
- nausea or vomiting
- weight loss
- hair loss
- nerve pain
- other side effects that are specific to each type of drug regimen
Long-Term Outlook, Recovery, and Survival
Long-term survival from a soft tissue sarcoma depends on the specific type of sarcoma. Outlook also depends on how advanced the cancer is when it is first diagnosed. A Stage I cancer will likely be much easier to treat than a Stage IV cancer. A tumor that is small, has not spread into surrounding tissues, and is located in an easily accessible location, such as the forearm, will be easier to treat and remove completely with surgery. A tumor that is large, is surrounded by many blood vessels (making surgery difficult), and has metastasized cells into the liver or lung is much harder to treat and may result in eventual death.
Chance of recovery depends on the location of the tumor, the cell type, and the grade and stage of the tumor. Additionally, recovery depends on whether or not the tumor can be removed by surgery, your age and health, and whether the tumor has reoccurred or is new.
After initial diagnosis and treatment, if the tumor is in remission (not detectable or not growing), you still need to see your doctor often for checkups. X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs may be done to check if any tumor is still present at its original growth site or at other locations in the body.
Potential Complications of Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Complications from the tumor itself depend upon the location and size of the tumor. The tumor may press on important structures such as the lungs, intestines, nerves, or blood vessels. The tumor may actually invade and damage nearby tissues as well. If the tumor metastasizes, meaning cells break off and end up in other locations such as bone, brain, liver, or lung, new tumors can grow in these organs. There they can cause extensive, life-threatening damage.


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I want to see waforword get a hold of Classic Mega Man. I beend wanting Capcom to de a classic Megaman in this cartoon look for years. Duck Tales was bolded after the NES MEga Man games anyway.
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I like the hacka slash bit. But what's the point of dress up then all the girls have the same boobs.
Well like I said I went to the mall and got three new hits heres their stats
first off theres me with 4 tags and 4 people
A dude named Sleepy who I think works that the used music and game shop
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I should make this it's own topic because with all the complaining of peopel not getting hits two of the 3 people I've met seems to have a good amount of hits for a sytem that's only for a few weeks.
Yeah, I do that, I use a girl Mii because she's my Good Luck charm. one my Wii I've done Mii's of my favorite characters. I like to play games with a Mii I named after a Rabbit girl I call Tejina. The name means magic/Art of Slight of Hand. That and her being a rabbit just seems like a good character to use when playing a video game.
I got my first Streetpass yesterday and I had my 3DS for three weeks. But I didn't take it to work unless I have plans on going where else after work. I took it dow with me at the used game shop and got a hit there.
His profile says that he met 19 people and streetpassed them 73 times. So theres people around.
I am planning to go to the mall today and see what happens.
Not a bad idea, As far as I know does A Link to the Past have a drect squrel? Maybe add a new chapter to the game like a A Link to the Future? then I'll buy.
I would buy any of the Megaman games with 3D add on the spot
You guys said you wanted questions about 3DS
I want to know since they are useing SD card. If there be any photoshop programs. Like if I want to give one of my 2D photos a 3D look. It would be nice to take a drawing and play with the 3D effects.
Second question would be any plans for comics or manga that use the 3D effects for the 3DS? I remeber there was some thing for manga on the Wii and other devices let you download comics and manga. It would be strange if the 3DS doesn't
I hope everyone here, Both E-mails and send a letter to Telltale and tell them how dumb of a move this is.
Really? How much more money would it take to make it work for the Wii?
wow, if graphic are so good it would be cool to have the abilty to plug it into your TV and take it on the go.
All I have to say is, No Nipples! WTF! If there are no nipples then it's allready censored!
lol, funnt to see if they get the idea to do this with Megaman 9 & 10, It not hard to find new mechains that NES and SNES games so it could make a lot of money.
For collectors sake of couse,
Space Invaders meets Bust-a-Move?
Wow, that pretty cool,
well, I would have giving ir a 5 too,that most because it feels like they didn't care porting then game. if they tryed better I would have giving it a 6 or 7
Did anyone else notic that if you point you wiimote stight up when you are in the item menu you can skip whole sections at a time? They put that in the game but they can't make better use of the pointer WTF?
You know a really good thing they said they will take requests for DLC that mean we might get DLC comming out for months or years?
It would be nice to see that poker type mahjong one the wiiware, because this isn't real mahjong and I always wanted to try the real game.
I remeber playing CoD3 for Wii, I remeber the controlls really sucking. I sounds like this ones better.
It's "Postal" for kids
I'll get this but I like the nonlinear leveling up Castlevania games much better but Castlevania is allways fun,
Cool, looks better then the first game, If some how I get a disscount for buying the first game I'll jump on this one.
I wounder if you can attack other meerkat groups, like declare war and stuff?
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Nice, reminds me of Fatal Frame,
Phantasy Star! Yes! I'v been wating for this one to come out.
Looks like it could be a good one kind of reminds me of Yoshi's Island.
They been saying Cave Story almost out for a long time now. Will since it's going to have DLC with it. I'm going to bet for the top of the month.
This game looks fun, Look funner then Pokemon Classic,
Princess Maker 2 is suppose to be the best, It works the same as this game but with some extra things to it.
Looks like a cool version of Pac-man
What does local co-op mean?
Yeah, I got about 10 hours of play from each of the two episodes I played so eight episodes should give me about 80 hours of play
Well I was expecting the game main game to cost 1500 points. I was shocked when I seen it for 800 but consereding they gave us half of the story and all it's still about 1500. But becaus the second part is an adds to the story and not buying the game it's self. I hope part two ends up being longer. Too bad I have to wait three months to play it.
I had a feeling After years where going to get the top spot.
Is there going to be a reveiw of Rydia's Story?
I reached the end of Rydia's story in 6hrs but I like the level grind neednessly. I haven't played the Rydia's story's extra dungeon yet. I bet the main story dungeon but Rydia's looks like it could be funner.
looks cool but wheres the bad guys, Hot chink needs lots of things to kill.
Damn, They realy need to find a way we can get Hulu on our Wiis.
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"These fudgy brownies are easy to make and travel well," writes Janet Taylor from Mayville, New York. "If you bake them in a disposable foil pan for camping or taking someplace else away from home, you won't have to worry about getting your baking pan back."
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a microwave, melt butter and chocolate; stir until smooth. Cool. Transfer to a large bowl. Stir in the eggs, sugar, flour, nuts, baking powder and vanilla.
- Pour into a greased 8-in. square baking pan. Bake at 350° for 16-20 minutes or until top is set. Cool on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 1 dozen.
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JFK's Cold War Calculations
On April 20, 1961, exactly three months after his inauguration, President John F. Kennedy addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) regarding the Bay of Pigs invasion. In his speech, Kennedy addressed one of the most crucial decisions of his presidency—his choice not to provide air cover for the 1,400 men of the Cuban exile brigade at the Bay of Pigs.
Although planning for the invasion began under the Eisenhower administration, President Kennedy opted to approve the operation upon taking office. But the invasion was doomed as soon as the CIA-trained exiles landed ashore in Cuba. The Soviet-supplied Cuban military was well equipped and had overwhelming resources in terms of manpower.
Once failure appeared imminent, military personnel and CIA officials scrambled to persuade Kennedy to deploy U.S. air cover in hopes of salvaging the operation. The President, however, refused to approve the direct military intervention sought by the advisors who had fully endorsed the invasion's initial provisions.
In the end, Cuban forces easily defeated the undermanned exile brigade within three days. To make matters worse for Kennedy, U.S. involvement was undeniable and media coverage made the failure a highly publicized national issue.
In the aftermath of the invasion, the President moved quickly to justify his decision to approve the invasion but not to provide air cover. Speaking before the ASNE, Kennedy revealed his adherence to democratic principle by stating:
"The President of a great democracy such as ours, and the editors of great newspapers such as yours, owe a common obligation to the people: an obligation to present the facts, to present them with candor, and to present them in perspective…I have emphasized before that this was a struggle of Cuban patriots against a Cuban dictator. While we could not be expected to hide our sympathies, we made it repeatedly clear that the armed forces of this country would not intervene…Any unilateral American intervention, in the absence of an external attack upon ourselves or an ally, would have been contrary to our traditions and to our international obligations."
For both President Kennedy and the United States, the Bay of Pigs was an undeniable loss on the battlefield of the Cold War. But history has shown Kennedy's political sagacity during the invasion's failure. The president understood that if the U.S. intervened militarily in Cuba, that the Soviet Union was likely to retaliate against Berlin or another high value target.
Posted by Gregory Marose on April 20, 2011, under - Cold War, - Presidents, - The 1960s.
Tags: American society of Newspaper Editors, Bay of Pigs, Berlin, CIA, Cold War, Cuba, dictator, President Kennedy
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Comment from Greg Burnham
Time September 9, 2011 at 12:11 pm
While it is true that JFK did not provide US military air support after Brigade 2506 was already trapped on the beach, it is misleading to fail to mention that such air support was never considered an option going into the operation as it would have been in direct violation of international law. The report of the Cuban Study Group (General Maxwell Taylor, DCI Allen Dulles, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Burke and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, JFK's brother) cited the cancellation (by McGeorge Bundy) of the pre-dawn anti-Castro Cuban piloted B-29 air strikes from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua as the immediate cause of failure of the invasion. This is important history. JFK's Special Advisor on National Security, McGeorge Bundy, cancelled JFK's last standing order, which was to neutralize the remainder of Castro's small air force while it was still on the ground BEFORE the invasion brigade had reached the beach. This was to be accomplished by anti-Castro Cuban pilots who were flying ex-US aircraft (modified B-29 bombers) out of Nicaragua to perform pre-dawn air strikes on the small Castro air force. The failure had nothing to do with JFK's refusal to break international law by launching an air strike from the USS Essex after the brigade was already in trouble, as has been suggested elsewhere. The failure occurred long before then and was unrelated to JFK's subsequent decision to avoid an international incident potentially much larger and more dangerous than what we already were facing. McGeorge Bundy placed a call to General Charles Cabell of the CIA instructing him to cancel JFK's pre-dawn air strikes. Without Castro's T-33 "trainers" having been destroyed on the ground, the B-29's would be sitting ducks as the T-33's are "jet aircraft" and are highly maneuverable compared to the lumbering B-29 bombers. It appears to be the case that had JFK's orders been followed and Castro's planes had been neutralized on the ground, Brigade 2506 would have stood a fair chance of success. As it is, they were doomed, but not because of JFK's decision–because of McGeorge Bundy's. In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, JFK fired from the CIA: Allen Dulles, Dick Bissel and General Charles Cabell for their part in the failure. Why he chose to keep McGeorge Bundy in place is perhaps the biggest mystery that remains.
Comment from Greg Burnham
Time March 24, 2012 at 12:39 am
Correction: The anti-Castro Cubans were flying B-26 bombers (not B-29's). –GB


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Before the age of smartphones and restaurant-provided dining companions, it was imperative to have reading material when eating alone. Apparently, being stuck at a table with no literary stimulation is especially traumatic if you're an actual author.
According to a Vanity Fair interview, Jonathan Safran Foer (Eating Animals, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) once found himself in a Chipotle without anything to read and "just really wanted to die with frustration."
The heinous experience led to a lightbulb moment: Safran Foer emailed Chipotle's CEO Steve Ells and suggested that he start publishing quality writing on Chipotle's packaging.
Safran Foer told VF,
"Unlike McDonald's, it's not like they're selling their surfaces to the highest bidder. They had nothing on their bags. So I said, 'Wouldn't it be cool to just put some interesting stuff on it? Get really high-quality writers of different kinds, creating texts of different kinds that you just give to your customers as a service.'"
Thus came to pass the burrito chain's Cultivating Thought initiative, which rolls out today featuring original work by Safran Foer, Malcolm Gladwell, Toni Morrison, George Saunders and Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Lewis. The text was curated and edited by Safran Foer, which is why that last sentence reads like the guest list at David Remnick's birthday party.
You can read three of the vignettes on the Vanity Fair website, but you'll actually have to go into a Chipotle to read Malcolm Gladwell's latest published work. We'll just pause for a moment while that sinks in.
This foray into highbrow culture has seriously raised Chipotle's game. The ball's in your court, Taco Bell.
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Putting aside that I believe in not interfering with other people's personal lives and I support legal equality…the arguments against all boil down to "I think my invisible friend will be upset."
Mrs. __B and I were married in the Municipal Building, with no invisible people present. I recommend a civil ceremony to all couples, regardless of gender. Much simpler and it frees you up to plan a big party for afterward.


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Tall Tales from the Sea: C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian
By Jeet Heer
National Post (November 13, 2003)
For those who love a good sea story, two writers stand out as the foremost naval novelists of the 20th century: C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian. Yet as biographical research has revealed, the two men were master yarn-spinners in more ways than one: both fudged the facts of their lives, creating public masks as imaginatively fictional as the beloved characters in their novels.
From 1937 until his death in 1966, Forester wrote a multi-volume series featuring the dauntless hero Horatio Hornblower, a British sailor who rises from a midshipman to an Admiral in a career spanning the Napoleonic era. Forester sold millions of books in his lifetime and continues to influence popular culture today, notably in an endlessly replayed A&E series devoted to the Hornblower saga.
After Forester died, two cagey publishers, feeling that there was still an ample market for aquatic derring-do, recruited the novelist Patrick O'Brian to develop a series in the Hornblower tradition. O'Brian complied by writing Master and Commander (1969), the first of a twenty volume series featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and his mysterious friend, the naval surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin. Also set during the Napoleonic era, these novels traced how Aubrey rose in the British navy with Hornblowerian distinction. Like their best-selling predecessors, the Aubrey-Maturin novels won a wide popular audience by celebrating the courage and moral rectitude of the British navy at its best. The new film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, with Russell Crowe at the helm as Aubrey, is based on two of O'Brian's novels.
As biographer Dean King notes, O'Brian's most popular novels "chiefly concern ethical characters operating in a generally benevolent world." The same could be said of Forester's main work. Yet in their own lives, the two bards of the British Navy inhabited a murky and morally complex world.
C.S. Forester was born under the name Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith, in 1899 in Egypt, where his father worked as a school teacher. Forester was a frail young man who spent his boyhood voraciously reading. Even during World War I, when the British army was hungry for recruits, the young Forester was rejected because of his weak heart. Later in life, Forester cultivated the false impression that he saw wartime service.
After failing to join the army, Forester tried to follow in the footsteps of a successful older brother, who was a doctor. However, Forester lacked the medical aptitude of his brother and while faltering from his studies, pursued a career as a writer. He took the pen name Forester, since he believed that Smith was a dull by-line. Around this time, he also broke ties with his family.
Forester's early novels were shoddy pulp confections, which he hacked off with great speed and little regard for plausibility. But over time he became a more conscientious author, so that when he wrote historical novels like the Hornblower series he made sure that he got the period details right. Aside from their confident and accurate descriptions of naval battles, the Hornblower books benefited from their timely publication. In the late 1930s, as in the Napoleonic era, Britain found itself as a beleaguered island fighting against a Continental tyranny. As British soldiers and sailors took up arms against Hitler, Horatio Hornblower made for morale-lifting light reading.
The British government certainly realized Forester's value as a propagandist. During the War he served the Minister of Information by writing films that celebrated the British navy.
Forester had two sons from his first marriage, John and George. During his father's lifetime, John Forester regarded his father as "the embodiment of the enlightenment, standing for truth, reason, and competence in every aspect of life." Yet after his father died, John started coming across many facts that darkened this idealized image. In an important 1997 essay in The American Scholar, John described how documentary evidence, including many family letters, proved to him that "the stories that [C.S. Forester] had told me about himself and his family had a large admixture of lies."
Among the more memorable tales that Forester concocted was the story that he himself was only half English because his mother had had an adulterous love affair with a prominent Egyptian. It's difficult to know why Forester fictionalized his past, although John has offered the interesting speculation that his father "despised his parents" and all his life dreamed of having a better, or at least more colourful, lineage.
Patrick O'Brian's life strikingly parallels Forester's troubled personal history. Like Forester, O'Brian underwent a significant name change. O'Brian was born in 1914 as Richard Patrick Russ, the son of a sprawling Anglo-German family. O'Brian's mother died while he was only three, leaving the young boy and his numerous siblings in the care of their scatter-brained father, Dr. Charles Russ. A daffy inventor, Dr. Russ spent much of his career developing bizarre and frightening gizmos designed to cure venereal disease through electrolysis.
Finding life under Dr. Russ's chaotic care rather unsettling, the young O'Brian retreated into the imaginative pleasures of literature. In 1930, the teenage O'Brien published under his real name his first novel, an animal fantasy entitled Caesar: the Life Story of a Panda Leopard. As a fledgling writer, O'Brian continued to write Kipling-inspired adventure stories, often about animals or the British empire in India. (At that time O'Brian knew India only from books, but some reviewer praised him for his authenticity).
In the mid-1930s, the young O'Brian fell in love with a spirited Welsh woman, Elizabeth Jones, who he married in 1936. The couple had two children, a son named Richard and a daughter Jane, who suffered from spina bifida and would die when she was only three.
Possibly unable to deal with the emotional strain of raising a handicapped child, O'Brian abandoned his family in the summer of 1940. O'Brian and Elizabeth finally divorced in 1945. During the onset of the Second World War O'Brian tried to join the army but was rejected as unfit. Instead, he served his country first in the ambulance service (where he met his future wife Mary Tolstoy) and later helping the British government develop propaganda to bolster the European resistance against Nazi rule.
Shortly after the war in Europe ended, O'Brian married Mary and officially changed his name (along with that of his new wife and his son Richard). Why did Richard Patrick Russ become Richard Patrick O'Brian? As with so many important life decisions, a host of reasons came together: O'Brian wanted to bury his painful early life and failed first marriage, he sought to cut ties with his embarrassing father and intrusive siblings, his work as an intelligence agent gave him a taste for secret identities, he desired a more romantic ethnic identity than being a simple Englishman, and he admired Irish writers such as James Joyce.
Moreover, re-inventing the self through re-naming was a family tradition of sorts: earlier O'Brian's brother Michael changed his name to O'Brien and his uncle Earnest anglicized himself into being a Russell. Eventually, O'Brian's son Richard, in the act of separating himself from his father, would revert to the name Russ, thus completing the family circle of cognomenial game-playing.
Under his new name and with his new wife, O'Brian re-launched himself as a writer. Sill rooted in the tradition of Kipling and Conrad, his fiction now had a greater maturity and seriousness: rather than simply borrowing exciting plots and locals from Kipling and Conrad, he started to echo their thematic concern for duty and honour. He wouldn't achieve fame until the Aubrey-Maturin novels started gaining an audience in the 1970s and 1980s. During his last decade, he became widely celebrated but this had the unwanted side-effect of making people curious about his past. In 1999, a year before he died, the Daily Telegraph revealed the secret of O'Brian's identity make-over.
As scaffolding for his Irish name, O'Brian had constructed an elaborate structure of lies. "The accepted view was that he was born in Ireland, the son of well-to-do Anglo-Catholic parents," the Telegraph noted in a forgiving obituary. "His upbringing was supposedly with relatives in Connemara and Co Clare and with family friends in England. The boy took up small boat sailing for the sake of his health. He also crewed on a friend's barque - a type of vessel which is partly square-rigged." As we've already seen, most of this was false. (Biographer Dean King has done yeoman's labour in unearthing the true story behind O'Brian's carefully built facade. With its excavation of long-hidden past, King's 2000 book Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed makes for fascinating reading, although the prose is marred by a slobbering fannish tone).
What are we to make of fictive lives created by the make-believe Egyptian Forester and the pretend Irishman O'Brian? Although O'Brian inspired Master and Commander, in many ways his story (and that of Forester) calls to mind a much quieter film, The Human Stain. Coleman Silk, the hero of The Human Stain, is born a light-skinned African American yet in the 1940s he finds it advantageous to pass as white. While this act of imposture gains him social mobility, it costs him the love of his mother and siblings. Skilful liars, Forester and O'Brian gained fame as writers even as they became estranged from their kin. Their talent as storytellers made them too confident in re-fashioning themselves. They would have been wiser to keep their fictions confined to the novels they wrote.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (12/30/12) – 2012 is at an end. The past year marked the occurrance of several interesting moments, some good and some bad. This year was a leap year. Dick Clark, evangelist Charles Colson, actor Andy Griffith and astronaut Neil Armstrong all passed away in 2012.
2012 has featured triumph and tragedy. Here is a look back at ten major events from the year.
Disney buys Lucasfilm
After a year and a half, Disney came to a deal with George Lucas to purchase Lucasfilm LTD. for $4 billion. Lucas plans to serve as creative consultant, but will retire. Disney now has rights to the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" film franchises and plans to release a seventh Star Wars film in 2015.
Aurora Shooting
On July 20, James Holmes entered a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. at a midnight premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises" and opened fire, killing 12 and injuring 58. Holmes was charged with 142 charges, including 24 charges of first-degree murder.
Sky diver breaks sound barrier
Felix Baumgartner, Australian sky diver, took a 24 mile high jump from space. During his sky dive, Baumgartner reached 833.9 mph which is faster than the speed of sound.
"Sometimes you have to go really high to see how small you are," he said before his jump.
NHL Lockout
Since Sept. 15, the National Hockey League has been working to resolve a labor dispute after its collective bargaining agreement expired. This has resulted in a lockout of professional hockey until the issue can be resolved. Resolutions are still being worked on.
Re-election of President Obama
On Nov. 6, President Barack Obama won re-election over Gov. Mitt Romney. Obama received 332 electoral votes and Romney received 206.
The Stop Online Piracy Act that was introduced in 2011 prompted protests in January. The act was introduced to fight online trafficking of copyrighted material. On Jan. 18, a number f websites coordinated a service blackout to raise awareness of the act. It was believed that this act violated the first amendment and was the beginning to more internet censorship. On Jan. 20, the bill was thrown out.
Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day
Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee declared Aug. 1 "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day." Huckabee called for citizens to eat at the fast food chain that day in support of the business after CEO Dan Cathy made a statement about same-sex marriage being sinful and took heat over it. Hundreds of thousands came to the restaurant to support.
Hurricane Sandy
In late Oct., the east coast was hit by Hurricane Sandy. At least 125 people were killed across the nation. $62 billion dollars of damage was caused from the storm.
Sandy Hook Shooting
On Dec. 14, Adam Lanza opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. 20 students were killed and 6 staff members. Lanza took his own life. Following this shooting, the gun control debate has become a major item. President Obama recently called for a team of delegates to come up with suggestions to help prevent gun violence and intends to act on these suggestions.
No End of the World
After months of prepping for doomsday, the prediction that the Mayan calendar foretold that the world would come to an end on Dec. 21 was proven wrong when nothing happened.
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The stars on the U.S. flag represented a new constellation, rising in the West. The blue came from the Covenanters Banner of Scotland, and marked what was then for the colonies an ongoing battle against British oppression. The 13 stars represented the states in 1777; their formation in a circle pointed to the perpetuity of the union of those states. The red stood for defiance, as it had for the Romans; the white, purity. That, from The American Book of Days.
Schoolchildren still learn that, we suppose, and much more. Because our national flag, developed from concepts more than 200 years ago, now bears the supportive strength of our common and glorious history.
Small wonder, then, that Flag Day, celebrated this day, holds great effect upon Americans.
The flag's design was affirmed by the Continental Congress that sat in Philadelphia in 1777. Three months later, the colonial troops carried the flag into Battle at Brandywine, near Philadelphia. Alas, it was for a losing effort, both the field and eventually the city fell into British hands.
But the setback was temporary. Some seven months later, the now established national flag was saluted for the first time by a foreign power when John Paul Jones sailed an American warship, The Ranger, into a French port.
Where is Louisiana's part in this history?
It dates back peripherally at least to 1779, when Spain entered the war against the British as our allies. Spanish armies that included Spanish regulars, free blacks, Creoles and Choctaws - how's that for diversity? - marched against British outposts and strongholds in Manchac, Fort New Richmond and Natchez. So Louisiana's stake in this flag's triumphs stretches almost to the country's origin.
Louisianians should be encouraged to embrace that history today, more poignantly in this time of war.
We've seen our fellow Louisianians march off to Iraq and Afghanistan under this flag; we see some return under its cover, having given the supreme sacrifice. They have given their flag the ultimate honor, as have generations of soldiers who have fought in war theaters across the globe.
We should do no less than show our own reverence for the flag for which they died.


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Sareea Freeman spikes a ball against Duke. Freeman and the Seminoles suffered their first loss since Sept. 14 against North Carolina Saturday. / Nicholas Staab/FSView
The Florida State Seminoles couldnt manage to pull out the second match of their tough two game road trip to North Carolina this Saturday. One night after handling a pesky North Carolina State team, the No. 11 Seminoles fell to ACC power North Carolina at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill.
In a competitive four-set match, the Tar Heels out hit the Seminoles on their way to a huge ACC victory, dropping FSU back into a tie for the conference lead with a record of (22-3, 13-2). It was the Noles first loss since Sept. 14 and ended the teams fourth-longest win streak in team history.
The first set resulted in a tight (25-23) FSU victory, spearheaded by freshman Mara Green. Her six kills in seven attacks led the way as the back-and-forth first frame was anyones game. All of the Noles first set momentum was, however, halted as the Heels dominated at the net, hitting at a .290 clip for the match. FSU did find strong play from junior Olivera Medic, who recorded 13 kills and an impressive .379 hitting percentage. Senior Sareea Freeman also continued to lead the offense, charting 10 kills and four blocks.
Sophomore captain Katie Mosher added a team high 19 digs followed by Fatma Yildirim, who recorded 12 digs with 12 kills in a strong double-double performance.
The Seminoles were resilient after they fell behind again in the second set but couldnt muster the energy from the prior set. After losing (20-25) in the second, FSU couldnt seem to find their footing as a few miscommunications in crucial moments ended up resulting in third and final set loses.
However, Florida States weekend began on a more positive note when they defeated NC State in three consecutive sets, overcoming minor mistakes with late set runs. The Seminoles were trailing at one point in each set against the Wolfpack, but each time FSU rallied for a set victory and the eventual match victory.
The thing that stood out to me was the character of our team in making these comebacks tonight, head coach Chris Poole said. We didnt play perfect all the time and we gave away some points, but we always kept our head in the match. Our team never panicked, and altogether, I think it was a good team effort tonight.
Despite the later loss to UNC, many positives can be taken from the winning streak and the play against both teams from North Carolina. Continued support from veteran players have been key in the climb to the top of the ACC standings heading into the final five games of the regular season.
The Noles will get back on the road to avenge their loss to North Carolina as they travel down Tobacco road to Duke. The game will be streaming on ESPN as the Seminoles play the Blue Devils, Thursday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.


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By following a unique, old-fashioned approach to business, Whole Foods continues to thrive in a challenging economic environment.
There is a whole lot to crow about at the world's leading natural/organic supermarket chain.
Same store sales at Whole Foods are up a healthy 8.4%, despite a lingering recession, sky-high gasoline prices and having a "Whole Paycheck" perception of being pricier than traditional supermarkets. In 2012 sales approached $12 billion, translating to sales per gross square foot of $932. Twenty-five new stores were opened, increasing total square footage by 8% to 12.7 million feet, and ushering expansion into eight new markets. The chain continues to successfully fend off onslaughts from other fast-growing competitors, including Sprouts Farmers Market, The Fresh Market and Earth Fare, and has set a lofty goal for itself—building its current 350-store footprint to 1,000 locations.
Vendors sing the Austin, Texas-based chain's praises, citing Whole Foods' ability to work closely with new manufacturers to nurture and grow upcoming brands. It does not charge cash slotting allowances and managers have the authority to build floor displays for products they think are stellar. Vendors also tout the company's regional buying offices that encourage the taking on of local and artisan products.
Whole Foods is also a happy place to work. For the past 15 years it has been listed as one of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America," coming in at number 32 in 2012 and being only one of 13 companies to be included on the list since its inception.
It is for these reasons and many more that Grocery Headquarters is proud to honor Whole Foods Market as our inaugural Innovative Retailer of the Year.
"Whole Foods is one of the best merchants around and they have only gotten better," says Spencer Hapoienu, president of Insight Out of Chaos, a New York-based database marketing company. "You have to give Whole Foods a lot of credit because they continually evolve and try to lead when it comes to labeling, humane treatment of animals, etc. The one thing that has always been very consistent about them is that they are very true to the culture that founder [and co-CEO] John Mackey set up. Everyone that works there believes in it passionately, and that comes through to the rest of the world. As a result, the customer base is very comfortable about what Whole Foods is all about. They trust them. Trust is a big issue."
Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director, Strategic Resource Group, a New York-based consumer industry consulting firm, says Whole Foods has a depth and range of talent that is unparalleled in the industry. "They have developed a leadership team from the ground up, department by department, store by store, community by community, and then work very closely with their suppliers," he says.
Flickinger adds that Whole Foods' top officers, including co-CEOs Mackey and Walter Robb, and president and COO A.C. Gallo, have been with the company since its inception in 1980. "All of them have created a company that is a true meritocracy," Flickinger says. "You don't need to be at the top of your class from the best business schools, you just need to be one of the top team leaders on your shift, in your store department, in your store, in your district, in your region. Your talent and contribution to consumers and the theme of the company will take care of itself," he says.
Citing corporate policy, Whole Foods officials declined to be interviewed for this article, but industry observers say Whole Foods is one of the stellar and unique operators in the supermarket industry.
Sue Ferrara, sales manager for SnackMasters, a Ceres, Calif.-based manufacturer of organic beef, turkey, Ahi tuna and salmon jerky, sums up Whole Foods in one word, "Fantastic." SnackMasters products are carried in seven of Whole Foods' dozen operating regions.
"Whole Foods is very easy to work with. They are very loyal as long as your product sells well," she says. "They encourage you in every way to sell more product. They are very helpful in that way. And I have found that they don't have the slotting allowance that a lot of the major chains require, and it is very helpful to us financially not to have to deal with that. They are fantastic to work with. I can't say enough about them."
Whole Foods swept Drew Adelman, CEO of Weehawken, N.J.-based Devotion Spirits, off his feet when he walked into their Venice, Calif., store and saw a 25-case floor display of Devotion Vodka that was put up by the store managers. "That's not normal in the grocery industry, but they take pride in what they are doing, as you can see by the staff and everybody who works there. It is a different type of atmosphere," says Adelman.
"Whole Foods really does their due diligence before they will stock your product," he adds. "Our vodka is the first-ever sugar-free, gluten-free vodka and they tested it to make sure that it was. They do not simply take your word for it, but conduct their own tests to verify it."
Most will agree that as the industry leader, Whole Foods has a very special place in the market as the bellwether for natural foods. "Vendors who have had a chance to work with Whole Foods are very lucky," says Steve Broad, CEO of GimMe Health Foods, the San Rafael, Calif.-based manufacturer of GimMe Health organic, non-GMO certified seaweed snacks. "They are at such a high level a lot of people look at them as the trend leader that further benefits manufacturers who are able to work with them."
Broad should know. He, along with his wife Annie, owned and operated Annie Chun's for 15 years before selling it to CJ Foods, and Whole Foods was instrumental in helping the brand become what it is today. "Whole Foods is very good about partnering with companies they want to work with and then really supporting those companies within the Whole Foods format," he says.
Whole Foods' regionalized buying practice is another key advantage.
"At Whole Foods, the regions have a very key role in the process compared to other corporate accounts where you go to a central office and all of the buying for the country is done out of there," Broad says. "At Whole Foods the regions have a substantial say and typically products go into Whole Foods through the regional buying system."
George and Debbie Crave, president and vice president, of Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, based in Waterloo, Wis., were in New York City recently showcasing their cheeses at Rinds and Vines, a media-only event at the Whole Foods flagship store in the Time-Warner Center on Columbus Circle.
"Rinds and Vines was a sustainability event and we were invited by Whole Foods to attend because the sustainability green focus that we have at our cheese factory lines up really well with the goals of their business, stores and the message they want to send their customers," says Debbie Crave.
Last year Crave Brothers was honored as "Cheese Supplier of the Year" by Whole Foods, partly because, for the last few years the Craves have hosted small groups of Whole Foods store-level cheesemongers from around the country. "They do this intensive education program where they tour farms and cheese companies and really learn about the cheese," she says. "They really invest in their employees. They want them to talk and know the cheeses that they sell."
In addition to selling its Crave Brothers branded cheese, the Craves also make some Whole Foods private label cheeses—"Whole Foods Exclusive Brand," as George Crave calls it.
No whole paycheck
Industry observers say that in recent years Whole Foods has greatly expanded and retooled its private label offerings, especially its 365 Everyday Value line. It is a move that has helped lessen their "Whole Paycheck" stigma.
"Whole Foods has taken a lot of remedial steps to improve their price image with the help of their private brands," says Dr. David Rogers, president, DSR Marketing Systems, a consulting firm based in Northbrook, Ill. "They are obviously doing a lot right because how can you say that they are not doing well when they have same store sales trends of plus 7%. That is very good these days."
According to Rogers, that same store sales growth curve has prompted the chain to begin building larger stores. "One of Whole Foods characteristics is that it has seven-year maturity curves when everybody else in the industry has three-year curves. That gives the stores more time to grow profitable," he says.
Paying scant attention to advertising is also helping the bottom line, observers say. According to the company, Whole Foods only spends 0.4% of total store sales on advertising and marketing.
"As a result of being so good at retaining their culture and fantastic merchandising, they don't spend very much money on marketing," says Hapoienu. "They are one of the few businesses, especially at retail, able to get away with that because they are such a unique animal, like Trader Joe's."
For the most part, except for one-sheet handbills at the store entrance and occasionally dropped into a newspaper, Whole Foods largely eschews traditional advertising.
Hapoienu adds that Whole Foods does not employ a loyalty card program, although he worked with them on a short-lived one that was implemented in the late '90s. "It was very successful, but we couldn't keep it going because they are so decentralized and driven so much by each store," he says. "This was before the Internet so we weren't able to distribute all of the data back to the stores. Plus it was being controlled out of Austin and the stores really rebelled against that."
Another reason for Whole Foods success is that for the vast majority of consumers it is not their sole grocery shopping channel. "Less than 20% of Whole Foods shoppers exclusively or primarily shop Whole Foods," says Bill Bishop, chief architect, Brick Meets Click, based in Barrington, Ill., and founder of Willard Bishop Consulting. "That means people are going there as a destination for something special—seafood, meat, bakery. You get that destination status. That neutralizes price and allows for a more extensive trading area."
Facebook friends
Whole Foods is also ahead of the game when it comes to social media, Bishop says.
"Whole Foods is one of the few retailers that has made the commitment and successfully figured out how to do store-specific Facebook pages," Bishop says. "That gives them a vehicle to localize their offer, communicate store-specific events, and to celebrate certain people and activities in the store. Hardly anybody else does that. It gives them a digital connectivity with shoppers."
That connectivity will continue to grow. According to its annual report, Whole Foods believes it can successfully operate 1,000 stores in the U.S.
"Whole Foods can ultimately triple its size if it wants to during the next 10 years and probably double it again during the following decade," says Flickinger. "New York State could easily support 30 stores, and New Jersey with almost a dozen stores could probably support twice as many," he says, citing just two operating areas.
Then there are the international prospects. The company already operates eight stores in Canada and seven in the U.K. "The consistency of Whole Foods is certainly translatable to Australia, New Zealand, Asia and also continental Europe once the challenges in the economy there are corrected," Flickinger says.
"I really don't see too many headwinds for Whole Foods," says Broad. "I think they can keep going. Other competitors are going public or merging, but Whole Foods at this point has set forth their brand and have the connection to the consumer."
The Organic side of Sears
Craftsman, Kenmore and Kashi? That combination might not seem so odd now that Whole Foods has entered into a partnership of sorts with Sears Holdings to open supermarkets in some of the chain's Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores.
Under the arrangement, Sears subleases some floor space on one side of its main floor to Whole Foods, and Whole Foods opens a store with a separate entrance. The symbiotic relationship allows both stores to feed off each other's traffic.
Sears Holdings, based in Hoffman Estates, Ill., has publicly stated that it is looking to sublease space in its Sears and Kmart stores. It has even established a website, www.SHCRealty.com to shop its locations.
The first store opened in Colorado and based on its success a second 34,000- square foot location opened in April 2012 at the Sears in the Friendly Center in Greensboro, N.C., that city's premiere shopping center. The second Whole Foods in the Triad Region, the store is literally yards away from Harris Teeter's flagship store, also located in the Friendly Center.
"We worked really hard with [Sears] to say, 'How can we make this happen?' 'How can we get the experience of Whole Foods to be Whole Foods separate from Sears,'" Scott Allshouse, Whole Foods' South region president, told The Business Journal in February 2012.
Whole Foods has since announced plans to open stores in Sears' buildings at the Colonie Center Mall, just outside Albany, N.Y., and the Westfield Countryside Mall in Clearwater, Fla. While Friendly Center is an outdoor "power center" shopping plaza, Colonie Center and Countryside are traditional enclosed regional malls, marking a new venue for consumers to stock up on organic groceries and perishables.
Both stores are expected to open in 2014.
Sushi and the inner city
With a reputation for premium prices charged for its organic and natural groceries Whole Foods is not so fondly referred to by many shoppers as Whole Paycheck. That premise has been a key reason why the Austin, Texas-based chain has been largely absent from lower-income inner-city neighborhoods—until now.
On June 5, Whole Foods opened a 21,056 square-foot store in Midtown Detroit. The neighborhood is where most of the Motor City's medical centers are concentrated, but one still struggling with deep poverty and unemployment. The median household income is just under $14,000 a year. Built from the ground up, the store features less square footage, fewer staffers and more frozen and prewrapped foods than a traditional Whole Foods in an effort to offer lower prices and attract a broader range of shoppers, according to published reports.
"The opening of the first Whole Foods Market in Detroit is a game changer," says Detroit mayor Dave Bing. "Not only does it offer central-city residents more choices and convenience for grocery shopping, it also proves that Detroit is an attractive destination for national retailers. I appreciate that Whole Foods Market involved the entire community in the planning of this development. This is a true community partnership and we're proud to welcome Whole Foods Market to Detroit."
The store promises to stock an array of fresh, healthy and affordable locally-produced products, including Taste Love Cupcakes, Slow Jams, Good People Popcorn, Avalon baked goods, Garden Fresh salsa, McClure's pickles, Great Lakes Coffee and Bhakti Chai Tea.
To pay homage to the Motor City the store features local and green design elements including using wood and salvaged brick from Reclaimed Detroit, tables made from old car and truck hoods, murals by local artists and Motown records adorning the register lights.
"We've worked toward this day for nearly five years, constantly inspired by the positive energy and growth in urban farming, food artisans and local producers in Detroit," says Walter Robb, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market. "We are so proud to be part of the mix."
Similar stores are planned to open over the next year in New Orleans and the South Side of Chicago.


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This tutorial is for people that already know a little about rigging. I won't cover everything here.The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to make the most simple of simple game rigs. This set up is by no means perfect. What it is though is very simple to make, and it will cover the basics for those of you not completely familiar with rigging just yet. In making rigs your goal is rarely ever to make it perfect.Your goal is to get it to do the job needed as quickly as possible. Some times this is per a shot or per an action even. While this rig may not be the easiest to use necessarily, it does the job for animation as well as teaching you in this case.Remember. I don't have all the right answers. Often there isn't just a single right answer. The right answer is what ever works. The best I can offer is suggestions towards solutions.
Skills we will cover in this tutorial:
How to set up your file.
Joint Placement Procedure
Orienting the Local Rotation Axis (LRA) of joints.
Positioning and Displaying selection handles.
Skinning procedure
We'll start off using this model. You can download a copy here if you like to follow along. There is also a finished rigged version you can download at the end of the tutorial to see the results.
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I usually start off by making sure my model is set up the way I like. While this isn't something you don't have to do to make a rigged character, these are steps I find help. You can see my model in this case is symmetrical. The edges down the center line right up, and I've centered the model along the Z axis. I've also put the feet to the origin of the Y axis. I've scaled the model to the size I want it as well. These few steps can make things easier in the long run.
I'll start off by making 6 joints up the center of the model in the Front view starting at the hips. I'll grid snap these in X. As a rule when I place joints I never rotate or scale them into place. I only translate them into place. This ensures I have a clean rotation and scale when I start skinning and can easily reposition everything back to 0 and back into the original bind pose. If you had rotations on the rig when you started skinning, if you ever need to get back to the bind pose for some reason to make adjustments, you would have to know what position those joints were originally in when you first skinned.
Now don't think I just randomly decided 6 joints were a good number of joints. These joints were chosen and placed specifically. Starting in the center of the hips I place one joint for the Center of Gravity (COG), then one right above that for the twisting of the hips. The next one up is for the twisting of the torso. The one above that for the base of the neck and shoulders. Then one more joint for the neck, then the base of the head and then we end at the top of the head.
If this was a more complex rig, with a more realistic spine and IK, I would make it sCurve like a real spine would. But since it's FK I'm going to keep the spine straight from the sides. This will make it easier to twist the body while animating. If we had a sCurve spine, if we twisted the torso in X it'd twist the body at an angle, tilting it back at the same time.
Next we'll make 5 joints in the side view for the leg. One for the hip, one for the knee, heel, ball of the foot and toe.
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