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State regulators have denied Hawaiian Electric Co.'s request to impose a surcharge on its Oahu and Maui customers for the extra expense of using biofuel to generate electricity on the Big Island.
The surcharge request is part of HECO's plan to buy 16 million gallons a year of locally produced biofuel to burn in its Keahole power plant near Kailua-Kona.
HECO signed a contract in January with biodiesel supplier Aina Koa Pono, a new company that plans to build a plant in Kau to convert a variety of existing wild plants as well as cultivated crops into liquid fuel.
HECO did not give a price for the biofuel, but said it would probably be higher than the petroleum-based diesel burned at the Keahole plant. At the time, HECO estimated the biofuel would add about one-third cent per kilowatt-hour, or $1.86 a month, to a 600-kwh bill if the cost were spread across ratepayers on all three islands. The biofuel premium will be higher if it is entirely paid for by Hawaii County customers.
In its decision, the Public Utilities Commission said it would continue to consider HECO's request to buy biofuel from Aina Koa Pono but that HECO would not be allowed to pass any surcharge along to ratepayers on Oahu or Maui.
HECO Executive Vice President Robbie Alm said the utility is reviewing the decision.
"We still firmly believe that developing local biofuel sources is a critical part of the portfolio of renewable energy sources we need to reduce our state's dependence on imported oil," Alm said.


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Gross garnered 209 votes, or 41.7 percent of the total vote count, compared to Michles' 201, or 40.1 percent. Third-place finisher Tony Taylor got 91 votes, or 18.1 percent.
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Don't really care. I've seen these movies a million times and have them on Blu-Ray. Don't understand why anyone would pay today's ticket prices for an old movie that they've seen already and own on home video, but to each his own.
I think this is a good sign if anything else. It means that Disney is committed to using resources on moving the franchise forward instead of just bleeding the franchise dry with re-releases of the same shit.
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London, England (Sports Network) - England interim manager Stuart Pearce named a 25-man roster Thursday for an upcoming friendly against the Netherlands, and Fraizer Campbell and Tom Cleverley were both handed their first call-ups.
Pearce also called up Steven Gerrard, who is healthy enough to rejoin the team for the first time since 2010. The Liverpool captain could also become England captain, replacing John Terry in that role.
Terry was stripped of the England captaincy by the English FA, which led Fabio Capello to quit as coach earlier this month. Pearce has stepped in to lead the team for its friendly against the Dutch.
"I'd like to thank Fabio and his staff for the education they gave me over the last three-and-a-half to four years, it was invaluable," Pearce said.
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Defenders: Micah Richards (Manchester City), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Leighton Baines (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), Kyle Walker (Tottenham).
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Michael Fischetti is the Executive Director of the National Contract Management Association. (Jenifer Morris)
Several recent articles have discussed declines in the federal workforce. Discussion of acquisition invariably gets around to workforce concerns; the workforce of today and the future. Hiring challenges make it difficult to get the right people when needed. As discretionary budgets have shrunk, funding for staff, training, travel, and other bread and butter items have dropped. Sequesters and furloughs are not great recruiting tools, so as experienced managers continue to leave, many present and next-generation contract managers take a pass and go on to perhaps greener (or at least more immediately available) pastures. Discussion continues on the need for a workforce thats more responsive, more knowledgeable, trained, and with better developmental experience and improved interpersonal skills. Suggestions of streamlining the FAR intend to further simplify the process, so that this workforce can better perform their duties.
Participation in workforce discussions often include many who have never actually worked in acquisition. While many experienced managers recall the difficulties of the past, growing within the profession, receiving the education and experience necessary for ever-greater responsibilities, some tend to take a rose-colored recollection of the superiority of the past, tainting our view of todays challenges.
The difficulties of keeping and recruiting an acquisition workforce are unfortunate and preventable, but should also be given perspective. Particularly in contracting or program managementalways highly marketable skills for superior performersturnover has traditionally been high. Government outsourcing programs consistently had the unintended byproduct of high attrition of experienced contracting managers leaving government for the greener pastures of government contractors. Those that stayed did so either because they saw increased career opportunity or considered the long-term employee benefit of government retirement. That traditional advantage is shrinking in todays more competitive climate.
For anyone working with many of the new professionals progressing within contracting in particular, we need not be as fearful as many appear to be. First of all, the preparatory training programs of the past were never as effective as we recall. Leadership often occurred by accident and unforeseen opportunity, with good people rising to the occasion. Major buying commands had similar challenges to those of today. Promotions often came too fast. Understanding and embracing new trends, types, policies, statute, and regulation in contracting occurred then as now. The qualifications of those leading and implementing those then-new contracting challenges were just as questionable. History can repeat itself. The government has changed in many ways, but workforce challenges have been discussed consistently with each generation.
Most of todays up-and-coming acquisition workforce is energetic and up to the challenge and perhaps the previous workforce generation wasnt as great as we may now wish to recall. All of us should certainly be concerned and supportive of todays contracting workforce, to include loosening unproductive training and travel restrictions, increasing room for monetary reward for superior performance, providing more discretion on programmatic and contracting decisions, and otherwise providing all the technical and management tools available to perform this vital mission. If not, why would anyone stay on?
Having had the opportunity to meet and work with many of this new generation of contracting professionals provides a sense that our future is in good hands. Yes, these are tough times, but arent they always? Todays workforce must deal with new legislative, budgetary, regulatory, market, and business initiatives that call for increased needs for project, business, relationship, and technology skills. They may not have to walk up the proverbial steep hill in a snowstorm, against the wind, without a coat on, both ways, to and from the office as many of us did back in the good old days! But have faith and give our new and rising acquisition managers credit. They are smarter than we might think, with competencies equal to, if not superior to, their predecessors.


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Kitschie, kitschie, ya ya da da...
Bad taste - and not in your mouth.
(Pictured, Corky St. Clair from "Waiting For Guffman" in his kitschy movie memorabilia gift shop.)
Kitsch - yiddish for bad taste, cheap, tacky, gawdy, gimmicky, cheap merchandise - like you'd pick up in a dime store.
Schmaltz - yiddish for too sweet, sentimental - literally, chicken fat.
Glitz - yiddish for lots of gold and shine - tinselly.
Here are some examples. I was speaking about bad art and bad taste in religious/devotional goods the other day. The latest post I did on Marie-Julie Jehenny reminded me of the discussion. There is a passion scapular supposedly inspired by her revelations, available on some Catholic websites. It is supposed to protect a person in these evil times. I never realized it was from her and just assumed someone made it up to make money. In religious retail, someone always seems to be coming up with something new to sell. Like these Jesus with the little female gymnasts figures - kind of creepy, or him as the baseball Jesus - what else for the all-American kid? This stuff falls into the kitsch category, along with Saints chapsticks and holy water key chains, or hologram images of Christ and Mary, that change when you tilt them.
Kids are expected to like this stuff - or at least people who buy the stuff think their kids will like it. (People can educate and elevate their taste if they want to. I've always said some things should never even be made, much less sold, they are so bad.)
Schmaltz is something else. It's a harder one to convince people of because they become emotionally attached to it. (It is a feel good/feel sad type of thing.) Good art should touch the emotions, but bad art can do so as well. (I know, I know - often it is subjective - but not too often.)
Take for example this image of JPII. I think it's schmaltzy - not kitschy - schmaltzy. It is not badly painted, it's rather well painted - but it misses - it's kind of schmaltzy. What would be worse is if it ever ends up on a mug - then it would be schmaltzy and kitschy. (It's like the John XXIII and JFK painting of the two of them walking in Heaven that circulated after their deaths. Schmaltzy.)
Glitz is fine in Hollywood, in Church it's too much. Most priests do not want their vestments glitzy. In addition, not every gilded baroque Church or statue is glitzy. Neither are well designed sacred vessels and the like. However, Mother Angelica's shrine is kind of glitzy - but it's fairly well done glitz. The Polish monstrance they use in the shape of a heart - that's bad glitz. In fact, the term glitz was once associated with what has been referred to as 'Polish taste' or 'Jewish taste' - very politically incorrect terms nowadays...so always say glitz instead - unless you are ever on Letterman or Oprah.
This post was inspired by Ray from Stella Borealis who sent me the link to a blog called "Kinda Kitchy" that specializes in exposing Christian kitsch. (The guy is obviously protestant, with excellent observations on religious art.)
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And have you seen the vestments worn by Mother Angelica's clergy? Glitz. And some of it very bad glitz. Oy–veh. And they can't afford amices? What is with those friars' hoods hanging uncovered over the chasuble. Not that this stuff really bothers me, but I have noticed it, and . . . well, I know, you get my point.ReplyDelete
Hi anonymous - you must be one of my sons...perhaps the puppy? You little bast.......................................................ReplyDelete
By the way, the title of the piece is adapted from "Lady Marmalade" by Pattie LaBelle.ReplyDelete
I'm actually very schmaltzie - I actually liked this one painting of Christ holding a guy on the blog I mention - it's in my office - post card size. Oh well - there is no accounting for taste. :)ReplyDelete
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I LOVE Patti LaBelle! :))ReplyDelete
If I got to be a black lady I would pick her in a second. Always wanted to sing, have nails like that and have the kind of Supreme perfect DIVA-ness she has. It is never found in a white woman--except Old Hollywood...
I guess that's why I have to settle for being--odd yet boring.
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SHARON PRISON, Israel (AP) - Israeli special forces have raided a prison in central Israel, killing a notorious prisoner who was serving time for a gruesome murder carried out in the U.S.
Police identified the inmate as Samuel Sheinbein, an American who fled to Israel after murdering and dismembering another man in Maryland in 1997.
Police say special forces rushed to the prison in central Israel after Sheinbein stole a weapon and shot three guards, wounding two of them seriously, hen barricaded himself inside the compound.
Sheinbein's lawyers told Israeli TV that the 34-year-old prisoner was under duress and that the Israeli prison service has ignored their warnings.
Sheinbein was tried in Israel in 1999, two years after he fled to the country and successfully sought refuge from extradition to Maryland.
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Last football season, Ben Tackett often looked like he was walking a tight rope when he hauled in passes for Knoch, making even the most troublesome catches look easy.
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What's your height and weight, Ben?
"Well, in spikes, I'm 5-foot-10 and I'd like to think I weigh about 175," said Tackett, a senior. "I need platform shoes."
He's actually about 5-9, 165.
"I was a quarterback when I was little, but I had to move because I couldn't see over the line," he said. "Fingers crossed, I'm not done growing."
Forget what the roster says: Tackett plays big.
"When you have a football player like him, you have to get him the ball," Knoch coach Mike King said. "You have to be dynamic in the way you use him."
That said, Tackett could see less time at wideout and more in the Knights' backfield this season as the team encores a memorable 12-1, WPIAL runner-up campaign.
Despite a team-leading 25 receptions for 410 yards and five touchdowns last season, Tackett likely will see more time at running back.
End-arounds and pitchouts probably won't be foreign to him, either, in Knoch's modified spread offense.
"Maybe tailback, maybe wildcat QB, maybe wide receiver," King said. "The kid is such a competitor. He wants to do it all. He's the kind of kid in the huddle who just says, 'I got this one.' I tell him, look, I have been coaching longer than you've been playing. That's a good problem to have, though. He loves to play the game."
Tackett wasn't ready to share his exact role, or reveal details from the Knights' playbook, this early in the season.
"It's week-to-week and depends on who we play and certain formations," Tackett said. "Coach King is a clever man. We trust him in whatever he wants to do."
Tackett said the team bonded during last year's run to the Class AAA title game, which Knoch lost, 42-14, to Montour.
"We became extremely close; it's going to hurt not being able to play with some of the same guys," he said.
"The biggest thing we gained is experience. We know what it takes. There's a price you have to pay to get there."
Tackett has good reflexes on both sides of the ball, perhaps due to his lacrosse skills. He is a standout midfielder and 50-plus goal-scorer for Knoch's club team.
"We have a nice mix on the team," he said. "We have football players, soccer players, band members and cross country kids."
Tackett said he may try to play lacrosse in college.
"I am keeping my options open," he said. "Not closing any doors."
Tackett also will see a change on defense as he moves from cornerback to free safety.
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|The use of iloprost in early pregnancy in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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|PMID: 15994404 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|In patients with pulmonary hypertension, pregnancy is associated with a high risk of maternal death. Such patients are counselled to avoid pregnancy, or if it occurs, are offered early interruption. Some patients, however, decide to continue with their pregnancy and others may present with symptoms for the first time whilst pregnant. Pulmonary vasodilator therapy provides a treatment option for these high-risk patients. The present study describes three patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension of various aetiologies who were treated with the prostacyclin analogue iloprost during pregnancy, and the post-partum period. Nebulised iloprost commenced as early as 8 weeks of gestation and patients were admitted to hospital between 24-36 weeks of gestation. All pregnancies were completed with a duration of between 25-36 weeks and all deliveries were by caesarean section under local anaesthetic. All patients delivered children free from congenital abnormalities, and there was no post-partum maternal or infant mortality. In conclusion, although pregnancy is strongly advised against in those with pulmonary hypertension, the current authors have achieved a successful outcome for mother and foetus with a multidisciplinary approach and targeted pulmonary vascular therapy.
|C A Elliot; P Stewart; V J Webster; G H Mills; S P Hutchinson; E S Howarth; F A Bu'lock; R A Lawson; I J Armstrong; D G Kiely
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|Title: The European respiratory journal Volume: 26 ISSN: 0903-1936 ISO Abbreviation: Eur. Respir. J. Publication Date: 2005 Jul
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|Created Date: 2005-07-04 Completed Date: 2005-10-18 Revised Date: 2013-05-23
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Aesthetics and interaction play a critical role in the success of a mobile experience; they can alter a person's perception of the usefulness of your mobile app or website. Learn how appearance and function can combine to create both beautiful and usable mobile interfaces for your users. This course is ideal for people who are new or have limited experience in mobile design, or for those with experience who want to brush up on the basics.
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Please note: This seminar focuses on visual and interaction design, not on development or programming.
Topics Covered
Topics Covered
- Balance aesthetics with functionality to create an elegant and functional design
- Understand how presentation affects interpretation of functionality
- Examples of visual design affecting usability
- Designs to guide users towards completing a task
- Identify visually-awkward design decisions and know how to fix them
- Designing for touch
- Target sizes and spacing
- Avoiding view-tap asymmetry
- Designing for repeat gestures
- Controls that are reachable and noticeable
- Basic visual design components for mobile design
- App launch icons
- Icon design
- Navigation bars
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- Menus and lists
- Creating signifiers and affordances
- Links
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- Carousels and swipe-able content
- Encouraging scrolling
- Avoiding the illusion of completeness
- Content design
- Hints, coach marks, and intro screens
- Utilizing contrast
- Building information hierarchy
- Visual priority and prominence
- Establishing internal consistency
- Strategic skeuomorphism
The basis of the course is a lecture format with a couple of group exercises to reinforce the learned principles and guidelines.
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- Visual design and interaction patterns for common mobile experiences
- Tips to differentiate your design from competitors
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Erect or leaning, branches 0, occasionally branched from tip-injury. Stem: (0)10–200(300) cm, 10–35 cm diam, depressed-spheric to short-columnar, hard, glabrous, not segmented; ribs 13–31, prominent; tubercles not conspicuous on ribs. Spines: [6]10–32 per areole, 2–4.5 mm wide, generally awl-shaped, generally flat, ringed with conspicuous ridges, straight to curved or ± hooked, some bristle-like; central spines generally 4 per areole. Flower: ± terminal, near distal edge of spine cluster, 3–6 cm diam; perianth yellow to red [or purple, or white with ± purple midstripes]; ovary glabrous, spines 0, scales numerous, generally rounded, margins minutely fringed or toothed. Fruit: spheric, ovoid, or cylindric, glabrous, spineless, dehiscent by basal pore. Seed: [1]1.5–3 mm, spheric to subreniform, pitted, black.
25 species: southwestern United States, Mexico. (Latin: fierce cactus) [Taylor 1984 Bradleya 2:19–38]
1. Perianth generally maroon outside, generally yellow within; stem generally > 0.4 m, 25–50 cm diam; ribs (18)21–31; inland ..... F. cylindraceus
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The president and the Democrats won the fiscal cliff round because they got much of the tax increase on upper income households that the president campaigned on, while avoiding any cuts in entitlement programs.
The final deal – promising only about $630 billion in deficit reduction (plus another $104 billion in interest savings) over the next 10 years – was a far cry from the $2 trillion plus that the president and Speaker John Boehner were discussing only weeks before.
Enough Republicans apparently read the opinion polls indicating that they would be blamed for going over the cliff that they chose to retreat and fight another day, with these three deadlines seemingly in their favor:
— The deal didn't include an increase in the federal debt limit, and by early March the Treasury Department should be out of accounting tricks and theoretically no longer able to borrow to fund about a third of government spending.
— On March 1, roughly 7 percent across-the-board cuts in discretionary spending that were postponed in the fiscal cliff deal go into effect.
— On March 27, the continuing resolution funding discretionary programs expires.
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Even without a higher debt ceiling, the president can authorize the Treasury to continue paying interest on U.S. debt (though for tactical reasons he may say, up to the very last minute, he can't or won't). So there won't be an unthinkable default.
Likewise, it would be amazing if the president didn't continue honoring obligations under the big three entitlement programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Similarly, it is inconceivable he wouldn't use any remaining revenue to pay military personnel and war-related costs, though he could suspend payments on contracts for new weapons systems.
That leaves shutting down the rest of the government, if not in early March, then after March 27, if Congress fails to extend the continuing resolution. The last time Republicans forced a government shutdown like this, they lost and had to back down. I see no reason why they should expect any different result if they try this strategy again.
The only quasi-effective card Republicans may be able to play is the fear of an indiscriminate sequester of discretionary spending. But many in their own party are nervous about this outcome too insofar as it cuts defense.
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If sticks won't work to induce a large deficit reduction package, is there any chance that carrots will? The short answer here, too, is no.
That is because the president and Democrats already got most of the tax increases they wanted out of the fiscal cliff deal. Any more tax revenue would probably have to come from even greater limits on personal deductions than are in the first deal, which would be highly unpopular.
Meanwhile, the corporate community, which has been open to a business tax overhaul package that lowers rates and reduces preferences, will be on board only if it is revenue neutral. Getting much money from a corporate tax hike, therefore, will be a tough sell, although overhauling business taxes would be worthwhile and may gather steam now that the personal tax issues have been settled.
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So where does that leave us? The best that probably can be expected in the coming months is another small-ball deficit reduction package. If Congress lifts the debt ceiling only a little at a time, which may be its price for any agreement at all, the likely result is a series of these small deals in Obama's second term. It is conceivable, though not likely, that these deals will cumulatively add up to the level of savings promised by some kind of Simpson-Bowles-like "grand bargain."
The major reasons are that Congress has pretty much exhausted itself in trying to raise revenue. On the cost side, the long-term savings lie predominantly in Medicare, and to a lesser extent in the other two health-care entitlements (Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act), where the politics are especially divisive. At least for the next four years, the best cost savings outcome would be a continuation of the slowdown in health-care cost inflation that has surprised analysts over the past three years.
The president could change this admittedly pessimistic outlook by embracing the triangulation strategy President Clinton used to achieve welfare reform and apply it to deficit reduction. This would require meeting Republican demands for an overhaul of at least Medicare, if not the other two health-care programs. It is conceivable that the president would want to do this in his final two years to cement his legacy as a transformative leader, but none of the positions the president has taken so far on these issues suggests that this is a strategy he is likely to pursue.
The country will survive four years of deficit reduction small-ball. Unless health-care cost inflation stays permanently low, however, the nation's fiscal health eventually will require much more.


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Two guys attempt to rob New Orleans bar. Security guard shoots one, other flees. Patrons pelt the dying robber with beer bottles, etc.
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Check this out.
Two guys attempt to rob New Orleans bar. Security guard shoots one, other flees. Patrons pelt the dying robber with beer bottles, etc.
The proper result.
The one who got away is now looking at capital punishment for Felony Murder....ANYONE who gets killed while a felony is going on, including a co-robber, lays the predicate for that charge.
And Louisiana law (when enforced, unlike Katrina days) is pretty freakin' stiff.
While I can't condone throwing beer bottles and bar stools once the threat has been stopped, I can't say I blame them.
Sucks to be that robber. Maybe if it happens to a few more of them, they'll realize that some of us won't just roll over and be victimized.
Drinks are on the house.....
bar security cam catches all and here is the link to see it. i like the crowd bombing the dying thug with bottles.:hand10:
http://www.nola.com/news/video/?/new...f/barshoot.wmv direct link to video
Seams to me justice was served. Think of all the money and future victims that were saved because one person decided to protect themselves and their business. Give this guy a medal , a beer or some more ammo!!
I don't see where that wasn't justifiable to continue to stop the threat! this guy was still moving around trying to get his gun, he could have had a second one, who know's? the other people there had no weapons to defend themselves so they used
what they know best, BEER!
ETA - No matter what any anti or news media say's about what transpired and/or what they think was justifiable actions, the fact is these thugs went looking for trouble and this time they or at least one of them lost and the people had a right to defend themselves. ALL of them had that right and it look's like they used it!
They stopped a lot of people from being hurt now and in the future. Good shooting! So have a beer and chuck it in good health. :bier:
Glad the guy could shoot.
If I read it right he shot the one tha had a gun to the bar owners head. That takes some nerve.
That's what he gets. I'm tired of seeing people holding people up. I'm sick of it myself. No pitty...sorry!
That is one the tax payers will not have to support. I hope the security guard gets a good bonus.
It could have gone the other way. Its good when ever the good guy wins. Give the security gaurd a bonus. He earned it.
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Students working to decorate jewelry boxes outside Lincoln Charter School on Wednesday weren't too concerned with where the boxes will end up.
They were mostly concentrating on the gobs of glitter, glue, feathers and sequins they heaped onto the donated cigar boxes.
But those jewelry boxes are destined to be sold, as part of the entrepreneur focus of the school's summer program. Anne Clark, community outreach specialist for Lincoln and Thackston charter schools, said the lessons will click once the kids are able to sell their creations.
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The economic alliance is working with grades 3 to 5 once a week, teaching them business basics from customer service and budgeting to marketing, said Aeman Bashir, manager of new and small business development for the alliance. The curriculum comes from Lemonade Day, a nationwide entrepreneurship program for kids.
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So you own the individual Bond releases on Blu-ray. Will you buy the set or wait?
Started by Ronald Epstein, May 21 2012 07:07 AM
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Posted May 21 2012 - 11:07 AM
I usually praise Fox for the things they do.
It's very seldom that I'll stand up and chastise them for
a decision that I feel is very unfair to consumers who have
been very loyal to them.
In this instance, it is the loyalty shown by consumers like
myself who spent good money purchasing the 11 individual
Bond titles released over the years in hopes that the studio
would make the remaining titles available to us as soon as
Well, Fox did arrange to make the remaining titles available
to us, but they did so by only including them in an upcoming
$200 complete collection boxed set.
I have to say, this a real kick-in-the-pants to those of us that
put faith into the studio for completing something they
started -- that is, making all the individual releases available
to those that started collecting them as such.
While I don't find fault with Fox releasing a boxed set like this,
I am very disappointed that they have made no indications to
anyone (no matter how hard we have already pressed them
privately) as to whether they will continue with the individual
releases shortly after this boxed set is made available.
I mean, I think we all know what is being done here. The
studio doesn't want to jeopardize the sale of the boxed sets
by making promises that individual releases would be forthcoming.
However, personally, I think this goes against the grain of
the great folks I know at Fox and MGM to make a decision to
keep the Bond collectors in the dark. It's as if the studio wants
to intentionally force the original collectors to repurchase titles
they already own, via the complete set, by providing as little
information as possible about the future of Bond singles.
At best, I would have hoped that a complete roadmap of these
Bond releases would have been outlined with the announcement
of the boxed set.
You just don't leave collectors wondering what to do next.
So, my question is, as an owner of the already released Bond
titles, are you planning to buy the complete set or are you going
to hold some blind hope that the studio will make the new titles
available on an individual basis sometime in 2013?
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Posted May 21 2012 - 11:42 AM
I voted to repurchase the whole shebang. This set will look better on my shelf than a bunch of different cases of varying styles and sizes. I don't know why anyone would think a major Hollywood studio would try to "do right" by the consumer by offering options like buying individual titles versus a pricey box set. It's all about maximizing profits. The honchos at the studios know these movies have rabid fans who will triple and quadruple dip every time a new format pops up. Fox will do the same thing when the time comes to release PROMETHEUS on home video. Maybe they'll even include the two Alien vs. Predator films the next go-round.
#3 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 12:16 PM
Actually, current Amazon price is $199 for the Bond 50 set, not $100 as stated in Ron's post. I have all the individual blu-ray releases. I will wait for the remaining movies to be released individually.
#4 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 12:30 PM
While I only have the first four Bond films on BR I do have all of them on SDDVD or LD, that BR box set does look awesome but $199 not sure if I can afford it.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 12:33 PM
Steve, Obviously a typo. I hadn't realized I did that. Corrected the original price quote in the post. Thank You as always. As far as some or the arguments made to somewhat understand what Fox is doing... We know how this works. What Fox has done should come as no surprise to anyone. However, generally, a studio will release all the titles of a franchise individually before a boxed set. What is being done here is quite the opposite. We put a lot of faith into believing that we could continue collecting these Bond releases individually. The studio essentially stopped these releases midstream, making the remaining titles available only via a purchase of a $200 boxed set. Personally, I wouldn't mind, but under the circumstances of how this was done the very least Fox could have done was assure us that these titles would be offered individually soon after the boxed set release. The fact the studio won't even comment on what their roadmap will be, is the very thing that I am most disgruntled about.
#6 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 12:34 PM
For $100, I would consider buying it! :-)
#7 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 12:37 PM
Steve, For $100 you wouldn't see a single complaint from me. I could live with repurchasing the entire collection for $100.
#8 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 01:08 PM
I have all the individual releases on Blu-ray. I picked most of them up when they were on sale for somewhere between $12 and $15. The box set is a great value for someone who doesn't own any of the Blu-rays, but for me, I just can't stomach rebuying all of the ones I have already purchased, even though I really want the rest of the collection. I really hope that either Fox announces them for early 2013 or worst case they are a retailer exclusive somewhere. I'm not a big fan of sets like this. They never seem to fit on my DVD shelves and when future Bond films come out on Blu-ray the will look silly stacked next to the case. Also some people like to organize them by year or actor, etc. I was a NO vote in the poll.
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#9 of 131 ONLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 01:11 PM
All of you who vote NO post for me. Since, in any ongoing franchise, there can be no be-all end-all set, I am totally content to take the wait and see attitude on this one.
#10 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 01:13 PM
As much as I love many of the films, I have bought them for the last time. I will not double dip on the ones I have by buying this box. If they aren't released individually, then I'll have to live with the Ultimate Editions on DVD of the ones I don't already have on Blu-ray. I will not budge on this.
#11 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 01:14 PM
Fortunately I got all of the Bond Blu-rays at a pretty good discount. I got a bunch of them when Circuit City was having their "Going Out Of Business" sale, then picked up the rest when Amazon would run a deep discount. So the double dipping won't be that huge of a hit to me, plus I ordered from Amazon UK where the pre-order price was significantly lower 78.07 GBP with shipping included in the total, which as of today that would be around $124 give or take, so that also made the decision much easier to repurchase, then sell off the older ones for what ever I can get. Since even if the other 11 movies if they were available for around $14.98 street, would be about $165. So in just rebuying the others that I have for less than I would pay for the remaining 11, plus everything will actually match in a cohesive set, it's worth it to me. Edit: One more thing, I hadn't bought any of the DVDs, so I'm only on the 2nd purchase of the current Blu-rays, so I haven't got the upgrade burnout yet with Bond. (Unlike Star Wars, which my wife said, unless they release the original pre-special editions, on Blu-ray that's it)
#12 of 131 OFFLINE
Posted May 21 2012 - 01:21 PM
I'm going to wait, I was hoping for a 50th Anniversary Edition of Dr. No this year.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 01:46 PM
I wonder if part of the problem is that there are too many collectors instead of movie fans. How many of these movies do you really want to watch? The studios are banking on us buying movies we may not want when they release these sets. My wife and I did watch all the Bond films in the theater, but after Connery and until Brosnan, I wasn't a fan of the series. I'm not interested in those movies in between. So, no box set for me. I'm not interested in a box to make the shelf look nicer, not a good enough reason. I've only bought one set with movies I did not want, The Alien Legacy to get all the extras. I haven't bought the Star Wars set because it's too expensive for a collections of movies are such varying quality. When I comes down in price...than I'll buy. I'll vote no.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 01:53 PM
As much as I love many of the films, I have bought them for the last time. I will not double dip on the ones I have by buying this box. If they aren't released individually, then I'll have to live with the Ultimate Editions on DVD of the ones I don't already have on Blu-ray. I will not budge on this.This.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 02:44 PM
I have all the Connery Bonds that are on Blu-ray. I want only "Oh Her Majesty's Secret Service" on BD. I have the complete Bond collection on DVD.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 02:47 PM
I will wait for individual releases. If this is a poor seller...hello FOX! If this is a POOR SELLER (and I think it will be), YOU have NO one to blame besides yourself! If this was the first Blu-ray release of all these titles we would be all over it! $200 is the price after a 30% discount on Amazon. But I own half of them already, so that price isn't really a great deal! And, I do not see an upgrade on those titles PQ or AQ happening! I am sure they are the same discs I already own. Last, if they are packaged in the same type of box the Alien movies and Star Wars came in, I would still pass. I HATE those slip pockets! CHEAP!
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Posted May 21 2012 - 03:12 PM
I'm picking up the box set on pre-order. Although I have the current UK Blu releases (Dr No, FRWL, Goldfinger, Thunderball, LALD, Moonraker, FYEO, TWINE, Die Another Day, Casino Royale and QOS), I would expect the eleven remaining releases to street individually between £10 and £14 each. As the full set is around £90, I think the maths is a no-brainer. There is currently no indication when the remaining titles are to be released individually, if indeed they are released if the box set demonstrates disappointing sales. I think not buying the box set in the hope of individual releases could be a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 03:39 PM
Steve, For $100 you wouldn't see a single complaint from me. I could live with repurchasing the entire collection for $100.Check out Amazon U.K. Probably not region-free, but the whole set is up for 89 pounds sterling. I managed to pre-order it from there a few months back and it will cost me about $116.00 U.S. including shipping.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 03:45 PM
The only ones I want that haven't been released on Blu-Ray are ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. I can likely pick all of those up for $60 or less if they are released individually, and if they aren't, it is extremely unlikely that I would pay $200 for 4 Blu-Rays. However, I simply don't believe these 4 titles will not be released individually, and in fact there are websites stating they will be available as individual releases in October.
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Posted May 21 2012 - 03:53 PM
I was a firm NO vote. I don't think it's an IF but a WHEN the individual titles will be released. The description they've given of the box set not only doesn't seem to add anything interesting to the package, but makes it sound like there might be less on the Blus than we already have. In one case, we know this for certain - Casino Royale, which has an excellent 2-Disc Blu-ray out. And I remember hearing about a CE of Quantum of Solace that never came out, so that could come a year from now, when Skyfall hits Blu-ray. I have already collected Volumes 2 & 3 of the Blus, along with Dr. No as a single, Never Say Never Again and the Craig movies. And I have the UCE volumes. Buying this set for 200 bucks feels like I'd be tossing money out the window and picking up yet another giant box that won't fit in my cabinets. I look forward to picking up the titles I really wanted on Blu, once they are available at a decent price - say $15 apiece. $75 next year feels like a better deal than $200 this year.
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