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My fellow blogger Tom over at Fermentations has a nice piece this week about winemakers, and how they can be some of the most underappreciated professionals in the world. We give doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers, and CEO's their due, but when was the last time you heard anyone acknowledging how hard it is to be a really good winemaker? Tom has written a nice appreciation, that we would all do well to contemplate, and give thanks in our own ways for the people who create what we love to consume. Check out his post.... continue reading
It was only a matter of time before someone went ahead and classified California Cabernet along the lines of the 1855 Classification in Bordeaux, or the Langton's classification of Australian wine. That someone, or at least the latest someone, is Simon Woods of Wine International. He has put together a tiered classification (First through Fifth growths, plus some additional classifications such as "Top Non-Napa Wines") based on wines that are below 1000 cases in production and which have been available on the market since 1999. Like the two classifications mentioned above, wines are ranked based on their historic ability to... continue reading
There's nothing like a mystery to get me all riled up. For all I know it's not really a mystery -- I'm sure thousands of Spaniards would laugh out loud knowing that I'm now obsessed with this -- but I really want to know who Pedro Ximinez was. And why there is a grape named after him. I imagine him the humble yet respected mayor of a small Andalusian town who rescued his faithful villagers from economic ruin by breeding a grape that winemakers idolized and a nation desired. Sigh. Not even my wine bible had the answer to that... continue reading
Warning: This is decidedly not Politically Correct, but it is too funny not to post, even though it's a bit off in left field for Vinography. McSweeney's, the delightful literary and everything-tangential-to-literature magazine founded and run by Dave Eggers has a series of New York restaurant reviews from The Boy In The Bubble. Says the Boy In The Bubble about Asia De Cuba:"Deciding that I mustn't be the last member of New York's illustrious glitterati to show off the exploits of a recent Milan shopping spree at Asia de Cuba, the Philippe Starck-designed Cuban-Asian fusion hot spot, I ventured into... continue reading
Folks who have hung around here for a while might remember my problems with Jonathan Nossiter's film Mondovino. In particular I felt he did a very poor job conveying the complexity and nuances of what really is going on in a global economy. "But that's so difficult," some said, "even in a 3 hour film." Well here's a short little piece from the International Herald Tribune that does a darn sight better than Nossiter in less than about 2000 words.Anyone pondering the mysteries of French misgivings about modernity (in general) and globalization (in particular) might wish to linger a moment... continue reading
The Languedoc wine region of southeast France that straddles the bottom of a the better known region of Provence produces more wine than any other area of France by volume. Most of it never makes it to the USA, and much of it never even makes it to the table of French wine drinkers, at least the discerning ones. Most of the production goes to what we would call "jug wine" here in the US, and what generally passes here at Vinography for "crap wine." To dismiss the Languedoc on that basis, however, would be a grave mistake, as it... continue reading
Harvest is nearly here. Throughout California, and in many other places in the country, grapes have already gone through veraison, the process where red grapes turn from green to red, blue, purple, or black, and where some white grapes begin to take on a golden, translucent sheen. By most estimates, and depending on the varietal and the specific location, the harvest will begin in 2 to 4 weeks. And so it goes elsewhere around the northern hemisphere (Bordeaux began harvest this week). But this year has brought with it some significant challenges for grape growers around the world. In Canada,... continue reading
Part of the joy traveling to another country for an extended period of time comes from the opportunity to not just sample tidbits of culture, art, food, and drink, but to stew yourself in them for periods of time and figure out what you really think. In my 18 months or so spent living in Japan, I didn't "figure out" a lot about Japanese culture, despite my enjoyment of every minute, but I did completely fall in love with sake. My first real experience of sake beyond the hot little carafes that provided endless sake bomb entertainment in college was... continue reading
My teeth hurt every time I brush, but I don't expect any sympathy from anyone for spending 5 hours on Monday tasting through more than 200 wines at the Family Winemakers 2005 Tasting here in San Francisco. Family Winemakers is a marketing association dedicated to promoting wines made by small and family run wineries throughout the state. Each year they hold what ends up being the largest tasting of California wines anywhere in the world. Because of their focus on family producers, this also ends up being a collection of often the best of what California has to offer. Only... continue reading
There are 16 apricots in a blue and grey bowl on the kitchen counter this evening, in varying states of ripeness. Three more rest near the kitchen sink, where they'll soon be trimmed around the spots where the birds and squirrels and bugs went after them before I could pick them. There's only one left on the tree, now. The full crop this year was something like 55. (Coincidentally, the age I'll be in another seven weeks or so. Also a famous speed limit during the era of Richard Nixon, and a few other notorious characters from the recent past.)... continue reading
Every year Kermit Lynch and his next door neighbor Cafe Fanny (Alice Waters) throw a party in the parking lot that they both share in Berkeley, CA. The event is usually a celebration of Provence food and wine, and comes with live music, catered food, and lots of wine from the Kermit Lynch portfolio, including sneak peaks at wines not yet on the market. This year the event will be catered by Christopher Lee, of Eccolo Restaurant in Berkeley and Kermit will be pouring some "fresh-off-the-plane" samples of his 2003 Domaine Les Pallieres Gigondas. I missed this event last year,... continue reading
Brian Loring has shot to prominence in the last 4 years as one of the hottest young winemakers in California. His down to earth approach to wine, access to some of the most revered Pinot Noir fruit in California, casual humor, and some very high scores from the critics have propelled his wines to remarkable popularity in a very short period of time. The wine world discovered Brian Loring only a short time after he discovered his own identity as a closeted winemaker. Brian worked in the retail end of the wine business during and after college and there discovered... continue reading
Purveyors of crazy, magic wine implements, beware, you've now got to compete with the mental powers of young farm boys. In an incredible little story (who cares if it's all true or not) Alan Goldfarb of the St. Helena Star relates a bizarre set of events that recently happened to him. To keep the story short, a man and his son visited Alan in his office and proceeded to demonstrate the talents of the son, which amounted to mentally zapping a glass of wine to smooth out its tannins and make it taste better, and, oh yes, "allow you to... continue reading
Wine Blogging Wednesday, the global online wine tasting event is now in its 13th month, and will be hosted by the charming Clotilde, whose blog Chocolate & Zucchini is the current darling of the food blogging world. For this month's tasting, she has selected the theme Like Wine For Chocolate, encouraging us all to select wines to drink with chocolate cake. Conveniently (and delectably, I might add) she has provided us all with a simple recipe for a chocolate torte, should we be inspired to bake with glass in hand. Clotilde's blog (as heard on NPR and as featured in... continue reading
Most of us are guilty of taking wine too seriously. I know I am at times. Certainly when talking about it and writing about it here. The drinking part is easy, but when it comes to discussing wine, marketing wine, and pouring wine for the public, so many wineries are deadly earnest and often formal. It's hard to remember sometimes that wine should most of all be fun. The folks at Papapietro Perry don't ever seem to forget that. I've tasted their wines at probably 10 different public tastings, and the folks at their table (usually the Perrys or the... continue reading
What do bloggers drink when they can't stray far from home? The 43 answers to this question can be found in the roundup to this month's Wine Blogging Wednesday, the virtual tasting event where food and wine bloggers taste wines according to a specific theme. This month's tasting, the 12th, marking a full year since the event began in 2004 was hosted by Lenn at Lenndevours, who conceived of the concept. This month's theme was "Drink Local. Real Local." And bloggers were given strict instructions to drink a wine from the winery closest to their house. This led to all... continue reading
I can hardly believe it, but it's time again for the Family Winemakers' tasting event -- without a doubt my favorite public wine event. Period. The reason I like this event has mostly to do with the nature of the wineries that are pouring their stuff. Though the "family" designation is pretty loose and allows some big time winemakers like Ravenswood and Bonny Doon to qualify as "family-run," for the most part those who show up are really the smaller outfits whose wines I love to love. That aside, it is the largest tasting of California wines in the... continue reading
I just wish they'd have come up with a better name for this thing. I mean, if the Catholic Church can have the Diet of Worms, can't we have something more interesting on Terroir? Ah well. Terroir is a controversial enough word and concept, someone could put together a whole conference just to define it. Hey, wait a minute.... This coming March, the venerable U.C. Davis will be hosting something of a first: a conference that brings together geologists and vintners to talk about Terroir. This might have gone unremarked, except for the increasing discussions about it here on Vinography,... continue reading
It's easy for to dismiss big corporate wine producers as makers of industrial products far inferior to what small artisans can make. For the most part, that's true, but some large corporate wineries got that big just because they were successful and were able to grow to meet the demand for their products in the marketplace. Don't get me wrong, I'm no apologist for the corporatization of wine, but I do think sometimes we forget that some big guys started small, and still care about making great wine. Kendall-Jackson, the 9th largest wine producer by sales volume in the USA,... continue reading
A few weeks ago I conducted the first survey of who you folks are and what the heck you're doing here at Vinography. I wanted to know something about my readership, and so I created a quick 20 questions to find out. Thank you again, to all of you who took the time to fill out the survey. I'd also like to extend a special thank you to my wife, who actually knew how to compile and analyze all this data. Thanks to her help, I'm pleased to be able to share the following statistics with you: DEMOGRAPHICS: In general,... continue reading
Last month's (I think -- I'm way behind on my reading) Decanter magazine had an interesting feature on the "most powerful people in the wine world" and the list they put together is worth sharing and commenting on (I encourage you to take a look at the issue as they have profiles of most of the people on their list). So what does power mean? To Decanter, powerful means having a direct influence on the style of wine being drunk around the world today. Each of their selections (50 in total) were chosen for the level and reach of that... continue reading
While we're on the topic of smaller, out of the way wine regions, I might as well post this piece about Israel, by way of NPR. Their show Day to Day did a segment earlier in the week on the boom that's underway in the Israeli wine market. Of course, wine has been made in Israel for thousands of years before there WAS an Israel, but in the last 15 years the industry has apparently taken off, in response to a greater public appreciation and interest in wine. Israel now boasts nearly 200 wineries, and wine consumption per capita has... continue reading
Ninety degree heat. Ninety percent humidity. Incredibly high precipitation. Flat, low altitude topology. Sounds like exactly the wrong place to grow grapes, right? Well apparently no one told the Thais that. And when we were talking about new wine regions to watch here last week, we certainly forgot to include Thailand. Growing wine grapes in Thailand has to be done a bit differently than pretty much everywhere else, as you might expect, starting with the staggering fact that they actually get two crops of grapes per year without even trying(!). This incredible growth needs to be carefully checked through judicious... continue reading
Hand-crafted is a term that has been abused by wine marketers and copywriters for a long time, but it still means something, and there are still winemakers who live up to its humble promise. There are a lot of small wineries that could qualify for the use of this descriptor, all at varying sizes, but you don't get much closer to hand crafted than a man, his wife, a friend, 5 barrels and 2186 pounds of Pinot Noir. Nicolette Christopher is a tiny winery started in 2001 by Chris and Nicolette Demetre. Like many small wineries, it represents the realization... continue reading
Certain readers *you know who you are* like to harp on the alcohol level issue a lot. And to be honest, it is a rising concern, no pun intended. Average alcohol content for some wines has risen as much as 4% in the last 20 years (resulting in wines that are on average 15-20% more alcoholic than they used to be), and more and more people are starting to talk about it. Some people say that it's not an issue, really, and that it just reflects changing tastes. Some people say well, the tastes are actually for fruitier wines rather... continue reading
This wine review is my entry in this month's Wine Blogging Wednesday, hosted by it's pioneer, Lenn Thompson over at Lenndevours. The theme guiding dozens of wine and food bloggers this month is "Drink Local. Real Local." Lenn has challenged us all to taste and review a wine from the winery closest to our own home. For me, that was a pretty simple proposition: Exactly 2.7 miles from my front door lies York Creek Winery. What is a Napa winery doing smack dab in the middle of San Francisco? It's sitting across the street from its other half, The Anchor... continue reading
This afternoon I poured myself the last of a bottle that had been opened earlier in the week, and wandered to the back yard to relax a little. I must not have slept well the night before, because after a few sips and a few moments in the sun, my eyes became heavy, and their lids fell. I awoke with a start, and found myself alone on a level plain of grey concrete stretching far and away into the distance. Alarmed, I gulped what was left of my tepid wine, presumably warmed by the sun which now seemed to recede... continue reading
The term garagiste entered the wine lexicon about 10 or 15 years ago, mostly because of some enterprising small producers in Bordeaux who were bucking the tradition and winemaking styles of the large established Chateaux. Since these winemakers rose to prominence, with a little help from Robert Parker, the term has gone from an originally derogatory or at least disdainful label to one that is useful for describing all manner of small winemakers around the world, some of whom actually do make wine in their garages. While certainly not the first to make wine in a garage John and Mike... continue reading
My friend David Darlington's name appeared in the byline of an article, published in yesterday's (August 7, 2005) New York Times magazine, about making wines that get high scores from prominent critics. The piece explores the work of a fellow named Leo McCloskey, who runs a company that works with wineries to help them figure out ways to increase their chances of being favorably reviewed in the pages of (among other places) Robert M. Parker's The Wine Advocate, and of The Wine Spectator. McCloskey is, apparently, an accomplished chemist, who has devised a way to measure, very precisely, the components... continue reading
There's something remarkable about the generosity of wine lovers and collectors. Their willingness to share a bottle, even the most expensive bottle that they have cared for and stored sometimes for decades, often with complete strangers never ceases to fill me with wonder, admiration, and pride. I have the same tendency. We're good folk, us wine lovers. Even the biggest snobs I've met, ones that I can barely stand to be in a room with are perfectly willing, and even excited to pop open a dusty bottle and share it with people they know will appreciate it. I got invited,... continue reading
Lanthanum, Cerium, Uranium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Strontium, Barium, Titanium, Rubidium, Zinc and Copper. Sounds like a bad flashback from honors chemistry in high school or a Gilbert and Sullivan melody that you never knew the words to, right? These are the twelve trace elements that all wine grapes pull up from the soil. It's in the roots, in the leaves, and in the fruit. It's also in the wine. Don't want any Strontium with your Cabernet? Too bad, because there's no way to get it out. Of course these elements are in such minor quantities, such microscopic amounts, that it... continue reading
What is it with pizza anyway? Short of sushi and steaks, I don't know any other foodstuff that inspires so much fervor of specificity among people who love to eat. And I'm not talking about pies from your local delivery service, however good they may be. What really sends people into paroxysms and polemics of culinary criticism are proper thin-crust pizzas that are increasingly finding their way onto menus of all types, from the casual bistro to the chic upper-end restaurants all over the city. Everyone has their own opinion of where the best pizza can be found, and what... continue reading
If you're looking for a mellow way to enjoy some wine, music and good food next weekend, perhaps you should check out the 13th Annual Monterey Winemakers' Celebration. Wines from more than 40 Monterey County producers will be poured at the event, held at the Custom House Plaza in Monterey. Highlights include a silent auction of vintage bottles, winemaker dinners and more. The wineries that will be featured include: Bargetto Winery, Baywood Cellars, Bernardus Winery , Black Diamond Cellars , Blackstone Winery, Boyer Wines, Carmel Road Winery, Carmichael Vintners, Chateau Christina, Chateau Julien Wine Estate, De Tierra Vineyards, Escafeld, Estancia... continue reading
What would happen if the Chinese got to be as rampant wine drinkers as the Japanese? The wine world would never be the same. Certainly Australia and France wouldn't have that much to worry about in terms of overproduction. Of course, we're not there yet, but the Chinese market for western style wine has doubled in the last ten years and by all reports is accelerating. There are three relatively mature producers in China making western style wine, and in August, the first Chinese-French joint venture winery will release 15,000 cases of its initial vintage. Situated in Huailai county, Hebei... continue reading
Australia recently awarded a set of medals to its best winemakers, including its best emerging winemaker and I happen to like everything about their choice. First of all, she's a woman. Kudos to the judges, or whoever they were for breaking the mold. It's still very much a man's world in the wine business, but without good reason. Secondly, she's young -- Fran Austin is 30 years old, and clearly accomplished. Thirdly, she's from Tasmania (or at least that's where her winery is -- she's actually West Australian). Not Barossa, not Coonawarra, not the Hunter Valley, but the tiny island... continue reading
I drink rosé all year round, but it's awfully nice in the summer (as nearly every wine magazine and newspaper has been telling you for the past three months). And where better to get your rosé than the one appellation that is practically dedicated to it: Coteaux d'Aix en Provence. This area of southern France produces 1.7 million cases of wine each year, a full fifty percent of which are rosé. I don't know any other place in the world that produces that high a percentage of pink wine in their overall output. Perhaps it's because they've always been making... continue reading
This page only has the last sixty entries in this category. If you're interested in digging farther into my archives, you'll want to use the complete list of archives to access my articles by month.
Ode to The Winemaker The Great California Cabernet Classification 2003 Viñedos de Ithaca "Odysseus" Pedro Ximinez, Priorat, Spain The Boy In The Bubble Visits New York Hot Spots Burgundy, Terroir, and Globalization 1999 Domaine de Nizas, Coteaux De Languedoc, France Fewer grapes this year in lots of places Uchigasaki Hoyo "Kura no Hana" Junmai Daiginjo Sake California's Best Artisan Wines: A Report From Family Winemakers' 2005 The King of Luckytown
Wine Will Never Smell the Same Again: Luca Turin and the Science of Scent Forlorn Hope: The Remarkable Wines of Matthew Rorick Debating Robert Parker At His Invitation Passopisciaro Winery, Etna, Sicily: Current Releases Should We Care What Winemakers Say? The Sweet Taste of Freedom: Austria's Ruster Ausbruch Wines 2009 Burgundy Vintage According to Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Charles Banks: The New Man Behind Mayacamas Wine from the Caldera: The Incredible Viticulture of Santorini Why Community Tasting Notes Sites Will Fail Chateau Rayas and the 2012 Vintage of Chateauneuf-du-Pape A Life Indomitable: The Wines of Casal Santa Maria, Portugal Bay Area Bordeaux: Tasting Santa Cruz Mountain Cabernets Forgotten Jewels: Reviving Chile's Old Vine Carignane The First-Timer's Guide to Les Trois Glorieuses of Hospices de Beaune


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Softball Gets Season's First Win in Split at UMBC Tournament
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Picking up its first win of the new season, the Princeton softball team split on its second day at the UMBC-hosted tournament in Maryland.
Princeton fell 4-3 to Niagara as a rally from a four-run deficit came up just short in the seventh inning. Later Saturday evening, Princeton beat Iona 5-2.
The Tigers will face Canisius at 9:15 a.m. Sunday to close its participation in the event.
In Saturday's first game, rookie Meredith Brown (0-1) had gone through five scoreless innings by allowing just three hits before running into trouble in the sixth. After a leadoff single, Brown gave up a two-run home run to Becky Zill that put the Purple Eagles on the board. Niagara (1-6) got two more in the seventh against Liza Kuhn as Aileen Hinton led off the frame with a pinch-hit home run and Alexis Wayne cashed in one of two walks in the inning with a double.
Princeton (1-2) got three straight one-out hits to score its first run, brought home on a single by Nicole Ontiveros. Kelsey VandeBergh cashed in two more with a double, Princeton's fourth hit of the inning, but a groundout stranded VandeBergh on second as the tying run.
Princeton rolled to a four-run lead over Iona (6-5) on the way to its 5-2 win in Saturday's second game. Alyssa Schmidt brought home a Nicole Ontiveros triple with a sacrifice fly to pull the Tigers even in the bottom of the first, and the Tigers took a 3-1 lead two innings later on an RBI-double by Schmidt and another run scoring on a passed ball. Ontiveros had a two-run double in the fourth to put Princeton ahead 5-1.
Alex Peyton (1-1) went the distance in the circle and struck out one, giving up six hits.

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Ghost Riders
On location at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary in Hot Springs, South Dakota, the production team for "Custer's Last Stand" shot four riders, but in post production composited the riders to look like many.
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A black Lachine man is alleging he was a victim of racism at a Westmount jeweller.
Herby Whyne went to Platine Design on Greene Avenue a week ago to buy a piece of jewellery for his goddaughter's baptism. The owner of a St. Henri boxing gym had just left work, dressed in his work clothes: a track suit plus a windbreaker and a tuque because of the brisk weather.
Whyne said in an interview the manager wouldn't buzz him in until after asking several questions about what he wanted, then told Whyne that what he wanted to buy was around $300 and too expensive.
"He said to me, 'What are you looking for?' 'Well, I'm looking for either a bracelet or chain.' He then said to me, 'Well, it's expensive.' I said, 'Excuse me, are you telling me it's too expensive for me to come into your store?' " Whyne said.
Whyne said he was finally let into the store but was fed up with the manager's attitude and left to buy a $200 bracelet at another nearby jewellery store, Lou Goldberg Jeweller, which he says buzzed him in and dealt with him without any problems.
Whyne said he had to speak out.
"It's 2014 for crying out loud. I have no patience or tolerance for stuff like that in our society now in today's age. Regardless of how he portrays me, it cannot be, I cannot let something like this go by, I cannot. It would be wrong of me not doing something," Whyne said.
"In today's age, I've come too far, we've come too far as a society, to let people like this, things like this go on in our society, it doesn't belong."
Store manager Joseph Ben said in an interview he was just being careful since he was working alone with so many valuables and was held up in the past by a young black man, though insisting racism is not an issue. Ben said he has a right to ask a potential client questions before letting them in, saying he has to protect himself. Ben insisted that after decades in the business, he knows his clentele and contends that Whyne wasn't going to buy anything.
"Of course he didn't have any money, he came just to mess around with me. He didn't have 300 dollars. If he was interested, he would have bought something right away," Ben said, adding that "there have been some black customers in the store in the past but they never bought anything."
Ben dismissed the racism allegations, saying that "they have a complex because they're black."
Whyne said he's considering filing a complaint to the Human Rights Commission.
"I want to set an example for my son and for his kids, that they should not be declined to go into a store based on his colour or what he looks like or what he dresses like," Whyne said.


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Sometimes the most impromptu situations lead to wonderful outcomes. That was the case when winemaker, Karen Steinwachs heard I was in Solvang for the day and invited me at the last minute to Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard's Imbiber's Club pick up party. It was an invite I could not decline.
The winery is situated amongst peach trees and is an idyllic setting for a wine tasting party. Although I had experienced several of Buttonwood's wines at other events, I had only been to the winery to purchase peaches and had never ventured into the tasting room or strolled the grounds.
Buttonwood is not only a winery but a working farm that utilizes organic practices. They are also known for their peaches but it is the wine that is the biggest expression of the land on which Buttonwood resides.
The tasting room exterior is reminiscent of a post and beam modern structure, typical of sixties and early seventies architecture. The building fits in perfectly with the surrounding landscape.
The party gave me the perfect opportunity to sample the majority of the Buttonwood portfolio. The 2012 Grenache Blanc, is a light yet refreshing wine with sweet hints of stone fruits. The 2009 Marsanne was very different than what I typically find in a Marsanne. It had a spicy finish that was suggestive of a Gewürztraminer. It is a wine that is ideal with spicier foods. There is a complexity to this wine that grows on you with each sip. These were the white varietals that impressed me most.
The 2013 Syrah Rosé was another refreshing wine that exudes flavors of watermelon and strawberries.
There were two reds that really captured my fancy. The first was the 2010 Grenache – Syrah, a very smooth, balanced and very drinkable Rhone blend that would go with any meal. It is known as the "Cotes du Buttonwood."
Having recently traveled to Argentina and experienced the countries wonderful Malbecs, I was intrigued to sample Buttonwood's Malbec. I found this Malbec equally as good as many of those I tasted in South America. It had the velvety and silky texture that I often find prevalent in a Malbec. The dark berry flavors were very prominent. It was balanced with the right amount of earthiness. Malbecs, especially those from France and some from Argentina are too earthy for my palate. I thoroughly enjoyed discovering this Malbec. Not expecting to find this wine in the Buttonwood line up, it was the surprise of the afternoon.
The party was rounded off with a delicious Paella from The Chef's Touch.
I could not have asked for a more relaxing end to my much needed get away from Los Angeles. There is something to be said about the charm and laid-back atmosphere of the Santa Ynez Valley. This trip was made special with the lure of Buttonwood's wines.
Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard
1500 Alamo Pintado Road
Solvang CA 93463
Tasting Room
Open Daily
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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Soft Sales and Earnings Tales
Roughly a quarter of the way through earnings season, top line is the bottom line.
"The top line is somewhat disappointing," said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at Standard & Poor's, of sales trends so far. "[Companies are] beating but the estimates weren't set that high."
Still, we haven't had many misses on revenue. With more than 20% of S&P 500 companies reporting, roughly 78% of those companies beat consensus sales estimate. More than 67% beat their operating earnings per share estimates, according to S&P data.
Such results haven't cheered investors.
In a recent note, Brown Brothers Harriman analysts remarked on the propensity for companies reporting upside earnings surprises to see their shares sell off. "This type of adverse response suggests that the market had already incorporated the expectation of a positive surprise and investors were actually disappointed in the reported earnings gains," they wrote.
This dour phenomenon has been especially visible in technology shares. When IBM reported after the closing bell on Jan. 19, it delivered better-than-expected results for both sales (barely) and earnings. The next day IBM shares tumbled 2.9% making it the worst performer in the Dow Industrials.
Similarly Google was above estimates for both profit and revenue. The response?
Shares fell.
"Google did not beat the top end of analyst revenue [ex-traffic acquisition cost] estimates and other high expectations," wrote a Stifel Nicolaus analysts.
Disappointing sales in tech — a high flying and beloved sector throughout the rally — might be felt acutely by investors, betting that companies will have to capitulate soon and spend on technology.
"Tech, don't forget, has been doing well and that's where the growth is expected to be," Silverblatt said.
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A college degree is a must have for anyone wishing to succeed in today's job market, but being able to afford one isn't always easy. Today, many former college students have horror stories of graduating with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and struggling to find entry level jobs that will allow them to afford repayment. However, going to get your degree, whether you are a non-traditional or traditional student, doesn't mean you have to be prepared to leverage your financial future. It simply means that in order to make college tuition more affordable, you need to be prepared to do some of the following:
Go to Community College
A four year degree is required by many employers, but that doesn't mean that you have to spend all four years at one university. By taking community college classes during your first two years, you can get all your basic requirements out of the way and will only pay a fraction of the cost to do so. If you have high grades, transferring to a four year school will be a breeze and you will be more likely to attain scholarships.
Fill Out the FAFSA
Many students, both traditional and non-traditional, don't fill out the FAFSA because they believe that they or their parents make too much money for them to qualify for any federal assistance. Regardless of how much money you make, you should always fill out the FAFSA. Even if you are on the higher end of the national salary average, you may still be eligible for additional grants and scholarships that will make tuition more affordable.
Apply for Scholarships
You don't have to be just out of high school, sporting a 4.0 GPA, or be an all-state sports star in order to obtain scholarships. Anymore there are thousands of scholarships available to all sorts of candidates, and sites like Fastweb and Scholarships.com make it easy to locate them. For many, all you have to do is complete a 500 word essay or complete a quick survey to be eligible for scholarships that can be as high as $5,000.
While Discover law school loans may be a must if you get in to Harvard Law, knowing that you education will pay for itself upon graduation makes that investment worth it. However, if you are going to school simply to get a degree, taking on thousands of dollars in loans may cause future financial burdens that will keep you from attaining your professional goals.


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Woman awakes to find intruder in Chula Vista bedroom
Incident may have been a misunderstanding
CHULA VISTA, Calif. - A reported sexual assault incident in Chula Vista may actually be a major misunderstanding.
Chula Vista police were called to the 700 block of Dorothy Street shortly after 4:00 a.m. Wednesday after a woman was awakened by a stranger touching her in her room as she slept. The man took off running when the woman screamed.
Police searched for clues and questioned neighbors, and investigators believed the man got into the woman's home through an unlocked sliding glass door.
As 10News reporter Joe Little was shooting video of the apartment complex, two people started talking nearby. One of them was the victim's brother; the other was the suspect's mother.
Little had his camera on as the brother said the man, identified as Diego, tried to touch his sister.
The mother said Diego thought he was invited over. The mother said she was aware of a text message conversation the brother and Diego had that night.
The brother questioned why Diego touched his sister, took $5 out of her room and took off running.
The mother said Diego, who is 18 years old, was just released from Juvenile Hall a week earlier.
Police said the man would probably be arrested.
His mother told Little she thought the entire thing was a misunderstanding.


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22-04-2009, 18:01
has anyone else had this on my game a season ticket holder is trying to get the money to buy blackpool
22-04-2009, 18:16
Speculation and rumour I suspect- never heard of it happening in the game.
22-04-2009, 18:20
i will write back if the takeover is successful
22-04-2009, 18:30
Its possible but happends very rarely.
22-04-2009, 18:34
I've seen this happen occasionally, never to a club I'm managing though.
22-04-2009, 18:35
I had Celtic taken over by a fans trust in an old fm09 save. It was on 9.01 though so the chances of it happening could well have been toned down in the subsequent patches. Haven't had one in 9.03 yet.
22-04-2009, 19:09
i am not managing blackpool by the way jslater so it would be more than likley it would go through
23-04-2009, 15:32
Happened to me my first year in BSS. We're in the EPL now and still fan-owned.
23-04-2009, 17:08
You say that its very unlikely. It does happen irl, but often doesn't work
Notts County as well as my own club Stockport are fan owned, but both are now looking for potential private buyers.
It does work at other clubs further down the pyramid though, the most obvious example being AFC Wimbledon
24-04-2009, 12:58
in my game i only have seen one fans takover it was leeds in 2013
24-04-2009, 13:09
I had one on my NUFC save on the old patch. Very annoying because i did a NUFC file when i first got the game aswell and got a tycoon who invested hundreds of millions of £.
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The Cincinnati Bengals' 2014 free agency activity has been tempered at best. Thursday, March 20, 2014, the Bengals added just their second free agency signing of the off-season.
Jason Campbell, 32-year old Auburn grad and nine-year NFL veteran, becomes the latest back-up quarterback on the team roster, according to ESPN. Campbell, who has played for four teams since being drafted in the first round by the Washington Redskins in 2005, has bounced around to the Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears and the Cleveland Browns, acting in both a starting and back-up capacity.
Campbell served primarily as the starter during his four-year stint in Washington. His best season was his last season for the Redskins in 2009, throwing for 3,618 yards, 20 touchdowns, 15 interceptions and a passer rating of 86.4, all of which are career highs.
Despite his respectable 2009 campaign, Washington ended the season at a franchise-low four wins and 15 losses. This prompted the team, under then-new coach Mike Shanahan to acquire Donovan McNabb and trade Campbell to Oakland. With Oakland, Campbell traded the starting duties with Bruce Gradkowski in the 2010 season and started the 2011 season as the team starter. After he suffered a collarbone injury, the Raiders acquired Carson Palmer and Campbell signed as a free agent to back up Jay Cutler in Chicago for 2012.
Campbell showed signs of life during the 2013 season with Cleveland. The Browns suffered injuries to both Brian Hoyer and Brandon Weeden, causing rotation at the starting quarterback position. Campbell finally received a chance to start mid-season and played nine games, finishing the year with a respectable 2,015 yards, 11 touchdowns, 8 interceptions and a rating of 76.9.
Upon being released on March 12, 2014, the Bengals signed Campbell to a one-year deal with terms undisclosed. With 16,697 career yards, 87 career touchdowns, 60 career picks and a career rating of 81.8, Campbell should prove to be a reliable back-up and mentor to Andy Dalton. Could the Bengals be looking to use Campbell to push Dalton past the first round of the playoffs as starting position competition?


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Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Adam Hawley, Director of Product Management, Oracle VM
By Adam Hawley on Mar 20, 2009
First, I join Monica in welcoming you to our new Virtualization Blog and I look forward to maintaining a dialog with you on topics relating to virtualization in the industry, at Oracle, and with Oracle VM in particular. We'll be doing our best to post new entries frequently...at least weekly if not more often, so please check back often.
For my first entry, I wanted to introduce myself so you can understand my perspective. I'm the Director of Product Management for Oracle VM in Oracle's Corporate Architecture Group and while I've been working on Oracle VM only for about the last 15 months, I have been working on virtualization and large-scale system management in the industry for quite some time: since about 2000. Prior to this, I worked on the core framework for Oracle's premier system management product Enterprise Manager Grid Control for a couple of years, but I also spent about 8 years at Sun Microsystems with half of that time devoted to virtualization in the Solaris organization. My product management group at Sun introduced Solaris Containers and I went on to eventually be responsible for all product management and marketing for Sun's so-called N1 initiative that was on the cutting-edge of the "dynamic data center" initiatives that swept through the industry several years ago. Those initiatives were far from perfect, but they were about data center level virtualization and, in many ways, were a pre-cursor to current thinking around cloud computing.
So I've been working in this area a bit and always focused on enterprise server workloads and that makes Oracle, and Oracle VM, a great place for me. But enough about me! I've got a number of blogs planned starting today with the HA discussion below and other topics down the road including virtual appliances with Oracle VM Templates, some thoughts on Xen and KVM, and a host of other things so stay tuned!


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Eye Pain and Candida
All right ladies and gents...I am here to tell you that I am not a member of the medical community. But, take that as you may, I still am a sufferer of eye pain and focus problems (or rather - I used to be!).
Eye pain can be caused by many factors, some of them very serious. You should make sure and eliminate these as possibilities for you before you consider the alternative I am about to suggest. Here is what Medline Plus calls out as common causes of eye problems. Please do make sure that none of these relate to you!
- a problem in the eye itself (an infection, irritation or injury such as a corneal abrasion)
- a migraine headache (severe pain behind the eye)
- sinus problems (pain either over or below the eye)
- contact lenses
- eye surgery
- a stye (hordeolum) can create eye pain that increases as the stye grows
- conjunctivitis (pink eye) or any inflammation of the upper and lower lids
- pain in both eyes, particularly upon exposure to bright light (photophobia) that is common with many viral infections such as flu and will go away as the infection improves.
- glaucoma (so called narrow angle glaucoma can be very painful)
- burns
However, if you are certain that none of these relates to you, then you might be interested in my story.
I am a fairly young (38), healthy female that had never had trouble with eye pain. I am near-sighted, but beyond that I have never given much thought to my vision. Around Christmas of 2003, I had a urinary tract infection that I required anti-biotics to treat.If you have ever, even once, taken antibiotics, corti-steroids like prednisone, birth control pills, chemotherapy or oral acne medications then you may have a candida concern!
After the 2-week period that I was on the antibiotic, I noticed a dramatic decrease in the level of my health.
One of the most mysterious things was an eye problem. My eyes began to burn! They were hot and sore for most of the latter part of the day. It almost felt like I had some kind of an infection in both of my eyes.
Before long, the pain was pretty bad by the end of the day, I would go to bed with my eye literally burning and be aware of it through the night and still have it the next morning. I am a computer software developer and so I just wrote the whole thing off to spending too much time on the computer.
I also noticed that I my vision was getting more blurry. Sitting in church was miserable. I could not see the pastor very well and in an effort to bring him into focus, my eyes would be in pain by the end of the service.
I wanted to just put an ice pack on them. I was also very sensitive to light. I had to have sunglasses on even on an overcast day.
In January of 2004, I found an amazing product on the web and once I started taking it my eye pain was gone (for me almost immediately). My husband also noticed a dramatic decrease in his eye pain.
After a visit with my eye doctor, he said that my eyes looked very healthy and that my visual acuity is improving! I don't have to suffer through church anymore, I can spend hours on the computer without pain, and if I happen to be caught without my sunglasses on a sunny day - it is okay. My vision is crystal clear!
I found out that the problem I had that was manifesting in one way as eye pain was a fungal candida overgrowth. This may be the cause of your eye problems, too.
Candida, what is it?Candida albicans is a common yeast found in our digestive system and throat, when we are exposed to anti-biotics, birth control pills, corti-steroids, or prednisone the good bacteria which normally keep candida under control in our systems are killed off and the candida can overgrow.
When the candida yeast gets out of control, it morphs into a mycelial fungal form, becomes invasive and grows rhizoids which then burrow into our intestinal wall. These rhizoids leave microscopic holes in the intestinal wall which allows toxins in the form of undigested food particles, bacteria and yeast into our blood stream.
When this condition occurs the overgrowth is called Candidiasis or a systemic yeast infection. One indication of a systemic yeast infection is oral thrush or a white coated tongue. The toxins that the yeast puts into our system are responsible for the varying conditions that each individual experiences.
This overgrowth of yeast, I believe also causes eye pain and blurred vision. I could probably get by dealing with candida if that were the only problem I had, but the kicker is that eye pain is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
You may be suffering from many other symptoms that are related to Yeast and just not realize it. Things like fatigue, painful joints, recurrent vaginal yeast infections, eye pain, chronic sinusitis, headaches, and more.
For a comprehensive list look at this list of Yeast Symptoms. I have supplied a list of things that I was able to solve with the fantastic product I will discuss below. Finding out that I had a candida problem solved so many problems for me! From things as benign as eye pain to water retention and the inability to lose weight (I have been able to lose 12 pounds on this product).
You can take a bunch of tests to determine if you have systemic yeast, but doctors don't seem to want to acknowledge how wide spread this condition is. They would much rather treat the symptom then spend the time with you to get at the root cause. If you want a quick and surprisingly reliable test - try this surprisingly accurate saliva test.
"The majority of people who have Candida Albicans (Yeast) do not even realize they have it until they become seriously ill. It is estimated that over half of the worlds population has a moderate to serious Candida condition, due to the over use of antibiotics/drugs, bad diet and other causes.- from Healthy Christian Living
There are many programs, books and products on the market, all promising either control or relief from Candida and its symptoms. I have searched the net, researched with colleges and pulled together the most comprehensive, straightforward & up to date information possible.
We will show you in these pages why Nystatin, Diflucan and other Fluconazoles do more harm than good, how to recognize the problem, arrest it and of course get rid of it!"
A yeast overgrowth will not go away on its own, in fact this insidious fungus grows stronger and stronger with each passing year. I believe that I have unsuspectingly had an overgrowth for at least 20 years.
I have suffered miserably with the inability to lose weight, food sensitivities, digestive problems and the like. If I had known of systemic yeast 20 years ago, I would have done everything in my ability to get rid of it when it would have been easier.
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The product is called ThreeLac and with guidance I can help you through the process of possibly ridding yourself of eye pain and other symptoms once and for all. Learn More about Systemic Yeast Infections.
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The health benefits of beans are widely known. They are a low-fat food, chock full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. But all this healthy goodness won't do you any good if you don't make an effort to incorporate more beans into your diet. This easy four-bean salad is a creative way to get into the habit of eating more beans. In addition to being a delicious side dish, the salad can be incorporated into a chopped green salad or heated and served warm over pasta.
Four-bean Salad
Makes 6 generous servings
Note: For best results, prepare the bean salad the night before and chill overnight. If that's not possible, thoroughly chill before serving.
4 small cans of beans – your choice of black beans, red kidney beans, cannellini beans, chick peas, green beans, black-eyed peas, wax beans or any other bean.
¼ cup sugar
½ cup white vinegar
½ cup olive oil or salad oil
1 tsp. salt
½ cup fresh onion, minced
½ tsp. dry mustard
½ tsp. dried tarragon, crushed
2 T. parsley
½ tsp. dried basil
Drain and rinse beans and then place them in a large bowl.
In a separate bowl, wisk together all other ingredients.
Pour wisked ingredients over beans and stir just to mix.
Stir lightly before serving to incorporate all ingredients.
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Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, fixated on one life-changing question: For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce the biggest results? Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both men and women. From the gym to the bedroom, it's all here, and it all works. YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each): How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails. * How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends) * How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested * How to produce 15-minute female orgasms * How to triple testosterone, double sperm count, and (literally) have sex like a porn star * How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks * How to reverse "permanent" injuries * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months * How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit * And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50 topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including more than 200 test subjects. You don't need better genetics or more discipline. You need immediate results that compel you to continue. That's exactly what The 4-Hour Body delivers.


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On Jan. 31, it was announced that legendary country duo, Bellamy Brothers will be going on an international tour. This is in addition to their usual 150 concert dates in the United States. They are expected to tour in Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Australia, as well as New Caledonia.
"We head over to Sri Lanka and India next week," said David Bellamy in a press statement. "We've toured in over 50 countries throughout our career but performing in these two regions is new territory for us."
Howard Bellamy added, "This is shaping up to be one of our biggest international years to date. Good thing we're used to the jet lag. We actually have a new song we're recording now called 'Jet Lag Journey.'"
The country duo is planning on releasing new music, in addition to these tour stops at the international level.
Throughout their musical career, which spans nearly four decades, the multi-platinum-selling Bellamy Brothers have charted 15 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country charts. Their hits include such songs as "Let Your Love Flow," "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me)," "Redneck Girl," and "Old Hippie."
For more information on the Bellamy Brothers and their latest tour dates, check out their official website.


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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
May you live every day of your life.
Life is but thought.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Everything in life is luck.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Life well spent is long.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband.
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money!
Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.


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HardFightinSoldier said:
He would've picked in the 5th round or earlier if he had left after last year and has progressed into one of the top 3 OT's in the league. He lost his sophomore year because Franklin made all of the O'lineman lose 25+ pounds and none of them could block anybody.
There are 3 OT's on Georgia's roster alone that are better than Ziemba.


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Plan your next outdoor adventure with the help of MapSource United States TOPO DVD. This DVD contains digital topographic maps for the U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico that are comparable to the U.S. Geological Survey 1:100,000-scale paper maps.
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Will Coutrney come with this guitar? :P
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I meant to write Courtney... can't even spell when thinking of her.
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What alternative pickup sounds are available? How does it sound clean (no chorus/delay)?
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Washington, July 17 (ANI): Google's Inbox for Gmail has released a new feature which makes snoozing messages a little more time specific.
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Although this is an abstract painting, the thick vertical lines that dominate its centre can be seen as trees, with thick knotted roots at their base. It was probably this that led Krasner to call the painting Gothic Landscape, several years after completing it. Krasner was married to the artist Jackson Pollock and, during their life together, her work was eclipsed by his rise to fame. Gothic Landscape was made in the years following his death from a car crash in 1956. It belongs to a series of large canvases whose violent and expressive gestural brushstrokes reflected her feelings of grief.
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Windows 7 - Add an item to 'new' context menu
This shows how to add items to the "New" dropdown menu. How about taking them away?
Also, I want to make a batch file that automates this. Like this:
@echo off
echo Enter you file extension
set /p ext=
copy con ext.reg
echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >> ext.reg
echo. >> ext.reg
echo [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.%ext%\ShellNew] >> ext.reg
echo "NullFile"="" >> ext.reg
start /wait ext.reg
del ext.reg
echo Complete
- Anything wrong with this, in general?
- Can you write to other types of non-text files like registry files with batch files?
- Please tell me the registry code for removing an item, so that I can add that.
- Most importantly, can a registry file interact with the user, like take in input and make a variable so I don't need a batch file at all?


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"Noah" debuted at No. 1 for movies on demand from July 28 to Aug. 3, 2014, according to Rentrak. Russell Crowe stars as Noah in this film inspired by the epic biblical story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Also starring Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Emma Watson, Anthony Hopkins, Douglas Booth and Logan Lerman. Most critics gave "Noah" mixed-to-positive reviews, and the movie was a hit when it was released in cinemas.
"Heaven Is for Real" dropped from No. 1 to No. 2. In the drama "Heaven Is for Real" (based on a true story), Greg Kinnear stars as Todd Burpo, a small-town pastor whose son Colton (played by Connor Corum) claims to have visited heaven during a near-death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth — things he couldn't possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event. "Heaven Is for Real" got mostly negative reviews from critics but was a box-office hit.
"Rio 2" ascended from No. 8 to No. 3. It's a jungle out there for birds Blu, Jewel and their three kids in "Rio 2," after they're hurtled from that magical city to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law. This animated film has an all-star voice cast that includes Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Will.i.am, Jemaine Clement, Tracy Morgan, Leslie Mann, George Lopez, Rodrigo Santoro, Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Natalie Morales, Kristin Chenoweth, and Jamie Foxx. "Rio 2" got mixed reviews from critics but was a big hit in movie theaters.
"The Other Woman" debuted at No. 4. A successful attorney Carly Whitten (played by Cameron Diaz) tries to get her life back on track after discovering that her lover Mark King (played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married. But when Carly accidentally meets Mark's wife Kate (played by Leslie Mann), Carly realizes that she and Kate have much in common, and they become close friends. Carly and Kate then discover that Mark has another unwitting mistress named Amber (played by Kate Upton), so all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on Mark. "The Other Woman" was disliked by most critics but the movie did well in cinemas.
"Sabotage" fell from No. 3 to No. 5. In the action flick "Sabotage," Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the leader an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done — until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. Also starring Terrence Howard, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Joe Manganiello and Mirielle Enos. Most movie critics disliked "Sabotage," which flopped at the box office.
Here are the Top 5 movies on demand for the week of July 28 to Aug. 3, 2014:
1. Noah (debut)
2. Heaven Is for Real (No. 1 in the previous week)
3. Rio 2 (No. 8 in the previous week)
4. The Other Woman (debut)
5. Sabotage (No. 3 in the previous week)


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ALL that messuage, cottage and dwelling house long since converted into two and formerly in occupation of Samuel Tillotson and Mary Hartley, Widow. Also one barn with several then newly erected houses adjacent or near the same formerly in occupation of William Lonsdale and John Duerden. Also one close of meadow ground adjacent and a small garden at the top of the same containing one acre, formerly in occupation of John craven after of Thomas Wilkinson as Steward of the Methodist Society and then William Walton, all in Colne Lane.
ALL that close formerly the estate of John Clayton and after John Parr on west side of Colne Lane, late in occupation of Thomas Lonsdale and after of Stephen Peel and then William Walton (excepting part of road comprised in a surrender of 25th April 1781 made by Lister Sagar to William Sagar, Abraham Brandland and others and excepting also a reserve to William Lister sagar out of the above indenture ALL that parcel of ground then used as a garden bounded on the north by the premises therefore excepted on west close of land then the estate of Bannister Walton and on south-


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Acer F1 specs confirmed, live pics spotted
We first saw the Acer F1 back in March, when the handset made quite an impression with its design and features.
The F1 is now showcased at Computex 2009, and its high-end specs have been confirmed.
First of all, the new Acer smartphone has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU and it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional.
The F1 looks very sleek, as you can see in the images below:
Its other features include:
- 3.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with 480 x 800 pixels
- HSDPA 7.2Mbps
- Wi-Fi
- 3.5mm headset jack
- FM radio
- 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash
(the Windows Marketplace link was not functional)
Acer F1 might be released in September, probably under a different moniker, since F1 is just a codename. No word yet on the handset's price.
Another interesting smartphone presented at Computex 2009 is Acer L1. Also running on Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, the L1 has a 2.8 inch touchscreen display, as well as an alphanumeric keypad:
Acer L1 will be available at the same time with the F1, thus starting September. Shortly after that, Acer should also unveil its first Android smartphone.
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Ellen Von Unwerth
"(Women) are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed."
- Ellen Von Unwerth
Who knew that models were such great photographers? Not content with her experience as a model, Ellen Von Unwerth abandoned life in front of the camera for life behind it and is now one of the most sought-after fashion photographers in the world. Her emphasis on fashion and sexuality, be it in classy black and white or audacious colors, has changed the way women are photographed. Her inspirations travel back to the heyday of Bettie Page, but her results remain groundbreaking and original.
A glance through some of her raciest projects begs the question of whether Ellen Von Unwerth is as naughty as her photos. While she's something of an enigma, she does admit that some of her favorite photography sessions involve bondage and creating scenarios in which women dominate men. This goes back to her love of Bettie Page, a pinup icon that she paid tribute to in a 1998 Max photo shoot called "Back to Betty," featuring Eva Herzigova. An even kinkier side of Ellen Von Unwerth comes through in Revenge, her 2003 photo book featuring mud-covered women being flogged at a chateau before they turn the tables on the resident baroness and the chauffeur who brought them there. The domination themes might scare a few guys off (and turn a few others on), but Ellen Von Unwerth likes to reinforce that all of her photos are intended to be fun, not painful.
Ellen Von Unwerth's success comes from her willingness to break boundaries and explore new ones. Blessed with a rich imagination, she has a natural ability to put models and celebrities at ease, allowing them to enjoy whatever creative environment she wants to surround them with. A fierce seeker of emotion, Ellen Von Unwerth encourages her photographic subjects to convey emotions and respond to her lens, a far cry from the more serious and posed nature of "traditional" fashion photography. With 20 years of snapshots to fall back on, Ellen Von Unwerth has put the fun back into fashion photography while removing some of the constraints that plagued the industry for far too long.
Ellen Von Unwerth BiographyEllen Von Unwerth's overactive childhood imagination took her to the circus before it took her to photography. Enthralled by a performance in Munich after her graduation from high school, she was hired as an assistant and performed regularly in magic acts and stunts. It would prove to be a visual odyssey that would stay with her long past her working days there.
On the street, a photographer approached Ellen Von Unwerth and asked her about a modeling career. Open to the idea, she moved to Paris at age 20 and remained in front of the camera. Although she earned accolades like the cover of Cosmopolitan, she didn't like the static feeling of the industry and felt that freedom was missing. Thanks to some careful observation of her photographer roommate and a camera gift courtesy of her boyfriend, Ellen Von Unwerth began taking her own pictures, which culminated in an impromptu photo shoot in Africa of her fellow models. When the ensuing pictures were promptly published, Ellen Von Unwerth immediately found a new calling.
ellen von unwerth works for guess and photographs drew barrymoreIn 1989, Ellen Von Unwerth hit her stride as a fashion photographer. Hired by the jeans manufacturer Guess, she created a series of country music-themed print ads with a new model named Claudia Schiffer. The campaign would make the model a star and her photographer a hot commodity. Over time, Ellen Von Unwerth would shoot other Guess models like Eva Herzigova, Naomi Campbell and Paris Hilton in photos ranging from film-like black and white images to colorful glamor shots.
After winning first prize at the 1991 International Festival of Fashion Photography, Ellen Von Unwerth became a fashion photographer of the stars. As the names got bigger, so did the pictures, which took on a life of their own to match the qualities of their subject. In 1993, a dark-haired Madonna was filmed for Vogue Paris in a series of elegant shots that captured the essence of the Material Girl and her microphone. Two years later, Ellen Von Unwerth contributed to the career revival of Drew Barrymore by photographing her for the January 1995 edition of Playboy. It proved to be one of the photographer's most popular pieces, a spread that displayed the cheerful nature of the actress, while also adding a sexy, distinctive edge. Through the rest of the decade Ellen Von Unwerth was active in other kinds of media, but retained her visual style. She started directing music videos (including 1997's "Electric Barbarella" for Duran Duran) and released three photo books, including 1994's Snaps and 1998's Couples. The books featured glimpses of the photographer's most eclectic work, with shots of Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Claudia Schiffer as Barbie.
ellen von unwerth works with christina aguilera and britney spearsThrough the current decade, Ellen Von Unwerth has maintained her sense of fashionable photographic sexiness and innovative visuals. She created a series of promotional ads for two of the decade's biggest TV hits, Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The latter included an inventive 2006 portrait of the main cast in a hair salon with their faces completely obscured by hair dryers. That same year, Ellen Von Unwerth joined forces with Christina Aguilera to shoot album photos for Back to Basics, something she had done previously for Janet Jackson and Velvet Rope. This time, she drew on the singer's liking for music of yesteryear and photographed her in a series of images that were tributes to Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. Christina Aguilera and Ellen Von Unwerth would collaborate again on a Warholian photo series for the singer's greatest hits album two years later.
Recently, it's been more music and a bit of martinis for Ellen Von Unwerth. First, she filmed promo pictures and album photos for Britney Spears' eye-catching Blackout album, a collection that blended in nicely with the album's themes of independence and freedom. In 2008, she worked on a series of Diesel ads and joined George Clooney and Kim Cozzens for an amusing Martini print ad that featured the hunk in a fake mustache in front of an ocean backdrop. Just like all of the work of great Ellen Von Unwerth, it was original, classy and abundantly fun.


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The No. 16 seeded Weber State Wildcats nearly accomplished the unthinkable on Friday, March 21, narrowly losing to No. 1 seed Arizona 68-59 in the Round of 64. But what the Wildcats did to get within striking distance of what many consider to be the odds-on favorite to win it all was nothing short of remarkable. When you consider that Weber State shot just 30 percent for the game and Arizona hit on 55 percent -- more so.
In order to play with the big boys, you've got to play huge. And that the Wildcats in purple did -- despite eventually succumbing to a bigger, stronger, faster and more defensive Arizona team that looked every bit the contender most thought. Here is how tiny Weber State stayed with mighty Arizona, earning the praise of everyone in the process.
Joel Bolomboy cleaned the glass
Bolomboy has been a critical part of the Wildcats' play all season. The sophomore from Fort Worth, Texas has only averaged nine points -- but he also averaged 11 rebounds per game.
But on Friday he was huge for Weber State -- giving folks a glimpse into how special he will be in the next two years. He had 11 points and 16 rebounds against Arizona and played an Iron-man like 39 minutes.
Kyle Tresnak found other ways to help
Tresnak scored 27 points in the Big Sky Conference tournament championship game, getting the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament. But at March Madness nothing is guaranteed and Tresnak's shot wasn't falling (he was 1-for-6 from the floor) against Arizona.
So he found other ways to help Weber, such as getting three steals and two rebounds. Most important was his hustle and physical play inside which allowed Davion Berry and Richaud Gittens more room to shoot from outside.
Richaud Gittens made big plays
Gittens is a freshman from Tempe, Arizona who hasn't played like a freshman at all. In fact, judging the plays he made Friday against Arizona's athletic backcourt -- including some athletic defensive plays of his own that he turned into baskets -- you've probably only seen a glimpse of what Gittens has to offer.
Friday, he had 12 points against a team with several NBA-bound players -- and against a team from his home state.
Davion Berry was shades of Lillard
Fact: Damian Lillard never played in the NCAA Tournament. His Oakland understudy -- though the duo never played together at Weber -- was Berry, a player that Lillard starred with in their AAU days in the Bay Area.
On Friday, Berry did the one thing in his career that Lillard, now an NBA All-Star guard, never experienced in his days in Ogden. He tasted March Madness.
Berry lived up to the hype, scoring 24 points on 4-for-8 shooting from three point range. This during his worst shooting performance in some time. (He went 5-for-20 from the field.)
Coach Randy Rahe proved he can coach
The architect of Weber State's masterful game plan was head coach Randy Rahe, a longtime assistant under Stew Morrill at Utah State -- and Ray Giacometti at Utah -- before taking over at WSU.
Though many believe Rahe is destined to follow in Stew's footsteps and could soon become the coach at Utah State, he has done a yeoman's job at Weber.
His never-give-up mantra served these kids well -- and helped the purple Wildcats to nearly pull off the first-ever 16 v 1 NCAA Tournament upset.
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Online publishers have typically viewed the hyper-crowded nature of the Internet as the main challenge in getting relevant traffic. However, most overlook the dilution of their content as having the effect of lessening the impact of their online presence or message.
Growing Impatience with Content
Many old school companies, marketers, PR execs, advertisers, and publishers may not be aware that an evolving Internet now features impatient users that are gravitating towards multimedia content, as well as, content validated by "social proof' (i.e., Facebook likes and Twitter shares).
A corporate entity or large publisher may have dozens, and often hundreds, of web properties that represent a discombobulated collection of its subsidiaries and departments. Instead of being online assets, these can be SEO-neutral. Large entities may post thousands of pages online. Yet the content can become highly diluted by being distributed through incompatible domains and web portals.
More becomes less. People get lost while visiting labyrinths posing as Drupal-coded mazes. Disconnection between sites means that these entities may be losing valuable SEO juice as some search engines fail to recognize that the published content ultimately comes from a single root source.
Simplicity rules.
Multimedia and Social
Multimedia is becoming inseparable from social. If there is a pressing challenge for service providers, it is that millions of web users, especially the younger demographic, are growing impatient with text.
Let's put this drastic shift in content preference in historical perspective. The invention of the printing press in the 15th Century (i.e., the Gutenberg Bible) rendered Homer's oral tradition – where knowledge was spread by word of mouth – obsolete in western civilizations. With the printing press, text-based print (in the form of papers, books, magazine, dictionaries, directories, newsletters, newspapers, posters, and the like) all became extremely cheap to mass produce. As a result, alphabet-based letters has dominated the literate world for nearly 600 years.
However, text now has a major weakness in that modern cultures have evolved into preferring instant gratification. In the modern Internet, no one has time. Online, hyper-attention deficit disorder is actually normal. Therefore, hoards of users are preferring multimedia as the medium for consuming a publisher's message.
A video of a cat hugging a dog can get a million views in less than 24 hours. No corporate press release can get such traction unless the name of your company is Walmart or Apple.
Audience Culling of Content
Traditional PR solutions may have involved the promotion and distribution of text-based announcements, but the Internet is clearly evolving into a platform for potentially viral photos, videos, memes, and Instagram.
How can publishers reconcile the two worlds?
Corporate markets, advertisers, publishers, PR execs, and amateur bloggers will need to adapt. Multimedia is inseparable from social because only photos and videos are going viral. There's a reason why Super Bowl 2013 ads cost more than $4 million per 30-second spot on television. There's a reason why YouTube now boasts over one billion monthly users. There's a reason why Yahoo! wants to buy Dailymotion.
That's where the eyeballs are. If they get eyeballs, they get more advertisers as clients.
Photos and images get vastly more "social votes" on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram than text-based content. Multimedia hosting provides the benefit of letting users share such content, and in turn, improve the client's SEO by generating as much social votes in the eyes of search engines.
PR services is a competitive field and providers will need to match solutions to the evolving expectations of their clients. Relevant traffic and a targeted audience have always been the holy grail for marketers. A large portion of that traffic now expects content other than text.


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Cause of Dry Eye Disease Identified
by Sheela Philomena on June 2, 2011 at 3:06 PM Research News - G J E 4
The early cellular cause of dry eye disease have been identified by researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston.
They are the first to discover the natural killer (NK) cells, a type of cell that provides innate immunity to the eyes, as promoting the inflammation that plays a critical role in the development of dry eye disease.
AdvertisementThe finding offers hope for new drugs that treat the cellular cause of the disease rather than its symptoms.
"Our study has promoted the further understanding of the pathogenesis of dry eye disease, which is fundamental to develop new treatments and thus improve quality of life for those with this disease," said Yihe Chen, a researcher involved in the work from the Schepens Eye Research Institute at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
To make their discovery, the scientists tested two groups of mice. The first group was normal and the second group was depleted of NK cells.
When both sets of mice were induced with dry eye disease under the same conditions, the disease was less severe in the mice depleted of NK cells than the normal mice.
This suggests that NK cells play a pivotal role in the development and severity of the disease, making them a target for the development of new drugs.
The finding appears in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology.
Source: ANI
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Buses Collide, 6 Students Hurt
Six students with minor injuries were treated at Page Memorial Hospital on Thursday following a two-bus collision on North Egypt Bend Road near Page Valley Road, about four miles west of Luray. (Photo by Rebecca Armstrong / Byrd Newspapers)
LURAY ― Six Highland School sophomores suffered minor injuries Thursday afternoon when one school bus from the Warrenton-based school rear-ended another from the same private school while returning…
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You could use it on any of these games below, or even on our incredible pre-purchase offer.
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AP reported earlier today that despite fresh opposition from the National Rifle Association, the Obama administration is assembling proposals to curb gun violence which would include a ban on sales of assault weapons, limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun buyers.
Sketching out details of the plan earlier today, Vice President Joe Biden said he would give President Obama a set of reommendations by next Tuesday. These proposals come in the wake of yet another school shooting; this time at a high school in California.
Opposition from the abundantly well-funded and politically powerful NRA underscores the challenges awaiting the White House if it seeks congressional approval for limiting guns and ammunition. Obama can use his executive powers to act alone on some gun measures, but his options on the proposals opposed by the NRA are limited without Congress' cooperation.
The consensus between the two factions was a concurrence to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people with mental health issues. The NRA, however, is diametrically opposed to broad restrictions on high capacity magazines and assault weapons.
Biden's proposals are also expected to include recommendations to address mental health care and violence on television and in movies and video games. Those issues, in fact, have wide support from gun rights groups and pro-gun lawmakers.
Ultimately, in the case of school shootings, the onus is on the parents. Sadly, we can't impose regulations on faulty parenting but there should be clear signs if your child is planning on shooting up his/her classroom. Violent video games and movies/music/TV do nothing but exacerbate an already bad situation. You can't regulate these art forms because they are entertainment and that is their sole purpose. All we can do as a society is tag a parental advisory label on the content and pray for the best.
Maybe comedian Chris Rock was onto something when he declared what we really need is bullet control. That way, at least, there would be no confusion about the end result: "That fool better be dead. I put thirty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his ass."
I kid.
If only this entire issue were a joke albeit a cruel one...if only.


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Hey Gators our second annual ping pong tournament is coming up!
Sign up is april 8th to the 10th in the main foyer, it is 5 dollars to enter your team of two. The tournament will be held May 12th to May 23rd see you all there.
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I've bought this dress for my wedding, and then we changed the place we're having the wedding in, so I bought another dress and wore it to my wedding.
It's a beautiful Pronivias Berlin dress, fits perfectly into any body type made of beautifully crafted ivory Spanish lace. Has been purchased from the original Pronovias Barcelona – Spain.
this dress suits all wedding venues as it's simple,yet, classy. I bought this dress for nearly 3000$ on christmas last year and it wasn't worn. This deal is a bargain!
It comes with a separate 3/4 sleeves lace jacket to be worn over the dress, which gives you 2 looks for the same dress.
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