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Garden Q&A: plant several blueberry varieties
Q: I would like to know if you have any opinions concerning the best varieties of blueberries for the Pittsburgh area for rapid production that continues for a good part of the summer. I plan to put several bushes in next spring and want to know what kind to get.
A: Before planting blueberries in your yard, it is important to understand a little more about the different varieties available on today's market. After all, you don't want to plant a bush that grows 7 feet tall (unless, of course, you've got plenty of room for it!). Blueberries fit into a handful of different categories, each with its own climate preference and growth habit. Most fruit and berry catalogs list varieties by one of the following categories:
• "High bush" blueberries are very common and, as the name implies, they can grow quite large — up to 6 feet or more. Varieties in this category are further separated into northern and southern types, each doing best in their namesake's climate. Here in Western Pennsylvania, northern high bush blueberries are a good option. High bush berries are delicious and productive but may not be well suited to smaller landscapes since they grow so large.
• "Low bush" selections are small in stature, which might sound great for containers and small spaces, but the berries are small, too, and they aren't as productive as other types. They are often called "wild" or "Maine" blueberries and grow only a foot tall. I don't often recommend them to local gardeners.
• "Half-high" varieties are the result of hybridization between "high bush" and "low bush" types. They are very hardy and reasonably productive. Since they grow to about 3 feet in height and are so hardy, many "half-high" types are great for growing in both containers and the ground– especially in Northern areas like ours.
There are literally dozens and dozens of blueberry varieties in each of these categories to pick from, and, as long as they are hardy to USDA zone 6 or below, they'll be a good choice for your garden. I always recommend planting three or more varieties if possible, not only for better pollination but also to extend the fruiting period. Select an early, a mid, and a late season ripening variety for season-long fruiting. Here are a few of my personal favorites:
• Northsky — This is a great blueberry for very cold climates as it survives to -45 degrees F and is officially hardy from zones 3-8. It only grows about 18 inches in height and two feet wide. Northsky's berries ripen in July from snow white blooms. Mid-season ripening.
• Chippewa — Upright growth with great berry quality. This half-high variety has exceptional cold hardiness and some of the largest berries of its type. Grows up to 3 feet high and prefers zones 3-8. Mid-season ripening.
• Polaris — Growing upright and reaching 3 feet in height, this selection has light blue berries that ripen very early in the season. It is hardy from zones 3-8 and is very tolerant of long, cold winters. Polaris bears the heaviest crops when grown with another variety to ensure optimum pollination.
• Elliot — With medium-sized fruits and very late production, Elliot is a great harvest-extending variety. The flavor is very mild. Mature plants reach 4 to 5 feet in height and are very cold tolerant.
Horticulturist Jessica Walliser co-hosts "The Organic Gardeners" at 7 a.m. Sundays on KDKA Radio. She is the author of several gardening books, including "Grow Organic" and "Good Bug, Bad Bug." Her website is www.jessicawalliser.com.
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Cadillac Audio, Video and Security Systems Discussion, 99 deville protect/sleep mode in Item Specific Cadillac Discussion; I have a 99 deville with an aftermarket stereo. First I would like to know how to find out if ...
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99 deville protect/sleep mode
I have a 99 deville with an aftermarket stereo. First I would like to know how to find out if there was a bose or non bose system? Second I do not have the stock radio. Is there any way around not using the stock radio and stopping the annoying sleep mode? I already know special harnesses will not work including the gmrc 03. Any help thanks its driving me crazy. My next fear is the door locks won't work with the key being as though my drivers side stopped working a week ago.
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Re: 99 deville protect/sleep mode
Did you ever find a way to make this work without putting a stock radio back into the car? I'm having the same problem! Thanks.
Re: 99 deville protect/sleep mode
This thread has been dead for over 2 years and the OP has not logged in since. There are MANY other, more recent discussions on the head nit replacement/bypass problems in these cars scattered throughout this forum as well as in Seville and Deville.
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When shrimp meet a hot grill grate, magic happens. Try these crowd-pleasing grilled shrimp recipes for a delicious summer supper.
Prawns al Mojo de Ajo
Mojo de ajo is like a garlic gravy that infuses the grilled shrimp with fantastically zesty flavor. This dish employs a great trick many cooks don't know: using skillets on the grill, which gives fiery grilled flavor to simmered components like the garlic and onion.
Grilled Shrimp Skewers with Charred Asparagus and Snap PeasSave time by cooking the veggies in a cast-iron skillet directly on the grill instead of the stovetop. This gives the skewer an extra charred flavor.
Spicy Shrimp Kebabs with Cilantro-Ginger Aioli
Serve these kebabs with a sweet rosé, plus crusty bread and grilled or roasted small potatoes to dip into the extra aioli.
Chimichurri Shrimp
Forget shrimp cocktail--this will be your go-to party staple from now on. You could take the shrimp off the skewers for the platter, but the pick-up nature of kebabs is great for parties.
Shrimp 'n' Grits Skewers
Try shrimp and grits in skewer form. These skewers feature polenta cubes, shrimp, and grape tomatoes.
Summer Herbed Grilled Shrimp
Our finishing touches--a hit of herbs, peppery olive oil, and tangy vinegar--make these shrimp the freshest, most irresistible appetizer. Leave the tails on so guests have a handle for these tasty bites.
Grilled Shrimp and Lemon KebabsGrilled Shrimp and Lemon Kebabs make the perfect, savory appetizer for a summer cookout.
Grilled Shrimp Tostadas with LimeThrow some shrimp on the grill and try a Mexican staple with a delicious twist.
Grain Salad with Grilled Shrimp and Sweet PeppersTake the trendy grain bowl to your BBQ spread by topping bulgur wheat salad with plump, grilled shrimp.
Chimichurri Shrimp
Forget shrimp cocktail--this will be your go-to party staple from now on. You could take the shrimp off the skewers for the platter, but the pick-up nature of kebabs is great for parties.
Grilled Shrimp and Summer Vegetables with Buttermilk DressingA little over 30 minutes is all it takes to throw together a weeknight meal that screams summer. Homemade buttermilk dressing makes a cool accompaniment.
Grilled Shrimp-and-Vegetable KebabsThrow some shrimp and your favorite veggies on the grill and have an easy and delicious summer meal in minutes.
Indian-Spiced Grilled Shrimp and OkraHere's a fun way to cook okra; it retains some crunch and doesn't even think of getting slimy. The fresh serrano chile and curry powder offer a good bit of heat; seed the chile or omit it for a milder dish.
Grilled Shrimp TacosMake taco night extraordinary with these deliciously simple grilled shrimp tacos. Season the shrimp, brush with lime-butter, and grill on skewers until done, then serve with taco shells, cabbage, and a homemade sour cream sauce.
Tomato Salad with Grilled ShrimpLook for beautiful and tasty heirloom tomatoes in a rainbow of colors at your local farmers' market, and keep them at room temperature until you're ready to slice and serve. Refrigerating will give them a mealy texture.
Grilled Shrimp Caesar Salad
Users rave over the homemade dressing in this easy Caesar salad with grilled shrimp. This healthy, satisfying dinner can be on your table in just 25 minutes tonight.
Jerk-Spiced ShrimpSeason fresh shrimp with a homemade Caribbean-style jerk seasoning mix and grill for three minutes on each side.
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Orange-Sesame Noodles with Grilled ShrimpSatisfy your craving for Chinese food at home with this colorful seafood supper. Tamari sauce, peanut butter, sesame oil, and freshly grated ginger lend authentic flavor to the grilled shrimp and soba noodles.
Curry-Mango ShrimpGet a huge flavor kick with chutney, curry powder, fresh ginger and lime juice in this 6-ingredient grilled shrimp recipe.
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Grilled Lemon-Bay ShrimpThis 5-star shrimp dish calls for just nine ingredients–most of them found in your pantry. These beautiful skewers are perfect for entertaining, and the easy preparation and short cooking time will leave you more time to enjoy your guests.
Recipe: Grilled Lemon-Bay Shrimp
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Jerk Shrimp with Grilled Onion, Avocado, and Mango SalsaSpicy Jamaican jerk seasoning gives this grilled shrimp recipe a hot kick. Pair with our Carribean-inspired mango salsa to help cool your taste buds.
Recipe: Jerk Shrimp with Grilled Onion, Avocado, and Mango Salsa
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Key Lime Grilled ShrimpRefreshing Key lime juice brightens the flavor of grilled shrimp. Guests will rave about the savory marinade, but it's the Key Lime Beurre Blanc cream sauce that pulls this dish together.
Recipe: Key Lime Grilled Shrimp
Lemon-Garlic Shrimp SkewersA quick cure in a salt-and-sugar mixture tenderizes the shrimp and makes them more flavorful–just be sure to rinse them well before grilling. Keep this recipe in mind if you've got to haul a dish to the beach or a cookout: the salting also acts as a mild preservative.
Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Shrimp Skewers
Rosemary Shrimp Scampi SkewersStripped rosemary sprigs make these shrimp smell tantalizing on the grill, and also lend a hint of romance to the presentation. If you don't have fresh rosemary on hand, thread the shrimp onto bamboo skewers and add a bit of dried rosemary to the marinade instead.
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Southwestern-Style Shrimp Taco SaladCilantro, chipotle hot sauce, corn, black beans, and green onion lend fantastic south-of-the-border flavor to this shrimp-topped taco salad. This taco salad isn't only delicious, but it's healthy too: just 228 calories and 8.5 grams of fat per serving.
Butterflied Shrimp with Habanero Tomatillo SalsaButterflying the shrimp gives it an attractive appearance and more surface area for the marinade to penetrate. Handle habaneros with care. They are among the hottest chiles, but marinating them in vinegar and sugar softens their bite.
Herb-Grilled Shrimp Skewers with Lemon-Herb FetaThese skewers are great served over hot couscous or orzo. Complement this dish with a side of steamed asparagus or zucchini. The lemon-herb feta would also be a delightful accompaniment to grilled fish.


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I can see why Cheikhou Kouyate has already been likened to Patrick Vieira —just look at his size and the way he moves.
I thought he was our man-of-the-match against Tottenham last week and I, for one, would be delighted if he came close to emulating Patrick's consistent level of performance.
It was a brilliant debut and one which you don't see too often in the Premier League. Normally, when players first come here from abroad, they're shouting for pure oxygen because they struggle to cope with the sheer intensity of our game.
Apart from right at the end against Spurs, when he did go down for a rest after yet another run, his fitness was superb — and infectious because the rest of the players will be saying to themselves: "Come on, I've got to get up there with him."
They're not going to want to be shown up by the new kid on the block and that's very encouraging for me, not only from his point of view but because of what he will drag out of the rest of the players.
Enner Valencia also showed us a glimpse of what he can do when he came on and remember he's come from Mexico, where they play in the best league in Central and South America because they are paid better than anywhere else in the region.
Not so experienced but possessing raw talent is Diafra Sakho. He's an exciting player who has scored prolifically in leagues three and two in France and was about to play in their top league before deciding to come here.
Whether we can convert that raw talent into something fruitful in year one in the Premier League is something on which we will be working hard. What we don't want to do is force things, to put too much pressure on him, otherwise the opposite will happen.
So altogether, as we say these days, the key performance indicators — or KPIs since we are obsessed with abbreviating everything these days — are looking good.
You hope that they will make that transition but not everyone can handle that pressure, especially up front.
Modibo Maiga struggled last season, while I can remember buying Jared Borgetti for Bolton, who had the best scoring record in Mexico's history but couldn't replicate that sort of form over here.
West Ham's summer signings
West Ham's summer signings
1/6 Aaron Cresswell: Left back
The former Ipswich defender represent a shrewd piece of business by the East Londoners, and could represent their best buy of the window. Capable of attacking with aplomb, Cresswell will offer his side an extra outlet. His gifted left peg makes him an exciting set-piece taker.
2/6 Enner Valencia: Striker
Scored three goals in three matches for Ecudaor at the World Cup finals this summer, and represents an upgrade on strikers Carlton Cole and Modibo Maiga.
3/6 Cheikhou Kouyate: Central midfield
The 6ft 3' midfeild general will certainly strengthen Allardyce's core, but the Senegal international will take time to adapt from the Belgian Jupiler League.
4/6 Carl Jenkinson: Right back
Signed on a season-long loan from Arsenal, Jenkinson will show himself to be a better player at West Ham than he was able to do at Arsenal. His ability to attack down the right flank will be vast improvement on Guy Demel, and the Hammers fans should take to him.
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5/6 Mauro Zarate: Striker
Since his fleeting spell with Birmingham City six years ago, the Argentine has spent time in Italy with Lazio before moving to Inter Milan. He arrives at Upton Park from Argentina, having scored 18 goals in 28 matches for Velez Sarsfield.
6/6 Diego Poyet: Central midfield
Family name exceeds the player here, and the former Charlton man will need time to settle in the Premier League before comparisons should be made with his dad, Gus.
Defeat is still festering
People have asked me how I felt after our opening day defeat by Tottenham. I was going to say deep depression but that is inappropriate.
Real depression is a massive problem which we don't seem to deal with as well as we should in this country.
I did feel profound disappointment after the game — and probably still do. It might not show in my demeanour but deep down the defeat is still festering.
It was a massive opportunity for us to make an outstanding start and take a deserved three points. At the worst we should have respected the point.
The warning bells have been ringing loud in my ears ever since. It was reminiscent of last season, playing well at times, better than the opposition, creating chances but not getting at least a point.
I have to hope that, like me, the players will heed that warning, lock it away and use it as extra motivation in the future.
Remember we were playing against a team who are looking to finish in the top four, who had a player on the pitch worth £30million and another on the bench who cost £26m.
After the first 10 minutes we matched them, when it was 11 versus 11 and before they had a man sent off. For me then, there was no doubt, under current rules, that it was a penalty and a red card.
We're very, very close; we just have to improve our conversion rate.
Caretaker Keith's a good fit at Selhurst but it's a shame he won't get the job
With the manager's position at Crystal Palace still not settled, Keith Millen will be in temporary charge when we go to Selhurst Park tomorrow.
Keith has done it before, he knows the club and Steve Parish, the Palace co-chairman trusts him. The players also respect him and maybe quite a lot of them would want him to get the job, which would be good for them.
I'm not sure, having listened to Steve Parish, that he will go down that route though because he has said he wants someone with definite Premier League experience, either as a manager or player.
All I would say to that is that playing for a Premier League club has absolutely no relevance when it comes to managing one.
The best route these days is to get your team promoted. Very rarely now do clubs dip down into the lower divisions to find a manager.
It remains an opportunity for Keith, though. I was caretaker manager at Preston for about three months. My old mate Les Chapman was manager but he found it difficult and the board made a change.
I was youth coach at the time, reserve team manager, groundsman, physio, painter, bottle-washer, you name it, I did it.
I was happy to step in at the time and help guide Preston out of the danger zone. I was really disappointed when they didn't give me the job, particularly having been a player there plus the relationship I had with the board but they appointed John Beck and Gary Peters.
I went back to youth team coach and had to be patient — wait for my opportunity. In the end, I went to Blackpool. I might have been 14th choice at the time but I got there in the end.
It's not often, at the top level, that the caretaker manager is promoted to manager. It's happened at Swansea, with Garry Monk, and Chris Hughton made the transition as well. They will have both discovered that you need a completely different set of skills if you progress from coach to manager.
I'm glad my wife has given me a history lesson
On Tuesday we take on Sheffield United in the Capital One Cup and if I didn't know the history between the clubs, my wife has filled me in after researching it all.
My focus will be picking a team to win because that is very important irrespective of the opposition.
If I'm struggling for central defenders, there is no chance I can take risks in the Capital One Cup. We will make a judgement after the Palace game tomorrow. There are players who may come back for that game — Matt Jarvis is one while Enner Valencia, Diafra Sakho, Mauro Zarate and Diego Poyet are champing at the bit.Reuse content


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what about this buck I shot?
On the morning of January 1st I shot a 7pt (he was a cull buck) that weighed 194 lbs. Mature bucks
where I am hunting average 175 lbs. and the does seems to average about 105 lbs. My question to
everyone is this 194 lb buck had a hole on the underside of each main beam about where the g-2 is
on the top. Has anyone ever shot a deer with a hole in the main beam? Does this mean he once had
drop tines. I did not look at his teeth to get a good age of the deer, I know now that I should have.
I was wondering what this indicates, having a hole in both sides of the main beam?
Years ago I shot a 9 pointer out of Westchester County-NY that had a hole in 1 beam. I have been told it is caused by a worm that somehow burrows in the developing antler but I never tried to validate this. I don't think drop tines has anything to do with the holes.
Thanks for the reply! It was just strange that he had them on both sides and about the same place.
holes in main beam
I sure would like to know everyone's opinion.
I've seen this on some of the antlers on deer that I have mounted in my taxidermy business. The fact that it occurs on both antlers in about the same place makes me believe that it has something to do with the antler development while it was in the velvet stage. Blood flow to the growing antler, perhaps??
iv got a question about antlers. do they fall of and grow back every year? or just grow more and more? how does it work?
yep, they shed them every year and then grow them back come next year. And usually as the buck matures they get bigger every year. And when the new ones come they have velvet on them to protect the new growing antlers until they are good and ready. then the deer rub the velvet off on trees and shrubs and things. Mice and other critters will eat the sheds for calcium and other minerals. Antlers are genetic too im pretty sure.... so if daddy has a goofy rack or a drop tine, the son will most likely develope one too. I think thats where the term "management bucks" come into play when ur watching hunting shows on tv you will here them say that and those ar the bucks they are after to better the quality of their heard so that deer doesnt pass on those genes anymore. Does that answer your question? hope it helps!
and no offense takin if someone says otherwise or wants to correct me.. feel free. Just what i have thought to have been said. thanks.
I think you hit it on the head burgerking, well said.
I killed a small buck one time with a hole in his antler. I was told that if the antler was damaged in velvet(i guess this means maybe it was bleeding at one point) that flies will lay eggs and maggots will do it... sounds kinda like the worm thing i think! But i'm no biologist
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Im looking to buy a 330ci M Sport , And just wondering what the differences are between the pre facelift and faclifted models ?
First post so go easy ,
Im looking to buy a 330ci M Sport , And just wondering what the differences are between the pre facelift and faclifted models ?
Last edited by delux; 16-11-2010 at 16:14.
Firstly I'd edit your thread title so it looks more like E46 Coupe Facelift Differences as per forum rules and save yourself the wrath of the mods
Probably a few other things but mainly..............
Pre facelift Coupe- Front Indicators Turn down, Rear lights standard bulb set & (iirc)5 speed manual box.
Facelift Coupe- Front Indicators Turn Up, Multi Led rear lights & 6 speed manual box and there's a front grill change too.
delux (16-11-2010)
What year should i look at for it to be definetly facelifted ?
2004 Model Year - Coupes
Facelift - late 2003
As Robbie says, you will find some 2004MY cars shipped late 2003.
Thanks ,
Do the facelift models go for much more than the older ones ? Im trying to decide if its worth waiting for a good priced newer one.
I'm sure I've seen some 03-plate facelifts when I was looking . There's also a few rare 04-plate pre-facelifts about as well. But yeah, as mentioned, the front indicators on the facelift scoop upwards in the wings instead of downwards with the pre. Also the facelifts have LED rear clusters as standard, but be aware that some people with the pre-facelift swap these to the facelift ones - easy to do with the clusters, not easy with the front indicators unless they've replaced the wings, but then I'd be looking at 'other' reasons why the wings had been replaced..
Just checked that valuation website, that is just about as depressing as the IMF in ireland LOL
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We've had our Tassimo for about two years now, and I have to admit I've been wondering what effect our rusty water has had on the inner workings.
Yes, we use filtered water, but our filtered water is just rusty water run through a Brita [don't get me started on the efforts we've gone through to get our water de-rusted… it's town-provided and we had it under control for awhile, but then they changed the system and now we have a) rusty water and low enough pressure that the toilet won't even flush or b) slightly more rusty water and decent pressure]. I have tried to clear the rust buildup out from the tank but it's hard without a thin brush.
I'm not sure how long it takes for a usual Tassimo to light up with the DESCALE ME indicator, but ours did it a few weeks ago. It'll still work with the light on but I don't imagine it's good for your machine.
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We have the same model but in black (the white one looks swanky!) and the descale light is on the bottom left of the indicator panel there, above the big round button, below the steaming coffee icon.
Naturally, seeing a new indicator on the machine, I consulted my manual. It said a bunch of confusing things in IKEA-style gibberish infographics. Why do people not use clear text anymore?! Anyway, from what I gathered, I needed my cleaning disc, the empty T-Disc with a bar code on it that tells the machine to run water through the system.
Problem #1 – We somehow lost our disc. It has a slot for safekeeping right on the back of the machine, but when I looked, I couldn't find our disc. We think it got thrown out. But I didn't really feel like spending the money (or waiting) to get a new one, so I started Googling.
Here's a link for the cleaning T-Disc bar code, which you can simply tape to an already-used disc. Yes, you will get a gross watered-down coffee/hot chocolate/milk/etc in your cup, but that won't affect the actual cleaning process. I should point out that I taped mine right over a coffee disc and by the time the descaling process was finished it was a soggy mess, but it does the trick for one-time use.
I'm jumping ahead, though, because we still had another problem.
Problem #2 – We didn't have any descaler. Nobody told me I needed descaler! Apparently there is a recommended brand, but I again didn't want to have to pay/wait for it. There is no descaler at the grocery store in town. I was stumped, and wanting coffee. Again with the Google…
- VINEGAR – Seems like a good idea, right? But Tassimo recommends against it, and that's because it's too acidic. It might work, but it might screw up your reservoir. It'll probably also taste gross after the fact.
- CLR – Yes, people on the internet said to put CLR in the reservoir. But that seemed like a horrible idea to me — I use that stuff to clean my bathtub and I don't really want to ingest it. It's also not recommended for coffee makers with a built-in reservoir, but it's allegedly okay for the type where the reservoir attaches, like our Tassimo model (the T20, I believe).
- CITRIC ACID – This one is apparently good and easy, but I don't know where to find citric acid. Word has it that Kool-Aid, the powdered kind you have to add sugar to, is a good source. But, there's another way, and it's what I used…
- LEMON JUICE – The pure kind, as in, the stuff from the little yellow squeezy-bottle.
I used two tablespoons of lemon juice + one tablespoon of baking soda, and added it to just over 500 mL of water (from what I understand, you have to use at least two cups). But I still wasn't sure what to do with my water/lemon/baking soda mixture.
Problem #3 – The Tassimo manual is basically in hieroglyphics. Luckily, the internet held one more answer for me, with Nerd Fever's plain-English explanation of how the process works. Once you get your (homemade) solution into the back of the reservoir and your (homemade) cleaning disc into the usual place, you have to hold down the big ol' MAKE ME COFFEE button, at which point the coffee-making indicator will blink along with the descale indicator.
Twenty minutes later I had a really disgusting cup of watered-down coffee, lemon juice, water and baking soda, and a soggy disc in the holder, but the descaling light was off and I was only out a buck for the lemon juice.
If you live in a place with easily-found descaler and want to spend the money it's probably easier to just do things the 'right' way, and I don't know if this had any negative effect on our machine, but I'm calling it a success.


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It's no secret that stars and parties go hand-in-hand, and last night some of Young Hollywood's finest were in the house for the Nylon Magazine Young Hollywood Party 2010.
"High School Musical" costars Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale were all in the house for the big bash.
She's always been up for helping a good cause, and yesterday (March 14) Brenda Song was spotted at the 14th Annual Susan G. Koman LA County Race for the Cure.
The Disney darling was all smiles as she posed for the paparazzi, sporting an official event t-shirt along with a pink jacket and pink knit hat.
Hamming it up for the cameras, Brenda Song was spotted at the Los Angeles premiere of Michael Jackson's "This Is It" film last night.
The Disney darling looked absolutely beautiful as she arrived at the Nokia Theatre LA Live venue, sporting a tiger t-shirt with a black jacket, black leggings and black thigh-high boots.
Getting in touch with her inner sorcerer, Brenda Song was spotted arriving at the 2009 World Magic Awards in Santa Monica, California on Saturday night (October 11).
The Disney darling was all smiles as she posed outside the Barker Hangar, sporting a form fitting little black dress with plenty of necklaces and black ankle boot heels.
Treating herself to a personal pampering session, Brenda Song was spotted at the Napoleon Perdis salon in Hollywood yesterday (August 31).
The Disney darling flirted it up with fans and paparazzi, showing off her new extended faux eyelashes and picture perfect makeup.
She's no stranger to high-profile industry events, and last night (August 11) Brenda Song was in the house for the Zara Terez West Coast Launch.
The Disney darling was all smiles as she arrived at the shindig, held at the Mondrian Hotel's SkyBar in West Hollywood to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation.
She's no stranger to trendy industry events, and Saturday (August 1) Brenda Song was spotted at the Kitson boutique in Los Angeles.
The Disney darling was in the house for the exclusive preview of the Magnolia Collection from Treesje, and she seemed to be enjoying all of the new looks.
Stepping out for an exciting afternoon in Hollywood, Brenda Song was spotted at the big premiere of "G-Force" yesterday (July 19).
The Disney darling looked amazing as she worked it for the paparazzi outside the El Capitan Theater in a one-shoulder shirt teamed with a purple skirt.


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Review of Donna Bella Perla BKT done yesterday
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Ok...so I've been researching BKTs for like 2 years and finally thought I found a salon that uses the Marcia T BKT. I was given the address and phone number from the Marcia T website, went in for a consultation, and booked my appointmen. This was a Dominican Salon, and the owner spoke English..sorta...so I figured she knew that I wanted the Marcia T. BKT. I asked her like 10 times if that is what she uses and she said yes over and over again.
Well when I went in for my appointment she used the Donna Bella Perla Keratin Chocolate Treatment and she swore up and down it was the same. I had already taken the morning off, so I was like eff it...do it. I did a quick google search of the brand on my phone and found some reviews on you tube so I simlpy threw caution to the wind. She also insisted that my thick 4a hair would in fact become bone straight, but I didn't really believe her. I WAS worried about this because all the reviews on here and other salons said that for natural hair, like mine, I would simply see a loosening of the curl. I told myself it was just the language barrier and that i would walk out of their with temporarily straight hair, but after washing it out, I'd be back to curly.
Here's the thing. The way she applied the treatment to my hair was NOTHING like I've read or seen.
1. She clarifed my hair w/ Marcia T. chocolate shampoo
2. She towel dried my hair
3. She applied the treatment to my hair with a hair coloring brush brush ( the treatment had a creamy consistancy)..small section by small section and combed it through to the ends...she combed it over and over again...
4. When she was done she blow dryed my hair straight
5. Then flat ironed section by section
6. she let me sit for 10 minutes then shampooed my hair immediately (weird, right??!)
Okay..so after she shampoed my hair had a MAJOR decrease in curl...yup ladies and gents my 4b curls are gone..I was like 2c or a 3a, but not evenly throughout my head...really only my ends seemed to curl up, but the rest of my head is like flat flat straight.
7. Then she blow dryed and flat ironed again
My hair is REALLY straight, sleek, and soft...she told me not to wash for 4 days, but honestly I might wash it out tomorrow. AT this point, she's already shampooed this mess once today, and I don't want my hair to get any more straight. I want to wash my hair again, and REALLY see how curly it still is..Thankfully this stuff washes out in 3 months, right???!..so I'm not tooo bummed, but I will for sure..miss my 4a curls...I really only wanted something to loosen and soften my hair...this might have been too extreme for me. I will post pics after I wash..I'll take pics of my straight hair tonight and post.
I've attched pics of my naturally curly hair 4a hair....after I shampoo I'll see how loose it is, but it was definately 2cish after she immediately shampooed :/ Any thoughts? Anyone have a BKT applied like this? Anyone try this brand of BKT?
Thanks for posting the info on this type of keratin treatment. I have not heard of this particular keratin product before, but I have read similiar methods of that process (for the wash and wear type keratin). I did not realize you needed to wait four days to wash it again though - that seems to defeat the purpose of the wash and wear?? Please post some after pictures - would love to see them.
I don't think I still have to wait for days. She already washed it. I don't think she knows what she's talking about....lol..and given the language barrier I couldn't ask her the MILLIONS of questions I wanted to pose
Your hair is beautiful :) Just curious if the picture that you attached was before or after the BKT? How did you hair look after you washed the BKT out?
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Oddly enough I don't have any pics of it RIGHT after the Donna Bella Perla...it was really really soft, shiny with very little curl. Here's a pic of it from 2 weeks ago, a lot more curl return.
You hair looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your experience
Can you belive I'm still not loving it? I'm a nut! too much frizz at the roots, causing me to spend more time than I'd like to defrizz and stretch the curl. I'm going to do another treatment at home this weekend. This time, I will do super small sections when I flat iron and use 3 ounces of product! I will post pics later :)
Hope it works better this weekend hairguru!! My hair has started to get really 'fluffy" and I've been thinking of scheduling either a keratin express at my local hair salon (they just came out with it and are offering cheap) or doing another one at home. Decisions, decisions....or obsessions, obsessions:happy3:
do it at home!
if you've ever flat ironed your own hair you can do this treatment at home yourself! However, if the salon has done great work you've seen you might as well have them do it. But if you've never seen their work, why risk it? This BKTing is tricky, you never know what you'll get. I prefer to be tricky on the cheap. No one to blame but myself! :)
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The wife and I went to see containgen, that was a terrible movie. Anyone else got any to add to the list to stay away from?
The wife and I went to see containgen, that was a terrible movie. Anyone else got any to add to the list to stay away from?
anything that ends with " a sci-fi original movie" lol
But the question seems to be asking what was the worst movie I had to sit through - EVER.
"The Hours" wins hands down. It's a movie where everybody is committing suicide or talking about committing suicide. Really, that's all I can remember about it. Got dragged to it by a female of the species. You guys know how that goes.
I'll probably go see "Contagion" anyway, even though the premise has been done to death (pun intended).
Better examples of the genre:
"The Andromeda Strain"
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I wouldn't call Contagion terrible ... I happened to like it, in a geeky sort of way. I would say that it's "different".
across the universe and grease 1 and 2, somehow i find girls that like the musical movies lol
Legion, and Clash of the Titans (the horse was the best actor)
That were the last two horrible movies I payed to see. Thank the geeks for torrents.
I saw Drive yesterday. Overall, it wasn't bad, but the story was almost as bad as in Shoot'em Up.
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The Room.
My friend made me watch it and said "This movie sucks so bad it's good." No, actually it just sucks.
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The Devil Wears Prada
Sat through it twice, the first time on a 3 hr flight sitting in the middle of a large lady and a woman who wouldn't stop laughing. The second time I had no other choice, someone wanted to watch it and a decision was made that I had to be there.
Mummy Maniac. THE worst movie on the planet. You probably haven't heard of it. A lot of people claim that "movie X was the worst movie I have ever seen", well this is no joke, this IS the WORST movie I have ever seen.
Avatar was pretty terrible too.
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Fell asleep in the first 15 min or so.
SAW was pretty bad and horrible acting especially when the guy cut off his own foot.
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) - IMDb
Named 'Worst Film of All Time" in the book "The Golden Turkey Awards".
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Water world was another terrible movie
Lost in Translation. I knew better than to watch it but I figured it must have SOMETHING interesting to justify the favorable responses from critics.
Joe vs the Volcano with Tom Hanks...best sleep I ever got
Wing Commander is the only movie I've ever walked out on. It was absolutely terrible. I guess I can't really say I sat through it, though.
I agree - Contagion was one of the more craptastic films I have seen in awhile. Just stupid.
Anaconda is still my nominee for worse movie that wasn't produced by Michael Moore
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sucker punch... cute women, horrible movie. action scenes couldn't save it.
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"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors."
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A few friends of mine kept on insisting on watching "Hairspray" when I was over having dinner with them. Unlike many bad movies, it's not the sort of thing you can just ignore, as it's a loud musical.
Forest Gump, cant stand that movie, don't know how i made it al the way through, I walked out of Harley Davidson and the Marlborough man after 15 minutes and I made it through about 10 minutes of Castaway before I was sound asleep


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With Labour concerned that voter apathy could still deny it a second term, the 10.8% increase from £3.70 an hour to £4.10 will boost the pay of between 1.3 and 1.5m low-paid workers, mostly in the party's heartlands.
Women, who have cooled in their support for the government, represent 70% of the beneficiaries of the new low pay floor, which will come into force on October 1.
This year's increase was recommended by the independent Low Pay Commission after consultations with unions and employers. It was quickly rubber stamped by the trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers.
It will mean that workers on the lowest earnings will have enjoyed the same percentage boost to their pay as the rest of the workforce since the minimum wage was introduced in April 1999.
A further 10p rise to £4.20 an hour has been accepted in principle by the government for next year, although Mr Byers said this would depend on the economic conditions.
Coming on the eve of tomorrow's budget, which will include more help for families on low incomes, the announcement added to the pre-election mood at Westminster.
Mr Byers denied the announcement was designed to soften up voters ahead of a spring general election. He said the Low Pay Commission had chosen to publish its unanimous recommendation, and the government to accept it now, as a result of pressure from employers who had asked for plenty of time to adjust their payrolls.
However, the Tories questioned the timing of the move which, they said, would add to the regulatory burden on business already costing billions of pounds a year.
David Heathcote-Amory, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: "Last October, the national minimum wage was uprated by 10 pence an hour, before that the secretary of state made no oral statement to the House.
"But today, the secretary of state announced here that there will be a 40 pence uprating in the minimum wage. Is the difference in the announcement and the way that it was announced, anything to do whatever with the fact that there will shortly be a general election?"
Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, said: "The government has gone as far as it can without moving to a point where the damage outweighs the benefits."
Government sources said the employers' organisation had been persuaded to back the increase by the argument that all workers should share the fruits of economic growth.
But Chris Humphries, director general of the British Chamber of Commerce, which tends to represent smaller companies, predicted job losses in some sectors. "In the social care sector in particular, where margins are extremely tight, only the leanest companies will be in a position to absorb an 11% pay increase, and their reaction, under pressure from government to meet budget targets, will be to cut jobs.
"We are also fearful that such a rise will put pressure on pay settlements over the next few months for those firms directly affected and for those in related sectors, as employees earning above the minimum wage look for comparative increases."
Bharti Patel, director of the Low Pay Unit, which is campaigning for a minimum wage of £5.11, said the announcement was welcome, but overdue. "To begin to close the gap between highest and lowest paid, and with it the gender pay gap, would require a more substantial increase," she said.
TUC general secretary John Monks, said: "This is clearly another significant step towards a decent minimum wage _
"In the longer term, we will continue to press for the adult rate to be extended to over 18-year-olds and for the minimum wage to do even more to secure justice for the low paid. We look forward to the Low Pay Commission taking further steps towards a fair settlement for Britain's lowest paid workers."
Announcing the move in the Commons, Mr Byers said the introduction of the national minimum wage was one of the greatest achievements of the government, disproportionately benefiting women and workers in poor regions without harming jobs or the economy.
The commission plans to deliver its recommendations on the age range of the separate youth rate, covering 18 to 21-year-olds, in May.


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The beautiful cast of "What to Expect When You're Expecting" hit the red carpet on Monday night (May 14) for its first premiere in Los Angeles, CA.
In what's sure to be a fashionably fabulous affair, the stars will be on the red carpet tonight (May 14) for the red carpet premiere of Lionsgate's "What to Expect When You're Expecting".
Coming together for a good cause, Halle Berry, Stacy Keibler and Matthew Morrison gathered in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday morning (May 12) for the 2012 Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon run/walk for women's health.
Making for an emotional afternoon in front of the cameras, the cast of "Glee" were busy putting together material for the season three finale in Los Angeles on Wednesday (May 9).
Lea Michele (Rachel) shared an embrace with Cory Monteith (Finn) before boarding a train and leaving town with all of her classmates gathering together and waving goodbye.
Stepping out to promote their hit series, a full slate of co-stars joined together at TV Academy's special screening of "Glee" at Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, California on Tuesday night (May 1).
Always one of the more well-attended events of the year, the stars were in the nation's capital for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night (April 28).
The cast of "Glee" was all smiles today (April 25) as Lea Michele and Cory Monteith made their way from their dressing rooms onto to the set in Los Angeles, CA.
Among the many Tinseltown fetes taking place this weekend, the Creative Artists Agency's annual bash in Bel Air was the place to be on Friday night (February 24).
Held at Bryan Lourd's sprawling manse, Hollywood's top names including Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bullock were among those dropping by the Pre-Oscars party.


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exporting vector graphics
Is it possible to export a plot into a vector graphics, say, .wmf or
.eps without errors? For wmf, Mathematica draws all lines as sets of
horizontal lines, that yields about 65,000 elements for a simple
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Phase 1 - This phase includes the entire site development including utilities, burn building, drill tower and interior live burn props. This phase also includes the apparatus/storage/classroom/temporary office area building and maintenance shop. The total cost estimate for Phase 1 is: $6.2 million. COMPLETED
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This is what happens when elites and academics with no real world experienc run the country:
"The program is intended to help those at risk of foreclosure by lowering their monthly mortgage payments. Friday's report from the Treasury Department suggests the $75 billion government effort is failing to slow the tide of foreclosures in the United States, economists say . . . Many borrowers have complained that the government program is a bureaucratic nightmare. They say banks often lose their documents and then claim borrowers did not send back the necessary paperwork."
"Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw up your life."
Wait until these buffoons start running healthcare.


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Opinions, dumb idea: Using vacuum canister + vac advance to avoid hardstart 38'
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This motors ideal timing 38' total, anything less is a loss of power on this motor. I idle at 30'
I know about vac advance and mechanical but had to remove the centrifugal weights to use the MSD timing box. Its their suggestion to lock the dizzy only because the msd computer does the timing.
All that aside I dont yet see why using the vac advance to give me my full timing is a bad idea. I know its not being used properly. Im using it more as a 'full advance' after startup with no regards for fluctuating engine vacuum
Mostly the problem is a lack of vacuum. In a"normal" motor manifold vacuum is quite high at idle and part throttle. Under that circumstance the vacuum can pulls in it's advance. As the throttle is opened the the vacuum falls and the advance it creates goes away while the centrifugal takes over with advancing RPM. At 10 inches of manifold vacuum at idle you're in a situation where a normal vacuum advance has retreated. The reduction in vacuum just falls further as the throttle is opened, so the resource you need for the vacuum advance keeps becoming less. The vacuum brake reservoir saves up a bunch of low pressure air, but it can't make the vacuum deeper than what's being produced in the manifold. It will, however, be able to supply some advance based on how deep the vacuum can be retained, this is a good idea and will work, but you'll have to trim an adjustable vacuum advance to work with the available low vacuums.
Way back you said this engine was cammed but not with all that much-do you know how much? Your description of this engine speaks to a lot of cam, or a miss timed cam if it isn't a big whomper stomper stick, or the compression is lower than you think it is. An engine that needs 38 degrees to run good also speaks to a slow burning chamber. So some or all of these could be players if this isn't a huge cam, what ever that really means. Please comment to these details if you know them. such as
-Cam duration and lift, timing events if you have a card or the cam maker and part number so they can be looked up if the cam is fairly recent and not an obscure maker.
- Cylinder head, whose and what chamber size.
- Pistons need crown configuration (flat, dome, dish & whether that dish is round or D, compression height.
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- Cam coordination to the crank, straight up, advanced or retarded and by how much.
- Status of the distributor gear and if a roller cam status of the distributor drive gear on the cam,,i.e. wear.
- Carb mixture ratio, lean will give also you some of the headaches you have.
- Vehicle weight, gearing and rear tire size.
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The president said he regretted saying "bring 'em on" and "wanted dead or alive," and that Abu Ghraib had cost the country dearly. It's probably the most significant concession he has ever made, but if there has ever been a case for too little, too late, it's this.
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With Bush's poll numbers in the sewer, it's not surprising that he took a track of contrition tonight. Abu Ghraib was a top down decision that led to our people torturing prisoners. He's sorry. Which consultant came up with these answers? How many of us in the blogosphere have been saying this for a long time to only be rebuked by his followers?


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Applied Physics
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A car is traveling at 20 meters per second. The driver steps on the brake. The car is in equilibrium
equilibrium means that all forces acting on the object are balanced / cancel each other out. it can also mean that the object is not accelerating. thus, an object can be in equilibrium whether it is motion or not, as long as forces are balanced.
since it's said that it braked, the car is at rest, and thus it is in static equilibrium.
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Ignacio Rodriguez's title for South Florida's chronically anonymous pro-soccer team is a bit oxymoronic — like being a real estate agent to the homeless, or head of the Israeli shellfish harvesters' union. Attendance at the team's tin-bleachered Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale rarely exceeds the single-digit thousands, and the front office has taken to frequent gimmicks in order to stave off extinction: They signed elderly one-named former fútbol demigod Romário and then two recently defected Cuban phenoms, and the players volunteered to shave their heads if fans showed up. But the bleachers remained nearly empty. Through all of these thwarted shenanigans, Rodriguez has remained friendly, attentive, and upbeat — the kind of flack who literally won't let us off the phone until we promise to show up at either media day or the season opener. Given that most sports flacks act like they're guarding a stable of 25 popes rather than a bunch of dudes who get sweaty on Sundays, its awfully refreshing to deal with a PR shield eager to make even the most audacious press requests happen, and always prefers a sit-down lunch to an email exchange.
What you need is a weekend away. But alas, Miamians, you're already living in the very place most Floridians vacation. So where to go? If you answered the Keys, go ahead and line up in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Seven Mile Bridge. (Besides, it's the same pastel motels, just more coconuts.) Instead, steer the car north like you're heading for Disney, but bypass all the mouse-touting exits and that spooky biblical theme park called the Holy Land Experience. Deep in the Ocala National Forest is Wekiwa Springs State Park, where you can spend the weekend camping in a backcountry Florida Shangri-la. Here's the scene: Moss-draped oaks canopy the park's springs, and pristine blue water nestles in natural rock that, thanks to the Floridan Aquifer, is always a cool 72 degrees. As for lodging, choose one of the campsites in the inner circle for the best shade, and kayak the Wekiwa Lagoon for some guaranteed gator watching. Camping costs $24 a night, or for primitive camping, $5 a person. Otherwise, park admission is $6 per car. For noncampers, the park is open 8 a.m. to sunset.
Most TV news talking heads, even the dudes, look and act like failed beauty queens trying to make a second career for themselves. But WSVN's Belkys Nerey bucks that trend. The 42-year-old Emmy winner is a solid, straight-up anchorwoman — telegenic but still intelligent. Born in Havana, Nerey spent her childhood in Long Island before tripping down I-95 to South Florida. Once here, she studied radio and television at Miami Dade College and Florida International University, got her start in cable news, and earned a spot in the Magic City's media parade as cohost of local gossip institution Deco Drive. Today, Nerey is cruising through the post-Deco phase of her career, holding down WSVN's nightly newscasts alongside Craig Stevens. And whether it's a celebrity sex scandal or a political con job, she always delivers the day's stories with appropriate seriousness. Case in point: Unlike some of the lesser faces populating the public airwaves, Nerey never falls prey to that annoying TV anchor tic of flashing a vacant smile after reporting Miami's latest murder.
Without warning, a woman brandishes two bushels of tree limbs and proceeds to beat our friend Lourdes from toes to shoulders. Between sweeps of the soggy branches, the woman dumps bucket after bucket of cold water on our friend. No, she's not swabbing the deck of a fishing boat. She's helping Lourdes relax with platza, one of the traditional spa treatments available at the Russian and Turkish Baths on Miami Beach. The baths attract Miami's ultimate relaxation-seekers, those who are willing to abandon modesty, vanity, and sometimes plain old comfort if it gets them closer to bliss. Women and men in barely-there bathing suits, heads wrapped in towel turbans, endure the volcanic heat of the schvitz as if sweating were a way to absolve past sins. A skeletal older man stands under a heavy waterfall that pounds on his bony shoulders. He raises his head, eyes closed, waiting to be beamed up to the mother ship. Make your way through the rest of the grotto-like rooms and hear the cries of those jumping into the icy polar tank; catch glimpses of red flesh, pores screaming from the extreme heat, and shield your eyes from the meaty woman having the mud hosed off. What are you looking at, you perv? Pass the wet branches and wait your turn. A day pass costs $30, and the baths are open from noon until midnight.
Michael Putney doesn't tweet. He doesn't pop up when we search his name on Facebook. And as far as we can tell, he doesn't blog. No, sir, Michael Putney is decidedly old school, and in this Internet age, we couldn't appreciate him more. While most TV reporters seem to come and go, Putney has been covering local government and politics in South Florida for nearly 30 years. Add to his incisive reporting a hosting gig on This Week in South Florida, one of the few must-watch local programs, and his occasional columns in the Miami Herald (which often upstage the newspaper's regular gaggle of columnists). There are few voices on local airwaves we trust as much as Putney and who report on politics with such authority.
Miami is a town where clubs spit out adjectives like exclusive, VIP, and upscale like an overchewed piece of Juicy Fruit. But WALL Lounge is actually one of the few places that can blow hard without bursting its own bubble. Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, the All American Rejects, Erykah Badu, Swizz Beatz, Jamie Foxx, Jason Binn, and Selita Ebanks are just a few of the celebrities who have walked through WALL's infamous doors. Other guest sightings have been rumored, but unless the press snaps a picture, they're almost impossible to confirm. In fact, it's nearly impossible to get a photo of the place, period. WALL's success lies in its size; it is so boutique it does not merit a VIP section — the lounge itself is the VIP. So if you're lucky enough to get in, keep the video phone ready — you might catch a TMZ-worthy moment.


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A few years ago, people laughed at Amazon's Kindle, especially its clunky hardware design and CEO Jeff Bezos' breathless rhetoric about how it would change how customers bought and experienced media. Now that we're getting closer to the unveiling of Amazon's long-rumored, slickly designed multimedia tablet, nobody's laughing any more.
Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. Its potential in this space is simply off the charts: bigger than Apple's, bigger than Google's or Microsoft's. It's becoming a purer version of all three.
Amazon's competitors are mostly software companies focused on a small number of tent-pole products that they then market to consumers or enterprise. Amazon is a company focused on selling anything and everything, from mass-market paperbacks to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS. In order to do that, it's become a major technology powerhouse, from shipping, sourcing and logistics in its warehouses to the software that powers its web site and e-readers.
The Kindle isn't a book. It's a bookstore. The Kindle tablet extends that principle further, by making it a retail portal and showcase for everything Amazon sells, whether physical or virtual.
It's a mistake to underestimate where Amazon could take this, or to try to put the company in a box. Even though I've been pretty bullish on Amazon over the last few months, I've been guilty myself of underestimating what it might do.
A year ago, writing for Gadget Lab, I was curious but skeptical about early rumors of an Amazon tablet:
On the one hand, again — Amazon sells a lot of digital products online, not just e-books: movies, games, music. And it's not hard to make an Android tablet. In fact, at this point, Amazon has more hardware-production experience with the Kindle than some of the companies that are coming forward with pretty solid [Android tablets]. Add an App Store and it starts to look pretty appealing.
On the other hand, Amazon's built up good brand identification with the Kindle, e-books and E Ink. Will it turn around and say, "oh yeah, multimedia tablets are really awesome, but not, um, more awesome than a Kindle, I mean, um, why not buy both?" Just seems a little surprising.
Three things changed my mind:
- Anecdotal evidence and empirical research that showed tablets were eating into the netbook market much more than dedicated e-readers.
- The Nook Color showed that there were alternate paths to win in the tablet market, other than becoming an OEM for Android or Microsoft or trying to go head-to-head against Apple's iPad. You could go big like Apple or go home with a very tailored experience like the Nook. In particular, it showed that companies with a strong emphasis on book and media sales were best positioned to do this, or to try some hybrid or variation on the two.
- I interviewed Richard Linevsky, president of Catalogs.com, who'd just introduced the company's new iPad app.
It was a little story, but it helped me realize what a perfect machine the iPad had become for selling any kind of product. Not just the apps and movies and music Apple was pushing through. Anything. Everything a digital retailer like Amazon might sell.
You sit on the couch and flip your fingers across the screen like you were thumbing through a catalog or a magazine. But every image and advertisement is connected to a digital store, powered by Amazon. With one click, you've bought it: Either it's delivered to your machine immediately, over the air, or is delivered to your door in less than two days.
It's the realization of Steve Jobs' harsh but prophetic vision of the future of the web, voiced in this 1996 Wired interview, a vision he later brought with him to Apple:
Wired: What other opportunities are out there?
Steve Jobs: Who do you think will be the main beneficiary of the web? Who wins the most?
Wired: People who have something —
Jobs: To sell!
Wired: To share.
Jobs: To sell!
Wired: You mean publishing?
Jobs: It's more than publishing. It's commerce. People are going to stop going to a lot of stores. And they're going to buy stuff over the Web!
At that time Jobs was busy at NeXT refocusing his company on building software modules to make it easier for companies to deliver software applications for retail sales, building up the web infrastructure in much the same way that Apple did with iTunes and the App Store, and Amazon has done with AWS. In his introduction to the interview, Wired's Gary Wolf wrote:
The new Steve Jobs scoffs at the naive idealism of Web partisans who believe the new medium will turn every person into a publisher. The heart of the Web, he said, will be commerce, and the heart of commerce will be corporate America serving custom products to individual consumers. The implicit message of the Macintosh, as unforgettably expressed in the great "1984" commercial, was Power to the People. Jobs's vision of Web objects serves a different mandate: Give the People What They Want.
Unless those "people" are states looking to collect sales tax or affiliates caught in the middle, it's hard to think of a better guiding principle for Amazon today.
Continue reading "Amazon's Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet"…
Now that Amazon controls the end-to-end relationship between suppliers of goods stacked in its warehouses and consumers of those goods using its devices, Amazon's next opportunity is to eliminate anyone who stands as a bottleneck between the two.
It's already well underway with books. Amazon's long offered authors various models to self-publish, giving them a generous cut in exchange for conditions that help keep e-book prices low. Now it's developing its own imprint to work directly with authors and agents. J.K. Rowling's Pottermore was publishing's "Radiohead" moment, showing that major authors, too, didn't have to play with traditional publishers to deliver e-books to readers.
How far is Amazon willing to take this? Amazon's experience has shown that books can in turn provide a template for all kinds of media and other goods.
For instance, imagine an analog to Amazon's self-publishing services: Why not make an independent movie or television show and release it through Amazon? Once the video is hosted on Amazon's servers, it's available for immediate digital download or streaming through Prime to desktops, tablets or set-top boxes. Both streaming and downloads promise a revenue share for content creators. Customers could buy a Blu-ray or DVD that Amazon burns and ships on demand — no storage, no overhead.
A lot of this video content would be vanity crap. But it could also be the next Funny Or Die or Channel 101. The breadth and independence of buying choices could easily differentiate Amazon from traditional studios — or even for those studios themselves, from competing services like Netflix.
You can extrapolate this to any kind of media, from music to magazines, to physical goods like groceries (one area where Amazon's never really been able to turn the corner), or to software — anything that can be hosted, stored or delivered. All of it fronted by Amazon's user accounts, credit cards and retail systems. It's iTunes, but more.
Amazon will also now be the OS platform business, not just a little bit as with the original Kindle or with its Android Appstore. With its new tablet, Amazon has now reportedly forked Android into a new platform with its own code, app and media stores, cloud services, revamped user interface, and at least partial protection from patent infringement because of Amazon's broad cross-licensing agreement with Microsoft. All of that makes Amazon's platform appealing not just for developing its own products, but to other Android hardware partners who may feel Amazon offers them more than Google.
"In a year from now," Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps writes, "we could see a range of 'Amazon tablets' made by different hardware manufacturers."
Epps elaborated on this projection in a phone conversation last week. According to her sources, there's strong demand from tablet OEMs to offer an alternative to plain-vanilla Android. Amazon's media strength, domestic brand recognition and consumer trust puts it in a better position to compete with Apple than either Google or these manufacturers in tandem. For its part, Amazon is missing two things Apple has: global brand strength and the ability to quickly and efficiently produce high-end hardware.
So the optimal strategy isn't a whole fleet of seven-inch Android tablets competing with each other on trivial price and feature differences on the shelf at Best Buy. That's what's wrong with the whole Android market today already, especially in tablets.
Instead, Amazon produces an inexpensive, subsidized flagship tablet or tablets in those markets where it's already strong. Then, depending on the success of that launch, it could partner with other companies that offer Amazon-powered products tailored to different regions or with very clear differences in form factor, features and price.
It would be somewhat like the strategy Amazon has followed with e-books, where it sells the Kindle, but also apps on other platforms. But it would be very different from the Macintosh model Apple's adopted for the iPad or the Windows model Google's adopted for Android. Amazon wouldn't be going big or going home, but going very long indeed.
- From HP to Amazon, the Tablet Dilemma: Go Big or Go Home
- Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies
- Report: The Kindle Tablet Exists, And It's a Big Deal
- Kindle for Web, Blackpad, Sure; Amazon Android Tablet, Maybe
- Report: Amazon Readying Dual and Quad-Core Tablets
- Amazon Tablet to Launch 'By October'
- Apple Way Ahead of Tablet Competition, Expected To Hold 80 Percent Share
- If Amazon Out-Walmarts Walmart, Can Anyone Out-Amazon Amazon?
- Amazon's New(ish) Social Network — Now Lifting Even More Info From Facebook, Twitter
- How the Starz-Netflix Divorce Will Remake Video
- Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple?
- Amazon's Cloud Reader Still Doesn't Take the Web Seriously


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One thing I'm told about the Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova before meeting her is that she is as steel-cored as the motor-building factories of her home city of Nizhny Novgorod. "So alpha she is almost male" is one observation. "Tenacious" is echoed by several more.
But the other thing about Vodianova is that she is startlingly, disarmingly, mesmerisingly pretty. At 32 she's like a pale, slightly underfed child. She is tucked at a corner table at the Langham Hotel in Regent Street, her slim fingers twisting a gold chain around her neck, slim legs pulled into long denim, compact eight-month pregnant bump all but hidden beneath a sweatshirt covered with hearts. ("My fourth," she acknowledges when I indicate. "Due May 1.")
Small talk about babies looks unlikely, however. Any slips off course in the conversation are put firmly back on track. Vodianova doesn't have that wide-vowelled, deep chewy accent of some of her compatriots, but pauses frequently to identify the exact word she wants.
We're here to talk about her "Never Stop" campaign, which aims, in the afterglow of the Paralympics in Sochi to continue the fight against prejudice toward the disabled, particularly in Russia, where the prevailing attitude is, to put it bluntly, Victorian.
It's a subject that resonates. Vodianova's half-sister Oksana, 27, was born with cerebral palsy (and later additionally diagnosed with "severe autism").
While it's known that Vodianova came from a "poor" background (the anecdote about her selling fruit in a local market at 11 has long served to emphasise her Dickensian rags-to-riches roots), the real ditch in the family's finances came when her mother decided to bring up Oksana herself.
In Russia, the majority of babies born with disabilities — 70 per cent — are handed to state institutions at birth. (I use the phrase "to be looked after", but she leaps on it. "Those are big words for how the state treats them," she says. "Abandoned is better.")
Her mother's decision had severe consequences. She lost her full-time job. And then Oksana's father Alexander walked out of the family home. "He wanted to give Oksana to be abandoned," Vodianova explains, "because like many people in Russia he didn't see the point or value of this child. He thought, 'We can have other children. They can be healthy. Why put us through this?'
"To keep your child and to expose yourself and everyone close to you to great despair, permanent despair and great hardship is a huge act. Certainly no one thought my mother was a hero."
There were problems on another level too. They were ostracised for keeping her sister at home. "Nothing was wrong with me but I was always with my sister so we were excluded. I always felt that stigma." She says both adults and children would taunt. "We really didn't have anywhere else to go, we were just outside on the street."
Vodianova — whose own father left when she was two — did everything to help. She left school at 11, babysat and worked, while her mother tried to hold down a rotation of different jobs that barely saw them scrape by. Their high-rise apartment was mortgaged so many times, "it was owned by the bank".
There is, she points out, "a difference between poverty and having so little that you really have nothing to eat. Not being able to feed your children anything at all."
Did she go to bed hungry? "Oh yes. Or sometimes a soup out of a sachet would be the only food all day. No bread with it, because we couldn't buy the bread. It's a very hard reality, but we would think, 'Well at least we have a home.' Everything is relative."
What she learned from her mother was, "prioritising my children's needs before my own," she says. "I never questioned my mother's love once. Sometimes that's a luxury in [wealthy] families that have everything. You can become more detached from your children. The focus shifts onto you. My mother was there every day. But she never once complained. She really never once said, 'Why can't I just have a normal life?'."
Some 15 years after he left, Alexander and Larisa reconciled. "He's a fantastic father today," says Vodianova. "She forgave him."
Does she feel she missed out on an education? "Education is not one-dimensional. Yes, maybe I missed out on a few clever words or some specific knowledge or that confidence that a certain education gives you, however I didn't miss out on really experiencing life and learning first hand how to manage situations, how to work hard, how to fall and pick yourself up, and actually conduct a real business just by doing it. That's what my childhood was definitely good for."
Vodianova was discovered by a model scout and shipped off to Paris aged 17. "I knew if I didn't start sending money back, they could be on the street. They said that there are millions of girls like me and it's not definite, but I took the chance."
While in Paris she learned to speak English in two months, and it was here that she met Justin Portman, now 44, a wealthy English aristocrat, whom she married aged 19 and eight months pregnant with their first child Lucas, now 12. They moved to New York and went on to have Neva, seven, and Viktor, five.
Vodianova's fame was instant and the couple were magnetic on the New York scene. Visitors to their apartment said it was awash with hangers-on staying until the sun came up.
"It was very far emotionally from Russia," she says. "I became successful very quickly with numerous contracts." Among them were Calvin Klein and L'Oréal, worth millions.
"New York loves you when you are on the top, it's unlike any other city," she says. "It lifts you up and says you are amazing. And it was an amazing experience. But coming from where I came from, it was short-lived. With my background one of the first things you learn is never be too happy; you never know what's coming. Never feel too safe. If you are a survivor, you can't just drop those tools."
She also felt deeply "unfulfilled".
"It was too extreme to come from nothing to that amount of money with nothing in the middle. It was my charity that really connected the two dots," she says. In 2004 she started the Naked Heart Foundation, which builds play parks for kids across Russia.
As the family grew bigger, she and Portman, a painter with something of a lotus-eating reputation, relocated to Sussex in pursuit of a "quieter life" and her younger sister, Kristina, now 18, came to join them.
Sadly the marriage foundered. She doesn't talk about it but says that when fortune favours you, you have a duty to give back.
"When you are given something like this you can't just retreat. You can't go off…" she shrugs, "to India or somewhere. I can't spend the rest of my life in 'om' because I have arrived financially. [It doesn't mean] I don't need to do anything else.
"If you are given certain advantages in life, there is a purpose. You cannot reject it. For me it was about using the platform, or the life that I was living today, together with the tools from the past to channel them to something else. It was about finding my own place in this world, a balance."
Paris, where she now lives with Antoine Arnault (son of Bernard of LVMH), the father of her baby, is she says, "tranquil."
"In my personal life I look for peace, stability, time for home, time for my family. I look for concrete things."
I ask if she has any views on Putin and the annexation of Crimea. She says she'd been afraid that turmoil in Crimea would take attention away from coverage of the Sochi Paralympics, an event she has been involved with for four years.
"I hoped that [his] actions [in Crimea] wouldn't steal the moment of this important event."
In the end, she says, the coverage was good. "And I must say I had great admiration for Putin because in spite of the Crimea crisis he was present at the opening and closing ceremonies of Paralympic Games that obviously helped to raise awareness of Paralympics and therefore state importance to address issues of people with disabilities in Russia."
Russia topped the medals table with 80 medals, 30 gold. In 1980 the Soviet Union refused to organise a Paralympics saying there were no disabled people in the country. That's some progress?
"There's still a long way to go," says Vodianova.
To support the NHF visit the Foundation's website at nakedheart.org or follow Natalia on Facebook.com/NataSupernova.
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