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Ever get a great deal from a website - a new pair of shoes from the US, a hotel in Bali or a coat from the UK - only to recommend the same product to a friend and have them complain, "The good deal you got isn't available anymore!"
While you may have scored in an online sale, there's a high likelihood you and your friend have been unknowingly using websites that employ "price customisation".
Price customisation software is used worldwide to adapt product and service pricing online to an individual consumer, based on factors such as location and the kind of computer they use. Mac users, for example, are assumed to be more affluent than PC users. Price customisation software enables detection of the system used to access a shopping website, and can then offer a higher price to the Mac user, because there's an assumption he or she has more cash to burn.
This form of user-specific pricing isn't a new phenomenon. It's been around for over a decade, most notably in 2000, when Amazon.com was changing the prices of DVDs for customers, dependent on which web browser they accessed the shopping site from.
Should consumers be dismayed at what could be called "online pricing discrimination"? In theory, yes; internet shopping is supposed to offer anonymous purchasing and equal prices for all. However, we should remember than in real world shopping, pricing is often customised to individuals based on circumstances.
Petrol, for example, is cheaper in central Christchurch than in a small town in the Hurunui. Petrol company honchos will argue it costs more to get the product to a rural location - which is true to some extent - but the real reason is simply because a rural consumer doesn't necessarily know the lesser "city price", and, of course, that consumer isn't afforded the option of comparison, owing to significant distance. The same goes for buying a car. A dealer will offer higher/lower prices off the mark based on perceived affluence and tailored to age, sex, ethnicity, and assumed socio-economic status.
In late June this year, travel website Orbitz disclosed to the Wall Street Journal that it utilises price customisation software, stating that it believes Mac users will pay US$30 to $40 more per night for a hotel than those using PCs. On average this was found to be an 11 per cent increase, with some customers on Macs spending up to 30 per cent more than their PC-using counterparts. Orbitz also claims Mac users are "more likely" to commit to four and five-star hotels, thus the site highlights them when an Apple computer is used in an accommodation search.
Price customisation software isn't just at work with laptop and desktop computers; it is also detecting mobile devices. In a study by Forrester Research and Shog.org, nearly 50 per cent of surveyed online retailers said users of tablet computers placed bigger orders than those using regular computers. Therefore, if you're shopping online with not only a tablet, but an Apple iPad, you meet the double-whammy criteria and have the highest chance of being charged top prices.
The identification and compilation of user-specific data is called "data mining" - the collation of information that will attempt to increase revenues in an ever-competitive online shopping sphere. But as more information becomes commonplace around this profit-grabbing online trend, more users will decree it foul play, and, preventative measures for data mining and data-blocking software will become increasingly popular.
Despite a relatively high NZ to US dollar, we're still paying top prices in New Zealand for iTunes music downloads. In Australia they're even worse off - the Aussie dollar has even overtaken the greenback in the last year, yet they're normally paying AU$16.99 per album and AU$1.69 per single, while in the US the prices for the same product are US$9.99 and US$0.99, respectively.
Tech items are generally more expensive in New Zealand than stateside; largely owing to both higher consumer demand and increased retailer competition in the US.
However with digital downloads, prices should be adjusted to exchange rates, right? According to Apple, not so. The company told the Sydney Morning Herald that iTunes content is not delivered on a global agreement, so converting from US dollar is "not relevant" as "each iTunes store is relevant to the country within which it resides". In New Zealand we're paying from $1.79 to $2.39 per single and an average of $18.99 per album, which doesn't measure up to the US conversion rate, but we are at least better off than countries such as Switzerland - they're paying up to 78 per cent more for the same digital song download.
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The Oregon voters' pamphlet was first published by the Secretary of State in 1904. The first pamphlets were issued to disseminate the text of measures to be voted on by the people of Oregon (General Laws, 1903, p. 248). Starting in 1910, the legislature ordered that information about state level candidates running for office also be included (General Laws, 1909, chap. 3) Oregon became one of the first states to provide for the printing and distribution of such a publication.
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CeCe Frey's Rendition of 'Lady Marmalade' May Be the One That Sends Her Home on 'X Factor'
CeCe Frey is constantly in the bottom on 'X Factor,' always singing for her life on the elimination episode. When we first met her, she was all confidence and quite ballsy. Remember her leopard-print facial accessories? Well, she has lost a bit of that "fight" and the eye of the tiger. On tonight's (Nov. 28) episode, the singer performed 'Lady Marmalade' and it needed to be a knock-it-out-of-the-park performance. Was it?


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The St. Mary's (Phoenix) high school girls basketball team has accomplished a first in the history of girls basketball in Arizona. After closing out the 2011-2012 season undefeated at 30-0, the St. Mary's Knights is ranked the No. 1 team in the nation, according to ESPN's Powerade Fab 50 rankings. They repeated as Arizona state… Read More →


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HOUSEHOLDERS are being invited to take part in a new project to discuss the future direction of Swindon Council, as demand for services rises and Government funding reduces.
The Big Conversation aims to create a two-way dialogue with residents on council services and the key challenges the authority faces – to produce better-informed decisions which the community will be involved in.
The council says the impact of an ageing population, increasing demand across the board and reduced funding means things will have to be done differently, so improving awareness of what the council does, how much it costs and the bigger picture will help people to understand why this is happening.
To support the Big Conversation, Swindon Council has produced an illustrated online presentation to show the facts and figures in a way that is easy to understand and prompts discussion.
Residents are encouraged to share their views by talking to ward councillors or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
They can also tweet about it, using the hashtag #Bigconversation, and or visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/swindonbigconversation.
Council leader Rod Bluh said: "Local councils are facing unprecedented challenges and Swindon, unfortunately, is no exception. "We know people do not feel informed about where the money is spent, the issues concerned and how to influence decisions.
"The Big Conversation is part of our commitment to try and change this – we will be presenting information in more engaging ways and encouraging as many people as we can to join the discussion.
"Some of the facts about now and the future are quite startling, but it is right to get them out there and start talking. There are no easy answers and lots of tough choices lie ahead.
"However, I am passionate about facing these as openly and constructively as possible, so we can continue to help build stronger communities in Swindon. "Hopefully this information will spark lots of conversations, large and small, whether in person or online, with families, friends, neighbours, colleagues, Council staff and of course councillors. "The issues will undoubtedly affect us all and I look forward to joining the discussions and listening to your comments."
Swindon Council needs to find savings of about £15m to balance its budget for 2013/14 and there is expected to be a similar gap in future years, which the cabinet says will be evermore challenging to plug without redesigning services.
Estimates for Swindon show the population of people aged 85 and over is expected to rise by 59.4 per cent by 2022, with the number of people aged 75 and over to increase by 40 per cent.
And in the next 10 years the number of people in residential care homes is set to rise by 40 per cent.
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The Science Abortion-Choicers Try to Ignore
When Canada decriminalized abortion in 1969, technology did not exist to let the world see inside the womb. To a certain extent, abortion advocates in that era of scientific ignorance who honestly believed the unborn was merely a "blob of tissue" might be excused. But thanks to modern microscopic imaging and video technology, we can now see the newly created human being inside the womb. The following chronology of human development is adapted from the book Defending Life, by Francis J. Beckwith. Click the images to enlarge them.


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Australia is a timeless land, where past and present merge, and ancient landforms brood over vast natural ecosystems. It is a continent of rare beauty - of remote wilderness and scattered humanity, of forgotten beaches and sparkling reefs, of deserts and monoliths and the quiet immensity of the Australian bush. Australia Wide captures all this and more in a stunning collection of panoramic images (including a selection of ultrawide Megapans up to 220 degrees) by award-winning photographer Ken Duncan. From the continent's tropical north to Australia's Antarctic territory, Ken Duncan's Panographs celebrate the awesome beauty of a unique nation.
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The Man With Iron Claw Hands
John Y. Smith bent-pressing sometime around 1900. This unique dumbbell weighs 185 pounds and Smith could clean and bent-press it easily for multiple reps.
On April 22nd, 1866 the great strongman John Y. Smith was born. Though not a large man - (5'6" and 165 lbs. in his prime), he
possessed tremendous full-body strength, especially in his hands and forearms (which were said to resemble 'iron claws' due to years of thick-bar deadlifting.)
While, it certainly was not unusual for old time strongmen to possess greater-than-average grip and forearm strength, John Y. Smith stood head and shoulders above many of his contemporaries in this department. Sometime in 1903 at around 31 years of age, he was said to have picked up a 220 lb. barbell in his right hand, a 200 lb. barbell in his left hand and with these two weights walked 75 yards!
If this feat doesn't sound all that tough, consider that the diameter of each barbell was 1.5 inches. He was also said to have been able to hang by one hand from a manila climbing rope while holding a 100 lb. dumbbell in the other hand.
In 1926, John Y. Smith won the "Strongest Man in New England Contest" which was held on the playing field of the Boston Braves. The contested lifts included:
Smith beat all comers and won the contest by 15 pounds -- keep in mind he was 60 years old at the time.
Aside from his grip feats, Smith was very proficient in other lifts as well. He was a tremendous bent-presser with a lift of 275.5 lbs. (performed at a bodyweight of 160 lbs.) He also lifted a 1640 lb. block of iron in a "hand and thigh" set-up and could overhead press a pair of dumbbells totaling 225 lbs.


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Starpharma and its partner Okamoto, which accounts for 60 per cent of Japan's $US500 million ($553.34 million) condom market, received regulatory approval to begin marketing the "added value" prophylactics, the company announced on Friday.
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"This receipt of the world's first marketing approval for a VivaGel coated condom in Japan marks a major milestone for this product and for our strategically important partnership with Okamoto," Dr Fairley said.
A similar product marketed by
Dr Fairley said the regulatory approval was a huge milestone for the drug delivery company, which has earned money in the past from diagnostic products, but was yet to report substantial financial results from its current development pipeline.
Starpharma has developed a synthetic polymer platform, known as a dendrimer, which can make drugs soluble in water. Within the VivaGel portfolio, the company also has a product for the management of bacterial vaginosis, a disease of the vagina caused by bacteria.
Dr Fairley said a trial investigating VivaGel's application for symptomatic relief of the condition would be the next near-term milestone, but a separate trial looking at its use to prevent recurrence could be the big money spinner.
"The biggest market opportunity for that product is for prevention of recurrence, for which there are no products available," Dr Fairley told The Australian Financial Review. "The market estimates for that opportunity are in excess of $1 billion."
The Starpharma share price had gained 5.5 per cent in trading, to 77¢ at 12.16pm AEDT. The stock has lost 35 per cent over the past year.
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We've seen an immense amount of skepticism if not outright scorn of CEOs during this bitter lost decade of equities. I know that it's often wrong to put too much stock in any one leader, given the now checkered track record of so many CEOs who had seemed incapable of missing numbers and disappointing investors. But Schultz? He's two for two. And let me say that the triumphant return of Schultz was not trumpeted by the man. He made it clear when he came back that the turn would not be done in months, quarters or maybe even years. But it would turn. He's now saying the same thing about Europe that he said about the disappointment in the U.S. years ago. The turn will be gradual, it will be long in the making, but it will occur. And today he said it has started. I am going with Schultz, not against him, because it has been a horrendous bet to go against Schultz in either the first or the second iteration of his leadership, and I think it will be a horrendous bet once again. Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, has no positions in the stocks mentioned.
Tech Is Treacherous Posted at 1:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 19 Get me some tech! I need new names here! That used to be the war cry I had at my old shop every September because I wanted to play the annual seasonal trade in this huge part of the S&P 500. What hasn't moved yet? What has lagged, and what is about to play catch-up? Give me some merchandise! Suffice it to say that those screams for new ideas aren't working any more. Tech is more treacherous than I have ever seen it and not because of potential shortfalls. It is treacherous because it feels like tech as we know it is going away. This morning's downgrade of the semiconductor equipment sector is just one more nail in the coffin of the traditional places to run to if you want to own some tech to participate in the annual love fest. Nobody wants to own stocks of companies that pump out expensive machines that make chips for customers who are frantically trying to cut their equipment budgets.


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Quotable: Please Don't Ask Dev Patel To Play A Terrorist
"Because 'Slumdog Millionaire' was such a big hit, there was a lot of pressure in terms of what I did next. For my second film, I wanted a role that would stretch me, but all I was getting offered were stereotypical parts like the goofy Indian sidekick. Asian actors tend not to be sent Hollywood scripts that are substantial or challenging. I'm likely to be offered the roles of a terrorist, cab driver and smart geek. I want to show that I have versatility. You have to remember that, before 'Slumdog,' the last film about India that went big at the Oscars was 'Gandhi,' as played by Ben Kingsley. The fact that me and Freida [Pinto, his girlfriend] have any kind of platform in Hollywood is a big step forward."
— Cutie patootie Dev Patel, star of the Oscar-winning flick "Slumdog Millionaire" and my fave TV show EVER, "Skins," is not getting much work. Get on that right quick, Hollywood! [Vancouver Sun]


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IMPORTANT features linked to the area's salt landscape are to be conserved and restored as part of a project which has won a major lottery boost.
Groundwork Cheshire, based in Northwich, on behalf of the Saltscape Partnership, has received an £886,500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Saltscape Project.
Over the next three years the project aims to conserve and restore important features connected to the area's landscape.
Saltscape also plans to increase awareness and appreciation of the qualities of the area, promote new opportunities for people to access, enjoy and learn about the area's salt heritage and develop training programmes for the community to develop their heritage skills.
The geology of this part of Cheshire resulted in large salt deposits in the area, which have been used since Roman times.
"This project aims to protect, restore, enhance and manage this special area as one environment, to rebuild local people's relationship with their land, heritage and history and strive to make the area a better place to work, live and visit," said Saltscape Partnership chairman Dave Blackburn.
"Using the knowledge and vision of a wide range of local people and organisations, the partnership has developed projects which will bring to life this fascinating story and help to conserve and improve access to many of the features in the area.
"We are extremely pleased that the Heritage Lottery Fund shares our enthusiasm, and is supporting us with this generous grant."
There will be many opportunities to get involved in and find out more about the salt landscape in and around Northwich, Winsford, Frodsham and Middlewich through conservation work, environment visits and sessions for children and adults, history, archaeology and geology projects, recording and social media projects and the restoring of local features such as the Anderton Boat Lift gate lodges, the swing bridge at Vale Royal Locks and pathways throughout the area.
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Boeing completed all flight tests required for type certification of the Rolls-Royce-powered 787-8 Dreamliner last month. ZA102, the ninth 787 built by Boeing, performed the final flight on Saturday, August 13. Chief pilot Mike Carriker returned ZA102 to its home base at Paine Field in Everett, Wash., at 1:58 p.m. local time following a 90-minute flight that originated in Billings, Mont. During the flight, the 14-person crew completed simulations of a dispatch with a failed generator and failed fuel-flow indication. "When ZA102 returned to Paine Field, it brought back with it the hopes and dreams of the many thousands of men and women of Boeing and our global partners who have worked so long for this day," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of the 787 program. "Their hard work and commitment to this amazing airplane have been a true inspiration. We look forward to making our first delivery to our good friends at ANA in September." All told, seven 787s clocked more than 4,800 hours during some 1,700 flights since ZA001 took to the air for the first time on Dec. 15, 2009. Flight testing continues for 787s with GE engines and for Boeing test points not related to certification. Boeing planned to resume 787 line movement last month after more than a month-long "pause" to replenish certain parts supplies and incorporate engineering changes, but the Dreamliner production system continues to face certain "challenges" as the company prepares to increase output from two airplanes to 10 per month by the end of 2013.
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THREE award-winning authors will be putting pen to paper when they sign books and answer questions at St Swithun's Institute, The Trinity, on Saturday, June 21.
Christina Courtenay, two time historical romance of the year winner will join Sue Moorcroft and Liz Harris for the Worcestershire Literary Festival event.
Much Ado About Sweet Nothing author Alison May, from St John's, Worcester, will be hosting the panel who will hold a question and answer session before tea and homemade cake is served and guests will have time to chat with the writers and get books signed.
She said: "This is a fantastic chance for readers to meet with some of their favourite authors and for budding writers to hear first hand from top-notch novelists."
The panel will take place from 2pm.
Tickets for the Romantic Novelists' Panel cost £7.50 and can be purchased from www.worcslitfest.co.uk or on 01905 611427.
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Though she did show up at a police station later the same day to sign the ticket, the Marianne Bryant of 'Easy A' could face further charges for fleeing the scene.
Amanda Bynes might get into more trouble for her recent escape stunt. The actress playing Penny Pingleton in "Hairspray" was pulled over in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 7 for talking on a cell phone while driving, but she bolted from the scene of the crime before police could give her a ticket to sign, TMZ reported.
It is said that the officer didn't bother to pursue Bynes because he didn't feel she was dangerous. He also already had all of her information. Later the same day, the 25-year-old stopped by the police station to sign the ticket. She, however, might face another charge for driving away. Authorities are investigating the incident.
Interestingly enough, Bynes posted a quote from M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" just a day earlier. After posting a series of tweets in which she's gushing about dyeing her hair light lilac, the former child actress who stars opposite Emma Stone's in "Easy A" wrote, "Live fast die young bad girls do it well!"


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Hip-Hop Royalty: Russell Simmons & Def Jam visit Arsenio Hall [Article]
Los Angeles, CA – You can't get much more deeply rooted in hip-hop culture then when you have two of it biggest cultural promoters in one place. This was the case when Def Jam and Russell Simmons took over The Arsenio Hall Show on March 26, partly in honor of the 30th anniversary of Def Jam as a record label.
More than just another interview by Arsenio Hall, this pairing felt like two old friends sitting on a brown stone stoop in Brooklyn debating who the greatest rapper of all time was. Especially when you add in the fact that legendary West Coast producer / Snoop Dogg's tour DJ, Battlecat, kept the music running for the entire night.
Topics ranged from Russell's views on the current state of hip-hop and how he was proud of what it had become to him agreeing with how difficult it has been for Kanye and his journey into the fashion world along with the segregation that still exists.
The most interesting part of the evening was the dialogue that ensued between Russell and Arsenio about Russell's new book and the benefits of mediation. To put it in simple terms, Russell was explaining that the whole key to why mediation is so important is the simple fact it helps you tune into where you're at. He likened it to when ball players are in the zone and they just can't seem to miss – because the past and present don't exist and all that exist is the now. The book is called Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple and is available through Amazon, iTunes and other outlets.
Russell also brought along spoken word artist Black Ice. To say Black Ice dropped some knowledge would be an understatement. In his three minutes plus long performance, Ice basically broke down all the trappings of the major label system and why young inner city youth would sell their souls for a chance at a record deal. He likened it to modern day slavery and that he would never get caught in it.
Some of the best parts of the taping were not televised, including Arsenio explaining the story of Russell bringing him a young MC by the name of LL Cool J. Russell asked Arsenio not to follow the other late night competition but rather promote and convey what they could not or had no interest in doing. Following this guidance, Arsenio broke and continues to break and promote the best roster of hip-hop acts on late night TV. To quote Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, "What is Channel nine if it doesn't have Arsenio?"
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There's a gun show coming to town this weekend and I'm looking to buy. Is it generally acceptable to attempt to "talk down" the price of a weapon or bargain with the dealer/seller at gun shows? What about gun stores? I don't want to look like a fool trying to bargain if its not generally ok to do so. :confused:
Piss them off and the price usually rises above the original with no reverse! :D
It's not Ok to make an insulting unreasonable offer.
I'll haggle until they're blue in the face. They usually won't drop the price until I whip out a fist full of green backs (and I do this last) It's worked every time for me. Really helps if you do combo purchases as well. If I can't get a deal, I go somewhere else. I really try to not buy on the internet to keep my hard earned money in my community, but if a local option doesn't materialize, I hit the net. Just my two cents. Best of luck, and as said earlier, KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR!
If it's something I really want, I'll ask if that's the best they can do. Most times they'll give me a song & dance and then come down. If it's not enough, I'll then state what I had in mind. They can take it or leave it. Generally we can come to an acceptable deal.
I'm polite, but firm. I do not want to insult the guy, because I want his stuff at a fair or better price. If he's a jerk about it, I walk. I'd rather do without.
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get a firearms blue book so you learn condition of weapons markings and what they are considered to be valued at. then go from there.
Shows and dealers- especially on used firearms. Have been known to ask "Do you have in wiggle room in the price?" Works best on the second afternoon of a 2 day show. Wiggle room does not mean $200 offer on a $500 price tag- but it MIGHT mean $175 on a $200- or it MIGHT mean a box of ammo with the gun. "!0% for cash?" may get you a counter offer of 5% (they pay credit card companies 3%) DO NOT speak ill of the merchandise or pricing- if he says yes DO NOT say "I want to look around some- I'll be back." Pull out money, fill out paperwork, take gun THEN. If he says no- then he said no.
I can't remember how many girls said no, until I met this little redhead.....:rolleyes:
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BWW Interviews THE BLACK LIZARD, Playing at Imago Theatre through June 2nd
We here at Broadway World in Portland (read: I here at Broadway World in Portland) have been going on and on about this little play out of Imago Theatre, THE BLACK LIZARD. Well, there's a reason. The running of this show is being hailed as a surprise success and the story is a punch to the gut that halts you, takes you for a little journey, and ultimately leaves you lying on the floor as it stalks off to admire its own reflection. Nude. (There's nudity in the play, so that tangent is relevant). Everything about the show makes for a great evening out, and I was lucky enough to score a chat with several of the big players.
What follows is a short interview involving Jerry Mouawad (director), Laurence Kominz (dramaturge), Anne Sorce (The Black Lizard), and Matthew DiBiasio (Detective Kogoro Akechi), all from Imago Theatre's THE BLACK LIZARD. We discuss the play itself, working in Portland, working with each other, and the excitement of engaging with Yukio Mishima. Lastly, I should note that this is an interview that will be even more interesting for those of you that have seen THE BLACK LIZARD already, which means it's just another reason for you to go see this amazing show! What are you waiting for?! There's nudity!
BWW: For all of you, how are you feeling right now? The season's halfway gone, are you and the cast in a good place? Tired? Excited? Where are we at?
JERRY: We're very excited about the production. The show received more attention than I thought - when you continually create adventurous risky work you're not sure when one of them takes off. This one has.
ANNE: I'm feeling good. I wake up excited to go do the show. Each time is a chance to play and I always have things I want to try.
MATT: There was, and still is, a lot to figure out about this play and I still feel pretty energized and intrigued when I think about it. I am still interested in this show. The rehearsal process was longer than I am used to, but because of how Jerry rehearsed it, and the attention given to tech elements early on, it wasn't as tiring as 7 weeks of rehearsal sounds.
BWW: I have other questions specifically concerning THE BLACK LIZARD, but I also want to place this show in a broader context. This is the first English translation of this play and you've put it on in a city that has pretty great theater already. How was it, putting this show on in Portland? Do you feel audiences were ready for it? Were you nervous it might not click?
ANNE: Ready or not, here it is! One thing I love about working with Imago is that they are interested in exploring and doing new things. As an artist I find that exciting, but I also enjoy it as an audience member. I like going to see things that are imaginative and surprising. Working on this piece, there was a vision and an exploration Jerry wanted to see through and as a performer I am working with him to achieve that. That is what I'm focused on. We have to see it through and then share it and see what it evokes for people, how they respond.
JERRY: Imago is a place for risk taking. We have taken much bigger risks than "The Black Lizard" - in fact I see this play as one of our more conventional works. As to how I would feel if it had failed in Portland? It's would have been fine with me. But it didn't fail - the opposite happened (which is always good). When you experiment you need to be prepared for failure, and sometime from failure comes the unexpected. Risk taking in theater is painful and heartbreaking but ultimately it can be invigorating and certainly more rewarding than not taking risks.
BWW: Laurence, what prompted the selection of this play to bring to Imago Theatre? Why did you choose to work on the Black Lizard?
LAURENCE: The decision to produce Black Lizard lies entirely with Jerry (and Carol). What I wanted to do was to introduce Jerry to the plays of Yukio Mishima. I was confident that Mishima was the kind of playwright that would excite Jerry. Jerry read my Mishima play anthology, and the well-known anthology of modern Noh plays translated by Donald Keene. He and I discussed producing several other Mishima plays, before deciding on "The Black Lizard."
BWW: You were working with a translation of an adaptation of a Noir novel, specifically discussing a playwright who was a bit of a purist with the notable exception of this play. That's a lot of diluting. What does it take to get a project such as this off the ground?
LAURENCE: I personally feel that Mishima's best plays are so rich in meaning, and so entertaining in terms of plot and character, that they have a good chance of success in any country, and translated into any language. Mishima's modern Noh plays are the most frequently performed Japanese plays outside of Japan.
I didn't think that anyone could do a better, more imaginative directorial job than Jerry, and when I saw his cast in rehearsal I knew that this would be a successful play. It's clear that our local critics understand and enjoy it. Audience generation is a little different. Portland has come a long way as a theater town in the last decade or so, but it is still a little provincial in that audiences tend to be skittish about totally unfamiliar plays and playwrights. A play like "Black Lizard" needs a long enough run for word of mouth to kick in. The marquee alone won't sell out this play. I hope that the play becomes a "tourist attraction."
BBW: Jerry, I read that THE BLACK LIZARD is a bit of a deviation from your last several plays, which were all silent I believe? What is it about this play that coaxed you out of the quiet? Was this a comfortable move? Especially since there's so much in this production that plays with voice and the projection of internal dialogue.
JERRY: I have directed text based plays my whole life. The last five plays - my "Opera Beyond Words" were silent and actually they were the exception (not considering the family work Imago produces) It was engaging to return to text based work but what was most exciting about this production is that it demanded me to address naturalism versus style. I like that challenge. I liked that I could not completely adhere to naturalism and/or realism.
BBW: Alright, Anne and Matt, I haven't forgotten about you! First Matt, 'the detective' is about as iconic a role as one can play, recognizable to a T for their qualities. What is it then that you focus on showing us as an audience, what element of this character did you want to bring to life? And which detectives (if any) from works you're familiar with were you able to draw from?
MATT: I felt aware early on of the need to honor both story and style for the role of 'The Detective'. I would share movement ideas or style ideas with Jerry and he would guide me into an area that encompassed things he has in mind, but still gave me room to play and discover. I see the iconographic elements of the detective as part of the style of the world he lives in…an exaggerated, inflated world, where the rules of our reality don't necessarily apply. I studied the movements and character traits of different detectives from Noir films from The Maltese Falcon to Dick Tracy. The 'man-in-control' and also the 'troubled' qualities were something we talked about as early as the audition.
LAURENCE: I love Matt's parodic hard-boiled detective. I think that this is exactly what Mishima was aiming at in this play. Mishima sets up the "romance of crime" half tongue-in-cheek. The truly realistic view of crime is not hidden – Kizu expresses it in Act II. But neither Akechi nor the Black Lizard are capable of seeing the reality and ugliness of crime. I think that Akechi exists to enforce the vulnerability of those with dangerously anti-social obsessions...but we have to remember that Mishima himself is Black Lizard, not Akechi. In a way Mishima is saying, "I have dangerous obsessions which I can't control, and in the end I'm doomed to lose, to die at the hands of men like Akechi and Kizu."
BWW: Anne, The Black Lizard is an intense and dynamic character, a femme fatale who's been given more of a spotlight than most Noir heroines. Tell me about her, as she is to you. What did you have to bring to her, and what did she bring to the table already?
ANNE: She's a chameleon, so that requires (but also allows) me to play so many different things. She's playful in that way, she's having fun! So I enjoy being playful myself. But then, meeting Akechi and the feelings he brings out in her cause her to unravel. And, yes, as you say in this play and in this production she is also the heroine. So that, again, both requires and allows me to bring a truthfulness and vulnerability to her. At one point in rehearsals Jerry said to me, "You should never think of anything she does as false." We played and explored lots of different things with her throughout rehearsals to find something that was both "other worldly" and sincerely frightening but at the same time someone who would remain the protagonist and be someone the audience would enjoy watching. I wondered for a long time what the core of her was, since she does shift so much, but now I think the core comes from me. Being truthful in some way in everything she does and bringing something unique and truthful from myself to each of the styles and aspects of her.
BWW: I read that you are very involved with physical theater companies, is that right? Did any of your experience in that style of theater come in handy here? This is a play that has very careful visual composition it seems.
ANNE: I think my background in physical theater helps me bring a readiness to play and try all kinds of things in rehearsal. Having had lots of experience making original work I am very used to feeling, "We don't know what it is or how it works…" and the answer is always, "So get up on your feet and try."
BWW: Laurence, anything to add about the Black Lizard herself?
LAURENCE: I think that Anne has created a wonderful Black Lizard. The character is mesmerizing and complex, disturbing and sympathetic, funny and self-pitying. She's the lynchpin of the play, and Anne makes it a success. Of course Anne as a person is nothing at all like this character, so it's a wonderful tribute to her skill as an actress. I saw in rehearsal that she brought prodigious physical, vocal, and interpretive skill to the task of creating this Lizard. She'll be modest and deflect all the praise she's been getting...but I hope Portland takes notice of this very talented, hard working newly arrived actress.
BWW: An important part of the story is the engagement between the Black Lizard and Akechi, the desires of each for the other. As actors, how do you make a crucial element such as that work? ALSO, purely in addressing your own characters, did you feel their 'love' was real?
MATT: Akechi's "love" is still a tricky thing for me, I am not sure he knows quite what it is. The dynamic between the characters, for me, comes a lot from the obsession they both display.
ANNE: We talked a lot about this. The 'love' they each experience and the arch of how it plays out in the story…it's very different for each of us. For me, I felt that the Black Lizard had constructed a world for herself in which she had never experienced the feeling of love. When she starts to fall for Akechi it is as much about discovering and feeling this new sensation for the first time and it completely undoes her. She cannot reconcile these feelings with the world she has built. For me she goes through this sense of "young love" that is new and intoxicating, all consuming, but then struggles with it for much of the rest of the play – her desire for love, but her fear and sense of losing control – and it gives way to a more mature experience of love and way of wrestling with it. Then when she is mourning for Akechi, while there is a deep sense of loss, she is experiencing an incredible sense of loneliness, and in a sense she is also mourning for herself in knowing that she is incapable of having real love.
BWW: I need to raise the question of the Kabuki elements of this play. It seems to me that the melodrama of early Noir qualifies the high-theatricality of this story rather than Kabuki. It may go hand in hand with the high-theatricality of Kabuki but as an audience we recognize it MORE in the detective story. Tell me then where you feel the Asian Theater elements affect this narrative, or do those elements remain just as a stylistic overlay for a well-told crime thriller?
LAURENCE: With "The Black Lizard", Mishima created a very successful hybrid play, a hybrid between Kabuki and modern psychological drama...two genres he knew well, and for which he had written many successful plays.
For example, Mishima's "straight" plays had tended to preserve the three unities of time, place, action, but kabuki plays have outlandish, almost unbelievable plots, they leap all over the map and back and forth in time, and they feature soliloquies, dancing, singing, and multiple disguises and deceptions. Kabuki plays generally do not involve serious psychological exploration of character…Mishima tended to avoid foregrounding serious personal or social issues in his kabuki plays, but he did so in his "straight" plays. As you can tell, "The Black Lizard" is a wonderful hybrid of these two styles.
JERRY: To be honest - I have not studied Kabuki or any Asian form – although I am heavily inspired by it. Just like Quentin Tarentino might riff off Asian films - I riffed off Kabuki. Although I must say my background from Jacques Lecoq has many affinities to Kabuki - use of style, use of minimalism, ways at expanding naturalism to high style - all this came from Lecoq.
BWW: Before we wrap up, I really also want to discuss the playwright, Yukio Mishima, who adapted the original novel for the stage. What do you feel Mishima did for this play that made it so worthwhile?
JERRY: Simply answered- I read the play and was moved by his poetic way of handling a campy noir story. I saw it as vehicle for combining forms of theater I was interested in combining: dance, style, naturalism, influences from Richard Foreman and Lecoq.
ANNE: Having read the original novel as well, for me the poetry of the language Mishima brought is what holds the form we're exploring. Also, he strengthened the themes in what to me is a quite beautiful way through the contrasts and relationship between the Black Lizard and the detective.
LAURENCE: These are issues here that Mishima struggled with from the time he was a child, and which he featured in his best writing (starting with the hit autobiographical novel, "Confessions of a Mask" in 1949), and which he resolved with his suicide in 1970. The play is adapted from one of Mishima's favorite pulp novels, a novel that epitomizes the "romantic, grotesque nonsense" literary movement of the '20s and '30s. Luckily, no one in Portland theater does erotic grotesque nonsense better than Jerry.
BWW: Finally, this seems to be simultaneously a celebration of convention as well as a subversion of it. You give a nod and a wink to every campy Noir convention, but then you chuck it on its head with identity crisis, with masks, with geisha-esque dances that are jarring instead of graceful...What is the Black Lizard? Where does it fit? And why should people go see it?
LAURENCE: It's about identity and disguise, and about beauty as the ultimate human value...beyond life itself.
JERRY: And when a work is hard to define - isn't that reason enough to see it? It doesn't fit anywhere - I like much of the work in the city - but frankly it all "fits" in too easily with one another.
ANNE: The Black Lizard, the character, the play, and the production, keep unfolding and turning to reveal something new. It is a playful journey into a sparkling, beautiful world only to reveal a dark underside. Come see it because it is unlike anything you've seen before!
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Lauren Conrad Plays Coy When Asked About Dating: 'I'm So Busy Right Now' (VIDEO)
While appearing on Access Hollywood Live on Monday morning, the reality star turned fashion designer stopped by to talk about her new book, The Fame Game, as well as her fashion lines, and of course, dating! After breaking up with Kyle Howard, her actor beau of three years, in 2011, the 26-year-old has been linked to a string celebs such as Dancing with the Stars pro Derek Hough, Teen Wolf hunk Colton Haynes and Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford.
However, LC does admit to being "in a relationship" — but with who, you ask?
Her book! She said:
"I don't know, I mean I'm so busy right now. Honestly I'm in a relationship with my novels, and I'm so happy with it. I'm always open [to relationships], but I'm not really looking, if that makes sense."
Lauren also admits she's not a gal who "kisses on the first date."


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The New York Giants showed signs of their annual November collapse this past weekend against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Big Blue squandered a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter, allowed Isaac Redman to rush for 146 yards, and failed get a first down in the fourth quarter. Eli Manning is now 13-17 in the month of November and played perhaps his worst game of the season as the Giants amassed just over 180 yards of total offense. Big Blue was fortunate that every other NFC East team lost in Week nine, but the Giants must play better football if they want to get back on track on the road in Cincinnati.
Key to Defeat:
Eli Manning and the offense were unable to get into any rhythm. The Giants were two for 10 on third-down and only mustered up three plays of 12-yards or more. The rushing attack gained just 68 yards on 22 attempts and Tom Coughlin still refused to give David Wilson the football. Victor Cruz was bottled up for the majority of the game and Hakeem Nicks was nowhere to be found.
In short, Sunday was an ugly offensive showing for Big Blue. The defense wasn't stellar, but it gave Eli and Co. and a chance to win the game with under four minutes left. Instead of driving down the field in typical Giants fashion, the offense went three-and-out on their final possession.
Game Positives:
- The Giants sacked Ben Roethlisberger four times. The pass rush overwhelmed the Steelers offensive line and was the only reason the Giants were able to stay in this game. Osi Umenyiora's strip of Big Ben in the second quarter resulted in this unit's second defensive touchdown in as many weeks. The Giants will win several more football games if they keep generating turnovers and scoring on defense.
- Giants' punter Steve Weatherford averaged 47.4 yards per punt, with a long of 55-yards. The Giants punt coverage was sloppy, but Weatherford's kicks were impressive to say the least.
Game Negatives
- Eli Manning had one of the worst statistical games of his career this past weekend. Big Blue's franchise player completed just 10 passes on 24 attempts for 125 yards. Manning had several miscommunications with his receivers and made some poor decisions with the football. Eli's quarterback rating was a pathetic 41.1, which was the eight lowest of his career. Furthermore, when the game was on the line, Eli was unable to lead the Giants down the field to victory. It was an uncharacteristically poor performance from a player that the Giants will live and die by in the postseason.
- The rushing attack was nonexistent. 68 yards on 22 carries is unacceptable. Tom Coughlin did not even attempt to provide a spark by giving David Wilson some work. Although the Giants rushing attack has come alive at times this season, it's still wildly inconsistent and does not threaten defenses enough to change the way they cover the Giants' explosive wide receiver core.
- Hakeem Nicks was only targeted four times on Sunday and came away with just one catch for 10-yards. He has not shown the same physicality and ability to catch in traffic as he has in the past.. Nicks is clearly not 100 percent healthy and needs to get back on track for the Giants to jumpstart their passing attack.
- The Giants only managed to get into the red zone twice. If not for a personal foul call against the Steelers after a third-down incompletion, the Giants would have failed to score a touchdown on both occasions. The offensive woes in the red zone are haunting this team and are perhaps the only thing holding them back from being a truly dominant unit.
- The special teams play was horrible. Lawrence Tynes showcased his inconsistent long-range field goal kicking ability, while the kick and punt return teams each gave up a return in excess of 60-yards. This game was somewhat of an anomaly, because the special teams has been a strength for the most part this season. However, the Giants' defense was put in some tough spots in this game.
- Big Blue allowed ten plays of 12-yards or more on defense. When the pass rush didn't get to the quarterback, the secondary was unable to hold up against a banged up Steelers wide receiver core.
- Mark Herzlich may be the Giants middle linebacker of the future, but he's not there yet. The second-year player out of Boston College failed to fill his gap on several runs and was relatively ineffective on coverage on short passes over the middle of the field. He's young, athletic and immensely talented, but Chase Blackburn is ahead of him on the depth chart for a reason.
Player of the Game - Jason Pierre-Paul
The Giants star defensive end had eight tackles, including a sack. Furthermore, JPP was injured his knee late in the game and came back to make a huge tackle for a loss in the fourth quarter. JPP was flat-out dominant this weekend and will continue to be a force on the defensive line for years to come.
Game Balls
Justin Tuck, Osi Umenyiora
Overall Performance
This game was ugly. The Giants were thoroughly outplayed and lost to a team that was just better than them that day. The silver lining that some may take out of this contest was that the Giants played some terrible football, yet still had a chance to win the game in the fourth quarter. However, a loss is a loss and there is nothing good about losing. Big Blue a better football team than they showed this past weekend and it's imperative that they improve immediately.
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What a bummer. Bruins played their asses off, had the lead and then — like so many times this season — saw a third period lead slip away. This time it happened so fast at the end. Unreal. That's two third periiod meltdowns that led to Blackhawk wins. Ouch.
We're proud of what the Bruins did this post-season. They almost got bumped by the fucking Maple Leafs but stormed back, rocked the Rangers and swept the Penguins. They were playing with house money after that Leafs series and their string finally ran out. They did what they did so many times during the regular season — blow a third period lead. 😦
Now we get to hear about the injuries some of the guys were playing through (Chara, Seidenberg) and see what Chiarelli does with his tiny capspace. They still need to re-sign Rask… and Horton… it's going to be an interesting summer.
Also, training camp starts in 90 days. Damn.
Huge thanks to everyone who followed us during the lockout and season. You all make this blog so much more fun to do day in and day out. We'll keep posting during the summer so no worries.
But damn… is it October yet?
– Bergeron showing his stripes and playing in Game 6 despite being hurt in Game 5 and not being 100%. He's the heart and soul of the team and let's be honest, Bergey at 50% is still 10000x better than Caron and Pandolfo at 150%.
Post-game Bergy told the media he had broken ribs, torn rib cartilage going into Game 6 and then got a separated shoulder during the game. Most of us call out for a week with the sniffles and he kept fighting on. Unreal.
We ❤ you Bergy. Heal up!
– Rene Rancourt. Always the best.
– Lots of bodies flying early. Paille came out of the ethers to ram into Bickell.
– Third line with best shift of the first half of the first period. After a TV timeout, Julien goes right back to the InvisiLine. Seguin dishes puck across ice to Chis Kelly who makes a smarter move by going glove side. 1-0 Boston
– Bruins actually get a PP. AMAZEBALLS
– Looch was a beast. Dude looked fired up more than usual. Had two nice scoring chances in the first but Crawford stopped them both. He also was amazing in the faceoff circle.
– Rask on this save and then Chara cleaning up the trash.
– Mike Darnay for this:
– Looch… again. Mother fucking Milan Lucic gives Boston the lead in the third. Great puck protection by Krejci behind the net.
And to think we thought this meant Game 7. 😦
– It's random but this tweet:
Do only people from Bufallo tweet?
— Brett hull (@2ndBestHull) June 25, 2013
– Speaking of Buffalo, we found out we still have friends up in that wasteland. From some dude named Clodney:
"Enjoy your "cupless" summer along with us you fucking tool. – Buffalo fan"
No idea why cupless is in quotations. Does Boston actually get a cup?
– Tuukka Rask this entire post-season. He's Boston's Conn Smythe winner. Probably would've won the real deal if Boston managed to get the Cup. His numbers were outstanding. 1.88 GAA and .940 SV%. On par with Tim Thomas during the 2011 Cup run.
– The flies in the Garden. There weren't any until Patrick Kane and his posse came to town. Just throwing that out there.
– Bad line change shortly after the Bruins first goal. Luckily it was Frolik who freaked out and shot it way too early. Easy save for Rask.
– That convienent mask malfunction by Crawford while the Bruins were buzzing on the PP. Goalie version of a dive. Awful.
– Shaw taking that puck to the eye. Ouch.
And if you think Boston was booing an injured player you're a fucking moron. They were booing the stoppage of play. They applauded when Shaw got up and left the ice. Suck it, haters.
– Refs with an awful hand pass call kills Bruins PP. Chara then fucks up with the puck by the blueline and Toews beats Rask five-hole to tie it.
Not Seids fault. D-man takes the pass, goalie takes the shooter. Toews is good or something.
– Bruins PP. Was like 0-million. Plenty of chances, tons of time in the offensive zone and nothing behind Crawford. Momentum killer.
– Bruins let in tying goal with empty net. Kane dances through everyone. Toews dishes it across the ice and BIckle buries it.
– A few seconds later Bruins full the Full Toronto and let in game-winning goal. Oduya shot redirects and Bolland puts it home.
– Patrick Kane gets the Conn Smythe. Gross.
– Seguin.
– Jagr.
– How injured was Chara and Seidenberg this series?
– Do we want to think about those two third-period meltdowns that should've been Boston wins?
– Does Chiarelli use his two amnesty buyouts?
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Qantas schedules first biofuels commercial flight
In Australia, Qantas will conduct Australia's first biofuel-powered commercial flight next month and hopes to encourage the government to invest in the aviation biofuels industry. The flight will use a 50/50 blend produced by Dutch company Sky-NRG, which has already produced aviation fuels for KLM, LAN Chile, and Etihad.
Planned for April 13, the announcement of the flight comes as Airbus announced last week a consortium with Virgin Australia to study the use of West Australian mallee trees as a feedstock.
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A video titled 'Best Trick' from Crankworx…it's gotta be good…and it is!
Here is the highlight video from today's Teva Best Trick Showdown! Including… Mike Montgomery's insane backflip bar-hop to tailwhip ever landed on a bike in competition.
Congrats also to Yannick Granieri in second with a backflip double tailwhip and BMX prodigy Nicholi Rogatkin in thirs with a lawn dart front flip.


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Pauling, Linus (cont.)
Nonetheless, his scientific research was going well. In 1949, Pauling's team discovered the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia. He continued to work on the molecular structure of amino acids and, in the early 1950s, determined the large-scale structures of many proteins, the so-called "alpha-helix." He also worked, though unsuccessfully, on the structure of DNA. His many achievements were crowned with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954, "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances."
After winning the Nobel Prize, Pauling focused his attention on peace work, organizing scientists and speaking out against nuclear testing and proliferation, often to great criticism and at remarkable personal cost. His peace activism work was capped in the fall of 1963 with the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 (a year in which no prize had been awarded). The award was greeted with widespread criticism in the press. The lukewarm congratulations of his home institution, Caltech, led to his painful resignation from the school that had been his academic home for more than 40 years.
Pauling spent the next decade as an academic nomad, working at different think tanks and universities. For over twenty years, between 1973 and 1994, Pauling's research focused on a field he termed "orthomolecular medicine," the concept that optimal health could result from ensuring that the right molecules were present in the right amount in the body. He viewed vitamin C as one of the most important of these molecules, oversaw a number of investigations into its effects on diseases, and encouraged the ingestion of daily amounts many times greater than the accepted minimum daily requirement. Many physicians attacked his approach; the medical community criticized his decision to publish a popular book on the subject without prior peer-reviewed scientific publication; and many thought his claims unsubstantiated. Pauling fought back with typical determination. In 1973 he co-founded a California research institute devoted to the study of the health effects of vitamin C and other nutrients. He conducted research there until his death from cancer in 1994, at age 93.
Pauling's long career path led from physics to chemistry to biology to medicine. At every turn he was eager to jump disciplinary fences and explore new territory at the borders. He was attacked for his political beliefs and for going outside of accepted channels in making his results widely known. Nevertheless, in the course of his long career he wrote more than five hundred papers and eleven books, won every important prize awarded in his field, and can be considered the most significant chemist of his time.
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- Postel: SACS visit went 'very well,' U of L ready for accreditation visit
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Men's basketball gains three commits over summer
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It was a busy summer for Rick Pitino as he and the rest of the Cardinal coaching staff hit the recruiting trail hard, securing three top prospects from the class of 2015.
The first to commit was five-star small forward Deng Adel out of Bradenton, Florida. The lanky six-foot-seven, 190 pound forward is ranked 18 overall on Scout.com. Bradenton was highly sought after with offers from UConn and Florida, among other schools.
Less than a week later, the Cards grabbed Raymond Spalding, a local product out of Trinity High School. The six-foot-nine power forward shot up the recruiting rankings this summer vaulting into the Scout top 100 where he now sits at 39. Spalding joins Ballard grad Quentin Snyder as the second local product to commit to the Cards in the past two years.
The Cards third commitment was from Donovan Mitchell. The six-foot-three shooting guard was relatively unknown until this summer when he impressed scouts during the July AAU season. He is currently ranked as the 20th best overall prospect according to Scout.com giving the Cards two players in the top 20.
This is shaping up to be one of the top recruiting classes that Pitino has amassed at U of L. This is due in part to the Cardinals' on-court success in recent years as well as the hiring of assistant coach Kenny Johnson. Johnson was previously an assistant under Tom Crean at Indiana and is known for his recruiting prowess. Johnson replaced Kenny Keats who took the head coaching job at North Carolina Wilmington.
With Louisville now having three commits on the board, it appears as if there is only room for one or two more players. Potential targets include highly touted guards Antonio Blakeney and Perry Dozier along with forward Dwayne Bacon.


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McCarthy apologised yesterday for the performance against their Black Country rivals which left them in the relegation zone, but it would seem the result was one disappointment too many for owner Steve Morgan.
He has opted to relieve him of his duties after a run of 11 games without a win in the Premier League in addition to an FA Cup third round defeat to Championship outfit Birmingham City.
Morgan will now begin the search for the former Ireland and Sunderland manager's successor but in the meantime McCarthy's assistant Terry Connor will take over as caretaker boss.
A statement on Wolves' official website said: "Wolves have today announced that manager, Mick McCarthy, has left the Club with immediate effect.
"The Board took the difficult decision to terminate Mick's contract after a run of form which has seen Wolves pick up only 14 points in the last 22 League games, after a promising start to the season, culminating in yesterday's 5-1 defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion.
"Terry Connor will take charge of team training in the interim until a new manager is appointed.
"The Board would like to place on record their sincere thanks and appreciation to Mick McCarthy and he leaves with the very best wishes of everyone connected to the Club."
McCarthy was appointed as Wolves boss in 2006, he had previously managed Sunderland and the Republic of Ireland, leading them to the Championship title in 2008/9 season. For the past two seasons the 53-year-old had kept the club in the Premier League finishing 17th and 15th respectively.


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Profit & Loss
The Profit and Loss account shows you how much money your business has made or lost. You can create reports for any period from a single day up to your whole financial year by setting the Start and End Date in the Chart of Accounts.
To see your profit and loss for a complete financial year set the End Date in the Chart of Accounts to your financial year end date (leave the Start Date disabled or make sure it is set to the first day of the financial year you want the report for).
Then click on the Print Profit and Loss button in the Chart of Accounts toolbar, choose the Profit and Loss template, then click on the Print icon to print your report.


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Patagonia Alpine Houdini
The problem is that you never see it coming on the Diamond. One moment you're climbing vertical, east-facing granite at 13,000 feet. The next you're staring at heavy, dark clouds boiling over the summit from the west. Seconds later, lightning cracks. The Alpine Houdini has an ultralight 100% nylon ripstop shell with a DWR (durable water repellent) finish and a waterproof/breathable membrane that serves the simplicity crucial to alpine rock climbing—and its afternoon thunderstorms. Its emergency rainwear for climbing that also blocks wind, traps your heat on chilly belay ledges, packs into a single internal chest pocket (with clip-in loop) and seals up with elastic wrist cuffs and a single-pull drawcord waist. With helmet-compatible, single-pull adjustable hood.
Beginning with our Spring 2015 styles, weve improved our women's fit: There's a slight increase at the waist for shaping and to ensure the fit is truer to size. All other measurements, such as chest and hip, remain the same. Please refer to our new, updated Womens Size Chart and Fit Descriptions for details. Note: this change applies to full-price Spring 2015 styles, not to past-season or on-sale items.
- Highly water-resistant woven nylon shell, with laminate membrane and DWR (durable water repellent) finish holds a 10,000mm water column
- Taped seams throughout entire garment
- Full-zip hooded jacket has minimal interior storm flap and single-pull adjustable, helmet-compatible hood that rolls down and stows
- Zippered, interior left chest pocket doubles as self-stuff pouch with streamlined shape and carabiner clip-in loop
- Elasticized cuffs and a minimal single-pull adjustable drawcord hem seal out weather
- 1.5-oz 20-denier 100% nylon ripstop shell, with a waterproof/breathable membrane and a DWR (durable water repellent) finish
- 158 g (5.6 oz)
Water Resistant:
- DWR (durable water repellent) fabric finish repels light rain and snow and decreases dry times. When DWR is used in conjunction with a waterproof/breathable barrier, the DWR finish keeps the outer fabric from becoming saturated so that the breathable barrier can do its job.
Patagonia Alpine Houdini cuenta con las mejores calidades de fabricación y con la garantía oficial de la marca Patagonia. Si estas interesado en adquirir este artículo de running y triatlón debes saber sus medidas son de 0 cm. y su peso es de kg. (en su caja original). En estos momentos Patagonia Alpine Houdini se encuentra en stock en runnerinn, tu tienda online de running y triatlón.
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A CLITHEROE businessman has been banned from being a director for seven years after failing to look after company records.
Kyle Goldsmith, 41, a director of Kymo Holdings Ltd, Lancashire Nursing and Residential Homes Limited and Carecroft Limited, all of which were involved with the operation of a care home in Clitheroe, was banned following a hearing at Bolton County Court. Mr Goldsmith's disqualification follows an investigation by the Insolvency Service and prevents him from acting as a company director or from managing or in any way controlling a company until 2021.
The investigation found that minimal records had been delivered up to the liquidators of the companies following their failure in 2011 and 2012, and as a result it was impossible to verify the companies' financial dealings, in particular the extent of their assets and liabilities, the purpose of cash transactions and the nature of inter-company transactions.
As a director, Mr Goldsmith had a responsibility to make sure this was done.
Robert Clarke, group leader of Insolvent Investigations North at the Insolvency Service, said: "Directors have a clear, statutory duty to ensure that their companies maintain proper accounting records, and, following insolvency, deliver them to the office-holder in the interests of fairness and transparency Without a full account of transactions it is impossible to determine whether a director has discharged his duties properly, or is using a lack of documentation as a cloak for impropriety.
"Mr Goldsmith has paid the price for failing to do that, as he cannot now carry on in business other than at his own risk."


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A film about Che Guevara could go one of two ways: nice and easy, or rough. That also depends on whether a filmmaker's emphasis falls on Guevara's pre- or post-revolutionary years. With "The Motorcycle Diaries," Walter Salles, the gentle Argentine director of tearjerkers such as "Central Station," lays us down, as a mother might lay a sleeping babe, in the small, cozy space of Guevara's transition from youthful idealist to political icon. For most of the film he's Ernesto, an asthmatic from Buenos Aires, and he doesn't do a lot that would earn him pop sainthood or make him the star of his own T-shirt.
Salles's movie is not the sexy rock 'n' roll polemic you might expect from the likes of an Oliver Stone. This is a soothing, if incredibly digressive movie, with the occasional Marxist nod and lots of symbols that add up to an impressionistic portrait of the rebel as a placid young man.
Salles and Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, who plays Guevara, admirably take a back road to the movie's hero, showing us a kid who is basically trying to grow up. We meet him in 1952, after he's made his decision to postpone a last semester in medical school to tour South America with a 29-year-old biochemist named Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna), a portly fellow whose rickety 500cc Norton they use to get around the continent. Things get off to a comic start: We see the motorcycle from behind, packed like a donkey on wheels and making a buzzy sound, like the pages of a book being quickly flipped.
Based on the separate memoirs of Granado and Guevara, both adapted by Jose Rivera, "The Motorcycle Diaries" winds through the South American countryside, stopping here and there. First up is Miramar, Argentina, for a visit to the country manse of Ernesto's chaste girlfriend Chichina (Mia Maestro). He brings her a dog and tells her she'll keep it and her virginity intact until he returns. Alberto scores with one of the housekeepers, and then the boys are off. There are barroom brawls, spills on the bike, and spells of tourism, sleeping on people's property and among the peasants. Every once in a while, we get a glimpse of the man Ernesto will become, such as when he diagnoses an old man's cyst, without sparing his feelings.
Eventually Ernesto and Alberto make it to Chile, where they meet two communists -- a miner and his wife -- and tell them that they've been traveling for leisure and not for work. This is a foreign concept to the couple and a crystallizing moment for Ernesto and the movie, which to this point has been borderline picaresque and completely pastoral. The next day Ernesto has a moment of righteousness, hurling a stone at the truck of the miners' exploitative foreman. But Ernesto's political awakening rarely seems more than petulant.
Once "The Motorcycle Diaries" arrives at its final destination, Peru, where the boys volunteer in a leper colony, it tries to shake its leisurely atmosphere. At Machu Picchu, Ernesto talks about starting an indigenous revolutionary party. But we're distracted: The setting is really quite breathtaking. And while Salles again demonstrates his remarkable gift for the come-from-behind emotional attack -- the final 20 minutes, with the lepers, are moving -- the movie feels compromised by its buddy-movie obligations, which call for Ernesto and Alberto to be on different pages of the same book. But I don't mean to grouse: Without that formula, there'd be no de la Serna, who's warm, feeling, and utterly soulful. Salles leans on him for every ounce of the movie's levity.
That, of course, means the task of embodying the film's gravity falls to Bernal, who's typically radiant. But here he's cursed with beautifying everything he touches and a lot of what he sees. Like Jude Law, even when Bernal is dirty, it's never dirty enough. Is he too pretty to play Guevara? Not especially. Guevara had a rugged, earthen sexiness. Still, you have to wonder how things would have turned out for him if he'd had Bernal's bedroom eyes. Maybe this is the trouble with "The Motorcycle Diaries." It's handsome by association.
Salles closes "The Motorcycle Diaries" with a black-and-white slide show of South American workers and their families. They look content, and there's a sincere evocation of the portraits taken for the Works Progress Administration of Depression-era Dust Bowl farmers. Like those photos, the ones here turn struggle into art -- like the movie's hero, they're too nice-looking. You remember the images and content fondly, but are the Peruvian underclass really people whom you'd want to look back on the way you would a good meal? For a movie, this feels inadequate, despite its splendors and, later, its social dismay. It does, however, have the makings of a grand postcard.
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'Hunger Games' Star Jacqueline Emerson Belts Out New Tune 'Catch Me If You Can' (VIDEO)
In this newly-released music video, the 17-year-old frolics on the beach with friends as she sings her first single, "Catch Me If You Can."
Between her budding music career and her role in the highly-anticpated film, it looks like Jacqueline has got quite the career ahead of her!
Check out the video above!
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The Master (2012), Paul Thomas Anderson's "it's-totally-not-about-Scientology-I-swear" epic starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the charismatic leader of a cult-like group, Amy Adams as his doting wife, and Joaquin Phoenix as a conflicted disciple, is at the top of our list of movies to see this year, but not for the nudity. Sure, P.T.A. made Boogie Nights (1997), the movie that brought Roller Girl Heather Graham to our attention, but that movie was about porn. Of course it had a lot of skin. But a creepy 1950s period piece like The Master won't be nude. Right?
Wrong! Anderson was on hand for an exclusive 70mm preview screening of The Master at Chicago's Music Box Theatre last night, and among the lucky attendees was our own Skin Skout. Our Skout reports that Amy Ferguson, whom you may remember from Garden State (2004) and Tanner Hall (2009), goes topless in the film, as does newcomer Jennifer Neala Page. But that's nothing compared to a party scene 1 hour and 8 minutes into the film where Joaquin imagines an entire room full of women nude--and we get to see it all, including full frontal from Katie Boland. Talk about a Master-piece.
The Master opens in theaters nationwide on September 21, but you can get a sneak peek of skin from Amy Ferguson, Katie Boland and star Amy Adams right here at MrSkin.com!
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