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Only about 40 percent of Best Buy shoppers leave the store with a purchase in hand, but the retailer wants to bump this percentage up a bit this holiday season
Brick-and-mortar retailers have been battling with online stores for years, but
Best Buy
is looking to reclaim a place in shoppers' hearts (and wallets) this holiday season with online price matching and free home delivery.
Best Buy announced that it will match the prices of online competitors like Amazon in order to attract more customers. This is huge for Best Buy, considering it has
lost a significant amount of business
to Amazon alone. With e-tailers like Amazon, customers can shop from the comfort at home, receive lower prices and quick delivery.
But Best Buy isn't betting on price matching alone. It's heating up the competition with free home delivery of products that are out-of-stock as well.
Right now, only about 40 percent of Best Buy shoppers leave the store with a purchase in hand, but the retailer wants to bump this percentage up a bit this holiday season.
"We have a tremendous opportunity to increase that close rate," said Matthew Furman, Best Buy spokesman.
Best Buy isn't alone in its holiday efforts to beat Amazon.
is currently testing a same-day delivery service for customers that who buy popular items off of the Wal-Mart website during the holidays. Toys "R" Us is another brick-and-mortar that is working to speed up delivery and offer price matching -- however, its price matching will not include Amazon, only brick-and-mortar competitors.
An interesting aspect of the holiday season is that a growing number of shoppers have started using brick-and-mortars for showrooms -- or checking out products in person -- then going home to buy the products online.
While this is another hurdle that brick-and-mortars must overcome, strangely, they're embracing this model.
"Let's be the best showroom," said Mike Duke, Wal-Mart CEO. "Let's be the best place where customers want to go and get the experience."
According to the brick-and-mortar stores, they can still offer things that Amazon can't. For instance, human customer service and options for purchase like online
brick-and-mortar stores. They added that Amazon now
must collect sales tax
in many U.S. states, so prices are not quite as low on the site as before.
To further hinder Amazon's sales, Wal-Mart and Target have
stopped selling the e-tailer's Kindle Fire tablet
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N.J. task force to focus on gun control, othe issues related to violence
Gov. Chris Christie says New Jersey is taking a comprehensive approach to deal with gun violence.
While New Jersey already has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation, Christie said more steps are needed to reduce gun violence.
At the same time, the governor declined to take a position on President Barack Obama's call for federal bans on assault weapons and gun magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds.
"When I believe that it's appropriate for me for given an opinion, I'll give one, but I don't feel it's appropriate right now -- especially when I have no influence over it," Christie said. "There's nothing going on right now in Congress that would lead me to believe that I could have a position of influence on that topic one way or another at the moment."
Instead, Christie has established a task force that will study gun control, addiction, mental health, and school security and make recommendations within 60 days.
"This is a comprehensive look at not just what common sense measures we can implement to curtail gun violence, but a hard look at the root causes in our state," he said Thursday. "This is about the bigger picture. This is about violence control not just about gun control."
Christie says there are no predetermined outcomes, and he'll consider everything the task force recommends.
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This family-friendly Kenmare hotel is within 2 mi (3 km) of Iverni Gallery, Kenmare Golf Club, and Kenmare Heritage Centre. Kenmare Stone Circle and St. Patrick's Church are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Along with a full-service spa, this smoke-free hotel has a restaurant and an indoor pool. Free full breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free valet parking are also provided. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a sauna are onsite.
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24-hour room service is available.
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Denise Rushing's concerns and comments regarding the necessity to protect Clear Lake's watershed are well taken.
It's true that 70-percent of the water entering Clear Lake enters through the Rodman Slough. That should certainly make that wetland and watershed area a priority to restore and protect. However, we should not overlook the other remaining watersheds that provided water to Clear Lake. Other mountain ranges or elevated areas that surround this lake in Nice, Lucerne, Glenhaven, Clearlake Oaks, Kelseyville, Clearlake Highlands and Mount Konocti area are just as important.
Some of these areas have vineyards planted on them. There are even vineyards planted right on the sloped shores lining the lake. Most of these vineyards have no cover planted on them nor catch basins or retaining ponds. This allows the soil/nutrients and any of the fertilizers used to eventually wash into the creeks and rivers entering the lake. Most Sonoma and Napa county vineyards are required to have these manmade restraints.
Back in the late 1960s pear farmers, under protest, were required to change to a different fertilizer. Several years later the algae problem cleared up.
Maybe it's time to look into what types of fertilizers are now being used in these vineyards. According to the Lake County Farm Bureau, Lake County Agricultural Department, no records are being kept on how much fertilizer or what type is currently being used in Lake County. Pesticides and herbicides are the only chemicals being regulated and monitored by the Lake County and California State Agriculture Departments.
The counties residential and commercial building ordinances regarding grading and environmental protections seem to be a joke considering how vineyards have none applied to them equally. Recommendations to residents on limiting fertilizer use also seems contradictory.
Removing the vineyards is not a feasible solution, however a moratorium on new ones should be put into place until we get a handle on what's causing these large algae blooms. The vineyards already here should get some serious environmental scrutiny. Many would note that the algae blooms have steadily increased with the increase of vineyard development in the last 10 to 15 years. Two plus two equals four in my math book.
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"The biggest thing business owners are going to gain from this is what strategic direction they want and what business objectives are important to them," Buttars said. "They will gain alignment within their organization so that everyone has the same understanding of where they are going and what they are doing in the future."
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One of the most inviting features of this house is that it's only steps from Lake Pontchartrain in the quiet, peaceful neighborhood of Lake Terrace.
Not only that, but it was completely rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina by contractor G. L. Schroeder and is only six years old.
"He does quality work and this is a very well-built house," said Gigi Burk, the listing agent with Burk Brokerage. "It's on an extra-large lot, has a two-car garage and off-street parking for three cars under the carport."
This really is a luxury executive house. When you walk in, you're greeted by an imposing two-story entrance hall with columns leading to a formal dining room and a staircase to the second floor. "Isn't it interesting how the stairs split and go two ways so they don't take up so much space," pointed out Burk.
Nail-down hardwood floors are used throughout the first floor and lead you right into the kitchen. It's warm and inviting with a wood finish on the doors of all the appliances plus a little island wet bar for sittin' and sippin.' The built-in Viking appliances include a warming tray, a built-in sub-zero refrigerator, oven, a hidden dishwasher and a beverage center – even the oven hood has a wood finish on it. Glass paneled cabinets make an attractive addition to the granite counter tops which are used throughout the kitchens and the bathrooms.
There's also a keeping room, also floored in wood, lined with built-in shelves and filled with light. As impressive and beautiful as all this is, however, it's not the coup de grace. "The master suite is downstairs," said Burk, with a grin.
And what a master suite it is! There's the requisite bedroom, of course, and there's even a little private sitting room, but adjacent to it is the hugest walk-in closet I've ever seen. Rows and rows of shelves and lines and lines of bars give you plenty of space to store even the most extensive wardrobe – and it's all well lighted. And not only that, but the bath has a separate marble shower, a spa tub and plenty of granite counter tops.
There are three more bedrooms upstairs, two of which share a jack-and-jill bath, all filled with more granite countertops.
I thought the biggest pow! was the gorgeous downstairs master suite – all that closet space had me fainting with envy. That was until Burk showed me the in-home theater. It's surrounded with windows and has an easy-to-clean ceramic tile floor – plus it's equipped with surround sound and a huge-screen television. "What a perfect place to stash the kids," I thought.
"But, come see this," Burk laughed, as she showed me the galley kitchen, with more granite counter tops, complete with all appliances.
"What a perfect place to stash the kids," I thought again with emphasis. "With food and video games available, it might be weeks before you'd ever see them again."
Lake Terrace, where this house is located, is a neighborhood of about 447 single-family dwellings, dominated by live oaks, flowers, parks, a stunning fountain, plenty of green space and wide streets. I saw neighbors out strolling and bike riding, children playing in the park and residents sitting on a bench taking in the spectacular sunset over Lake Pontchartrain. Several organizations exist within the neighborhood and events include property owners' meetings, crime prevention meetings, movie nights in the park, Easter egg hunts, a children's Mardi Gras parade, garden club events, Halloween events, crawfish boils, wine tasting parties, neighborhood improvement projects and the Christmas Tree Project – all of which provide an especially strong sense of community among the area's residents.
"This is such a perfect home," said Gigi. "It's in a great neighborhood on a quiet street near the lake, it has beautiful floors, beautiful granite, lots of built-ins and even a security service. They really have thought of everything."
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Did You Know?
Unlike most cats, Lions are excellent swimmers.
Spring is in the air at Potter Park Zoo. Spring brings with it flowers, nicer weather, more guests, and excited and frisky animals. The animals certainly welcome the warmer weather and enjoy going out into exhibits that they may have avoided or not been in much for the winter or colder weather.
Spring also brings annual physical examinations for many animals at the zoo. With spring comes mosquitoes and with mosquitoes, West Nile Virus. West Nile Virus can be harmful or even fatal to some of our animals at the zoo including our raptors (hawks, and eagles), ponies, reindeer, and penguins. So part of spring physical examinations include vaccinating all of these animals to protect them against West Nile Virus. In addition to this, they also get a full check-over by the zoo's veterinarian to make sure that they are healthy. These check-ups include drawing blood, and even taking radiographs (x-rays).
Other animals that are also getting their yearly physical examinations and vaccinations in the spring include the goats, pigs, burros, llamas, and ponies.
There is of course the hope that spring will also bring babies here later in the spring or summer, but since a majority of our animals we cannot ultrasound unless they are under anesthesia, we will have to wait and see!
You are more than welcome to stop by and see us working at the veterinary clinic in the corner of the Contact area (Farmyard), there is a window right into our treatment room. Also, I hope to see you at the Veterinarian's Education, Zoos and yoU Day here at Potter Park Zoo to learn about taking care of your pets and all the many options associated with veterinary medicine.
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The Munroe baseball team picked up momentum heading into their 2A-District 1 tournament this week. The Bobcats won three games last week with wins over Wewahitchka, Altha and Ponce de Leon.
The Bobcats took the lead late in the game in an 11-8 victory over Wewahitchka on Tuesday. The game was tied at seven with Munroe batting in the bottom of the fifth when Matthew Salters doubled, driving in two runs.
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Can anyone recommend any of the softshell jackets that are frequently on Steep and Cheap...brands like Marmot and Back Country seem to be on there a lot.
I haven't even tried one on but they seem like the perfect winter jacket for DG.
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grodney (IOWADG.COM) wrote:There are no righty holes, no lefty holes, no hyzer holes, no anhyzer holes. There is only skill and lack of skill.
I have the backcountry.com Shift softshell. It's really nice. It's made in Canada, and is cut and finished similar to Arc'teryx, so I suspect they may be manufacturing them. I grabbed it off sac for about $100 over a year ago, and wear it all the time.Jaysus wrote:Marmot make top notch gear, you can't go wrong with them
The Backcountry labeled one looks pretty decent - not sure who makes them though.
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London, July 5 (ANI): Liverpool striker Luis Suarez will be ordered to rejoin his club squad for pre-season games in Australia and Thailand if he cannot work on a move quickly, after the striker's holiday in South America following Confederations Cup duty ended last Sunday.
According to the Mirror, the Uruguayan international had expressed that he wanted to leave the club but no offer had been received from any club, along with no contact from Real Madrid, which had claimed it wanted to sign a top three player from the Premier League.
The Reds are going to play a Thailand XI in Bangkok on July 28, and are also scheduled to play in Melbourne on July 24, the report said.
The report added that no decision had been made on where the striker would be told to join his teammates but he would have to join his club's tour to the Far East and Australia.
Suarez currently has six games left to serve on a suspension that he derived for infamously biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic, the report further said. (ANI)


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The price of butter, cheddar cheese, nonfat dry milk, dry whey and the Class III and IV prices have all experienced strong increases and are much higher than what were forecasted back in early January. Price changes from the beginning of January to their peak in February were: Butter $1.69 to $2.10; CME cheddar barrels $1.34 to $1.9175 as of February 18th; CME 40 pound cheddar blocks $1.3425 to $1.9550 as of February 18th; Western nonfat dry milk from the range of $1.20 to $1.24 to $1.40 to $1.70; and dry whey from a range of $0.29 to $0.42 to $0.43 to $0.50. Butter prices started to show weakness on February 11th and had declined to $2.005 as of February 18th. The January Class III was $13.48 and will be near $17 for February. As of February 18th, Class III futures settled at $18.51 for March, above $17 through September and down to $16.44 for December. The January Class IV was $16.42 and will be near $18.40 for February. As of February 18th, Class IV futures settled in the $20s through August and were down to $17.44 for December. If these prices hold, the advanced Class IV price will be the mover of Class I prices for all of 2011.
This price pattern is the opposite of what was forecasted back early January. It was then assumed that it would take the first half of the year to slow down the growth in milk production as dairy producers slowly adjust cow numbers and milk per cow slows in response to much higher feed prices. Domestic demand, while improving is still held back by a sluggish economy. Dairy exports, which were up substantially for all products in 2010 would decline some in 2011, especially for cheese and butter. And stocks of cheese remained relatively high. The result would be lower milk prices during the first half of the year with much stronger prices for the second half. But, it now looks like the opposite will occur with prices averaging higher for the first half of the year than the second half, and with averages for the year much improved over 2010.
What caused this unexpected run up of prices? The answer is partially explained by several happenings. While milk production is still running well above year ago levels with January's production estimated up 2.3%, evidently some assume that sharply higher corn, soybean and hay prices will soon curtail milk production. While the January livestock inventory showed 3% more dairy replacements that will calve within then next 12 months, attractive slaughter cow prices appears to be encouraging much heavier culling of cows from the herd. Second, while fluid milk sales have not shown growth butter and cheese sales have been quite favorable despite higher prices. Dairy exports may be not as high as 2010, but yet exports of nonfat dry milk/skim milk powder and whey proteins look very favorable as well as good exports for cheese and butter. World stocks of butter and milk powders are currently tight. High world feed prices are also likely to slow the growth in world milk production. Australia and New Zealand, which account for about 40% of world dairy trade, have scaled back anticipated milk production for the year due to adverse weather that has impacted pasture conditions. And improvement in the world economy has increased the demand for dairy products and at higher prices than in past years. The net result is that it appears that buyers are anticipating considerably tighter supplies of milk and dairy products for the immediate months ahead and have been aggressive in bidding up prices.
But, we know that prices are very response to rather small changes in production, domestic sales or exports. It is far from certain that prices will end the year as now shown by dairy futures. To hold prices as currently shown by dairy futures milk production will need to slow down from what has been occurring for the past few months. Weather can be a key factor. Not only can weather have a significant impact on milk per cow this summer, weather conditions for the 2011 crop planting and growing season will greatly impact crop prices and feed costs for dairy producers later this year. USDA's release of January milk production showed milk per cow up 1.5% from a year ago and the number of milk cows 0.7% higher. Despite heavier culling of cows from the herd, the good supply of dairy replacements has kept the number of cows increasing from month to month starting back last October. Good slaughter cow prices and lower heifer prices makes it more affordable to purchase replacements.
Except for California, compared to a year ago January milk production in the West was running well above a year ago. California had just a 0.7% increase in production due to milk per cow being up just 1.3% compared to a 3.2% increase back in December. Stress from wet weather and perhaps high feed prices is slowing down increases in milk per cow. But, other Western states had relatively high increases with production up 8.8% in Arizona, 8.5% in Colorado, 5.3% in Idaho, 6.1% in New Mexico, 7.7% in Texas, 4.1% in Oregon and 2.3% in Washington. Each of these states had added cows from a year ago. Other states with relatively high increases in milk production were: Florida +8.8%, Kansas 7.8%, New York 4.4%, Michigan 3.5% and Indiana 3.2%. Production was up 1.6% in Wisconsin but down 0.3% in Minnesota.
Besides a slow down in milk production for these higher prices to hold domestic sales as well as dairy exports will need to hold close to what is currently projected. As of now, with the exception of fluid milk, higher wholesale and retail prices appear to not have dampened dairy product sales. But, in the past higher prices have slowed down sales. So we could experience some of the same again now. Restaurant traffic will be an important factor for holding up butter and cheese sales and their prices. Dairy exports look promising as previously indicated.
In summary, 2011 appears to be shaping up to being a much better year than earlier predicted with much higher milk prices for the first half of the year, and while lower prices for the second half, they could still average higher than prices experienced the second half of 2010. Dairy producers should evaluate their price risk management strategies and decide whether to protect the price on a portion of their future milk production with opportunities now provided on the futures market. It also needs to be pointed out that despite higher milk prices, with much higher feed costs returns over feed costs will not show the same degree of improvement, especially for those dairy producers who purchase a majority of their feed.


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RESIDENTS across the borough are urged not miss out on having the chance to vote in next month's local and European elections.
The polls open on Thursday May 22 for both elections and people have until Tuesday May 6 to register to vote.
John Polychronakis, chief executive of Dudley Council and election returning officer, said: "The elections are fast approaching and people need to make sure they are registered if they want to take part."
Anyone unable to get to their local polling station on election day can apply for a postal or proxy vote where they arrange for someone else to vote on their behalf.
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Suddenly Susan
After almost three decades portraying Erica Kane, Susan Lucci has—finally—won that elusive Emmy. But the actress still has other roles to conquer.
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The still-sexy, 5-foot 3-inch Lucci glides through the bright yellow living room of her palatial home in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a luxurious, yet fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. On the wall, in a golden frame above her fireplace, is a full-length self-portrait, the mistress of the mansion in a shining white gown. Around her is a symphony of crystal--chandeliers and candelabras--amid an effusion of yellow and green flora. Lucci opens the door. There, facing her, is the new man in her television life, actor Vincent Irizarry.
"You look sensational," he says.
"Thank you," she responds, smiling seductively. "And you know something? I was just thinking that myself."
Susan Lucci always looks sensational. Whether she's portraying vixen Erica Kane on ABC's "All My Children," or making a series of popular television commercials for Sweet One, Wendy's or Ford, or marketing her signature collection of hair products, or having a healthy breakfast of yogurt and fresh fruit at 5 a.m., the 29-year daytime-drama veteran exudes glamour and the rarefied aura of celebrity.
Soap Opera Digest has frequently selected her as "the most beautiful woman on television," and her millions of diehard fans have long concurred. Lucci has portrayed Erica Kane since 1970, bringing to vivid life the many facets of the femme fatale audiences love to hate--the always manipulative, sometimes coquettish, often bitchy, frequently voracious, occasionally vicious yet forever fabulous soap-opera heroine. Throughout her tenure on the award-winning soap, Lucci has portrayed, among other manifestations of her character, a troubled teenager, a high-fashion model, a cosmetics tycoon and a magazine publisher. Each is a complex aspect of that magnificently tortured television creation, a character who has been married nine times to six men and is more formally known as Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick.
TV Guide has called Erica "unequivocally the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV." She has been kidnapped, survived a plane crash, stared down a grizzly bear, become addicted to painkillers, posed as a nun, hunted down Nazis in Bolivia, been tried for murder, fought valiantly--and successfully--to keep her daughter from starving herself to death, has driven a race car and tried to rescue one of her lovers from prison, via helicopter. Recently, Erica suffered serious heart and facial injuries in a car crash. On the day that Irizarry, who portrays Dr. David Hayward, arrived on Kane's doorstep, they had recently returned from Brazil, where Erica had undergone facial reconstruction, and wound up, again, looking just like Erica Kane--or is it Susan Lucci?
"I love Erica Kane," Lucci says, relaxing after a long day's shoot. "I love playing her. I enjoyed playing her when she was a 15-year-old high school girl, the naughty girl in town, and I enjoy playing her now, when she's still the naughty girl, but she's broadened her area of operation to include the entire world. It's just one of those amazing parts that come along once in a lifetime."
For portraying the often challenging role, Lucci has won the People magazine poll as best soap actress (1985), People's Choice Award (1992), and the Soap Opera Digest Award (1993). In each of the last 19 years, she was nominated for an Emmy as best actress in a daytime drama. And, as much of the world knows, for the first 18 of those years she lost, and not always gracefully, if the tabloids are to be believed.
Once, she reportedly stormed out of the awards show in tears, another time, she was said to have pounded on a table in fury. After one painful loss, the actress Shelley Winters sent a note to Lucci saying the soap star deserved to win.
Then, on May 21, 1999, in front of a national television audience, Lucci finally won her long-awaited Emmy. Critics later said that her acting in a bedside vigil over her TV daughter's emotional and physical illness had pushed her past the competition in the Best Actress category. Whatever the reason, amid a standing ovation at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with a triumphant smile on her face, Lucci walked up to the podium and accepted her award.
"I truly never believed this would happen," she said that night, tears in her eyes.
Looking back later, she says, "It still feels wonderful. Winning is a much better experience. I always wanted to win. I never made a secret of that. It has been an exciting, very happy time for me. I'm enjoying it tremendously. People have been very warm about my having won, though they were very warm all along even when I didn't win. But this is a time for celebrating."
The honor, however, hasn't changed her attitude toward her work. "When I walk into the ABC building, I'm there to play scenes," she says. "That for me is really the fun part of what I do--working on the scenes, and then playing them. It's a very intimate form of communication. It's very revealing, very daring and very exciting."
Despite the Emmy and the glamour of celebrity, the life of a soap opera star is not an easy one. "All My Children" is taped five days a week, 51 weeks a year (Christmas week is a holiday). A minimum of five episodes are taped each week, sometimes six or seven, especially after Christmas to make up for lost time. Holidays such as Memorial Day or Labor Day are rarely times of rest; the shows must go on.
On the days Lucci is working--three, sometimes four days a week--she awakens at 4:30 or 5 in the morning in her 14-room Georgian colonial home in Garden City, Long Island, a well-to-do suburb of New York City--and the town where she grew up. She has some oatmeal, yogurt or fresh fruit, maybe even a bagel.
After breakfast, Lucci travels for an hour and 15 minutes to the "All My Children" set, which is located on West 66th Street, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "I'm studying my lines all the way," she says. "Usually, on Sundays I read all the scripts for the week. My parts are underlined, and I'll think about the lines in a loose way, which I find very creative. I commit the lines to memory on the day of the shoot, in the car. Rehearsal begins at 7:30 a.m., with the director and the script. And then it's run to hair and makeup. Some days we try to be ready to begin taping at 9:30 a.m. Other days we rehearse on camera at 10 a.m. and start taping at 1 in the afternoon. It's all about doing the lines and getting in as much rehearsal as you can and getting physically ready."<
The day's work usually ends at about 7 p.m.--although it has been known to continue until 3 or 4 in the morning on particularly difficult or busy days. "And then I go home, and on the way home I look at another script," she says. "When I go home, that's really time to be home."
For her duties, Lucci is paid well, but, she says, not as well as some. She declines to discuss salary, and says that all published reports--one number or another in front of the word million--are incorrect. "By the standards of television I do very well," she says, "but by standards in the world I'm not paid as well as many athletes, or as well as many rookie athletes. But I still love what I do. And I do many other things, and I'm rewarded for those other things, too, so 'All My Children' is not my only source of income."
In the studio, the goal is to complete one one-hour show a day. But sometimes, to allow for vacations or time off to make prime-time television movies, it's one show, with an additional seven or eight scenes. Each scene is rehearsed once on the set, before the cameras, and then taped. A typical day will involve 25 to 30 scenes, and anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of them will involve Lucci. Between the rehearsal and the taping, Lucci will often stand on the set, script in hand, going over her lines, making sure she has them down. She says the lines to herself, looks up, closes her eyes and visualizes the words and the action. Sometimes she leaves the set and walks to a corner of the studio to practice the lines aloud. She will, after all, essentially have only one chance to get them right.
Unlike the movies, in which each scene is broken into individual shots and each shot can be redone many times, a scene in a soap opera, because of the time constraints, is usually taped in one long take--unless an actor forgets his or her lines or something goes wrong technically--with three cameras shooting from various angles.
There is, Lucci says, a lot of pressure to get things right the first time. "But a lot of it is good pressure," she says, "like the pressure you feel standing backstage in a theater waiting to go on. Because you do get the feeling the show is being done live, because the goal is one take, and the whole process is geared to that. We do a scene from beginning to end, and it can be a six-page scene or a twelve-page scene, so it's a lot like doing a play. On the other hand, it's like doing a new play every day, because there's a new script every day. So it's very much flying by the seat of your pants. But I enjoy the pace. And I enjoy working spontaneously and feeling the kind of electricity that comes with that."
Lucci has certainly provided more than her share of electricity as Erica, so much so that an observer might think the two have much in common. But with a few exceptions, Lucci and her television persona are as different as the sun and the moon. For instance, unlike Erica Kane, Lucci has been happily married to the same man, Helmut Huber, for nearly 29 years.
"Erica and I are both very ambitious," Lucci says. "We both love men, and we both love clothes. But I was very lucky to meet my husband. I met him when I was very young, and now that I'm grown I still think I made a great choice. He's a lot of wonderful things that make me very happy. But I think that probably the greatest difference between Erica and myself is that I had a great relationship with my father. He used to take me out with him after blizzards and hurricanes. He's the kind of man who would go out in the community to see if a tree had fallen down and if somebody needed help, because he really knew what to do. He would take me with him, when I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I would sit in the front seat of the car and I'd feel so proud that he took me with him.
"We used to watch bullfights on television together. He loved bullfights. I remember reading Hemingway when I was 12 or 13 years old just to find out about these men's men. My father always made me feel like I was important and that I could do anything I wanted to do. He would always tell me that. He would introduce me as the brains of the family. He made me feel very proud of myself.
"Erica had a father who left when she was nine years old and who did some terrible things. He allowed his best friend, who had a crush on Erica when she was fourteen, to be alone in a room with her, and turned his back when his friend raped her. He was a horrible monster. She has a lot of issues she has to get over that stem from that bad relationship. And I have a great relationship with my father."
Susan Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York, a suburb of New York City, on December 23. She is reluctant to reveal her age. "I must come from a different time," she says, "because I really believe in mystery and I think that in any other profession no one would ask anybody, men or women, how old they are."
She says that all previous published reports of her year of birth are incorrect. She grew up in Garden City. Her father, Victor, was a construction contractor and her mother, Jeanette, a nurse; Lucci has an older brother, Jimmy, who is a business management consultant.
Her love of acting began at an early age. "I had a very happy childhood. My father would take me ice skating and horseback riding. We would sing together. He was a wonderful artist. He taught me to draw, to use pastels and charcoals. My parents were always in the audience for me. From the first play I was ever in--a Girl Scout play based on 'Cinderella' in which I got to play Cinderella--they've always been in the audience for me. They've always rooted for me. They've always encouraged me to dream my dreams. Even though they didn't want to part with me, they let me go to Norway when I was 16 as an exchange student. They didn't want me to be an actress, but they let me try for that, too. I know that was difficult for them, but what they did was very good. Because I was very headstrong, and I was going to do it anyway.
At Garden City High School, she was a cheerleader and an honors student, and she acted in all the plays, among them The King and I. She went on to major in drama at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, where, she says, she was lucky because "the drama faculty was from the Yale School of Drama and the Royal Shakespeare Company of London and the Martha Graham Dance Company."
At one point, school and career collided. When she was a senior at Marymount, one of the directors with whom she had worked on campus told her he knew the owner of the Miss Universe Pageant franchise. "He asked if I would be interested in trying out for the Miss New York State part of the pageant, and even though my parents didn't want me to be an actress, they were very proud I was asked to do this and they said yes. I was one of the five who made the finals. We were supposed to do the bathing-suit competition at the Nevele Country Club in the Catskills, but it was the same weekend I had to take my four-year comprehensive exams to graduate. So at that point my father put his pride aside and told me that I needed to get my degree, forget the Nevele Country Club and the finals, and go take my exams. And that's what I did."
After graduation, Lucci went to New York City to launch her acting career. She got bit parts in a couple of movies--Goodbye, Columbus and Me, Natalie--but her first efforts were not encouraging. A casting director told her that she should forget about television because her skin was too dark. She might have had a chance, he said, if she had blue eyes.
"He told me that olive skin and dark eyes and dark hair were the wrong combination," she recalls. "But he also told me that if I wanted to make it in New York, I should give myself a year. I shouldn't take anything out of town. And that's what I did. I remember that when he was talking to me I thought, 'I will find work. I'll do it. I'll be all right.' I was very determined."
One day, in 1969, while working on an independent movie that was never released, Lucci was called for a routine meeting with a casting director for a soap opera that was scheduled to debut in six months. "Agnes Nixon, the show's creator, really wanted somebody dark to play this part. She has always been ahead of her time," Lucci says. "At the end of the meeting they told me they thought I would be very right for a part they had in mind, and they said they would call me in six months or so, when they got the project on its feet. I didn't know whether to believe them, because six months is a long time. But they did remember, and they called me in. They called hundreds of people. But I kept progressing from one reading to the next, and then to the next, and I got the part."
The part, of course, was Erica Kane, and the soap was "All My Children," which debuted on ABC on January 5, 1970. Lucci first appeared as Erica in Episode 10. (Nixon told The New York Times in 1993 that she considered Lucci "a great find." Lucci had "innocence but with a little bit of vixen. And she understood Erica's vulnerability. Through the years Susan has created Erica as much as the writers. If she left the show we would never recast the part. It would be impossible.")
Nine months after her debut as Erica, Lucci got married. She had first met Helmut Huber when she was 17 years old, and he was 29 and divorced. "I was working during the summer at the Garden City Hotel," she says, "and he was the executive chef. Right after that he became the director of food and beverages for the hotel chain. But he was there that summer, and I thought he was the smartest person in the entire hotel. I used to stand in the back of the cocktail lounge and listen to him speak German--he was born in Austria--to two German hostesses. I thought they were so worldly, so sophisticated, so attractive. And I thought Helmut was just a great, attractive older man. He thought I was a pretty little girl, but clearly I had not been around the block yet, and he had been several times. His friend told him to stay away from me, that I was too young. And he did."
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Duck and cover! the shit is gonna hit the fan when B Dubya gets hereSkeeterBuzzzonaut wrote:The most important part of this movie is about wtc building 7. Some of the financial/tax information is "up to debate" to say the least, and a lot of the 9/11 stuff is total crap. However, seeing building 7 implode changed my life. It's proof that we're being lied to.
There's no question that it was a controlled demolition, and the 9/11 report says almost nothing about it. The government was behind building 7 the reasons are unknown (and could be legit for all know . . . for example there could have been a bomb planted inside and they had to take the building down in a controlled way to save lives, it's a possibility).
I wish this movie would of stayed more objective, it's obviously assembled to prove an anti-religion, anti-government, and anti-consumerism agenda. Where as it could of looked at the views from both sides. For example have a religious person tell how religio gnives them comfort and peace.
Still a good movie though. A lot of good concepts were touched on, but because it's so one sided it's easy for people who don't share the views to dismiss them all together. People who hate religion, money, and government already agree with the views and don't really need convincing. So what I'm saying is, this is a good movie but it would of been a great movie if it could have changed minds.
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Solutions to reducing poverty in Minnesota and particularly in suburban communities will challenge local and state leaders in 2012.
The recession is taking its toll in the suburbs where it once was thought the middle class was enjoying the good life. The financial plight of suburban residents is less visible, because many are too proud to admit their need for help.
According to census figures, 197,000 suburban residents are living below the poverty line, compared to 90,000 in the year 2000.
Researchers tell that in 2008, 56 percent of the Twin Cities Metro Area's poor lived in the suburban area compared to 46 percent in the year 2000. (The poverty line is considered to be $11,344 for individuals and $22,113 for a family of four.)
The demand for food at suburban food shelves has never been greater and is growing. Percentages of students qualifying for free and reduced lunches at public schools continues to mount.
Loss of jobs and mortgage foreclosures are forcing residents out of their homes and into apartments.
Lenders are restricting their loans and Realtors in some communities are steering people of color from areas where white people own homes.
A legislative committee to end poverty in Minnesota by 2020 has issued a report with recommendations.
There is a role for communities to play, but first the leadership needs to be aware of the growing areas of poverty in their midst and what can be done about it.
Many suburban communities in the country have commissioned Stable Integration Boards which monitor lending restrictions to people of color and to how and where realtors direct home-buyers.
There is no such board in the entire Twin Cities Metro Area. City councils should investigate the idea, or perhaps commission a task force to monitor the evolution of poverty in their towns.
Mryon Orfield, who has written books about the development of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area, notes that no one is monitoring how poverty in communities is growing and what is being done about it.
He says community leaders should be certain that students have access to good elementary schools. They should be sure the housing codes are being enforced. Leaders should pay attention to how Realtors are representing all areas of the city as they sell homes.
Orfield is a professor of law at the Hubert Humphrey Institute and executive director on race and poverty.
Mayors and council members should push for more affordable housing.
Orfield says the Metropolitan Council should renew its program of providing more funds for affordable housing, as it did successfully from 1970 to 1985.
Some will say let the private sector create jobs unabated and the problem of poverty will take care of itself.
While that has some validity, a partnership of business, the faith community, government and non-profits is needed to alleviate poverty in this state. — Don Heinzman


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Middle States had issued a warning in August based on the fallout from the scandal that began a year ago with the arrest of Sandusky, a former assistant football coach.
According to Erickson, Middle States said it was impressed by how the Penn State community responded to the scandal in emphasizing "unity and positive change over recrimination."
Middle States sent representatives to campus last month. The commission also evaluated Penn State finances, given that the school has spent $20 million to date on scandal-related costs and still faces potential civil settlements with Sandusky accusers.
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Trustees on Friday wrapped up two days of regularly scheduled meetings with a full assembly of the board, during which they expected to vote on plans to search for Erickson's replacement.
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The Boston Beer Company Joins the Team as an Official Partner
Charlotte, N.C. (April 2, 2013) - Charlotte Lacrosse LLC announced today that The Boston Beer Company has signed on as a new team sponsor and that Samuel Adams has been named the Official Beer of the Charlotte Hounds.
Elements of the category-exclusive partnership include signage, promotions, tastings, print and social media. Fans 21+ will be able to enjoy Samuel Adams Boston Lager, Sam Adams Light, a seasonal selection, Twisted Tea and Angry Orchard Hard Cider at all home games. On June 15, as the Hounds take on the Boston Cannons, there will be a Sam Adams look-a-like contest and an Oktoberfest untapping is scheduled for the August 3rd game vs Hamilton.
"Since Sam Adams makes great American beers and I'm an American that loves great beers, I couldn't be happier to welcome Sam Adams as the exclusive beer partner for the Hounds," said Jim McPhilliamy , Hounds President.
"America's original sport and America's original craft beer...it's the perfect match. We want to work with passionate and enthusiastic people and these guys are just that. And did I mention that I'm a huge fan of Samuel Adams Boston Lager?" added Wade Leaphart , Hounds Chief Operating Officer.
"We're ecstatic to have the opportunity to partner with the Charlotte Hounds and engrain ourselves in the Charlotte lacrosse community. We have been able to work on some great events that will be sure to add incremental excitement throughout the season. We'll look forward to seeing lacrosse and beer fans unite over one of our awarding winning beers." said Remy Fromm , BBC Region Manager.
About Charlotte Hounds
In January 2011, Major League Lacrosse announced a league expansion for the 2012 season that included Columbus, OH and Charlotte, NC. The team began play in April 2012 at historic American Legion Memorial Stadium. In their first season, the Hounds averaged 5,700 in attendance and finished with a 5-9 record as an expansion team. The 2013 season begins April 27 and features seven (7) regular season home games, as well as the 2013 MLL All-Star Game.
For more information, please visit http://www.charlottehounds.com.
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The Boston Beer Company is America's leading brewer of handcrafted, full-flavored craft beers. Founder and Brewer, Jim Koch, brews Samuel Adams® craft beers using the time honored traditional four-vessel brewing process, and the world's finest all-natural ingredients. With over 30 distinctive, award-winning styles of craft beer, Samuel Adams offers discerning beer drinkers a variety of brews. The brewery has won more awards in international beer tasting competitions in the last five years than any other craft beer brewery in the world.
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