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The Devil Incarnate CM Punk
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CM Punk a independent wrestling legend, who has left his mark in various companies such as Ring of Honor, and the IWA. CM Punk has been wrestling for many years, while Mankind was being tossed of cells Phil Brooks would adopt the name of CM Punk and would wrestle in backyard wrestling in a promotion along with friends called "Lunatic Championship Wrestling", little did anyone know that CM Punk would keep the name he started with before he wasn't even signed or even started training, and would become one of the longest reigning WWE Champions in history. CM Punk would officially start training under Ace Steel, along with his best friend and other indy superstar and former WWE wrestler Colt Cobana (Scotty Goldman for some of you) these two would be close friends but in their careers they will have there for share of battles in ROH as well. CM Punk got his start in the IWA (a wrestling company in the south where he would face his long time best friend Colt Cabana, and future NXT superstar Chris Hero (Kassius Ohno), there he would be there top superstar winning the IWA World title 5 times. While there he would face future TNA Hall of Famer AJ Styles, and even beat the late great Eddie Guerrero. That's right before he was even looked at by WWE or TNA for that matter he had already beaten one of the all time greats of the wrestling world. But CM Punks best matches out of IWA came with Chris Hero whom there matches were of the longest to ever have happened between two men in the Untied States with some lasting 55 mins, and one even going as long as 93 mins (That's over an hour an 33 mins of pure wrestling) but would eventually accomplish all that was needed in the IWA and would leave for Ring of Honor. When CM Punk entered Ring of Honor he would quickly gain an arch nemesis with ECW Legend and CM Punk's opposite Raven. This feud consistent-ed of various hardcore matches, and even led to them wrestling around the world going as far as Belfast, Ireland. CM Punk's feud with Raven is also considered to be one of the feuds that put Ring of Honor on the map. Though Punk was Raven's enemy through much of 2003 they would join forces in TNA and create the faction known as the Gathering. But his stint in TNA did not last long as he had an altercation with Teddy Hart, and leading to there dismissal from TNA, along with the fact he could not get over with the fans in TNA as a villain, officials would eventually let Punk go(And this is what I considered to be TNA's greatest loss in the companies history.) Though he was let go by TNA CM Punk would be one of the top stars in ROH having being the semi-finals winner to become the first Pure champion in the companies history. He would also join forces with Colt Cabana as the Second City Saints to become Ring of Honor tag team champions twice. CM Punk would also have some classic matches with Bryan Danielson who would ironically consider himself to be the best in the World, which led to some great matches between the two. With neither one getting the edge in victories and losses. Eventually CM Punk would have what some consider to be one of the greatest matches in the companies history (some say ever) when he and Samoa Joe battled in the best of 3 series for the Ring of Honor World Title. The second match was a draw but would go on to receive a five star rating from Dave Meltzer. This was also a major accomplishment since the last time this rating was given was 7 years prior to the match. Joe would eventually win the series but that didn't stop Punk as he would go on to defeat Austin Aries for the ROH World title, after already signing with WWE. This is when CM Punk become the greatest villain in the companies history he would cut a promo claiming to be the devil himself, and that he suckered the fans in to believing in him. This would lead to numerous devilish acts such as signing his WWE contract on the ROH belt, before losing the title to Jamie Noble (James Gibson in ROH) in a fatal 4 way. CM Punk although as a heel going out would end up facing Colt on his last match with the company and would cry tears but would be met not with hate from the fans. But cheers, and love from the fans that he gave some of his best matches to.
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CM Punk Reveals himself
After a long time in OVW, Promos would tease a debut for CM Punk in ECW which was made against Justin Credible in 2006 and shockingly he hadn't changed most since his ROH days, even keeping one of his signature moves the Anaconda Vice. CM Punk would soon go undefeated beating former ECW superstars like CW Anderson, and WWE Stars like Shannon Moore. Eventually CM Punk would wrestle his first PPV event at Survivor Series 2006 on Team DX, what was shocking about this event is the crowd for a portion of the match chanted CM Punks name over the likes of Shawn Michaels , and Triple H. Punk would eventually be defeated suffering his first loss at the hands of Hardcore Holly. But would eventually go on to qualify on the biggest stage of them all Wrestlemania 23 as part of the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. CM Punk almost won the match, but Mr. Kennedy would knock him off the ladder leading to Kennedy getting the win. CM Punk would have his first heel turn after Wrestlemania in ECW briefly aligning himself with the New Breed but that didn't lost long when it changed the next week. CM Punk would eventually set his sights on the ECW title and was slated to face Benoit for the ECW Title at Vengeance 2007 (Which would have been Match of the Year) but sadly because of obvious reasons would face and lose the match to Johnny Nitro. Punk would eventually feud with Morrison trying to get shots for his title receiving won at Summerslam 2007 but would lose through dirty antics by Morrison. Finally on Sept 1 CM Punk would be John Morrison for his first title in the WWE, The ECW Championship. Punk would hold the title for numerous months, eventually losing the title to Chavo Guerrero.
Finally his time came Wrestlemania 24, CM Punk would beat various superstars from the first undisputed champion Chris Jericho, to Mr. Kennedy to win the Money in the Bank Ladder Match. Punk was soon drafted to Raw and a week after made a huge impact. He won the World Heavyweight Championship. Former independent star, a guy who was told he couldn't make it, was on the premiere brand as World Champion, defeating Edge with his signature Go to Sleep. Punk would never lose the world title having been punted in the head by Orton in unable to compete Punk would forfeit his World Title. After this lost Punk would acquire numerous accolades becoming a WWE Tag team Champion with Kofi Kingston, as well as winning the Intercontinental Championship becoming a triple crown winner, this title is held by the greatest in our industry, like Shawn Michaels, Kurt Angle, and Eddie Guerrero.
Punk would then acquire another major feat, he would win Money in the Bank again two years in a row (a feat that wasn't done before and hasn't been done since), this time Punk would use the title on Jeff Hardy becoming a 2x World Champion. This time when he cashed it in he would turn into the best heel in the WWE at the time (seeing as the fans turned there backs on him in actually, since they cheered him when he did the year prior) this would lead to the feud of the year and match of the year candidates with Jeff Hardy at Summerslam, and would lead to Jeff Hardy's last match in the WWE, when CM Punk sent him packing in a steel cage match. CM Punk would face his biggest foe to date, the Undertaker whom he made "submit" at Breaking Point, though he would lose to the Undertaker at hell in a cell the PPV after. (Punk should have won that match.) CM Punk after his lost would show some signs of his devil persona which he had near the end of his ROH career becoming the leader of the cult Strait Edge Society.
During this time CM Punk would become the most watched segment on smackdown where he would shave peoples head, and try to save the audience from doing drugs, and drinking alcohol. CM Punk even more to his Devilish ways would grow his hair and beard out and become some what of an Anti-Christ of professional wrestling. During this time CM Punk would have some special moments such as the promos given at the Royal Rumble 2010, and the Elimination Chamber that year. His biggest feud during this persona came in the form of Rey Mysterio whom would beat CM Punk at Wrestlemania. This would not stop there feud as they would put on some classic matches after Wrestlemania culminating at Over the Limit in which Punk had his head shaved and Punk donning a mask. (The worst time in his WWE Career.) Skipping through his boring feud with The Big Show, CM Punk would soon catapalut himself back into the main-event scene when joined the Nexus, and become a violent leader of the group. During this time he would begin a feud with Randy Orton, (This is ironic because CM Punk is rightfully so to pick a fight with Orton since he cost him the World Title years prior) which would lead to what I considered to be the best match at Wrestlemania 27,which would see Randy Orton come out on top. The feud would last another month when Orton was the last man Standing at Extreme Rules.
But this was the last straw eventually Punk would at the next ppv defeat Rey Mysterio at Capitol Punishment in start his career on becoming the top star in the WWE. CM Punk would eventually become no 1. contender for the title and would begin the greatest feud in the WWE in the last 10 years not just with John Cena, but with the WWE itself. CM Punk would begin to show aspects and mannerisms, and promos similar to what he displayed in Ring of Honor about how his contract was expiring. But then he dropped the best promo since WWF became the WWE. Calling to light that he is the best in the world, that he's better than John Cena, saying that Vince McMahon is a bully, which would lead to Punk becoming a rebel in the company. Demanding respect from Vince McMahon, and John Cena who would not give in to CM Punk's demands of respect leading to Money in the Bank 2011 which would be CM Punk's true moment to define him. Which he did when he defeated Cena for the WWE title in a classic match, but that wasn't the moment of the night, the moment came when Punk blew Vince a kiss and ran through the arena. CM Punk would return eventually causing issues with Triple H, and would even defeat Cena again at Summerslam but would be screwed out of the title by Kevin Nash, and lose his title to Alberto Del Rio. Eventually CM Punk would begin a rivalry with The Game Triple H saying how he's basically his wife's doormat and calling him names leading to a street fight between the two at Night of Champions in which Triple H defeated CM Punk. (Punk should have won this one to.)
CM Punk Begins one of the longest WWE Title Reigns in History
CM Punk would get more title shots at ppvs such as Hell in a Cell, but would finally get his one on one shot with the man who cashed his briefcase in on Punk, Alberto Del Rio, whom Punk would make cement making Punk a 2 time WWE Champion.
CM Punk after winning the title would defend the title against Del Rio, The Miz, and Dolph Ziggler. But his first major challenge would be the man who wanted to end CM Punk for good, Chris Jericho. Chris Jericho returned to the WWE because he felt that Punk stole his title of Best in the World, and that he wanted to beat him for his title at Wrestlemania and proved that he was still the best. At Wrestlemania Chris Jericho and CM Punk had the best techincal match at Wrestlemania with CM Punk coming out on top. Chris Jericho would not stop there as he would continue to belittle CM Punks abstinace from drinking, provoking him leading to a Chicago Street Fight at Extreme Rules match with CM Punk once again defeating Chris Jericho. CM Punk would then enter a rivalry with former Ring of Honor Enemy and friend Daniel Bryan (The guy he really stole the Best in the World title from.) These two would have what I considered to be 2012's match of the year at Over The Limit with near-falls, but CM Punk coming out on top once again. But there feud didn't end there, Kane would eventually be added to the mix leading to a triple threat match at No Way Out with AJ getting in the way as well, but Punk would come out on top again. Finally CM Punk, and Daniel's Bryan would be settled at Money in the Bank and a great hardcore match with CM Punk finally proving to Daniel Bryan that he really is the best (well better than Daniel Bryan.)
CM Punks Final Heel Turn
On July 23 CM Punk would face John Cena who had won the Money in the Bank Briefcase at the PPV Punk would face Cena at the Raw event on July 23, leading to another great match between the two, but would be interrupted by the Big Show and The Rock.This is one I think CM Punk's greatest moment in his WWE Career was achieved. He laid out The Rock with the GTS. This moment was random, but when he did it you can see his eyes the frustration he had with the Rock and it had built up for months. Eventually Punk's true characteristics where displayed as the Villain he really is, he would defeat Cena and Big Show at Summerslam. At Night of Champions he would wrestle Cena yet again but would regain his title in a draw, not only thought he aligned himself with Paul Heyman (he is a Paul Heyman guy.) Punk would begin to demand respect, respect he deserves from all the great matches he has given over the years. But guys like Cena refused to give it to him saying he hasn't earned it. CM Punk right now is still the best in the World and I'm certain that he will remain champion until Survivor Series. And complete his circle of being WWE Champion of over a year.
CM Punk is now the top heel, and ironically the devilish traits in which he claimed that he is the devil himself, and that he fooled everyone in ROH seems to be true yet again. He has went from fooling the ROH audience, to fooling the WWE Universe and that he is truly the greatest heel in the WWE today, and he deserves Respect.


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Ahh, Paula Deen. Whether you're a fan of butter, good ol' southern cooking and the once-voluptuous Paula Deen, or not, I'm sure you're familiar with the public relations crisis that just keeps giving.
Last week, Ms. Deen faced major criticism for statements made in a deposition for a discrimination lawsuit by one of her former employees. The story originated with The Enquirer on the morning of June 19, and was later confirmed by the Huffington Post (which obtained copies of a deposition transcript), that afternoon.
In that document, Ms. Deen admitted that she had tolerated racist jokes and had made racist remarks. She mentioned that most of these jokes were about Jewish people, black people, gay people and "red necks." Some reports indicate that Ms. Deen also tolerated pornography in the workplace.
Ok, admittedly not great. But things went from bad to worse when the "Twitterverse" got hold of these juicy tidbits. The buzz was so ferocious that on June 19, the hash tag #PaulasBestDishes was trending on Twitter.
On the evening of June 20, Paula was skewered on numerous satirical shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. On the morning of June 21, Paula was scheduled to appear on The Today Show with Matt Lauer to field some (likely, soft-ball) questions. She bails, citing exhaustion.
Then came the apologies. THREE different apologies, to be exact. (Watch them here, here, and here).
That afternoon, Food Network issued a public statement indicating they would be dropping Ms. Deen – and all three of her shows – effective immediately. Well-known companies, from Smithfield (on June 24), Walmart and Caesar's (June 26), Novo Nordisk and Target (June 27), QVC, Kmart, Sears, Walgreens, JCPenny and her own publisher (June 28) dropped Paula's endorsement deals.
While several big-name celebrities have come to Paula's rescue (Jimmy Carter and Ann Rice, to name a few), the damage is done. Paula Deen will likely never again be the queen of butter.
The interesting thing, for me, is: How did everyone seem to think that Ms. Deen's reputation for Southern hospitality and honesty wasn't long-tarnished before these allegations surfaced? Doesn't anyone remember that "little" diabetes cover-up?
I hate to be the bad guy here, but daggonit, Paula has made it hard for me to say anything in her defense.
Where were those apologies three days earlier? For that matter, why were there three different apologies (none of which were particularly heart-felt or convincing)? Where was her crisis management team? Now, that's a group whose contract should definitely be terminated!
Why did she bail on the Today Show, a show where millions of politicians caught with their pants down and athletes on steroids have apologized to rave reviews (doesn't Paula know you don't anger Matt Lauer!)? Where was her social media presence?
Where was her team in meeting with her retail partners? Or, for that matter, once she knew certain retailers were going to drop her, where was her team in ensuring they all did it on the same day, thus avoiding a longer news cycle?
So many questions; so few answers. Do I feel badly for Ms. Deen? No!
Why not, you ask?
Well, because of all the unanswered questions above. It's often said there are two types of companies in this world: those that have had a crisis and those that will have a crisis.
Paula et. al. should have been preparing for the advent of a crisis much sooner (especially if those close to her realized that she wasn't very politically correct sans cameras…porn and profanity, Paula, really?!?!?). They should have had an action plan in place.
When the story broke, it should have been a war room in Paula's offices. Every one of her team should have been on the phone with one of her partners making apologies, and more importantly, asking how the team could help them deal with this crisis.
And most importantly, Paula should have apologized about three days sooner.
Say what you want in her defense (in fact, I love her recipes and show just as much as the next person), but, come on; this crisis could have had a different outcome if Paula had followed some PR 101.
Have a crisis team and plan in place. Please, don't go it alone. Apologize (and mean it!). Reach out to your partners and ask to help them. Communicate with your staff. Don't anger Matt Lauer.
And most importantly, "YouTube-proof" yourself. Don't want to get caught in a compromising position? Don't do something compromising. Manage your reputation before something bad happens (don't, for example, lie about having diabetes).
Basically, don't "pull a Paula."
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In my day-to-day activities, I spend a lot of time talking to folks involved in the markets. I am an equal-opportunity chatter: I talk to investors, traders, growth guys, momentum guys, risk arbs, and even the futures and options traders. On occasion, I troll the Web reading various trading and investing Websites and chat boards to get a feel for sentiment and activity. The more I read, the more I have a question for all the retail and individual traders out there.
Why do this to yourself?
Individual traders seem determined to give away any edge they may have and become donors to the large funds and the Wall Street profit machine.
Everyone seems to be trading the same stuff. Almost every individual trader I run across has the same stocks on their screens. They are all trading Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), gold exchange-traded funds, Salesforce.com (CRM) and other so-called hot stocks and ETFs. All of you are poring over each day's edition of a certain daily business paper looking for high-ranked stocks with the same technical patterns. A huge percentage of traders are trading the same stuff in almost the exact same way and wondering why they are not more successful.
Think about what you are doing for a moment. You are trading the same highly liquid, popular stocks that all the black boxes and leading quant funds are trading every day. You are competing against guys like Jim Simons, who has so much computing power he had to install special air conditioners. The guys on the other side of the trade are likely to be Steve Cohen and his guys at SAC, who are masters of short-term trading, or the three guys with PhDs in computer science and quantum physics just blocks from the New York Stock Exchange.
When you trade what everybody else is trading, you are getting into a shark pool wearing a meat suit.
I spent a good deal of time this week talking about the powerful market anomalies provided by insider-trading information. Although I use it in my activities as an investor, I am just befuddled as to why a trader would not use such a powerful edge. You have an easily assembled list of stocks that have a strong statistical probability of moving in a certain direction. Companies where insiders have been selling stock in clusters have a tendency to go lower. Those with the CEO and CFO buying or cluster buying by insiders have a very pronounced expectation to go a lot higher over the next three to six months. Why aren't you running your patterns and statistics on these lists where you have a huge edge and no competition from other traders?
Everybody and their brother seems to trade off the new-high and top-performing stocks lists. In the past year, I have been doing a fair amount of work on establishing hedged portfolios using stocks trading at new lows. What we have found is a marked tendency for the stocks that are down more than 50% in the past year to stage enormous rebounds. When we ran the data in the first week of November, we had four stocks that made the list. Of the four, Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) and First Solar (FSLR) are up by more than 30% in less than 60 days. Why are you trading the same stocks everyone else is, the ones where large quant funds are gaming against you in highly liquid stocks?
I have had traders tell me they have to be in the same things as everybody else because that's where the action is in the market. That's the same reason they go to the craps table as well -- and they usually lose. If you want to gamble, go to Las Vegas. At least you get free cocktails in a casino. To succeed in the markets you have to approach it as a business. Most individual traders do not have the same liquidity concerns of the big funds and don't need to worry about getting off a million shares at a clip during the day. You have the advantage of being able to trade what they cannot. You are not here for action, you are here to make money. At least I hope so, because action junkies go broke.
There are several exploitable market anomalies you can use as an edge and find opportunities way from the competition. Traders tend to want to be in high-volatility stocks to take advantage of price swings. Sounds good, but did you know that according to several academic studies, low-volatility stocks tend to outperform higher-volatility stocks? I ran a screen of low beta-liquid stocks and looked back at 2012. I found any number of successful technical patterns that would have offered huge trading opportunities. I have done studies of S&P 500 stocks trading below book value and found extreme outperformance. I looked at my list of candidates from January and found a plethora of tradable patterns that my technical-analysis-oriented friends tell me work well.
If you are trying to day trade the same stocks as all the other day traders, you are picking up dimes in front of bulldozers. It is highly likely that a bigger, faster trader will eventually push you under the bulldozer and scoop up all your dimes. Change your time frame and your universe. If your methods and tools are valid, you will make more money than doing what everyone else does.


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I was recently asked to create a veve painting of Papa Ghede who is the counterpart to Baron Samedi for my friend Maria Alexander. I love Maria and I love her writing so I was incredibly honored to do this for her. This was my first veve painting and I wasn't quite sure how to go about it but I knew the Baron wanted me to do it. Papa Ghede is tricky you see, he can get you to do exactly what he pleases without much twisting of the arm. I knew painting the veve wouldn't be easy. They may look easy but there's a lot involved in them, that and Papa there wanted a few things incorporated into it. Papa is one that likes his rum, especially when there's chilis in it. I can't handle the chilis too much so I had to take it easy on that one. For every layer of paint I gave an offering of rum. In the paint I mixed chilis and tobacco, the brown you see on the edges is coffee both the grounds and actual coffee, that I used as paint, and over every layer of offerings I coated it with glaze to seal it in. And for every round of offerings I dressed in white.
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Lol hey now, I still love my Redlegs. But NASCAR is my first love. I haven't missed a race since the '94 Brickyard.
And Kyle Busch is the Johnny Gomes of NASCAR.
Neither is Kyle. He's a very nice guy who is tremendous to his fans.
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|YDS: 5.7 French: 5a Ewbanks: 15 UIAA: V+ ZA: 13 British: MVS 4b [details]
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|lee hansche on May 31, 2007
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By Casey Bald
Sep 17, 2007
lee, have you ever had the chance to do the 8+/9- variation?
from the third pitch anchor move left after the flake and move up
under the overlap left of the 5.7. clip a bolt on the edge of the
overlap and make an awkward matle/rockover move. climb up and right to a two bolt anchor even with the last pitch's tree anchor......
By Jay Knower
From: Campton, NH
Nov 14, 2007
|I think the variation Casey talks about is well worth doing. If I remember correctly, the moves are cool and pretty well protected. Plus you get to go to a bolted belay instead of a tree belay.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Nov 4, 2009
|i did the variation and im gonna add it to the description...
By AtiMonkey91
Feb 25, 2010
|Make sure to bring Tri-cams! On the second and third pitch, there are pockets which are too narrow for most cams. Tri-cams (especially the pink one) will help a lot
By Gabe13 Flanders
From: Eaton Center, New Hampshire
Sep 11, 2010
There is another nice variation (technically part of Pathfinder, but the only part worth doing i.m.o.): From the pitch 4 anchor, approach the overlap, aiming for an old-ish pin. Step up, clip a bolt over the lip, and crank one 5.9 move onto the slab. Teeter left, throw a medium tricam in a pocket, and you're golden to the rap anchor.
You may continue on a short 5.7 pitch to the final, huge overlap. Anyone ever actually done "Corbett's Crack"? It sure looks harder than 5.8...
By matthewWallace
From: Sandwich, NH
Jul 15, 2013
rating: 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
|Great route, I would say however that the thin strip between the moss just before the tree is very overgrown and sketchy, it might be time for a quick brushing...
By Brendan Blanchard
From: Boulder, CO
Aug 25, 2013
From the tree anchor at the top, my partner and I were able to make it to the ground in three, two rope (60m) raps. We went from the tree to the bolted belay directly below, probably about 120', then down and climber's left to the tree belay, a full 60m rap, then one more to the ground with a little rope to spare at the bottom. As always, knot the rope!
The middle tree belay is part the Stadtmuller Griffin Route, and could probably use a new sling/cord, but was still safe to rap on.
By chinos
Sep 22, 2013
|another good option to get to the white zone as well
By Russ Keane
Jul 22, 2014
I wouldn't climb anywhere without my Tricams! Especially slab.
This route was fun. The 5.7 crux is way sweet. Then the 5.8 variation was bomber. Pretty tough on lead.
By Christopher Woodall
From: Somerville, MA
Jul 31, 2016
|Me and my partner got stung by some nasty wasps on the 4th pitch who were hanging out in the left facing corner to the left of the 3rd belay. Watch out for them if you plan on doing this route. I got stung twice and my partner once.


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Disney releasing separate version of 'Iron Man 3' in China
While the comic book nerds and the mass audiences are both eagerly awaiting the May 3 release of Iron Man 3, there's a little bit of a switch overseas. It seems China will be getting a slightly different version of the movie on their shores. And frankly, it sounds like a version we'd want to see, too.
Walt Disney Studios announced Friday that Chinese distributor DMG Entertainment will be handling the release in China, but it will be a different cut: "While Marvel and DMG have decided not to apply for co-production status in China, the film includes significant Chinese elements," Disney said in a statement to Deadline.com.
"Renowned Chinese actor Wang Xueqi will appear in both the studio's Chinese version of the film and in its international and domestic US version. Both versions of the film include Iron Man 3 footage filmed in Beijing in December. The Chinese version of the film will also feature a special appearance of China's top actress, Fan Bingbing, and will offer specially prepared bonus footage made exclusively for the Chinese audience."
And here we thought the problem would have been Ben Kingsley's character, the Mandarin, who is a half-English, half-Chinese insane criminal. Geeks will be clamoring for Chinese-release DVDs in any event; Good thing piracy is so bad over there it shouldn't be a problem.


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Dierks Bentley (Feat. Kacey Musgraves), 'Bourbon in Kentucky' – Song Review
Dierks Bentley breaks from his longtime producer Brett Beavers to record his new single 'Bourbon in Kentucky.' Sonically, the song is more experimental than anything the Batman and Robin duo put together. Beavers and Bentley's best work shook like a rattlesnake or pierced deep into the veins with a heartbreaking poison capable of inducing painful flashbacks of past relationships. Few have been as successful over the past decade.


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Submissions for Spar for the Spurtle have been rolling in all week. We can hardly believe how many we've gotten and how many are superb! I'm having my usual problem of wanting to award prizes to everyone. I never thought I would be that person- the one who wants to give a ribbon to every kid who participates, but I am and I do! I just think everyone really put forth a good effort and deserves some superior recognition.
First things first: SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO 11:59 PM ON 08/07! That means, if you haven't had a chance to do so, but still want to enter- you can.
I've talked to a bunch of you individually, but I want to address some of the common concerns here:
1. I'm camera shy: I would guess this applies to a lot of us. Even with a photographer husband, I don't like my photo taken any more than the next gal and I absolutely loathe being in videos. Here is how one person very cleverly made a video without showing themselves.
2. I don't own a video camera: True, not all of us have smart phones and digital cameras with video capabilities. I bet you know someone who does though. Again, check out the above video. This one doesn't even use video- but makes a video out of stills. Additionally, it doesn't have to be fancy. We just want to see that you do indeed have a recipe.
3. What can be done ahead versus needs to be done during the 30 minutes? Basically, a lot can be done ahead. Truly, the main thing that cannot be done ahead is the actual cooking of oats. They can, however, be soaked overnight prior to the competition. You can heat liquids to boiling, prep all additional ingredients and walk into the competition ready to assemble everything but the oats.
4. Can I use additional appliances? No, you get two hot burners and that's it. We know a few of the videos use an oven and those were created prior to the realization that we hadn't explicitly put it in the rules that you cannot use anything additional. While the rules for the Golden Spurtle do not say you cannot use additional appliances, we've learned from experience that they do not like it and you may be disqualified. On top of that, we learned the hard way last year that American appliances don't work so great in Europe- even with electrical converters.
The bit that takes very little effort on your part. We need help picking some winners for the Portland heat. Here's what you do: Visit http://www.sparforthespurtle.com/watch.php and select videos to watch. Then, if you like it- click on "like." You can vote for as many as you want. Winners are not solely based on the amount of "likes" a video gets, but it's definitely going to be taken into account.
To help induce you to vote, I'm giving away three spurtle kits (steel cut oats + a spurtle). To be entered all you need to do is go vote and come back here and post in the comments that you voted and who you voted for. You don't have to list them all, but list at least one. I'll pick 3 winners from all who comment by 11:59 pm on Sunday, July 31st.


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Did You Know?
Meerkats eat almost anything. They love bugs, watermelon, cat food treats, bones, and frozen fruit.
Our zookeepers are a highly talented group of people. There is so much more than meets the eye when it comes to their daily duties. In short, I couldn't even imagine doing my job without them!
Yes, zookeepers do feed the animals and clean their exhibits. But feeding actually means weighing out each portion of the animal's diet, dicing the food and preparing it just the way the animal likes or needs it. They also clean out the exhibits and then add to them with enrichment items or bedding, or other items for the animal to explore and to play and interact with. Both tasks are critical to the animal care here at Potter Park Zoo.
Yet there is much more to this whole process than feeding and cleaning, and there is much more to the zookeepers! Many of our zookeepers have a bachelor's degree in zoology, zoo and aquarium science, animal science, or other degree and several even have master's degrees in zoo and aquarium science! They have studied the natural history of the animals that they care for, they know how they are supposed to act in the wild, what they do in the wild, which helps them determine appropriate exhibit "furniture" (stuff in the exhibits) and assist in exhibit design.
All of these are quite amazing feats, but there is more! They are my eyes, ears and noses in the "field." It's not possible for me to know the individual behavior of each of our 400+ animals here at the Zoo without help. The keepers know everything about the animals they care for. How much they eat, what they like to eat, how much they sleep, where they sleep, where they go the bathroom and what it normally looks like! OK, so some of this may seem disgusting or why should we care, but it is actually very important. Any deviation from any of those behaviors could mean something is drastically wrong with our animals. You see, these animals are experts at pretending they are not sick, because if they act weak in the wild they could end up someone's lunch or dinner! So the zookeepers watch for any of these little clues and then let me know what the animal is doing. That is another trick the animals perform, much like some children, they are instantly "better" the second the Dr. comes around, for who wants to get a shot! So I trust our zookeepers quite a bit and rely on them to sometimes even diagnose an animal's problem without ever seeing the animal act sick. Without their help, I would be blind and wouldn't be able to do this.
Our zookeepers are amazing. They are incredibly hard-working in all types of weather and they make an excellent team. I hope that you see them around on your next visit to the zoo, and like me, say "thank you" to them for the great job they do in keeping our animals happy and healthy!


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I picked this up (saved) thinking it might be some kind of Native American latched rug from the beginning of the century to the 50s. It's far out of my expertise so if anyone could help me with some insight, I'd owe you forever!
I like it a lot, I just don't know what it is. Native American, Indian, African, South American?


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"I took them around the point toward Dzamandzar," Michel tells me. "Those two little whores. Just ten minutes. They asked me for a ride when I was down on the beach bailing out the Zodiac. It was rough and I went too fast on purpose. You should have seen their titties bounce!"
He tells me this in French, but with a carefree lewdness that could be Roman. He is, in fact, half Italian, product of the officially French no man's land where the Ligurian Alps touch the Massif Central. In love, like so many of his Mediterranean compatriots, with boats, with hot blue seas, with dusky women, with the steamy belt of tropics that girdles the earth. We live above Cannes, in Mougins, where it is always sunny, but on vacation we travel the world to get hotter and wilder. Islands are what Michel prefers: in Asia, Oceania, Africa, the Caribbean, it doesn't matter. Any place where the people are the color of different grades of coffee, and mangoes plop in mushy heaps on the ground, and the reef fish are brilliant as a box of new crayons. On vacation Michel sheds his manicured ad-man image and with innocent glee sets about turning himself into a Eurotrash version of Tarzan. Bronzed muscles well in evidence, shark's tooth on a leather thong, fishing knife stuck into the waist of a threadbare pareu, and a wispy sun-streaked ponytail that he tends painstakingly along with a chin crop of Hollywood stubble.
He loves me for a number of wrong reasons connected with his dreams of hot islands. It makes no difference to him that I grew up in Massachusetts, wearing L. L. Bean boots more often than sandals; after eight years of marriage, he doesn't seem to see that what gives strength to the spine of an American black woman, however exotic she appears, is a steely Protestant core. A core that in its absolutism is curiously cold and Nordic. The fact is that I'm not crazy about the tropics, but Michel doesn't want to acknowledge that. Mysteriously, we continue to get along. In fact, our marriage is surprisingly robust, though at the time of our wedding, my mother, my sister, and my girlfriends all gave it a year. I sometimes think the secret is that we don't know each other and never will. Both of us are lazy by nature, and that makes it convenient to hang on to the fantasies we conjured up back when we met in Milan: mine of the French gentleman-adventurer, and his of a pliant black goddess whose feelings accord with his. It's no surprise to me when Michel tries to share the ribald thoughts that run through the labyrinth of his Roman Catholic mind. He doubtless thought that I would get a kick out of hearing about his boat ride with a pair of African sluts.
Those girls have been sitting around watching us from under the mango tree since the day we rolled up from the airport to spend August in the house we borrowed from our friend Jean-Claude. Michel was driving Jean-Claude's car, a Citroën so rump-sprung from the unpaved roads that it moves like a tractor. Our four-year-old son, Lele, can drag his sneakers in red dust through the holes in the floor. The car smells of failure, like the house, which is built on an island off the northern coast of Madagascar, on a beach where a wide scalloped bay spreads like two blue wings, melting into the sky and the wild archipelago of lemur islands beyond. Behind the garden stretch fields of sugar cane and groves of silvery, arthritic-looking ylang-ylang trees, whose flowers lend a tang of Africa to French perfume.
The house is low and long around a grandiose veranda, and was once whitewashed into an emblem of colonial vainglory; now the walls are the indeterminate color of damp, and the thinning palm thatch on the roof swarms with mice and geckos. It has a queenly housekeeper named Hadijah, whose perfect pommes frites and plates of crudités, like the dead bidet and dried-up tubes of Bain de Soleil in the bathroom, are monuments to Jean-Claude's ex-wife, who went back to Toulon after seeing a series of projects—a frozen-fish plant, a perfume company, a small luxury hotel—swallowed up in the calm fireworks of the sunsets. Madagascar is the perfect place for a white fool to lose his money, Michel says. He and I enjoy the scent of dissolution in our borrowed house, fuck inventively in the big mildewed ironwood bed, sit in happiness in the sad, bottomed-out canvas chairs on the veranda after a day of spear-fishing, watching our son race in and out of herds of humpbacked zebu cattle on the beach.
The only problem for me has been those girls. They're not really whores, just local girls who dance at Bar Kariboo on Thursday nights and hang around the few French and Italian tourists, hoping to trade sex for a T-shirt, a hair clip. They don't know to want Ray-Bans yet; this is not the Caribbean.
I'm used to the women from the Comoros Islands who crowd onto the beach near the house, dressed up in gold bangles and earrings and their best lace-trimmed blouses. They clap and sing in circles for hours, jumping up to dance in pairs, wagging their backsides in tiny precise jerks, laughing and flashing gold teeth. They wrap themselves up in their good time in a way that intimidates me. And I've come to an understanding with the older women of the village, who come by to bring us our morning ration of zebu milk (we drink it boiled in coffee) or to barter with rideaux Richelieu, the beautiful muslin cutwork curtains that they embroider. They are intensely curious about me, l'Américaine, who looks not unlike one of them, but who dresses and speaks and acts like a foreign madame, and is clearly married to the white man, not just a casual concubine. They ask me for medicine, and if I weren't careful they would clean out my supply of Advil and Bimaxin. They go crazy over Lele, whom they call "bébé métis"—the mixed baby. I want to know all about them, their still eyes, their faces of varying colors that show both African and Indonesian blood, as I want to know everything about this primeval chunk of Africa floating in the Indian Ocean, with its bottle-shaped baobabs and strange tinkling music, the sega, which is said to carry traces of tunes from Irish sailors.
But the girls squatting under the mango tree stare hard at me whenever I sit out on the beach or walk down to the water to swim. Then they make loud comments in Malagasy, and burst out laughing. It's juvenile behavior, and I can't help sinking right down to their level and getting provoked. They're probably about eighteen years old, both good-looking; one with a flat brown face and the long straight shining hair that makes some Madagascar women resemble Polynesians; the other darker, with the tiny features that belong to the coastal people called Merina, and a pile of kinky hair tinted reddish. Both are big-titted, as Michel pointed out, the merchandise spilling out of a pair of Nouvelles Frontières T-shirts that they must have got from a tour-group leader. Some days they have designs painted on their faces in yellow sulfur clay. They stare at me, and guffaw and stretch and give their breasts a competitive shake. Sometimes they hoot softly or whistle when I appear.
My policy has been to ignore them, but today they've taken a step ahead, got a rise, however ironic, out of my man. It's a little triumph. I didn't see the Zodiac ride, but through the bathroom window I saw them come back. I was shaving my legs—waxing never lasts long enough in the tropics. Squealing and laughing, they floundered out of the rubber dinghy, patting their hair, settling their T-shirts, retying the cloth around their waists. One of them blew her nose through her fingers into the shallow water. The other said something to Michel, and he laughed and patted her on the backside. Then, arrogantly as two Cleopatras, they strode across the hot sand and took up their crouch under the mango tree. A pair of brown netsuke. Waiting for my move.
So, finally, I act. Michel comes sauntering inside to tell me, and after he tells me I make a scene. He's completely taken aback; he's gotten spoiled since we've been married, used to my American cool, which can seem even cooler than French nonchalance. He thought I was going to react the way I used to when I was still modelling and he used to flirt with some of the girls I was working with, some of the bimbos who weren't serious about their careers. That is, that I was going to chuckle, display complicity, even excitement. Instead I yell, say he's damaged my prestige among the locals, say that things are different here. The words seem to be flowing up into my mouth from the ground beneath my feet. He's so surprised that he just stands there with his blue eyes round and his mouth a small "o" in the midst of that Indiana Jones stubble.
Then I hitch up my Soleiado bikini, and march outside to the mango tree. "Va-t'en! " I hiss to Red Hair, who seems to be top girl of the duo. "Go away! Ne parle plus avec mon homme!"
The two of them scramble to their feet, but they don't seem to be going anywhere, so I slap the one with the straight hair. Except for once, when I was about ten, in a fight with my cousin Brenda, I don't believe I've ever seriously slapped anyone. This, on the scale of slaps, is half-assed, not hard. In that second of contact I feel the strange smoothness of her cheek and an instantaneous awareness that my hand is just as smooth. An electric current seems to connect them. A red light flickers in the depths of the girl's dark eyes, like a computer blinking on, and then, without saying anything to me, both girls scuttle off down the beach, talking loudly to each other, and occasionally looking back at me. I make motions as if I'm shooing chickens. "Allez-vous-en!" I screech. Far off down the beach, they disappear into the palms.
Then I go and stretch out in the water, which is like stretching out in blue air. I take off my bikini top and let the equatorial sun print my shadow on the white sand below, where small white fish graze. I feel suddenly calm, but at the same time my mind is working very fast. "My dear, who invited you to come halfway across the world and slap somebody?" I ask myself in the ultra-reasonable tones of my mother, the school guidance counsellor. Suddenly I remember another summer on yet another island. This was in Indonesia, a few years ago, when we were exploring the back roads of one of the Moluccas. The driver was a local kid who didn't speak any language we spoke, and was clearly gay. A great-looking kid with light-brown skin pitted with a few acne scars, and neat dreadlocks that would have looked stylish in Manhattan. A Princess Di T-shirt, and peeling red nail polish. When we stopped at a waterfall, and Michel the Adventurer went off to climb the lava cliffs, I sat down on a flat rock with the driver, whipped out my beauty case, and painted his nails Shocking pink. He jumped when I first grabbed his hand, but when he saw what I was up to he gave me a huge ecstatic grin, and then closed his eyes. And there it was: paradise. The waterfall, the jungle, and that beautiful kid with his long fingers lying in my hand. It was Michel who made a fuss that time, jealous of something he couldn't even define. But I had the same feeling I do now, of acting on instinct and on target. The right act. At the right moment.
"Mama, what did you do?" Lele comes running up to me from where he has been squatting naked on the beach, playing with two small boys from the village. His legs and backside and little penis are covered with sand. I see the boys staring after him, one holding a toy they've been squabbling over: a rough wooden model of a truck, without wheels, tied with a piece of string to a stick. "Ismail says you hit a lady."
Word has already spread along the beach, which is like a stage where a different variety show goes on every hour of the day. The set acts are the tides, which determine the movements of fishing boats, pirogues, Zodiacs, and sailboats. There is always action on the sand: women walk up and down with bundles on their heads; bands of ragged children dig clams at low tide, or launch themselves into the waves at high tide to surf with a piece of old timber; yellow dogs chase chickens and fight over shrimp shells; palm branches crash down on corrugated-iron roofs; girls with lacy dresses and bare sandy shanks parade to Mass; the little mosque opens and shuts its creaky doors; boys play soccer, kicking a plastic water bottle; babies howl; sunburnt tourist couples argue and reconcile. Gossip flashes up and down with electronic swiftness.
I sit up in the water and grab Lele, and kiss him all over while he splashes and struggles to get away. "Yes, that's right," I tell him. It's the firm, didactic voice I use when we've turned off the Teletubbies videos and I am playing the ideal parent. "I did hit a lady," I say. "She needed hitting." I, the mother who instructs her cross-cultural child in tolerance and nonviolence. Lele has a picture book called "Brothers and Sisters Around the World," full of illustrations of cookie-cutter figures of various colors, holding hands across continents. All people belong to one family, it teaches. All oceans are the same ocean.
Michel, who has watched the whole scene, comes and tells me that in all his past visits to the island he's never seen anything like it. He's worried. The women fight among themselves, or they fight with their men for sleeping with the tourists, he says. But no foreign woman has ever got mixed up with them. He talks like an anthropologist about loss of face and vendetta. "We might get run out of here," he says nervously.
I tell him to relax, that absolutely nothing will happen. Where do I get this knowledge? It has sifted into me from the water, the air. So, as we planned, we go off spear-fishing over by Nosy Komba, where the coral grows in big pastel poufs like furniture in a Hollywood bedroom of the fifties. We find a den of rock lobster and shoot two, and take them back to Jean-Claude's house for Hadijah to cook. Waiting for the lobster, we eat about fifty small oysters the size of mussels and shine flashlights over the beach in front of the veranda, which is crawling with crabs. Inside, Lele is snoring adenoidally under a mosquito net. The black sky above is alive with falling stars. Michel keeps looking at me and shaking his head.
Hadijah comes out bearing the lobster magnificently broiled with vanilla sauce. To say she has presence is an understatement. She got married when she was thirteen, and is now, after eight children, an important personage, the matriarch of a vast and prosperous island clan. She and I have got along fine ever since she realized that I wasn't going to horn in on her despotic rule over Jean-Claude's house, or say anything about the percentage she skims off the marketing money. She has a closely braided head and is as short and solid as a boulder—on the spectrum of Madagascar skin colors well toward the darkest. This evening she is showing off her wealth by wearing over her pareu a venerable Guns n' Roses T-shirt. She puts down the lobster, sets her hands on her hips, and looks at me, and my heart suddenly skips a beat. Hers, I realize, is the only opinion I care about. "Oh, Madame," she says, flashing me a wide smile and shaking her finger indulgently, as if I'm a child who has been up to mischief. I begin breathing again. "Oh, Madame!"
"Madame has a quick temper," Michel says in a placating voice, and Hadijah throws her head back and laughs till the Guns n' Roses logo shimmies.
"She is right!" she exclaims. "Madame a raison! She's a good wife!"
Next morning our neighbor PierLuigi pulls up to the house in his dust-covered Renault pickup. PierLuigi is Italian, and back in Italy has a title and a castle. Here he lives in a bamboo hut when he is not away leading a shark-hunting safari to one of the wild islands a day's sail to the north. He is the real version of what Michel pretends to be: a walking, talking character from a boys' adventure tale, with a corrugated scar low down on one side where a hammerhead once snatched a mouthful. The islanders respect him, and bring their children to him for a worm cure he's devised from crushed papaya seeds. He can bargain down the tough Indian merchants in the market, and he sleeps with pretty tourists and island girls impartially. Nobody knows how many kids he has fathered on the island.
"I hear your wife is mixing in local politics," he calls from the truck to Michel, while looking me over with those shameless eyes that have got so many women in trouble. PierLuigi is sixty years old and has streaks of white in his hair, but he is still six feet four and the best-looking man I have ever seen in my life. "Brava," he says to me. "Good for you, my dear. The local young ladies very often need things put in perspective, but very few of our lovely visitors know how to do it on their own terms."
After he drives off, Michel looks at me with new respect. "I can't say you don't have guts," he says later. Then, "You really must be in love with me."
In the afternoon after our siesta, when I emerge onto the veranda from Jean-Claude's shuttered bedroom, massaging Phyto Plage into my hair, smelling on my skin the pleasant odor of sex, I see—as I somehow expected—that the two girls are back under the mango tree. I walk out onto the burning sand, squinting against the glare that makes every distant object a flat black silhouette, and approach them for the second time. I don't think that we're in for another round, yet I feel my knees take on a wary pugilistic springiness. But as I get close, the straight-haired girl says, "Bonjour, Madame."
The formal greeting conveys an odd intimacy. It is clear that we are breathing the same air, now, that we have taken each other's measure. Both girls look straight at me, no longer bridling. All three of us know perfectly well that the man—my European husband—was just an excuse, a playing field for our curiosity. The curiosity of sisters separated before birth and flung by the caprice of history half a world away from each other. Now in this troublesome way our connection has been established, and between my guilt and my dawning affection I suspect that I'll never get rid of these two. Already in my mind is forming an exasperating vision of the gifts I know I'll have to give them: lace underpants; Tampax; music cassettes; body lotion—all of them extracted from me with the tender ruthlessness of family members anywhere. And then what? What, after all these years, will there be to say? Well, the first thing to do is answer. "Bonjour, Mesdemoiselles," I reply, in my politest voice.
And because I can't think of anything else, I smile and nod at them and walk into the water, which as always in the tropics is as warm as blood. The whole time I swim, the girls are silent, and they don't take their eyes off me. ♦


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- Wired Internet access (surcharge)
- iPod docking station
- Room service (24 hours)
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
Hilton Waikiki Beach has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include 24-hour fitness facilities.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Parasailing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Ecotours nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 18 and USD 25 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 10.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: USD 10.95 per night (rates may vary)
- Valet parking fee: USD 35.00 per day (in/out privileges)
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- Hilton Hotel Waikiki Beach
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- Waikiki Beach Hilton
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Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- This property is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) guests.


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In a couple of years, the Stow-Kent Shopping Center may look drastically different than it does today.
The Kent Road shopping center is the target of a major redevelopment initiative being spearheaded by city officials and the plaza's property owners.
The entirely retail plaza has been the bane of city officials for nearly 15 years -- roughly the time Stambaugh's Home Improvement closed, said Planning Director Rob Kurtz. That business occupied a large building in the back corner of the lot that has been empty ever since.
The plaza is less than 50 percent occupied, Kurtz noted, making it the most vacant of any of the city's major retail areas.
The goal is to transform the all-retail plaza into a mixed-use development featuring a housing component and possible office spaces that would complement retail stores, said Mayor Sara Drew.
"One of the goals of the city and of the developers is to make sure whatever we have there is inherently more sustainable than what's there now," said Drew.
While some of the plaza's stores, such as anchor-tenant Macy's, are doing particularly well, Kurtz said, some others have been "struggling." He said part of the reason is because people's shopping habits have changed since the plaza was built in 1959.
Having the plaza function as a strictly retail center is an old-fashioned approach to development in a modern economy, Drew said.
"Whenever you get a single use, if for some reason that single use falls out of fashion, it's harder to redevelop it. The whole idea behind the mixed use is it's more sustainable because then we're not dependent upon one type of operation to be in there," said Drew. "Having a grouping of retail and service operations there that can be supported by residents will be great."
The city has been working with the plaza's owners, market experts, public transportation groups and the business sector, among other entities, to evaluate ways to redevelop vacant commercial properties.
Because the Stow-Kent plaza is highly visible and predominantly unoccupied, restoring vitality there has become a top priority for the city, Kurtz said.
The plaza is owned by Rob Risman and Stuart Graines. Risman is the owner of Cleveland-based Burton Carol Management LLC, and Graines operates Cleveland-based GMS Management, which manages the property.
"This is a major project for us, and a very high-priority one," said Risman, who called the city's mixed-use vision for the plaza a "great, forward-thinking idea."
The groundwork for the redevelopment was laid in the summer when the city approved an overlay district that permits the mixed uses in the retail zone.
About the same time, the property owners pursued a market feasibility study -- and Risman said the results were promising.
Risman said he and Graines have been working with engineers and architects on potential site plans, adding that he hopes to review possible preliminary site plans with city officials sometime in January.
He said it's too soon to specify what the housing component may be yet, but said market studies show higher-end senior housing may be a viable option. He said the housing would likely be apartment-style homes, but nothing is finalized yet.
"Right now, we're still in the planning stages," he emphasized.
In the big picture, Drew and Kurtz said they'd like the former Stambaugh's building demolished, which would create space to link housing that would be located in the back of the property on land off Lake Run Boulevard -- some of which already belongs to Risman and Graines -- to the shopping center.
Drew said the city would also like to see the massive "sea of asphalt" parking lot developed with more aesthetic, landscaped open space and possibly some outbuildings.
She said a "really key part" of the redevelopment is enhancing pedestrian traffic.
Drew loosely compared the vision for Stow-Kent to the First and Main Hudson development, noting how that area features mixed uses with strong pedestrian access.
The city has been in talks with PARTA, the Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study and the Metro Regional Transit Authority to identify potential for bus access that would cater to both the new plaza and the surrounding areas. Both Portage County and Summit County bus companies already service that portion of Stow around Kent Road, which is unique to the rest of the county.
Walkways and bike paths between the housing and retail areas are other options being explored.
Drew said the city has even been in talks with Kent State University, too, to consider coordinating bus traffic between the university and the Stow-Kent Plaza area after it's redeveloped.
She emphasized that however the vision for Stow-Kent comes to fruition, all stakeholders will be involved.
"Any successful redevelopment has to be a public-private partnership," Drew said. "We're focused on a model where the city will be a cooperative partner, but we're not going to be owning this. It is our intention and our goal to help provide a partnership and public services that enhance this development and make it a success."
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In this Dead Sea tour from Aqaba Port. Your tour manager will pick you up from Aqaba Port by the cruise exit door. After that, you will be transferred by an air-conditioned vehicle for about 2.5 hours to the lowest point on earth and filled with a variety of minerals with medicinal properties the site has developed into a health spa-like hotspot. The mineral concentration in the mud is used for therapeutic and beauty treatments. Queen Cleopatra and Sheba both were said to have known the value of the site and used it.
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The calendar kit includes the white picture frame with hanging wires and metal clips, and downloads from the online store, leaving you room to customize as you like - check out Silhouette's 2012 Advent pinterest board for inspiration.
The clips are removable and the kit comes with a lot more clips than you need for an advent, which makes it pretty versatile The frame could be used year-round to display instagram photos, your kid's artwork, countdowns to other events, like birthdays or family trips ... pretty much anything!
Instead of using the template downloads that came with the kit, I used the small milk box template from the online store - sized down to a 1.5 inch square box, it a perfect match for those little clips. I liked that the boxes aren't permanently sealed, and they fold flat, so they can be saved and reused next year. (One recommendation, if you do use the milk box ... be sure to reinforce the tab tops with a bit of tape inside, so the metal clips don't cut through the perforations.)
Each box contains a chocolate truffle (I am partial to advent calendars that have room for daily treats) and simple holiday activity. I'm actually sending this calendar off as a gift to a family member, so I tried to make each day's activity easy and free. There are a few days that I'm sending additional treats for the kids to unwrap (microwave popcorn for Christmas movie night, a salt dough recipe for making ornaments, etc.).
Edit: I've had a few requests for my list of advent activities. I want to keep a little surprise for my family, so if you want the list, just email me! I'll post it here after Christmas.


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For many racers, head and neck restraints have two big drawbacks: they tend to be pricey and they are cumbersome to wear. Well, the new defNder team issue head and neck device addresses both of those issues and still delivers the goods when it comes to protection. DefNder's philosophy behind the new head and neck device is to offer all race drivers the opportunity to have the best and most-comfortable high-performance protection against neck injury at an affordable price.
While it may look similar to other HNR devices on the market, defNder's unique design incorporates flexible formfit belts and a stabilizer bar chassis design that offers drivers unparalleled comfort. The design of the system allows you to put it on straight over your head, just as you would your helmet, and gives you complete freedom of mobility by allowing you to turn your head to the left and right.
Naturally, comfort means little if the test numbers don't stand up and that's where the defNder excels. Through numerous sled runs conducted by Delphi, the device easily achieved the SFI 38.1 certification for HNRs. In this exceptional 70G sled test, the defNder's figures were very consistent in both frontal and 30 degree tests, a testament to the significant amount of emphasis defNder's design team placed on side-impact protection. In fact, the same defNder withstood multiple sled runs without a single failure.
Constructed from high-performance injection composites, the defNder features the highest grade hardware and technically advanced nylon in the Motion-Max tether system, the heart of the side impact protection. Motion-Max incorporates VST geometry which acts as a stabilizer in side-impact scenarios. This is also the same system that allows you the freedom of turning your head left to right.
A big plus in the design of the defNder is the harness flares which locate your safety belts and keep the device from sliding around. DefNder says you can easily exit your vehicle in an emergency situation, so, we climbed in and out of our dirt late model with it on just to test that statement. You can, no kidding. However, after testing the device in the shop our favorite feature has to be the Real-eaze quick release system. This system allows you, the driver, to put on and take off this head and neck restraint by yourself, a true single person operation.
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Swertres Lotto Prize: P4,500.00 per 20 peso play
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A police helicopter captured this stunning aerial shot of an Otley school's gigantic Tour-de-France celebration bike.
Pupils at Otley All Saints C of E Primary created the huge bicycle shape piece of art on the school field using carrier bags, bin bags and tent pegs.
The project was led by teachers Janie I'anson and Clare Foxwell and designed to create a dramatic aerial shot - if they could get someone to take to the skies to make that happen.
It was then West Yorkshire Police stepped in, as headteacher Ian Thomson-Smith explained.
He said: "The whole idea is for this to look good from the air so we just needed someone to help us arrange that - and the police helicopter very kindly obliged on Thursday evening.
"There was much excitement when we heard they were coming and they timed it just when the sun popped out, so they got a lovely picture."
The giant bike was just part of All Saints' Tour de France celebrations, which culminated with a big outdoor party on Friday, July 4 - the eve of the race.


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Secrets to create the most effective Paper Airplanes you may Ever Fly
The "secrets" to creating paper airplanes fly well area unit mostly a similar changes that build hand launched gliders fly well. the majority have the unfortunate concept that an honest paper plane wants no changes when the essential folds area unit finished. All real airplanes have trim tabs to create tiny changes to the plane, and every one paper airplanes would like tiny changes to fly their best. There area unit many basic changes and principles which can rework the paper plane novice into a paper plane professional. the current article can show you many flying tips for build a paper plane that fly fine
1 Dihedral
One of the foremost common paper plane mistakes is to go away the wings rolled down at Associate in Nursing angle. that's known as "anhedral", Best Paper Airplanes
and it reduces the lateral stability of your paper plane. What you would like is named "dihedral" that is once the wing tips area unit the very best a part of the wing. The ensuing lateral stability can facilitate keep your paper plane flying straight, or maybe in an exceedingly gradual flip. With lateral instability your paper plane can either roll over on its back and crash, or enter into Associate in Nursing ever adjustment spiral that becomes a coiled dive. simply bear in mind - keep your wing tips up.
Technically dihedral provides a stabilising rolling moment thanks to sideslip. let's say if the plane yaws to the left (positive sideslip), the proper wing contains a slightly multiplied angle of attack (AOA) due to the dihedral, whereas left wing's AOA is faded (this is most simply fanciful if you think that concerning
ninety degrees of sideslip). The ensuing rolling moment is to the left, that is stabilising. throughout grade flip, the yaw rate combined with the stabilising yawing moment thanks to yaw rate leads to a touch little bit of sideslip, positive for right turns, negative for left. that tiny quantity of sideslip along side a stabilising rolling moment thanks to sideslip (dihedral effect) leads to the plane needing to roll out of the flip. With anhedral, the plane desires to roll into the flip, leading to a "graveyard spiral". The tendency to roll into or out of a flip is named the spiral mode, that is controlled chiefly exploitation dihedral. Most real airplanes have to be compelled to limit the number of dihedral they use to stay the Dutch roll mode, a speedy left and right oscillation, in check. whereas dihedral makes the How To Make A Paper Airplane That Flies Far Step By Step
spiral mode a lot of stable, it reduces the damping of the Dutch roll. I actually have seldom witnessed any Dutch roll issues with paper airplanes, possible thanks to multiplied yaw rate and roll rate damping related to low airspeeds. As a result all paper airplanes ought to be flown with many dihedral.
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The paper plane balances is named the middle of Gravity (CG), and there's a selected CG position referred to as the Neutral purpose that provides neutral pitch stability. If the plane contains a CG prior to now, the plane is stable, if its behind now its unstable. Naturally all airplanes while not laptop assisted flight controls would like a CG prior to their neutral purpose. For rectangular wings the neutral purpose is ¼ of the space from the nose to the tail. For delta Paper Airplanes Instructions
wings (such because the common dart paper airplane) the neutral purpose is ½ of the space from the nose to the tail.
Stability means that the plane, if disturbed, can come to its original state. For pitch stability it means that the plane can get one speed. A plane that is unstable in pitch can either pitch up into a stall, or dive, however will not settle out anyplace in between. A stable plane can tend to oscillate up and down many times, however converge on a gentle flight speed. several typical paper plane styles area unit stable, however simply barely. As a plane becomes a lot of and a lot of stable, it desires to fly quicker and quicker. To counter this tendency, up elevator should be wont to turn out an honest trim speed. this can be why several of the classic paper plane styles area unit nearly neutrally stable. Few individuals notice sensible pitch stability needs an important nose and a few up elevator. The classic styles consider the tiny inherent "up elevator" impact (positive zero elevate pitching moment) ensuing from the swept wing, and presumably the device form. therefore several classic paper airplanes is flown with no elevator adjustment. generally they fly well, again and again they do not, and that they continually have poor stability. i favor to feature a little quantity of up elevator to the classic pointed nose paper airplanes, to create positive they do not dive. If I actually have the time and materials, i favor to feature many layers of tape or a pin to the nose of the plane to enhance its stability. Most "square" paper airplanes have many weight within the nose, and Paper Airplane Gameneed some up elevator to fly well. truly the number of up elevator required on a paper plane may be a sensible indicator of its pitch stability. Build a paper plane (any kind) and place a pin on the nose. build many flights to see the most effective quantity of up elevator required. currently move the pin back an in. or 2, and repeat. the number of up elevator required is reduced, and also the plane becomes a lot of sensitive to elevator changes. once the pin has been captive back to a degree wherever you're exploitation nearly no elevator deflection, and you cannot get the plane to fly well, you have got the CG at the neutral purpose (try to balance the plane on a finger, the purpose wherever it balances is that the neutral point).
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Most people UN agency area unit reading this grasp that plane wings area unit "Cambered" which suggests they need typically a curve, with the highest of the device rounded and also the bottom fairly flat. As explained in section three.0, paper plane wings should be skinny to figure well. additionally, they have little or no camber, and customarily any curvature is proscribed to the front portion of the wing. I actually have had individuals solicit from me why i do not advocate cambered airfoils for paper airplanes in my books. Since most paper airplanes area unit flying wings, solely tiny amounts of camber area unit sensible, as massive amounts of camber produce nose down pitching moments which require tails to balance. typically I do use a touch curvature at the forefront of the wing. I actually have detected that paper plane performance Free Paper Airplane Designs
isn't perceptibly degraded with flat, uncambered airfoils. the rationale for this can be possible thanks to low painter numbers. bear in mind that an oversized portion of the physical phenomenon across the front of the wing is streamline flow, except for high elevate we want a turbulent physical phenomenon. the employment of a flat uncambered wing produces an oversized pressure gradient at the forefront, that possible aids the transition to a turbulent physical phenomenon, that may possible be the rationale for tiny camber in insect wings. Also, swept wings with uncambered forefronts promote vortex flow simply behind the leading edge on the side. though elevate coefficients at these painter numbers are not massive enough to market an oversized quantity of vortex elevate(vortex elevate will increase exponentially with lift coefficient), any vortex flow possible helps the transition to a turbulent physical phenomenon.