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Hotel / Catering
Home is where the heart is
by Steven Yau
Hong Kong's hotel industry is thriving due largely to development fuelled by continuous foreign investment and the constant influx of visitors from mainland China and the rest of the World. The robust pace of growth however is stretching human resources, forcing strong reactions from some employers.
"The inevitable competition for talent prompts hotel operations across the board to align their human resources management models with the trends and meet them with strategic business development plans," says Brian Liu, group director of human resources, Regal Hotels International.
While challenge looms, Mr Liu retains his optimistic demeanour. "Staff remain our key assets," he stresses. "We treat everyone here as a family member and make a point to create a home away from home environment for all of them."
In fact, the group's employee-centric management ethos has paid dividends. "Quite a number of staff have been with us for 20 years," he points out. "Their loyalty means the world to the group."
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The Regal Hotels group currently manages a portfolio of six hotels in Hong Kong and five sister properties in mainland China with the sixth expected to receive guests in budding Chinese cosmopolitan Chengdu in 2012. "Our business network gives us a well recognised employer brand and our staff receive ample opportunity for training and development across functions, properties and regions," Mr Liu says.
A caring company and recipient of the Employees Retraining Board's Employers Gold Star Award, Regal takes pride in its HR infrastructure which demonstrates the group's commitment and pragmatic approach to talent management.
"Quality talent contributes to customer service excellence," Mr Liu notes. For this reason, Regal spares no efforts in offering a host of training opportunities to its staff at every level.
Every new member of staff takes part in a "Regal Tour" which is a comprehensive orientation programme that comprises compulsory training and sharing sessions aimed at bringing new joiners up to speed with the group's operations and helping them to adapt to the working environment quickly at individual properties.
Aside from furnishing a comprehensive range of training, the group also helps staff to map out career routes that best suit their individual aspirations. "Career progress is a promise to both new and existing staff members. It is important that we support staff development with a mature and healthy HR infrastructure and base our HR decisions on various preferences and aspirations of an informed and engaged workforce that in turn contributes to the overall well-being of the operation," Mr Liu says.
Talent succession
Composition change in workforce demographic in the hospitality industry may look ominous at the outset but Mr Liu has confidence in the industry's ability to cope, pointing out that succession planning remains a prime concern as the demand for middle management personnel increases and the younger generation has yet to master the desired level of management competence, leaving a talent gap yet to be filled.
To maintain a healthy supply of management talent, department heads nominate high potential staff for a systematic series of training and development programmes that are geared towards grooming a new generation of torchbearers for the group. One of these is an annual management forum, which gathers the group's management elite for two days of idea exchange. Overseas training and cross training programmes formulated in collaboration with the group's strategic partners are also in place to give aspiring staff wider exposure to the industry.
A long-running management trainee programme also helps to groom the next generation of management elite, providing the necessary human resources for the group's further development. The programme spans three and a half years, immersing selected young talent in a series of job rotation exercise across various hotel and corporate functions including food and beverage, sales & marketing, finance, rooms, purchasing, projects and development, human resources and other departments. After this, trainees will be given the role of assistant manager or possibly higher positions. "This aims at replenishing the supply of management talent, combining industry best practice and academic excellence," Mr Liu says.
The hotel industry has grown in stature over the years with a wider array of career options now available in the local as well as the regional marketplace. Therefore, employers are actively seeking the best talent Hong Kong's employment market and academia have to offer.
"Riding on the various available platforms such as recruitment seminars and career talks, we put the industry in the limelight and level the playing field for people eyeing a hotel career. Given the profusion of career choice within and outside the industry, it would only be fair to offer aspiring individuals with sufficient job information before they take the plunge. This will only benefit both sides of the employment equation," stresses Mr Liu.
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The Fighting Irish are not playing, but there will be a Notre Dame influence on Thursday's softball game at Torrey Pines High against Rancho Bernardo.
That's because both starting pitchers have already verbally committed to play for Notre Dame after their high school career concludes.
Rachel Nasland of Torrey Pines, a senior, is headed to South Bend next year after leading the Falcons to last year's San Diego Section Division I championship, the first one in school history.
Nasland will face Sara White, a junior who will join the Irish pitching staff for the 2015 season.
Rancho Bernardo won the first meeting 7-1 on Apr. 4 behind Nasland's eight-hitter with five strikeouts.

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This month we've had some fantastic questions on #AskPh, our weekly inbound marketing video series. We've covered getting 1000 sign-ups in 90 days, we've helped someone break into the media marketing world, discussed whether Linkedin is the future of recruitment and talked about my favourite digital marketing campaign of all time. Plus all my favourite Tool Tips


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If you were paying a "home emergency" insurer more than £500 a year to cover every aspect of your house – from your gas boiler to your electrical wiring – you would expect that company to go the extra mile if your central heating stopped working over Christmas, wouldn't you?
While you might accept a bit of a delay as inevitable if the weather was particularly challenging, most of us would probably still expect the company to send out someone who could identify the problem and get the heating working – certainly within two weeks.
Sadly, this was not the experience of Stephen Rayner, an educational consultant, and his wife Margaret, a school administrator. And if you are one of the millions of British households who have a policy of this type, you may want to consider whether it is money well spent when you read his story.
The couple, who live in the West Midlands, have just cancelled their home emergency policy with insurer HomeServe after the company pushed through a huge increase in premiums, to £535 a year. HomeServe then left them without heating for two weeks over the Christmas period when their heating system suffered a blockage.
The Rayners are by no means alone. HomeServe was this week apologising that, "unfortunately", due to the recent bad weather, customers were having to wait longer to be seen. And the couple are not the only ones to see big increases in premiums, both from the super-profitable HomeServe and its main rival in the home emergency market, British Gas.
If you don't know the name, HomeServe has around three million policyholders. In November it announced a 19% increase in revenue, telling the City it was "on track to deliver another year of strong growth".
The Rayners' case shows how such companies offer a cheap price in the first year, and then quietly increase the cost in subsequent years, particularly if the customer makes even the smallest claim. It also shows why many householders would be better off abandoning such policies and self-insuring: not least because, when HomeServe's contractor finally arrived at the Rayners' home, he failed to diagnose the problem – an issue they later discovered would not have been covered by their HomeServe policy anyway.
Like many other home emergency insurance policyholders, Rayner says he has seen a big increase in the amount he pays for cover, and was shocked when he received his renewal letter last November. When he got out the paperwork on his super-comprehensive policy that covers his heating, drains, gas supply pipe and even his electrical wiring, he calculated that his HomeServe premium had risen by 86% in just two years – a figure the company disputes.
Frustrated at a lack of explanation as to why it had risen so much, he contacted Guardian Money to ask whether any other readers had seen such a big hike in their premium.
"We had several small policies with HomeServe, which in December 2008 were consolidated into a single policy costing £287.97 per year. One year later, in November 2009, the renewal showed a 40% increase to £402.88. The latest [November 2010] shows a further 33% increase to £535.18: a total increase of 86% in two years. My annoyance at this is not only about the steep increases, but also the fact that HomeServe has neither the courtesy, nor the responsibility, to explain the reasons for the increases in its letter accompanying the renewal notice."
HomeServe disputes his figures, and says the Rayners' first premium was in fact £371 and appeared as the lower rate, as they had already paid £84. It also says the increase was higher because the Rayners had made an earlier claim that required a new part for their boiler. It declined to put a value on that claim, but even accepting the company's figures, they still show the premium had risen 44% in two years.
Following Money's intervention, HomeServe rang Rayner, explained why his premium had risen, and gave him a £100 rebate. At the time he said that, with "some reservations", he had decided to remain a customer. However, that changed when HomeServe allegedly failed to come to his aid after the heating failed on Boxing Day.
Rayner called HomeServe on 27 December and was told they would contact him within 24 hours. He says that more than 48 hours later he was contacted by a contractor who said he would be there on 4 January.
Rayner says that the contractor couldn't find the problem and suggested various possibilities, including a replacement boiler, a replacement pump and a replacement header tank.
Feeling that he was getting nowhere, Rayner hired a local plumbing firm recommended by a colleague. "Two guys came and spent several hours tracking down the cause, which turned out to be a blocked pipe. We paid them £200 for labour, and our heating was working again. The one good thing that has come out of is that we have discovered a good local plumber.
"I feel that £535 per year would be a lot to pay for a reliable, courteous service. It is a complete waste of money for a service that does not reply to its customers, wastes their time and gives them no help. I fully understand that during the worst weather conditions for several years, there may be a shortage of trained engineers. I do not accept, however, that a company cannot answer its phones or communicate in any way with its customers. We have subsequently decided to end our membership." A spokeswoman for HomeServe blamed the "incredibly high volumes of emergencies during the severe weather period". She said: "We would like to sincerely apologise for the delays that occurred on this job. HomeServe successfully managed over 10,000 emergency jobs during this week of severe weather, with a customer satisfaction rate of over 95%. During this period we were prioritising call-outs to ensure we were attending vulnerable customers first.
"We have offered Mr Rayner compensation to cover the costs of his own engineer and to recognise the problems that occurred during his claim."
Meanwhile, customers of rival boiler cover providers are warned to check their premium for unwelcome price hikes. One Guardian colleague rang British Gas this week to tell the firm not to renew his boiler insurance after the premium was increased to £299 a year, up from £180 in 2010.
He had made one call-out during the year, and says it took the engineer a few minutes to increase the pressure on the boiler. In the end, the company offered to renew for £223 a year. The moral seems to be, if you are notified about a big increase to your premium, threaten to leave and they will probably offer a discount.
Last March, Guardian Money writer Jill Papworth told how British Gas had increased the premium on her HomeCare 200 agreement from £20.68 to £29.97 a month – or £359 a year. It cost much more than the home contents insurance on her west London home. When she queried it, she was told the cost was going up because she had made a number of claims, although she was also offered a 10% discount because she was a long-standing customer.
In 2009, British Gas switched to "risk-based assessment" for setting premiums on its HomeCare policies. This means the renewal premium quoted is now based on the type of boiler you have, the number of breakdowns you have suffered over the previous two years, and where you are in the country, with those in and around London paying the most. Any call-out will send up the premium the following year.
If you are facing a big rise in your premium, you may want to ponder a 2009 report by consumer body Which? It found that 90% of households would be better off dumping boiler insurance policies and putting the money into a savings account.
Last year, the Financial Ombudsman Service said insurance firms that provide boiler and heating breakdown cover frequently fail to take swift action, leaving homes without heating for weeks in some cases, and inadequately compensating them in others.
The small monthly payments that make for big annual premiums – and profits for insurers
Do you know anyone who has ever claimed on a gas supply pipe insurance policy?
Here at Guardian Money, we never have, and yet HomeServe will happily let you insure the pipe that brings gas into your home for £21 a year. For an extra £42 a year you can insure against pests such as mice invading your home, and the cost of removing them.
Companies such as HomeServe advertise these products as small amounts per month (gas supply pipe cover costs £1.77 a month), presumably in the hope you won't total it up for the year. They are sold to the risk-averse with what some might say are alarming tales of how much it costs to find reputable tradesmen.
We asked the firm this week how many claims it had received on its gas pipe policies, but it declined to say, citing commercial confidentiality.
"We have a significant number of people who have benefited from claiming on this product. What is more, when a customer makes a claim, they are often high-cost claims," says a spokeswoman.
One thing all boiler cover providers don't tell you in their sales literature is how profitable these policies are for the companies concerned.
City fund managers frequently tip HomeServe as a great investment. They love its ability to generate great returns, plus the fact it is now taking its business model abroad – particularly to the US. Last year, HomeServe reported pre-tax profits of £100m on a turnover of £370m. The company is well on target to increase its profits to £116m.
Customers will wonder at the justification for such price hikes at a time when many workers are seeing a pay freeze.
One of the problems with these policies – as the Rayner case shows – is that the service you get on your doorstep is only as good as the person who turns up. HomeServe says it employs its own fully vetted agents. Some will be excellent, but others less so.
If you can find a good, trustworthy local plumber – and there are plenty about – this has to be the best option.


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LG Migo VX-1000
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This Phone allready has a nickname
we (VZW ASO'S) are calling this one the SHREK Phone!!!!
Is that a monster in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
(badoom boom ching)
(badoom boom ching)
That's sorta sick considering the people who will be using this phone are under 10....
Actually, I'm very surprized there isn't a marketing tie-in. And please tell me it comes in colors other than vomit green (a yellow one could be Pikachu?) The Firefly is a much prettier device (IMHO), but regardless, it's a great sales idea the Cing & Verz are tapping into. I wonder what carrier/phone maker will make a similar device next?
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I have only ever been banned from one site, and that is swaylocks.
The site owner said that I had broken no rules, but had to go.
Utter nonsense I hate no one nor do I have an 'intense dislike' for any nationality least of all Americans.
your hatred for Jews... and your intense dislike for Americans.
I merely disapprove of many of the actions of your current government.
I disapprove of all forms of fascism and that includes Nazism.
Still, your toning it down doesn't hide the fact that you, nazi-gnome, are a hateful beast who hates behind your passive aggressive twisted words of ignorance.
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What we want you to do is own up to what you said about both the holocasut and the Allies in the thread I posted. You love to say people put words in your mouth but when we post links to your own words you respond once again with cryptic posts like "some of you are screwed in too tight" and other crap dodging the real issue.
If you wish to discuss politics in depth with me then start a thread in the place and I'll respond... or is it you who are too 'chicken'?
99% of this forum will still hate you for your anti American feelings and denial of the holocasut.
As for 'holocaust' it is merely a marketing term.
Jul 3, 2014, 07:47 AM #1173
You label the Holocaust as a "marketing term" whereas it was a protracted humanitarian crisis instigated by a political party that murdered millions of people, not just Jews, but Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans, Buddhists, gypsies, people who voiced disagreement with the Nazi regime, homosexuals, lesbians, people of any color whatsoever. And all because Hitler deemed these people "sub-human" and "inferior."
Jesse Owens kicked the Nazi ass in Berlin in the 1936 Olympics, Hitler refused to shake his hand because he was, to Hitler, "an inferior man of color."
You, nazi-gnome, smugly proclaim that you know 'the real truth' of things like the Holocaust, surfboard design, procreation, and so much more. In reality you are an evil piece of crap that needs to be taken apart, dismantled and disposed of. The world suffers from people such as you.
Bosnia, Rwanda, northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Croatia, Russia, Crimea, Sudan, Tibet and so many more....the list of human beings persecuted for their race or religion or beliefs is sadly, insanely endless. It is people such as you, nazi-gnome, that perpetuate this hatred through your rants posturing on the Internet as pseudo-intellectual musings.
In fact, you're insane.
Sure, you function for appearance sake. You put your clothing on when you're done boinking your children, you trim your idiotic poseur-Methusalah beard, you don your orange jumpsuit as a local 'eccentric,' you create planks of wood that perform poorly yet you claim to be the finest technology in the surfboard industry.....and all along you make statements that illustrate your conviction that the world doesn't understand you, doesn't understand your true innovative genius when it comes along, that the surfing world refuses to recognize your sodden, ridiculous planks as superior boards because it's all about the money.
You're a phony because you're insane. You're annoying because you post your total crap on this Forum. You're deserving of scorn because you hate. Sways banned you for all of these reasons and more. Any rational human being would see fit that you are isolated to the point wherin your poisonous bile can not be spread to others.
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In reality you are an evil piece of crap that needs to be taken apart, dismantled and disposed of. The world suffers from people such as you.
That sort of thinking is bad for you, I advise you to give it up.
In fact, you're insane.
In fact, I'm sane.
you trim your idiotic poseur-Methusalah beard
you hate.
No I don't.
Jul 3, 2014, 11:32 AM #1175
Roy, evidently you didn't get the memo of the new Kinder Gentler 'Merka. we changed our national anthem to reflect it.
So, unless you want to experience 'merkin Exceptionalism, get a free tour of Gitmo, and practice holding yer breath, Learn it!
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Roy is such a stiff. Let's cut his beard.
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Yeah Yankee's post and Chics vid pretty much summed it up. From America to you Roy:


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Right now I'm trying to teach myself a standard way of coding. That includes how to annotate function and variable names, where to put what in a file etc.
The other day I found this document. What struck me was this:
Do I really need to do that? If you look at the table of the prefixes listed on that page, all my class vars should like:Variable names should be prefixed by Hungarian notation.
I have never prefixed my vars before, so to me it looked a little odd.Code:int m_iSomeVar; float m_fSomeFloat;
My question is: Do I need to using this kind of prefixing, or is it OK to continue without it?
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Kaivac release 4.2
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Survey Finds Nearly 100 Percent of Cleaning Professionals Are Aware that Mopping Spreads Soils
Hamilton, OH – A new study conducted by Kaivac, Inc.--makers of the No-Touch Cleaning® System and the new OmniFlex™ Crossover Cleaning System--found that 97 percent of building service contractors and others involved in the professional cleaning industry are aware that "using mops and buckets can spread soils."
The survey was conducted in March 2012. Nearly 200 respondents started the survey, while 99 answered all of the questions completely.
The respondents indicated that the most common type of hard surface flooring they clean is vinyl composite tile (VCT), at 67 percent. This was followed by terrazzo flooring, at about 20 percent.
Respondents also stated they believe these types of floors are the easiest to clean, although cement floors were also considered an easy floor to maintain.
Asked what they like most about using mops and buckets to clean floors, more than a third answered, "It's all I have ever used."
However, 27 percent said they prefer using mops and buckets because they are fast; the remainder believed mops and buckets are easier or more effective than other floor cleaning systems.
Asked what they like least about mopping floors, nearly half of the respondents indicated that "the mop and solution gets dirty pretty fast and have to be changed frequently."
"This question also allowed the respondents to write in other reasons they dislike using a mop and bucket," says Matt Morrison, Communications Manager for Kaivac. "We got all kinds of answers, such as 'nothing like moving dirt from 1 area to another'; 'it's a soil dispersal system'; to, very simply, 'it cleans the area badly.'"
While many respondents expressed concerns regarding using mops and buckets to clean floors, nearly 70 percent also indicated that hard surface floor care is easier overall than carpet care.
"Along with this, nearly 58 percent said they are seeing more hard surface floors installed today than carpets," added Morrison. "This is in line with what other reports indicate."
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Fiction films
Film adaptations
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Romance films
Romantic comedy films
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Daniel Taradash; Joshua Logan; Fred Kohlmar; James Wong Howe; George Duning; William Holden; Kim Novak; Betty Field; Susan Strasberg; Cliff Robertson; Rosalind Russell; Daniel Fuchs; Sonya Levien; John Fante; George Sidney; Jeff Chandler; Agnes Moorehead; Julian Blaustein; Richard Quine; Delbert Mann; James Stewart; Jack Lemmon; Ernie Kovacs; Hermione Gingold; Elsa Lanchester; Janice Rule; Paddy Chayefsky; George Justin; Fredric March; Glenda Farrell; Albert Dekker; Martin Balsam; Lee Grant; Lee Philips; George Bassman; Dorothy Kingsley; Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart; Rita Hayworth; Frank Sinatra; William Inge; John Van Druten; John O'Hara; Columbia Pictures.; Julian Blaustein Productions.; Phoenix (Firm); Sudan (Firm); Essex Productions, Inc.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
|Optional English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
|Collective title from container.
Picnic based upon the play by William Inge. Bell book and candle based upon the play by John Van Druten as produced in New York by Irene Mayer Selznick. Pal Joey based on the play "Pal Joey", book by John O'Hara.
At head of title on Jeanne Eagels: George Sidney's.
Originally produced as motion pictures 1955-1959.
"Kim Novak's Hollywood picnic" ; select scenes commentary for Jeanne Eagels with Kim Novak and author Stephen Rebello ; "Bewitched, bothered and beautiful" ; "Reflections in the Middle of the Night" ; theatrical trailers; previews.
|Picnic: Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay by Daniel Taradash ; produced by Fred Kohlmar ; directed by, Joshua Logan ; cinematographer, James Wong Howe ; music composed by George Duning.
Jeanne Eagels: Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay by Daniel Fuchs, Sonya Levien, John Fante ; story by Daniel Fuchs ; music composed by George Duning ; produced and directed by George Sidney.
Bell book and candle: Columbia Pictures presents a Phoenix production ; screenplay by Daniel Taradash ; produced by Julian Blaustein ; directed by Richard Quine ; music composed by George Duning.
Middle of the night: Columbia Pictures presents a Sudan production ; screenplay by Paddy Shayefsky ; produced by George Justin ; directed by Delbert Mann.
Pal Joey / Columbia Pictures presents a Essex-George Sidney production ; screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley ; produced by Fred Kohlmar ; directed by George Sidney ; music by Richard Rodgers ; lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
|Picnic: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell.
Jeanne Eagels: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorhead.
Bell book and candle: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, Elsa Lanchester, Janice Rule.
Middle of the night: Kim Novak, Fredric March, Glenda Farrell, Albert Dekker, Martin Balsam, Lee Grant, Lee Philips.
Pal Joey: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak.
|Picnic: Academy Awards, 1956: Best art direction-set decoration, best editing.
|Picnic: Rating: PG ; Jeanne Eagels, Bell book and candle, Middle of the night, and Pal Joey not rated.
|3 videodiscs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
|DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono [&], Dolby digital 5.1 stereo (Picnic ; Pal Joey).
|[Disc 1] Picnic (113 min., 1955, col.) ; Jeanne Eagles (109 min., 1957, b & w) --
[Disc 2] Bell book and candle (102 min., 1958, col.) ; Middle of the night (117 min., 1959, b & w) --
[Disc 3] Pal Joey (109 min., 1957, col.).
|Picnic (Motion picture : 1955)
Jeanne Eagels.
Bell book and candle (Motion picture)
Middle of the night (Motion picture)
Pal Joey (Motion picture)
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Jeanne Eagels:The tragic career of a stage and screen star whose climb for the top pushed her over the edge.
Bell Book and Candle: A witch gets bored, and longs for a more 'normal' existence, only to fall in love with her upstairs neighbor.
Middle of the Night: A young woman is in a relationship with her boss, nearly twice her age, and their families' disapproval threatens their happiness.
Pal Joey: A charming louse and former chorus girl turned rich widow seem made for each other, until the nice girl from a nice town comes along and shakes everything up.
- Inge, William -- Film adaptations.
- Van Druten, John, -- 1901-1957 -- Film adaptations.
- O'Hara, John, -- 1905-1970 -- Film adaptations.
- Inge, William.
- O'Hara, John, -- 1905-1970.
- Van Druten, John, -- 1901-1957.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Drifters -- Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
- Kansas -- Drama.
- Entertainers -- Drama.
- Actresses -- Drama.
- Witches -- Drama.
- Divorced women -- Drama.
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It's time to step in the zone. No, not the AutoZone. I'm talking about the Killzone. Guerilla Games' iconic red-eyed antagonists, the Helghast, as well as the men and women of the ISA, will be joining the likes of Kratos and Ratchet and Clank as the Killzone Trilogy becomes the latest PlayStation Collection to hit store shelves.
The PlayStation Collection kicked off a couple of weeks ago with the likes of the God of War Saga, the inFamous Collection and the Ratchet and Clank Collection, offering complete (to near complete) game libraries for big PS3 series, all at a nice, affordable price.
Now the Killzone Trilogy is set to release on Oct. 23, offering all three Killzone games, including an HD-ified version of the original PlayStation 2 game, for $39.99. I hope you're ready for a rousing war speech.
Back when Killzone 3 dropped in early 2011, it was supposed to include a digital copy of the original Killzone. That perk was cut at the last minute, however, leading me to wonder how long, exactly, these PlayStation Collections have been in the works. But maybe I'm just being paranoid.
Along with the three core games, you'll also get all online map packs for Killzone 2 and Killzone 3 included at no extra charge. These include Steel and Titanium, Flash and Thunder and Napalm and Cordite for Killzone 2, and Steel Rain, Retro, and From the Ashes for Killzone 3. There's a new Killzone set to hit the Vita at some point and, without giving away any spoilers, the ending of Killzone 3 leaves plenty of room for another sequel to be added at some point. What I'm saying is, this looks like a pretty sound way and pretty great timing to catch up on your Killzone lore.
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Sound Off: Zack Snyder's 'Man of Steel' - So What Did You Think?
by Alex Billington
June 14, 2013
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? "In time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." Superman is back. It's time. Zack Snyder's Man of Steel has arrived in theaters everywhere. Henry Cavill is Kal-El, or Clark Kent, in this new take on the DC Comics superhero. Russell Crowe stars as his Kryptonian father Jor-El, with Kevin Costner as his Earth father Jonathan Kent. Diane Lane plays Ma Kent, and Amy Adams reporter Lois Lane, with Antje Traue as Faora and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White. So how is it? Does it live up to the hype? Better than Bryan Singer's Superman Returns or not? Once you've seen it, post a comment with your thoughts on Zack's Man of Steel.
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To fuel the fire, I love Man of Steel, I think it's Zack's best movie yet. Upon a second viewing I actually loved it even more. There's just something about it, they really went all out and give us everything by the end. I love the flashback structure, I thought it was refreshingly bold way to tell the story without showing a young Superman growing up, rather giving us a real character to follow. The scenes with Pa Kent, played by Kevin Costner, are the best and I tear up during that tornado moment every time. Nearly every scene with him and Kal contains some kind of valuable lesson, I love hearing their chats. Beyond that, it's vastly entertaining to watch and the world is epic. The final third is almost a full 45 minutes of intense action and hits everything, from buildings to satellites to Kryptonian spacecraft. It's not perfect, but it's the best summer movie so far.
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A graduate of Laval University, where he now shares his knowledge with the jazz interpretation students, Joël Thibault and his saxophone have played in many of the world's biggest cities, especially in Asia, where he accompanied pianist and composer Steve Barakatt on many tours. A festival regular, invited soloist of the Estuaire Symphonic Orchestra (Rimouski) in 2000 and 2001, he also went on stage in Québec and Montreal in the musical Grease and, more recently, in Showman, Martin Fontaine's new production. He cherished and nurtured this first album for a long time, bringing it slowly to maturity before offering it to us. You'll listen to it with delight, then you'll stow it away preciously, jealously... close at hand.
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The private pension pillar established in 1998 has generated equally important short-, medium- and long-term effects. This article addresses the short- and medium-term time horizons, which differ from one another. In the short term, the government lost contribution revenues, while its pension expenditures did not decrease. However, since this shortfall in state revenues did not influence the consumption and savings decisions of households, in this analysis the short-term indicators of fiscal impact on demand disregard the impact of lost revenues. In the medium term, however, the rechanneling of contributions increased public debt and household savings. Consequently, similarly to official statistics, our household indicators and our medium-term fiscal indicator (augmented SNA deficit) take into account the effect of lost revenues. As the vast majority of members returned to the state pension pillar in 2011, for the purposes of our analysis, we could well assume that the private pension pillar never existed. Accordingly, the difference between our medium-term fiscal indicator and the short-term indicator disappears. As a result, we have changed our household indicators retroactively in such a way as if the contributions and the returns they yielded had always belonged to the state. This was necessary because the official statistics do not spread this amount over time, but account for it in full for 2011 as a capital transfer between households and the general government, which renders evaluation of the developments extremely difficult.
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Epic failure.
You can feel it coming can't you? Hear it clawing and scratching under your bed. Hiding in your closet. Looming around the corner. Stalking in the shadows.
It's not going to happen. That's the fear.
ESPN.com has published an article called: Q&A: Where will top free agents land? In this article, various experts — J.A. Adande, Kevin Arnovitz, Chad Ford, John Hollinger, Chris Sheridan and Marc Stein — rated the percentage chance various teams have of landing one of the Three Great White Whales of NBA Free Agency.
According to the experts, things aren't looking very good for the Bulls. Unless you were hoping for an all-out swing followed by a near apocalyptic whiff.
The very general (and admittedly fluid) consensus is that LeBron James will remain in Cleveland while Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh will sign with the Miami Heat. Anything could still happen, but as ESPNChicago.com's Jon Greenberg put it: "These aren't guaranteed scenarios culled from sources, just educated guesses contingent on real-world scenarios."
Sentiment and a team of pro-Cleveland advisors are tugging on LeBron's heart strings. Miami has plenty of money, awesome weather, and — most importantly — Wade's loyalty. Bosh and Wade have the same agent.
Does Chicago offer these men a better chance at winning? Probably. But no matter what players like to say during dramatic playoff runs, winning really isn't everything.
And LeBron, for instance, has a lot on his mind.
According to Brian Windhorst of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "He really likes Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah. But there's lack of shooters on roster. Also it doesn't sound like he's exactly being welcomed by Rose. Didn't say Rose was anti-LeBron. But the word is preference was Joe Johnson. They have same agent. That is what multiple people tell me."
Windhorst further reports a rift in LeBron's team of advisors, with William Wesley (who was pushing Chicago) now standing on the outside looking in at James' friends and agent Maverick Carter (who want him to stay in Cleveland). That rift bodes very poorly for the Bulls' chances of landing The Greatest White Whale of them all.
At any rate, at least the wait should be over soon: "LeBron James is planning to announce the team with which he will sign during a one-hour special on ESPN Thursday night, ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard has learned through independent sources. ESPN would only confirm that active discussions for the special are ongoing. But sources tell Broussard that representatives for James contacted the network, proposing that James makes his announcement during a 9 p.m. ET special."
So, by 8 p.m. Chicago time tomorrow night, we'll know for sure whether Michael Jordan's legacy in Chicago will be forever secure. Okay, it probably was already, but a team with LeBron, Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and possibly Chris Bosh could have introduced a little doubt into the situation.
Instead, the Bulls are looking at a "Now what?" scenario.
With Joe Johnson staying in Atlanta and Amar'e Stoudemire heading to New York, that leaves the Bulls with a few "okay" options and a lot of holes. If LeBron, Wade and Bosh reject the Windy City, management will probably pursue the undersized Carlos Boozer and the defenseless David Lee. Maybe target shooters like Kyle Korver and Mike Miller. Guys like J.J. Redick, Ronnie Brewer and Shannon Brown are available as well…
…it's like a punch to the gut isn't it?
If this doesn't work out, if the Bulls can't sign at least one of the Great White Whales, there won't be any championship hope in the near future. Maybe not even the distant future. Gar Forman is going to have to fill out a half-empty roster with warm bodies. Rose and Noah are going to have to be extended or re-signed in the next year or so, which means the team isn't going to have vast millions to throw around at superduperstar free agents.
Look, I am a huge fan of Rose and Noah. Watching them help carry an overachieving team to the playoffs the last two seasons has been a blast. But who wants the team to keep sneaking into the postseason only to suffer a first round elimination year after year? The Bulls have been doing that for most of the last decade.
They could be doing it for most of the next decade too. It's a depressing thought.


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Nissan Maxima vs. Honda Accord
It's not offered here in the States. Just wondering.
He loved the power of the Nissan Maxima with 5 speed but says Maxima are junk. The dealer never could get the "Service Engine" light (or whatever the correct name is) to stay off. The Maxima rode roughly, had squeaks and rattles, and was just not as nice as an Accord.
He traded it off after 2 years to get a 2001 Accord EX 4 cyl 5 speed. The 2001 Accord got totaled in a wreck at 7 months of ownership so he got a NEW 2002 Accord LX 4 cyl with 4 speed automatic. His wife loves the Accord.
When we were at the Annual Auto Show last January, we were looking at the Infinity and the dealer rep asked how he liked the Maxima. He replied "One more problem and I will sue under the Lemon Law" and then proceeded to tell of all the problems with the Maxima.
After his experience with the Maxima, he said he would not get anything made by Nissan whether it is a Maxima or an Infinity.
speedracer3 Posts: 650On the flip side. This is our 2nd Nissan. Our 80's Sentra rode way over 100K miles without a hitch and my 2000 Maxima runs like a swiss watch.
Wise for you to stay with a brand that has been reliable for you. My wife's cousin has driven nothing but Nissan since 1971 when he got his first Datsun 2 door sedan. Obviously, he and his wife have been very satisfied with Nissan.
bigbadboss101 Posts: 54You can find problem(s) in any car, that doesn't mean they are bad cars. I owned a 99 Maxima SE and had almost no problem with it. No squeaks, rattles, and the only thing that went wrong was the key needed reprogramming. Now I have a 2002 and it has been good. The ride is rough because it is a SE. I could have went for the more conservative Camry which is very reliable, easy riding, etc. I choose the more sporty car. Different strokes for different folks.
You will find owners who had problems with their Volvo, BMW, Acura, Audi, Honda, Hyundai, etc.
For every 10 happy owners there will be a few not happy ones.
deeza Posts: 1some one posted that the new accord was going to get a 240 hp upgrade on it's v6, that's not true the only accord engine getting a upgrade it's the 4 cyl. Now to compare a Max to an accord, you got to be very ignorant about cars, don't take it from me drive both vehicles, if you happen to be a driver then you will know what a insult is to put an accord in the same category as a Max better yet don't even drive the accord go for the tl type s so it will be more even. It's just not fair.
2k2wannabe Posts: 23I got my SE 6-speed exactly at invoice (under if you count the $1000 rebate and $250 they gave me for getting the car to me later than promised).
Look on the internet and you can find invoice prices, rather than going to the dealer and paying to talk to a sales person.
I never met my salesperson until the day I paid for and picked up my car, and he was the busiest salesman there.
wgr Posts: 127I am new to this board. Does anyone know if there are any major changes expected in the Maxima in 2003, 2004 or 2005 (e.g. major re-designs, major engine upgrades)?
mirth Posts: 1,212The 2003 Max will be unchanged, but the 2004 Max will be a major redesign. Plus, I think it's actually going to debut near the beginning of 2003.
bobst Posts: 1,783We have a 1999 4-cyl 5-sp Honda Accord, and we recently rented a Maxima for 3 weeks while on vacation. The engine in the Maxima was great, but I thought it felt kind of sloppy on the road.
We live in the Washington DC area and rarely drive our Honda over 65 mph, but the highways in Arizona I was often driving the Maxima over 70 mph. Also, the Maxima was heavier because it had a 6-cyl engine. However, even taking these things into account, I didn't think the Maxima held the road as well as our Honda. It felt like we were kind of floating over the road surface rather than being glued to it like we are in our Honda.
mtkaplan Posts: 15I test drove a bunch of cars before getting my 2003 Maxima GLE. The accord (which was always one of the top few in automotive magazine tests), I left till the end to test figuring that that is the car I would probably end up getting. Here it is cheaper than the Max. I also owned a 1982 Accord LX back then (My first New car) and except for the rust (they did that easily back then) it was a great car. BUT (and here's the big BUT) I was not impressed with the ride. It was ok but I found the Max smoother and there was so much noise until I realized it was the air conditioning; A very noisy fan. The interior finish was also nicer in the Max IMO. Yes, the Max has a larger, faster, smoother engine but that was not the reason for my decision. I just came off a lease for a 300M and that also has a 255HP 253Lbs torque engine. I never pushed the car hard enough, never got to the higher revs that I would need again that big an engine. The Max has a very smooth shifting transmission as well. Anyone out there looking for one or the other... IMO... there is no choice. The Maxima wins.
dibiase Posts: 5MAXIMA IS DEFINITELY A STEP ON TOP OF AN ACCORD. ACCORDS SHOULD BE COMPARED TO A CAMRY OR SOMETHING. A MAXIMA IS DEFINETELY A DRIVERS CAR, FROM ITS HORSEPOWER, THE SUSPENSION, AND ITS SPORTINESS. BESIDES, IT COSTS MORE. IF YOU DONT HAVE A PROBLEM ON SPENDING A LITTLE MORE, GO WITH THE MAXIMA, TO BE ECONOMICAL, GO WITH THE ACCORD
steedm Posts: 14I like the Max, but my wife does not.
I think that the new V6 Accord will provide some serious competition, the interior is very well designed, I am keen to drive one and see how it compares.
Anyone compared the two??
But the Accord is a well balanced family sedan. No question about that. The Accord has a slightly better interior, but I think the Maxima has better styling. Especially the Maxima GLE in Glacier Pearl. The Maxima seems slightly roomier, but not by much. Handling should be about equal. The Accord might lead that pack though.
One thing is for sure. The Accord's pricing cannot be beat. It's much cheaper than a comparable Maxima.
Personally though, Give me a Maxima SE 6spd. Manual with all the options except the Navi.
qgu Posts: 93I have owned 4 nissans from 87 sentra to 97 quest. They all got rust proofed before leaving my dealer (entire body not just underbody). 3 of the 4 were rusted badly in the first 5 years. The only exception was my 92 stanza which started to show spots after 9 years. I switched to Honda for my recent two purchases (01MDX and 02CRV). I will see if Hondas are better. In terms of refinement, Honda has a slight edge (I admit it is not fair comparison because my Hondas are newer with "modern" technology). Unfortunately they are equally noisy.
The 04 Max looks really good (at least from paper it looks better than Accord). The new Max will be priced higher. But if it is not much higher than a V6Ex, I will trade my CRV for an AWD Max.
I have to say this, I really do, so here goes: Anyone who completely bashes a car brand bc of problems with ONE car is absolutley naive and ignorant. EVERY car manufacturer has lemons that come of the line every once in a while, and if the car was bought used, then maybe you should question the previous owner rather than the car's manufacturer. I honestly believe there are very few crap car manufacturers out there today. People are smart enough to know that when NUMEROUS complaints of COMPLETE car failures arise of a specific make....DONT BUY THIS CAR. Furthermore, the person earlier who had a Maxima that crapped out on him who changed to the accord and vowed he would never own another Nissan/Infiniti (BTW Infiniti is with an I, not a Y)you are VERY naive. I have a friend who owned a 1999 Honda Accord, and she had soooo many problems with that car. She eventually got rid of it, and bought a 2001, she now has about 30,000 miles on it and has not had ANY problems with it. So, in conclusion, DONT BASH A MAKE bc ONE car craps out. every manufacturer has problematic cars, to completely bash a make bc you came accross one, or evern to threaten to sue, is just naive and ignorant. OF COURSE this IS just MY opinion. And let it be known, My sister has a 1995 Altima GLE that was handed down from my mom that has not given us ANY PROBLEMS and has survived through 2 teenage drivers plus my mom. Thats a damn good car IMO.
nissangirl Posts: 186I've had 4 Maxima's now. My husband has had 2 Pathfinder's now. We wouldn't keep going back to Nissan if we had a bad experience. We just occassinally like to get "updated" versions, with more "creature features."
It still scares me though, that the '04 Max will be "American" made. I really like the Japan made cars. But that is just a personal preference.
Of course every manufacturer has troublesome examples of their cars, some more than others. But people arent "NAIVE,IGNORANT" when they are very unhappy with their cars when they develop numerous problems. After paying $20,000+ for a new car its human nature to become upset and consider another make next time. Oh, and by the way the "e" in your sentence "every manufacturer has problematic..." should have been capitalized. Let's tone down the rhetoric and nasty comments.
Thankyou for pointing out my keystroke error. I will now correct your improper word usage. "Rhetoric" as used in your sentence, "Let's tone down the rhetoric and nasty comments," is improperly used because the word rhetoric is in a noun, not an adjective as so used in your comment.;) Finally, the reason why I corrected this person who spelled Infiniti with a "y" is because that is incorrect. It would be the same if someone spelled Nissan, "Nison." I would be willing to bet you would have spoken up on that mistake as well. (No, I am not an English teacher...I'm just 17!) Happy Driving!
I hope this wont affect Nissan's reliability record. What other Japanese cars are now made in the U.S.? Has their been a decline in those model's quality?
lmp180psu Posts: 393I think the quality of a particular companies' products is not so much based on where the car is built, but is based more on a companies' quality control philosophy with respect to the assembly line and materials used. I think many "japanese" cars like Honda, and Toyota have been made in the U.S. for a few years, and most industry experts complaints about Toyota is the quality of materials and not reliability of product. Also if you look at Honda interiors, they seem to be getting better, despite being built in the U.S. People think that japanese makes have been getting worse, but it is more that other companies are getting better ( best example is Hyundai), IMO.
kennyg5 Posts: 360While I agree with you that quality control is germane to reliability, quality of materials is also intricably tied to reliability. How can a product be reliabile if it is built of inferior materials? In addition, while reliability of U.S. built cars is improving, consumer reports and sentiments consistently rate Japanese made cars superior, and I tend to agree. This is true particularly as to the "high end/flagship" cars, such as Lexus, Acura, Infiniti and the 03 Maxima (last car bearing Nissan nameplate made in Japan). That said, however, does not mean Americans are not patriotic. It simply means we choose our products smartly. I certainly hope that the 04 Max will be as (if not more) reliable than the 03 Max.
03maximan Posts: 13Lets face it people, cars nowadays are generally very reliable. The Yugos of the world do not stay around long. I hate to say it but Hyundai has come a long way (though i'll never own one !). Most things nowadays, i.e. technology, is virtually shared worldwide- i just read in the Jan. issue of Automobile that Ford and GM are going to jointly develop a FWD 6 speed automatic gearbox!). So pick a make& model you like and you probably will be very happy. IMO the automobile is one of man's greatest inventions, and todays modern cars in regards to safety, power, and reliability, make it that much more fun to be a car enthusiast!
dklanecky Posts: 559I was at the Nissan dealer on Saturday for a car wash and to look at the new Murano (very interesting vehicle).
I noticed the "country of content" stickers on Murano, Maxima, Altima and Z cars in the showroom.
Iwonder if the "American built cars" are assembled in the states but that the various versions of the 3.5 engine and transmissions are completely built in Japan and shipped over here for final assembly into the vehicles.
Maybe this is how Nissan reliability has been reasonably well maintained? I wonder if most of the issues with the American assembled vehicles (Altima) are now drive train related?
Before I bought my 03 EX V-6 Accord Sedan, I cross shopped the Maxima and G35. I have previously owned 5 Maximas and 3 Hondas so consider myself brand agnostic. To me, the 03 Maxima had several problems. First of all the torque steer with 255hp. and the 6 speed was unaceeptable. I had a Saab Turbo, so I know what torque steer is all about, but this was too much. Also, I found the drive by wire throttle to be quite non-linear, compared to my 00 Maxima. The combination of torque steer and jerky throttle made for a less than pleasant driving experience for me. The Accord is much more refined than the current Maxima, although I am looking for great things from the 04. I wont get into the comparison with the G35 since that has been explored ad nauseam on other forums!!
yatittle Posts: 13Buy with auto xmission, throw in 2 or 3 good sized adults and some luggage, and turn the A/C on. Will the I4 be adequate, or is the V6 a serious necessity? Thank you.
With the situation you described, I'd say if you take trips with any sort of regularity involving some hill-climbing, go with the V6. We have an '02 V6. Our family of 4 includes no heavyweight. We take regular trips to the ski resort (Whistler, B.C), and while we never really found the V6 lacking in power, I think I could use a bit more (ie. for those situations where I'm trying to slip in front of a trailer as the passing lane comes to a close), and I KNOW I wouldn't want to have any LESS. And aside from power, the 6 just makes for a quieter, more relaxed highway ride.
sgrd0q Posts: 398Aha! Whistler, B.C.! Personally, I won't mind driving a Yugo as long as I am within driving distance from Whistler As it is, I have to settle for coach class and a 5 hour flight from the East coast - but it is worth it!
Afterall, you have to be able to make it up the hill to get there. But when the weather is right, and you're standing on top of the mountain trying to choose between the 280+ runs, it is heaven on earth!
shadowfax2 Posts: 22I liked the Maxima -- I drove 02 and 03 standards and automatics before buying the Accord.
I thought it felt and drove like a larger car than the Accord. Maybe its because, unlike the Accord, you can see the front-end of the Max. when you're sitting in the driver's seat. My wife did not like the interior as much as the Accord. Ultimately, I wanted better gas mileage and the ability to use regular vs. premium fuel. The Accord V6EX with leather also gave me more for the money. The Max's I was driving had no leather but were priced at least 1,000 higher.
I do think the Maxima is a better looking car on the outside, and it has more snob appeal. Although there are a lot of Maximas on the road, I think it's viewed as a status symbol vs the Accord's "everyone owns one" reputation.
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I disabled UAC, didn't work.
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