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Complaint Review: BoxOfficeTicketSales.com
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- Phone: 866-625-4586
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BoxOfficeTicketSales.com refuses to honor ticket sale agreed to and paid for, as described on their webpage Chicago, Illinois
Upon modification based on complaint, I was promised new tickets for a specific set of new seats we agreed upon, to be delivered at a later date. When delivered, these seats were once again NOT the ones we agreed upon (either the new or original ones), and were vastly inferior.
A complaint this time got nowhere, with the ticket manager refusing to do anything about it. I note that their website specifically states under "our guarantee," that "You will receive the exact tickets you paid for, or you will get an upgrade free" with another sentence below that one saying "If you do not receive the exact tickets you ordered, Box Office Ticket Sales guarantees that replacement tickets will be of equal or greater value than the tickets originally requested."
They clearly are not following their stated policy.
My ordeal with this company has been going on for three months and I'm now two weeks away from the event the tickets are for. The ticket manager refuses to do anything more since he claims I was given a 20% discount for the original error (which I was), although the replacement tickets I was supposed to get are cheaper than the ones I originally ordered anyway. Even so, as mentioned earlier, even the "replacement" tickets are not the ones we later agreed upon, with the seats now even more severely degraded. I should mention that I am talking about a ticket purchase in excess of $1,000.00
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Is the MBA worth it? Use Critical Reasoning to Decide!
A colleague here at Manhattan GMAT forwarded me this infographic about the value (or lack thereof) of an MBA. Though the author doesn't explicitly say so, the statistics she chose to display indicate that she believes an MBA is by and large overvalued.
The great irony here, of course, is that the training you get as an MBA is exactly the training that sharpens your ability to think critically about arguments like this one. In fact, that's what the GMAT actually tests with its Critical Reasoning section. Just to demonstrate, I'd like to break down this infographic from top to bottom, using the same strategy I teach my students: pointing out the (flawed) assumptions necessary to conclude that an MBA is overvalued.
Premise: The cost of an MBA program including expenses is $120,000.
Assumption #1: Students actually pay all of that $120,000.
Attack: I'd estimate that around half of my MBA classmates had some scholarship or corporate support that significantly defrayed their cost. This, by the way, is probably the most underrated reason to ace your GMAT " a high GMAT score can open the door to many merit-based scholarships.
Assumption #2: The expenses are things you wouldn't pay if you didn't get your MBA.
Attack: This is, of course, ludicrous: you pay rent whether or not you get an MBA, so this cost shouldn't factor into your decision.
Premise: 1 in 5 MBAs default on their loans.
Assumption: 20% is a high default rate.
Attack: I did some fact-checking on this, and it seems like this statistic comes from a recent Fortune Magazine report. According to their definition of default, it turns out that nearly half of undergraduates default on their loans. In fact, of all of the types of degrees out there, the MBA actually has one of the lowest default rates!
Premise: It is difficult for MBAs to get a job when their program is done.
Assumption: It is easy for non-MBAs to get a job.
Attack: Companies aren't hiring MBAs because they're not hiring anybody. Furthermore, a 14% unemployment rate is pretty good considering the group of people we're talking about started off with a 100% unemployment rate. And that figure about 12% of MBAs going back to the job they left? That's just about the exact percentage of my classmates whose MBA was being paid for by their company. They had to go back " that's part of the agreement.
Premise: Being an MBA doesn't help you become CEO.
Assumption: MBAs want to be CEOs.
Attack: Some MBAs want a more interesting job in their field. Some MBAs want to manage people. Some MBAs want to work with people overseas. Some MBAs want to actually learn something.
Premise: Instead of paying for an MBA, you should use your money to start a business.
Assumption: Your business will be successful.
Attack: While I'm happy for Warren, Larry, Bill, Jeff, and Richard, there are thousands of entrepreneurs every year who fail. The knowledge gained from an MBA may have helped them. Furthermore, those five guys likely already had the investment connections to get their business off the ground. If you aren't lucky enough to be in that situation, then perhaps the MBA is the perfect breeding ground.
I'm not saying that the author is necessarily wrong, by the way " the MBA may very well result in a poor financial outcome for some people who choose to pursue it. However, the MBA decision is infinitely more nuanced than it often appears, and the relevant statistics are probably not the ones presented here. Test your own critical reasoning skills " what other considerations would weaken the author's argument? There are plenty I haven't covered!
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You can argue all you want about logic and reasoning. It won't change the facts of my experience. I am a reasonably intelligent student that achieved 3.2 and 3.3 GPAs from the second tier graduate schools where I received dual master degrees: MBA and MIM (Master of International Management) and am extremely driven professionally.
Assumption #1: Students actually pay all of that $120,000.
All together I paid about $106,000 for my student loan debt, all of it. To be specific, my parents paid just about all of it because I was drowning in it.
Assumption #2: The "expenses†are things you wouldn't pay if you didn't get your MBA.
True, but I had to go into debt to pay these expenses since I wasn't working when I incurred them and this debt accumulated A LOT of interest. In addition to expenses, I gave up lost wages.
Premise: 1 in 5 MBAs default on their loans.
I didn't default on my loans, my parents just got stuck with it all. Otherwise I would have defaulted on my loans.
Premise: It is difficult for MBAs to get a job when their program is done.
Assumption: It is easy for non-MBAs to get a job.
True, but non-MBAs didn't pay over $100,000 plus interest plus lost wages to get a job and they are not stuck with the consequences of not being able to pay this debt.
Furthermore, while it's true that MBAs get their education for reasons other than just to get a high paid salary such as non profit positions or simply to acquire knowledge, after paying all that money for education, interest, and lost wages this isn't helpful if you can't get a non-profit job, loose your apartment, everything you own and at 46 years old have to move back in with your parents who had to pay for all that tuition, interest, and expenses.
When you graduate with an MBA, you get more prestigious, higher paid positions. Everyone can see the benefits of getting an MBA. What people don't think about is the higher responsibility and expectations that come with that higher salary. Also, you don't get to go back to getting lower positions, you are now overqualified for those jobs. When you loose a high paying job, it takes longer to find your next job.
Pay attention because here's the really insidious thing that no business school will tell you when you apply to their school. When you graduate into a recession, you don't just go through this once. You go through it over, and over, and over, and over again.
All of the knowledge and sophistication I have gained from business school and the subsequent higher paid positions I have held since graduating will never compensate me for all that I have lost.
If you're going to consider going to business school, I'm going to share with you two things that I wish someone would have told me before I went to school. No University will tell you this and you won't find the full truth of it in any publication that discusses rankings.
1. The timing of when you graduate is absolutely paramount. If you do not graduate during reasonably good times, your chances of succeeding decrease dramatically. I am not saying that all people who graduate into recessions do poorly, I'm just saying that it significantly influences all future earnings of a very substantial portion of the graduating class. Also this timing of the business cycle is unpredictable and to some degree is based on pure luck.
2. Rankings of Universities matters. Not because higher rated Universities are better Universities. Frankly, there are so many reasons that this just simply isn't the case but that's another article. Rankings matter because it's the primary thing employers pay attention to when making hiring decisions regarding MBA candidates. It also matters because your alumni network largely influences your future career opportunities. If you want to know the real truth, the sad fact of the matter is, the value of an MBA does not lie with the knowledge and education that you get from the school. The value of an MBA is the alumni network you will be connected to for the rest of your career.
3. Here's one last tip that's sure to make so many of you moan over everything I just wrote. I'm just trying to give you the cold, hard, truth (don't judge until you've been out in the work force for a good long time as a post MBA graduate). Certain fields are still DISGUSTINGLY laden with discrimination, especially sexual discrimination. Look at the Executive sweets and Board of Directors' all across America and many other countries too for that matter. There's a reason why you won't see a lot of some kinds of diversity. It's because diversity is pathetic on the way up through the top of most organizations in the United States. I am speaking specifically about companies and organizations in the United States because that's where my experience lies. I do know that the same can also be said of most of the rest of the world although it is appalling how the US falls behind in this category in many ways from other countries.
People have to think very, very carefully about the costs and benefits of an MBA. So many people think it's the ticket to advance their career and they don't want to believe that this isn't true. I am sorry to have to tell you this but this simply isn't necessarily the case.
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Thanks everyone for the great, thoughtful comments! Keep in mind the MBA is definitely not the right decision for everyone – the point here is more that it's not the wrong decision for everyone. And my argument is most certainly incomplete, so I'd love to hear more – what assumptions does the infographic make? For that matter, what assumptions do I make?
I find this article has as many holes as the infographic being picked apart.
On the premise 1 rebuttal, as another poster stated, the expenses are something you need to take into account if you stop working or significantly reduce work hours to get your MBA. It's something I've gone back and forth on myself; 2 years from now if I don't go into an MBA program I'll be able to save up around 60k at my current employment. If I go into an MBA program now (and my timing matters at my age for any top school, at least playing the numbers) there is a high probability that savings will turn into around 100k of debt, barring me working, and finding a job that pays well and is flexible around a top school, which I find unlikely.
On the premise 2 rebuttal, the author seems to be comparing an MBA to an undergraduate degree default rate, which is silly.
On the premise 3 rebuttal, a 14% unemployment rate is high, no matter what spin you wish to put on it. Further, MBA people, especially if you include part time and executive programs, don't have "a 100% unemployment rate." Where did the author get that figure from? I would also question "same employer" VS "job they left", as many times the job role is different after going through a sponsored program.
The premise 4 rebuttal is lazy, so I'm going to be lazy too, and not list out anything.
I have no issues with the premise 5 rebuttal, but I don't find it to be that much of a rebuttal, other than to say that not only the most known names are successful which is at least somewhat insinuated in the first sentence.
I especially like the stat on consulting jobs. It is so easy to take apart.
"Only 13% of MBA's get the job in consulting they want".
That is assuming that every single person that goes into an MBA wants a job in consulting – the argument is completely flawed.
It would look completely different if 15% of the class applied for jobs in consulting and 13% got them – that's 87% of the class getting the job in consulting they want…of course we don't know what percentage actually wanted jobs in consulting.
The arguments presented above are flawed.
Paying 120K, or even a part of it, while forgoing the income at hand, especially in this difficult economic situation is something that needs more logic than what is presented here.
This is an absolutely delightful way to show how critical reasoning works!
I found another flaw in the argument, and I will explain it just the way Ryan did:
"MBA Students gain little over a life time"
Premise: "Only about 1 out of every 4000 alumni of top 10 MBA programs are among the highest paid executives"
Assumption: "Top MBA students from Top MBA Programs with Top salaries are the only one who gain over a life time."
Attack: There is a remarkable difference in the scope of the argument and that of the supporting premise. The author states that "all MBA Students" gain little over a "life time" and supports that claim with an extremely narrow point of view, by giving information about less than 1% of MBA students, and those not being the "highest-paid" executives.
The author doesn't provide a well thought out argument. Yes everybody pays rent but not everybody pays 120 grand in tuition, other expenses, and another 80 grand in interest. MBA's do want to be CEOs. If nobody is hiring, as stated, then all of the above is moot. 🙁

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that is the ambient air temperature sensor, its an input sensor for the climate control system
lol I posted the same type of thread on another board asking about this sensor, they all said it was the ambient (outside) air temp sensor, youd think they would have hidden the largest part of it. kind of looks like an afterthought, like they remembered it at the last moment
That's what it is. I am waiting for Silver Horse Racing to come up with a grille insert that will hide it.
Thats the sensor that tells you what the outside air temp is on your radio display.
Thanks guys. I would think that was an afterthought.


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All I can say is wow!!! This prop setup worked out very well!!! Unlimited vertical flight. Did rolls, loops, harriers, and tried to hover some, but with the 15 kts of wind it was a bit difficult. Anyway the pitts is awesome!!!!! Definitely my favorite plane at this point. Battery and esc were barely warm after each flight.
Is very repairable tho
So... a dubro 3" spinner eh? I have been flying mine on an APC 18x10 and just a nut and the shaft is cut off to suit! I imagine I could use the DuBro and just find a 10mm long nut with the hole that would accept the Du Bro spinner screw...
I have the FMS 55" Pitts Special also and it is a sweet plane also but the Starmax is more docile and doesn't have the tendency to bounce on landings like the FMS.
The Dynam Waco is a real blast also especially for the price
With The dubro plastic spinner it has a backer plate that goes behind the prop and four screws that hold the front of the spinner on after you secure the prop with the nut. you will have to cut the holes bigger where the blades come out of the spinner though. you may also have to make the hole bigger in the middle of the backing plate as the prop adapter that comes with the plane is fairly large in Diameter. I used a prop adapter from a rimfire 60 that my hobby store was able to order for me for 7 dollars so I didn't have to do any other modifications. The four holes lined up perfectly to mount it to the motor.
Replace servos
Today I maidened Starmax Pitts I bought long time ago from HobbyKing (NL warehouse).
I did not fly it hard. I crashed it on 6th flight. Two aileron servos stripped. I am not sure if it happened during the flight. Probably I lost control due to a stall from which I was unable to recover due to loss of power (probably regulator was overheaten).
REPLACEMENT of stock SERVOS (especially aileron servos) is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED they strip very easily. I am not sure which servos are installed on BananaHobby Pitts.
I really like this bipe. It is my biggest (heaviest) plank. I fly also Precision Aerobatics Extra MX and I am going to build Katana MX. Pitts is good for scale flying. Take offs and landings are very easy. It handles wind very well. I was using 1/3 to 1/2 of throttle most of the time. It can fly slow but beware of stalls. Best way is to fly high and check speed at which it stalls due to relatively heavy weight. It happens abruptly so be careful when you land it.
I did flips&rolls and invered. Tracks well without expo and balance is ok with 4Ah 6S 20C lipo when it is pushed all way forward. after 5 min flight there was >3.8V per cell but after 6 min lipos started to get slightly hot (It was around 30 deg C today)
I was using 100A regulator from Gaui X5. Definitely it is to small for stock propeller.
I am going to repair it because It is not severely damaged nd I love the way it looks in the air.
I am going to use TGY 306G servos for ailerons and Turnigy 1266HV for rudder and elevator. I use those servos on helis and they proved to provide good bang for the buck. I will put YEP 150A regulator and 18x10 APC propeller with two blades.
I want to replace wing girders with CP pipes 10mm 1 meter long, they are relatively cheap and much more stiff and lighter.
Damage after crash:
- one blade of the propeller
- one broken wing (clean break, definitely repairable with CA glue)
- small crack on fuselage
- 3 broken struts (I am going to replace all of them with CF struts I'll make myself and I will reinforce wing mounts.
- landing gear was bent but I fixed it already. CF landing gear would be nice to lower the weigh, but I decided to keep stock gear (I like the way it looks).
For those who like crazy aerobatics like me I suggest Precision Aerobatics Ultimate AMR or Multiplex Gemini. Those are awesome bipes but much smaller.
Definitely this bipe is not god for beginners. I do not recommend Ultimate AMR for beginners also.
I was surprised how silent it is. My 600 and 700 electric helis are much louder but they are 12S vs 6S Pitts.
Considering cost of servos and regulator I am going to mount it is not cheap model anymore. Considering its size, crash resistance and way it flies I think it is worth the upgrade.
Good luck Starmax Pitts flyers.
Replacement motor...
Hey guys,
I picked up one of these used a few weeks ago and really like this Biplane over all. I'm not a great 3D pilot, but I was having a lot of fun with this thing for several flights and then the stock motor gave up on me. Regretfully I didn't do my research here first while trying to come up with a suitable replacement motor. So I ended up with the Turnigy 50-60 380kv motor from HK several days ago. Their were complaints on the HK forum that this motors magnets would come loose after just a few flights. I took my chances and ordered two of these and used one with a 18X8 prop on 6s. It pulled about 75amps and about 1400watts I believe is what I last saw. The Turnigy motor only last two flights and as reported, the magnets came loose on it. I'm not even going to bother with the second motor I bought. And the performance was no where near as good as I experienced with the stock motor with a 19X8 prop that I was going to eventually try on the Turnigy motor.
Bottom line is I'm asking if you guys can point me to a very good replacement motor for this Pitts that will easily (and reliably) pull 10+lbs of thrust with a 19" or 20" prop of some sort if this is do-able? or even stick with my 18X8. I wanted to go large prop because I wanted lots of low speed thrust and don't really care about high speeds if this is a correct thinking. I'm no longer going to look for cheap budget motors, but I'd like to keep it under 150.00USA if possible. E-flite has a pretty descent looking motor for this, but looks like it would need 7s or 8s to get what I'm looking for.
I'd settle for another stock motor which worked great with a 19X8 two blade. But I cant seem to find the stock replacement motor for this Pitts anywhere?
Most places have them around $110.
I ordered the 9550 from my local HS here in the detroit area in MI. Under a 100.00usa with a prop adapter. I cant wait to get it and try it out. If its from OS... I'm sure it'll be very reliable.
Thanks again for the info !
I'm happy with my decision to try one of these OS brushless motors.
Thanks again.
Hey guys,
I received and installed the OS motor into the big Pitts, I did get the 375k version.
It may be a bit much for it,,, but I wanted to try it with a 19 X 8 prop. I don't have amp and watt data because my Turnigy Watt meter recently broke. So I decided to try to fly it anyway today -- and as soon as it got airborn the front engine cover/cowl came loose. I've been lightly gluing it on as advised on this thread, but didn't go has heavy on the glue this time because of how frequently its had to come apart lately. So it got pulled forward into the prop and "ground" down a bit. Its repairable I'm sure, but I'd like to find a replacement if possible.
As you guys are aware I'm sure, their seems to be no more replacement parts available for this puppy any more? I dont know where else to look other then Banana Hobby (which carried this model) and HK sells it too. but no replacement parts with them. So I'm at a loss right now.
I may remove it and fly it with no cowl just to see how the new OS motor seems to perform.
Thanks in advance on this one!
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That is spectacularly poor of them - and totally disrespectful of what they were sending to you; a paying punter. I do feel for you, given what you'd hoped you were receiving. I very much expect they have no option than to resolve it in your favour, but what a complete waste.
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September 7th, 2013 01:48 PM #1Junior Member
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Brother for Dagny
We are expecting our second child, a boy, in January. We already have a two year old daughter named Dagny.
We had a few girls names in the running (Himilsy, Aeronwen, and Auxerre) but are at a complete loss now for a boy's name.
Previously considered but no longer in the running were:
Euclid (we live in Cleveland and this name is tied to a city, a street, a beach, and so on. Therefore not very usable by us).
Sherlock - Love the name and the nn Lock but I think it makes us sound like uber fans of either the BBC show or of naming our children from literature.
Arrow/Aero - Still like but I don't think it quite works.
As you can probably see, we're fairly adventurous namers so please no common-ish recommendations (the "Aidens" for example).
I'd prefer to stay away from names starting with F and ending in en, in, or on. Our last name is Ferguson so I don't like how those names sound together.
Thanks in advance!
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Whoa, you asked me to comment! I am a star here, aren't I? Let's see.
First of all, I love Dagny. She makes me think of Grieg's music and it's lovely. Dagny Ferguson has the flowing g-s, I like it.
Atlas came to mind but of course he is matchy.
Well, Arrow is downmarket and trying-to-be-cool to me. Aires, maybe?
Euclid is a cool guy but he doesn't quite go with sis. Sherlock is fun and lovable and I love him with Dags.
Henry(it's popular, yep but Dagny and Henry are so neat!)
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text: Dakar Rally: Cyril Despres Wins Stage, Coma Closes In Paul Carruthers | January 17, 2014 Today's stage was a good one for veteran Dakar Rally racers Cyril Despres and Marc Coma, the former winning stage 12 with the latter crossed the line just behind him to further increase his lead in the overall standings of the world's toughest rally. But for Joan Barreda, the man who has held either first or second overall for the duration of the rally, the day was nothing short of a nightmare as he lost almost two and a half hours to the leaders, his factory Honda having broken a steering head with some 15 miles to go.For Despres the day was a total success, the defending Dakar champion riding to his second stage win of this year's race as he starts to climb up the ladder of the overall standings. He did so despite missing a waypoint, though since Coma was in his tire tracks the pair both had to circle back."It was a nice stage," Despres said. "Quite fast at the beginning, a lot of rocks also and then not that easy navigation on the last part. I'm pretty happy to navigate and I really enjoyed the day a lot, which is really important."Coma ended up just two minutes and 17 seconds behind Despres, the factory Red Bull KTM rider now leading Jordi Viladoms in the overalls standings by almost two hours. Barreda, meanwhile, has dropped to seventh overall – over three hours behind Coma."Today was a very long stage, 350 km [217 miles]," Coma said. "We finished in the Copiapo dunes. This means it is always tough, difficult and not easy for navigating. From the past we know that normally this stage is decisive. So now I'm here, I'm happy of course. We stayed together with Cyril [Despres] all day and we arrived at the end without any big problems. Of course, there are always some small mistakes and we had to find the waypoint. For tomorrow, there is still 150 km [93 miles] and this is a lot. It's like I'm fighting for myself to be focused, to push every day and just follow the way that brings me here. So I'll carry on like that."Vilodoms, who was fifth today and over nine minutes behind Despres, moves to second overall with Barreda's woes. And although he's almost two hours behind Coma, he knows it's not over until it's over."You can never say it's over when there is still a special to be ridden," Viladoms said. "There are still a fair amount of kilometers to be covered… But it's obvious that I'm very happy with what I've done up until now. As for Joan [Barreda] I don't know where he is. I saw him repairing on the side of the tracks and I don't know if he will be able to finish in time… we'll see. For the moment, I'm third and tomorrow anything can still happen. In any case, I'm very happy with the work that all the team has put in. If we can improve on our position, then it's a bonus and so much the better."Paul Carruthers | EditorPaul Carruthers took over as the editor of Cycle News in 1993 after serving as associate editor since starting his career at the publication in 1985. Carruthers has covered every facet of the sport in his near-28-year tenure at America's Daily Motorcycle News Source. Comments


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Karl Galinsky, U.T. Austin: "Are We Rome . . . Really?"
Thu, February 11, 2010 | Southwestern University, The Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center
The 2010 Brown Symposium at Southwestern University is titled "IMPERIVM: The Art of Empire in Rome and America."
It's not just about the artwork of these two empires, though. It's also about the "art" of gaining and staying in power.
"Acquiring power is an art in its own right, which does indeed sometimes use 'art' (like television and statues), and exercising it effectively is yet another," says symposium organizer Thomas Noble Howe. "We have seen a lot of incompetent government lately, people artful only at acquiring power, sometimes using art as an illusion."
Howe is an art history professor at Southwestern who also serves as coordinator general of the Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation, an international consortium that is excavating a group of large, well-preserved Roman villas located near Pompeii.
He contends that there is an art to using power which was key to the effectiveness of Rome as a world-governing empire, and says that the great villashe studies, as well as the enticing frescoes and statues and monuments of Rome, are only one emanation of the political "arts" of a multi-talented, powerful elite.
Howe has assembled a group of speakers for the symposium who study art and power in the past as well as the present.
Karl Galinsky, a professor of classics at The University of Texas at Austin, will open the symposium Thursday morning, Feb. 11, with a lecture titled "Are We Rome...Really?" Galinsky is one of the most prominent historians of ancient Rome today, as well as a modern historian. His lecture will focus on contrasts and convergences between Rome and America.
Thursday afternoon, Margaret Malamud, a professor of history from New Mexico State University, will give a lecture titled "Consummate Empires: Ancient Rome and Imperial America c. 1900." Malamud recently published a book titled Ancient Rome and Modern America; Classical Receptions, in which she analyzes how the legacy of Rome has been utilized throughout American history from republican independence to the present-day dominance of capitalism.
Also on Thursday afternoon, art critic Edward Lucie-Smith will give a lecture titled "Did the Romans Do Post-Modernism?" Smith has published more than 200 books on numerous movements and artists, including the Art Now books of the 1970s which introduced much of the world to the new generation of artists reviving classical and Renaissance approaches.
Alexander Stille, a professor of journalism at Columbia University who has written on both ancient and modern Italy, will give a lecture Friday morning, Feb. 12, titled "Imperial Power in 21st Century Rome." In his 2007 book titled The Sack of Rome, Stille investigated one of the most controversial politicians of modern Europe, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi has artfully used the Italian news media to maintain his power.
The final speaker will be Edward Luttwak, a military historian who currently serves as senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Luttwak has written one of the most famous books ever written about Roman military strategy, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (1976) and has recently published The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. In a lecture titled "Rome and Byzantium, Iraq and Afghanistan," Luttwak will compare Roman and Byzantine military strategy to the differing strategies developed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The symposium also will include an art exhibit curated by Howe and Edward Lucie-Smith. The exhibit will feature photographs by Lucie-Smith, as well as artwork by Santa Fe artist Francisco Benitez and Bosnian artist Mersad Berber. Benitez has created a piece titled "Women of Baghdad" specifically for this exhibit.
Smith will give a talk about the exhibit following his lecture Thursday afternoon.
In addition, the symposium will include a Thursday evening concert by Organographia, an ensemble from Oregon that specializes in reconstructions of Greek and Roman music. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater.
This will be the 32nd Brown Symposium held at Southwestern. The symposium is funded through an endowment established by The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston. The first Brown Symposium was held in 1978.
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The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the latest cast member for Rebels to be a Mandalorian who has "turned against the Empire" and Dave Filoni describes her further below:
Who is Sabine? She is a Mandalorian, and is described as "sassy," "spunky," "feisty" and has "a little bit of attitude." She has an expert's knowledge of weapons and arms, with an affinity for blowing things up. "She does it with flair," Sircar says of Sabine, who also moonlights as a graffiti artist.
This show is rapidly sounding more and more like a recycled Tron: Uprising to me, but I'm still curious, admittedly.
This Sabine character also seems a lot like Wyldstyle, but I'll bet she ends up cosplayed even quicker.
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Louis Tomlinson Thanks Fans For Support Following 'X Factor' Performance, Mother's Death
Louis Tomlinson continues to thank fans for their love and support in the wake of tragedy.
Louis Tomlinson continues to thank fans for their love and support in the wake of tragedy.
'I was so upset. They portrayed it wrong.'
'The thought of getting to live in Sydney is exciting,' 'The Original High' singer said.
'I understand what it's like to have giant dreams,' Iggy said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Rita Ora, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Nick Grimshaw are out.
#ThisIsNotTheEndofOneDirection, but the group's performance of "History" felt like the end of a movie.
Plus: Rita Ora's big debut!
No decisions have been made as to when the new season will begin.
After months of speculation, the U.S. version of 'X Factor' has officially been canceled.
It came down to the final three on Thursday's results episode of "The X Factor" as Carlito Olivero, Alex & Sierra and Jeff Gutt vied for this year's championship.
One Direction rock. Literally. The boys brought the totally rawkin' title track of their new album 'Midnight Memories' to the stage of the season finale of Season 3 of 'X Factor' (Dec. 19), showing off their rock 'n' roll side. It was, as always, flawless.


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This year's events, May 16 to 18, will feature bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben, YouTube sensation and motivational speaker "Dancing Matt" Harding, and the local favorite Spaceband.
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A Columbia icon is leaving Main Street after 15 years
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Columbia,S.C. (WACH) - "One night this big tour bus pulled up in front of the restaurant. And this guy got out-very stout guy. Came up to the door and say 'Hey, do y'all sell ribs?' and I said 'Of course we sell ribs. We're a restaurant. We're a barbeque restaurant.' He said 'Well, Mr. King wants a slab of ribs and two baked potatoes, no sauce.' I said 'Mr.King? Who?' And he said 'BB King!" recalls Barry Walker, the owner of Mac's on Main.
It's stories like that which have turned Mac's on Main into a Columbia icon.
For 15 years this restaurant has served up southern homestyle favorites.
"That's what the menu is:macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, collard greens, rice and gravy, ocra corn tomatoes." says Walker.
And if he could only eat one thing off his menu for the rest of his life?
"Shrimp and grits."
Now a new chapter is beginning and Barry and his wife are stepping back and letting a new restaurant take over.
Starting on October 1st, CW's Grill will officially move into the space. And the owners are looking forward to it.
"Obviously, it's a landmark in Columbia, so that's another reason we chose that. When we say Mac's on Main, everyone knows where it is." states Dan Rubino, the owner of CW's Grill.
But whatever Mac's on Main turns into, the space will always have a special place in Barry's heart.
"Well this is the Walker building. This is named after my mom. She was born in Monck's Corner, South Carolina a long time ago. So we dedicated this building to her memory back in 1998. And I think as long as that dedication is still there, I'll still be a part of it." says Walker.


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Today, the national debt hit the record high of $16 trillion, an increase of more than 50 percent since President Obama's "stimulus' went into effect. In response, Rep Walberg released the following statement:
"For the first time in America's history the next generation could be less prosperous and have fewer opportunities than their parents and grandparents because their government spends too much. While the president has failed to lead on this issue, House Republicans have been busy passing two budgets and capping spending at below 20% of the U.S. economy. The last thing I want to do is leave my kids and grandkids with a tab they're unable to pay off later. And that means putting the federal government on a diet now."
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Israel arrested at least 25 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in a raid early Monday morning, according to the BBC.
It's reported three members of the Palestinian parliament — Hatem Kafisha, Mohammad Al-Tal and Ahmad Atoun — were also arrested.
Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group, and though the government confirmed the arrests to the Associated Press, they did not give specifics on why the arrests were made.
"Overnight 25 Palestinians were arrested all over the West Bank," the Israeli army said.
The AP also reported that among those detained was an unidentified man responsible for reconciliation talks between Hamas and its political and secular opponent Fatah.
Hamas denounced the arrests, saying they undermine Palestinian reconciliation efforts between themselves and President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, according to Haaretz.
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, an executive committee member of the multi-party group Palestinian Liberation Organization, strongly condemned the arrests of Palestinian lawmakers.
"With such arbitrary arrests, Israel has violated international law and the most basic norms of human rights," Ashrawi said in a press release Monday.
"Israel is not above the law. Therefore, we call on all parliaments — Arab, European and international — to hold Israel accountable and to ensure the release of Palestinian lawmakers," he con
Today's raid is not unprecedented. At least, according to the BBC, citing Palestinian reports, Israel holds over 4,500 Palestinians in jails, 12 of them members of the Palestinian parliament.


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Ann, my Fogal/Fogel/Fogle antecedents were from Strausburg in the Alsace Lorraine.they immigrated to North America in 1830, landing inBoston.My gggggrandfather Phillip was a gardener.He took the family to Illinois just as that area was being developed for fruit orchards.
We have the ships manifest so we are certain about the date, ship, and port of entry.Later US Census records give us the city of Strausburg.
I was a bit surprised to learn recently that there is also an Irish surname Fogal.


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"Mhalabia " is one of the favourite desserts found in both Turkish and Syrian cuisines. It is also well known in the Arab Maghreb. This dessert dish is easy to cook and is delicious. Try it and you'll discover the charm of an Arabian dessert.
The cream
- 2 tablespoons (40g) of cornflour
- 500ml of milk
- 65g of sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange blossom water
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- 2 tablespoons of orange blossom water
- Pistachios for garnish (optional)
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1Mix the cornflour with a small amount of the milk. Pour the mixed ingredients into a saucepan with the remaining milk, sugar, and orange blossom water.
2Cook over medium heat while beating. When a foam forms on the surface of the cream, spoon it off. Turn off the stove.
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Weeks' homer the difference in Brewers' wild win
Weeks hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers came back after squandering a seventh-inning lead and beat Colorado 8-7 Saturday night in a game that began with a 49-minute weather delay and included the ejections of Rockies manager Jim Tracy and catcher Chris Iannetta.
"I thought I hit it pretty good, but you never know," said Weeks, who connected for his 18th homer of the season. "But it did get across the fence. It is always exciting to get game-winning home run."
With two outs in the ninth and the score tied at 6-6, Huston Street (0-3) walked Prince Fielder. Weeks followed with a drive that just cleared center fielder Dexter Fowler's attempt for a leaping catch at the wall.
"It just wasn't my best pitch," Street said. "I was trying to throw a slider down and I threw a slider that was belt high. Sometimes, they foul it back. He didn't foul it back."
Francisco Rodriguez (3-2), making his Brewers debut after being acquired Tuesday from the New York Mets, pitched a scoreless eighth inning.
"I was waiting to come in, and once I got in, I wanted to keep the score tied and let our guys score some runs," Rodriguez said. "We needed this one. We had dropped the first two games of the series. It was huge to come back and win it."
John Axford allowed an RBI single by Todd Helton before retiring Troy Tulowitzki for the final out to earn his 24th save in 26 chances.
Milwaukee was trailing 3-2 when Josh Wilson and Jonathan Lucroy each singled off Jhoulys Chacin to start the seventh. Craig Counsell, pinch-hitting for starting pitcher Zack Greinke, advanced the runners with a sacrifice.
After Chacin hit Corey Hart with a pitch to load the bases, Matt Reynolds came on in relief to face Nyjer Morgan, who greeted him with a surprise bunt single down the first-base line that scored Wilson. Charging from first, Helton tried to field the ball and toss it from his glove all in one motion but it sailed over Iannetta's head for an error and Lucroy crossed the plate with tying run.
Mark Kotsay, a defensive replacement after left fielder Ryan Braun was lifted in the sixth because of tightness in his left hamstring and calf, drove a fly ball to center. Hart, who hit a two-run homer earlier, tagged up and went for the plate, where Iannetta caught the throw on a bounce. He wheeled to put the tag on Hart's upper leg as the Brewers' runner slid in a very close play at the plate.
After home plate umpire Cory Blaser signaled Hart safe to give Milwaukee a 5-3 lead, Iannetta bounced up, slammed his mask down and heatedly argued the call nose-to-nose with Blaser. Iannetta was tossed as Tracy ran from the dugout to get between the two. Tracy then got in Blaser's face and he was also ejected.
Tracy said afterward that he thought Hart was "clearly out" and Blaser missed the call. Iannetta, ejected for the first time in his big league career, said he obviously thought he had gotten Hart out but added he over-reacted out of frustration.
"I shouldn't have done what I did," Iannetta said. "No one is perfect. Even the best players in the game make mistakes sometimes, and you can't fault a guy for making a mistake, if it truly was a mistake. But I reacted in a manner that wasn't right, so it's on me."
Colorado came back and regained the lead in the bottom of the seventh on Helton's two-run double and Tulowitzki's run-scoring single. Milwaukee evened the score again in the eighth on an RBI groundout by pinchhitter George Kottaras.
Trying to get the Brewers going offensively, manager Ron Roenicke shook up the batting order and Hart, moved up to the leadoff spot from fifth, responded with his 12th homer, a two-run shot in the fifth that pulled Milwaukee to 3-2.
All three of the Rockies' runs off Greinke in the second inning were unearned. Ian Stewart hit a two-out triple and Dexter Fowler swung and missed at a pitch in the dirt for a third strike. Lucroy couldn't hold the ball and struggled briefly to track it down before he was able to corral it. However, his throw to first was off the mark for an error, allowing Fowler to reach and Stewart to score.
Iannetta and Chacin followed with successive RBI singles.
Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez returned to the lineup after missing eight of nine games since bruising his right wrist when he crashed into the center-field wall while making a catch against Kansas City on July 3.
NOTES: Prior to the game, manager Ron Roenicke swapped Hart and Weeks in the lineup. Josh Wilson also started at shortstop ahead of Yuniesky Betancourt. ... Twenty of Hart's 29 RBIs this season have come on home runs. ... Iannetta is 6 for12 with a double, 3 RBIs and four runs scored in his last four starts at Coors Field.
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Another Man's Treasure: In addition to the standard Rookies-who-will-explode value picks for 2011 which get most of the ink, such as the ten players listed by Mike Street (First Base, Third Base, and Designated Hitter) and Mike Jong (Catcher, Second Base, and Shortstop) this week, sometimes players will present themselves as good keepers due to being cut by another owner due to (usually) a 2010 injury…
Speed is the theme: The standard Rotisserie advice is to get speed in the auction. How much the better to come into the auction with enough speed thanks to well-chosen keepers? Yours truly confesses to timing Michael Brantley all wrong in 2010, from recommending him on July 7 to removing him on July 28. He got only 64 plate appearances in that span, hitting .172/.250/.241, and stealing just two (2) bases. But since being removed from the list (and honestly getting another chance due only to more Tribe injuries), he's hit .304/.345/.400, with seven (7) steals in 146 plate appearances. This is almost exactly the sort of performance which was expected from Brantley. He won't walk a ton, but he's very difficult to strike out, giving him a lot of at-bats, with a presumably high batting average, in addition to being a legitimate stolen base threat. Seeing a stat line with a .290 batting average and 30+ steals would not be the least bit surprising from him in 2011.
Desmond Jennings was added as a Value Pick on September 1, with an overly-optimistic playing time estimate. But as a fantasy asset, it's almost impossible to be overly optimistic about his outlook for 2011 and beyond. He may have to wait for his chances at becoming a "Super Two" player to expire, spending April and May in the minors, but otherwise, it seems very likely that he'll be at least a "good" fantasy player in 2011, perhaps stepping immediately into the shoes of assumed-to-be-departing left-fielder Carl Crawford. Only the uncertainy of his playing time gets him ranked below Brantley here, he's a much better all-around player.
Ben Revere is nobody's cast-off, checking in as Kevin Goldstein's #46 prospect entering this season, despite assumptions that he'd never hit for power. If anything, he improved his stock in 2010, making the often-telling jump to AA in 2010, with nothing worst than a bump in his strikeout rate:
2009 (high-A): 517 PA, .311/.372/.369, 45 SB, 34 K (6.6%)
He was hit in the face with a pitch and suffered an eye injury (hence the lesser PA total), but – as Kevin Goldstein notes – hit quite well upon his return. Right now, his biggest problem is that his strengths and weaknesses mirror the incumbent center-fielder in Minnesota, Denard Span. It bears noting that – at least for now – he's an even better base-stealing threat than Span, and the organization has found ways to open up playing time for their extra outfielders in the past. It's quite certain that manager Ron Gardenhire likes the idea of having two true centerfielders in the outfield together, especially when the other options are Jason Kubel, Mike Cuddyer, and Delmon Young – not the best fielders ever. It's also certain that those three guys can hit well enough to make Revere's path to playing time uncertain. Revere isn't the best candidate to make an impact in the first half of 2011, but he has the potential to become a must-own commodity as soon as the second half, due to his speed. He's on the Peoria Saguaros roster for the AFL.
David DeJesus has been the forgotten man since his injury. And while his 2010 season represents a career-best in terms of WARP/PA at age 30, and he doesn't have a lot of power or speed, he's still a quality bat. And his home ball park has suppressed his power, as it's even less favorable for lefty home runs than for righty home runs. It's not clear that Kansas City will trade him, and to sell tickets, they are more likely to pick up his cheap $6 MM option and market their good up-and-coming talent as a group which could pull a San Diego and surprise the baseball world in 2011…. but "DD" will be playing for a contract, and might end up on a better team for the final two months of 2011. All-in-all, he's not a player to be excited about, but he could hit nearly .300 with 15/10 HR/SB possibilities.
One final AL Outfielder to check for is Grady Sizemore. He was expected to be so good, that he went in the first round in most leagues in 2010, and is retained now mostly by owners who were demoralized into inactivity by losing such a high-profile player. Will Carroll's Under the Knife at the time was far from optimistic about Sizemore's ability to play at a star level when he returns, but he almost assuredly will return. With microfracture surgery on his knee, it seems safe to assume that Grady will not approach his career peak of 38 steals in 2011, nor does it seem likely he'll rack up 745 plate appearances, as he did three years in a row from 2006-2008. But he will be only 28 years old, and he's a well-rounded hitter who had 33 home runs in 2008, scores lots of runs due to getting on base at a nice clip, and he should drive in more runs, as it's unlikely he'll be asked to lead off again. This would be a keeper with a lot of risk, but the upside is substantial enough to warrant consideration.
Whatever Happened To? Some players who have received Value Pick notice in the past aren't listed as good "keepers", with the assumption being that their values will be low enough on Auction Day (or Draft Day) to warring taking a pass on them now. It's always a tricky guessing game. For example, some may have noted the absence of the long-hyped Lars Anderson from the First Base keepers, which makes sense given his mediocre Davenport Translation of .242/.308/.396, and the fact that it seems pretty unlikely that Boston would allow Adrian Beltre to walk, but at this juncture, who really knows? Maybe Beltre's agent will be unreasonable and the Sox will decide that Beltre only plays when he's in the final year of a contract and that Kevin Youkilis' value is being wasted at first base, and why not see what Lars can do? Anyway, Felix Pie has played 60 of the team's 63 games since returning from the DL, giving hope that he might stay healthy. But the observation that he's hit when healthy (from the June 30 Value Picks) was belied by his .269/.303/.395 batting line since his return. While there's reason to be semi-optimistic, he shouldn't be difficult to re-acquire in 2011. Ditto for Travis Snider, he of the jaw-dropping power. He's still very much someone to consider long-term, and even for 2011. But if he's not being held in a league already, it's very likely that nobody will prevent an owner from grabbing him in 2011 at a very reasonable price (or with a late draft pick).
Razing Arizona: Three players are unlikely to have any 2011 impact, but their stock could rise with an outstanding AFL. Michael Taylor hit just .272/.348/.392 in Sacramento in 2010, and his seasonal age was 24, so he's not young for the league. But his preseason weighted-means PECOTA was .275/.338/.462, and that's in Oakland. And until 2010, there was little doubt that Taylor would hit – he obliterated the Sally League, Florida State League, and Eastern League in previous minor-league stops. He stole 16 bases in 2010, and could wind up being 5-category fantasy player, though he'll remain banished to AAA unless he has a great AFL and Spring Training. Engel Beltre, on the other hand, is very young for his leagues. One could shrug off his .331/.376/.460 batting line with 10 steals in 290 PA as being a California League creation, but he was still just 20 years old in high-A ball, and spent the 2nd half of 2010 in AA. A longshot to get playing time in Texas in 2011, a great AFL could change minds, at least getting him on the June radar, ala Starlin Castro in 2009. The biggest longshot is Juan Carlos Linares, who turned 26 in July. He won Gold Gloves his last two years in Cuba, but only stole 16 bases in all his seasons there. His best skill is power, and for his years in Cuba, he homered once per 21.6 at-bats, compared to once per 23.5 AB for Kendry Morales. He's far from being a keeper now, but keep him in mind – he's considered a dead pull hitter, so Fenway would be a good fit.


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Dr. Norman Finkelstein
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Creative Writing (poetry), 20th-Century American Poetry, Modern Jewish Literature, Literary Theory
Norman Finkelstein teaches modern and contemporary American literature, Jewish American literature, literary theory, and creative writing. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (University of Georgia Press, 1992), Passing Over (Marsh Hawk, 2007), Scribe (Dos Madres, 2009), and the three-volume serial poem Track (Spuyten Duyvil 1999, 2002, 2005). He has also published five books of literary criticism: The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry (Bucknell University Press, 1988; 2nd ed., 1993), The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY Press, 1992), Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY Press, 2001), Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2003) and On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010). Recent poems, essays and reviews have appeared such journals as LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Contemporary Literature, Cincinnati Review, Rain Taxi and Hambone.
Finkelstein's readings and lectures are available at PennSound.
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LaPorta redeems himself with winning blast
LaPorta redeems himself with winning blast
With the Indians trailing the Angels, 2-1, in the ninth inning on Tuesday, LaPorta entered the batter's box with the bases loaded and none out. All the first baseman needed to do was hit the ball to the outfield to, at worst, record a game-tying sacrifice fly.
Instead, LaPorta beat a Jordan Walden fastball into the ground, resulting in a double play that left a pair of runners on with two out. Jason Kipnis then struck out to end the contest, the Indians' golden opportunity for a comeback having fizzled.
LaPorta said he became the focus of Tribe fans' frustration after the loss.
"It happens. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose," LaPorta said. "The guy a couple nights ago throws 99 mph. It's not the easiest at-bat. You can't let one day affect how you play the rest of the year. You can't be scared."
Baseball has a funny way of granting players second chances. LaPorta capitalized on his.
With two out in the ninth inning on Saturday, LaPorta barely cleared the left-field wall with a three-run, walk-off homer that beat the Royals, 5-2.
"That's the way I guess this game goes," LaPorta said. "You have to keep going out there and try to contribute."
LaPorta said he deleted his Twitter account after receiving backlash from angry fans. He said eight out of every 10 tweets directed his way were cordial, but others were so vicious he decided to cut ties with the social media avenue. Even after an outpouring of support following his heroics on Saturday, LaPorta said he has no intentions of restoring his account.
"People have their opinions," LaPorta said. "They feel strongly about their emotions about the game."
Manager Manny Acta said fan reaction is just a part of the game, and he's glad LaPorta got the last laugh.
"We expect a lot out of this guy," Acta said. "He had a rough night a couple of nights ago when he couldn't drive in that run. I'm pretty sure that whoever was booing three nights ago was cheering him on today."
LaPorta went 0-for-3 as the designated hitter in Sunday's 5-3 loss in the series finale.


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Posts Tagged Coldwell Banker
Success Story from Timothy Pantle, Coldwell Banker
On one of my most recent listing appointments I was going up against a well known listing agent. The seller said this agent has been trying to get him to sell his property for quite some time but according to the trust the seller had to interview more than one agent. At that point I asked the seller if this other agent was going to use the latest technology to get information to potential buyers as they were sitting outside his house. He said the other agent didn't say anything about getting info to buyers cell phones. I then asked the seller to take out his iPhone and dial the Virtual Agent number. In a matter of seconds he was looking at a home I had listed in Lincoln for $800,000. He was impressed that I would use the same expensive technology to sell his $150,000 property. That alone got me the listing.
Timothy Pantle
Coldwell Banker
Success Story from Donna Sturla, Coldwell Banker
I recently listed a duplex on a dead-end street where I expected very few people to drive by. I had at least six hits on my Virtual Agent rider, and from those I connected with several peoople. I am now working actively with one of them, to find a home, and another wants to buy a duplex in two months.
Also, I had a listing about four months ago, and had a number of hits on the rider; from one of them, I gained not only a client but we have already closed a transaction on a home ! I really believe that Virtual Agent is an awesome tool for increasing our leads.
Donna Sturla
Coldwell Banker
"The best option for marketing that I have seen in months"
Posted by mbarrus in Success Stories, Testimonials on October 21st, 2010
Helen Kacur, Coldwell Banker:
Thank you for bringing the CB Connect program to our intown office in Atlanta. It is the best option for marketing that I have seen in months. I was at a party just last weekend with people who were talking about how email is a time drain and talking on the phone is so 2006. And so, I welcome the opportunity to tap into mobile marketing through text messages, since text is now the preferred form of communication in 2010! So glad I attended the class.
Jim had a prospect call him off the rider and they are working with him exclusively for a $200,000 purchase
Posted by mbarrus in Testimonials on July 13th, 2010
Sue Flaig, Coldwell Banker, Florida:
Carol, once again, thank you for the extra effort you gave my agents yesterday. I thought you'd enjoy a little story. Jim Chapman, new agent (experienced in sales in other fields previously) subscribed to Virtual Agent the first time you presented to my Clearwater group. He's the one I told the story about to the Tarpon group… he was so excited and wanted to show me what a super tool it was and did demonstrate it for me. Well, the attached message came with a photo of the For Sale sign with the 866 rider attached to it (his first listing already under contract in less than 25 days). Jim had had a prospect call him off the rider, he has 'captured' them and they are working with him exclusively for a $200,000 purchase.
How's that for a success story!
I'm loving Virtual Agent and looking forward to beating out my competition again!
Posted by mbarrus in Testimonials on June 21st, 2010
Robin Kaplan, Coldwell Banker, California:
Good Morning John,
I wanted to thank you for introducing our office to a fabulous new marketing product that has already generated business for me.
Virtual Agent was able to convert a seller who was going to list with my competition the day it was presented at our office meeting. Right after our meeting I sent an email to this client asking them to test drive the product using the virtual agents demo site. They were so impressed with this unique marketing tool, they immediately called me to let me know they were listing with me right away.
These sellers could see that this marketing tool provided excellent quality photos instantly to their cell phone and allowed me to capture the buyers contact info unlike conventional flyers on the sign.
I'm impressed with the cost of Virtual Agent vs color flyers that disappear from the sign box without the ability to stay connected to the buyers who take them.
I'm loving Virtual Agent and looking forward to beating out my competition again!
PS…This listing went pending in 7 days!!!
Thanks Again,
Robin Kaplan
Coldwell Banker
[Virtual Agent] is a product that agents should utilize to maximize their marketing potential now and in years to come.
Posted by mbarrus in Testimonials on June 7th, 2010
Laura Lanke, Coldwell Banker, Wisconsin:
On May 27th, 2010 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Wisconsin Region held its annual Marketing and Training Expo. The expo was attended by approximately 120 agents and Managers, featured a number of topics and break-out sessions one of which was conducted by Scott Tanner – CB Mobile Connect. Scott's session was one of the agent favorites as it brought a new facet of marketing that was embraced with great enthusiasm. Scott's presentation was very professional and informative; a welcome addition to the day's events. CB Mobile Connect is a product that agents should utilize to maximize their marketing potential now and in years to come.
The sky is the limit to how many leads you can generate
Posted by mbarrus in Success Stories, Testimonials on April 22nd, 2010
John Leles, Coldwell Banker Managing Broker:
Your presentation was fantastic. The Virtual agent is incredible, and definitely a listing tool. I am so excited that a lot of my agents immediately signed up with your company. I really see a vision of this being huge for the agents even the ones working with buyers. I was very impressed with being able to tract all of the text message and hits onto my site. If I was back into sales this would definitely be the tool for me to have. I know many more of my agents will sign up for this great program. I really believe that the sky is the limit to how many leads you can generate.
Thank you again Scott for such a great presentation of a great tool.
I encouraged her to take a [Virtual Agent] sign with her to use in her presentation. She wound up getting the listing.
Posted by mbarrus in Testimonials on October 30th, 2009
Brianne Hill, Marketing Coordinator, Coldwell Banker:
As I mentioned before, I had an agent who was going to a listing presentation the next day for a couple that was interviewing four agents from different companies. I encouraged her to take a Coldwell banker connect sign with her to use in her presentation. She wound up getting the listing. I definitely believe that a part of that was her ability to show how tech savvy Coldwell banker is and how we're on top of the market.
I am working on a loan RIGHT now that came from [Virtual Agent]
Posted by mbarrus in Testimonials on October 4th, 2009
Mark Wright, Axiom Financial, LLC:
Hey Guys
Just wanted to keep you in the loop and let you know that I am working on a loan RIGHT now that came from CB Connect. I was thinking of you as I am working on it. Of course it is not closed yet, but clients thought that there was no way they could get a house, little did they know that they have great credit and we get them a Utah Housing loan for first time home buyers with no money down!!
Anyways, just thought I would share the word! This tool works we just have to be patient sometimes I guess!!!
Virtual Agent & Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage – Utah
Posted by wcooper in News & Press, Testimonials on April 11th, 2009
We've worked hard to create new white label capabilities for our clients. Here is the latest accomplishment from my team. Our friends in Utah are off and running with a fully customized, white labeled version of Virtual Agent.
Here is an excerpt from the press release. To read the entire article, visit http://www.pr.com/press-release/136937
Sandy, UT, March 07, 2009 –(PR.com)– Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Utah's leading provider of real estate services, announced today that it is pioneering a new marketing platform that delivers property information—text descriptions, photos and video—instantly to a consumer's cell phone or mobile device.


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My mom and sis have same name.. Happens to them, me I have a relative on husbands side same name mixes with my report. I desputed the wrong accounts, on EACH of 3 credit reports. Then I added a statement to my report to verify SSN due to same name issues. Not sure about how they put your dad on you but they don't seem to be the brightest when I call.
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not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but thought i'd put these up and see what people think!
these are a bunch of shadow puppets i made for a non-profit environmental organisation. they'll be used to teach children about bats and why bats are important to our environment (they eat nasty insects! and pollinate flowers so we can have fruit!)
a cave nectar bat. these guys have long tongues to extract nectar from flowers.
cave nectar bat again, with baby! the puppets were made from recycled OHP plastic sheets (the things they used to make presentations with, before microsoft powerpoint was invented...).
nur, the main character. the stylisation and clothes pattern were inspired by Javanese Wayang Kulit shadow puppets.
i'd love to know what people think!


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It's tough to shut down one standout receiver, more difficult to stop a duo and, in the case of St. Mark's, nearly impossible to contain a veteran quarterback in sync with his entire receiving corps.
Behind senior signal caller John Webb and an explosive offense, St. Mark's (2-1, 1-1) travels to Arlington Oakridge (2-2) at 7 p.m. Friday.
Despite a 58-21 home loss on Sept. 21 to Fort Worth All Saints, ranked No. 1 in the Dallas Morning News' small private schools poll, St. Mark's aerial attack has shown no signs of stopping.
Webb entered 2013 with a year of experience as a starter and saw playing time as a sophomore in 2011. His connection with receiver John Caldwell, who tallied 1,250 receiving yards last season, looks just as strong this year. John's brother William also lines up at receiver, and receiver Case Brabham rounds out the starting trio. Webb has often used his receivers' height advantage for deep passes resulting in an 18.2 yards per catch average.
This season, Webb is almost on pace to match last year's production, with 1,199 passing yards through three games. John Caldwell leads the receiving corps with 25 catches for 545 yards, William Caldwell follows at 267 on 12 receptions and Brabham has caught 14 passes for 232.
Key in Friday's game at Oakridge will be stopping the passing game, in which Oakridge thrived in its two wins and struggled in its two losses. Oakridge quarterback Tyler Woolsey has 992 passing yards and three touchdowns but five interceptions.
Oakridge receivers have shared the receiving yards fairly evenly, as Brodrick Umblance leads with 20 receptions for 367 yards, Daylen Johnson has 11 catches for 252 yards and Blake Burris and Parker Welch have 168 and 166 yards, respectively.
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Collection spells are not just for debt collectors who want to put the hoodoo on a delinquent customer. In Chris Colfer's "Land of Stories" series, they are the framework for a quest-like adventure through a magic world teeming with fairy tale heroes and villains. The first book, "The Wishing Spell", was all about a shopping list of magical items that twins Alex and Conner Bailey needed to assemble in order to get home to the "Other World" (namely, ours). It could only ever be used one more time, and the Evil Queen from "Snow White" wanted to get there first. Now in their second visit to the Land of Stories, Alex and Conner are trying to complete one collection spell, while the Enchantress from "The Sleeping Beauty" races to finish another.
Ralph is a geek, but not the type who would ordinarily dream of becoming the hero in a fantasy novel. In fact, Ralph's boring parents have done their best to instill in him a flat, unheroic, unimaginative character. Their reason is that it is dangerous for members of their family to make wishes. The closest thing to a wish that has ever crossed Ralph's mind is his dream of being a computer game designer. I know, right? What a geek! But then the fantasy novel happens to him.
The trail of "things to read after Harry Potter" has already led me past many books in which real-world characters get mixed up in the world where fairy tales and children's stories are real. Off the top of my head, these include the work of authors Chris Colfer, Eoin Colfer, Ian Beck, Frank Beddor, Michael Buckley, Marissa Burt, Michael Ende, Lev Grossman, Tom Holt, Lisa Papademetriou, and Sarah Beth Durst; even if I've forgotten twice as many, my point is made. If you've been following developments in my book review column, you might appreciate the variety that gives spice to this theme.
In the sequel to "The Secret History of Tom Trueheart", the youngest of seven brothers in the last surviving family of storybook heroes must, once again, set out to save the older six. Not only that, but he must rescue five princesses who were spirited away on their wedding day before the helpless, horrified eyes of their wedding guests. Also, he has to stop a renegade Story Bureau scribe, now styling himself the King of Unhappy Endings, from marching an Army of Darkness against the Land of Stories.
Una Fairchild is a lonely little girl from our world who, one day, finds a book in the library purporting to be the Story of Una Fairchild. Even more amazingly, the book's blank pages begin filling with text before her eyes, as though she were part of a story being written down as it happens in real time. Before she has a moment to stop and consider what is going on, she finds herself really inside the story—or rather in Story—gate-crashing two students' practical exam in heroics.
This book is what happens when a New York City schoolteacher stitches together nine fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to form one coherent story—while, at the same time, restoring much of the original versions' weird, scary, and bloody bits. And although the narrator often pulls the reader aside and begs him to make sure there are no small children in the room to hear the tale, the entire book demonstrates an amazing faith in kids' guts, brains, and hearts—not only that they can understand and appreciate such strong stuff, but that they are brave enough to take it, worthy to enjoy it, and keen to learn from it
The sixth book in the "Sisters Grimm" series features another "fractured fairy-tale" to delight middle-grade readers. Sabrina and Daphne go through a lot in this installment. While Sabrina finds herself reaching the age where she can't help worrying about how she looks, Daphne suddenly—and, to Sabrina, irritatingly—takes to imitating her older sister.
Audrey Niffenegger, author of "The Time Traveller's Wife", has written and illustrated a new fairy tale. There once was a postman who falls in love with a raven, and together they have a Raven Girl. The Raven Girl is born with arms and legs, but she longs to fly. Niffenegger weaves fairy tale truisms with modern medicine to bring to life a story of identity, and the importance of an open mind and an open heart.
Young Tom comes from a line of storybook heroes. And by that I mean the actual heroes of such stories as "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The Frog Prince." Whether a clever tailor or a charming prince, the hero in each of your favorite fairy tales was most likely a member of the Trueheart clan, acting on instructions from the staff at the Story Bureau, and with a little help from sprites who carry messages and throw in a little magic now and then.
This book by the author of "The Firework-Maker's Daughter" and "The Ruby in the Smoke" combines a fairy-tale concept with elements of the picaresque novel. That is to say, it presents a hero from humble origins, making his way through a corrupt world in a series of funny, ironic adventures. Seemingly set in Italy around the time of the Napoleonic wars, this story pokes fun at the foibles of people in an age quite different from our own – but not so different that we don't feel the satire poking at us!


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" Genre: Horror / Author: Robert Swartwood / Kindle Edition / 368 Pages / Book is published 2011-04-11 by RMS Press "
The Dishonoured Dead is a Zombie novel like no other I have ever read. Set in a dystopian future where the living are now hunted and called Zombies, the book takes the usual premise of a George Romero inspired spin-off and turns everything all around and puts it on its head!
Conrad is one of the animated dead and a Hunter charged with tracking down Zombies; those who formerly thought of themselves as human. In the thousand years or so since the Dead have taken over, they have re-established civilisation and their own form of society and somehow evolved to the point where they can consume food and reproduce even though their organs no longer function and their hearts no longer beat. There is never any satisfying explanation for this, it is just something you have to go along with and although this sounds like it really shouldn't work, instead as a concept it really kind of does. Because this book is less about the differences between the Living and the Dead but more about how similar these two seperate and distinct races have become.
In this not-so-brave-new-world, all emotion and free thought or expressionism is banned. The whole reason the Human race supposedly doomed itself in the first place was because it chose to express its creativity in the form of art, music and literature. So books, painting and anything expressive of that nature is outlawed on pain of Expiration. Humans who are caught are publically beheaded and there is much fear and panic that children up to the age of 10 are susceptible to being changed; transformed back into one of the Living.
All things are dead. So the National Parks are full of dead plants, the Dead keep reanimated fish in tropical fish tanks as pets and the Living are hunted down and killed at every opportunity. But "Living" Activists, Undead who believe the Living deserve rights, threaten the very existance of this current "perfect" society and soon Conrad finds himself being hunted by those who have identifed him as a target! And when Conrad is promoted to a new, secret Goverment project where the Dead are experimenting with ways that the Living and the Dead can live together in harmony, he finds everything he thought he knew about his life placed in total jeopardy.
One thing is certain, after events in this book are done things will NEVER be the same again.....
This is an awesome, awesome novel and a fresh approach to a genre that has become flooded with entries in recent times; not just in films but also in literary fiction. Although it has some faults, the way that Swartwod pulls everything together by the end is inspired and this truly is a breath of fresh air in established Zombie fiction! There is so many good ideas and concepts here that a few plot flaws are easily over-looked!
Some peole on Amazon have moaned and complained about the fact that some of the Dead allegedly seem to show emotion, feel pain etc in the midst of what goes on but if you actually read this properly you soon discover that the Dead do not actually FEEL these things, they are just imitating Humanity and that much of what they think they feel is quite simply all in their head. The fact that they are attempting to copy-cat the Living to this extent says much about their society and this book actually raises a lot of very interesting psychological questions about our own civilisation whilst also almost being a satirical look at our current generation!
In my honest opinion, there is much more here to like than there is to dis-like and this really is a Kindle book worth reading! When I downloaded it, it was free but since then it has become available at a small charge and very little cost; around £1.77 I believe. Certainly if you are looking for something different, it is definitely worth picking up!


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Senator Gallivan Remembers September 11th
Dear Fellow New Yorker:
It's hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Like you, I remember where I was on that crisp and clear morning, how we frantically called our friends and family, and how we all watched in horror as the towers fell.
More than 3,000 people died on September 11th, many of whom were some of New York's finest and bravest police officers and firefighters. Having spent my life as a first responder and public safety professional -- first as a New York State Trooper and later as the Sheriff of Erie County -- I can attest that these men and women displayed a level of bravery and sacrifice that morning that will never be matched.
Two weeks after the attacks, I had the privilege of leading a contingent of Sheriff's from across the state to aid in the clean-up and investigation process. It was one of the greatest honors of my life.
Being so close to Ground Zero so soon after I noticed something else happening as a result of 9/11 - - New Yorkers and all Americans cast aside their differences and stood as one, united in grief, hope and compassion.
I'm often asked how we can best honor the memory of those who died on 9/11, including the firefighters, police officers and EMTs who rushed into the burning World Trade Center. My answer -- by taking time to give back to your own community through volunteering or donating blood, or attending one of the many September 11th related events in your town.
Doing so will commemorate the lives of those who died and show others that we remain the strongest and proudest nation in the world.
To assist you and your family in honoring the victims of September 11th, as well as the brave men and women in our military who fight to defend our nation's freedoms, I have provided information below about the special "New York Remembers" exhibitions taking place throughout New York State. I hope that you are able to participate in one of these important events.
Thank you, and God Bless America today, tomorrow and always.
Patrick M. Gallivan
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Monday May 22, 2017
AARP Driver Safety Class, Lawrence Township Office on Aging, Lawrence Senior Center, 30 East Darrah Lane, Lawrence, 609-844-7048
9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Safety class for seniors 60 and older. $15 to $20., www.lawrencetwp.com
Monday May 22, 2017
Please join Community Options on May 22, 2017 at the Philadelphia Union League Golf Club at Torresdale for its annual Spring Golf Classic. In addition to a day of golf on a beautiful course, there will be cocktails and dinner following your day on the links. Register to play or contact us to become a sponsor – to be included in the event program, we must have your commitment no later than April 28, 2017. Go to http://imatter.comop.org/Golf for complete details.
For 28 years, Community Options has developed housing and employment programs for people with disabilities – serving thousands of people through over 40 offices across 11 states. Community Options provides advocacy assistance to empower people with disabilities because all people – regardless of ability level – should live and work in the community with dignity, choice and self-determination. For more information please visit our website: http://www.comop.org.
All proceeds from the event will benefit adults with disabilities in the Philadelphia area with housing and employment supports – vital for achieving independence and self-determination. Visit http://imatter.comop.org/Golf to secure your spot!
Monday May 22, 2017
Delaware River Greenway Partnership (DRGP) will present an illustrated lecture, "Trenton – A Forgotten Port Community," by Dr. Richard Hunter on Monday, May 22, 2017, 7:00 p.m., at the Phillip L. Pittore Justice Center in Lambertville, New Jersey. Dr. Hunter will discuss the history of Trenton as a port and trading hub at the head of navigation on the Delaware River.
The Pittore Justice Center is located at 25 South Union Street, Lambertville, New Jersey. Metered parking is available in the adjacent lot and on nearby streets.


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