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Treats for your Bridesmaids
Feeling the love for your girls? Your bridesmaids: They're handpicked, there for you and a big part of your big day. Often, when you're stressed, they're stressed. When you cry, they cry – they've got your back! Sharing is caring, so, we've gathered some bridesmaid gift ideas to make your bride tribe feel especially special! 💕
Proposing to your bridesmaids: 6 gorgeous gift ideas
Asking your best girls to be at your side on your wedding day is one of the most exciting wedding planning moments. They will be so touched to have been asked and will be keen to help you out with wedding and hen party planning, adding a little fun to this otherwise stressful process. Brides-to-be are always looking for beautiful and unique ways to ask their girls to be part of their #BrideTribe, so Guides for Brides have come up with some great little gift ideas. We've teamed up with Getting Personal to offer you the chance to WIN a £50 voucher and get your hands on these goodies – all you need to do is leave a review of one of your wedding suppliers on www.guidesforbrides.co.uk and you'll be automatically entered.
5 ways to keep your bridesmaids happy.
You've chosen your bridesmaids! Congratulations, one of the hardest decisions for your wedding has been made. You've also chosen them for a reason, whether they are old or new friends or close family – they are going to be a huge part of what makes your big day great. They are important to you so make sure they are well looked after!
Here are five ways you can keep your bridesmaids happy!
Over the rainbow
Most couples love to decorate their weddings with two contrasting colours and brides could take forever choosing a colour scheme but why just stick to one? Its all about the colours of the rainbow so if you love colour go big and bold! Adding rainbow themed objects is a great way to add bursts of colour into your day without going over the top and can look very stylish. For the bridesmaids dresses choose plain white but then accessorize with different coloured shoes and flowers, this looks very elegant but with a quirky twist and will look effective in the photographs.
Everyone wants the wedding cake to stand out so choose a rainbow creation to spread the happiness and consider this fantastic rainbow one for a cake cutting you'll never forget! A colourful sweetie table is great idea and not just for the children! You can display the different variety of sweets in vintage jars so your guests can choose their own pick and mix to take home with them as a little treat. This is a superb idea as it is a quirky twist from the normal entertainment and creates a relaxed impression. You can choose lots of different sweets from jelly beans, smarties, sherbet saucers to pear drops which will defiantly please the guests.Read More
Vintage cosmetics
Continuing with the vintage theme for bridesmaids and teenage guests, it is nice to see such a beautifully presented range from The Vintage Cosmetic Company.
Wedding outfits for teens
Bridesmaids dresses for teenage girls are now available in virtually every conceivable style and colour, partly thanks to bridal boutiques often stocking prom dresses alongside their more traditional bridesmaids range, however for teenage girls who don't want to look like a bridesmaid, nor an old maid, it is surprisingly hard to find a dress that fits the bill, and the pocket.
We love this summery style from Lagom, with porcelain blue flowers and red piping. They also do a great range of vintage-look dresses.
Fabulous footwear
Do you have a full length dress to wear on your wedding day and your feet are not going to be that visible, or do you have a 3/4 length dress with those lovely feet on show? Why not wear something a little bit different?
There are some really great shoes around at the moment at great prices. How about these lovely heels from Rocket Dog; just £47.99.
Don't worry Bridesmaids, you don't have to miss out!
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White Mischief at The National Wedding Show, Earls Court
White Mischief will be exhibiting at The National Wedding Show at Earls Court this weekend! They provide trend setting designer wedding dresses and bridal wear from the stylish and chic to wildly outrageous. White Mischief say 'Anyone who thought it would be difficult to find the right man – has never had to find the right dress'… So stop by their stand at E31 and let them help you find the dress of your dreams!
MJ Bridal Fashions at The National Wedding Show
This year, MJ Bridal Fashions will be exhibiting at The National Wedding Show! If you are looking for the perfect dress for your special day look no further than MJ Bridal Fashions.We are your one stop shop for everything bridal. So spend some time at stand G48 and discover your dream dress!
A new chapter in our lives…
Dear brides to be,
Well Saturday was the most amazing day, the sun was out and everything went to plan.
I have to admit that last week was a bit stressful, but it was well worth it as everything fell into place at the right time and all of our family and friends had an amazing day.
A massive thank you to our Photographers Barker Evans and all of the staff at Eynsham Hall for making our day perfect.
Thank you for sharing this time with us, but we are now off on honeymoon and starting our new life as Mr and Mrs H-D.
I have included a couple of photos below, so you can see how we looked on the day! There will be more to follow, so watch this space…
Good luck with your wedding planning.
Sarah x
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Hi my name is Daniel, I currently work for CAN, and first got involved as a student at UC Santa Cruz in 2008. I was attracted to CAN because it combined Sustainable Agriculture (Agroecology), Sustainable Economic Development, and Latin America. As a young Latino born and raised in the United States, I always wanted to be involved in work that promotes sustainable development in Latin America, and at the same time helps to fight poverty, starvation and environmental degradation. CAN had it all for me, and 4 year's later I am still here! It is amazing what a staff of 4 people and about 8 student interns working in collaboration with dozens of other professionals, professors and students around the world can do.
Through my several years of working with CAN, they have offered me hands-on experiences to improve my skills and knowledge of collaborative environmental conservation and food security. At the same time, their unique action education program works along side farmers in Central America and Mexico so that my learning experience also contributed to improved livelihoods for small-scale family farms. I am particularly excited about their commitment to on-going participatory research so that programs are constantly evolving just as the global and local socio-ecological process do on the ground.
I am a veterinarian, farmer and permaculture teacher on Manitoulin Island,Ontaio,Canada. I am in the process of reclaiming land used for the over-grazing of cattle and restoring it to a healthy, balanced ecosystem and productive Food Forest. I am planting 1000 useful trees this year to add to the 1000 planted last year on my 200 acres. I am pleased to know about the Community Agroecology Network (CAN) and the positive work it does in Mesoamerica. Their mission is strongly related to my mission to restore my farm and teach others about permaculture and agroforestry methods , since the CAN partners are planting shade trees for growing their coffee in a more healthy ecosystem. Trees are vital for the long term health of the soil and our planet in general. I like the feeling that we are working together for the earth, in Canada, Mexico or Costa Rica. Congratulations to CAN for doing such good work, and keep on planting! Dr Mary Yett
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Farmers in the Bylong Valley are hoping yesterday's Independent Commission Against Corruption findings will bring them one step closer in their push to have the Mt Penny mining lease terminated for good.
Yesterday, ICAC recommended that former state Labor ministers Ian McDonald and Eddie Obeid face criminal charges over the Mt Penny Mining lease, which was granted over Mr Obeid's farm.
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Probably the single biggest problem facing a reviewer is how to handle charity games. Inwardly you may be groaning at their gottiness - but you're loath to voice your criticisms because you won't just be stopping some fat cat lining his pockets - you'll be stopping cash filling the coffers of some worthy cause!
That in mind, it's nice to report that there are no such reservations about this year's charity biggie at a budget price. While you'll have to wait till September to pound the pavements in the Sport Aid fun run, you can indulge in some micro athletics - with all profits going to the needy.
Surprisingly enough, Race Against Time isn't a joystick jiggler in fact it's really a test of mapping and mental skills - an arcade adventure set in five continents (not five incontinents, dummy), featuring Omar Khalifa, the leg-endary Sudanese runner (and what legs, indeed), who has to run from his tiny village, lighting Olympic beacons and raising Change The World flags (I'd like to change it for a larger size, please).
All this running takes you right around the globe. and as even Omar ain't expected to walk on water, there are airports to find. Reach the Departure Lounge and you get to choose your next destination on a map - and don't worry about smoking or non-smoking - your Olympic torch means you're in the former!
There are other problems though, as you hot foot it with your flame. Any sort of water will turn your bright torch into a sizzling squib, so you've got to stay dry at all times, which isn't easy when there are rivers to cross and fountains to avoid, to say nothing of sudden showers.
As always in an arcade adventure, help is at hand in the shape of certain unlikely objects which have been scattered around the cities of the world. For example, you can turn off a fountain with a spanner, but as the former's in Rome and the latter's in Asia, let's hope you've not left home without your travel pass!
You'll also have to move pretty fast, because starvation waits for no one, and you only have five minutes to complete your quest. FIVE MINUTES! Well, not quite, because you can pick up hour glasses to gain an extra couple of life-saving seconds, and you'll need them.
This isn't the most difficult program you'll ever pick up or the most original. But it's good solid entertainment as you race around the world in 80 ways, taking in the backdrops. And if you wait long enough there's a Spectral version of Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers to accompany the demo mode.
I could say that this really is a game to give you the runs, but a lavatorial pun somehow seems out of place here. To the starving children of Africa, diarrhoea ain't no joke. So like Saint Bob would say, "This game saves lives. $*!*ing buy it!"
From Moscow to Hollywood, Omar is rockin' all over the world - as in rocks to jump. There are also detours to take - if you fancy a wanderpress in the woods just press down. Tests of your reflexes include floating islands which carry you across lakes - memories of Turtle Bridge! The climax is the UN building in New York where you sing I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - I just want to end starvation - as you light the final flame!


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[FAQs of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War] - What is the role and significance of the declaration?Re-thinking our global family, village and collective effort for peace
There are many threats in the global community affecting our daily lives - economy, environment, political unrest, etc. Among them, the biggest threat to our lives is war, So far, there is no mechanism to ever stop conflicts that lead to devastating consequences.
Our world we live now is unprecedented, for we live a life by communicating, working, and depending on each other globally. But at the same time wars and conflicts occur globally. That is why world peace is possible only when people in the global community help each other and support world peace movement in one collective voice.
Through the declaration proclaimed by HWPL on March 14, 2016, the initiative on cessation of war and world peace will be provided. For world peace applicable to every one in our globe, not only law experts but civilians throughout the world regardless of areas of profession join in the movement. As the pillars of world peace, the Peace Advocacy Committee will be established with women and youth around the world to make a collective voice for the implementation of the international law for world peace based on this declaration. #ipyg #hwpl #iwpg #peace #internation law #proclamation #declaration #economy #politics #interdependence #youth #women #world peace #communication #global


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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle recommended New York antitrust and consumer lawyer Pamela Jones Harbour for an open Democratic seat on the Federal Trade Commission.
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November 26th - 9:30 a.m.
Pastor Mike Zullo
People get together to make quilts that are later given, along with a Bible, to those that are ill.
Our on-line prayer request and praise report tracking system (EPrayer) has been upgraded to make it easier to use!
If you would like to be able to view prayer requests and updates electronically and submit your own posts, YOU MUST REGISTER as a user of this website. Simply click on the "Register" link in the upper right corner of any page of this site and fill in the form with your desired user name and password. Your webmaster will then receive an e-mail indicating your desire to register and (provided that you are a regular attender or church member) will approve the registration within a few hours at most. By registering you will also gain access to our on-line discussion forums and later this year to our on-line address and phone directory.
Sunday Message 2017-10-22 from Bridgton Alliance Church on Vimeo.
Pastor Mike continues "Adventures in Exodus" with Part 20 - "What does The Ten Commandments mean...Honor your Father and Mother?
Come along for the ADVENTURE as we dig deeper into God's word and learn the SECRETS of Bible as you may have NEVER heard before!!
The Bridgton Alliance Church is part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a fast-growing evangelical denomination of some 2,000 churches in North America. The C & MA was born in 1887 as an "alliance of people for worldwide outreach . . . to tell men and women everywhere the Good News of Jesus Christ."
We are Christian because we believe in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. We are Missionary because we are committed to reaching people worldwide with the gospel. We are an Alliance of believers working together to help each other and make our world a better place to live.
Today, the C & MA is working in over 60 countries with over 1200 missionaries helping to minister to an overseas membership of two million people.
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Rosaryville State Park is a beautiful park in Upper Marlboro, MD. Still considered a baby trail runner, when I found Rosaryville, with its rolling hills and beautiful scenery, I fell in love!
It's a wonderful break from road running.
In November of 2013, I volunteered for the Rosaryville Veterans Day 50k at Aid station #2. I wanted to see Ultra Racing up close and personal. At the time, a 50k seemed impossible, yet as I watched runners of all backgrounds and ages test their mental and physical capabilities, I knew I would be doing it next year.
Early this summer, Theresa texted me looking for a voice of reason. Friends had suggested she do Rosaryville 50k. I simply replied "OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG."
Seriously, it was my response. Followed by, "OMG we can do this together!"
I was already adding trails to my marathon training this year, and this added to my excitement about Rosaryville. I now had a partner in crime to join me in this leap into uncharted territory. Helping her train for her first marathon was awesome, but this would be even more special.
During training, we had great trail runs where we bounded out of the loop, high fiving each other and thinking we could do more. These were paired with ones where that humbled us due to asthma, allergies, knee, and Achilles troubles.
We discovered how very well we worked together on the trail. We were so excited for this adventure and felt as ready as we could be.
Race Day
We packed my van as if preparing for the Apocalypse and then arrived early armed with Starbucks. We hit registration, dropped our drop-bag, checked our gear, stocked our hydration packs and met up with friends.
Over 150 runners stood at attention in the frosty grass at a pavilion for the National anthem, and then with a simple- "Go" we were off.
With less than a mile of road and meadow leading to the perimeter loop, the experienced fast trail runners were off quickly to secure their position on the trail. We stayed toward the middle of the pack.
Our plan was to keep the effort even and steady for two loops; conserving energy for the last loop. No time goal, just a finish goal.
The first loop was crowded. Some passed us and we passed some where we could. It is a single track; many times there were 6-10 runners in single file, pace dictated by whoever was in front. One strider friend, Melissa, stayed with us here. We dubbed ourselves the "Three Musketeers"; all first time ultra-runners.
It was during my first lap that I took my first fall. Trying to not follow too close to Theresa, I caught my right foot on a root and went flying, literally like out of an action movie. I curled, rolled and popped right back up into a walk. I have no earthly idea how I did that, but by Theresa's account; it was "spectacular."
At aid station #2 we felt great. We grabbed some food, and headed back out. This is where Theresa rolled her ankle. She didn't fall, but I knew by her gait that it was not good. We got to the aid station #1 at around 2 hours and Theresa was limping. We wrapped her ankle to try and stabilize it. She said she felt better and, although frustrated, said she was good to go. We shot some pictures and headed on our way. Less than two miles into the second loop, the pain was intensifying and that the wrap was getting tighter as her ankle was swelling more. Down hills were very rough and we walked more than we ran. Every step I knew was painful and I had visions of fireman carrying her out of the woods under protest.
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When we got to a clearing, there were volunteers and Theresa knew it wasn't smart to continue. This was gut wrenching and heart breaking for us both. After a tearful hug, Melissa and I went on.
Then there were two.
Not wanting my partner in crime to wait longer than necessary, I picked up the pace a, conserving energy by powerwalking uphill. While my body felt good, my heart was broken. Melissa and I hit Aid station #2 again, and I knew my pace was too fast for Melissa. She told me she was good and to go ahead. I fueled up and set out again.
Then there was one.
Dealing with tons of emotion, I continued on. I passed by the creepy alter and placed our Halloween rubber duckies to the mix, shot pictures and moved on. I knew some friends were up ahead, so I had hoped to find them as well. I caught up to them, got a pep talk from my friend Lara, and kept moving.
Two laps down, one to go.
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I arrived back at aid station #1 to find Theresa waiting, hobbling on a newly wrapped ankle and arms outstretched to give me a huge hug that I desperately needed. Emotions overflowed - the happiness of seeing her and Jill and the heartbreak that Theresa wasn't with me.
Jill hugged me and then helped roll out my tight hamstring/hip. I re-stocked my vest and grabbed food. I hugged my soul sister again and told her, I was now running for both of us. With an emotional departure, I took off again.
Fueled by the Rice crispy treats that Theresa made and my heart, renewed by the support, I ran that last lap in almost complete silence. Other than an occasional biker crossing my pat, and a couple of volunteers on the trail, you were left to yourself and your thoughts.
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My last fall happened within a mile exiting the loop. Ttrying to avoid a family with small kids, I hit a root jammed my toe and face planted. I got up, brushed myself off and kept going. The pain in my foot was pretty intense, but eased off after a while. I came out of the loop to the last remains of aid station #1, grabbed a Gatorade and trudged up the road.
Less than a mile to go.
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Will I do this again? I am sure of it. Not sure when, but definitely something about this type of race that makes it a unique and amazing experience worthy of a repeat.
Love, Cindy


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Gorillaz have announced two 'warm up' shows ahead of their upcoming Humanz tour and Dreamland Margate takeover.
This time focusing on intimate venues, the two gigs will see Damon Albarn and co hit St Albans and Portsmouth, with limited tickets set to go onsale this coming Friday, 19th May. Tickets will only be allocated to those signed up to the Gorillaz mailing list.  with ticket information and codes sent to all eligible fans on Thursday evening.
In a bid to keep tickets away from touts, the band have also confirmed the name of the lead booker will be printed on every ticket, and will be checked against photo ID at each venue.
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JUN 02 – Alban Arena, St. Albans
JUN 04 – Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth
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In its sixth weekend, James Cameron's "Avatar" remained No. 1 at domestic box-office with $36 million, lifting its total to $552.8 million.
Worldwide, "Avatar" has raised its total to $1.841 billion, only $2 million behind Cameron's last movie, the 1997 shipwreck romantic epic "Titanic" at $1.843 billion.
"Avatar" has also blasted its way past "The Dark Knight" to become the second highest grossing film. It can soon sink "Titanic" in the domestic front as well.
The sci-fi film is also set to receive accolades this awards season. It is sure to get many technical nods.
Debuting at No. 2 is the apocalyptic thriller "Legion." The film, starring Paul Bettany as a fallen angel took in $18.2 million. At No. 3 is the post-apocalyptic film "The Book of Eli" starring Denzel Washington with $17 million.
Two other films that debuted this weekend are "Tooth Fairy" starring Dwayne Johnson in the title role at No.4 with $14.5 million, and "Extraordinary Measures" starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser at No. 7 with $7 million.
Here's the complete list of Top 10 Box Office films for weekend of Jan. 22nd:
1. "Avatar," $36 million.
2. "Legion," $18.2 million.
3. "The Book of Eli," $17 million.
4. "Tooth Fairy," $14.5 million.
5. "The Lovely Bones," $8.8 million.
6. "Sherlock Holmes," $7.1 million.
7. "Extraordinary Measures," $7 million.
8. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," $6.5 million.
9. "It's Complicated," $6.2 million.
10. "The Spy Next Door," $4.8 million.
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Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
JEFF BRIDGES / Bad Blake - "CRAZY HEART" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
SANDRA BULLOCK / Leigh Anne Tuohy - "THE BLIND SIDE" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
CHRISTOPH WALTZ / Col. Hans Landa - "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS" (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
MO'NIQUE / Mary - "PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE" (Lionsgate)
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
"INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS" (The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures)
DANIEL BRÜHL / Fredrick Zoller
AUGUST DIEHL / Major Hellstrom
JULIE DREYFUS / Francesca Mondino
MICHAEL FASSBENDER / Lt. Archie Hicox
SYLVESTER GROTH / Joseph Goebbels
JACKY IDO / Marcel
DIANE KRUGER / Bridget Von Hammersmark
MÉLANIE LAURENT / Shosanna
DENIS MENOCHET / Perrier LaPedite
MIKE MYERS / General Ed French
BRAD PITT / Lt. Aldo Raine
ELI ROTH / Sgt. Donny Donowitz
TIL SCHWEIGER / Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
ROD TAYLOR / Winston Churchill
CHRISTOPH WALTZ / Col. Hans Landa
MARTIN WUTTKE / Hitler
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
STAR TREK (Paramount Pictures)
Screen Actors Guild Awards 46th Annual Life Achievement Award
Betty White
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KEVIN BACON / Lt. Col. Michael R. Strobl - "TAKING CHANCE" (HBO)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
DREW BARRYMORE / Little Edie - "GREY GARDENS" (HBO)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
MICHAEL C. HALL / Dexter Morgan - "DEXTER" (Showtime)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
JULIANNA MARGULIES / Alicia Florrick - "THE GOOD WIFE" (CBS)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy - "30 ROCK" (NBC)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon - "30 ROCK" (NBC)
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
ALEXA ALEMANNI / Allison
BRYAN BATT / Salvatore Romano
JARED S. GILMORE / Bobby Draper
MICHAEL GLADIS / Paul Linsey
JON HAMM / Don Draper
JARED HARRIS / Lane Pryce
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS / Joan Holloway (Harris)
JANUARY JONES / Betty Draper
VINCENT KARTHEISER / Peter Campbell
ROBERT MORSE / Bertram Cooper
ELISABETH MOSS / Peggy Olson
KIERNAN SHIPKA / Sally Draper
JOHN SLATTERY / Roger Sterling
RICH SOMMER / Harry Crane
CHRISTOPHER STANLEY / Henry Francis
AARON STATON / Ken Cosgrove
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
DIANA AGRON / Quinn Fabray
CHRIS COLFER / Kurt Hummel
PATRICK GALLAGHER / Ken Tanaka
JESSALYN GILSIG / Terri Schuester
JANE LYNCH / Sue Sylvester
JAYMA MAYS / Emma Pillsbury
KEVIN McHALE / Arty Abrams
LEA MICHELE / Rachel Berry
CORY MONTEITH / Finn Hudson
HEATHER MORRIS / Brittany
MATTHEW MORRISON / Will Schuester
AMBER RILEY / Mercedes
NAYA RIVERA / Santana Lopez
MARK SALLING / Puck
HARRY SHUM JR. / Mike Chang
JOSH SUSSMAN / Jacob Ben Israel
DIJON TALTON / Matt Rutherford
IQBAL THEBA / Principal Figgins
JENNA USHKOWITZ / Tina
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The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) have announced their nominees for the 2010 Golden Reel Awards which recognizes excellence in sound and music editing.
Sci-fi and action films normally dominate technical awards so it's no surprise that "Avatar" and "Star Trek" each received 3 nominations. "2012" even got 2 nominations.
Winners will be announced on Feb. 20 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg will receive the 2010 MPSE Filmmaker Recipient, while Larry Singer will be the Career Achievement Recipient.
Here are the nominees of the 2010 Golden Reel Awards in all categories:
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Music, Dialogue and ADR Animation in a Feature Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Monsters vs. Aliens
The Princess and the Frog
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film
An Education
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Coco avant Chanel
District 9
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Red Cliff
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Feature Film
500 Days of Summer
An Education
The Informant
It's Complicated
Sherlock Holmes
Star Trek
Best Sound Editing: Music in a Musical Feature Film
Crazy Heart
Every Little Step
This Is It
Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film
500 Days of Summer
A Serious Man
GI Joe
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen
Best Sound Editing: Television Animation
THE FAIRLY ODD PARENTS "Wishology: The Big Beginning"
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS "Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space"
THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR "What Goes Around"
PREP & LANDING "Half Hour Holiday Special"
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS "SpongeBob Squarepants vs. The Big One"
STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS "Landing at Point Rain"
Best Sound Editing: Long Form Dialogue and ADR in Television
(category to be updated)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA "Daybreak, Part 2"
DAMAGES "Trust Me"
FLASHPOINT "Aisle 13"
HOUSE M.D. "Broken"
SCOOBY DOO! "The Mystery Begins"
Best Sound Editing: Short Form Dialogue and ADR in Television
(category to be updated)
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION Mascara
CSI: MIAMI Point of Impact
Manhattanhenge - #609"
ER "I Feel Good"
FLASH FORWARD "Riptide"
FRINGE "Unleashed"
LOST "The Little Prince - #504"
TRUE BLOOD Beyond Here Lies Nothin - #212
Best Sound Editing: Long Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television
(category to be updated)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA "Daybreak, Part 2"
FLASHPOINT "Between Heartbeats"
WAREHOUSE 13 "Pilot"
Best Sound Editing: Short Form Sound Effects and Foley in Television
(category to be updated)
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA "#420 - Islanded In a Strem of Stars"
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION "Mascara"
CSI: MIAMI Point of Impact
CSI: NY "Cukoo's Nest - Episode #608"
FRINGE "Unleashed"
HOUSE M.D. "Epic Fall"
TRAUMA "All's Fair - #103"
WAREHOUSE 13 "MacPherson - #112"
Best Sound Editing: Long Form Music in Television
DAMAGES "Trust Me"
Best Sound Editing: Short Form Music in Television
BORED TO DEATH "The Case of the Lonely White Dove"
CASTLE "Famous Last Words"
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION "Mascara"
FRINGE "Night of Desirable Objects"
GLEE "Pilot"
THE TUDORS "The Undoing of Cromwell - #308"
Best Sound Editing: Direct to Video
B.O.B.'s Big Break
Exit Speed
Lionelville: Destination Adventure
Something, Something, Something, Darkside
Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
Best Sound Editing: Computer Entertainment
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Need For Speed: Shift
Resident Evil 5
Uncharted 2
Best Sound Editing: Student Film
The End of the Line
The GodMother
The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive
Yellow Belly End
Best Sound Editing: Special Venue
There is no Special Venue category this year
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For my written review of "Tooth Fairy," click here, otherwise, click below to watch my review and have a great time at the movies!
Here's more "Tooth Fairy" info from Yahoo:
Cast and Credits
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant, Ryan Sheckler, Seth MacFarlane
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Produced by: Jim Piddock, Jason Blum, Mark Ciardi
"The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, is a hard-charging hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand.
Genres: Comedy and Kids/Family
Running Time: 1 hr. 42 min.
Release Date: January 22nd, 2010 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG for mild language, some rude humor and sports action.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has narrowed down its longlist and unveiled the nominations of the 2010 BAFTA awards. "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," and "An Education" each scored eight nominations but "District 9" was close behind with seven.
"Inglourious Basterds" and "Up in the Air" both received six nominations. The awards will be revealed in London on Feb. 21.
Here's the complete list of the ORANGE BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARD NOMINATIONS
"Avatar," James Cameron, Jon Landau
"An Education," Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer
"The Hurt Locker," nominees to be confirmed
"Precious," Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
"Up in the Air," Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
"Avatar," James Cameron
"District 9," Neill Blomkamp
"An Education," Lone Scherfig
"The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow
"Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino
"The Hangover," Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
"The Hurt Locker," Mark Boal
"Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino
"A Serious Man," Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
"Up," Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
"District 9," Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
"An Education," Nick Hornby
"In the Loop," Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
"Precious," Geoffrey Fletcher
"Up in the Air," Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"
George Clooney, "Up in the Air"
Colin Firth, "A Single Man"
Jeremy Renner, "The Hurt Locker"
Andy Serkis, "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"
Carey Mulligan, "An Education"
Saoirse Ronan, "The Lovely Bones"
Gabourey Sidibe, "Precious"
Meryl Streep, "Julie and Julia"
Audrey Tautou, "Coco Before Chanel"
Alec Baldwin, "It's Complicated"
Christian McKay, "Me and Orson Welles"
Alfred Molina, "An Education"
Stanley Tucci, "The Lovely Bones"
Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"
Anne-Marie Duff, "Nowhere Boy"
Vera Farmiga, "Up in the Air"
Anna Kendrick, "Up in the Air"
Mo'nique, "Precious"
Kristin Scott Thomas, "Nowhere Boy"
"An Education," Amanda Posey, Finola Dwyer, Lone Scherfig, Nick Hornby
"Fish Tank," Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold
"In the Loop," Kevin Loader, Adam Tandy, Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
"Moon," Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
"Nowhere Boy," Kevin Loader, Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matt Greenhalgh
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson, directors, producers "Mugabe and the White African"
Eran Creevy, writer/director "Shifty"
Stuart Hazeldine, writer/director "Exam"
Duncan Jones, director "Moon"
Sam Taylor-Wood, director "Nowhere Boy"
"Broken Embraces," Agustin Almodovar, Pedro Almodovar
"Coco Before Chanel," Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
"Let the Right One In," Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
"A Prophet," Pascale Caucheteux, Marco Chergui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
"The White Ribbon," Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke
"Coraline," Henry Selick
"Fantastic, Mr Fox," Wes Anderson
"Up," Pete Docter
"Avatar," James Horner
"Crazy Heart," T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
"Fantastic Mr Fox," Alexandre Desplat
"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," Chaz Jankel
"Up," Michael Giacchino
"Avatar," Mauro Fiore
"District 9," Trent Opaloch
"The Hurt Locker," Barry Ackroyd
"Inglourious Basterds," Robert Richardson
"The Road," Javier Aguirresarobe
"Avatar," Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
"District 9," Julian Clarke
"The Hurt Locker," Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
"Inglourious Basterds," Sally Menke
"Up in the Air," Dana E. Glauberman
"Avatar," Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
"District 9," Philip Ivey, Guy Poltgieter
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Stuart Craig, Stephenie Mcmillan
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," nominees to be confirmed
"Inglourious Basterds," David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco
"Bright Star," Janet Patterson
"Coco Before Chanel," Catherine Leterrier
"An Education," Odile Dicks-Mireaux
"A Single Man," Arianne Phillips
"The Young Victoria," Sandy Powell
"Avatar," Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
"District 9," nominees to be confirmed
"The Hurt Locker," Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson, Craig Stauffer
"Star Trek," Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
"Up," Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick
"Avatar," Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
"District 9," Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
"The Hurt Locker," Richard Stutsman
"Star Trek," Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
"Coco Before Chanel," Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen, Jane Milon
"An Education," Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," Sarah Monzani
"Nine," Peter 'Swords' King
"The Young Victoria," Jenny Shircore
"The Gruffalo," Michael Rose, Martin Pope, Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
"The Happy Duckling," Gili Dolev
"Mother of Many," Sally Arthur, Emma Lazenby
"14," Asitha Ameresekere
"I Do Air," James Bolton, Martina Amati
"Jade," Samm Haillay, Daniel Elliott
"Mixtape," Luti Fagbenle, Luke Snellin
"Off Season," Jacob Jaffke, Jonathan Van Tulleken
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim
Kristen Stewart
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Unanswered: Save clicks statistics in a file or in database
Hi all,
I want to make statistics of visited photos in my website. Each month I need to know how many people has visited each photo in order to make comparisons.
If I save the data in a file, each visitor one line:
When I process the file I'll consider a new visitor when IPs are different or there is a difference of time of 5 minutes in case they are the same (Different members of the same family from the same comptuer etc..)
If I save the data in a table (named imagevisitors) of the database instead of saving in a file, will be faster for the user to load the page? In case of many visitors of my images, then searching in my database in a different table of imagevisitors will be slower (Because data needs to be saved for several months or even years)?
Which is the best way to implement it?
In anycase, I think I'll read it with a local application from my computer which only takes the data from the file or database and show it in local, so I don't use resources from server.
Thank you very much,


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As a part-time research candidate, Rachel Sharples valued the many opportunities available to her within the Centre for Global Research.
"I graduated with a PhD in 2012. As a research candidate, my PhD was supervised through the Centre for Global Research.
My thesis was on the constructs of culture and identity for displaced persons residing in borderlands spaces. Focusing specifically on a group of Karen who had been displaced from Burma and now living in the Thai-Burma borderlands, I undertook a number of field trips to the Thai-Burma border in order to develop my research. As a student and a researcher, these were important and challenging trips and I benefited from the support of many colleagues at RMIT.
As a part-time student I had been working on my PhD for eight years. During that time I was given many opportunities within the Centre, and found the Global Studies Seminar Series incredibly useful for finding out what sort of research colleagues were working on and for networking both within and outside RMIT. The Centre maintains an excellent intellectual culture where I was able to converse not only with other PhD students but also with academics working in the field. There were important elements of rigour and mentoring that underpin this intellectual culture. It also gave me important links into the teaching program, where I have begun teaching courses, and this added depth and greater understanding to my research."


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A Prologue
Three thousand years ago the Queen of Sheba, having heard of the wisdom of Solomon, traveled to Jerusalem in a caravan laden with spices and gold and gemstones, in order to test that king with hard questions. He answered them all and dazzled her as well with his wealth, his servants, and his demeanor before the Lord. One day the queen came across a room in the palace that was floored in glass; thinking that she was about to step into a pool of water, she raised her skirts. The commentators maintain that Solomon tricked Sheba and brought her to his couch, but it would be surprising if this queen, the setter of riddles, did not know the difference between the surface of a mirror and that of a lake. In any case, once back in her homeland, she gave birth to a son. This was Menelik I, "son of the wise man," who, once he had come of age, set out to visit the father he had never known. The moment the king saw him he recognized, as in a mirror again, not only himself but—such was the boy's lithesomeness and graciousness of form—his own father, David. As the young man prepared for his return journey, Solomon caused the first-born sons of the priests and the elders to travel with him; some say that he was also accompanied by the Ark of the Covenant, which he had stolen from the Temple upon his departure. Thus did the glory of Zion pass from Jerusalem to Axum, and from the children of Israel to what the Ethiopian people to this day consider the embodiment of the kingdom of God: their nation and themselves.
A thousand years later another foreigner arrived at the gates of Jerusalem. This was Titus Flavius, son of Vespasian, who had come to finish his father's task of putting down the revolt of the Jews against the rule of Rome. At his command were four legions, equipped with engines for throwing darts, stones, and javelins, together with catapults, siege towers, and battering rams. Over time this force made its way through wall after wall of the outlying quarters, though the desperate Jews made new walls of their corpses to fill the breach. At last the tower of Antonia fell and the battle for the Temple itself began. The defenders were weakened less by the Romans than by treachery, dissent, and a famine so great they were forced to gnaw the leather from their shields. Still the two armies fought not only by day but in a darkness so thick it was impossible to tell one's friend from the enemy at one's hand. Titus, seeing the futility of further attack, and recognizing that his rams, after six days of ceaseless assault against the Temple, could make no impression upon the vastness of its stones, ordered its gates set on fire. The blaze soon spread to the cloisters of the inner court and all their furnishings. Yet the battle, raging more fiercely than the flames, might have gone on without end had not a legionnaire, seized by what the historian Josephus called "a certain divine fury," thrown a burning brand through an open window of the holy house. Thus on the tenth day of the month of Ab, the same fatal day on which the king of the Babylonians had previously destroyed it, did the chief wonder of the world, God's dwelling, burn to the ground.
The slaughter that followed was so terrible and the conflagration within the city so great, that, as Josephus tells us, the flames that consumed the houses were quenched by their inhabitants' blood. In that chronicler's reckoning, eleven hundred thousand perished in the course of the war and ninety-seven thousand were taken captive; but of these last the aged and the ill were slain, those under seventeen sold into slavery, and still others sent off to work the Egyptian mines. The unluckiest, perhaps, became gifts to the provinces, where they were destroyed by wild beasts in the spectacles. The tallest, however, and the handsomest in body, were reserved for the procession of victory, which was to take place when the conqueror returned to Rome.
Had there ever been a triumph like it in the history of the Empire? In all of the city not a person remained at home, lest he miss a moment of the pageant. Vespasian and Titus, father and son, each crowned with laurel, sat on ivory thrones. All the wonders, the varied riches of the vanquished land, uprooted trees and strange species of animals, paraded before them. At the center were the treasures of the razed Temple: the golden table of the showbread and the silver trumpets of the jubilee; the gem-studded crowns and rare purple hangings; the Ark, with the scrolls of the Law; and towering over the heads of those who bore it, the great lamp with its septuple branches that, as Josephus reminds us, "represent the dignity of the number seven among the Jews." Next in the procession, and most acclaimed by the multitude, were the pageant carts. Some of these were as high as three or four stories and each depicted a scene from the recent war: the scaling of walls and their demolishment by machines; the stoning of the populace; the countryside laid waste; the slaughter and the supplication of the enemy; and finally, a miracle of ingenuity and workmanship, the Temple in actual flames, together with the burning houses that fell upon all that dwelled within them. In that fashion those who had remained at home and only wished they had taken part in the battle were made to feel they had actually been present, just as men and women of the modern world are transported to distant conflicts by devices the ancients could never have imagined.
And the conquered Jews? They came last, after the wooden ships, the armies of centuries and centurians, and the waving images of the gods. Among the captives was Simion of Gioras, leader of the revolt, with the rope that would slay him already around his neck. With every step he was so harassed and tormented that he must have blessed the God of his people when in a sudden hush his suffering was brought to an end. Only then, according to custom, were the crowds free to take up the feasting of that festival day, while the Jews were led off, many of them to complete the work on the famed Colosseum and to begin construction of the great arch that would celebrate the victory of Titus, as well as their own ever-to-be lamented defeat.
Nothing endures, said Heraclitus, but change; and by way of example he remarked that no person can step into the same river twice. Nonetheless, men continue to build their memorials not from sand but from stone; and it is true that on occasion some monument will seem to stand against the flood, like a boulder against the river's rush. Yet that same Arch of Titus, thrust upward like a great pair of shoulders from the throbbing currents of modern Rome, will in time turn to dust. Even the Jews who built it, whose stubbornness in persisting has made them both hated and holy, in the way that some aged rock will become sacred in an aboriginal's eyes—even they must perish, as the Chaldeans perished, and the Canaanites.
Still, what the Greek philosopher neglected to mention was that, since time is infinite and the atoms of water finite, sooner or later the bather must find himself in the precise mixture of elements in which he had previously splashed. Josephus himself seemed to sense this, for when writing of that terrible tenth day of Ab he spoke of an Age of Revolution, as if history were a wheel, endlessly repeating itself, even as it pulverized those caught beneath it. And not just Josephus. Who among us has not felt that he was once before submerged in the same tide of experience that surrounds him now? When was it? In childhood? In an altogether different life? Or did that clank of metal nozzle on metal fender, the swift swoop and dip and swoop of the telegraph line outside the train's gray window, the bark-bark-bark of an unseen Alsatian, occur not just to you but to others of the race whose senses—the ears, the eyes—you have for an instant been allowed to share?
In the summer of 1936, after two more turns of the millennial wheel, another triumph made its way along the avenues of Rome. The marching prisoners, barefoot and black-skinned, thought themselves children of the land of Israel. Among them, caged, was the last royal descendant of the union of Solomon and Sheba: the Emperor Haile Selassi I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah, Light of the World, Root of David, Elect of God. For all the honorifics he stood with his uniform in tatters. At each lurch of his movable cage, his body swayed but, though his hands were tied before him and a rope hung round his neck, never toppled. Indeed, his small, narrow head, with its tufted beard, its tangled hair, remained motionless atop the board of his shoulders. What struck the milling masses—struck them so forcibly that they either fell silent or murmured, occhi di Deo, occhi di marmo—were his eyes, a strip of black iris, a strip of ivory, and the way they stared as fixedly as those in a stone statue of Jupiter to where the great arch rose like a guillotine at the end of the Via Sacra. If those onyx eyes, wide and unblinking, possessed the power of the telescope lens they so much resembled, or could see on the wavelength of X-rays, the deposed king might have taken comfort from the image carved on one of the monument's inner walls; just as the new conqueror of Ethiopia, upright on the reviewing stand, his thumbs hooked in his leather belt and with no cap upon the bony pate of his shaven head, might have felt some unease at what had been carved on the other. For the artifacts of the vanquished people, carried along in a procession that mirrored the one now passing before him, are all intact: the table of the showbread; the long-stemmed trumpets; and, taller than the Roman soldiers who hold it aloft, the menora, three new moons recumbent within three moons, symbolizing the city of Jerusalem, the light of learning, and the seven days of all creation. Opposite, however, the goddess Nike reaches forward to crown the victorious Titus; alas, time has eaten away his head, so that the only laurel we see this day is the shadow of stubble that circles Benito Mussolini's bullet-shaped skull.
LESLIE EPSTEIN has been the director of Boston University's Graduate Creative Writing Program for more than 25 years. He is the author of nine books, including Steinway Quintet Plus Four, King of the Jews, which has become a classic of Holocaust literature, Pinto and Sons, Pandaemonium, and most recently, San Remo Drive: A Novel from Memory. A Rhodes and Fulbright scholar, his awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
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May 2nd, 2005, 09:41 AM #1Merchants Please Comment - Abandon Rates
This one is more for merchants than anybody else.
I have a client that just launched about a month ago. They are getting decent traffic at about 500 unique visitors a day. And the conversion rate is doing well at about 8% of the visitors are adding an item to their cart. However, they are losing about 90% of the started carts to abandonment. (i.e. not checking out)
Before I go ripping apart the site, can some merchants give me a good idea of what your cart abandonment rates are? I know it fluctuates by industry and product, but a good ballpark would be nice. I always felt that 20% or less was common but if it truly is 80% then that would be nice to know as well.
ChrisChris Mayr
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May 2nd, 2005, 10:19 AM #2
Hi Chris
I am a merchant.
when we first started I had that problem.
but it was something to do with the cart not being configured right..
and it was very slow,, so we lost them..
or is it possible you have some added charges at the end ???
handling costs ,, or expensive shipping that's scaring them off???
just suggestions that might help
May 2nd, 2005, 10:53 AM #3
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"What have you done today to put real value into a referral click...from a shoppers viewpoint!"
May 2nd, 2005, 12:12 PM #4
Actually to clarify, the cart offers free shipping. That is plastered pretty much everywhere on the site and there is no other fees added other than sales tax for the appropriate state residents.
It is a bit of an obscure product offering ("health food for dogs") and I am afraid that might have something to do with it.
The cart flows as follows: user finds an item, clicks add to cart. Clicks check out and is requested to enter email address and password for existing customers or just email address for new customers. They are then asked for billing and shipping info of course and payment info. Of the abandons, 99% happen before they ever put any information into the system.Chris Mayr
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May 2nd, 2005, 01:03 PM #5
I dont know about other AM's, but if that was happening on my cart I'd want to know about it and would have it working properly within the day. That's just NOT COOL.
May 2nd, 2005, 01:37 PM #6
I ran across a pretty cool site a while ago, SecondBite.com - They're a shopping cart abandonment solution.
- Eder
May 2nd, 2005, 01:44 PM #7
Have you tested every possible shopping scenario and on multiple PC's to make sure it's all working etc? 80% is way too high. You can blame some on cookies being disabled, blame some on sales tax, blame it on whatever but it shouldn't equal more than 30% abandonment.
Be 100% sure that your shopping cart is doing what it's supposed to do.
May 2nd, 2005, 02:22 PM #8cmayr23,
For your niche it sounds like you are within the ballpark for expected cart drop-off.
There are so many reasons for abandonment, that without seeing your process, I can only offer speculation.
Possible reasons:
* comparison shopping/curiosity - adding to cart to see what total cost may be, then comparing it to local specialty pet stores...I have been doing this myself.
* concern over security, legitimacy of company offering product.
* length of checkout process - time to process each page.Best,
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May 2nd, 2005, 02:29 PM #9
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Industry research shows up to 75 percent of shoppers abandon their online shopping carts before completing the checkout process.
Of coarse, we all believe what we read.......hehe
May 2nd, 2005, 03:19 PM #10
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Why do you care one way or the other whether or not they abandon their carts. I abandone my cards for many reason, not the least is I want to know how much it'll cost with tax and shipping.
It seems to me, on the list of problems, abandoned carts is near the bottom.
May 2nd, 2005, 04:08 PM #11
mike, I disagree completely. If a customer makes the effort to get to the end of the shopping process, there is no reason not to make the sale! if you have a high abandon rate, than something is missing, there's some reason your customers are being turned off. If it is simply wanting to see the Net Total, then have that information available before checkout time.
May 2nd, 2005, 04:23 PM #12
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May 3rd, 2005, 07:47 AM #13
Well in searching the cart logs, I did find one big reason. During the course of this discussion, the site was slurped. The slurp started and didn't complete (for obvious reasons) over 100 carts. The good news is the site is being indexed, the bad news is that the statistics are getting whacked out of proportion.
I think that could be my major source of the problem. Now to fix that with a robot.txt file so that the cart is not indexed. I don't really need people to find that page in the serps.Chris Mayr
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May 3rd, 2005, 07:57 AM #14
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Do you offer an affiliate program? They could all be potential affiliates taking a test-drive...
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Just a few ideas in case you do not have these in place already.
-If you are asking for an e-mail address to get to the checkout, make sure you have a privacy policy link closeby that opens a new page. Make sure it is in plain english, easy to read, straight forward and very obvious that you are not going to sell their information, if you indeed are not going to sell it.
-If you can configure your cart to get to the page where the shopper enters their addresses etc. first, then enter their e-mail on that page, this may instill some additional confidence. Make sure the page where any info in entered is a secure page. Some sites have you enter your name and address etc on a non-secure page, then your cc info on a secure page. This is ok if it is a well-known or trusted site, but for a small site, the more SSL the better. Prominently display your veri$ign or whatever SSL certificate you have. If you use a third-party processor for ssl payments, they can usually supply you a link.
-Mike has good advice. If you offer coupons all of the time, have the box to enter this info, but put it last in the sale process. If someone has entered all of their information then sees this, they are less likely to dive out once they are at least partially committed. If you do not offer coupons all of the time, leave the code box OFF as you always run a risk of losing someone in search of a coupon. Once gone, they may not return.
-If you charge tax only in one state, state that on the page where the shopper adds the item to the cart and re-state it in the cart pages. Nothing p!sses me off more than a site who will not tell you what shipping charges and tax are before giving them your info. I abandon those 100% of the time.
That's it.
Good luck!
May 3rd, 2005, 10:12 AM #17
Uncle Scooter and Mike,
Thanks for the info.
I do actually have a privacy policy on the page where they enter email address. If they are repeat visitors, from that page, they can enter their email address and password (created on the last page) and we remember their address info to save them time. No credit card info is stored and I believe that is covered in the privacy policy but I am not positive. I will address that with the merchant.
The versign seal is on every page of the site and the site is secure on the very first page that they have to enter any information.
Coupons are on the very last page.
I think that I could make the sales tax and shipping thing more prevalent on the cart page to ease concerns even more.
Again though in reviewing my logs, I found over 60% of the abandoned carts for May were from the slurp getting to that page so I can fix that pretty quick.
Ref the affiliate program. That is down the road once I have info like average sale, # of repeats, and click to conversion ratio so that I can develop a program that makes money for affiliates and the merchant.Chris Mayr
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May 3rd, 2005, 10:15 AM #18Quick Tip
In our research travels, we found that many consumers use the shopping cart as a type of wishlist, to bookmark items that catch their eye.
Rugman.com actually offers a wish list on-site and even we found that when consumers didn't know how the wishlist worked, they used the cart for the same thing.
If you're not offering a Wishlist (or some comparable feature) that allows them to bookmark their favorite items, you'll find that tons of folks who are just 'browsing' will add items to the cart and either just remove the item later, or, leave it there and abandon the site altogether.
Good luck to you and your client.Liz Gazer,
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I use two kinds of shopping carts:
1. If I place the "cart" on the product description page, it's the same as affiliate rates - about 8-10%.
2. If I first make a thumbnail page,
then they click to the product description page,
then click thru to a "pre-registration" page (basically I give them a discount if they give their email - which they'll be giving anyway on the next page),
followed by the actual shopping cart page (which states that the discount they were just offered expires today) -
then with all that pre-screening, pre-selling, and buy-now incentives, it goes to 9 out of 10 put money in my merchant account!!
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and also, make sure your "Buy Now" buttons are STRONG - so the customer KNOWS they are about to be billing their credit card
May 3rd, 2005, 12:09 PM #21Originally Posted by cmayr23
I think you'll have a hard time finding merchants willing to actually discuss what their cart abandonment % is. That being said, there's a whole slew of reasons why abandonment might be high, such as surprise high shipping charges, lengthy checkout process, asking for too much information, etc.
Let's look at the information. First off... putting an item in a cart is not a conversion, unless the shopper has to pay the merchant to place something in the cart, and the affiliate gets a percentage.
OK. 500 unique visits with 8% adding something to the cart. That's 40 shoppers with something in their cart. 10% of those shoppers are making a purchase. That's a total of 4 purchases, so the actuall conversion rate is 0.8%. I'm not sure what the average conversion rate is for canine health food, but I wouldn't be satisfied with that percentage. Even if half of the people who put something in their cart made a purchase, that would still only be a 4% conversion.
I don't think the cart is the only problem. If only 8% of the people are beginning a purchase, the traffic probably isn't as targetted as it should be.Christopher Park
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May 3rd, 2005, 12:22 PM #22
Guys -
I just had a genius idea. Lets start charging a "virtual restocking fee" on all items left in the cart. This will solve all our problems.
- Eder
P.S. In case you didn't notice, that was sarcasm. (You wouldn't believe how many replies I get to sarcastic posts).
May 3rd, 2005, 04:33 PM #23
8% conversion I guess is more of an internal terminology.
With dog vitamins and supplements, you are looking at alot of tire kickers. Folks who aren't quite sure why they would even purchase. My problem is not so much focusing on who they are and why they are putting things in their cart but rather once they do getting them through the checkout lane.
The other side of getting people to the site that are going to "convert" is actually the easier side of things and getting them to convert at a higher rate again is the easier function. If we just move the abandon rate from 90% down to 30%, the company would be satisfied with that sales rate in the limited test marketing that we are doing.
Again though, let me be clear, I need to adjust my robots.txt file as I have found that the search engines are starting about 100 carts every time they come through the site and that is way skewing my numbers out of proportion.
This is also not an affiliate site. These folks are the manufacturers of the product so I know some of this information is going to be different.Chris Mayr
When amassed, even dust can become a mountain.
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May 3rd, 2005, 04:51 PM #24
Hey- if Blockbuster Video can make a BIG to-do about NO MORE LATE FEES (complete with multi-media campaign hype), then charge their customers up the wahoo for "restocking fees" equivalent to price of those same late fees when brought back, looks like anything's fair game.
(kidding - that too, was sarcasm... for those who require clarification)
*evil grin*Liz Gazer,
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Navigating the exhuberant tour schedule and distinct aversion to self-gratification we sat down with Bristol based producer and sound engineer Hodge to extract an inspirational chronicle of soundtracks and film scores that have galvanised his career to date.
Ten - Escape From New York by John Carpenter
Admittedly there are loads of John Carpenter soundtracks that I love but every time I hear this soundtrack it makes me insanely happy, and I keep just saying to myself it's so good, for that reason it will always be one of my favourite ever soundtracks.
Questions: What is that makes you happy, why has this stood the test of time, why this over other JC works? What does JC have above other composers?
Nine - Ghost In The Shell by Kenji Kawai
The most incredible vocal and powerful percussion ever. That start stop feel it's got with the huge reverb creates such an epic feel. Love it.
Questions: What do you mean by that start stop feel, how do you think it was achieved, what does that effect give the score. Could you elaborate on what makes a score "epic"?
Eight - Hackers by Simon Boswell
I loved this film and I still do and the soundtrack plays a major part of that, it absolutely captures the mood of the film perfectly. Plus the noises synchronised to the hacking visuals are brilliant, big white noise sweeps, oh and the voice effects on the speaking virus combined with hackers scudding around the city on Roller Skates to Orbital? Genius!
Questions: Has this score effected your own productions, is there anything you would alter on this score?
Seven - Interstellar by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer on form as ever, such a captivating soundtrack which uses dynamics perfectly. He creates such an amazing feeling of tension in some of the scenes its almost too much.
Questions: How is that tension created, and how does that effect the environment, what is it specifically that captivates you from a tension perspective?
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- Cindy said...
I have had a couple of "blog dates" and all have been good so I am sure you will have a great time.
Oh a holiday sounds like such a great idea!
- August 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM
- Jo said...
ooh exciting! you will have a blast i'm sure... in my experience it's just like you are already friends but you just don't know their face yet : ) hope you have fun.
- August 21, 2009 at 4:56 AM
- Tamara said...
Oh that is exciting. Kinda funny feeling while your waiting to meet the person,like a blind date. But then when you meet it is like you have been friends since kindergarten.
- August 21, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Jasmine said...
Well my two little girls and I are doing pretty much the same thing as you are.
Lovely most of the time but I eventually crave the company of a grownup friend too.
Hope you have fun on your blog date!
- August 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Rita said...
So she is your friend, so cute.....
Hey what's her name?
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- August 21, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- Sandy said...
That's exciting. Have fun!
- August 22, 2009 at 1:47 AM
- dearmolly said...
Tomorrow is the big day V!
Looking forward to our coffee and catch-up (or blog date as Cindy put it!!)
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We certainly need to be praying for the children in our ministries so they come to know Jesus and choose to ask Him for His forgiveness and grace. This is one of the primary reasons for us to do what we do in children's and family ministry. But, along with praying for children to be saved, we also need to pray for them so once they do, they will grow in Jesus and come to know and walk with Him!…Continue
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Every child has dreams and when parents divorce or break up, silence from the adults in their lives can tend to destroy the dreams in a normal child centered environment. All children are self-centered. That's how God made us – to depend on our parents and other adults.
However, when there is a crisis such as a divorce, kids need people to talk to them and explain what…Continue
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Hello to everyone! It is that time of year again when all people who Think Orange come together. I am here in Atlanta for this awesome week and I am honored to once again bring you Orange sponsored blog coverage LIVE from #OC14! There are many great blogs you can follow…Continue
Added by Joe McAlpine on April 30, 2014 at 7:19am — 1 Comment
Clearly we need a countercultural way of grabbing people's attention.
I have just completed reading Daniel Ryan Day's Ten Days Without. In this book he describes his various experiments of going ten days of abstaining from various comforts of life. The idea is that going without shoes, coat, social media etc will raise the awareness for a cause. My first thought of this book was "oh great more slacktivism, that's what we need."
The first…Continue
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There is one word that sometimes annoys me but always hooks my interest: It's the word "NEW" (usually followed by a number of exclamation points)!!!! Even though I see it every day, whenever I do, a little voice rises up in me and says, "You might MISS something if you don't check it out!" Of course, sometimes NEW is beneath the surface. While some things do not appear new on the surface, when we dig deeper, we find new innovations that…Continue
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Learning styles describe the way people use their senses to process information as they learn. Educators have classified three types of learning styles. Most people will fit somewhat into more than one category. Few people fit completely one style to the exclusion of others. Most children cannot describe how they learn best but do know which activities they like. Discovering the learning styles of children can help in lesson planning and in finding the most meaningful…Continue
Added by Donna Lucas on April 29, 2014 at 5:53pm — No Comments
No matter how much work you do to prevent discipline problems, you will undoubtedly experience a few challenges that will require your appropriate and timely response. Here are some dos and don'ts for disciplining early adolescents.
1. Do smile and take a deep breath.
2. Don't lose your temper, yell, scream or belittle the child.
3. Do speak directly to the student.
4. Don't embarrass him or her in front of his or her peers.
Added by Donna Lucas on April 29, 2014 at 5:29pm — No Comments
I love object lessons because they tend to get the attention of children! I especially like them when they are activities we can allow children to do with us! So, when I was browsing on Pinterest and saw this link for making Erupting Snow - I had to share it with you!
Follow this …
Added by Lynda Freeman on April 29, 2014 at 11:40am — No Comments
A few weeks ago, I ate a bunch of grapes and when I had eaten them all, something grabbed my attention. The empty vine that I held was so tightly intertwined, I'm surprised I was able to free any grapes to enjoy! A very familiar scripture…Continue
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Materials Needed: Large colored construction paper, coffee filtars, colored markers, clue, photographs of the…Continue
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Materials Needed: Small plastic cups (3" tall), colored construction paper confetti, glue, "Happy Mother's Day" label, seven strips of paper for each child, and colored pencils.
Activity: The children put glue on the cup and sprinkle on the paper…
Added by Mary Rice Hopkins on April 29, 2014 at 8:06am — No Comments
This session deals with the most foundational element to a good leader – their heart!
A Leader's Heart Part 1 - Power Point
The two Bob Sorge videos used in this presentation can be found on YouTube: Envy & God…Continue
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Spencer is the Executive Pastor of Family Life and Missions at Bethel Church in Hampton, VA.
He has over 28 years of experience in Children's Ministry. Serving in pretty much every capacity available from puppet team coach to assistant preschool teacher. He has been a featured presenter at national and regional conferences. In 2010…Continue
Added by Spencer Click on April 28, 2014 at 5:05pm — No Comments
Many of the single parents you interact with are divorced. In their minds, and in their interactions with you, they will draw a clear line defining life "before my divorce" or "after my divorce."
Is this healthy? Does labeling life 'before the divorce' and 'after the divorce' keep them from moving forward? Does it mean they they are still struggling with their divorce and are stuck in their grief?
These are excellent questions and ones…Continue
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I am extremely happy to share a link with you to a video of a truly amazing and fun object lesson from Brad Brown which you can use with and teach to children to help them understand the Gospel!
Added by Lynda Freeman on April 28, 2014 at 8:52am — No Comments
Yesterday I posted about prayer and our children's ministry; I said, "We need to pray for the children in our church and community and ask God to make their hearts tender and open so they will choose to believe and be saved!" Today I want to talk about how we also need to pray and ask God to send us the "laborers/volunteers" we need for our ministries!
I firmly believe no one cares more if we…
Added by Lynda Freeman on April 28, 2014 at 8:01am — No Comments
When it comes to praying for our children's ministry, I assume we all make it a regular part of our day, every day, to spend time doing so; but what should we pray for and how do we pray? I have never found a "formula" for praying which really helped me pray. I tend to get "lost" in the "steps" . . . praying for this, then that and then the next thing just seems to be too "rote" for me.
A number of years ago I heard a sermon by Dr. Ed Dobson - he was the dean of students at the…
Added by Lynda Freeman on April 27, 2014 at 5:31am — No Comments


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January 17, 2012 by staff
Tim Hortons New Cup, An extra caffeine jolt for coffee lovers. Tim Hortons is adding a new cup size Monday, Jan.23.
The coffee chain is adding a 24-ounce, extra large coffee cup and changing the names of all the other existing cups.
This will be the biggest cup of coffee the chain has ever offered.
"We tested the names of the new hot cup sizes with our guests and the response has been overwhelmingly positive," said Dave McKay, director of brand marketing for beverages, in a press release.
What's now known as the "extra large" cup will be re-named to "large" and what's now small will be known as "extra small."
While the names will change, prices will stay the same except for the 24-ounce cup which will cost $1.90 before taxes.
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