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Digital Distribution Is The Way Of The Future
It's no secret that digital distribution is the future of gaming. For other industries such as the music industry, this is already the norm. Gaming is slowly transitioning into becoming digital-only, but it's much too early for the industry to completely change, and eliminate physical media. Such was made apparent through Microsoft's recent failed attempt, and the failure of the digital-only 'PSP Go'. But will this always be the case? Let's take a look at how digital distribution can and will affect the gaming industry.
With physical games, publishers have to spend additional time and money on discs and packaging. Digital distribution can eliminate this. For example, when a game releases via digital download, be it through Steam, PSN, or Xbox Live, it eliminates the need for a case, disc, box art, manual, or shipping.
Services like Steam price games at ridiculously low prices, especially during sales. Sadly, not everyone has adopted this strategy. We still have services like Xbox Live and PSN selling games at a higher price than their retail counterparts. Microsoft and Sony need to lower their prices on their marketplaces. If these companies create sales similar to those found on Steam, and maybe even let gamers try out games for a weekend, we could see these stores becoming even more popular amongst core gamers. Hopefully in the future when physical copies are no longer produced, digital prices will go down significantly.
Buying a game digitally means you'll get the game instantly, depending on the speed of your internet connection. But you'll be gratified immediately knowing the download has started. This removes the need to physically shop, meaning you won't have to camp outside a store just to get a copy of a game before stock runs out.
Game collecting is quite a popular hobby throughout the gaming community. Game collectors are usually the guys who get their hands on every new collector's edition, hoping that in time it will increase in value. When digital distribution takes over and physical copies cease to exist, collector's editions will die out as well. No longer will you look at your shelf and marvel at the glorious sight of all your video games stacked neatly against each other. It's a sad truth, but it's something we will all have to cope with, one way or another.
Stores like Gamestop are dependent on physical game sales, but with the advent of digital distribution on the horizon, it's highly likely that these stores will be either extinct or severely crippled. This happened to the music industry not too long ago. Stores specializing in music CD's are all but obsolete nowadays. Cherish these game stores while you still can, they won't be around for much longer.
Gamers without an internet connection will be screwed. Now I know most gamers have access to the internet, but think about the minority here; think about those countries that don't have fast, stable internet. Games are usually quite big in file size which means that downloading a game with slow internet will test the patience of some.
With all this said, digital distribution still has time to improve. Until the inevitable happens, we may just see new breakthroughs that will help enhance the user's experience. Tell me, how do you feel about digital distribution? Please express your opinions in the comment section below.


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A central Nebraska child is diagnosed with a rare disease.
News 5's Ginger ten Bensel has more in this week's edition of "What's Going Around."
Dr. Janice Kutilik with the Grand Island Clinic says that she recently hospitalized a child with Kawasaki Disease. The rare disease affects the blood vessels.
Symptoms include a fever of 104 degrees for at least five days. The illness affects several parts of the body: symptoms include pink eye... a red mouth and throat... red cracked lips and a red tongue with prominent taste buds.
Other symptoms include a rash that can look like scarlet fever, along with swelling on the bottom of the feet and palms of the hands.
Plus with Kawasaki Disease the patient usually has a swollen lymph node generally located in the neck area.
Kutilek says that with this illness you need to be concerned about the coronary vessels of the heart.
The cause of Kawasaki disease is unknown. It's not contagious. And there is no test to diagnose it.
Kutilek is also seeing a number of adolescents with pneumonia.
Dr. Michael Johnson with the Hastings family practice says he's seeing patients with walking pneumonia as well.
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Whales and Dolphins of the European Atlantic:
Fully updated, with new images, revised artwork, and the latest distribution data, this comprehensive photographic guide to whales, dolphins, and porpoises now covers coastal southwest Ireland and the Celtic Sea as well as the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Designed for easy use at sea or when watching from land, it covers all 18 regularly seen species and the 13 rarities that have also been recorded. It includes details of status and behavior, as well as introductory sessions to help you get the most from your whale watching in the region.
Dylan Walker and Graeme Cresswell are coauthors of several books, most recently the WILDGuides title Whales and Dolphins of the North American Pacific (with Todd Pusser). Walker is a leading authority on the whales and dolphins of the European Atlantic. The first person to run whale-watching tours in the Bay of Biscay, he has now crossed Biscay and the English Channel more than 200 times. An accomplished author, photographer, and tour guide, Walker now works for whale and dolphin conservation charity ORCA, and co-owns ethical ecotourism business Planet Whale. Cresswell, an accomplished marine mammal writer and photographer, has traveled extensively throughout the North Atlantic and North Pacific, where he has now photographed more than thirty species of cetacean. His articles and images have been widely published in magazines and newspapers, scientific journals, and books. He is a founding member of ORCA.
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The Bathroom by Alexander Kira (1976)
The seminal and definitive work on bathrooms and their design (and their mis-design), including everything you could consider about the design of absolutely everything that goes into a bathroom- toilets, sinks, bidets, showers, bathtubs, humans- you name it.
From an Amazon user: "This unique book is the only scientific analysis of bathrooms and their functions that I have ever been able to find. The author has had a major influence on, or actually helped write, the building standards that most modern bathrooms are built in accordance with. Nevertheless, the book concludes that the bathroom is an essentially mis-designed space in virtually all North American homes. The very fixtures such as sinks, bathtubs and toilets are poorly designed, and need to be completely rethought. This book is essential for those interested in designing objects for human use, the architecture of bathrooms, and the psychology of the continued use of poor standards."
Alexander Kira was the Professor of Architecture at Cornell University. This copy was bought at the Cornell Campus Store.


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The City of Cincinnati has enacted its emergency reporting procedure for Friday morning.
Police have been ordered not tom respond to the scene of accidents in which no injuries have occurred and all vehicles are operative.
If you are involved in an accident within the city, drivers need to contact the police district in which the accident happened.
There is no word on when the emergency reporting procedure will be lifted.
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About Brick Meets Click
Bill Bishop and Steve Bishop teamed up to create Brick Meets Click in 2011 and focus on retail from the shopper's perspective.
Our roots in retail run deep, especially in grocery. BMC's Chief Architect, Bill Bishop, also founded Willard Bishop LLC, the go-to resource for the supermarket sector for more than 30 years.
Today, BMC staff and partners combine a lifetime of experience in retailing with a focus on how technology is changing the way people shop and what business can do about it.
To help retailers, suppliers, and technology service providers create the foresight, tools, and relationships they need to grow their businesses in 2014 and beyond.
To be the place where people can always turn to get a clear, commercial-free perspective on how digital is impacting the shopping experience.
Searching out evolving retail business models; identifying, evaluating, and testing opportunities for growth in the changing marketplace; and helping businesses identify and execute on their most strategic next steps.
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A building modelled after the 'Divine Comedy'; Palermo shopping; San Telmo boutique accommodation -- check out our Buenos Aires highlights.
Palacio de Aguas ArgentinasRiobamba 750, 1st Floor, Barrio Norte.+54 11 6319 1104From the outside it is a baroque style building ornamented by more than 300,000 Royal Doulton ceramic tiles, but inside it's mainly tanks that once stored 72,000 tons of water. Walk up to the first floor, pass the displays of old lavatory paraphernalia and knock on the big white door for a tour.WebsiteView imagePalacio BaroloAvendia de Mayo 1370, Centro.+54 15 5027 9035.Once the tallest building in South America and located on one of Buenos Aires' busiest streets, Palacio Barolo is no secret. A lesser known detail is that the entire building's design is based on principles derived from Dante's Divine Comedy. A guided tour is offered by Miqueas – just go to the lobby on the hour Monday to Thursday between 2pm and 7pm and he will take you to the tiny (fitting 10 people inside is a stretch) glass globe that sits on top. Booking ahead is recommended.Website View imageEl Zanjon de GranadosDefensa 755, San Telmo.+54 11 4361 3002.El Zanjon's inconspicuous white front opens up to a large and well-presented excavation site, showcasing the layers upon which an old mansion was built. A unique opportunity to explore underground tunnels that were once landfills and see some of the artefacts discovered during the 20-year excavation and restoration process.Website
Maru Botana11 de Septembre 982, Belgrano.+54 11 4772 2478.We asked our concierge where she likes to go for breakfast and ended up in the leafy green barrio of Las Cañitas. The lemon-infused scones with jam and cream hit the spot, but it's hard not to have cake envy with so many divine creations in the display case. Website
CumanaRodriguez Pena 1149, Recoleta.+54 11 4813 9207.Roquefort, corn and squash, ham and cheese and (of course) beef are among the dozen or so seriously tasty empanada options here. The food is cheap and Cumana is usually quite packed. If you are happy to settle for a hearty steak, try your luck next door at La Cholita (Rodríguez Pena 1165, +54 11 4815 4506).View image
Planet CubicoThames 2145, Palermo.A fairly new edition to the collection of Palermo's hip boutiques, Planet Cubico is a small retail space/art gallery exclusively showcasing the works of local artists. Pick up a hand-painted T-shirt by street artist Cobrinha or a unique piece from one of Jazmin Chebar's (Argentine fashion house extraordinaire) designers.
Trippin'Armenia 1838, Palermo.+54 11 4831 2373.Soft leather bags, bright stationary and offerings from popular street wear brands are set off by retro embellishments and a very, ahem, trippin' wall mural. The majority of the items in shop are locally made or designed.WebsiteView image
Telmho Hotel BoutiqueDefensa 1086, San Telmo.A sleek nine-bedroom boutique hotel that, despite sitting on the busy Plaza Dorrego, offers a central but quiet place to rest your head. It may be a bit nosier on the rooftop terrace, but the crisp white cushioned deck chairs and expansive views of cobblestoned San Telmo somehow drown everything else out.cE Design HotelMarcelo T. de Alvear, Barrio Norte.As the name suggests, a strong point of the hotel is design – from the glass floor looking down to a four-by-four-metre Jacuzzi to the female staff's dresses sourced from a boutique just around the corner. The beds are large and comfy, the ensuites feature spa baths and the staff is incredibly helpful; if you get a chance, take advantage of the list of their favourite local hotspots they provide when you check in.For more barrio highlights check out our Super barrios gallery.
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A new trial date has been set for a New York man charged with making death threats on Twitter against two CNN Headline News anchors covering the Jodi Arias murder trial.
David Lee Simpson's trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 15 after it was postponed from a July 14 start and rescheduled for this week.
Simpson faces five felony counts for comments made toward Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell, both hosts of shows on Turner Broadcasting's HLN network who regularly covered the nearly five-month trial on national television.
Investigators said Simpson also threatened a Phoenix woman via Twitter.
Authorities extradited him to Maricopa County and a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Arias was convicted of brutally killing her ex-lover Travis Alexander in 2008 in his Mesa home.
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"Presents the memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure, guidance, experience and wholeness." (Book Description)
"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident.
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As if David Small's graphic autobiography Stitches:--A Memoir wasn't powerful enough on its own, five scenes have been turned into eleven minutes of heart-wrenching video. If you've read the novel, is it worth it? Absolutely. Hearing 'mama's little cough," slamming of cupboards and moving her "fork a half inch to the right" further enhances the viewers understanding of David Small's traumatic, childhood home. If you haven't read this book, which was nominated for the 2009 Young People's Literature Award by the National Book Foundation, place a hold today! It's worth enjoying in all formats!
Jon Scieszka, author, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and madcap-at-large, must have a mile-long funnybone. This photo-filled memoir helps explain where and how it all started, if not exactly why.
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GrizForm Design Architects infuses Farmers Fishers Bakers, a Washington restaurant, with sophisticated barnyard humor. Defining the front of the main dining area, arches built with steel frames and chicken-wire resin panels contain LEDs that change color with the seasons. Photography by Eric Laignel.
Go here to see inside the Farmers Fishers Bakers restaurant by GrizForm Design Architects.


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'America's Got Talent' Stars: Piers Morgan Would Make A Great Larry King
Piers Morgan appears to be closing in on CNN's coveted 9 PM talk show spot, which is opening up this fall when Larry King says goodbye to his "Larry King Live" program, and the "America's Got Talent" judge's co-stars gave him a ringing endorsement on Wednesday.
"If that happens, I just want to see if he can hook me up with an interview!" "AGT" host Nick Cannon joked to Access Hollywood on Wednesday. "Piers Morgan would be amazing at that job. For the people over here in the states that may not be familiar with his background, he's been in journalism for decades. Extremely knowledgeable, witty – I think the show would go where Larry's taken it and beyond."
Fellow judge Howie Mandel called his British colleague "a wonderful choice."
"I don't know that America knows how fine a journalist he is," Howie said. "Even though on this show, my biggest goal is to annoy that man, and I do very well at it… I think he's a brilliant journalist and [interviewer]. I go to dinner with him and it's an interview!"
Piers himself told Access he had the chops for the position, though he explained he couldn't "confirm or deny anything at the moment."
"It's one of the biggest jobs in the world in terms of television interviewing," he said before discussing his experience. "Back in Britain, I'm primarily known as a TV interviewer… I'm used to interviewing prime ministers and TV stars over there quite regularly."
The former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor added, however, that no one could compare with Larry.
"Larry King's suspenders are the biggest suspenders to fill in TV history. The guy, in my view, in terms of interviewing, is peerless," Piers said.
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That dreaded time of year is here again when flus and colds etc are everywhere. Therefore i thought id see if any of you have any odd cures or just a reliever etc for them. This one ( provided by the wife ) certainly helped me to not care if i had flu or not = 1 mug of hot milk and a shot of disarrono ( Amaretto brandy ). It goes down so well that after a couple flu no longer matters. At first i tried to resist but her response was unarguable with " shut up you are bulking and you cant lift weights if you are sick" :evillaugh:


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Let me start by apologizing to anyone who has/had been worried about me or my sister. We are both fine. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to write this message.
As I'm sure you've noticed, I have been gone. I'm here to tell you that I have no intention of coming back. This will be my last message on this blog and this site.
I will not go into details as to why I finally left.
I do not know if I will be deleting this blog. I might hold on to it for a while, I haven't decided. But all pictures and fanfictions have been removed. All other blogs I ran, aside from Sparkles, have been deleted. As for Sparkles' blog, I haven't decided what to do with that yet.
I hope you all take care of yourselves.
Since I was known for my Ed laugh gif, I will end with this:
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Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart, is disgustingly obese proof that money can't buy beauty. External or otherwise. It boggles my mind and sickens me to think that someone with such vast financial wealth made from literally plundering the land would be so anti-tax.
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I hate to look for gift cards in my wallet, house etc. Sometimes, You forget gift cards at your house. Keeping track of gift card balances is hard. Most people don't bother to look for gift cards and just throw them in the drawer. Fortunately, Things can be tracked and managed easily with android apps.
Using these android apps, You can send, receive gift cards to your friends and family. You can store all your gift cards on your android phone for easy tracking. You can check real time gift card balances. You can use your android phone to pay for items at the store using your gift card balance.
Free Android apps for Managing, Storing Gift Cards on Samsung Galaxy S3/S4, Nexus 4/7
1. Gyft
Gyft is a popular android app. You can send, receive, store most retailer gift cards. You can check gift card balances real time. It did not get real time balance for Toys R Us though.
You can easily pay with your gift card at the store by scanning bar code displayed on your android phone. It also displays gift card number & pin number. You can regift gift cards to friends without hassle.
2. Tango Card – Gift Card Wallet
Tango Card is a different kind of gift card. If you have Tango Card, you can mostly use at any retailer. This is better instead of gifting retailer specific gift card. Receiver can use the card at any location. It is same as giving Visa or Mastercard gift card.
You can do all the things like adding all gift cards, checking gift card balances real time, sending gift card to your friends, use gift card bar codes for checkout at the store etc. You can also access your account online on your computer.
3.GoWallet Mobile
GoWallet Mobile is another free android app. It offers same features as above like adding gift cards, managing or tracking balances. You can also access GoWallet account online in the browser on your computer.
You don't need to worry about carrying your plastic gift cards in the wallet or losing them. These android apps help you better organize gift cards. These apps work on most android phone & tablets including Galaxy S2, S3, S4, Nexus 4, HTC One, Sony Xperia Z, Droid Razr, Note 2, Nexus 7, Galaxy Note 8 etc
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Mayhem over seals;
Earlier last year, the University of California quietly unveiled a new logo. A petition on Change.org — "Stop the new UC logo" — got over 54,000 signatures. The University held their ground for a week or so before capitulating. Read more via; http://sco.lt/5mOy49
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(From The Times) Global research commissioned by KPMG reveals that the economic
slowdown has cooled the overheated project market to some extent,
especially for large physical projects.
But the research finds that there are still fundamental problems with undercapacity.
"The performance of many projects has not been good as a
result," said Jeff Shaw, director for major projects at KPMG. "There is
a shortage of skilled project managers globally, which has been
alleviated only temporarily during the recession.
"We cannot rely on importing skills and it's still
expensive to cherry- pick, so we have to develop home-grown project
"There is considerable concern about the industry's
ability to deliver on infrastructure requirements around the world in
the medium term," Shaw added.
"Our advice is that if projects repeatedly form part of
your core business you ought to build a core capacity to have internal
skills to deliver. Then, outsource to supplement your capacity during
peaks as a one-off.
"Government is a particularly significant problem area;
our research shows that, globally, 70% of infrastructure providers
(whoever feeds into major projects) cite a lack of government
effectiveness as a major constraint on delivery."
Shaw said this was not the case in South Africa alone — in the US the rate was 72%.
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When Good Qualification Goes Bad
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Qualification is a well known and important part of the sales process. When working on a large, multi-month opportunity, constant re-qualification is just as important, and often missed. I recently learned a very painful lesson in re-qualification. Read More...
Diseconomies of Scale
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In the IT industry, especially IT outsourcing, there is often talk of economies of scale. I know I've always believed it - it is conventional wisdom. It is also wrong.
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Starting with your best position
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In contract negotiations, commercial professionals usually start with their most preferred or best position. This practice is very often the right one, but you should not get tunnel vision and take only that route all the time. It can sometimes be counter-productive or even fatal to a deal. Here are 4 specific situations where you might start with a different position.
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One of the main differences between effective and ineffective communicators is the ability to speak with clarity and precision. Read More...
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I've developed a certain distaste for the word 'accountability'. It is meant to mean ownership, drive, getting things done. These days, it does not. Read More...
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The tube strike is accomplishing the RMT union's goal: it is bringing misery to London's working class on Boxing Day, punishing the general public, all the while leaving the wealthy and political classes unaffected. Read More...
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On the Merlin2 users group forum someone asked for a way of giving his team members a view of their assignments. There is no easy way without having Merlin yourself to do this, so I thought it would be a useful report. I wrote one up in XSLT with a heavy dose of JavaScript - and leveraging a lot of software packages from the net - and you can find it here.
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I tried to find a simple download counter that I could plug in to my website to keep track of files downloaded. The best I could find was people asking for them and also a couple ones that were either too simple or too complex for my use. So I created one. You can find it on my software page.
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This table was the perfect size for the space I needed to put it. The only reason this isn't a 5-star, getting the holes lined up to attach the lower legs after putting on the lower shelf was a very tight fit.
I loved the table, but unfortunately the color was not what I was looking for and therefore, returned the table.
I like the size, it looks very nice under the Anisah mirror. I love it
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How Asset Financing Can Get You Your Dream Business Car
BMW are the epitome of the kind of luxury people expect with a company car. However, this kind of quality doesn't come cheap. As with any kind of expansion of your business, though, it's inevitably going to lead to some kind of investment of your company's capital.
Even established companies can struggle to afford paying large, one-off payments, but this is where asset financing solutions come in.


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LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - It is arguably one of the biggest rivalry match ups in the Big 12 - the Aggies and the Red Raiders.
With less than four days until kick off, Tech merchandise is flying off store shelves. The game day black out t-shirt seems to be a popular item.
Last year, Texas got the black-out treatment and this year the Aggies can expect it. Shoppers we spoke with Tuesday say they hope the color black will distract the Aggies. "We got to support Tech. We are going to kill A&M," says student Michael Warren.
"It's, what's the word, distracting. Hopefully it will help us win," says first year student Maddie Hooper.
"I'm a big tech fan and try to go to each team. It's an intimidation factor and a way we can show our support for the team," says fan Jake Bush.
The game is not sold out yet but the Tech ticket office says it's only a matter of time. As of Tuesday afternoon there are only 3,700 tickets available for Saturday's match up. This will be the first game that 6,000 additional seats will be available as part of the stadium expansion.
NewsChannel 11 is partnering with Red Raider Outfitters to give away $800 in tailgate gear and tickets to the OU vs. Tech game in November. Aaron Watson will be performing at noon before Saturday's game across from the stadium and 12 pairs of tickets are up for grabs.
To enter drop your entry form in the box at Red Raider Outfitters or just become a KCBD NewsChannel 11 Facebook fan and you are automatically qualified. NewsChannel 11 Sports Director Pete Christy will announce winners during NewsChannel 11 at 10 on Thursday night.
Remember, the game is not on television so get your tickets now to see Texas Tech vs. A&M.
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T3: The Rise of the Machines"The Machines Will Rise." (0)
Kristanna Loken and Arnold Schwarzenegger in T3: The Rise of the Machines.
Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines is perfect lightweight popcorn summer fare. There's not much to think about and the action comes fast and furious. While not the equal of either of the first two installments in the series, it none the less manages to entertain in the blockbuster manner that you'd expect.
With the destruction of the Skynet system at the end of Terminator 2 and the changing of the future, it would have seemed that there wouldn't be a need for a sequel. But then most time travel stories are a bit murky in this respect. If Sarah and John Connor stopped the terminators from being created, then how could one have come back in time to help them stop them from being created? Best not to think about it too much.
And as we discover in this, the third Terminator movie all that was accomplished in the second was the postponement of the inevitable. The machines will still rise; it's just taken them a little longer than expected.
When the movie opens Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton in the first two films) is dead and her son, a twenty-something John Connor, ever distrustful of machines, is living 'off the grid' as he calls it, no phone, no permanent home, no records of his whereabouts. He's still paranoid that someday, someone or something will come looking for him again.
Of course he turns out to be correct as we see when the next model of Terminator comes back in time to kill him. And it really could be a model this time, as this Terminator is a woman, although apart from her outward appearance and a few new built-in weapons, she's very similar to Robert Patrick's Terminator from T2, although somehow less intimidating and threatening, but then his Terminator was somehow less intimidating and threatening than Schwarzenegger's Terminator in the original, so fair is fair.
Following closely on the heel's of the bad Terminator comes Arnold's 'Good' Terminator, sent back in time in the usual manner and for the usual reason, to protect John Connor's life. This is one reason why I think the two sequels are weaker films than the first. In the first you had two ordinary people fighting a seemingly unstoppable machine, where as in the second two films you have two seemingly unstoppable killing machines fighting each other.
This time around the evil Terminator's mission isn't just to kill John Connor, but also to kill many of the people who will become his most trusted lieutenants when it comes time for him to lead the rebellion against the machines. Included in that group is his future wife played by Claire Danes with her usual charm.
The rest of the movie is pretty much non-stop action as John Connor and his soon to be wife, Kate Brewster, aided by Arnold's Terminator try once again to stop the machines from taking over the world.
Fan of the originals or not, there's a lot to like in this movie. Sure there's nothing to think about or any real human drama, but for non-stop action and a perfect escape from the Summer heat, you could do worse than to slip into your local multi-plex and gulp this movie down like a big bucket of popcorn.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in T3: The Rise of the Machines.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a great ending to an amazing trilogy. It answers all the time travel questions and even wowed me with it's ending. It is not surprising that, considering today's world climate, this movie didn't do better at the box office. It has a good ending, but not a happy one.
Like Scott, I enjoyed this movie. In fact, I think I liked it even more than him. Everything fit into place. Schwarzenegger, in his late 50s, is still able to convincingly play the part. The action is literally nonstop.
Having a new director take over for James Cameron had me a bit skeptical. The most noticeable aspect that Cameron did not direct this movie is the way the ending plays out. Cameron probably would have had scenes showing the machines all over the world taking over. If you look at Cameron's work, you see a director who likes to go all out. Johnathan Mostow goes in a different direction. He centers the movie around the three main characters, keeping it at a more personal level.
My one and only complaint is that John Connor is weak. In one scene, his future wife saves him. She grabs a gun and fires. He was next to her. He is supposed to become some great leader. Why didn't he do it? At the end of the movie when we find out how he actually becomes the future leader, he does so a bit nervously. I would have like to have seen some stronger backbone on him before the movie ended.
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Recognized by AISC as the most beautiful steel bridge in its class in 1931, the Bayonne Bridge connecting Staten Island, N.Y., with Bayonne, N.J., is poised for a serious makeover.
Officials have released additional information about the proposed $1 billion Bayonne Bridge project which will replace the existing roadway with a new deck about 60 feet higher up the arches to allow taller ships to pass.
The New Jersey On-line website www.nj.com reports the project is envisioned as "a widening of the four traffic lanes from 10 to 12 feet each, along with the addition of shoulders, and a center divider that will replace what is now just a double-yellow line."
The report also shares comments from Peter Zipf, chief engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, describing one possible approach to the challenging construction. "The two inner lanes will be closed to traffic and used as a staging area where a crane will likely be used to hoist a series of 84-ft-wide girders into place, forming the steel structure underpinning the new roadway. Like the original, the new roadbed will be suspended by steel cables from the bridge's original 79-year-old arch. The two existing outer lanes will remain open, shielded from the work overhead, providing one traffic lane in each direction. To rise to the level of the higher roadbed, the bridge approaches will be made slightly steeper and longer, constructed in a similar method from staging areas on the original approaches." To read more, click here.
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After a season that was sure to have left every Washington Capitals fan heartbroken, the Caps are making some moves during the offseason to help ensure an early exit from the playoffs does not happen again.
What has to be the Caps biggest move this offseason was resigning Nicklas Backstrom to a 10-year, $67 million contract. Backstrom has quickly become one of the best centers in the NHL and making sure that he returned to the Capitals roster for the 2010-2011 season was vital. Backstrom set a career high last season with 33 goals and 68 assists; and his 101 points tally ranked him fourth in the league. He also has yet to miss a game in three NHL seasons. Having him and Alex Ovechkin together, who combined for the league's highest scoring teammate duo last season, is certainly a strong move.
The Washington Capitals also re-signed free agents Boyd Gordon to a one-year contract, defenseman Jeff Shultz for four years, and winger Eric Fehr to a two-year extension. This leaves Tomas Fleischmann the only unsigned restricted free agent remaining.
The Capitals came out of the draft with some promising prospects from Russia. The Caps first-round pick was center Evgeny Kuznetsov, who was one of the best players in the draft. He has good scoring potential, but still needs some time in the gym. The Caps second pick got them winger Stanislav Galiev who they are hoping overcomes some inconsistencies and becomes a play-maker. They also picked up goalie Philipp Grubauer, center Caleb Herbert, and defensivemen Caleb Herbert.
Washington is still looking to fill the void for a strong center on the second line. They seem to have high hopes for Marcus Johansson, their first-round pick in 2009. Johansson spent some time this summer at the Capitals development camp, and has spent the past two season playing for Farjestads of the Swedish Elite League.
However, on Thursday the Caps signed center Andrew Joudrey to a one-year contract and center Jay Beagle to a two-year contract. Joudrey, 26, just wrapped up his third season in Hershey where he recorded 19 assists and 34 points in 78 games, and two assists and three points in 21 playoff games to help the Bears win the Calder Cup. Beagle, 24, appeared in seven games for the Caps last season and scored his first NHL goal on Nov. 23 at Ottawa. He has played 10 career games with the Caps including four Stanley Cup games during the 2008-2009 season.
The Caps signed veteran winger Brian Willsie, who was Ovechkin's former roommate, to a one-year, two-way contract. Willsie played for the Caps during the 2005-2006 season tallying 19 goals and 22 assists in 82 games. He has been seeing time in the NHL and AHL for the past two season and will most likely start next season in Hershey.
Some questions still remain regarding the Caps goaltending. They released Jose Theodore, who struggled in the playoffs last season, and picked up veteran goalie Dany Sabourin. However, it seems that Semyon Varlamov and Michal Neuvirth will be the Caps go-to's this season and Sabourin is just there for back-up and will be spending time in Hershey.
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Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee wants to raise the legal age of handgun ownership from 18 to 21.
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Four people from Alabama visited the White House on Wednesday to discuss immigration.
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The group was invited to a special meeting designed to bring state government leaders and immigration experts together to share best practices and explore ways the federal government can engage with communities.
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Servin said she was looking forward to the opportunity "to discuss how the administration's appalling record of mass raids, detentions and deportations affects immigrant community integration."
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(Elizabethtown, Ky.) -- Tpr. Chad Taylor and Tpr. Jon Vaughn were patrolling US 31E in LaRue County just north of the city of Hodgenville. Tpr. Taylor initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle on a probable cause violation of driving under the influence. Tpr. Vaughn was traveling behind Tpr. Taylor at the time of the traffic stop and he stopped to assist. While Tpr. Taylor was administering field sobriety tests to the driver, the above listed subject exited the vehicle and advanced towards the Troopers in an aggessive manner. The subject refused to comply with the Trooper's verbal demands to stop advancing towards them and to return to the vehicle. Tpr. Vaughn used non-lethal force (Taser) to gain control of the subject. The subject was taken into custody without further incident and without any injury. The subject was charged with Disorderly Conduct 2nd Degree, Menacing, and Alcohol Intoxication in a Public Place 1st Offense and lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center.


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The Hudson Institute presents Broken Cities or Civic Renewal?
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Christopher Gates, Executive Director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE)
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Pete Peterson, Executive Director of the Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University
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Just over two years ago, the citizens of Bell, California, discovered from an exposé in the Los Angeles Times that their city officials were among the highest paid in the nation, in spite of the city's underperforming economy and high unemployment rate. After some officials were arrested, the city was left with no functioning government and empty coffers.
This might seem like the least favorable environment for encouraging civic engagement in public affairs, but that is not how Pepperdine University's Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership saw it. Davenport's Pete Peterson helped the new civic leadership design a process to bring everyday citizens directly into the redesign of government and its budget.
According to one account, "Since his involvement with the city began, Peterson's partnership with Bell's new and interim management has served as a living, breathing case study of public engagement and civic renewal, one that he hopes will inspire other cities to adopt further dialogue between local government and residents. [As Peterson said,] 'I've been tremendously encouraged thus far by both the citizens of Bell and the new city leaders, who have been at the forefront of trying to change the identity of a city now known as a symbol of corruption.'"
Please join us on October 26th to discuss what happened in Bell, California, and how the city is trying to move forward. Speakers will include Pete Peterson, Executive Director of the Davenport Institute; Christopher Gates from Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement; City of Bell Council Member Ana Maria Quintana; and former interim Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Bell Kenneth Hampian. Hudson Institute Senior Fellow William Schambra will moderate the discussion.


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Film, Tour Remember Larry Norman
'Fallen Angel' documentary, director, and Randy Stonehill headline event
According to a press release, the documentary asks whether Norman, known as the "father of Christian rock," was "nothing more than a contemporary Elmer Gantry, a musical flim-flam man out to con the faithful."
The release also calls Norman "the most vibrant musical performer to shake, rattle and roll church pews during a hip countercultural revival of religion known as the 'Jesus movement.' Casting a prophet-like presence and with lyrics that cut to the marrow, Norman became the voice of a generation of young Christians trying to make sense of their faith amidst the chaos of the 1960s. . . . Over time however, Norman's crafted image began to overtake him and the line between fact and fiction became blurred.
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I am Larry Norman's biographer. And I have been a friend of Larry Norman and his family for over 30 years. Larry was always the first one to want to pray, to pay for dinner, to encourage us to feed the poor. He was generous and quick to ask for forgiveness and to forgive. And Larry never spoke ill to me about any of the people slinging mud at him now that he has passed. Above all Larry brought more people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ than anyone I have ever met.
As Larry's biographer I am researching documents and conducting interviews everyday and there are hundreds if not thousands of people who have had similar edifying experiences with Larry Norman. Therefore I was amazed at the incredible amount of inaccurate information, innuendo, and slander that make up David Di Sabatino's "documentary". If you want to see the many documents that I am privy to, I have published them at www.failedangle.com .
Allen Flemming
Thank you, Allen. I continue to find it sad and appalling when these media outlets promote this biased, vindictive mess of a film in their effforts to help pile up some box office dollars for the film's producers and take a cheap shots at a dead artist's reputation and accomplishments. I guess the people writing this stuff were simply "not around" as I was when Larry was initially doing his thing despite massive criticsm from every side imaginable. This film has been discredited for so long now and by so many diverse sources that it is simply inexcusable to promote screenings... unless you have a secret desire to drive another nail in Larry's coffin now that he's powerless to speak for himself. These folks pushing the film's PR (including staff writers from publications) know by now that there are in fact much finer, more objective films currently in production yet they seek to exploit the window of time still available to stack up some box office dollars before these films are completed. But then, if you dig back, many "Christian" based publications such as this one have had a long stored axe to grind when it comes to Larry, opting to compliment him and his monumental body of work "with a heavy degree of inuendo". Here it is again.
If there is one absolutely minimal requirement for a documentary film, it is that it must at least try to present the truth. Documentarians have a special obligation to the world as they are documenting history for posterity. If they fail to accurately represent the truth, they have deceived countless people for a prolonged period until someone comes along and corrects the record. This film is not just careless with the facts, or accidentally reporting inaccuracies, this film is a deliberate effort by the filmmaker to misrepresent the facts about a highly accomplished musical evangelist and respected teacher and leader in the Christian community. In short, it is a hit piece.
David Di Sabatino, who has only one other film to his credit (which was also a hit piece on a Christian leader, Lonnie Frisbee), broke every rule of honest documentary film making. First of all, there is no documentation in this documentary. My dictionary gives the following definition for a documentary: 1. Consisting of, concerning, or based on documents. 2. Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film. Yet, in this film, the filmmaker sought out and included statements only from people who had grudges against him. There were a great many people who knew Larry Norman very well for an extended period of time whose statements were not sought. When family members offered to provide documentation falsifying the film's claims they were rejected and not even mentioned in the film. The strongest and most slanderous allegations of the film are pure innuendo. The few people with grudges who derided Larry were represented as typical cases of people that knew Larry. They were not.
Furthermore, with one minor exception, no one interviewed in the film had been involved in Larry's life in over 30 years! There are many people that have expressed shock by the overt and destructive lies that they heard in this film and that have said they personally know the allegations presented to be false or contrary to their experience, yet their opinions were not included.
See the film, but watch it with a critical eye.
(I was a personal friend of Larry's for the last 30 years of his life and can personally vouch for Larry's impeccable character. He was a man of the highest integrity, had a deep and sincere love for God, and was filled with love for everyone he met. And he never stopped talking to people about the love of Jesus!)
interesting that the above FALLEN ANGEL documentary critics don't address Larry Norman's adultery, that took place with at least one of his peer group wives. also, no mention about Larry's "secret" Australian child. if i had a "father" who didn't acknowledge me in public & didn't support me, how do you think that would effect me??
Larry was a great musician & lyricist but had his "Bathsheba" moment also....
In response to the comment that makes reference to the alleged adultery and alleged abandonment of a child: These allegations that are made in the film, through innuendo and unsubstantiated speculation, are rebutted in detail on the web site, www.failedangle.com, which was set up to answer the many errors presented in the film. The alleged adultery is a pure lie, and the speculation about the child has yet to be substantiated documentarily. It is irresponsible to post such destructive rumors with no regard for the truth or the well-being of others. At this point the filmmaker has committed himself to smearing this righteous man's legacy, let's all be careful not to repeat gossip from a film and unwittingly become party to the sin of bearing false witness.
Hey Allen, so do you think that Larry ever did anything wrong? (like I mean ever? - it sounds a bit like a cult of the infallability of Larry Norman)
Terry - I didn't get that feeling at all from what Alan posted. Sounds to me like he's a guy who is close friends with someone who is being beat up over some things he knows to not be true, and felt compelled to introduce what he knows to the discussion. I sure hope that one of my friends would do the same for me in a similar circumstance. I'd bet you would, too.
My biggest issue with the film (that hasn't already been pointed out) is it's a documentary on a man based on approximately 8 years of his life. The other 25 years after the time of the film are not even represented. This time, I believe was Larry's biggest impact. When his music, that was so ahead of it's time, was discovered and copied over and over again. Larry's voice will be heard long after all forget the name Sabatino.
Sabatino makes a point to say Larry played at local churches for 20 years like that's a bad thing. My daughter saw him when she was 5 and it still has an impact with her. Larry stayed after for an hour or so and was so happy to just be with other believers. What a kind, gentle man he was.
If you study God's history you'll see many people used greatly by God who were not perfect, but they had a common characteristic, their heart was soft to God.
I'm not a cult supporter of Larry. If you listened to him live even once you'd know he shared his faults openly. Most of the criticism seems to be that he did some things wrong at parts of his life, ok, add those up, even the ones that clearly aren't true. Scale this with the tens of thousands who will share what a positive impact he was. If there is any story here it was the lack of understanding and judgment the churches expressed at Larry and Randy.
I was at a concert in the 70's when he was called anti-christ from the audience between songs. Even today this movie gets played in all places, churches. Churches that use his music during their hymns.
Show me one major Christian evangelist, prophet, or leader who would come through this type of "ethical filter", without any clarification of the remains, without questions. Questions are not convictions, even in our worldly court of reason, but as Christians, well we're supposed to have a higher requirement.
I may watch this movie, but with the understanding that Norman,like all of us, was something of a walking contradiction. God uses all of us, and all of us are broken vessels. The good news is He still uses us.


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Thank you all for your prayers. It went a lot easier than I thought it would. Our pastor said a very short, sweet message. It was perfect. I will miss sweet Tanner as I still do Samual. I don't I'll ever have a full heart again. My precious boys took a large chunk with them. The only thing that keeps me going is knowing I will see them again one day. Until then, I've gotta pick up the broken pieces and do my best to make it through.
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Does going undercover as a low-wage worker make a difference? A scholar reviews the Nickeled and Dimed genre.
Writers of undercover narratives claimed the authority to speak for the unknown Other because they had experienced the reality of the worker's life.
In the winter of 1893, Walter Augustus Wyckoff ended his "long experiment" in San Francisco. Wyckoff, a slightly-built Princeton graduate, had spent the previous the 18 months on a cross-country tramp to learn firsthand the life of an unskilled laborer. He had loaded boxcars at a factory in Chicago, worked on a wheat farm in Minnesota, and shared a shabby tent with half a dozen unemployed miners near Cripple Creek. He had trekked across mountains and slept in livery stables. It was "hard-scrapping for a living." All in search of new "avenues of useful knowledge." What he learned about the laboring man was published three years later in Scribner's magazine. In 1897 and 1898, while an assistant professor of political economy at Princeton, Wyckoff published two-volumes on his tramp days, The Workers: An Experiment in Reality.
Wyckoff's "experiment" among the down-and-out began during a dinner table discussion at the country estate of Wall Street financier, J. Pierpont Morgan, whose nephew, the banker Junius, was a close friend of Wyckoff. One evening the bankers' guests discussed one of the great issues of the day: the relation of labor and capital. No socialist, but an empathetic observer, Wyckoff defended American workers. Morgan's guests were unconvinced. But in the spirit of empiricism so popular among late nineteenth-century intellectuals, they urged Wyckoff to uncover the truth of the labor problem by becoming a worker himself.
With his expedition and published record of his exploits, Wyckoff became a new social type: the affluent intellectual turned-expert on the "dangerous classes." The men and women who traveled into the depths of American society—and there were several adventurous women slummers—generally emerged to tell their stories. They produced a new genre of American social criticism, a first-hand account of the life of the struggling American laborer. Writers of undercover narratives claimed the authority to speak for the unknown other precisely because they had experienced the reality of the worker's life.
Going undercover was both an "empirical task and an existential dare," writes Mark Pittenger in his new book, Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present. Pittenger, well-aware of Barbara Ehrenreich's 2001 book about her trek among America's hourly workers, Nickeled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, wants to put the genre in its historical context, to explain when and why such investigations proved powerful political tools, and when they did not. To do so, Pittenger, a University of Colorado history professor, profiles scores of class-passers. Much of the book reads like a "Who's Who" of early-1900s social reformers.
Class Unknown is also a tale of how "class" faded from the American vocabulary. The Progressive Era investigators saw class as a structural force that rendered some people poor and some rich. By mid-century, class had been replaced by "culture." And culture, though a seemingly benign explanation for social differences, quickly took on the characteristics of a biological condition, of something largely immutable. By the '50s and '60s, social critics wrote of a "culture of poverty," which was passed across generations and was, like a chronic illness, incurable.
As culture came to dominate academic rhetoric, undercover investigations went out of vogue, replaced in the social sciences by quantitative techniques. With them vanished the early-20th-century faith that drawing public attention to the poor could spur social change. Meanwhile, the Cold War and McCarthyism stifled public debate about class conflict.
As culture became the central explanation for social differences, race increasingly was treated as the primary division in society. Interestingly, the early-20th-century investigators rarely crossed the color line. Some went down-and-out among Italian or Eastern European laborers. But investigators were largely indifferent to the African-American poor. Perhaps the idealistic class-crossers saw race as did many of their contemporaries—and as later generations would see poverty—as a biological condition that determined an individual's place in society.
It wasn't until the late '50s and early '60s that a new generation of white investigators would go undercover, this time crossing racial divides. Amid the post-war civil rights movement and liberal calls for racial integration, a handful of white writers journeyed into Jim Crow black life. The most famous was John Howard Griffin, whose 1961 book Black Like Me offered a seminal—if deeply flawed—account of white America's struggle to address the so-called American dilemma. Griffin concluded that beneath the skin, there was little difference among "men"; no debilitating or inferior culture. Griffin's universalizing of human experience won laudatory reviews in the early '60s.
But by 1970, Griffin's conclusions seemed outdated. The Black Power movement was celebrating cultural differences between black and white Americans. Academics considered Griffin's method—darkening his skin with sun lamps and chemicals—unprofessional, almost laughable.
Griffin's flawed experiment explains a lot about the previous generations of class-crossers. Despite their earnest efforts to capture authentic experience, the down-and-outers could never truly understand the desperation, fear, anxiety, exhaustion and anger of American workers.
In 1896, an irate Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, sent off a letter to Scribner's declaring that Wyckoff could not understand the life of the worker: "If the worst came to the worst, [Wyckoff] could retire from the struggle and enjoy the advantages which his position in life could give him." The ordinary wage worker is "forever bound up with his condition as a wage worker."
More than a century later, it's not clear what impact Wyckoff and his successors have had. His writings did not lift the poor out of poverty. His articles did not make J.P. Morgan sympathetic to labor. Pittenger's study, long on descriptions of the writers and critical analysis of their books, says little about how the undercover investigations affected American politics, society or the poor themselves. Which is too bad. Ultimately, Pittenger's book suffers from the ailments of most of the studies he analyzes: It says little about the deeper structures of American capitalism that have produced a growing population of desperately poor laboring people.
Yet, as Pittenger notes, Wyckoff and his fellow social explorers did give voice to a strain of American political thought, one that believed that laborers contributed to American society and that poverty could be ameliorated. Unfortunately, that voice has nearly disappeared. Despite the work of writers such as Ehrenreich—who acknowledges her limitations as an outsider while still trying to humanize the poor—poverty is rarely mentioned in contemporary political debates. The working poor have become the stuff of history.
Maggie Garb
Magie Garb is the author of City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. An In These Times staff member in the 1980s, she now teaches history at Washington University in St. Louis and is studying African-American politics in Chicago from the 1850s to the 1920s.


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What challenge have you overcome in your kitchen? I just didn't have enough space for all our dishes. So we purchased an inexpensive shelving unit so we could have more storage. I also decided I'd rather use the large food pantry for storing mixers, food processors, etc. and I opted to use a smaller cabinet for food storage instead. It just means I can't stock up on things, but it has also made me a careful, thrifty shopper. We also painted the space which really separates it from the rest of the apartment. Then I hung some art. Who says you can't have art in the kitchen?
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It's lovely but the big bowl, the big lantern, the big 3 canisters are a big oversized for the space.
a bit oversized* sorry
I'm looking for a shelving unit like the wood one in your kitchen. Can you tell me where you purchased it and how much you paid? Thanks! Lovely kitchen!
Oversized is good sometimes in a small space, especially when they are your favorite things. Love the natual light!
Love your kitchen, love your blog too!
Loving that open shelving!
Ok, I am having one of those days so maybe I'm just missing it...but where's the sink?
love the blog!
beautiful kitchen....cozy, light and inviting
I think the "oversized" bowl and canisters are perfect in front of the backdrop of that gorgeous view. Having a large window like that in a kitchen makes it look and feel so much larger.
I also put my dishes out in plain view and hide the appliances and food. It feels cleaner somehow.
I want to come over for some fried chicken!
LOVE LOVE LOVE your kitchen. I think what some are referring to as oversized, I call statement pieces. I live in a cozy 980 sq ft apt and I have a huge sectional and a ginormous leaning mirror in it and would have it no other way! Besides, smaller = easier to clean! Great job!!
What a beautiful job you did with your kitchen. I think all the "large" pieces are just PERFECT. If you had filled your small kitchen with small pieces, it would have looked too cluttered.
Your kitchen looks gorgeous, is organized, and looks like a great place to prepare meals!!
By the way, you should have gotten more votes! I'm sure you know that the ones who get the most votes don't always deserve it. It's a shame, but with the internet and Facebook, etc., there's so many ways to get people voting for you.
Where IS the sink? I don't see it either.


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FOXBOROUGH - After 60 minutes of football, it was clear. The Patriots, 24-17 losers to the St. Louis Rams last night, aren't quite in the same league as the Rams. But who is?
"One thing that came out of this is that we know we're a good team," said Patriots cornerback Ty Law, who spent most of the game chasing down Rams receivers. "We had a chance to win the game, but we made too many mistakes. It's that simple."