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Duluth, GA, United States, 2011/09/28 - Integration of Sparkflys platform to deliver multichannel digital promotions for Radiant point-of-sale software (NYSE: NCR) - Sparkfly.com / NCR.com. NASDAQ: RADS NCR
NCR Corporation today announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement to integrate Sparkflys mobile marketing platform with Radiant point-of-sale software, including Aloha. Sparkflys personalized smartphone application enables the delivery and redemption of digital offers and discounts at the point-of-sale.
This integration will provide customers with the ability to grow incremental revenue, enhance cross-selling capabilities and drive consumer engagement across multiple channels, such as mobile and at the point of service.
While many mobile commerce and digital promotions companies are entering the market, the true value for our customers is the integration of these platforms with point-of-sale transactional data, says Andy Heyman, senior vice president, NCR Hospitality and Specialty Retail. Sparkflys ability to enable personalized mobile promotions makes them an ideal partner to provide businesses with the best tools for building connections with consumers.
Sparkflys digital offer redemption capability is especially appealing to CPG companies, as it provides brands with a unique resource to engage individual consumers with targeted promotions based on SKU-level details of their actual purchases.
The power of our Sparkfly platform comes in rewarding consumers based on purchase frequency or volume and targeting offers based on purchase behavior, says Catherine Tabor, chief executive officer at Sparkfly. Users of Radiant point-of-sale software will benefit from the security and simplicity of direct point of sale redemption of offers, making it easy to get closer to the consumer.
NCR acquired Radiant Systems, Inc, in August 2011, positioning the company as NCRs Hospitality and Specialty Retail industry line of business and market leader with more than 100,000 installations worldwide. Customers include leading brands and venues in the restaurant and food service, sports and entertainment, petroleum and convenience, and specialty retail markets.
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NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCRs assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming, public sector, telecom carrier and equipment organizations in more than 100 countries. NCR (ncr.com) is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia. For more information on Radiant point-of-sale software and solutions, please visit radiantsystems.com/.
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Founded in 2001 in Atlanta, Georgia, Sparkly (sparkfly.com) is a leading provider of solutions that capture consumer purchase data and provide immediately redeemable consumer offers. It is the only solution that permits the creation and distribution of personalized offers via the web or mobile devices, redeemable at the point of sale. This patented technology delivers highly efficient and sophisticated promotional campaigns using existing POS systems without additional in-store hardware or software.
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From Jersey Shore to American Apparel, from weird ketchup packets to dealbreakers that aren't really dealbreakers, this week had a lot going on. Lets take a look at some of our personal favorite posts here at Crushable from the last couple days.
• We talked to Danya Proud, friend of Bachelorette contestant Frank Neuschaefer who makes him sound awesome.
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Trey Songz performed his hit song 'Na Na' on Jimmy Kimmel Live in black jeans, metallic sneakers, and a $38 Dove Print Tee by XQuare 23:
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Swarm is still thirsty for your check-in activities, and will now let you do so belatedly if you noticed you might have been at specific establishments at some point in your day. The latest version of Swarm for iOS (3.2) states that the app will now suggest places to check in later so you can add those places to your location history. The goal is to help those who may have experienced bad reception or are hanging out with actual friends outside of their phone screens, and thus are unable to check in. That said, the app will continue doing its… This story continues at The Next Web


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"The key point is that it's Wii Software," he stated. "When you see how the Wii games look and how people enjoy them when playing with the Wiimote, it's clearly an attractive proposition."
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Ghost Hunters Live Comes to Morrison Center, March 2013
The Ghost Hunters come to the Morrison Center for this Idaho Premiere! Join Jason Hawes and another member of T.A.P.S. as they talk about their ghoulish adventures and scariest paranormal experiences. Learn their unique methods for tracking the paranormal. See unreleased footage from the show and ask them questions about themselves or perhaps share a ghostly experience of your own.
Jason Hawes created The Atlantic Paranormal Society, or TAPS, with fellow plumber Grant Wilson. Both are part of a small, blue-collar Rhode Island community where many of the TAPS members were born and raised.
Jason's own highly personal paranormal experience (which he prefers not to discuss) prompted him to do more than wonder about an afterworld. As a result, he launched TAPS from a spare room of his apartment.
Jason co-created the show Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International with Pilgrim Films and has been on every episode of Ghost Hunters since its beginning 9 years ago. He has also been on Ghost Hunters Academy numerous times.
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Touted from E3 from almost all gaming press as the next great RTS game to be released for PC, Company of Heroes brings the sacrifice and struggle of the American soldiers in WWII. Starting from the D-Day invasion of Normandy, players lead their troops through recreated battles against the Nazis. Through an amazingly rich and lengthy single player campaign, players relive the WWII experience in a graphically rich and dynamic world.
The list of features as supplied by the manufacturer:
* Cinematic Single Player Experience that captures the turmoil of WWII as never before
* Squad AI where units act and react believably and intelligently with unprecedented realism
* Unparalleled animations and graphics that raise the bar for real-time strategy
* Interactive & fully destructible battlefields utilizing the Havoc engine and rag-doll physics
* 2 to 8 player multiplayer competition via LAN or Internet with Innovative team-based modes
Company of Heroes is easily the most graphically rich and detailed RTS game to be released on the PC. It's amazing gorgeous and all the fighting and "special effects" (meaning explosions, gunfire, etc) are stunning. There's not enough words in the thesaurus for "pretty" to properly describe how nice the graphics are for this game. All the modeling and physics are extremely real-to-life brining and amazing amount of rich detail to the screen. The graphics of the game, even without perfect hardware, are unbelieveable.
This is where Company of Heroes might shine the best. There's one thing to see a big explosion that looks neat, but its another to suddenly hear the mortar blast and hear your troops screaming to take cover while you hear gunfire explode all around you. Think it takes the whole game experience (and your adrenaline) up a notch? Oh hell yeah it does! The voiceovers are done extremely well and are pretty authentic for the level of intensity – when your troops are in trouble they'll start screaming and cursing. All in all, the sound of Company of Heroes is amazingly well done and complements the graphics in perfect fashion.
This is a game that we actually had to run through the tutorial in order to get a decent grip on the game before going headfirst into the missions or skirmish mode online or against the AI. We couldn't remember the last time that happen, and this is a GOOD thing. The game offers a much great level of realism for the genre than conventional RTS games – instead of having a peon/grunt mine gold, you have your troops lock down and take over key points on the map that increase your level of intake for the three different resource types. There's a nice tech tree and upgrades that are similar to C&C Generals where you can specialize in one area of combat and get special upgrades as you gain experience points (building, killing, etc).
The missions of the game in the campaign mode are all lengthy, well designed, and extremely intense. The battle at Normandy on D-Day was the most intense and crazy first mission for any RTS game in the history of computer gaming. From there you play through Able Company's historic march through Europe fighting and eventually defeating the Nazi war machine. Each mission has secondary objectives which are usually pretty entertaining to accomplish. Overall, the gameplay of Company of Heroes ranks as amongst the best in RTS history.
Company of Heroes has a great longevity factor for a variety of reasons. First, the missions are so much fun, you'll want to play through them a second time after you've completed the game. Second, the skirmish battles on LAN are a lot of fun, and going 4 vs 4 offers a lot of entertainment value. Finally, the fairly well put together online component of the game lets gamers, with the click of a button, get into a ranked match. It's all so good you'll be playing this title over and over for a great longevity score.
Some thought the RTS genre, or even PC gaming on the whole (outside of MMORPGs) was dead altogether. Fortunately, THQ and Relic has brought us, truly, the next great RTS title that we'll be playing for the next few years. The storyline isn't too original, but this is usually reserved for FPS titles like Call of Duty. It's a great step in RTS evolution, and one that all RTS gamers will cherish.
Company of Heroes has quickly become the game of choice here at Gaming Illustrated. We're fighting each other (Axis vs Allies) on the LAN constantly, playing it online, and some of us have jeopardized our marriages to play long into the night to "just finish the next mission" because it's so addicting. This is one of those games that comes out once every four or five years that will be a true PC gamer's favorite and comes as highly recommended a game for purchase as anything we could think of in 2006. A no doubt about it Editor's Choice award winner for quality.
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Trio charged in hammer killing set for September trialApr 11, 2014 By Eric Blom, Staff Writer
Three defendants charged in connection with the brutal March 7 death of a Riverton man pleaded not guilty Thursday in Lander District Court.
District Court Judge Norman E. Young provisionally joined their cases and set them for trial Sept. 8.
Attorney for defendants Delight Estelle Sunrhodes, 30, and George Jr. Littlethunder III, 29, both of Arapahoe, said they would file objections to the joinder of the cases.
Sunrhodes and Littlethunder are charged with second-degree murder for the death of Richard Longsoldier.
The third defendant, Craig Brian C'Bearing, 27, of Ethete, faces one count of accessory before the fact to second-degree murder.
All three charges carry a penalty of 20 years to life in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
Riverton Circuit Court Judge Wesley Roberts bound over charges against Sunrhodes, Littlethunder and C'Bearing on March 19.
Investigators say Sunrhodes and Littlethunder used the claw end of a framing hammer to bludgeon Longsoldier to death in a bedroom in Longsoldier's trailer in the Cozy Home Trailer Park in Riverton.
C'Bearing, prosecutors believe, started a fight with Longsoldier that the other defendants joined, and C'Bearing provided the hammer the other two used.
March 5: Convict in hammer death gets 50-60 years
Feb. 12: Woman gets 20-25 years in prison for her role in 2014 killing
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Overall video game sales are predicted to have risen 16 per cent, with potential sales of $333 million expected, a decent rise compared to 2006's figure $286m. Those forecasts are based upon $228m sales on 'new' platforms such as PS3, Wii, 360, PSP and DS, with current generation sales expected to come in at $105m.
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The installation of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC) 5.1 SP1 on Oracle T-series physical servers may fail due to a failure in module unload operations. As SF Oracle RAC 5.1 SP1 includes the VRTSdbac patch 145451-01, the patch installation also fails.
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A hybrid global optimization algorithm for non-linear least squares regression
A hybrid global optimization algorithm is proposed aimed at the class of objective functions with properties typical of the problems of non-linear least squares regression. Three components of hybridization are considered: simplicial partition of the feasible region, indicating and excluding vicinities of the main local minimizers from global search, and computing the indicated local minima by means of an efficient local descent algorithm. The performance of the algorithm is tested using a collection of non-linear least squares problems evaluated by other authors as difficult global optimization problems. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013
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The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros (Comorian: Udzima wa Komori,), is a sovereign archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the eastern coast of Africa between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar. Other countries near the Comoros are Tanzania to the northwest and the Seychelles to the northeast. Its capital is Moroni, on Grande Comore.
At , excluding the contested island of Mayotte, the Comoros is the third-smallest African nation by area. The population, excluding Mayotte, is estimated at 798,000. As a nation formed at a crossroads of many civilizations, the archipelago is noted for its diverse culture and history. The Union of the Comoros has three official languages – Comorian, Arabic and French – though French is the sole official language on Mayotte.
Officially, in addition to many smaller islands, the country consists of the four major islands in the volcanic Comoros archipelago: northwesternmost Grande Comore (Ngazidja); Mohéli (Mwali); Anjouan (Nzwani); and southeasternmost Mayotte (Maore). Mayotte, however, has never been administered by an independent Comoros government and continues to be administered by France (currently as an overseas department) as it was the only island in the archipelago that voted against independence in 1974. France has since vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions that would affirm Comorian sovereignty over the island. In addition, a referendum on the question of Mayotte becoming an overseas department of France in 2011 was held on 29 March 2009 and passed overwhelmingly.
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Anthrax, a disease caused by bacteria, kills wild animals around the world. To stop the pathogens from spreading, managers often try to keep scavengers such as jackals away from victims' carcasses — for example, by burning the bodies or draping tarpaulins over them.
But such efforts may be misguided, scientists say in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. According to their study, scavengers do little to increase the spread of the disease.
The team came to this conclusion after conducting an experiment in Etosha National Park, Namibia. The researchers found seven zebras and one wildebeest that had been killed by anthrax and placed electrified cages around four of the animals to keep scavengers away. Since the popular belief is that scavengers increase bacterial spore production by opening the carcasses, the team measured spores in the nearby soil.
The density of spores around the scavenged carcasses wasn't significantly higher than it was around the carcasses that were left alone, the study authors say. "We thus suggest that anthrax control measures aimed at deterring scavengers to prevent sporulation appear unwarranted," they write. — Roberta Kwok | 24 April 2013
Source: Bellan, S.E. et al. 2013. Effects of experimental exclusion of scavengers from anthrax-infected herbivore carcasses on Bacillus anthracis sporulation, survival and distribution. Applied and Environmental Microbiology doi: 10.1128/AEM.00181-13.
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Luiz: Sergio Aguero should apologize
David Luiz has urged Sergio Aguero to apologize for the incident during Sunday's FA Cup semifinal that left him with stud marks on his back.
Aguero scored City's winner in their 2-1 Wembley triumph But his second-half challenge on Luiz left a sour taste as he jumped on the Chelsea defender's back.
And while Luiz did not condemn Aguero, he did claim if the striker had done something wrong, he should be big enough to admit it.
"Aguero's a great player," Luiz said. "He needs to be honest with himself and say I don't like to do bad tackles.
"People are happy when Aguero scores goals and does good things in the game. Many kids see the game, watch the game and they want to see good things and not bad things.
"I didn't see it because I was on my back but I felt it a little bit. Sometimes in a game people have five seconds when they are angry and do things they don't like to do. I think it was that," he said. "I never saw Aguero do a bad tackle on other players. It was five seconds of anger and I forgive him."
The South American will not face retrospective action, the Football Association announced Monday.
Coming just 24 hours after the ugly scenes involving fighting Millwall supporters that scarred the other semifinal, it was a vision football could have done without.
However, Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez was more concerned about the penalty his side should have had after Vincent Kompany pulled back substitute Fernando Torres.
"For me, the main one is the penalty not given. The consequence could have been a red card and a penalty. It could change the game," he said. "Yes [they got it wrong]. It is something they have to clarify. I have seen the pictures. Kompany has the shirt."
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini said he had not seen the incident, even though it occurred right in front of his dugout.
"I need glasses," he said, sarcastically.
"If I saw I would say I saw. I don't know what he did but usually Aguero takes a lot of kicks from the defenders," he said. "The referee was there. There are six referees. If Sergio did something wrong ..."
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Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States
The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy implications. This chapter compares the role of central and local authorities in the US and the EU in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive emissions are relatively centralised in both political systems. In the cases of packaging waste and global climate change, regulatory policy-making is shared in the EU, but is primarily the responsibility of local governments in the US. Thus, in some important areas, regulatory policy-making is more centralised in the EU. The most important role local governments play in the regulatory process is to help diffuse stringent local standards through more centralised regulations, a dynamic which has become recently become more important in the EU than in the US.
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"Tiny perfect pumpkin tarts. A wonderful addition to your dainty tray.You will always find room for one of theses mini pumkin pies. An old favorite recipe."
Petite Pumpkin Toffee Tarts
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READY IN:35mins
YIELD:36 tarts
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- 2 (255 g) packages frozen mini tart shells (about 36)
- 3 (39 g) Skor candy bars
- 1 cup unsweetened pumpkin puree
- 1⁄3 cup lightly packed brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup whipping cream
- 2 eggs
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice (you can sub 1/4 teaspoon each ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg for the pie spice)
- 36 pecan halves
- Arrange oven racks in top and bottom thirds of oven.
- preheat oven to 375°F.
- Place tart shells on 2 large baking sheet leaving a bit of space between them.
- thaw at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile finely chop skor bars and place a teaspoon into each shell.
- In medium bowl, whisk pumpkin with sugar,eggs,vanilla and pie spice until blended.
- Fill shells nearly to the top and place a peacan half on each.
- Bake sheets on separate racks. Rotate baking sheets between racks after 10 minutes.Then continue baking until filling is set about 10 minutes more.
- Serve warm or cool .
- If making ahead store in an airtight container in the fridge. They will keep well for 2 days or freeze up to 3 months.
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was a municipality in Japan and part of Tokyo-fu which existed from 1 May 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on 1 July 1943. The historical boundaries of Tokyo City are now occupied by the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo. The new merged government became what is now Tokyo, also known as the Tokyo Metropolis, or, ambiguously, Tokyo Prefecture.
In 1868, the medieval city of Edo, seat of the Tokugawa government, was renamed Tokyo, and the offices of Tokyo Prefecture (-fu) were opened.[1] The extent of Tokyo Prefecture was initially limited to the former Edo city, but rapidly augmented to be comparable with the present Tokyo Metropolis. In 1878, the Meiji government's reorganization of local governments subdivided prefectures into counties or districts (gun, further subdivided into towns and villages, later reorganized similar to Prussian districts) and districts or wards (ku) which were in ordinary prefectures cities as a whole, e.g. today's Hiroshima City (-shi) was then Hiroshima-ku; the three major cities of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto were each subdivided into several such wards. In Tokyo Prefecture, this created 15 wards (listed below) and six counties/districts.
In 1888, the central government created the legal framework for the current system of cities (shi) that granted some basic local autonomy rights – with some similarities to Prussia's system of local self-government as Meiji government advisor Albert Mosse heavily influenced the organization of local government. But under a special imperial regulation, Tokyo City, like Kyoto City and Osaka City, initially did not maintain a separate mayor; instead, the (appointed) governor of Tokyo Prefecture served as mayor of Tokyo City. The Tokyo city council/assembly (Tōkyō-shikai) was first elected in May 1889.[2] Each ward also retained its own assembly. City and prefectural government were separated in 1898.,[2] and the government began to appoint a separate mayor of Tokyo City in 1898, but retained ward-level legislation, which continues to this day in the special ward system. From 1926, the mayor was elected by the elected city council/assembly from its own ranks. The city hall of Tokyo was located in the Yūrakuchō district, on a site now occupied by the Tokyo International Forum.
Tokyo became the second-largest city in the world (population 4.9 million) upon absorbing several outlying districts in July 1932, giving the city a total of 35 wards.[1]
In 1943, the city was abolished and merged with Tokyo Prefecture to form the Tokyo Metropolitan Government,[1] which was functionally a part of the central government of Japan: the governor of Tokyo became a Cabinet minister reporting directly to the Prime Minister. This system remained in place until 1947 when the current structure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government was formed.[1]
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Can even the dregs of the hyper-competitive AL East draw plausible comparisons to a World Series winner?
Just how good was the American League East in 2010? The New York Yankees and their $213 million payroll had to settle for second place, and the third place Boston Red Sox would have finished a spot higher in three of the other divisions—and that was just what their backups and still-green minor leaguers were able to accomplish filling in for the actual team that spent most of the season on the disabled list. Three of the top four (and four of the top seven) teams in Jay Jaffe's final Hit List of 2010 hailed from the AL East, and the second-best record of the last two months by any team in the AL came from the last-place Baltimore Orioles, who went 34-23 under new manager Buck Showalter.
How good will the American League East be in 2011? Those cellar-dwelling Orioles may be as good as a World Series winner. That is not a joke—the Orioles, who are likely to finish in last place in the East regardless of the quality of their team due to the four clubs in front of them, still project to put a quality roster on the field, one that puts them on par with a past World Champion: the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals.


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That was a great interview..
Gotta love Big Roy
"They want to be famous. We want to be champions. They want to be rappers and backup dancers. We want to play football." - T.J. Ward, Denver Broncos
Roy's the kind of guy you want your kids to look up to.
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No, no. That's what Tyler DOES. I'm the one who SAID it.
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It's somewhat ironic that a lingerie store wants to get even closer to its customers. But Victoria's Secret is doing just that with a new E-mail marketing strategy that integrates offline promotions with online customer contact.
The company is using a hosted E-mail marketing package from Digital Impact Inc. Victoria's Secret segments its audience demographically and delivers specific messages, while refining the strategy throughout a campaign. The retailer then times its catalog distribution with the E-mails. "Our goal is to provide the same message to the same customer at the same time," says Ken Weil, VP of new media at Victoria's Secret. For instance, a customer whose purchase history indicates a preference in swimwear will receive an E-mail promoting a swimsuit sale and will get the most recent swimwear catalog.
Victoria's Secret has used E-mail marketing since 1998 and has a distribution list of 4.5 million subscribers. It signed with Digital Impact in October, a partnership the companies revealed this month. With Digital Impact, Victoria's Secret can do its own campaign management, analysis, and creative content; Digital Impact manages distribution and tracks results.
That setup is key for marketers who want to alleviate stress on internal IT systems but still monitor and analyze results in-house, Forrester Research analyst Shar Van Boskirk says. Outsourced E-mail distribution, which lets marketers focus on strategy, generates a purchase rate of about 6%, while nonoutsourced E-mail distribution, in which the marketer needs to interact more continually with internal IT partners, generates a 1.4% purchase rate, Boskirk says.
Digital Impact lets Victoria's Secret test the response rate of various E-mail formats, including rich text, HTML, and text. The company's previous outsourcer wasn't able do this, Weil says. "Clearly, HTML has the best response rate, especially for us since we're such a visual brand."
Victoria's Secret looks for the types of promotions most likely to generate sales. It can separate customers into segments and can run two test campaigns for each group to see which has the best response rate. "We track everything from open rate to click-through rate to pur-chase," Weil says. "It's all about the ROI and profitability. We're looking for that sale."


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Love Is All You Need
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A Danish woman, Ida (Trine Dyrholm), who has just finished her cancer treatments, walks in on her suffering husband in bed with his young co-worker. She travels alone to their daughter's wedding, which is to take place in Italy, but meets the father of the groom, Philip (Pierce Brosnan), and immediately makes a bad first impression. At the seaside villa where Philip once lived with his wife, conflicts arise not least between the soon-to-be newlyweds. But first impressions fade, and Ida may find her chance for another life.
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The following are the episodes scheduled to air the week of June 30 -July 4 (subject to change):
Monday, June 30: Actress Melissa McCarthy ("Tammy"); Actor Marc Maron ("MARON"); Musical guest Royksopp & Robyn
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There was never a parish of Southall; it was part of the parish of Norwood, which itself was historically a chapelry of the parish of Hayes.
In 1894 the Southall-Norwood Urban District was created, containing just the one parish of Norwood, but named to reflect the fact that Southall was increasingly the main settlement in the parish. In 1936 the Urban District was incorporated as a Municipal Borough, and changed its name simply to Southall. Southall Municipal Borough was abolished in 1965, becoming part of the London Borough of Ealing.
Southall is a large suburban district of west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Ealing. It is situated west of Charing Cross. Neighbouring places include Yeading, Hayes, Hanwell, Heston, Hounslow, Greenford and Northolt. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Southall is located on the Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) which first linked London with the rest of the growing canal system. It was one of the last canals to carry significant commercial traffic (through the 1950s) and is still open to traffic and is used by pleasure craft.
The town has one of the largest concentrations of South Asian people outside of the Indian sub-continent and is especially known for its concentration of Punjabis.
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There are various system setup requirements for testing a distribution, which are not LSB requirements. While we try to keep such additional requirements to a minimum, we do still require a few things to be able to thoroughly test the LSB required interfaces in a meaningful fashion.
For instructions on installing and running the tests, please see these instructions from ISPRAS.
System resource requirements
The distribution test suite has grown in size considerably since LSB 3.1. Currently, a full install of the distribution tests under /opt/lsb/test takes about 1.2Gb. Application battery packages will add to this, and multiple runs under dtk-manager will accumulate test data rather quickly. Free space of 3-5Gb is probably a reasonable expectation for the system under test before starting LSB testing.
In addition, at this time, lsb-test-olver-core may require about 512Mb of system memory (with an X server and a contemporary desktop running), as well as 2Gb of free disk space to complete a test run.
Starting distribution checker from rc.local
Some distributions (particularly those running systemd) need to have the TERM environment variable defined if you want to start dist-checker from rc.local.
TERM=linux /opt/lsb/test/manager/bin/dist-checker-start.pl
Distribution packages that may be required for successful testing
- wget is used to retrieve packages and test code, it should be installed on the system under test
- lsb-test-perl - perl-devel (libperl-dev, provides libperls.so), perl-Test-Harness, perl-Test-Simple (may also include Test::More, Test::Builder), perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker (Fedora seems to split these off)
- lsb-test-olver-core - perl-XML-Parser, perl-XML-SAX (aka libxml-parser-perl, libxml-sax-perl)
- Note: on one platform I found I specifically need to remove perl-XML-Parser and install only perl-XML-SAX (and it's deps).
- lsb-test-desktop - qt4-database-plugin-sqlite-lib or libqt4-sql-sqlite or equivalent (provides libqsqlite.so)
- lsb-test-azov-qt3 - libqt3-mt-sqlite or qt3-sqlite or equivalent (provides libqsqlite.so)
- lsb-test-azov-qt4 - libqt4-sql or equivalent, abattis-cantarell-fonts (Fedora, see bug 3423)
The system should have a network subsystem enabled and at least be able to resolve it's own hostname and localhost.
Some tests use specific ports (5000 for example). You should have a minumum of network services running on the system under test. Sshd on the standard port should not cause any conflicts.
If the system under test is running a security system such as selinux, it is quite possible that several tests may fail, attempting operations that the security system blocks. LSB currently does not directly address such addons and it is recommended that you disable or relax the security settings for the purpose of testing.
One might see a large number of locale related failures, particularly with lsb-test-libstdcpp (also xts5). The tests need a number of locales setup that may not be part of a standard install.
We have also discovered that certain tests are sensitive to the system locale setting. Until these issues in the tests are corrected, we suggest running the tests on a system setup for a en_US locale.
- Ubuntu: locale-gen de_DE de_DE@euro en_HK en_PH en_US en_US.ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 es_ES es_MX fr_FR fr_FR@euro is_IS is_IS.UTF-8 it_IT ja_JP.EUC-JP se_NO ta_IN zh_TW (does not seem to accept en_US.ISO-8859-1?)
- Note: this does not seem to work for me on 9.04 (jaunty). If I run locale-gen with the list, it returns immediately, apparently doing nothing. If I append the list suggested for locale.gen in Debian from the gcc url below to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local and run locale-gen with no arguments, then things seem to work, reducing libstdcpp-test failures to only 4.
- Debian: dpkg-reconfigure locales (select all-locales or it_IT en_US de_DE en_HK de_DE@euro es_MX fr_FR en_PH fr_FR@euro...(all of the above list under Ubuntu))
- Many rpm based systems: install locales-de, locales-en, locales-es, locales-fr, locales-is, locales-it, locales-ja, locales-se, locales-ta, locales-zh
- Note: On Mandriva, even with the above locales installed, I still had to (which dropped me to 2 FAILS for lsb-test-libstdcpp):
localedef -i en_US -f ISO-8859-15 en_US.ISO-8859-15
- Red Hat derivatives:
- Make sure you have a copy of the glibc-common rpm available (2.5-34 in this example).
export LC_ALL=C rpm -e glibc-common --nodeps rpm -i --define "_install_langs all" /home/stew/glibc-common-2.5-34.i386.rpm
See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/build.html#build.prereq for other suggestions in setting up locales.
You may also need whatever distribution package that provides the X11 locales (for instance /usr/share/X11/locales/*). Chances are it's installed, but I have run into an install where it wasn't an got unusual failures.
ref: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2632
File System Mounting Issues
Some tests may be susceptible to mount options of the / or /opt filesystems. There have been issues in the past with "noatime" or "relatime", but as this has become fairly standard practice, tests that check for atime changes have been disabled. Some runs on recent distributions have exposed a new issue with the "user_xattr" option though. System under test had "/" mounted as"
UUID=9ca46236-5776-11de-a1dd-1f59e14669e7 / ext3 relatime,user_xattr,acl 1 1
Test results:
/tset/POSIX.os/procenv/times/T.times 3 FAIL tms_utime (as returned by times()) does not seem to change observed current time: 0, observed past time: 0
Changing the mount options to:
UUID=9ca46236-5776-11de-a1dd-1f59e14669e7 / ext3 relatime,nouser_xattr,acl 1 1
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Largo voters to listen to six candidates pitches at forum
By JIM HARRINGTON
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LARGO Voters will get a chance to hear out the candidates for the March 1 election at three forums in the city, one of which is sponsored by Royal Palms Retirement Community and is being coordinated by Tampa Bay Newspapers, the publisher of the
Largo Leader
A 90-minute forum has been scheduled for the Palms at 200 Lake Ave. N.E. on Monday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m.
It will be moderated by Sue Osborne, the sales manager of the newspaper. Tom Germond, the papers executive editor and Jim Harrington, the
editor, will ask the candidates questions. The candidates will not be provided any questions before the forum, said Germond.
John Watkins, the facilitys director of community connections, said the forum is set for a second floor loft, which holds about 60 people. Refreshments will be served.
This is just one opportunity for the candidates to express their viewpoints. The Largo Mid-Pinellas Chamber of Commerce and the Largo Civic Association also plan to hold debates for the six candidates.
Commissioner Pat Burke is not seeking re-election for Seat one, which is sought by Gigi Arntzen, Mary Gray Black, a former commissioner, and Joshua Lindsey. Commissioner Charlie Harper will face Rodney Woods, who would be the first black citizen to hold a seat on the commission, and Andrew Guyette.
Woods has been a proponent of the failed human rights ordinance, which would have extended protection to racial minorities and homosexual and transgendered persons. Harper, who originally sponsored the ordinance, but later voted against it because he didnt feel the staff fully explained certain parts of it well enough, was the subject of an investigation into allegedly making inappropriate comments to an employee at City Hall. Harper was apparently cleared of any wrongdoing, but due to a part of Florida law that shields alleged victims of employment violations, nobody can talk about it, according to Alan Zimmet, the citys attorney.
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Latinos, Immigration Play Big Part in Second Obama-Romney Debate
Watching the debate last night, you'd think that Latinos (and not, as conventional wisdom would have it, Ohioans) are going to swing this thing.
The issue aimed at the Latino vote, of course, was immigration. Because that's all us brown folk think about -- getting other brown folk across that border, legally or not.
Anyway, Republican nominee Mitt Romney was right to rake Obama over the coals for his slow action on "comprehensive immigration reform:"
The president promised that he'd get the kind of immigration reform long touted by a pro-immigrant President Bush passed. He didn't.
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Obama did institute a program whereby people who came here illegally as children, through no fault of their own, could obtain limited work permits.
But in terms of reform, Romney charged this:
He didn't do it. He had a Democrat House, a Democrat Senate -- a majority of both houses.
For his part, Obama blamed obstructionists in Congress, saying:
I sat down with Democrats and Republicans at the beginning of my term and said let's fix this system. ... It's very hard for Republicans in Congress to support comprehensive immigration reform.
Later, he said, "I can deliver, Governor, a whole bunch of Democrats" to pass immigration reform -- if only Romney's Republican pals would play ball.
It's kind of true that Republicans have been fairly anti-immigrant, particularly during their primaries, and it's a little disingenuous of Romney to turn around and point the finger at the president knowing full well his friends in Congress wouldn't touch immigration reform with a 10-foot churro.
Then again, a promise is a promise.
Obama, meanwhile, struck at Romney's famous quote that illegal immigrants should "self-deport."
His main strategy during the Republican primary was to say we're going to encourage self-deportation -- making life so miserable on folks that they'll leave.
Ay, dios mio.
Romney, who noted that his father was born in Mexico, tried to explain himself by saying, "We're not going to round up 12 million [undocumented] people. .. Let them make their own choice."
Um. Yeah. We're guessing they're going to choose to stay near the Walmart and the EZ financing and the big white ladies.
Romney said, "I will not grant amnesty to those who came here illegally" (though he later made an exception for the same kinds of folks, those who came here as children, who can now benefit from Obama's work-permit program).
Romney also splashed some cold water on something that's already happening in California. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a law that will allow those job-permit program participants -- otherwise known as undocumenteds -- to obtain driver's licenses.
I would not give driver's licenses to those who came here illegally, as the president would.
Even if Romney's elected, that won't be his choice.
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Piper thrilled to be back at another WrestleMania; Rourke disappoints
HOUSTON -- "Rowdy"
But here he is, walking around the Reliant Center, once again ready to step inside the ring at WrestleMania for a match. The mere thought of it nearly causes him to well up.
"I didn't believe it would last this long," said Piper, who wrestled
Back then, WWE chairman
"I got towed into this room for a meet-and-greet before the first WrestleMania and I was trying to get to my dressing room," Piper recalled. "
That Piper, 54, is even able to lace up his boots one more time seems like a minor miracle after everything he's been through since the first WrestleMania, including overcoming cancer two years ago. Listening to Piper talk about his need to step into the ring one last time almost sounds like a cross between Rocky Balboa and Randy "The Ram" Robinson.
"No matter how I feel, its time for me to go out there and let people know why I'm Roddy Piper, to let it go," Piper said before the match. "This WrestleMania XXV is really important because this is the last one for me. It's so big. I'm going to give you my heart no matter how I feel, I'm going to give everything I got, I don't care if I get hurt. This one is worth it.
"I remember being in Houston when I was 15. [Former wrestler]
"Two years ago, I had a meeting with Vince [McMahon] close to WrestleMania and I said, 'Vince, I've been here since 1993 and I've never even wrestled on a WrestleMania,' " Lawler said. "He looked at me surprised and said, 'That's a travesty.' He said, 'We could rush something this year, but this is something big, the King having his first match ever at WrestleMania. Next year, I promise we're going to do something big.' Well, that was two years ago."
Lawler figured he would have been in the Jericho match because so many legends were wedged into that angle, but he was once again left out. Lawler is beginning to doubt that he'll ever be given a chance to experience WrestleMania from anywhere besides the broadcast table.
"I keep thinking any minute, boy, one of these nights we're going to be announcing what kind of big match we're going to be in," Lawler said. "And the next thing you know, WrestleMania comes and goes again and no match for me."
Rourke's appearance Sunday may have been one of the worst executed in WrestleMania history. Not only were WWE staffers fretting over Rourke's availability, unsure if he'd actually be doing anything until Saturday night, but when he did actually step in the ring, most in attendance wished he had simply stayed home.
After Jericho had beaten up Piper, Snuka, Steamboat and Flair, Rourke came into the ring and grazed him with an awkward left hook that "knocked out" Jericho.
Afterward, the "Mouth of the South,"


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After falling nearly $100 per head over a matter of a couple of weeks, cattle feeding margins increased more than $60 per head last week to just over $200 per head, according to the Sterling Beef Profit Tracker. While less than last month's $222 per head, feeders are earning nearly $160 more per head than they were last year at this time when margins were about $40.
For the week ending October 4, fed cattle prices averaged more than $2 per hundredweight higher and flirted once again with $160 at $159.98 compared to $157.51 per hundredweight the previous week. In early September, fed cattle averaged $161.31 per hundredweight. Feeder steers were also up last week, finishing the week at $237.17, compared to $232.53 per hundredweight the previous week. Likewise, the breakeven price for last week's feedlot placements was calculated at $173.13 per hundredweight, up from $170.23 the previous week.
Packer margins, on the other hand, continued to slide last week. Packers lost $59.38 per head last week, compared to $38.95 the previous week. At this time last month, packers were earning $30.46 per head; however, in early October 2013, they were losing nearly $66 per head. The beef cutout value dropped another dollar last week to $235.48.
The Sterling Profit Tracker cow-calf margin was updated recently for 2014 and 2015, with 2014 at $527.25 per cow and 2015 at $687.75 per cow. In 2013, cow calf margins were $243.05 per cow and $213.63 per cow in 2012.
Farrow-to-finish margins continued increasing last week, finishing the week at $63.06 per head, compared to $60.84 per head the previous week, according to the Sterling Pork Profit Tracker. In early October 2013, pork packers were earning just $4.57 per head.
Lean hogs inched higher, finishing the week ending October 3 at $110.19, compared to 109.43. Lower feed costs have been a positive for the livestock industry in recent months, and for hog producers, feed costs for last week's finish placements were as low as they have been since October 2007 at $59.95 per head. Over the past month, feed costs have fallen from more than $87 per head.
Pork packer margins also improved, reaching $18.76 last week compared to $10.69 the previous week. The pork cutout value finished the week at $122.13 per hundredweight, compared to $117.48 the previous week.
The Sterling Beef Profit Tracker for the week ending October 4:
- Average feeder margins: $200.41 per head
- Average beef packer margins: -$59.38 per head
The Sterling Pork Profit Tracker for the week ending October 3:
- Average farrow-to-finish margins: $63.06 per head.
- Average pork packer margins: $18.76 per head.
The Sterling Beef and Pork Profit Trackers are produced by Sterling Marketing Inc. and John Nalivka, president, Vale, Ore., and are published weekly by Drovers/CattleNetwork, and PorkNetwork.


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Sea View Hotel Antalya Coast, Situated on the seafront of Kas with a private sun terrace and a jetty, Sea View Hotel offers stunning sea views, tastefully decorated accommodation with modern amenities and free Wi-Fi available throughout the premises. Town centre of Kas is 300 metres away. Guests can benefit from the concierge desk. The rooms and suites at Hotel Sea View feature air conditioning, a minibar and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. A safety deposit box is standard in each unit. Some also come with a balcony offering sea views. Daily breakfast is served at Panaroma Restaurant with a terrace overlooking the sea. The a-la-carte restaurant offers Mediterranean dishes by the sea. You can enjoy a refreshing drink from the lobby bar. Around-the-clock room service is also available. An array of activities can be enjoyed in the vicinity including, canoeing, diving and snorkelling. The front desk service is provided 24 hours a day. Dalaman Airport is 160 km away and Antalya Airport is within 200 km. Airport shuttle services are arranged at a surcharge. (Sea View Hotel Antalya Coast hotels booking).


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U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) issued the following statement on President-Elect Barack Obama's announcement of his national security team:
"The national security team President-Elect Obama has assembled is a serious, experienced and widely respected group of leaders. They are all seasoned professionals.
"This team gives President-Elect Obama a strong foundation to build a new bipartisan consensus for America's foreign policy that will be required to confront the enormous 21st Century challenges facing America and the world. I congratulate President-Elect Obama and Vice President-Elect Biden for assembling such an impressive team of strong and capable leaders," Hagel said.
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Join us on March 29 at the WRAL studio in Raleigh for the Cut Your Grocery Bills in Half class. This is the full workshop with tons of information, door prizes and freebies! It is also a food drive for the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina! I hope you can join us! Here are the details for the class:
How to Cut Your Grocery Bills in Half workshop at WRAL
Date: March 29, 2014
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Fee: $10 per person
Location: WRAL Studio, 2619 Western Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27606
Registration: Click HERE to register online.
Please bring a can or two to donate to the Food Bank of Eastern and Central North Carolina! Everyone who brings a donation gets an extra door prize entry!
This is the full workshop where we cover grocery stores, drug stores and meal planning. Childcare not provided.
Workshop Description:
Discover how to cut your grocery bills in half using the techniques that have saved our family thousands of dollars a year! You will learn to use coupons and many other effective skills to ensure you never pay full price for groceries again!
The class will show you how to:
* Buy free and almost free products your family already uses
* Effectively use coupons for items you already buy
* Understand store coupon policies for local grocery and drug stores
* Understand best prices for meat, produce, dairy and more and how to find those low prices
* Locate coupons for the items you use
* Organize your coupons most effectively
* Decipher the drug store reward programs
* Develop an easy to follow weekly meal plan your whole family will love
Class includes course handout, freebies, door prizes and lots of fun! Most participants EASILY save the cost of the workshop and more during their first grocery trip using the Smart Spending System. This workshop will change the way you shop and teach you to save more than you ever imagined!
Additional 2014 couponing workshops:
March 1, 2014
Cut Your Grocery Bills in Half Class, Goldsboro, NC
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Cost: FREE and sponsored by the Wayne County Public Library in Goldsboro!
Location: Wayne County Public Library in Goldsboro
Register: Call the library at 919-735-1824 and ask to be transferred to the Reference Department (or press line 3) and they will add your name to the registration list
March 13, 2014
Sanford Business and Professional Women's annual luncheon (open to the public)
Time: Doors open at 11:30 am. I'll be speaking from about 11:45 am - 1:00 pm.
Cost: $12 (includes catered lunch)
Location: McSwain Extension Education and Agriculture Center, 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford, NC 27332-9174
Registration: Click HERE to register on the Sanford Business and Professional Women's website.
April 25 and 26, 2014
Southern Women's Show at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh
I'll be teaching couponing classes on Friday and Saturday of the show this year. The class times will be available in April. We will also be giving away tickets to the show here on the blog starting in March!
May 10, 2014
Cut Your Grocery Bills in Half Class at the WRAL-TV studio in Raleigh
Time: 10:00 am - 1:15 pm
Cost: $10.00 per person and please bring one or more non-perishable items to donate to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Everyone who brings a donation will receive an extra door prize entry!
Location: WRAL-TV, 2619 Western Blvd, Raleigh, NC 27606
Registration details will be available in March
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Syrian rebels clashed with regime troops in the narrow stone alleyways around a historic 12th-century mosque in the Old City of Aleppo on Thursday, while a government airstrike north of the city killed at least seven people, activists said.
The rebels, who have been slowly chipping away at the regime's hold on Aleppo, received a boost from the U.S. in their fight to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Washington pledged an additional $60 million in assistance to the opposition and - in a significant policy shift - said for the first time that it will provide non-lethal aid like food and medical supplies directly to rebel forces on the ground.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the decision Thursday on the sidelines of an international conference on Syria in Rome. European nations also were expected to signal their intention to provide fresh assistance to the opposition, possibly including defensive military hardware.
The rebels have made a number of strategic gains in northern Syria in recent weeks, including the capture of a hydroelectric dam and some military bases. They also have been hitting the heart of Damascus with mortar rounds regularly, puncturing the aura of normalcy that the regime has tried to cultivate in the capital.
In Aleppo, a key battleground in the civil war, clashes raged around the landmark Umayyad Mosque in the walled Old City, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The rebels control one part of the mosque, and government troops hold the other.
Rebels launched an offensive on Aleppo, Syria's largest urban center and its commercial capital, in July 2012. Since then, the city has been carved into rebel- and government-controlled zones in brutal street fighting that has destroyed entire neighborhoods and damaged some of the ancient city's rich archaeological and cultural heritage.
The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Aleppo, sits near a medieval covered market in the Old City, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The mosque was heavily damaged in October 2012 just weeks after a fire gutted the old city's famed market.
North of Aleppo, a government airstrike on the village of Deir Jamal killed at least seven people, including five children, according to the observatory. It was not immediately clear what the target was, but regime warplanes frequently carry out bombing runs on rebel-held towns.
Farther south, in the central city of Homs, the state news agency said a car bomb caused casualties and extensive damage, but it did not elaborate.
An official in the Homs governor's office told The Associated Press that there were two blasts and that four people were killed and at least six wounded.
With the bloodshed showing no sign of abating, the Syrian opposition has grown increasingly frustrated with what it sees as the international community's apathy toward the suffering on the ground.


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At Mbuzi Mawe Serena Camp we appreciate the importance of quality family time. We are also committed to ensuring that you can relax, secure in the knowledge that your children are having as great a holiday as you are. With this in mind we offer a wide range of family-friendly accommodation options; children's dining; baby-sitting, and plenty of adventure, sports and educational entertainment for children of all ages.
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I have been showing you some of the finishes from challenges I have hosted on the HGTV Quilting and Needlework Forum. Tomorrow, I will show you what started it all by posting photos of the first Dare To Be Ugly Challenge.
The following hilarious write up is what one of the contestants had to say about the fabric. I hope that it makes you giggle and puts a skip in your step this morning!
Penny missed her calling! She should have been a writer! I have linked her name to her blog so you can go check her out!
(copied and pasted straight from her blog with permission)
Dare to Be Ugly
Ta Da!!
Now, don't get me wrong. I really like cats. But I don't consider myself to be a "cat" person although I fully intend to get a cat when we get back home to Oklahoma. A barn cat.
I read somewhere that dog people who buy fabric with dogs on it are very specific about wanting dogs that look like THEIR dogs. I haven't found any Samoyed fabric but that would be abundantly cool. Cat people, so the theory goes, will settle for any old picture of a cat. Which may explain this fabric and why some people think it is cute. Oh gag me.
But I digress. Truth be told, even if I was a dyed in the wool cat person, I would still think it is ugly. Can I get an Amen?
In the first place, I don't like directional fabric.
In the second place, most of the cats have their eyes covered with sunglasses or stars or something.
I think that is creepy. It is like they are on drugs or something. And if you look at the ones with eyes that show, their pupils are just dots which furthers my theory that this is a fabric with stoned cats on it. I say, "SAY NO TO DRUGS!" It is a little hard for me to get behind using fabric that promotes illicit drug use (or prescription drug abuse).
If illicit drug use/prescription drug abuse was all this fabric was pushing, I might be able to overlook it. But seriously, it even looks like they packaged it for little kids and called it Nip Nap.
That is just wrong.
And I am fairly certain that at least one of the cats on the fabric is a pimp. I mean, just look at him:
Look how he is pocketing all the hard earned money he grafted from his stable.
And that guy behind him with the scarf and the shoes? There is something seriously twisted about him. He looks like a pickpocket and while I don't condone thievery, I can't say as I'd lose much sleep over the pimp getting ripped off.
Look at her – if that isn't a madam, I'll eat my hat.
And look at that shameless hussy admiring her sin laden self in the mirror.
If you aren't convinced this is an assault on the morality of quilters everywhere, look at this guy:
K*tty p*rn if I ever saw it. (asterisks added to keep p*rverts from searching and finding my blog - I'M WAY AHEAD OF YA, BUBBA!!).
It gets worse and worse.
So I tell myself that I am being too negative and there is bound to be something I like about this fabric.
Well, I am glad there isn't a whole yard of it.
Upon reflection, I also like the colors. I like red, white and black (RWB) and had been planning to do a project with those colors in it for a long time. I hadn't planned to use something like THIS for it, however. Do I want to "waste" my dream of a RWB quilt on this fabric?
Okay, so I go grab up my tenderly hoarded RWB stash and stand there stunned.
The Ugly fabric isn't red. It is Orange.
ORANGE!! As if I have orange in my stash. Now I have to go buy orange fabric. And DON'T assume that orange fabric next to it in the picture is part of the project. I honestly am just using it in this picture to show you that it really is orange and not red.
Now, if you are from Oklahoma and an Oklahoma State Cowboys fan, things would be looking up. Their colors are orange and black. And in fact, my son-in-law graduated from OSU. That being said, I don't see using this fabric to make him something. I love my SIL. He is good to my daughter. I can't saddle him with this just because of his tawdry OSU past.
We aren't supposed to talk about our design ahead of time so I will stop now other than to confess that I am well on the road to completion (I had to do something over the weekend when the internet was down - heaven forbid I might actually SEW). Here is all the nasty stuff I have left:
Let me just say that all those smug cat people who think they have a leg up in the Dare to Be Ugly Challenge just because they think this rag is cute – look out! These cats may be cute to you but the mentally healthy among us recognize ugly when they see it. And will design accordingly!!