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Simon Cowell splits from girlfriend Terri Seymour
Simon Cowell is reported to have split from his model girlfriend Terri Seymour. The couple had been together for over six-years but it seems that the music mogul's reluctance to start a family brought an end to their relationship.
Cowell, the man behind both American Idol and the X Factor, recently came top in a poll of men that women most fantasise about, so he shouldn't have too much trouble finding a new squeeze.
The multi-millionaire recently attended the National TV Awards in London with his ex-girlfriend Sinitta but the two insist that they are just good friends.


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Summer Fun in the PNW
June 23, 2017
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A goal every summer is to make it better than the last. This is no easy feat especially if money is a limiting factor, but for those living in the PNW an inexpensive and memorable summer is easier than you think. From hiking, to walking around in the city, abandoned buildings and outdoor movies, there are endless things to do. This article is a short little list of things to do if you happen to run out of ideas and you're restricted by money.
Top 3 hikes in Washington:
Rattle snake Ledge is a 2.2 mile hike round trip that elevates up to 3,481 feet above sea level. This hike is really short, but a bit ridged and uphill. It has an amazing view of the mountains and afterwards you can take a dip in the lake at the bottom. (North Bend, Washington)
Franklin Falls is a bigger hike, at 2 miles round trip it takes around an hour and a half to complete. The falls is gorgeous and great for pictures. (South Fork Snoqualmie River)
Heybrook Lookout is a short yet steep hike at 2 miles, with an elevation of 2,023 feet above sea level. This hike is a perfect spot to see a gorgeous sunrise or sunset. (Snohomish, Washington)
Top 2 City stops:
Every few weeks the Seattle Art Museum http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/ hosts a new exhibit, so there is always something new to see. Student admission is $12.95 and if you park in their lot before 11 a.m. its $8 for the whole day.
Pike Place http://pikeplacemarket.org/ stretches across 9 acres, holds 240 small businesses and about 70 restaurants/takeout stalls. Pike Place is perfect for walking around and taking pictures or finding unique and different knick-knacks all around. Odds are you'll find at least one store you will love and possible pick up a flower or two.
The great thing about living in Washington are all the possibilities are endless. You could hike one day and get all dressed up and go out to the city the next night.

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I do not think it matters when you take in your calories, I think we discussed that here or elsewhere.
However, I have seen results of blood tests they did on a bunch of athletes. They sent them out on a max. 90 minutes ride before breakfast and they saw an increase in free fatty acids in the blood i.e. fat was being used. A cup of coffee (make that black, no starbucks junk in there) increased the effect.
More than 90 minutes and you run into trouble.
I have a feeling most of us hobby riders (myself included) have the tendency to overcompensate for what we burn. I have caught myself snacking probably more than necessary before exercise so I don't bonk .


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Gorillas of the African Forest
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Completed: January, 2015
Project Descrption:
The adventure begins as guests enter the African Forest, trekking down a path that emerges into a village trading outpost. Guests are immersed in a lush African Forest as they explore the small, round huts that surround a fire pit. Exploring deeper into this sprawling African landscape, guests will have a chance to experience some of the remarkable creatures found in the Congo Basin, such as gorillas, chimpanzees, white rhinos, kudu, antelope, ostriches, giraffes and cheetahs.
Project Scope:
The Nassal Company created a one of a kind Gorilla exhibit with enormous fallen deadfall shotcrete trees with structural steel on the interior which create a bridge for the Gorillas to pass over the muddy shotcrete ravine where Red River Hogs play about. Nassal formed massive shotcrete mudbank containment walls, stone sheer walls with cascading waterfalls and realistic vines, along with shotcrete trees in the interior play room with supportive hemp swinging vines. The General Contractor on the project was W.S. Bellows, and project designer was The Portico Group.


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The Model - Warehouse Traxx, Pt. 5
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Not all dance-floors are created equal. Some of them challenge the status-quo and require a certain kind of music. Introducing The Model's brand new Warehouse Traxx Pt.5 record - high-precision slamming beats. Crossing genres, with a great chance to become a modern classic.
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February 3, 2010 (JOLIET, Ill.) --A friend testified Wednesday that Kathleen Savio was so afraid of her ex-husband Drew Peterson she put a deadbolt on her bedroom door.Peterson is the former Bolingbrook police officer charged with killing Savio.
At a pre-trial hearing, Kristin Anderson said that Savio also kept a kitchen knife under her mattress. Anderson and her family lived in Savio's house for a couple of months in 2003.
Anderson also testified about an incident in which Peterson reportedly put a knife to Savio's throat and threatened to kill her.
Anderson said she contacted Illinois State Police after Savio's death but they never responded.
The pre-trial hearing will determine what hearsay evidence can be used in Peterson's murder trial.


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Research Associate Professor, ISR and JPSM University of Maryland
Brady T. West is a Research Associate Professor in the Survey Methodology Program, located within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research on the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) campus. He earned his PhD from the Michigan Program in Survey Methodology in 2011. Before that, he received an MA in Applied Statistics from the U-M Statistics Department in 2002, being recognized as an Outstanding First-year Applied Masters student, and a BS in Statistics with Highest Honors and Highest Distinction from the U-M Statistics Department in 2001. His current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer effects, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of a book comparing different statistical software packages in terms of their mixed-effects modeling procedures (Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Second Edition, Chapman Hall/CRC Press, 2014), and he is a co-author of a second book entitled Applied Survey Data Analysis (with Steven Heeringa and Pat Berglund), the second edition of which was published by Chapman Hill in June 2017. Brady lives in Dexter, MI with his wife Laura, his son Carter, his daughter Everleigh, and his American Cocker Spaniel Bailey.
Selected Publications:
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West, B.T., Conrad, F.G., Kreuter, F., and Mittereder, F*. (In Press). Nonresponse and Measurement Error Variance among Interviewers in Standardized and Conversational Interviewing. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.
West, B.T. and Li, D.* (In Press). Sources of Variance in the Accuracy of Interviewer Observations. Sociological Methods and Research.
Heeringa, S.G., West, B.T., and Berglund, P.A. (2017). Applied Survey Data Analysis, Second Edition. Chapman Hall / CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.
Biemer, P.P, Eckman, S., Edwards, B., Lyberg, L., Tucker, C., de Leeuw, E., Kreuter, F., and West, B.T. (Editors). (2017). Total Survey Error in Practice. Wiley.
West, B.T., Conrad, F.G., Kreuter, F., and Mittereder, F*. (2017). Can Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey Response Quality without Increasing Interviewer Effects? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12255.
West, B.T. and Blom, A.G. (2017). Explaining Interviewer Effects: A Research Synthesis. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 5(2), 175-211.
West, B.T. and McCabe, S.E. (2017). Alternative Approaches to Assessing Nonresponse Bias in Longitudinal Survey Estimates: An Application to Substance Use Outcomes among Young Adults in the U.S. American Journal of Epidemiology, 185(7), 591-600.
West, B.T., Sakshaug, J.W., and Aurelien, G.A.S.* (2016). How Big of a Problem is Analytic Error in Secondary Analyses of Survey Data? PLoS ONE, 11(6), e0158120. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158120.
West, B.T., Ghimire, D., and Axinn, W.G. (2015). Evaluating a Modular Design Approach to Collecting Survey Data using Text Messages. Survey Research Methods, 9(2), 111-123.
Raykov, T., West, B.T., and Traynor, A. (2015). Evaluation of Coefficient Alpha for Multiple Component Measuring Instruments in Complex Sample Designs. Structural Equation Modeling, 22(3), 429-438. DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.936081.
West, B.T., Welch, K.B. and Galecki, A.T. (with Contributions from Brenda W. Gillespie) (2014). Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide using Statistical Software, Second Edition. Chapman Hall / CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.
Krueger, B.S. and West, B.T. (2014, Authors Alphabetical). Assessing the Potential of Paradata and Other Auxiliary Information for Nonresponse Adjustments. Public Opinion Quarterly, 78(4), 795-831.
West, B.T., and Elliott, M.R. (2014). Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches for Comparing Interviewer Variance Components in Two Groups of Survey Interviewers. Survey Methodology, 40(2), 163-188.
West, B.T. and Little, R.J.A. (2013). Nonresponse Adjustment of Survey Estimates based on Auxiliary Variables Subject to Error. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series C (Applied Statistics), 62(2), 213-231.
West, B.T. and Groves, R.M. (2013). The PAIP Score: A Propensity-Adjusted Interviewer Performance Indicator. Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(1), 352-374.
West, B.T. (2013). An Examination of the Quality and Utility of Interviewer Observations in the National Survey of Family Growth. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (General), 176(1), 211-225.
West, B.T., Kreuter, F., and Jaenichen, U. (2013). "Interviewer" Effects in Face-to-face Surveys: A Function of Sampling, Measurement Error or Nonresponse? Journal of Official Statistics, 29(2), 277-297.
West, B.T. and Kreuter, F. (2013). Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Interviewer Observations: Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(2), 522-548.
West, B.T. and Olson, K. (2010). How Much of Interviewer Variance is Really Nonresponse Error Variance? Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(5), 1004-1026.


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World of Warcraft Icon Pack
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by teebling • 14th April 2018
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I mean it when I say I completely adored my 11th/12th grade years. I attended a small private school where there really wasn't much of the traditional, clique-ish atmosphere. It was a family of sorts. Dysfunctional? Sure, at times. But a family nonetheless. They needed a shortstop for the team and I needed a change in surroundings. I had no idea the depth of the lifelong relationships I'd form as a result. All I gotta say is...praise God they needed a shortstop.
If I were to sum up my class in a few words? I'd go with "insane", "silly", and "covertly intelligent". Covertly intelligent in that our teachers knew we were smart, but no one else would've guessed it. Okay, that was probably just me. I shouldn't throw my friends into the path of that bus. There was very little we took seriously, with the exception of our athletic teams. We were larger than life and living it in fast forward fashion. I still recall how us girls would have sleepovers where we'd often spend as much time chatting with our friend's parents as we would with one another. Again, like a family...
Most of us held jobs at the local mall. Some of us were fortunate enough to work across the hallway from one another. After closing time, or during a snowstorm that left the mall quite empty, us girls rolled thawed pretzel dough from our employ at Bavarian Pretzel and threw it across the hall at our classmate boys working at Kinney Shoes. The boys at Kinney Shoes would blare the store radio so that we could sing and dance in our respective stores. We made about $3.65/hr. It was to be expected.
Facebook reunited us after too many years apart. In the random stati that have been posted, we've learned that we continue to have things in common...even as grown up spouses, parents, and now mature, responsible employees.
We rescue animals, we have similar home lives, and some of us even have ms. My friend, Brian, who was one of the Kinney Shoes boys and the epitome of silliness, happens to be the President of Team Inspire. That's a team of people who ride an insane number of miles on behalf of folks like me...and his dear wife...who have ms. I wish that his wife and I didn't have so much in common.
This year, Team Inspire was honored by the Nat'l MS Society for being a top fundraiser. They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight ms. And I'm blessed to be one of the people they take into account when they're riding...and riding...and riding.
My classmates and I are still very much a family:-) They offered to park my car for me. They met me on the sidewalk and walked with me to the establishment. Every door was held on my behalf. Those seated at the end of the table all stood up for me when I entered so that I had a choice of way too many seats. They offered to walk with me to the restroom. At the end of the night, I was delivered to my car, reverse valet style. I was truly humbled by their thoughtfulness and careful consideration...invisible symptoms or not.
This is Brian, delivering a classic photobomb on me. This is me, cracking up over it. Any questions...
This used to be the girl gunning pretzel dough...and the boy across the mall hallway, dancing to blaring music.
My apologies, ms. You're not on our level. I mean...just look at us! MS hasn't stolen our smiles, nor our joy, nor our relationships. It can't steal our faith, nor our determination, nor our will. That goes for each and every one of us, everywhere. We > ms.
I am thankful to have the loving thoughts, prayers, and consideration from my high school family-esque friends. Thank you, graduating Class of 1990. I am truly blessed by your friendship:-)


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Ruth Thompson Tolman, age 90, of Reston, VA, passed away October 14, 2017. Born, August 15, 1927 to the late Frank and Mary Thompson of Tenth Legion, VA. Beloved wife of late R. Cowles Tolman, Jr. Beloved mother of Ruel Tolman III of Orlando, FL and Courtney & Dan Creech of Los Angeles, CA. She is also survived by her sister Margaret Thompson Byers of Tenth Legion, VA.
Ruth taught school at both North River and Broadway High Schools. She was an active member of Herndon United Methodist Church, where she also sang in the choir for over 20 years. Throughout her life she traveled and lived in many places, including Texas, New York, Hawaii, and Connecticut, but always returned to her true home, Virginia. In her spare time she enjoyed gardening, knitting, keeping up on politics and world news. She was an avid reader as well.
She contributed to many charities. If you would like to donate on her behalf, two of her favorites were the Wounded Warrior Project and VFW - Veterans of Foreign Wars.
A memorial service will be held 1:00, Friday, October 20th, at Herndon United Methodist Church, 701 Bennett St., Herndon, VA 20170. Burial will be at Lacey Spring Cemetery, 364 Lacey Spring Rd., Harrisonburg, VA, 22802 Saturday, October 21st at 12:00 noon.


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BI Business Networking Reception Copenhagen
BI Norwegian Business School in collaboration with Innovation Norway Denmark and the Norwegian Embassy are hosting this business networking reception in Copenhagen.
President Inge Jan Henjesand and BI in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy and Innovation Norway Denmark welcome alumni and guests to this business networking reception in Copenhagen. President Henjesand will focus on the importance of BI's ability to interact and impact the international research arena and the students' learning environment to the benefit of the wider business world and society.
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- Time:Wednesday, 22 March 2017 18:00 - 19:30
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5 Reasons Why Your Home Should Have a Generator
Hurricane season is here. For those of us in the Jupiter and Tequesta, Florida areas, keeping your home and family safe is the number one priority. Fortunately, there is an easy way to prevent hurricane blackout frustrations — by installing a home generator.
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- Peace of Mind – A generator will give you and your family peace of mind during a blackout or hurricane when there are many other things to worry about.
- Home Comfort – Blackouts can be frustrating, especially if they last for extended periods of time. Your generator will help make sure that you have the basic necessities — lights, hot water and A/C.
- Flood Protection – Although your generator won't keep the water from rising, it will help keep your sump pump running even when the electric goes out. This can play a crucial in protecting your belongings in the event you experience flooding in your home.
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Section's elite tee off
The Stanislaus District's best golfers will be in Auburn today for the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tournament. Local teams competing are Turlock, Johansen, East Union and Central Catholic. Top individuals include Belen Hernandez (Golden Valley), Julie Shutler (Sierra), Katie Canadas (Beyer) and Kirsten Locke (Bret Harte). Shotgun start at Auburn Country Club is at 9 a.m.
Giants win in London
The NFL's first regular-season trip overseas was every bit as sloppy as it was predictable. Eli Manning threw for only 59 yards but ran for New York's lone touchdown to lift the Giants to a mud-caked 13-10 victory over the still-winless Miami Dolphins.
Brady, Pats stay hot
Tom Brady (pictured) threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more as the New England Patriots crushed the Washington Redskins 52-7 in an easy tuneup for their battle of unbeatens at Indianapolis next Sunday against the defending Super Bowl champion Colts.
Colts crush Panthers
Peyton Manning shook off a slow start to throw for 254 yards and two touchdowns in the Indianapolis Colts' 31-7 win over the Carolina Panthers. Joseph Addai (pictured) rushed for 100 yards and two touchdowns and caught a TD pass from Manning.
Johnson closing in
NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson celebrates after winning the Pep Boys Auto 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., on Sunday. Johnson's second consecutive win moved him within nine points of Nextel Cup points leader Jeff Gordon with three of the 10 Chase races remaining.
It's Thorpe again
Jim Thorpe successfully defended his title in the Charles Schwab Championship, birdieing the final four holes to win the Champion Tour's season-ending event for the third time in five years.


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In keeping with the tradition of luminaries like Albert Einstein, who played violin, and Harvard researcher Rudy Tanzi, who played keyboards with Aerosmith, Barnard's scientific innovations are complemented by his explorations in music.
New York, NY (PRWEB) December 02, 2016
HyPR Media announces the release of the debut album by CarbonWorks, the adventurous musical ensemble led by DC-based composer and guitarist, Neal Barnard. The group's self-titled CD is officially released today on iTunes and all other digital music sites. The album showcases 11 tracks of Barnard's original music that is a fusion of rock, blues, jazz, contemporary and Vietnamese music.
Equally diverse are the CarbonWorks members, comprised of a classical string quartet, a jazz band, rock musicians, traditional Vietnamese musicians, and Barnard himself on guitar and piano. Among the artists featured on the album are award-winning Italian vocalist Naif Hérin and New Orleans blues guitarist and actor, Chris Thomas King, best known for his supporting acting roles in the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Ray.
As a child in Fargo, North Dakota, Barnard studied piano, cello, and guitar, and took his love of music with him to Washington, DC, where he attended medical school while establishing himself in the DC music scene. Barnard started composing and recording songs in the 80s, and he played music professionally throughout his medical school and residency. With a penchant for the avant garde, Neal constantly writes songs that defy any genre categorization. He chooses unconventional time meters as well, in order to "tilt the song ever so slightly and give you that little jolt between the ears," as he puts it.
Be sure to check out the debut CarbonWorks CD - out today on all digital music sites!
More about Neal Barnard
CarbonWorks music will surprise those who know Barnard as the physician who has authored more than 70 scientific publications and 18 books, whose NIH-funded research revolutionized the nutritional treatment of diabetes, and who is a recognized authority on science and health. As founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and a faculty member at the George Washington University School of Medicine, the trailblazing physician has dramatically influenced U.S. nutrition policies, arm-wrestled with the food industry, and worked to replace the use of animals in education and research with kinder methods.
In keeping with the tradition of luminaries like Albert Einstein, who played violin with symphony orchestras and Harvard researcher Rudy Tanzi, who played keyboards with Aerosmith, Barnard's scientific innovations are complemented by his explorations in music. As a way of bridging together these two worlds, Barnard gives talks about his findings on how music profoundly affects the brain and "why it beats heroin and Velveeta!"
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Pooldisco announces Ushuaia, Ibiza residency
Written by Michael
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You know what goes hand in hand quite nicely? Swimming Pools and house music! Yeah, you knew that, it's a tried and tested formula about as original as cheese with crackers – but it definitely works and Pool Parties have always been a big draw for Ibiza partygoers.
This time its the Pooldisco brand that is taking on a residency at Ibiza's latest legendary hotspot Ushuaia, from Saturday 23rd June to 22nd of September 2012. The venue has become home to much of a muchness, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia blah blah blah yawn – but Pooldisco sounds quite a bit more interesting bringing in names such as Severino, Sam Devine and Dutch hot house newcomer Onno.
Pooldisco's exclusive club hosts are Tristan Temple, Tamer Wilde, Viktoria Modesta, Johanna Londinium, Liz Mendez, and Roy Inc. and New York clubbing legend Susanne Bartsch will also be putting in an appearance. The party will also feature singer Wunmi (Soul II Soul) and dancers.
We're always a little wary of club nights that describe themselves as places where you can hang out with "glamorous" and "sexy" people, it starts to sound a bit closed off and elitist, but Pooldisco does look set to combine a classic idea with solid line-ups to create one of the house nights of the Ibiza season.


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Another view of the crater, with the lava dome clearly visible This weekend, heading south on a trip to Oregon, we took the scenic route. Instead of following I-5 down to Portland, we headed down a few state highways-- and then a few forest roads-- to the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Mount St. Helens will be familiar to anyone who has even a passing familiarity with natural history-- in 1980, it erupted in the most devastating volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people died, and the entire landscape of the area was drastically altered within minutes.
The south end of Spirit Lake, still filled with logs and driftwood The reason it's been designated a "monument" and not, say, a national park, is because the landscape around the volcano has basically been left untouched since 1980; there are still great swaths of dead trees scattered across and around the mountain, and Spirit Lake (the nearest lake, just a few miles away from the crater itself) is still full of logs and driftwood that collected there in the initial avalanche.
Surrounding the Monument is the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which has been replanted and helped to recover in places. The dividing line between the two is stark and clear, with a fertile pine forest outside the Monument, and scrub brush and dead wood within.
We made it to the Windy Ridge viewpoint on the eastern side of the crater, where we listened to a ranger give a talk in an amphitheater. He showed us a picture of Mount St. Helens pre-eruption, and went on to explain animatedly how the 1980 eruption revolutionized our understanding of volcanoes, the Cascade Range, and in many ways, the entire natural world. Looking across the landscape Even though 57 people died in the eruption, the knowledge we've gained has helped save many lives around the world as we've been better able to predict volcanic behavior and eruptions.
After leaving the Monument, we made our way south through the National Forest to another nearby volcanic area called the Big Lava Bed. Here, lava from a nearby eruption 8000 years ago covered thousands of acres and left a dangerous, rocky and bizarre-looking landscape of pumice and sharp volcanic rocks which is pretty much impassable to this day. No trails or roads cut through the lava bed, and so we mostly studied it from the outskirts. The landscape of the Big Lava Bed The Pacific Crest Trail does run along the edge of it, as do a few roads, and we stopped in a couple of places to walk into the lava bed a few yards. We scrambled over some of the rocks to study some of the lichen which seemed to grow everywhere, and looked into a few of the weird caves and crevices scattered across the landscape. It was dangerous going, though-- I drew blood when my leg barely brushed against a rock-- and we didn't go in too far, electing to continue on south to the Columbia River Gorge and our destination in Portland.
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The increased need for agricultural statistics go well beyond the traditional farm level data about production to data to monitor its essential roles in food security, sustaining the environment, and poverty. New data requirements are also emerging to understand how population growth, demand for natural resources, competing use of food crops, and the effects of extreme weather and climate change affect foods security, poverty, and well-being.
With the view to strengthen technical capacity to contribute to the efforts in improving civil registration and vital statistics systems, the workshop aims to increase the knowledge and to improve skills of government statisticians in compiling and processing vital data, preparing statistical tables on vital statistics and assessing the quality of vital statistics, following internationally recommended principles and standards.
The SIAP-JICA course was conducted jointly by the Government of Japan through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP) with a view to strengthening the capability for producing statistics for monitoring and assessing social and economic progress in developing countries.
With the general goal of strengthening the capacity of national statistical offices in compilation of national accounts (according to 2008 SNA), this is designed to provide, in particular, a detailed description and underlying principles of the structure and content of the integrated sequence of accounts of the SNA, in terms of nominal and real measures of the constituent macro-economic aggregates.
The proposed e-learning course is the fourth in the series of SIAP's basic-level e-learning courses on the SNA. The proposed course, the Fourth Basic-Level e-Learning Course on the System of National Accounts is planned to be conducted during 21 October – 20 December 2013. This course will be conducted utilizing the distance training system developed by Tokushima University, a national university in Japan.
The annual management seminar series aims to strengthen the leadership and management capabilities of the heads of national statistical offices (NSOs) by providing a forum to discuss, to exchange views and to share experiences among heads of NSOs. The current seminar conveys the urgent message that leadership matters in positioning statistics as a development imperative in the context of the on-going processes on formulating the post-2015 development agenda. The seminar aims to accelerate preparedness of heads of national statistical offices to lead official statistical systems into the post-2015 era.


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Guillermo del Toro thinks his latest movie, the animated 3-D fantasy The Book of Life, is so epic that you'll want to see it over and over again. Vaya, hit three showings in a day if you have the time.
"Go at 4, 6, and 8 [p.m,]," laughs del Toro, who produced the film, out Friday. "Bring all the kids!"
In all seriousness, the native Mexican who directed such movies as ,Hellboy, Pacific Rim and Pan's Labyrinth believes that viewers will appreciate the story as well as the incredible imagery and lessons more so the second or even third time around.
Del Toro speaks from experience. He actually saw The Book of Life for the first time (on a big screen, that is) at Regal South Beach Monday night. The premiere brought out Gloria and Emilio Estefan as well as Mexican TV personality Monica Noguera, TV's Caso Cerrado star Ana Maria Polo and local artist Alex Mijares, whom producers tapped to create a piece of art tied to the flick.
Del Toro helped introduce the film, along with first time director Jorge Gutierrez and one of the stars, Kate del Castillo.
Even though del Toro was an integral part of making this thing, he was nonetheless blown away.
"I couldn't imagine what the end product would be, the power of it," said Del Toro of the movie, which is part love story, part folk tale, part LSD trip for your eyes. "The truth is I'm 50 years old, and I've never seen anything like it."
Gutierrez, who also consulted on the animation aspect, admitted he became emotional watching his masterpiece, which begins in present day, on Nov. 2, aka El Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), the Mexican holiday remembering those who have passed. We see a bunch of rotten kids forced to go to a museum for detention; a mysterious tour guide (the voice of Christina Applegate) introduces them to "The Book of Life."
That's when the journey begins, with puppet-like, often grossly misshapen characters interacting in three worlds. There's the land of the living (1920s Mexico, where the love story unfolds), the Land of the Remembered (just like Heaven, only with more partying and psychedelic colors) and the Land of the Forgotten (hint: not the ideal destination).
Despite the fact that the leading players resemble warped dolls (even Channing Tatum's macho Joaquin), the movie can get your tear ducts going.
"I was crying like a baby," Gutierrez admitted at the Epic Hotel Tuesday, recovered and laughing. "There was so much water shooting out of my eyes. I'm still dehydrated."
Del Castillo — who voices La Muerte, queen of The Land of the Remembered — concurs.
"It's overwhelming, all this imagery, the setting, things you have never seen before," said the actress. "I don't even know if 'awesome' is the right word. You can't just focus on one thing because you are trying to catch everything, all the details."
Gutierrez, who hails from Mexico City, describes The Book of Life as a feast meant to behold and consumed: "I remember coming home from college [California Institute of the Arts] and my mom would cook for me dish after dish. Each one was more magical than the last. Just when I thought I couldn't eat anymore, there was even more eye candy."
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Del Toro, who often jokes about his portliness, likens TBOL to "the most amazing flan edifice with churros for columns, cascading in whipped cream."
And don't worry about scaring the kids. Del Castillo thinks the movie's themes of the afterlife are not only educational but universal.
"We Mexicans, we laugh about death," she says. "We will all get there eventually, but let's look at it in a beautiful and positive way."


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Please note that because the Shamanic Centre is also our family residency, we are not able to offer accommodation. Below are the closest B&Bs and a travelodge near Balerno Village which we recommend.
We are 4 or 5 miles from the Airport and 8 miles from the City Centre.
For those coming by train from Glasgow or other areas, we are about 10 minutes driving from two small village train stations called Kirknewton and Curryhill. We can pick you up there with prior arrangements. There are no taxis at the two small village stations.
If you are coming from Edinburgh City Centre, the easiest way is to take the bus 44 or 44A from Princes Street to Balerno and we can pick you up at the bus terminus in Balerno. Contact us in advacne to organise any of the above: 075 0443 8763.
A room in the Dell B&B - Colinton
Mob: 079 7180 1746
Email: email@example.com
Address: 4 Dell Road, Colinton, Edinburgh, EH13 0JR
Website www.youredinburghbnb.com
This B&B is about 5 or 10 min walking to Lanark Road for the bus 44 or 44A which only takes another 5 or 10 min to Balerno. Mark or Claudia usually do pick ups from the bus terminus in Balerno half an hour before the training. The owner of this B&B, Anne-Marie, is a holistic therapist and Breath worker who is a friend of ours and a supporter of our Planetary Healing Charity.
Travelodge Edinburgh Airport Ratho Station Hotel
Tel: 0871 984 6340
Address: Ratho Park, Glasgow Road, Edinburgh, EH28 8QQ
Website: www.travelodge.co.uk
This travelodge is about 15 minutes by car or taxi to where we are. It is also only 2 miles from the Airport. There is no direct bus to Balerno from this travelodge.
Haughhead Farm - 2 stars B&B in a Farm.
Tel: +44 (0) 131 449 3875
Email: email@example.com
Address: Haughhead Farm,
Balerno, Edinburgh,
This B&B is 25 min walking to get to where we are. Beautiful area to stay, however as it is in a farm it is not so easy to access if you dont have a car. It is not on a bus route and there are no shops near by. If you are coming by car and want a quiet weekend in the country to integrate the work, the place is ideal.
Riccarton Arms on main road in Currie: 2 stars B&B, also a family pub
Tel: + 44 (0)131 449 2230
Address: 198 Lanark Road West, Currie, Edinburgh, EH14 5NX
Website: www.riccartoninn.co.uk
This B&B is on the main road where you can take bus 44 or 44A to Balerno Village and to Edinburgh City too. If you prefer to walk, from Riccarton Arms, Lanark Road, you can either walk via the Waters of Leith pathway which is a beatiful 20 min walk to Balerno. From Balerno Village it is another 20 min walk to the Shamanic Centre. You can also get a lift from either Mark or Claudia from the bus terminus in Balerno.
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Hi all -- long time no blog! But I had to come back to wish you a happy St. Patrick's Day, and to suggest this delicious chocolate Guinness cake, courtesy of Nigella Lawson. You bake the moist cake -- made with cocoa, butter, Guinness, and sour cream -- in a springform pan, and then top with icing made from confectioner sugar, cream cheese, and heavy cream, so that, as NIgella says, "it resembles a frothy pint of Guinness." Cheers!
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If you're sticking around DC for Thanksgiving weekend, you have four chances (Friday, twice Saturday, and Sunday) to experience Solas Nua's latest production, Little thing, Big Thing. Two actors take on a dozen or more roles in this funny, suspenseful, and insightful buddy caper (involving a petty thief and a Scottish nun in Ireland via Nigeria). The play is staged in a theater in the back of a gallery on G Street near Gallery Place. These performances are too good not to be given to packed houses. And the theme is timely, focused on the importance of taking what little steps you can to effect big changes in the face of corruption. You can find tickets here.
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Tomorrow is September 12, which means two things: I have 2 hours to post something to avoid going a full year without a post, and my GEICO payment is due tomorrow. I also have that empty feeling I get every year when the last ball of the US Open is struck, though even if the pros are mostly done with 2016 I've got four more months of playing at Rock Creek Tennis Center, above. I just need to figure out a new way to get there once the multi-year Beach Drive project gets underway as soon as next week.
Congrats to Angelique Kerber and Stan the Man Wawrinka for their US Open victories. Kerber beat Pliskova yesterday, after having lost to her in the final at the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio last month. My brother and I saw that match, shown below, and Cilic's win over Murray thanks to Ramona from Toronto, who happened to be sitting next to me earlier in the week and sold me her tickets to the finals. One of my favorite things in life is random interactions with strangers. Even more so when tickets to the finals are involved.
I pledge to do better by mbpalaver in the coming months. But not until after I make that GEICO payment.
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A few years ago a colleague referred to a turf battle at work as less of a turf grab and more "after you, Alphonse." I didn't know what he was talking about, but found out it was a reference to this early 20th century comic strip, featuring two bumbling Frenchmen taking politeness to ridiculous levels. I asked my father if he'd ever heard of it and he said he didn't know the comic strip, but that baseball announcers sometimes refer to two outfielders letting a ball drop between them as an "Alphonse Gaston move." It made me wonder why no one ever says this when two doubles players let a ball pass between them. Maybe it's because doubles isn't covered much on TV. Maybe it's because the Bryan brothers do this less often than I do. Whatever the reason, this seems like a job for Brad Gilbert, who, along with Patrick McEnroe, is announcing today's US Open men's doubles final between Jamie Murray/John Peers and Nicolas Mahut/Pierre-Hugues Herbert on ESPN3 (aka the Internet)) at noon. I would be completely disheveled if @bgtennisnation said this.
And speaking of Brad Gilbert, I am loving these Voya ads:
Photo credit:"Alphonsegaston" by Opper, Frederick Burr - American Journal Examiner Retrieved from Scoop. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons.
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Constellation Theater will be presenting, Thursday through Saturday, another production of "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" at The Source on 14th Street. (Thursday is sold out online, but you can put your name on a waiting list at the box office.) I loved it when I saw it 3 years ago -- check out my previous rave. You can also take advantage of the relative quiet in Washington to grab a bite before or after on the patio at Etto, Le Diplomate, Cork, or Doi Moi (or, as my friend Judi calls it, Boy Toy).
Posted on August 10, 2015 at 11:28 PM in DC, Doings, Theater | Permalink
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It's probably safe to assume not too many people were aiming their cameras at Andy Murray's coach Jonas Björkman on the practice court at the Citi Open today. But I was a fan of the former top 10 Swede, and not just for his tennis. Here he is doing imitations of top players from the '80s. I found another version with better video, but somehow the French commentary on this one seems like a bonus.
Posted on August 02, 2015 at 11:20 PM in DC, Doings, Sports | Permalink
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DC's annual lead-up to the US Open started today at the Rock Creek Tennis Center. Though the major matches in the Citi Open don't get started until Monday, this weekend for $10 online ($15 at the door) you can wander the grounds and see qualifying matches, watch the pros practice, and gawk at players as they go about their business. Today I saw the temperamental Marinko Matosevic beat USA's Austin Krajicek in a third-set tie-breaker, then saw Matosevic -- after playing for a couple of hours in 90 degree heat and humidity -- jogging around the adjacent soccer field. (It reminded me of Agassi's complaint that Jim Courier would do that after beating him back in the day.)
You can buy tickets and find information at the tournament website and find practical tips at the Washington Post. It costs $15 to park on the grounds and the lots there get filled up later in the week. Neighborhood parking is restricted during the event. If you haven't used uber before, you can get "up to" $20 off and get dropped off at the back entrance. Whatever you do, don't try driving up 16th Street during the evening rush and expect to take a left into the parking lot without an excruciating wait. Pudding Man and I did that once and after all that wait we got shunted to an off-site shuttle lot anyway.
The northeast court is a great (and shady, in the afternoon) place to see top players practice. Above I'm trying to pick up tips from Sam Groth for how to up my service speed to approach his ATP record-breaking 163.4 MPH serve (hit in a tournament in Busan in 2012). I've got a ways to go. Groth was practicing with fellow Aussie Lleyton Hewitt. I also saw Kei Nishikori and Kevin Anderson hitting today, and ran into friends who saw Grigor Dmitrov and Andy Murray on the practice court (not necessarily together). I almost accidentally photobombed a kid's selfie with Richard Gasquet. No sign of Tommy Haas today, but if you're a fan check out the Citi Open's announcement on facebook on Thursday that Denis Kudla and Haas got wild cards -- clearly whoever is running that facebook page is a Haas admirer.
Edited to add that tomorrow (Sunday, August 2) is National Parks Kids Day:
Come out and join us for our National Parks Kids Day, which will include a USTA Play Day, DC Public Library Story Time, Platform Tennis, appearances by local mascots, face painters, and more! All kids 14 and under will receive a complimentary reserved ticket for Session 2 and a lunch voucher courtesy of Guest Services, Inc.
The complimentary tickets for kids 14 and under and the lunch voucher are only redeemable at the Box Office, which will open at 8am on Sunday, August 2.
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You still have about 15 hours to drop in on a marathon 30-hour reading of Ulysses at the Petworth Citizen and enjoy a coffee, a whiskey, or a bite with other Joyce fans on the 111th anniversary of the day Leopold Bloom wandered around Dublin. Who knows what other Ulysses fans you might run into?
Photo by Eve Arnold, from openculture.com.
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Did you know you are entitled to one free copy of your credit report from each of the three credit reporting agencies every year? If you haven't received one in 2014, now's the time to do so. I always follow a link from the FTC's website, because there are a lot of scammers out there offering "free" credit reports for a fee. You can dispute any questionable information on the report directly through the agencies' websites. For some reason I couldn't get the Experian report to display, but that might have been user error.
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Aren't hydrangeas beautiful? I have several bushes that started out as tiny specimens and have grown large through the years. Hydrangea flowers fade into lovely, muted colors. In this post, I am showing how I dry hydrangea blossoms to use in arrangements to enjoy through the winter.
One day last week when two of our granddaughters were here, we spent time on the patio making a big mess!
How I dry hydrangea blossoms
Using clippers, I cut the blossoms from a few of my hydrangea bushes. The girls stripped off the leaves simply by pulling them off.
The openings between the slats in the picnic table provided a convenient place to to hold each stem while we worked. We had more blossoms than we knew what to do.
We brought the blossoms in and filled many vases and pitchers! Usually I add water to the containers but this time I didn't and the blossoms dried just as nice.
After a week in the containers, the hydrangea blossoms are dried and ready to display or use in craft projects.
Making a wreath from dried hydrangea blossoms
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Millions of refugee children around the world have had their future stripped from them due to circumstances beyond their control. At Educated Refugee Foundation, we are determined to provide hope for their future through education. We can make a difference. We will make a difference. We need your help.
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We understand the desire that many feel to get involved and help refugees where they can. The question many have is, "Where do I start?" Educated Refugee Foundation would love to help you find the right opportunity for you to make a difference.
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The Internet Advertising Competition honored the American Institute of CPA Insiders with the Best Associations Online Newsletter Campaign award.
The AICPA's series of six online newsletters that cover tax, corporate finance and taxation, wealth management, and careers for accounting professionals was launched in 2001 and went through a redesign last October. The revamped model features increased video content, links to AICPA resources, author photos and reaches a combined unique audience of 295,000.
The Internet Advertising Competition awards were created by the Web marketing Association in 1999 and are open to all organizations and individuals that develop internet advertising. Entries are judged on creativity, innovation, design and whether they are memorable.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
The Young Man's Barn
By: Katie M. Moss
The red-yellow-golden brown flakes glide across the earthen crust of a barren wind-chilled day,
As horses shake their tasseled manes in the painted-fire sky.
Groans of hard-pressed use flows across their chocolate-brown-honey coats.
Today the wind is changing.
They can smell it, fear it, taste it.
Red-necked skin-scorched man stumbles out of a wasteland-grey stump of a fluid-filled home.
"Every day's the same," he chants. "Every day's the same."
"Nowhere left to go," he says, as the horses shake their manes.
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Sports Management with a concentration in Sports Marketing
Go to the Olympics. Tour the facilities and attend galas at the Olympic Reunion Center. Organize humanitarian projects for underprivileged youths in the Olympic host city. Serve as official volunteers. Conduct and present research at international sport business conferences. All, before you even graduate. Tiffin University is one of only a handful of universities that offer an emphasis on sport marketing, making the niche degree attractive to students who want to get the gold.
All Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) – Sports majors fulfill their academic requirements for graduation by completing 121 hours of course work which, includes a minimum of 200-contact hours in a sports or recreation internship experience.
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The purpose of the Tiffin University Sports Management major is to promote, stimulate, and guide study, research, and professional career development in the area of sport and recreation management (broadly interpreted). A primary component of the program is an integration of theory with practical requirements.
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TU notables include the NFL Vice President of Player Development, a majority team owner of a minor league franchise, an NFL scout, a former Assistant GM, a two-time NFL Super Bowl wide receiver, and a PGA tournament director. In 2009-2010, students interned with the Cleveland Indians, Women's Sports Foundation, Salem Red Sox, LRMR (LeBron James) Marketing Company, Lake Erie Monsters, Columbus Crew, the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, and the Tampa Bay Sports Commission.
Several courses in The BBA and MBA are taught by a certified NBA sports agent, President of the National Olympians Association in Sierra Leone [Africa] and the former Director of Media Relations for the Boston Celtics and Marketing Coordinator for the Atlanta Braves.
Consider some of the other locations TU alumni and students work, have worked, or interned: Cleveland Browns; Pittsburgh Steelers; Tennessee Titans; Buffalo Bills; Milwaukee Brewers; Salem Red Sox; Indianapolis Pacers & Fever; Indianapolis Colts; St. Louis Cardinals; Atlanta Braves; Toledo Mud Hens; Akron Aeros; Lake Erie Monsters; Florence Freedom; Rockford Thunder; Philadelphia Force; Greater Cleveland Sports Commission; Detroit Metro Sports Commission; Mid American Conference; NCAA Final Four; ESPN Detroit Radio; Penn State University Athletics; Wake Forest University Athletics, the NFL Players Association; and IMG.
Sports Management Club - The student-led Sports Management club meets the first Wednesday of the month during the school year to coordinate practicum opportunities. Members work many of the TU athletic events and organize a co-ed volleyball tournament fundraiser. The past several years have featured speakers from Cleveland Cavaliers, NHL Columbus Blue Jackets; The Ohio State University Athletic Department; the Detroit Tigers; and the National Fastpitch Softball League. For the past few years the club has financed student members to attend the Ohio Parks and Recreation Student Conference, the NCAA Women's Leadership Symposium; and special tours with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dayton Dragons.
Core Curriculum of the School of Business 18 hours
Sports core 15 hours
Concentration 15 hours
- SRM235 Sports Marketing & Promotions
- MKT253 Marketing Communication
- COM212 Introduction to Public Relations
- MKT364 Event Marketing and Management
One of the following:
- ART325 Graphic Design
- COM329 Writing for Electronic Media
Total BBA hours 121
This is a sample course sequence to illustrate course offerings for this major. Consult the official Academic Bulletin for detailed registration and advising information.
On Campus - Offered in a 15-week semester format with a start date of January and August
Sports Marketing and Promotions (SRM235) - This course is designed to assist students in understanding the techniques of writing common to the sports business with a focus on social and digital media applications for successful marketing and promotion campaigns. Students will gain exposure to writing, designing and editing a variety of documents used for sport sponsorship proposals, brand awareness campaigns, fan loyalty programs, marketing plans, endorsement deals and event fundraising plans. Students will apply fundamental principles of sport blogging, meeting deadlines and web layout for the internet.
Marketing Communications (MKT253) - This course deals with operation and management of the advertising and promotion function with respect to both its positions within the marketing system and its relationship to the other business functions.
Event Marketing and Management (MKT364) - Examines the practices for scheduling, planning, organizing, promoting and supervising commercial and private events. Business planning is emphasized as students are familiarized with theories, terminology and logistics for marketing, promotions, management, decision making and analyses of customer behavior. This course emphasizes the creation and implementation of core documents to present to prospective investors, clients and employees.
Graphic Design (ART325) - This course will investigate the mechanics of visual perception using digital design tools. Focus will be on the formal properties of design including space, line, plane, mass, shape, texture and color; and the organizational fundamentals of unity, balance, rhythm and movement. Students will prepare and produce a series of digital design projects that are relevant to professional practices. Emphasis will be given to the principles of planning and visual thinking needed to communicate ideas. Problem solving on an individual and group level will be stressed.
- Athlete Development / Fundraising Officer
- Athletic Coordinator
- Client Services
- Community Relations Services
- Director of Operations
- Event Coordinator
- Fan Engagement
- Fan Services
- Marketing Coordinator
- Membership Director
- Public Relations / Communications Director
- Scouting Services
- Social Media Coordinator
- Sport Administrator
- Sport Agencies
- Sport Commissions
- Sports Authority
- Anderson University Athletics Broadcasting
- Bleacher Report
- CCTV Sports (Beijing)
- Colgate University Athletics Marketing
- Creative Artists Agency (Nashville)
- JKS Incorporated Creative and Design (NC)
- Legends Hospitality
- Maryland Blue Crabs
- Middlesboro Daily News Sports Department (Editor)
- MLB Philadelphia Phillies
- New Orleans Pelicans
- NFL Pittsburgh Steelers
- Ottawa University Sports Information (MO)
- Snelling Hospitality (Cleveland)
- Southern Methodist University Athletics
- Virginia Tech University Athletic Development Office


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Mr. Imperium (1951)
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Dove & Real Beauty
Dove decided to differentiate itself though an unconventional new campaign titled "The Campaign for Real Beauty," that challenges the traditional beauty marketing tactics of idealized and unattainable beauty standards. The campaign proved to be wildly successful and can be attributed to Dove's careful market research, planning, and implementation. This case is examined through the neo-classical framework that I have used in other classes in examining cases that have already occurred to determine if the course they took was appropriate. It begins the an examination of the context of the case, followed by the issue and contributing factors, the solution is then explained followed by an analysis to determine if what they did matches up with the theories we have learned in class. Context of Case:
The Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty" was launched after an extensive market research undertaking. By targeting 3,000 women in 10 countries it was discovered that only 2% of women would describe themselves as beautiful. A majority of respondents wished the media did a better job of portraying women of diverse physical attractiveness, felt the media set unrealistic standards for women, and that the iconic unattainable women left them feeling less beautiful. This discovery that women had deep discontent for the beauty industry left Dove with a unique marketing opportunity. Main Issue:
Dove wants to differentiate themselves from other companies in order to gain market share and boost sales. Cause of Issue:
The personal beauty industry is a crowded and competitive market. Dove's competitors, including L'Oreal, Avon, Nivea and others use a traditional beauty marketing approach which includes aspiration and self-actualization. Dove has had a similar marketing message since its inception based on functionality; Dove is a cream not a soap and will therefore not dry out your skin. Dove's Solution:
Dove wanted a new marketing campaign but also...
Cited: Neff, Jack. (2004, September). "In Dove ads, normal is the new beautiful." Advertising Age, 75(39), 1,80. Retrieved April 11, 2011, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 708284931).
Sangameshwaran, Prasad. "The Secret of Dove 's Success." Economic Times. 7 Oct. 2009. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. .
Westphal., Laura. "Real Women; Bum 's the Word as Dove Leads the Way with a Dose of Reality in Advertising." AllBusiness.com. Marketing Magazine, 1 Oct. 2005. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. .
Whitehead, Jennifer. "O&M 's Real Women Ads for Dove Sees Sales Soar 700%." Brand Republic News. 29 July 2004. Web. 11 Apr. 2011. .
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Twilight. Love it or hate it, I'm sure that you've heard of it. It's one of the books that is most heavily praised for being a strong backing for YA. It's equally loathed by many for creating a saturation within the YA Paranormal Romance market. But we're not here to talk about any of that today. No. Today, I'm going to tell you what I thought of Twilight as a first time reader who just finished the book yesterday. It's not love. It's not hate. But hopefully, it is interesting.
The Plot: (Summary from GoodReads)
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Bella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn.
Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Bella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife—between desire and danger.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.


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How does a squint affect my child's eyesight?
If your child develops a squint it means each eye is looking in a different direction and their eyes are sending different pictures to the brain. Their brain finds it difficult to merge the two pictures into one clear image because the pictures are so different. The brain adapts to cope with this by ignoring the pictures coming from the eye which has the squint using only the vision from their better/straight eye.
This can lead to amblyopia in the eye which has the squint. Amblyopia is caused when the visual system doesn't develop correctly in one eye, causing the vision to be blurred in that eye even when a child is wearing the correct glasses they need. An eye which has amblyopia can also be called a lazy eye.
Amblyopia can lead to a permanent reduction in how well this eye can see. There are different ways to treat an amblyopic eye and treatment is more successful when vision is still developing before the age of 7 or 8.
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Murray Hamilton,
The Graduate
, 1967. "A painful experience. My fault, I guess I didn't understand Mr Robinson because I couldn't make him funny. That's why I believe it takes ten years to become an actor. Luckily,
Bonnie and Clyde
was just gonna be released. If I hadn't had a really good performance under me, that would have really done me great damage." His pal, Dustin Hoffman, had got him the role - of his father! Three weeks into rehearsal", recalled Hoffman: "Gene said to me while he was taking a leak in the men's room: I think I'm getting fired.' And he was and I thought I was next. I was on pins and needles, terrified that [director] Mike Nichols didn't like what I was doing." Thirty years on, Gene finally worked with Nichols in
Postcards From The Edge
, 1990, and
The Birdcage
, 1996.
Robert Reed,
The Brady Bunch
, TV, 1969-74. "Not well known enough" to be Mike Brady. (Who can name who was!). Gene's possible wife, Joyce Bulifant, was also rejected. Reed hated the role and said only signed on being told it was a serious, boundary-pushing look at modern family life. D'oh!
Gregory Peck,
I Walk The Line
, 1970. US director John Frankenheimer (the Spielberg-cum-Tarantino of his day) wanted Hackman after making
The Gypsy Moths
together. Columbia wanted a bigger name.
Barry Newman
, Vanishing Point
, 1970. Director Richard C Sarafian wanted Hackman for his ultra-rapid hot rod delivery driver, Kowalski. Fox suits wouldn't hear of it. Newman, OK! Ironically, Fox (new suits?) then let Hackman rule
The French Connection
, which also had one helluva fast driving sequence. And more. Huge box-office. An Oscar for the guy not good enough for Sarafian's tiny cult winner. A change of suits after that mess, no? Trousers, at least.
Richard Boone,
Big Jake
, 1970. John Wayne knew the number of actors who could go against him was few. He played safe with Boone, from his
dud and paid him $90,000 - $5,000 being sent direct to a school Boone helped support in Hawaii.
Donald Sutherland,
1971. "I wanted it desperately but Jane Fonda vetoed me."
Warren Beatty,
), 1971. Director Richard Brooks would have been happier with either Hackman or Al Pacino as the Hamburg bank robber - of criminals' cash. Beatty, felt Brooks, was too handsome, too much A Star. Exactly why Columbia wanted him! (Learning its lesson, Columbia bit the bullet about Hackman starring in Brooks' next venture...
Bite The Bullet
Burt Reynolds,
, 1971. He wanted to be Lewis. UK director John Boorman had other ideas…
Jon Voight,
, 1971. … "I see you more as Ed." Now, Hackman refused. After
The All-American Boy,
Voight's career was in the toilet. He said Boorman saved his life and career. While nearly killing him with danger-filled stunts.
Joe Don Baker,
Junior Bonnor
, 1972. Steve McQueen agreed to veterans Robert Preston, Ida Lupino as his parents but drew the line at Hackman playing his younger brother, Curly. "He'd be good, but he sure wants a lot of money." Neither McQueen nor director Sam Peckinpah were delighted with their eventual choice.
Jack Palance,
Chato's Land
, 1972. Julie Christie redux. "United Artists thought he would never make it as a star," Michael Winner told me: January 9, 1990. Then, on April 10, 1972, six weeks before the Western opened, Gene collected his
French Connection
Oscar! Winner had alrdady lived exactly the same story with Julie, circa 1963.
Jason Miller,
The Exorcist,
Lee Marvin,
The Iceman Cometh
, 1973. When Jason Robards was injured in a road crash, director John Frankenheimer had the choice of Brando, Hackman or Marvin for Eugene O'Neill's Hickey. "Secretly, I really hoped to do it with Lee. He has that wonderful… tortured face. And he looked like a salesman. He told stories so well in life and he was such a good actor. I loved working with him… a really wonderful experience. For me, he was perfect." Even when he wasn't required, Marvin was always on the set - "almost like an assistant director," said Frankenheimer, "trying to quiet people down while I worked with other actors." Including the last hurrahs of Fredric March and Robert Ryan.
Richard Kiley,
The Little Prince
, 1974. First offer following his
French Connection
Oscar - after Sinatra baled out. Director Stanley Donen called him back for his un-
Lucky Lady
, 1975.."I'd gotten very depressed after
failed to make money. I was drinking and started to say: 'Hell, I'll do movies that will definitely make money and then I'll have plenty of dough.' I took pictures to play it safe and they turned out to be very dangerous for me."
Robert Shaw,
Jack Nicholson,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
John Wayne,
Rooster Cogburn,
1974. The idea was fair - a sequel to
True Grit
. But if Wayne proved too ill, what would be the point of someone else in his titular Oscar-winning rôle? Marlon Brando topped producer Hal Wallis' eye-patch list of Hackman, Charles Bronson, Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Anthony Quinn George C Scott and some of Duke's old co-stars: Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn. This was director Stuart Miller's second feature. The "6ft 6ins somafabitch no-talent, " as Duke termed him, never made a third.
John Wayne,
The Shootist
, 1976. Duke's finale… Hackman, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman passed. George C Scott was signed but not sealed when John Wayne showed interest in the dying gunfighter JB Brooks... and it was bye-bye George, baby! Despite Wayne - dead in three years - was suffering heart, lung and prostat problems.
Peter Finch,
, 1976. After tenuous thoughts about real TV News anchors (John Chancellor and the venerable Walter Cronkite), the film's Oscar-winning writer Paddy Chayefsky wrote to Newman. "You and a very small handful of other actors are the only ones I can think of with the range for this part." The others were Hackman, Cary Grant, old pals Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart, Sterling Hayden and Robert Montgomery - for the "mad prophet of the airwaves," Howard Beale. ("I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore"). Finchey won the first posthumous acting Oscar. Ironically, the second was also for an Aussie, Heath Ledger, for
The Dark Knight
... 33 years later.
Richard Dreyfuss,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Spielberg tries again… Gene's name came up when Dreyfuss tried to increase his salary after two years waiting for the magic to start. The way the Hackman marriage was going it was not the right moment to be out of town for 16 weeks in a blimp hangar in Mobile, Alabama. Spielberg had told Dreyfuss the story during
and when the director hinted it could he him, Dreyfuss started bad-mouthing every actor alive. "
Pacino has no sense of humor. Nicholson's
I talked every actor
of the role!
At first, Roy Neary was a lifer in the military, suitable for Gene Hackman. Dreyfuss said "You need a child." He added: "This is the only project of mine that will be watched 100 years after we are all dead because of it's nobility - it's a grown up film about something enormously benign."
Al Pacino,
Bobby Deerfield
, 1976. Dabney Coleman suggested a titular Hackman when bringing the script to his pal, Sydney Pollack. But the director first thought of using a real superstar driver (Steve McQueen or Paul Newman (who had originally bought the rights). Instead, the director went off to make
Three Days of the Condor
with his mate, Redford. When he came back, Newman had lost interest. "I thought Al gave an extraordinary performance" opposite his lover, the "brilliant" Marthe Keller.
Robert Duvall,
The Great Santini,
1979. Hackman is the reason his agent Sue Mengers says she quit agenting. "At one point he said: 'I don't want to work for awhile.' And I said: 'Great, Gene, what's a while? Three months? Six months?' He said: 'I don't know and if I give you a date, then it's not open-ended. Then it's just a holiday.' I admired that..." Six months later he was more tempted by
True Confessions
and Mengers told him: 'They'll wait for you. What do you want? Another three months? They'll wait three months. Maybe, they'll even wait four months.' And Gene said - I'll never forget it - 'If I give a day now - even if I do a picture in six months - every day when I wake up, I'll say to myself, 'OK, only X number of days until I have to think about working.' He was not ready to commit. "
Roy Scheider,
All That Jazz
, 1979. When director Bob Fosse was convinced (by his health) not to try and play his screen self, Broadway choreographer Joe Gideon was chased and/or avoided by… Hackman, Alan Alda, Alan Bates ("too British," said Fosse), Warren Beatty (keen, but Gideon must not die at the end!), Robert Blake, Richard Dreyfuss ("afraid of the dancing"), Elliott Gould, Jack Lemmon ("too old"), Paul Newman ("Dumb of me… a terrible oversight"), Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, George Segal, Jon Voight. Scheider just grabbed the "outrageous, assaulting, melodramatic, very funny, stupid, silly, simplistic, vulgar… a wonderful movie!" Exactly.
Donald Sutherland,
Ordinary People
, 1980. "I would've loved it. I didn't turn it down, we couldn't make a deal. I wanted some points and they were willing to give me some, but not enough to make the picture feasible. Just one of those deals that fell apart."
Harrison Ford,
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Robert Duvall,
True Confessions,
1981. "Gene had been doing pictures back-to-back and he hadn't been happy with them," commented agent Sue Mengers. "He wanted a chance to renew himself and just get away from the movie business. I said: 'Gene, I totally understand'."
Harrison Ford,
Blade Runner,
1981. UK wiz Ridley Scott spent a long time sniffing out the perfect Deckard. From top notchers Hackman, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Dustin Hoffman (keen… but on making it a totally different character, of course), Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino… to such excellent journeymen as William Devane, Robert Duvall, Peter Falk, Frederic Forrest, Scott Glenn, Tommy Lee Jones, Raul Julia, Nick Nolte, Christopher Walken. Then, in sheer desperation, choices lowered to Cliff Gorman, Judd Hirsch. Even the Virginian Morgan Paull stood a chance, having played Deckard in Scott's tests of potential Rachaels. (He was given Holden for his pains). Plus Arnold Schwarzenegger, not yet seen as
, much less
. And for probably the last time in such an illustrious list, the fading star of Burt Reynolds.
Jack Lemmon,
, 1981. Director Costa-Gavras also asked Hackman (not right for it) and Paul Newman (fully booked up) to play the all-American parent searching for his missing US journalist son-in-law, an obvious victim of the horrendous Allende regime in Chile. Although winning Best Film and Actor at the 1982 Cannes festival,
was lacking the raw passion of
. Instead, said, Chicago cri†ic Roger Ebert, Costa "achieved the unhappy feat of upstaging his own movie, losing it in a thicket of visual and editing stunts.
Brian Dennehy,
First Blood
Jeff Goldbum,
Into The Night
, 1984. The third Blues Brother - director John Landis - wanted Hackman as his hero. Universal suits said he was not box-office. Nor was the film. Stuffed to the gills with directors playing cameos (from Jack Arnold to Roger Vadim), this was Landis' first flop.
Jon Voight,
Runaway Train
, 1986. After
, this was only the second known example of Hackman being offered same role as his old pal Hoffman - before Voight stepped in. "Hoffman was busy, Hackman busier," laughed Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky. "He'd said Yes, but was then not available in time."
Jack Nicholson,
, 1987. As William Kennedy's hobo Francis Phelan. Except, Gene had been here before in his favourite film,
Bob Hoskins,
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
, 1988. Off-the-wall casting. But then he had been Superman's nemesis, Lex Luthor.
Paul Sorvino,
Dick Tracy
, 1990. Invited to be Madonna's sugar daddy, Lips Manlis, he had a life-mask made by special effectichian John Caglione Jr. "I'd just come off a picture a couple days before and was starting another in three days. I was just too tired." Warren Beatty was disappointed. "He's Everyman on the one hand and yet, on the other, he's an Übermensch. He has a broad spectrum of gifts, a combination of sensitivity and toughness. That's why he's done what's he's done."
James Caan,
, 1990. "The idea of playing a victim didn't appeal to a lot of people," said director Rob Reiner explaining such refusniks as Hackman, Warren Beatty, Jeff Daniels, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Ed Harris, John Heard, Dustin Hoffman, William Hurt, Robert Klein, Kevin Kline, Ed O'Neill, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, John Ritter, Denzel Washington. Why did Caan agree? "I think he wanted the work."
Bob Hoskins,
Heart Condition
, 1990. Bigoted white cop haunted by having a transplant of black lawyer Denzel Washington's heart. Gene had his own cardiac problems in 1990, a heavy heart attack leading to angioplasty surgery.
Scott Glenn,
The Silence of the Lambs
Clint Estwood,
The Rookie,
1990. Closest to a
Dirty Harry
sequel after
The Dead Pool
, 1988, so it had to be Eastwood and not Hackman. Clint agreed on condition Warner backed his John Huston movie,
White Hunter, Black Heart
. He stopped shooting for a week to take
to Cannes - a welcome respite for the then record number of 80 stuntmen on Clint's biggest action enterprise.
Stuart Wilson,
Lethal Weapon 3
, 1991. Not only a Brit (like the best villains) but born in the finestg UK county of Surrey, Wilson stole the villain, crooked ex-cop Jack Travis from some powerful A-Listers: Hackman, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson. Plus four candidates for Mel Gibson's titular cop in the first of the franchise quartet: Alec Baldwin, Michael Keaton, Al Pacino, John Travolta.
James Woods,
The Hard Way,
1991. Interested when director John Badham chose Kevin Kline as the TV cop researching real cops. Michael J Fox taking over that role led to Gene's latest respite.
Charles Bronson,
The Indian Runner
, 1991. Still resting. So, for his directing debut, Sean Penn persuaded Bronson into his first film (and suicide) since the death of his wife, Jill Ireland, in 1990.
Kevin Costner,
Ed Asner,
Tommy Lee Jones,
The Fugitive
, 1993. TLJ won a support Oscar (and a sequel,
US Marshals
) as the
Les Miserables
-inspired cop Samuel Gerard, hunting Harrison Ford's Dr Richard Kimble. Jon Voight had also been suggested. A few years earlier, they would have been offered Kimble.
Anthony Hopkins,
, 1994. The
director Oliver Stone's ideas for Tricky Dicky included Warren Beatty, Tom Hanks, Tommy Lee Jones, John Malkovich, Jack Nicholson, Gary Oldman and Robin Williams. Next time around, Dan Heyda - Stone's Trini Cordoza - played Nixon in
Dennis Hopper,
, 1994. He could not be every villain in town. (Already doubling as producer and star, Kevin Costner wanted to play
hero and villain!). Also in the frame for Deacon: Gary Busey, James Caan, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L Jackson, Gary Oldman.n.
Burt Reynolds,
, 1996. Not interested in the kinky senator which helped begin Burt's comeback. Er, half-a-comeback.
Robert Forster,
Jackie Brown
, 1997. No, sir, Quentin Tarantino had promised Max Cherry to Forster, out in the cold since his
Medium Cool
Anthony Zerbe, S
tar Trek: Insurrection
, 1998. The ninth
… Director (and co-star) Jonathan Frakes was blown way by Zerbe's audition - reciting Dante's
before seguewaying into the test script. Until then, Frakes had been hoping for Hackman or Wilford Brimley for Admiral Dougherty.
James Cromwell,
, 1999. UK director Ridley Scott's choice for William Randolph Hearst in his all-star tribute to the making of
Citizen Kane.
Too pricey for cinemas, it became a smaller-budget HBO special. Very special.
Burt Reynolds,
, 1998. Hackman, Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman were first sought for what proved the unlikeliest role of all for the doldrummed Reynolds - Eli Zeal, the elderly Jewish owner of a little grocery store in what was now an African-American neighborhood. Shot over 24 days in '98, the film never found a distributor. The re-make rights we bought by Cloud Ten Pictures in 2010. To be continued…?
Jon Voight,
Pearl Harbor
, 2001. The role was majestic, his first real president after three fictional ones: FDR The script was Looney Tunes.
Cillian Murphy,
Batman Begins
Johnny Depp,
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
, 2006. Which of the three words don't you understand: I Am Retired! During 25 years in Development Hell, titular casting also included Russell Crowe, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Dustin Hoffman, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino. Tim Curry was the sole Brit considered and the most absurd notions were... Warren Beatty, Harrison Ford and Robert Redford!
Tom Cruise,
Knight and Day
, 2009. As the tepid actioner went through nine writers over the years - from
All New Enemies
Trouble Man
Wichita -
buddies Hackman and Justin Long morphed into Cruise and Cameron Diaz. And still flopped. Final title was, literally, senseless. Bollywood (re-) made it a giant hit in 2014 as
Bang Bang
… wkth Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif.
Jeremy Irons,
The Borgias
, TV, 2010. The Italian
director Tinto Brass told me he offered Pope Alexander VI to Hackman long before Irish director Neil Jordan got his film off the ground - as a TV series.
Bruce Dern,
Ten years in the making… since Nebraskan director Alexander Payne decided only one actor could be Woody, the crotchety alcoholic who thinks he's won a sweepstake. But, hey, hadn't Hackman retired ? Yeah, since
Welcome to Mooseport
, 2004. And he meant it. "The compromises that you have to make in films are just part of the beast…
It had gotten to a point where I really don't want to do it any longer."
Next? "Bruce was the first name that leapt to mind, " said Payne - while flirting with Bryan Cranston and the two Roberts (Duvall and Forster) As the director went off to make
The Descendants,
Dern was wondering when… Before shooting began in October 2012, Dern told Payne: "I've been turning in Dernsies all my life. Too damn old for that now [77], just wanna relax into a part, become that person." Dernsie was Nicholson's nickname for his pal. Plus, said daughter Laura Dern, that "something unique with a moment that only he can do." Result: Dern was voted Best Actor by Steven Spielberg's 2013 Cannes festival jury and won an Oscar nod.
Hugh Jackman,
Les Miserables
, 2011. Oh, Hollywood… Since the musical's 1985 London opening, suggestions for Jean Valjean went from the logical - Hackman, Robert De Niro, Richard Dreyfuss, William Hurt, Kevin Kline - to the preposterous: Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Christopher Walken. Plus close pals, rarely rivals, Beatty and Jack Nicholson. However, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino were far too short for the hefty hero who, in a signature scene, has to carry Cosette's lover, away from the battle of the barricades. Put it another way, Hollywood's last Valjean had been Liam Neeson - 6ft. 4in.
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