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Preparing for the Season
By Melinda Minton
July 10, 2006
Melinda Minton is a spa consultant and health and beauty expert in Fort Collins, CO. Minton is the founder of The Spa Association, an organization dedicated to enriching the professional beauty industry through self-regulation, education and sound business practices.
Fall is a time of renewal and traditionally the beginning of the busy season for both clubs and spas. Vacations are over, kids are back in school and club members are flocking to the gym again for the fall and winter months. Gearing up for the season takes many forms, which equals a great deal of opportunity for profitability.
Key Treatments. Fall is the time to slough off summer tans and prepare the skin for hydration. Pumpkin glycolic peels, for instance, smooth the skin, refine pores, eliminate hyperpigmentation and prepare the skin for both moisturizers and makeup. Full body exfoliation in the form of a sugar or salt scrub is an excellent preparation for winter faux tanning. Of course, massage is an all- time favorite but is especially popular in the winter months. Try offering a bit of excitement to a massage by using warming essential oils in the massage cream or carrier oil like ginger, black pepper, coriander or black pine. These oils loosen the muscles and allow for a more effective session. Detoxifying services are always popular, but many individuals enjoy them on a seasonal or quarterly basis. A detoxifying body wrap with dry brushing and oil application is an ideal way to cleanse the lymphatic system while also exfoliating and hydrating. An added benefit is that most body wraps result in a bit of weight loss. Whatever you choose to offer, promote it well within the club. Try using a separate mini menu for seasonal treatments to catch the eye of members. Newsletter and Web placement are also considerations.
"Gifting."With the holiday season just around the corner, it's never too soon to begin promoting your spa's gift options. Gift certificates are an obvious choice, but many become overwhelmed by the various options on a spa menu. Prepare a gift certificate package brochure with five or so packages comprised of your favorite treatments for the holidays. Try to offer a gift with the larger packages like a skin sampler kit or full-sized home care items. Make the packages in various sizes and price points to create a range of choices. As the holidays approach, make these cards available at the front desk and in locker rooms. Make gift baskets of various prices readily available as well. Displaying information about your spa in the reception area or front portion of the club brings attention to not only your spa but also the gift opportunities of the season
Demonstrations.On busy days, offer seated massage, hand rejuvenation therapies, reflexology and similar mini services to promote the full service therapies offered in the spa as well as get members who might not otherwise know about the spa considering purchasing a gift certificate or trying out a treatment on their own. Mini therapies also encourage retail sales. Displaying gift baskets, home care, treatment items and general retail at the front desk is another easy way to direct member attention to the spa. Consider burning spa candles at the front desk and offer spa products in your locker rooms as an additional way to remind guests of your spa and the goodies sold within.
Work Your Spa In. Getting the spa synchronized with the rest of the club is crucial. Invite returning and new members to the spa using your staff and services. Ask the front desk team to make mention of the spa and its current promotions. Encourage group exercise leaders to make the spa a part of regular announcements. Have personal trainers recommend spa treatments that compliment each client's particular fitness program. For example, if a client is working on the tone of their torso or legs, a body wrap would be appropriate to detoxify, tone and lose inches in specific areas. Likewise, a client seeking wellness and general anti-aging benefits would seek an anti-aging facial or peel to rejuvenate, hydrate and nourish their skin.
No matter what approach you take to the season, include your spa in everything the club focuses on. Your spa can be a significant profit center but only if you focus on promoting it. Make this fall and winter your best season yet by starting on it now.


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While many people seem to have varying options about electric vehicles, the younger generation seems to be excited about the prospect of cars running on electricity. No matter what kind of car it is they approve of having all electric cars. Electric vehicles do have many benefits such as great fuel mileage and great efficiency, and this seems to be a great point to many young people.
Why the Fascination?
Since electric vehicles seem to run silently and be an innovative vehicle, it seems to have beaten out the older days of engines that shook the ground with their rumblings. Today it seems that silence is more important and leaves quiet time for thinking. Today's young people seem to have a fascination with a style that allows quietness and uniqueness instead of conformity.
Just Thinking…
If young people enjoy these electric vehicles so much then perhaps it is time to start catering to them. Today many companies are creating electric cars for kids. These types of vehicles are very popular and even parents seem to enjoy what they have to offer. Electric vehicles for kids are far beyond the light foot powered kid cars of yester years!
The Issue of Weight and Safety
Among adults one concern that many people have with electric vehicles surrounds the issues of safety and weight. Various countries have electric vehicles of various models that are being used but most of them fail when it comes to passing safety tests in America. While the batteries in electric vehicles do add some weight to the vehicles, the electric cars are still quite light, which of course does make them more efficient.
One electric vehicle that was made by Chrysler a few years ago was actually not much more than a golfing car that had been re-worked. There was a lot of marketing done for the vehicle but many seemed disinterested in this product. Although the product really did not sell, the company did meet certain goals that it found important.
Driving around town usually results in traveling slower, and many times electric vehicles are great for these lower speeds. In the future, there may be electric vehicles that weight more, and then perhaps they will be able to meet the safety standards of the United States. Although it has not happened yet, one can still hope. In spite of the disadvantages, many young people are still interested in electric vehicles and perhaps in the future there will be greater success with these vehicles in America.

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When Chiba Institute of Technology students build a radio controlled Molga from the Zoids universe, they needed something to control it. That something was a PS2 DualShock 2.
During the early 1980s, Zoids mecha model kits launched in Japan and have since gone on to spawn anime, manga, and video games.
Of course, game controllers are widely used as controllers in robotics. Earlier this year, American researchers brought an Xbox 360 controller to manipulate a bot at the Fukushima nuclear site.
Some college students try to stop diseases. Others master dead languages. Students at the Chiba Institute of Technology build remote controlled robotic larva. Bless them.
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CARMEL, N.Y. -- The aunt of the girl who claims she was twice raped by Alexandru Hossu testified Thursday that the girl and her brother have been seeing a therapist, struggling with the loss of both parents, most recently their mother in 2012 to a drug overdose.
Her niece, she testified, had a strained relationship with Hossu, who was her mother's boyfriend at the time of the alleged rape at her Brewster home in October 2010.
Her nephew, she said, "really liked to play video games with Mr. Hossu and he appreciated his car," while her niece "was more quiet and didn't care for him."
"You can tell by her demeanor," she said of her niece as she testified Thursday afternoon in state Supreme Court in Putnam County. "But she wasn't rude to him."
The aunt was the first witness called by prosecutors in the trial of the 36-year-old Hossu, who is the former live-in personal trainer of Putnam District Attorney Adam Levy. Hossu is from Romania and was living in the U.S. illegally.
Hossu is accused of twice raping the then-13-year-old girl in one night in her bedroom, then threatening to kill her if she told anyone.
The case attracted significant media attention after Levy, who recused his office from prosecuting it, seemingly tried to influence the defense and reportedly disclosed grand jury information to one of Hossu's lawyers — conduct Westchester County prosecutors deemed "potentially criminal."
When jurors were asked to step out Thursday afternoon, Westchester Assistant District Attorney Fredric Green raised concerns that a prosecutor from Levy's office had been in contact with the defense and was helping them.
Green, in his opening statement, said that in a "blitz" of aggression, domination and control, Hossu attacked the girl.
The girl didn't like Hossu taking the role of a father figure, Green explained.
"The evidence will show that something sassy she said to him set him off and he did not like it," said Green.
"He pushed her back onto the bed, he put a hand on her neck and he choked her as she was pinned to the bed."
"When he got off of her, he threatened her. … He said to her he would kill her if she told anyone about what had happened."
Mentzer told jurors in his opening statement that the exam specifically found "no evidence of penetration."
Her phone records were also revealing, he said.
"She was on the phone during the period of time she said she was being raped," he said.
The trial resumes Monday when the girl's aunt will continue testifying.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- While honey bee populations dwindle across the globe, Penn State researchers aim to use communication technologies to spread revolutionary beekeeping techniques that will help offset the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
CCD is an epidemic that started making headlines in 2006 when beekeepers began reporting unusual losses of 30-90 percent of their hives. Even before this phenomenon gained international attention, the number of domesticated honey bee colonies in Pennsylvania dropped from 80,000 to 30,000 in just 20 years. These sizable losses decreased the in-state production of honey by more than 2 million pounds annually – and if the trend continues, it could threaten the stability of $60 million worth of Pennsylvania's bee-dependent agriculture.
Christina Grozinger, associate professor of entomology at Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, is just one of the many local beekeeping experts creating solutions to CCD. Recently, Grozinger and her colleagues shared their methods in the annual Queen Rearing Workshop at the Arthropod Research Facility.
"The goal is to train a network of beekeepers who are capable of rearing their own queens, who also can participate in the stock evaluation program and the breeding program. Once they become familiar with these techniques then they can start educating the rest of the beekeeping community through various online resources," explained Grozinger. "By utilizing online networking opportunities, there is no limit to how many beekeepers we can connect with."
At the workshop, 12 beekeepers learned how to selectively breed queen bees that have desirable resistances to pests, parasites and harsh winter conditions. By using these experimental green methods, beekeepers can reduce or eliminate the application of pesticides that are used to combat common parasites. This is ideal not only because the pesticides are toxic to the honey bees, but because many of the parasites have become immune to the pesticides and antibiotics that once kept them at bay.
Grozinger believes that if more beekeepers learn to practice these groundbreaking strategies, then perhaps "this dark age of beekeeping" could finally come to an end. Unfortunately, the hands-on nature of the Queen Bee Rearing Workshops limits the amount of beekeepers who can participate.
These concerns are driving her interest in future applications of podcasts, educational videos and social networking sites like Facebook to create an enlightened network of beekeepers that can continue to spread, expand and provide feedback on these techniques.
Joe Deluca, a Web manager for the Eberly College of Science at Penn State, is one of many amateur beekeepers within the state who is excited about Grozinger's research and its possible social networking applications.
"I could see a lot of people making use of those resources … we certainly would consume that type of stuff if it was produced," Deluca said.
Deluca is already very much aware of the beekeeping resources that currently exist on the Internet. In his free time, he keeps a blog on his Penn State provided Web space that showcases what he learned at the Queen Rearing Workshop.
There are also online webinars provided by Brushy Mountain Bee Farm, and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium in partnership with Penn State.
"They have a video section on their website," Deluca said. "So whenever they have these webinars they record them so we can go back and check them out later. You might not be ready for raising queens yet in your second year, but maybe a year later you'll say 'Hey I'm ready to start raising queens.' You can go back to that library and listen to that webinar again."
Invaluable resources like these are similar to what Grozinger and her colleagues hope to produce, enabling any party with an interest in pollinator-sustainability to contribute to a new wave of beekeeping revival.
Though the cause of CCD is uncertain, it is clear a variety of factors are likely contributing to the overall problem. Some of these factors are parasites such as the varroa destructor mites, smaller unicellular pathogens like American foulbrood and Nosema apis, malnutrition, pesticides and possibly climate change.
Because the list of threats to the domesticated honey bees is constantly evolving, it is only logical that the goal of the Penn State Queen Rearing Workshop is to bring an unnatural acceleration to the natural selection of our pollinating allies. With the power of digital communication, Grozinger will continue to spread her department's techniques.
"It won't be easy, and it will require a large enough group of beekeepers that are cooperating with each other. It is a really long-term process, but I think that it has a huge potential in rebuilding our bee population," Grozinger said.
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Here is a card that I made using a cutie from La La Land Crafts.
I used the adorable Super Cupcake Marci for my card. A cupcake super hero is probably what I would choose to be if we celebrate Halloween! =)
I paired her with BasicGrey's super sweet Sugar Rush collection. The sentiment is from this sticker sheet by SRM Stickers. This super fun scallop die is also used on the lilac patterned paper.
That's all I have for today. Hope your day is super fun and happy! =)
Thanks for stopping by!
cardstock, buttons: Papertrey Ink
stamp: La La Land Crafts
patterned paper: BasicGrey
sentiment sticker: SRM Stickers
ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
corner rounder: Fiskars
dies: Spellbinders (scalloped oval), Tim Holtz Alterations by Sizzix (scalloped border)
die-cutting machine: Cuttlebug
other: sewing machine, thread
Copics used:
skin: E11, E01, E00, E000, R20
hair: E37, E35, E33, E31
outfit: BV02, BV00, BV000, Y35, Y32, E35, E33, E31, E51, E50, YR04, YR02


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War of the Worlds
On this day in 1938, Orson Welles performed an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds (1898). It begins with a series of factual sounding news bulletins depicting an alien invasion from Mars. The Halloween broadcast frightened many listeners, causing some people to panic and flee their homes. Yet it's like the old saying goes, "There's no such thing as bad publicity," since Orson Welles quickly became well known. The prank jump started his career into the spotlight and to this day the stunt is remembered and referenced.
In memory of this historic moment, I present to you the radio broadcast from 1938. Enjoy!
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Those applying for unemployment insurance in Wisconsin will be required to register with the state's job-search website starting Oct. 13.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development on Friday announced the new requirement.
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A self-described nerd who, as a child, sat in the corner and drew while the other kids played dodgeball, Japanese artist Yuko Shimizu didn't always know that she wanted to be an illustrator. She spent 11 years doing public relations for a corporation in Tokyo before escaping to New York for art school. And after graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 2002, she gradually amassed an impressive roster of clients including The New Yorker and Playboy. Her style is surreal and sexy, combining the language of Japanese woodblock prints with the grammar of graphic novels. Here, Shimizu talks about which artists she worships, what advice she would give to young illustrators, and why she'd rather stay away from the animation world.
What do you say when people ask you, 'What do you do?'
I used to say, "I'm an illustrator" when I started out, and I realized nobody knows what illustrators do -- unless you're a children's book illustrator. So now I say I draw pictures for magazines and newspapers, which people seem to understand.
What new idea or innovation is having the most significant impact on the illustration world?
The Internet. It sounds dumb, but before the Internet, if you made art, you had to show it, otherwise people didn't see it; you had to show it physically. Now, you make art and, even if you're someone who's not a professional artist and you make great art in the middle of nowhere, you put it online and, if the work is good, people start talking about it and linking to you. It's as simple as that.
I started in 2002 when not everyone had a website and blogs; I started out in that transitional period. The Internet has helped a lot to establish me as a working illustrator, making a living from it. For people who started a little bit before me, it took five years, ten years to establish themselves because they had to physically bring their work around to show to magazines and newspapers. Now students do their work, they put it up online, and next thing you know, anyone from anywhere in the world can see it.
What's something that most people just don't understand about your field?
It is art, but it is also about running a small business. You can do amazing artwork, but if you're unreliable and irresponsible or can't keep track of your paperwork, you can't succeed as an illustrator. I'm in my studio a lot working, but actually half of the time, I'm doing my paperwork and organizing and talking to clients. Actually, it's half art and half running a small business.
What's an emerging trend that you think will shake up the art or illustration world?
People say it's animation. A lot of illustrations get animated because of the online presence -- you know, iPad and all the tablets that are new; you have a more interactive quality than before.
But trends are trends; they come and go. I try not to get too caught up in the trends. Right now, definitely, animating your drawings seems like the hot thing. But I also think that good, static drawings and paintings will probably not go away. And I do not do animation. The best animation from illustrators always comes from illustrators doing the character design and the professional animators animating them. There are artworks that are easier to translate into animation, and some that are not. And I guess my work is not that easy. It's not animation-friendly.
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What's an art or illustration trend that you wish would go away?
Whatever is a trend, I wish it would go away. There's always something that's very popular right now, at this moment. And a lot of people go, "Oh my God, there's a goldmine out there!" and they try to do it. And a lot of people's work starts to look the same. And those people might get work at that point, but then the trend goes away, and then the next thing comes along, and you're not in fashion anymore. I feel it's a bit sad to chase the trend -- any trend. Especially for young people who want to be illustrators, I hope they just do their own things and do not chase the trend.
What's an idea you became fascinated with but that ended up taking you off track?
Well, for the last two and a half months, I haven't been taking on any new work. I'm working on a children's book. It's my first children's book. And it's hard. It's a lot of pictures that are based on the same theme. I'm so used to doing magazines and newspapers and book covers, and it starts and ends with one image -- or five images at the most. This is the whole book from start to finish. It is taking a lot of time. I'm still working on it.
Who are some people that you'd put in the illustration Hall of Fame?
Definitely Edel Rodriguez. He does a lot of diverse work. Lots of great concept and political work. Very simple graphics but strong. Tim O'Brien, who also does a lot of political things -- lots of Time covers. Super realistic, almost like photos. He does a lot of portraits for Time when there is no good photo of that person around. He did a great cover of Qaddafi recently. And Steve Brodner. Most of these are all the political illustrators. I think they're great.
What other field or occupation did you consider going into?
I used to do PR for a big corporation in Tokyo -- drawing was always my hobby. I worked there for 11 years. It was always a hobby, and now it's my occupation. I didn't hate the PR job. The job itself was fine. I didn't belong in the corporate world, especially the Japanese corporate world. Women weren't treated that well. I haven't been there in 15 years, so it might have changed, hopefully, but still, it's a difficult place for women.
At first, I didn't know what else I wanted to do. It took me 10 years to figure out that I wanted to be a professional artist. Also, I wanted to come to art school in New York. I needed a lot of money for my tuition and living expenses, so I ended up staying in that job so I saved up enough money; international students cannot take student loans. Looking back, it was the best thing because I graduated and didn't owe anyone any money, which was great.
What iPhone app or program most helps you do your job on a daily basis?
I do not have an iPhone. I'm the last person on Earth who has a flip phone. So an iPhone app doesn't apply. I use Photoshop to color all my drawings, so none of my illustration work can be finished without Adobe Photoshop. That is one program I cannot live without.
What song's been stuck in your head lately?
People think I listen to music when I work. I actually work with WNYC on because I'm in my studio by myself. Usually, some interview that I listen to on WNYC is stuck in my head, not music. Actually, there was an interview with Chris Isaak a few days ago. That was good, all the Elvis songs that he made -- maybe those.
Image: Yuko Shimizu.
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The capacity for self-deception, rarely acknowledged or understood by those who offer us supernatural answers to our problems, is huge: as easy as it is to make a mediums cold-reading statements fit our own situation and come to believe that he must have some paranormal insight, it is hardly any more difficult for a would-be psychic with an average ego, upon hearing frequently positive feedback, to believe over time that he must be blessed with a special gift. Its harder to think youre doing it for real when youre tossing tambourines in the dark or have ready-made ectoplasm stuffed into your mouth or bottom.Derren Victor Brown
The whole picture is complicated by the stockists and merchants who will try to exploit any shortages that may appear. The result is this. The feedback information from the industry's environment consists, first and foremost, of a forward order load. Much of this "demand for steel" will be bogus.Anthony Stafford Beer
All effective and engaging learning experiences provide frequent and meaningful feedback. Without feedback on whether or not one is getting closer to a goal, progress is unlikely.Unknown
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.Fritjof Capra
You need to know about customer feedback that says things should be betterBill Gates
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The development of the Watt governor for steam engines, which adapted the power output of the engine automatically to the load by means of feedback, consolidated the first Industrial Revolution.Anthony Stafford Beer
The main thing is that you have a good editor - one that believes in you and who will give you the feedback that you need to produce a good book.Christopher Darden
Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.Penelope Leach
People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.Anthony Robbins
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.Peter Maxwell Davies
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.Brian Aldiss
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About 100 million of Facebook users aren't even human -- instead they are pets, brands or companies, according to a recent study.
eMarketer, an Internet market research company, reported that only 889.3 million of Facebook's 1 billion users are real people, and the social network won't truly reach 1 billion human users until next year, according to the Daily Mail.
One famous nonhuman would be Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's dog, Beast, who has more than a million fans. Another interesting page is of the Facebook foxes, a family of foxes that live on the Facebook campus, that has more than 8,000 likes. The page features numerous pictures of baby foxes, or kits that members of the community share.
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Animals are compelling subjects (see Biggest Loser, Doxie Edition to see what we mean), but there are probably far more companies, brands and goofy Facebook pages that would qualify as nonhuman. For every Grumpy Cat, there are probably four or five brands of liquor or shoes vying for eyeballs.


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Here are some local critters from my old stomping grounds, even a couple of the 2 legged kind. I hope you enjoy them.
Here are some local critters from my old stomping grounds, even a couple of the 2 legged kind. I hope you enjoy them.
What else can I say? I am blessed in the midst of a crazy world. Life isn't easy but you can find ways to enjoy it if you try and look for the good things in your life and spend less time thinking about the negative. I can be moody and grumpy but these days I am managing to keep my sanity and a smile most days. I hope this short piece will prompt you to find some silver linings amongst the dark clouds you encounter. Here are some of my bright spots today.
1. I am newly married to a wonderful woman who loves me for who I really am, in spite of who and what I can be at times, and who can see through the muck and find the heart of me, which really isn't a bad thing after all.
2. I have family members who love me and while there are some who struggle with me at times, I still love them and am confident that one day, we will be on the same page again.
3. I still have both my parents and am excited to go see them and celebrate their 50th Anniversary next month.
4. I married into a great group of people who have accepted me unreservedly and I now have more people to get to know and love.
5. They say if you have 1 or 2 true friends in your life, you are a lucky person. I guess I won the lottery. Though they are small in number, I have some very special old friends that I can call anytime day or night and they are there, ready and willing. I may not see them for months but as soon as we are together, it's like we never missed a beat.
6. While some folks cannot stand the people they work with, I am extremely fortunate to have a great group of coworkers. My work friends are like family. They took care of me while I was undergoing cancer treatment. We laugh as hard as we work and enjoy getting together on the weekends. We are friends more than colleagues and that is too rare in today's work world.
7. I have a wonderful job that allows me to help amazing people every day who are battling cancer and the after-effects of treatment. In additon to the reward that in itself brings, I am daily provided opportunities to expand my knowledge, so I am never bored. I really do learn something new every day.
8. Finally, I am repeatedly given the opportunity to teach others to do what I do. It is humbling and an honor to be able to share of what I know so that someone can help another person who is suffering. To me, that is a very special thing, I love being alowed to do it, and I never take it for granted.
Examine your mind and your life and find those things that make you feel alive. Then tell someone about it instead of talking about how bad your day was. It will make you (and those around you) feel better. Who knows, you might even smile!
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Rob Zombie is known for making loud music. But now he just wants some quiet.
A few months ago, a small skate park opened at Hollow Park in Woodbury, Conn., near where the musician-turned-filmmaker lives with his wife, Sheri Moon Zombie.
According to Patch, Moon Zombie complained about noise from the skate park at a town meeting in June. As a result, hours at the park have been drastically reduced, and now some are raising questions about whether the Zombies' celebrity status contributed to the rule changes. Others are claiming that Rob Zombie just hates children.
The former White Zombie frontman took to Facebook on Thursday to respond to the criticism.
"There is a simple matter going on in which we are trying to find a solution that will make EVERYBODY happy," Zombie wrote. "Unfortunately someone decided to turn it into a whole ugly event. What a bummer."
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(AP) -- Nolan Arenado hit his first major league home run, and Wilin Rosario and Dexter Fowler also homered, as the Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 12-2 on Monday night.
Arenado, one of the Rockies' top prospects playing in his second big league game, had his first three hits. His two-run homer in the fourth made it 12-0.
Tyler Chatwood (1-0) shut out the Dodgers over six innings, striking out five with no walks. He also had three hits and two RBIs.
Dodgers starter Ted Lilly (0-1) was finished after three innings, allowing five runs (four earned) and eight hits. Josh Wall fared even worse, giving up seven runs and eight hits in two innings. The Dodgers used five relievers in all, including utility infielder Skip Schumaker, who pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
Jerry Hairston Jr. hit a two-run homer for the Dodgers.
The Rockies were playing without cleanup hitter and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, taking a day off with a sore left shoulder. They didn't miss the All-Star, jumping on Lilly in the first inning. The first four batters hit the ball hard.
Fowler led off with a homer, Jordan Pacheco singled and Carlos Gonzalez doubled. Rosario followed with a three-run homer to make it 4-0 before Lilly could retire a batter.
Lilly was making just his second start of the season since returning from offseason shoulder surgery. He fared better his first time out, giving up one run and six hits in five innings of what became a 7-3 loss to the Mets.
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Lilly came into the game 10-2 against the Rockies in 14 career starts, including six consecutive victories.
Lilly walked Fowler to force home a run in the third.
The Rockies scored five runs off Wall in the fourth inning, which included a two-run single by Chatwood, his third hit of the game. And when Pacheco had the fifth hit of the inning -- a two-run double -- the Rockies led 10-0.
In the fourth inning, Chatwood hit Matt Kemp with a pitch that appeared to deflect off the earflap of Kemp's helmet. Kemp went down, but was able to stay in the game. He immediately went first to third on a single by Andre Ethier, but was left stranded there as Chatwood struck out Skip Schumaker and got Luis Cruz to hit into a force play.
NOTES: Dodgers SS Hanley Ramirez (thumb) was activated from the disabled list Monday and could start Tuesday, which happens to be Hanley Ramirez bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium. Ramirez got his first at-bat of the season in Monday's game, coming up as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning. He struck out. ... In order to make room on the roster for Ramirez, the Dodgers placed pitcher Clayton Kershaw on the bereavement list. ... Fowler extended his hitting streak to eight straight with his fifth career leadoff home run. ... Dodgers LHP Chris Capuano, on the disabled list since April 17 with a strained left calf, with begin a rehab assignment at Class-AAA Albuquerque on Wednesday.
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Not many people think they have what it takes to have a great landscaped property. What many people fail to realize is that you don't have to have an elaborate design or lots of plants. A clean and manicured look is all you need. This article will show you how to make that a reality.
Before you start a new landscaping project, you might want to make a sketch of your plans. By sketching out the details first, you can have a much clearer idea of what you are aiming for and what project items you will need. It is also much easier to adjust a sketch than it is to adjust your actual lawn and yard.
If you want to transform your yard, try re-edging your flower and rock beds using a soft, curved design. Curved borders create much more interest than the straight borders of the past. It doesn't cost much to cut fresh edges, but it can make your lawn and your flower bed look a whole lot nicer.
If you are a beginner to landscaping, examine the older trees on your property to ensure they are safe and are not falling down. In order to protect your home or other items on your property, you may want to hire a professional tree limber that can ensure the safety of the property.
You should know that prices fluctuate from one season to the other. You should compare prices for the materials you need and wait for the right moment to buy them. Buying in large quantities is also a good way to save money: do not be afraid to stock materials you know you will use later.
Having a well-groomed front yard will make the curb appeal of your house gain some serious points in the neighborhood. A well-groomed back yard will give you the outdoor space that you desire for family functions, entertaining or just relaxing on your own. This article has shown you ways to accomplish all of this.
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Let me fill you in on my unfortunate journey with Final Fantasy and their creators, Square Enix.
To start with, there were major issues with servers overloaded for the first week after game launch, resulting in the inability to log into the game. Square Enix obviously had very poor capacity planning and in hindsight, the warning bells should have been ringing for me at this stage.
In any case, after about a week the server overload problem subsided. I proceeded to play the game for almost two weeks and the stopped playing since it was not the game for me.
About 1 week later, I received a curious, automated email from them:
They went on to say that that I had violated two clauses of their agreement - 1. that I was not truthful with my registration information and 2. that I had participated in real money trading, farming or power-leveling.We are writing to inform you that we have suspended the FINAL FANTASY XIV service account registered to this e-mail because on 9/24/2013 you breached the FINAL FANTASY XIV User Agreement.
Being the security guy and strongly expecting this to be a bogus phishing email, I decided not to click on any links in this email. I went to my game login and tried to login. To my surprise, my account had indeed been disabled.
So how did I breach their user agreement? I did not play on 9/24/2013 (or any day either side of this), nor was I in anyway dishonest with my registration info.
I could only conclude that my account had been compromised.
To have had my account compromised, the attacker would have had to either got hold of my login and then done a dictionary attack on the password or they would have needed to compromise the Square Enix user database. You might be surprised to know that MMO's allow multiple password attempts so that you can't purposely deny another player access by locking out their account with failed password attempts. Consequently, a dictionary attack on the password is quite feasible.
If someone had compromised the Square Enix user database then it is very difficult to confirm this unless the company discloses it.
If their systems have a problem then it is likely that more people would have been affected. A google search for "Final Fantasy XIV ARR account suspension" came up with a lot hits. One great example quotes "it looks like there have been waves of people getting hacked since launch":
So it appeared that I was not the only one suffering here.
I then discovered a recent news post from Square Enix warning users that they are seeing accounts compromised:
I decided to try and follow the instructions in my breach notification email in the hope that their tech support team may see the error in their ways and provide great customer service and sort this out painlessly for me. How wrong I was.Currently, we have confirmed that a third party is using account names and passwords, thought to be obtained from security breaches of other companys' online services, in attempts to gain unauthorized access to Square Enix accounts.If you are using the same account name or password as your Square Enix account on other online services, there is a much greater chance that a security breach at any of the other online services could potentially lead to your Square Enix account being compromised. source
I started by resetting my Square Enix account password - this was a fairly seamless process. I then raised a support case. I received any automated reply to my support case.
Seven days later, I finally received a response from a support person offering to open an investigation for me if I were to send them my date of birth, my email address and a copy of my passport or driver's license. I asked them to re-instate my account without me having to send private information to them just so they can investigate. I was not comfortable sending my passport info to a company that clearly had issues with their security systems.
I get a reply another four days later saying they cannot help unless I identify myself. Meanwhile my one month of included subscription time has just expired and I was definitely not prepared to invest any more time and money with this organization. While I understand their need to identify legitimate users, they clearly need to get their support and security systems sorted first.
For the record, my biggest issue here is with the slowness of their customer service team. My second biggest issue is the fact that I paid money, had my account compromised and then had to wait long periods of time to get any help at all. MMO accounts get compromised, especially those without a security token - but all I wanted to do was play the game for my first month to decide if I would continue with it - at which point I would have certainly attached a token to it.
I highly recommend you re-consider participating in any online products from Square Enix until they can prove that they have the skills to run a MMO. Their lack of capacity planning, poor customer service and apparent security issues are the reasons I won't be going back to them in a hurry. If you must play their games, be sure to add a security token to your account!
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Maybe it's the fact that I went to public school … or I'm just plain stupid. I just can't understand how Marc Bell, CEO of Penthouse Media Group Friend Finder Network, is going to make a bid on ailing quasi-competitor Playboy this afternoon. He just doesn't have the money.
At the beginning of the year, Bell announced that he was desperately trying to take FFN public – his second attempt at recapitalizing the over-leveraged debacle. In 2008, he tried for the first time, having seen more than $400 million in long-term debt reclassified as short-term debt likely because of a busted loan covenant. The only reason FFN hasn't collapsed, I suspect, is because the investors just have too much capital committed.
FFN's problems began back in 2007, when it was still Penthouse, and Marc Bell led the acquisition of Various, Inc. for the princely sum of $401 million. Credit markets were still a bit loose, and PET, the fund that pumped cash into Penthouse when Bell took the company over from Bob Guccione, was able to load up to acquire Various, which was much larger than Penthouse. Various owned, well, various dating sites, including FriendFinder.com and AdultFriendFinder.com.


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To sponsor a farm animal today, choose the type of animal who's right for you and complete the monthly sponsorship registration form. Sponsors make a year-long commitment to a shelter animal and make monthly, quarterly, or annual payments. In return, you will receive a sponsorship certificate with a color photograph of your sponsored friend, and other benefits depending on your animal. Private tours to visit sponsored animals can be scheduled during visitor season and otherwise as staffing permits. You may also wish to consider sponsoring a Farm Sanctuary animal for your friends and family as a special gift sponsorship.
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While a great cover can attract a shopper's eye at the supermarket checkout or draw one's attention to it among the shelves of books at your favorite bookstore, the importance of crafting a catchy, creative title to grab that prospective reader's attention has never been greater.
Which brings me to my blog topic this week--and, sadly, to a weakness I must own up to. Most authors have areas they struggle with (and only their critiques partners know for sure). For some writers, it's pacing. For others it's point of view. Still others find writing sex scenes challenging. For me, it's titles. For the most part I suck at titling books. And while I realize I'm not alone here, (I've seen some 'gag-me' titles that had me going 'what were they thinking?') this shortcoming frustrates me just the same.
The first 'hairball' title I produced still causes twitters among my children. A short category romance, I titled it Chance for a Lifetime. A little sappy but not too terribly bad -- until you found out the hero's name was 'Chance.' See what I mean? Bleah. The next book I wrote--a romantic comedy with a divine touch--had what I thought was the perfect title. Apparently so did another author who gave her book the very same title. Unfortunately for me she managed to sell her book first. So it was back to the drawing board for a new 'perfect' title. It took me another year to come up with Fiancé at her Fingertips. I eventually learned to love the title. It's a good thing, too, as this book recently sold and will be my first non-Calamity Jayne release for Dorchester Publishing.
And now we come to Calamity Jayne. First off, I love the title of the first book. It totally fits the story. You'll like it more, too, when you hear my original working title for this project.
Ahem. Clang, clang! Hairball alert! Butt ugly title ahead!!
Okay, here goes. I originally called the book Ditz. That's right. Ditz. Hey, I warned you it wasn't going to be pretty. You see, when I'm writing, I must have a working title. Thankfully I lost this gem about four chapters into the book and never looked back. Next was Calamity Jayne Rides Again. That was my working title and I was okay with it. It fit the theme of the book and had the nickname recognition going for it. Then came, Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun, a fitting, yet fun, title. Book four of the Tressa Jayne Turner series, Calamity Jayne Goes to College (a play on the old Ronald Reagan Bonzo Goes to College flick), brought back the now familiar Calamity Jayne moniker. And with Tressa and the Grandville Gang heading to the southwest in the upcoming fifth book in the series, I figured a working title of Calamity Jayne Heads West would work. It worked well enough I got to keep it but now I find myself wishing I had dug a little deeper to come up with something a bit more compelling. Less ho hum.
Which brings me to my sixth Calamity caper. It features a truly inspired title. Anchors Aweigh! Yep. That spelling is correct and the only other thing I'm saying is that it's dead on, folks. Hehe.
After ten books you'd think I'd develop a knack (a trick even) for crafting cute, clever titles, wouldn't you? I have been practicing though. The final Saturday of RWA National Conference this past summer after the Awards Gala I spent a number of hours in the Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby in Dallas with friends trying to come up with ideas for a series in development. Things got a little out of hand. Too little sleep combined with too much chocolate, I'm afraid and the results were--suspect. But what happens in Dallas, stays in Dallas. Right, ladies?
So what do you like in a title? For those of you who write, how do you all generate titles? Do you always have a working title for each project? How often are your titles keepers?
Looking down the road a piece my seventh Calamity Jayne book involves a cross country bicycle ride, a tandem bicycle, spandex --and, naturally, more than a few potholes.
I'm already experiencing title trauma.
~Kathy 'Bullet Hole' Bacus~


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WILSONVILLE, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 29, 2013 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced its newest version of the Mentor® Embedded Sourcery™ CodeBench embedded software development tool, integrated with the award-winning Sourcery Analyzer tool and Ashling Vitra-XD trace probe. Embedded developers now have the ability to more fully understand and optimize software functionality and performance by continuously observing their entire embedded system including hardware, firmware, operating system, and application layers.
"Our latest version of Sourcery CodeBench gives developers powerful insight into their embedded software," said Mark Mitchell, general manager of open source tools, Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. "Along with the Ashling Vitra-XD trace probe, developers now have the necessary software analysis and high-speed, extended software trace and debugging capabilities to design systems that meet the performance and functional needs of today's multi-core embedded systems."
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The new release of Sourcery CodeBench also offers new device support libraries for ARM Cortex-M4 core devices, improved support for ARM fixed-point units, and board support for Texas Instruments Stellaris LM4F120, STMicroelectronics STM32 F4 series, and Mentor Graphics® CDD926 Virtual Target used with the Mentor Embedded Sourcery Probe Virtual.
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When used with Sourcery CodeBench, the Ashling Vitra-XD probe provides long-duration, non-intrusive, real-time trace of instruction execution and data access. The Ashling Vitra-XD has the industry's largest on-device trace buffer with a 500GB hard drive plus a 2GiB memory buffer, allowing users to record instruction execution and data access for an extended period of time and to capture events leading up to software problems, at faster capture rates. The ability to collect long-duration, real-time trace data is most important for applications which cannot tolerate the interruptions typically induced by typical probes which must slow data collection and quickly fill small trace buffers. Traditional techniques such as breakpoint debugging can disrupt the operation of advanced or complex systems in ways that can be avoided by using the Ashling Vitra-XD trace probe.
"The combination of the Ashling Vitra-XD trace probe and Sourcery CodeBench provides an unprecedented level of trace, inspection, and debugging capabilities for real-time, trace-based debugging," said John Murphy, managing director of Ashling Microsystems, Ltd. "The Vitra-XD delivers fast trace capture rates of up to 12.8 gigabits per second—almost 50% faster than traditional probes—and the capacity to non-intrusively capture hours of trace data for more accurate system debug and analysis results."
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The problem is feminism has started to lean towards the bullshit Rebecca Watson type nonsense. Rebecca Watson as an individual actively disgusts me, as she flies first class on other peoples' dimes (something that 95% of the population will never experience in their lives), then has the gall to stand up on a stage and say how she's being oppressed.
Ahahaha oh shit.Gamersgate accidentally sold a ~95 dollar bundle of Bethesda games for 28 dollars. Apparently the flood of people trying to buy it is what knocked GG offline last night.
Apparently armadillos are taking over the entire world because they just fucking HAPPEN.
Also had the weirdest fucking nightmare that was a mixture of that anime Chihayafuru and Corpse Party.
I've found Amazon to be hit or miss in regards to that. Sometimes they'll cancel and sometimes they'll let me have it. I'm guessing that it depends on how many people discover it before they get it fixed. I've picked up $22 books for $2, a $90 set of Beethoven's piano sonatas for $15 and the God of War Saga for $15 last time.


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Any News?
Posted at 1:00 p.m.
Let's see. Any news in camp?
Yes, Brad Lidge hurt his knee in BP yesterday. Ken Mandel, beat writer for phillies.com, will cover the news on this front when it is available.
How do we disseminate news of this kind? Once we receive the test results, Ruben Amaro (Assistant GM) and Scott Sheridan (head athletic trainer) brief the media. We hold off commenting until we have the results and facts.
There's no need to panic. Better to have injuries now rather than in August or September. Ideally, no injuries are the preference. But that is unrealistic in any sport.
Golf Time
The annual golf outing for the team is this afternoon, weather-permitting. (Scattered thunderstorms are predicted).
12 different captains held a draft on Friday of players and staff who wanted to play golf. John Ennis is the defending champion captain. "I've got a pretty good team (Clay Condrey, Chris Coste, Joe Bisenius, Ron Chiavacci and Gene Dias (CR Director)," bragged Ennis.
Where should we check out the tourney? ESPN? Golf Channel? Comedy Channel?
"My team will be on the golf channel but some of the teams will definitely qualify for the comedy channel," laughed Ennis.
Mick Billmeyer is another captain. He selected Mike Compton, Carlos Ruiz, Chris Wheeler and Shane Victorino. "I've got a team of jockeys (all are under 6-feet tall)" Billmeyer joked after the draft. Then, Ryan Howard walked in to say he forgot to sign up but wanted to play. Mick quickly added Howard to his team. "Now, I've got the big horse."
Cynthia Sass, a nutritionist, spoke to the entire camp this morning. She was brought on board a year ago to stress the importance of eating properly. Healthy food options for the players in the clubhouse and on charter flights replaced previous menus . . . TBS TV was here to tape promo spots with some of the players for use on the national telecasts this season . . . Friday night's PhanFest at Bright House Field raised $16,288. The proceeds will be divided between Clearwater For Youth, Clearwater Little League and the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast . . . Tomorrow is the final day of the daily workouts as the games begin on Tuesday night with Florida State University. Game time is 7:05 p.m.
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I know I am not the only fan that would love to see the golf outing. Comcast should cover it. It would be better to watch than the Flyers.
I would also enjoy watching it. Perhaps they could add a charity element to it and televise it while they raise money. Sorry, that is the MBA in me coming out!
I am anxious to hear about Brad Lidge's knee. Hopefully he is just feeling some of the normal pains a person feels rehabbing from this injury.
Thanks for the updates!
The games start tomorrow… For me that's reason for excitement.
The Lidge situation isn't ideal, but it could be worse. He'll be back before we know it.


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Paula Deen, whose empire built on plainspoken folksiness is crumbling under the most unwholesome of words, tellingly sought refuge in a colloquialism during her interview Wednesday on "Today."
"I is what I is," the suddenly former TV chef tearfully told Matt Lauer.
The phrase – by turns oddly charming and perhaps unintentionally revealing, saying nothing while perhaps saying it all – typified the extraordinary interview, which followed news of Deen's past use of the N-word.
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For Deen, who has spent countless hours on television serving up Southern-style comfort food, the appearance marked the most painful – and crucial – 13 1/2 minutes of tube time in her career. For Lauer and millions of NBC viewers, the Deen sitdown delivered 13 1/2 minutes of riveting television – packing a raw, emotional intensity unlike other, slicker celebrity apology tours.
Maybe that's partly because Deen, who posted a pair of mea culpa YouTube videos last week, didn't do much actual apologizing in her conversation with Lauer. "I have never, with any intention, hurt anybody on purpose" was the closest she got.
She cried – a lot. The tears seemed as real as the 66-year-old grandma's carefully crafted homespun TV persona, no more so than when she invoked the Bible.
"If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wished they could take back, if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me," Deen declared with an almost chilling conviction.
The power of a familiar figure weeping before us, as we've learned from Oprah, can't be underestimated. It was difficult to tell at times, though, whether Deen was crying for herself, for those she may have hurt – or for both. She spent much of the interview playing a combination of offense and defense, insisting she's no racist and decrying the "lies" against her.
Deen described spewing the slur "a world ago" after a black man put a gun to her head during a bank robbery in the 1980s. But she denied other uses and didn't directly address her alleged plans for a "Southern plantation-style wedding."
She tried to turn the conversation to young people's "distressing" use of the N-word. That echoes the defense of many of her supporters, but comes across to some critics as a false equivalency.
Getting a handle on how the interview might help or hurt Deen, who lost her Food Network show because of the controversy, is as slippery as the butter that's the star of her culinary repertoire. For a woman who parlayed a simple approach to cooking into a fortune, she's put herself in a mess that reflects the complicated racial history of a country now split between those she's offended and those who defend her.
Paula Deen is what she is – which is open, as we've seen in recent days, to vast interpretation. Whether she changed any minds during her 13 1/2 minutes with Lauer remains to be seen. Still, she's now likely to be as defined by those 13 1/2 minutes as by that ugly word she admitted to using at least once three decades ago. Check out the interview below:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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MTV Producer Gabe Ben-Meir Found with Gunshot to the Head
Gabe Ben-Meir, MTV music coordinator, mysteriously shot outside L.A. home
May 10, 2011 -- Police have yet to determine a motive in the execution-style killing of a promising young MTV producer, found dead outside his home in an affluent section of Los Angeles.
Gabriel Ben-Meir, 30, was found face down, shot at least once in the back of the head, on the sidewalk outside his Mid-Wilshire district home early Sunday morning by a neighbor.
Ben-Meir, who coordinated music for MTV shows including Ashton Kutcher's "Punk'd," had parked his BMW outside his apartment building and was shot just feet from his front door, police said.
LAPD would not say whether he had been robbed.
Ben-Meir was killed from a blast from a shotgun, reported the Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source. Police would not confirm the weapon used to ABCNews.com.
"We don't know the motive," an LAPD spokesman told ABCNews.com. "The investigation is still ongoing."
There are currently no suspects in the shooting.
MTV Producer Shot Execution Style
Neighbors near L.A.'s Miracle Mile commercial district told police they heard a single boom around 1 a.m. Sunday, but did not realize it was a gunshot. It would be more than five hours until his body was discovered.
"We were pretty shocked. This is a really nice neighborhood. Everyone in the neighborhood is always looking out for everybody," said neighbor Alexandra Jackson.
Ben-Meir worked as a music coordinator on several MTV programs including, "MTV's Ultimate Parkour Challenge," "Top Pop Group" and "Dudesons in America," broadcast on the cable network's sister station MTV2.
"We are shocked and saddened to learn about the tragic death of Gabe Ben-Meir, who was a valued member of the MTV family and a beloved and dedicated colleague and friend," MTV spokeswoman Brandi Albahary said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to his family."
Ben-Meir, a 2003 graduate of Kenyon College where he studied music and physics, was born into an entertainment industry family. His father, Nick, is an entertainment accountant. His sister Alexis manages the rock bands Sum 41 and Good Charlotte.
"We are all in terrible shock, and would appreciate anyone with any information regarding his final hours to come forward," Alexis Ben-Meir told the Los Angeles Times in an email.


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Esquire Network Greenlights Hit Series, "Car Matchmaker," For Third Season Premiering June 22, 2016
Esquire Network's Resident Car Aficionado Spike Feresten Returns to Lend His Expert Advice to Perspective Buyers Looking For The Perfect Maserati, Vintage truck, Mini Cooper, Motorcycles and More
LOS ANGELES – April 7, 2016 - Esquire Network announced today season three of the popular franchise CAR MATCHMAKER,premiering Wednesday, June 22 at 9 pm ET/PT. With 16 half-hour episodes, this season will feature consummate car guy Spike Feresten taking on an entirely new set of challenges as he draws upon his two decades of knowledge and expertise to find the perfect match for his clients, which include a couple looking to live completely off the grid for a year; an Art Director who wants a motorcycle with a sidecar for his best friend Lily the bulldog; and a retired NFL player who wants a luxury lifestyle but is now 'ballin' on a budget.' Featuring a massive range of vehicular eye candy, from a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro, to the new Lamborghini RWD Huracan, to a Classic 1978 Toyota FJ40 and a Saleen Tesla GTX, this season of CAR MATCHMAKER truly puts Spike's skills to the test.
This season, Spike visits Arch Motorcycle Company to see the company's state of the art KRGT-1, the final product of years of building and testing to develop the ultimate performance motorcycle by co-founders Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger; plus, fellow car aficionado Jerry Seinfeld comes along for the ride when CAR MATCHMAKER goes on the road, traveling to the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance event in Florida to help another buyer who has his eyes on Jerry's prized 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 IROC RSR.
In each half-hour episode of CAR MATCHMAKER, Feresten meets with someone in need of a vehicle, gets to know their personalities and preferences, and then draws upon his two decades of expertise and instinct to find three different options perfectly suited to the buyer. After taking the ultimate test drive, the perspective buyer picks their favorite vehicle and rides off into the sunset.
Whether it's Los Angeles Angels Pitcher Tyler Skaggs looking for a car that reflects his professional athlete status, while gaining the respect from his car mentor C.J. Wilson; actress Karrueche Tran searching for that fast, sexy, sleek vehicle to help her escape the paparazzi; or Genevieve Morton, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model on the hunt for her first classic American muscle car, Feresten always comes up with interesting and unique cars to meet everyone's needs.
Feresten's passion for cars began when he was a television writer for "Seinfeld" and "Late Show with David Letterman." Letterman, a car aficionado himself, was the catalyst which fueled Feresten's passion leading to him owning over 50 prized cars in his lifetime. Feresten's uncanny ability to match his celebrity friends with vehicles has made him Hollywood's consigliere of cars. Not only is Feresten a car expert, during his time on "Seinfeld," he earned three Emmy nominations, including one for his well-known "Soup Nazi" episode. In addition to "Seinfeld" and "Letterman," Feresten also hosted his own Late Night series on FOX, "Talkshow with Spike Feresten" in which he executive produced and co-wrote for the series. Feresten has also written and developed other television comedy, penning episodes of "The Simpsons," "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," and "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.
CAR MATCHMAKER is produced by Critical Content with Tom Forman, Spike Feresten and Ellen Rakieten serving as executive producers.


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Toys have communicated gender roles for generations: baby dolls and tea sets taught little girls how to be good mothers and hostesses, while building sets and trains prepared little boys for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A Stanford engineer set out to create a toy that helped little girls do what they already know: they can do anything good.
The result? GoldieBlox, a toy that lights little girls inventive spark and gives them the opportunity to explore all the possibilities for what they can be when they grow up. A set of interactive books and games, GoldieBlox is taking the pink toy aisles by storm. While we haven't played with GoldieBlox yet, we love the mission behind it: a girl is more than just a princess, they can be anything they want to be!


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(CNN) — When Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got a text from a friend asking him if he was one of the two men shown in FBI-released photos of Boston bombing suspects, his reply was short and light: LOL.
Other messages from the teenager followed, including "You better not text me" and "Come to my room and take whatever you want," according to an FBI affidavit released Wednesday. His friend took the texts as jokes, as if Tsarnaev found humor in the mere idea that he could be responsible for such horror.
But when Dias Kadyrbayev showed one of their mutual friends that last text, the friend wasn't laughing.
"He believed he would never see Tsarnaev alive again," the affidavit said of Azamat Tazhayakov.
What Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and another friend, Robel Phillipos, did next is the subject of a detailed, sometimes complex FBI affidavit released on Wednesday. That document lays out the federal case as to why the three young men, like their friend Tsarnaev, are now in federal custody.
The charges levied Wednesday do not accuse the three friends of having any involvement in the April 15 attack. Lawyers for two of the men insist that their clients are cooperating and deny any such role.
Did they suspect Tsarnaev could be responsible for such bloodshed? According to Tazhayakov's account in the affidavit, while they were eating together about a month before the bombing, Tsarnaev told them he knew how to make a bomb. Less clear, and more critical to their case, was when they concluded Tsarnaev was possibly involved in the Boston attacks, and what they did afterward.
And were their actions — both in tossing a backpack belonging to Tsarnaev and how they dealt with federal investigators — criminal? That may be decided by a jury, unless the charges are dropped or plea agreements are reached.
What is known is that the four young men — Tsarnaev, Phillipos, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov — enrolled in fall 2011 at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and became friends.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were in the United States on student visas from Kazakhstan, and spoke Russian as did Tsarnaev. Phillipos, a high school classmate of Tsarnaev, called Cambridge, Massachusetts, his home, as did Tsarnaev.
They hung out together, went out together — including to New York's Times Square, as a 2012 photo with Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and Tsarnaev showed. Kadyrbayev told investigators that he'd gotten to know Tsarnaev's family and had repeatedly gone to his home when the family lived in Cambridge.
And they spent time together after the deadly Boston Marathon blasts.
Two days after that attack, on April 17, Kadyrbayev told law enforcement officers that he drove to Tsarnaev's dormitory room on the campus of their southern Massachusetts school and texted to his friend to come down to meet him. Tsarnaev — who had noticeably shorter hair at the time, Kadyrbayev recalled — came down, the two chatted, and that was that.
Tsarnaev spent that night, until around midnight, at the New Bedford apartment of Tazhayakov. The next afternoon, Tazhayakov went to class on campus and got a ride home from Tsarnaev, the federal affidavit states.
That happened not long before 5 p.m., when the FBI released its first photos of the two Boston bombing suspects. One wore a dark baseball cap, a light collarless shirt and a dark-colored jacket. The other had a hooded sweatshirt, black jacket and a white baseball cap turned backward.
It was the latter suspect that caught Phillipos' eye. And it also got the attention of Kadyrbayev, when he got home that night and turned on the TV.
Could that be Dzhokhar?
The night of Thursday, April 18, authorities say that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were on the run — allegedly responsible for killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, carjacking a Mercedes SUV, then tossing explosives and trading gunfire with authorities on a high-speed chase through Boston suburbs.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's friends were active that night as well, some 60 miles south.
While the three 19-year-olds offered slightly different details and time frames, a common chain of events emerges from their remarks to investigators as laid out in the FBI affidavit.
At some point, they exchanged texts about the "news" and agreed to meet at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room in Dartmouth.
Tsarnaev's roommate let them in, saying Tsarnaev had left a few hours earlier, according to Kadyrbayev. It was around then that Tazhayakov says that Kadyrbayev showed them a text message from Tsarnaev that they could take whatever they needed from his room — which Tazhayakov interpreted as meaning he'd never be back.
While watching a movie, one or more of them spotted a backpack. Phillipos — who at first denied to investigators ever going to the dorm room, then later changed his story, the affidavit states — said Kadyrbayev found it when he "went through (Tsarnaev's) belongings." Inside, Phillipos noticed about seven tubular fireworks, each between 6 to 8 inches long. The fireworks' powder had been taken out.
That wasn't all they found. Kadyrbayev also came across a jar of Vaseline that he thought Dzhokhar Tsarnaev used "to make bombs," according to the affidavit.
By then, the same document states, Kadyrbayev knew Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was involved in the Marathon bombing — a judgment that his lawyer, Robert Stahl, disputed Wednesday, saying "his first inkling came much later."
Whatever their rationale — be it to help a friend or cover up for him — the three men left with the backpack. Kadyrbayev said he took Tsarnaev's laptop computer too, because he felt Tsarnaev's roommate might get suspicious if they left with the backpack alone, the affidavit states.
They all ended up at Kadyrbaye's and Tazhayakov's New Bedford apartment. There they saw the news coverage on the bombings, wallpapered with photos of the two suspects.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov "started to freak out, because it became clear from a CNN report that we were watching that (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) was one of the Boston Marathon bombers," Phillipos told investigators.
The Cambridge resident said he didn't understand much of what Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov said afterward because they talked mostly in Russian.
At some point though — Kadyrbayev said it was later that night, Tazhayakov thought it was early the following morning — Tsarnaev's backpack was put in a black garbage bag, lugged outside, and thrown in a dumpster.
This came after all three friends talked about what to do first, according to the affidavit. Phillipo's; response, for instance, to Kadyrbayev: "Do what you have to do."
A garbage truck emptied that dumpster that Friday — the same day that Tsarnaev was finally captured, hurting from apparent gunshot wounds to his head, neck and legs and hand, in the back of a boat parked in a Watertown, Massachusetts, backyard.
His friends weren't far behind in following him into federal custody.
After 10 hours of questioning that Friday, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were detained the next day on alleged visa violations, according to Stahl.
Six days later, the backpack they'd thrown away was found — this time in a New Bedford landfill. Inside was an assortment of fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a homework assignment sheet from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, among other items.
And on Wednesday, Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov and Phillipos were in court accused of covering up for their friend, and hampering an investigation into the bloody attacks that jarred a city and a nation.


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Kim Richards has found herself on the wrong side of the law, yet again.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star was arrested on Sunday for shoplifting and was subsequently released on $5,000 bail, E! News has learned.
Richards, who recently pleaded not guilty to charges of resisting arrest and battery from a run-in with the law in April, was taken to the Van Nuys Police Department, where she spent the night in jail.
She was released earlier today after being charged with a misdemeanor.
Authorities tell E! News that she stole upwards of $600 worth of items from a Target near her home in the San Fernando Valley. Security spotted her taking several items and placed her under a citizen's arrest until the police arrived on the premises.
At this time, the Van Nuys Police Department is not providing a mug shot. Police will be turning the case over to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office and prosecutors will determine whether to press charges.
Richards was previously arrested April 16 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at around 1:30 a.m. after hotel security responded to a reported fight.
At the time, Richards was described as acting belligerent with slurred speech and reeking of alcohol.
Following the arrest, she faced three misdemeanor charges: resisting arrest, public intoxication and battery on a peace officer.
Her attorney, Robert Shapiro, sent an associate to enter a not guilty plea on her behalf, as she was in a treatment facility when the hearing took place.
Following her stint in a rehab center, a source told E! News that Richards was "upbeat" but "uncertain about her future."
Entertainment Tonight was the first to report the news.


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