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by Stephanie Glaros
Type geeks will appreciate The Ampersand, a blog dedicated to "the most attractive punctuation mark of them all." Readers can submit images of ampersands, from simple to ornate, ugly to artsy.
(Thanks l'etoile.)
by Erik Helin
Following in the footsteps of fellow UK imports like the Fratellis and the Kooks, the Rumble Strips are poised to be the next big thing in feel-good indie rock. Their horn-laden debut album Girls and Weather is set for U.S. release August 5. Prepare to have it trapped in your head.
The Bubble Project has been a global viral phenomenon for some time, and now artist Ji Lee talks to Current.TV about how the project came to be. It's interesting that the same ad agencies producing the ads that his bubbles deface now offer him freelance work to come up with similar viral ideas to promote their products. Bubble on!
(Thanks Wooster Collective.)
by Jake Mohan
Just the other day I was visiting an ex whom I still count as a good friend, and she showed me a tiny artifact of our relationship, in the form of a mix tape I made for her nearly 10 years ago. I immediately became both embarrassed and wistful as I studied its faded magazine-cutout cover art and hastily typed-up track listing, a veritable time capsule of indie rock and electronica circa 1998—and, more importantly, a catalog of the songs we listened to regularly when we began dating: Elliott Smith, Yo La Tengo, Cornershop, Daft Punk.
Chances are, if you came of age in the '90s and have an even glancing relationship to music, you made your fair share of mix tapes (and, later, mix CDs) for various friends and lovers. If those parties reciprocated, and if you are a pack rat, their lovingly curated compilations are probably still in storage somewhere in your home. Go dig one up. Maybe play it once or twice, if you're feeling nostalgic (and if you still have a tape deck somewhere), and let the aforementioned wistfulness wash over you.
Then shake it off, you big sap, and submit it to Cassette From My Ex, where several contributors have already shared their musical mementos of past relationships, along with track listings, liner notes, accompanying essays, and even sound clips. "Because we met during the fleeting moment at millennium's end when analog and digital media coexisted," writes one contributor, "we could sign out of our Hotmail accounts and then step over to our stereos to express to our affections through mixed tapes."
Indeed, those of us who still have actual mix tapes—who remember when they were the de facto album format; who occasionally betray our ages in conversations about our cherished cassette copy of Thriller, purchased at Sam Goody, shortly after its release; who once felt that distinctions like Dolby NR and High Bias and Type IV were important considerations—may find that by revisiting this obsolete format now, in the age of mp3s, our sentimentality is triggered almost as much by the form (that little plastic cartridge) as by its content (erstwhile love songs). In fact, a sort of eulogy for the cassette format was delivered in this space not long ago: "By giving listeners the ability to copy and share music," Brian Joseph Davis wrote in Utne, "tape not only entered a copyright debate that still rages, but also became a way for an entire generation to express friendship, cultural affinity, and even love." Davis' piece speaks not only to the cassette's versatile function as a musical love letter, but its role as an arguably populist medium—a convenient and controversial way for people to redistribute music; a sort of precursor to the file-sharing revolution of the late '90s.
Cassette From My Ex is a natural outgrowth of our culture's burgeoning need to document experience using various media—in this case, the lost art of charmingly cobbled-together, obsolete cassette tapes—and the proliferation of personal narrative, a formula employed to great effect by Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield in his 2006 memoir Love Is a Mix Tape, which expands Cassette From My Ex's mission into a moving personal narrative as carefully crafted as the mixes he and his late wife assembled for each other. Cassette From My Ex continues in the spirit of Sheffield's book, with prose contributions that range from irreverently funny to oddly touching, often within the same piece.
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by Lisa Gulya
Let for-profit DVD lenders fight for subscribers. The Film Connection lends DVDs on current issues for free, provided you watch with a group and use the film to fuel conversation. The premise is simple: "We believe that film can spark a conversation like nothing else," Film Connection states on its website, "and conversation is the first step to making a better world."
(Thanks, Minnesota Women's Press.)
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by Danielle Maestretti
If you still haven't found something hopeful to latch onto in this election year, here is cause for optimism: Flight of the Conchords, a comedy-singing duo from New Zealand, is enjoying widespread popularity on American TVs, computers, and music-sales charts. Think of what this means! It means that a decade of reality TV, crappy sitcoms, and half-assed pop music haven't necessarily destroyed the American sense of humor. Because Flight of the Conchords is funny—really, really funny—and Americans actually get it.
The duo, Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, have a hit show on HBO (the second season is scheduled to begin next January), concert clips that have racked up millions of YouTube views, and a new album (self-titled) that debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. Their May 13 concert in Minneapolis sold out almost immediately; as the enthusiastic guys sitting behind me helpfully explained, it was one of just 12 stops on their U.S. tour.
I'd seen their show, and seen their YouTube videos (if you haven't had "Business Time" e-mailed to you at some time during the past year, you should get some funnier friends), so I was excited for the concert—but unsure how they'd spice it up enough to justify the $35 ticket price. That wound up being no problem. Everything, from their singing to their aimless chit-chatting, was hilarious. Yes, most of it was probably scripted, but their between-songs banter was brilliant and random. At one point, they set out to discuss "the issues," including saving the whales. "Which is difficult," Jemaine pointed out, "because they're heavy."
They mostly play guitar, but they like to rock out on strange, tiny instruments too: Bret had a cute little red keytar, Jemaine had a silver digital saxophone about the size of his forearm, and at one point they brought out a "rockin'spiel—it's very similar to a glockenspiel," Jemaine explained, "it's just more rockin'." They busted out more than a few crowd favorites, including "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)," "Mutha'uckas," "Bowie," and "Business Time," which included a bonus sitting-in-chair-sexy-dance by Jemaine.
It may have been the rowdiest I've ever seen a Minneapolis crowd (though in all fairness, I've never been to a hometown Prince show). Various come-ons, including one high-pitched marriage proposal, were screamed across the room by lovestruck women; I'm guessing the guys are used to such overtures, since they seemed pretty unfazed. The notes thrown onstage by fanladies disarmed them a tad, though, and were perhaps so raunchy (or so drunkenly, illegibly scrawled) that they refused to share them with the audience.
The duo's strangely broad appeal can be summed up thusly: Last month, Jemaine and Bret appeared in Bust, as two of the feminist mag's "Men We Love"—but also in the much-maligned lad-mag Maxim. A friend of mine offers a cynical explanation for their popularity in such disparate camps—that 80 percent of their humor lies in the kiwi accent—but I'm going to keep hoping that Flight of the Conchords heralds changing times on the comedy-performance horizon.
Photo courtesy of Sub Pop Records.
by Bennett Gordon
Louis Armstrong never stopped making art. Not only was he one of the most accomplished jazz musicians of all time, he was also an avid collage artist. The latest issue of the Paris Review showcases three examples of Satchmo's collages, described as "a visual outlet for his improvisational genius."
by Michael Rowe
David Berman, the singer, songwriter, and creative force behind the band Silver Jews, is not only a musician but also a respected poet. In 1999, he published a book of poems, Actual Air, that was cooed over by the New Yorker and GQ and praised by Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet James Tate and former poet laureate Billy Collins. Berman is also an accomplished cartoonist whose drawings recently appeared at a gallery event organized by Dave Eggers in New York.
It's Berman's musical application of his literary talents, however, that are the wellspring of his success. His Silver Jews have been a going concern since the early nineties, and they've released a string of albums known primarily among critics for their lyrics, which tend to be funny, clever and genuinely, oddly beautiful. A quick sampler:
I had a friend, his name was Marc, with a "c." His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV. —"Sleeping Is the Only Love," from Tanglewood Numbers
I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose, Lit up like the blood of a centerfold. I love the city and the city rain Suburban kids with Biblical names. —"People," from American Water
The latest Silver Jews album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, which is due out from Drag City in June, is no exception to the rule of quality Berman has established. His lyrics are poetry in a cracked, catchy, alt-country frame.
And yet the songs seem a little more straightforward this time around, less cryptic and more baldly emotional than on previous albums. Berman has spent the last few years sober, after what sounds like the proverbial drug-fueled haze. So is his work sobering up too? Utne Reader tried to answer this and other questions in a recent chat with the Silver Jews frontman.
"I'm in, let's say, this business, and I have competitors. Instead of profit, what I'm seeking is influence," Berman says, his voice markedly less rumbling than his Johnny-Cash-like singing voice would indicate.
For a statement of purpose, this seeking is sober enough, to be sure. As an artist, Berman seems determined to ensure the originality of the content he generates, or, if you prefer, the awesomeness of his lyrics. And when he sings (on Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea's jaunty "Party Barge"), "Satan's jeweled lobster has your wife in its claws," it's not just uniquely absurd and goofily surreal. It's serious. The eponymous, barging-in character who sings the song is a party animal turned to 11. His demons, therefore, might be reasonably expected to take bizarre, extravagant shapes. Or maybe he's the jeweled lobster. After all, Berman makes no disguise of the fact that he himself played the role of "party barge" for a number of years.
Then again, the Silver Jews aren't simply a stage for autobiographical metaphors. In a world and contemporary music scene where musicians routinely dismiss their own lyrics by saying, "I don't know what they mean," David Berman's current vision of his music rests solely on the idea that he's offering intellectual objects in the form of country rock songs.
"I think people have taken advantage of the evolution in language toward postmodern pastiche and non-sequitur," Berman offers. "People who want to be a songwriter or lead singer, but don't have anything to say, are provided with this sort of loophole in the culture."
Now, of course, this sounds pretentious. And it probably is—in the past, Berman himself has indulged in oblique, significant-sounding nonsense. But in an indie culture that worships the idea of music as Art, Berman's take—and the poetry involved in his songs—seems normal, even expected. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea was made with more than a touch of the tortured artist's attention to detail, a fact that becomes apparent when you talk to the guy who agonized over it.
For instance, Berman proposes that the album is the most "Googly-sure" of any album—ever. What this means is that he took the time to Google such phrases as "abridged abyss," in order to find out if they were solely his creations. No hits returned? It's his; flag planted. A Google search now turns up 44 hits for the phrase "abridged abyss," and the first page of results shows either Silver Jews' lyrics or references to a Yale French Studies article on André Malraux. The Malraux reference, which Berman says he found, was sufficiently lonely and obscure that the lyric remains fixed in Lookout Mountain's leadoff track, "What Is Not But Could Be If."
All the album's tracks underwent this kind of surgical construction. Using colored note-cards to write them, Berman set out to wade through "50, 60, 70 chord progressions" and numerous books he was reading at the time. "There's an Emerson quote at the end of 'Strange Victory, Strange Defeat,'" he points out, and "Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer" samples Emily Dickinson.
Perhaps this makes it sound as though the songs on Lookout Mountain exercise a literary posture. But they certainly don't scan that way. Cheeky fun is one of the first phrases that comes to mind when I think of them. A Google search, by the way, yields 21,400 hits for cheeky fun, so it's not any stretch of the critical vocabulary. Lookout Mountain is just a good album, with a couple great songs. It won't raise the dead, at least not for long, but how often does that happen?
"If someone buys a Silver Jews record, they get to buy some freedom from the ickiness," Berman hopes. The craft and thought he's put into the album probably merits the description. Berman is, after all, a lauded poet, though he says that he has "less of a claim to originality [in poetry] than I do in, for instance, lyric-writing." In lyric-writing, actually, Berman feels "like I could be in the Olympic finals; I could be in ninth place."
Still, he says, his music "flies under their [listeners'] standards; the music and the singing is not technically adept." For this reason, he feels that the context for his career is very important. As a poet, artist, and musician, his multiple-hat-wearing "sticks him out," gives him an outsider-ish edge. Which is in some ways bullshit. This is a guy who, as a writer, critics compare favorably to Bob Dylan.
But it works for him. Feeling he's on the aesthetic outskirts motivates him to feel justified in continuing to make albums. In some ways, the contradictory conceit of indie rock culture—idiosyncracy and the pretense of art all wrapped up as a not-quite-commodity—is realized perfectly in Berman's approach. He says he's not lauded, but he's garnered considerable acclaim. Moreover, his music sounds and plays itself off as both friendly and accessible; the absurdity and weird braininess are just along for the ride.
Really this is the dream of rock and roll, since it first scandalously waggled off of Elvis' hips or whatever: The fringe product as a rock in the mainstream. Then again, just because it's fallen through the cracks of the industry machine doesn't mean it didn't roll off the conveyor belt. Pop music is pop music, right? Silver Jews melodies have straight-up hooks aplenty; the poetry involved looks more like a bonus.
But do these distinctions matter? David Berman is a serious craftsman, and seems intent on taking up the mantle of the struggling artist. And the mantle might fit: Berman certainly isn't rich, and he was, at one time, a genuine "party barge" (he probably still has the tugboat marks to prove it). Similarly, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea has its moments of earnest, downtrodden poetry, but Berman certifies his tone with life-giving variety. He's funny when laughter is a little relief from the model-parade of hard times.
The Silver Jews' last record, Tanglewood Numbers, also explored the new world of sobriety. So Lookout Mountain may be more a refinement than a definition of Berman as a recovered sage. Nevertheless, he uses his addled wisdom as a launching pad for little poetic rocket ships (on fighting: "He came at me with some fist cuisine"; on divorce: "Living in a little town with my pedigree in shards,"). And, as Berman takes pains to point out, the language is plainer on this album. He has stories to tell and ideas to convey.
In the end, it may be a little stupid to emphasize Berman's multidisciplinary career. The guy is a writer. And maybe he can't sing, but I love it when he does.
by Keith Goetzman
Smooth jazz is dead, reports Will Layman in Popmatters, citing the format shift at a couple of major-market radio stations (in New York and D.C.) as evidence of the genre's demise. "Dentists in the two most powerful cities in America are panicking," he writes, seizing the chance for some easy gags before settling into a surprisingly well-rounded and illuminating look at the form, from its sonic origins in the late '60s to its naming by a focus group participant to its "overriding aesthetic of cheesiness" and its "explicitly economic" inspiration in recent years.
I suspect it will take more than a presumptuous obituary to draw a death rattle from Kenny G's horn. After all, the Yellowjackets have a CD coming out next week, and elevators and hotel lobbies everywhere have dead air to fill. But Layman's treatise is fun and engaging and even a bit provocative, floating the notion that smooth jazz may have actually fulfilled a noble purpose during its pathetic life: "It likely served to bring some listeners to the real thing, giving them the courage to like Miles Davis or Sonny Rollins."
Graffiti artist Blu has created something I've never seen before: a stop-motion animated sequence composed of one continuous, outdoor painting.
(Thanks Drawn!.)
Devastated by a messy break-up, I returned again and again to the separation-themed lyrics of Tegan and Sara's album So Jealous. I'm a little embarrassed to admit my dependence on the sisters' squeaky voices and repetitive tunes, but listening to sad songs, according a Walrus article about melancholy and music, might have helped me accept the relationship's demise. Rather than sinking us deeper into the doldrums (unless we're clinically depressed), sad music can actually make us feel better. In tears, the hormone prolactin, "along with the release of hormones such as dopamine and oxytocin, mimics the well-being we feel in the most intense moments of connection with others—nursing an infant, having sex, receiving praise." As musicologist David Huron says, "It's biology wrapping its arms around you and saying, 'there there.'" Feeling comforted can make us more realistic, whether about grades, like Huron's student research subjects, or about losing loved ones.
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In filmmaking, a "long take" is a cinematographic technique where the director chooses to hold one continuous shot for an extended period of time. A famous scene in Goodfellas follows Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta) as he and his girlfriend skip the line for a club, bribe the bouncer at the back entrance, walk through the kitchen and up to the stage, all without a single cut. Wes Anderson's The Royal Tennenbaums has a great one, capturing a revealing moment for most of the characters in the film. I know of two full-length films, Timecode and Russian Ark, that take place entirely in one shot.
I was reminded of this technique watching a recent video for the pop band Goldfrapp. It's not as ambitious as Goodfellas, or as revealing as The Royal Tennenbaums but it is fun. You can watch the video below.
(Thanks, Very Short List.)
A string of 20 three-minute films sounds like a YouTube self-distraction session, and that's what the final showing of films at Paris's Festival International des Très Courts felt like. But admission was only a euro, and in a two-euro-espresso town, I forgave a little less-than-careful culling.
The films were either sans dialogue or in English, convenient for me as a non-French speaker. Some communicated their humor silently, like the Paris Metro acrobatics in Nové in the Subway 3, the attack-chair ninja spoof In Sit U, or the wry, wordless commentary on the repetitiveness of pop lyrics in Papayes Hands. Several of the films even featured symbols of American culture, like the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero in the animation New York, New York, and one of the stomach-sinking images from Abu Ghraib in a poignant animation of The Declaration of Human Rights.
Mostly the showing was silly, the work of nerds (comic book, video game, and band nerds, to name a few varieties) equipped with video cameras. Nerds—filmmakers and viewers alike—enjoy their inside references, and I admit to my own geeky pleasure when I suspected the creators of the Live Good music video had enjoyed the same Sleeveface instruction video (pose with an album cover over your face!) on YouTube that I had. True, I probably could have tracked down Live Good on my own, but then I couldn't have enjoyed a two-euro espresso afterward.
Image by Christopher Buttigieg, licensed under Creative Commons.
There's no place like home to discover news of the weird, so I shouldn't have been surprised that the University of Minnesota staged The Wiz without what I thought was its sole requirement—an all-black cast. The school's black student population was too small for that, Minnesota theater faculty told the alumni magazine Minnesota, so instead they cast a multicultural mix of students, reserving only the role of Dorothy for a black student.
I found the casting decision a bizarre alteration, especially after reading a panel discussion about race and theater in the April issue of American Theatre (article not available online). "Any love story or any story about people being people and doing ordinary things is somehow a white story," says playwright and actor Zakiyyah Alexander. "If we see people of color represented in the culture, we've often shown their struggles with their environment, or their inner turmoil with their families and their troubled lives—how difficult it is to be us."
The director of Minnesota's Wiz takes the very moralizing approach toward being black that Alexander complains about. "I'm not going to beat people over the head with notions of identity," Dominic Taylor told Minnesota. "Still, I want people to be aware of how young black kids think about their culture. In this production, home is the notion of keeping your culture with you."
I can't help thinking the university faculty were more preoccupied with putting on a play with enough name recognition to attract an audience than they were with anything philosophical. Such practical hedging calls into question university theater's reputation for fearless innovation and racial inclusivity, which panel participant Daniel Banks, a director and choreographer, attributes to theater faculty "butt[ing] elbows with social scientists and critical thinkers."
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Here is a small conversation between an Atheist and a Theist
Theist: You see this paperclip?
Atheist: Yeh,
Theist: Guess what, it appeared itself!
Atheist: Naa, your jokin'! It can't do that?! A paperclip can't just create itself.
Theist: Why can't it? It's only a small, simple 2cm strand of metal bent into a U. Why not?
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About thirty people are still missing and feared dead after an Indonesian ferry with more than 200 people on board collided with a cargo tanker earlier this week, rescuers said today.
Several hundred Muslims, many waving banners and shouting "execute people who mock Islam", rallied outside the US embassy and Google offices in Bangkok on Thursday to denounce an anti-Islam film that has sparked global protests.
A Chinese man who earned just over $300 a month had 25 credit cards. His parents were forced to sell their house to repay their son's debts.
A college student in China sent a parcel to her 74-year-old grandmother containing a pile of dirty clothes, which she wanted to be cleaned and sent back.
International corporations will increase investments in India following the government's policy reforms announced last week, Vice Chairman of General Electric Co John Rice said today.
A Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Chennai, has made an emergency landing in Penang State due to technical problems.
The Philippine Volcanology Center advised residents living near the coast to move to higher ground due to the risk of tsunami following a major quake off the east coast on Friday.
Any chance for the West to claim that the long war in Afghanistan has been a success is fast slipping away, says former and potential future presidential candidate Abdullah. "When the Americans entered Afghanistan they were welcomed," said Abdullah, but opportunities to capitalise on the goodwill generated after the hardline Taliban Islamists were ousted from power. Western troops and cash poured into the country were squandered.
Indonesia's mosques are trying to sound their best for the Ramadan fasting month, splashing out on high-quality loudspeakers to avoid upsetting people.
Singapore's economy shrank in the second quarter as a global slowdown undermined demand for the city-state's exports, the trade and industry Ministry said on Friday.


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Training & Development
Let Your Passion Ripen Here
Consumer interest in natural foods is expanding rapidly, and we plan to be there to meet the demand. Achieving our growth goals will take creativity, dedication, and commitment to growth and change on the part of every team member.
This is why we provide numerous training opportunities for our team members, and why we have stepped up our recruiting, succession planning and career development training for our future leaders. Many leaders in the highest-level positions at Whole Foods Market today started out stocking groceries! Everyone has an opportunity to succeed at Whole Foods Market – regardless of age, race, education, gender, etc.
Learning & Training
Each region in our company has a regional trainer who is responsible for overseeing the orientation and training of all new and existing Whole Foods Market team members. In addition, many of our stores have "in-store educators" or "store trainers" and many individual teams have a team trainer.
Throughout the company various learning techniques are utilized for training, including personal one-on-one, group, video, computer-based and printed study materials. If you join us, here are some of the ways you will learn about our business:
New team member orientation: culture, benefits, team structure, who's who, core values
Store tour: walk the store, meet co-workers
Department-specific training: core job responsibilities and "how to"
Product knowledge training: our product categories, product use/preparation, taste-testing
Customer service training: how to "wow" our most important stakeholder
"Good Organics" training: product segregation and handling requirements per the USDA Organic Rule
"Green Mission" training: recycling and composting at Whole Foods Market
Safety training: how to work safely and avoid on-the-job safety hazards
Benefits training: preparation for enrollment, being a wise health care consumer
Employment-related training: preventing workplace harassment, diversity in the workplace, etc.
Computer training: on- and off-site training for company-specific applications
Buyer/Specialist training: margin math, paper flow, managing inventory
Career development and leadership training: see below
Whole Foods Market University
Our online "Whole Foods Market University" (WFM-U) was created to provide team members with information and education on a vast array of topics. WFM-U taps into the great wealth of information and creativity found among our team member base and in our company's leadership, making learning personal and fun.
The education and development tools available through WFM-U – which include self-paced courses and video vignettes – are intended to connect team members and team leaders to our core values, and to improve and deepen their knowledge of our company and our industry.
The WFM-U website is accessible internally to all team members, and is frequently updated and enhanced. Examples of self-paced courses available to all team members:
Introduction to Organics
Dietary Supplements and the Law
Introduction to Quality Standards
Gainsharing for Team Members
Team Member Development
All stores have budgets to be used for enhancing team member job skills or performance. This might cover classes or trade shows, ESL resources, books or magazine subscriptions related to the business, etc.
Moving Around
Our 330+ locations in the US, UK and Canada include retail stores, distribution centers, bakehouses, commissary kitchens, seafood processing facilities, a coffee roasting operation, and global and regional support offices. With so many, there's bound to be a fit for you!
At Whole Foods Market we encourage all team members to explore other job opportunities around the company so they can find the location and position that's right for them. Transferring from one team, store, state or region to another is quite common. In addition to keeping our team members happy and engaged, it spreads our unique culture to new locations.
New Stores
Co-President Walter Robb encourages team members to include a store-opening experience as part of their Whole Foods Market career plan. This isn't too difficult as we continually have new stores in development. Our growth means great opportunities: all of those new stores will require skilled team members and leadership, plus additional support at the regional, national and global levels.
Moving Up
We believe that leaders who work their way up through our company have a natural advantage, and we promote from within as much as possible. We also appreciate the new talent that we bring in from outside our company.
Whole Foods Market seeks to create an empowered learning environment that promotes self-motivation, and we encourage team members to take responsibility for their own success. For new and existing team members who want to reach their potential, we offer various forms of assistance.
Job Bulletin
If you're interested in promotion, join us – and then keep your eye on our internal job bulletin! Openings for all positions at team leader level and higher are listed there along with many other openings from all over the company.
Career Development Programs
The main targets of our various career development programs are team members, associate team leaders, team leaders and associate store team leaders. The positions these people will move into are the most common leadership positions in our company – as well as the most crucial for providing support to the team members who serve our customers.
If you have demonstrated leadership talent and/or experience in a retail, food or service industry, you may be a good candidate for one of our career development programs. Because our culture thrives in a team environment, we look for "team leaders" rather than traditional "managers." Watch our career opportunities for postings such as Career Development Associate Store Team Leader, Associate Team Leader in Training or Future Associate Store Team Leader and apply. We will provide you with the training and tools you need to succeed.
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Through a mix of verbal instruction, written materials, video and other formats, our leadership classes offer practical knowledge in many fundamental skills as well as insight into personal challenges and how to improve your leadership style. Topics may include:
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This is the next post in what I think is probably my unofficial series of "Mother Heal Thyself". I'm not saying that because I think any healing has taken place in my heart, but because maybe this is removing the rocks from my tomb. At any rate, it's certainly my wondering how we get from Here to There.
Just something quick that I have rattling around in my brain, two ideals, playing against each other, opposites.
I feel myself pulled in two different directions, for me, I think it boils down to the pull of the world versus the pull of my faith. In my life I boil Christianity down to love. In Matthew 22: 37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." And then there's John 13: 35, "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another".
Besides the fact that so many people in the church have forgotten love, oi, I know that I am called to love, actually love, Boohoo. I have not and do not believe that I'm called to "fake it til I make it". Love. I am Boohoo's mother. I don't believe that I was "called" to adopt, but I do believe that as someone that loves and follows Jesus that I am called to love. Love. Love. Love. I'm called to love without counting the cost to myself, to love at my own loss, to love even when it's a sacrifice, to love when it would be easier, safer, explainable, and understandable not to, to love when I don't want to, to love because He first loved me, to love because He is love, to love because in Him I am new.
I feel that call. I feel it beating in my heart and pulsing through my body. I feel it strengthening my arms and empowering me to reach out, to calm down, to smile, to speak nicely, to show love. I feel the call to love expanding my boundaries.
If the call of Jesus is to love then I feel that the song the world is singing is self-preservation. It tells me that it is good, right, acceptable, logical, and my duty to take care of myself. I need to follow my goals, my dreams, my path and that if it comes at the expense of anyone else that's okay. It's my right, it's my life, it's my will that matters. If I can do some good along the way then all the better, but I don't have to, shouldn't, step too far off my path in order to do that good. The tune of self-preservation is catchy and once it's in my head it's hard to get it out again. And those outstretched arms? They wither and tremble when self-preservation is in control, to self-preserve you have to pull back, stay guarded, protect.
I'm trying to dance to two different tunes and I'm getting mixed up (like my examples) and I'm tripping over myself since I don't know which song is the one I'm supposed to be listening to.
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Folk Singer Peter Yarrow ("Puff the Magic Dragon") in Concert
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This magnificently macabre musical comedy was created from the beloved TV show by an award-winning team that includes authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) and composer-lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party). It's a fresh take on the original comic strip-turned-TV-and-movie-series and boasts a new story featuring all your favorite characters, including Gomez, Morticia, Lurch, Uncle Fester and Wednesday -- who's all grown up now and in love with a "normal" young man. Whether their relationship can survive her family's kooky hijinks is anyone's guess. It's a "visually satisfying, rib-tackling, lunatic musical that will entertain you to death," according to Toronto Post City. Learn More
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Peter Yarrow is an American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's most famous songs, "Puff, the Magic Dragon". He is also a political activist and lends his support to causes that range from opposition to the Vietnam War to the creation of Operation Respect. Don't miss his solo performance this spring at The Hanover Theatre.
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Based on extensive research of other successful venues nationwide, The Hanover Theatre estimates its economic impact to the city of Worcester at approximately $40 million annually, in direct and indirect spending, jobs, property values and taxes. In addition, The Hanover Theatre will enhance the city's Arts District by creating an exciting performing arts destination for patrons of all ages. The Hanover Theatre will reach a wider audience than any other arts organization in our area-more than 170,000 patrons each year.


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At this point, the brewery features are complete. Creating a set of pages for the beer documents is a similar exercise that is left to the reader. Using scaffolding and reusing the patterns from working with breweries, it shouldn't take much effort to build those features.
The code for this sample app is on GitHub at https://github.com/couchbaselabs/beer-sample-net. It contains all the code from this tutorial, plus the beer pages. It also contains some very minor style and navigation improvements (such as a home page).
Finally, a single tutorial can address only so many concerns. Clearly some shortcuts were taken with validation, exception handling and the like. Certain architectural patterns, such as dependency injection and MVVM were also omitted for the sake of brevity. The intent of this tutorial was to provide an intermediate introduction to Couchbase development with .NET. Your app should be able to make use of some or all of the patterns described.


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Category Hanayama Toy Co. began life in the mid-1930s as a manufacturer and retailer of traditional games, indoor pursuits and other toys, and from the very beginning has placed great emphasis on creative ideas, good quality and friendly service. More than seventy years later, Hanayama continues to make board games, puzzles and bingo games as well as this wonderful range of cast metal puzzles that are guaranteed to be the life of the party at family gatherings for people of all ages. Not only was this range of cast puzzles chosen for our website because because of the attention to detail in manufacture but also because Hanayama suitably acknowledges and credits the inventors of these ingenious puzzles. These are original metal puzzles made with the permission of the inventors not unauthorised copies. These cast metal puzzles are divided into six levels of difficulty; but don't think you'll start with the most difficult. Don't dismiss level 1 puzzles like the Hook or the Loop out of hand as without challenge. And level 4 metal puzzles like Marble have taken experienced puzzlers hours to master. Take on the level 6 Elk, Nutcase or the NEW Square and others at your peril. Read more details about the Hanayama Japanese cast puzzle philosophy here.... You don't have to return later and ask for the solution. We've been supplying the official printed solutions from Hanayama with the puzzles since February 2006. Not offered as standard by other sellers. DISCOUNTED SETS at the bottom of this page. The only seller when you can choose the puzzles in your discounted set of 6 or 12. Not standard sets. Choose your own combination of puzzles for your set. Brian at the Hanayama Stall at the 2010 Tokyo Toy Fair. Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to separate the 4 pieces of the two rings. Even though these are just new we still offer them as part of our discounted sets of 6 or 12 Hanayama puzzles. Difficulty Level 3 It may appear to be a box like lump with a hole in the middle but it's really two coiled up, virtually identical pieces. The challenge is to take the two pieces apart by sliding and rotating them. Difficulty Level 5 The puzzles is to try to separate the two H's that are locked together. Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to separate the four pieces from each other then put them back together again. Four pieces of the same shape are loosely interlocked to make the puzzle. The pieces fit loosely together and it seems they should be easy to take apart. Difficulty Level 5 Can you separate the 'Adam' and 'Eve' loops from the heart? Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to separate the two pieces fashioned after the image of intertwining Bach melodies. Difficulty Level 6 The key work here is "antlers". Can you free the antlers.... and then put them back together again? Difficulty Level 4 The puzzle is to try to get the three pieces apart and then back together again. To the people at Hanayama it looked like a strange adornment weaved into a "coiffure" design. Difficulty Level 2 This puzzle, utilising pieces resembling equipment used in the sport of cricket, can be traced back to a puzzle patented in England back in 1898. The world's only remaining original version of this puzzle is part of the personal collection of James Dalgety in England. Difficulty Level 6 Can you separate the three links of the chain and then get it back together again? Difficulty Level 1 Can you take it apart? Can you assemble it again? Getting the two parts of the loop back together again will be much trickier than you might think. The puzzle comes on a leather thong so that you can use is as a pendant it certainly makes a baffling piece of jewellery. Created by the young Finnish puzzle designer Vesa Timonen. The key word is "Synthesis". Difficulty Level 3 This cube is actually a maze from which you have to remove the segment of a sphere. The segment inside can be moved around but how to find the 14 set moves, in order, to remove it from the cube? There are many reviewers, including Rik van Grol writing in CFF Magazine, who believe this puzzle warrants a rating even higher than Level 3 out of 6. Difficulty Level 6 The puzzle is to separate the four pieces from each other then put them back together again. Difficulty Level 5 At first glance it looks like there is only one ring hanging from the grid but there are in fact two rings attached with a magnetic force. Can you separate the rings from the grid and return them to their original positions? Difficulty Level 6 The three pieces of this puzzle just slide apart, you don't need to force them. Can you work out the twisting movement required to achieve this and to then get them back together again? Difficulty Level 5 The object of this brilliant cast metal puzzle is to take the two interlocked loops apart and take them out of the surrounding planet like structure, then get the puzzle back together again. The puzzle was designed for Hanayama by Oskar van Deventner of The Netherlands and released in 2008. Difficulty Level 5 Difficulty Level 5 This puzzle is one of these rare puzzles revived in it's new form. The key of the puzzle is decisively navigating its labyrinth, in which exists one point of weakness for you to break through. For the indecisive part of you! Difficulty Level 4 This puzzle has such a beautiful shape that it could easily be mistaken for a piece of jewelry. Difficulty Level 2 Two ancient looking medals engraved with a flowing river and a swimming salmon. Difficulty Level 6 There are two goals to the Cast Nutcase created by the Dutch puzzle inventor, Oskar van Deventner. Difficulty Level 6 Separate the 4 pieces of the puzzle. True bonds has always been hard to form, but once formed such bonds are eternal and hard to break. The inventor Uyematsu says that his original version was created with this image in his mind, but the puzzle was completed into a cast puzzle with a bond that is truly difficult to unravel. How would you go about breaking and forming this bond? There are two approaches to this puzzle and we challenge you to both! Difficulty Level 4 Difficulty Level 5 The five separate rings can be taken apart and put back together again to form a very large ring. The ring is a puzzle, not meant to be worn as jewellery. The diameter is 30mm. Difficulty Level 5 Can you separate the five pieces of the 3D jigsaw and then get them back together again? DISCOUNTED SETS. Choose any 6 of the Hanayama cast metal puzzles from our range and get $1.00 off each puzzle. Tick 6 boxes out of the 25 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours! DISCOUNTED SETS. Choose any 12 of the Hanayama cast metal puzzles from our range and get a huge $18.00 discount; that's $1.50 off each puzzle. Tick 12 boxes out of the 25 in any combination you want to make up your discounted set. Yes, the choice of what's in the set is yours! Difficulty Level 6 The object is to separate the two parts - N E W S. The level of difficulty is very high because it's very difficult to work out the solution to the puzzle. Once done the puzzle is not difficult to memorise. Difficulty Level 5 Can you take the three pieces of the puzzle apart? Can you get the puzzle back together again? There are three interwoven pieces to the puzzle. Can you separate each piece of the puzzle?


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Using markets to protect and restore ecosystems – and the many services they provide – is gradually becoming a reality.
By Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak on December 22, 2010
During the winter holidays, there are many items that Americans consider "essential" as part of a proper celebration; whether it be a wreath on the door, wood for a cozy fire, or an ornamented tree in the living room. But how many people know where most of these items come from?
By Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak on November 19, 2010
As a result of rapid development over the last 40 years, the vast majority of land in the southern U.S. has been in some way impacted by humans.
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New maps from SeeSouthernForests.org show the scale of forest loss from surface mining in Appalachia.
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Colts will show up -- but even they're impressed by Pats
INDIANAPOLIS -- The best team in football will be at the RCA Dome on Sunday, and it won't be the Indianapolis Colts.
That sentence might not sit well with Indianapolis fans, but it won't be an insult to the Colts -- at least not to the Colts who spoke to the media Wednesday. To a man, they all said basically the same thing about New England, which will bring an 8-0 record and the most complete team in recent NFL history to the RCA Dome.
Said Colts safety Bob Sanders: "They're playing great football. Right now I would say they're the best team in football."
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Said Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri: "They're on pace to break just about every stat that there is. We know we're going to have to play our best game and play error-free to compete with them."
This is what teams generally do before big games, of course. They talk up the other team. But if the Colts were only pretending to be in awe of the Patriots, they'd be more convincing on a stage than on a football field. And on a football field, the Colts are awfully convincing in their own right. Indianapolis is 7-0 and features an MVP candidate on offense (Manning) and defense (Sanders). Indianapolis is beating teams by more than 17 points per game. Indianapolis is awesome.
But New England is better. On paper, anyway. And the Colts seem to know it.
Colts coach Tony Dungy literally bit his lower lip to stop from laughing when told the Patriots' Bill Belichick had said the Colts were the best team in football. Dungy gnawed on his lip for about four seconds before responding, "I hope he's a prophet."
At Patriots headquarters earlier Wednesday, Belichick also had said the Patriots "aren't in (the Colts') league." He was right, though he didn't mean it this way: The Colts are in the NFL; the Patriots belong on a higher plane.
Three days before the first game in NFL history between two teams at 7-0 or better, the Colts seemed impressed with the Patriots, yet not uptight. An enormous Nerf hoop was in the middle of the locker room. Players were joking about the thick copies of the 2006-2012 collective bargaining agreement that were handed out before practice.
"I'll never read it," fullback Luke Lawton said. "In this whole locker room, I bet (player rep) Jeff Saturday is the only one who does."
The only sign of tension was Dungy's decision to close practice to the media, something he hadn't done since last season's playoffs. Veteran members of the local media said they couldn't remember the last time Dungy closed practice in the regular season. An uptight, paranoid coach closes practice to the media. But so would a game-playing coach who wants the other team to wonder what the hell is happening behind closed doors.
Asked why he had done it, Dungy said: "We're going to the wishbone. ... We're changing everything around and coming out with new stuff and don't want anybody to know."


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Best Country Songs
Choosing the best country songs is like picking the best children from a large family. There are so many wonderful songs, and so many stylistic variations. Therefore, this list is a sampling of the best, from a number of varying perspectives.
- Tammy Wynette "Stand By Your Man." Never mind the Blues Brother version of this song. Go straight to the original, instead. Tammy Wynette was married to the hard-drinking George Jones for many years, so nobody knows more about standing by your man.
- Ray Charles "I Can't Stop Loving You." Brother Ray Charles mixes soul in with his country. In fact, he invented soul music, so everything he does has a little soul. A man that can't stop loving his woman, is a desperate man, indeed.
- Merle Haggard "Mama Tried." No, Merle Haggard didn't spend 20 years in prison doing life without parole. However, he did do time in the slammer. His mama probably did try to raise him right. Nevertheless, many great country singers are also rebels.
- Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys "Blue Moon of Kentucky." This song was also memorably covered by Elvis. Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, still put his signature on it.
- Patsy Cline "Sweet Dreams." When Patsy Cline sang about sweet dreams, she did so dreamily. This was probably countrypolitan before countrypolitan was even cool. She was just such a pure singer, and this is one of her best songs.
- Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys "Faded Love." Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys made the best country swing music, and this reflective song showed the world just how great the man truly was. The love may have faded, but the fine musical power lives on.
- Johnny Cash "Ring of Fire." June Carter Cash actually wrote this hot song. It became one of Cash's best country songs. Just listen to the horn section that propels it.
- Hank Williams Sr. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Many of the best country songs are also sad songs. And few are sadder that this one. You may not be lonesome like old Hank, buy you may well cry when you hear it.
- Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter." The best country songs are true to life. This song tells the true story of how Loretta Lynn was, in fact, a coal miner's daughter. They sure don't make 'em like Loretta anymore.
- George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today." George Jones recorded, perhaps, the saddest country song of all time with "He Stopped Loving Her Today." This is one of the best country songs because it expresses true love. He said he'd lover her till he died. This song tells about his death, which is when he stopped loving his woman.
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Quote:You can believe in fairy tales like mental illness all you want.
Quote: I never turned no one except the mentally ill away.
Quote: I don't know how I could have made the "medicinal purposes" defense without those applications. How did you do it? I plead guilty so there was no need for witnesses. The only question was how long was I going away for.
Quote: And you are wrong again Wodan. There were HIV cases with the club and I didn't care how they contracted it. With only 33 members here in Winnipeg there was no Hep-C person. I never turned no one except the mentally ill away.
Quote: 1) Sure addiction exists. It is not a medical malady, it is a spiritual malady. Lust for pleasure and being a glutton about it, which leads to spiritual death.
Quote: 2) Then just like being a glutton with food or any other chemical substance there will be biological consequences where by even death could occur. Try drinking about 40 glassess of water and see what happens. You will die.
Quote: Physical addiction and the consequences caused by withdrawal symptoms are NOT a psychatric issue, they are a medical issue. Some of which affect the brain, some which affect specific body functions such as liver and endocrine, some which affect every single cell in the body in a negative impact (such as acute continous alchohol intoxification.).


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The Double-Edged Sword of Coalition Government
December 14, 2010
None of the political parties won enough seats to rule in a majority government, the options were ConDem coalition or rainbow government. The latter was implausible, therefore those power are essentially there by default because the only realistic option for future governance of the UK was the former.
The problem that faces the Coalition politicians and their constituents is that no-one voted for a Coalition, they voted for the party they agreed with. Thus when certain policies and promises and not delivered, people get very upset.
However as no-one won, it seems self-evident that neither the Tories nor the Lib Dems would be able to implement all of their policies they swore too before the election, compromise must be reached otherwise there can be no progress.
The student protests and demonstrations last week are an example of an inability to understand this. Yes it was wrong and irresponsible for Clegg and his colleagues to sign a pledge to the NUS, knowing the chances of a Lib Dem victory on Election Day were dismal. In this sense, they could promise and pledge whatever they liked … it was meaningless! I think the Lib Dems were more surprised than anyone else at their result!
Being a student from a working-class background in the north east, I completely empathise with the outrage and dismay felt by protesters and students of all ilk, however we have to face the fact that the Coalition have to pick up the pieces of a broken economy and get us back on the road to recovery. In doing so, they will be forced to make a lot of difficult and agonising decisions, but cuts have to be made! The national debt of the UK is expected to soar to £1.1 trillion by April 2011 and the budget deficit must be addressed promptly and efficiently.
In reality, when you study the new system of university funding, arguments that it inhibits social mobility are unfounded and false. There is a significant increase in scholarship funding and the amount of grants under privileged students will receive. They also plan to introduce positive discrimination at Oxbridge and other red bricks to ensure diversity and more opportunities for working-class background students.
Perhaps cutting so much government subsidisation to the point where fees treble was not the best option, the shock factor was probably the catalyst for public outcry … still this does not justify violence, vandalism and dishonouring WWII monuments to the millions that died so we could be free citizens. When you think about those brave men and women, it puts the student mob to shame and belittles everything the peaceful protestors are fighting for.
Let's not forget cuts are being made left, right and centre, not because Clegg & Cameron get some kind of kick out of it, they are doing so because that's what has to be done if we want to carry on being a major player on the world stage. I find a lot of people do not seem to realize the dire situation Britain, and the world is actually in.
The Coalition seems to be under fire from all sides, losing support rapidly, even from their own MPs such as Colin Firth, who announced today that he no longer supports the Lib Dems because of the issue of tuition fees.
The double-edged sword is taking its toll and in the midst of all this anger, controversy and economic hurting, perhaps Cameron can be heavily criticised for spending taxpayer money on finding out how happy we are.
Protests, Walks-Outs & Sit-Ins – Played and Betrayed by the Coalition
November 28, 2010
The nationwide protests and demonstrations against the cuts to university funding speak for themselves. The vast majority of students feel used, played and betrayed by the promises of the pre-election pledge that Mr Clegg and his party swore adherence. Although were students at blame too?
Of course we could rant on all day about this topic, perhaps rightly so, although we (the student voters) should have made a more informed and realistic decision at booths early this year.
Despite being the flagship of policy of the Lib Dems, we should have anticipated that the practicalities of scrapping fees were simply implausible. Mr Clegg's party has not been in power since 1945 and were somewhat desperate to enter the political limelight again (which is the objective of all parties). The Lib Dems coaxed the conception that they were the student-friendly party, the party for change and for the future, echoing the 'Yes We Can' attitude of their counter-parts across the Atlantic.
Nick Clegg seemed to have a way of convincing us that the ideal could be a reality (if you put a cross next to their name on the big day). However in hindsight, in the middle of a global recession, could scrapping the fees have been applicable?
Perhaps if the Lib Dems secured a majority in the ballots, yes they could have implemented their pledge and abolished student tuition fees. However in an era where neon 50% of post-16 year olds are entering higher education, the ramifications of free university education would mean a significant increase in entry requirements, thus countering the number of young people in HE. In this respect, perhaps it was a good thing that Mr Clegg is only the deputy.
Political parties have a long history of promising the Earth and delivering Earthworms, perhaps sceptical analysis should have been exercised more rigorously on a personal and communal level when contemplating 'which party is in my best interests'. Without critiquing UK politics too much, our democracy ensures he who shouts the loudest is heard, not he who has the best ideas for the future of the nation. Although none of the candidates seemed to have a coherent and feasible idea for the latter, only time will prove me wrong.
The fact of the matter is, as Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion pointed out on 'Young Voters' Question Time' on BBC1 Wednesday 24th that funding for university education has to come from somewhere! When HE education was free for students it was funded completely by the taxpayer, a system which seems absurd nowadays as 50%, not 4% of the population now attend university. The Lib Dems were frankly capitalising on populist hope rather than acknowledging the realities of current affairs.
Yes, it was wrong of the Lib Dems to abandon their flagship policy, even if it was impractical; it was still the policy that clinched many of their votes. Nick Clegg now admits 'I should have been more careful' before the election about signing the NUS pledge … although this will serve as little comfort to the students who voted for him. It is somewhat baffling that Clegg has shot himself in the foot by essentially betraying his primary voter-base, nonetheless I would bet my tuition fee that Clegg will not be re-elected at the next General Election! In fact we may well see a new leader of Lib Dems before then.


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I guess it's Superbowl? Totally not my thing, although I'm curious about Blackberry's commercial. Can they be successful again? I have their tablet and I love it. It's totally worth $150 – I use it around the house mostly but it's never far. (And that explains why I'm on Steepster so frequently).
Anyway I'm watching BBC's Pride&Predjudice miniseries, while I sip tea and play GuildWars2! Talk about multi-tasking! But I've seen this series several times, so it's nice to listen to. I just watched the 2005 P&P movie earlier this week and now that I'm watching the miniseries, I sorta feel like the movie is mostly rubbish as it rushes everything! I realize there's only so much time to express things, but the characters are sorta hard to understand when condensed so. Also, Lizzy in the 2005 movie goes from "I hate you Mr. Darcy" to "OMG Look at his pretty shiny house – what did I do?" in like 10 minutes. Bleah. It had some good points but I better just stick with the full thing.
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New Legislation Could Serve Craft Breweries Like A.C.'s Tun Tavern Well
Monday, September 24th, 2012A new state bill developed by the Garden State Craft Brewers Guild (Assembly Bill 1227) is designed to give all craft brewers in the state more flexibility in how, when, and where they sell and promote their beer. The bill recently passed a key stage of legislation — a signature from Gov. Chris Christie in Trenton.
The governor's signature followed approvals by the New Jersey's Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, and the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which would help to modernize New Jersey's craft-beer production laws. The bill now heads to the full Legislature for a vote.
The governor's approval brings Tun Tavern owner Montgomery Dahm one step closer to selling his popular Tun Tavern beer for on- and off-premise consumption. Passage of the bill will lead to a healthier environment for small brewers and more choices for craft beer consumers.
Current regulations highly restrict what New Jersey brewers can do, especially when compared to the surrounding states of New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware. New Jersey currently ranks 32nd in overall craft-beer production, compared to neighboring states like Pennsylvania (second), New York (seventh) and Delaware (17th) which are amongst the leaders in the country, according to the Garden State Craft Brewers Guild.
Passing of this bill would allow one company to open more than two brewpubs, and allow breweries like Dahm's 16-year-old Tun Tavern to sell beer for on- and off-premise consumption. In addition, breweries and brewpubs will be allowed to conduct informational tastings off-premise, and most importantly, to distribute beer through the wholesale network.
Dahm stated that the passage of this bill "will mean a major brewery expansion, and help Tun Tavern and other New Jersey state breweries continue to create jobs, improve tourism opportunities and cut needless red tape. Our loyal customers will have more access to our fantastic hand crafted beers" [brewed by Tun Tavern Brewmaster Tim Kelly].


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Big Brother starts on channel 5 tonight at 9pm. It is billed as the most exciting and biggest Big Brother yet!
The Big Brother garden once again features our LazyLawn Artificial Grass on the lawn for this new 2011 series.
The producers have selected the market leading Wonder Yarn 36mm product for it's realism and durability. The specially developed W shape fibres enable the product to recover after activity - you could say is has bounce-back-ability!
The 300 square metre area will mainly be used by house-mates for chilling out in and it will also be an area where they will attempt to successfully complete tasks.
Half the garden is undercover this series, with daylight tubes to ensure some light gets through. It also has a large funky swimming pool and contemporary furniture.
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Originally posted by Facefirst
And if you bothered to read some of my posts leading up to this, you would see that I pointed out that it was a LOCAL economic situation. NOT a national one. ie. Similar to a Mill or factory town. I want the bases out.
First of all, sorry that I applied the usual picture of an American off-shore soldier to your brother/family. Furthermore we have a missunderstanding here. Yes, you said local situation but I was referring to the "huge amount of money" and explained it ain't that high, as it is only a local thing.
Anyway, no need to split hairs(that's a german saying, dunno if its international ). We seem to have nearly the same opininon anyway.


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Grieves - Together/apart
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- Artist: Grieves
- Album: Together/apart
- Label: Rhymesayers
- Year of Release: 2011
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- Reviewed by: hstisgod on 2011-07-02
It's difficult nowadays to find that middle crowd of deep, dark and hype. If there were three words to describe Grieves, it would certainly be the aforementioned.
Tracks like "Lightspeed" are chalk full of rhythm and hook and much more old school than you'd expect from a man of his years. "Tragic", featuring Brother Ali, has a creative down beat where Grieves shows his ability to verbally attack with a more feverent pace. Ironically enough, Brother Ali seems like he slows down his style a bit to meet in the middle of the road. "No Matter What" starts off with piano led kick beat and features Krukid who really brings a terrific vocal harmony to the table.
"Pressure Cracks" has a killer vocal drive and the accompanying beat and guitar melodies create a perfect environment for vocal twining. As in other songs, you will hear the occassional video game-like sample tossed in to add another dimension. The chrous here really builds an enormous set up for the verse and even plays an integral part as the outro. "On The Rocks" has a terrific blend of Grieves. Probably the best track, mincing the most contagious beat and ominous samples while keeping the lyrical flow upbeat is "Prize Fighter". Grieves also keeps pace in a slower format throughout the release, such as "Growing Pains", which has a subtle approach, and his content is not only clear but concise as well. "How... Can I, grow to see the change in my life, I want it, to overcome the battle inside"
Already Wedged into the indie Hip-Hop scene from credibility created by 88 Keys and Counting, on Together/Apart, Grieves with the help of Budo, proves to be the future of Hip Hop with an R&B Soul.
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- 1 Into the Wild
Bean sees a nature show on TV and sets out to snap some wildlife pictures of his own. It turns out to be more difficult than he things when all the animals elude him and he eventually gets caught up in a fox hunt.
Air Date: 2002-01-25
- 2 Missing Teddy
While at the supermarket, Teddy gets kidnapped and turned into a ""bunny bear"", the latest craze with all the kids. Bean sets out to find and rescue Teddy ...
Air Date: 2002-01-25
- 3 No Parking
Bean sets out to see the new movie Titanic but can't find any place to park.
Air Date: 2002-02-01
- 4 Bean's Bounty
While driving along, Bean spots an archaeological dig site and stops to take some photos. When Bean eventually gets kicked out, he builds a metal detector and sets off to find some treasures of his own.
Air Date: 2002-02-01
- 5 Artful Bean
Bean decides to take up painting when he sees the art being sold by others. Bean has no painting supplies and creates his own which causes him a bit of a bug problem.
Air Date: 2002-03-01
- 6 The Fly
On a hot summer night, a fly enters Bean's room keeping him awake while he tries to deal with the pest.
Air Date: 2002-03-01
- 7 Mime Games
While walking through the park, a mime takes a liking to Mr. Bean and unknown to Bean, follows him home. Once Bean finds the mime, he has trouble getting rid of him.
Air Date: 2002-03-08
- 8 Spring Clean
Noticing the disasterous state of his house, Mr. Bean checks the calendar and decides it's time to do some spring cleaning and tidy up the place.
Air Date: 2002-03-08
- 9 No Pets
When Bean realizes he can't play fetch with Teddy, he tries to find a more responsive companion at the pet store. But Mrs. Wicket won't allow any pets in the house except for her cat Scrapper, so Bean tries to sneak some animals in.
Air Date: 2002-03-15
- 10 Ray of Sunshine
Bean goes to the beach to catch some sun but it's too crowded for his liking and the weather turns bad. Bean ends up chasing the sun shining through a break in the clouds all across town.
Air Date: 2002-03-15
- 11 Roadworks
Workers dig up the street out front of Bean's house making lots of noise, and making the furniture bounce around. Bean tries to quiet them down ...
Air Date: 2002-06-14
- 12 The Sofa
Bean's sofa falls apart and he goes to the store to buy a new one but it costs more than he can afford. Bean holds a yard sale to try and make some money.
Air Date: 2002-06-14
- 13 Camping
Mr.Bean goes on a camping trip.
Air Date: 2002-10-11
- 14 Chocks Away
Mr.Bean got a new RC plane to get revenge on a kid who annoyed him earlier.
Air Date: 2002-10-11
- 15 Royal Bean
Mr Bean breaks his favourite cup with a picture of the Queen on it, his search for a new one eventually leads him to Buckingham Palace.
Air Date: 2002-10-18
- 16 Young Bean
After Bean snatches a piece of Mrs Wicket's freshly baked cake, he hides in the loft and takes a ride down memory lane...
Air Date: 2002-10-18
- 17 In the Pink
After a robbery in the pet shop Mr. Bean finds himself lumbered with a strange pink animal.
Air Date: 2002-10-25
- 18 Dinner for Two
Whenever you're you invited over to Mr. Bean's house for dinner, it's best to bring your own sandwiches!
Air Date: 2002-10-25
- 19 The Ball
When Mr. Bean accidently hits the neighbours ball onto the roof, he has to get it back. He faces a pass of panic and peril including nearly falling out of a window!
Air Date: 2002-11-01
- 20 Toothache
Poor Mr. Bean has a toothache. He tries various things, and when he can't get it to stop hurting he wears a yellow fang, and it scares everyone in the dentists office!
Air Date: 2002-11-01
- 21 Haircut
Mr.Bean has a picture taking from The daily Blah but his hair just getting messy even when brushed,and he has to get a haircut but ends up in a disastrous result.
Air Date: 2002-11-08
- 22 Neighbourly Bean
The nextdoor neighbours keep making really annoying noises that drive Mr. Bean crazy and keep him from watching his show on the television.
Air Date: 2002-11-08
- 23 Nurse!
Mr.Bean gets inspired by Mrs Wicket's injury that he fakes one just to have a luxurious stay at the hospital, but things don't turn out the way he expected
Air Date: 2002-11-15
- 24 Dead Cat
Mr Bean has to decorate the corridor with new wallpaper and Scrapper gets in the way as usual. When Scrapper gets carried off somewhere due to Bean's fury, he has to find a replacement Cat before Mrs Wicket gets back
Air Date: 2002-11-15
- 25 Super Trolley
Mr.Bean invented home-made shopping cart in order to go shopping for Mrs. Wicket and himself and avoiding the mall manager at the same time.
Air Date: 2002-11-22
- 26 Magpie
Mr. Bean saves an injured magpie from a tree and cares for it at his house. But the magpie flies away though and steals valuables!
Air Date: 2002-11-22
- 27 Cat-Sitting
Mr. Bean has to look after Scrapper while Mrs. Wicket is at the doctors with a broken leg. But Scrapper is so vicious and scary he starts tearing up the house.
Air Date: 2002-11-29
- 28 The Bottle
Mr. Bean buys a bottle with a boat in it, but loses it. A milkman mistakes it for a bottle of milk and Mr. Bean must retrieve the bottle at night.
Air Date: 2002-11-29
- 29 Goldfish
Mr. Bean buys a goldfish and dumps Teddy. The goldfish is great-Until Mr. Bean starts to miss Teddy...
Air Date: 2002-12-06
- 30 Inventor
An inventor comes to the house who upstages Mr. Bean and amazes Mrs. Wicket. Mr. Bean has some dastardly tricks up his sleeve though...
Air Date: 2002-12-06
- 31 Hot Date
On a beautiful night, Mr. Bean takes Irma out on a date but forgets to bring his wallet, making things extremely complicated in the process!
Air Date: 2003-02-14
- 32 Wanted
A case of mistaken identity lands Mr. Bean in prison while an escaped convict pretends to be Mr. Bean. Question is: who has the better life?
Air Date: 2003-02-14
- 33 Art Thief
Mr. Bean is hot on the trail against an international art thief in a great chase from Britain to France and back!
Air Date: 2003-02-21
- 34 Scaredy Bean
It's a nightmare on Bean Street as Mr. Bean goes to see a horror movie.
Air Date: 2003-02-21
- 35 Car Trouble
After Mr. Bean's lime green Mini, his life long dream car since he was a boy, breaks down, he goes to a mechanic and is tricked into thinking it is beyond repair. The mechanic then steals the car after Mr. Bean is gone. Meanwhile Mr. Bean buys a hot air balloon to cheer himself up.
Air Date: 2003-02-28
- 36 Restaurant
Mr. Bean decides to go for a night at a restaurant, but he would have to share the night with a couple of famous people.
Air Date: 2003-02-28
- 37 Gadget Kid
High-tech gadgetry and low-tech cunning get Mr. Bean out of a jam.
Air Date: 2003-03-07
- 38 The Visitor
Bean gets a visit from an old school friend named Harry, but can't seem to remember him!
Air Date: 2003-03-07
- 39 Big TV
Mr. Bean breaks his TV while fighting over channels with his girlfriend, and soon goes out to buy a new TV. When he sees a very big-screen TV that costs £500, he has to try and earn enough money to buy it.
Air Date: 2003-03-14
- 40 Keyboard Capers
Mr. Bean is having trouble playing one song by Beathoven. He goes to a music shop and tricks the managar into selling him a grand piano, and soon Mr. Bean can play-But now he struggles to get one particular part right. Will Mr. Bean ever be able to play the song?
Air Date: 2003-03-14
- 41 Bean in Love
Bean becomes smitten with a beautiful singer and tries by all means to get her autograph.
Air Date: 2003-03-28
- 42 Double Trouble
Bean meets his doppleganger named Mr. Pod and they become fast friends in the process.
Air Date: 2003-03-28
- 43 A Royal Makeover
Mr. Bean redecorates his room, making it fit for a queen.
Air Date: 2003-04-04
- 44 Supermarrow
Who's got the biggest marrow? A town competition and one closer to home between Bean and the tough guy next door.
Air Date: 2003-04-04
- 45 Birthday Bear
It's Teddy's birthday! Bean took him to the toy shop and ask him what to buy, but Teddy won't tell him, he played all the toys while the shopkeeper's mad. And finally Bean got Teddy a ballon.
Air Date: 2003-05-09
- 46 The Mole
While Bean is reading a book, Mrs. Wicket saw a mole and she asked Bean to get rid of it.
Air Date: 2003-05-09
- 47 Treasure!
Mr. Bean finds a box containing loads of puzzles pieces. He puts the pieces together but there is one missing. Meanwhile, Mr. Bean also tries to find treasure with a map he finds.
Air Date: 2003-05-30
- 48 Homeless
Mrs. Wicket finally throws Mr. Bean out and he needs a new home. Mr. Bean finds a newspaper with loads of houses to choose from. Will he ever find the perfect home?
Air Date: 2003-05-30
- 49 Egg & Bean
Mr Bean Finds a bird on the top of his house but after looking in his bird book, he thinks it could be a dinosaur
Air Date: 2003-06-06
- 50 Hopping Mad
Mr Bean Collects some frogs-spawn from the local pond and looks after it until they become frogs, but they turn into Scary Frogs!
Air Date: 2003-06-06
- 51 A Grand Invitation
Mr. Bean nearly runs into a posh' ladies dog and gets invited in for a special banguet only to find he was conned'.
Air Date: 2003-06-15
- 52 A Running Battle
Mr. Bean competes in a running race around London and ends up in hospital.
Air Date: 2003-06-15


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Arkane Studios | FRA | Full Time | Posted: 02/21/2013
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The Systems Designer will oversee the design, implementation and tuning of game systems to ensure the best moment-to-moment gameplay experience.
Responsibilities include:
Work closely with the Creative Director and leads in effort to develop some of the game systems in support of the project's goals
Work hand in hand with other system designers to insure consistency between all the game systems
Lead a team of developers (including programmers, animators , UI artist, sound engineer..) to implement and polish the systems they are responsible for
Generate design documentation to clearly communicate ideas and goals to the team
Drive the team to meet the project deadlines and objectives by applying the Arkane agile/scrum processes
Identify issues and offer solutions related to gameplay and play balance
Collaborate actively with the QA team, from the first internal playtests to the functional and certification tests, to ensure the best quality of the game systems
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After years of roasting organic beans, this popular company has certified its roastery and taken the guessing game out of buying their coffee.
Fishing regulations maintain the sustainability of local Dungeness crab. But here's the catch: no-limits crabbing shortens the season and increases commercial competition.
Three Ferry Plaza Farmers Market vendors share firsthand experiences from the Slow Food International event.
Double K Christmas Tree Farm is more than a hobby for Bill and Nan Krelle. The farm is born out of a love for forestry, and the Krelles' growing practices show it.
Urban Farming in West Oakland gets a much needed boost.
An interview with author and food waste expert, Jonathan Bloom.
As the number of farmers markets goes up, market managers work to maintain transparency despite flawed infrastructure.
Get a taste of Glashoff Farms and Shelly's Garden with farm tour photos and video.
Expert tips on the best local ingredients for baking artisan bread. Recipe included!
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Nutritional Analysis: 2 tablespoons equals 172 calories, 18 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 17 mg cholesterol, 220 mg sodium, 1 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.
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Fantastic recipe! I love a good garlicky blue cheese dressing. After processing it in the blender, I stir in a few more ounces of crumbled blue cheese since I like it on the chunky side.
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This recipe saved me in a last minute need for something great! Try it over a wedge salad and then add fresh ground pepper.
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Got this recipe years ago from Taste of Home. Love it! We are garlic people so we add a lot. This is the best.
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So good! Such a neat creamy dressing, nice to try since I aquired a taste for blue cheese! Next I want to try it with chicken in the salad.
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Generally, I don't like Blue Cheese salad dressing, but I made this because my husband does. Wow! What a fresh, creamy compliment to a salad. I will definitely make over and over again.
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Thailand, US boost military ties
- Published: 15/11/2012 at 07:10 PM
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Thailand and the United States pledged on Thursday to renew their military alliance for a new security era during a regional tour by Washington's defence chief designed to counter China's rise.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the new joint defence declaration between the decades-old allies had "moved this alliance into the 21st century".
The last time the two nations drafted such a joint declaration was in 1962, when the US promised to defend Thailand from "communist aggression".
Although the new statement made no reference to China's rising military power, Washington's strategic tilt to the Asia-Pacific is meant to offset Beijing's clout and maintain American influence there.
It supported "the United States' enduring presence in the Asia-Pacific" and recognised Thailand as a "regional leader".
Defence Minister ACM Sukumpol Suwanatat, left, accompanies US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta to review a guard of honour prior to their meeting. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
Thailand's support for the US presence will stabilise the Asia-Pacific region and make it prosper, the statement said.
Defence Minister ACM Sukumpol Suwanatat, who signed the declaration with Mr Panetta, denied that the defence alliance was a cooperation between Thailand and the US to contain the rising influence of China in the region.
"Both China and the United States are our friends who are equally treated by us,'' he told reporters, adding that Thailand will soon have defence cooperation with China.
The new partnership also called for cooperation in humanitarian relief efforts and Washington's support on the sale of its military equipment to modernise the Thai armed forces.
But Mr Panetta said the two countries did not discuss the use of U-tapao airport in Rayong for the military and for a humanitarian relief centre. The US had no plan to use the airport, he added.
His visit to Bangkok marked the first face-to-face talks between US and Thai defence ministers since 2008, and came days before President Barack Obama is due in the region for a tour of Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar.
The US suspended military aid to Thailand after a 2006 coup but reinstated it after elections in December 2007.
Mr Panetta will fly to Cambodia on Friday to join a meeting of defence ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that is expected to focus on territorial tensions with China and recent sectarian unrest in Myanmar.
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When World War II ended, Albania was the only European country to boast a larger number of Jewish people than it had housed before the Holocaust. More than 2,000 Jews from Albania, Greece, Italy and other nations were hidden in the homes of Albanian families throughout the War. Besa – the Albanian code of faith and honor – was the source of the courage that led to their rescue.
American photographer Norman Gershman, fascinated by stories of the rescue effort, traveled to Albania and Kosovo to chronicle the tales of the Albanian Muslim protectors and their devotion to Besa, which means "to keep the promise." BESA: Muslims who Saved Jews during the Holocaust is the result of his work.
The Albanian-American Law Society at Suffolk University Law School, co-sponsor of the exhibit, will hold an opening reception at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 10. Johanna Neumann of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, who was sheltered by Albanians during World War II, will speak.