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Maine man charged with assaulting men dressed in comic book costume outside comic book store
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) � A Maine man is behind bars for allegedly attacking two men dressed as comic book characters outside a Portland comic book store where people were dressed in costume.
Portland police say 31-year-old Adam Barnes of Westbrook threw a man in a stormtrooper costume to the ground and punched another man dressed as a ghostbuster character in a random assault Saturday afternoon outside Coast City Comics on Congress Street.
Lt. Gary Hutcheson told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1260165 ) that police had to use a stun gun on Barnes. He said Barnes, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and 300 pounds, was drunk.
Barnes was charged with two counts of assault, disorderly conduct and five counts of criminal threatening of five police officers who responded.
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- Intrinsic value: Every expedition to the depths results in new species being found. Sometimes entire new ecosystems are discovered, such as around hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. An entire new domain of life has even been found in the depths: Archaea, an ancient form of life most closely related to the first life on Earth. And all this with only 1% of the deep ocean floor so far explored.
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Answer: "It is clear that Mossad is involved in the whole affair. An entire city has been attacked by Mossad and probably units of mercenaries."
Tarek Fatah: "As ridiculous as this may sound, chances are that countless Muslims are deluding themselves into believing that it is not their co-religionists who are responsible for the savagery let loose on India, but some hidden U.S.-Zionist conspiracy against Islam."
In fact, not just Muslims.
UPDATE I: Calling that great city by its proper name (Bombay):
I hope I am not alone in finding the statements about Bombay from our politicians to be anemic and insipid, and the media coverage of the disastrous and criminal attack too parochially focused on the fate of visiting or resident Americans. India is emerging in many ways as our most important ally. It is a strong regional counterweight to Russia and China. Not to romanticize it overmuch, it is a huge and officially secular federal democracy that is based, like the United States, on ethnic and confessional pluralism. Its political and economic and literary echelons speak English better than most of us do. Its parliament in New Delhi—the unbelievably diverse and dignified Lok Sabha—was viciously attacked by Islamist gangsters and nearly destroyed in December 2001, a date which ought to have made more Americans pay more attention rather than less. Since then, Bombay has been assaulted multiple times and the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan blown up with the fairly obvious cross-border collusion of the same Pakistani forces who are helping in the rebirth of the Taliban.
UPDATE II: In the above piece, the "saps" who would blame the Bombay massacres on, say Bush and Blair - the "moronic faction" that has "not yet been heard from" - has been heard from now, loud and clear. Eamonn McDonagh responds to that faction here.


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Well last weekend I just turned 22 and I had a GREAT time with my friends celebrating it at Kemang. At first it didn't go really well though, like I spent my 00:00 birthday in the car surviving traffic jam (wtf), and there was this awkward moment when Yansen called me (he's in Shanghai) and my friends got silent all of a sudden and listening to our convo lol! Then the place we intended to go was so packed and there were so many waiting lists already (yes I forgot to make a reservation), sigh.
But thanks to my lucky star, we got a table at Vin+!! It is a wine boutique with more than 800 wine labels from all over the world. :)
|With my girls, Olivia (left) and Raissa (right). The ones I can talk almost everything with, from juicy gossip, bitchy talk to future plans. ;)
|Mike and Rudy. Hey this is the 1st time Mike appeared on my blog! :D
|Only five glasses because Fendy hasn't finished his scene yet. boo! He missed the good wine!
|The couple, Fendy and Olive, they look so cute together, don't they? :)
|Raissa's face has already turned red haha, she gets reddish very easily, no need to wear blush anymore, envy!
|Mike comes in blurry!
|High-school friendsss! Anyway I was wearing black leather jacket from GOWIGASA, hahaha tetep.
|...then SHOTS!!
What happened after that can be read from the previous post by Jess ha-ha cos I can't remember a thing. I don't usually get hangover lah, it was merely because my birthday night so I thought why not make it unforgettable one by going all out.lol. Besides I was with my best-friends so I knew they would take care of me, and they did. Love you sahabat!! :)♥
Anyway, I want to thank you guys so, SO MUCH for all of the birthday wishes through Facebook, Twitter, bbm, text messages, phone, face2face, etc! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, I had a really wonderful birthday. :)
Also, I'd like to give my special thanks to this sweet girl, Jessica Xu, who made this drawing for me:
|Very beautiful and sweet, MAD LOVE!! I wish I had the hard copy so I can hang it on my bedroom wall!


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Digital Marketing is still relatively new in comparison to traditional marketing. Although i've seen some boasting that they've been in the Digital Marketing industry for 30 years. I've seen this so many times that I have no response anymore and it's really neither, here nor there at this point.
At this stage in the digital marketing game, we have been dabbling in this space long enough as marketers that we should "get it", yet it seems that it's not the case. There was a study by Adobe that pretty much said as marketers there are a high percentage of folks that are failing. Not only do these folks realize they are failing but they do not even have confidence in their skills in the space, enough to attempt to change. This is a problem!
We need competent marketers that are on their A Game, because the demand in this space is increasing. We are not going backward to that traditional marketing comfort zone that some want to wallow in. If any thing marketing is accelerating quicker toward total technology dominance. The merge between technology and marketing is almost fully realized. So much so, that markers are now considered marketing technologists, not just marketers. The skill set that is required to be successful in the marketing space is probably 90% technical with very little focus on traditional marketing strategies.
We have reached a point that we should recognize the fundamental differences between adjusting traditional marketing strategies to the digital space and embracing digital marketing strategy. This is a hardcore fail because these channels appeal to different demographic audiences.
Digital channels allow us so many benefits that were not available with traditional marketing channels. A huge and amazing opportunity that digital offers those that take advantage of it, is analytics, which it the backbone behind successful digital marketing strategies. Analytics allows us to utilize data to determine ROI of campaigns. This is huge for us as marketers and for the clients that we work with.
As a person that is not overly fond of numbers, I have a love of analytics because these numbers provide a roadmap to where we've been digitally and map a path to our next digital destination. However, we must be willing to pay attention in order to see this path. We must first recognize the importance of digital and the important role of analytics. As a marketer, if you miss this you are lost.
There are so many marketers that are NOT paying attention. They don't realize that digital marketing is NOT a retrofitted version of their old school marketing. It is much better and much, much more but only if we are willing to embrace the change. As marketers in this space we must pay attention to the industry, innovations and most importantly our customers. These are areas in which we are failing as an industry. There are some exceptions of course.
Four Reasons Why You Are Failing At Digital Marketing:
1. It's not about you, really it's NOT. I don't know how many times i've heard, "Well, I like this." or "I like that or I don't like that." So what, who cares. It's not really about you. The content you share is really NOT about you, just as the content that I share is NOT about me. It's 100% about your audience.
I always share content that I think friends and followers would find useful, thought provoking or will solve a problem for them. It's never been about my likes or dislikes. A great example of this is one of my Pinterest boards about bacon. This is by far one of my most popular boards and it's so funny, because I haven't had a slice of traditional bacon in over 30 years. I don't even remember what it tastes like. However, it seems that people that follow me on Pinterest love bacon. So, if that's what they love, that's what I supply. I realize the bacon board was popular because I was paying attention and analyzing the data.
A lot of people that do not have a digital background or have not learned enough in this industry to venture away from their outdated traditional marketing background, still don't pay attention. They are hanging on to antiquated techniques like Linus of Charlie Brown with the dirty blanket. There's a new set of rules and these rules have to be embraced by learning what digital is all about not taking stabs at failing attempts to retrofit traditional marketing into digital strategy. This is not a criticism at all, more of an observation.
Old school, traditional marketing was more about the company that was pushing the message. It was more of a "Me Me Me" channel. Digital is the antithesis of that, because digital is about the CUSTOMER, CLIENT and their user experience. It's NOT about YOU, as the marketer, so pay attention.
2. Pay attention to the customers, clients and data because they don't lie. There are so many people that are caught up in the frenzy of doing the "digital thing" that they are just posting, pushing content and doing all of the things that they think they are supposed to be doing but in the process they are not paying attention to the customer or client.
In the frenzy to be "on the ball," and appear to know it all a lot of marketers think they are winning the fight but they are losing the war. A huge part of digital and social is really paying attention to your customers. What kind of content are the customers interacting with, why are they interacting with that content and how should you interpret that. What is your take away? How can you use that interaction to better THEIR customer experience?
Marketers need to pay attention and create a strategy based on the wants and needs of their customers and clients, but first as a marketer you must pay attention. It's just that simple. Are you paying attention?
3. Analyze the data because it doesn't lie and will give you a roadmap to creating a great strategy that will be 100% about your customers and clients. After all that's what this is about, the entire digital marketing thing is about creating an avenue for your customers, so they can engage with you and your brand with the ultimate goal of increasing brand exposure and potentially sales. However, if you as a marketer lack the fundamentals needed to put your wants aside and if you don't pay attention all of this is rather pointless.
We have to take the ME out of our digital strategy and a part of that is putting our wants aside, focusing on the customer and utilizing insights gained from the customer to continue to provide what they desire. This is win win for the marketer, client and/or customer.
The data is a roadmap and it will always lead you in the right direction but you must analyze it and plan accordingly.
4. Plan based on data, that is huge because it allows you to utilize analytics and insights to drive your marketing strategy. If you are unfamiliar with insights and analytics, I'd suggest you dive in to that area because it will make your digital marketing strategy so much easier.
Suppose you have a goal to hit a certain target audience for your clients, how are you to know you are successful if you are not analyzing the data around your marketing campaigns? If you are not looking at the data your digital strategy is sort of like, "let me just throw some crap on the wall and see what sticks." In opting not to analyze the insights and analytics of your social media, websites and campaigns, you leave a lot to chance and that's not a good road to travel down.
In closing:
We are all evolving in this space but we have to make an effort to embrace it and keep learning because the industry is continuing to grow. Most importantly have fun with it. This is a FUN industry. With that said, if you find that this is NOT fun for you 🙂 and need help with getting your digital marketing strategy back on track or if you need help in a pinch for a project, feel free to reach out. I am always online, with the exception of the few hours that I am forced to walk away from my computer due to that thing we need on occasion called sleep.
As usual, if you have comments, good , bad, ugly or indifferent, you can find me on Facebook, Twitter or G+


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More than 800 buildings and structures make up Miami Beach's Art Deco District, which was the first 20th-century neighborhood recognized by the National Register of Historic Places. Built between 1923 and 1943, buildings such as the Clevelander Hotel, the Delano South Beach, and the Celino Hotel South Beach flaunt the bright colors, intriguing details, and structural features characteristic of the Art Deco style.
Alexander Baumbach
Moore Building
Built in 1921 as a furniture showroom, the Moore Building reflects the Miami Design District's history as a hub for home goods and decor. Today, the historic building serves as a special event venue in the heart of the neighborhood and comprises arcaded spaces and a large central atrium. The site-specific installation "Elastika" stretches between floors and was created by the late architect Zaha Hadid.
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Fendi Colonnade
The Design District has become a mecca for designer fashion in recent years, and the various labels vie for the most eye-catching buildings. Fendi ranks near the top of the list with its dramatic colonnade by architect Johanna Grawunde, which is orange by day and purple by night. Bonus: The colorful tunnel leads to Marc Quinn's "Myth Fortuna Sculpture" in the image of supermodel Kate Moss.
Robin Hill
The Villa Casa Casuarina
You'll need a reservation—or friends in high places—to lay your eyes on the lavish interiors of The Villa Casa Casuarina hotel, the former Versace mansion. The Mediterranean Revival-style home was built in 1930, and the late Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace fully customized it in the 1990s. (He was killed outside its front gate.) Aesthetic highlights include the Thousand Mosaic Pool, a star-studded observatory, and upward of 100 medallions portraying famous faces like Julius Caesar and Vladimir Lenin.
The Villa Casa Casuarina
Buckminster Fuller Fly's Eye Dome
We recommend opting for the underground car park in the Design District just so you can ascend into the geodesic dome above the exit, the Buckminster Fuller Fly's Eye Dome. The is a replica of the Fly's Eye Dome designed by architect Buckminster Fuller in 1965; he called it an "autonomous dwelling machine." When taking your snap, stand facing the blue glass facade of Sou Fujimoto for an appealing backdrop.
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Fontainebleau Miami Beach
After it opened in 1954, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach became a glamorous playground for the rich and famous, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe. And it still draws upscale clientele today. The 20-acre oceanfront property has kept pace with modernity while paying homage to its past by preserving such style elements as the "staircase to nowhere" and the curvilinear facade by original architect Morris Lapidus.
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
Wynwood Walls
You simply must take pictures when visiting the colorful Wynwood Walls. This outdoor museum features a rotating collection of large-scale works of street art in the heart of Wynwood, one of Miami's hottest neighborhoods. Visit on the second Saturday of the month for Wynwood Art Walk, when the district turns into a fully-fledged party with music, food trucks, and art galleries open until the wee hours (and pouring drinks).
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Flotsam & Jetsam
Created for the Design Miami fair in 2016 by SHoP Architects, "Flotsam & Jetsam" is an award-winning art installation and one of the world's largest 3-D printed objects. It's made out of a biodegradable bamboo medium. Today, it resides in the Design District's Jungle Plaza near a large, colorful wall mural of tropical flora and fauna.
Robin HIll
Take a rest—and some photos—at "Netscape" in the Design District. In 2010, German designer Konstantin Grcic first created this web of hanging chairs with 24 seats for Design Miami. He intended it to foster social interaction. Later, Craig Robins, the brain behind the Design District, commissioned two versions of "Netscape," for the Perez Art Museum Miami and the Design District's Palm Court.
Robin HIll
Museum Garage
In the Design District, even parking garages get the chance to shine. The seven-story, 800-car Museum Garage comprises diverse facades created by five internationally renowned designers and architects. The concepts include metallic cars in a "vertical traffic jam," inspired by the movie Inception; a large-scale ant colony; and a cartoon-like mural inspired by both anime and Baroque paintings.
Miguel De Guzman
Perez Art Museum Miami
World-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron conceived the dramatic Perez Art Museum Miami, which debuted in 2013. The 200,000-square-foot building was designed to bring the outdoors in and to expand over time to meet the needs of the growing museum. The architects also recruited leading landscape architects and horticulturists to incorporate vegetation into the design.
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CHICAGO -- The Federal Reserve's third round of bond-buying could ultimately rival the size of its first huge quantitative easing, which was widely seen as boosting growth.
The Fed initially disappointed some investors on Thursday when it said it would buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month. That is far less than the $75 billion a month it bought in its second round of bond-buying, or the more than $100 billion monthly tab for its first round.
But this time, the Fed has promised that "if the outlook for the labor market does not improve substantially," it won't stop buying and could ramp up its spending further.
Depending how the Fed defines "substantially" and how long it takes to get there, it could end up buying bonds for several years, adding $1.7 trillion or more to its balance sheet, analysts say.
By comparison, the Fed's initial round of quantitative easing, first announced in November 2008 as the U.S. economy slumped into a deep recession, totaled $1.75 trillion .
"They've clearly committed to do what it takes to get unemployment down where they want it," said Pierre Ellis, an economist at New York-based Decision Economics. "There's no limit."
To Ellis, the "big bazooka" of open-ended bond purchases -- designed to boost the economy by lowering borrowing costs -- won't have much immediate impact because the economy's main headwind is uncertainty over fiscal policy and the outcome of a presidential election.
That's a view shared by several of the central bank's hawkish members.
But many other analysts say the Fed's latest program may exceed its predecessors in size, and more importantly, also pack the desired punch.
"We believe that with a strong commitment from the Fed, progress in Europe and the passing of the U.S. election, the U.S. economy will have a pretty decent shot at achieving above-trend growth in 2013," Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas, wrote in a note to investors.
Thursday's announcement could add another $1.2 trillion to $1.7 trillion to the Fed's balance sheet, she said.
The Fed has kept short-term rates near zero since December 2008, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has led the U.S. central bank into ever-newer territory to lower real rates further.
After the first round of bond-buying in 2008 and 2009, the Fed resorted in 2010 and 2011 to a second round to ward off deflation as the recovery faltered.
As he doubles down on quantitative easing, Bernanke's approach looks flexible enough to win support from both ends of the Fed spectrum -- the doves who want more easing to bring down unemployment, and the hawks who worry that more easing could overheat the economy and spark inflation.
"Everybody likes tying it to economic conditions," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Toronto-based Capital Economics. He estimates the program could eventually grow to between $960 billion to $1.44 trillion in size.
"The doves like this because they think the markets will think it's even bigger" than QE2, he said. At the same time, "it gives the hawks something, that if the economy picks up, they can get this stopped."
The Fed did not say how big it expects its latest program to be, but the clues are plain in its quarterly economic forecasts, also published Thursday.
Only three Fed policymakers expect the unemployment rate, now at 8.1 percent, to fall more than half a percentage point by the end of next year.
If the Fed sees 7 percent as substantial progress, the forecasts suggest continued bond buying through late 2014; if a bit lower, bond-buying could be needed through mid-2015, Ashworth said. Underscoring that interpretation, the Fed said Thursday it expects to keep rates low until at least then.
Before the crisis, unemployment was closer to 5 percent.
Chicago Fed President Charles Evans has spent the last year arguing strongly for the Fed to tie monetary policy more closely to economic milestones by vowing to keep rates low until unemployment fell below 7 percent.
Doing so, he says, would avoid the temptation of backing off from easing at the first signs of economic strengthening. In a series of speeches in recent months, he has likened a strong Fed commitment to low rates to a modern-day Ulysses tied to the mast of his ship, prevented from responding to the siren call of premature monetary tightening.
While the Fed did not embrace Evans' 7-percent unemployment rate target, it did adopt his view that the Fed should hold fast to easy policy even after the recovery picks up speed -- a historic shift in policy.
Any eventual ceiling on the size of QE3 looks sky-high. The Fed may only buy Treasuries and agency-backed debt, and some Fed officials say it has bought nearly as much of the U.S. national debt as it can without impairing the market's function.
But with mortgage-backed securities, there is plenty room to run: economists estimate the size of that market at more than $7 trillion, although the Fed would need to avoid disrupting the market's function.
Michael Gapen, an economist at Barclays, sees QE3 topping out at $700 billion -- slightly more than the second round of quantitative easing, but less than half the first.
The impact, he said, could be limited to boosting economic growth by a few tenths of a percentage point, although that could be enough to generate momentum.
"If you can keep the economy persistently above trend, then that has a self-reinforcing effect," he said.
Combined with the European Central Bank's vow to buy as many bonds as needed from euro zone states -- on condition they undertake reforms -- QE3 "has the potential to be very positive for the U.S. economy," Gapen said.
However, he said one real threat to the economy remains: a raft of tax increases and spending cuts that will automatically take effect at the end of the year unless Congress acts.
But if lawmakers successfully avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the outcome for the economy could beat expectations and ultimately trim the size of QE3.
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Firth will star alongside Michael Fassbender in the adaptation of Andrew Scott Berg's biography Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which is looking at the real-life relationship between author Thomas Wolfe and editor Max Perkins. John Logan wrote the screenplay for Genius and the drama will be directed by Michael Grandage. James Bierman is producing for the Michael Grandage Company. Shooting is scheduled for early 2014 and FilmNation is handling international sales.
Robert Cantarella will make his directorial debut with an as-yet-untitled romantic drama, which will star Catherine Deneuve as a retired divorcee who decides to break away from her tranquil existence in Brussels and start a new life in Los Angeles, where she embarks on a passionate relationship with another man. Harvey Keitel will play the male lead. The $5m film is a German-French co-production between Cine Plus and Les Films D'Ici with Charlotte Uzu producing. Shooting is planned for autumn 2013 and Haut et Court will release across France.


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This aerial panorama of Michigan State University, taken by James Blakeway, spotlights the university during a Michigan State Spartans football game. MSU, located in East Lansing, Michigan, is one of the top 10 largest universities in the United States with more than 46,000 students and offers more than 200 academic fields of study. Founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, it was renamed several times prior to becoming Michigan State University in 1964. Spartan Stadium originally opened as College Field in 1923. The natural grass stadium seats 75,005 fans and has ranked among the top 20 in attendance each of the last 52 years. Spartan football has won six national titles.


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Only nine percent of directors of the top 250 grossing Hollywood films in 2012 were women, a study has found.
The Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University said that despite the low figure, it was a four percent increase from the numbers in 2011, BBC reported.
The research found women comprised 18 percent of all directors, executive producers, writers, cinematographers and editors.
It also showed women were more likely to work in the documentary, drama and animated film genres.
The centre has been conducting the industry survey for more than a decade to track trends, BBC said.
The number of female producers has held steady at 25 percent for the past two years, while female writers rose to 15 percent, up from a low of 10 percent in 2006.
The number of female editors between 1998-2012 has remained fairly constant in the 20-21 percent range.
Cinematographers have fluctuated between 2-4 percent, although figures for 2012 were on the low end of the range. No women have made it onto the shortlist for best director at this year's Oscars.
Zero Dark Thirty is the only Best Picture nominee to have been directed by a woman, Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow.
Another study by the Sundance Institute and Women in Film in Los Angeles showed women fared better in the independent film sector.
Looking at films shown at the Sundance Film Festival over the past decade, and accounting for 820 narrative and documentary films, researchers found women represented 29.8 percent of 11,000 filmmakers.
There are more women working in documentary films than narrative films.
Study director Stacy Smith said "as commerce moves in, females move out". The study also found that films directed by women employ greater numbers of women behind the camera than those made by men.


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In early 20th-century books, it was described as a "stately pile," and "a most sumptuous affair," before being christened the Castle in the Rockies.
When first built in 1888, the Victorian-styled structure looming above the Bow River was an anomaly in Banff, which only had a few log structures, dirt streets and mountain men eking out a living as best they could.
One British writer who worked on the railway in 1883 and returned four decades later went so far as to say it didn't seem real.
Morley Roberts recounted seeing the hotel for the first time in his memoir On the Old Trail: Through British Columbia After Forty Years.
"The truth is that I could not take beautiful Banff seriously. I dreamed it . . . On a pine-covered bank or bluff above the crystal foam of the Bow I came to a gigantic castle. It had no business to be there."
Roberts, who spent years tramping across the West in Canada and the U.S., wrote how he went into the hotel where he caught the eye of another old-timer. "So when Bill Potts and I shook hands I said, after a look at him and a look around the hall, "I don't believe it." And people may believe it or not when I say that he replied at once, "No more do I."
Indeed, the Banff Springs Hotel still seems dreamlike 125 years after it first rose majestically out of the forest, surrounded by towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains.
But it wasn't a dream which created the hotel, rather a canny decision by the general manager of the CPR to capitalize on the tourism potential of the West.
"If we cannot export the scenery, we will have to import the tourists," Sir William Cornelius Van Horne is reported to have said. He was responsible for a series of railway dining halls and hotels being built across the country, including Hotel Vancouver and the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City.
In the West, Van Horne instigated construction of Mount Stephen House at Field, Fraser Canyon Hotel, and Glacier House at Rogers Pass.
But Van Horne's grandest vision was reserved for the Banff Springs.
He hired Bruce Price, a New York architect (and father of etiquette author Emily Post), who also designed the Frontenac. Construction began on the $250,000 structure in 1887, but a builder's mistake caused it to face away from the mountains. It opened on But this wasn't the grand stone castle that stands today at the confluence of the Bow and Spray rivers. The original was a four-storey wooden structure with 250 rooms costing $3.50 a night. The first season saw 1,503 guests. That grew to 22,000 by 1911, leading to a series of renovations and expansions. What was left of the original chalet burned in 1926, and the new hotel, which resembled both a Scottish castle and a French chateau, opened in 1928.
But right from the start in 1888, tourists from Eastern Canada and the U.S. began pilgrimages on the CPR, bringing Van Horne's railway dream to life.
Visitors wanted to experience the mountains and the local culture, which included First Nations.
They got their wish each year during Banff Indian Days.
Whyte Museum resources show the annual event got its start in 1894 when spring floods washed away the rails and stranded tourists. The hotel manager asked local guide Tom Wilson for help entertaining the guests, The guide rode out to the Stoney First Nations reserve near Morley and asked if they would demonstrate their dancing and riding skills. They settled on a fee and the event was a hit. It carried on until the late 1970s.
Those early pioneering guests, some staying as long as a month, evolved into a sophisticated clientele by the 1930s and '40s.
Actors, politicians and dignitaries made the rounds, including Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939, Helen Keller, Bing Crosby and Ginger Rogers.
"It's Canada's Castle in the Rockies and it has that intrigue," says Dave Moberg, one of the hotel's longest serving employees with 51 years.
"This hotel is not about celebrities or movie stars. It's about our guests, the staff who've worked here and the people who become passionate about the hotel."
There wasn't much excitement about it in the 1940s, however, when Banff Springs went through a period of neglect amid low tourist traffic. The hotel closed between 1942 and 1945, freeing up thousands of employees for the war effort, said Deon Klatt, who helps lead the hotel's history tour.
"In the 1950s, it opened in a state of disrepair. It was a rundown summer hotel. There was even talk of tearing it down."
A weeklong visit by Hollywood's biggest star brought back a touch of that early glamour.
Marilyn Monroe stayed at the hotel in 1953 while filming River of No Return.
A British man who was her driver at the time returned to the hotel for a visit a few months ago, said Moberg.
"I met this gentleman in the lobby. He was a big tall gentleman with rosy cheeks. He said he used to work here in 1953. I asked what he did and he said he was Marilyn Monroe's chauffeur."
When Monroe was filming, another movie starring Alan Ladd and Shelley Winters was also being made nearby. The chauffeur was asked to take the two directors out on the town one night.
"He said they asked him, "Can you take us to the nearest cat house?' and he, being a naive British student, took them to the veterinarian."
More Hollywood stars followed in the years after but the hotel struggled to find its footing. Banff Springs began to focus on short-stay tourists, bus and rail tours and an emerging conference trade.
In 1971 Ivor Petrak became general manager and kicked off a period of restoration. "He had the vision to change it from that to a year-round, world-class alpine ski resort," said Klatt.
But some of the renovations through the years left some strange results. Staffers tell of a 'lost room' that got covered over by the first renovations 100 years ago. Another reno created an unusual suite on the fourth floor with the bathroom behind the door and the bedroom at the bottom of a wide staircase.
Other changes include refurbishing the infamous staff annex to create 245 extra rooms in time for the 1988 Olympic Games.
A new manager in the 1990s brought a renewed sense of luxury.
Two rooms that really reflect that sense of glamour are also staff favourites. Klatt loves the Cascade ballroom which hosted big band leader Moxie Whitney and Fred Astaire. Stepping inside is like a time warp, with the room painted elegant hues, with crystal chandeliers and rich fabrics.
Mount Stephen Hall is also a nod to the past. Not much has changed in this expansive room where many weddings occur, including those of hockey players and figure skaters.
"I remember one wedding where they spent over a million. It had full security, a cinematography team and even a railway line built along the walkway to hold the cameras," said Klatt, who declined to identify the bride and groom, saying only they weren't celebrities.
Tourism and events have become big business for Banff Springs and a $25-million conference centre was added in 1991. A year later, the hotel was declared a national historic site. In 1995, the $12-million Solace Spa opened and it became known as a Fairmont property in 1999 when Canadian Pacific Hotels bought Fairmont Hotels.
Today the hotel boasts 768 guest rooms, a 27-hole golf course, 12 seasonal restaurants and up to 1,200 employees.
The hotel's newest manager believes it's well-positioned for the next 125 years.
"I have seen a tremendous amount of the world that is overpopulated and overbuilt," said David Roberts, who managed Banff Springs for three years before being transferred to the Middle East. He's been back now for about six weeks.
"As all of the countries get wealthier and look to find a patch of green grass, they're going to look at the national parks of Canada as a choice that's even more important.
"(The Canadian tourism slogan) of moose, mountains and Mounties hasn't gone away and I think it will never go away."


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Robert L. D'Anjolell Memorial Home, P.C., and its officers, Robert L. D'Anjolell, Sr., Anthony Romano, and Robert L. D'Anjolell, Jr., have agreed to pay an $11,000 civil penalty as settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the FTC's Funeral Rule by failing to provide a...
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a sweep of 42 funeral homes in the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Lansing areas. Seven of those homes appeared to be in violation of the FTC's Funeral Rule. The sweep was part of an ongoing nationwide law enforcement program, coordinated by the...
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UFC Undisputed may be a sports simulation, but the series has roots in fighting games, says the game's producer, and UFC 3 will pay tribute to those roots when the game releases in January.
Developer Yuke's Future Media Creators told me at E3 that the point of UFC Undisputed 3's competition mode is to get the game sanctioned as a tournament game for events such as the Evo Championship Series.
If included, that would be a first for a game that is primarily a sports simulation.
The competition mode levels out each fighter's attribute ratings and balances the fighting styles. That would mean a bout is won or lost purely on the human fighter's skills, knowledge of his character's move set, and his ability to execute it.
UFC's E3 presentation made repeated references to fighting games and said it will honor their traditions when the game releases in January. The most notable fightng-game feature is a repositioning of the camera angle, from a three-quarters overhead shot to an inside-the-ring profile of the two combatants, a view more familiar to fighting series games.
"We really think this is a fighting game at its core," producer Neven Dravinski said in the game's video presentation. "You will see things that you see in Tekken and in Street Fighter. You will see things such as canceling strikes."
Dravinsky added that professional fighting-game contestants were brought in to consult on UFC 3's development.


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The UFC is planning a Nov. 15 event in Brazil that likely will serve as UFC on FOX Sports 1 4. Additionally, it'll take place the night before UFC 167 in Las Vegas.
Brazilian MMA reporter Guilherme Cruz first tweeted news of the event, which takes place on Brazil's Republic Day national holiday. Sources close to the event confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that it's in the works.
A venue and host city have not been confirmed for the event. The main card would air on FOX Sports 1 following prelims on Facebook.
The following day, UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre meets top contender Johny Hendricks in the pay-per-view headliner of UFC 167 in Las Vegas. UFC 167 will serve as the official 20th anniversary show for the UFC, which held its first event on Nov. 12, 1993.
No fights currently are rumored for UFC on FOX Sports 1 4, though an official event announcement could come as soon as this week.
It'd be the UFC's sixth Brazilian event in 2013.
The UFC has hosted shows on back-to-back nights twice previously. UFC on FX 4 and UFC 147 took place on consecutive nights in June 2012, and UFC on FX 6 and The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale took place on back-to-back days this past December.
For the latest on the UFC's upcoming schedule, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Get your chicks off Route 66
For 72 years, the Smith family has built
a national business around baby birds
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Cackle hatchery hires professional chicken sexers to sort hatchlings for people who've ordered birds of a specific gender.
You've probably heard the expression, "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched." But there's one Missouri business that's been doing just that for 72 years.
"We take it one step further by trying to count our chickens before the eggs have been laid," says Nancy Smith, who, together with her husband, Clifton, owns Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon.
As the third-largest supplier of chicks to individuals, feed stores and hobby farms, Cackle Hatchery has a lot of chicks to count.
Cackle Hatchery offers 160 varieties of chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, guineas, peafowl and game birds to customers. While the majority of the business is mail order, customers can come to the small retail store in Lebanon to buy hatchlings.
Current chicken breeds offered in Cackle's catalog include buff orpingtons, black australorps, silver-laced wyandottes, light brahmas, welsummers and cochins. Those interested in colored eggs might choose the araucana, also known as the "Easter egg" chicken, which usually lays pale green, pink or blue eggs.
"I'm proud to say we're one of the top three hobby hatcheries in the United States," says Jeff Smith, the third generation of owners. "We might sell 5,000 birds to a feed store or 10 birds to an individual. That's what makes us a hobby hatchery. We're not a huge operation like Tyson."
In 1936, Clifford Smith and his wife, Lena, started Cackle Hatchery. Years later, when the Smith's son, Clifton, married Nancy, he hoped one day to take over the operation.
Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon currently offers 160 varieties of purebred poultry to their customers. They specialize in hatching and shipping day-old birds to local post offices for pick-up.
"He warned me we'd be in this business," she says. "All I could think was 'I don't know anything about running a hatchery.' "
In 1964, Clifton and Nancy took over the family venture. At that time, birds were still shipped by train. But as rail service died down, trucks began delivering Cackle's birds, many heading out on the fabled Route 66, only blocks from their downtown location. Today, most of those orders get shipped through Lebanon's post office via priority mail to all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
"When we took over, the hatchery was doing OK, but not great," says Nancy, a member of Laclede Electric Cooperative. "At the start, we had a few flocks of exotic birds and Clifton's dad said 'Kids, this is gonna be the icing on your cake — fancy birds.' Then, exotics were Easter egg chickens, Polish and Hamburgs."
It turns out Clifton's dad was right. Fancy birds were the up-and-coming varieties hobby farmers wanted if they weren't buying laying hens or birds to raise for butchering.
Cackle doesn't raise its own breeding stock. Instead, it buys eggs and provides stock to contracted breeders in Missouri. Because the Smiths inspect the farms and know the breeders, they can assure customers they'll receive quality birds.
The Cackle Hatchery family is comprised of daughter-in-law Edie Smith, left, Nancy and Clifton Smith, center, and their son, Jeff. Jeff and his wife, Edie, have officially been working with the family business for more than a year now.
Most of their 80 contracted flock owners live within 50 miles of the hatchery. Jeff says some of their owners have as few as 50 birds while others might have 4,000.
"Besides providing breeding stock, we blood test flocks and cull out anything we don't think is quality," says Jeff, who is also a member of Laclede Electric. "In return, owners agree to bring the eggs in each week for us to set in incubators."
Hatching season runs from February through August, depending on the birds. From September through January, about 10 of the 35 employees stay on to help maintain the 30 incubators or test flocks. But orders for birds come in year-round.
"This has been our biggest year yet," says Jeff. "I don't know how the office handles it. We have six phone lines and they're usually lit up from the moment we open until we close."
The Smiths attribute part of their record-setting year to a troubled economy and meat recalls.
About 180,000 eggs are set in incubators at the hatchery each week. Many of the 30 incubators were built by Clifton Smith, son of the company founders, who still handles the maintenance of each machine, some of which are more than 70 years old.
"People want to know how their food is raised and if it's been given any growth hormones," says Jeff. "If they grow their own, they know exactly how it's been cared for."
Mondays and Wednesdays are the busiest days since those are hatch days. Despite averaging 110,000 new peepers per week, the Smiths can still predict the hour when the birds will arrive. That's not easy when, for example, chickens take 21 days to hatch, ducks take 28 and geese take 30.
After the peeping tufts of fluff are removed from hatching trays, they're sorted by breed, counted and separated by chicken sexers who sort cockerels (males) from pullets (females). Employees then work through the night, filling orders to ensure the chicks are ready to go to the post office at the crack of dawn. While the chicks are packed according to the weather they'll endure, there's no need to worry about food and water, at least not for a few days.
Five-year-old Heston Parsons of Rolla enjoyed seeing all the little peepers in Cackle Hatchery's retail area. Anyone can stop by Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday to view or buy any of the birds the hatchery has on display.
"If you could see inside a chick, you'd see some egg yolk," says Nancy. "It's the equivalent to a (human) mother's colostrum after giving birth."
Miraculously, the yolk ensures the chick has food to survive for 72 hours — the same amount of time it could take to arrive at their new homes.
Delivering chicks safe and sound has been the aim of Cackle Hatchery for 72 years. Now, with a new generation of Smiths joining the business, that tradition should carry on for as long as farmers and fowl fanciers buy birds. Jeff always knew that one day he, too, would be in the profession. Last year, he and his wife, Edie, joined his parents, becoming the third generation in the family business.
Jeff says he's excited to be part of the family business, but glad his parents are still around.
"It's still Dad and Mom's show," says Jeff. "I just hope they're planning to work here forever."
Contact Cackle Hatchery at www.cacklehatchery.com or by calling 417-532-4581. The hatchery is located at 411 W. Commercial St., Lebanon, MO 65536.


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Jason Trefts hasn't listened to hip-hop in three or four years.
Jason Trefts hasn't listened to hip-hop in three or four years.
It's a stale scene, he said — a stagnant industry perpetuating an endless parade of trite and ultimately irrelevant MCs.
"There's just too many rappers out there," Trefts said. "The music's kind of dead. Underground hip-hop 10 years ago was huge, but now it's nothing."
Trefts — a Central Square resident who, by night, answers to the MC name Elemental Zazen — may be right, but that isn't stopping him from throwing himself into the scrum. A day before he was scheduled to headline a showcase at the Middle East, he sat down with the Chronicle to talk rap music, working for the state and a long series of personal tragedies, and how it is that their combination has thrust him to the front of Boston's emerging hip-hop circuit.
Threfts, who works as a social worker by day, cut his first album in 2002, when he was 19, about a year after he moved to the U.S. from China. It was, by every measure, a solo project. He arranged and recorded every song by himself in his bedroom, and mastered and distributed the finished product on his own. Six years later, now backed by the boys and girls at Gnawledge Records, he finally released the long-awaited follow-up, "The Glass Should Be Full.""This is a much more professional album," Threfts said.
Professional, indeed. The new record features beats from some of Beantown's most in-demand producers — Kno, Maker and J Ferra, to name a few — and finds Threfts a much wiser and weather-tested MC than he ever thought he would be.
"It's humbling," Threfts said. "Everyone wants beats from these producers. If you don't bring your A game, people are going to say, 'Well, how the hell did that guy get the beats?' A lot's happened to me since that first album."
When someone says a lot has happened to them over a given stretch of time, they usually mean they went through a bad break-up, got a new job or moved to a different city. Momentous occasions all in the course of a human life, to be sure, but when Threfts tells you he's been through a lot in the six years between his two albums, it carries a bit more weight. All due respect to Hova, but if Jay-Z wants to know about a hard-knock life, he ought to come to Cambridge.
By 2004, Threfts had already beaten a heroin addiction, lived in his car for most of his senior year of college and been diagnosed manic depressive. Then, in January 2005, things really started to get bad. His 19-year-old cousin, and one of his closest friends in the world, was injured in a snowmobile accident. He was in a coma for almost four months before he died in April. Eighteen months later, Threft's house in Dorchester burned to the ground with him inside. He survived, only to have more bad news hurled at him less than a year later.
In July 2007, after Threfts spent months regrouping and laying down tracks for the new album, doctors found a walnut-sized tumor attached to the vision center of his brain (a scan of which is featured inside the album). Through surgery, they were able to remove most of the cancerous tissue, but the disease remains. Threfts lost most of his vision in the process, and still isn't legally permitted to operate anything with more horsepower than a bicycle.
These days, Threfts said he feels better. He's off anti-depressants, finally a college graduate, and working for — of all places — the state Department of Mental Health. In a few months, he'll move out to Seattle to pursue his Ph.D. A lot's changed, but Threfts said the one constant through it all was his desire to rap. And though the events of his life do inform his music, Threfts said he strives not to let them define it.
"It's been pretty crazy," Threfts said. "I don't want to be this big sob story. I just want people to be into the music."
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Man tells dispatcher he's been shot
A man called 911 early Monday morning to report he'd been shot.
Emergency crews were called to the 4100 block of First Street in Des Moines at 6:58 a.m.
Police said Russell Quinnett, 41, told dispatchers he'd been shot and the bullet had come through his front window.
Police said Quinnett suffered a gunshot wound to his upper torso.
A bullet was later found lodged in a wall inside his home.
Quinnett was taken to a Des Moines hospital where he was in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries Monday morning.
Police said the shooting does not appear to be random. A suspect description or motive is not yet available.
Police said initial reports were that it was also a driveby, but no vehicle was heard or seen prior to or immediately after the incident.
The case remains under investigation.


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At a major international conference convened by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), there have been high-profile calls on the international community to support the UN agency that works for Palestine refugees.
At a two-day meeting in Brussels, Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, said, "We are gathered here because we have recognised the potential of the youth of Palestine. Against all the odds, they continue to learn, to work, to dream and aspire to a better future."
The conference in Brussels was attended by over 400 delegates who heard speeches on behalf of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, and his Jordanian counterpart, Nasser Judeh, also spoke. Ronan Farrow, the youth adviser of US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, also participated.
"Over the coming years," Ashton continued, "the EU will continue providing support to UNRWA's General Fund as the Agency makes progress in its reform process. We believe that UNRWA is essential to the development and well-being of all the Palestine refugees and we believe that it needs strong support, financial support from all the parties that are able to do that."
Echoing Ashton's call, Nabil El-Araby, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, urged the international community to pay attention to the rapidly-shifting reality of Palestine refugees by investing in youth.
If current trends continue, there will be 1.5 million young Palestine refugees between the ages of 15 and 29 by 2020, about one-quarter of whom are likely to be unemployed.
"There is no doubt that we are at a critical juncture. The intersection of forces -- political uprisings, conflict, the rise of social media, the unprecedented numbers of young people, economic uncertainty -- have all created volatility, and at the same time, great potential," said UNRWA Commissioner-General, Filippo Grandi.
"For refugee youth, the broader transformations amplify the profound stresses of the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian situation, of the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, of rights often violated or not granted, of the vulnerability and anxiety generated by lives in exile in a region plagued by repeated conflicts, even as we speak. At the same time, young people across the region have proven that they are not ready to give up - that in spite of all odds -- they have hope.
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It's the weekend before Halloween so expect costumes and craziness!
I'll be playing a short set of my solo stuff to open for Gina Montel's new band, The Grand Desire.
*Nevada City is . . .
A.) Deceptively not in Nevada
B.) California's most well preserved Gold Rush Town
C.) A little strange after dark
D.) Where I found myself last Saturday night playing a gig with the Debora Iyall Band
E.) All of the above
I love a good road trip, but I rarely take to the open road alone. Still I found myself cruising down I-80 E towards Grass Valley with nothing but my keyboards and some new music this past Saturday afternoon, headed for a show with the Debora Iyall Band. While the keyboards didn't do much more than occasionally rumble around in the back when I hit a rough patch of highway, the music turned out to be a great companion. The road opened up to rolling, barren hills beneath an ultra-blue sky as lush as the synth sounds on M83's "Hurry Up We're Dreaming"; the rustic countryside of Highway 49 provided both a compliment and stark contrast to plaintive vocals of EMA's Grey Ship. "When you see that ship, it is the ship you can see, when the grey ship calls it is calling for me."
It was a good drive.
When I arrived in Nevada City I was taken aback by the quaint nature of the town, but it soon lost its appeal . Any meditative state the solitary drive had afforded me was quickly broken by the number of tourists darting in the path of my car as I crawled up and down the main street looking for Miner's Foundry Cultural Center.
Thanks to bassist, Dave Wenger, I soon found the hall and a primo parking spot.
We were there to play Nisenan Heritage Day, an event that celebrated the indigenous people of Nevada County. The event included speakers, dancers and craftspeople. Live music was an end-of-the-day cap off, so in the meantime I had a chance to walk around the downtown area and check out some cute jewelry shops as well as some historical artifacts in the town square.
Then I headed back to our makeshift green room and hung out with Debora until it was time to get on stage.
The stage at Miner's Foundry is a good size and has hosted a wide range of musicians from Zepperella to The Dark Star Orchestra to Johnny Winter. The sound was amazing, but leave it to me to be freaked out by the loudness of my own keyboards. The set went off pretty well, but I had a couple of instances of stage fright where my mind drew a complete blank . Still, the audience was appreciative. Particularly a boy named Tyler who was dancing his heart out at the front of the stage and later made the effort to introduce himself to the band and offer us some chai tea.
We played two short sets and then it was time to pull it all down and turn things over to Shelly Covert & UnderCover, an amazing cover band that sent most of us back to our formative years with tunes from Heart, REM and Georgia Satellites.
However, I was pretty hungry at that point, and since my fellow band mates had already wandered off on the quest for dinner, I took a late night stroll through Nevada City after dark.
Nevada City was a pioneer town and it has held on to the identity, if only for the sake of the tourist trade. At night its quaintness take on an eerie quality, which was accentuated by a man in a black cape and top hat leading a crowd through the streets and telling stories of ghosts. Certain alleyways were completely deserted, while other areas bustled with life; young people crowded around open storefronts like moths flocking to a flame.
One thing that has most definitely changed since the Gold Rush days are the prices. I had a hard time finding a decent place that wasn't in the $20 and up entrée price range. I finally settled on Lefty's Grill and had a yummy flatbread pizza.
Back at Miner's Foundry Cultural Center, Shelly Covert, who has a phenomenal set of pipes, was heating the place up pretty good, but my band mates and I decided it was time to head out to our hotel, the Northern Queen.
Our drummer joked that we could trash the place as all true and good rock stars do. I thought perhaps, since this was our first time out doing such a thing, we could simply set our TV sets outside of our room doors, rather than throw them out the window. It's good to have a goal, but to break it into smaller steps.
We checked in without event and I was just about to settle in when I realized my leftover pizza was still in the car. Who doesn't love some good leftover pesto pizza around midnight or so? On my way out to retrieve said pizza, I ran into Steve-the-Guitarist and Rob-the-Drummer who asked if I wanted to go back to town for a drink. Now I've heard the sirens' call many times (it usually sounds like my cell phone ringing and when I answer they say, "Hey, Paula, why not come on out to this big rock and get smashed. It's pretty cool. We think you'll like it." They're usually right.) Going back into town at 11 PM "for a drink" was a bad idea, especially when I was hoping to get an early start home in the morning, so of course 15 minutes later my pizza was safely in my room fridge, and I was driving back into Nevada City.
First we hit the saloon at The National Hotel. It's the oldest bar in Nevada City and supposedly haunted. It was full of the spirit of karaoke when we arrived, as evidenced by a young man doing his best at Train's "Meet Virginia" while an older couple danced cheek to cheek like they were on the Lawrence Welk Show. Not long after that we found ourselves down the street at The Mine Shaft Saloon.
It was drinking as usual after that. Rob- the- drummer dropped a dime in the jukebox (okay, it probably was more than a dime) and put on some Hendrix , Rolling Stones and of course,"Never Say Never." A group of young'uns in spandex and big wigs kept us entertained for a good long while as they got progressively drunker. Steve-the-guitarist questioned if we were in still in Nevada. Shots of Patron and Jameson's flowed freely , and the highlight of the evening for me (the designated driver who was not having shots of Patron) came when Rob-the-drummer passionately recounted the music video for Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself".
When last call came we headed out but forgot to leash our drummer and he escaped to the bar across the street, The National Hotel Saloon, where he stayed for a good long while, supposedly ghost hunting.
I got to bed at 2 AM, woke up around 6:30 AM and was on the road by 7:30 AM. Road trips alone aren't so bad after all.
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Were you offended by the ending of How To Train Your Dragon, with its dragon-appeasement? If so, you're not alone. One viewer of the movie was so incensed, he took to Amazon to complain.
Thank you Least Helpful for finding this review, and for this hilarious statement: "THIS KIND OF BLEEDING-HEART DRAGON APPEASEMENT IS WHAT GAVE US HITLER."
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