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Wyndham Vacation Ownership
Internet Customer Privacy & Information Practices Policy
Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. ("WVO") recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of certain Information collected about the users and visitors ("user," "you" or "your") of WVO's website ("website"). The following privacy and information practices policy discloses and describes what Information WVO may gather about you, how WVO may use such Information, and how you can correct or change such Information ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy is designed to give you an understanding about how WVO collects your Information and the uses WVO may make of such Information during the course of WVO's business and in providing you with access to the information, products and services that may be available at this website.
You should print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records. Please note, however, that WVO may update and amend this Privacy Policy from time to time as WVO deems necessary in its sole discretion. Certain capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy may be defined in WVO's separate Website Terms of Use.
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WVO's purpose in establishing this Privacy Policy is to balance its legitimate business interests in collecting and using its users' Information with its users' reasonable expectations of privacy. WVO's intent is to provide to you certain offers, information, services and discounts that it believes are relevant to your interests. WVO believes that its users will benefit from promotional activity based on certain information employed to market goods and services offered by and through its businesses.
Affiliate Websites
This Privacy Policy applies to this website only. Please note that, to the extent that this website permits you to link to other websites of WVO's affiliated or related entities, or its Providers, separate privacy policies may apply to those linked websites, which separate privacy policies may contain different terms that are not the same as those terms contained in WVO's Privacy Policy. Your access to and use of such linked websites through links provided on this website are not governed by this Privacy Policy but, instead, are governed by the privacy policies of those linked websites, and WVO disclaims any and all responsibility for your access to and use of such linked websites, as well as for any use of the Information that you may provide to, or any Information that may be collected about you at, such linked websites.
What Information Does WVO Collect?
WVO gathers the following three types of Information about its users: (1)data that users provide through optional, voluntary registration on WVO's website; (2) data that WVO gathers from third party sources or Providers; and (3) data that WVO gathers through aggregated anonymous tracking of use activity and usage trends, mainly by tallying Web pages that are viewed by users throughout this website. You should be assured, however, that WVO will not disclose any of your Personal Information (as defined below) to third parties without your consent, except as may otherwise be described in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you when you submit the Personal Information.
How Does WVO Collect Information?
Optional Registration:
WVO collects Information by specifically requesting it from you. Generally this occurs when you register at the website or request information or a service. You may elect, at your sole option, whether to provide the requested Information, although you may not be able to use or gain access to certain portions or features of this website if you elect not to provide such Information. Usually, WVO and/or its business partners use your Information to operate the website and to deliver information and services to you. WVO also uses your Information to inform you about other products and/or services available from WVO, its affiliated or related entities, and/or its Providers.
Information from Third Party Sources:
WVO may collect information about you from third party sources to supplement the Information otherwise provided by you at this website. This supplemental information allows WVO to verify Information that you have provided to WVO and to enhance WVO's ability to provide you with information about its businesses, products and services, as further described in WVO's website Terms. WVO's agreements with these third party sources typically limit how WVO may use this supplemental information.
Use of Aggregate Tracking Information:
Use of Internet Protocol ("IP") Addresses.
An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing or browsing the Internet so that your computer can be identified by the main computers, known as "Web servers," that "serve up" websites and Web pages. This IP address allows WVO to identify and gather general information and data about users, such as the Web pages that users may view.
WVO collects IP addresses for the following purposes: (1) helping WVO diagnose and resolve problems with its main computers; (2) administering its systems and this website; (3) reporting aggregated anonymous information to its business partners and Providers; and (4) auditing the use of this website. When users request Web pages from this website, WVO's Web servers log the user's IP address. WVO does not normally link IP addresses to any Personal Information, which means that a user's session will be logged, but the user will remain anonymous to WVO. For example, WVO collects and/or tracks the home server domain name, the type of computer, and the type of Web browser used by you to access this website. Such collection and tracking information is gathered by WVO as you navigate through this website and the various website pages, and shall be used by WVO for its business purposes only, as described above in this section.
WVO can, and will, use IP addresses to identify you when WVO feels it is necessary to enforce compliance with its website Terms and/or this Privacy Policy, or to protect its services, website, systems, information, employees, business partners, Providers, users, customers or others.
Use Of Cookies.
WVO may place "cookies" on your Web browser. Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer's hard drive. Cookies make Web‑surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that WVO can use the saved information to facilitate your use of, and improve your experience with, this website when you navigate at or return to this website. Cookies, by themselves, do not provide WVO with your individual identity or Personal Information unless you have chosen separately to provide it to WVO. WVO never saves passwords or credit card information in its cookies. The use of cookies is industry-standard and, as such, you will find that most major websites use them.
By showing, tracking or recording how and when users use this website, cookies help WVO see which areas of the website are popular and which are not. Many of WVO's improvements and updates to the website and enhancements to the user experiences are based on the data and information compiled from these cookies in conjunction with the total number of users of, and web pages viewed at, this website. This data and information are most easily tracked with cookies.
Most cookies expire after a defined period of time, or you can delete or disable your cookie file(s) at any time. Most Web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your Web browser to refuse cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You should note that some parts or features of WVO's website or services may not function properly or be accessible, or may be considerably slower, if you delete or refuse to accept cookies. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set certain personalized preferences, and/or may have difficulty completing marketing or other website transactions.
WVO has two (2) primary uses for cookies. First, WVO uses cookies to identify and specify a user's preferences. Second, WVO uses cookies to track website usage trends and patterns. This helps WVO to obtain a better understanding of its users' needs and to improve areas of this website. While both of these uses and related activities are dependent upon the use of cookies, you have the option, as described above, of disabling, deleting or refusing the cookies via your Web browser preferences or similar features.
In addition, you may occasionally receive cookies from WVO's business partners or Providers, or when you link to other third party websites. WVO does not control these cookies, and disclaims any responsibility relating to the use or receipt of such cookies. You should note that the use of advertising cookies sent by third party Web servers is a standard practice in the Internet industry.
WVO may use a third party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit this website. This technology uses information about your visits to this site (not including your name, address, or other Personal Information) to serve WVO's ads to you. In the course of delivering WVO advertisements to you, a unique third party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. For more information about our third party ad server, cookies, and how to opt out, please click here.
Use of Pixels.
WVO and its third party ad servers may also use invisible pixels or Web beacons on this website to count how many users visit certain Web pages. Information collected from invisible pixels or Web beacons is used and reported in the aggregate without the use of Personal Information. This information may be used to improve marketing programs and Content, and to target WVO's Internet advertisements at this website and/or other websites.
With Whom Does WVO Share Information?
As a general rule, WVO will not share with or disclose to any third parties any specific personally identifiable information about you that you may submit or provide to WVO via this website ("Personal Information"), in a manner that connects you with the Personal Information, except (a) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, (b) when WVO has your permission, or (c) under special circumstances, such as when WVO believes in good faith that the law requires such disclosure or under the circumstances described below. The following describes some of the ways that your Personal Information may be disclosed:
Affiliates: WVO may share any or all of your Personal Information with and among its affiliated or related entities or family of companies. This is typically done so as to allow such entities and companies to offer to you information about their respective businesses, products and services that they believe may be of interest to you.
Business Partners & Sponsors: WVO may disclose some or all of your Personal Information to third party business partners or sponsors, as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. In the event and to the extent that there are additional uses of your Personal Information by WVO's business partners or sponsors (which additional uses are not otherwise described in or contemplated by this Policy), any such additional uses will be specifically described to you prior to or at the time such Personal Information is collected or prior to any transfer of such Personal Information to the business partners or sponsors. Many promotions offer opportunities for you to request additional information from such business partners and sponsors. By requesting additional information, you signify your consent to WVO's transfer of your Personal Information to the applicable business partners or sponsors so that they can respond to or fulfill your request. Although, in many instances, only your email address will be shared with these business sponsors and partners, WVO is not limited to the type of Personal Information that it may disclose, provided that you requested the additional information and that WVO has otherwise complied with this Privacy Policy.
Third Party & Aggregate Data: From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt to receive from these third parties information related to such materials or offers, WVO will (with your permission) share your name and email address with such third parties. Under confidentiality agreements, WVO may match Personal Information with data provided by these third parties. Also, from time to time, WVO may share your Personal Information with third parties that WVO feels offer products or services that may be of interest to you. This sharing of Personal Information is subject to confidentiality agreements as well.
Also, as described above in this Privacy Policy, WVO may keep track of which portions of the website users are visiting and other user statistics, and aggregate this information to help WVO create a better experience for users of this website. This is all done without knowing your name or other Personal Information, and allows WVO (in addition to other lawful purposes) to describe its users' preferences, and the types of services in which the users may be interested, to its business partners, advertisers, sponsors and other third parties.
Other: WVO may also disclose account information in special cases when it has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating the website Terms or this Privacy Policy, or may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with any of WVO's rights or property, other users, or anyone else. WVO may disclose or access account information when it believes in good faith that the law requires it (and/or if compelled to do so by law enforcement or government agencies, or by other legal action), and for administrative and other purposes that it deems necessary to maintain, service, and/or improve this website or its products and services.
Careers with WVO: This website may provide you the ability to search for job postings and/or submit applications for potential employment opportunities. WVO may use third parties to collect and/or host these types of services or related information. If a third party service provider is used for these purposes, the third party provider is prohibited under agreement from using any Personal Information that you may submit in conjunction with these services for any purpose other than to collect and store such Personal Information on WVO's behalf. The Personal Information that you submit for these purposes will not be used for any purpose other than to allow you to search for job postings, submit applications, or determine your qualifications for employment with WVO or its affiliated or related entities.
Investor Center: This website may allow you to subscribe to investor newsletters, press releases, email alerts, and other related communications. The Personal Information that you may provide in conjunction with these subscription services or offerings will be used only for the purpose of providing you with such services or for responding to your subscription requests.
Children: This website is not intended for use by children. WVO does not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 18, you must obtain the consent of your parent or guardian to use this website.
Opting Out; How Can You Control the Use of Information?
In the event that you decide that you want to opt out from WVO's use of any Personal Information that you previously provided to (and/or authorized for use by) WVO, or if any of your Personal Information (such as your zip code or email address) changes, WVO will use reasonable efforts to provide you with a way to correct, update or remove such Personal Information. WVO makes repeated efforts to verify the accuracy of your Personal Information and to correct and update its databases based on the information available to WVO. In the event that you believe that any Personal Information held by WVO is inaccurate or outdated, WVO, upon notification and sufficient time for verification, will take all reasonable steps to correct any inaccuracy or update outdated Personal Information of which it is made aware. WVO also gives you the opportunity to control or opt out from the communications that WVO directs to you. If you wish to update or change your Personal Information or opt out from any use or communication described in this Privacy Policy for any reason, you may notify WVO of such update, change or opt out as follows:
By email, click here.
By mail, write to:
E-Commerce Department -- Privacy
Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc.
8427 South Park Circle
Orlando, Florida 32819
What Happens When You Link to a Third Party Site?
You should be aware that, when you are on WVO's website, you may be able to hyperlink, or may be directed, to other third party websites that are beyond WVO's control and/or outside of its services. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or a WVO search result, the "click" may transfer you off of this website and to another unaffiliated website. These other websites may include sites of advertisers, sponsors, Providers and/or partners that may use WVO's and/or WVO's affiliated or related entities' logos as part of a co-branding agreement. These other websites may send their own cookies to, or collect or solicit Information from, users. WVO does not control such third parties or their websites, and, therefore, is not responsible for the contents of these websites or the hyperlinks or advertising placed on such websites. WVO's inclusion in this website of hyperlinks to these other third party websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such other websites or any association with the third party operators. This Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet and/or that is beyond WVO's control.
Please keep in mind that, whenever you give out information over the Internet or Web, or otherwise in on-line environments, (for example, via message boards or forums), such information can be collected and used by people you do not know. While WVO strives to protect users' information and privacy, WVO cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose in these environments, and you disclose such information at your own risk.
Is Your Information Secure?
The security of all Information associated with users of this website is an important concern to WVO. WVO exercises reasonable care in providing secure transmission of your Information from your computer to WVO's servers and databases. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while WVO strives to protect your Information, WVO cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Information you transmit to WVO, and you do so at your own risk. Once you complete the transmission of, and WVO receives, your Information, WVO uses industry standard efforts and practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your Personal Information, and uses commercially reasonable efforts to collect and secure such Personal Information consistent with all applicable laws and regulations. WVO takes commercially reasonable efforts to use a variety of different security measures (such as encryption, digital certificates, firewalls and Secure Socket Layers) designed to protect Personal Information from access by unauthorized users both inside and outside of WVO, and to protect against the unauthorized or improper alteration or destruction of such Personal Information. WVO's communication system, software and database practices have been designed to aid in supporting authenticity, integrity and confidentiality. However, as described above, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet and, despite these reasonable efforts by WVO to maintain data and Information security, WVO cannot guarantee the security of data or Information.
By using this website, you signify your agreement to the terms of WVO's Internet Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE. Your continued use of WVO's website following the posting of any changes or updates to the terms of this Privacy Policy will signify your acceptance of those changes and updates.
California Privacy Policy
Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship (1) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, address, email address, and the type of services provided to that customer, that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties' direct marketing purposes, and (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please write to us at:
Wyndham Vacation Resorts
Attn: California Disclosure Information
6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL 32821
We will respond to such written requests within 30 days following receipt at the mailing address above. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified above or otherwise exempted by law. Please note that we are required only to respond to each customer once per calendar year.
Connecticut Residents Privacy Information
FOR CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS (Effective October 1, 2008):
CONFIDENTIALITY OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS: WVO may collect and use your Social Security number for purposes permitted or required by law, which may include but not be limited to identification, checking your credit (with your consent), tax reporting, and other purposes described in our applicable privacy policies. We endeavor to protect your Social Security number using physical, electronic or procedural security measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information in our control. These measures include safeguards to protect your Social Security number against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use and modification. Although "guaranteed security" does not exist either on or off the Internet, we make commercially reasonable efforts to make the collection and security of such information consistent with our privacy policies and all applicable laws and regulations. Access to your Social Security number is restricted to those WVO (including its affiliates) employees, agents and third party service providers who need such access to do their jobs and to fulfill the purposes for which the Social Security number was collected.
Effective date: This policy was last updated on September 30, 2008, to add a notice to Connecticut residents.


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Conservation Success Story: The Ingram Farm
A smart man learns from his mistakes, Terry Ingram likes to say, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
"I'll never claim to be a wise man, but I'm at least a smart man. Once you experience what it's like to farm organic, your eyes open to how abundant nature is. I am blessed to see it every day. I feel privileged to be able to farm this way."
Terry and his wife, Alyson, their two small children, his parents and his brother all live on and work the Virginia farm where he was born and raised.
He took over management of the Culpepper County farm in 2003, but the family was leasing the cropland to another farmer who hadn't really done much with it. He knew it would take a lot of work to turn the place into the grazing operation he imagined.
Ingram bought his herd from a couple that had hired him as a herdsman on their dairy farm a few years earlier but were nearing retirement age. He brought his new herd home to his family farm and set out on converting his land into a 100 percent organic, grass-fed dairy farm.
Today the Ingrams milk about 220 cows. The herd genetics are predominately Jersey, but they're breeding in Shorthorn, Holstein and Swedish Red cattle, too.
"We want cows that can maintain good body condition on 100 percent grass. The cows are looking better and better. I have gotten much more in tune with feeding the soil, and I can actually see the return on that effort. I have grass when other people don't, because healthy soil retains water so much better."
Terry says he owes a lot of the farm's success to his mother, Boo, and his brother, Rush: "They've supported my efforts, and we all live right here on the farm. It's great to raise my kids like this with their grandparents and uncle around them."
The Ingrams worked with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to reduce polluted runoff from his pastures and to put up fences within pastures that allow Terry to rotate his cows more frequently, improving soil health. They also worked with NRCS to create fences to keep his herd away from nearby streams.
"With help from NRCS, we put in fencing, several thousand feet of laneways so the cows can walk from paddock to paddock, and ran water lines to every paddock," he says.
"As a farmer, I'm learning new lessons everyday. One of the most valuable is that healthy land produces healthy food," he says. "Once you experience what it's like to farm organic, your eyes open to how abundant nature is. I am in total awe of it."

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Myron C. Taylor Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-100836).
Taylor, Myron Charles (18 January 1874–06 May 1959), business executive and diplomat, was born in Lyons, New York, the son of William Taylor, a textile executive, and Mary Morgan Underhill. His father made a fortune in the textile and leather industries. After a comfortable youth, Taylor attended Cornell University and earned a law degree in 1894, studying with ...


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Neuma: Quenching Your Thirsty Hair
Sometime I feel like a broken record when I go on and on about how nasty and dry my hair is. My hair is in a constant state of crustitude and dude, it bums me out. It's always a treat when I discover serious, no-bullshit, vegan brands of shampoo that actually make my hair feel deliciously soft and manageable (which is a tall order).
I was recently sent some samples of Neuma, a sulfate-free, sustainable, vegan line of haircare and I was excited to finally try some fancy, salon-quality shampoo and conditioner. I fell in love with their "moisture" hair care line (for dry and damaged hair – like mine)! It was concentrated, thick and nourishing and it smelled like lemon frosted cupcakes. My only complaint (which isn't really legit) was that their samples were of sample size. Mama wanted more! 😉
Neuma is offered in spas and fine salons around the country. (I know, I'm bummed we can't buy these at Target, too). For a list of these locations, check their website for updates. Their website isn't fully complete (although it's very pretty and relaxing – with chirping birdies, even), so some of their menu selections are "coming soon." I will keep you all posted if I hear any news.
Bottom line: Neuma is the shit! If you get the opportunity to try this hair care line (which is available in Moisture, Volume, Styling, Renew and Repair), you'll be stoked – take my word on this.
About Sunny (Sunny's Profile)Longtime vegan, hardcore compassionate beauty junkie, serious cake aficionado, and lover of all things floofy and sparkly! If there's something in particular you'd like me to review, drop me a line at email@example.com. You can also find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google +.
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Just tried the Renew shampoo and conditioner and honesty can say m hair has never been so soft. I always buy salon quality things but this is amazing stuff. The best
I would like to see a list of the ingredients before buying but am unable to find the list on the internet. Can you help me? Thanks much. – Karen
I just tried the Hair Spray and I am not pleased. The medium control is a very heavy control & leaves my hair feeling like a helmet even with just a small spray. Also, the hair spray doesn't wash out when I take a shower & the only way I can get it out of my hair is wash with shampoo which I dont like to do on a daily basis. I haven't tried the other products but I'm return the hair spray – not happy with it.
Do you provide samples? I'm interested in trying the Argan Treatment and the Smoothing Cream. I have the moisture shampoo, conditioner, and mousse.
Thank you.
I need to know if I can buy these products on line or where can I get them, I got samples one time from a friend in Keywest and I just love this stuff, my hair has always been a nightmare, dry brittle just plain ugly and I started using the samples and my hair is awesome but Im out and I need these products, where can I get them???
Thank you
Where can I get Neuma in Honolulu. I went on their website and the only salons are in California. I am in desperate need of a new shampoo and conditioner. Just started coloring my hair about a year ago to cover the grays and it is killing my once healthy hair. I am hoping Neuma is my savior!
We used to live in Honolulu and bought Neuma from Hairscapes. They are on Ala Moana Blvd.
Best shampoo I've ever used. I used to have to wash my hair every day, its so oily. I have the "orange" bottle, pathouli scent to die for.. I can go 3 days in between now. It is expensive but well, well worth it. This bottle will last me probably 6 months or more.. so in the long run very cost effective. Try it, you'll be hooked!! I'll never use anything else.
I'm looking for a volumizing shampoo and conditioner that will hold my color. My stylist did try the volumizing products after a color and I liked the results, but he is not carrying the products currently.
Please send a sample of the volumizing products.
Please send me sample of neuma shampoo.
I recently heard of your new Neuma hair care products. I have spent tuns of money of different shampoo & conditioner and nothing works for my oily scalp and dry ends. When I heard from a friend this product line is vegan, it caught my attention. I would like a sample or two to try if you don't mind. Hoping you can help.
Is this brand available online at all?
I have an unbearably dry scalp and really unruly naturally curly hair (which means my hair is dry too). I would love love love to try some!
We would be stoked to let you try NEUMA for yourself and see. NEUMA has been formulated not only sulfate free, but also free of all harsh color stripping detergents, alcohols, and propylene glycol. Plus, we have infused NEUMA with essential oils and other UV Guard extracts to help keep your color beautiful longer. Forward me your email address and we will rush a sample out to you so you can experience NEUMA for yourself – we think you'll become a fan too ;-), just a thought…
Hello Tommy. I just bought the volumizing shampoo and the moisture conditioner. I have only use dit once so far and i'm excited to continue to use the prducts. My only concern is whether or not I should have gotten the volumizing condition instead of the moisture conditioner. I have fine to medium hair type. I do ave a oily scalp and I don't like products that weigh my hair down, which is why I though the volume shampoo with the moisture conditioner would be a good combination. What are your thoughts on this?
Also, I love how the moisture conditioner smells but not the volume shampoo. The shampoo smells like soap…maybe its just me but it wont stop me from using the products 🙂
Thank you!
Please send me sample of neuma shampoos and conditiones too , please.Thank You .
Do you color your hair…? That will totally destroy it – even the "natural brands" are toxic and damaging. Just a thought…
I completely disagree. Being a color speciallist of 12 years, I can assure you neuma haircare products will not only keep your hair at a healthy ph level of 4.5-5.5 it will also prolong your haircolor (that is, if your stylist understands and is using a color formula customized to your specific hhair needs. If you're color is fading even with this haircare line, then its not the products that need 2 be changed, its your stylist


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I have a small, "curious chef" in my house -- my preschooler. At the slightest mention of cooking or baking, she's right there, pushing a chair next to the counter. My husband recently celebrated his birthday. He's not a huge fan of birthday cakes so we decided to make him a treat he really enjoys: Apple Crisp. This time my daughter excitedly retrieved her new Curious Chef kitchen utensils that we received for review (a professional, she also put on her favorite, special Ratatouille apron because that's what chefs wear). It was her first time trying the Curious Chef products out, and she proudly arranged them on the counter, excited to have her very own kitchen tools just like Mommy.
The Curious Chef product line is designed especially for children. The child-sized plastic utensils and accessories fit better in smaller hands and allow young children to assist in the kitchen. Colorful, sturdy and BPA free, the cooking products make cooking fun for kids. I'm also proud to report that they are produced by Tailor Made Products, a well-respected, Wisconsin based company specializing in houseware products.
We received the Curious Chef 3 Quart Mixing Bowl Set, 3 Piece Nylon Knife Set, 6 Piece Measuring Cup Set, and 6 Piece Measuring Spoon Set for review. The bowl has a snap on cover with a cap that doubles as a spoon rest and a green, non skid bottom. I always use glass mixing bowls and was impressed how much easier a plastic bowl is hold and lift up when dumping the contents out. (I also stole the bowl and used it for one of my potluck salads a week ago, but don't tell my daughter!) The nylon knives are made of sturdy plastic and have serrated cutting edges, blunt tips and, like most Curious Chef utensils, green grips on the handles.
I'm especially intrigued by the colorful measuring cup and spoon sets. The easy to read measurement numbers are color coded, so that kids could follow a recipe without being able to read (you could produce a recipe using colors and pictures to designate quantities and tool type.) Cooking is an excellent way to introduce children to mathematical and scientific concepts such as fractions and volume. It's a teachable moment!
Now, back to our apple crisp. I used the size nylon largest knife and quartered the apples...the plastic knife sliced right through those entire apples! My daughter used the smallest nylon knife to chop up 6 apples into small chunks for our Apple Crisp. She put the chunks into a measuring cup and then dumped the cup into the large mixing bowl. Once we finished cutting apples we used the measuring cups and spoons to measure out the rest of the ingredients. My daughter demonstrates cutting apples in the YouTube video below.
The apple crisp turned out beautifully and my daughter proudly told her daddy that she made all of it pretty much by herself. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures and we ate all the apple crisp before I photographed the finished dish! My daughter (and son) will continue to enjoy helping out in the kitchen using Curious Chef products.
For more about Curious Chef and to view their new line of 49 products, visit their website at www.curiouschef.com. The
26 Pc Holiday Cookie Kit would make a great gift for the upcoming holiday season! (I'm considering ordering the cookie cutters for my kids. We need a Ginger Bread Man!)
Curious Chef has kindly offered to give away an 8 Piece Cutlery & Serving Set to a Brimful Curiosities reader.
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• For contact purposes, if you are a non-blogger or your email is not accessible in your blog profile, please leave a valid email address within the comment section.Four ways to gain extra entries (Maximum total entries is 5 - leave a separate comment for each entry):
• Contest is open to US and Canada
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Generally the off-topic goes to an interesting story that maybe doesn't have anything directly to do with games. But this one, about a guy in Nepal biting a snake to death after it bit him, seems sort of video-gamey, no? Guy shows SNAKE who's BOSS by biting it to DEATH? (Okay the last one is a sort of a stretch of a Darksiders II reference, but still.)
After being bitten by the snake, while he was working in his rice paddy on Tuesday, 55-year-old Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, caught it and bit it until it died, the Annapurna Post reported, according to Reuters.
"I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," Miya was quoted as saying.
Dude. So, the next time you think you're hardcore, remember that a Nepali man chased a snake through a rice paddy and bit it to death.
Have you ever bitten an animal to death? If so, why are you comfortable admitting that here? Do you fear snakes? Do you think you don't fear snakes but then realize upon seeing one that you actually do? Which are worse, snakes or spiders?
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What would you give to have one last, perfect day with your loved ones?
Mama: "You know, this is the last trip that we're going on together. After this adik is going to fly, and along is getting married."
I'd give the world and everything that's in it.
Ask anyone who's married, and they'll tell you that its a very big step to take. But i guess that what crossed my mind were mostly rainbows and sunshine and butterflies, and the enormity and weight of what I'm getting myself into did not really sink in. Until this final holiday trip.
In many ways, this trip felt very different. My family loves to go on regular trips to a state up north, to rest and relax and go where the food is nice. Normally it would be a straight drive, stopping only at rest stations on the highway. But this time round
We stopped by my brother's old school, where he took photos for memory's sake
We took detours out of the highway to stop by several places that had wonderful food
And for the first time ever, my dad took selfies of the whole family at every restaurant we visited,
My dad is not the type to say 'i love you boys', but i can understand from his actions that he's saying 'i love you boys' loud and clear.
'This is the last time we're eating here together. After this along and his wife will be bringing us here'...
*drip,drip* awh man, writing this down is so hard..big boys aren't supposed to cry, adoi...
I don't have the words to describe this trip..victory lap? Homecoming? Down memory lane? Manhood ritual? The reality sunk in that im no longer a big boy, no more depending on my parents, i'll be a man with responsibilities and my own family to bring up and educate.
'(Patting parents' shoulders) jangan risau..janji ditepati' (don't worry..promises will be fulfilled)
Parents would worry a lot of things, and you could understand that. Will he be too busy with his wife and neglect us? Will he be around to help? Will he even visit? My mum told me that parents always see their children as their little babies, no matter how grown-up they are. Remember that, even if you're a high-ranking somebody. You could have never reached that high without being lifted, after allah, by a pair of blessed hands, who held you since the day you were born, put up with your screaming and poo, and proudly smiled on every graduation day too.
I am deeply grateful to Allah that this trip happened. It was close to perfect. The memories, the wonderful meals together, the subtle hints, the comforting words. At night we played Risk, a military board game and that was a perfect game too (perfect because, obviously, i won).
Probably the last time we would all be in the same car together.
Everything that happened during this trip made me feel like it was destined to be a final, perfect day with your loved ones before moving on to another world. In a way i am moving on to another totally different world, people ask me 'are you ready' and i say 'sort of' but you cannot really be sure you're ready until you're actually married. Don't worry, we'll cross the bridge when we get to it. Insyaallah.
Thank you allah for gifting me with my parents.
Thank you allah for gifting me with my brothers.
Thank you allah for gifting me with my future half.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I hope that allah will accept us altogether into a Garden where there would only be one eternal, unending, perfect day.
Saturday, June 7, 2014
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What would you give to have one last, perfect day with your loved ones?
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5 comments:
- adlan wafi said...
sounds like an awesome trip. iA, everything will go smoothly and may Allah ease your endeavours
all the best *****! (i'm guessing that i have to keep your name anonymous)
p.s. i like playing risk too
- June 9, 2014 at 12:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
congrats !
im happy for you akhi:p
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X kan ada artikel baru lagi ke?
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With director Todd Phillips The Hangover Part II opening this weekend, I recently participated in a press conference with Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong and Phillips in Los Angeles. As most of you know, the sequel puts the guys in Thailand for Stu's wedding and they're again forced to try and figure out what happened the night before.
During the press conference, the group talked about the challenges of filming in Thailand, where to go in Bangkok, what were they able to bring to their characters in the sequel, how did Ang Lee's son end up in the movie (he plays an important part), why did they use so much Billy Joel music, what's the status of a third Hangover movie, and a lot more. Hit the jump either listen to the audio or read the transcript.
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Warning: If you are trying to stay spoiler free, I strongly advise you not to read or listen to this interview until you have seen the movie. You've been warned…
Question: What was your most challenging experience on the film?
Bradley Cooper: Well, I think unfortunately for Ed, it was the food.
Ed Helms: I had a very serious hurdle to get past the first week, which was severe food poisoning.
Cooper: That lasted throughout the movie.
Helms: Well, it never fully went away. Maybe I should just leave the rest up to your imagination. Let's just say my body exploded.
Zach Galifianakis: I think in general just the city itself, just getting used to the city for the first few days and the jetlag was a little bit tough but once you got there and you got settled in, the people are so brilliantly nice that you feel welcome and it's a great society, it really is.
Cooper: You know what was odd, was challenging I thought, was the sheer number of people that were constantly on the set. There's something about doing a production in Bangkok where there's just tons of people all over the place. Todd to his credit, thank God, likes a lean set and that just makes it easier to work, so that aw as challenge, having to adapt to there just being so many bodies around all the time.
Todd Phillips: I think in a nutshell, Bangkok is just a very crowded, very chaotic and very hot city so I think we all had just challenges like Bradley was saying, dealing with the crowds and the chaos but ultimately the movie's about mayhem. To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem. I think it all found its way into the movie and it helped.
How did you decide how to use Mike Tyson again?
Cooper: Mike was amazing. It was great to see him. First of all, he looked fantastic. He lost about 50 pounds and he was in great spirits. He promoted the first one. We really got to spend a lot of time with him actually, not just the shooting of the first Hangover so we all got to know him. My memory of Mike is before his day of shooting in Krabi which is a resort town, you'd see him walking around, it looked like he was prepping for a fight. He had his headphones on and his robe, he took it so seriously. It was also great to have him in the last scene where we're looking at the photographs.
Phillips: For me, I think Mike is just such an iconic part of the first Hangover, even though he wasn't in it a ton. Sometimes people will be like, "You remember The Hangover, that movie with Mike Tyson." The Hangover became very identified with Mike's image so personally I thought it was really important to bring him back. One, because we all love him so much and two, I think he just was such a surprise and so great in the movie and just one of those fun things. So we couldn't be more excited when I called him and asked him to do it and he came all the way to Krabi in Thailand and hung out with us. Yeah, it was fun to have him.
What were the challenges of working with Crystal the monkey?
Cooper: Crystal turned out to be just kind of this miracle monkey. She's incredible, she can do anything. Todd, I know, when we were talking about it, he was saying there's going to be this drug dealing mule that's a monkey and he's going to smoke. I was like, 'How the hell are you going to pull this off.' One of my favorite scenes in the movie is this montage, it's Curtis Mayfield, right?
Cooper: It's just one of the greatest ??? in the movie. The only downside to Crystal is she has very long claws. You don't want to get Crystal around an elephant. There was one scene where we were walking down the street, there was an elephant and she sort of destroyed my shoulder.
Helms: My favorite part about Crystal is her trainer is this guy named Tom who's a sweet guy, but whenever he needed Crystal to do something, he would literally just say, "Crystal, jump on the table. Jump on the table, jump on the table, jump on the table." And then Crystal would do it. So I don't know if Crystal actually understands English or she's just able to read the energy based on what he's saying. I just found it so hilarious that her trainer would just repeat an English command over and over and over again until Crystal eventually did what she needed to do.
Is there any even raunchier stuff on the DVD?
Phillips: It's not so much raunchier. I don't know that it's raunchier stuff for the DVD. It's very clear to me, this is my 7th movie, so I kind of know what the line is with the MPAA and even with audiences, where you can kind of push it and what not to. It's not that we have a bunch of raunchier stuff even for the DVD. I mean, I think there will be deleted scenes and some things that you'll see, but it's not like we cut anything out really because it was too raunchy at this point.
Helms: We put things in because they're too raunchy.
Or any other extras from Bangkok?
Phillips: Well, yeah, we did some special things for the DVD if you're talking about the DVD. I think Ken did a really cool thing where Mr. Chow gives us a tour of Bangkok and his version of Bangkok and how he kind of runs the joint that I think is funny. We did special things like that for sure.
Where would you recommend someone go in Thailand?
Phillips: For me, Bangkok is just one of the most beautiful cities. That's where you have to go. Bangkok's a very cosmopolitan city. In our movie, we shot a lot in the Chinatown district of Bangkok. We really took a liking to the look and the feel of that area but Bangkok as a city is just a beautiful, unbelievable, like I said cosmopolitan city. I was there for about three months and still felt like I could've stayed longer, just more to see. But Thailand in general is beautiful. These guys went to a lot of the islands at some points.
Cooper: Yeah, we spent Christmas in Chiang Mai which is incredible, but I would echo what Todd said. For me I just fell in love with Bangkok. We spend two weeks in a resort town and I couldn't wait to get back to Bangkok.
Was there a restaurant or bar you liked?
Cooper: I actually took a liking to Top Menu which was a Chinese restaurant that I ate a lot in Bangkok.
Phillips: Yeah, definitely check out Top Menu. It's called Top Menu. It's the best.
Helms: It's just like any Chinese takeout place in New York City.
Cooper: I would totally disagree with you.
Phillips: No, he's wrong. It's great.
Cooper: How dare you, Ed.
Phillips: He wonders why he got food poisoning. It's that attitude.
No upscale places?
Cooper: Well, Zach did.
Galifianakis: There's another place called Very Top Menu. Don't go to Bottom Shelf.
How did you decide how similar to make it to the first one and when to be different?
Phillips: I think we were aware that the fun part of the first Hangover for me, obviously the guys a are really funny in it and the chemistry and all that, but it's also a mystery. We didn't want to lose that investigative element that is present in the first one because I think that keeps people leaning forward on their seat and involved in the story. So it was something we made a conscious decision early on that we were going to stick with that template. We kind of "owned" that template and we were going to embrace it.
What were you able to bring to your characters this time that you felt was unfinished in the first Hangover?
Cooper: Well, I think that's part of the reason why there was so much room for the second one, because there was so much unfinished. You really didn't get to know the characters. The narrative which was really this mystery, this ticking clock pressing them in the first one, I think the difference between that one and this one is this movie's more about the dynamic of the three guys and you really get to know them. For example, for me watching the first one, it could almost be boiled down to one joke. The whole movie's the setup and the punchline are the credits. When you get to the end of this movie, I'm excited to see the credits, but that's not what I've been thinking about the whole movie. I got very caught up in what happened to Stu and how they dealt with that dynamic and what Alan did. Much more about that which I found to be a much more pleasing movie as a viewer.
Helms: I think the first movie we were defining those characters and discovering them ourselves. They were really kind of more in archetype. They were more just conventional archetypes in a way that we just added our own accents and inflections to. When it came time for the second movie, it was very exciting because just to echo what Bradley said, we were able to add dimension to these characters in a way because we'd already done the homework. You knew who they were, you knew what their relationships were and Craig, Todd and Scot gave us a lot of fun stuff. It just fleshes these guys out. Getting to go to Stu's dental office, it's just more layers on these guys that is fun to explore. It's just onion layers peeling back is a lot of fun.
Cooper: It was obviously a conscious decision by Todd to do that because the movie breathes more. There's more room for it just in terms of the timing of the cuts than the first one. It just has a different musicality to it, this movie.
Galifianakis: One of the big differences, I think what these guys had touched on, also the sequel, I think the audience or Todd or we all wanted to see us turning against each other a bit which was fun to watch. It kind of calls for it for Phil and Stu to all clash. Even Phil and I have a relationship where I admire him but he gets mad at me and he's been real gentle with me in the first one but this one I think he's at his wit's end so I think that was something new that we explored. Also as Ed was saying, to go behind the scenes, to see people in their environment, to see Alan in his bedroom is really fun.
Is he crazier this time?
Galifianakis: Yeah, I think he's in a lot of mental trouble for the rest of his life, yeah.
What do you think of Asian women?
Cooper: The people in Bangkok in general are beautiful, men and women. It's just such a beautiful aesthetic, it's incredible. Certainly the women are gorgeous over there but it's not even the aesthetic of them. There's just something about the spirit of the people there. They call it the land of 1000 smiles and there's sort of reason for that. It's just an openness and a gentility. So it's very infectious. There's something about the energy of the women and the people there that is infectious, you want to be around. That's certainly one of the reasons I fell in love with Bangkok and would go back in a heartbeat.
Galifianakis: I've been dedicated to the same woman for a number of years and I don't look at other women.
Helms: It's a beautiful country, a beautiful culture, all the people.
Phillips: It's a bit of a weird question, right? I mean, let's be serious.
Ken, when you're revealed naked, is that really you?
Ken Jeong: That's a personal question, but yes. Sorry.
Did you let Zach improvise?
Phillips: You know, certainly there's a lot of improvised lines in the movie. We don't do a ton of improvisation in general on set. We kind of more do it off to the side in the morning when the four of us will get together and we'll just kind of, not rewrite the scene but make some notes and Zach will say, "How about this line there? How about that?" Then of course while we're shooting, these guys are always free to add and do stuff like that. It's not like a lot of people think it's just a sort of made up movie, a lot of improv, a lot of freeform. But I'd be a bad director if I had these guys here and was like, "No, no, no, just read this line and say it like that." Zach, Ed and Bradley, Bradley has a great improv in that scene in IHOP where he goes, "Drink up, oh, I forgot, we're at an IHOP." That's something Bradley just throws in right there so things like that they're free to do.
Zach, why didn't you develop a character of Nathaniel Buckner character?
Galifianakis: Oh, quickly, I'll just say it just never happened. I don't have enough discipline to do it.
Why do you think the women are so patient with the men's escapades?
Phillips: You have to understand, they went to a wedding in Thailand. What is there to agree to? That's where the wedding is. The guys woke up in Bangkok, the women didn't agree.
But the theme is we have a dark side, how did you portray the women to deal with that?
Phillips: Well, I think the thing is that Stu has a demon in him and he's always kept that sort of quelled maybe, especially in the presence of this new relationship. So I don't know that she was so aware of how deep or how dark that demon in Stu can get. The fact that they got married in Thailand was solely because she's Asian-American, her parents are Thai and that's where they live. As far as Phil's wife who we knew from the first one or Justin's wife Sasha, they're going to go there because that's where the destination wedding is.
Helms: I would also presume that wedding scene at the end is sort of like everyone is happy to see each other, happy that everyone's safe and alive and that there might be some couples therapy happening afterward.
Casting Mason Lee, do you know Ang Lee?
Phillips: Mason came in like a lot of actors come in to read a part. I actually didn't know he was Ang Lee's son until the table read when we'd already cast him. I was talking to him and it turned out he's Ang Lee's son. I love Ang Lee obviously and I remember I asked Mason, "Do you think you could get your dad to shoot second unit?" Mason I think was nervous and he didn't know I was joking and he's like, "Uh, I will, uh, I'll call him. I can see but he's doing a movie in Taiwan." I was like okay, you know. But he was a great find and a great kid. You're right, I don't know how many people know that, but the guy who played Teddy, it's the director Ang Lee's son.
Why does Alan imagine everyone as children in his dream?
Phillips: Well, he sees his friends as children and to me it was sort of the Michael Jackson idea. Michael I really believe thought he was a young kid so he would surround himself with kids. I think that's how Alan sees the world. In the first movie, Alan says he can't go within 200 feet of a junior high or a Chuck E Cheese. He says that not because he's a child molester, he's not. He's just somebody who hangs out with a skateboard at the local junior high because he just wants to be friends. So it's how he sees himself. There are adults, like if you notice in the flashbacks there are adults, but his posse, his crew is 12-year-old boys.
Galifianakis: I think what they said is pretty good.
Ken, were you nervous about showing skin again? Do you give your wife the heads up?
Jeong: Oh yeah, I run everything by my wife before I do anything so I had full permission to do all the nudity prior to filming. I'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself. She always says to me that these movies are good for men because after watching me, they always go home feeling good about themselves. I wish I was lying.
You recommended restaurants, but do you know any good brothels? Just joking.
Phillips: Oh, sure. I know Ian, he's not joking.
Where do you see this series going after Hangover II?
Phillips: If we were to do a third one, and quite honestly we really haven't talked about it. We just finished the movie two weeks ago. This is the first time we've all been together in a while. If we were to do a third one, if the audience, if the desire was there, I think we have a very clear idea where that would head. It's certainly not in the same template that you've seen these movies. Obviously we always envisioned it as a trilogy as you can imagine. The third would be very much a finale and an ending. The most I could say about it, what's in my head, and I haven't discussed it with these actors, is that it is not following that template but very much a new idea. As far as where it takes place, I said I'm very open, like the Olympic committee, to being pitched and presented cities, flown around with wine and women and bribed. Then I will make my decision.
Galifianakis: And the winner is, Salt Lake City.
Couldn't there be a spinoff?
Phillips: Oh yeah, I mean, listen, I love this world that we've created. I love every actor in these movies, even all the ones that aren't here today as well. Who knows, we do a Mr. Chow movie, I haven't talked to Ken about it but Chow is definitely a man of mystery much like Austin Powers. He obviously has a web that is woven deep in crime and women.
I meant a new group of three comedians having their own adventure.
Phillips: Yeah, please tell that to these guys and their agents.
Helms: We're just like the kids in the Vacation movies.
Phillips: No, I would not see spinning it off like that. I thought you meant in the other way. No, I wouldn't do that.
Where did Billy Joel's Downeaster Alexa come from, and Allentown?
Phillips: Well, that all came early on in just the idea of Bill Brzeski, the production designer, and myself talking about Alan's bedroom and I wanted to see one of those big Billy Joel Glass Houses posters in his bedroom because it just seemed like the kind of guy he would really connect with. I love Billy Joel by the way but Alan just sort of latches on to certain random things. Then I think Down Easter is Billy Joel's greatest song. I love the way it's used. Even though it's sort of funny that he's listening to it on his iPod, or his Zune, sorry. I just think it's a very powerful great song and then we just had this kind of runner that Alan loves Billy Joel, then Allentown came about. That wasn't in the script. That was something we all decided in Bangkok, "Hey, let's try something." We actually thought it was going to be just for the DVD, that Allentown idea. Then Craig and I wrote a version of it and we went ahead and did it.
Kanye West too.
Phillips: I love Kanye. That's not even anything specific. That's just a track I love. I just love the energy of how it kicks off that moment in the movie. Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective. I take it very seriously and think about it a lot.
Did you know when you shot the first film that it would take off? What do you think it was?
Phillips: I think it's quite honestly a bunch of things, sort of all planets aligned. I think it's a lot to do with the unapologetic nature of the comedy. I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie. The Hangover just doesn't do that. It's like f*** it, whatever, it's over, leave. It just doesn't apologize. You know what I mean, it just sort of has an unapologetic tone that I actually think people responded to because we're used to a certain way of these stories being told.
Galifianakis: By the way, if you went to a party at Todd's house, that's how he ends it.
What was the discussion of dropping the N word?
Galifianakis: I think Alan, for someone to say that word so cluelessly, it's funny because it comes out of a place of ignorance. Alan just doesn't know any better, he's just an idiot so he gets away with that kind of thing. It's kind of commenting that anybody that would say that so loosely is an idiot. That word can be very inflammatory but Alan is such a dimwit that it's not excusable at all but you're making fun of people that would say that word, I think. That's the way I see it.
Phillips: For me, it's really an illustration of how left footed Alan is with the world. It's just what you do as writers and as a director and an actor, you sort of exhibit these qualities. You have certain tools with which to work and I think that moment right there just highlights how out of step and out of rhythm – – in fact, he goes, "Oh, I'm on my way niggas" and then he corrects it wrongly with the N word. It just shows you how backwards Alan's thinking is and out of step it is. I think that's what makes Alan's character fun quite honestly.
And it starts with Chow, a bad guy.
Phillips: But he's also a pseudo gangster who obviously uses that word, Chow does, in that way. Then Alan of course in his left footedness misinterprets that. I think that's the best way to describe it.
How important is surprise and is it frustrating when so much is in the trailers?
Helms: I think there are abundant surprises in this movie. It's sort of fun to hear about a nugget here or there and then see where it fits in in this movie. This is always a conversation when promoting comedies, how many jokes do you put in the trailer. I don't think it really matters because when you're in the movie, it's a whole different presentation of that same information.
Phillips: And more specifically to that, it's an R-rated movie, you can only show so much. There are so many things we aren't able to show on TV and in the trailers just by nature of being R-rated. Most of you I think have seen the movie so you know what I'm talking about, but there is a difference. When you make the first Hangover, it's nice to make a comedy when you're flying under the radar. On this movie, obviously we were not under the radar. It was a sequel to a big comedy, biggest R-rated comedy of all time so it's not going to fly under the radar. So you have casting decisions that are getting announced before or people dissecting casting decisions before we've even had a chance to shoot the scene. That said, I call it uptown problems. The fact that people are anticipating the movie so much that they want to talk about it, whether it's on the internet or on entertainment shows, it's kind of an uptown problem. It's nice to have them talking about it. It's a double-edged sword, or I don't know what the right word is. It's a single edged sword, I guess. I don't know. It's a spoon.
Did you have to pull back on jokes for permissions with Thailand?
Phillips: As a producer on the movie, I can tell you that we did have to show the script to Thai government and Thai film officials and the film office of Thailand. They were really pretty great with what they saw. There are certain touchy hot button issues in Thailand that we just happened to not touch in the script that we naturally avoided. Everything there they read and saw. I think again, the same way Vegas really embraced us filming The Hangover there and benefited from it afterwards I think, Bangkok was really happy to have The Hangover II there. The prime minister visited the set. It wasn't like we were there shooting a small little movie. Everyone knew we were there. It was in the paper all the time. We had a blast. I think they were happy to have us but you're right, a lot of people don't know, it's actually kind of a conservative city or culture.
The photos at the end have a cinema verite quality. Do you just shoot them after a scene?
Phillips: No, it's very random because we have these ideas of where and what we're going to shoot a scene of. Like okay, Teddy losing his finger. Then it's like oh, I saw this great Chinese restaurant in the Chinatown section of Bangkok. Let's shoot the finger thing over there after we're done today so we get the actors and we literally shoot it with my regular camera, because like you said it's real verite. We want it to feel very homemade like your friends would post on Facebook with your own little point and shoot camera. We do it really by the seat of our pants sort of. Of course we go clear it with the restaurant, hey, we're going to shoot this thing here, is that cool? But not a lot of forethought is put into it outside of this is the basic idea. Then we go and everybody just gets real crazy. It's always good when Chow's in the photos because Chow doesn't realize we're not rolling sound. He's really acting it out to the fullest. He always takes it just to the limit. He does the full – – it's the greatest. It is one of the most amazing things to watch when Chow just walks into a photo shoot scene, full on Mr. Chow treating everybody like sh*t as Mr. Chow would. It's the best.
So a lot of ad libbing in the picture?
Phillips: Yeah, it's a real free form thing and these guys will have ideas of what it should be and what to do in the pictures. We had a lot of pictures done in that run down motel room or hotel room. All we had was a couple bags of "cocaine," a monkey, a couple of guns and that was the idea. We shot 40-50 pictures and I love them all. They're ridiculous photos.
Do the actors get final say?
Helms: Clearly not.


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Well, it has certainly been quite some time since we last had the pleasure of taking a thorough look at a motherboard based off of an AMD platform. Over the course of the Athlon64 series of processors, AMD has been able to expand their user base, and impress more consumers with their technology than many would've expected. With the upcoming release of the various Athlon64 supporting chipsets that will feature PCI-E support, there's no doubt many will want to upgrade to this new platform if they're looking for the best of the best. What we have for you today is MSI's K8T Neo2-FIR, a motherboard based off of the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. Although this won't be the absolute best option available here in a matter of weeks, it also poses a good buy considering prices on these boards will drop as soon as the newer K8T890 and nForce4 boards begin to hit the market, especially if NVIDIA can keep to their schedule. Let's see what VIA has to offer in the K8T800 chipset, and what MSI can do with it.
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- Supports 64-bit AMD K8 Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX Processor. (Socket 939)
- Supports 64-bit AMD K8 Athlon 64 3500+ and higher CPU.
- Supports 64-bit AMD K8 Athlon 64 FX processor FX-53 and up.
- North Bridge : VIA K8T800 Pro
- HyperTransport connection to AMD K8 Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX processor.
- 8 or 16 bit control/ address. data transfer both directions.
- 1000/800/600/400/200MHz "Double Data Rate" operation both direction.
- AGP v3.0 compliant with 8X transfer mode.
- South Bridge : VIA VT8237
- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode EIDE controller.
- Integrated dual channel native Serial ATA/RAID controller.
- Supports 8 USB2.0 ports. (Rear x4/ Front x4)
- 4 DDR-I DIMM Slots
- DDR-I 400/333MHz RAM
- Max: 4GB
Expansion Slots
- 1 x AGP 8x
- 5 x PCI
- 2 x UDMA/133/100/66
- 1 x IDE RAID
- 1 x FDD
- 4 x SATA
- 8 x USB 2.0 (Total)
Back Panel I/O Ports
- 1 x Parallel, 1 x Serial
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 7 x Audio I/O
- 2 x IEEE1394
- 4 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ-45 Port


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From the direction Groningen - Follow the A7 (direction Hoogezand) and take exit 46 Winschoten/Heiligerlee, after that turn left at the traffic lights to Winschoten.
From the direction Zwolle - Follow the A28 (in direction to Assen) till exit Assen-Zuid exit 32, take this exit and then turn right onto the N33 towards Gieten, Veendam. At Veendam you turn right onto the N366 in the direction Oude Pekela and after that go left onto the N367 towards Winschoten. Winschoten - At the end of the N964 you turn right, go over the bridge. Then pass 2 roundabouts, enter the third roundabout and turn three quarter around onto the Nassaustraat.
In Winschoten - Proceed on the Nassaustraat, enter the roundabout, take the first to the right and then immediately right again into the Engelstilstraat.
You can also visit Winschoten by train, When you arrive at the railway station proceed by taxi or by foot (ca. 10 minutes). You leave the Railway station, walk onto the Emmastraat, which elapses in De Venne, at the end of De Venne, take a left before the roundabout onto the Engelstilstraat.


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Axial Trac is a true hybrid chiropractic table. It's an adjusting table, a flexion-distraction table, and a decompression table. Axial Trac is the all in one chiropractic table to meet your needs.
Axial Trac ™ employs a new technology patented by W. Patrick Danzey, D.C. This chiropractic table combines variable amounts of long axis (axial) traction with each flexion stroke. The hallmark of Axial Trac™ is a sliding upper pelvic section that is mechanically forced into distraction as the table is flexed. The traction handle is fixed to a non-sliding portion of the pelvic section so it does not move away from the doctor.
There are three electric motors; one for table elevation up to 34", one for spring tension and one to pre-select the amount of long axis traction. A multi-position headpiece is standard. Cervical drop, thoracic drop, lumbar drop and break away thoracic sections are available. Dr. Danzey has been utilizing flexion distraction for 25 years and realized the need for on demand additional traction. The technique is performed manually, allowing the amount of additional traction delivered with each flexion or lateral flexion stroke to be determined by the doctor's feel and the patient's tolerance. Table calibration allows the doctor to record the amount of enhanced flexion distraction given on each visit. The Axial Trac™ chiropractic table combines the best aspects of flexion distraction and spinal decompression in one multipurpose adjusting table.
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A primer on ETF valuation
It is important to understand the different types of valuation mechanisms for ETFs, the nuances of each, and how to use them to get the best execution on your ETF order. We begin with the calculation of the net asset value (NAV) of the funds and then explore discounts and premiums and cash amounts, ending at the calculation of the intraday indicative value (IIV).
The structure of the ETF is based on holdings transparency. One of the keys to being transparent is publishing all of the numbers required to calculate the fair value of an ETF. Five elements involved in the valuation of an ETF are published every day, these include:
- Net asset value: This is the most recent official value of the ETF based on most recent market close.
- Intraday indicative value: This is the calculation of the most recent value of the fund based on market prices of the underlying securities.
- Total and estimated cash: The total and estimated cash amounts are the amount of excess cash in the fund. These numbers are used to calculate how much balancing cash will be required when doing a creation or redemption.
- Shares outstanding: The shares outstanding of the fund are how many shares have been issued and can change daily with creations and redemptions.
- Accrued dividends (certain funds only): These are dividends collected from all the companies in the index and normally paid to investors quarterly.
Trading tip
You can access any of the relevant data about ETFs by using this ticker methodology. Change "ETF" to the ticker of the fund you are monitoring.
|ETF Ticker Conventions
|Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Others
|Net asset value
|Intraday indicative value
|Total cash
|Estimated cash
|Shares outstanding
|Accrued interest
Calculating net asset value
The net asset value (NAV) of an ETF is a daily calculation that is based off the most recent closing prices of the assets in the fund and an actual accounting of the total cash in the fund at the time of calculation. This gives the fund a standardized value that can be compared to other funds for performance statistics and accounting. The fund world is based on comparative statistics, so uniform reporting was critical in the development of ETFs.
The NAV of the ETF is calculated by taking the sum of the assets in the fund, including any securities and cash, subtracting out any liabilities, and dividing that by the number of shares outstanding.
NAV = (Assets − Liabilities)/Shares Outstanding)
All of these data points are provided on a daily basis, including exactly what the fund is holding. This transparency frequently is touted as a major benefit of an ETF. Mutual and closed-end funds are not required to provide portfolio holdings on a daily basis. A mutual fund provides a daily NAV but holdings are released quarterly. A closed-end fund provides a NAV either daily or weekly with holdings released usually quarterly. In an ETF, you are able to see the exact assets and aggregate liabilities of the fund at any time. This is also a factor which has worked to prevent against style drift in the products.
Another way to calculate the NAV of an ETF is to use the creation unit (CU) and total cash published daily. The CU is a set of shares or securities in the ETF that constitute one unit of the fund. One creation unit is the denomination of underlying assets that can be redeemed for a certain number of ETF shares.
NAV = (Shares per each component stock x Last Price)/CU Shares + Total Cash/CU Shares
In order to calculate the actual value of the ETF at any time during the day, you would utilize the available creation unit. The creation unit is utilized for building any model around ETF pricing. It shows the exact basket that must be delivered to the issuer in order to receive ETF shares during a creation.
The NAV of an ETF is represented in share price terms. This is why you would be dividing the asset totals by shares outstanding and the creation unit calculations by the creation unit share amount.
Cash and estimated cash
For the standard equity ETFs, there are 2 cash numbers published daily, the total cash and the estimated cash. The quoting ticker conventions are TC and EU respectively. These are published as actual amounts in dollars per creation unit. For a fund showing a total cash number of $1,000 and having 250,000 shares outstanding with a 50,000 share creation unit size, the total amount of cash in the fund is $5,000. This would be calculated with the equation:
Cash in Fund = Shares Outstanding/CU Shares x Total Cash
Since the NAV of an ETF is reflected as a price per share, you will use the total cash number converted to a per-share amount. This is arrived at by dividing the total cash amount by the creation unit shares amount:
Cash per ETF Share = Total Cash/CU Shares
The total cash number is backward looking to ensure that creations and redemptions occur at NAV. When the fund is being traded throughout the day, the estimated cash amount is used to indicate how much cash the fund will require for the creation or redemptions. When calculating the IIV or an estimated NAV (eNAV) of an ETF, the estimated cash number should be used. This number takes into account potential dividends, management fees, and other potential cash and portfolio changes in the basket. Then the following day, when determining the exact requirements of cash movement between the issuer and the AP, the total cash number is utilized.
Discounts and premiums
A common misperception that arises around the NAV is the discount and premium calculations for a fund. The importance that investors place on this number is a holdover habit from looking at the prevalence of premiums and discounts in closed-end funds (CEFs). The 2 types of funds are listed, and the fund prices trade independently of NAV; however, the premium and discount numbers are completely different in meaning. There are occasions where persistent premiums and discounts arise in ETFs, but that is due to a structural inconsistency. Typically any discount or premium pattern for an ETF will be very short-lived as the arbitrage function enables its collapse in the near term.
Under normal circumstances, the premium and discount that arises between an ETF NAV and its trading price at the end of the day is the result of late market activity and will narrow on the following open. This is true of ETFs with constituents that trade in the same time frame.
Many circumstances can and will push an ETF away from its NAV at the very end of the day, causing it to trade at either a premium or a discount compared to the basket. It could be that a large order came into the ETF at the very end of the trading day too late, or too large, for the arbitrage functionality. Additionally, as the trading day ends, spreads typically widen to prevent the occurrence of exposures that will have to be held overnight. This can cause late prints in ETFs to be somewhat erratic and can create the impression of a premium or discount versus the NAV.
Trading tactics
When trading, you should try to avoid trading the ETF too close to the market open, before the underlying constituents have all opened. While it is intuitive to wait until the domestic underlying constituents are open before trading the ETFs, it is also valuable to wait until the correlated hedge of international ETFs start trading with full liquidity before trading those as well. This should explain why you see spreads in many names tighten a few minutes after the open. Also, as the trading day draws to a close, ETF liquidity providers have the risk that they will not get completely filled in a basket and would have to carry overnight positions that are not perfectly hedged. This is why spreads widen near the close. There is more risk to providing liquidity at that time.
Calculating intraday indicative value
Although the NAV is important for the calculation of prior end-of-day valuation statistics, the IIV is critical for bringing you a step closer to the actual trading value of an ETF during the trading day. It is important to distinguish what this number actually is for 2 reasons:
- It goes by several different names.
- At certain times during the day, it loses its relevancy because of trading anomalies as discussed previously.
The IIV is also sometimes known as the indicative net value (iNAV). IIV is becoming the mainstream name because this is the one used for quoting conventions. The ticker quoting convention is IV appended to the ticker: for example, ETFIV or ETF.IV or ETF IV, depending on the system.
The IIV represents the most recent trading value of the assets of a creation unit. This number is designed to give investors and traders an almost real-time indication of the value of the assets underlying the ETF throughout the trading day. It is a tremendous idea that is unique to the structure of ETFs and is useful for ETFs with underlying baskets of stocks that trade at the same time as the ETF in the market.
The IIV typically publishes at a frequency of every 15 seconds, which is why I call it almost real time. (Some firms are starting to make the number available to clients in real-time form.) A lot can happen in 15 seconds that makes the number more relevant as a guide than a mandate. If the fund's price has moved slightly away, it probably would be a function of delayed quoting frequency of the IIV rather than an erratic movement in the ETF price itself.
The 5 steps for calculating the IIV are:
- Use the CU to get the proper share quantities for each stock in the basket.
- Multiply the last price of each stock by its representative share amount in the CU.
- Sum the products to calculate total assets of the fund.
- Divide this by the amount of shares per CU of the ETF.
- Add to that the estimated cash value divided by the amount of shares per CU of the ETF.
IIV = (Shares per each component stock x Last Price)/CU Shares + Estimated Cash/CU Shares
The IIV is the implied value of the ETF as calculated by the most recent trading prices of all the stocks in the basket. This value is calculated completely independently of the actual trading price of the ETF in the secondary marketplace. However, in a US-listed ETF with a basket of domestic stocks underlying, those 2 independently generated values should trade in parity with one another because of the open conversion between the basket and the ETF.
This is one of the core functionalities of the creation and redemption mechanism of the product wrapper and the one responsible for eliminating discounts and premiums. In many high-volume ETFs, a quote for the IIV and a quote for the ETF should be at parity with each other. Differences could be because of the time lag and other occasional structural nuances. Since stock (and therefore ETF) trading now takes place in microseconds, a lot can happen in between 2 separate 15-second quotes. Professional traders are not using published IIVs as a basis for trading. Most, if not all, desks that are trading ETFs are calculating their own IIVs based on real-time quotes in the underlying baskets that they are generating within their systems. They will see their own IIV calculation in real time so they can act on pricing at the same frequency as their competitors.