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(KOVR/CNN/Gray News) – California Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic presidential candidate, said she wants to align school hours with parents' workdays.
Most schools dismiss around 3 p.m., just two hours short of the standard full-time workday.
Harris' legislation, called the Family Friendly Schools Act, would create school activities from at least 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Harris introduced the bill Wednesday.
"The Family Friendly Schools Act will create a first-of-its-kind pilot program to give schools resources to stay open during the entire work day throughout the school year and to invest over $1 billion in enriching summer learning programs – all without forcing teachers to work longer hours or for less pay," Harris said in a press release.
The bill would award "five-year grants of up to $5 million total to school districts to transform elementary schools serving a high number of low-income families into Family Friendly Schools," which could use the grant money to develop programs for students until 6 p.m. every weekday.
The legislation would also require the Department of Education to publish and distribute a report on what participants learned from the pilot program at the end of the five-year grant period.
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Happy December dos! So this month I'm going to try to have a giveaway a week because you know, I'm trying not to be the grinch! So to start off the month we have a Zensah giveaway! And hello horrific iPhone pictures! Thank you for joining us on this review of the Zensah Long Sleeve Compression Shirt review today! So most people go 'taper crazy', I've talked about how I don't go taper crazy because I'm like thank the Lord I'm not running 239472984732 miles and I can't ever do anything else with my life. Especially right now, I'm all about creeping under my sheets for as long as humanly possible in the mornings, and I'm am relishing in the fact that my legs still feel like they are stuck in the mud. This morning I definitely didn't get up early to run and it was glorious. The final countdown to CIM continues on. Oh well, I have a sweet Zensah shirt to tell you guys about, so that is exciting!
So a little while ago I received the Zensah Long Sleeve compression top and was asked to do a review on the shirt. I usually review products that I love on here and this shirt was no different! I really don't need incredibly cold weather wear out here in California but when you get up at 5 am to run, it's still pretty brisk out in the mornings. If there is one thing about me, it's that I DO not like the cold, like I DO not like the water. I could be part cat. I get cold really easily and I HATE being cold. I know I better not complain too much though because I've seen some crazy pictures and heard stories of people running in extreme conditions so I'm thankful for no snow or frozen grass!
So back to the shirt! I really like the fact that it doesn't have a tag and doesn't have it's logo all over the entire shirt or some weird, freaky design. I opted for black because A. it's slimming, and B. white tight things just don't look good on my body. So it's seamless which is amazing, and moisture wicking, which shouldn't all running shirts be? Amazing.
The brand is right on the neck area and is screen printed on. One of my FAVORITE things about all thing Zensah is the fabric. Their fabric is really rich and soft. When I say soft it's by far the softest material I have in all my running clothes. I love their arm-warmers and LOVE their sports bras. They are my number one go-to's when it comes to sports bras, perhaps I will do a more in depth review of their sports bras soon, but you can check out Aron's Review of the Zensah sports bra here. So, I received the L/XL shirt in black and tried it out the next morning. One other thing about it that I NEVER like my stomach to show at all. I was nervous if I got the smaller shirt it would be too short and I love long running shirts.
The L/XL was large and it is very, very stretchy. I swear you could probably stretch this little shirt over an elephant. Another good thing is that there are no seams on the shirt. It's SO soft and a great base-layer for running if you are living in a colder area, or a great long sleeve if you are running in an area like myself where it's chilly but not too cold. I really like how warm it kept me. Also, since I got the L/XL, the sleeves are WAY long and I LOVE that! I love it because I can pull it over my hands and wear it almost like mittens! Maybe that's just a feature that I like, but I love long sleeves, and with the stretchiness of the fabric it works out perfectly.
Excuse the pile in the bottom right hand corner, I took those clothes to the thrift store. :) Another great aspect of the shirt that I really liked was the fact that it was snug in all the right places. It never rode up and didn't chafe even after I wore it three days in a row.
Now this may sound disgusting, BUT, I must be honest here. I usually can wear a dri-fit shirt once, sometimes twice if I do lower mileage. Dri-fit and these type of materials that I usually run in perhaps start to stink a little faster than normal tees. So I wanted to see how long the Zensah shirt would last. I ran 4 miles three times in this shirt and it didn't really smell bad at all. Granted I wasn't sweating since it was cold out and it wasn't a long distance where I was going to get really sweaty, but I was surprised how it didn't hold in the stink like other dri-fits and nicer material shirts I have.
So overall, this shirt was a big time win for me. I really, really like the softness of the material, the overall fit and the comfort are great as well. It really kept me warm and I was never chattering my teeth and not enjoying my run. The bonus non-stink factor is pretty sweet and the stretchiness is pretty amazing!
Zensah also wants to give one lucky commenter a shirt as well! You can get TWO entries to this contest. All you have to do is leave a comment about one time when you were freezing cold and had to run.
IE: " Well hello Danica, I was freezing cold this morning when it was -24 degrees here in Canada and I put on three sweatshirts and a beanie and went out for my run and I fell on frozen grass and sprained my ankle."
I like to read funny things…. Also, for a 2nd entry, you can tweet about the giveaway. You can follow my twitter here, and Zensah's twitter here. Please include both @chicrunner and also @Zensah in the tweet saying you saw the giveaway on my blog, or you wanted the win the shirt, whatever you want basically. It's open for both guys and girls and they will let the winner choose the size and color.
I will pick the winner next Tuesday after CIM, if I'm still alive!
So get to commenting so you don't have to run in the cold anymore!


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Steamboat Ski Area to launch $5M Four Points Lodge construction April 15
Steamboat Springs — Steamboat Ski Area will launch an ambitious $5 million-plus construction project at 9,700 feet almost as soon as the ski lifts close for the season next month.
The final day of the ski season is April 14, and the ski area will set out to replace the modest Four Points Hut the next day as it follows through on plans to build the 13,000-square-foot Four Points Lodge with room for 200 indoor diners in time for Christmas.
"The task right now is to figure out how we'll get it done. We'll get it done," Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Diamond said.
The site of the new restaurant originally was a ski patrol shack at the upper terminus of the Four Points chairlift in 1967. By 1992, it was converted to the Four Points Hut, offering premade food items with limited seating and restrooms within its 1,000 square feet. But it hasn't been adequate to meet the needs of Steamboat skiers for a decade or longer.
Ski area spokesman Mike Lane said the Four Points Hut will close for the season April 7 to allow fixtures to be removed for demolition beginning April 15. Kohler Designs worked with Ski Corp. on the design of the new building, and Calcon Constructors, with offices in Steamboat, is the general contractor.
Diamond said Thursday afternoon that the scope of the new lodge has grown significantly throughout the past several years from a building that could accommodate 80 restaurant seats at an estimated cost of $1.5 million to a larger $3.5 million building that almost went forward in 2012, to today's plan that will afford expanded restrooms and a retail store on a basement level. In addition to expanded dining room seating on the upper main level, there will be a 30-person indoor bar with views of the powder tracks on Storm Peak.
The exterior of the new building will look distinctly different from the upper Steamboat gondola terminal and Rendezvous Saddle, using native stone and locally reclaimed wood where possible, Diamond said. The ski area even has some vintage barn wood left from a garage shed that once stood near the Butterfly Barn adjacent to the Meadows Parking Lot.
The Four Points Lodge will feature indoor and outdoor gas fireplaces, timber railings on the outdoor deck and a range of sustainable qualities, including dark sky standards outdoor lighting, dishes and silverware that eliminate the need for recycling paper and plastics, low-energy insulated windows and a compostable platform for leftover food items.
The primary focus of the food service will be an upscale food court emphasizing pasta dishes and fresh salads using local ingredients, Diamond said. Eventually, Ski Corp.'s culinary team plans to open fine dining service at Four Points in the evenings.
"The ease of finding a seat for lunch will significantly improve across the resort with this addition," Steamboat Vice President of Resort Services James Snyder was quoted saying in a news release.
Low-snow winter paid unexpected dividends
Diamond said the final plan that will go forward this construction season was the result of some serendipity.
"It started 2 1/2 years ago when the only thing we were permitted under the master plan (with the U.S. Forest Service) was 40 indoor seats at Four Points and another 40 seats at Sunshine" Peak, Diamond said. "The Forest Service agreed we could move those seats around, so we could build 80 seats at Four Points in the updated plan. We needed more seats, but we felt it was a significant enough issue that we started on the planning on that Version 1, living with the old Forest Service plan and a $1.5 million budget."
As Ski Corp. and the Forest Service worked to amend the master plan, ski area officials continued to ask for more seating. Ultimately, the Forest Service agreed.
In December 2011, the ski area was very close to going to final design documents when the reality of the snow drought of 2011-12 set in.
"In early January, we just pulled the plug," Diamond said. "The whole ski industry was having a bad winter."
Intrawest CEO "Bill (Jensen) said, 'Take your time, make sure you're doing the right thing. Don't come back to me in a couple of years and tell me you need 20 more seats,'" Diamond recalled.
That led to a rethinking of the project.
"It was one of those aha moments," Diamond said. "I have to give credit to (Vice President of Operations) Doug Allen. We had assumed we couldn't do much in the basement of the Four Points shack. But Doug said, 'We have to use it.'"
As a result, the plans for the building went from a single story to a two-level project with the new restrooms downstairs.
"It opened up a huge amount of space on the main floor," Diamond said. "What a difference a year makes. (Intrawest) refinanced, we've had a good year and the economy continues to strengthen."
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President Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly this week that promoting those freedoms around the world is the key to peace.
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(CNN) – Very few pro athletes are afforded the type of farewell sendoff that Atlanta Braves' veteran third baseman Chipper Jones has been getting this season, his 19th in the major leagues.
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Many women face a dilemma on the golf course. By its very nature, golf is a social game. You are on the course for up to five hours yet are actually swinging the club only a few minutes of that time. There are a lot of opportunities to chat whether it is in the cart or waiting on the tee. That social aspect is great, but what if you want to be competitive as well? A balance of both is ideal, and the following three tips from golf writer Beth Myers will help achieve a perfect middle ground.
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If you watch golf on TV, you likely don't see a lot of chit chat between the players. That is because when the camera is on, they are getting ready for their next shot. If you were to go to an event in person, you would find the players actually talk quite a bit during the round. The key is to separate your time and not let one get in the way of the other. When you get to your ball, you need to switch into 'golf mode' and cut out the chatting. Focus on your shot, pay attention to details and do your best. The times when you are walking in the fairway or riding in the cart are best for being social. There is nothing wrong with doing both, just keep them apart.
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Not wanting to be rude, sometimes women feel required to be as social as possible on the golf course. If you have something like dinner or drinks planned for after the round, you won't feel as pressured because you know there will be time enough to catch up later. That doesn't mean you don't talk at all on the course, but it will help keep you focused on the golf.
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To our credit, we women are generally more considerate than men. That translates to the golf course when some women have a hard time really wanting to win. They want to golf well but don't necessarily want to take attention away from others by winning the trophy at the end of the day. My advice is to let that instinct go and try your hardest to play your absolute best each time. Golf is a hard game and it's a great feeling to have won something – anything – on the golf course.
Don't sell yourself short. You have practiced a lot, improved over your years of playing, and you should be rewarded with a little recognition.
One of the best parts of golf is the social aspect. To be sure, that is a major reason that it is such a hugely popular recreation activity. You can entertain clients on the course or just have a great time with friends. There is no reason to take that out of the game. At the same time, you can still play your hardest and compete with yourself and with others. The next time you play, focus on finding a comfortable balance between socializing and playing golf. It is different for everyone but, when you find the right mix for you, your best golf is soon to follow.
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Announcing the Face It Campaign – "Seven white men. That's ridiculous."
By Beth A. Stewart (CEO, Trewstar Corporate Board Services)
February was a tough month for women.
At a House committee hearing, a panel of five men expounded on religious liberty — in the context of President Obama's compromise plan on insurance coverage for contraception. In Oklahoma, protesters rallied against Republican Senator Dan Newberry's bill that would require a woman to hear the fetus's heartbeat before a doctor could perform an abortion.
Facebook announced a $5 billion IPO without a single woman on its board. But, unlike the House committee hearing, or the Oklahoma personhood bill, the public outcry against Facebook's board was anemic.
A group of young women — two journalists, one paralegal, and a Rhodes Scholar — decided to do something about it. They wanted to use Facebook, not to topple Arab governments, but to create meaningful change in corporate America — change that has not occurred for years, despite the articles, conferences, and commitments to do better. They could see no reason for Facebook not to expand its board to include women.
Study upon study has shown that when boards include women, attendance at board meetings improves, audits occur more frequently, and equity — the shareholders' investment in the company — grows. Further, women on Facebook's board could generate positive publicity for Facebook as a leader in corporate governance as it has been in so many other areas of our society.
In his Letter to Investors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg referred to Facebook's role in the Arab Spring, saying that the site should "empower people" to seek an alternative to the "monolithic, top-down structure that has existed to date."
The young women wondered: Shouldn't Facebook's top management structure be less monolithic, too?
Finally, it would be good for society. They saw the composition of Facebook's board as a problem — but also an opportunity. Catalyst, celebrating its 50th year this week, has shown that the percentage of women on corporate boards has remained constant at 15-16% over the last six years. But it's not just senior women in business. Other research shows that the same is true in government, medicine, law, and Hollywood.
"The only argument anyone gave against the campaign was that Facebook should be able to decide its board members for itself," said Alice Baumgartner, a graduate student in Latin American history at Oxford, and one of the campaign's founding members. "I thought that wasn't very convincing, since it was the same argument white businessmen gave during the civil rights era to explain why they didn't need to hire black employees. Liberty for themselves was more important than the right of all, black and white, men and women, to equal employment."
Alice and her friends decided to launch a campaign that would start a conversation across the world – not just about Facebook's board, but about those making decisions across all industries and professions. They decided that using Facebook to out Facebook would be an opportunity to bring positive change to corporate boards and maybe to all senior management practices.
At the beginning of March, Alice – who, in the interest of full disclosure, is a friend of my son's – approached me about the campaign. She knew that I had just started my own company, Trewstar Corporate Board Services, Inc., whose sole focus is placing qualified women on corporate boards, and that I had written to Sheryl Sandberg, asking her about Facebook's board. Alice thought that I might be interested in advising the campaign.
Campaigns make women my age nervous. We have families and careers, and can't risk either, even for causes we believe in. At first, I thought that I could be most helpful by locating qualified women for the board and this would have been easy. But, I realized, there would be no point to this approach if Mark Zuckerberg did not first commit to including women on the board of Facebook.
After listening to their concerns, I did a little more research myself. Facebook is the tip of a deep iceberg: Zynga, Expedia, Hertz, and Duane Reade – among many others – have no women on their boards; Groupon, Apple, and Amazon have only one.
Only 24 women were added to the boards of Fortune 500 companies last year. At this rate, it would take almost 40 years to fill 30% of Fortune 500 board seats with women. Facebook could lead the way, encouraging the 149 Fortune 500 companies with only one woman and the 56 Fortune 500 companies with no women to each add a woman in 2012. That would be almost ten times the number added in 2011.
Having served on the boards of public companies for almost 20 years, I understood that the usual approach to the issue of women in corporate governance – education, research and networking – is incredibly important. But if we are honest with ourselves, it has not been enough. The question became how to facilitate the success of everyone's efforts. It seemed that a broad-based coalition was necessary – and something new that was worth trying.
It was in my interest – and in the interest of everyone who cared about women in business – to support this campaign. What is the point of educating people about the issue, if not to give them reasons to do something about it? These young women had a possible solution to our problem: insufficient demand in the face of ample supply of women qualified to serve on corporate boards.
In less than a month, the young women have organized their campaign. Their committee now includes men and women from across the world – from Australia to Europe to the United States to South America. One member, a man, built their website. Another, also a man, put together a YouTube video. They have a blog, a Twitter, a petition, and dozens of graphics to post on Facebook. And a great name: FACE IT.
The campaign launches in the days leading up to April 1. The timing couldn't be more perfect. One of my favorite posters is an image of Mark Zuckerberg, saying, in reference to the campaign, "Is this a joke?" At the opposite side of the poster is an image of an indignant-looking woman, who says: "Is your board?"
Let's hope that this campaign will convince Facebook – and other companies like it – that a board without women can't be taken seriously. Check it out: Face It Campaign.
This post was originally posted at The Glass Hammer.
About the guest blogger: Beth A. Stewart is CEO at Trewstar Corporate Board Services, Director of Carmax, Inc. and Former Director of General Growth Properties and AV Homes. Inc. Beth graduated from Wellesley College in 1978 and started her career at Goldman Sachs as one of the first analysts in the investment banking division. After graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1982, she re-joined Goldman Sachs as an associate in the Real Estate Investment Banking division.


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Bhubaneswar: At least 14 Maoists were killed in a fierce gun battle with police in Odisha's Malkangiri district Saturday, an official said.
The gun battle, which lasted for several minutes, took place in a forest close to the border with Chhattisgarh.
A police team led by District Superintendent of Police Akhileswar Singh, which included personnel from the district voluntary force, raided the site and retaliated when the extremists fired at them.
"Fourteen Maoists were killed. Arms were also seized," Inspector General of Police Soumendra Priyadarshi told IANS.
Malkangiri, over 600 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, is considered a stronghold of Maoists.
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Last June, Harkins Theatres, an Arizona-based movie theater chain, made its debut in California, opening with a state-of-the-art, 16-screen cinema complex in a mall in Moreno Valley. Harkins' arrival led to the closure of an eight-screen facility owned by UltraStar Cinemas at the edge of the mall.
Soon, San Diego-based UltraStar will return the favor. The company, which owns 100 screens spread across a dozen locations in southern California, is making its first venture into Arizona with a theater in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise. The theater is expected to open in 2008.
But that's just the start: UltraStar has signed a deal with shopping center developer Glimcher Ventures Southwest, headquartered in Phoenix, to build another half-dozen theaters in Arizona over the next three years. This in a marketplace owned for years by Harkins. And UltraStar isn't alone — at least three other theater chains are considering sites in Surprise, a town of 120,000 that until recently had no movie houses at all.
"Harkins is a good company and I respect them a lot," says Alan Grossberg, president and CEO of UltraStar, which he founded in 1998. "But Arizona is growing very fast right now and we want to participate in that growth. The old boundaries in this business are changing."
New expansion era
The theater industry, which enjoyed a construction boom in the mid- to late-1990s before overbuilding forced at least a half-dozen overextended chains into bankruptcy in 2000 and 2001, is back on an expansion binge. Shopping center owners, who had grown wary of cinema tenants prone to dump leases unexpectedly, are back courting major exhibitors.
Facilities erected just a decade ago, at the dawn of the stadium seating era, are suddenly looking aged and vulnerable again as the industry morphs to outsized I-MAX screens, digital projection technology and upscale amenities like bars and restaurants on premise. Competition has never been more ferocious.
Movie studios once routinely granted an exhibitor exclusive rights to show a newly released film within a protected radius of 10 miles or more in most suburbs and small towns. A few years ago that radius had shrunk to three miles. In the next couple of years it could shrink to nothing as theater chains set up for business across the street from each other, as Harkins did in Moreno Valley. Some experts foresee a day when theaters compete against each other just as Target and Wal-Mart do today, cheek by jowel.
Right now every chain is jockeying for the best sites. Harkins, which opened just one new theater as recently as 2002 and none in 2003, is opening a half dozen locations this year and another five or more next year. "This is our most active period in a long time," confirms Michael Bowers, president and chief operating officer of Harkins, which is based in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale and family-owned since 1933.
Theaters cost an average of some $1 million per screen, including the land, to build. Bowers is negotiating his way to expansion by taking advantage of shopping center developers' willingness to finance construction through build-to-suit deals. A 14-screen complex going up in the new Park West lifestyle center in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, developed by General Growth Properties Inc. of Chicago, is being built in that manner.
"Shopping center developers viewed all theaters as bad investments for a long while. Now they recognize that theaters can be an important part of a center's success," Bowers says.
With older theaters being taken out of service in many places, the statistics on industry growth only tell part of this renaissance story. In 2006, according to the National Association of Theatre Owners in Washington, D.C., the number of movie screens in service in the U.S. rose 2% to 38,439.
That comes on top of a 3% gain the year before. From 2000 to 2004, the number of theater screens around the nation actually declined. So did the number of movie facilities — from a peak of 7,744 in 1995 to just 5,939 last year.
John Fithian, president of the Theatre Owners group, thinks the tide has firmly turned. "The industry went through a period of retrenchment around the time of 9/11," he says. "But now we're building again. We expect to see strong positive growth in screen-count again in 2007 and beyond."
Tough movie critic
Willis Johnson, who started with a single-screen theater in suburban Chicago in 1978 and built his company, Tivoli Enterprises Inc., into a chain of a dozen facilities with 86 screens, has seen this expansion wave before and is worried.
In the late 1990s, he recalls, big national companies raced to put up the latest megaplexes. They built too many too fast, and were consumed by debt and lower-than-expected attendance that led to the demise and sale of such names as Lowe's and General Cinema. Now he sees a similar arms race to build and the prospect of another round of over-saturation.
"If you can find a good location that's underserved, then by all means go ahead and put up a theater. But there aren't many sites like that left now," Johnson says.
"There's a lot of money available to finance growth for these companies, but maybe there's too much money pushing for more growth than the market can stand."
Thus, the boom-and-bust cycle of movie theater development is bound to play out yet again. As usual, the well-capitalized operators with the best assets in prime locations will be most likely to weather the storm.
Wall Street plays major role
Some of the confidence exuded by movie theater chains today stems from rising revenues. U.S. box office receipts were up nearly 6% last year to $9.48 billion. Attendance rose 4% to 1.45 billion admissions. Those aren't all-time records, but they demonstrate that the advent of Netflix mail-order DVD rentals, downloadable movies off the Web and wide-screen home entertainment systems aren't going to put the neighborhood megaplex out of business anytime soon.
It's not just developers who have restored faith in movie chains. Wall Street is hungry to invest in the action, too. As of late April, both the industry's No. 2 chain, AMC Entertainment Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., and the No. 3, Cinemark Holdings Inc. of Plano, Texas, had filed prospectuses with the Securities & Exchange Commission to go public.
Cinemark, currently the owner of 203 movie houses with 2,477 screens, hoped to raise $400 million in its stock sale, while the larger AMC, owner of 411 theaters and 5,635 screens, set a goal of $750 million in its sale of shares.
The stock offerings come despite dour earnings. AMC has had nine straight years of losses, while Cinemark only returned to profitability last year after losing money in both 2004 and 2005. Cinemark had been owned since 2004 by the Chicago private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners.
What will these companies — both of which trail publicly traded Regal Entertainment Group of Knoxville, Tenn., which has 539 theaters and 6,403 screens and a leading 17% share of the U.S. movie house market — do with the cash they raise? Some of it will be returned to investors but a sizable chunk is going to be poured into new development, too.
Cinemark, for instance, reveals in its offering documents that it is planning to erect 28 theaters with 418 screens in the U.S., ranging from markets such as Austin, Texas, and Reno, Nev., to Napa, Calif., and Valparaiso, Ind. It will put up another eight screens offshore in countries like Brazil and Taiwan.
Healthy ticket sales
Ongoing consolidation also is continuing as the biggest chains gobble up smaller rivals. In October, Cinemark paid over $1 billion for Century Theaters Inc. of San Rafael, Calif. Eric Handler, an analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York, says that Regal has earmarked an additional $300 million for future acquisitions.
Handler projects a 6% rise in U.S. box-office receipts overall this year as surefire hits such as "Spider-Man 3" and "Shrek the Third" draw big crowds. "A bullish outlook for the upcoming summer film slate continues to reinforce our belief in the exhibition industry's cyclical upswing," Handler says.
The second and third tiers of movie-house chains are likely to expand just as fast as the giants. Kerasotes ShowPlace Theatres LLC in Chicago, for example, the nation's sixth largest operator with 685 screens in 81 theaters, opened two suburban Chicago facilities in November, one with a dozen screens and the other with 14. It has started construction on another theater that will include an I-MAX auditorium in the suburb of Bridgeview.
There will be two more theater starts by Kerasotes this year. In addition, the company inked a deal to acquire Colorado Cinema Group LLC in Denver, the city's largest movie operator with 125 screens and 11 theaters, for an undisclosed price.
"A lot of theaters still haven't modernized," says Anthony Kerasotes, the president and CEO of Kerasotes. "We see holes in the marketplace everywhere we look."
Lenders join supporting cast
Financing all these deals doesn't seem to be a problem. Kerasotes taps credit lines at both Providence Equity Partners Inc. in Providence, R.I., and Deutsche Bank AG's New York office.
Executives at Muvico Entertainment LLC in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., agree. The company is a breed apart, erecting splashy movie palaces with ornate chandeliers, adults-only auditoriums, bars and restaurants and even plush sofas for seating.
Muvico, with 247 screens in 13 locations, is taking aim at Kerasotes's home market of Chicago, with construction underway on an 18-screen complex in suburban Rosemont. It's part of a sprawling entertainment hub that will include a hotel and water park. The construction cost in Rosemont will approach $40 million, says Michael Wilson, Muvico's vice president of real estate. He's seeking more sites in Chicago for similar facilities.
Wilson says theaters like his are being viewed as an entertainment anchor in the upscale lifestyle shopping centers that are being built in so many places. But he also recognizes that AMC and Cinemark have set their sights on some of the same venues, and he expects competition from them to heat up soon. "Shareholders are going to demand steady growth from these chains once they're public," he says. "There will be pressures on management to go out aggressively and secure new construction sites."
Theater chains go full circle
For their part, many developers are pitting the movie chains against each other as they erect new shopping centers. Last fall, Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises erected its new Shops at Northfield, a lifestyle center on the site of the old Stapleton Airport north of Denver, with an 18-screen Harkins Theatre as anchor.
Forest City has also begun construction on shopping centers in Richmond, Va., and Tampa, Fla., with pads reserved for theater operators, but nobody has signed on just yet.
"We've talked to several operators and find there is a lot of competition right now for good shopping center sites. We expect to have deals by the fall," says James Richardson, vice president of commercial development at Forest City.
Movie houses increasingly are built adjacent to clusters of restaurants. "They feed off each other," Richardson notes. And yet theater tenants aren't without their drawbacks: they require gobs of parking, which raises the hackles of adjacent restaurant operators. "You've got to position a theater carefully in your center to avoid conflicts," Richardson admits.
As for the operators, they're also facing off against newly hatched chains in some places. One of the most prominent is Sundance Cinemas LLC, based in Los Angeles and associated with the actor Robert Redford (an investor), which has one theater open there and another in Madison, Wis., with yet a third planned on the site of a shuttered old candy factory on Chicago's west side. In Illinois it will butt heads against another new chain, Chicago-based Eagle Theaters LLC, which has acquired an old theater in suburban Park Forest and is constructing a new facility in the small downstate town of Clinton.
Renovation rollout
Not every chain is plunging headlong into the search for new construction sites. Marcus Theatres Corp. of Milwaukee, owner of 52 theaters with 629 screens, is opening up just one new facility this year in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield.
The company in March paid $76 million in cash for 11 theaters with 122 screens, most of them in Iowa and Minnesota, owned by Cinema Entertainment Corp. of St. Cloud, Minn. The price computes to about $620,000 per screen, far lower than the average of $1 million per screen for new construction.
But Marcus expects to invest heavily in the next couple of years in modernizing Cinema Entertainment's assets as well as its own theaters.
"We're putting in new lobbies and concession stands and adding upscale finishes like tile and hardwoods in many of our locations," says Carlo W. Petrick, a Marcus spokesman. "We think it's important to ensure that our existing locations are competitive."
Nevertheless, Robert Damron, an analyst with 21st Century Equity Research in Milwaukee who follows the fortunes of Marcus, thinks the company can modernize existing units while boosting its new construction program at the same time.
"Marcus and the rest of the movie industry went through a soft patch a few years ago, but now it appears that trends are turning positive again," Damron says. "Marcus has become re-energized about its prospects."
Lee Murphy is a Chicago-based writer.


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- 1970 - An Environmental Teach-In attempts to celebrate Earth Day. The event was a miserable failure because it was discovered that Earth was actually created on September 26.
- 1981 - A second failed assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan takes place, the shooter's motive being Reagan's films which the shooter declared, "sucked".
- 1999 - Meatloaf declares that he would do anything for love, but under no circumstance would he do that. It turns out that 'that' refers to painting himself black and impersonating Al Jolson
- 2002 - WWE star 'The Rock' invents the ability to refer to himself in the fifth person, negating the need for the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th references.
- 2003 - A pretzel tries to assassinate president George W. Bush. The pretzel is arrested and later executed by garbage disposal.
- 2010 - Bill Gates logs on to Uncyclopedia and reads the Anniversaries page for April 22
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Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 7:14 pm
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Anyone here windsurf or kite in PuertoRico? Or have information of spots and consistency and rentals.
Seems Nov was a storied all time month for wind, and now blowing a little.
Target date sometime in March/April.
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All I got is information on Punta Las Marias in San Juan, one of many launches:
Talked to a guy who used to live and sail there on a regular basis. Supposed to be a great spot, some slalom, some wave. He said there is a community storage shed where a local shop (i think) will store your gear nearby.
Its the more popular spot but there are others. Puerto Rico is happnin' man.
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I would love to hear info about renting gear around Playa Jobos by Isabela. We were there a few yrs back before I started windsurfing (was surfing the killer breaks in NW PR) and Jobos looked to have excellent wave sailing potential--cross shore winds and manageable waves.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:24 pm
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Thanks guys.
I'm LeeD, who's pioneered many windsurfing and surfing sites on the WestCoast since the late '60's.
My g/f has a house in Fahardo, or something like that, and her parents live in SanJuan still. She watches the kiteboarders at SanJuan, but didn't see any windsurfers her last trip in Oct '10.
I'm set to go sometime in March, will try to bring my own gear, also kitesurf reasonably well (with my own gear), and will probably be the only windsurfer or kiteboarder at any beach I go to.
One way trip for my gear, I also left stuff in SPID and Oahu for years. But now an old fart, more conservative, and maybe the adventure begins anew....
I wnd shows 14-25 mph winds almst 20 days a month, with E winds killing the wind like last week. Can it be as consistent as the more popular Carribean spots?
I never liked Maui, prefer Oahu and Kaui for windsurfing.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:53 pm
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Hey LeeD, You will never get old if u surf/wind or kite surf / paddle surf, right?! The endless summer rules....if u ever get Playa Jobos wired with gear rental and all, please post your adventure. That place is awesome. We regular surfed there and had post session brews at the bar that's right on the beach, directly facing the famous right hand point break and the blow hole where the legendary cow fell in the ocean. I saw one guy wave sailing free and clear of the surf zone i.e. no crowding. I wasn't windsurfing yet so I'm guessing based on the break, but he should have had some protection due to the point and the prevailing winds there are cross shore. I know it can get real big there but it wasn't while we visited in February. About 4-5 ft, consistent, and steady trade winds.
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Cool, thanks.
I watched lots of Hemmings winning the WorldCup there, my 3rd year of surfing then. Never even considered going there until last month. I usually excell in slightly less tubular stuff, unless it's left me goof. I've got my requisite 50 days in at Pipe up to second reef, but don't do well at Haliewa, OK at Sunset, get snaked at Chun's and Lani's.
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Hey, i'm a local sailor in Puerto Rico. All you need to know should be here:
finally there's some more windsurfers coming, there's too many kites!
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Thanks, Brega....
G/F goes next week for 11 days of exploration.
I won't go until late March. I got all the gear to leave there, the kite stuff, and usually the exploration concepts. I've sailed over 100 days at OceanBeach SanFrancisco, so am looking forwards to Fajardo also.
Thanks again!
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I am also a windsurfer in Fajardo. Access is always the challenge. I use a small boat to get to the reef and islands from the harbor. Caye Algado is nice and flat for windsurfing or kiting but you cannot see it well so you need to know how to find it by boat. Icacos (N,S)and Palominitos (E)are best for kites but can get busy and access is by boat. 7 Seas is the (N,NE) spot, Launch near the entrance to El Faro and Croabas(NE,E,S) from the boat ramp or harbor. In each area you need to know the launches though. The town of Loiza is a wave break just like Puntas but the rivermouth is nearby and the silt makes it difficult to see the coral heads. Launch is in back of the condos in town, the set up is like uppers in Maui(E). Westin Rio Mar has a small launch that leads to a 4 mi reach out to the reef, flat water in between for blasting. Luquillo Beach (not town) Has shore break but also works in (N, NE) flat swell riding mostly. Dakity reef off Culebra is the best kiting around if you can get there, ferry is only 2 dollars however it seems like every one goes by boat and anchors near the reef.
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:50 pm
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Wow, good info, thanks.
G/F is there now, hasn't seen the beach yet, still taking care of niece and nephews. She's a just barely planing windsurfer.
I've been tracking winds in SanJuan, but doesn't seem strong enough although NE.
Dumped her off at United, boy, what a mess. And they wanted to charge $400 for a 91 lbs toy kitchen! Maybe my windsurf gear will never make it there.
I'll remember your post, and will try to contact you sometime late March, when I get to go.
Here in Berkeley, I have 20+ boards, 40+ sails, 15+ masts, and tons of gear, but I guess it can't make it's way to PR without spending lots of money.
Gear I have, but I'm beyond hardship in income.
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Today, the HTC G2 has been finally been announced by T-Mobile. The G2 will be the first phone from T-Mobile to feature HSPA+, which is more commonly known as 4G. The T-Mobile G2 will sport a 3.7-inch screen with a resolution of 800×400 along with a slide-out four row QWERTY keyboard. The slide-out QWERTY keyboard will also have shortcut keys for quick access to various Google services. The phone packs in 512MB of RAM along with 4GB of internal memory. An 8GB microSD card will also be present in the retail box of the device.
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I've deactivated the question! It was added to avoid spam bots. (the don't like questions) But i guess its equal wich answer you give but the bots get afraid when they see a non standard qoestion.
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When im fit, our forum will get a new area for the mod. It's going to be a fun mod (total conversion). Nothing like "shooting planes out of guns" etc.
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I spent 2007 behind the bunny until December. In 2008, I never passed it. This year, I have fought to stay ahead since day 1. Glad to see you on the correct side of the bunny
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
In it for the long run..
"It's not who wins the workout..."
A Saucy Wench
Congrats Jeff! See what happens when I start taunting you?
Nope, nope I was wrong. 772 last year on this date, 790 this year. Woohoo!
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
But if I remember correctly you did catch him by the end of the year last year right?
PS - Thanks for the clarification on the "bastard" thing
Yay me! Today I officially passed that stupid 2000 mile per year bunny. I know this isnt the right User Group but I dont usually post in the Swamp. Now I just need to try to stay ahead of him (and Ennay) for the rest of the year. I think the bunny will be easier to stay ahead of.
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Post-Bipolar PRs: 38:35 5k/ 1:09:34 8k/ 1:09:39 5mi/ 1:33:03 10k/ 3:20:40 Half
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Wow, you guys are awesome! I can't believe I'm behind the 1000-mile bunny. I'm catching up to him, although it will take a couple of months to pass him. I AM on Day 23 of the streak, though, which is a big accomplishment for me. Still feels great.
Wow, you guys are awesome! I can't believe I'm behind the 1000-mile bunny. I'm catching up to him, although it will take a couple of months to pass him. I AM on Day 23 of the streak, though, which is a big accomplishment for me. Still feels great.
Teresa, one of the great things about running every day is that those days that you used to NOT run, you would get behind that much more. Now you at least throw in a mile or two and it helps to slow down the bleeding so he might only gain a mile on you instead of three.
Nice job on the streak - keep it going.
MTA - I just looked at your log and by my count you only have 7 days until there are NO GAPS on your graph. Now there's something to shoot for.
Congrats - that is great.
I'm in no-mans land with the bunny. Too far in front of the 1,500 one, and too far behind 2,000
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Last Race: Portland Maine Half Marathon October 5 2014
Ha, Jeff, I was just noticing the same thing! That will be cool.
Mainrun, you'll have to start a 1750-mile group, I guess.
I fly.
Bring it on.
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Roads were made for journeys...
Rabbit stew, anyone? Congrats, Jeff.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) Steelers coach Mike Tomlin challenged Ben Roethlisberger to prove his sprained right shoulder is ready to go before handing the keys to the offense back to his franchise quarterback.
A few dozen passes Wednesday appears to have provided a pretty compelling argument.
Admittedly a little rusty while going through his first serious workout since injuring his shoulder and dislocating a rib during a 16-13 overtime win over Kansas City on Nov. 12, Roethlisberger reported no major issues after letting it loose following a three-week layoff and seems on track to start on Sunday against San Diego.
``I'm getting there,'' Roethlisberger said. ``I've got to talk to (tight end) Heath (Miller). He's my barometer. He lets me know how close I am to 100 percent on velocity and stuff like that.''
Tomlin declined to name Roethlisberger the starter against the reeling Chargers (4-8) but sounded very much like a coach running out of reasons to keep his team's most valuable player on the sideline.
``I thought it was a positive day for Ben,'' Tomlin said. ``He threw the ball around both vertically and horizontally. I thought the ball had good velocity, particularly in a few instances. So, it was positive.''
The Steelers (7-5) are 1-2 since Roethlisberger was slammed to the turf by Kansas City linebacker Tamba Hali, though the one victory came in a 23-20 upset of rival Baltimore last weekend that revived Pittsburgh's season.
Veteran backup Charlie Batch played well against the Ravens, passing for 276 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Still, Tomlin stressed his decision on whether Roethlisberger will play depends entirely on Roethlisberger's health and not Batch's growing confidence.
``We'll see what (Thursday) holds for us,'' Tomlin said. ``We'll make sure that there (are) no steps backward (Thursday) morning.''
There didn't seem to be any during a brisk afternoon session in which Roethlisberger worked with reserve wide receivers Plaxico Burress and Jerricho Cotchery while starters Antonio Brown, Emmanuel Sanders and Mike Wallace sat out to rest various aches and pains.
Roethlisberger estimated he threw ``roughly'' 3-4 passes in each practice period while leading the first team. Though the two-time Super Bowl winner experienced ``a little bit'' of pain and tightness in the shoulder, there were no red flags even if Sanders thought his quarterback is still working back into shape.
``He's still getting back into his rhythm,'' Sanders said. ``This is his first time really throwing and the wind is out there so he's going to be off a little bit (but) ... we're very optimistic about the direction he's going to go.''
It's a direction that will send Batch, who turned 38 on Wednesday, back to the bench. It's a place Batch goes with no regrets after a redemptive performance in Baltimore that atoned for a three-interception debacle two weeks ago in a loss to Cleveland.
``You always want to play but my role is the backup,'' Batch said. ``So, if he's ready to play you can't be sad about that. Ben is the guy. So, whenever Ben is ready to go he's going to be out there and he's going to do everything in his power to be out there.''
NOTES: Brown (ankle), Sanders (shoulder) and Wallace (knee) were held out of practice as a preventative measure but all are expected to play against the Chargers ... S Troy Polamalu also did not practice, but it was not injury related ... Backup QB Byron Leftwich (fractured ribs) also returned to practice but will likely be inactive on Sunday.
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July 2010
New David Farland Writing Seminar: Write That Novel
Bestselling novelist David Farland, whom some of you may know as Dave Wolverton, has announced he will be giving a two-day writing seminar in the Boston area, November 13-14. "Write That Novel" is one of his popular most popular workshops.
New Dungeons & Dragons story
My new "Dungeons and Dragons" novelette, Oasis of Blood, has just been published as featured fiction on the official D&D website. It's set in the Dark Sun universe.
I wrote this story last fall on the cruise ship, while Rebecca and I were taking a Mediterrranean cruise. I enjoyed the work very much. The story is available for free download.
German WINDS OF DUNE
Our German publisher Heyne has just released their translation of The Winds of Dune. Heyne has always produced very nice-looking editions.
HELLHOLE cover paintings
Stephen Youll, the fantastic artist who has done most of our Dune covers (as well as my three Star Wars anthologies and my solo novel Blindfold) has delivered his cover paintings for HELLHOLE, the first book in my new epic SF trilogy with Brian Herbert. Steve painted two variations on a spectacular scene that really captures the planet Hellhole…a terrible place that only the most desperate colonists will accept, but also with a majestic secret. An all-new science fiction saga for those who enjoyed my Dune novels with Brian Herbert or my Saga of Seven Suns series.
Climbing Mount Ouray
Last Tuesday I climbed spectacular Mount Ouray, a very distinctive peak prominent on the drive to Salida, Colorado. Ouray is 13,971 ft, a hair shy of a Fourteener—which means that very few people climb it, regardless of how spectacular it is.
New Great Schools Series Announced!
A new series was announced this week by authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Heading back toward the formation of the Dune universe, Brian and Kevin will start working on their latest creation, THE SISTERHOOD OF DUNE, which will focus on the formation of the Bene Gesserit school.
More titles coming in this series will be announced in the near future....
Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction
Philip Athans, the managing editor for novels at Wizards of the Coast, has just put together an extensive and extremely useful book for aspiring authors in SF/F, The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction. He did extensive interviews with me, R.A. Salvatore, Mike Resnick, Terry Brooks, and other bestselling, award-winning authors to develop an extensive guidebook on all aspects of developing, writing, and publishing in the genre.
Brainstorming THE SISTERHOOD OF DUNE
Now that HELLHOLE is delivered and in production, Brian Herbert and I spent most of last week holed up together in intensive brainstorming for our next DUNE novel.
Colorado Book Award Finalist
Just received my Finalist certificate from the Colorado Book Awards for The Edge of the World.


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Huge thanks to Simon Dick for hosting this QUEST event and bringing QUEST to Glasgow.
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QUEST Grand Prix Schedule
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15:30 All being well, the scores should appear.
There might be a team quiz - tbc.
Lunch is not provided, but the venue does serve food, so please support them.
Entry fee for the QUEST Grand Prix Quiz and the Hot 100 is £12.50 (half price for current students with proof of their status). It is very helpful if you can pay via PayPal, but cash is also fine on the day. PayPal payments should be made to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Do you want to learn how to pick up girls using fractionation? Did you know that this method is completely guaranteed and will give you the power to pick up girls wherever you want to – with practically no chances of getting turned down? Well, it's true.
Naturally, the only real way to successfully pick up girls would be to create attraction and try to get them to talk to you first. If you are at a bar or a nightclub, this would be especially important since you will have to create a sufficient amount of attraction in a girl first in order for her to give you the feeling that she wants you to approach her.
Once some sort of interest has been created, the next step on learning how to pick up girls using fractionation would entail further amplifying her interest. Once you have done this successfully, she should then feel the need to run after you and eventually comply to all of your requests – be it a kiss or her phone number – believe it.
How to Pick Up Girls Using Fractionation
- Step Number One: Find out what her type is.
One reason why so many guys fail while trying to learn how to pick up girls using fractionation is because they don't try to figure out what each girl's type first. Because of this, they end up approaching girls all in the same way. What you need to know is that different girls tend to react differently to different approaches. This means that some girls may be good natured when you approach them, while others will take you dead seriously right from the start. Because of this, you need to start approaching girls based on their current mood and their personalities.
- Step Number Two: Get her interested.
The next step in learning how to pick up girls using fractionation would simply be to get her to want to get to know you more. The secret here would be to seem mysterious.
Remember: girls like guys who aren't easily available and aren't easy to figure out. So, if you make her work for your attention instead of appearing desperate and needy, you are sure to make an impression on her in no time.
- Step Number Three: Generate some attraction.
This would be the ultimate step to learning how to pick up girls using fractionation. Fractionation basically refers to a seduction technique wherein guys use special tricks to send girls through roller coasters of emotions with their words.
Although still unknown to most of the people out there, fractionation already has the reputation of being extremely effective at getting girls to become sexually attracted to the guys using it. In fact, guys who use this technique are known to have the power to pick up women anywhere with ease. This is why this technique is sometimes also called the 'dark art' hypnosis technique – because it is both controversial yet incredibly effective in the world of seduction at the same time.
How to Use Female Psychology Tricks to Pick Up Girls
Practically every guy in today's day and age wants to learn how to use female psychology tricks to pick up girls. In a nutshell, they want to learn how to make a good impression on girls, so that they think about them constantly. However, many guys have trouble doing this and end up blaming their failure on their looks, their lack of money or even on the girls themselves. The truth is, though, that with the right female psychology tricks to pick up girls, you can actually get girls to run after you in no time.
- Psychology Trick Number One: Pay more attention to her friends.
Once you have started talking to the girl that you like and she seems interested in what you have to say, start paying more attention to her friends. This will make her jealous and make her wonder why you got bored talking to her all of a sudden. Soon after that, she will crave your attention and try to win you back from her girlfriends.
- Psychology Trick Number Two: Point out something curious about her.
Ideally, you should focus on something interesting or weird about her, but not actually mention what it is. These female psychology tricks to pick up girls work all the time and make girls crazy because they love challenges by nature. So, by talking about something anonymous about her, her curiosity levels will raise through the roof and make her feel like you are hiding some huge secret. Being a girl, she will then be tempted to get to know you better in order to probe your brain a little further.
- Psychology Trick Number Three: Do not put yourself down.
If you focus too much on learning female psychology tricks to pick up girls, you will probably never win over your dream girl. So, instead, try to forget about how much you like her and just enjoy her company for now. If possible, talk to other girls more; this will actually make you look more attractive in her eyes – believe it.
- Psychology Trick Number Four: Kill her ego.
Girls are used to getting all of the attention from guys, so you have to get rid of their egotistical streak by spending more time with her friends and ignoring her completely whenever you are in a huge group together. This will make her jealous and make her vie for your attention all the more. Remember: rarity is valuable to girls. So, if you make yourself unavailable to her, you will, in turn, automatically become more valuable in her eyes.
- Psychology Trick Number Five: Use subtle techniques.
By using subtle female psychology tricks to pick up girls, such as fractionation, you can actually get the power to make any girl of your choice fall helplessly in love with you – and in less than 15 minutes, to boot. This trick uses conversation techniques to engage a girl's emotions, make her dependent on you and make her do anything that you want her to. Try it!


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Anne Coulter vs. Bozo the Clown
Maybe not. It would be hard to tell them apart. Plus, there would be three of them in the ring: Bozo the Clown, on the left, Ann Coulter, on the right, and Ann Coulter's massively oversized, larger-than-life, Bozo-the-Clown-looking character. Does anyone take her seriously anymore? Can it be possible that anyone in America can still spout the kind of inane anti-semitic babble that she does, and actually mean it, and still be sane? Given the kinds of things she says (generally timed to coincide with book releases), I expect her to be a raving, lower-lip biting, snot-dripping, toenail-chewing lunatic of the kind only found in publicly-funded mental institutions or on San Francisco street corners. And yet there she sits, on national television, smartly dressed and ready to go, like some high-class Republican pimple. She can't possibly be for real.
What's amazing: some people I know, let's call them Republicans, take her seriously. And agree with her. This is why, as a general rule, I don't trust Republicans. Come to think of it, as a general rule, I don't trust Democrats either; after all, those on the left take Ann Coulter at least seriously enough to take her personally. She's not a personal insult folks; she's not even a person.
Ann Coulter is Bozo the Clown with better hair, make-up, and costuming.
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Yes. The problem is, that like 5 year olds believe Bozo, there are real people out there who believe Anne Coulter. What I take real offense at is that she presumes to speak for all Christians! If she were the least bit educated about her own professed religion, she would know that:
1. Whatever the new testament "says" (and which of the hundreds of translations is she using?) is a translation of a translation of a document that was passed along by word of mouth for at least two generations before it was written down, and
2. Jesus, the disciples, and most of the first Christians considered themselves JEWS who were NOT "perfected", but who were RETURNING to roots of judaism and the true meaning of the old testament, in reaction to the knowtowing to Roman rule that most of the temple leadership displayed in that day.
Whew. Sorry.
Anne Coulter does not speak for any of us, much less all of us.
Mrs. B
I could barely read the transcript of her interview on this - Oh my god, why is she allowed to be on TV or for that matter anywhere except in her own room where her babbling won't hur t anyone??
The Maharaja
I have to believe that there are sane people with anti-semitic thoughts who for some reason share those thoughts with the world. I have to believe this because my father, knowing he has two Jewish chirrens (I really did know how to spell that so that it comes out the way I said it in my head), likes Hitler and believes he was a great leader. Personally, I think the Catholic bastard in crazy, but then again so was Hitler.


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Manganese at Memorial Academy
This page last reviewed October 21, 2010
Manganese is an odorless, silvery, white, lustrous, hard, brittle metal and exists in many compounds. Manganese
dust or powder is flammable, and it burns with an intense white light. In April 1993, under Assembly Bill 2728,
Manganese compounds were identified as toxic air contaminants. However, Manganese has not been identified as a
cancer-causing compound. Human exposure to manganese is through inhalation and ingestion. Short-term exposure to
manganese may cause irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, and respiratory tract. Long-term exposure to manganese
may affect the central nervous system, resulting in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease.
Manganese and its compounds are used for railway points and crossings, wagon buffers, ceramics, matches, glass, dyes, welding rods, steel alloys, cast iron, dry cell batteries, inks, paints, rubber, wood preservatives, pesticides, and fungicides. The primary stationary sources of manganese compounds in California are ship-building and repair facilities, petroleum refining, and electrical services. The Air Resources Board (ARB)has also identified manganese in motor vehicle exhaust. Manganese naturally constitutes 0.085 % of the earth's crust and exists in minute amounts in plants, animals, and water.
Ambient Monitoring Results
Ambient levels of manganese are routinely monitored at approximately twenty sites in the California air toxics
monitoring network. The statewide average concentration of manganese during 1998-2000 was 24 ng/m3 (10-9 grams
per cubic meter), with values ranging from 0.7 ng/m3 to 200 ng/m3. Relative to the statewide average, the San Diego
region was 35% lower for the same time period.
The ambient monitoring results at Memorial Academy are provided here:
- A graph comparing the monthly summaries of manganese at Memorial Academy with historical statewide and regional levels
- A table of summary statistics
- Raw data in Excel format
Cancer Risk
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This is an amazing career, especially when you consider the man can't really act and is only kind of funny. Ask yourself when was the last time you really liked a movie Sandler was in? Has it been a while? It doesn't matter what your answer is: there is no stopping the man.
"Just Go With It" is Sandler's newest film and it is a true Sandler flick - not that bad, but it's not very good. The movie is the story of Danny, played by Sandler, who after having his heart broken turns to picking up women in bars for one night stands. His trick is pretending to be married, that way there are no strings attached.
One night he takes off his ring and meets an amazing woman, Palmer played by Brooklyn Decker. Decker can't act (but that's not really her fault since she is a swimsuit model) so they don't give her many lines in the movie, just a lot of slow motion bathing suit scenes. They spend a beautiful night together on the beach in the morning she finds his ring and freaks out.
To calm her down Sandler says he's getting a divorce, because that's clearly the best lie someone could come up with in that situation. Decker wants to meet Sandler's wife so he has his friend, Katherine played by Jennifer Aniston, pretend to be his wife.
As the lie spins more and more out of control, Sandler introduces a fake lover for Aniston, then fake children, and you know the rest.
"Just Go With It" has its funny moments, but maybe it's passed the point in Sandler's career where he can devise whole ridiculous plots on his ability to get with hot women. I find myself not wanting to go with it anymore.
Rating: (2.5/5)