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5 copper stocks to play the housing recovery
Investors should have many opportunities to take advantage of the promised rebound, particularly with this metal.
Measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, home prices jumped 6.8% year-over-year last December to close out 2012 with a strong gain. Nationally, the index is now back to the levels of summer 2003. Perhaps more importantly, new home construction continues to improve as well.
The data is certainly promising as the housing market has finally picked up steam over the last year; however, it still has a long way to go before it reaches its peaks racked up just before the crash. This means investors may have plenty of opportunities to play its rebound.
The red metal play
One of the best opportunities could be in base metal copper. The red metal is found in variety of housing-related industrial applications including use in plumbing, electrical wiring and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. According to the Copper Development Association, there are approximately 195 pounds of copper electrical wire in the average new home constructed.
Overall, home and office building construction uses approximately 40% of all the copper in the U.S., with residential construction comprising two-thirds of the demand. These amounts do not even factor in the amount of copper wiring that goes into various home appliances and other household products.
A rebound in housing could be a tremendous catalyst for the price of copper and various producers of the metal. Below, we outline several options to help you make a play on this industrial metal.
Southern Copper
Offering one of the highest dividends in the mining industry -- at 2.6% -- Southern Copper (SCCO) could be a great starting point for investors. Operating across Peru, Mexico, and Chile, the firm is an integrated producer of metal -- engaging in mining, smelting and refining copper ore. This provides it economies of scale and one of the lowest costs of production in the business. Additionally, Southern Cooper has seen growing production as well as increased ore grades from its mine.
Encore Wire
Considering that the average US home has about 200 pounds of copper wire running through its walls, Encore Wire (WIRE) could be one of the best ways to play the commodity. The company manufactures electrical building wires and cables for use in interior electrical wiring applications in commercial and industrial buildings, homes, apartments and manufactured housings. That makes WIRE the go-to play in the sector.
Taseko Mines
As the owner and operator of the second largest open pit copper-molybdenum mine in Canada, Taseko Mines (TGB) could be a buy-out target as the larger resource players need to increase their mine supplies. Junior natural resource companies serves as one of main providers of new mineral deposits. These companies find new deposits and bring them into production. Featuring a small market-cap and big reserves, Taseko could be exactly what a larger producer is looking for when it comes to increases its own reserves in the face of rising copper demand.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold
Even though it's branching out into other areas of commodity space – like energy production – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) is still one of the largest producers of the metal on the planet; in fact, it's the largest publically traded one. The company's Grasberg mining complex in Indonesia is the world's largest copper and gold mine in terms of recoverable reserves. FCX produced 1.44 million metric tons of refined copper in 2010, equal to 9% of the world total. That makes it a prime play on housing continued recovery.
Global X Copper Miners ETF
For those investors who can't decide on just one copper firm, the Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX) could be for you. The ETF tracks 31 different global copper miners and uses an indexing methodology that only includes "pure" copper miners. Other ETFs tracking the sector weight their indexes by revenue associated with copper and may not offer completely pure exposure. That makes COPX one of the best broad plays around. Already, the ETF has seen gains as housing has once again started to move.
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OK. I'm no expert, but here's an answer:
That error will only occur if you start apache while logged in to the terminal. Sometimes when starting a daemon from the terminal, OS X will "forget" who started it and/or where. This will happen with daemons other than Apache, too. I've had the same problem with MySQL.
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Had the same problem as above. "Internal server error" when loading a page with an include to "test-cgi."
Oddly, I changed the include to trigger "printenv" and it worked fine. It was really puzzling.
You already know the end of the story. I read the above comments and restarted my server. Works like a charm now. Thanks guys.
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And I will try to get out of the habbig of using html here. Sorry. It's spending too much time on Slashdot. :)

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Yogurt as a product category has been one of the consumer staple industry's fastest-growing segment in recent years. Popular for decades in Europe (where the annual yogurt consumption in some countries is about 70 pounds per person!), yogurt has newfound growth away from Europe as Americans, Canadians and those in the emerging markets have embraced this traditionally European food staple. The US yogurt market in particular has very favorable customer demographics, being primarily driven by 18-34-year-olds.
A fast growing product category being bought by young Americans with many decades of repeat purchases ahead of them, you say? What is not to like about yogurt in the United States and elsewhere in the world? That is exactly what food companies are thinking. Many of them have recently acquired their way into this huge growth opportunity.
The All-Natural Upstart
Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) has been a particular favorite for investors, with shares up nearly 200% since 2009. This organic and natural food company is best known for its organic potato chips, all-natural teas and organic personal care products. The company has used its checkbook to great effect in the past, acquiring many of the brands now under its corporate umbrella.
In 2010, Hain pulled out its checkbook once again to buy its way into the yogurt segment with the acquisition of 3 Greek Gods (renamed to The Greek Gods). Since this acquisition, Hain has transformed a yogurt business that did $12 million annually into a division that now contributes about $100 million to Hain's balance sheet. Not too shabby.
The Blue Chip Champion
Although General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has successfully been in the yogurt game for nearly 35 years, it was only a year and a half ago that the company really made its big move into this high-growth area. Since the 1970s, General Mills has licensed the Yoplait brand, selling the product in the United States. Business was going very well for both Yoplait and General Mills until Sodiaal (the French owner of Yoplait) threatened to end the partnership.
General Mills responded the way any large multinational company settles disputes: It threw money at it! So in March of 2011, General Mills announced that it would buy a 51% controlling interest in Yoplait. With the dispute ended, General Mills instantly acquired its way into the enviable No. 1 market share position in the United States, and No. 2 elsewhere in the world. Great deal on their part.
The Junk Food Junkie
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) became the most recent big-name company to enter the yogurt space a few months ago. Seeing the healthy writing on the wall, PepsiCo had been exploring its options to diversify some of its business away from its unhealthy core profit-generators of sugar water and salted potato pressings. Instead, the company had been looking toward healthier foods to better complement its Quaker line of products.
In July 2012, PepsiCo entered into a joint venture with the German dairy company, Theo Muller Group. The joint venture, called Muller Quaker Dairy, will involve Pepsi marketing, distributing, and eventually domestically producing Muller's various brands of yogurt. Although this joint venture currently comprises a relatively tiny part of PepsiCo (with an initial investment of just $206 million from both companies), look for PepsiCo to use its immense size and distribution power to turn this small investment into something much larger.
The Wise Old Timer
Groupe Danone (NASDAQOTH: DANOY) is a company uniquely positioned to capitalize on the ultra-fast-growing yogurt market. Based in France, Danone (known as Dannon in the US) is the closest thing to a pure-play yogurt company you can find in the public markets. While the other companies mentioned above acquired their way into the yogurt business over the past three years, Danone has made yogurt its primary business since 1919.
Although General Mills' 51% of Yoplait possesses the No. 1 market position in the United States, Danone holds the No. 1 position throughout the world overall, with operations in about 40 countries (as well as the No. 2 position in the United States). Danone also has made a huge push into the emerging markets as well, which now make up 52% of sales. Only a handful of the multinational consumer staple companies can claim an emerging market sales percentage over 50%.
A Healthy Investment Opportunity
Health-conscious investments have been one of the best investing opportunities in recent years. With awareness about the dangers of unhealthy eating coming from doctors, advocacy groups, local governments, and even the White House, healthier eating is a thread that will remain with us for the extreme long term. Increasingly health-conscious consumers are looking for food that is not only nutritious, low-fat and low-calorie, but also actually tastes good. Yogurt certainly fulfills all four of those requirements. These four companies have realized this fact more quickly than most.
The US yogurt market grew from about $2.5 billion in 2008 to $5.7 billion in 2011. And that growth will continue, with the US yogurt market expected to expand to $9 billion by 2016. As customers continue to make smarter eating decisions for themselves and their families, these companies that sell healthier products, such as yogurt, will be rewarded with those customers' long-term patronage and brand loyalty. And ith the introduction of new products in the Unites States and the emerging markets, and a turnaround year expected for its European business, Danone might be the best bet on a yogurt-flavored future.
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We never saw that coming!
And the lucky SOB will be no one we've ever heard of. Good luck to him/her, I'm sure they will enjoy their prize!
i bet the "lucky SOB" will be some guy that just randomly got an itouch as a christmas gift or and downloaded AIM or something
oh well. congrats to whoever it is. haha.
I hope its someone who actually tried to get it. Not someone who just got an iPhone and decided to download Facebook
As to the OP, Apple hardly pioneered this business model. It has been in use before, namely by Nintendo, Sony, and even Microsoft, just not to as large a scale (and not really the same "homebrew" type apps)
I didn't download any apps I normally wouldn't have. I knew my chance was however many apps I downloaded in 100,000,000 and at best, my chance was probably 1/10,000,000. I wasn't about to waste my time downloading useless apps for nothing. I still hope I win it, but I never held my breath.
Well I just wanted to let you all know that... It wasn't me ;-D. Congrats to whoever it was. 10K on itunes alone would really increase my Conway Twitty collection but, oh well. ;-)
Connonr Mulcahey won it says so on Itunes dont know why they havent updated the page yet maybe they forgot about it lol, that sucks i was hoping i would win even though i knew it was a super huge long shot
omg!!!! i won!!!!! thats me!!!
jkjk i wish
lol dude i almost believed u till i came to forum to read ur whole message i wish it was me
The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies, was downloaded by Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT. As the grand prize winner of Apple's one billion app countdown contest, Connor will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule and a MacBook Pro.
congrats you lil bastard.
Damn, so it was the person who downloaded the billionth app. Lucky SOB!!!
ugh had i know that i would have been dowloading apps when it was getting that close i figured they were gonna pick one person at random
why didnt they make that clear that the billionth app would be the winner???? what was the point of having contest entries, i ask you. at no point in their "official rules" essay of 2,000 words does it say the billionth app downloader would be the winner!!!
Hah, I like how they post personal information of a 13 year old on a website that gets...more than just a few hits...a day. Either way, congrats to the lil' dude.
$10K itunes gift card? can you put that in an iTunes IRA account?


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It's 1948 and during a spring weekend in Westport, Connecticut a close-knit group of Russian emigres, including choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, conductor Serge Koussevitsky, painter/set designer Sergey Sudeikin and composer Nikolai Nabokov, gather to eat, drink and talk.
In Nikolai and the Others playwright Richard Nelson (Some Americans Abroad, Two Shakespearean Actors) imagines the relationships between Balanchine and Stravinsky, their friends, lovers, wives and ex-wives, partners, supporters and dancers (including Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes), at the time of their historic collaboration on the ballet Orpheus.
Later that year, Orpheus would be the spectacular inaugural production of the newly formed New York City Ballet. With this in mind, the play also explores the controversial ways American art and artistic institutions were funded at the outset of the Cold War -- including the subtle hand of the State Department in the post-war cultural scene.
This was the world premiere of Nikolai and the Others, commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. It was directed by David Cromer (When the Rain Stops Falling at LCT, and acclaimed productions of Our Town and Tribes at Barrow Street) who took this momentous weekend in the country and brought it to life with a wonderful cast. Interspersed throughout the action of the play were moments of Balanchine's original Orpheus choreography.
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Services offer post-Rapture care for pets left behind
Christians' pets will be without owners if the Rapture comes, so nonbelievers are willing to rescue them -- for a fee.
When my beloved Tankie died, a friend gave me a copy of "Dog Heaven," a sweet children's book. The drawings of happy dogs romping in an afterlife were comforting, even though I didn't buy the concept.
But what if the book is wrong? What if there's not a life after death for dogs, cats or other household pets? And what if the Rapture comes and you're spirited off, leaving your critters behind? (Some people believe the Rapture will happen as soon as May 21.)
Two organizations that we know of are willing to arrange for their post-Rapture care by nonbelievers for a small price.
For $135, and $20 for each additional pet, Bart Centre's Eternal Earth-Bound Pets USA will have your pet picked up within 24 hours after the Rapture -- guaranteed! -- and adopted, Washington Post columnist John Kelly reports. So far more than 250 people, mostly in the Bible Belt, have taken Centre up on this. The contract is in effect for 10 years -- good to know in case the May 21 prediction is off. If the 10 years expire before the Rapture comes, perhaps you can renew.
Centre and his 44 contractors in 26 states are pet-loving atheists who have sufficient space to take the usual types of household pets, including birds and hamsters, into their homes to live out their lives. Adoption of large animals like horses and llamas is available in Montana, Idaho, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Likewise, After The Rapture Pet Care, co-founded by a Christian and a nonbeliever, has a network of non-Christian volunteers who will provide a similar service for a $10 fee. Post continues after video.
Questions come to mind, and some are answered at these services' websites. At Eternal Earth-Bound Pets USA:
Q: How can we trust that you'll honor your service agreement, afterall, you ARE atheists.
… We fully endorse the "Rule of Reciprocity", also known as "The Golden Rule." We just happen not to believe in God(s). …
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Isn't the world going to be totally collapsed after the Rapture?
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"I am offering them peace of mind," Centre told the Post. "We can commit to you that we have the resources and infrastructure to rescue your pet from certain slow starvation or thirst, at just over a dollar a month. I do not feel like I'm taking advantage. I am satisfying a demand."
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I'm an insurance agent. I'm not going to comment on anyone's beliefs about the rapture pro or con. Nor am I going to offer an opinion on whether or not I think this is a legitimate contract.
The biggest benefit of regular/legitimate/whatever insurance is that it helps people sleep at night. If people who believe in the rapture are worried about what will happen to their animals after they're gone, this will make them feel better. I don't see it as any different than a stipulation in a will providing for pet care. Sometimes you have to help people where they are, not where someone else thinks they ought to be.
Next point. If he's claiming that this is an actual insurance policy, it might raise the eyebrows and hackles of his state's Dept of Insurance and might even be illegal. If you're going to call yourself an insurance company, the rules, regs and red tape are interesting to say the least.
But would I sell this? Oh h*ll no.
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Look! Orla Kiely for Target Trays
I spent a good part of monday afternoon hunting for the Orla Kiely for Target stuff. I've been a fan for a while but couldn't swallow the price tag on most of her designer stuff. I hit up one Target and found only melamine salad plates and, determined, hopped over to another Target where I was able to secure the last two letter trays ($12.99 each). Now that I've got them home I can't decide what to use them for:
I had originally thought that I'd use them to organize socks and underwear in the closet. Now that they're home, though they seem too pretty to hide away. I'm thinking of using them as inboxes or sorters for all the magazines, clippings and to-do items that normally get stacked on the dining room table until it's time to eat. I also think they could make nice baskets for underneath my night stands, to catch all the stuff I read before bed and not have it piled on the surface of the stands.
Did you get any Orla stuff? Was it slim pickings? Jonathan reported that Irvine had a whole bunch of ceramic mugs and caraffes. Pasadena and Eagle rock seemed to have the melamine stuff, some storage boxes and a couple of dish towels.
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I bought one the other day! Here's the good use I found at the moment:
When my cat is finished with it, I'll probably use it to store books next to my desk.
This might be the lease-substantial post I've come across lately.
I'm happy to know that the Orla Kiely stuff has been spotted in Pasadena. I'll have to check it out!
Here in Los Angeles, it was hard for me to find anything, but I went back home to Northern California this weekend, and I was able to grab a few of the items I was looking for.
Although, seeing all of it sitting out, I ended up with less things than I was planning on. It was a little overwhelming seeing all the pears and flowers at once, and I was afraid of my place looking like that! I ended up with the dish towels and towel hangers, as well as the tray, laundry bag, and a few mismatched plasticky cups for the patio.
geno-- I totally know what you mean. looking at all the melamine stuff I started feeling like, um, is this going to look like my gramma's house (in a bad way)?
I was really excited to (finally) see the Orla Kiely line at my local Target last weekend, but I, too, felt a little overwhelmed thinking about what to get. It was really difficult deciding about what to get from a practical standpoint rather than, 'It's so cute! I want it all!' After much deliberation, I exercised practical self-restraint and just picked up all three of the dish towel sets.
I ended up scoring some awesome dish towels in the blue patterns found on target.com. Here in Northern Virginia, a couple of the Target stores are sparce with goodies, but one in particular has some much stuff, and target.com has barely anything on their site!
For 5 bucks / two pack of towels, I couldn't resist picking up two packs to brighten up my kitchen!
The stores in the greater Seattle area were seemingly cleared out before they were even stocked. Some items show as "available" online, but when you go to put them in your cart, there's nothing to click on. I just covet that cute apron!
I went to two stores to find the melamine. I ended up getting a set of full-size plates because we're trying to avoid disposable dishes for our frequent parties. Plus, they weren't covered with pears, etc.
umm...I'm not a huge fan of these particular patterns. I wish there were more stripes or stem patterns and less of a focus on the flowers and fruit. Oh well.
I just happened to stumble upon some pieces on an end cap in small appliances in the Culver City store yesterday. Just some magazine organizers a box or two (maybe you bought these, Laure) and dish towels. Not well merchandised or advertised for that matter. Target has proven to be astute in concept but fail when it comes to final execution.
Oh, Target, you make bunny cry! I've already written a letter of complaint to Target for their major FAIL on this one - I hit up 6 Targets over the weekend (beginning on the *14th*) and most of the Orla stuff was already sold out, even though their website said it wasn't available until the *15th*. At 8am on Sunday in Culver City, I was the third out of 4 women at the customer service counter asking for the Orla - and nobody there seemed to know anything about it.
I suspect most of the good stuff made it to the hands of eBay resellers long before the 15th, as it's all there for anybody willing to pay 300% markup. No thanks.
i went to the el segundo target today and it was basically licked clean. luckily, i found a breakfast tray tucked away in some obscure location (apologies to the person who intentionally hid it there). i also went to the pasadena target last week and they only had boxes and plates left. picked up a letter tray i will use as my recycling box at work.
same as with the John Derian. i just gave up on that.
Same problem here in Chicago - my Target was seriously picked clean when I stopped there today. Well, first I couldn't find the darn stuff because it was on a weird endcap in the wrong section of the store. Then, there were only like 4 things left. Blue and orange melamine plates, one lonely chair cushion, and a kitchen floormat. Which is the one thing I wanted. Score!
i wanted and found coasters in ventura. they were the last ones on the rack. sold in 2 packs and i wanted 4 of them. in la they were out like the wind. very colorful but would not want too much of the patterns.
I can't tell if they Target sold out or they just got a few pieces here and there. I went to 2 Targets so far. One had all the plates and tumblers and the other had all the office stuff. I managed to get 2 magazine holders. Im looking for the Apron and the 2 tier tray. I have 3 more Targets to check out. Wish me luck
chez shoes - I have had the same experience. Target dropped the ball majorly, no one knew what I was even talking about. I wrote a review on the Target web site as well and it mysteriously never showed up. I am so annoyed even if I come across some of this stuff I will pass.
I went to 2 Targets in Daly City last night and one had a few plates & shoe organizers. The other had a couple vases and some cups/plates. I never saw any of the organizational items. I was majorly bummed. It looks like it hit these stores on Feb 1 and as Feb 16, they were cleaned out.
I hit my closest Target here in Asheville, NC at opening on Sunday, and found a half-stocked endcap of linens, including a few sets of dish towels, an apron, and one set of cloth napkins. I asked a woman working nearby whether the endcap was picked clean, or if they just hadn't gotten much stuff yet, and she said, "Why do you want to know?" Umm... because I want to buy stuff, duh... Anyway, no thanks to her, I wound up finding another endcap by the cooking gadgets that had a couple full sets of canisters (which were beautiful, but I was sorely disappointed in-- the sealing on them is terrible-- how does food stay fresh?), a pitcher, a tray, several melamine plates, the two-tier tray, mugs in 5 out of 6 patterns, and cups. I bought the napkins because we don't use paper anymore, mugs (very cute), and the tray. Going back today in hopes of scoring more napkins, the other mug pattern, and a shoe storage bag to hold my unmentionables.
I got the bin for magazines. Works very well. A couple mugs and the coaster set. I had debated a couple times on the apron and I finally bought it the next time I went to Target and I'm glad I did. Each time it was the only one left. When I got it home I tried it on-so adorable and I don't even like pears.
Am I the only one bothered by the crooked pattern on the top tray? I know this is bargain-basement stuff, but come on...
I got the smaller CD holder sized container and stored Wii games in it next to the TV; and then two of the larger sized containers are respectively on my dresser holding everything that used to be scattered over the top, and by my boyfriend's side of the bed holding his bedside reading and the bedside lamp. it looks so much more put together and neat!
I worked at Target for a long time during high school and college and was a dept. mgr. in the domestics area for the majority of that time - I know that when endcap merchandise is shipped (especially for themed ones like this) from the distribution center, they usually come in one or two really big boxes with everything packed inside. So most of the stores probably DID start out with all or almost all of the merch., but it's just sold through really quick. Often replenishment is scarce. What can really set a store back in terms of selection is if that large shipper gets lost or damaged along the way - which is pretty easy to do. There will be one main barcode on the box and if it isn't scanned in to the right stockroom location it can just sit and collect dust forever. Or it can fall out of the back of a truck as it finishes backing up to the dock (you have to open the doors first, they don't roll up, they fold back) and fall into the muck on the ground, etc. etc. That's just the way it is in the big box world. So much freight, so little time (and manpower).
I found a few things at my Target (not much thought) and I really wanted the pear canister, but none of the targets near me (there are 3 of them) had them... :( Of course I could pay an arm and a leg on ebay...
im a little torn on this stuff. its cute, but i feel like i would be tired of looking at it after a month. i went to one of the Daly City, CA Targets this past Saturday (2/14) and they had the sad looking endcap with a few things on it. i already have a ton of entertaining items (cute bowls, trays, etc) and i realized i would just be buying this stuff just to buy it. I would like to see more ceramic and less melamine!
chez shoes - I'll bet that's what happened at mine, too. I didn't bother sweeping all the stores, though. Have a few friends that are pining for the apron as much as I am, and no one has yet to lay eyes on it. C2, I am ultra-jealous.
Can't wait to see the new KTG retro-crap home-line... where might I find that? Do let us know.
It almost seems like Target is trying to hide this stuff on their website. You can't just type in "orla kiely" and get her whole collection. You'll get eight products. Type in "olra keily housewares" or "orla kiely storage," etc and you'll find a few more things. Through coincidence I found a several other items, although none of them say anything about being part of Kiely's collection. Do a search for "abacus" and you'll find the letter trays, magazine holders, and three different bin sizes. Search for "blue melamine dinnerware" and you'll find two of her dinnerware collections. The apron is "pear apron." Once I find something, I'll actually type part of the product listing title to see if the website will find it for me. Most of the time it'll will show no matches. So, there are a few searches you can do to find stuff. Hope that helps anyone!
Thanks, those searches help, but the apron is marked as available in the stores only. It really annoys me that I can't order most of the items online. I don't have time to drive around to all the Targets just to find a $15 apron.
I went to both the Culver City target and the La Cienega Target on Sunday. La Cienega target had NOTHING by noon. Just random pieces, a mug from one set, a plate from another. I had better luck at the Culver City location, where I was able to get 2 sets of turquoise/daisy kitchen towels (adorable!!), 4 matching tumblers & a serving bowl. They also had place mats & tablecloth, which I passed up. I was told by an employee that they had another shipment coming in this past Monday. So I went & unfortunately, it was wiped out before I got there, but I managed to score 2 milkcrate boxes.
I really want the apron and 2-tier plate. I will continue my search at stores, as I REFUSE to pay the grossly inflated eBay prices!
I have four of the letter trays under our couch and two under the TV stand. I've been looking for baskets or bins that would slide under, because we really need the storage. These just fit, and fortunately the colors work in our living room.
I also bought a few other containers to put on our bookshelves to organize things (the CD holders will hold 10-12 paperback books facing out, where you could only fit 3-4 sideways). Maybe it's just me, but I can never find solid colors that will work in our house, in the sizes I need.
I guess sometimes it pays to live in the midwest. I haven't had trouble finding any of the items except the floormats, but I think it's because they haven't put them out yet. Things are selling out, but slowly. I don't think anyone really knows who Orla Kiely is around here (a lot of the John Derian stuff ended up on clearance).
I found the entire line, and I purchased quite a bit for me, and then some for my niece who couldn't find much in the Target store in Ithaca, NY. I bought the mugs, place mats, apron, serving bowls, two-tier dish, letter trays, shoe organizer, and the canisters. I rolled up my sheets and placed them in the letter trays - they fit perfectly. I used the two tier plate for my jewelry - it's great, especially for rings. I own a lot of dishes, mainly pieces I've picked up at Paradise City Art Show, which are hand crafted and, obviously, more expensive. Still I like the low-key funky look of Orla Kiely's wares and will enjoy using them too.
shalgal - I hit both Daly City Target's on Feb 1 and they had nothing. No one at either store (and I asked multiple sales people) had any clue what I was talking about.
Target totally botched this. First the website said one thing and then another. Everyone in the stores was saying different things. Sorry, but I can't camp out in the store to wait and see when it gets put out. How hard is it to just PICK A DATE?
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jeez they still have everything at fort worth, both locations. i was excited to see it, but when i got there i couldnt pick a single thing. also, it was out way earlier than it was supposed to be. it was split up into at least 3 end caps that were not near each other. and when i asked a sales person she had NO idea what i was talking about, even after describing it 5 ways. i turned a corner and there is was! (she worked in that dept)
i second the more patterns and less fruit... i wanted to buy something that i could enjoy more, but i feel like the designs on the cups wont last, i dont want plastic plates, dont need aprons or mits or napkins or towels, and the storage containers were a little more than i wanted to pay since i had no idea what to use it for. i love her stuff, but this was a little too cute for me this time. im sure it will be much more enticing when it goes on clearance though! everything looks better when its cheaper!


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Collaboration For Loners
By Mark Justice
Okay, I'm not exactly a loner, the kind of guy who opens up on his fellow factory workers with an assault rifle, prompting his neighbors to tell the local news, "He was so quiet, though he did like to read them weird Stephen King books."
I enjoy my friends and family too much to qualify for loner-dom. But when it comes to writing, I enjoy the solitude, being cloistered in my tiny warren while I try to come up with a nice synonym for "eviscerate" (for the record, there is none; neither "gut" nor "disembowel" has the sweet symmetry of the E word).
Anyway, in honor of the release of Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road, the novel I wrote with David T. Wilbanks, I thought it would be appropriate to answer a frequent question under the guise of pimping the book. That query is always a variation of "What's it like to write with somebody else?"
If the inquiry is made in person, the asker's tone is usually conspiratorial, tinged with a gleeful TMZ sort of note, which I always interpret as "Tell us about the fights!"
Oh, how I wish I could share the tales of colossal battles. Titanic clashes that shook the cosmos.
The truth is Dave and I get along very well. When we write together, we act like two perfectly mature adults. It's even more amazing because one of us is not (hint: it's not Dave).
Our collaboration began a few years ago when Dave asked me to write a novel with him, something with zombies and mutants.
I never asked him why he chose me. Mainly because I don't want to know how many writers turned him down before he got to my name.
From that brief germ of an idea, we brainstormed the Dead Earth world, in which a military experiment inadvertently opened a gateway to somewhere else, resulting in the death of most of the humans on the planet and the transformation of those who had died into shambling, flesh-eating beasts.
Our original pitch was set many years after the disaster, on an Earth overrun by alien overlords, their hungry zombie soldiers and a number of human with strange mutations.
Then one of us–and I can't remember who–suggested that we go back to the beginning and do a prequel novel that revealed the tale of the original accident. We decided to tell the story from the viewpoint of Jubal Slate, a small town cop in New Mexico who watched helplessly as the world ended.
This ended up becoming Dead Earth: The Green Dawn, and was published by PS Publishing.
Writing the prequel turned out to be a good idea, as far as I'm concerned. Focusing on Jubal and his agony as he lost everyone he cared for gave our series a very important human touch, an approach we worked hard to maintain in the sequel, even as the inhuman elements creeped into this bad new world.
In Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road, Jubal Slate is back, a changed man, fueled by a single purpose: payback. He wants to take the fight to the beings that destroyed his life.
The Dead Earth series is a blend of horror, SF and adventure fiction, an apocalyptic thriller that reflects the pulp fiction that both us of grew up reading.
As to how the actual collaboration worked, it's pretty basic. We hashed out a loose plot, highlighting the important story beats we wanted to hit. Then we took turns with the writing. Our goal was five pages before we passed it off to the other guy. That left us free to work on other projects while our partner was taking his turn. If one of us came up with an unexpected twist or character moment, we checked with the other. The deciding factor on any changes to the plot was this: does it make the story better? If it did it went in. We weren't OCD about sticking to the original outline (which left a lot of room for improvisation in the first place). Nor did we exhibit much in the way of ego clashes.
The part that amazed me about the collaboration was how much I enjoyed it. I always liked the writing process, but sharing it with someone else provided an unexpected benefit. Seeing what someone else did with my writing as a springboard, the directions and choices that would never occur to me in a million years, was very cool. It inspired me to get back to the story, send it to Dave and look forward to reading what came next.
And now, reading over the books, it's hard to remember which of us wrote what, particularly after the many rounds of revisions and edits.
Of course, I realize that all collaborations will not be this smooth. But I don't have anything else to compare it to. It's always good to get back to my solo writing, but I enjoy teaming up with Dave on Dead Earth, too.
To answer the second most popular question: yes, there will be another Dead Earth novel. It's already underway. The working title is Dead Earth: People Get Eaten and Squishy Intestines Drag on the Ground.
But that's subject to change.
Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road is out now from Permuted Press, and the publisher is releasing Dead Earth: The Green Dawn as an eBook for Kindle, Nook and other platforms.
If you choose to pick up a copy or an electronic version, please let us know what you think over at the Justice-Wilbanks forum here at Horror World.
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The area is a conservative, Muslim culture. But make no mistake. However, Bahrain is the most liberal of the Emirates and I am looking forward to seeing just how liberal it can be.
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BRANDON A town Lister has been tapped to serve on the Select Board.
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Ammatuna, who also serves on the Otter Valley Union High School Board, will finish out the last year of a three-year term which expires on Town Meeting Day in March 2014. The board received six letters of interest for the post.
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I am a professor in DBS with interests in population and community ecology.
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Tuesday, Thursday 12:30-1:30
Field Of Study:
Plant population and community ecology
Research Interests:
In a general sense, I am interested in how species interactions influence plant distribution and abundance. Much of my research has involved large-scale field experiments to address how particular interactions influence the demography and population abundance of component species in a community. Below is a brief description of some of the research I have conducted.
Invasion Biology
Exotic species are transported to new regions where the abiotic and biotic environment may be quite different from their native range. We are interested in how successful exotics adapt to these new ecological circumstances. In particular, we seek to understand the importance of rapid genetically-based evolutionary change in enabling exotics to persist in newly colonized areas.
To examine these issues, I have studied St. John's Wort, Hypericum perforatum, a perennial plant native to Europe, North Africa and Asia that has been introduced into my continents around the world. Classic ecological theory has long predicted that native plant diversity plays a key role in promoting resistance to exotic invasion. A central reason this may be so is that diverse native assemblages usually contain species that vary in how they capture resources. That is, diverse assemblages contain mixes of species that vary in their rooting depth, phenology, photosynthetic rates, and other functional attributes.
This increased functional diversity may enable diverse assemblages of plants to more efficiently capture resources than less diverse assemblages, thereby leaving less "free" resources available to colonizing exotics. Since resource availability may critically influence invasibility, one would predict that resource addition could influence the relationship between native diversity and invasibility. In collaboration with Marilyn Marler (link), we are exploring: 1) how resource availability interacts with native diversity to influence invasibility; 2) whether functional overlap between exotic and native plants influences invasibility; and 3) how native diversity, functional overlap between natives and exotics, and resource availability influence the impact that an invader has on a recipient community. We have initiated a large manipulative experiment where we are addressing these issues.
Food Web Ecology
At the simplest level, food webs describe who eats who in a community. However, beyond this description, food webs can summarize the important ecological interactions that influence the population growth and abundance of species in a community. I am interested in how top predators, through their effects on consumers, influence plant distribution and abundance. Across the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, we have studied how introduced predators and spatial subsidies influence plant community composition and productivity on islands across the archipelago.
In collaboration with Dr. Dean Pearson, I am conducting a large manipulative experiment to determine how mid-sized mammalian carnivores (weasel, fox, coyote, badger, mountain lion, etc.) and raptors, as a group, influence herbivorous and granivorous small mammal populations, and how small mammals, in-turn affect grassland productivity and diversity. Our goal is to test whether top predators have strong indirect cascading effects on terrestrial plant communities through their impacts on consumers.
We know from a growing number of studies that both invertebrate and vertebrate consumers can have strong impacts on plant performance and even plant fitness. Yet, quite surprisingly, we still have a very rudimentary understanding of when and where pervasive negative effects of consumers on plants actually translate to changes in plant abundance or distribution. That is, at the most fundamental level, we do not really know how commonly consumers limit plant abundance, alter plant population dynamics, or change plant distributions. As a result, predicting the conditions under which consumers have important population-level impacts on plants has proved difficult. I am interested in how variation in plant life history and environmental context interact to influence the population-level impacts of consumers on plants.
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Ph.D. 1996, Ecology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis.
M.S. 1983, Department of Biology, University of North Dakota.
B.S. 1980, Renewable Resources, University of California, Davis.
Teaching Experience:
- Rocky Mountain Flora. University of Montana (Spring 2005).
- Graduate course on plant-consumer interactions. University of Montana (Spring 2004).
- Introductory Biology. University of Montana (Spring 2003- one of four instructors).
- Terrestrial Plant Ecology. University of Montana (Fall 2002-2004).
- Trends in Plant Ecology. University of Montana (Fall 2003-graduate seminar course, co-taught with R. Callaway).
- Graduate "core" course in Ecology. University of Washington (Fall 2001-one of four instructors).
- General Ecology. University of Washington (Winter 2001- one of three instructors).
- Graduate course- Plant-Consumer Interactions. University of Washington (Winter 1999).
- Introduction to Plant Ecology. University of Washington (Fall 1998-2001).
- Sub-Tropical Field Ecology and Conservation. Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina (Spring, 1992).
- Marine and Coastal Field Ecology. Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis (1985-1991-one of two instructors).
International Experience:
I have worked and have active collaborations in Canada, Spain, Romania, Hungary, Germany, and Switzerland, In the past I have also worked in Peru and Argentina.
Selected Publications:
Publications over last 5 years
Colautti, R.I., J.L. Maron and S.C.H. Barrett. 2009. Common garden comparisons of native and introduced plant populations: latitudinal clines can obscure evolutionary inference. Evolutionary Applications 2: 187-199.
Johnson, M.T.J., A. Agrawal, J.L. Maron and J-P. Salminen. 2009. Heritability, covariation and natural selection on 24 traits of common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) from a field experiment. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1295-1307.
Seifert, E.K., J.D. Bever and J.L. Maron. 2009. Evidence for the evolution of reduced mycorrhizal dependence during plant invasion. Ecology 90: 1055-1062.
Brodie, J., O.E. Helmy and W.Y. Brockelman and J.L. Maron. 2009. Functional differences within a guild of tropical mammalian frugivores. Ecology 90:688-698.
Maron, J.L. and M. Marler. 2008. Field based competitive impacts of invaders on natives at varying resource supply. Journal of Ecology 96: 1187-1197.
Williams, J.L., H. Auge, and J.L. Maron. 2008. Different gardens, different results: Native and introduced populations exhibit contrasting phenotypes across common gardens. Oecologia 157: 239-248.
Maron, J.L. and M. Marler. 2008. Effects of native species diversity and resource additions on invader impact. American Naturalist 172: S18-S33.
Kittelson, P.M., J.L. Maron and M. Marler. 2008. Native diversity and invader impact: an exotic alters the leaf traits of two natives. Ecology 89: 1344-1351.
Other Publications:
Maron, J.L., J.K. Combs and S.L. Louda. 2002. Convergent demographic effects of insect herbivory on related thistles in coastal vs. continental dunes. Ecology 83:3382-3392.
Karban, R. and J.L. Maron. 2002. The fitness consequences of interspecific eavesdropping between plants. Ecology 83:1209-1213.
Kittelson, P.M. and J.L. Maron. 2001. Fine scale genetically-based differentiation of life-history traits in the perennial shrub, Lupinus arboreus. Evolution 55:2429-2438.
Maron, J.L. and M. Vilà. 2001. Do herbivores affect plant invasion? Evidence for the natural enemies and biotic resistance hypotheses. Oikos 95:363-373.
Maron, J.L. and R.L. Jefferies. 2001. Restoring enriched grasslands: effects of mowing on species richness, productivity and nitrogen retention. Ecological Applications 11:1088-1100.
Maron, J.L. and E.L. Simms. 2001. Rodent limited establishment of bush lupine: Field experiments on the cumulative effect of granivory. Journal of Ecology 89:578-588.
Maron, J.L., S. Harrison, and M.E. Greaves. 2001. Origin of an insect outbreak: escape in space or time from natural enemies? Oecologia 126:595-602.
Maron, J.L. 2001. Intraspecific competition and subterranean insect herbivory: individual and interactive effects on bush lupine. Oikos 92:178-186.
Harrison, S., K.J. Rice and J.L. Maron. 2001. Habitat patchiness promotes invasion by alien grasses (Avena fatua and Bromus hordeaceus) on serpentine soil in California. Biological Conservation 100:45-53.
Alpert, P. and J.L. Maron. 2000. Carbon addition as a countermeasure against biological invasion by plants. Biological Invasions 2:33-40.
Polis, G.A., D.R. Strong, G.R. Huxel, A.L.W. Sears and J.L. Maron. 2000. When is a trophic cascade a trophic cascade? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:473-475.
Maron, J.L. and S.N. Gardner. 2000. Consumer pressure, seed versus safe-site limitation, and plant population dynamics. Oecologia 124:260-269.
Harrison, S., J.L. Maron and G. Huxel. 2000. Local extinction, colonization and large-scale patterns of fluctuation in five plants confined to serpentine seeps. Conservation Biology 14:769-779.
Kittelson, P.M. and J.L. Maron. 2000. Outcrossing rate and inbreeding depression in the perennial yellow bush lupine, Lupinus arboreus (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 87:652-660.
Grosholz, E.D., G.M. Ruiz, C.A. Dean, K.A. Shirley, J.L. Maron and P.G. Connors. 2000. The impacts of a non-indigenous marine predator in a California bay. Ecology 81:1206-1224.
Maron, J.L. and R.L. Jefferies. 1999. Bush lupine mortality, altered resource availability and alternative vegetation states. Ecology 80:443-454.
Maron, J.L. 1998. Individual and joint effects of below- and above-ground insect herbivory on perennial plant fitness. Ecology 79:1281-1293.
Maron, J.L. and S. Harrison. 1997. Spatial pattern formation in an insect host-parasitoid system. Science 278:1619-1621.
Maron, J.L. and E.L. Simms. 1997. Effects of seed predation on seed bank size and seedling recruitment of bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus). Oecologia 111:76-83.
Maron, J.L. 1997. Interspecific competition and insect herbivory reduce seedling survival in bush lupine, Lupinus arboreus. Oecologia 110:285-290.
Jefferies, R.L. and J.L. Maron. 1997. An embarrassment of riches: anthropogenic deposition of nitrogen and community and ecosystem processes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:74-78.
Strong, D.R., H.K. Kaya, A. Whipple, A. Child, S. Kraig, M. Bondonno, K. Dyer, and J.L. Maron. 1996. Entomopathogenic nematodes: natural enemies of root-feeding caterpillars on bush lupine. Oecologia 108:167-173.
Maron, J.L. and P.G. Connors. 1996. A native nitrogen-fixing shrub facilitates weed invasion. Oecologia 105:302-312.
Strong, D.R., J.L. Maron, and P.G. Connors. 1996. Top down from underground? The underappreciated influence of subterranean food webs on above ground ecology. In Food Webs (G. A. Polis and K. O. Winemiller, eds.), pp 170-175. Chapman and Hall, New York.
Strong, D.R., J.L. Maron, P.G. Connors, A. Whipple, S. Harrison, and R.L. Jefferies. 1995. High mortality, fluctuation in numbers, and heavy subterranean insect herbivory in bush lupine, Lupinus arboreus. Oecologia 104:85-92.
Harrison, S. and J.L. Maron. 1995. Impacts of defoliation by tussock moths (Orgyia vetusta) on the growth and reproduction of bush lupine (Lupinus arboreus). Ecological Entomology 20:223-229.
Johnson, O.W., P.G. Connors, P.L. Bruner, and J.L. Maron. 1993. Breeding ground fidelity and mate retention in the Pacific Golden-plover. Wilson Bulletin 105:60-67.
Connors, P.G., B.J. McCaffery and J.L. Maron. 1993. Speciation in golden-plovers, Pluvialis dominica and Pluvialis fulva: evidence from the breeding grounds. Auk 110:9-20.
Myers, J.P., M. Sallaberry A., E. Ortiz, G. Castro, L.M. Gordon, J.L. Maron, C.T. Schick, E. Tabilo, P. Antas, and T. Below. 1990. Migration routes of New World sanderling (Calidris alba). Auk: 107:172-180.
Maron, J.L. and J.P. Myers. 1985. Seasonal changes in feeding success, activity patterns, and weights of non-breeding sanderlings, (Calidris alba). Auk 102:580-586.
Maron, J.L. and J.P. Myers. 1984. An evaluation of two techniques for sexing wintering sanderlings (Calidris alba). Journal of Field Ornithology 55:336-342.
Myers, J.P, J.L. Maron, and M. Sallaberry. 1984. Going to extremes: why sanderlings migrate to the neotropics. Ornithological Monographs 36:520-535.
Myers, J.P., G. Castro, B. Harrington, M. Howe, J.L Maron, E. Ortiz, M. Sallaberry, C.T. Schick, and E. Tabilo. 1984. The Pan American Shorebird Program: a progress report. Wader Study Group Bulletin 42:26-30.
Myers, J.P., J.L. Maron, E. Ortiz T., G. Castro V., M.A. Howe, R.I.G. Morrison, and B.A. Harrington. 1983. Rationale and suggestions for a hemispheric color-marking scheme for shorebirds: A way to avoid chaos. Wader Study Group Bulletin 38:30-32.


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Actually, I give him a great deal of credit here. Liberals beat the crap out of Johnson for that exchange because they know he had Hillary Clinton cornered. Her "what difference does it make" response may yet live in infamy. Nichols appears to be hedging his bets here a bit; he seems to sense that there is indeed fire under all of that smoke surrounding Benghazi. It's also clear he's still hoping there isn't.
But if this does bloom into full scandal, Nichols has done a mea culpa in the event Johnson is vindicated. But he's left enough room to turn on him again if the scandal flames out.


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This is an engaging horror series that was originally run on the FX channel. This series followed a family of three as they attempt to start a new life for themselves following tragedy and infidelity. Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton) lost a child to miscarriage, and her lack of affection drove Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott) to cheat on her with a student of his. In an attempt to repair their relationship and get away from these awful memories, the two relocate to Los Angeles along with their daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga).
Shortly after arriving, they meet with the realtor who tells them about the previous owners having died in the house via a murder-suicide. The new family is so overcome by the house that they pay little attention to this news and begin adjusting to their new life in the impressive house. Ben begins his psychiatric practice out of the home and begins seeing patients very shortly after moving in.
New characters start introducing themselves into the lives of the Harmons, including the neighbors Constance and her daughter Adelaide, and Larry Harvey, who claims to be a former occupant of the house that killed his family by burning them alive. Tate is a patient of Ben's that begins to befriend his daughter Violet, but things are not as simple as they seem for the Harmons.
The audience at home is soon introduced to a shocking truth that the house never lets anyone who dies on its grounds leave. They remain as ghosts, trapped on the grounds forever. One of Ben's patients returns to the house to recreate a murder of two nurses from 1968 with Vivien and Violet while Ben is away in Boston with his former lover, who tells him she is pregnant. Bianca (Ben's patient), along with a few of her friends, ties up Vivien and Violet and attempts to murder them both. Tate rescues them, but the incident is enough to convince Vivien that she needs to move her family out of the house and sell it.
She finds this very difficult to do when she learns that her home is considered "Murder House," as murderous events have occurred again and again within the house since the late 1920s. The situation is further complicated by Vivien learning that she is pregnant. The truth begins to surface about so many key components to the story so far, and people who have become staples in the plot you learn are just trapped in the house. This multifaceted tale begins to unfold when you learn that everyone who is involved within the story that interacts with the Harmons is interconnected.
Larry was leaving his wife for Constance, and his wife killed herself and her children by fire. Once Constance and Larry were together, they had children. Constance also had children of her own before Larry, one of which was Tate. She had him when she was married to a womanizer who attempted to rape Moira, the maid, and Constance found them and killed her and buried her on the grounds. This is the same maid that currently works for the Harmons, so everything is connected.
Tate would be the reason that Larry was badly burned and disfigured. Within the series you learn that Tate was gunned down by police officers and SWAT team members who shot him in his bedroom following his killing spree in his high school. While you might not see it all happening at first, the house is looking to claim lives. Suddenly all of the souls of the house want the twins that Vivien is growing inside of her; even Constance living next door wants one of them.
When Vivien goes into delivery at the house, she is unable to survive the trauma and dies. She joins Violet with the souls of the house, as Violet had just recently learned that what she thought was a failed attempt at suicide several weeks before was actually successful. Now Ben is awash with what to do, and he plans to leave at the urging of the ghosts of Vivien and Violet. However, he doesn't ever get the chance, as the souls attack and kill him by hanging him. Now he, too, is trapped in the house, and the family vows that they are going to keep another family from suffering this fate.
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Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and others appear in the newest trailer for the show's upcoming season.
Seriously, if you're afraid of clowns, don't watch this!
Okay, this time it's official.
Jyoti Amge, as well as singer Patti LaBelle, join the upcoming fourth season of "American Horror Story."
Find out which role the famous singer will be playing!
FX CEO John Landgraf says "Freak Show" will be a tonal mix of "Asylum" and "Coven," but warns that you never can know what to expect from Ryan Murphy.
Another season of "American Horror Story," another set of creepy promos! The first teaser trailer for the new season of the hit FX horror anthology has hit the Web, and it falls right in line with a long tradition of unsettling promos for the series. Ever since the first season, "American Horror Story" has provided a series of 20-second promos featuring spooky imagery paired with oddly unnerving music that tend to hint at themes of the upcoming season.
Everyone knows two heads are better than one, especially when Sarah Paulson is playing both heads! Those who were already excited about "American Horror Story: Freakshow" have even more to be excited about today, as Sarah Paulson tweeted out a photo of her character in the upcoming "American Horror Story" season. Or should we say characters, plural? "So excited to be playing Bette AND Dot this season," Paulson tweeted, with a photo of her as the conjoined twins she will be playing in "Freakshow.
If you're one of the many people who are terrified of clowns, you might want to approach the new "American Horror Story" season with caution.
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"Open," the upcoming pilot from writer/producer Ryan Murphy ("American Horror Story," "Glee"), has added Anna Torv ("Fringe") and Jennifer Jason Leigh ("Weeds") to its cast.