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Happy Wednesday. Here are some mid-week movie updates for you.
"What to Expect When You're Expecting," which will star Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, has begun filming. Yesterday the project cranked up in Midtown for a scene that featured one of Atlanta's favorite new crazes, the food truck.
Here is a photo of Anna Kendrick posing with Chef Andy Long of The Fry Guy. I have one of Chace Crawford too. I'll post it soon as I can find a priest to exorcise my computer. Having a little trouble uploading photos today. Sorry.
We hear the newly single J-Lo will be arriving via private plane. Maybe she'll find true love in the ATL now that she and Marc Anthony are done.
Meanwhile, Atlanta bids a fond farewell to the cast of "The Three Stooges." That project, which has been filming all over the place, held its wrap party on Saturday night at Opera nightclub and finishes filming today. They're in Midtown, on Beverly Drive. Expect a detour or delay if you're over that way.
As we told you the "Jersey Shore" cast was in town this week to shoot a cameo for the Stooges film. (Is that Oscar buzz we're hearing?) The movie's publicity guy – who was not our source for the original tip – emailed today congratulating us for posting the Jersey Shore news before TMZ caught wind of it. We can retire now. What else is there to prove?
Anyway, we're told that Snooki, J-Woww, Sammi, The Situation and Ronnie were the Jersey Shore contingent featured in the film. Pauly D was not involved.
And finally "Jayne Mansfield's Car" is filming in Fairburn today.
- Jennifer Brett/The firstname.lastname@example.com
July 20th, 2011
12:11 pm
Hey J Lo call me .
July 20th, 2011
1:30 pm
I saw a clip of the 3 Stooges while working at Opera Saturday night. It was very funny.
July 20th, 2011
2:35 pm
Check the obits today. It was meant to be for The Three Stooges to film here!
July 20th, 2011
4:15 pm
It's funny how J Lo just keeps getting better with age and Cameron Diaz just continues to look like an older version of an ugly white chic with bad skin and eyes that are too far apart.
Diaz does have a great body, though. Too bad she can't get a head transplant.
July 20th, 2011
4:23 pm
racist ass.
July 20th, 2011
5:06 pm
Cameron could never possibly be anything near ugly. She's timeless and will always take the stage and grip the audience.
July 21st, 2011
11:37 am
J. Lo is gorgeous and as a Puerto Rican woman myself, I can validate that we only get better with age. I would prefer that she stick to looking beautiful and acting and hang up the singing. Producers and collaborations can only do so much…Cameron Diaz is talented and charming, but could use a little meat on her bones, if you ask me…she is part Cuban and I am wondering where is the junk in the trunk? I miss the pin up days when women looked like women!
July 23rd, 2011
1:11 am
Surely, BUTTER PECAN, you're kidding? J LO stop singing?? I'd slight my own throat if she did. How can you say that? One of my all time fav's is WAITING FOR TONIGHT.
July 23rd, 2011
1:12 am
correction: I'd SLIT my own throat if she stopped singing!!!! You had me so upset, I couldn't even spell correctly.
July 24th, 2011
6:05 am
ATLtiger. That wasn't racist, it was truth. Did you see Knight and Day? Cameron looked about 60 in the face during the beach scene. And on the big screen it was really bad. They need to work on her camera angles. PS I am white, so no racist.


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Smart Organizing: Keep Things Where You'll Use Them
The idea behind this post sounds like a no-brainer, but sometimes it can take a while to really be aware of your habits and needs. My ironing board, a simple thing, is the perfect example.
The washer and dryer are on the second floor of my row house, and my bedroom is on the third floor. For nearly two years, my ironing board lived near the former, on the inside of my laundry closet door. I guess I associated clean clothes with pressed ones, and there the board stayed.
Then, a week or so ago, I was standing in front of my closet trying to decide what to wear to work, and I realized how silly I'd been. (I'm pretty sure my palm went to my forehead.) I moved the board, iron, and spray bottle to inside my bedroom closet door; now that I don't have to run between floors to iron, I already do this simple task much more often. I also have been tapping into a lot more of my wardrobe. Success!
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Where did you find an ironing board over the door caddie? I love that everything can hang on it!
This so much.
One example. BF used to keep his dishtowels in the hall closet that was through a door and through the living room and then sort of around a corner from the kitchen. And for years we went through him yelling out, "HEY! Can you bring me a dish towel!" Then about 6 months ago, I noticed that he sort of had some space for a drawer to be added to an ikea unit he had in the kitchen. Now the dish towels are in the kitchen! What a thought! No more yelling, and now dish towels get put away in stead of sort of hanging out the kitchen area.
Yeah, twice (sort of):
• little one : my oven's clock was broken/not functioning. So i bought a magnet clock (Muji's) that i used to fix on top of the oven, actually on the cooker hood. But still, i was not satisfied with it since i used to do stuff in the living room while keeping food to be cooked in the kitchen with closed door (Europe / Separate kitchen / I like it). I was thinking that my problem was half resolved because i had a functioning clock (and alarm) but without the ability to hear it (it lasted maybe two weeks?). I was grumbling at it on Facebook till i realized that i bought a "movable" clock. Meh! So now i set the minutes on the alarm clock and stick it outside the kitchen, on the metal frame of the door. :-]
• bigger one : i live in a very well designed flat. Constructed in the 60s with totally livable spaces, not like typical 19e century parisian flats or anything new "too small". It includes a very practical laundry room. Unbelievable, totally luxe. A 2x2m room, adjacent to the kitchen, with a door. The owner put there a closet, up on the wall. With closet doors of course. At the begining of my stay, i used to store stuff inside, soaps, bags, iron, other bags, etc. It lasted a few years like that. Then i started to think that i was not using this closet at its full potentiality. It was sort of pain in the a… to get things to and from it, up there. Thinking about that until i realized the following : the entire room was already itself a closet with a door ; so why did i need an additional closed-closet in that closet, hm? I took off and trash the inner closet doors and then my life became to shine. :-)
I used to keep all of our bed linens in the linen closet (makes sense, right?). Except I was always digging to find right-sized sheets for different beds. So I moved my son's twin-sized sheets and mattress covers into his room! Now it's so much quicker doing those bed changes (which sometimes have to be done in the middle of the night).
Also, gift wrapping stuff used to be a a big storage box, now it's in my hall closet hanging on pants/skirt hangers (thanks for that genius idea, pinterest!). Much easier to see and access what I have.
We have a galley kitchen and I've put all of the silverware, bar stuff, as close to the exits as I can, so that I can cook, and anyone setting the table or mixing a cocktail doesn't have to come all the way into the kitchen.
@annabanana177 just brilliant
we moved the laundry machine into the bathroom, where we make most of our laundry. bar ware is now in the dining room to make room in the kitchen. i have a bag of rags in the tool closet. linens for the guest bed [murphy bed in LR] are in a nice box on the built ins on either side of the bed. extra utensils and napkins are in our gateleg table that we use when entertaining [our DR table does not expand], one drawer is left empty for my husbands landing pad items, normally kept on the console sized top, to be relocated.
@swieland I was just having that thought the other day. I can locate the sheets we need but it seems so dumb to keep them in the linen closet when they could fit in our bedroom closet closer to the bed.
Thanks for the great post.
One of the only good features in our kitchen is the cabinets above the pass through/breakfast bar. It's a galley kitchen, so it's totally possible to store dishes in those cabinets, and since there are doors on both sides, you don't need to go into the kitchen to set the table. You also don't need to make a major production out of cleaning up after dinner either, or emptying the dishwasher. Stuff in the cabinets is very easily accessible.
The problem is that the cabinets are designed in such a way that they can't hold bottles of wine, or most condiments, or a lot of stemware, or most liquor bottles. Trying to store silverware in them would be idiotic. Just dishes and nothing but dishes. And in terms of height... the top shelves aren't useful unless you're well over 6 foot tall. The bottom shelves are only barely usable for me, and I'm 5'6". Also, they were very cheap cabinets to begin with, and after almost 30 years, they're falling apart...
So the core idea is good, the execution kinda sucks. I'll eventually fix things up so the cabinets are more functional. It wouldn't take much effort to transform the breakfast bar into something that works as a wet bar and buffet serving area as well as a built in eating area.
That's why I have a pair of scissors in every room. Literally.
I also keep a small bottle of dish soap in the upstairs bath so I can wash drinking glasses there, instead of (rather infrequently) hauling them downstairs to the kitchen.
I store anything travel-exclusive inside my suitcase... travel size toiletries inside travel toiletry bags, an airplane kit I made with earplugs and a set of headphones... I felt like such a smart idiot when I thought of that for the first time.
I keep all my shoes in the basement next to the garage, where I put them on to leave the house. I also keep a couple of "yard" and "mail" shoes on the main floor and slippers of course in the bedroom closet. When I first moved into this house the shoes were crammed into the very teeny, tiny bedroom closet and it was a huge mess. Now, because I have a massive laundry room adjacent to the garage, I can organize, store, and most importantly see all the shoe options. Fortunately I figured this out fairly quickly; think of it as a walk in closet just for shoes!
mginwa, I do this too! And also try to store smaller overnight bags inside the suitcase as well.
My nightstand is actually a small dresser, so sheets and pillowcases have lived there for a while.
Scissors thing: yes, I keep them in every room in the house.
I have just resolved to pick up a little trash can and keep it next to the washer & dryer; a little pile of used softener sheets and clumps of lint from the dryer filter is building, and I always think I'm going to take it all and dump it in the kitchen trash but I never do.
None of these has revolutionized my at-home life. But I love when these new ideas come up!
Socks where the shoes are.
My last roommate was a shoes-by-the door person and I picked up the habit. I have house slippers for inside that aren't really compatible with socks. It used to drive me crazy remembering to get a pair of socks from the sock drawer in the bedroom (or going back for them) to put on at the shoe bench by the door. I finally moved my socks to a handy bin in the entry closet, right next to the shoe bench. Genius!
Re scissors: consider also pens, tape, a light bulb.
dwelement I keep scissors in every room too, suited to what happens there.
Socks, the brilliance of keeping them where they get put on (for my small children, downstairs, along with several changes of clothes, next, to wait for it, the change table)
I also moved my iron and ironing board, but to my craft room when I realized I had only ironed fabric in 6 months.
Ack, yes! This, times 1,000! I tend to be an 'out of sight, out of mind' person, so it is sort of a revelation to store things where I need/use them, rather then where they're "supposed" to be (I love the people above that put their socks near their shoes and don't feel obligated to keep all their linens in the linen closet).
Especially in the winter, my hands get super dry and I would never really make the effort to put lotion on. Now, I keep a tube of good quality (ie, absorbs quickly, without unnecessary fragrance) hand lotion at every sink in my house, at my bedside, on my vanity, at my desk, in my car and in my purse.
We recently moved into a small apartment and had to come up with some unique storage solutions.
1) The kitchen, being tiny-tiny, needed to be usable without frustrating the chef (hubby) and the dishwasher (me). The saving grace is that it has a small cubby hole that opens up onto the dining/living room area. We bought a gateleg table from Ikea (http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/20104718/#/10116887) which is great as it remains small enough to allow for wakling room yet convenient enough to store smaller items like utensils, napkins, etc in its side drawers. This allowed us to use the 4 small kitchen drawwers for cooking-specific uses and keep the utensils where they are typically use - i.e. on the dining table. 6 drawers makes easy to have spoons, forks, knives in each their own drawers, napkins in another with 2 extra drawers to spare for other small items like decks of cards & serving utensils like gravy spoon, pie slice spatula (or whatever it is called), etc.
2) In the main bedroom we used took our night tables & placed them side by side to create a small credenza where we keep our underwear/socks. The main dresser now holds our tshirts & sweaters in 2 drawers (one each) & the remaining space is used for bedding (covers, sheets & pillow cases respectively).
3) Shelving was also an issue because our outer walls are made of really old concrete which tends to chip & break if you try to screw/nail something in. :( One solution for our boardgames, photo albums & other non-daily items was to buy a portable metal shelving unit & place it inside the 2nd bedroom's closet where it neatly stores everything and leaves the room open for more creative uses (which we're still deciding upon).
Where did you get the hook that holds both iron & board?!? That is genius!
I did the same thing with my clothes steamer. I kept putting off steaming clothes, but now that it is in our closet room, things actually get steamed and put away. :) That reminds me that I was going to blog about it soon! :)
We live in a 3 story townhouse. I keep cleaning items in each bathroom (2nd floor and basement) and in the kitchen (main floor). I can clean when I think of it instead of going to another floor hunting for cleaning supplies and getting distracted. If I could afford 3 vacuums I'd do the same thing :)
Swimsuits for everyone are kept in the closet next to the beach towels & bag. Lotion in every room. Sheets under each bed. A clock visible from every seat and bed in the house. Little things that make life just a bit easier.
Target sells the ironing board and iron caddy. We hung ours a few weeks ago and it was an awesome idea.
I now keep our travel toiletry bag already packed. I used to pack it for an overnight and then unpack it when we came home. Now it always has 2 travel toothbrushes, a travel sized toothpaste, travel sizes of our favorite deodorants (often come packaged with a regular sized one), travel sized shampoo/conditioner/lotion/face wash (thanks Sephora free gifts!) tweezers, a nail file, a comb, a small bottle of Advil, Chapstick, and a Tide pen. It's been great - no longer do I realize I've forgotten something after leaving!
I do the same thing with my shoes. They are in a small cabinet in the mudroom next to the garage.
I keep back-up bags of dog & cat food in an old ammo box on the porch, & refill the ready-use containers as needed. When I moved in 9 years ago, the box went on the back porch, & I schlepped 40lb bags thru the house. The front porch, my "mudporch" was my January Cure project. While rethinking the storage there, a face palm moment! I moved the ammo box to the front porch! Since I get my dog food delivered, it is now placed directly in the box by the delivery guy. Sometimes I am so smart. Sometimes it takes so long.
When our kids were 1 & 3 I moved the canister vacuum into the kitchen pantry where it sits on the floor under the shelves. This was a huge improvement from where it was: in a corner of the kitchen all day every day as we were using it daily. Changed our lives...
Yes! I know keep a bureau in the living/dining room for cloth napkins and various scarves/gloves/hats.
As far as I can remember, I've been all about "the fewer steps to take to do something, the better." I pick things up when I'm headed in the direction they go, or stage things to be on a route for that. I really can't think of anything I've changed... For example, our ironing board has moved a couple of times. But this is because my husband does the ironing while watching TV, and he moved from the living room to the studio where his computer is. I'm all for breaking storage "rules" if it cuts down on waste of movement! That caddy is great though. I will have to get one so I can stop being attacked by our ironing board when I open a closet...
@ dwelement
Ditto for the scissors. I also have tape, a small stapler, and spare reading glasses in every room.
I have two sets of sheets for each bed. The spare is in a plastic zipper bag along with some extra pillows, a blanket, and a couple of bars of soap I like the smell of (in lieu of a sachet). I keep that under the bed. When I take off the sheets for laundering, I put the spare set on while the originals are being washed. When the laundry is finished, I put the clean, folded sheets in the zipper bag. My "linen closet" in the hall is basically a small Duane Reade.
I keep my out-of-season clothes in my luggage for two reasons. A) I don't travel a lot and B) when I do, I need to evaluate whether I need different-weather clothes anyway. (I live in Texas, so for 9 months of the year I've got my "summer collection" in the closet.)
It does mean I leave little piles of folded clothes on the closet floor when I visit the family, but it's a price worth paying to me and it saves me space/time whenever I'm at home.
When I was a kid, I was at a friends house whose mom kept the kid's undies in baskets in the bathroom. The bedrooms were all upstairs and the only bathroom was on the first floor - so why scatter the basics all over the house? They needed undies after bathing and there they were!

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Just got this BTN programming alert:
"Tune in to Big Ten Tonight 9 PM ET as coach Rich Rodriguez reflects on the spring season and the outlook at QB."
I think I'll check it out.
Mike Hall had an interview with him today. He's been mum on the twitter since the interview. Had a lot of less than flattering question suggestions.
Thanks for the heads up. Good stuff.
he says something along the lines of...
spring practice went great, we got to see a lot of the younger players get some reps, there is competiiton at all positions that will continue into the fall. we are very pleased with the progress the team is making, although as always there are some areas of concern that we still need to work on. team is working hard.
QBs? It was great to see them getting a lot of action and see them both progress, Denard has really made some strides and there will be competition right through the fall.
the best players will play.
You have to include the line, "two guys we can win with."
When Hall won on "Dream Job," I thought he would end up being a national personality. He produced under tremendous pressure and kept his poise extremely well. He seemed to disappear on ESPNU, and apparently went to BTN for a fresh start.
I hope that he didn't do anything stupid to RR; I guess we'll find out soon enough.
GREATEST ALL-TIME BIG TEN SPORTS MEMORY AS A SPECTATOR: No question, it's the 2008 Capital One Bowl. Granted I was working but not really. I was in charge of pre-game and post-game stuff so during the game I got to just stand on the sidelines and watch that crazy contest unfold. Then, getting to be on the field asking questions to a bevy of joyous wolverines was a memory not to be forgotten. I didn't even mention being in the locker room as Coach Carr gave his final post-game address to his team.
With this in his bio, I doubt he will be a complete turd. RR has become really good at giving "blah" answers lately, so I doubt any question would phase him.
last week they did not televise an interview with RR? Every other major college campus they stop usually has the coach appearing in the video bus or whatever it's called.
with OSU and M. Where is RR???
If this gets half the awesome posts that the spring game thread had, I'm getting the popcorn ready.
You can't spare a few minutes to watch Michigan beat OSU at softball? There are some cute girls on the Michigan team, even.
She saves her strength for the home runs.
I'm just pleased that Big Ten's RBI leader is on our team and she can look how she wants doing it.
Did anyone happen to catch the interview?
Yeah, but it was the exact same thing he says every time he's been interviewed for the past month, so you didn't really miss anything.
"We'd like to have two we can win with" is so 2009, Super Unknown. He's been saying "maybe three" for a few weeks now. Makes it sound like Devin may not redshirt depending on how the summer and fall camp go.
I really like how they have handled information this Spring. Right now, we have three potential starting QB's, no decided RB starter, and a defensive scheme that "will surprise everyone".
I have my fingers crossed that they are trying to promote competition between the kickers, with the situation being better than we have been led to believe..........
The placekicking didn't look bad during the spring game and now that Tate has the starting punter job locked up, we should be good to go.
If only Denard could consistently punt the ball 35-40 yards...............
4th downs would be an absolute nightmare for opposing coaches.
Oh but he can. Didn't you watch the end of the Iowa game?
Thanks for posting the video, just alittle methadone to get me through the day on my long recovery to September.
LOL: "Ok ... good talking to you ..." NOT! (Look at the strained look on his face.)
Thanks for posting, even though this was a fluff interview. The questions were canned, and Rich had prepared (polished) answers. (Of course he's used the same answers all through the Spring.)
I think the comparison to springs past was the only new tidbit - even though the response wasn't really a surprise. He was pretty diplomatic about the the first spring practice.
"Tune in to Big Ten Tonight 9 PM ET as coach Rich Rodriguez reflects on the spring season and the outlook at QB."
Frankly, I'm more interested in the outlook at SS or the outlook at ILB, but sounds like Rich didn't say much regardless. Given how he's been treated by the media the past couple of years, who can blame him?


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Apathy and refunds are more dangerous than Piracy.
I think I can safely say that Super Meat Boy has been pirated at least 200,000 times. We are closing in on 2 million sales and assuming a 10% piracy to sales ratio does not seem unreasonable. As a forward thinking developer who exists in the present, I realize and accept that a pirated copy of a digital game does not equate to money being taken out of my pocket. Team Meat shows no loss in our year end totals due to piracy and neither should any other developer.
For the sake of argument, some of those people that did pirate Super Meat Boy could have bought the game if piracy didn't exist but there is no actual way to calculate that lost revenue. It is impossible to know with certainty the intentions of people. With the SimCity fiasco and several companies trying to find new ways to combat piracy and stating piracy has negatively affected their bottom line I wonder if they've taken the time to accurately try to determine what their losses are due to piracy.
My first job outside my parents cabinet shop was at KMart. KMart, like countless other retailers, calculates loss by counting purchased inventory and matching it to sales. Loss is always built into the budget because it is inevitable. Loss could come from items breaking, being stolen, or being defective. If someone broke a light bulb, that was a calculable loss. If someone returned a blender for being defective, it wasn't a loss to KMart, but a calculable loss to the manufacturer. If someone steals a copy of BattleToads, it's a loss to KMart. All loss in a retail setting is calculable because items to be sold are physical objects that come from manufacturers that have to be placed on shelves by employees. You have a chain of inventory numbers, money spent and labor spent that goes from the consumer all the way to the manufacturer. A stolen, broken, or lost item is an item that you cannot sell. In the retail world your stock is worth money.
In the digital world, you don't have a set inventory. Your game is infinitely replicable at a negligible or zero cost (the cost bandwidth off your own site or nothing if you're on a portal like Steam, eShop, etc). Digital inventory has no value. Your company isn't worth an infinite amount because you have infinite copies of your game. As such, calculating worth and loss based on infinite inventory is impossible. If you have infinite stock, and someone steals one unit from that stock, you still have infinite stock. If you have infinite stock and someone steals 1 trillion units from that stock , you still have infinite stock. There is no loss of stock when you have an infinite amount.
Because of this, in the digital world, there is no loss when someone steals a game because it isn't one less copy you can sell, it is potentially one less sale but that is irrelevant. Everyone in the world with an internet connection and a form of online payment is a potential buyer for your game but that doesn't mean everyone in the world will buy your game.
Loss due to piracy is an implied loss because it is not a calculable loss. You cannot, with any accuracy, state that because your game was pirated 300 times you lost 300 sales. You cannot prove even one lost sale because there is no evidence to state that any one person who pirated your game would have bought your game if piracy did not exist. From an accounting perspective it's speculative and a company cannot accurately determine loss or gain based on speculative accounting. You can't rely on revenue due to speculation, you can't build a company off of what will "probably" happen. Watch "The Smartest Guys in the Room" and see how that worked out for Enron.
Companies try to combat piracy of their software with DRM but if loss due to pirated software is not calculable to an accurate amount does the implementation of DRM provide a return on investment? It is impossible to say yes to this statement. Look at it as numbers spent in a set budget. You spend $X on research for your new DRM method that will prevent people from stealing your game. That $X is a line item in accounting that can be quantified. Can you then say "This $X we put into research for our DRM gained us back $Y in sales"? There is no way to calculate this because it is not possible to quantify the intentions of a person. Also, there's no way of accurately determining which customers would have stolen the game had there not been DRM.
To add to that, the reality of our current software age is the internet is more efficient at breaking things than companies are at creating them. A company will spend massive amounts of money on DRM and the internet will break it in a matter of days in most cases. When the DRM is broken is it worth the money spent to implement it? Did the week of unbroken DRM for your game gain you any sales from potential pirates due to the inability to pirate at launch? Again, there is no way of telling and as such cannot be used as an accurate justification for spending money.
So what should developers do to make sure people don't steal games? Unfortunately there is nothing anyone can do to actively stop their game from being pirated. I do believe people are less likely to pirate your software if the software is easy to buy, easy to run, and does what is advertised. You can't force a person to buy your software no more than you can prevent a person from stealing it. People have to WANT to buy your software, people have to WANT to support you. People need to care about your employees and your company's well being. There is no better way to achieve that than making sure what you put out there is the best you can do and you treat your customers with respect.
Lets loop back to what's going on with SimCity. I bought SimCity day one, I played it and experienced the same frustrations that countless others are experiencing. For total fairness, I know the always on DRM isn't the main issue, but I can't help but think that the server side calculations are a "wolf in sheep's clothing" version of DRM. I won't claim to know the inner workings of SimCity and this isn't a Captain Hindsight article because that is irrelevant. EA and Maxis are currently facing a bigger problem than piracy: A growing number of their customers no longer trust them and this has and will cost them money.
After the frustrations with SimCity I asked Origin for a refund and received one. This was money they had and then lost a few days later. Applying our earlier conversation about calculable loss, there is a loss that is quantifiable, that will show up in accounting spreadsheets and does take away from profit. That loss is the return, and it is much more dangerous than someone stealing your game.
In the retail world, you could potentially put a return back on the shelf, you could find another customer that wants it, sell it to them and there would be virtually no loss. In the digital world, because there is no set amount of goods, you gain nothing back (one plus infinity is still infinity). It's only a negative experience. A negative frustrating experience for a customer should be considered more damaging than a torrent of your game.
Speaking from my experience with SMB, I know for a fact we have lost a lot of trust from Mac users due to the Mac port of SMB being poor quality. I could go into the circumstances of why it is the way it is but that is irrelevant…it's a broken product that is out in the public. We disappointed a good portion of our Mac customers with SMB and as a result several former customers have requested and received refunds. I'd take any amount of pirates over one return due to disappointment any day.
Disappointment leads to apathy which is the swan song for any developer. If people don't care about your game, why would people ever buy it? When MewGenics comes out, I doubt many Mac users are going to be excited about our launch. When EA/Maxis create their next new game how many people are going to be excited about it and talking positively about it? I imagine that the poison of their current SimCity launch is going to seep into potential customers thoughts and be a point of speculation as to "Is it going to be another SimCity launch?".
This is not a quantifiable loss of course, but people are more likely to buy from distributors they trust rather than ones they've felt slighted by before. Consumer confidence plays a very important role in how customers spend money. I think its safe to say that EA and Maxis do not have a lot of consumer confidence at this point. I think its also safe to say that the next EA/Maxis game is going to be a tough sell to people who experienced or were turned away by talk of frustration regarding SimCity.
As a result of piracy developers feel their hand is forced to implement measures to stop piracy. Often, these efforts to combat piracy only result in frustration for paying customers. I challenge a developer to show evidence that accurately shows implementation of DRM is a return on investment and that losses due to piracy can be calculated. I do not believe this is possible.
The reality is the fight against piracy equates to spending time and money combating a loss that cannot be quantified. Everyone needs to accept that piracy cannot be stopped and loss prevention is not a concept that can be applied to the digital world. Developers should focus on their paying customers and stop wasting time and money on non-paying customers. Respect your customers and they may in turn respect your efforts enough to purchase your game instead of pirating it.
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AbstractThis paper explores the ways in which macroeconomic imbalances have driven policy discussions between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the last decade. The PRC's current account surplus, its growing foreign exchange reserves, and its shifting policies on exchange rate adjustment have become a central preoccupation of US trade policy. The paper considers the evolving political economy of the US policy stance and of the PRC's response; it assesses the opportunity costs of an approach that has sometimes focused on the exchange rate to the exclusion of other issues; and it explores the ramifications for economic governance in the short- and medium-run. The paper finds that there has been ample mutual misunderstanding between the US and the PRC in their economic arguments; that the momentous debates have the potential to severely impair the institutions of global economic governance; and that there is likely to be an important race between economic and demographic forces that will naturally redress the imbalances and the political imperatives for each country to stand tough and fight.
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So my unlucky ass has STILL not watched "Stolen Huffy" and normally I have a recap and my rantings up by now. So sorry about that shit. Since we're all so worried about our TIggy, here's him in Before the Anarchy.
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Before all you gross little perverts get excited, I'm not talking about anyone's butt in particular, so don't start foaming at the mouth and doing a bunch of crazy shit. I just watched "Una Venta". In fact I finished it less than five minutes ago, and I do not like where SAMCRO is headed, ladies and germs. The episode of course was amazing, as they always are, but the direction in which our beloved charter of SoA is headed has me really fucking nervous, and there are so many things going through my mind right now about the shit I just saw, I don't even know where to begin, dude.
Since the beginning of this season, two of my favorite characters (or shall I say former favorite) have been rapidly climbing to the top of my shit list. The first one is Gemma. Now, I know that those of you who bought the "WWGD" t-shirts are probably flipping me the bird right now, but Gemma's desperation to cover up what happened to JT after discovering that Tara's got those fucking letters is going to get people killed. Personally, I have three words to describe the death of John Teller and those are "no great loss". I'm sorry but any man who abandons his dying son so that he can go impregnate a 19-year-old in Ireland when he is like 50-fucking-4 is not a good guy. I don't give a shit what good things Piney (who is so biased) has to say about him, nothing is going to make me like the ghost of that fucker. All Gemma has to fucking say to Jax is that she was gonna pull a Loreena Bobbit on that unfaithful motherfucker but decided to take it a few steps further and Jax would totally back that shit. There would be no need to get in Clay's ear and start the total shit storm that we all know is coming. Now Clay is the other one that is almost to the top of my shit list (RON PERLMAN RULES). Jesus, Clay, what the fuck is wrong with him? I used to love Clay and now he's scaring the shit out of me. I think I'm going to go with demon possession as the cause of his current meanness and he has the devil inside him. Kind of like this:
I know that Clay's hands hurt and blah blah blah and he's trying to make as much cash before he can get the gold watch, but dude, I'm ready for him not to be prez no mo'. I'm backing Bobby for that shit. I think Bobby would be a stellar president, and with his moral gangster compass he will get SAMCRO and the rest of SoA back on the right path. Bobby is one wise motherfucker. Like an owl or something.
Seriously though they need to make Bobby president yesterday because there is some grim fucking shit coming up for SAMCRO and Clay is only gonna fuck it up more. It looks like all the pieces are in place for a fucking RICO case thanks to the new US Attorney ( I actually like that dude, he's cunning and he has way more personality than stinky stanky Stahl) and he has some very interesting ways of putting it all in motion. With the different aliases he has for each member of the SAMCRO family that he comes in contact with, I'm surprised he hasn't got a disguise for each one. If he did have disguises, that would actually make me love that character. I also want to see more of the cop's wife. I like the little exchange she had with Gemma, and the fact that she took the money shows me that the wifey might be SAMCRO's ticket to persuading her law dog husband to go over to the dark side and get on Sons' payroll.
In site news, I'm still uploading the pics from Dorylus, and I'll start on the Una Venta ones ASAP. You'll notice that there's a lack of Happy in those pics but be patient, weirdos, I'm working on it. I will not disappoint, I promise. Anyway, here's the promo for the episode for next week. As you can see, we are headed straight for the eye of a total fucking shit storm. With all the terrible things are bound to happen in this fourth season of Sons of Anarchy, everything looks so hopeless, it's going to be pretty amazing to see what Kurt Sutter and his team of kick ass writers do to make it possible for there to be another three seasons.
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I would like t wish a very happy birthday to our own mod, Baelee. I hope you have a wonderful day, Baelee and that you get everything that you want! You know how much we love you!
Kim Coates also had a birthday on Sunday,so Tignation is wishing a very happy birthday to him!
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I wonder how long it took every single one of those little piggies to say "wee wee wee" all the way through Mr. Tiger's digestive system after that photographer left. You know that's what happened. You're probably sitting there wondering what the fuck bacon, piggies and tigers have to do with SOA or TIgnation. Well, what I have for you guys is like bacon but better; new pics! We have some pictures from Tina Lou (fist bump) from Wounded Warriors. Thank you very much Lovely Tina for letting us use those pics! *smooch*. The other new pictures of the cast of SOA were provided to us by Ron Starrantino, so a very big thank you to him and it was very nice to meet him, if I may say so.
If you guys get the chance, I want you to tackle hug Boomshine for taking the screen shots for 3.04. She did an amazing job, as always. I love you, sexy Boomer, in THAT way *winks*. I tried to take screenshots and failed miserably. I couldn't stop growling at Jax. Spoiler Alert: he was being very not cool to Tigger. Not cool at all. There's a line and he crossed it. There's no getting back across the line to safety without having at least some scratches from me. I hope they get infected. Mean little shit.
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After seeming to have taken my sweet assed time, I have finally posted the screenshots for "Caregiver". They're in the usual spot. Now excuse me while I go and sulk about having to go to work tonight. I don't wanna. Oh, and I've been wanting to add some new shit to the gallery too, but my internet's being a douche, so I'm gonna have to wait a little bit.
Now, who's excited about 3.04? Yeah I though you would be. Maybe these screenshots I've posted will hold you over until Tuesdays, when we get more Sons. It's like an incurable itch, folks, it only stops bothering us for an hour a week.
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First of all, Tignation is a website that fucking loves monkeys. Just the cute ones like the one you see in the picture though, not those mean motherfuckers with the red asses and the sharp teeth. No thank you to those scary bastards.
The reason the monkey is lookin' so smug with his thumb up and everything is because I have been productive today (cough cough that's a first cough cough) and I went and uploaded the first screenshots for season 3. As a matter of fact, they're still uploading. Go me! Remember when I said I wasn't gonna divide them up by character this year? *points down at last blog post * Well I stuck to that, and you can find all the new screen shots in the Season 3 Screenshots album. Enjoy, you silly fuckers, enjoy. I love you. No really, I do.
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A couple of nights ago, the cast of Sons of Anarchy had their premiere party and we've got pictures! You can see them in the gallery in the Album Cast and Crew. Special thanks to Tasha Knowles and Tina Lou for letting us use 'em. Tignation loves you guys! I'll be adding more as the day progresses. This is my first real day back at Tignation. I've missed you all! Feels like it's been a long ass time since I've been here or done anything for the site! Working nights can suck like that. Keeps you away from your friends and shit.
Also, be sure and go out and buy your season 2 DVD of SOA, if you haven't already. If you haven't picked it up yet, don't feel bad, I didn't buy it yet either. I just looked in my wallet and saw that I don't even have enough money for Taco Bell which is dirt cheap because, ahem, nevermind, anyone who's eaten that toxic waste knows what I'm talking about. There's even a song about it involving bushes, hills and ladders.
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We've got a little over one week left before SOA comes back on. Do you know what that means! WATCH PARTIES! I've gotten a lot of complaints over the summer about how the chat room where we used to hold such watch parties was D-E-A-D and I have to agree with those who pointed that out to me. It was very very very fucking dead and we have to revive it. Or at least make undead and have it walk around aimlessly looking for body parts to snack on. If you want to go in there and be a part of the watch parties, the password to get into the chat room is TIGNATION. Dude, that's like really hard to remember.
Don't forget, we have SOA watch parties for Eastern/Central times and then there's one later on for all those who live out in California.
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We are smack dab in the middle of summer and the heat is making us lazy and forgetful, so I've decided that it's time to remind you fellas about some website and SOA shit. We've also got to inform the newly joined of this shit too so let's fire away:
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No, we're not going out on an actual date, despite all the times we've tried to sign up for eHarmony. We're talking about an air date for the premiere of SOA season 3, and that's far more important than marriage, children or love everlasting! The air date is *drumroll please*
SEPTEMBER SEVENTH! So make damn sure we mark our calendars! I've inserted a countdown clock in the right sidebar.


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Tim Harrington, Tom Scharpling, Jim James, Dave Hill, Scott Aukerman & more covered "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
Some of you may remember "The Super Bowl Shuffle," a Sugarhill Gang style rap single recorded by the Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew at the tail end of 1985. (The Bears would go on to win Super Bowl XX a couple months later.) Featuring verses by Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William "Refrigerator" Perry and other members of the team, the six-minute single featured awkward rapping (and worse dancing in the video)...but you couldn't turn on a radio without hearing it. If you missed this blip of pop culture history, you can watch the original music video below.
With two weeks until Super Bowl XLVIII -- which is happening in the NYC-area (with lots of concerts) if you just woke up from a coma -- Sean Cannon of WFPK's "After Dark" has orchestrated a cover of "The Superbowl Shuffle" featuring a veritable Who's Who of indie rock, internet, and comedy talent, including Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), Tim Harrington (of Les Savy Fav), Tom Scharpling (of The Best Show), web cat Lil Bub, wrestler Colt Cabana, John Roderick (of The Long Winters), filmmaker David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer), Comedy Bang! Bang!'s Scott Aukerman, Kyle Kinane, and occasional BV contributor and WFMU DJ Dave Hill (who plays guitar on the cover). Proceeds from sales of this 2014 version of "The Superbowl Shuffle" (which keeps the original rhymes) go to Reading is Fundamental.
Just how did this come about? Cannon offers up a lengthy/labyrinthine explanation which you can read, while listening to the song, below...
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Holy smokes dudes. Lookit, I don't really go for the whole 'festival' scene, nor do I have the scratch or the resources to get my ass on a plane to go to some far off place and put myself up in a hotel in order to endure a few days of music and drunk idiots and awful tattoos and dudes in short-shorts prancing around like the world around them isn't basically in the worst shape it has ever been and stuff. And I am too old to do the old bro-out road trip, share a hotel room with eight dudes nonsense. However, two upcoming events in Elsewhere, USA are forcing me to consider eBaying everything I own in order to personally witness their majesty. The first event, which I've already mentioned, is Festival Supreme which is taking place on the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday October 19. Top to bottom, this show boasts the best line-up of entertainment I have ever seen including performances by Tenacious D, Zach Galifianakis, The Mr. Show Experience, Reggie Watts, Tig Notaro, Eric Idle, Tim & Eric, Sarah Silverman, and scores more of top shelf greatness. If ever there was a show worth the price of admission, a plane ticket, and a hotel room somewhere this is it.
Less than a month after that, the incredibly curated Fun Fun Fun Fest 2013 has to go ahead and add a comedy line-up to their already powerhouse festival. If you're at the fest, which happens in Austin Texas from November 8 - 10, prepare yourself, for their comedy line-up includes the impossibly great Tenacious D, Patton Oswalt, Craig Robinson, Doug Benson, Rob Delaney, The Eric Andre Show Live(!), Kyle Kinane, Jonah Ray, and tons tons tons more. The fact that, in a single festival, I can see Slayer, Quicksand, The Descendents, Judge, Subhumans, and the Cro-Mags as well as all this great comedy is basically my most wonderfully imaginative dream come true. Tickets are currently on sale and I urge you to get on it tout de suite, sunshine.
But hey, if you're a New Yorker like me and dreams of travel to exotic US locations for comedy/music festivals are just that, a dream, have no fear. For as we mentioned yesterday The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival will return for it's 6th year with shows at The Bell House and Union Hall from September 26 - 29 that are sure to be so good you're gonna want to have a clean pair of underwear handy. This year's festival is bursting at the seams with comedy, maybe some music, and definitely more. Klaus favorites including Kristen Schaal, Jim Gaffigan, Ira Glass, Wyatt Cenac, Jon Benjamin, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Che, Kurt Braunohler, and Leo Allen are all scheduled to perform in one way or another. In addition to that, the ALWAYS SOLD OUT StarTalk Live! with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman will be back this year, as well as tons of smaller shows featuring newer talent and comedians who are sure to be sucked into the vacuum that is Los Angeles sooner or later. And you know your man Klaus is stoked for the return of Invite Them Up, Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen, and that super dope Bob's Burgers Season 4 Celebration. It's going to be a great festival loaded with the shows and comedians that made me fall in love with the NYC comedy scene in the first place.
For some of you today is probably payday so get those sweet bunz of yours onto TicketFly and start buying those tickets!
more Fun Fun Fun Fest artist leaks (FLAG, Deerhunter, Big K.R.I.T., Star Slinger, Daniel Johnston, Kyle Kinane)
Deerhunter at Governors Ball 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
As discussed, Fun Fun Fun Fest is returning to Austin's Auditorium Shores from November 8-10 this year. After already leaking five artists (The Julie Ruin, Bonobo, Judge, The Walkmen, and Ice-T), FFF Fest just leaked six more.
The new announcements include FLAG (aka one of two Black Flag reunions, and who play NYC in September), Deerhunter (who also play NYC in September), Big K.R.I.T. (who plays Rock the Bells and NYC with Talib Kweli and Macklemore), Star Slinger, Daniel Johnston, and comedian Kyle Kinane.
Tickets for FFF Fest go on sale July 9 at 11 AM EST.
Star Slinger recently remixed Miguel's "Adorn." Check that out below...
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On the heels of a highly successful, critically acclaimed sold-out 2012 festival, the Sasquatch! Music Festival unveils its 2013 lineup, which once again features 4 days of music. The festival, hailed as "a model of well-paced programming...in a four-day schedule as efficient and natural feeling as an expertly built algorithm" by NPR Music while Wired notes, "leave the landscape out of it and Sasquatch! has a lineup to kill for," runs May 24-27 (Memorial Day Weekend) at TheWoot. 2013 Lineup below...
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by Klaus Kinski
Hey guys. TGIF right? It has come to my attention that the comedy line up for the 11th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has dropped and boy is it something (awesome). Folks attending the comedy portion of the fest are sure to get a Boner-oo, that's for sure. The indoor and air-conditioned Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre will feature appearances by Aziz Ansari, Steven Wright, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Reggie Watts, Judah Freidlander, Rhys Darby, Colin Hay, Garfunkle & Oats, Amy Schumer, Pete Holmes, Rory Scovel, Mike O' Connell, Ali Wong, and Kyle Kinane. Holy. Cheezus. Read that list again. Digest. Read it again. Digest some more. There is so much goodness in that list it almost makes me sad that I don't have the $$$ or the strength to go to Bonnaroo.
Former staple of the NYC comedy scene Aziz Ansari has been on a relentless and neck-breakingly fast rise to super-stardom and sells out some of the countries largest theaters. I love him ever so much and he is a whopper of an asset to the line-up. And in case you didn't know, Aziz followed in the footsteps of comedy pioneer Louis CK by offering a download of his special Dangerously Delicious for a measly $5. Meanwhile catch Aziz on tour and at the Bonnaroo-related Googa Mooga thing happening in Brooklyn.
Marc Maron? Awesome. A living legend. Phenomenal stand-up pro and host of one of the best podcasts in this stinking, rotten world: WTF. You can also catch him live in New Brunswick four times in April.
Steven Wright is yet another living legend of stand-up. He's been in the biz since 1979 and his style and delivery has given birth to some of the best bits and one-liners in the history of stand-up (here's an exhaustive list). He bridges a seriously important gap between the current alt/indie/whateverthefuckyoucallit-comedy scene and the old school.
BRIAN POSEHN. Dude. BRIAN POSEHN!
Y'all even get a dose of Men At Work front-man Colin Hay who will play songs and share hilarious stories. I actually have two friends who shared drum duties with Hay on a recent tour and I got to have dinner with the guy. The dude's got some ridiculous stories and, man, can he tell 'em. You can also catch him in NYC at Town Hall on April 27th.
And Reggie Watts! A man who just announced a huge tour that includes a headlining gig at the rather large Webster Hall.
And Pete Holmes! Didn't I just get through telling you that Pete is awesome and even has a show coming up in NYC that you should not under any circumstances miss? Yes, I did.
Anyhow, this is one line-up I'd sure pitch a tent to see and you should take time out of your noodle-dancing schedule to check some or all of it out. Have fun!
A bunch of other dates are listed below...
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Heh, I reserved a room at the Marriott right next to the Convention Center before I even had my ticket. ;) I did it through the hotel's website, marriottanaheimhotel.com. I could have gotten a non-refundable deal for about $80 a night, but of course there was a good possibility that I would need to cancel the reservation if I couldn't get a ticket, so I went with the more expensive option.
I'll be flying in to LAX, what's the cheapest way to get from the airport to the hotel, and vice versa? Does anyone know if that Marriott has a shuttle service?
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Really no hotel in the Anaheim area offers free shuttle service to the airports. Your best option is SuperShuttle, which is $10 one way from SNA and $16 from LAX. Don't even need a reservation for it (only your return trip to the airport requires a reservation).
At SNA, just go to the ground transportation area across the front drive of the airport. It's across the middle of the airport on the third island out. The employees wear blue shirts and they use blue vans.
At LAX, just go under the ground transportation/hotel shuttles sign and there should be a SuperShuttle employee stationed out there. Just tell him where you need to go and he'll radio a van for you.


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Just my 2 cents… It seems like there's a lot of work put into this theme – don't get me wrong, I think even too much. The essence of this theme is diminished. If this is a business theme – keep the focus on business. Main navigation is kinda out of importance. Should be a bit bigger and bolder. "Social icons" in page header and footer…why? Keep the header as clean as possible or at least don't let them pop out so badly. Sticky header is OK but unless scrolled there's no clear cut between navigation and content. Keep the layout consistent! There's too much difference (visually) between various pages. Icons hover effect (seen on About Us page) is kinda glitchy. Other icons hover effect is not quite "representative". Definitely find better photos. Have you seen your Search results page? Try to enter Lorem and the results are showing shortcodes instead of text. Separators should have consistency too…some of them are black (or fat) while others look more or less normal. Keep an eye on details.
What an old, grumpy and lame bag of bones I am! Yesterday I forgot to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY Envato!!! Thanks a ton for making my life (and the life of my family) great, I wish all the health and luck of this world for all the great people working at Envato! Truly and honestly you are my heroes for over 5 years, don't ever stop doing it!
Get married and have a kid. One, two, three, four, five, etc. Kids are the biggest happiness you'll ever feel in your life. Right after kids are your friends. And a Saturday rasta bong with them (of course after kids are asleep). I forgot to mention my wife but the fun with her usually takes another direction.
Your HTML is not quite "reliable". I have found many of SUCH examples ... it looks like there's some issue with the_content(). Try to use margins when separating two different font-families!
By me, "Raleway" and "Georgia" combo doesn't get along at all. Get rid of serif and stick to Raleway, it'll bring more consistency.
Next, add more content to theme's demo site…. where are videos, galleries, shortcodes? Find more attractive photos too.
CONTINUE READING link is so BIG and far away from the text summary, it doesn't make any sense.
Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like that countdown info is of greater importance than anything else on Under Construction page. What one would expect to see (by the order of importance):
a) What is this all about? It's an Under Construction page!
b) Thanks for understanding
c) When the site will be back alive?
d) our social profiles
Information presentation belongs to design, of course, and you'll have to figure it out by yourself. Keep things as simple as possible.
Regardless UI, I think the problem is with TF not following WordPress upgrades fast enough. Yeap, WP 3 .2 is still fresh but users go for it as soon as that upgrade notice is visible in Dashboard.
WP 3 .2. brings new jQuery (1.6) as well and some things have been changed here as well. Heads up for syntax errors!
I guess 'empty' will not work. Did you try 'isset' instead? If not working, comparing it with an empty string ( if( $_POST[ 'var_name' ] != '' ) ) should work.
OK, I'm lookin forward to read your notes. Thanks for understanding!
All of the changes have been done according to designer's feedback and review staff tips but the theme submission has been declined once again. Here's what I found in feedback…
The main issue is that it seems you've aimed for simplicity, but the overall design lacks details in its design that would help it stand out as more unique. For a minimalistic design, all the spacings and typography have to be pitch perfect, which isn't the case here. And specially with a minimal design, even the small issues are magnified.
By me, simplicity shouldn't lack details, otherwise it's not called simplicity. It was simple at the beginning but reviewer opinion was: "it looks drab, like a wall of images and text". So it ended up as non-simple any more. As for typography – please, if anyone is willing to provide a decent explanation, I would appreciate it more than anything.
At this point, it's hard for me to say which specific changes you have to make since the design needs sweeping, overall changes and polish. I strongly suggest looking at the best selling minimal templates to get an idea as to how to execute. Basically, good decision to go with minimalism but subpar execution here.
The more I look at best selling e-commerce themes (or minimal design templates), the less I understand TF's approval criteria.
If anyone else is willing to comment – I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
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We don't really know the entire circumstances, because all we have is Bobby's perspective. We do know that the unnamed girlfriend *and her parents* are okay with the situation, and she's assured him that everything is fine. I suspect that the real problem is not that she has a friend, but that the situation is making him feel insecure and he doesn't know how to handle it.
If my friend had played WoW, we may have been in touch all the time. (Probably not, because I use WoW to wind down after spending all day with people, and not to socialize.) But since I didn't feel "that way" about my friend, and she didn't feel "that way" about me, it would have never occurred to me that her boyfriend might have felt jealous or threatened.
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@Hollow Leviathan
VuhDo does have portability between characters. You simply go into the .. umm.. 3rd last tab? (I stopped using it the day after I installed it) and you can save your profiles there. Save one and call it .. say.. "Leviathan".. Then load up another toon, and in the same tab, you can load the newly saved profile. You can edit the profile and it applies to everyone who uses it, or you can rename and save it so that each character has different abiliteis and layouts - based on your first "Leviathan" profile.
I just found that Pitbull was OH so much more configurable, and with Clique behind it, I have not foudn anything I can not do that I woudl want to do.


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West Altgeld Street & North Kildare Avenue has a Walk Score of 69 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
West Altgeld Street & North Kildare Avenue is a 10 minute walk from the MD-N Milwaukee North at the Healy stop.
This location is in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood in Chicago. Nearby parks include Kelvyn Park, Hermosa Park and Ken-Well Park.
Nearby schools include Kelvyn Park High School, Chicago Christian Academy and Barry Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Joziville, International Foods Inc and ALDI Chicago, IL.
Nearby coffee shops include Dunkin' Donuts, Dunkin' Donuts and Cafe Internet Latino. Nearby restaurants include Mario's Tacos, Ponce Restaurant and Daddy's Pizza.
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