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Trip Overview
Itinerary Details Day by Day
- Day 1 Beijing Arrival
Welcome to Beijing!Clear the customs and retrieve your baggage by yourself upon arrival, be greeted by our tour guide in the Arrival Hall who is holding a sign on which says your name; transferred by your private car/van to your hotel downtown. The rest of the day is your own time.
- Day 2 Beijing ( B, L )
Today you will first visit the world's biggest city plaza, the Tiananmen Square; then walk to the marvelous "Egg" (National Centre for the Performing Arts) to take some pictures from its outside; subsequently, go to the Forbidden City, the most complete imperial palace in China; and later proceed to the impressive Temple of Heaven. After the sightseeing tour driven back to your hotel.
- Day 3 Beijing ( B, L, D )
After breakfast, drive to the Badaling Great Wall (about 80 km, 1.5hours) where you will experience at first hand the wonder of the Great Wall. For lunch you'll sample some delicious fare in a local restaurant. Afterwards, visit the Sacred Way and Changling, one of the Ming Tombs; on the way back to your hotel, you might make a stop at the Beijing Olympic Village to take some photos of the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube from the outside; Feel a little bit tired? Not to worry! We will arrange a foot massage (free of charge) for you, just relax and enjoy it! With a Peking Roast Duck dinner you will complete today's tour!
- Day 4 Beijing - Shanghai, by flight ( B, L )
After breakfast, you'll marvel at the exquisite Summer Palace, the imperial garden. Your Beijing tour ends. After lunch, take a flight to Shanghai from Beijing. On your arrival at Shanghai airport, your tour guide will meet you and bring you to your hotel in Shanghai. Rest of the day is free for you to explore the metropolis.
- Day 5 Shanghai ( B, L )
On this day you will take a stroll through the Yuyuan Garden. After, you can observe local people's life at the Yuyuan Bazaar. After lunch at a local restaurant, you will move on to Xiantiandi; an affluent car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai. Then drive to the Pudong New Area to enjoy a bird's eye view of Shanghai from the Jinmao Tower.
- Day 6 Shanghai - Mt. Huangshan, by flight ( B, L )
After breakfast, you will immerse yourself in the peaceful atmosphere of the Jade Buddha Temple. Be transferred to airport for your flight to Mt. Huangshan.
Upon your arrival at city of Huangshan (Tunxi), our local guide will meet you and escort you take the cable car at Yungu Station to the top of the mountain. Overnight on the mountain.
- Day 7 Mt. Huangshan ( B, L )
Get up in the early morning, you will go to enjoy the sunrise ( if the weather is ok ) on your own. After breakfast, you will visit the Brush Pen Peak, tour Lion Peak and the Xihai Grand Canyon. In the evening, you will enjoy the sunset glow at the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion. Overnight on the mountain.
- Day 8 Mt. Huangshan - Shanghai, by flight ( B, L )
After breakfast, you will take the cable car down to the foot of the mountain and be driven back to the city of Huangshan to visit Hongcun Village, which is an 880-year-old ancient village with graceful scenery of mountains, lakes, rivers, bridges and houses. Walking on the Tunxi Old Street, you will see the age-old houses decorated with delicate wood and stone carvings.
Then take a flight back to Shanghai. In Shanghai airport, our tour guide meets you and transfer to the hotel.
- Day 9 Shanghai Departure ( B )
Depending on your departure flight schedule, you may pay a visit to the People's Square and the Shanghai Museum then the tour guide would escort you to the airport for the flight to your next destination.
Most Recommended Add-ons / Optional Activities
+ 2 more days to explore the Ancient of Heart - Xian
Xian, a cradle of Chinese Civilization, tops high among China's most important and popular cities.
As the capital of 13 ancient China dynasties, Xian is filled with amazing historic and cultural wonders. The Terracotta Warriors, Ancient City Walls, and Big Wild Goose Pagoda, all show you a path back into history.
+ 2 more days to visit the city with the best scenery under heaven - Guilin
It is worthy of the saying: Guilin's mountain and water scenery is the best under heaven!
Guilin, together with the idyllic Yangshuo town, is always a hot extended tourist destination in China. It is world famous for not only the fascinating karst landscape along the Li River, but also enjoying a high reputation for its serene countryside life and spotless natural beauty. A perfect destination to escape the hustle and bustle cities of China.
Price from $1961 (per person)
Price Conditions: This price is based on a group of 2-5 people traveling at 3-star class in the shoulder season.
Please Note: * The price of this trip changes a lot according your group number, travel season and tour class. Please contact one of our travel consultants for the most detailed quotation. We ensure the LOWEST price. * Discounts for children in China are based on height. Let us know your child's age and height and we can calculate accordingly.
Price Inclusions:
- Entrance fees to all scenic spots listed in the itinerary;
- Local flavor meals indicated in the itinerary;
- Personal local English-speaking tour guide in every destination;
- Private transfers with experienced driver between airports, hotels, scenic spots, etc;
- Arrangements: charges of planning, handling, operational and communication;
- Domestic flight/train from one destination to another one;
- Centrally located hotels in each destination;
Price Exclusions
- International Airfare or Train Tickets to enter or leave China;
- China Entry Visa Fees;
- Optional tours or activities you've chosen;
- Tips & gratitude to drivers and guides;
- Personal expenses;
Service Overview of this Trip
Your experience is everything, so flawless personal service is our focus.
When you taking this trip with us, we'll make sure that you get the most out of your investment: the best value hotels, superior tour services, comfortable transfers and transportation, and an impeccable customer service.
- Our Friendly & Experienced Local Tour Guide
When showing you a tourist destination, nothing is more important than the person hosting you. They must be gracious, patient, flexible, have a pleasing personality and speak English well.
Our guides are carefully selected and trained. We not only evaluate their language skills, their knowledge of sites but also their personality and ability to be a kind host.
From the moment you land in China to your departure flight home, they concentrate on your needs and being the best hosts to you that they possible can during the whole trip.
Moreover, they are flexible, so is this trip. Your guide can work with you to be flexible should you wish to change your itinerary. If its a small change they will sort it out directly with you. If its a big change they may need to call our office to coordinate it and quote costs if you are adding on to the itinerary.
- Our Vehicle and Drivers Used in this Trip
We only use the safe, legal, clean and comfortable vehicle for your trip. We have a fleet of vehicles at our disposal, so depending on the size of your group, we will give you one that is the right size. We make sure everyone in your group has enough room to spread out and stow their luggage.
Normally you will have the same driver every day in a city. Drivers do not speak English, that is the job of the guide. Their job is to make you safe and comfortable.
- Local Flavor Meals in this Trip
During this trip, you will have your breakfast on the hotel, which are all included in price of the package (only if you book the hotels with us).
For the lunch everyday, meals in good local restaurants include plenty of dishes selected according to your taste, and we will order more if need be, vegetarian and other special diets no problem. All lunches are included in the package.
For the dinner indicated in the itinerary, we usually take you to the very local famous restaurant, like the Quan Ju De Roast Duck in Beijing, Tang Dynasty Dumpling Dinner in Xian, etc.
For the meals not packaged on the itinerary, you can ask for some suggestions from your tour guide in each city and they usually know where to eat based on your interests.
- Accommodations
We have a great relationship with a wide selection of hotels in each tourist city around China, so we could arrange the accommodations at the best price, from budget to luxurious and featured to modern, to meet every client's needs.
- No Forced Shopping
Normally we arrange one or two shopping stops at each destination. At these shops you can buy genuine, high quality local specialties at a reasonable price. These shopping opportunities are according to your own desires; there will be no forced shopping.
- Guaranteed Prices & No Hidden Fees
The tour price quoted for this trip what you'll pay, even if inflation or a drop in the dollar-to-yuan exchange rate increases operating costs. We have never increase your final payment, and we never will.
During the trip, no fees will be asked except for your personal expense and the additional activities.
- Safety & Emergency
In case of any emergency, the following phone contacts are available.
Police: 110 Fire: 119 Hospital: 120 Traffic: 112
* Your travel consultant with his/her mobile phone in 24 hours. * Our manager phone: +86 18211044601 (24 hours).
Why Travel with Us - our advantages
A China Local Travel Agency based in Beijing
* we specialize in Beijing and other tourist destinations around China;* we can be with you every step of the way;* we can offer the LOWEST price for all trips;* we can deliver the very first-hand destination knowledge;* we can provide 24/7 in-trip assistance;
Tailor-made Itineraries
All our tours are fully customizable.
We can work with you to put together an itinerary that fits your specific needs and interests. Our staff is fully qualified to work with you to customize an itinerary on a service by service basis. Just tell us what you want and we'll make it happen!
One-on-One Travel Consultant Service
After sending us an enquiry, one of our travel consultants will respond to you within 0.5~23.5 hours. In the next planning days, you will be working closely to design an ideal trip to suit your specific interests, requirements and budget.
During your trip, they always call you to make sure everything is going well as planned.
No Forced Shopping
Normally we arrange one or two shopping stops at each destination. At these shops you can buy genuine, high quality local specialties at a reasonable price. These shopping opportunities are according to your own desires; there will be no forced shopping.
Guaranteed Prices & No Hidden Fees
The tour price quoted for this trip what you'll pay for, even if inflation or a drop in the dollar-to-yuan exchange rate increases operating costs, we never increase your final payment, and we never will.
During the trip, no fees will be asked except for your personal expense and the additional activities.
Experienced Tour Guide & Driver
Our guides are carefully selected and trained. We not only evaluate their language skills, their knowledge of sites but also their personality and ability to be a kind host.
We only use the safe, legal, clean and comfortable vehicles for your trip.
Reviews of this Trip
"I Appreciate My Two Tours in Beijing!"
1.How about the person of Beijing Holiday whom you contact. Is he or she fast enough to answer your E-mail and patient enough to answer your questions?
Trudy was amazing. I even met her in person on the third day. Everything I asked she answered with a lot of information and different options. She even didn't try to push me over one specific. Besides she was very patient, something that by my surprise is not considered a quality here, but almost a sin?!
2.How about your tour arrangements?
I took two tours. Both happened as described and on time. Very satisfied!
3.Are you willing to recommend our service to those who would like to come to China?
Yes. I'd recommend it to our friends, that I did with them were perfect (two tours and show with pick up).
4.Your general opinion on us?
Very professional and serious. Thanks. Anyone who wants to travel to Beijing should hire a tour agency like yours.
5.What will be your suggestions regarding how to improve our services?
I really appreciate your service, including pick-up, hotel accommodation arrangement, private car transfer. About the restaurant during the tours, I'd no hurt if you charge a little more and offer better places to have lunch. The place next to the jade store was ok.
6.Can we use your comments of our service, the photos or other images that you took on the tour for our websites, brochures, marketing and publicity? If yes, could you please send us some of your photos by E-mail?
No pics. But you can use my words, no problem. Thank you very much! Finally, the show was really interesting!
I do think that your country has still a lot of unexplored potential. Your people work hard and deserve a better life. Good luck!
Igor Vieira, 2014-08-27
"9 Days Wonderful Tour: Shanghai - Beijing - Xian - Beijing "
At the beginning of this month, My boyfriend and I had a wonderful 13 days Tour in Shanghai, Beijing and Xian, which was organized up to the details by Miya and her Company.
Firstly, the tour guides that we had during our stay in China were excellent, very friendly and with perfect English! They gave advices on markets to visit, food to try and a lot of additional information about Chinese culture, customs, etc.
Secondly, the restaurants we were taken to were local and had delicious food such as dumplings, fish, duck and other food items and where you couldn't see any tourists but locals. One of the restaurants we visited was Cantonese, which was fabulous! It was a great surprise and we loved the food! Usually the guide asked what we feel like eating and then order so much food to taste. Our guide in Shanghai was absolutely the best in taking us out for lunch/dinner.
Once we arrived in Beijing, we were provided with laminated guide books which were a very thoughtful and nice gesture from the Company, well done! Most important, we visit the Forbidden City and learn the love story of Chinese Emperors and their concubines.
Finally, I have to say that we felt welcome and treated nicely during the whole tour in China and enjoyed the high quality service provided by Miya, her company and the local tour guides.
Highly recommend the hotels we stayed in: Beijing Howard Johnson Paragon Hotel, Xian King Dynasty Hotel, and Shanghai Golden River-View Hotel.
Londen, England
Louis Lee, 2014-08-21
"Excellent one-day Tour in Beijing"
On Aug. 6th, I had one day available for site seeing in Beijing when on my business trip. The travel advisor, Sophia, recommended me to tour the Forbidden City and the Mutianyu Great Wall in a day. Then I booked the tour itinerary. The early morning of the second day, a driver and a tour guide Tommy came to my hotel for picking me up. Tommy is very knowledgeable about Chinese history and filled me in on the history of the Forbidden City, stories of the Dragon Ladies, the building story of the Great Wal, and battles history prior to its construction.
It was a fabulous trip complete with an excellent lunch at an out door restaurant where you could select your own fressh fish! Tommy is extremely attentive to my needs and interests. He is a great guide. I learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed the day. I would highly recommend Beijing Tours for touring needs. It is a great company.
Celia, 2014-08-12
"8 Days China Private Tour: Beijing Shanghai Suzhou"
Mr. Will organized a terrific 8 days tour of Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou for us, a group of 5 people in late July. They did a super tour job in Beijing, and we climb the Badaling Great Wall in the third day. When we were in Shanghai, he arranged a Shanghai acrobats for us. Our tour to Suzhou is to visit the Tongli water town, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. In the town, the stone bridges shock my heart: each bridge has its own special name and its artistic style. Will and the guide are always informative, friendly, reliable, patient. This is a pleasure all the way through!
London, United Kingdom
Celeste L, 2014-08-01
"10 Days in Tibet - Overland from Nepal to Tibet"
We, 5 of us, had a tour of a lifetime in Tibet in June, 2014. We did an overland tour from Nepal - EBC - Shigatse -Gyantse -Lhasa with Beijing Holiday tours. We had engaged with Sophia 3 months ahead before our tour and she has responded to all our requests in a timely manner. One of the highlights of the tour is out tour guide - Jampa. She is the BEST guide that we ever had. She is VERY passionate and knowledgeable on Tibetan Buddhism, the local culture and also the history of the country. We are overwhelmed and truly attracted to Tibet because of Jampa . We definitely would like to be back again to visit different areas in Tibet and we will go for Jampa . We learned a lot from her and we really appreciated it. Aside that, we also has a good driver too - he is skillful on the road. We thanked both of them for "saving" us when we had some high altitude challenges at EBC.
Beijing Holiday tours is one of the best choice that anyone should consider engaging in Tibet.
Last but not least, we would like to say thank you for Sophia, Jampa and our sifu driver for taking care of us during the trip.
BabuKansas, 2014-07-22
Trip FAQs & Notes
Here you will find the answers to the questions our travelers most frequently ask about this trip. If you do not find the answer to your specific question, please contact us directly.
1. What's the private tour type?
Only you and your family, friends or colleagues in this group to visit the destinations listed on the itinerary escorted by a private English-speaking tour guide and private vehicle with an experienced local driver.
2. Is this trip customizable?
Yes. You can either work with your travel consultant to put together an itinerary that fits your specific needs while planning step, or you may work with your tour guide while on tour should you wish to change your itinerary.
If its a small change they will sort it out directly with you. If its a big change they may need to call our office to coordinate it and quote costs if you are adding on to the itinerary.
3. What's the difference between group tour and private package?
Group tour means shared guide and shared vehicle, cost-saving but not customized, and also it is shopping tour, but you can know a lot of people from the group.
PRIVATE PACKAGE means we will provide you with a private vehicle, which is big enough for your group of people, and a private driver and guide for private tours and transfers as listed in our itinerary. Private tour is more flexible and valuable. You could spend more time at places you feel like than what has been scheduled. You could start your tour every day.
4. What's the arrangement of the vehicles for the tour?
Normally customers take care of the international flights on their own, and we can help you to book if you want. And the better thing is that leave the domestic transportation for travel agent, and they can book the train or flights based on your time and tour arrangement, it will be easy for them to change or cancel if there is any emergency.
5. How can we meet the guide at airport or train station?
Just tell the agent that your international flights information and we will arrange the guide and driver at the airport for you on time with your name card, and also the agent will arrange every city's pick up and transfer for you, all you do is to enjoy worry-free trip in China.
6. Should we change our cell phone SIM card in China?
Normally you do not need, if you want to make a domestic call, you can ask help from the guide or hotel. If you want to communicate your travel agent at any time you want, tell them you need SIM card, they will arrange the guide help you to get one when you arrive.
And the SIM card will be 5-16$ with 4-15$ call charge in the card, which will be enough for your whole China tour.
7. What's kind of clothes should we take? And what's about the laundry?
Depends on how long you will stay and also the season, from late April to early Nov. you can just take some light clothes, other time, you need to take winter coat. And you can do the laundry in hotels where you will stay longer, and also different hotels have different charge rates. If necessary you can ask the guide to help to arrange it.
8. What's the difference between shopping tour and non-shopping tour? Which one is better for me?
For shopping tour, you will be guided to some shops to buy things that you are interested, but this is not compulsive to buy, and shopping tour will be cheaper than non-shopping tour, but will be time cost in shops. And non-shopping tour you will not be guided to shops for the whole tour, and more time for sightseeing but more expensive.
If you want to buy something from China, shopping tour is better, and if you just want to enjoy the sightseeing non-shopping tour is the right choice. Also you can chose to have some shopping and non-shopping cities based on your needs if you go on a private tour.
9. How should I apply Chinese visa? Will you travel agent help with that?
Normally you need to go to the local Chinese embassy, and ask them what you should to prepare. And in some countries, they need invitation from China, so you can ask the Chinese travel agent to provide you the travel invitation, and then prepare some other documents, most time you can get the Chinese visa soon. And also you should apply the visa valid duration time based on your travel time, 15days, 30days or 90days.
10. Is it convenient for us to withdraw some money from bank in China? Should we bring cash with us for the tour?
If you hold visa card or MasterCard, you can get money at some ATM, and it will charge you some fee, different rate based on different card or country. Most shops and hotels can accept your credit card. And it is better for you to bring some cash with you, and you can change the cash at airport or hotel or bank, especially for USA dollar or Euro dollar, Australia dollar, most banks can accept that, but the change rate will change a little bit.
11. What if I get lost during the tour in China?
When you find the guide is not with you and can not find he or she in the immediate area, please don't panic, realize that your guide is not far away and he or she is actively looking for you. You will be found soon.
So you can stay where you are and let the guide find you. Do not move far away. This will ensure that you be found in a timely manner.
If there seems to be a problem with your guide finding you, find the nearest phone and call your travel company(local in China), the staff will help you to find the guide in the site. Or you can ask help from young people, because most young people can speak little bit English in China, and they will be pleasure to help you.
12. How far is Beijing airport to downtown hotels? How much it will cost if taking taxi?
It takes 40 ~ 50 minutes to drive from Beijing airport to downtown area.
To take a taxi, it cost around 100~200 RMB depending on the distance of your hotel to the airport. Subway and airport bus express are another good choice too, and they are bilingual instruction with English and Chinese.
13. What if I get sick while travel in China? Should I bring the medicine with me?
If you get sick during the trip, tell the guide or your travel agent immediately, and ask them to bring you to hospital for curing, and most hospital you just register with your passport and can get a doctor. If you catch cold or have loose bowels, just get some medicine in drugstores. If you need some special medicine, it is better for you to bring enough from your country.
14. Do the bathroom match our needs?
Most hotels especially for foreigners have closestool and shower bath, and luxury hotel even have bathtub. The hotels for foreigners are at least 3-star hotels, so the facility will be good.
15. How to avoid public holidays in China? And what will happen if come across the public holidays?
Usually the public holidays in China is Spring Festival (floating date), Labor Holiday (1st May-3rd May), Dragon Boat Festival (5th May-7th May in Chinese Lunar Calendar), the Mid-autumn Festival (15th -17th Aug. in Chinese Lunar Calendar), National Holiday (1st Oct.-7th Oct. golden week for tourism), all cost during these dates will rise much, hotels and vehicles will be 2-4 times expensive than usual.
If your travel will be in holidays, for one thing, your cost will be much more, and another is that you will see People Mountain People Sea in China.
16. Should I tip the guide and driver during the trip?
Although China is not a tips country, it will be better for people to tip the guide and driver if you think they provide you good service, it is not compulsive but it will show that you are gentle and polite.


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Residents in Enterprise will soon pay more in taxes after a new measure was approved by the city council to raise the city's sales tax rate.
The council voted unanimously to approve the increase, raising the rate from 8.5 to 9 percent. The half cent increase will generate $16 million to help fund an improvement plan for the Enterprise City School system.
The system will have to put up an additional $10 million, but the city will forgive a $7 million debt the school system owes it.
Mayor Kenneth Boswell said last week that he didn't see any downside to the proposed increase, calling it "an investment in our community."
"We feel like the students that are coming into kindergarten this year, they are going to graduate in 2026, so we kind of have to think about what do they need when they get out project at least 15 to 20 years down the road in our building plan and kind of do some futuristic planning," Enterprise City Schools Superintendent Camille Wright explained.
The improvement plans include safe entry points and storm shelters at schools that do not currently have them. There is also the possibility for a new junior high school.
A portion of the sales tax will also be earmarked to fill equipment and manpower needs for first responders in the city.
Estimates of about $2 million more per year will flow into the school system and the increase would remain in effect for 20 years.
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Former UVa baseball star Phil Gosselin has been called up to by the Atlanta Braves becoming the 32nd UVa player to reach the big leagues.
Gosselin played for Virginia from 2008-2010. He had a career batting average of .337. He finished his career at UVa with 19 home runs and 145 RBI. He ranks 6th on Virginia's all-time doubles list with 50.
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Feature Article: Drilling for diesel
Drilling for diesel
A price anatomy of trucking's most volatile cost component
Drilling down into the component parts of the diesel price per gallon is a tricky business and involves assumptions that don't and couldn't possibly take into account the full complex reality of the fuel production, distribution and marketing businesses.
For instance, the primary governmental authority on the pieces of the diesel price pie, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, regularly provides a breakout of the percentages of diesel's price that covers four broad areas — crude oil, refining, distribution and marketing, and tax. "It's a very simple methodology," says EIA Energy Information Specialist Jonathan Cogan, "measuring pricing at different points along the way." But it's an effective categorization, as it gives observers a way to determine the forces behind price increases or declines and to educate the consumers of diesel fuel — that's you — about the way the market works.
"There are literally hundreds of thousands of individual decisions that go into the price at the pump, and they're being made every day over and over again," says Rayola Dougher of the American Petroleum Institute, pointing out the complexity of the world fossil-fuel-based energy markets.
This article uses $2.74 per gallon of diesel, which was the average price for October-December 2009, according to the U.S. Energy's Information Administration.
Crude/diesel prices as economic indicators
What's happened since 2005 with the dramatic rise in the price of crude is that a margin squeeze has been put on all parties down the chain, and it's rippled throughout the wider economy. "Every recession we've had that I can remember, from the mid-'70s on," says Jay Thompson, president of Transportation Business Associates, "you see spikes in oil prices driving it. [2008] was this turbo spike." Immediately following that spike, as demand for all manner of things from diesel to toasters plummeted, we hit what Thompson says traditional economic models would in our times see as an appropriate crude level, the $30-40 a barrel of early 2009. "But we've doubled that again now," says Thompson. "Any time you double that you expect an economic slowdown."
Tom Kloza, in a post to his Speaking of Oil blog (speakingofoil.com) early this year, said the biggest fundamental in the 21st century oil market wasn't supply or demand but "money flow" itself. "Large amounts of investment money tend to pour into mostly long positions in crude oil and refined products futures or options in the first few January sessions of a new year," he wrote.
Kloza accounted for late 2009 and early 2010 gains in crude price with this, but Jonathan Kingston, news director at analyst and information service Platts, might well disagree. Much has been made of oil and fuels futures investment as a large part of the run-up in price the trucking industry suffered through in 2007-08, but Kingston's "Diesel Dominance and Demand Destruction" article, written after the quick fallback of prices in late 2008, sings a different tune.
"A strong argument can be made that it was an unprecedented rise in the price of diesel fuel, not speculation or geopolitics, that dragged up the price of crude in its wake," he wrote. "And similarly, it was a degree of demand destruction, and changes in refineries' output mix, that sent it on its downward ride." To read his analysis, search the article title on Google.
Crude oil:
65 percent/$1.78
The biggest contributor to the price of diesel and its constant up and down fluctuations is the world market for crude oil, which is bought by oil refiners on the big commodity exchanges, like the New York Mercantile Exchange, whose spot market index is the most commonly referenced on the airwaves for crude prices. For the week ending Jan. 22, 2010, NYMEX spot market average stood at $74.54 per barrel. Considering there are 42 gallons in a barrel, that equates to a price of $1.77 a gallon, and it was trending downward at the end of the week but in the longer-term moving up from the last half of 2009, when prices in the $60s per barrel were more common.
As goes crude, so goes diesel, says the EIA's Cogan. "The crude oil market is the world market," he says, and as such it can take several weeks for fluctuations in the cost increase of a barrel of crude to show up in the diesel price at the pump. In analyzing price, says Rayola Dougher of the American Petroleum Institute, that's why "you need an average over time — a season, maybe — to accurately characterize who makes what and what they're spending."
The EIA does its price-per-gallon breakdown by looking at averages over time, publishing monthly.
As world market prices for crude oil have risen dramatically in the past decade, they've come to represent in the EIA's analysis a much larger share of the price per gallon. In 2002, the first year for which historical price breakdown data from the EIA exists, crude typically accounted for just 45 percent of the price per gallon. It began to trend into the 50-percent and above range in March of 2005, a year in which crude jumped almost 50 percent in price to the $50 per barrel range by yearend. Average diesel prices pushed over $3 a gallon for the first time in the decade in October of that year, portending things to come.
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I want to express appreciation to a great team and staff at the Rush Fitness complex on Randleman Road in Greensboro, N.C. I once traveled a lot ,spent a lot of times in resort towns, and was once a member of Gold's Gym so I have had a lot of experience with gyms in a wide variety of areas.
When I was sent to the office where I am employed, I began in a sedentary life style which included eating fast foods. I spent long hours sitting at and computer all day and my health deteriorated. I am now a 64 year old man who had some " health issues" when I joined Rush two years ago. What prompted me to join the gym was heart beat irregularity, border sugar "issues" , borderline blood pressure and a bad chloresterol count. I discovered all this when I was referred to a heart specialist. I began to pray to God to help me. When I joined the gym here, I had so much obesity and shortness of breath that any exercise regimen was difficult. Almost immediately, I noticed that most of the staff here was genuinely concerned about my needs. Jason Choate the fitness manager and Dustin Lucas, in particular encouraged me almost every day . Jason asked me about my goals. Ron Corbett (spin instructor) actually showed me routines to try and suggested "spin," and swimming in the pool. Other trainers suggested classes like strength and Zumba . There were tips from several about warming up and about stretching before and after the routine. I sweat a lot and more than one of the staff cautioned me to drink plenty of water. Wes Willaims , Ron Corbett, and Dustin Lucas always answered questions I had about routines, machines and muscle groups, etc.
After I began to gain some stamina, we talked about some fitness goals and my first trainer was Bethany who now teaches school. I could have chosen almost any of the trainers , as I has watched all of them work with clients. They were all well trained, friendly and professional. In addition to these traits Bethany was energetic, focused, upbeat, informed and very knowledgeable. She worked my entire body…and explained about how to trick my muscle groups by varying routines. My strength and stamina took a quantum leap during this training but I did not lose any weight. Several trainers had tried to be subtle about my diet, but Bethany discussed in detail about my eating and drinking habits.
After that session, I decided to make a lifestyle eating and drinking change and at the same time used the exercise techniques Ron Corbett , Bethany and other fitness trainers suggested. I also watched Wes Williams and Dustin Lucas train others because they were really knowledgeable and professional. All of these trainers were concerned about everyone who came into the gym and especially encouraged we" regulars". Everyone in the gym staff was friendly, but especially Dustin Lucas, Ron Corbett, We Williams ,Jason Choate, and Rasheed Gainey. I actually noticed everyone in the gym was friendly and courteous to each other unlike my previous experiences at other gyms. I think this was contagious throughout the gym because of the staff's examples. We "regulars" began to encourage each other and the newcomers too.
After Jason asked me about my goals again( others above had too) I told him I was focusing on a diet change and when I felt I had a good diet regimen I wanted to lose 25 pounds with another trainer. During this life style change eating change, I noticed my stamina increased even more! During this time, I received a lot of encouragement from Dustin, Jason, Ron, and Wes in particular. I think they noticed a higher gear in my training routine. I noticed they also encouraged some of my friends in the gym the same way. Whether we were in spin, water Zumba, regular Zumba, strength or any class we all received the same kind of friendly, encouraging and upbeat information from these instructors, just like the trainers I mentioned! And I might add I enjoyed all these group classes. It took me three or four months to get my eating and drinking habits changed. And I felt like God was moving me to get a trainer again.
Like I said, all the training staff were qualified to train me from my observations. I was free on Monday and Wednesday night. I talked to Jason about my schedule. I liked Dustin, Ron and Wes…and Rasheed. Rasheed seemed to be doing mostly group. I did not see Dustin, Ron and Wes every Monday and Wednesday. Bethany was teaching school now.
Suddenly a new enthusiastic, friendly and professional trainer appeared named Lori Pennala. She saw me working out and asked the same kind of questions all the others I have mentioned. These questions like …..goals, routine etc. I told her that I needed help on Monday and Wednesday. She and Jason talked. Jason and I signed up for Lori on Monday and Wednesday for 25 lessons. My goal was to lose 25 pounds…about a pound a session. She was everything Bethany was: well trained, friendly ,professional, energetic, focused, upbeat, informed and very knowledgeable. In addition to intense routines on all muscle groups, Lori gave me a modification to my diet. Actually, it was an addition of 2 snacks a day with fruits, vegetables, or small protein portions. It was a very balanced diet. Many others in the gym received the same attention I was receiving…even though our goals differed. All the trainers in the gym seemed to be adapting routines to our schedules and our individual needs. Lori's training did not end with the 25 sessions and the encouragement from Dustin, Wes, Ron and Jason was constant as well. She would approach me on the other days I was in the gym and ask me about my routines when I was working alone.. and about how the diet was going. She would greet me every time she saw me ,even when she was not training me…but so would the others above. Quickly, my family , friends and co-workers began to notice the progress. So did my heart doctor and he said to me "This is impressive…whatever you are doing…keep at it." . All of the following vitals were normal during this check up and they still are! My pulse went to 60 from 80-120. My blood pressure went to normal from borderline. My chloresterol was cut in half. I had been taking Lipitor and a beta blocker for my circulatory system. I am off all those medications now. I only take a baby aspirin daily with Omega fish oil twice daily! My waist went from 40 to 36. And yes, we this team , God and I lost 27 pounds! I read your goals and mission on a poster in the back of the gym. I was once a teacher 45 years ago and I give you all an A+ in achieving your mission.
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Rookie V8 Supercar driver Jack Perkins faces an uncertain future, pulling out of the remaining two series races because he is struggling with type one diabetes.
Perkins, who drives for the Jack Daniel's Racing team owned by his father Larry Perkins, will sit out the rest of the year with Carrera Cup racer Marcus Marshall handed the seat for the final events at Symmons Plains (Tasmania) and Phillip Island.
It has been a difficult debut for 21-year-old Perkins, he sits a lowly 49th in the series pointscore with an 11th place in race three at Queensland Raceway his only points of the year.
But the racer with impeccable pedigree is hopeful of overcoming his health concern and racing again.
"It's a big disappointment for me, but you have to face these challenges in life," Jack Perkins said.
"If I can't perform consistently at my best then standing down becomes the only option in such a competitive environment.
"As to what happens next year is a bit of an unknown at this stage, but plenty of advances are being made on the diabetes front so I am optimistic that I can resume racing in the near future."
Team owner Larry Perkins said the decision for his son not to race was Jack's, but he was confident Marshall would slot into the Holden team nicely for the rest of the year.
"It's unfortunate for Jack in that he has been recently diagnosed with diabetes type one and that has affected his track performances to some degree," said Larry Perkins.
"It was his decision to stand aside and let Marcus have a go in Tasmania this weekend.
"Marcus was an obvious choice as he showed plenty of potential as an enduro co-driver for us at Sandown and Bathurst this year. He fits in well with the guys and I'm sure he'll do well."
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Take a look at a classroom full of little kids. Can you guess who will be most likely to succeed? Who will turn to drugs? Who will run a Fortune 500 company by age 25? I'm willing to bet you could make some guesses, but half of them would be proven wrong in 20 years.
So the story of Jennifer Schmid O'Brien, a first grade teacher who complained on her Facebook that she's a "warden" overseeing "future criminals," didn't make me angry. It made me laugh.
This being America, she's got to be right about at least one of those kids. And if a look at my senior yearbook says anything, it could be ANY one of them. Because even in the senior year -- a full 11 years older than O'Brien's class of little monsters -- a host of our votes for the "senior superlatives" were way off.
But parents in O'Brien's district aren't laughing. Nor are administrators who have put her on paid leave while they figure out how to hang her for having a personal opinion on personal time, and one that may not even be all that wrong.
Hey, I know it's tough to parse out the difference. We just faced a teacher who posted a kid's photo on Facebook and joined her friends in making fun of the little girl's silly hairstyle. That was a problem because it was personal. She took a specific student, singled her out, and made her the butt of her jokes.
But O'Brien didn't say one student or another was a problem. I feel like I have to say this at least once a week, but since no one's getting it, here it is again. Teachers are people too. They have personal opinions. They can hate our kids. They can find our kids objectionable. As long as they don't do it in the classroom, or pick out one student and harass them in some way (like posting their photo to Facebook), they reserve the right to their own personal opinion. You may LOVE your kid, but look around at their friends, and tell me you adore them all. Really?
I've been a parent for 5 1/2 years, and it hasn't made me love all children equally. At the end of the day, not all kids are nice people. They may change at some point and turn out to be sweet as pie ... or their bratty childhood natures may be signs of the odious adult they will be one day. Out of a class of 25, one probably will be arrested one day. It's the law of probability mixed with human nature.
So O'Brien may be right on the money with her description when it comes to some of those kids. And if she's not, she can still THINK that way. I liken O'Brien's case to that of Natalie Munro, the teacher who blogged anonymously about how much she hated certain, again unnamed, students. She never used anyone's name or photograph. She kept her complaints vague. In fact, all she did was complain about her job. The same thing I see day in and day out on Facebook, from secretaries, company presidents, and yes, teachers. As long as their "out-of-work" opinions don't affect their "on-the-job" activities, that's their right.
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I don't FB or blog about work. Ever. I wish others would do the same. :)
I am totally with the teachers being able to express their opinions. Having taught/tutored privately and in a classroom, I get the frustration and the need to vent. But you should never post anything about work, or even personally, that can come back to bite you.
FB, as much as we like to pretend that it's private, even with all of our settings "locked down" and set to "so private even I need permission to view this"... it's not. Our "friends" - some of whom we haven't seen in a hundred years, and others that we just met two days ago - can see everything there, can copy it, and use it against us.
So when it comes to ranting about work, why can't we stick to generic stuff, like, "wow, had a tough day at work. Teaching can be such a challenge sometimes"? Other teachers will know EXACTLY what you're referring to, but nothing in that statement is untrue, abusive, or would approach grounds even for questioning, let alone suspension or firing.
We've come to this place, a very narcissistic one, where we think that everybody needs to know every thought that pops into our brain, and we've learned to disengage the filter that this stuff used to pass through. Would you write a statement about your students being jail-bound in the newspaper to be published, distributed, and entered in the archives? No, that would be stupid. FB is the same thing.
I always stop before posting to my FB. I have a lot of true friends on there - people I've kept in touch with over the years, new friends, etc. There's nobody on there that I don't actually know, face-to-face. But I STILL pause, and think, "how is someone else going to interpret this?" Because I've had situations where people have put things up that are supposed to be a joke, and they've been very hurtful.
Until they invent a Sarcasm Key (and when are they going to do that, I'd like to know!!!), I'll stick with "the appearance of impropriety" idea... if it *might* be questionable, then it probably is, and it shouldn't be posted.
I think the teachers comment was harmless. I have 3 kids and I feel the same way myself some days! My kids aren't perfect, no kid is (regardless of what the parents MIGHT think sometimes). She didn't single anyone out, she was pretty vague she really could have been talking about any kids (she just HAPPENS to be a teacher so people assumed she was talking about the kids). And I've seen how first graders can act these days! Gone are the days of innocent little lower elementary kids. Now days those little kids CAN be as rotten as the older kids! It's awful. Some parents don't bother to teach their kids any kind of respect or manners then send that kid off to school. So if a teacher has 20 kids in her class, and like 15 of them are as rude as can be....that would get on a person's nerves quickly I'm sure!
that happened in my town. It's so sad when people think this way
Thats sad what if she was reffering to her own kids not the students or what if it was relatives kids or the neighbors kids seriously those parents need to back off because it was a tongue in cheek comment
Sorry, I disagree. I believe it was extremely inappropriate and sad for her to even feel that way about her students. It was completely unprofessional for a teacher to post something so arbitrary on her Facebook page about first graders, personal statement or not. Disgusting.
bullocks. this woman was on her own time, doing what most of us do -- venting. lighten up America. there are far worse things to be said.


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True, but I just threw it out there. He could answer that insiders are not selling.
I'm just pushing for a well worded PR:
That there is no known reason for the price drop.
A robust second half is on target.
No new shares are being sold, the amended prospectus was just an update to an old prospectus.
Maybe a mention of new orders , new distributors, plans for new territories ........
........... something to that effect.
My follow up was:
Thanks Gene.
Regarding the price drop on large volume:
I'm guessing that investors saw the prospectus and got spooked, thinking that it's new dilution.
The large block sales also points to individuals listed in the original prospectus as being the sellers.
Is it the former or the latter?
Another possibility is that a hedge fund saw the prospectus and thought that a 44M share offering is imminent and started shorting the stock?
Is a PR necessary to clarify the situation considering that the stock took a 20%+ hit?
We agree that there may have been some unfortunate confusion regarding the Prospectus which we put out on Monday, following our earnings call last Thursday.
The Prospectus was not a registration of additional shares, but only an update of the existing prospectus in order to add our Q2 10-Q to the disclosure information.
We have issued Prospectuses like this for each 10-Q and for each material 8-k. The reason that we issue these Prospectuses is always the same: to add the new disclosure to the S-1's disclosure information.
Unfortunately, since we are a S-1 filer, (and not an S-3 filer), we have to update our S-1 information manually as described, by issuing new Prospectuses.
No new shares were added, no previously registered shares were deleted, no "breakdown" changed.
In the future, we plan to put some very clear statement at the beginning of the Prospectus which states that "there is no registration or issuance of additional shares." Hopefully, saying something like this, clearly at the beginning of the document should help prevent any future confusion.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Could it be that a hedge fund saw the prospectus and thought that a 44M share offering is imminent and started shorting the stock?
Hopefully, Gene will provide some insight.
A PR might be necessary.
I'm guessing that investors saw the prospectus and got spooked, thinking that it's new dilution.
The large block sales also points to individuals listed in the original prospectus as being the sellers.
Is it the former or the latter?
Hi Gene,
The stock price got hammered yesterday. I'm guessing that it is related to the amended prospectus that was filed yesterday showing the sale of 44 million shares, or nearly 60% dilution.
The original prospectus filed in May showed the break down of the shares, that 27M of the 44M were warrants exercisable at higher prices and not new dilution. This amended prospectus did not specify what was being sold.
Is that the reason for the price decline or have the shares been registered and the shareholders/funds/insiders are now able to sell and are selling? Can you clarify to shareholders what is going on with this Amended Prospectus?
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Dolores Maloof ............................................... 5,666,311
David B. Musket .............................................. 2,958,430
Alpha Capital Anstalt ...................................... 2,842,370
Capital Ventures International ...................... 1,705,421
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(The list continues, it is long. I'm leaving out the others in this message).
GC's response this morning:
"I'll get back to you, hopefully today, on your question."
(It seems that nobody knows what is going on. I would think that the 44M shares are just being registered and are already part of the 75M shares outstanding, except for the 27M warrants, which would come into play when exercised.)
Definition of a loser: throwing good money after bad.
Never try to catch a falling knife.
Buy stocks that are in an uptrend, not those that are tanking.
Wait for a high volume shake out day or buy after a stock languishes near the bottom for a few months and then starts to break out.
You are exhibiting your foolishness with this post.
I'm in. Got 3 shares of GTHP for each SIGA share. Couldn't be happier to get out of this nightmare.
GC has always replied in the past.
His non-response confirms my suspicion.
If an offering was not placed, he could have said so.
He can't disclose that a placement agent is working the offering, since it's nonpublic information.
If I'm right, the stock will continue to get hammered.
You give a commitment to the underwriter to buy a specific allotment of shares and then start shorting until you reach your allocable amount of shares. The shares from the offering are used to cover the short position. It's a risk free guaranteed profit for the hedgies to spruce up their annualized returns. You can short before, during and after the offering.
Mr. Cartwright,
The stock price is tanking as if though you shopped an offering with the Wall Street Vultures, and the hedgies are now shorting the stock. I hope you are not doing an offering at 10% or 15% below the stock price on the date of the offering, thereby inviting the hedgies to short the stock; to fill their pockets while they empty the shareholders pockets, and then to add insult to injury, you will give them a parting gift of freebie warrants. Please tell me that isn't the case.
But why let common sense get in the way of an emotional attachment to a dog that bites the owners hand?
Do you think that after having the 16M increase to the prior incentive plan approved, that the shares won't be doled out? It's a done deal - approved!
It's not the exchange and it's not the company.
It's who is running the company.
I own shares in GTHP which trades on the OTC.
The new CEO, Gene Cartwright who was formerly with GE Diagnostics and Abbott Healthcare answers my emails, usually within a few minutes, if he is in the office.
The corporate culture starts at the top.
You can have sleaze bags running a company who have little regard for shareholders or management that are responsive to shareholders.
"A pap smear can cost you anywhere between $50 to $200."
So the market is between $3B and $12B in the US, and larger overseas.
GTHP's technology is more accurate than the pap smear and produces instant test results.
GTHP will dominate the market.
Sales will be increasing for decades.
They are also working on an esophagial cancer scan.
The stock to move the proceeds into is GTHP.
A PMA will be filed with the FDA this month.
The pps should get a nice bump then.
HPV cervical cancer scans are a huge market.
Over 60 million pap smear tests are taken in the US alone.
GTHP just received marketing approval in Mexico this month and in the EU, Canada and Singapore earlier.
International sales are just ramping up and will accelerate each quarter.
GTHP will get revenues from the sale of the scanners plus recurring revenues from the disposables used in each scan which carry 90% profit margins.
The market cap is only $35M .... you can't go wrong.
There is no need to wait 5 years or more for maybe, possibly approval.
GTHP is already selling product.
There are lots of catalysts.
An esophageal cancer scan will follow and then one for lung cancer.
GTHP's patent protected biophtonic scan is more accurate than conventional tests and it produces instant test results.
GTHP - market cap $35M.
Conferences are meaningless hype. They are road shows to round up gullible twits.
Electroporation has failed in trials for decades.
Straight from the horse's mouth:
"We are ready to send the response in, but we first want to see the FDA's edits to the minutes from the May 8th meeting.
We hope to get those edited minutes from the FDA very soon."
FDA announcement is expected tomorrow or Friday.
Look for the run to accelerate.
Sales will improve dramatically, quarter over quarter.
They are just ramping up.
Approval in Mexico is expected next month.
(The CEO just bought 100K shares).
GTHP is firing on all cylinders.


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Annette Bening is heading back to the stage tonight after missing Wednesday's production of Greek tragedy "Medea" due to a family emergency, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
"The show will go on," a UCLA Live rep told Access after confirming the actress is back and ready to take the stage.
UCLA Live was forced to cancel Wednesday night's performance of the Euripides work after the actress pulled out of the single performance.
"Ms. Bening is unfortunately dealing with a family medical emergency," a notice to theatergoers read, one patron told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the story.
A rep for the actress told Access on Thursday that Annette is "fine." The actress needed to take care of a "not terribly serious" family matter yesterday.
The rep did not disclose the nature of the situation, but a source at UCLA Live told the LA Times, the emergency was related to one of the actress' children.
Bening has four children with actor Warren Beatty.
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Oh dear, I'm afraid I've bungled this. The first time I made this drink I used Degroff's recipe (the classic), which calls for dry vermouth. I found it to be tasty if overly austere. Then I read Wonderich's article in Imbibe magazine complaining of the same austerity, though I think the word he used was undrinkable. His solution (based on historical research) was to swap the dry vermouth with bianco and throw in some orange Curaco for good measure. Sounds reasonable. He also specifies homemade grenadine, which is much more tart than store bought. Much more tart. I used store bought grenadine and the result is a bit of a mess. An overly sweet vermouthy cup of bourbon manhattan barf. And I _like_ a good bourbon manhattan (though rye is better). Even with homemade grenadine on hand, I'm not sure I'd bother making this again.
1 1/2 oz Cuban white rum
1 1/2 oz bianco vermouth
2 tsp Orange Curaco
1 tsp grenadine (homemade, if you're making this)
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Off the Beaten Path
From the "It's not always about WoW" department, here's a heads up about several interesting worlds that came onto my radar while adding them to the Virtual Worlds Review lineup this year.
Dreamville is an English-language social networking site created by a Korean company based in Malaysia. I was excited to find Dreamville because it offered a non-Korean-speaker like me a glimpse into the setup and structure of sites like Cyworld. The heart of Dreamville is its "hompy" network - homepages combining photo galleries, blogs, friend lists, and a whole slew of other features. The virtual world piece, called Theme Park, is sort of tacked on almost as an afterthought, but much like the web site it's practically exploding with anime-inspired eye candy. While Dreamville offers pre-made avatar outfit and background packages for hompy pages, users can receive higher "score" point totals along with higher social capital within the community for original combinations in monthly avatar contests. As mentioned in my review of Dreamville, there are some usability issues related to poor IA design and the use of two separate currencies for item purchases. Still, it's an interesting attempt to merge a VW element with a social networking offering.
Netherlands-based whyrobbierocks is a flashy fashion-themed 2D world chock full of avatar selections based on Hollywood and Euro-sport celebrity culture, even offering specific celebrity avatars in the store area. (Witness the Justin Timberlake av which is offered along with a Cameron Diaz girlfriend.) But rather than using the celeb avs strictly as offered, WRR users tend to poach elements from them to customize their own avatar creations. Another interesting thing about WRR is that these tailored avs are also meant to be used as identity signifiers outside of the world as well, with tools to help users convert them to email signature files, mobile wallpapers and MSN icons. Forget elves and jedis. Now you know where to go should you ever feel the need to incorporate a little JLo or Paris Hilton into your next avatar look.
Sora City piqued my interest because it's the first virtual world I've heard of that exists entirely in mobile space. That's right, all interaction in this mostly-text/some-graphics world takes place through players' mobile phones. Sora City has incorporated a few basic social networking features like friendship groups called "crews" and character blogs. Curiously, Sora characters regularly post their own blog messages, leading to the odd feeling that your little virtual mobi-av has been possessed by a young sassy stranger. Sora City is described as a place where you can "be yourself … or who you've always wanted to be" with identity selections such as DJ, socialite, athlete, and geek. This description succinctly captures the social-vw phenomenon of avatar identities as idealized and often stereotypical RL personas, and it certainly speaks to the way in which the drama of everyday social interaction is the game in these worlds.
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For Off the Beaten Path have a look at MaidMarian.com. We've developed a whole series of surprising 3D virtual worlds that run in your browser. Moon Base is based on the Apollo missions to the moon and lets you drive a lunar rover, use a rocket pack and dance with other visitors. Sherwood is more of a medieval hack-n-slash style 3D chat room. Considering the client runs is less than 800k and runs in Shockwave, the innovation is in the level of 3D graphics possible with web-based delivery.
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Betsy said:
I was excited to find Dreamville because it offered a non-Korean-speaker like me a glimpse into the setup and structure of sites like Cyworld. The heart of Dreamville is its "hompy" network - homepages combining photo galleries, blogs, friend lists, and a whole slew of other features.
This integrated community approach seems like it might be a bit of an Asian trend. One of my Japanese publisher informants recently told me that they're approaching their MMOs as part of a larger community strategy involving social networking, IM, matchmaking, blogging, etc. So someone creates a community on a Mixi-like site, and that community involves itself in a range of activities, including MMOs or social worlds - but the MMO or VW isn't central. It really made me think about how I tend to segregate these activities, because they represent entirely different groups of people to me. Sure, I have gaming friends, and I might move from game-to-game with them, but they're not the same people I'm hanging out with on IM or the social networking sites. Yet from what I understand, the Japanese, at least, approach social networking sites as places to develop intimate friendships for discussing dating, work, problems, etc. ('cosy friends'), whereas the West considers them primarily business networking tools. So as part of a community development effort emphasising intimate relationships, perhaps the games or forays into VWs represent a type of productive activity that binds or deepens relationships within a pre-existing community (the virtual equivalent of shooting pool or playing golf while BS-ing with friends), rather than a mechanism for creating community, or from which community emerges as a by-product of play.
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I also just happened upon this Business Week article about CyWorld - interesting how it uses the metaphor 'three-dimensional homepages' to describe what we'd call a virtual house. Another example of how the paradigm is being turned inside out, but converging nonetheless.
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Lisa said: "Yet from what I understand, the Japanese, at least, approach social networking sites as places to develop intimate friendships for discussing dating, work, problems, etc. ('cosy friends'), whereas the West considers them primarily business networking tools.
While this may be the case now, i don't believe there is any question the West will adopt similar attitudes. Asia in general appears to have an enormous appetite for technology which has pushed them to the leading edge, whereas many in the West still seem a little shell-shocked by all the technological changes that have come about in the last 10 years or so (the others are perhaps wary of the virtual world hype after the first disappointing round in the 1990's). And there's not been a compelling reason for many Western consumers to be early adopters (e.g. cell phone technology was less necessary in the West due to the existing infrastructure). More and more those reasons will present themselves. The only questions imo are how deeply will it penetrate (because there are significant societal differences) and how soon. In the meantime i figure Betsy is going to be increasingly busy documenting these spaces (and thank you for that)... at least until it all merges into one big, interconnected hairball.
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The Day After: How Did Celebs Celebrate Cinco de Mayo This Year? (PHOTOS)
Saturday was Cinco de Mayo and many of Hollywood's biggest stars celebrated in style... and with each other. Screen sirens Jessica Alba and Sofia Vergara were snapped partying together in sombreros, while Nicky Hilton and Emma Roberts sipped on margaritas at a bash of their own. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian threw a big fiesta for her friends -- complete with maracas and crazy mustache cookies.
Um, so where was our invite?
Click through the gallery to see how your fave celebs celebrated Cinco de Mayo this year!
Maria Menounos certainly spiced things up this Saturday when she slipped into a bikini for a Cinco de Mayo pool party. Spotted out with her Dancing With the Stars partner, Derek Hough, the 33-year-old Extra host kicked back with a refreshing Bud Light Lime 'Lime-a-Rita' before hopping into the pool for some good 'ol fashion fun in the sun.


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Russian ambassador dodges challenge to 'unequivocally' rule out Ukraine invasion
Stephanopoulos asks Kerry: 'Any indication at all' that Putin is listening to Obama?
'Nobody wants this to spiral into a bad — uh, worse direction'
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Columbia's war on women
Another commencement address, another misogynist?
The press and President Mitt Romney, Part II
How would the media have covered Benghazi, Syria, and the meager recovery?
Stephanopoulos on charges he planted birth control question in debate: 'Factually incorrect'
'The idea though that this question came out of thin air is just wrong'
Rand Paul: TV news star colluded with Democrats in 2012 campaign
Kentucky senator says Griswold reference was part of concerted effort to give left ammo to hit Romney, GOP
George Stephanopoulos with dreadlocks [SLIDESHOW]
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Cokie Roberts: The president is a lame duck [VIDEO]
ABC's 'This Week' roundtable debates Obama's ability to get anything done for the remainder of his term
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Stephanopoulos Not One Of Us
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A big congratulations to the Degrassi cast and crew on their Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children's Program! This is the third nomination for the series, which was previously nominated in 2012 for "Extraordinary Machine, Part Two" and 2011 for "My Body Is A Cage, Part Two."
Winners will be announced August 16th at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmys. The air date for the awards has yet to be confirmed.
(009x) Cast Appearances > 2014 > 01.13 CSA Nomination Press Conference
Degrassi recieved five Canadian Screen Award nominations this morning including:
Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series
Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series: Stefan Brogren for The Time of My Life
Best Writing in a Children's or Youth Program or Series: Ramona Barckert for Bitter Sweet Symphony Pt. 2
Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series: Dylan Everett for Bitter Sweet Symphony Pt. 1 (Everett has also been nominated for Wingin' It in the same category.) and Munro Chambers for Ray of Life Pt. 2
Winners will be announced at a gala held March 5th.
MTV has released the first episode description of 13C:
In the winter premiere of Degrassi, "The World I Know" (Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 9 p.m. ET), it's Alli's birthday, but her spirits are crushed when she learns that the love of her life, Leo is being sent back to France with an expired visitor visa. Maya returns from suspension, only to find she'll be stuck in a new class with former friend Zig. President Drew is working with mayoral candidate, Mr. Hollingsworth,but his recent intimate moment with Clare has him distracted. Drew's excited for the first event of the term, a speaking engagement by Mr. Hollingsworth, but his first call of duty is to clear things up with Clare.
A new After Degrassi will air immediately after with special guests Melinda Shankar and Aislinn Paul. Get tickets to After Degrassi here.
BellMedia has finally released a press release confirming yesterday's news that Degrassi and After Degrassi are moving to MTV Canada. Included in the press release is the episode description for the first episode back "This Is How We Do It":
Degrassi's back in school. Student Council President Drew wants to make sure everyone has a positive year after the devastating loss of Adam. But it's easier said than done when he's battling insomnia. Zoë is about to tackle her greatest role yet: "Zoë Rivas, Degrassi Student." But when you grow up on a film set, how do you know what's cool in the real world? Alli wants to spend her senior year with her best friends but when Leo flies to be by her side, it'll take some convincing for the group to accept him as her new BF.
But fans don't have to wait too long to get their Degrassi fix. On September 26th, MTV Canada and Degrassi.TV will be hosting the first of four webisodes on their websites that feature the character, Eli Goldsworthy.
The digital short series follows Eli Goldsworthy (Munro Chambers) in his adventures after graduating Degrassi. It's a big, insane, and exciting world out there and Eli's about to discover that sometimes being at university in New York City is as different, strange, and amazing as living on another planet.
For the past month, Much has made it no secret that they want to focus on comedy and music over teen dramas and comedies by completely wiping their weekly schedule of fan favorites and replacing them with South Park and Jimmy Fallon. They have been keeping quiet over the fate of their former shows while allowing MTV Canada and M3 (formerly MuchMore) announce shows like Teen Wolf, Awkward, and Pretty Little Liars are moving to their channels over Twitter. Finally in a tweet today, MTV Canada has announced that Degrassi is also moving to their channel and is back to its 9PM Slot.
What does this mean?
- Viewers. For some Canadian fans, they will now have to watch the show online. According to MTV Canada, they are available in 6.8 million households in the nation. That's 2.5 million less than Much reaches.
- New opportunities. MTV is teaming up with RBC to hold a contest for MTV Core users to win a trip to the Degrassi set. One of the ways users can gain entries to the contest is playing a Choose Your Own Adventure game available on their site that features Jessica Tyler and Munro Chambers.
- The fate of After Degrassi?
While the After Degrassi twitter has been active lately, whether After Degrassi is continuing is still unclear.After Degrassi is also moving to MTV Canada.
- Sharing the same channel as Degrassi alumni Lauren Collins! Yaaaas Paige.


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Datura: Why You Don't Need Drugs
Posted on Friday, April 27 @ 11:17:01 Eastern by Nicholas Tan
Describing Datura as weird is not strange enough. It's softly twisted, muted, psychologically woven, hazy.
Crafted by Team Plastic and Santa Monica Studio, Datura will take players through a sequence of detached but vaguely interconnected forest of phenomena. It's exactly the kind of 3D stereoscopic mind trip that I've been missing in my life. And the only reason I have to care about the PlayStation Move.
Find yourself through the psychological labyrinth when Datura releases on PSN on May 8th.
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