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Mehmed III
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|Mehmed III
|Caliph of Islam
Ottoman Sultan
|The portrait of Sultan Mehmet III by Italian painter Cristofano dell'Altissimo, 16th century.
|January 15, 1595 – December 22, 1603
|Murad III
|Ahmed I
|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
|Handan Sultan
Alime Sultan
Fülane Hatun
Fülane Hatun
|Royal house
|House of Osman
|Murad III
|Safiye Sultan
|Sunni Islam
Mehmed III Adli (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث Meḥmed-i sālis, Turkish: III.Mehmed; May 26, 1566 – December 21/22, 1603) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.
Mehmed III remains notorious even in Ottoman history for having nineteen of his brothers and half-brothers executed to secure power.[1][2] They were all strangled by his deaf-mutes.
He was born during the reign of his great-grandfather, Suleiman the Magnificent, in 1566. He was the son of Prince Murad (the future Murad III), himself the son of Crown Prince Selim (the future Selim II), who was the son of Sultan Suleiman. His great-grandfather died the year he was born and his grandfather became the new Sultan, Selim II. His grandfather Sultan Selim II died when Mehmed was 8 and Mehmed's father, Murad III, became Sultan in 1574. Mehmed thus became Crown Prince till his father's death in 1595, when he was 29 years old.
Mehmed III was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother Safiye Sultan, the valide sultan.[3] The major event of his reign was the Austro-Ottoman War in Hungary (1593–1606). Ottoman defeats in the war caused Mehmed III to take personal command of the army, the first sultan to do so since Suleiman I in 1566. Accompanied by the Sultan, the Ottomans conquered Eger in 1596. Upon hearing of the Habsburg army's approach, Mehmed wanted to dismiss the army and return to Istanbul.[4] However, the Ottomans eventually decided to face the enemy and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Keresztes[5] (known in Turkish as the Battle of Haçova), during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle. Upon returning to Istanbul in Victory, Mehmed told his Vezirs that he would campaign again.[6] The next year the Venetian Bailo in Istanbul noted, "the doctors declared that the Sultan cannot leave for war on account of his bad health, produced by excesses of eating and drinking".[7]
Mehmed III was more conservative than his predecessor and largely halted artistic patronage, including support of the Society of Miniaturists.[citation needed] His reign saw no major setbacks for the supposedly declining Ottoman Empire. He died at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople.
Relationship with England
In 1599, the third year of Mehmed III's reign, Queen Elizabeth I sent a convoy of gifts to the Ottoman court. These gifts were originally intended for the sultan's predecessor, Murad III, who had died before they had arrived. Included in these gifts was a large jewel-studded clockwork organ that was assembled on the slope of the Royal Private Garden by a team of engineers including Thomas Dallam. The organ took many weeks to complete and featured dancing sculptures such as a flock of blackbirds that sung and shook their wings at the end of the music.[8][9] The musical clock organ was destroyed by the succeeding sultan Ahmed I. Also among the English gifts was a ceremonial coach, accompanied by a letter from the Queen to Mehmed's mother, Walide Safiye. These gifts were intended to cement relations between the two countries, building on the trade agreement signed in 1581 that gave English merchants priority in the Ottoman region.[10] Under the looming threat of Spanish military presence, England was eager to secure an alliance with the Ottomans, the two nations together having the capability to divide the power. Elizabeth's gifts arrived in a large 27-gun merchantman ship that Mehmed personally inspected, a clear display of English maritime strength that would prompt him to build up his fleet over the following years of his reign. The Anglo-Ottoman alliance would never see consummation, however, with relations between the nations growing stagnant due to anti-European sentiments reaped from the worsening Austro-Ottoman War and the deaths of Walide Safiye's interpreter and the pro-English chief Hasan Pasha.[10][11]
Personal life
He was born at Manisa Palace, the son of sultan Murad III, whom he succeeded in 1595. His mother was Safiye Sultan, probably a Albanian from Principality of Dukagjini.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
He married Valide Sultan Handan Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally named Helena and had Ahmed I. He also married Valide Sultan Alime Sultan, an ethnic Abkhazian daughter of Akuc Bey and had Mustafa I.
He married a princess from the Byzantine Komnenós dynasty of Trebizond, a surviving branch of the Byzantine imperial family of the same name from Constantinople and had Şehzade Yahya.
His third oldest son, Yahya, is of interest to some because he reportedly converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and campaigned for a good part of his life to gain the Ottoman Imperial throne, to which his younger brother Ahmed I succeeded in 1603. Feeling cheated, he spent years developing and implementing conspiracies to further his ambitions. Travelling mostly across Western Europe, he promised several backers as well as four Roman Catholic Popes that he would make Christianity the state religion of the Ottoman sultanate if he ever succeeded to the Imperial throne.[22]
- ^ Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, p.90. Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-63328-1
- ^ Kinross, John Patrick. Ottoman Centuries, p.288. William Morrow & Co., 1977. ISBN 0-688-03093-9
- ^ Kinross, p.288
- ^ Karateke, Hakan T. "On the Tranquility and Repose of the Sultan." The Ottoman World. Ed. Christine Woodhead. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2011. p. 120.
- ^ Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, p.175. Basic Books, 2005. ISBN 0-465-02396-7
- ^ Karateke, p. 122.
- ^ Goodwin, Jason. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, p.166. New York: Henry Holt & Company.
- ^ Malcolm, Noel (2004-05-02). "How fear turned to fascination". London: telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
- ^ Jean Giullou: Die Orgel. Erinnerung und Vision.Christoph Glatter-Götz 1984 p. 35 with image
- ^ a b "An eye for detail". BBC News. December 21, 2007.
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- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=_p0gAQAAIAAJ&q=safiye+sultan+albanian&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=sq&sa=X&ei=lwYDVIqSJYWk0QWbhIDIDA&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBTgK
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=WZDrAAAAMAAJ&q=safiye+sultan+albanian&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=sq&sa=X&ei=lwYDVIqSJYWk0QWbhIDIDA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwCDgK
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=Za0TAQAAIAAJ&q=safiye+sultan+albanian&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=sq&sa=X&ei=pAcDVN2VFfKw7AbB2IG4DQ&ved=0CAoQ6AEwADgU
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=mXsoAQAAIAAJ&q=safiye+sultan+albanian&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=sq&sa=X&ei=pAcDVN2VFfKw7AbB2IG4DQ&ved=0CA8Q6AEwATgU
- ^ Peirce, p.94
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=1uCaELAsv3MC&pg=PA73&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_ECVN3MJa2B7Qar84DQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=safiye%20sultan%20albanian&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=q5rtAAAAMAAJ&q=safiye+sultan+albanian&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_ECVN3MJa2B7Qar84DQDw&redir_esc=y
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=pZXcviUTeM8C&pg=PA218&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_ECVN3MJa2B7Qar84DQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=safiye%20sultan%20albanian&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=HgzIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_ECVN3MJa2B7Qar84DQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=safiye%20sultan%20albanian&f=false
- ^ http://books.google.al/books?id=Te5QRi35W5EC&pg=PA20&dq=safiye+sultan+albanian&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_ECVN3MJa2B7Qar84DQDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=safiye%20sultan%20albanian&f=false
- ^ Kosovo, A Short History (1998), Noel Malcolm -- Harper Perennial - pp. 121 - 122 ISBN 978-0-06-097775-7
External links
Media related to Mehmed III at Wikimedia Commons
Mehmed IIIBorn: May 26, 1566 Died: December 22, 1603[aged 37]
|Regnal titles
|Preceded by
Murad III
|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
January 15, 1595 – December 22, 1603
|Succeeded by
Ahmed I
|Sunni Islam titles
|Preceded by
Murad III
|Caliph of Islam
January 15, 1595 – December 22, 1603
|Succeeded by
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September 9, 2008, 9:00 AM
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors met for regular session at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September, 2008 in the Board Room of the Floyd County Courthouse with the following in attendance: Chairman Enabnit, Supv. Staudt, and Supv. Dunkel.
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Your Lying. I think this person is a liar and that Fluffy Pony Abuse IS that bad.
You see plenty of these stories and pics on 4chan about creatures called Fluffy Ponies.
See that? Thats a fluffy pony. At first they didn't do much, just a regular pony with 75% more fluff, but then 4chan saw it and decided that:
- That they should talk in baby-talk
- That they are unblievably stupid and need constant supervision
- That they're cheap and are cared for in a fluffy farm where many infact die
This kind of stuff was introduced by 4chan and it caught on with plenty of stories and pics depicting things like "sowwy stick" and "fwuffy pony drowns".
And now when one image site is actually gonna block this tag, someone tries to justify that the whole thing is "to show how wrong abuse to animals is and that they'll lose a large part of the fandom by doing this?"
I don't believe them. Firstly because a large chunk of the fandom DOES NOT like this, heck a handful of them are against this, the only "large chunk" they could mean are the anons in 4chan who are posting these just because they can get away with it.
And if this was "an example to show how bad abuse is", answer me this:
- Why are there no links to charities or organisations like the RSPCA who are combating animal abuse?
- Why do they use a fictional being when they should have used real-life animals or even ACTUAL ACCOUNTS of Animal abuse to spread awareness?
- Why do they try to explain that this whole thing is to spread awareness against abuse when their methods are more likely to do the exact opposite?
I actually talked to other people about this and from there, I learned of something similar. Sadly I forgot the name but it was basically cute lil anime characters that constantly died. Kinda similar to fluffies and the fact is, they are using excuses like this to try and justify what is obviously a terrible fad.
You can argue that things like guro have some artistic value of sorts but this honestly has no value. I mean c'mon, you wouldn't feel alright about people making stories about child abuse, even if the children in question weren't human.


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Empirical evidence suggests this investment strategy works.
By Will Ashworth
There's a guy in San Jose, Calif., who makes money from stock splits. Neil Macneale's his name, and he has been writing his 2 for 1 Newsletter since August 1996.
A contractor by trade, Macneale put $50,000 into an IRA, and during the next 13 years it gained 452.4% through the end of May compared to 241.7% for the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VOO).
Traditional thinking suggests that stock splits -- especially the 2-for-1 variety -- do nothing to add economic value to a stock. It simply doubles the number of shares outstanding. Think again. Two university professors from Columbia and the University of Illinois released a study in 2012 that studied stock splits between 1988 and the end of 2007. The professors found that stock splits foreshadow sustainably strong earnings.
Macneale is living proof the study wasn't a fluke.
To build your own fund, Macneale suggests buying a stock that has split 2-for-1 or higher (3-for-1, etc.) every month ($1,000 per stock) until you own 30 stocks. Once you've got your portfolio in place, maintaining it becomes real simple. Each month you sell the oldest stock, replace it with a stock that has split in the same month, then repeat the process in subsequent months.
It's idiot-proof. Well, sort of.
You still have to decide which stocks to pick. There are slim pickings in some months, and hard decisions in others. But in the end, I think you'll do just fine.
So far in 2013, there have been 19 stock splits of 2-for-1 or greater, with four more scheduled in the next week. Here are my three favorites:
First pick: AO Smith
AO Smith (AOS) is up roughly 10% since April 15, when it announced a 2-for-1 stock split payable May 16.
The maker of water heaters has been a favorite of mine (InvestorPlace) for several years primarily because of its manufacturing policy, which has it making products in the countries where it plans to sell those products. Although its business in China and India is growing rapidly, it still generates a majority of its revenue in the U.S. Most of what it sells here it makes here. It doesn't rely on its Asian plants for its U.S. production -- those plants are meant for domestic production in China and India. It does the same in Canada.
It's possible that could change, but until it does, I can't think of a better stock to own in the industrial goods sector.
Second pick: Whole Foods
Regardless of what you might think of John Mackey's antics, you have to love the job he has done as founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market (WFM). Since going public in January 1992, its stock has achieved an annualized total return of 18.4% -- 910 basis points greater than Wal-Mart (WMT), which wasn't nearly as big back then as it is today. That's quite an accomplishment.
Whole Foods -- which has split four times since 1992, including its most recent 2-for-1 split on May 29 -- continues to grow its business in a methodical manner, increasing same-store sales for 14 consecutive quarters. Since the second quarter of 2008, it has increased its average weekly sales per store by 27% to $725,416. It's for this reason it keeps growing earnings by 20% annually or more.
With the health-food craze now a normal part of everyday life, the future is very bright indeed.
Third pick: Lorrilard
My last pick isn't going to win any awards for bettering mankind, but it certainly has the attention of income investors across the country.
Lorillard (LO), which was spun off from Loews (L) in June 2008, has paid out $8.21 in dividends since becoming an independent company. In January, it split 3-for-1; since then, its stock is up 12%.
The most interesting aspect of a Lorillard investment is its April 2012 acquisition of Blu eCigs for $135 million. The American electronic cigarette market is estimated to be worth as much as $1 billion, and Lorillard now controls 40% of the market share. While its sales in the second quarter were just $57 million along with $7 million in operating income compared to $1.5 billion in revenue and $550 million in operating income for its regular cigarettes, it still has great potential. Especially since e-cigs are a much safer alternative to the real thing.
As of this writing, Will Ashworth did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Posted in music | tour dates on February 28, 2013
by Bill Pearis
As mentioned, Belfast's Girls Names' new album, The New Life, is out March 12 via Slumberland. They owe a sonic kinship to their labelmates Crystal Stilts and the new album has a clear, ringing sound -- not to mention some excellent basslines -- and you can stream the whole album below.
The band are making their way across the Atlantic next month for the music swap meet known as SXSW and on their way there they'll stop in NYC for at Cameo on March 10. They'll play with Lazyeyes and the very Felt-ish Sapphire Mansions. Tickets are on sale now. It seems to be their only non-SXSW date over here, but their current tour schedule is below.
Girls Names - Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Girls Names - 2013 Tour Dates
2nd - Sala Apolo, Barcelona
3rd - Astoria, Torino
4th - Circolo degli Artisti, Rome
5th - Mascotte, Zurich - cancelled
6th - MuZ, Nuremberg
8th - Magnet Club (Karrera Klub), Berlin
9th - De Neiuwe Anita, Amsterdam
10th - Cameo, NYC
12th - 17th - SXSW, Austin, TX
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so goooooood
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2013 10:51 AM
also pretty sure that cameo show is their US debut
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2013 10:52 AM
been waiting
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2013 11:48 AM
i liked them better when they were "CRYSTAL STILTS"
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2013 3:19 PM
I liked you better before your mom shit you out into this world.
Posted by Anonymous | February 28, 2013 3:56 PM
^ said the manager...too easy
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon
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On another note I would like to say these things….
I am an art student at an art school, and this is the week of finals, hence why I haven't been about making confession graphics. There is one in my messages that I need to make, but other than that my submissions box is empty.
This week I have all of my final classes for the quarter and then I am heading home for the holidays where I will have infinitely more time to work on things.
In the mean time I would like to encourage you to think up more submissions and submit them. I will make them either this week or when I return home.
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From the beginning of this season of Couples Therapy, watching Farrah Abraham has been like playing that kids' game: which one of these things doesn't belong. Having shown up without a boyfriend in tow, the Teen Mom star is obviously a strange fit for a show that's about COUPLES. But it wasn't until tonight that it really became apparent that Farrah should be kicked to the curb.
The show started with more drama for Ghostface Killah and his girlfriend, Kelsey Byers, who -- I'm going to just come out and say it -- deserves better than his lame two-timing behind. Unfortunately single Farrah's drama managed to upstage the real relationship issue once again, when she got pulled into a private session with Dr. Jenn Berman.
According to Farrah, she can't talk about whatever it is she needs to talk about in therapy because of some legal issues that seem to relate to her sex tape (I say "seem to" because, once again, girlfriend can't talk about it). What happened after that was one of the strangest things I've ever seen on reality TV. Berman actually pulled off her mic and kicked everyone -- save for her and Farrah -- out of the room for a private off-camera discussion.
Right there? That's proof that Farrah doesn't belong on the show.
I don't actually begrudge her getting some private therapy. After watching her on TV for years and reading some of the things I have about her, I'd even say she NEEDS therapy. But hello! She signed up for a TV show on the premise that she'd be doing the therapy in front of the camera.
And now she's basically said she can't ... for LEGAL reasons.
Not emotional reasons -- which I'd really have some sympathy for. LEGAL ones. Which, ostensibly, she knew before signing a contract with VH1.
What the what?
Now, Dr. Jenn came out in group therapy and said Farrah had disclosed horrors that were so awful, they're among the worst she's ever heard as a therapist, but again, she couldn't go into what it is that Farrah said. Nor would Farrah to the group.
Basically the therapist and Farrah were both telling the group they have to feel sorry for her and be nice to her because SOMETHING happened to her ... but no one will say what.
And no one really seemed to take kindly to that. Taylor Armstrong's fiance John admitted he can't relate to Farrah in any way because he just doesn't feel she's honest, and Whitney Mixter aptly described the boyfriend-less, tight-lipped Farrah as nothing more than "a girl in a room" if she can't actually contribute to the group in any way.
I feel for Farrah, I really do. Some of the stuff she has revealed this season has been pretty sad. But if she can't engage in what the show is offering, it's time for her to go ... and find some private therapy so the other couples can actually get on with the healing.
Kelsey could certainly use the time Farrah is wasting to learn to get over the jerk who has been jerking her around for the past year!
What did you think of the way the group responded to Farrah's explanation? Were they being too harsh?
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I don't think they're were harsh...I think they're all FRUSTRATED. (As am I at this point!) After tonight's espisode and especially after seeing Dr. Burman break down when speaking about the private session with Farrah it's pretty clear that she should have NEVER agreed to go onto the show! I mean, WTF? WHY is she there if she can't TALK ABOUT WHY SHE'S THERE? Everyone else is there to help their relationship...obviously Farrah isn't part of a couple. Does Farrah need help? YES! But I don't think that Couple's Therapy (either the show or couple's therapy in general) is NOT the kind of help that she needs right now. So, they need to let her exit the show so that the other couples can get the help that they signed up for.
Ghostface is suck a fucking peice of shit. I'd love to kick him in his nuts...twice. Kelsey is so beautiful, but she needs to wake the hell up and find a man that's going to treat her the way that she deserves! The way that he acted when Kelsey was angry at him, it was just like a toddler. He didn't want her when she wanted him but when she needed to focus on herself and didn't want him, he couldn't stand that....because HE has to be the center of everyone's world or he's not happy. Obviously, he has issues there, but he needs to take his head out of his ass before he can even START to fix them.
They were not too harsh. Farrah never had a boyfriend, stage the porn tape & released it to the public, and had to go off camera to make her lies seem truthful. The bitch is lying to try to become famous. When her sex tape did not give her the Kim Kardashian fame she got pissed.
Now with Kelsy, she is going to stay with Ghostface because she loves him and her self-esteem is in the gutter. I think the other female is going to leave, seems like she has some good sense.


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I almost got sacked for being disloyal after poking fun at Alan with some of the hotel staff.
Alan scared some of the staff by dressing up as a zombie. Must repair shower curtains.
Had a horrible time when Alan insisted on stealing a traffic cone. We were let off with a caution by the police.
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All right pregnant mama, you've got your baby registry ready, and your nursery is just about perfect. But where's your baby going to sit when she eats? Once babies get old enough to sit unsupported and start eating solid foods (around 6 months), you may want to get a high chair. The best kind of high chair is the high-quality chair you inherit for free from a friend. But if that freebie never materializes, the next best thing is a convertible high chair.
Convertible high chairs adjust as your child grows, so you don't have to buy a second chair or booster seat later on. Here are our top picks for some of the best convertible high chairs on the market.
When you're picking out any high chair, you want to look for the following:
Boon Flair Pneumatic Pedestal Highchair (around $280): This chair is height adjustable via pneumatic lift. It can fit under a table, has a sturdy base that glides and won't scratch floors but can lock into place, has a five-point harness, and features a groovy futuristic design. Seats up to a 4-year-old child.
Stokke Tripp Trap (around $250): This one is a classic -- we used this for our family. Here's how convertible it is: You can keep adjusting the height to fit even an adult (it can take up to 300 pounds). There's a foot rest for comfort, several different color choices, machine-washable cushions, and a solid harness for babies. They last forever, but the footprint is quite large. See also the more gently-priced Keekaroo chair.
Svan Convertible High Chair (around $275): This is another chair that can adjust up to a teenager. It's lightweight and ergonomically designed; it has removable seat cushions and a dishwasher-safe tray.
Peg Perego Prima Pappa Best High Chair (around $200): This chair has three positions, a foot rest, wheels with brakes, a double tray including a dishwasher-safe tray, and it folds for easy storage.
Graco Blossom 4-in-1 Seating System (around $150): This chair goes from a full high chair, a chair-attached infant booster seat, a toddler booster seat, and a youth chair, all via pneumatic-assisted seat height adjustment. It has removable cushions and pillows, a five-point harness, wheels that lock, 360-degree rotation, wipe-clean surfaces, one tray for meals, and a smaller tray for snacks.
What are you looking for in a high chair?
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My kids are past the high chair days but I always looked for one that was easy to clean.
I hope to never need one again, but these are super nice.
When I bought my high chair I only looked at cost. I knew I was only going to use it for a short time and didn't feel spending alot of money on something like that was wise.
I received mine as a gift off of my baby registry, but these chairs are expensive. My DD's high hair and booster seat combined cost less than half of one of these chairs.
cute high chair! My mom got ours for us.
Wow, those are expensive! We got one for my first son and just changed the cover for my second son. They don't eat in it anymore. But I put my youngest 4 year old in it when I take a shower LOL. He's way to big for it.
This is how I was:
When I bought my high chair I only looked at cost. I knew I was only going to use it for a short time and didn't feel spending alot of money on something like that was wise.
We are finally coming to the end of having a high chair in the house, LOL. I am not picky when it comes to baby supplies. I choose something that is safe and easy to clean. We have a wood high chair


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Is it time to close Kmart?
The chain is losing money, and sales are sliding. Is there any reason for it to stay in business?
Would Sears be better off closing Kmart? At the rate things are going, the answer is yes.
Kmart is stuck in a rut. Sales at its stores open at least a year fell 3.8% over the crucial holiday shopping season, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now it has just 0.6% of the nongrocery retail market. In the first nine months of its current fiscal year, the chain posted a $98 million operating loss and saw sales slide 5.5%.
We won't know for a while whether Kmart made a profit in 2012, but it lost money on an operating basis in 2011.
The Kmart stores that I've been to are remarkably similar. They're dirty. The shelves are cluttered, yet the customers are gone. Employees are nowhere to be found.
The Journal found a similar scene at a Kmart in Manhattan, where it reported abandoned carts full of merchandise, unevenly stacked towels and unfolded pajama sets lying about. "The tile floors looked as though they hadn't been mopped in some time, and clothes were piled in the corners of the dressing rooms," Dana Mattioli wrote.
Kmart stores in New Jersey took that a step further, selling expired infant formula and over-the-counter drugs. The chain will pay more than $300,000 in fines and be subject to inspections as a result.
Kmart used to fill an important role for budget-conscious shoppers. But those customers have many more places now that can meet their needs. Dollar stores sell groceries and household necessities. Wal-Mart (WMT) has a bigger selection than Kmart, often at lower prices.
In fact, the Journal cited data showing Kmart's prices were higher than Wal-Mart's and Target's (TGT) in five out of six items it checked at all stores.
Granted, that's a pretty small sample. But if that holds true and Kmart isn't necessarily cheaper than competitors, then what is Kmart's reason for existing?
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I don't want them to go away. Prices jumped at Walmart the next town over once that area's Kmart shut its door... heard that from a Wally World employee themselves. If only they could straighten up their act...
Price points are higher in K Mart than Walmart, that's a no brainer... I can purchase a comperable or same item at Walmart for less money.. Mens clothing lines in Sears and K Mart are awful, high prices for low quality, very little style.
Change your business practice or else Good Bye K Mart
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((Shit that is really shitty to wake up to: discovering that people are attacking other prussia rpers, comparing them to me and telling them to stop because they are not good enough or their art sucks or some other bullshit like that. So dear anons that think it's okay to go around telling someone to stop having fun because ~they're not playing how I want them to play~ Let me tell you that I think that's absolutely disgusting, and if you are going around doing that, you are immature, mean, and petty as all fuck, and I'd prefer if people like that didn't go around being rabid fans using my account as some sort of ruler others have to measure against, because that's fucking stupid, and is not what having an askblog is about.
I started off somewhere not that great, and I had to learn and grow and improve, and that wouldn't have happened if I had anons attacking me every two seconds for no damn reason other than they're bored and bitter. I follow and appreciate a lot of wonderful, adorable and hilarious gilbert accounts and love them all to death, and wouldn't change a thing about them and I WILL FIGHT YOU FOR THEM because the only requirement to rp anything or anyone is a love for the character and a desire to have fun. That's. it.
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Suzuki launched in Paris a radical new GSX_R1000 and the 1300 cc B-King. The GSX-R1000 gets a new range of twin exhausts system.
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August 12, 2009
My band is going on a national rock tour: what should I know?
Unexpectedly, a pretty big-time act wants this indie/psych group I play with to open for them on about 40 dates this fall. The dates are almost all booked, with a little break in the middle.
I have read
this thread
, and
this thread
, so I've got a pretty good idea about what to bring in the van, but mainly I'd like to know what you wish you'd known before your own band headed out on tour, or what you, as someone tangentially involved in the music scene in your town, wished that touring bands knew about.
Also: It's been 10 years since I went on the road what kinda stuff should I expect to have changed or be vital to know about now? What resources (besides BYOFL, which as far as I can tell is useless now) most came in handy when you were playing shows around?
FYI I am also the manager/publicist/booking agent and everything else. We have a self-released album and some t-shirts as a starter kit. We're buying a van. We walk the streets at night, we go where eagles dare.
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Potomac Avenue
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I toured with a few bands as driver, videographer etc. The one thing I quickly learned was the great value of a SECRET stash of cash. It always came in handy in some emergency or other.
A little dexedrine helped too. But just a little.
posted by
on August 12, 2009
Eat right. Do NOT eat crap or you will pay for it many times over (lethargy, low blood suger, feeling crappy, getting sick, losing energy, etc). It's much better to be hungry than to eat a bunch of junk.
Budget a little $$ for a fresh six-pack of socks (and maybe briefs) every week, and just toss the old ones. Trust me on this.
NEVER fall asleep with your shoes on. This is free license for the other band members to draw on your face with a sharpie. Shoes off, hands off. Shoes on, fair game. You've been warned.
Set up a resource path so you can get more merch while you're out on the road. If you do well, and sell out of stuff early, you will be kicking yourself for the rest of the trip if you can't get more.
By "resource path", I mean talk to your shirt guy and your CD dup guy and let him know you might be calling for a re-up from the road. Know the addresses of a few places along the way so you can drop ship to there and grab the merch en route.
Always be friendly to the sound guy and the club staff. DO NOT be dicks, even in jest. You will regret it.
Have fun, and keep a positive attitude, even if it just about kills you. Flex your "get along" muscles beforehand so you are ready for the inevitable van drama.
posted by
on August 12, 2009 [
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If you don't have an iphone or easy way of searching the internet from any location, research local mechanics, tow companies, and music stores in each city you will be in. A broken down vehicle is something that can be fixed without too much trouble if you are prepared for it, but if you are 5 miles outside of a town you have never been to before, that is not the time where you want to be trying to find this information. Music stores are good to know if you show up and someone drops/runs over/steals/smashes some of your gear.
I would also suggest not eating junk food. Get a big cooler, and buy a bag of ice each day. Keep a supply of snackable fruits and veggies in the cooler. Once a week stop at a grocery store and replenish. Apples, carrots, oranges, celery, etc. will be a much better alternative than eating at mcdonalds for every meal. A good healthy snack right before or after a show will make you guys enjoy the tour a lot more, and make everyone a lot happier while spending so much time in a car.
If you aren't bringing a sound guy/girl, give a copy of your CD to the sound person each night. If they like your music, they will either tell their friends about it, or they will use it as part of their preshow music. As a sound person, every time a band gives me a copy of their CD, if their live set is good, I will listen to the CD that night on the way home or the following day. Some of those CD's have become some of my favorites. It is a cheap way to spread your music to people who are active in the local music community.
Learn the names of the sound people at each club. You will get a much better mix if you refer to the sound person by name, rather than just yelling out "hey sound guy".
posted by
on August 12, 2009
If you don't already have it, I suggest
this book
. And a credit card or two with a large enough limit to get you out of a big jam (ie van stolen with all equipment or drummer in jail).
posted by
on August 12, 2009
As far as buying that van goes - think about the total weight of everyone who will be going on tour, all their gear, and whatever luggage and merchandise you'll be hauling. Often this exceeds the weight rating of the typical "half ton" van. Overloading your van can lead to a blown transmission, overheating going up hills, scary handling, and a host of other problems.
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Are you sure you need to buy a van outright? All of my friends who tour, (and I mean professional types who tour all the time and don't have day jobs), rent a van before they go out on tour. Your situation might be different but it can be really expensive to have a van on the road, esp when you're not touring. Just something to consider.
A good tip that I've always liked is to have 2 band members, (preferably where at least one isn't drunk), separately perform "the idiot check," ie making sure that your drummer hasn't left his cymbals on the drum riser etc. It really sucks to realize you've left something behind after you're on the highway.
Have a wicked tour!
posted by
hector horace
on August 12, 2009
Is the name of your band and/or the band you are opening for a seekrit or could you tell us curious ones?
Also, 2nding renting the van.
My expertise is merch-related: Cool t-shirts are a great money-maker/easy seller. Much more so than CDs, contrary to what some bands think (seriously, those damn CDs never sell that well, and you'll run out of Ms and any girl-cut shirt before the tour's over). People who even kind of liked your band will buy a shirt if it looks really cool. And don't use shitty t-shirts or Hanes Beefy T or thick shit like that to make your shirt. People hate those.
posted by
on August 12, 2009
Also: either bring extras of things that might break or get lost, or know ahead of time/have an easy way to find out where the closest music store is (for things the venue won't have). When I worked at a radio station, I can't even count the times we loaned odds and ends to touring bands as a favor, or helped them find where to buy things like strings.
posted by
on August 12, 2009
I agree about being careful with what you eat. You don't want to be stuck on the shitter in some club in West Virginia with everyone else onstage wondering where you are (this happened to me).
Plan for every contingency. What if your bass player quits the band three shows in (this happened to me)? Don't get the cheapest van possible because it will break down catastrophically when you're in the middle of nowhere (this happened to me). Don't become mildly alcoholic as a result of getting free drinks every night (this happened to me).
That's all I can think of right now. If you posted the clubs where you're playing there might be more specific advice about playing those places.
posted by
on August 12, 2009
From my limited experience as a merch guy - people LOVE free stuff, like stickers. If you don't have stickers already, make some - if you do have them, make more. Also hot on the merch front are cloth bags, especially now that lots of places are outlawing plastic bags.
posted by
on August 13, 2009
I'm only not marking best answers because i'd be accused of grade inflation--this is all awesome.
Ludwig_van: The list isnt finalized yet but it's a bunch of large to medium sized clubs in pretty much every city in the US and southern Canada. We're playing CW Center Stage in Atlanta for instance, and TLA in Philly, and every House of Blues we stumble over on the West Coast. Once the dates are official I'll post them if I'm allowed.
ishotjr: I didn't want to self-link too hardcore, so some of my band's music is now in my profile. The band we're opening for hasn't announced dates yet plus I'm still worried about a jinx so we're not talking about it! Seeeecrets.
Thanks again!
posted by
Potomac Avenue
on August 13, 2009
My answer comes from the angle of a listener with 0.0001 experience in band promotion, but it maybe bears repeating, as it has to do with how I find out about shows? Massive apologies if it's totally obvious stuff. Links below mostly go to local-to-me (Rochester NY) answers.
Know the
weekly newspapers and
and make sure you're listed in them. I have no idea how you'd find city-specific events pages, but they do
do exist
outside the MSM. Also, try to get a sense of what radio stations might be friendly to a stop-by from you, like a college or
similarly independent
station. Contact
station managers
or other relevant staff & send CDs to them. I firmly believe that local radio still has a great deal of power. Do you have any kind of street team infrastructure? Friends-of-friends/AskMeFites/etc. who'd be willing to post fliers in the week or two leading up to the show in each town, in return for free admission? Are you on Facebook? :) If so, set up Events that your fans can Attend and Invite their Friends to. Free & easy promotion. (See also: Twitter, which one of my
favorite bands
is pretty rad about.) Get your band on
or other
concert search engines/organizers.
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A friend of mine started
to help bands find cheap/free places to stay on tour. Might be helpful..
posted by
on August 13, 2009
My recommendation -- from dealing with touring DJs and watching which ones get local followings and which don't --- Find local messageboards and introduce yourself to the local scene before you go. Hang out with locals before and after the show (and I don't mean groupies).
That kind of shit makes a big big difference in terms of getting invited back to gigs on your own. I can think of a few not-amazingly-talented 'opening' djs for big name acts that ended up getting booked over and over again for local shows, just because they were cool guys and people wanted them to come around again just to hang out. Plus it's cool to know a bunch of people around the country -- it can really come in handy.
Oh and give out lots of CDs, if you can afford to -- doesn't matter if it's just in a bunch of unlabled cds with marker on them in a white paper sleeve -- you can sell fancy packaged cds, but it's more important that people hear you than that people pay you early on.
I'm sure the clubbing scene is different from the rock scene, but I don't think it's THAT much different.
posted by
on August 13, 2009
tourformation.com puts up info like this everyday. They have a bunch of it assembled here. http://musformation.com/2009/07/the-musformation-guide-to-playing-live-and-touring.html
posted by
on August 13, 2009
Oh and give out lots of CDs, if you can afford to -- doesn't matter if it's just in a bunch of unlabled cds with marker on them in a white paper sleeve -- you can sell fancy packaged cds, but it's more important that people hear you than that people pay you early on.
This is a good idea, but I think you need to be careful. Personally I'd recommend against the CDR w/ marker route. If you're going to represent yourself with a physical item make it look good. I think a lot of people get a bland-looking CDR and never listen to it because it looks amateurish. And for the same reason I think you should charge something. Free equates to worthless for a lot of people. And if you say "We're selling this album, and we're giving away this free CD," people tend to say "I'll take the free one, thanks, later" and you don't sell any albums. So my personal feeling is you should have a CD with 2-4 tracks and design an image to be printed on the CD with the band name, website, and tracklist, stick them in sleeves and call it an EP, and sell it for $1-3 alongside your albums which you sell for $10-15. Then people come over to your merch table and buy at least the cheaper one or maybe both, and you know they're gonna listen to it since they paid for it and it looks nice.
posted by
on August 13, 2009
But give CDs for free to people who can help you in some way, e.g. people in other bands, press people, sound people, etc.
posted by
on August 13, 2009
I'm currently, right this second, working for the Robot Chicken On Wheels Tour or I'd post a nice long response. Expect something more when I get back to home later tonight, but the most important thing I can think of off the top is SECURITY. Make sure your van is locked when no one is watching it, your trailer is securely locked to your van, and pick up a safe to bolt into the floor of your van to hold money and valuables. Don't drunkenly let a random untrusted fan help you load or you will wind up with less stuff than you started. Ok back to work. Laters!
posted by
on August 13, 2009
So I'm going to try and go over everything I've learned through careful observation, lots of questions, and making mistakes that has made my rock life that much better.
40 dates isn't bad, but some fucked up shit will happen over the 6+ weeks of tour. Expect at least one flat tire, two oil changes, and if you're lucky no major injuries. Keep a small first aid kit handy for the minor ones like cuts and blisters. Tums, tylenols, cough drops, and any other medicines you might need.
Get as many names, phone numbers, and email addresses for the venue, venue contacts, promoter, production manager, and house sound guy as early as possible for each of the dates from your booking agent or label contacts or managers. You can probably email them a short introduction and attach your stage plot, rider, tech rider, and input list so they will have them at least once, but chances are you will have to email these documents at least one more time. At least one week before the date of the show, call everyone and touch base starting with the promoter. Confirm the address for your GPS, everyone else's name and numbers, when load-in (this might change) is, what the parking situation will be for your vehicle, when doors are (this will change), and when you go on (this will also change). Ask if they need anything from you and what they need from you. Ensure that you communicate with someone associated with every show. This is called advancing. It's part of what a TM does. Get in a solid rhythm of advancing a week's worth of shows at a time, I like to knock it out on Wednesdays, but inevitably you will be unable to get in touch with people here and there. Try to do it before the day of show, but you may encounter shows where no phone numbers works and no one knows anything yet you show up and they go off. Be diligent about advancing and try to stay on the ball and ahead of it. Make time for it. It's important.
If you don't have these right now, then make them immediately:
- backstage rider- as an opener you won't always get this, but when you do it's awesome.
- technical rider- this is where the equipment, musical gear, and lights you're traveling with, any special instructions, and anything unique or problematic that people should know about your live show.
- stage plot- do a top down scale drawing of your stage layout, where the mics go, where you need power, mark the inputs, indicate where the monitors will go. stage right and stage left are right and left as you are standing on the stage looking at the audience. make sure this corresponds with your
- input list- every input you will need from the front of house sound board. indicate any direct boxes you might need. outboard effects, ipods, CD player, everything.
OK that's all for now. More later. I hope you like tetris.
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So now hopefully you know where and when your shows are and who to talk to when you get there
who gets the blame when things go wrong (tour managers, production managers, and promoters all ultimately get the blame). Let's talk about the van.
Aside from hotel rooms and generous friends' houses along the way, the van will be your home for the six weeks you will be on tour. Think about what you've done in your life over the past month and a half. You need to be able to squish is all into a vehicle and move it around the country every day. Pack and travel light, one big bag for soft goods (clothes) with nothing breakable inside that can be thrown around and piled in the trailer (if you're using one, more later), one toiletry bag with all your shower/bathroom supplies in it, and one day bag for your laptop, cellphone, ipod, and all the other stuff you want with you at all times. You can always bring more stuff, but space is limited and everyone has themselves and other people to worry about. Be considerate. Grab a car charger for your phone, and look into who needs AC power for laptops etc and get at least one appropriate AC/DC inverter. Long drives can be brutal, so bring something to entertain yourselves, TV series on DVD, lots of movies, video games, but that stuff needs to be accounted for as thieves will break into a van to get a LCD TV and xbox.
Bathe often, do what you can to not stink. New socks, gold bond, deodorant, febreze, and taking 10 minutes to splash off every chance you get go pretty far. An 8 hour drive sucks, but an 8 hour drive with a dude that smells like onions and balls is going to cause tension.
And please, for the sake of the show, maintain your van. Not getting there will cost you a lot of money. This means regular oil changes, checking your tire pressure, not towing a trailer with overdrive on, keeping your fluids at acceptable levels, carrying jumper cables and spare fuses, and whatever else you might need to keep the vehicle you get around the country and spend a great deal of your time in running.
Again, more later. Please consider not only yourself, but everyone in your touring ensemble in every decision you make.
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fuck it im marking everyone with best answers this rocks so hard
posted by
Potomac Avenue
on August 17, 2009
For the van:
A giant canister of unscented baby wipes.
You can clean your face, neck, hands, pits....
any time.
You will thank me later if you do this.
posted by
on August 17, 2009
Oh yeah, I keep remembering this whenever I'm not by the internet, but if you get there at the same time the headliner is loading in, you might be able to make use of the local hands to load your stuff in quicker. Also, if you drive at night until you get to the next city and get a hotel room after the audit, like 5-6AM, you will have it for the rest of that day and night until checkout the next calendar date. If you can plan when you're going to do this, possibly when you have a short drive the next day so you can hang in the city where you're playing, then you can maximize party time and not have to wake up early and do all your driving in the morning. I feel like I'm being incoherent, so I'll STFU for now, but I'm trying to remember to update this when I can.
posted by
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All of this advice will indeed be taken or at least considered strongly.
We leave in two weeks (
) playing a few selected homemade weird instruments I'm making
based on this thread
. We'll be a-bloggin' a-tweetin and a video-tapin' the whole tour if yr interested in results.
Thanks again.
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