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- Apple sent invites to members of the press Tuesday for an October 23 event
- The event next week is widely expected to be the launch of a smaller iPad
One of the worst-kept secrets in tech has been confirmed: Apple will hold an event October 23 in San Jose, California, at which the company is widely expected to unveil a smaller, cheaper version of its popular iPad.
Apple sent e-mails to members of the press Tuesday that read simply, "We've got a little more to show you. Please join us for an invitation-only event at the California Theatre in San Jose on October 23 at 10:00 a.m."
Unlike last month's invite to the unveiling of the iPhone 5, which contained a not-so-subtle "5" in its graphic, Tuesday's colorful rainbow design offered few hints about what Apple might announce, although the word "little" could be a clue.
Numerous news reports suggest the secretive company will introduce a 7- or 8-inch version of its popular tablet, which currently has a nearly 10-inch screen when measured diagonally.
Apple has not confirmed any of these reports, of course. Nor have they revealed what such a mythical device may be called, which hasn't stopped the tech media from labeling it the "iPad Mini."
Other details about the rumored tablet remain vague, although some analysts predict it will not have the high-definition "retina display" that's on the current iPad. Most observers believe it will be priced under $300.
A smaller iPad would allow Apple to compete head-to-head with rival small tablets, such as Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7, that have weakened Apple's domination of the tablet market.
Those devices are priced in the $200 range, while Apple's current iPad lineup starts at $399 for last year's iPad 2 and $499 for the third-generation iPad released in March.
Tuesday's Apple invite came the same day prices were revealed for Microsoft's upcoming line of Surface tablets, which will start at $499 and hit stores October 26.
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By Alicia Rancilio
NEW YORK (AP) — The big, bad villain on the CW's "The Vampire Diaries" is getting his own series.
Joseph Morgan first appeared during season two as Klaus Mikaelson, one of the world's first vampires, who is also half-werewolf. He was a series regular in the third and fourth seasons.
"I love it," said the 32-year-old Morgan. "It's been one of the most fun characters I've ever played."
Fans loved Morgan's Klaus and his fellow vampire family members. They were making YouTube videos about the clan before the spinoff was announced.
In "The Originals," Klaus moves to New Orleans after being away for about a hundred years and wants to take over the city, now ruled by his protege vampire, Marcel.
Morgan, who is joined on the series by "Vampire Diaries" cast members Daniel Gilles, Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin, says "The Originals" is darker in tone than its predecessor.
The show premieres Thursday (9 p.m. EDT), but will begin airing in its regular Tuesday time slot (8 p.m. EDT) beginning Oct. 8. [xfinity-record-button id="6907158629602355112″ program_type="series"]
AP: How would you describe Klaus?
Morgan: Klaus is an original vampire. His family was the first vampires to ever walk the planet. He's also a hybrid. He's half-vampire, half-werewolf because his father was a werewolf, different to his siblings. (His siblings had a different father.) So, when we were made vampires 1,000 years ago and we each made our first kills, part of the werewolf curse is when you make your first kill, you transform (into a wolf), so it was then that my hybrid nature became apparent. Because of that, Klaus is pretty much indestructible. There's a very, very complicated way that he can be killed, but I don't think anyone needs to know that. (Laughs.) We don't need to go into those details. Nobody needs to know how he dies.
AP: What's it like to star in your own show?
Morgan: For me it's more consuming because I'm just in more of it. There's more to do. I'm interacting with almost every character and my character is talked about a lot in the scenes I'm not in. (Laughs.)
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AP: Klaus was a big deal on "The Vampire Diaries." He was talked about before he showed up on the show. Did you realize how important the role was to the story?
Morgan: I thought about like, 'You know, maybe he should have a different name like they could call him like William or something.' And then I looked up (the character) online and I was like, 'Oh, no. This is already an established thing. We can't go changing this.'
AP: Have you ever been a hyper-fan of something where the details have been important to you?
Morgan: I get quite passionate about 'The Walking Dead' and the relationship between the graphic novels and the TV series, like 'how can Dale be dead already when he hasn't done the bit where the cannibals eat his legs after he's been bitten and he hasn't laughed because they're eating dead meat?' And 'that's such a great moment and I understand why they had to do it, but you know I would've liked to see that moment on film.' So, yeah, there's some of that.
AP: Viewers learned in the pilot for "The Originals" that Klaus might become a father. Wouldn't it be interesting if there's a baby on the set?
Morgan: Yeah! Right? It's interesting. It will be a very different direction. … To bring a baby into the mix will be a whole new thing.
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September 26, 2003
See opening web page of HHS site (pdf)
Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D.CommissionerFood and Drug Administration5600 Fishers LaneRockville, MD 20857
Dear Commissioner McClellan:
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) September 9, 2003, announcement of a "Collaborative Campaign to Inform Women About Menopausal Hormone Therapy"[1] does a disservice to women by promoting drug information that is incomplete and thus potentially dangerous. Rather than promoting incomplete information, you should seek to ensure that women ask for and receive the FDA-approved patient information that is required by regulation to be distributed with each prescription for a non-contraceptive estrogen product.[2]
To assess the adequacy of the Collaborative Campaign's information, posted on the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) National Women's Health Information Center website,[3] we compared that information to the FDA-approved patient information required for the most frequently dispensed estrogen product in the U.S., conjugated estrogens (Premarin) produced by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of Philadelphia.[4] (In the 1997 Action Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information,[5] DHHS accepted information consistent with or derived from a drug's professional product label as part of the definition of "useful scientifically accurate" consumer drug information.) That comparison shows several gaping holes in the website information. Astonishingly, the DHHS website does not even include a link to the FDA-approved patient information.
A black box warning is the strongest type of warning that the FDA can require for a drug and is generally reserved for warning prescribers about adverse drug reactions that can cause serious injury or death. The Action Plan guidelines, now echoed in FDA regulation,[6] state that black box warning information should appear at the beginning of written information intended for patients, although not necessarily in a box. This guideline was adopted for two reasons: (1) to require that black box warning information appear at the beginning of the professional product labeling and not to require the same location for information written for consumers would be illogical; and (2) to ensure that risk information about a drug would be the first thing read by consumers to counter the frequent overstatement of benefits and minimization of risks put forth by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The information below appears at the beginning of the FDA-approved patient information for Premarin:
In the Collaborative Campaign information being touted by DHHS, this "most important information" appears as the sixth topic, after the benefit information and other information about hormones and menopause. On this point alone, the information from the Collaborative Campaign fails to meet the FDA-endorsed Action Plan's definition of useful, scientifically accurate drug information for patients.
The Collaborative Campaign website has a link to an FDA Fact Sheet in which the conditions under which women should never use hormone replacement therapy (contraindications) are displayed in a sidebar under a list of benefits of the hormones. In fact, these benefits are mentioned twice in the Collaborative Campaign information. In contrast, the FDA-approved Premarin information for patients prominently advises not to take Premarin if you:
The FDA-approved Premarin information tells women to be alert for the following warning signs of serious, hormone-induced adverse drug reactions and instructs them to call their healthcare provider "right away" if any of the following occur:
This information is totally missing from the Collaborative Campaign information.
The FDA-approved patient information for Premarin carries this statement: "If you use Premarin only to prevent osteoporosis from menopause, talk with your healthcare provider about whether a different treatment or medicine without estrogrens might be better for you." This information, too, is missing from the Collaborative Campaign information.
The Collaborative Campaign information correctly states that women should not take hormone replacement therapy in the hopes of preventing memory loss or Alzheimer's Disease. In fact, data from the Women's Health Initiative study suggest that, if anything, hormone replacement therapy use in this randomized trial was associated with increased risk for "probable dementia."[7] Presumably, the FDA intends to change its professional labeling to reflect this; we expect that the patient information and the Collaborative Campaign material will be changed simultaneously to convey this risk.
Incomplete information is not accurate information. The agency is on record saying that one of its priorities is increasing the amount of accurate information conveyed to consumers about FDA-regulated products. You yourself recently said:
"I consider it a public health hazard when people are misled by false claims." Government-provided information that succinctly states the few benefits of hormone replacement therapy while omitting the very information that the FDA mandates by law in other contexts fails to provide accurate drug information. Indeed, were Wyeth to distribute information as unbalanced as that of the Collaborative Campaign, you would be empowered to take legal action against the company.
How could DHHS approve a campaign that would be in violation of its daughter agency's requirements? A press report states " that there was direct and indirect pressure on the FDA from the largest maker of hormone products, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals" during the development of the Collaborative Campaign.[8] The entire campaign has a strong resemblance to advertising material. The opening webpage on the site contains no substantive information whatsoever. Instead, the page offers only a collage of photographs of attractive seniors frolicking in flowery fields and riding bicycles (see attached).[9] One must then click on this image to reach the misleading information on the website. This page, which is unnecessary from a web design perspective, should simply be eliminated.
We urge you to correct this situation as soon as possible by replacing the Collaborative Campaign information with patient information based on the current FDA-approved patient information for Premarin.
Yours sincerely,
Larry D. Sasich, Pharm.D., M.P.H.Staff Researcher
Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H. Deputy DirectorPublic Citizen's Health Research Group
[1] Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration. FDA Launches Collaborative Campaign to Inform Women About Menopausal Hormone Therapy, September 9, 2003. Available at www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00938.html, accessed September 12, 2003.
[3] Available at www.4woman.gov/menopause. Accessed September 12, 2003.
[4] Food and Drug Administration approved professional product and patient information Labeling for conjugated estrogens (Premarin). Available at www.wyeth.com/content/ShowLabeling.asp?id=131, accessed September 12, 2003. FDA regulation requires that patient information labeling "shall be scientifically accurate and shall be based on, and shall not conflict with, the approved professional labeling for the product." 21 CFR 208.20.
[5] Action Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information presented to The Honorable Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the Steering Committee for the Collaborative Development of a Long-Range Actions Plan for the Provision of Useful Prescription Medicine Information, December 1996.
A Steering Committee met seven times between September 18, 1996 and December 4, 1996 in the Washington DC area in a very contentious debate to develop The Action Plan. Consumer groups advocated for the mandatory distribution by pharmacists of FDA regulated drug information similar to regulations first proposed by the agency in 1979. Consumer groups noted that the private sector had pursued a failed paradigm since the inception of the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE) in 1982 that has not provided useful information to prescription drug consumers. Entities representing the drug industry, pharmacy and medicine, and commercial information vendors pressed for the status quo — voluntary distribution, voluntary quality standards, no oversight, and no FDA involvement.
[7] Shumaker SA, Legault C, Rapp SR, et al. Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2003;289:2651-62.
[8] Kaufman M. FDA Offers Guidance On Hormone Therapy, Washington Post, September 10, 2003, p. A3.
[9] Available at http://www.4woman.gov/Menopause/. Accessed September 25, 2003.
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Adrenaline For The Soul
Philippians 2:5
At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth
and under the earth, and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father (vv.10-11).
Using contemporary language, while attempting to
capture the depth and vitality of the original words
that moved and inspired early believers in Jesus,
Eugene Peterson translated Hebrews 12:2-3 this way:
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished
this race we're in. Study how He did it. Because He never
lost sight of where He was headed—that exhilarating
finish in and with God—He could put up with anything
along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now He's
there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When
you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that
story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility He
plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
(The Message).
Over the years, I've grown to more deeply appreciate
the importance of studying how Jesus boldly lived out His
convictions (Philippians 2:6-8). I'm often instructed and
deeply moved by His surprising acts of compassion, by
His strength to confront injustice, and by His willingness
to suffer for a greater good.
I can now better see that my favorite class in Bible
college—"The Life of Christ"—wasn't so much about
the teacher as it was the topic. While my teacher was
excellent (thank you, Mike Sullivan!), the subject was
even better! Simply put, Jesus is the most captivating
figure to ever walk the face of the earth.
Going over Jesus' life is more than just an academic or intellectual exercise. This
is not about getting pumped full of information so you can pass an exam or sound
"spiritual." It's about becoming personally acquainted, captured, and loved by the
One whose life, death, and resurrection changed everything (vv.9-11).
Celebrate the life of Jesus "detail by detail." Soak it in. His reality will "shoot
adrenaline" into your heart. —Jeff Olson
Read Galatians 2:20 to
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the depth of our identity
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Why is it vital for us
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I've seen pictures of graveyards with tombstones leaning to and fro. They actually have a unique beauty too them, but as those tombstones lean they are coming closer to the end of their lives. I have a few tombstones like that in my family. You can still read the stones very well....at least for the part that is still above ground.
I come from a coal mining town. I don't know if these graves start to sink because of the labyrinth of mines beneath the city (that's actually a fairly disturbing thought after living there for 20+ years) or if it's just soft soil and lots of rain over the years. Either way, it's happening and it's hindering some of my research.
As you can see the tombstone for my 3rd great grandparents, Edward and Susan Lee nee Phillips, is sinking and leaning (well maybe you can't tell that it's leaning but take my word for it). As a result I can see Edward's information just fine (1820 - 1904), but Susan is not so easy to read (1821 - 188?) It looks like it's 1882, but I can't be sure. I have quite literally danced on my ancestors' tombstone here trying to trample down the earth far enough to see her death date. My funny little Irish jig did nothing for my research, but it did tick off a small ant hill that was there (that was not a good experience). I suppose I could have dug away a bit of the earth to check, and maybe I will do that this year, but I try not to make a habit of walking into graveyards with a shovel. You tend to get strange looks....
So I suppose what I really need to do is to contact the church and ask what the burial date is for Susan. They don't always have it and I may only be able to find out when the plot was purchased, but I suppose this is my next step. Unfortunately for Susan she was a woman that died in the 1880s and the chances of me finding on obituary for her are somewhere between slim and none. I'm hopeful only because her husband's death 20ish years later (if memory serves me correctly, because my filing system right now isn't) actually was front page news and his obituary called him one of the town's most highly respected citizens.
Edward and Susan are two of my brick walls, but I'll keep chipping away at them and hopefully find out more about them and their journey.
Monday, January 16, 2012
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- Kevin BoyleJanuary 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM
While some of it is the stones sinking (remember that a coffin is essentially an air pocket in the ground that eventually is compromised), a lot of it is that dirt builds up around the stones, allowing the ground and vegetation to overcome the stones. This is done by wind and precipitation, since the stones act as a block allowing particles to build up around the stones.
ReplyDelete Thanks, cuz! This area of the Saint Gabriel's cemetery seems to have much "softer" soil than other parts and more of the stones have suffered. All excellent points, but still a bummer. I believe my mom and step-dad actually reset some of those stones years ago too. Can't fight mother nature!
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Less than three weeks after nosy neighbor Mrs. McCluskey succumbed to lung cancer on the series finale of "Desperate Housewives," Kathryn Joosten -- who won two Emmy Awards for her portrayals of the television character -- died of the same disease. Joosten was also known for playing the president's secretary on the TV series "The West Wing," above. She was 72. Full obituary Notable deaths of 2012
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Links of Interest
General Sites
Dancescape Fairly regular updates on the North American competitive scene, chat, etc.
DanceSport UK Good resource for international DanceSport, news, etc. It has an incredible photo gallery! Also check out their 'Worldwide Links.' They have a tremendous number of sites listed.
Latvian DanceSport pages Good resource for international DanceSport and news.
News Sites
Dance Beat US DanceSport-oriented monthly dance magazine.
International Organizations
The World Dance Sport Federation The International Olympic Committee recognizes the WDSF as the world governing body for DanceSport. (previously known as International DanceSport Federation - IDSF)
Canadian DanceSport Governing body for DanceSport in Canada.
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can you imagine if the Jets had Stafford and Megatron and had just 4 wins at this point? I think people would be flipping out even more than they are now.
You now use the Detroit Lions as your measuring stick.
Yes, thank god! I thought we were the only horribly disfunctional team in the NFL but now I feel so much better knowing we're not alone. Let's give Tanny Rex and Sanchez extentions now that we know we're not alone!
jeez guys. it was one of those "just saying" things. not measuring the jets against the Lions, not saying everyone needs contract extensions. just trying to ... ah, forget it. some of you obviously enjoy being miserable and refuse to even try to feel better about things. good luck with that.
don't tell the SOJF there's another circus act in this league, they wear their 'team is a laughing stock' card proudly.
It's unfathomable that other teams have struggles... only the Jets. Everyone else is winning Superbowls.
Their QB situation is better, but I agree with you, their team and organization situation is flat out miserable and always has been. Stafford has had one great season and a bunch of mediocre ones. Johnson is on the books for an unfathomable amount of money even though he is a great player. Suh can't stop committing dirty plays. They have no coach. Their GM is only viewed as good because he isn't Matt Millen, that is his sole qualification.
The Lions are a disaster. Unfortunately that doesn't make me feel better about the Jets going forward
Another funny thing about this thread is if PatsFanTX were a Packers fan, he'd be on the Lions board trolling their team and talking about how they are the most awful and disastrous franchise and organization of all-time. He'd be calling Stafford a huge bust with no playoff victories. If someone on the Lions board brought up the Jets, he'd say it is laughable to even compare the Lions to the Jets given the Jets recent playoff success.
He is the worst type of troll, but we already knew this....
The Lions have better personnel than the Jets but a tougher division.
Schwartz is the biggest jerks in the NFL. He encouraged his team to be undisciplined punks and he got the result one would expect.
That is b.c Schwartz is as big an eejit as Rex is.
It all starts with the coach.
Wow, that's a harsh assessment. Megatron is on a 8/132 deal with 60M guaranteed, which is pretty absurd, but for the hands-down best receiver in the league who literally changes the game, they pretty much had no choice. I'd much rather have Calvin at that price than Revis at the 80% of that he's going to want.
They just need to fire Schwartz and bring in someone who actually preaches discipline on the field and doesn't make mental mistakes, and they have something to build on for 10+ years. I'm not sure what the Jets have to build on right now.
If we had Megatron, we'd have at least one more win. If we had both Megatron and Stafford, we'd ha e at least three more.
Fundamentally, the odds on the QB's are even. Megatron makes Stafford a credible QB. Stafford tends to be erratic with his accuracy and nervous in the pocket.
Not to mention that Stafford's odds of missing large parts of seasons as his injury history has already shown.


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ibiblio is happy to participate in 2011 World IPv6 day. A small but diverse set of content is now accessible via IPv6. You can view the ibiblio homepage, listen to live radio streams, or sync your local Fedora Linux mirror with rsync over IPv6. The ibiblio IPv6 services page has details on how to connect.
Adoption of IPv6 has been very slow. The Internet Society lists only 434 registered 2011 World IPv6 day participants. However, events such as this give us an opportunity to explore and learn. Read on if you're interested in some of the hurdles we encountered setting up IPv6 services.
ibiblio's DNS is handled by the UNC name servers. Forward lookups for IPv6 are simple as long as the DNS servers support AAAA records (most DNS servers do). The reverse zones took longer to set up. First, we needed to sort out zone delegation from UNC's ISP. Second, 32 reversed hex characters is enough to test anyone's patience.
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2 Weather Alerts Wind Advisory issued March 28 at 3:35AM PDT expiring March 28 at 2:00PM PDT in effect for: Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego Wind Advisory issued March 27 at 3:12AM PDT expiring March 28 at 2:00PM PDT in effect for: Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego 2 Weather Alerts
Closing Arguments Made In '86 Rape, Murder Case Eddie And Steve Montanez Accused In The Attack On Delores "Dodie" Attig 6:09 AM, Jul 19, 2010 Share Article Show Caption Hide Caption Previous Next A Riverside County man led a group that robbed three people and raped and murdered a woman in a remote section of Balboa Park in 1986, a prosecutor told a jury Monday.In her closing argument, Deputy District Attorney Jill Schall said Steve Montanez ordered his brother, 15-year-old stepson and another man to rape 36-year-old Delores "Dodie" Attig before he shot her once in the head the morning of June 19, 1986."He's the shooter," Schall said of Steve Montanez. "It doesn't let the others off the hook. There sits the shooter."Schall said the 52-year-old Montanez, his younger brother, Eddie Montanez, 15-year-old Eddie Cabanyog and Richard Archuletta traveled from Coachella to Balboa Park, and targeted Attig and two male friends who were in the park, drinking, smoking and listening to music."They were looking for victims," Schall told the jury.The male victims were thrown face-down into the ground and tied up, and Attig was dragged from a car, gang-raped and killed, the prosecutor said."They swarmed upon them," Schall said. "These three didn't have a chance."DNA taken from the victim was saved, and subsequent advances in DNA allowed authorities to enter the information into California's DNA system in 2006 and a "hit" was made, identifying Archuletta as a suspect, the prosecutor said.After his arrest in 2007, Eddie Montanez told police that his brother raped the victim and ordered the others to "have their turn" with her, according to Schall.DNA was found on Steve Montanez, Cabanyog and Archuletta, but not Eddie Montanez, the prosecutor said.Eddie Montanez, now 48, testified that he was scared of his older brother, so he stripped down to his underwear and faked having sex with the victim.Schall said Attig was killed because she could identify her perpetrators."She could identify them. She had to go," the prosecutor told the jury.But Jeff Martin, Steve Montanez's attorney, said the prosecution had not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt.Martin urged the jury to disregard the testimony of Michael Stanton, one of the men who was robbed that night.The attorney said Stanton was a "big doper" and "drunk" and changed his version of events a number of times."It's all just improbable," Martin said of Stanton's testimony.The attorney said the DNA evidence in the case was "all messed up," with mislabelings and other errors.Martin accused Eddie Montanez of trying to "weasel" out of something and had a motive to lie."Eddie Montanez wants to save his own skin," Martin told the jury, calling the defendant's story "preposterous."Separate juries are hearing the cases against the Montanez brothers, who are charged with murder, rape and robbery and face special circumstance allegations which will mean a sentence of life in prison without parole if they're convicted.The jury hearing Steve Montanez's case will begin deliberations on Tuesday, the same day closing arguments will begin in Eddie Montanez's case.Archuletta was convicted of Attig's murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.Cabanyog admitted all charges in Juvenile Court, was released from Juvenile Hall and was later convicted of carjacking and sentenced to eight years in prison. Share Article A Share A A A Share Article


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After playing through the ACC tournament with a bulky protective mask, Tyler Hansbrough wore a new mask during Wednesday's practice. He's hoping that the shield — more form-fitting than the previous one — will help him feel more comfortable on the court when the top-seeded Tar Heels play No. 16 seed Eastern Kentucky on Thursday in the first round of the East Regional. (MSNBC)
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Abuja (WorldStage Newsonline-- The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday approved the contract for the transactional advisory services for Design, Build, Finance and Operate of the proposed Second Niger Bridge.
The contract in the sum of N325 million with 16 months completion period was awarded to Messrs Roughton International Limited Onolememen.
The government also approved the contract for the transactional advisory services for design, build, and finance and operate on Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road, Lagos to the same contractor in the sum of N297 million.
The Second Niger Bridge project which will be under the Public-Private Partnership arrangement when completed will serve as a link between the South-South and South East.
The contract was announced by Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The meeting also saw the return of minister of foreign affairs II, Prof. (Mrs) Viola Onwuliri who lost her husband in the ill fated June 3rd Dana plane crash in Lagos.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting, the minister said it was the expectation of government that the ground breaking of the bridge would be done by the third quarter of 2013.
The minister said the project was approved because government was concerned about the challenges posed to road users on the route and was desirous of taking immediate action to construct the bridge that would provide a smooth movement of traffic that would link the South West and South East.
He said, "The Federal Government, in furtherance of its transformation agenda of addressing infrastructural deficit and improving the quality of public infrastructural services, has recognised leveraging on private sector investment and capacity to complement the drive towards bridging the country's enormous infrastructure gap through the PPP initiative.
"In view of this, the second Niger Bridge which is a critical national infrastructure and forms an essential link between the South West and South East connecting the two large cities of Onitsha and Asaba, was tabled for consideration for transactional advisory services for design, build, finance and operate under the Public Private Partnership Scheme."
On Murtala Mohammed International Airport Road, the minister said the contract which has a lifespan of 12 months was inclusive of all taxes; adding that the ground breaking on the road would be done in the first quarter of next year.
He explained that the contract was awarded based on the government's concern about the deplorable condition of the 2.8km dual carriage way connecting Apakun-MMIA Road and its desire of taking immediate action to upgrade the road to a modern eight-lane facility that would provide smooth movement of traffic.
He said since the road was an important gateway to Nigeria and Lagos, adequate attention was given to the design and beautification of the road.
Onolememen also said the FEC approved additional works on the subsisting contract of the dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri Road, Section II.
The additional works involve the extension of the road from Dutse to Kwanar Huguma, a distance of 24.2km.
The contract, according to the minister, was awarded in favour Setraco (Nigeria) Limited in the sum of N8.352bn thereby revising the contract sum from N35.841bn to N44.193bn.
The project has a lifespan of 40 months.
Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga also briefed the council on the commendation attracted by the nation's economy during a recent event in London.
Also, Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mr. Edem Duke, apprised council on the acceptance of the government during President Goodluck Jonathan's recent visit to Tinidad and Tobago as well as Jamaica.


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Stacy Summary: OMG, cupcakes as a 'luxury item' only the 1% can afford. It's strange how rapidly the American population is turning comfortably third world in terms of living standards. Germany has, for example, introduced a minimum wage for the first time this past week which is nearly double America's. And yet I never saw German shrieks that it would destroy Germany; whereas in America, even those earning $7+ per hour shriek that they don't want any more income, they'd rather collect food stamps with which they can't even afford cupcakes . . . of course, thus exposing the lie pushed by Republicans that those who use food stamps are living it up large. If that were the case then this wouldn't have happened —->
Crumbs' Downfall Shows Limits of American Cupcake Addiction
Typical Americans lack the cash to turn gourmet cupcakes into an everyday purchase, even with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey touting them. That means the market at best was small, said Bonnie Riggs, an analyst at NPD in Rosemont, Illinois.
"You're not going to be buying these discretionary purchases unless you're part of the 1 percent," Riggs said. "It's not going to be middle America."


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Adding this double to my Gallery from today's Challenge.. I thought I would split them up so the journaling could be read for those who wished to, so I'm jusy adding the complete double to my gallery..
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Poppy the dirty girl
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Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Mon 6th of May 2013
Well babe once upon a time there was a girl called Poppy, she was in her early twenties and was married with a man that she loved. Her husband was working most days while poppy had to be a house wife, looking after the house. Poppy was a beautiful girl with a very sexy body.
She was a very reasonable girl but had her little secret, she had a very high sex drive and like in lot of couple her sex life was good with huby but sometimes she was hoping for more. One morning poppy got woken up by her husband that had to go to work.
Poppy just realised that she just had a wet dream that had got her really horny, she could feel her pussy being very hot and moist. Just before huby got out of the bed she reached for him and gave him a big snog and gently reached down with her hand and started to play with his floppy penis.
It did not take long before poppy could feel the penis of her husband getting larger and excited, she was so hot that she wanted a cock to relieve her pleasure. She was working her way up and down on the shaft that was nearly getting to his full size.
She gently kissed her husband down his chest and slowly aimed for his cock that was at that pint nice and big. Hubby grabbed her hair and push down on her head until he could feel poppy's lips wrapping themselves around his shaft.
Poppy was going as low as possible on the cock, she could feel the cock helmet touching the back of her throat, hubby was so enjoying it a was moaning of pleasure. Hubby moved her around while she was still sucking on his cock so that he could reach her arse and started to finger her, putting one finger at first then went to four fingers making his way in and out of her dripping wet cunt.
After a while hubby pushed her out of the way on her back and spread her legs revealing her wide spread pussy ready to swallow the stiff cock. Hubby being pushed for time did not waste any time and inserted his cock all the way in making his balls slap against her bum.
Poppy was really enjoying the fuck and feeling her pussy being used and serviced by a cock. Hubby kept pumping her making her moan like a little slut. As hubby was shagging Poppy a sudden thought came back to her, she remembered what she just dreamt a little while ago and she shut her eyes to imagine that total stranger that was fucking her in her dream, it got her even more horny and kept saying: Go on fuck me hard, until hubby could not take it any more and exploded deep in her wet pussy. He quickly looked at her, gave her a kiss saying :"Thanks darling enjoyed that, need to go now". Poppy felt a bit better but did not managed to have an orgasm, so was still feeling very horny.
While hubby was getting ready Poppy, fell back asleep to suddenly find herself woken up by a bang on the door. She quickly put a skimpy top on her just covering below her ladies bits and went down to check who it was. She opened the door and realise that it was the postman. He was in his early forties and at her first glance thought that he was quite handsome.
He was called Vinny according to his badge. Vinny was standing at the door holding a parcel. He gave the parcel to Poppy who grabbed it. He also needed her to sign the receipt so she asked him to come in. She sat down on a chair and grabbed the pad to sign it.
What she did not realise is that she had her leg spread enough to show vinny a full view of her pussy. Whithout her noticing it he took his mobile phone out of his pocket and took a full front picture of her clearly showing her face and her flashing her bits. When she handed back the signed pad, Vinny was looking at her with a smile and it is just then that she realised that she was showing her pussy so she quickly squeezed her leg and go all red with embarrassment.
Vinny was still looking at her and said to her: Don't worry it is a beautiful site and I even have a souvenir of it showing her the picture on his phone. Poppy was shocked and asked him why did it take a picture. Very calmly, Vinny replied back: Well you see Mrs Smith I know your husband very well and i don't think he would appreciate me having picture like these on my phone, so i am afraid we are going to have a deal if you want me to delete it of my phone.
She was bit unsure but she certainly did not want her hubby to see that picture so in a panic she said: Well sir I ll do anything as long as you delete these picture for good. Vinny smiled and said: What a good girl.
He reached for his trousers zip and pulled it down and pulled his unerected penis. Vinny said: well you see you are a very pretty young girl and old men like me have to be clever or rich to be able to fuck young dirty slut like you so get my fucking cock in your mouth. Poppy hesitated a little bit but she knew she did not really have a choice so she reluctantly got nearer and grabbed the cock to slowly insert it between her lips.
Just like that vinny said pushing the back of her head so that she could take the whole length. As she was sucking she could feel vinny's cock swell in her mouth, it was actually getting quite big and she just realised that it was bigger than her hubby. Vinny was now face fucking her like if he would fuck a pussy pushing nice and hard. Poppy was nearly gagging.
Vinny was loving it, he could not believe that fact that he was fucking a beautiful young girl nearly twice as young as him. He could feel her nice soft warm lips sliding along his fully erected cock. After a while he asked her to lie down on the table. He got himself fully undressed and got on the table over her, his cock in her face while he went down on her pussy.
Vinny could feel that Poppy was dead horny with a pussy so wet he loved inserting his tongue right the way in slurping all her pussy juice and flicking her clit with his tongue. Vinny was also working his cock up and down her mouth. Vinny was licking her all the way to her arse all tingling her anus muscle he was pushing as hard as he could to get his tongue to open her tight arse hole.
After a bit he got up on his knee directing his bum hole to her mouth and forced her to push her tongue in his bum hole. He was hoping up and down feeling her nice wet tongue filling his back hole. Vinny was getting so horny that he had to fuck that nice wet pussy.
He got off the table and pulled on her legs until they reached the ground. He push down on her back so that her bum would stick in the air and grabbed his cock and directed it to her pussy hole. Poppy was so wet that his cock slided in like in butter.
Straight away Poppy felt the difference in size and the cock was nicely stretching her pussy lips finding its way all to the back of her vagina, she could fell the cock helmet going in and out. Vinny was loving it and said: Are you loving it you slut.
Poppy could not actually deny it, she was so horny and wanted his cock to carry on fucking her. "yes Vinny keep fucking me, I love your cock in me" Oh yeah Vinny said: Tell me that you are a little whore that love being fucked by old strangers men. " Yes I am Vinny just a little whore, come on old man jam it right up my dirty cunt, I want you to make me cum hard. Vinny was banging her and at the same time was reaching from the front to rub her clit and insert every so often another finger or two as well as his cock. Vinny being very clever while he was fucking her from the back took a few more pictures with his cock up her so that he could keep black mailing her.
After having banged her from behind for a while, he pull his cock out of her pussy and turned her around to sit her on the edge of the table making sure her legs were nicely spread out. Vinny looked at Poppy and said: there is nothing better than a tight young bum hole". Poppy understood what was going to happen he pushed his stiff member against her bum hole. At first it was resisting but then it gave way and swallowed Vinny's cock helmet. It hurt a little bit poppy but she did not have the choice so Vinny slowly pushed harder until his balls were touching her bum.
Poppy could feel this hard shaft stretching her back door Vinny was pushing in and out and also inserted two finger up her pussy to double penetrate her, both her holes were being serviced and at her surprise she was enjoying it.
The rhythm was getting faster and faster until Poppy could feel this warm feeling invading her pussy then going right to her head she was having an orgasm, which triggered in Vinny an urge to empty his balls, he quickly grabbed poppy by her air and flung her mouth straight to his cock as suddenly big jets of spunk flew out straight in her mouth, he made sure every drop got in the mouth and said to her: Do not spit it out!!! I want to see you drink every single drop of my nice spunk. So Poppy did not have the choice and swallowed the lot and made sure Vinny could see it by pulling out her tongue.
Vinny looked at her with a smile and said Well You see it was not that bad, I knew you would enjoy it because as soon as I saw you I could tell you are a little slut that love big cocks so hopefully we might get to get a bit more fun together. Poppy did not replied but the good side in her kept saying: No it will never happen again!!! And the dark side was saying: Oh yeah baby bring it on, come and fuck me when you want because I am a slut.
Vinny got dressed said bye to her like if nothing happened and left the house.
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April 12th, 2004
Mags & Vine; As Branded Entertainment Moves to Magazines, a New Debate Erupts over Sacred Church-State Divide
By Jon Fine
Advertising Age
Brands have seeped into the plots of movies, the very fabric of TV shows and video games and even into the plots of novels. But branded-entertainment advocates are about to take on their biggest challenge yet: persuading magazines to let marketers' messages into editorial pages.
"The only way we're going to be more successful is to get even more creative and try to find ways to address this church-and-state" of editorial vs. advertising in magazines, said Matthew Spahn, director-media planning at Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Magazines today must answer to advertisers who demand sales executives come into a meeting with more than a schedule and rate card. Marketers and their media buying agencies want ever-more-creative ideas, and with ad-page sales still lagging for this year's first quarter, many titles are under competitive pressure from not just their own category, but other media as well. On top of that, custom publishing, where marketers can completely control the editorial content, has steadily grown in the last decade, and an emerging category of magazines, dubbed mag-a-logs, are blurring the ad/edit line even further.
But a product-placement push into magazines, many argue, would violate the church-and-state division between ads and editorial that, at least rhetorically, lie at the heart of magazines' time-honored pitch to marketers. Magazines sell a relationship with its readers, and an opportunity to reach them in a time of intense focus and receptivity. To disrupt magazines' signals, say editors and not a few business-side magazine executives, is to severely undercut magazines' one unique selling point, if not outright reason for being.
"No other media can offer that connectivity to the degree that print does," said Richard Beckman, Conde Nast Publications' chief marketing officer. When that church-and-state line gets blurred, he said, "the long-term prognosis for those that do it is not good."
Others - including some who vigorously defend magazines' traditional separation of advertising and editorial - privately wonder what the future may bring, and worry what that separation may ultimately cost them. Other media, said one prominent publishing executive, "don't have any sort of ankle-weights on them" in terms of assembling branded entertainment-type deals. "They are running as fast as they can."
not 'part of the fabric'
And marketers notice. Mr. Spahn spoke of "media partners working in much less traditional ways, that go way beyond just buying ad pages or buying spots. It's more about integration of the product, and becoming a part of the storyline, in ways that readers or viewers will still be interested in consuming that material." He admitted he was not fully sure what the magazine equivalent of, say, Sears' deal and appearances in ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" might look like, but expressed dissatisfaction with magazines' attempts to play in this space. "They still think in terms of advertorials," which, he said, "doesn't feel like part of the fabric" of editorial.
"It's a huge challenge for magazines," Mr. Spahn conceded, but he added "they've got to figure this out. We are getting a little frustrated, frankly, trying to get them there." Last year Sears spent $47.7 million in magazines, according to Competitive Media Reporting, down 25.7% from $64.2 million in 2002.
Magazine executives testify to increased pressure from advertisers to break down or breach traditional walls.
"More advertisers ask us to blur the lines between advertising and editorial," said Nina Lawrence, President of Conde Nast Publications' Bridal Group and Publisher of Bride's and Modern Bride. "It's accelerated in the last year." Ms. Lawrence placed the blame for this squarely on branded entertainment deals: "Advertisers are asking for what they want on TV, and they're getting it."
It may not be only advertisers seeking such deals. Peter Gardiner, partner and chief marketing officer of Interpublic Group of Cos.' Deutsch, said his company was approached by a magazine with an editorial concept worked around one of his clients. "It's a really tricky area," he said.
Concerns over this point led one incoming editor of a midsize endemic magazine to write into an employment contract a clause stating that the magazine must strictly observe guidelines governing the separation of advertising and editorial set down by watchdog group the American Society of Magazine Editors, said an executive familiar with the matter.
Any sort of product-placement deals in magazines would rather blatantly violate the industry's accepted rules. According to ASME guidelines, ad messages and ad pages should be "distinctly different from the publication's normal layout." One conceivable exception is for special advertising sections, but these sections must be "clearly and conspicuously identified as a message paid for by advertisers."
In truth, consumer magazines' dance with their advertisers is universally conceded not to be a wholly chaste affair wherein both parties scrupulously observe limits and boundaries. Key beauty and fashion advertisers, for instance, are often depicted in product layouts among magazines dependent on them as part of open-secret horse-trading of editorial "credits" for advertising.
"We usually use our fashion sections as the place to throw some of our clients a bone," said Suroosh Alvi, a co-founder of independent Brooklyn-based lifestyle title Vice.
This admission is privately echoed by top players at magazines owned by major publishers, who sometimes cite more lax ad/edit divisions at European magazines as a catalyst. But a jacket showing up in a fashion layout doesn't equal, say, a series of paid-for Cadillac references showing up in a short story that doesn't have the words "special advertising section" topping it, nor a long account of a mountaineering expedition studded with mentions and visuals of the adventurers chowing down on Power Bars.
Integrating brands into editorial is not universally sought by marketers who've played in the branded-entertainment space or, unsurprisingly, among key magazine executives.
"We haven't been looking at magazines at all with the whole Madison and Vine concept in mind," said Tracy Sandford, director-marketing, JetBlue. She said that JetBlue's regional tilt precluded making national print buys, but she also believes: "You have to overcome the advertorial concept. ... How can you differentiate between just an advertorial and something a little more integrated?"
"We would never ask an editor to do a product-placement deal," said Michael Clinton, chief marketing officer of Hearst Magazines. "It's just not how the medium works."
not exactly 'queer eye'
At the same time, it's clear that magazines' standard responses to advertiser demands for more marketer-centric content "special advertising sections," standalone custom-publishing efforts and event tie-ins are simply nowhere near as sexy as a mention on Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," and some marketers suggest there may be middle ground in which magazines can operate.
"When it comes to print, the issues are more subtle. But I don't see a reason why you can't do what I'll call 'appropriate product placement' in print," said Philip Guarascio, a marketing consultant for the NFL and a former top marketing executive at General Motors.
The branded-entertainment concept comes at a particularly complex and delicate time for magazines. The medium's longtime circulation model is widely reckoned to be broken (AA, March 15). Its ad recession is entering its fourth year, with few bubbles and bumps of serious forward ad momentum that, say, TV sensed via strong upfront sales.
A new generation of marketers are excited by the prospect of embedding messages in "American Idol," "Tomb Raider II" or even novels. More broadly, the commercialization of the American landscape now encompasses the sponsorships of stadiums and arenas, and even public spaces, such as museums and national parks. In another first at Major League Baseball's opening day in Japan last month, uniforms worn by the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays sported logos and patches advertising Tokyo-based office equipment firm Ricoh, for which the marketers paid over $10 million.
"How do you maintain integrity in a world where the lines are blurring?" wondered one veteran branding executive.
This point is especially plangent for magazines at a time when the category with the most heat is that of pure-play shopping magazines, the frankly retail-oriented products pioneered in America by Conde Nast's Lucky. Lucky was joined last month by Conde Nast's male-oriented version Cargo last month. Upcoming later this year is Fairchild Publications take on the genre, Vitals, Hearst Magazines' Shop Etc., and next year will bring Lucky's take on a shelter magazine.
Lucky Editor in Chief Kim France strongly objected to notions that her magazine has helped blur the lines between advertising and editorial. "It's annoying to me that excluding the articles about movies and boyfriends and sex tips somehow makes your hands dirty," she said. If Lucky's readers "felt our editors were just shilling, they wouldn't respond."
But when asked about Shop Etc. in a recent interview with Advertising Age, Hearst Magazines President Cathleen Black made clear that magazines have entered a new world.
"The more interactive we can make" Shop Etc., Ms. Black said, "the more it's a useful tool for the shopper. What ASME wants - and what their rules are - is irrelevant to Shop Etc.," a comment that had editors shifting uncomfortably in their seats. One fumed, "We have people saying" traditional notions of ad and edit separations "don't apply to certain magazines."
Slippery-slopers may find fault with Ms. Black's remarks, but the world of TV offers a useful parallel. One sees product placement in pure entertainment plays such as "The Restaurant"; one doesn't see them on the CBS's "Evening News with Dan Rather." Is it conceivable magazines may enter a similar space, where what's unthinkable in the likes of The New Yorker and Time is acceptable within the pages of magazines purveying lighter fare?
The dividing line does vary from magazine to magazine, sometimes shockingly so. Dave Itzkoff, a former editor of Maxim who left that title in the summer of 2002, said that during production editorial pages "were reviewed by someone in the ad department, who would scan for mentions of any brand-name product." If advertisers' products were mentioned "in any disparaging way, (the ad staffer) would approach to say, 'please delete it'" or make the reference more generic. And "if we mentioned a product in a favorable light that was not an advertiser" the ad-side would request "to find a competing product who is an advertiser" and change the reference to that advertiser. Mr. Itzkoff said these requests resulted in several instances to editorial changes.
One Maxim partisan pointed out that since splitting Maxim, Mr. Itzkoff has made hay from being a disgruntled former lad-magazine employee, most prominently thus far in an extensive takedown of the genre written for Manhattan weekly New York Press. But his charges about the coziness of advertising and editorial at Maxim are confirmed by at least one other witness who told Ad Age of such events.
In a statement, Dennis Publishing Editorial Director Andy Clerkson, who oversaw Maxim for nearly three years as its general manager, said "The idea that senior sales staff on any magazine do not try to pitch editors to treat their clients favorably is na ve. However, at Dennis Publishing, the editor in chief has always had and always will retain final say on what is printed. We have never, nor will we ever, alter a product review based on advertiser concerns." (Mr. Itzkoff disputed that Maxim's editor in chief had final say.)
"There's certainly a spirit of cooperation within our magazines, and a willingness to consider new ideas. But there's also a line drawn between the editorial and the commercial," said Time Inc. Editorial Director John Huey in a brief statement prepared for Ad Age. "Crossing the line is not good for the reader. It's not good for the brand. And it's not good, in the end, for the advertiser. The notion that 'everybody else is doing it' is not a compelling argument to us." (But, again, the line is sometimes elusive. An executive at Southern Living, part of Time Inc.'s Southern Progress unit, admitted in a 2002 Wall Street Journal article that the title brought advertisers into some magazine-planning meetings.)
An editor in chief elsewhere put the commercial argument of church and state in more blunt terms. "Without a visceral relationship with the reader, it's not going to work," this editor said. "Don't be getting in the middle of that" with product placement. "My reader's gonna say, 'what's this (expletive) for?'"
For marketers, said one publisher of a blue-chip magazine, "the most important decision is allocation of media, and who gets what. What happens as the magazine industry, because of ASME, doesn't do any Madison & Vine type things? I think it ultimately puts the magazine industry in a weaker place."
"Go make the deals and then figure out how they work within ASME guidelines," shot back Susan Ungaro, editor in chief of Family Circle and president of ASME. "You are selling from weakness rather than strength if the only way you can get an ad to come in your magazine is to promise product placement."
The bigger question, of course, is if any attempts to get branded entertainment into magazines will be met with consumer acceptance - a la "American Idol" and AT&T Wireless - or consumer backlash. Flashpoints of consumer anger, at press time, are forming over Google's plans to mine e-mail messages sent on its free "Gmail" service in order to target ads to its users. But executives point out that a new generation of consumers has grown up receiving marketing messages embedded in entertainment products, and, separately, the broad acceptance of shopping magazines such as Lucky indicates consumers tolerate openly commerce-oriented titles.
Still, some sound uncertain. "Ultimately, your ability to create revenue for the advertiser will get hurt if you're jeopardizing the loyalty of the reader," said Brad Ball, the principal of the newly launched Madison & Vine firm Ball Entertainment Group, which counts among its clients Time magazine. Still, he suggested in the future "you might find an entire subject written by a well-known magazine brought to you by" a key advertiser.
Within a five-year window, he said, "the landscape of reaching audiences and choices audiences have is going to accelerate ... The rulebooks (of marketing) will be rewritten." As such, some magazine executives speculate about product pages of the future, in which one slot is reserved for an ad placement, and marked as such.
These notions still prompt howls from some key executives. "From a Time Inc. perspective, I don't see a world where we're going to have product roundups as pure editorial that are going to have any bias towards any specific advertiser," said Time Inc. Exec VP Jack Haire.
But one executive pointed to an eventual breakdown in magazines' resistance to product placement owing to the golden rule (as in: He who has the gold makes the rules). And this is clearly a marketing world in which taboos are broken daily. Last month, a Major League Baseball VP said "never say never" to the possibility of paid-for logos appearing on baseball uniforms.
Magazines' traditional defenders of the ad/edit divide must make their case in purely economic terms, since even a key player in the one industry organization tracking this situation admits their penalty options are limited. "It's the next natural evolving demand from advertisers," said David Granger, editor in chief of Hearst's Esquire and ASME's secretary. "There's really very little an organization like ASME can do to prevent" breaches of the ad-edit divide. "All we can do is warn" offenders "and say they're not eligible for rewards."
This is a limited threat.
Ms. France took pains to say Lucky was responsive to ASME concerns, and said, "I have nothing but respect for them." But when Lucky won Advertising Age's Magazine of the Year last fall, Ms. France said, "I certainly know not to expect a General Excellence award from ASME." And, she added, "I don't care so much. I know I've got the readers."


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26th February 2013, 19:00 at 7:00 pm #132730
Hi all, just about to head over to Malaysia for the GP..wanted to know from fanatics that's been to the sepang race if they know the best place to search for drivers autograph session….
Thanks in advance.
27th February 2013, 5:11 at 5:11 am #225625
AnonymousBest bet would be a day or two before the race at the KLCC Mall. Don't you have some hook up there? You might could jump the queue!
27th February 2013, 5:54 at 5:54 am #225626I believe they had an autograph session at the track on Friday or Saturday when I was there back in 2011, but decided to pass on it as I'd heard from friends that it tends to develop into quite a scrum with massive lines waiting for the more popular teams/drivers.
27th February 2013, 9:55 at 9:55 am #225627chen your going paddock club just give it one of the serfs to get all the autographs for you whilst you sip on a cold cocktail!!! :)
27th February 2013, 10:15 at 10:15 am #225628@alex, wished it was that easy…LOL…yeah head to paddock…heard Fridays are dead there so maybe I can see what they can do for me….I hate lines! LOL…probably skip the concerts as I did in Singapore last year and ended up just staying back and drinking…lol
27th February 2013, 12:31 at 12:31 pm #225629
AnonymousChen- If you are in the Paddock Club you will get plenty of access to the drivers but need to get them at a good time.
I am not sure if you have been Paddock Club before but depending on the Suite you are in (or the host) will depend. In Melbourne last year we were in Lotus- had an apperance from Romain (and most didnt know him to be honest) and a cameo by Kimi (no funny "leave me alone" comments as he actually did no speak at all!!!) .
Japan PC last year was much better for driver apperances. We booked through Book F1 (UK) and instead of having a suite of VIP's, at Suzuka Mercedes, Torro Rosso, Williams & Sauber all had 2 tables of VIP's- so we had drivers from all come up for a visit. If you just want an autograph or photo its fine, but a longer chat is harder and better to get them on the way out and most will spend some time.
In Melbourne last year we had people on our table who would sit down, watch the TV and be shocked when I showed them a photo of Webber & I, or my mate & Massa etc. The drivers do wander a fair it due to their committments so wander around and you will see a fair few. Most are very good for a quick photo as they are very busy of course, but I say go for a walk instead of watching the TV and you will bump into heaps of people.
PS- If you see Sir Jackie Stewart do make the time to say hello, this guy is a gem!!!!
27th February 2013, 15:09 at 3:09 pm #225630@Garns thanks for the info. I was at PC last year at Singapore and had a suite right in front of the start/finish line and had the Toro Rosso team tables in our suite. I had lots of pictures from my suite balcony of the drivers and their paddock residences….Webber bumped into me coming out of the washroom which pretty funny…also had massa come by the corridors…Jackie just seemed to be everywhere! LOL. Just wished I was able to get down to their paddock area for photos…but that's secondary to the race of course.
28th February 2013, 5:17 at 5:17 am #225631If you hang around in the walkway outside the PC, you'd be surprised at how many people you can bump into, especially on Friday as it's less busy for the teams compared to Sat/Sun. In particular, the less famous drivers usually get ignored by the bulk of the champagne-sipping crowd so they're more willing to pause to chat.
28th February 2013, 16:19 at 4:19 pm #225632Yeah….I noticed that at the Singapore GP last year…most of the less known drivers were great in dealing with fans for autographs and pictures. The top guys are less approachable and less visible except if you are at the PC balconies…great views of the drivers and what they do on a day to day basis at the track…
28th February 2013, 21:55 at 9:55 pm #225633from experience these are a right royal waste of time, if youre lucky you get a scrawl, when you look at it after, it looks like nothing, take the camera and get a pic, think thats a better option
was at le mans last year for the drivers parade, now that was mega, funnily enough the 2 blokes who had the biggest scowl on their bakes (faces) were the 2 ex f1 drivers….. heidfeld and fisi…now that tells a story
28th February 2013, 22:53 at 10:53 pm #225634Yeah…I agree with you on the autograph sessions….I just was looking to grab some photos with them but the hundreds of photos I took from the PC area of the drivers, teams and guest were priceless…better then seeing some scratches I guess..
1st March 2013, 14:11 at 2:11 pm #225635
AnonymousChen- you will have a blast mate – enjoy it!!
Please send some photos!!I went to the Clipsal 500 today (Adelaide Supercars) with the Fam -Casey Stoner DNF (: I hated the line ups – while the Paddock Club cost a shit load, you really get your money worth if you are a REAL F1 fan.
My wife & I was invited into the Williams Motorhome for a beer- Bruno done a great happy birthday for my brother-in-law and easily one of the best times of my life!!Not all can spend money on the Paddock Cllub as it does cost- those who can please do, it is one life experiances that wont be forgotten!!!!!!!
1st March 2013, 14:22 at 2:22 pm #225636Garns…thanks, I'm sure it will be a blast as it was last year in Singapore at PC. I'll probably spend half the time there on Friday since it'll be pretty dead but should be fun!. I do and will take in everything the PC has to offer like I did in Singapore. Cost a lot forsure and especially traveling from Canada but it's my one time per year treat to myself…thanks partly to wife and kids for letting me spend the time and money to go on my own! LOL…
Here's my vantage point from last Year's Singapore GP from PC suite…
1st March 2013, 14:24 at 2:24 pm #225637Here's a quick vid of Lewis going for practice from the balcony of the PC suite.
1st March 2013, 14:48 at 2:48 pm #225638
AnonymousGOLD- thats where the extra money goes mate!!!!!
I am taking my father-in-law to the Paddock Club in Melbourne in 2 weeks- his first time for REAL F1- he saw the Grand Prix in Adelaide in about 1988 – behind an overpass!!
We are staying at Crown, where all the drivers stay. (well most anyway).Will be pretty awesome!!
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