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Is a trip to the theater part of your holiday tradition? If so, Hollywood's delivered a sackful of presents this time around. Here's our guide to what to see when the gifts are opened and the egg nog's been chugged.
Have little kids?
Pixar's beloved "Monsters Inc." is being re-released in 3-D, but if your kids refuse to wear the clunky glasses, you can also find it in 2-D. It's a marvelous and funny way to help kids lose their fear of the monsters under the bed, since monsters Mike and Sulley are themselves terrified of children. See it now on the big screen, because the prequel, "Monsters University," is coming in 2013.
Have older kids?
Take bathroom breaks early and often, because it's a long one, but kids of a slightly older age will fall under the spell of "The Hobbit." (Warning for sensitive kids: There are battle scenes, but our heroes make it through.) This is just the beginning of course -- two more "Hobbit" movies are on the way. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote this book for children, and it's a lot less dark than "Lord of the Rings." If you like it, pick up the book and read a chapter together each night before bed.
Is 'Pulp Fiction' your favorite movie ever?
Then you'll love Quentin Tarantino's return in "Django Unchained." Jamie Foxx plays a slave who teams up with bounty hunter Christoph Waltz to save his wife (Kerry Washington) from creepy plantation owner Leonardo DiCaprio. Yes, there's blood. Geysers and gushers of it. There's also witty dialogue and drama. Tarantino's not for everyone.
Love Broadway musicals?
So you live 3,000 miles from The Great White Way? You only need to get to your nearest cineplex to see that Broadway classic "Les Miserables" in all its stunning, song-studded glory. Anne Hathaway will make you cry as the desperate Fantine, forced to sell herself to save her child, and the battle between Hugh Jackman's Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Inspector Javert is one of literature's most epic. If you don't leave humming "Master of the House," you should probably get your hearing checked.
Need to laugh?
There are new comedies in all the major ratings groups, from raunchy to mild. "This is 40" follows the supporting characters Pete and Debbie from the comedy classic "Knocked Up" as they battle with turning 40 and struggling with kids and finances. Note: It's rated R for adult content, so don't take the kids to this one. If you're looking for laughs that are a little more PG rated, try Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen taking a road trip in "The Guilt Trip" (PG-13) or Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as hapless grandparents getting old school on the new generation in "Parental Guidance" (PG).
Love Tom Cruise?
The handsome star continues to burnish his action hero cred, portraying "Jack Reacher," the drifter investigator from Lee Child's engrossing novels. The film won't stick in your head, but it's a solid evening's entertainment. Be warned, though, it opens with a sniper scene that puts a child in danger, and may be too much for some in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.
Haven't seen a movie in months?
Many top-rated films are still hanging around the theaters, and since they've been out for a while, the crowds for these older releases won't be as bad. Try "Argo," "Skyfall" or "Lincoln" if you want to know what Entertainment Weekly's been yapping about for a month or so now. You'll probably see "Argo" and "Lincoln" turn up once the Academy Award nominations come out in January.
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(UPI) — Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, wife of former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Friday resigned as a member of the Chicago City Council, citing family issues.
Jackson submitted her resignation, effective Tuesday, to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Tribune reported.
"After much consideration and while dealing with very painful family health matters, I have met with my family and determined that the constituents of the 7th Ward, as well as you Mr. Mayor, and my colleagues in the City Council deserve a partner who can commit all of their energies to the business of the people," her resignation letter said. "Therefore, it is with a heavy heart that I tender my resignation as alderman of 7th Ward, effective [Tuesday]."
Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., resigned from Congress before Thanksgiving amid a federal investigation into misuse of campaign funds and mental health issues. The former congressman has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He had been on medical leave from Congress since June.

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The dub was very very good. Crispin Freeman as usual was flawless with Kyon's voicing. In regards of Alt!Yuki's voice...I actually liked it. The thing is for me, in the Japanese dub, I found Yuki's moe voice annoying. In this dub, it suits her bookworm persona more than the moe aspect. (And I dislike moe) I actually felt sympathy for Alt!Yuki in the english dub in the sense her voice was less annoying to me.
Top notch work. Loved it!
|2011-09-17, 12:26
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Ok, so assuming everyone has watched the rooftop scene on the official english version of TDOHS, I would like to start up a discussion about kyon saing "Yuki". In the japanese version he only said "Yuki" But in the english version he said "Yuki......means snow, doesnt it." If this is what they originally wanted to be conveyed in the scene but we didnt understand it because of the language, then the context of what happend has completley changed and may be interpetated differently. What are your opinions? Some thought that he was calling her Yuki for the first time(therefore progessing their relationship further possibly, because of how people refer to eachother in japan), also getting her attention to look at the snoe while others just thought it was Kyon simply observing the snow. IMO it was him asking if her name Yuki means snow, which also means that not only he has kind of called her by her first name but was also obvserving the snow, and that Yuki means snow.
|2011-09-17, 21:36
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I've been working through the Blu Ray for Disappearance, and I have some notes below:
A) The movie was about as long as I remembered. Though my work schedule demanded that I watched it over the course of several nights, so the feelings of "Ugh, this thing just drags" weren't quite as bad as they were when I watched the cam-rip.
B) It's quite pretty as a Blu Ray title. Not quite the title I'd pop in to wow friends and family over the quality of high-def, but pretty nonetheless.
C) They really put a lot of effort into the dub. Though I could be feeling this because Disappearance is mostly Crispin Freeman talking to himself, and his take on Kyon is always excellent. The fact that Crispin Freeman's Kyon is more expressive than Japanese Kyon made the 353,243 years of Kyon's navel-gazing far easier to take.
D) Wendee Lee's Haruhi was good, as always. She doesn't quite have Aya Hirano's energy or range; but she does great with what she has.
E) Stephanie Sheh does annoying moeblob Mikuru and assertive, self-possessed Secret Agent Mikuru very well. Johnny Yong Bosch's Koizumi B.S.es just as well as Daisuke Ono's Koizumi; though Bandai's translation of alt!Koizumi's lines differs noticeably from the fansubs in how he expresses what he thinks Haruhi feels for Koizumi.
F) Like some others, I too found nothing wrong at all with Michelle Ruff's alt!Yuki. Minori Chihara's alt!Yuki was an annoying moeblob that was terrified of her own shadow. Michelle Ruff's alt!Yuki was just a painfully shy bookworm willing to cut Kyon some slack because he did her a monumental favor once. I found English alt!Yuki to be far more sympathetic and (not jarring at all); unlike the original Japanese alt!Yuki. In fact, Michelle Ruff's portrayal of alt!Yuki significantly improved the film for me. I remember that, when I first reviewed the film, I had pointed words about how the Japanese alt!Yuki was a useless moeblob who exceeded Mikuru in sheer and utter uselessness.
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|2011-09-21, 10:39
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Saw the movie last night, and overall I was pretty pleased. I remember adamantly not liking Asakura's or Kunikida's voices, but I don't think the voice actors changed for the movie, so I guess that doesn't really count. I like both Kyon's and Haruhi's Japanese voices better than the English ones; both seem more assertive and confident in what they're saying. Both feel more expressive. I just can't take Crispin's Kyon seriously whenever he raises his voice, because it sounds forced and hammy. Dub Yuki sounded more like I'd expect her to, at the expense of her "new" (English) personality sometimes not matching up with her facial expressions. Any time she does that cringing blush thing, it bugs the heck out of me (though I'm pretty sure it did in the original, too). And of course, it's still a disappointing shock to hear her go from expressive to monotone at the end of the film.
As far as changes go, I thought the ones that I noticed were well-deserved. Haruhi saying "I swore I'd never touch alcohol" comes across better than "I'd never drink it again" or whatever she said before (that referenced something that happened in the novels but not the anime). Koizumi's new lines concerning Kyon and Haruhi are more implicit and less "yeah this is pretty much how she feels about you and that's a fact," and I liked that. Finally, at the end, there were two things that caught my attention. Yuki saying, "transmitting" instead of "I will tell them" implied that she was doing it right then - something I didn't catch in the original. I didn't like the change from "You tell them that's bullshit!" to "You tell them to go to hell!" It lost a lot of the bite that the original exclamation had. Oh, and of course the "Yuki means snow" bit was probably the best they could've done with that. Unfortunately, it makes it so that the ambiguity is only there for a second, instead of permanently. Oh well.
Overall, it wasn't a bad dub, but it felt somehow artificial. I never quite got over the feeling that these were people speaking for characters, rather than the characters themselves talking. However, that's just my take, so don't anyone let it dissuade you from checking the movie out.
|2011-09-30, 19:41
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And what did they make out of the "If anything happens to you, I will [...]" line?
If I remember correctly in the novel he said "I'll go crazy" or some crap which really bothered me, because it had none of the bite that "I will let all hell break loose" had.
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Marian talked about how she uses folders in Google Reader to manage her blog reading. I'm probably going to embarrass myself here, but for some reason, using folders to organize blogs I read had not occurred to me! Duh. With over 350 blog subscriptions, it was becoming difficult to keep up and also not get sucked into spending all of my time reading blogs.
Here are the folders I set up:
- Must read
- Top Blogs
- Non Genealogy
- Read With Time
- Rarely Posts
So now I'm really curious. If you use folders to organize your blog reading, what folders have you set up?
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Brianne Stephenson got 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter, propelling Centennial to a 45-44 victory over Dublin Jerome in the first round of the Watterson Christmas Classic today.
Brianne Stephenson got 10 of her 16 points in the fourth quarter, propelling Centennial to a 45-44 victory over Dublin Jerome in the first round of the Watterson Christmas Classic today.
A three-point play by Alyssa Dean with 2:34 remaining gave the Stars (7-3) their first lead.
After Centennial hiked its lead to 45-41, Madison Watson sank three free throws to cut the margin to one with 1:19 remaining, but Jerome was unable to score the remainder of the game.
Katherine McCoy topped the Celtics (4-3) with 14 points.
Hartley 48, Hilliard Bradley 37
Janna Motton got six of her 14 points in an 11-2 first quarter that paved the way for Hartley (7-2) in its victory over Hilliard Bradley (4-3) in the Watterson Christmas Classic.
Watterson 52, Hilliard Darby 40
Alexsis Mayle made 10 of 11 free throws and finished with 18 points, lifting Watterson (3-3) to a victory over Hilliard Darby (2-5) in the Watterson Christmas Classic.
Dublin Coffman 59, Canal Winchester 43
Sade Olatoye (20 points) and Kamerine Taylor (18) had big games for Dublin Coffman (6-1) in its victory over Canal Winchester (3-4) in the Watterson Christmas Classic.
Thomas Worthington 56, Tree of Life 33
Laura Gomez went 8 of 9 from the field and scored 16 points, helping Thomas Worthington (4-5) defeat Tree of Life (6-3) in the Worthington Kilbourne Holiday Invitational.
Worth. Kilbourne 49, Beechcroft 42
Kayla Pack got 15 of her 22 points in the second half and Worthington Kilbourne (3-7) hung on to defeat Beechcroft (5-5) in the Worthington Kilbourne Holiday Invitational. Pack made 11 of 15 free throws.
Reynoldsburg 56, Bullis School (Md.) 41
Yamonie Jenkins had 18 points, six steals and five assists, powering Reynoldsburg (8-0) over Bullis School (Md.) in the Diamond State Classic in Wilmington, Del.
Alyssa Rice added 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Raiders, who jumped to a 17-4 first-quarter lead.
New Albany 50, Eastmoor Academy 37
New Albany (5-3) broke open a close game with a 17-7 fourth quarter and pulled away from Eastmoor Academy (6-3) in the opening round of the Gahanna Cage Classic.
Gahanna 46, DeSales 31
Maddison Blackwell got eight of her 12 points in a 14-0 first quarter, jump-starting Gahanna (8-2) to a victory over DeSales (4-2) in the Gahanna Cage Classic.
Seton-LaSalle 75, Northland 55
Despite a 30-point performance by Michigan-bound Alexis Peterson, Northland (7-2) lost to defending Pennsylvania Class AA champion Seton-LaSalle (7-0) of Pittsburgh in the Pickerington North Holiday Classic.
Pickerington North 58, Toledo Start 27
Emily Thomas had 17 points and Christy Macioce 14 as Pickerington North (6-2) crushed Toledo Start in the Pickerington North Holiday Classic.
Olentangy Orange 51, Cin. Walnut Hills 38
Taylor Agler and Mia Walker scored 15 points each and Olentangy Orange (6-1) defeated host Walnut Hills (2-6) in the Braggin' Rights Classic.
Mifflin 47, Grove City Christian 45
Shakara Cooper had 17 points and Mifflin (6-4) used a 15-1 margin at the free-throw line to edge Grove City Christian (2-5) in the Harvest Prep Warrior Classic.


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Carbon Motors was denied a $310 million loan from the Department of Energy. The company had applied for the loan under the DOE's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program to build a fuel-efficient, purpose-built police car, the E7.
"We are outraged by the actions of the DOE and it is clear that this was a political decision in a highly-charged, election year environment," said Santana Li, Carbon chairman and CEO. He said the DOE has not given out any loans since the failure of Solyndra, and claimed the E7 would have helped achieve President Obama's pledge to improve federal fleet efficiency by 30 percent.
The ATVM loan would have been used to complete development (including crash-testing) of the E7 and pay for manufacturing costs. The company says it has already raised $200 million from private sources, and has 20,176 reservations for E7s.
The city of Connersville, Indiana hoped to become the "police car capital of the world" by having Carbon set up shop. The company planned to use a recently-vacated factory and said it would bring 1,500 jobs to this economically-depressed city.
In a statement, DOE spokesman Damien LaVera said the decision was not political. "Over the last two and half years, the Department has worked with Carbon Motors to try to negotiate a deal that supported their business while protecting the taxpayers," LaVera said. "While we were not able to come to an agreement on terms that would protect the taxpayers, we continue to believe that Carbon Motors is an innovative company with an interesting project and we wish them luck." Startup car companies are always a risky investment; no government or private investor wants to put their money into another DeLorean.
If the E7 does get built, it will be the first vehicle designed from the ground up as a police car. It will have a diesel engine with 300 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Carbon says it will do 0-60 mph in 6.5 seconds, have a top speed of 155 mph, and get 28-30 mpg in regular use. Unlike other police cars, which are converted from civilian models, the E7 is designed to still be safe while carrying police equipment. Computers and radios can become projectiles in a crash, so the E7 has all of its communication equipment integrated into the dashboard. The seats are designed for cops wearing utility belts. Everything from lights to plate-recognition cameras and biohazard sensors are built into the bodywork for better aerodynamics.
Li claims the loss of the DOE loan will not sink his company. "We will continue the fight. We at Carbon Motors choose this path not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because it is just, because it is honorable and because we are Americans," he said. The next step is unclear; the company has only discussed examining financial alternatives, with no concrete "Plan B."


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Some Alone Time in Stellenbosch & Cape Town9 1 Share Tweet
I am a girl who doesn't mind hanging out alone and when I went to Stellenbosch for a training, that's what I did.
In October, I was sent to a 4 day training to Stellenbosch, South Africa, by my company. Before I went everyone was warning me about security and how I couldn't do anything alone and all that. I was there on Sunday after a 13 hour flight. It was only midday and there was nothing to do at the hotel. Ok, I admit, I might have gone to wine tasting but I had better plans.
I am not the kind of person who minds being alone, so I found the address of a Lomo Store somewhere near the Waterfront in Cape Town and figured I could go there. I called a cab and left the hotel but I soon realized that the Lomo Store was closed on Sundays.
So what I did was, wander around the shops in the waterfront, have a lovely dinner, watch a free concert and take lots and lots of photos!!! I might have burnt one of my rolls but oh well, isn't that the point of Diana & 120 film?!
Other than my free Sunday, I only had another half day to myself before I left. So I had to make the best of my time! Because its not easy to go to SA from Turkey. So, on my last day, since I couldn't go to the Lomo Store before, I decided to go there. It was heaven!! I bought some goodies for my Diana (I might have bought all the lenses, lol), and some other stuff :) then went back to the hotel, did a wine tasting (amazing wines!!!) and hurried to the airport to catch my flight. And all through this running around, I never left my finger off the shutter!!!
Of course my few days just weren't enough to see everything! And I can't wait to go there for a really long vacation and enjoy all the sights even more…
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After beating Middle Tennessee State from the Sun Belt Conference 7-4 in game one they shut down the Blue Raiders 4-0 in the nightcap Thursday night at Draper Diamond.
"Any time you can get a sweep at home is great," said Lady Bisons coach Kristin Ryman. "We came out and took care of business."
The Lady Bisons, the No. 1 seed next week in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., have recorded program high 27 shutouts this season. The old school record was 17 set last season by the Lady Bisons.
Sophomore pitcher Whitney Kiihnl is ninth in the nation in NCAA Division I in shutouts with 11.
Ryman stresses that for many reasons shutouts are difficult to achieve in softball.
"When you think about softball the bases are close and the field is short," Ryman said. "You have the speed factor, the slap hitters and bunts.
"All it takes is a wild pitch here or there to move a runner around. We made a couple of miscues against MTSU and all of a sudden they have a runner on third and chance to score on a ball that is not that well hit."
The shutouts certainly speak to the quality of the pitching staff which is . But it also points to the consistency of the Lady Bisons on defense. They are rated 12th in NCAA Division I with a .973 fielding percentage.
"Our defense has been strong," Ryman said. "They have done the work and made the good plays behind our pitchers. We work extremely hard on our defense.
"For us pitching and hitting are what people usually notice the most about our team. But we spend a lot of time on defense in practice. It is important for us to make those routine plays. We do all kinds of situations in practice and make it as game-like as we possibly can make it with runners in pressure positions."
It was even more fitting that the winning pitchers in both games were seniors. Christen Campbell started game one. Kiihnl came on in relief to start the seventh, but gave up four runs on one hit, three walks and one hit batter forcing Campbell to return to the mound to salvage the victory. Campbell, 10-4, did not give up a run. She allowed three hits, walked one and struck out three.
Campbell, who also plays third base, had three hits in game one and two in game two.
In game two Alaina Jacobson threw her fourth shutout of the season. She scattered four hits. She walked one and struck out seven.
"Christen had a great game," Ryman said. "The second game was vintage Alaina…keeping people off balance. It was their day.
"It is fitting for those two to be on the mound because they have been here the longest of anyone on our pitching staff. For those two to play the way they did is really special."
Offensively, the Lady Bisons also flexed their muscles with 16 hits led by Kellie Sirus who blasted two-run homers over the left field fence in the first innings of both games. She also had a double.
"Kellie is looking like she did at the beginning of the year when she was absolutely on fire," Ryman said. "She is a model of consistency. She brings a lot of confidence to our team hitting-wise."
In addition to Campbell, Jacobson and Sirus, seniors Abby Keese, Lauren Dortwegt and Christy Grisham were also honored.
The Lady Bisons are 44-10 for the season, five short of the all-time program record for wins set during the NAIA era under coach Andy Lane in 1997. Lane's teams won 45 games in 1999 and 46 in 1998.
MTSU slipped to 19-30.
Finals ended Thursday and graduation is Saturday. Ryman is giving her players a couple of days off before heading back to the practice field Sunday.
"We want to give them a chance to chill, sleep a little and relax," Ryman said. "A lot of them have their parents here for graduation.
"We don't want to go extremely long. But we want to get some good work in and feel comfortable with things before we head to Florida on Tuesday."
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Dilemma, The (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus saw his best friend's wife kissing another guy and told him. Sorted...
Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) are on the verge of a motoring break through. Their small business has the capability of making electric cars feel and sound like muscle cars and the pressure is on to prove it. However when Ronny spots Nick's wife Geneva (Winona Ryder) kissing another man (Channing Tatum), Ronny has a dilemma. Does he tell his best friend?
Let's get the obvious bit out of the way first. Yes. He should tell his best friend. There is no dilemma here other than the forced predicament the plot puts us in for the sake of actually having a movie. I won't hold it against Ron Howard's return to more light hearted fare but structurally speaking there isn't enough of a counter argument against telling Nick about his wife until way later in the movie when Geneva starts playing the bitch card to save her own neck. Because of this The Dilemma feels a little bit too thinly spread and for a good forty minutes the forced drama of this apparent dilemma isn't all that fun to watch.
Despite Vaughn's usual talkative bullshitter persona leading the way and having so-called comedian Kevin James to play off of, The Dilemma isn't what I expected. It's not near funny enough to be considered a good comedy and the drama consistently serious enough for it to be considered a success in that genre either. Weirdly the movie sort of hovers between the two arenas and because of that jokes that would be funnier elsewhere fall noticeably flat and some of the deeper moments feel a little shoe horned in.
That said by about the hour mark I began to warm to the movie a bit more. There's a nice scene where Ronny asks for God's help while sitting alone at a bus stop that I thought worked well and warmed me to character a bit more. Seeing Jennifer Connelly on fun mode always puts a smile on my face and she looks damn good doing it as well. Weirdly I thought Channing Tatum stole the show in his relatively small role. His emotional drug addled fight with Ronny was peppered with genuine chuckles and he seemed totally out for laughs. In fact in flashes he reminded me of when Brad Pitt started to get more playful with roles around the Twelve Monkeys period, so who knows what's next from this guy? Hopefully some good stuff.
For a movie that feels like it's Ron Howard taking a lighter project between his previous big screen thriller Angels and Demons and upcoming The Dark Tower project, I was a bit disappointed that The Dilemma didn't live up to some of his earlier career comedy/drama highlights like Gung Ho or Nightshift. It's not that The Dilemma is a bad movie, all of the elements work for the most part, it just feels like it's struggling to be like the Apatow stuff in the market without actually pulling off the balance between comedy and drama like so much more out there does.
The transfer here is a strange one. You can tell by the lighting and look of the movie it will no doubt look brilliant in HD but here on DVD it looks pretty bad. The warmth to the image is sort of effective but it seems to cause super deep blacks that make almost every scene look darker than it should.
The overall look is super soft with wider shots really suffering on the detail front. Close ups are a bit better but there seems to be a texture to the image that isn't anything to do with grain. It's odd and hard to describe but the image just looks sort of gritty and it hides textures beneath it giving the entire image a flat feel with no sense of depth or detail. This really does feel like a half assed transfer for a movie that looks like it could be quite pretty to look at.
Frontal is the key word here. It's like any and all sound has been forced to stay in the front speakers. Dialogue sits in the middle, music in the left and right and there's a total disregard of the rear speakers, until one or two bongo drum beats appear behind you in the second half of the movie.
There are no noticeable atmospherics really, everything feels confined and straight forward and it was one of the blandest tracks I'd heard for a while (though I have just come out of reviewing Apocalypse Now so pretty much anything this middle of the road was going to pale in comparison).
The 'Alternative Ending' is the Vince and Jennifer scene but it doesn't end with a wedding ring. The deleted scenes, of which there are seven, come with a fifty second introduction from Ron Howard, whose upbeat nature always makes things seem more fun.
The gag reel (04:43) isn't all that funny and wrapping up extras we get 'This is the Dilemma' (13:47) a straight forward EPK in which Ron tells us Brian Grazer posed the question "what would you do if you saw your best friend's wife kissing another man?" and it sparked a thirty minute discussion that led to this movie. Clearly no one answered "tell him the next time you see him".
I can see The Dilemma is a weak movie but I still warmed to it by the end. It's thanks largely to the cast, who admittedly are still far from at their best but they all provided enough for me to go along with this forced predicament that I can't work out if it was expanded too much or not explored enough. Either way The Dilemma could have wrapped up in about twenty minutes due to its lack of presenting a real dilemma, so if you like putting up with forced plot devices to stretch an idea out while never really being all that funny, a rental might be an idea.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I dunno, a lot of times the messenger ends up getting well and truly shot.
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Maybe. But in this case it seemed pretty cut and dry (until Winona got nasty).
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Disc Details
Release Date: 30th May 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Descriptive Video Service English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Alterante Edning, Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Featurette
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Kevin James, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 106 minutes
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2010) - The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles put on a shooting clinic Thursday evening, and unfortunately the Lady Bucs fell victim to it.
With first-place in the Atlantic Sun Conference standings hanging in the balance, both ETSU and Florida Gulf Coast were looking to give the fans a great show. However, a school-record 63-percent shooting performance by the Eagles made the conference battle a lop-sided affair, as FGCU cruised to a 92-55 victory, snapping the Lady Bucs' nine-game winning streak inside Alico Arena.
The Lady Bucs were led by senior TaRonda Wiles' (Danville, Va.) 14-point effort, while Siarre Evans (Griffin, Ga.) recorded her 13th double-double of the season - finishing with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
ETSU, who had been defeating its opponents on average of 19 points per game during the nine-game winning streak, suffered its first loss since Jan. 4 and dropped to 13-8, 11-2. Meanwhile, the Eagles continued its home dominance, as FGCU won its 21st straight game inside Alico and improved to 18-4, 13-1. More importantly, the Eagles now sit a game and half ahead of the Lady Bucs in the conference standings.
"I think everyone was expecting this be a closer outcome tonight," commented head coach Karen Kemp. "Florida Gulf Coast came out on fire and we didn't do anything to match it. Karl (Smesko) does a great job getting his team to respond both offensively and defensively, and tonight we had no answer for them. We knew the importance of this game in regards to the conference race, and they (FGCU) wanted it more. Hopefully we can turn things around on Saturday and get back into the win column against Stetson."
For the third straight game ETSU got off to a slow start and the strong offensive attack of the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles took the Lady Bucs out of the game from the get-go.
The Eagles hit four of their first eight shots - including three from beyond the arc - and FGCU led 13-4 after Kelsey Jacobson hit a 3-pointer at the 13:55 mark, forcing ETSU to burn a 30-second timeout. Things continued to go south in a hurry, and 8 minutes, 48 seconds into the game, ETSU found itself down 22-8 after FGCU nailed its fourth trey of the game - making the Lady Bucs call their second timeout of the game when Jacobson connected again from deep with 11:17 left in the half.
ETSU still looked as they never got off plane in Fort Myers in the first half, and the Eagles continued to have their way with the Lady Bucs. Eventually FGCU would push its lead to as many as 28, 51-28, and the Eagles took a 54-27 advantage into the break.
Everything FGCU touched was golden in the first 20 minutes, as the Eagles shot 71-percent (20-28) from the field and 58 percent from beyond the arc (7-12). Meanwhile, ETSU was the exact opposite, shooting 38 percent from the field (12-32) and 1-of-7 from 3-point land (14 percent). ETSU was also out-rebounded 16-12, and the Lady Bucs turned the ball over nine times. The Eagles assisted on 17 of their 20 makes, while turning the ball over seven times.
Things didn't get any better in the second half for the Lady Bucs.
The Eagles quickly extended their lead to 33 in the opening seven minutes of the final stanza when Jacobson's fourth trey made it, 70-37, with 13:15 remaining in the contest. The shooting clinic never fizzled from there, and the Eagles grabbed a 35-point lead, 80-45, with 9 minutes, 19 seconds left in the game.
To add more salt to the wound, Evans fouled out with five minutes, six seconds remaining and the Eagles ahead, 84-55. Eventually the FGCU continued to have fun in the sun and ran away with the 37-point conference victory, marking the Lady Bucs' worst defeat since joining the A-Sun.
For the game, ETSU shot 33.9 percent (21-62) and only made one of its 13 three-point attempts. Meanwhile, Gulf Coast was 35-of-56 and 11-for-23 from beyond the arc, as senior all-conference selection Adrianne McNally led the Eagles with a game-high 21 points. The Eagles finished with 22 assists, while the Lady Bucs turned the ball over 16 times and assisted on ten of their 21 makes.
In total, FGCU had five players score in double figures.
The Lady Bucs wrap up their brief stint in Florida on Saturday afternoon when ETSU takes on Stetson. Tip is set for 3 p.m. inside the Edmunds Center.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer basketball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Hey all, I thought I'd let you know about a local geocacher who was severely injured recently while searching for benchmarks. His name is Cardinal. I'm sure many of you in the NWA area are familiar with him and his caches. He is also a pretty prolific benchmarker, having found 120+ of them.
I'm not 100% sure of the details, but here is what I've heard. He was benchmarking alone in the Chester area on Saturday the 22nd. Apparently he was on a train tressel looking for a benchmark when he fell off the bridge and into the dry creekbed below. He broke his back and his right leg. Thankfully this area is close to the interstate and after a while of trying he was able to get a car to stop by waving from his location.
Anyway, I got an email from his wife and she said he was in ICU all of last week. He had surgery on Monday and is doing well.
I know many of you are friends of his, that's why I'm posting this note to let you know. Also, I hope this is a reminder for everyone out there to be careful. Cardinal will be in our thoughts and prayers.


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The Connecticut General Assembly wisely tabled an aberrant lottery scheme for charter schools when it passed a sweeping education reform bill this week. An earlier version of the legislation that emerged from a caucus between Democratic leaders and union officials would have upended school choice by building enrollment at new charter schools with the names of students drawn from the district. Students would have been forced to opt out of the charter if they preferred their district school.
Lawmakers now want to study the "feasibility" of such an opt-out plan before rushing into it and ordered the state Department of Education to report back with recommendations in two years. This might be an agile way to retreat from a bad idea, but legislators should have killed the plan before committing state resources to its study.
Charter schools are different by design and they develop their strength when parents, students, and teachers buy into their mission. An opt-out lottery would tailor charters into one-size that tries to meet the needs of every student and turn them into the first...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker may have been the bookends that roused the assembly at a school choice policy summit last week in Jersey City, but it was a largely unknown corporate representative who provided some sobering perspective.
That's because it was Erika Aaron's job to talk about what happens after legislatures win the fight to establish vouchers or tax credit scholarships, which Christie said had "the chance to get the most change, the most quickly." No doubt, Aaron shared the same sense of urgency with others at the American Federation for Children's annual summit, but she also reminded the participants that they'll initiate change quickly if they design their choice policies smartly.
Aaron is the community relations director for Waste Management, Inc., which has contributed $16 million to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program alone as well as millions to similar programs in other states in exchange for a tax credit. But Aaron said the company is particular about where it redirects its tax liability, and a smart private school choice policy to Waste Management may not be the most disruptive....
There is a student whose needs often go unmet by the schoolhouse and the statehouse—high-achieving, but not quite gifted, one who receives less attention from principals and policymakers focused on bringing the bottom up to proficiency.
So a lawmaker in Florida pushed successfully for a law that makes schools focus more attention on students at or near the top.
This week, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that establishes a minimum number of accelerated learning opportunities while making sure parents and students know how they can take advantage of those options (called Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, or ACCEL). The measure was championed by state Representative John Legg, who feared that talented students were going through school unchallenged, especially in districts that paid little attention to accelerated learning.
Each of Florida's sixty-seven school districts largely draft their plans for student progress by stressing expectations for meeting...
It's primary season in statehouses nationwide, and that means that teacher unions will pit Democrat against Democrat by using the support of school vouchers as a wedge.
An unexpected reminder of that came last week in the Wisconsin Democratic recall primary campaign for governor. The Wisconsin Education Association recently distributed a mailer claiming that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wanted to expand the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. The union supports Barrett's opponent in the primary, and is now using a story from seven years ago claiming that Mayor Barrett supported raising the enrollment cap on the voucher program.
Barrett said then that he was willing to back the cap increase in exchange for more money for all public schools, and he has since repeatedly expressed alarm over the voucher program's cost to local taxpayers. But that's beside the point for the union and enough to force Barrett to spend energy on the campaign trail defending his support for public education.
This strategy has worked before. A Democratic candidate for Florida Senate named Terry Fields spent weeks addressing his past support for the...
The Philadelphia school district's plan to lift itself out of financial and academic distress may have overshadowed a profound development this week for Catholic education in the City of Brotherly Love. The Philadelphia Archdiocese agreed Monday to join a compact with public and charter schools in the city to make sure that kids have access to quality schools.
Two conditions of the agreement make this momentous and should give Catholic leaders throughout the nation something to consider:
Finally, a group committed to enhancing urban public education has recognized that the urban Catholic school shares a common purpose, and the Great Schools Compact is doing more than paying lip service. But the...
Imagine a law that forces your family into a charter school lottery, a law that doesn't care whether you would choose a charter or not. The burden is on you to refuse the seat and a family who does want the seat is waiting for you to act.
Such a law may only be a few legislative steps away in Connecticut. Democratic leaders in the state General Assembly have hitched this "opt-out" lottery to a sweeping omnibus bill that covers reforms that range from teacher quality to school improvement, and where better to bury it? Many provisions in Senate Bill 24 have generated heat over tenure reform and charter school funding, distracting the public from this perversion of parental choice in education.
The lottery would be imposed on all new charter schools and would draw from the names of every student from the district in which the charter operates, leaving it to the family to accept or decline the spot. The provision emerged from a closed-door meeting with union leaders and the Democratic chairs of the state's joint education...
Before the real estate bubble burst, there was an emerging literature on the link between government regulation of housing and home prices. Heightened zoning restrictions, the conclusions went, drove up the cost of housing. Now the Brookings Institution has added something new to consider: Zoning regulations are segregating cities by income and race and leaving quality schools available to mostly higher income families.
After surveying 100 metropolitan areas, Brookings analyst Jonathan Rothwell found that housing costs are 2.4 times greater near a better performing school, as judged by state test scores, than near a lower performing school. Zoning, Rothwell told Education Week, "is an underlying problem." Exclusionary zoning has priced lower income families out of high-flying schools in higher-flying neighborhoods where population density is low by government design and where fewer people own larger houses and more acres of land.
By loosening or even eliminating restrictive zoning, cities may see housing cost gaps narrow by as much as 63 percentage points and see school achievement gaps narrow as a result, Rothwell writes.
Naturally, Rothwell has an affinity for school choice, including district choice plans, charter schools,...
It's hard to identify the political motivations that drove Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto an expansion of the state's publicly funded savings accounts to help more disadvantaged students pay for private education. But we do have her explanation, one that pretends the expansion of private school choice would "artificially manipulate" the market to the disadvantage of public schools.
This fear of an "unlevel playing field" is a milder variant on the assertion that school vouchers would "virtually abolish public education," as the head of the Lousiana teachers union told the Wall Street Journal for a story today. But it's all the more surprising coming from a Republican governor who has supported school choice for the Grand Canyon State in the past. Does Brewer really agree with voucher opponents who insisted that last year's adoption of education savings accounts for special education students was really just the camel's nose in the tent, heralding doom for public education? Her veto suggests this much.
That few Arizona reporters would challenge Brewer's explanation or express shock that she was the one making it shows how ingrained this narrative has become since the 1970s. At that time, United States senators including...
An urban wasteland in the industrial Midwest shows how a portfolio approach to public education can inspire even the most disadvantaged families to "shop" for the right school.
Nearly three-quarters of parents in Detroit have shopped for a school for their child, whether the options included a traditional public school, a magnet school, a charter school, or a private school, according to a think tank in the Wolverine State called Michigan Future Inc. Moreover, fifteen percent of the families the think tank surveyed opted for a public school outside the district.
"Seventy percent are actively shopping rather than letting the government tell them where to go—that's huge," Michigan Future President Lou Glazer told The Detroit News.
Glazer says the study represented one of the most aggressive attempts nationally to further explain how families, especially those who are low-income, think about their school options in an urban area. Researchers spent last summer knocking on the doors of 1,073 households to collect data on 1,699 schoolchildren, eighty-five percent of whom were black and sixty-eight percent of whom came from households where incomes that fell below $30,000.
The Detroit school district has lost more than 100,000 students in the past decade,...
Louisiana became the latest state to embrace the introduction of school vouchers, but the legislative moxie it showed should stimulate a new conversation about private school choice and accountability.
When lawmakers last week approved Gov. Bobby Jindal's plan to award vouchers to low-income children, they also ordered state schools Superintendent John White to develop a system that holds participating schools accountable for the performance of their voucher students. Critics say this lacks specificity, but it's almost revolutionary compared with most voucher regulations nationwide.
Louisiana's law may be similar to a voucher program Indiana lawmakers approved last year in that it requires participating students to take the same assessments administered at public schools. But even voucher supporters in the Pelican State had a hard time defending against tougher accountability standards in a state known for its low-tolerance of poor-performing schools.
So now that low-income students in schools graded C through F have a greater array of public and private options available, this is a chance for White and the Department of Education to design what my Fordham colleagues have called "accountability, done right."


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Shooting death investigation continues
Law enforcement officials with the Howard County Sheriff's Office say the investigation into the Oct. 27 shooting that claimed the life of one Big Spring man and injured another is still ongoing, as investigators try to piece together the events of the night.Luis Adolfo Pena, 33, was pronounced dead at Scenic Mountain medical Center shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 27 from a gunshot wound at the former VFW building, located at 500 Driver Road. A second victim, Raul Mendez, 33, was transported to Scenic Mountain Medical Center by private vehicle where he was treated for his wounds and released.An arrest warrant was issued for 19-year-old Chris Daniel Marquez, 19, of Big Spring, who was arrested Oct. 31 in the 1900 block of Sherwood Way in San Angelo on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Howard County Sheriff Stan Parker.Parker said Marquez is the prime suspect in the murder case, however, investigators are not ruling anyone out at this time. Marquez has not been charged with murder, law enforcement officials confirmed."We have some key forensic evidence we're waiting to come back from the lab," Parker said. "We're also in the process of interviewing and re-interviewing witnesses in the case."Parker said trying to piece together an eyewitness account of the alleged altercation between Pena and Marquez has been a rather frustrating piece of the overall puzzle."It has been very tough to find anyone who will talk to us about what transpired," Parker said. "It's extremely frustrating. Normally, in a situation like this, witnesses would be coming forward and helping us fill in the blanks. However, most of the witnesses we've talked to get to a certain point and they just don't want to talk anymore. Our investigators are having to go through and interview them, then re-interview them to try to get an accurate picture of what happened."According to Parker, deputies were dispatched to the former VFW facility — located south of Big Spring, near U.S. Highway 87 — at approximately 2:33 a.m."Upon arrival, deputies found Pena in the parking lot suffering from what appeared to be a gun shot wound. Pena was transported to Scenic Mountain Medical Center by emergency medical services, where he was later pronounced dead."Pena's body was sent to Lubbock to undergo an autopsy, which was ordered by Justice of the Peace Kathryn Wiseman, according to law enforcement records.Parker declined to comment on the cause of the alleged dispute between Pena and Marquez, citing an ongoing investigation.Anyone with information regarding this crime is encouraged to contact the HCSO at 432-264-2244 or Big Spring Area Crimestoppers at 264-TIPS (8477).


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When does a bass sound like a guitar? When Brad Russell is playing it. Joe Daly meets the boxer-turned-shredder
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - Apr 12, 2012) - Hope Pharmaceuticals (Hope) today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Hope's Sodium Nitrite Injection for sequential use with sodium thiosulfate for the treatment of cyanide poisoning that is judged to be life-threatening.
Hope is the only supplier of Sodium Nitrite Injection that has been approved by the FDA.
Drugs containing sodium nitrite have been marketed in the United States without FDA approval and reportedly conform to an industry specification originally published prior to 1970 that lists only five tests.
FDA requires new drugs to meet more stringent quality requirements. The new FDA quality specification for sodium nitrite lists 27 tests, including many recent quality advancements such as limits on bacterial, chemical, degradation, and processing impurities. To comply with the new FDA-imposed requirements, Hope utilizes custom-manufactured, ultra-pure sodium nitrite as the ingredient in its FDA-approved medication.
"Critically-ill patients should receive only high quality medications," said Dr. Craig Sherman, Medical Director of Hope Pharmaceuticals. "Doctors should consider quality when choosing products from different manufacturers and choose an FDA-approved product whenever one is available. For the first time, doctors can choose to use an FDA-approved Sodium Nitrite Injection that complies with 2012 quality standards."
Hope's Sodium Nitrite Injection (NDC 60267-311-10) is packaged in a 10 mL vial containing 300 mg of sodium nitrite. It is now available in a carton containing one vial or in an FDA-approved kit (Nithiodote© [NDC 60267-812-00]) which also contains a vial of Sodium Thiosulfate Injection.
Hope's Sodium Nitrite Injection is approved for the treatment of children and adults. Prescribing information is available online at www.nitrite.com.
Hope Pharmaceuticals is a privately owned company located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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At his weekly Commons questions, Mr Cameron dodged a question on whether Britain will be a member of the EU in five years time and is yet to be specific about when a referendum could take take place.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, accused him of causing uncertainty over the issue of Britain's membership of the EU but the Prime Minister hit back against him for only wanting to talk about the "process" of reforms.
Mr Cameron's reluctance to set dates for achieving a new settlement with Brussels comes ahead of his big speech on the EU this Friday.
Today, the Prime Minister said holding a vote too soon would offer the British people a "false choice" but did not say when a referendum should take place.
"The leader of the Opposition only wants to talk about process because he dare not debate the substance," Mr Cameron told MPs.
"I don't think it would be right for Britain to have an in/out referendum today because I think we'd be giving the British people a false choice."
It comes as Mr Cameron faces a whole set of demands for a new relationship with EU from a group of Conservatives backed by William Hague, the Foreign Secretary.
The group wants the Prime Minister to seize back control of employment and social laws from Brussels and stop European nationals from claiming benefits in this country
It set out proposals to return responsibility for laws to Westminster and cut Britain's bill for EU membership by billions of pounds a year.
Downing Street has indicated it does not back all the proposals, but the Prime Minister's wider vision for Europe will become clearer in the speech on Friday.
He is expected to set out plans to renegotiate the country's relationship with Europe which will then be the subject of a referendum, possibly as far off as 2018.
Mr Milband accused the Prime Minister of "losing control" of his party, amid widespread disagreement about how Britain should reform its relationship with Brussels.
He said the idea of a referendum in 2018 would cause five years of uncertainty for people and businesses.
The Prime Minister hit back, saying Mr Miliband has "absolutely nothing to say about the important issue of Britain's relationship with Europe".
"There will be a very simple choice at the next election, if you want to stay out of the single currency you vote Conservative, if you want to go into the single currency you vote Labour, if you want to give power to Brussels, you vote Labour.
"He wants absolutely no change in Britain's relationship with Europe and he doesn't want to give the British people a choice."


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Johnny Cash's final studio album, 'American VI,' coming Feb. 26
"American VI: Ain't No Grave," the final studio album by Johnny Cash, will be released Feb. 26, timed to what would have been the Man in Black's 78th birthday.
The Rick Rubin-produced collection consists of recordings they made together after finishing "American IV: The Man Comes Around" in 2002; Cash died on Sept. 12, 2003. It features a characteristically genre- and era-hopping batch of songs by Kris Kristofferson, Sons of the Pioneers' Bob Nolan, Tom Paxton, Sheryl Crow and others.
Throughout his career, Cash consistently was drawn to a wide variety of songs and songwriters, reflecting his relentless pursuit of quality and substance. "He loved talking about music," Rubin told me shortly before "American V" was released. "Since I met him, he was never particularly talkative. But if you drew him out, he knew about everything. He was a really wise man."
The new collection also includes an original that Cash wrote during his final years, "I Corinthians: 15:55," from the New Testament passage about the spirit ultimately triumphing over the physical body: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
The first of the posthumous releases in the "American" series, "American V: A Hundred Highways," surfaced in 2006 and landed Cash another Grammy Award for the music video accompanying the song "God's Gonna Cut You Down." It also gave Cash his first No. 1 album since "Johnny Cash at San Quentin" had topped the national sales chart 37 years earlier.
"American VI" is being described as the final installment in the series that rejuvenated Cash's career, beginning in 1994 with "American Recordings." The "American" albums yielded six of the 13 career Grammys awarded to the storied country singer and songwriter.
Cash's deteriorating health, especially after the death of his wife, June Carter Cash, in May 2003 meant that in terms of the recordings he and Rubin continued to work on, "There was a lot of stopping and starting," Rubin recalled in a statement issued today. "But he always wanted to work. The doctors in the hospital kind of lectured me, saying, 'He's not going to stop, so you have to make sure he doesn't work too much...'
"Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive," Rubin said. "I think it was the only thing that kept him going."
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Style # 209892
With a studded trim and geometric cutouts, this sexy peep toe bootie is sure to give any day-to-night look a whole lot of attitude. Try it with cropped denim pieces or a striped dress for the full effect.
- Leather upper, synthetic outsole
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Rated 4 out of 5 by RebNY2 from Hot Shoe!!! I love this shoe!! I had to have it after i saw in the store! I read the other reviews and I got them anyway and I am glad I did! I don't think they are so narrow, but I gave 4 stars because the opening is small and my big toe felt a little squished only on my left foot, but the overall shoe fit great! They are high so I will wear them out to dinner with cute outfits and wont wear them if I know I will be standing for hours! They are beautiful!
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Rated 4 out of 5 by ILOVEBEBESHOES from Super Sexy!!! These shoes are so adorable. I agree with the other posts that the toe part runs tight (although I still bought the booties with the warning). I am a true 6.5 and bought the size 6 since I usually can wear a half size smaller depending on the material. But since the material is leather, I knew it would stretch. I don't have narrow feet, but I am a shoe fanatic so I know how to make it work. As soon as I got the shoes, I inserted tube shaped items in the open toe part and at the tip of the inner shoes and left it there for 2 days. And the tip that was tight on my big toe no longer is tight and the shoe fits great. Looks sexy with the bebe faux leather leggings.. LOVE LOVE LOVE these shoes!!! I only gave it a 4-star because the pair that came in the mail wasn't of the best quality between the shoe and the heel (but I think that's a manufacturer defect).
Date published: 2013-04-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by ErykhaCD from Hot Bootie! I really like the look of this cute and sexy shoe. There's one problem though, they are extremely tight in the toe area. I tried them on and loved they way they looked on my feet, but as soon as I stood up the pain hit me immediately. I am a size 9 in every bebe shoe I own and would say these are true to size in length, but narrow in the toe box. I had to return them. :(
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Texanfashionista from Very expensive look. I have to try every shoes i want to buy from BEBE. Sometimes size 5 works for me sometimes size 6 (usually boots). I tried on both sizes and size 5 fit perfect! LOVE THE LOOK!!!! Very feminine and edgy at the same time. Definitely the statement piece. Expecting a lot of compliments and questions where i got them from....
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Rated 3 out of 5 by Hollywood90277 from Gorgeous shoe, bad fit! These shoes are stunning! I found them in a Bebe within hours of them receiving them. I was excited because I was headed to Vegas and figured I wouldn't see them on anyone else yet (which is one problem with shopping at Bebe). I am a true size 6 1/2 but I can usually wear a 6 when Bebe only offers whole sizes. (Note: they are sometimes offering 1/2 sizes in some styles) The 6 was too tight and the 7 was slightly large but super tight at the toefront because of the tiny opening. Putting a heel insert overcame the length issue.... I wore these in Vegas with a 3 quarter sleeve mid- thigh fitted dress and they looked AMAZING! Within 30 minutes though I was in serious serious pain! The front cut of this shoe (and remember I bought them bigger) put an excruciating pressure on my big and little toes! Thinking it may give because of the leather I endured the night in these. By the end of night the top of my big toenails and the side of my baby toes were smashed and in true pain :((( Worse than any shoes I own. To make matters worse, when I went to unzip one shoe, one of the gold brads "popped off". Luckily I found it. Sooo disappointing. I have very normal proportionate size 6 1/2 feet. Not too narrow or wide. I have no idea how to salvage these if/yet but want to because they are really beautiful. They look like a Gucci or Dior shoe truly. Perhaps a true size 6 or 7 person with Narrow feet could pull these off? Anyway, I always find reviews so helpful here so I wanted to add my thoughts......
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Avalanche top Coyotes in shootoutby Jerry Brown
GLENDALE, Ariz. – In their last road game, Colorado Avalanche finally got starting goalie Semyon Varlamov his first win away from home this season.
All it took was a rally, an injury and a shootout to get it done.
Matt Duchene had three assists and joined PA Parenteau with a goal in the shootout as the Avalanche outlasted the Phoenix Coyotes for a 5-4 victory Friday in a battle of non-playoff teams.
Varlamov, who was 0-14-2 on the road for a team that finished 4-16-4 away from Pepsi Center, stopped all six shots he saw after starter Jean-Sebastien Giguere left with a groin injury with 4:16 left in regulation. All of the saves came in overtime, when the Coyotes outshot Colorado 6-1 and made their bid to win the game. Varlamov stopped Mikkel Boedker and Radim Vrbata in the shootout while Duchene and Parenteau solved Phoenix goalie Mike Smith, who let an early two-goal lead get away.
"We have played well in front of [Varlamov], especially on the road, so for us to get him that first win is pretty exciting," Duchene said. "You don't want to go a whole year without a road win, even if it's half a season. He's been awesome and we've let him down a few times, so it was nice to get it for him."
Colorado's Stefan Elliott, Parenteau and Patrick Bordeleau wiped out an early 2-0 deficit with goals 4:07 apart in the first period as the Avalanche won only their fourth road game all season (4-16-4). Ryan O'Reilly snapped a 3-3 tie with a power-play goal in the final minute of the second period for Colorado, but the Avalanche couldn't hold the lead.
Antoine Vermette scored twice for Phoenix, and his second of the scored night 5:56 into the third period tied the game at 4-4. David Schlemko and Rob Klinkhammer also scored for the Coyotes, who finished 14-8-2 on home ice this season but, like the Avalanche, weren't nearly as good on the road.
Keith Yandle added three assists for Phoenix as the two teams gave 16,011 fans a good show in the Coyotes' home finale. But it wasn't the kind of game coach Dave Tippett enjoyed watching.
"Game like that one have no meaning," Tippett said. "Even in an exhibition game, you can evaluate players, but here you're just playing. It's entertainment, good for the fans, lot of action. But I wouldn't put that up there as a hard, tactical game."
Smith and the Coyotes shut out Colorado 4-0 here on April 6 and looked like they were on their way again Friday after they scored two goals on their first four shots against Giguere.
Schlemko walked a Kyle Chipchura pass around Parenteau and into the slot before taking advantage of a Paul Bissonnette screen to whip a wrist shot past Giguere at 3:17. It was Schlemko's first regular-season goal in 72 games, dating back to Oct. 13, 2011, in Nashville.
"It feels like … finally!" Schlemko said. "It was good to see one finally go in. The building was great tonight, lots of energy. Our fans have been great all year, especially after the lockout and with all the rumors [about the team leaving] over the last four years. We definitely appreciate all the support."
Phoenix made it 2-0 at 8:45 with a nifty transition goal. Smith made a big save on John Mitchell and the puck popped into air before Yandle corralled it and headed the other way. He dropped a pass for Vermette in the slot, and Vermette's shot through traffic beat Giguere between the pads to give the Coyotes a full head of steam.
Colorado, who came into the game with nine losses in its past 11 games at Jobing.com Arena, was on the run again. But they found a way to stop the bleeding.
"We've had some tough nights in this building, and when they got the second goal you are kind of like 'Oh no, here we go again,' "Duchene said. "But we were able to hang in there and keep fighting and getting the next goal was huge."
The Avalanche owned the rest of the period, scoring three times to flip the game.
With the team skating 4-on-4, Elliott jumped into the play and put a Duchene feed off the crossbar and into the net for his first goal of the season. Just 1:07 later, Parenteau took advantage of a Schlemko hooking penalty to surprise Smith with a shot aided by a Cody McLeod screen to tie the game.
Exactly one minute later, Duchene and Bordeleau pounced on a Tomas Vincour rebound in the crease and kept whacking away until Bordeleau nudged the puck past Smith at 17:52 to give Colorado their first lead of the game.
"I thought we showed great resiliency there after the slow start in the first period," Colorado coach Joe Sacco said. "It was a good test of character and we responded. It was an open game and for us to end on the road where we've struggled all year really feels good."
The Coyotes came out harder in the second but needed some luck on the power play to get the game even. With Bordeleau in the box for slashing, Klinkhammer fired a puck from the left corner that hit Colorado defenseman Greg Zanon – who had his back turned – and deflected into the net at 15:11. It was the fifth goal and 11th point in 20 games for Klinkhammer after earning a promotion to the NHL.
O'Reilly gave the Avs the lead again when he walked off the half boards and blew a shot past Smith with 34 seconds left in the period to make it 4-3. But Vermette tied the game for a third time on the second of three Phoenix power plays in the first eight minutes of the third period, gobbling up the rebound of a Michael Stone and pumping it past Giguere for his 12th goal of the season.
Colorado had a golden chance to win in regulation when Rostislav Klesla was called for boarding Paul Stastny with 3:28 remaining. But Tyson Barrie hit the post on the power play with 2:10 left and Smith made a big save on Mitchell to force overtime.


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Summer is winding down for the boys and I'll be taking a little holiday to share this time with them before school begins again.
So, I'll be away for a wee bit. (I plan to connect again sometime around September 5th).
This summer has been as great as I could hope. Here are a few things I've loved to pieces this season:
Sylvia's Quinoa Cakes (My favorite favorite summer meal):
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These super fun games that the folks at Zume sent us. They actually got the boys excited to run around outside more. One night, we had tons of boys outside playing Zume games until 10:30 pm. What could be better than boys being crazy and having fun?
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These beautiful bracelets that Heather introduced me to. And they're recycled too!
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Note: I have a call in to the maker of the bracelets so that I can provide you with her contact information in case you want to purchase your own. I'll provide contact information for the maker here if I'm able to do so. Stay tuned...
So, farewell until September...
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The parents of a seriously ill boy have launched a fundraising bid to help improve his quality of life.
Little Zach Blackburn, three, suffers from several devastating conditions including a benign brain tumour, autism and global developmental delay.
Now his parents Andy Blackburn and Tricy Isherwood want to raise enough cash to buy specialist gear – including a pushchair, bed and sensory equipment – to better his life.
The pair, of Back Lane, Glapwell, said: "Zach is an adorable and unique little boy.
"Initially we were in shock with his diagnosis and were devastated to realise that he was so poorly – but as time has gone on we've learned to cope with Zach's condition.
"He has a very uncertain future so this makes getting equipment through local services extremely hard, even though it shouldn't be.
"Zach, like many children, deserves to have his needs met and his quality of life improved.
"Hopefully we can raise enough money to get the equipment needed and he can have an improved quality of life giving him the same opportunities as other children his age.
"We are still months off getting these essential pieces of equipment and Zach has been unable to go out for the day or go on holiday."
Zach, who often loses his balance and suffers bouts of sickness, is currently fed through a tube and is seen by various medical teams at three different hospitals.
• To help with fundraising efforts, log on to www.facebook.com/zachymimiaturehero
Andy and Tricy will be boiling the kettle and serving chocolate buns for their family and friends when they host a charity tea party later this month. The event will raise vital cash for The Sick Children's Trust, which supported the pair when Zach was hospitalised in Sheffield. During that time, Andy and Tricy were able to stay nearby, living in Treetop House, a 'home from home' provided by the charity. Visit sickchildrenstrust.org/bigchoctea to register to host a tea party for the charity.


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Witnesses have recalled seeing strange men with a boy matching Daniel Morcombe's description, with one claiming the missing teen asked him for help nine months after his disappearance.
Six people gave evidence on Tuesday at the committal hearing of Brett Peter Cowan, who is accused of murdering Daniel.
Daniel was 13 when he went missing while waiting for a bus on the Sunshine Coast in December 2003.
Cowan, 43, is charged with murder, child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child and interfering with a corpse.
Bernard Rumbel told the Brisbane Magistrates Court he believed he saw Daniel in Port Macquarie in NSW on September 2, 2004.
He said he was waiting outside a shop for his son when a young boy approached him and asked for help.
Mr Rumbel said the boy twice told him his name was Daniel Morcombe before being berated by a well-dressed, tall man in his 40s with whom he left a short time later.
Mr Rumbel said he contacted the police a few months later after seeing a missing person advertisement about Daniel on a pizza box.
"I noticed a photo on the pizza box and I realised that was the same boy, as far as I was concerned, that I was talking to," he said, adding he was 90 per cent sure it was Daniel.
A number of other witnesses testified they saw one or two men with a blue car standing near Daniel while he waited for the bus under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass.
Two said they saw a blue car drive past them on the Sunshine Coast later that day with a man fighting someone in the back seat.
Belinda Russell said she wrote down the registration number on a shopping list, but had since lost the piece of paper.
The hearing won't sit on Wednesday. Two further witnesses will give evidence on Thursday before the hearing is adjourned until February.


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Joining the illustrious likes of recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore, Israeli environmentalist Benjamin Kahn was named this week as one of TIME magazine's 45 'Heroes of the Environment'.
Highlighting the worldwide leaders and visionaries, activists, scientists and innovators, moguls and entrepreneurs, the magazine noted that its chosen "environmental heroes have stepped into the silence, and in doing so, have given the earth a voice. It remains for the rest of us to listen – and join them."
Thanks to Kahn, that voice has had a resonant effect across Israel. The board chairman of environmental coastline watchdog organization Zalul which he co-founded in 1999, the marine biologist by profession has always been in love with the sea.
As a child, Kahn, known as 'Benjie', and his father Morris, a software and telecommunications giant who founded the company Amdocs, would go snorkeling in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, famous for it spectacular coral reef and multicolored tropical fish. His family owns the Underwater Sea Observatory there (along with six other marine aquariums around the world).
The love of diving and the sea stayed with him, and after studying marine biology and living in the US and Australia for a number of years, Kahn returned to Israel in 2000. He was dismayed to discover that the amazing coral reef had drastically deteriorated – the result of years of human contact.
"I knew that if the reef was going to survive, someone had to fight for it," Kahn told TIME.
According to the magazine, Kahn commissioned his family's marine-park scientists to come up with new ways of helping the battered coral recover. He started a project in which he and other divers collect reef fragments that have broken off in stormy weather, and then give them to 5,000 school kids to grow like saltwater saplings for months in classroom tubs. Then divers carefully glue the living fragments back onto the reef.
Through Zalul, Kahn has also won a major environmental victory in Eilat. After many years of demonstrations, legal battles, and court decisions, Zalul and other green organizations have forced giant fish farms built in 1997 out of the gulf. These cages were eliminating tons of uneaten food and excrement onto the reef. Following the five-year campaign, the Israeli government passed a resolution in 2005 to gradually force companies to remove them – a third of the cages each year – until 2008.
"When all the cages are gone, maybe the reef can revive itself," Kahn said. "It's our only chance to regain the amazing vibrancy the reef once had."
The Zalul Association for Environmental Protection (zalul is clear in Hebrew) has evolved into a powerful lobby organization – run more like a high tech company than a bunch non-profit tree huggers.
According to its executive director, Yariv Abramovich, the ten-person staff all have a strong business, media or technical background.
"It's the end of the hippie era in the environmental world," Abramovich told ISRAEL21c.
The eight-year-old organization has achieved many other victories in its campaigns regarding Israel's coastline and marine life, which have had a direct impact on Israel's young environmental policies as well as on the country's awareness of the issues.
Chief among them was clearing of waste from the waters surrounding the Kishon River near Haifa. In 2005 , Zalul conducted an investigative report on the river, 'Contaminated Ground in the Haifa Gulf', and presented it to the Environment Ministry. As a result, the Israeli Ports Corporation has cleared out 75 tons of sludge from the banks of the Kishon.
"I think the TIME award is a great honor, not only for Benjie and Zalul, but for Israel. Looking at the people on this list, you can see what kind of company he's in," said Abramovich. "Green activism is breaking out all over the world, and we're proud of the work that's being done. I think being recognized like this can help leverage our work here even more."
One of Zalul's main priorities for the future – as deemed by Kahn and his coral reef project with school children – is to get the youth of Israel involved and aware of the environmental issues at hand.
"The main force comes from the citizens. The younger they are, the better they will do," said Abramovich.
With a role model like Benjie Kahn to look up to, the next generation of Israeli environmentalists will undoubtedly accomplish a lot.
"Benjie is one of our founders, and his views and vision is what has driven Zalul. The time and effort he's put into our organization is definitely a big part of our success," said Abramovich. "Along with his father, the Kahns are a very important added value to the organization. And you can see from the results how effective they've been."


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BATON ROUGE — As the domestic fishing industry continues to complain about an unfair marketplace created at least partially by illegal activities of foreign competitors, a federal agency is touting a report that uncovers wrongdoing in 10 nations.
BATON ROUGE — As the domestic fishing industry continues to complain about an unfair marketplace created at least partially by illegal activities of foreign competitors, a federal agency is touting a report that uncovers wrongdoing in 10 nations.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported its findings to Congress, which include details about fishing vessels engaged in "illegal, unreported and unregulated" activities over the past two years.
Russell Smith, NOAA deputy assistant secretary for international fisheries, said the U.S. will soon start consultations with each of the 10 nations — Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, Italy, Mexico, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Tanzania and Venezuela.
He said the federal government will encourage the nations to take actions to address the unsustainable practices of its fishermen.
"This is about leveling the playing field for fishermen around the world, and (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing represents one of the biggest threats to the U.S. fishing industry," he said. "Seafood is a global business, and U.S. fishermen following the rules should not have to compete with those using illegal or unsustainable fishing practices."
If a nation fails to take appropriate action to address the instances of illegal fishing or by catch activities described in the biennial report, that nation's fishing vessels may be denied entry into U.S. ports, and imports of certain fish or fish products may be prohibited.
The report follows a set of petitions filed by the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries roughly three weeks ago.
The coalition, which includes members from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, is petitioning the U.S. government for relief from subsidized shrimp imports from seven countries.
The petitions specifically seek the imposition of countervailing duties — essentially monetary fees — on shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Edward T. Hayes, the coalition's attorney, said the duties are needed to offset the "unfair trade advantage" of artificially low-priced imported shrimp that are heavily subsidized by foreign governments.
"The Gulf shrimp community can compete with shrimp industries located anywhere in the world. But we can no longer compete with the deep pockets of foreign governments," Hayes said. "Without relief, we fear that these unfair foreign subsidies could eventually drive our domestic industry to extinction."
The countries covered by the coalition's petitions exported $4.3 billion worth of shrimp to the U.S. in 2011, accounting for 85 percent of imports and over three quarters of the domestic market.
The petitions will be investigated by the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Department of Commerce, with final determinations expected in the second half of 2013.
Sam Rauch, deputy assistant administrator for the NOAA's Fisheries Service, said illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by other nations and the subsidization of certain activities can undermine international efforts to sustainably manage and rebuild fisheries.
It also creates unfair market competition for fishermen who adhere to strict conservation measures like those in the United States, he said.
"As one of the largest importers of seafood in the world, the United States has a global responsibility and an economic duty to ensure the fish we import is caught sustainably and legally," Rauch said. "We look forward to working with these nations to encourage their compliance, and we will continue to work with our partners to detect and combat illegal practices."
All six of the nations identified in the previous 2011 biennial report to Congress—Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Panama, Portugal, and Venezuela — have addressed the instances reported last year by "taking strong actions like sanctioning vessels, adopting or amending laws and regulations, or improving monitoring and enforcement," he said.
Each of these six nations now has a "positive certification" for their 2011 identified activities, but many still have issues to address in the new report to Congress.
The U.S. is second only to China in the amount of seafood it imports.
The NOAA's latest figures show 91 percent of the 4.7 billion pounds of seafood consumed in the U.S. in 2011 was imported.
Jeremy Alford can be reached at email@example.com.


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Training exercise will involve 8 fire departments, 3 ambulance services, 2 hospitals
Area first responders, fire departments and hospitals will hold a disaster exercise Saturday at Pewamo-Westphalia Jr./Sr. High School.
The exercise will involve a mock plane crash, said Phil Gensterblum, ambulance director for the City of Portland Ambulance Service.
Eight fire departments and three ambulance services are planning to attend the training, which will begin around 4 p.m. and could last until around 9 p.m.
"The VOR (navigational system) approach for Ionia County Airport actually begins over the area of the P-W high school," Gensterblum said. "We have a fuselage from WMU School of Aviation that we will be able to extinguish fires in."
The exercise will include simulated patients, on whom emergency personnel and staff from Sparrow Ionia Hospital and Sparrow Clinton Memorial Hospital will practice triage and transport.
Citizens may see an airplane over that area, many emergency vehicles and a number of intentional fires set in the training aircraft, on and off for two to three hours, as part of the exercise, Gensterblum said.
"We'll be very busy," he said. "If you see fires, it is just the training exercise."


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Ademola Lookman's brace ensured a youthful Everton side did not miss Sam Allardyce's presence in Cyprus as they finished their woeful Europa League campaign with a victory.
A pre-arranged medical appointment meant new boss Allardyce was not in Nicosia to witness the 3-0 win over Apollon Limassol, the Toffees' first of the group stage, but he will receive a positive assessment of his fringe players and youngsters from stand-in manager Craig Shakespeare.
The most glowing review will be reserved for 20-year-old Lookman, who scored two goals in seven first-half minutes, the second of which was a blistering strike from range to cap off a 26-pass move where each Everton player touched the ball, with Nikola Vlasic then adding a third late on.
What they said
Everton stand-in manager Craig Shakespeare: "Of course as young players they need the opportunity, but they also need to show the ability as well. He (Lookman) did tonight. We just said to the squad after, look at this as a starting block and in the football you get your just rewards most of the time. The work ethic was there for all to see and so were the rewards. Hopefully that will give the young boys a bit of confidence and they can have a good career in the game."Apollon Limassol manager Sofronis Avgousti: "We have to say congratulations to Everton, they played a really good match. This match will show us what we need to avoid going forward."
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Star man – Ademola Lookman
Could have finished the game with four goals but a brace was enough to see off Apollon. The second goal was a terrific strike and evidence there is certainly an end product from the winger.
Stat of the match
This was the youngest XI an English club had selected in a European group-stage fixture since 2009, when Everton named an even more youthful line-up having already secured their passage to the last 32.
View from the bench
This was the first European match Shakespeare had taken charge of since Leicester were beaten by Atletico Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals last season. Who knows if he will ever be at the helm for a continental fixture again but the stand-in boss must have been pleased with what he saw.
Everton: Joel Robles 7, Beni Baningime 6, Morgan Feeney 7, Muhamed Besic 6, Harry Charsley 7, Morgan Schneiderlin 6, Davy Klaassen 7, Nikola Vlasic 7, Kevin Mirallas 7, Ademola Lookman 8, Fraser Hornby 7. Subs: Nathan Broadhead: (on for Hornby, 82) 6, Anthony Gordon (on for Mirallas, 89) 6, Alex Denny (on for Charsley, 90) 6.
Who's up next?
AC Omonia v Apollon Limassol (Cypriot First Division, December 11)
Liverpool v Everton (Premier League, December 10)


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Snowshoe through Squaw Valley's snowy meadow and designated trail system at The Resort at Squaw Creek. The Nordic Center, at the trailhead of the Cross Country Ski & Snowshoe trails, rents snowshoes for adults and kids. All trails originate at the Resort at Squaw Creek which is just a short, complimentary, shuttle ride from the Squaw Valley Parking Lot. Hop on the shuttle near the preferred parking area of the main lot. Call 530-583-6300 for more information
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- What will life be like without Warren Buffett?
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) shareholders may have gotten a glimpse into that future. Most of Berkshire's deals last year didn't directly involve the 82-year-old investor. They originated with a subsidiary of the conglomerate, or with one of the two investment managers Buffett has hired. Either way, Berkshire did well in 2012.
Buffett's annual letter to shareholders will be released Friday afternoon.
Jeff Matthews, who wrote Warren Buffett's Successor: Who It Is and Why It Matters, says last year's deals are comforting because they show how the company might work after Buffett is gone.
"It's very reassuring," Matthews says. "This didn't used to happen."
Of course Berkshire's recent $23.3 billion deal to buy part of H.J. Heinz (UNKNOWN:UNKNOWN) highlights what shareholders will miss most about Buffett: his connections and judgment.
Regardless of what kind of deals Berkshire made, Buffett's annual letter is one of the best-read documents in the business world. That's because of his remarkable track record and talent for explaining complicated issues plainly.
The future of the conglomerate Buffett built from a failing textile manufacturer is on shareholders' minds because of the billionaire's age. He was also treated for prostate cancer last year. He says the cancer doesn't threaten his life, and he has no plans to retire.
Some of Berkshire's biggest deals by dollars last year include:
- A $1.5 billion purchase of mortgage loans from Residential Capital and a $1.2 billion repurchase of Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares.
- A deal to cover up to $4 billion in insurance losses for Cigna Corp. in exchange for a $2.2 billion premium.
- Berkshire's utility division, MidAmerican Energy, agreeing to buy 579 megawatts of solar power for between $2 billion and $2.5 billion.
Terms of several other deals weren't disclosed, but analysts say the acquisitions of party supplier Oriental Trading Co. and Prudential's real estate network are unlikely to give a significant boost to Berkshire by themselves.
The only deals that likely originated with Buffett are the Berkshire share repurchase, the Oriental Trading acquisition and possibly the Cigna deal. The rest began elsewhere, although Buffett would have signed off on them.
"These things are going on all the time with little input from Buffett," says investor Andy Kilpatrick, who wrote Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.
After he's gone, Berkshire plans to split Buffett's job into three roles: CEO, chairman and a head of investment management.
"I don't think we'll get any new details on succession," KBW analyst Meyer Shields says.
Buffett seems to like the speculation about who will run the company, so Shields says he probably won't help narrow down the choices.
Investors who follow the company say the strongest CEO candidates are Ajit Jain, who runs Berkshire's reinsurance division; Greg Abel, president and CEO of MidAmerican; Tony Nicely, chief executive of Geico; and Matt Rose, CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
Buffett has said that his son Howard, a member of Berkshire's board, would make an ideal chairman.
Berkshire has hired two hedge fund managers, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, who Buffett says are capable of eventually running the company's entire portfolio. They manage portfolios worth about $4 billion while Buffett continues to make most of Berkshire's investment decisions while searching for big acquisitions.
For example, the $23.3 billion Heinz deal got started on a plane when Buffett was approached by a billionaire friend. Berkshire is putting up $12 billion for half of the company and $8 billion in preferred shares that pay 9 percent a year. The 3G Capital investment firm will put up the rest of the money and run Heinz.
If Berkshire were buying Heinz outright, the deal would be Buffett's second-biggest ever behind the $26.3 billion purchase of BNSF railroad in 2010.
But these small deals by Buffett standards do add up -- even at a company as big as Berkshire, which has nearly 300,000 employees and generated net income of $10.3 billion, or $6,215 per Class A share, last year.
"If you have a dozen subsidiaries add things each year, you'll have a new company in a couple years," says investor and author Kilpatrick.
Before Heinz, many shareholders were focused on the deals Buffett didn't get done. He had said a $22 billion deal fell through last year.
"It'll be interesting to see if he gives any detail on the ones that got away," the author Matthews says.
With the housing market and overall economy slowly improving, Buffett has plenty of reasons to be upbeat about Berkshire's prospects. Ever since the Great Recession, several Berkshire subsidiaries that sell products for houses, such as Shaw Carpet, Acme Brick and Benjamin Moore paints, have weighed on the company's profits.
"My guess is that he'll be very optimistic," Matthews says.
Besides those companies, Berkshire owns an eclectic mix of more than 80 subsidiaries, including Geico, General Re, BNSF, NetJets, Dairy Queen and others. Berkshire also holds big investments in companies like the Washington Post Co., Wells Fargo & Co., International Business Machines Corp. and American Express.
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By: Michael Harvey , Category: At The Museum, Date: 18 Dec 2009
Opening in a week - Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 - with added extras...
Each year, we are delighted to be able to present the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition from the Natural History Museum in London. It's always a pleasure to see what comes out of this competition - there's always a great mix of the truly dramatic, the innovative, the moving and the the beautiful. The skills of the photographers and the stories they tell about each shot are both compelling and, of course, we also enjoy arguing about whether or not we agree with the judges.
This year, we are going to try something new and add a small exhibition of our own to the Wildlife Photographer show. Like many museums, we have some highly skilled photographers working here, and photography supports our work in many ways - both in the behind-the-scenes scientific work and in the public arena. So we have put their skills on show too, creating 'My Photo Studio'. This is a space where you can bring your camera, get tips from our experts, and use our studio to make your own photographic masterpieces.
Our web unit has also created a new Flickr group for budding and established wildlife photographers to contribute their photos to. The bonus part of it is that these photos will be displayed on a screen in the Museum for the duration of the WPY exhibition, so fifteen minutes of fame beckons!
The group is at Wildlife Photography with the Australian Museum - if you are a keen photographer, or just have some wildlife pics you'd like to share, then do join the group and add your photos to the pool. And if you've never joined a photo sharing site and would like to, now's your chance! Don't be shy – Flickr is amazingly easy to set up and use. Even if you don't join, take a moment to have a look – we already have a couple of external photographers contributing to the pool - lovely hummingbird photos from New Mexico!
Hope we see you at the exhibitions too - do let us know what you think of the new stuff we've added...