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I need TB results and all clinics are closed and results take 72 hours.
I can't find my car insurance paperwork and I'm on the line with farmers insurance to get a copy
I do have lifescan prints, drivers license, Social security card, college transcripts, and voided check(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3729255&forum_id=2#34191847)
How fucked?(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3729255&forum_id=2#34192180)
why the fuck wouldn't there be a clinic open? places give that test everywhere. i had to get one when i was going to teach last year.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3729255&forum_id=2#34192172)

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Imeem Opens Up Media Platform to Developers
My vote for 2008's new buzz phrase? Open API. It seems like hardly an hour goes by these days that I'm not posting a news item about another recently opened developer platform. While this particular story doesn't revolve around Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo!, the name Imeem has become increasingly more powerful in the past year or so--especially in the last few months, which have seen the music-centric site knock out Bebo for the title of the U.S.'s third most popular social network site, behind MySpace and Facebook.
Early this morning Imeem unveiled a new media platform aimed at developers looking to create their own apps for the social networking site. We spoke with Imeem about the new initiative yesterday, and the company was quick to point out what sets this move apart from the slew of other recent developer platforms we've seen: The site is opening up the exact tools that Immem's own developers use to create tools for the app.
"They're powerful," Dalton Caldwell, the company's founder & CEO told us during a briefing. "We're afraid they're almost too powerful." Pressed as to what exactly he meant by the statement, he added that he wasn't quite sure yet. In the meantime, the service will be reining in the power a touch by limiting apps to Imeem itself, for the time being, while implementing some app monitoring to make sure nothing too malicious gets through the cracks.
The API's features include access to music, videos, and photos available through the site; a fully customizable media player; and access to Imeem's social graph and recommendation engine.
The announcement also includes the launch of a new developers' Web site at http://www.imeem.com/developers, which provides visitors with tools and other resources as well as access to a "sandbox" wherein developers can test new apps.
For the time being, the tools are available to developers only. Imeem has plans to introduce apps created through the API to the larger Imeem community in the near future.


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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mushrooms, boar and blood
It was a dark, dark, dark fall night. The wind was whipping, and garish bright lights festooned the outside of the Cirque d'Hiver, where many children and balloon-holding parents streamed across the rue Amelot, blocking a taxi in which Barbra Austin and I were ensconsed, late for dinner.
One block later, we egressed from the cab and met Todd and Scott outside of the restaurant Repaire de Cartouche, a place as old-fashioned and wood-decked as a country inn in some tale of banditry.
One hour later, the scents of porcini cream steamily filled the air around a large, circular table, upon which an almost-empty bottle of 2005 Villemade Cour-Cheverny "Les Acacias" stood, beading.
Soon after would arrive dishes of game and mushroom; what better fodder to match them with than something redolent of the iron blood of the Mourvèdre grape?
2001 Grange des Pères Vin de Pays de L'Hérault - What a fine thing this was: heavy on the blood, resoundingly echoing the sang that stood amid the flesh of a well-crusted venison steak to my left and the deep, stewed-wine daube to my right. (My own dish of pheasant picked up the ruffles of cabernet, I think.) I love this wine; this is the third vintage of it I've had, and each time, I have marveled and swooned; marveled and swooned. It is long and profound and exciting. It calls you back to it with great presence and is demanding.
The only way to follow up such a powerful wine was to slip into something similarly prepossessing, yet more coy.
2001 Allemand Cornas "Reynard" - The nose was slight, after the previous, with a curiously lactic note. But on the palate, the silky rush of it all was a jolt. It could hold its own after the Grange des Pères, and more. A lush beauty of northern Rhône syrah. It also paired well with the various game dishes, of which bites were being passed, here and there, across and around our table of eight.
We gobbled and drank.
Then there was no more food, plates were being cleared, and the wine was gone. It was time to turn back to the list.
Three of our party had just spent ten days in the southern Rhône, so perhaps it was time for a complete and total paradigm shift.
"Do you like Arbois?" I asked my friend Todd as I looked sharply up over the edge of the wine list.
"I've had vin jaune, but I must admit, it's not my favorite."
"What about a red?" I'd seen something that had sparked my desire.
There was general ignorance as to the reds of the region, so I filled in with enthusiasm. Words came tumbling out of me as I described poulsard, plousard, ploussard, trousseau.... Was I making any sense? My thoughts were on Overnoy. I was trying to convey the essence of Jurassics, but I'm sure clarity ran low. It was a jumble in his mind like a word-salad e-mail, from what I could tell, as I drew to a close.
Nonetheless, we ordered it.
2007 Overnoy/Houillon Arbois Pupillin - The light color of this wine is a jape. It's a quick switch. This wine is a berry blade. It's a sharp flick of the colorful rope. God, I love this wine. It's got intense acidity and lovely aromatics. It is long and fine on the palate.
It was a great way of ushering in dessert, which I forewent for more of it.
And more.
3 comments:
- The Wine Mule said...
If you like 'em muddy and bloody, don't forget Château de la Bonnelière, the Chinon that ends in blood! Marc Plouzeau did a very nice job with this one. We've got some '05 still on hand, that we got through Peter Weygandt, who in his ineffable wisdom requested that it remain unfiltered, for truly superb muddiness.
- October 27, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- Joe said...
Nice work.
It feels like forever since I've been to Cartouche. What a great spot.
- October 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Barbra said...
It was delicious followed by delicious with a little something delicious to finish up. Lucky me. Lucky us.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:43 PM
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OCR also pursues compliance by federal fund recipients by promulgating regulations implementing the civil rights laws, by developing clear policy guidance interpreting those laws, and by broadly disseminating this information to educational institutions, parents, students, and others. Effective civil rights enforcement in education requires that educational institutions understand the legal and regulatory requirements and that students, parents, and other members of the public understand their rights. To meet these goals, OCR issues guidance in many different media, including through the Internet, and updates and augments that guidance regularly to ensure that OCR guidance reflects current developments in civil rights law and educational practice.
Race-Neutral Alternatives
In the 2003 University of Michigan decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court held that diversity may be a compelling interest and institutions must undertake "serious good faith consideration of workable race-neutral alternatives" before using racial preferences to achieve student body diversity. In FY 2003, OCR began an initiative to provide technical assistance and public education regarding race-neutral approaches to achieving student body diversity.
OCR's continuation of this initiative seeks to foster innovative thinking about using race-neutral means to produce diversity in educational institutions and to help create a positive climate in which such race-neutral alternatives can be considered. OCR released a report entitled "Achieving Diversity: Race-Neutral Alternatives in American Education" on March 26, 2004. The report, a revised and expanded version of OCR's 2003 report, "Race-Neutral Alternatives in Postsecondary Education: Innovative Approaches to Diversity," catalogs many of the race-neutral approaches that K-12 schools, public and private colleges, and graduate and professional schools are implementing across the country.
For example, the report describes partnerships between colleges and public schools that facilitate mentoring; state partnerships with the College Board to improve educational achievement among students attending low-performing schools; use of socioeconomic criteria for student assignment and university admissions; partnerships between community colleges and traditional research institutions that encourage students to transfer into research institutions; and class-rank plans guaranteeing university admission to high school seniors who graduate within a specified percentage of their class.
Title IX Administrative Requirements
In April 2004, OCR issued a Dear Colleague Letter to the chief state school officers and state and local education agencies to remind them of certain requirements of the Title IX regulations. The regulations require recipients to designate a Title IX coordinator, adopt and disseminate a nondiscrimination policy, and implement grievance procedures to address complaints of discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities. A similar letter was issued in August 2004 to postsecondary institutions.
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OCR issued a Dear Colleague Letter in September 2004 to local education agencies and postsecondary institutions clarifying the rights of all students, including students of faith, to be free from race, national origin, and sex discrimination in cases where such discrimination may be commingled with religious discrimination. The letter makes clear that, although OCR does not have jurisdiction over religious discrimination, OCR will exercise its jurisdiction to enforce the Title VI prohibition against national origin discrimination, regardless of whether the groups targeted for discrimination also exhibit religious characteristics. Thus, for example, OCR aggressively investigates alleged race or ethnic harassment against Arab Muslim, Sikh and Jewish students.
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Jose Fernandez had a team rookie record 13 strikeouts in a pitching duel with Gerrit Cole, and the Miami Marlins beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Sunday.
Fernandez (7-5) allowed five hits and two runs in eight innings. The 20-year-old All-Star right-hander walked none and threw 97 pitches, 74 for strikes.
Cole (5-4) was nearly as good. The rookie allowed three runs and struck out eight in seven innings, but Giancarlo Stanton put the Marlins ahead to stay in the sixth with his 13th home run.
Stanton also doubled, walked and scored twice for the Marlins, who had six hits.
Steve Cishek gave up a single and a walk in the ninth, but retired Garrett Jones on a grounder for the final out to earn his 22nd save in 24 chances.


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OK so first Off I go to the fye store figuring, I should purchase some music instead of just listen on youtube, so I get to FYE and first off they don't even have what I want in stock. Whatever I was down to buy some music, so I purchased a cd on focus a educational cd (which I could have listened to for free any day on youtube for free!) after buying the CD the music gave me a headache, didn't make me focus, made me upset. So 2 days later I went back to FYE to do either in store credit or money back I still had the receipt, know what they said "I'm sorry due to a copyright law you can only buy back" FOR A DOLLAR! or 1.25 in store credit!
Now apparently this is printed on the receipt, but seriously folks I have a IQ of 138 and I don't make it a point to read the DECENT FULL receipt after my purchase to make sure I'm not getting screwed over. I feel gyped and NOW I KNOW WHY PEOPLE DON't BUY music at FYE. Because if it's crap you CAN'T return it, your stuck with crap! At least when you listen on youtube (which has EVERYTHING!) you don't get stuck with crap. SO if your not familiar with the music at FYE DON'T PURCHASE IT!
Don't take the risk, make 100% sure you are going to love the music before you even think, "oh that's cool maybe I will try it out" guess what! the manager will come out and give you some BS line like read the receipt, and then offer you a BUCK on a brand new 2 day old CD. VERY UPSETTING. From now on I'm going to shop online and do my research before I even risk buying music. If this is a NORM, this is why the CD industry is going down the tube with ** laws like this that if you buy something and want to try out a new artist you never heard of, if he sucks, your stuck with his ** for life!
Oh you can always get 1.25 in store credit and waste like money if you want, to try something out. Sorry FYE and whatever CD company sells cd's, This is the first time I TRIED something and wanted to return it, and this is very dissatisfying and left a very bad taste in my mouth. I dunno about other stuff but anything else you don't like you can take back and say "that crap was a dud I want my money back" but apparently with music YOU CAN'T! what a joke. Artists just want there money and know what I ain't paying anymore Till I've heard EVERY SINGLE SONG on the CD FIRST!
Buyer beware, If you want to support your musicians and buy there music, be sure of what your getting because FYE will stick it to you and then treat you like a piece of dirt and do nothing for you, and then make you feel stupid and read a receipt stating there company policy! SORRY but when I go out to eat I don't even worry about the label saying FOOD MAY GIVE YOU FOOD POISONING, or when I buy sound equipment I don't read the receipt that says "HOPE you like the way it sounds cause you can't return it!" OR when you buy a car "if this breaks down on you your stuck with it!" NO when you go eat if your not happy with it, guess what REFUND!
Sound equipment if it's not exactly what you wanted guess what REFUND!, car that breaks down GUESS WHAT REFUND or REPAIR for FREE!... apparently either FYE or the music industry has no common sense, which is #1 why I won't be shopping at FYE anymore and #2 will NEVER give a artist I don't know a chance! Because right now I'm stuck with music I wouldn't even give away as a gift, I mines as well throw that Want to be music down the trash where it belongs!
BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA -- OK, I have never written a customer complaint on any store in my whole life. I was just so appalled today by the manager in an FYE store in Boynton Beach Mall in Florida. Here is my experience... I have about 30-40 DVD's I do not watch, nor want. I was walking through the mall about a week ago and heard an FYE employee tell a customer they buy back your old DVD's for cash!! I thought this sounded like a great idea, so I went home, packed up all my old DVD's and planned ongoing back to the mall the following weekend to return them for cash!! You know how a little cash here and there can help in times like this...
Today, Sunday, March 1, 2009, I loaded the DVD's in my car and started driving towards the mall. I figured I'd better give the store a call to make sure they still were buying back used DVD's. I didn't want to get all the way there and be turned around.
A manager picked up the phone and when I asked him, his response was exactly "YES, we sure do!" re: buying back DVD's. I said, "Great, I'll be there in about 10 mins. I get to the store 10 minutes later lugging a duffel bag of DVD's. I approach the front counter where a male employee asks if he can help me. I said, "Hi, I have some DVD's I'm hoping you can look through so you can buy them back." His response...."No, we just bought back a few video games and we have no more money left".
I said, well sir, I JUST called here 10 minutes ago to MAKE SURE, beforehand, that you would buy back my DVD's. I drove all the way here, and lugged this huge bag of DVD's through the mall because someone told me on the phone that they did buy them back." So he goes to get the manager (the one who answered my phone call). The manager says, "NOPE, just bought some video games and ran out of money. You asked me on the phone if we bought back DVD's, which I replied, We sure do!!, but you never asked on the phone if we had cash to buy them back!!!!"
I was absolutely STUNNED at this managers reply. The manager of a retail store is supposed to EXCEL at customer service and make the customer feel comfortable and take care of their needs to the best of their abilities.
I think this man was very smart with his remarks, also very sarcastic. I finally spoke up, "Sir, I'm sorry I don't know your exact FYE policy, I just called you and you told me you would buy them back...I didn't know I then had to ask if you would for cash." So the man said, come over here and ill give you store credit. I did not want store credit so I politely asked the manager when I should come back, later on in the afternoon? or later on in the week? All I wanted to know is when they would have cash buy backs.
The manager replied. "I don't know. Come back when we have cash." I thought that was so incredibly rude to say to someone instead of apologizing and telling me a better time to come back. I knew that I was going to have to come back, I was not too upset about that fact. I was so upset because the manager, instead of apologizing and telling me a better time to come back, was rude and sarcastic to a customer who never sold back their DVD's before and didn't know the policy.
That man had a very feminine voice and was probably lived a very miserable life. I will never shop at that FYE again. I will tell my family, friends, and employees to make sure they never use the FYE in Boynton Beach Mall
Tomorrow, I am going to the FYE at the Boca Raton mall. I am anxious to see how the employees and manager treat me there. Hopefully, I have a much better experience.
Never get the VIP Backstage Pass. The number they gave me in the packet was wrong and did not allow me to access the online content, then when it told me to try again later it still did not work. So I forget about it for a month and then realize they are charging my account when I didn't even activate the account online, so I decide to cancel it. I call online and they have the guy trying to convince me that it is a bad idea to cancel, I practically have to convince the man that I am serious of this.
Then he cops attitude with me, even though I am saying please and thank you around every bend in attempts to be polite and this guy is acting like I am some moron just because I didn't have my member number on me and made him look me up with my last name and address... big chip in his cup I guess. He ends by giving me this huge reference code that I thought he said (I say I thought because his English was broken and I could barely understand what he was saying half the time) was for me to cancel the account with and before I have anymore questions he hangs up on me.
So I call back asking what am I supposed to do with this number and a lady this time also acts like I am some idiot and says its a reference code for future reference. I am like why would I need this at all, could you give me some examples. She acts like its such a simple concept that she can't even give me a strait answer, just keeps repeating herself, "its for future reference." I don't need to be treated like a retard, its logical that when given a long number like that I would want to know what I might need it for, otherwise I can throw it out.
But no, no explanation. This company is a joke! Not only did they take my money but they didn't even bother to make it look like it wasn't a scam. Such a horrible experience.
KING OF PRUSSIA PLAZA, PENNSYLVANIA -- Today I went to FYE to unload some old CDS and DVDs that I had dug out of my garage. I'm heading overseas shortly, and figured that I'd try to get a few bucks back on them immediately, rather than go through Craig's List or eBay. The FYE I went to was in King of Prussia, PA, the largest mall on the east coast. I went in, and the employee behind the desk didn't greet me. I said, "Could I trade these in?" to which he responded, "No."
Let me make it clear that I can take a joke. His demeanor was such, though, that I thought he may have been serious; at no point afterwards did he laugh, grin, or do anything that would indicate that he was a nice guy. If I hadn't been CERTAIN that FYE accepts trade-ins I would have turned around and walked away. But I stayed, and he began to process the order.
As I'm sure they do with everyone, he proceeded to open each DVD and CD case to check to see if it was damaged. The first one he checked apparently wasn't up to standard, but he didn't tell me that. Instead, he kind of tossed it like a frisbee in my direction, managing to keep it on the counter between us. I still wasn't sure if he was giving it back to me or not--he didn't say anything--but I started to get the message when he put the next CD in a new pile closer to him.
By the end of the transaction, I had a CD and two DVDs in "my" pile, and he had the rest in "his." I think he didn't accept one of the DVDs because it still had a Blockbuster tag on it (I must've forgotten to take it back years ago and didn't notice the label before bringing it in), but that is only speculation, though, since he still wouldn't say anything. I'm also left to presume that he didn't accept my Violent Femmes CD because it was really old, because I know it's still in perfect condition. He didn't tell me. Finally, he asked me if I wanted cash or credit. After I took the cash, he didn't say goodbye or anything. I didn't expect him to, by that point.
With eBay, iTunes, and other ways of buying music, I would THINK that retail stores like this would try to put their best foot forward to try to keep customers. And while I realize that the guy who handled my transaction was only an employee, it would be nice if FYE had an easy way of sending them feedback through their website; yet, that isn't the case. So forget it, FYE. I didn't do much business with you over the past few years because of all the new alternatives to buying music, but today's events have solidified me as a non-consumer for the rest of my life.
BEAVERTON, OREGON -- FYE sells used and new DVDs higher than new DVDs at retail stores. For example, you can buy brand new Disney animation DVDs for 19.99 at most stores, but with FYE, it sells 24 to 40 dollars for used or new ones. I am not talking about Blu-Ray, but DVD! On Saturday, December 12th, I went over to FYE to sell lots of my DVDs. Keep in mind, some DVDs were brand new which I never used for some reason. FYE offered to buy them ranging from 10 cents to dollar. The bottom of this, I only was offered 19 dollars for 38 DVDs for store credit or 15 dollars in cash. I decided to drop this action and deal with Craiglist instead.
I bet that FYE will buy my new HBO OZ boxset (Seasons 1 to 6) for 6 dollars which it will resell at much much higher price. I only used OZ once and is in an excellent condition. In fact, I bought it for 225 dollars two years ago. Ratatouille, a blu ray disc, is selling for 35 dollars at FYE. I can get that for 16 dollars at Costco or 24 dollars at many retail stores. It is just an example for how FYE is ripping off people with higher prices. I am praying that FYE will be going out of the business and encouraging people not to shop there.
ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA -- OK so I bought my daughter an mp3 player at FYE formally known as Wherehouse music yesterday. It was not very expensive only 19.99 but she's only 9 years old and it was intended to be a "starter" for her. To see how she does with it before spending more. Anyway, I get it home and fill it with mp3's and whaddya know it doesn't work! Now I'm not trying to be a know it all or whatever but I know my way around a computer very well. I have an ipod and am very aware of different media formats and the differences between them. So when it says it only plays mp3's and wma formats I know what that means.
This dumb thing would only play about 12 of the 40 songs I put in it. Mind you those same songs played fine on my computer. It wouldn't power on or off correctly either. So I said the heck with this thing I'm taking it back! I figured you get what you pay for is really true in some cases so I would spend a little more and exchange it for a nicer one.
Well, before I even have it out of the bag the guy starts telling me how they won't take electronics back and that I have to send it to the manufacturer for a refund or replacement. I was shocked! First of all why would I even want a replacement? It was junk also I just bought the darn thing YESTERDAY! Actually less than 24 hrs ago! And I was willing to do an exchange and spend MORE MONEY!
He tells me how the policy is written on the receipt and that if I didn't purchase the "extended" warranty on it then they can't take it back. He tells me that I need to "read the receipt to find out what to do". I told him that at the time of purchase I was NOT offered any type of extended warranty and that none of this was mentioned to me at all. If it had been I wouldn't have bought it in the first place. I don't get this at all. This to me is bad business for many reasons.
First if a company sells a product to a customer and that product is defective why should the customer have to suffer further inconvenience by going through the whole process of sending if to the manufacturer and most likely waiting weeks for a refund or replacement? Especially in the case of a gift. My daughter is 9 and she was very disappointed.
In the past you would take it back to the store and they would send it back to the manufacturer themselves. Now they are pushing that responsibility on the customer saying "we don't care if we sold you something that doesn't work talk to the people who made it" It seems the customer is becoming less and less important these days. Companies care more about profits than they do the level of service they are providing to their customers.
I know for a fact that if I bought a pair of name brand shoes at JC Penny say Vans for example and the next day I noticed a hole due to faulty stitching they would not tell me to send them back to Vans for a refund or replacement. It's ludicrous.
Second, it seems to me that in order to make an extra buck the store trys to sell you these extended warranties and will only take electronics back if you have purchased one. Otherwise your forced to send it back to the manufacturer. To me that's crooked. Most of these "extended warranties" have tons of limitations and fine print so you have to really read, read, read them! Third, it sends a huge "we don't give a damn about you" message to the customer that I heard loud and clear today!
Fourth, if this is going to be the policy then it should be posted in BIG LETTERS right next to the products it applies to! I was told to "read the receipt to find the policy" but I had to PURCHASE the item to get the receipt. How ridiculous is that?! If I had been informed before I purchased it that in the instance it's defective I would not be permitted to return it to the store I never would have taken that gamble. In the end the manager took it back and only because I was going to be spending more money. If I would have wanted my money back I would have been out of luck. And my daughter would have been without her new mp3 player.
I am so disgusted. I will never shop there again for electronics. Ever! In fact I don't think that I will even be buying cd's from them either. Walmart is cheaper anyway. Thankfully the new mp3 player works great and my daughter is thrilled with it but I am left feeling very disappointed at what is becoming of the retail world these days. So just FYI ( ha ha lol ) don't buy electronics from FYE unless you are willing to send them back to the manufacturer and wait weeks for a replacement when you open them and they don't work.
RIVER EDGE, NEW JERSEY -- As evp, treasurer and cfo of a major corporation I am sure you would like to know that the employees of your various entities are treating your customers with the highest level of customer service possible. I am writing to you about my experience at your fye store # 572 located at 91 route 4 east in river edge, nj. Just so that you know this is not some imagined experience, the timestamp on the receipt is 4:29 pm et, transaction # 66439, store # 00572, register 001
at 4:15 pm or so my wife and I along with our 8 year old and 8 month old boys walked into your store to buy 2 music dvds to give as a birthday gift to a family member. As does happen from time to time, our oldest needed to use the bathroom. My wife turned kindly to one of your customer service representatives who worked on the floor of your store and asked "is there a rest room he can use?" the woman replied "no, we do not have a bathroom." I was out of earshot from this conversation and my wife told me what had happened.
Obviously being a public store I found this rather difficult to believe, so I went up to the same individual and this is pretty much the conversation I had with her:
me: "hi, I was wondering if my son could use the bathroom, he really needs to go"
her: "no, we have no bathroom here."
me: "wait a minute, you mean to tell me there is no bathroom in this entire store?"
her: "that's right, no bathroom here you can go use the one next door at ethan allan furniture."
me: "ok, that is fine -- but I have one question: if you need to go to the bathroom during the day what do you do?"
her: "we all live nearby so we just go home" (btw, I am not kidding about this -- she actually said this)
me: "ummm, you really expect me to believe that?"
her: "it is not my job to care about what you believe or not - there is no bathroom for you to use"
ok, fine. Obviously I am pissed off at having a conversation with someone who seems to think I have the intelligence of a twig, so I go up to the front register to buy my dvd's. The guy rings me up and next to him is the store manager. So, I ask her the same thing (and keep in mind the woman I had the conversation previously with was about 10 feet away):
me: "look, you cannot tell me there is no bathroom in this store"
manager: "yes, there is a bathroom in the back but it is next to our inventory so as a policy we do not let anyone back there because of the possibility of theft"
me: "oh, so in other words your employee flat out just lied to me"
before another word is spoken, she manages to come toward the desk and interrupts with:
her: "look, this is what we are told to tell people"
me: "so, you are comfortable with just lying to people? All you needed to tell me was the truth and we would have been fine with it"
her: "like I said, there is no bathroom for you to use"
me: "no, what you said was there was no bathroom in the entire store. Why would you lie to me about something so trivial?"
her: "i don't have time to argue with you"
back to the store manager at the front desk
manager: "we do not like to tell people about the bathroom being in back"
me: "why?"
manager: "i really don't know - but I apologize for misleading you"
me: "look, I have no problem with not having a bathroom being available -- I just have a problem with your employee's bs attitude -- and why are you apologizing since it was her (pointing to the woman) who cannot seem to tell me the truth about something as simple as whether there is a bathroom in the store"
it is then that the cashier now chimes in - "you know, we do not have to sell these items to you since you are cursing", to which I replied "really, and what will I ever do with myself if I do not buy these items?" now, I 100% admit to saying the above statement - and I also admit to telling the first woman that lying in front of my children is a wonderful power of example for her to display and that if it were a measuring stick for parenting capabilities that she would be a lock for mother of the year - I guess my frustration was just at a point where I had to say something.
My whole point of contacting you is this - I do not like to be lied to, and I certainly do not like that when my child needs to use the bathroom that he is told he cannot and that we need to go to another store next door to use it. With all of the security and theft prevention in today's society, what exactly did she think we would do back there? I was in shorts and a polo shirt - it is not like I could stuff dvd's in my pants and walk out without being noticed!
i run a division of a mortgage company, and I am appalled at the level of service I received at your company. And just to let you know - aside from never having any reason to go into your store again I wanted to make you aware of the fact that I give out gift certificates each year to clients, employees, etc for various things as a thank you and/or token of appreciation.
Usually this is about 100-150 people at an average of $100 each. I am sure if you do the math you can figure out that this equates to $10,000-$15,000 that will 100% not even come close to being within 20 miles of your store... Ever. I am being kind when I say your employee service levels have a lot of room for improvement.
Signed up for the VIP club but declined repeatedly to get magazines, however, a month later I have to spend over an hour on the phone cancelling the four random magazines they signed me up for. Almost one hundred dollars of product I do not want, and not only did not ask for, I SAID NO. When I tried to complain at the store, I was told by the manager, that since I didn't have my receipt, he wouldn't help me.
TYSONS CORNER, VIRGINIA -- I had a very interesting and disappointing experience, to say the least, at a local FYE store in Tysons Corner Center, FYE# 0100. A friend pre-ordered an XBOX 360 system in Sept 2005, and when time came for FYE to deliver in Holiday Season 2005, they not only failed miserably at providing the system, but also failed to provide clear policies, instructions, and requirement prior to and after the order.
In mid-December, a roller coaster of more confusion and vagueness: store manager was unwilling to cancel the order and/or refund the money, suggesting a $100 should be paid before he can refund the $50 deposit! and insisting on a two (2) game purchase he NEVER mentioned even when specifically asked about it at the time or pre-order.
He then changes his statements about the unit not being available until February 2006 and on the same day promises the system will be available the next week. In the end, on December 16th, the transaction goes completely sour, the arrogant manager gets even more bumptious and bullheaded, finally kicking us out of the store when he couldn't handle a legitimate claim.


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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced that it has pledged to collect the required signatures to implement a citywide ballot measure that will ask voters whether condoms should be required as a condition of getting a permit to film in the city. They must have more than 40,000 signatures by Dec. 23 in order for it to be placed on a June ballot.
This initiative comes almost a year after Derrick Burts, aka Patient Zeta, tested positive for HIV and turned the adult film world on its head. Yet, HIV infections in the porn industry are not a new phenomenon. In 2004, Darren James, who was unaware of his HIV status, unknowingly infected three actresses. Twenty-two performers are reported to have tested positive for HIV since James' diagnosis, including a female performer who tested positive in 2009.
To address the issue, the Los Angeles Times interviewed three major players in this drama: AIDS Healthcare Foundation president Michael Weinstein, Burts and James. In the video below, Burts sets the record straight about where he contracted HIV and talks about why testing for HIV isn't enough to keep porn stars safe -- they need to be required to wear condoms.
Massachusetts' Department of Public Health announced last week that roughly $4.3 million would be cut from the state's annual AIDS prevention budget -- that's almost 25 percent of the state's entire funding. The prevention programs that are rumored to be cut are condom distribution to schools, colleges and health facilities; needle exchange for IV drug users; and education specialists who focus on MSM.
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The CDC is taking money from states like Massachusetts with lower rates of HIV infection to focus its resources in states, including many in the South, with high or increasing rates. New regulations will also significantly restrict the way Massachusetts can spend its federal HIV prevention dollars, a change that will compound the cuts. It will require the state to shift money from community-based programs that aim to prevent further infections to clinic-based HIV testing and programs targeted to people who are already infected.
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Having a stable and transparent policy framework is critical to boosting a country's "investability" from a renewable energy perspective. But how do we measure such stability? Although investors commonly evaluate certain aspects of regulatory and policy risk—such as the likelihood that a government will alter existing regulations or policies that benefit a particular industry or sector—their assessments rarely consider such variables as policy efficiency, the impact of policy instability, and the gap between existing directives and actual implementation.
Worldwatch hopes to shed some light on these and other policy measurements through its new Renewable Energy Indicators Project, currently being developed in partnership with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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Policy instability is a particular threat to the U.S. wind energy market, which has experienced remarkable growth in recent decades. In 2011, the United States accounted for 17 percent of global wind power capacity additions, second only to China at 43 percent. According to figures from Navigant Consulting, China's share of the global wind market actually declined in 2011, whereas the U.S. share increased substantially—thanks in large part to the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC).
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Expiration dates, also known as "sunsets," are a common component of tax legislation. The wind PTC is renewed for periods of only 1–3 years at a time, which is often shorter than the typical 3–7 year development cycle of a wind farm. The PTC has been extended four times to date and has been allowed to sunset three times since it was implemented. Impending sunsets and last-minute extensions wreak havoc on the wind power market by interrupting both short-term projects and long-term industry planning. The continuous threat of expiration and uncertainty of extension threatens access to finance, shattering market confidence and impeding growth as a whole.
The fallout from the impending PTC sunset has already begun. Citing the soft market resulting from the uncertain future of the PTC, Vestas Wind Systems, the world's largest wind turbine manufacturer, announced this week that it would be cutting 20 percent of the workforce at its Pueblo, Colorado, facility. In light of this, there has been a bipartisan push for a two-year extension of the wind PTC through the introduction of the American Energy and Job Promotion Act. In March, the U.S. Senate rejected an effort to pass a one-year extension to the PTC. Many senators from wind-rich states such as Iowa, Colorado, Oregon, and Massachusetts claim that letting the PTC sunset will cost their states thousands of jobs.
According to a new report from the Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. wind power capacity reached 47,000 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2011 and has since grown to 50,000 MW, or enough to power 13 million homes annually. Six states now meet more than 10 percent of their total electricity needs with wind power, and the wind industry accounts for more than 75,000 American jobs. The United States generated 27 percent more electricity from wind in 2011 than in 2010, with financing for approximately 4,000 MW of new capacity attributed to the PTC.
According to the DOE report, the sharp drops in added wind capacity in the three years when the PTC lapsed—2000, 2002, and 2004—indicate the importance of the PTC to the U.S. wind industry. In these years, capacity declined by 93 percent, 73 percent, and 77 percent, respectively (see graph). The AWEA predicts that 37,000 jobs could be lost if the tax credit is not extended. This type of boom-bust cycle illustrates how regulatory and policy uncertainty create barriers to renewable energy investments both in the United States and around the world.
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Currently, there is no concrete set of metrics to measure holistic progress in the development and deployment of renewable energy. And no framework exists for measuring how the development of renewables contributes to national priorities or development goals. By developing such a framework, Worldwatch's indicators project hopes to serve as a valuable tool in both promoting renewable energy technologies as well as monitoring, tracking, and assessing individual country progress toward renewable energy targets. The aim of this ambitious project is to offer policymakers the insight and information they need to create effective and adaptive long-term energy policy, which is critical to the development of not just wind power, but all renewable energy technologies.
Although the introduction of a set of renewable energy indicators will bridge a large information gap and is an important step toward making better policy decisions, it cannot, by itself, create the political will needed to move renewable energy development forward in the increasingly politicized arena of national energy policy. However, greater transparency about the true cost of energy and what types of policies are most effective in promoting cost-efficient and sustainable energy options, coupled with more information on the social and environmental benefits that inevitably accompany cleaner energy, can undoubtedly serve as catalysts in developing the type of political will needed to initiate a systemic overhaul of our current energy system.
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"At its most provocative, art blurs the distinction between real objects and artist's mimetic creation. Naomi Siegmann's vivid wood sculptures of Mexican Indian clothing challenge our assumptions of what defines art. Having lived for more than 30 years in Mexico, Siegmann undoubtedly was influenced by the carved furniture and architectural details that have been part of the culture since the Aztecs. "Clothesline" recalls Claes Oldenburg's playful vinyl shirts from the 1960s. A life-size patch-covered smock hangs from pins on a clothesline, seeming to lift and sway in the breeze. Although it is carved in white cedar, it billows as if it were made of cotton. The sculpture disconcerts the viewer because it is, like an Oldenburg, an everyday object that has been re-created as art..." " Siegmann's sculptures could be judged solely on the basis of her refined craftsmanship and her original use of materials. However, what these haunting works really speak to is the ambiguous line separating reality from art."
- Mary Schneider Enriquez Art News
Having lived most of my adult life in Mexico City, I have come to believe that the close proximity of pre-Hispanic art and archeological ruins, wonderful colors and warm sense of being have greatly stimulated and enhanced my creative spirit.
I am now working in iron, wood and bronze using the same imagery , taking the "real" object out of context, challenging the perception of the viewer to see this work differently, from another viewpoint.
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I'm contemplating buying a Hennessy Hammock. I'm looking to purchase only one hammock to be used for 4 seasons. I live Michigan and do limited winter hanging. Thanks all.
I'm contemplating buying a Hennessy Hammock. I'm looking to purchase only one hammock to be used for 4 seasons. I live Michigan and do limited winter hanging. Thanks all.
The hammock is not the issue in terms of 4 season use. Pretty much any hammock can be used year round. What changes are bigger tarp for weather protection and armer top and under insulation.
Don't let life get in the way of living.
The hammock is not the issue in terms of 4 season use. Pretty much any hammock can be used year round. What changes are bigger tarp for weather protection and warmer top and under insulation.
Don't let life get in the way of living.
My coldest hang was in a HH (-17F) and the only issue I ever had was untying the HH rope suspension. Tight, icy rope plus cold fingers equals difficult break down. Add whoopies or straps and that issue is quickly overcome.
As mentioned above, the hammock is not primarily the issue, BUT, the HH Deep Jungle is a double layer that comes with a relectix insulating pad, which can be a very big help.
There was a suggestion in the Hennessy website that recommended another hammock other than the Jungle as a 4 season hammock. Just wondering if that was just marketing or not.
I hadn't seen that, but I was just making the sugestion that it, or any other double layer hammock, would be a good start.
One of the beautiful things about a hammock is that it is a modular sleep/shelter system---adaptable to almost any forecast conditions. With the proper selection of a variety of components, one can use the same hammock to camp in the jungles of deepest, darkest Africa to the arctic conditions of deepest, darkest Canada.
A double layer offers protection against mosquitoes biting through the fabric, while also allowing the insertion of an insulating pad. But its the under and top quilts, along with tarps or socks that will allow the hammock to be used in the coldest conditions.
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I used my HHDJ XL down in the 20's with HG UQ &TQ and I was toasty warm. I also love it in the summer, but when it gets really hot, I just sleep in the air conditioning.
"No whining in the woods"
If so, the HHSS isn't a seperate hammock, but instead it is additional gear intended to provide additional weather protection/insulation to use during cold weather...in addition to your HH hammock.
It's comprised of an undercover, which is basically a nylon shell that fits up underneath the hammock like a second layer...an underpad, which is thin open cell foam pad which fits inside the undercover...and an overcover, which is another nylon shell designed to fit on top of your ridgeline/bug netting, preventing heat loss due to wind drafts. Additionally, a 'space blanket' is recommended to sit on top of the underpad, but outside of the hammock itself to act as a reflective vapor barrier.
It's had varying amounts of success, mostly dependent upon the users themselves. I've used it down to 22F with some pretty high winds, and adding in an additional fleece blanket as under insulation on top of the underpad.
I'm just thinking that this is the only thing I've seen referred to as "four season" on the Hennessy website, and so it's probably what you were thinking of as a seperate hammock...which it isn't.
Wolverine, I have spent 2 weekends in the deep of winter in michigan, last weekend and a month ago. I have a henessy hammock and it is the ultralight asym. I did buy the super shelter but ditched the open cell foam pad. Henessy will let you build your hammock so you can choose which parts you want. I do like and use the undercover. Perhaps i should get the over cover but i made a hammock sock. Also until now its been nice to be in the cold with it since I have a hammock gear 0 deg underquilt. The underquilts rule for the cold. Like someone else said any hammock can be used for winter its just how you insulate it that matters.


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Philosophy vs. Conspiracy
By Jerry Salcido
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Published 12/23/09
'Anyone who has worked in support of the liberty movement knows an unfortunate truth: it is all too often associated, rightly or wrongly, with "conspiracy theories" -- those all too often unsubstantiated, speculative viewpoints on various topics such as the assassination of JFK, the attempted assassination of Reagan, 9/11, the role of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds in modern world history, and the current doings of the Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations. The problem is that liberty's enemies are very aware of this association as well and they use it to their advantage. Too often freedom's detractors slander the liberty movement as being filled with conspiracy nuts and other wackos.
But you know what? In this regard, the dissidents have a point.
Now before any of you David-Icke-website-readers throw your latest edition of The Committee of 300 at your computer screen out of frustration, please know that I could care less if you believe that the Queen of England is the head of a vast secret organization hell-bent on making the United States English colonies again; or, that the Illuminati has been working for 300 years to reduce all mankind to slavery; or, that the Rothschilds have surreptitiously started every war since 1850 through their financing of national governments. Obviously, what you choose to believe is your prerogative and your right.
I can even admire many of the conspiracy theorists for their zeal in trying to bring to light corruption and some of the important questions they have raised (Why did Tower 7 fall anyway?) which poke holes in the "official" story. But at the end of the day, those same issues, no matter how entertaining or interesting, only become road blocks in furthering liberty, because no one wants to discuss universal healthcare, TARP, the deficit, or the War on Terror with someone who leads the discussion with "9/11 was an inside job" or "JFK was assassinated because he was going to get rid of the Federal Reserve."
More pragmatically, with regards to the furtherance of liberty, conspiracy theories, more often than not, are irrelevant. Most people are not concerned with whether there is a secret organization or two or three, etc. that controls the world's leaders and aims to bring every nation under a one world government. Most people are, however, concerned with their individual liberties and the governmental measures that result in their loss.'
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Cutting Edge vs Killing Edge technology.
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With the advancement of technology, the life of humans has become
better in terms of health, education, agriculture..etc in all
fields. With the rise of machines, lot of development has been
seen in manufacturing industries etc. In a few years there will
be a big impact in the field of artificial intelligence and
medical fields. Once these technologies comes into action, there
will be a major shift in the economy, as no humans can challenge
these machines.
The other side of the issue is, consumers are humans. When the machine workforce increases, the purchase power of the humans comes down. So, in turn the business will be at loss.
Science is a weapon, it is up to us, how it can be used. I believe technology should help to make humans' lives better. It is up to us to control the growth of technology, to ensure the safety of human kind, and prevent our self destruction.
I am not against any technology, just supporting my kind.


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The Middle East Buddy List
Does Hezbollah get along with Egypt? What about Hamas and Iran?
Last month, Hamas militants tunneled into Israel and kidnapped an Israeli soldier. Israel immediately invaded Gaza. Hamas began lobbing rockets into Israel. The Lebanese group Hezbollah kidnapped two more Israelis near the Lebanon-Israel border. Israel responded by carrying out airstrikes against Lebanon. Egypt and Saudi Arabia condemned Hezbollah for instigating the violence. Syria, Iran, and Lebanon called Israel's retaliation an excessive use of force.
Confused? We are too. Slate'sMiddle East Buddy List breaks down the relationships between the countries, terrorist organizations, and political factions who are fighting it out in the current conflict. Who likes whom? Who are the bitterest of enemies? And which groups don't really know where they stand? Click here to open an interactive chart that tells you everything you need to know.
Correction, July 27, 2006: In the chart that accompanies this piece, the description of Hezbollah originally implied that the group has carried out suicide attacks against Israel since becoming a strong political party around the time of Israel's 2000 evacuation from Lebanon. While Israeli officials claim that Hezbollah has funded suicide bombings in recent years, there is no evidence that Hezbollah has carried out suicide attacks itself.


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A scene from the film "Rise of the Guardians," an adventure with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and other mythical beings battling an evil spirit. (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Bunnymund, voiced by Hugh Jackman, left, and North, voiced by Alec Baldwin. (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Director Peter Ramsey's latest animated movie is, "Rise of the Guardians," based on the children's book by author William Joyce, right. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)Link
Jack Frost, voiced by Chris Pine, left, and Tooth, voiced by Isla Fisher in a scene from "Rise of the Guardians." (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
North, a Santa-like guardian voiced by Alec Baldwin, stands between two yeti. (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Sandman eyes his target in DreamWorks Animation's "Rise of the Guardians." (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
The elves are North's loyal helpers. (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Jack Frost (Chris Pine) keeps up with Jamie (Dakota Goyo). (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Jamie (Dakota Goyo) awakens to find The Guardians -- Tooth (Isla Fisher), Jack Frost (Chris Pine), North (Alec Baldwin), Sandman and Bunnymund (Hugh Jackman)-in his bedroom. (Paramount Pictures / DreamWorks Animation)Link
Children's author William Joyce stands with a poster of Santa Claus, or North, who plays a character in his book which has been turned into a movie titled, "Rise of the Guardians." (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)Link
Santa and the Easter Bunny are constantly one-upping each other, the Tooth Fairy feels overworked, Jack Frost is a perpetual adolescent and the Boogeyman is having an identity crisis. These are the workplace dynamics of the childhood characters who populate the new DreamWorks Animation fantasy-adventure film "Rise of the Guardians," which opens Wednesday.
The idea to unite the different folkloric figures in one narrative began more than a decade ago with children's author and illustrator William Joyce, who wanted to write a series of picture books and novels called "The Guardians of Childhood" that told the legends' origin stories much the way that comic books unspool the back stories of Spider-Man and Batman. Joyce was inspired by a question his 6-year-old daughter, Mary Katherine, had asked him — are Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny friends?
With movie studios hungry for films based on recognizable characters, Joyce's idea gained traction in Hollywood, but he had an unusual request — he wanted to make the movie and the books at the same time.
"I didn't want it to be an adaptation," said Joyce, whose 1990 picture book "A Day With Wilbur Robinson" was adapted into Disney's animated 2007 film "Meet the Robinsons." "There's always this weird tug of war between fidelity to a story that already exists and what's good for a movie. I was like, let's just avoid that entirely… ," he explained. "Because then the audience, they don't come in with expectations, they aren't disappointed when you take certain things out. And they don't know what happens, which to me is the most fun part of watching a movie."
Most studios balked at the proposition, according to Joyce, but in 2006, executives at DreamWorks were intrigued enough to begin developing the movie before the author had published a single title in the series.
"Bill had a big idea — why we love and need and support the belief in these mythological characters," said DreamWorks Chief Creative Officer Bill Damaschke. "He so believed in them actually existing. He made them cool."
The unorthodox dual-track development plan, however, meant that at the same time that Joyce was writing and illustrating the books from his home in Shreveport, La., first-time feature director Peter Ramsey and producers Christina Steinberg and Nancy Bernstein were making the movie on the studio lot in Glendale.
All the parties involved said the path from a clever idea to a finished movie was a long and sometimes tortured one. While Joyce's books dive into the individual characters' back stories and how they perform their jobs, that approach involved too much detail and narrative sprawl for a feature-length family movie.
The film is set 300 years after the resolution of the book series, and shows the Guardians working together — a la Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk in "The Avengers" — to protect the world's children from Pitch, a stylized take on the Boogeyman voiced by Jude Law. The Guardians — North, a muscled, tattooed Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin, with a Russian accent); Bunnymund, a cocky, Aussie Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman); Tooth, a hyper-competent hummingbird-inspired Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher); and Sandy, a mute and Buddha-like Sandman, are joined by Jack Frost, a teenage loner with no memory of his human life (Chris Pine).
All of the Guardians' power depends on a simple form of currency — whether children believe in them.
"We knew that we wanted to present these guys as superheroes, that it would be an epic," said Ramsey, who worked as a storyboard artist and illustrator before directing the 2009 TV special "Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space." "Making that story line work and integrating it into the overplot of the guardians versus Pitch, making everybody seem like they needed to be in the movie and that you got what you wanted from them as your childhood favorites without it being hopelessly overburdened and clunky — that was the hard part."
After early attempts at crafting a cohesive story floundered, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who wrote "Rabbit Hole" and the book and lyrics for DreamWorks' "Shrek" musical, came onboard to focus the script.
"As wondrous and fantastical as it might be, nobody watches a movie to see what the Easter Bunny's warren looks like," Lindsay-Abaire said. "My job was to keep the story going. This is a story about a guy who wants to know who he is [Jack Frost], and a story about good vs. evil."
As Lindsay-Abaire wrote from his home in Brooklyn, and artists and designers worked in Glendale, Joyce kept abreast of the project with the help of a giant video screen for teleconferencing from Shreveport.
"Bill was privy to every page," Lindsay-Abaire said. "Do you like this? Does it contradict anything you'll be doing? Anything you're planning on doing? But he let it be its own thing."
It's unusual for an author to have that level of involvement in a film based on his work, but Joyce enjoys artistic clout both in publishing and Hollywood. His early children's books, such as "George Shrinks" and "Dinosaur Bob and His Adventures With the Family Lazardo," won ardent fans among critics and parents of young children for their colorful, witty illustrations.
He has also worked steadily on TV and film projects since the 1990s, creating the Emmy Award-winning "Rolie Polie Olie" animated TV series, contributing concept artwork on the first "Toy Story" and directing this year's Oscar winner for animated short film, "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore."
Plenty of other strong figures weighed in too — cinematographer Roger Deakins served as a visual consultant, Guillermo del Toro as executive producer.
The visual style of the film is inspired by Joyce's original concept art but not slavish to it. And the style varies wildly between the different characters' worlds — Pitch's black, nightmare realm looks like a shadowy, German Expressionist film, while the Tooth Fairy resides in a cheery land of lavenders and turquoises.
"We knew the designs for the movie needed to be different from the books, because the world Bill is working in is a world of literary tradition," Del Toro said. "We wanted the movie to feel like an adventure. Bill's books function in a different key than the movie. The movie takes a very heart-on-your-sleeve take."
Amid the chatter of many creative voices, there was one through line, according to Ramsey — the notion of taking Santa and Co. seriously. "When you're a kid you actually do believe in these guys," he said. "Everybody felt good about that core concept. And that helped, having something that secure."
While the project was underway, Joyce suffered tragedy — in 2010, Mary Katherine, whose curiosity years ago about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny had helped inspire the "Guardians" project — died of a brain tumor at age 18.
Last fall, Joyce published the first of his "Guardians of Childhood" books — a picture book about the Man in the Moon from Atheneum Books, a children's book imprint of Simon & Schuster. Publisher's Weekly called the "Man in the Moon" book "warm and fuzzy, swashbuckling, and dazzlingly inventive all at the same time," and it landed on the New York Times children's book bestseller list. Stories of Santa, Jack Frost, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy have followed, packaged in promotional wrappers that read, "Read it before you see it! In theaters 11-21-12." Eight more books are planned.
"Sometimes [the filmmakers] took leaps I did not expect, and sometimes they took leaps I did not initially agree with, but I trusted these guys," Joyce said. "All along we said, we're dealing with people we believed in when we were kids. We've gotta get this right."
— Rebecca Keegan
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My interests are (in order) Reading, computers, viral research (computer virus research, that is) as well as martial arts and general outdoor hunting (as if there are any indoor hunting <g>), camping and hiking.
I am somewhat familiar with the older virus infections that would hit a DOS or Windows machine, but am trying to brush up on my knowledge with the newer virus/trojans/hostile codes. I used to own a computer virus research business in NC until I moved to PA, so I am a bit behind the times now.
I currently hold a collection of computer virii that I culled from machines and programs of people I helped, most of the virii being either the more common ones as well as variants of them.
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Checking in on… the Big SkyPosted by jstevrtc on December 27th, 2009
Glenn Junkert of GrizzlyJournal.com is the RTC correspondent for the Big Sky Conference.
(Records are ALL/CONF/STREAK)
- Northern Colorado (10-3/1-1/W1) Bears are for real, and will head into conference play as odds-on favorites.
- Montana (10-4/1-1/W4) Frosh guard Will Cherry giving Griz a quickness charge at both ends of court.
- Montana State (7-5/2-0/L1) Balanced scoring from four starters gives senior point guard Will Bynum offensive options.
- Weber State (7-6/1-0/L1) Super soph Damian Lillard (19.1 PPG) has led Wildcats in scoring in nine of 13 games.
- Sacramento State (6-7/1-1/W2) Hornets equal '09 conference win total in first conference match, a 64-63 victory over Idaho State.
- Portland State (5-7/1-0/L3) High octane Vikings scoring at 79-point per game clip… but giving up 81.7 PPG.
- Northern Arizona (4-7/0-2/L1) Forget the record. Coach Mike Adras appears to have Jacks ready for January conference play.
- Eastern Washington (4-9/0-1/L4) In search starting-quint chemistry, coach Earlywine distributes ample playing time to 10 players.
- Idaho State (2-10/0-1/L6) JC newcomer 6'0 Broderick Gilchrest providing Bengals much-needed scoring boost heading into conference play (14.8 PPG).
Northern Colorado and Montana remain the only Big Sky teams to earn Mid Major Poll recognition this season. The Bears slipped one notch from last week to 23rd (87 points), while Montana nearly tripled its vote total (22), still not enough for an actual top 25 ranking. Of more significance, perhaps, is the Big Sky Conference's improved record against Division 1 opponents. Facing a tough composite pre-season schedule against D1 competition, the Big Sky has fared well, subsequently boosting its rating against comparable mid-major conferences, and recently stepping ahead of the Big West to 17th in the USA Today Sagarin conference ratings.
HOT — The Montana State Bobcats — a pre-season pick as one of the favorites in the Big Sky — turned a 2-3 November record topsy turvy with a workmanlike 5-2 December record that included two homecourt wins in early league play and a creditable last-second 58-56 loss to Boise State in Boise. The Cats are getting remarkable balance from starters Bobby Howard (13.3 PPG), Marquis Navarre (11.6 PPG), Erik Rush (13 PPG), and Branden Johnson (10.3 PPG), while limiting opponents to 66 PPG.
NOT — The Eastern Washington Eagles (4-9) — losers of four-straight games heading into conference play — are showing signs as potential dubious owners of the Big Sky's cellar door key. Kirk Earlywine's Eagles lost a last-shot nail-biter to a tough 8-5 Nevada Wolfpack squad (73-30) before absorbing a 91-34 lashing from BYU that apparently damaged morale, as the Eagles' promptly lost games against two sub-.500 opponents, Chicago State (4-7) and previously winless Jackson State (1-10). After the demoralizing loss to BYU, Earlywine said, "For the life of me, I can't figure out what happened to our team."
We've mentioned Idaho State's brutal non-conference schedule earlier in this report, but it bears repeating in light of the Bengals' 2-10 record with one non-conference game left before conference play resumes. At what point does a challenging pre-season schedule become demoralizing for players? And how does the endless road schedule affect their fans? The Bengals spent most of December on the road (10 games), eking out a lone road win against UMKC (68-65). One of those losses was their only conference match, a 64-63 setback at Sacramento State, while their only home game against a major college foe resulted in a 79-67 loss to Boise State. But the Bengals played tough through most of those losses. It'll be interesting to see if the schedule makes the Bengals improved enough to be the Big Sky contender several pre-season publications predicted.
- Northern Colorado's plus-3.23 TPG turnover margin is the best Big Sky mark by a significant margin, far better than second place Montana's plus-1.29 margin.
- Montana's limiting all opponents to an impressive 57.6 PPG, an impressive 10 PPG better than second place Northern Colorado. The Grizzlies back up that mark with a league best defensive field goal percentage average of .401.
- Weber State soph guard Damian Lilliard's 19.1 PPG average is a Big Sky best, while ISU guard-forward Demetrius Moore's 8.3 per game rebounding mark leads the league. Portland State's Dominic Waters' 5.0 per game assist average is a full assist per game better than second place.


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Dorothy J. McIntosh
Feb. 14, 1925 - Jan. 15, 2013
Dorothy J. McIntosh, 87, died peacefully at the Meadowood
Nursing Home in Stockton, CA on January 15, 2013. Cause of death was pneumonia. She leaves two daughters, Valerie Smith (Dennis) of Stockton and Katherine Carr (Gary) of Clayton, CA, one grandson, David Frey (Jame') of Dallas, TX, and four great-grandchildren. She is predeceased by her ex-husband, Sam McIntosh, of
Dorothy was born on Feb. 14, 1925 in Denver, CO, the daughter of Carl McCalister and Eva Reidel McCalister. She is predeceased by her sister Cathleen Voorheis of Littleton, CO and survived by sister Ida Vogler of Denver.
Dorothy was a long-time medical assistant at the ophthalmology clinic at the Gates Rubber Company in Denver. She retired in 1983 and moved to Stockton. She took great delight in the careers and families of her daughters and grandson David. She loved visiting with her great-grandchildren from Texas.
Dorothy led elaborate Christmas celebrations in her home and loved tending her roses, playing card games with her kids, and watching NCAA "March Madness."
At her request, no formal services are planned. In lieu of flowers, donations in Dorothy's name may be made to Canine Companions for Independence, www.cci.org, or the Jimmy V Foundation for cancer research, www.jimmyv.org.


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2 Killed, 4 Injured In Wrong Way Crash
HENNING (AP) - Two people are dead and four others are seriously injured in a head-on crash in Otter Tail County.
The Minnesota State Patrol says the driver of a car was traveling southbound in the northbound lane of a roadway near Henning Wednesday night. The car struck an SUV head-on.
Two people in the car were killed - the 34-year-old driver and a 26-year-old passenger, both from Deer Creek. Two children in the car, ages 5 and 8, were seriously injured.
Two people from Henning in the SUV also have serious injuries.