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Apples, Alpacas & Otters
Apples, Alpacas & Otters • "We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love of this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children's memories, the adventures we've had together in nature will always exist." ~ Richard Louv, "Last Child in the Woods"
Disconnect to reconnect, spend four days and three nights creating memorable moments with those who matter most, your family, your children. Head out to explore Apple Hill Farm, The Orchard at Altapass, Grandfather Mountain Wildlife Habitat, & The Blue Ridge Parkway. See detailed descriptions on these attractions below.
Designed for couples and family groups of up to 6 persons, this one price all inclusive special package offer includes: lodging for your group of 2-6 in Uncle Earl's Haven or Mam's Refuge; one lunch and one dinner for your group at the restaurant Over Yonder, includes all non-alcoholic beverages for these meals; tickets and admissions fees to Apple Hill Farm, The Orchard at Altapass, and Grandfather Mountain Wildlife Habitat, and includes all occupancy, sales, meal, county, and state taxes. Uncle Earl's Haven & Mam's Refuge are new and luxurious all wood two story log cabin homes built in 2011, with over 1200 square feet, plus an outdoor deck overlooking the woods. They are each small homes about the size of a Swiss chalet. And… are also included in this package both of the books below; Last Child in the Woods, & The Nature Principle, by Richard Louv which we will mail to your home within five days of your reservation confirmation. See package pricing below, and availability, conditions, terms at the bottom of this page. • Request more information or reserve now by clicking here.
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For Two Persons • $1,134
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For Six Persons • $1,802
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Includes all occupancy, sales, meal, county, and state taxes.
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For Four Persons • $1,618
For Five Persons • $1,785
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MORE ABOUT THE MAST FARM INN • The Mast Farm Inn, a Historic Hotels of America® boutique hotel, and a Select Registry® Inn, is situated in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. Valle Crucis is pronounced Valley-Crew-Sis and in Latin means Valley Of The Cross, so named for the rivers and streams which cross our valley. We are on the Watauga River in a beautiful mountain valley a little under a mile long, by about a quarter mile wide, surrounded by mountains, forests, rivers and streams, and our population is eight hundred. Our location, history, geography, climate, and authentically friendly people, all contribute to making it quite simply a treasure… a natural sanctuary & haven of peaceful calm. It is a great place to live, and a great place to spend a few precious days.
"We are not just in the sticks… we are in the twigs!"
That is partially true. First and foremost, we speak of altogether mighty nifty twigs. And while you have the impression you stepped back in time, and are in the middle of rural nowhere, in fact some of the most vital, diverse and attractive small mountain villages in the United States are within 10 miles, as is the Blue Ridge Parkway, the second most visited National Park in America. This is a place to enjoy numerous activities and adventures, to get back to nature and the great outdoors, to broaden your horizons and knowledge, to build, rebuild or strengthen relationships, to be carefree, to challenge yourself by trying something new, a place where couples and families come to create memories, to develop and enhance perspective.
Apple Hill Farm • Apple Hill Farm started in 2002 with 2 pregnant female alpacas and one young male alpaca. We are now home alpacas, angora goats, llamas, horses, donkeys, ponies, chickens, dogs, cats and Mr. Pickles the mini pig! We are still a working alpaca farm, but we have opened our gates to the public and are now focusing on agritourism as our main focus. Our passion is creating an environment where our guests can develop a new and deeper connection with animals and the beautiful mountain we call home. Every animal on the farm and every crop in the garden is grown and maintained with a specific purpose. Everyone has an important role at Apple Hill Farm – you included! We offer walking tours of the farm year round for individuals, families, and groups.
MORE ABOUT APPLE HILL FARM • Agricultural Tourism bridges the relationship between the consumer and the farm community by bringing tourism to the farm. We live in a time where we can walk into a grocery store and buy meat, produce and already prepared food items without needing to know anything about where the food came from. But we also live in a time where more and more people desire to learn about the process of how the food is grown and how the animals are raised. At Apple Hill Farm, our primary focus is raising our animals and enabling our guests to connect with them. We have a lot of stories to tell about the animals, their personalities and the funny things that happen on a farm. How we run the farm, the fencing systems, and the care and feeding of the animals are interesting topics that not only bring awareness back to the land but become lessons for life. • WebSite | FaceBook| Twitter | Google+ | InstaGram | Location | More Information
The Orchard at Altapass • Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge atop the Eastern Continental Divide, the Orchard occupies a unique spot in both America's landscape and history. Geography has been a key to the Orchard's story on both counts. Occupying a commanding location above two important watersheds – the North Toe River, which eventually reaches the Gulf of Mexico, and the North Fork of the Catwaba, which finds its way to the Atlantic – the Orchard has been a vital travel route since our continent's earliest settlers began exploring these mountains. Buffalo and elk traversed here, followed by the Cherokee Indians and eventually European settlers.
MORE ABOUT THE ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS • The arrival of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the 1930s was yet another key chapter in the Orchard's history dictated by geography. The route following the ancient buffalo trails promised a tourism boom, but it also split the Orchard in half, sparking a bitter court fight that eventually reached the NC Supreme Court. The road builders won the battle and the Orchard lost its momentum as an agricultural enterprise. Local residents despaired as its prosperity and jobs waned. Many feared the land's spectacular views would fall prey to real estate developers, but the current owners forestalled that by purchasing the property in the 1990s. They sold the upper half of the acreage to the Conservation Trust for North Carolina and on the lower half established a nonprofit Appalachian cultural and history center – while maintaining the operation of the apple orchard – that is dedicated to keeping this unique history alive. • WebSite | FaceBook| Twitter | InstaGram | Pinterest | Location | More Information
Grandfather Mountain Wildlife Habitat • Take a walk on Grandfather Mountain, and you're likely to spot squirrels, songbirds and other forest animals. But what about the more elusive wildlife? It only takes a visit to our seven environmental habitats to see cougars, white-tailed deer, black bears, bald eagles and river otters. Observing these animals up close in their native settings, it's easy to imagine what it would be like to come face-to-face in the wild.
MORE ABOUT GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE HABITAT • Environmental habitats are large enclosures that allow visitors to see animals in natural settings. Unlike the exhibits found in city zoos that bring in plants and boulders to recreate an appropriate setting, these enclosures were built around the animals' actual native habitat. Viewing areas give visitors an up-close perspective of the animals as they live in the wild. Separated from the animals by moats or elevated above the habitats on large retaining walls, these viewing areas allow you to stand only a few feet away from animals you probably wouldn't see in your everyday life. A special aquarium-like viewing area allows you to enjoy watching the playful otters above or below the water. • WebSite | FaceBook | Twitter | Google+ | InstaGram | Pinterest |Location | More Information
The Blue Ridge Parkway • The Shull's Mill entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway is located 15 minutes from The Inn. A Blue Ridge Parkway experience is unlike any other, a slow-paced and relaxing drive, as well as numerous hiking trails, revealing stunning long-range vistas and close-up views of the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands.
MORE ABOUT THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY • The Blue Ridge Parkway is America's most visited National Park unit and is known as "America's favorite drive." Its 469 miles connect the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Along the way, the Blue Ridge Parkway offers stunning views of the Blue Ridge mountains, forests, and pastoral landscapes, with abundant hiking trails, picnic areas, and interpretive signage. • WebSite | FaceBook| Twitter | Google+ | InstaGram | Pinterest | Location | More Information
"The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need." ~ RICHARD LOUV
In his bestselling book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv sparked a national debate that spawned an international movement to reconnect kids and nature. He coined the term nature-deficit disorder; influenced national policy; and helped inspire campaigns in over eighty cities, states, and provinces throughout North America. In The Nature Principle, Louv delivers another powerful call to action—this time for adults.
MORE ABOUT RICHARD LOUV • Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books, including Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder and The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age. His books have been translated into 13 languages and published in 17 countries, and helped launch an international movement to connect children and their families to nature. He is co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Children & Nature Network, an organization helping build the international movement to connect people and communities to the natural world. With artist Robert Bateman, he serves as honorary co-chair of Canada's Child in Nature Alliance. His most recent book, "The Nature Principle," is a 2012 Nautilus Award Gold Winner. Married to Kathy Frederick Louv, he is the father of two young men, Jason and Matthew. He would rather hike than write. • WebSite | FaceBook | Twitter | Google+ | Pinterest | More Information
Characteristics, Features, Benefits, & Advantages • Designed for couples and family groups of up to 6 persons, this one price all inclusive special package offer includes: lodging for your group of 2-6 in Uncle Earl's Haven or Mam's Refuge; one lunch and one dinner for your group at the restaurant Over Yonder; tickets and admissions fees to Apple Hill Farm, The Orchard at Altapass, and Grandfather Mountain Wildlife Habitat, both books, and Includes all sales, occupancy, meal, county, and state taxes.
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Make Your Own History at The Mast Farm Inn
Historic Farmhouse, Cottage & Cabin Lodging, Invigorating Retreats & Workshops, Memorable Elopements, Weddings & Honeymoons • The Mast Farm Inn is an award-winning Historic Hotels of America® boutique hotel, and Select Registry® country inn, specializing in historic lodging, weddings, elopements, honeymoons, retreats and workshops, in Historic Valle Crucis, North Carolina. The Mast Farm Inn is on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the entire historic district of Valle Crucis in which it is located; a world-renowned rural mountain village, in the western North Carolina Blue Ridge Parkway mountains.


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"RE Theory Meets Software Practice: Lessons from the Software Development Trenches", 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, New Delhi, India, pp. 265-268, 2007. Heitmeyer etal2007.pdf (521.34 KB)
"Extended Abstract: Formal Verification of Architectural Patterns in Support of Dependable Distributed Systems", Third ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (MEMOCODE'05), Verona, Italy, 2005. JeffordsBharadwaj2005.pdf (59.54 KB)
"Tools for constructing requirements specifications: The SCR toolset at the age of ten", International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 19-35, 2005. Heitmeyer etal2005.pdf (774.15 KB)
"An Extended Framework for the Validation and Verification of Situation-Aware Middleware Architectures", Proceedings Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW 2003), Manhattan Beach, California, 2003. Kim etal2003.pdf (52.47 KB)
"A Framework for the Formal Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems", Formal Approaches to Multi-Agent Systems (FAMAS), affiliated with ETAPS 2003, Warsaw, Poland, 2003. Bharadwaj2003c.pdf (228.44 KB)
"How to Fake a Rational Design Process using the SCR Method", Software Engineering for High Assurance Systems (SEHAS 2003), Portland, Oregon, 2003. Bharadwaj2003b.pdf (75.62 KB)
"Secure Middleware for Situation-Aware Naval C2 and Combat Systems", 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Comput ing Systems (FTDCS 2003), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2003. Bharadwaj2003.pdf (169.53 KB)
"Verifiable Middleware for Secure Agent Interoperability", 2nd Goddard IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, Greenbelt, Maryland, 2003. Bharadwaj2003d.pdf (183.81 KB)
"Formal Analysis of Domain Models", International Workshop on Requirements for High Assurance Systems (RHAS'02), Essen, Germany, 2002. Bharadwaj2002.pdf (200.72 KB)
"An Infrastructure for Secure Interoperability of Agents", Sixth World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, 2002. Bharadwaj etal2002.pdf (32.11 KB)
"SINS: A middleware for autonomous agents and secure code mobility", Second International Workshop on Security of Mobile Multi-Agent Systems (SEMAS-02), First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002), Bologna, Italy, 2002. Bharadwaj2002b.pdf (119.17 KB)
"SOL: A Verifiable Synchronous Language for Reactive Systems", Synchronous Languages, Applications, and Programming (SLAP'02), ETAPS'2002, Grenoble, France, 2002. Bharadwaj2002c.pdf (219.78 KB)
"Applying the SCR Requirements Method to the Light Control Case Study", Journal of Universal Computer Science, 2000. HeitmeyerBharadwaj2000.pdf (363.13 KB)
"Developing High Assurance Avionics Systems with the SCR Requirements Method", 19th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2000. BharadwajHeitmeyer2000.pdf (71.48 KB)
"Salsa: Combining Constraint Solvers with BDDs for Automatic Invariant Checking", Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS 2000): Springer, 2000. BharadwajSims2000.pdf (265.25 KB)
"Model Checking Complete Requirements Specifications Using Abstraction", Automated Software Engineering, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 37-68, 1999. BharadwajHeitmeyer1999.pdf (171.03 KB)
"SCR*: A Toolset for Specifying and Analyzing Software Requirements", Computer-Aided Verification, 10th Ann. Conf. (CAV'98), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1998. Heitmeyer etal1998.pdf (154.77 KB)
"Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 24, issue 11, 1998. Heitmeyer etal1998b.pdf (897.72 KB)
"Applying the SCR Requirements Method to a Simple Autopilot", Fourth NASA Langley Formal Methods Workshop, Hampton, Virginia, 1997. BharadwajHeitmeyer1997b.pdf (289.85 KB)
"Verifying SCR Requirements Specifications using State Exploration", First ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Software, Paris, France, 1997. BharadwajHeitmeyer1997.pdf (248.61 KB)

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219 Design necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
219 Design (http://www.219design.com)
A few notes:
>> Some competitors to check out:
>> Feel free to play with color - it would be nice to feature the red, but it doesn't need to dominate.
>> Hey guys, thanks for all the great submissions so far. It's great that you guys are building off the feedback that I'm providing, but it would also be really nice to see more diversity in the entries... So feel free to go wild and do something different than what you see already in here.
We're a small, energetic design and engineering consultancy located in the silicon valley. We work on some awesome projects for clients big and small, from BMW, Panasonic, and NASA all the way down to some really clever small startups.
Our services include mechatronics (mechanical engineering + electronics), product design, industrial design, and software development. If someone brings us a product idea, we can make it happen for them whether they just need a prototype, some R&D, or full production.
Our visual identity hasn't kept up with our skills, and we're currently redoing our website, logo, and collateral. We need help coming up with a much needed update for our logo.
Visit our website for a bit more info (http://www.219design.com)
Our clients include big companies like BMW, Panasonic, NASA, VW as well as silicon valley startups and a few inventors.
Within those companies we typically work with product development or research and development groups.
The actual people we work for our a mix of engineers, product managers, designers and entrepreneurs.
First check out the attached logo and our website (219design.com).
Our website is going to be completely redone, but it should help you get to know us a little better.
We're looking to update our logo - we want something more professional, clean, contemporary. At the same time, we want to retain some of the essence of our current logo.
The new logo should:
- Include the number 219 in some form.
- Feature a red color similar to the one on the old logo.
- Bonus points if you can incorporate/refer to the parallelogram that frames our current logo.
- We prefer a clean, iconic look. Something that will stand the test of time, and not look cheesy or dated too soon.
- The logo should probably incorporate the word "Design".
- It might be nice for us to be able to easily remove the word "Design" when needed to make a simpler version of the logo.
- We call it "Two One Nine Design", not "Two Nineteen Design". If you can get that across without gimmicks, great. Otherwise, no big deal.
-Our logo will be used on our website, business cards, letterhead, invoices, etc.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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2012: A Bump in the Numbers – From Wal-Mart
By Jeffrey Klineman
A Bump in the Numbers – From Wal-Mart
For those of you who dream nightly about this kind of thing – and yes, the BevNET crew is part of that group, don't you doubt it – we recently got some spectacular news. Symphony IRI Group, the company that provides our awesome brand sales data, has updated its information to include Wal-Mart.
This change in sales data offers us, this issue only, an opportunity to at least infer, by comparing 52-week periods – and acknowledging that they cover two 52-week periods separated by a 28-day month – the overall impact of Wal-Mart sales in many beverage categories. The new information also includes a few other, smaller channels, including military commissaries and what the company calls "select club and dollar retail chains," which can affect some of the results.
It's also worth noting that Symphony IRI is largely chain-focused – it's hard for the organization to pick up many natural, specialty, and other incubation channels where so many smaller beverage companies debut or build share, or the up-and-down-the-street deli, mom-and-pop convenience, foodservice, or other retailers where local brands can build a presence. Whole Foods is included, but extrapolations from the small sample of Whole Foods' 300 or so U.S. stores covered means phenomena growing in a few of that core retailers' stores can escape the survey's notice.
Finally, one area where Symphony IRI has an admitted point of confusion is its occasional inconsistency in rolling various SKUs into brand listings. Thus for some companies, an entire brand family will be listed in sales totals, while for others, SKUs have to be rolled together to give a complete picture. That doesn't change regardless of outlet, however.
Those caveats aside, it's an exciting development: for retailers, distributors, and the brands themselves, the new data set offers the ability to provide a more complete picture of their strength in key mainstream channels. But it also provides us this one-time opportunity to comparatively demonstrate the importance of Wal-Mart as a sales outlet for many leading brands.
Some channels are more strongly affected than others. We see, for example, that 5-Hour Energy sells nearly $200 million in product via Wal-Mart and the other included channels, comprising about 20 percent to its annual sales, and about 20 percent to the category overall. (It should be noted that 5-Hour Energy also has a long history of being popular in military commissaries).
The more diverse nature of the energy drink category leads to less of a bump in Wal-Mart, however: overall sales are about $8.1 billion in the channels that include the superstore, and $7.3 billion without it. Refrigerated juice sales show how much of an influence the company has had on that traditional grocery category, as nearly $1.5 billion more sales are added to that $ 6.5 billion category when Wal-Mart is rolled in – fully 30 percent more than sales without it. Bottled juices increase even more: from $5 billion to $7 billion, with shelf-stable staples like apple juice and cranberry juice accounting for nearly $1 billion in that difference alone.
This leads to some extreme comparisons: almost half of Sunny D's sales appear to come from Wal-Mart (although the addition of dollar stores to the count may play a role with that brand as well), $324 million as opposed to $188 million. Less likely to be found, however, are entrepreneurial brands like Good Belly, or even Coke-owned Odwalla Protein Monster, both of which show roughly equal sales even with the additional channels.
Another big Wal-Mart category is the sports drink, with $5.6 billion in sales including the extra channels, as opposed to $4.3 without them. Both Gatorade and Powerade seem to derive about 17-20 percent of their sales from Wal-Mart and club channels.
The Pepsi/Starbucks partnership also fares well in Wal-Mart and club channels, with Frappuccino sales rising from $587 million to $707 million when those channels are added in, while Doubleshot adds a more modest $26 million to the $286 million it does without the new channels.
The most extreme bump, however, indicates that when Americans are thirsty for bottled water, they head to Wal-Mart: the extra channels add another $3 billion in sales, from $8.3 to $11.3 billion – about 35 percent more than without the megastore. Of course, the typical thinking would be that consumers who are buying bottled water in Wal-Mart would seem to favor value-priced offerings – and they do: Nestle Pure Life, a low-cost brand, sells nearly $1 billion in all channels ($932 million) but less than half of that ($408 million) came from the older Symphony/IRI channels. Another brand that is fully taking advantage of the channel is Sparkling Ice: the red-hot Talking Rain product is selling more than 1/3 of its product through Wal-Mart and the other new channels: an additional $43 million to a topline of $82 million from the month before. Of course, with Sparkling Ice also accelerating nearly 400 percent year-over-year, a month can make a big difference. Still, if you're starting to move a lot of product, and you've got the right price and a big-enough name, Wal-Mart truly is your one-stop shop… for volume.
In the pages that follow, we'll use the numbers as a jumping-off point to frame much of what has happened in the industry this year.
Key Innovation Categories
There were several brands that could qualify for "MVTea" this year; Peace Tea, Tradewinds, and AriZona Arnold Palmer lines showed significant growth off healthy initial bases. Gold Peak similarly continued to be a surprisingly strong performer for the Coca-Cola Co., both in large and small formats. By the numbers, it appears to be closing in on $250 million in sales in tracked channels between refrigerated and shelf-stable iterations.
On the organic front, Sweet Leaf and Honest both continued to grow at a healthy clip in mainstream channels, although they remain mired at around $30 million. Their ability to maintain share in independent natural and specialty markets are likely to determine how their acquirers view their investment this year, although both companies have other positives as well. Sweet Leaf is actually being outsold by its stable-mate, Tradewinds, while Honest's Honest Kids and Honest Ade lines are also performing well for the brand.
Smaller tea companies continued to experiment with blends as well; white tea innovator Inko's moved into Red, Green and White varieties, while half-and-half ruled the land, as Honest, Cabana, Hubert's and many, many others signed up for the latest version of Arnie's Army.
With coffee, the category remains the playground of the North American Coffee Partnership, which combines the forces of PepsiCo and Starbuck's into $1 billion worth of product. Coke entry Illy Issimo had a good year – one that likely is undercounted given its growth in smaller accounts supplied by incubating distributor Big Geyser – and so did Marley's One Drop, which has redesigned cans and a new marketing focus behind the charged-up brand.
On the innovation front, a large crop of cold-brewed coffee brands are beginning to appear, including New Beverage Showdown participants Grady's Cold Brew, Gorilla Cold Brew, Stumptown, and many others belonging to the so-called "Third Wave" of coffee companies. They may be uncounted, but they are not unnoticed.
Tea also became the proving ground for one of the fastest-growing functional product types, as Marley's Mellow Mood tea began to take hold in convenience and supermarket chain accounts. As of mid-year, the brand was at about $7.5 million in sales, with more outlets coming on line and a growth rate of more than 600 percent.
On the kombucha side, GTs and GTs Synergy showed $40 million in revenue – a number that might indicate a small tip of the iceberg of the kind of sales it is producing in natural channels, but a telling one nevertheless. Kombucha, coconut water, certain kinds of tea, coffee, and juice, are the products that have grown in natural and specialty channels and are now rocketing into mainstream. Their growth rates reflect that – all are up more than 50 percent year-over-year, and should continue to increase share in the rankings as they gain more ground.
Here's a category that isn't in need of recovery: Energy Drinks. They continue to grow at a strong – 17.5 percent – clip in tracked channels. But that growth was, ironically, goosed by "Recovery," a relatively new set of extensions launched by Monster and Rockstar in the past two years. Together, the two brands have added nearly $500 million in innovation to a category that had not existed.
Innovation also seems to have taken hold at Red Bull, which added Total Zero to its line this year and three flavored line extensions that will launch in the spring. The company, a $3.25 billion property that continues to grow at a healthy clip, remains the category's sales leader.
Negative publicity has begun to drag a bit on the share price of Monster, the only "pure play" in the energy drink business, but scrutiny from politicians and regulatory agencies hasn't been able to slow the company's growth. The edgy nature of the category is also shown in the growth of Xyience, which continues to push forward at a greater than 20 percent clip – and that's not tracking sales through key channels like GNC, gyms, and other outlets.
The soda giants remain in the mix, albeit more through distribution than through organic brand growth. Still, NOS and AMP remain popular choices among consumers, and even Full Throttle broke its losing streak when it came to dollar sales.
Nevertheless, growth in Energy Drinks – and Energy Shots – belongs almost entirely to the big independent brands, including 5-Hour Energy. With regulatory action perhaps scaring strategic investors away from potential deals, it seems like those brands could remain independent for the foreseeable future, as well.
One could spend all day scouring scan data for information on the coconut water category and still fail to find numbers that accurately represent the growth of the product – mostly because, for many brands, a significant percentage of their sales remain in natural, specialty and small-format channels. Vita Coco, for example, still runs about 20 percent of its volume in natural.
But there's no denying that the main brands – Zico, ONE, and Vita Coco, have made inroads when it comes to mainstream channels (although tracked channels before and after the Symphony IRI switch show that coconut water still hasn't erupted in Wal-Mart).
BevNET scoured the scan data so you don't have to, digging through Aseptic Juices (where a lot of the category tends to hang out due to its Tetra-Pak package) as well as a variety of juice blends and bottles that are now Zico's by right of bottled concentrate format.
In these channels, here are the numbers: Vita Coco, $84.8 million; O.N.E., $26.6 million; Zico (rolling all formats together), $28.2 million. Naked is also at $10.1 million in its aseptic package. What does that say? Mostly that the covered channels sold nearly $150 million in coconut water. It's an interesting snapshot – a category grounded in natural, but one that is moving authoritatively into mainstream channels in a short period of time. If the growth rate remains as strong (all three brands were on pace to more than double year-over-year) and it continues to migrate, the category could become significantly larger in short order — although it might still be hard to track.
Innovation remained a strong current in the coconut water category, as Coco Cafe moved into Target and Zico began to steadily roll out earthier products, adding a Latte flavor to buttress its chocolate line. Meanwhile, other promising juice brands moved into the coconut space as well – Purity Organic, Zola, and Aloe Gloe, to name a few. On the incubation channel side, Harmless Harvest became the darling of Whole Foods, creating a higher level of taste and purity for the others to shoot for. Coconut water also migrated as an ingredient into products ranging from Body Armor and Greater Than to Odwalla and Naked smoothies and juice blends.
Powerade ION4 is making strides toward $1 billion in sales, but it's hard to judge if that's really affecting Gatorade, as the unit price between the two is more than 60 cents in Gatorade's favor, $1.83 to $1.19. That doesn't mean that Gatorade has stopped growing, either, as it has a lot of SKUs that are showing above 20 percent volume leaps – a sign that innovation is starting to take hold as the brand re-tools.
This is also a spot where it's interesting to think about the growth of coconut water; Vita Coco would immediately be the third-largest brand if it were classified as part of the Sports Drink category, although it would still be about one-tenth the size of ION4.
The category also gives a glimpse of the fast growth of another Starbucks line, Refreshers, which are coming in at about $32 million in sales – and again, that's not counting incubation channels. One brand that doesn't show up on the sports drink report yet – but should next year, given its growth rate – is Body Armor, which hadn't landed Wal-Mart as of October but still showed about $3.5 million in sales with a strong growth rate for the 52 weeks previous to Sept. 9. With little up-and-down-the-street volume added into the total, either, it's actually a mark of no little success that the brand has been able to activate enough chain accounts to register in core mainstream channels. This time next year could make for an interesting set of findings concerning that product line.
Sports drinks are now a dual concept, overlapping with the protein/meal replacement category, which is also listed here for the very first time. A look at those numbers reveals the underlying strength of the product that built the category – Muscle Milk. While Ensure and Pedia Sure are largely clinical products, Muscle Milk, which has about 10 percent of the category, is the product that remade the idea of protein drink as a post-workout product to pack on the pounds. One can see the potential for growth in protein-forward brands – all are up in the high double digits. With Coke now marketing Core Power, expect a potent new entrant this year, as well.
The Symphony IRI numbers provide a look at the two major functional water brands, vitaminwater and Sobe Lifewater, that define the category. And the takeaway is that the brands are moving in different directions: vitaminwater and vitaminwater zero have sold near $1 billion in the past 52 weeks, while Lifewater and Lifewater Zero have about one-quarter of that volume at a lower price. Zero is a little less than 30 percent of vitaminwater's sales, although its growth is starting to equalize with the category overall.
Right now, the best-moving parts of the functional water category are moving at about the same rate as the rest of the PET/Still water category – that is, slow and steady. Most of the "me-too" entries have subsided, leaving just a couple of brands in its wake – which means that the big strategic investors might have won this round.
A spin through the juice numbers reveals clues to the fates of all manner of entrepreneurial beverage companies, but as with other situations in which natural and specialty channels also play key roles, you have to do some hunting and gathering to determine the state of things.
Ranging across juice subcategories, V8's V Fusion and V8 Splash lines total $451 million – a strong complement to its original vegetable juice products, which have seen declining revenues in light of new veggie juice alternatives.
In the higher end lines, Odwalla had $142 million in sales of combined listed products, Naked $369 million and Bolthouse $281 million. Rolling Bolthouse in with Campbell's V8 products makes the erstwhile soup company a pretty big player in beverages, indeed. Of course, the Naked/Odwalla/Bolthouse $800 million in sales is only the part of the category that's visible above water – again, there may be twice that level of revenue – when natural channels and foodservice are combined into the total.
The new data also gives a lot of insight into kids beverages, showing InZone's Tummy Tickler/BellyWasher products at near $100 million in sales. BYB Brands' Tum-E Yummies were at about $80 million, and both have forward momentum outpacing their native categories.
And that goes double for the high-end juices. What's interesting here isn't so much the exact number, but the momentum: Sambazon, Odwalla, Naked, Bolthouse, are all outpacing their categories; in the case of products like juice smoothies, they are setting the pace.
Juice smoothies and sparkling and mineral waters, at 33 percent volume increase apiece, are by far the fastest-growing of any category of product with $500 million or more in sales. Natural's influence on mainstream can also be found in categories like dairy substitutes, which grew 15 percent in the past year, to almost $1 billion as a category, buoyed in great part by recently spun-off SILK, as well as Lifeway's Kefir products.
That's indicative of which products are ultimately forming inroads to mainstream grocery. Where they grow, more innovation is sure to follow.


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Born January 26, 1880, explorer Roy Chapman Andrews would later become best known for his globetrotting ways and was even said to be the model for movie icon Indiana Jones.
Interested in Andrews's adventurous life? In honor of his birthday, here are a few places around our site (and at the Museum) to learn more.
Early in his career at the Museum, Andrews spent time in the field—or rather, at sea—studying whales. Click here to read all about it.
In honor of his role as leader of the Central Asiatic Expeditions to Mongolia, during which his team discovered numerous important dinosaur and mammal bones, Andrews had many fossils named for him, including that of perhaps the largest meat-eating land mammal that ever lived: Andrewsarchus mongoliensis. (You can find a cast on display on the Museum's fourth floor, in Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals.)
They also discovered the largest plant-eating land mammal ever to live, called Indricotherium. You can see the gigantic skull of the animal in the Paul and Irma Milstein Hall of Advanced Mammals.
In Mongolia, his team also discovered many new dinosaur fossils, including the first nests of dinosaur eggs, some of which you can find on display on the Museum's fourth floor, in the Hall of Ornithiscian Dinosaurs.
Andrews became director of the Museum in 1935, the same year the Hayden Planetarium first opened. Learn more about the history of the Museum in a timeline. Always a prolific writer, Andrews later retired in order to write more books. You can find many of them in the Museum's library and also online.


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What do you do when on the day of your marriage the caterer fails to arrive? Or the wedding venue gets flooded due to rain? Honestly, there's not much you can do, except go to a back-up caterer and a back-up venue, if you have one. However, most people don't have back-ups is such cases.
While your prestige may take a hit, you can keep your pocket safe. How? By insuring your wedding.
What is wedding insurance?
Just like we have life insurance to protect our life, car insurance to safeguard our car and health insurance to secure our health, we have wedding insurance to ensure our wedding goes off smoothly.
Is it required?
Over a period of time, marriages have evolved from a simple ritual to a complex affair where lakhs are spent on lavish ceremonies. Besides, costs of all the services involved in providing marriage facilities have gone up. So if anything goes wrong, the parties involved can suffer heavy losses. This is where having an adequate wedding insurance will help. It will give you peace of mind as you are assured you won't lose any money.
Coverage of wedding insurance
Different insurance companies have different types of wedding categories. Some of the most common ones include: personal accident, postponement/cancellation, damage to property, burglary, money and public danger. However, some insurance companies do offer certain specific categories of cover like food poisoning.
Selecting the right type of insurance cover
With so many types of covers being available, you have to choose the right cover carefully. For that, consult an insurance agent or request your wedding planner (if you have one) to help you out in selecting the right cover. Also, get the details of every section covered in writing. Read it carefully and ask questions if you find some important points are not covered. Moreover, get in writing from the insurance company the method of claiming money and the necessary documents required to be submitted to make a claim. For example, if anybody falls ill at the marriage party, you will have to submit a doctor's certificate stating the nature of the person's illness. If you intend to provide cover to your relatives, you will have to mention their names when submitting the forms for buying the policy.
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The premium of wedding insurance is quite nominal. For a premium of Rs. 12,000, you can get an insurance cover of Rs. 8 lakh, which covers all the categories of covers. But you can exclude some covers, thus reducing your premium amount.
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Team Maggie – The Good and the Bad
Hopefully, little Maggie Rudnicki and her mom Lauren will be on their way home to Maine tomorrow, October 15th. Things were a little dicey yesterday, as Maggie was throwing up her meds, and was unable to keep anything down.
From Maggie's mom, talking about Sunday, October 13th
Maggie's day consisted of throwing up, 4 hours in the ER, a tube put down her nose & into her stomach, X-rays then more throwing up. Yet she has still been smiling tonight. I love her so much..she is so brave. Night meds went a billion times better with the tube. Wish we had done it sooner.
When I spoke with Lauren this morning, she did say the plan is still to return home to Maine tomorrow, provided Maggie doesn't throw up again. She'll just come home with the nasal tube in place.
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As we move toward the election of a new president this fall, Perspective offers a periodic look at our presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- and how they shaped our nation.
May 29, 1917 - Nov. 22, 1963
State: Massachusetts
Religion: Roman Catholic
Marriage: Jacqueline L. Bouvier
Military service: He served in the Navy during World War II, rising from ensign to lieutenant, and commanded a motor torpedo boat, PT-109, that was rammed in two by a Japanese destroyer. Despite being injured, Kennedy swam for four hours to an island where he and three others were rescued. He earned the Purple Heart.
Party: Democrat
Term: Jan. 20, 1961 - Nov. 22, 1963
Vice president: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Highlights of presidency:
Kennedy ordered the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro, but internal resistance never took hold and the maneuver failed. He established the Alliance for Progress to provide U.S. aid to Latin America and created the Peace Corps to provide education and technical manpower to underdeveloped countries. In November 1963, Kennedy supported a military coup in Vietnam and sent military advisers, but he refused to commit U.S. combat forces to the region. Kennedy led civil rights legislation through Congress, established the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and called for desegregation of public facilities. He stood at the Berlin Wall and spoke of West German freedom and stood up to the Soviet missile buildup in Cuba and saw its eventual removal. In May 1961, Kennedy set the goal of the United States putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade -- a goal he did not live to see accomplished.
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Kennedy was the first president to be born in the 20th Century. His left leg was 3/4 of an inch shorter than his right leg, and he wore corrective shoes (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text). He was the first to have been a Boy Scout. Kennedy also had served as a member of the House in 1947-53 and as a senator in 1953-60. He was the first and only Roman Catholic president. He was the first president to have served in the Navy. He is the only president to have won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1957 for his book "Profiles In Courage." At age 43, he became the youngest man elected president. Theodore Roosevelt was younger than Kennedy, but Roosevelt assumed the presidency upon the death of William McKinley. Kennedy was the only president to appoint a brother to a Cabinet post. Robert Kennedy was attorney general. Kennedy was the first president to give a live televised news conference. Kennedy was a very fast speaker, once clocking 350 words per minute. He was the fourth president to be assassinated and, at 46, the youngest president to be assassinated. He is only the second president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery; the first was William Howard Taft in 1930.
Source: "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents" by William A. DeGregorio


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In the church we have liturgical seasons.
We begin our year with the season of Advent. We celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, move into a bit of Ordinary Time, and then it's on to Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season. We celebrate Easter and its season. Then we have the day of Pentecost with its fiery red, and soon it's back to Ordinary Time.
We're into the "low season" of Ordinary Time as we approach "rally day," and we hope our church folk come back after their lazy summers of sleeping in and traveling. The truth is that the "low season" isn't an official liturgical title, but believe it or not, Ordinary Time is.
So in a world where Ordinary is boring, what's a pastor to do?
Something a little less Ordinary. So during the summer months, I try to combat the low numbers that usually result from summer vacations, before the — again nonliturgical — "rally day" back to church in September.
Each year I try for a topic that might pique the interest of my congregation. One year it was "The Shady Ladies and Bad Boys of the Bible."
Last year we did a study on heaven and hell in a series I called, "The Hereafter: Here or After?" Often I seek out a theme song. I really nailed it with "Bad to the Bone," complete with original lyrics featuring all of the Bible's worst characters.
This year I again pondered what to do to engage my churchgoers as I compete for their attention with the summer sunshine, European vacations and God's gift to Southern California — those beautiful beaches. I needed something that would entice. I came up with Truth with a capital "T" — The Gospel Truth. If that can't get 'em in, nothing will.
And so this summer's sermon series was born: "The Gospel Truth: Whose Good News Is It?"
Before going into ministry, I pursued a doctorate in the New Testament. Academia was not for me, but I love to share about academia with my church. Unfortunately, over the years, I've come to realize that as a whole, we Christians know very little about the origins of our Gospels — for whom they were written, by whom, why, when and where. We don't realize that each of the Gospels tells a different story, for a different people.
So when a person claims to have the Gospel Truth, we must ask ourselves whose truth is it?
Each Sunday this summer at Fairview Community Church, we studied a different Gospel. We began with the first written, the Gospel of Mark, followed up with Matthew and Luke — the two Gospels that took their content from the Gospel of Mark and another source we call "Q."
Then we learned about the Gospel of John and its completely different Christology and writing style. And then we jumped out of the canon and looked at The Gospel of Thomas, the sayings Gospel that consists almost entirely of simple, often cryptic, sayings of Jesus. Last week, we read the controversial Gospel of Mary and examined the woman who may have been Jesus' most beloved disciple.
This Sunday we have one Gospel left to study. The newly discovered Gospel of Judas. Only brought to light within the last decade, Judas has long been considered the traitor, the disciple who turned his back on Jesus.
However, in this Gnostic text (by the way, we learned about the Gnostic community, which sought salvation through wisdom), we discover that Judas is not the betrayer who betrayed Jesus confidence but instead was fully capable of seeing Jesus' true identity and thus was the most beloved disciple.
As you can imagine, this series has been fascinating. For a pastor with an academic's heart and a preacher's voice, it has been challenging to take scholarship and make it palpable for the lay person.
And yet, for those of us who believe in a thinking faith, we know we are to be challenged, challenged by the Gospel writers and by their communities, their beliefs and their traditions, but moreover challenged by Jesus.
So I challenge you to read the Gospels: the four in your Bible and the few extra-canonical texts that exist beyond. You might just hear the challenge of Jesus himself: "You who have ears to hear: Listen."
The REV. DR. SARAH HALVERSON is the pastor of Fairview Community Church in Costa Mesa. Her sermons are available on podcast through http://www.ocfairviewchurch.org.


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Hybrids have a safety edge over their conventional twins when it comes to shielding their occupants from injuries in crashes, new research by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), an Institute affiliate, shows. On average, the odds of being injured in a crash are 25 percent lower for people in hybrids than people traveling in nonhybrid models.
"Weight is a big factor," says Matt Moore, HLDI vice president and an author of the report. "Hybrids on average are 10 percent heavier than their standard counterparts. This extra mass gives them an advantage in crashes that their conventional twins don't have." He notes that other factors, such as how, when, and by whom hybrids are driven, also may contribute. Researchers included controls to reduce the impact these differences may have had on the results.
The new finding is more good news for green-minded drivers who don't want to trade safety for fuel economy. Not so long ago, car buyers had to choose between the two because fuel-efficient cars tended to be smaller and lighter. Now, consumers have more options than ever when it comes to picking an environmentally friendly — and crashworthy — vehicle.
"Saving at the pump no longer means you have to skimp on crash protection," Moore says.
In the study, HLDI estimated the odds that a crash would result in injuries if people were riding in a hybrid versus the conventional version of the same vehicle. The analysis included more than 25 hybrid-conventional vehicle pairs, all 2003-11 models, with at least 1 collision claim and at least 1 related injury claim filed under personal injury protection or medical payment coverage in 2002-10.
Collision coverage pays to repair or replace an at-fault driver's vehicle after a crash with an object or another vehicle. Personal injury protection, or PIP, pays medical expenses for injuries insured drivers and other people in their vehicles sustain in a crash, no matter who is at fault in the collision. Medical payment, or MedPay, covers treatment costs when insured drivers or their passengers are hurt in crashes when the driver is at fault. PIP coverage is sold in states with no-fault insurance systems, and MedPay coverage is sold in tort states.
Hybrids' injury odds were 27 percent lower than their standard counterparts for collision claims with a related PIP claim and 25 percent lower than their twins for collision claims with a related MedPay claim.
It's well known that size and weight influence injury likelihood. In a crash involving two vehicles that differ in size and weight, the people in the smaller, lighter vehicle will be at a disadvantage. The bigger and heavier vehicle will push the smaller, lighter one backward on impact. This means less force on people in the heavier vehicle and more on the people in the lighter one. Greater force means greater risk, so people in the smaller, lighter vehicle are more likely to be injured. Even in single-vehicle crashes, heavier vehicles have an advantage because they are more likely to move, bend, or deform objects they hit (see Status Report special issue: car size, weight, and safety, April 14, 2009).
Even with advances in occupant protection, larger vehicles still are safer choices than smaller ones. That's why downsizing vehicles to improve fuel efficiency has traditionally resulted in safety trade-offs. The trend among automakers nowadays is to boost fuel economy by designing more efficient internal combustion engines and by adding hybrids to their fleets.
Although hybrids share the same footprint and structure as their conventional counterparts, they outweigh them because of the added heft of battery packs and other components used in dual-power systems. At about 3,600 pounds, a hybrid Honda Accord midsize sedan, for example, can weigh as much as 480 pounds more than a conventional Accord. A hybrid Toyota Highlander, a midsize SUV, weighs about 4,500 pounds, compared with about 4,170 pounds for the conventional Highlander.
"Park any of these pairs side by side and you can't tell the hybrid from the traditional vehicle just by looking at them," Moore points out. "But you could if you were to put them on a scale."
Curb weight in pounds by model, hybrid vs. conventional counterpart
Moore says the study is unique in its ability to examine how vehicle mass affects injury rates. One question safety advocates long have grappled with is, how much does size affect crashworthiness as compared with weight? These two factors have separate effects, but they are highly correlated. Disentangling them requires keeping one variable constant while modifying the other.
"What we ended up with was a study that may be as good a natural experiment as can be done to examine the effects of mass independent of size," Moore says.
Researchers excluded the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight from the study because they are only sold as hybrids. The analysis controlled for calendar year, rated driver age and gender, marital status, vehicle density (number of registered vehicles per square mile), garaging state, vehicle series, and vehicle age.
HLDI's findings complement other Institute research into how vehicle size and weight affect crash injuries. A recent study found that driver death rates for 2005-08 models with at least 100,000 registered vehicle years decreased as vehicle weight increased (see "Dying in a crash," June 9, 2011).
Every hybrid in the analysis had a lower driver death rate than its conventional twin. For example, the Honda Civic Hybrid had an overall driver death rate of 53 per million registered vehicle years, compared with 55 for the nonhybrid Civic. The hybrid Toyota Camry had a driver death rate of 36, while the standard Camry's rate was 10 points higher.
Hybrids may be as much as 20 percent more likely to injure pedestrians than nonhybrid vehicles because of their quiet motors.
Hybrids are about 10 percent heavier than their standard counterparts. This extra mass gives them an edge in crashes that their conventional twins don't have.
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Judgment Day comes to Hollywood with a vengeance in "This Is the End." Jonah Hill is in bed with the devil — in James Franco's mansion. An inferno rages in the front yard, and movie star egos are filleted for fun. When the apocalyptic comedy gets deadly serious about roasting the ethos of celebrity, its satire grows white-hot.
As the devil's brigade sets the Hollywood Hills ablaze, "This Is the End" considers many burning questions. Does movie-star cred automatically put one on the A-list of the blessed? Can a little bit of last-minute goodness buy salvation? Is Franco really that effete?
In answering, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's script is scathing, while their directing debut is a revelation.
The two set their course for crude-and-unusual humor long ago. At age 15, they wrote what would become, a decade later, their breakout: "Superbad's" very funny nerd walk on the wild side in 2007. "This Is the End" continues the pair's fish-in-very-hot-water tradition, though these babies are burned to a crisp. It's almost enough to extinguish any bad taste left by the flameout of "Pineapple Express." Almost.
For "This Is the End," Rogen and Goldberg have invited most of the actors in their clique to the party. The humor is of the cage-fighting variety, everyone playing an extreme version of themselves.
Rogen, Franco and Hill are joined on-screen by Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson. There are countless high-profile walk-on puns — the fun is, like Waldo, in finding them. Two you can't miss are Michael Cera and Emma Watson playing against type in superbad ways.
"The End" begins inauspiciously. Rogen is picking up Baruchel at LAX, and Baruchel is not all that happy to be on the West Coast. He's not a fan of the vacuous Los Angeles vibe. The Montreal-based actor drops "Canadians are nicer" faster than Hill does names.
In spite of that, the visit goes swimmingly for a while. Like bad choir boys, Baruchel and Rogen do some drugs, play some video games, consume some junk food and giggle a lot in Rogen's nicely tricked-out pad.
Then the specter of going to a "James Franco party" rises like a storm cloud.
Hellfire rains down a bit later. First there's friendly grousing about the Hollywood lifestyle on the way to Franco's stunning contemporary mansion in the hills. That the house, in all its ostentation, sits with the city at its feet is only one delineation of the continental divide the movie toys with between them and us.
At Franco's, a celebrity-packed bacchanal is underway, but the actor is happy to give a quick tour of his avant-garde art collection — his self-deprecation simply simpering. Hill is more simper-fi. One of the central running jokes is about the bonds of friendship — what makes it and breaks it in Hollywood terms — and Hill drew the sycophant card.
The Franco-Rogen relationship is the funniest, the Rogen-Baruchel the deepest, the McBride-and-everyone else the deadliest and the Robinson-et al. the sweetest. Each is heavily weighted with irony, and each hangs in the balance. Everyone does a solid job of playing their hyper-realized selves, although Hill has said he's never slipped out of character more.
There is a lot of outright insanity as the final hours unfold in classic horror movie style. But the filmmakers and their crew prove quite agile at walking the fine line between visually intriguing and schlock, including cinematographer Brandon Trost, production designer Chris Spellman and visual effects supervisor Paul Linden.
The destruction so closely mirrors predictions in the Book of Revelation, if not for the scandalous behavior the film would probably appeal to a very unlikely subset of the population. But a word of warning: If excessive F-bombs and explicit language, graphic discussions and depictions of sex and drugs, and an extremely well-endowed devil who goes full Monty are likely to bother you, "This Is the End" is not for you.
However, if you are in a forgiving mood, the movie is a surprisingly relevant guilty pleasure, an incisive riff on the culture, and the cult, of the rich and famous.
It's all set to an appropriately ominous yet cheeky score, starting with composer Henry Jackman's classical-house music mash-up, an ironic soundtrack supervised by Jonathan Karp and a few racy ditties from a piano-playing Robinson — "Take Yo Panties Off" the most, um, memorable.
Even within the madness you can always feel the method. Goldberg and Rogen's comic form is a tangy brew of high-brow thinking, Stooges slapstick and hard-R language that somehow works.
From the clockwork comic timing to the movie's salty mix of the ridiculous and the reflective, "This Is the End" is stupidly hysterical and smartly heretical. Cross my heart and hope to die, it's funny as hell.


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Minnesota Woman Sentenced in Landlord Killing
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A Duluth woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the fatal stabbing of her former landlord.
Thirty-two-year-old Joella Lee Tucker pleaded guilty in March to aiding and abetting second-degree murder. She had been charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree murder.
Tucker was sentenced Thursday to 10 years and 10 months in prison, as recommended by Minnesota sentencing guidelines.
As part of the plea agreement, the defense was allowed to argue for a shorter sentence.
Tucker was charged in the death of Duluth landlord Kevin Tyman, who was stabbed in his apartment in December 2012 and later died.
Tucker's co-defendant, 42-year-old Raymond Weeks, was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison for stabbing Tyman to death. Authorities alleged Tucker persuaded Weeks to kill Tyman.


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Cwi Nqani's brush with video game greatness could've been mapped on the plot points of The Air Up There, Cool Runnings or The Gods Must Be Crazy or really any shallow movie where people from different cultures collide in an explosion of hilarity. As reported by CNN, the 32-year-old was selling his rural ethnic group's crafts in Namibia's capital city of Windhoek next to a tent where a World Cyber Games representative was hosting the country's national championships. Despite never seeing or playing digital games before, Nqani was the only person to play the Asphalt 6 mobile racing game, which automatically qualified him for a spot in the world finals. Those finals happened two weeks ago.
Here's the description of the World Cyber Games from their official website:
The best gamers around the world gather into different cities to share the excitement and fun of the game tournaments.
To lead the development of the digital entertainment culture by promotion harmony of humankind through e-sports and its embodiment in the "Cyber Culture Festival."
WCG is a comprehensive Digital Culture Festival, where language and cultural Festival barriers are stripped away, and international exchange and harmony are Promoted through extensive events including tournaments, conferences, exhibitions.
Maybe Nqani became Nambia's best Asphalt 6 player simply by showing up. Sure. But, there's also the possibility that Samsung saw a juicy publicity stunt in the offing by giving him a phone and solar charger so they could eventually bring him to the finals in Busan, South Korea. The South Korean electronics giant looks like it's pulling a techno-Tarzan here, striding into Nqani's homeland and swinging him off into the wonders of the modern world where they can trot him out as a curiosity. "Look at the bushman who we taught how to play video games!"
Or, maybe he's symbolic proof of how benevolent the World Cyber Games and its sponsor partners could be to people where the infrastructure's less developed than South Korea. You'd like to think we live in an era where the kind of facile nativism apparent in this sequence of events is beyond Samsung or other companies. If the electronics giant had altruistic motives — like initiating Nqani into the global community of gamer — they've made them really tough to parse. Instead, he just looks like an exotic specimen put in front of cameras so he can be ogled and snickered at. These pictures from Korean news sources just make him look like a curiosity.
And, after all the World Cybering's said and done, what's next for Nqani? Does he go back to the open-air market where he and video games found each other? I'd love for Samsung to show that they care about the answers to those questions. We're reaching out to them for comment.


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As the snowboard season winds down, we're just a couple more contests from announcing a grand prize winner that will get the chance to attend High Cascade Snowboard Camp's Photo Workshop this summer at Mt. Hood. Who will the winning photographer be?
The Your Turn Photo Contest gives an opportunity for new photographers to share their best images on TWSNOW.com, gaining their first editorial exposure, and to win prizes. This year, we've presented a series of four themed photo contests; each one having a prize package of a Burton photo backpack, Celtek's gloves, and radio slaves from Pocket Wizard. At the end of the themed contests, the winner of each one will present a collection of their favorite images for a portfolio battle. The grand-prize winner of the battle will receive food, lodging, and a spot in the High Cascade's Photo Workshop, headed by TransWorld senior photographer Andy Wright. This is your chance to learn from the industry's best pro photographers!
This third contest of the Your Turn Photo Contest series was assigned the theme of "Hot Laps." Photographers submitted their favorite images relating to snowboarding at resorts. There were a lot of submissions that caught our attention. Here are some the standouts:
The one photo that stood out most and won the "Hot Laps" contest is:
Roby Bragotto's photo of Nils Arvidsson has the most compelling elements that deserves to be announced the winner; good use of available light, affect of silhouette, dynamic composition, rider style, and adding a little foreground texture.
Thank you all who entered and congratulations to Roby Bragotto!
The next and final theme before our portfolio battle is Send It. Get together with the best riders you can work with let's see some big, progressive snowboarding! The Your Turn Photo Contest is the best way for you up-and-coming snowboard photographers to have your shots seen by the TransWorld SNOWboarding audiences.
Now with the fourth category open, you have three weeks to create your images and upload them to the user generated section of TWSNOW.COM using the tag Send It. Please follow these simple guidelines to insure that your submissions are received correctly:
- After processing your images, size them 1200 pixels on the longest side saved at 72dpi
- File name them the title of your post adding photographer name like this: Send_It_PhotographerFirst_LastName
- Upload your photo to the YOUR STUFF section at the bottom of the TW homepage. Be sure to tag the name of the category that you're entering the photo for. For example, if your submitting for April, you will tag your photo as Send It for judging. No other words needed in that tag. If it's not tagged correctly, it may not be considered.
- Make sure to put the rider name, location, and then photographer name in the caption credit. Creative captions are welcomed.
The next winner will be announced on Friday, May 3rd. So get your submissions in by May 1st as that will be the absolute deadline.
For more info on the High Cascade Photo Workshop, go to highcascade.com or call 1-800-334-4272.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Arab population in Israel has signaled a rather apathetic attitude towards tomorrow's elections. And this is not because of hostility toward the Jewish state, but more toward their own Arab representatives in the Israeli parliament.
"We are desperate. Every time we send our Arab representatives to the Knesset, they only seem to care about the Palestinians (in the disputed territories), but not for the Arab citizens of Israel," Jamal Hadsh from the Arab town of Tamara told the Israeli daily Maariv.
Mussa Abu Lah from the Arab town Shefaram also told the same newspaper that Arab Knesset members do not care about the Arab population of Israel. "Neither Ahmed Tibi nor Haneen Zoabi are interested in us. They only help themselves, not us!" Indifference within the Arab population grows and harms democracy.
Arab voter turnout in Tuesday's election is expected to drop below 50 percent for the first time. Many more Arabs are turning to Jewish parties.
"Like me, many of my friends and relatives refuse to vote for the Arab parties," Mohammed from Seipha told Maariv.
A surprise beneficiary of this trend has been the right-wing Jewish Home party, which under its charismatic new leader, Naftali Bennett, is attracting many new Arab and Druze voters. Druze and Arab supporters held a rally for Jewish Home in northern Israel last week.
To combat this phenomenon, the Arab League on Sunday appealed to Israel's Arabs: "We call on the Arab population to participate in the elections in Israel. Only with a high turnout of Arab voters...can the Arabs hope to curb the racist right-wing government."
The Arab League said it hoped to increase Arab representation in the Knesset from 10 to 20 seats (out of a total 120 seats).
Several sources told Israel Today that it was the current Arab Knesset member who asked the Arab League to put pressure on Israel's Arab population to get out and vote for the Arab parties.
Whether or not the scheme will work is highly doubtful. In conversations with Arabs, it is made clear again and again that they appreciate life in Israel, especially amid the bloody uprisings in neighboring Arab countries.
Pictured: Jews and Arabs ride the Jerusalem light train together.
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Now Brooklynites Can Carry Their Weed Without Being Prosecuted
Several months ago, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced his plan to stop prosecuting small-time pot possession arrests, and this week, he'll begin to carry it out, effectively enacting a limited version of legalization in the borough.
From Greenpoint to Brighton Beach, if you're arrested with less than two ounces of weed (far more than anyone who's not dealing would be likely to carry at once), the charges will be thrown out and you'll receive no punishment. Some caveats: people with existing criminal records don't qualify, and if you're smoking in public, especially near children, the DA's office may decide to prosecute.
Thompson rightly frames the decision in terms of social justice. Weed criminalization disproportionately affects people of color, especially in Brooklyn and Manhattan, where black people are nine times more likely to be arrested than whites. He wrote in a memo issued yesterday:
The goal of this new policy is to ensure that: (1) the limited resources of this Office are allocated in a manner that most enhances public safety; and (2) individuals, and especially young people of color, do not become unfairly burdened and stigmatized by involvement in the criminal justice system for engaging in non-violent conduct that poses no threat of harm to persons or property.
If the conduct in which the individual has engaged is the mere possession of a small amount of marihuana in public, it would not, under most circumstances, warrant saddling that individual with a new criminal conviction and all of its attendant collateral consequences related to employment, education, and housing. Moreover, given the vast number of community members who, regardless of race, have engaged at some point in their lives in this non-violent conduct with impunity, the imposition of a conviction for such conduct may perpetuate the public's perception that the criminal justice system as a whole and law enforcement in particular is neither colorblind, nor class-blind.
Naturally, the marihuana-hating NYPD is being a buzzkill about the whole thing. From the New York Times:
In response to the policy, Commissioner Bratton released a statement saying that he understood that Mr. Thompson had the prerogative to decline to prosecute any criminal offense in Brooklyn.
"However, in order to be effective, our police officers must enforce the laws of the State of New York uniformly throughout all five boroughs of the city," Mr. Bratton said. "Accordingly, the Kings County policy change will not result in any changes in the policies and procedures of the N.Y.P.D."
So how does this affect your life as a noncriminal Brooklyn stoner with the good sense not to light up near a playground? The NYPD still has every right to arrest you, and they will (especially if you're black and live outside Brooklyn's gentrified northwest corridor), but when it comes time to prosecute, your charges will be dismissed, your records will be destroyed, and you'll walk away scot-free. Your worst-case scenario is a cop deciding to throw you in a holding cell until your arraignment, in which case all of the above is still true — you'll just spend an uncomfortable night waiting to get out.
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The RTC Interview Series: ACC Preview with Len Elmore, Mike Gminski & Bret Strelow, Part IIPosted by Walker Carey on October 17th, 2013
Rush The Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you periodically throughout the offseason. If you have any specific interview requests or want us to interview you, shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
With the college basketball season nearly upon us, we thought it would be a good idea to gather some expert opinions on the nation's major college basketball conferences. As part of our national preview of the ACC, RTC Correspondent Walker Carey recently had the pleasure of speaking to several ACC experts in Maryland basketball legend and ESPN analyst, Len Elmore, Duke basketball legend and CBS analyst, Mike Gminski, and the ACC reporter for the Fayetteville Observer, Bret Strelow. (Ed. note – we spoke to each individual separately, but for the sake of expediency, combining their answers into a round table format made the most sense.)
*Make sure to start with Part I of the ACC Preview, published on Tuesday.
RTC: Hot seat talk in the preseason is often a bit overblown, but who are coaches in the league that are certainly under pressure to win now?
Elmore: When you look at Wake Forest with Jeff Bzdelik, that is going to be an issue right there. I think this is going to be a make-or-break year for him. Part of the fan base wants Bzdelik gone, another part wants athletic director Ron Wellman gone, and some others want both gone. Unfortunately, Jeff Bzdelik is definitely on the hot seat. I say unfortunately because Bzdelik is a solid teacher, he does well imparting the fundamentals, and has done a good job with some of the offseason stuff with some players over the last few seasons. I think when you look at Mark Gottfried at NC State, he is also a guy who has something to prove. He had some tremendous talent last season and the team just fizzled out. Beyond Bzdelik and Gottfried, you look at James Johnson at Virginia Tech and he just started, so he is going to be given a bit of a long leash. Brad Brownell does a great job with his guys at Clemson, but he has to get some players in there. Miami is going to be down this year with all its departures from last season, but no one can argue with Jim Larranaga and what he has been able to do with that program. I think when it comes down to it and you are looking at two guys who are going to feel some discomfort, they are going to be Jeff Bzdelik and Mark Gottfried.
Gminski: I would think Jeff Bzdelik at Wake Forest is squarely on the hot seat. He has been there since the start of last season and that pressure continues to mount. Other than Bzdelik, I am not sure if anyone can be considered to be on a hot seat. James Johnson is only in his second season at Virginia Tech, so he will get more time. Brad Brownell might be facing a little pressure down at Clemson, but I would not consider him to be on a hot seat. I think other than Bzdelik, every other coach in the conference seems to be in pretty solid shape.
Strelow: I think it always starts with Jeff Bzdelik and Wake Forest. The fan base there is very unhappy with both Bzdelik and athletic director Ron Wellman. The team did show signs of life at different points last season with home upsets over Virginia, NC State, and Miami. Last season, veterans C.J. Harris and Travis McKie led the way for them. Freshmen Codi Miller-McIntyre and Devin Thomas also showed they were capable of playing at a high level. Harris is gone this season, but the other three are back and it feels like this is the first team made up of all guys that Bzdelik recruited. If things do not go well this season, the pressure is only going to intensify for Bzdelik and Wellman. Things could get ugly there if the team does not get off to a good start.
Brad Brownell at Clemson is another guy that I think could be feeling a bit of heat. I think everyone respects him as an in-game coach and a stand-up guy, but it is in recruiting where he has struggled a little bit. When you look at Clemson's roster, it is not stocked with a ton of talent. In some order, Clemson and Virginia Tech will probably be picked to finish last and second-to-last in the league. I think patience might be growing thin at Clemson, but at the same time I am not sure if it has been knifing at them or not. I do not know how rabid the basketball fan base is there to get too worked up over the struggles. Brownell and Clemson certainly have an uphill climb this season. The cupboard is a little bare there right now.
RTC: Who will be the top three teams at the end of the season and why?
Elmore: I am going to go with Duke and Syracuse as the top two. I am hesitant to say North Carolina because of all the offseason problems, but if it can overcome those, it will definitely be in there. If North Carolina cannot overcome its issues, I am going to say either Virginia or Maryland could be in there. If you remember Virginia is returning a whole bunch of talent – most notably Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell. Maryland has a bunch of guys who can play and it is a scrappy team that can end up winning some games it is not supposed to win.


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New Alice in Chains Album in the Works, According to Jerry Cantrell
Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell wants fans to know that the band is ready to work on a new album. The record would be the follow-up to 2009′s 'Black Gives Way to Blue,' 14 years after their previous release.
Alice In Chains would have worked on new material sooner, but suffered a setback when Cantrell had to undergo shoulder surgery. With the medical issues fully behind him, the band can finally enter the studio to start recording.
"It's time to get to work and the material is really interesting, the body of work that we've done," Cantrell tells Rolling Stone. "It'll be as different as any one of our records is to any other, and it'll also be just as recognizable. It's an Alice record, for sure."
Cantrell won't give an exact release date because he doesn't want to rush the album. It could come out later this year, or it could see a release in 2013. "We've been very lucky to be able to kind of do things at our own pace for our entire career," he says. "And this is no exception."
'Black Gives Way to Blue' was the first Alice in Chains album to feature new vocalist William Duvall, who replaced original frontman Layne Staley after his tragic death in 2002. That album was a tribute to Staley, which has now allowed the band to fully heal from their loss. Their next release will be the evolution of the group.
"Albums, to me, are like snapshots of periods of time, and it's kind of a mosaic of all the people involved," Cantrell says. "It's a process that you go through to make it happen lyrically and musically," he says. "It's always been our style to tell our story."
Jerry Cantrell will be given the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award by MAP/MusiCares on May 31 in Los Angeles, Calif. The two are programs that help musicians in time of crisis, including drug rehabilitation.


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In move set to go down in history, Trump to meet Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON, U.S. - South Korea's top national security officials, who visited Washington carrying a special message from the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met their U.S. counterparts and delivered the message.
The special message was that Kim Jong Un wants to meet the U.S. President Donald Trump.
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser, as well as officials from the State Department met with South Korea's national-security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, and intelligence chief, Suh Hoon on Thursday.
The two South Korean officials, who met with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, earlier this week, carried the invitation for Trump, from North Korea's belligerent leader.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, after delivering the invitation to the American president, South Korea's national security adviser said that Kim Jong Un has asked Trump for talks.
The official from South Korea also said that Trump has agreed to meet him "by May."
Chung Eui-yong further told reporters that Kim Jong Un has committed to stopping nuclear and missile testing, even during joint military drills in South Korea next month.
Chung said that Kim Jong Un "expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible. President Trump said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May."
However, he did not provide any information on where the meeting would be.
Meanwhile, the presidential Blue House in Seoul clarified that the meeting would occur by the end of May.
Later, the White House also confirmed that Trump had accepted Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement, "President Trump greatly appreciates the nice words of the South Korean delegation and President Moon. He will accept the invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un at a place and time to be determined. We look forward to the denuclearization of North Korea. In the meantime, all sanctions and maximum pressure must remain."
Chung visited Washington, after leading the South Korean delegation to North Korea earlier this week.
In Pyongyang, he is said to have had a cordial four-hour dinner with the reclusive North Korean leader.
Kim Jong Un and his senior cadres expressed a willingness to hold talks with the U.S. during that meeting and was prepared to discuss denuclearization and normalizing relations.
After returning to Seoul, Chung said that the North Korean leader is also said to have "made it clear" in the meeting that his country would not resume provocations while engaging in talks.
Speaking at the White House, Chung credited Trump for bringing the North Korean leader to the table.
He further said, "I explained to President Trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policy, together with international solidarity, brought us to this juncture."
Meanwhile, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations in New York, who is responsible for handling communications with the U.S. said in a statement that the invitation was the result of Kim Jong Un's "broad minded and resolute decision" to contribute to the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula.
Pak Song Il was quoted as saying that by the "great courageous decision of our Supreme Leader, we can take the new aspect to secure the peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the East Asia region."
He added that the decision to hold the meeting was consistent with North Korea's principle that the issues should be solved through negotiation.
Adding, "The United States should know and understand our position and should further contribute to the peace and security-building in the Korean Peninsula with [a] sincere position and serious attitude."
According to some analysts however, Kim Jong Un's is suddenly interested in talks because the sanctions are beginning to hurt, while others have alleged that it is because he is genuinely afraid of American military strikes.
Others however, believe that the North Korean leader might be feeling more confident that ever.
In November last year, Kim Jong Un declared that he had "completed" his missile program and is now ready to deal with the U.S., as nuclear state to nuclear state.
The meeting between the American and North Korean leaders is set to go down in history since both the countries have been sworn enemies for 70 years now.
Further, the prospect of a meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un comes after the two have hurled increasingly personal insults at each other for over a year now.
While North Korea has called Trump a "dotard" and a "lunatic," Kim Jong Un has been labeled the "little rocket man" by the American president.
Trump has, at the same time repeatedly said he would be willing to engage in talks with Kim Jong Un, saying at one point last year that he would be honored to meet the North Korean leader, whom he tagged as a "tough cookie."
Trump has also said that while he wouldn't host Kim Jong Un for a state visit, he would be happy to sit down for hamburgers at a boardroom table with the North Korean leader.


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We're about to be in the midst of the neo-classical phase of automobile design, led by Japanese automakers like Mazda, Toyota and, with its new Intima concept, Nissan. That means we'll be seeing a surge of panel surfaces that appear to have been carved by wind over centuries, rather than by short-sleeved guys in horn-rimmed glasses over a working week. Nonetheless, we're most likely looking at what US buyers will get as Infiniti's new S-Class competitor. The concept is powered by a diesel V6, which could hearken a European face-down in the near future.
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