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Time For Secure Web Sites to Protect Insecure Content
Recently I noted that Google is strengthening the error messages and other protections in Chrome for when web sites mix HTTP with HTTPS content. I should have gone further. Microsoft is even more aggressive with Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox has some minimal protections. Safari is barely in the SSL game at all.
The trend in browsers is clear. In the past you might have gotten away with mixed content and your users wouldn't notice, but that won't be the case for long.
When you load a mage with mixed content in IE9 the insecure (HTTP) content is not, at first, displayed and you get a warning:
You can choose to allow the content to display. IE9 goes even further than other browsers by blocking HTTP content in HTTPS frames, even if the top-level of the page is HTTP.
Google Chrome shows two different errors for different kinds of mixed content, one for static content like images:
and another, more dangerous-looking one for scripts, plugins and CSS.
But Chrome does display the mixed content. Not until Chrome 14 will they block it by default.
Firefox5 gives a comparatively subtle signal to the user. Here is a normal HTTPS page:
But if the page has elements that are HTTP it shows up without the SSL signal. If you click on the favicon you get an explanation.
Safari also shuts off their SSL lock, but it's such a subtle indicator that users probably don't notice it anyway.
The bottom line of all of this is that HTTPS web pages need to be all HTTPS. There are plenty of good reasons to do this without having to delve into the warnings and other that your users will get if they view your page. Mixed content means that the page isn't secure. Parts of it can be sniffed on the wire or wireless and it's easier for attackers to slip in cross-site scripted content.
Even Firefox's behavior should be enough for a site to deal with the problem. While there is no error indicated, neither is there an indication of HTTPS, and the site wants the user to see the HTTPS indicator. Make sure your own sites don't have this problem.
Disclosure: I have written on this subject for VeriSign, part of Symantec. I do believe in everything I write for them.


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Search the world over and you will not find a better resource than playtime to guide and strengthen your child's ability to learn. . .
Your child comes prepared everyday to absorb the wonderful benefits of playtime. Your job is to be ready. Think in terms of lifestyle. Have a plan.
Good playtime activities are not emotionally intoxicating. Rather, they are fun for your child because she is registering intrinsic rewards as she advances her skills and understanding.
It is often said that reading opens up worlds. It is more accurate to say that reading opens up drawers: it offers what is necessary to get by on a daily basis. It's the love of reading that opens up worlds. The same principle applies to learning.
If you make good old-fashioned activities the preferred recreation in your house, your child's ability to focus and learn will flourish. That's worth more than boasting she learned her ABC's at 2 ½.
In the long run, a healthy diet of imaginative play will strengthen your child's ability to tackle difficult, non-linear problems both academically and in the real world.
There is no replacement for spending good, quality time with your child. It assists her in focusing on a single idea, event or activity.
When your child is coloring, for example, that's the most important thing in the world to her. It's not often that we, as adults, can say that something we're doing is the most important thing in the world to us. But your child is at eye level with an activity, zeroed in, considering the possibilities. That's a powerful resource to have on your side, if you see it that way.
If your goal is for your child to reach your abilities, you're missing the point. Right where your answers are withheld is right where your child will pass you up.
If you think your child is too young to learn to play rummy, then start with go fish. By the weekend she'll know how to play rummy.
Parable: the more candy is around, the more eating healthy becomes one big burden.
Ideas perform better in reasonably calm conditions. That's why so many people study at libraries.
If you take curiosity out of learning, you're left with memorization. By contrast: when curiosity is present, learning becomes personal. Emotions are attached to information. Personality takes shape.
If you don't think it's possible, what do you suppose your child will think?
A secret to keeping pace with your child's development---that is, allowing your child's curiosity, interest and motivation to rise to their natural level---is to forget about the age factor. Think instead of the skill factor. What is your child capable of right now?
Your child has almost no chance of learning how to play checkers, chess, chinese checkers, mancala or othello by herself.
The best part about parenting is being there.
Children have an extraordinary capacity and desire to learn. It only stands to reason that we would want to fill their environment with great activities--in particular: the ones you don't have to plug in. The ones that run on imagination.
There's a considerable difference between learning skills and learning information. Learning skills speak to ability, capacity, limitation. How will your child use, interpret and organize information—now and for a lifetime? If you're not sure which activities build learning skills, stick with simple—simple activities usually require the greatest level of creative participation.
(Speaking of habits---) With simple activities, there is no mistaking the source of stimulus. Your child is at the helm, creating, imagining and exploring possibilities---things she can do anytime, under any circumstances. With electronic gadgetry, the gadget is always required.
It's difficult to overstate the importance of self-motivated learning. Why? Because it's habitual. It shows up again and again. Where does it start? Playtime: when a child enjoys advancing the meaning of the task at hand.
What do you do when your child passes you up in an area--in mathematics for example? Ask lots of questions.
Homework for parents: Invent an art project that uses letters.
I read somewhere long ago that it's better not to rush to a crying baby in the night. Rather, it's preferable to let the infant at least briefly experience how to independently cope with the event. The same principal applies to boredom.
Your child's favorite activity makes an excellent reward.
Toys are nothing more than activities. They're side by side with charades, coloring, reading, mazes, puzzles, rock-paper-scissors, card games, painting, rhyming, measuring, sorting, etc.
A useful strategy is to shift the focus from toys to activities. Now the question is: what activity is this item capable of generating? From this view, almost anything can become a toy.
Counting is an activity. It starts in the toddler years. When does it end? Some of the world's leading mathematicians are still advancing theories of numbers. The point is that the activity doesn't necessarily have to be new—just the perspective.
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The Minnesota Vikings are no different than any other team in football. Unless they get solid, if not superb, play from their quarterback, Christian Ponder, they aren't going far.
Vikings defensive end Jared Allen says it's time for Ponder to shed the training wheels.
"I tell him all the time, you have to be the guy." Allen told "The Jim Rome Show" Thursday, via the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "Adrian (Peterson) can carry this team so far; our defense can carry this team so far. ... You know, you look at teams that historically win championships, and they have consistent play from the quarterback position."
Allen wasn't calling out his quarterback, but instead, calling for Ponder to step into his role.
"You should kind of have things down in your third year," Allen said. "We've got some good weapons for him. I hope he makes leaps and bounds, and has a phenomenal year, and we have a phenomenal year."
If Ponder doesn't have a "phenomenal year," we'll spend May 2014 discussing the rookie quarterback the Vikings will have just drafted. Coach Leslie Frazier and general manager Rick Spielman have (in under-the-radar fashion) compiled a strong roster around their quarterback. If Ponder can't flip the switch -- and we have our doubts -- someone else will get that opportunity.
It shouldn't be Matt Cassel. The Vikings obviously aren't willing to put too much heat on Ponder just yet, because Cassel is a semi-disaster who brings nothing to the table that Ponder can't duplicate, gaffes included. The challenge would come from somewhere else.
Too many jobs are on the line at any given time in the NFL to float through life with a quarterback who takes you halfway there.
If Ponder fails in his third year, if he falls short of blooming into "the guy," his unchallenged run with the Vikings rapidly will come to a close.
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Geneva 2013: Tilt-A-Whirl – Toyota i-Road Concept Carves Urban Corners
The i-Road: a tilting, city-carving, personal mobility vehicle.
Toyota pulled the wraps off its futuristic i-Road concept ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. The all-electric, three-wheeled, two-seat personal mobility vehicle (PMV) is innovative in more than just its diminutive footprint - it can also lean into corners like a motorcycle.
The automaker calls the innovative leaning system Active Lean, and the tech helps to keep the ultra-skinny i-Road stable during driving. A lean actuator is mounted above the front suspension member, and an ECU calculates the amount of lean required based on steering angle, vehicle speed, and a gyroscopic sensor. The actuator will then move the front two wheels up and down in opposite directions to cause the i-Road to lean into the turn. That not all the innovative technology does, either - the Active Lean mechanicals also help to smooth out the PMV's ride by compensating for road imperfections by keeping the body level.
Active Lean is important because of the i-Road's tiny size. At 92.5 inches long, 33.5 inches wide and 56.9 inches tall, the i-Road is easily dwarfed by the Scion iQ. Dimensionally, the iQ is roughly two feet longer and literally twice as wide as the i-Road, although the PMV is just 2.2 inches shorter than the boxy Scion. Granted the iQ has room for more passengers than the concept. Toyota also claims that the PMV's itty-bitty size means that four can be parked in one normal-sized parking spot.
Power for the i-Road concept is supplied by a lithium-ion battery pack to a set of two-kW motors, one in each mounted in the front wheels. Range is estimated to be around 30 miles, but full recharge time is a quick three hours from a regular 220-volt household outlet.
This isn't the first PMV Toyota has rolled out: it sowed off the i-unit in 2005 and the i-Real in 2007, although both of those were more like motorized chairs than fully enclosed vehicles. Stay tuned for the i-Road concept's official unveil later this week, and click here for all of the news and images from the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.
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VANCOUVER - Staff at Vancouver Aquarium are working around the clock to try and save a rare cetacean known as a "false killer whale" that was found stranded on a British Columbia beach.
The whale, which is actually a member of the dolphin family, was in critical condition Friday at the aquarium's Marine Mammal Research Centre in Vancouver.
The animal was reported to the aquarium on Thursday morning and within an hour, a team was en route to the beach near Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, said Martin Haulena, the aquarium's head veterinarian.
The male calf is between four and six weeks old.
"This is a male, dependent calf. He'd normally be with his mother," Haulena said.
"He is under weight. He cannot swim on his own. That's very, very typical for stranded cetaceans. We often have to support them 24 hours a day in our pools for six to eight weeks, so it is a very intensive 24-hour care."
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The calf is in poor condition, suffering from lacerations and wounds from lying out of water on the beach. Being out of the water puts pressure on lungs and other organs, and transport puts more stress on the animal, he said.
There were ups and downs overnight and it is suffering respiratory problems. The calf had started drinking sea water — a bad sign for stranded animals, Haulena said.
A member of the aquarium staff was in a circular pool Friday, walking to circulate the animal through the water in a hand-held sling.
A team of two dozen is involved in its care, which includes feeding it formula through a tube every two hours and treatment with antibiotics and steroids.
"It's basically hour by hour and playing it by ear, and a lot of monitoring going on," said Lindsaye Akhurst, manager of the rescue centre.
"He's still in critical condition so the next 24 hours, of course, are really important. He's still in really rough shape."
The odds of survival are about 10 per cent, she said.
Considered a tropical or sub-tropical species, Pseudorca crassidens are known to exist in the open ocean off the west coast of Canada. Sightings, however, are rare.
Very few marine biologists or veterinarians have experience with the unique mammals and calls have already come in from all over the world for the aquarium team to take photos and document details of the species.
The location of the calf's mother is unknown and it may never return to the wild, Haulena said.
"Cetaceans that strand at a time when they normally would be with their mothers, that haven't had a chance to learn predation avoidance skills, those animals are typically considered non-releasable but that is a Department of Fisheries and Oceans decision," he said.
The aquarium has no other false killer whales, he said. Several institutions around North America have already contacted the aquarium to offer permanent care.
Vancouver Aquarium has come under criticism for keeping two beluga whales, two porpoises and two dolphins in captivity in the wake of a popular documentary on SeaWorld Park in San Diego, but Haulena was on the defensive.
"There is no other facility anywhere in Canada that a stranded cetacean can be brought to," he said. "The only reason we are here is because we've got people who visit Vancouver Aquarium."
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story quoted Dr. Martin Haulena as saying a baby false killer whale hadn't yet had time to learn foraging predation and innovation skills. In fact, Haulena said the whale hadn't yet learned predation avoidance skills.


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The Evangelical Covenant Church in Action
An outreach of the Evangelical Covenant Church, Covenant Ministries of Benevolence extends the helping hand of Jesus Christ in its mission to nurture the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the sick, poor, aging, under-served or at risk.
We administer a large family of ministries, ranging from a full-service hospital to shelters for victims of domestic violence. And we extend the reach of other ministries of the church by contributing financial and intellectual capital.


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I've never worked in front of a green screen before, so when Sean Gillane tells me that his film CXL (stands for cancel) is going to involve some VFX green screen work, I'm pretty excited. Maybe intrigued is the better word.
We're shooting at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, which conveniently is where Sean works. The crew for this film is super small–probably the smallest yet on A Year Without Rent. Sean is directing and running the camera himself. Beyond that there's a team of three VFX guys with some lighting/grip experience, a producer/sound person (Katherine Bruens), and me. Oh, and the cast.
I guess in my head, I thought shooting on a green screen would go faster than shooting in real life. You're in an enclosed space with no variables, and all you need to do is film the live-action portions. Not so much. Lighting is almost harder in a way. When you're shooting outside, there's shadows all over the place and a lot of them disappear into other stuff, but it's a major concern how the actor's shadow plays out across the green. Is it harsh enough? Too harsh? How well will they be able to key around it or with it? And, more importantly, how will that shadow then interact with the world they're building under it?
Add to that the fact that the light needs to be as evenly distributed across the background as possible, and the need for tracking marks that the actor won't cross in front of, and it can all add up pretty quickly.
It's complicated stuff, and involves a lot of huddling by the VFX people to figure things out. Essentially, what ends up happening is two things: 1) Sean blocks the scene and lights it for what he needs narratively. 2) The VFX people then try and re-light the scene without changing Sean's lighting, so that they can most effectively do the post work.
When you look at it that way, it's kind of time-consuming.
It's also pretty obvious why actors aren't big fans of this sort of thing. Cole [name] spends a lot of his time interacting with a post-it note, which isn't exactly the sort of thing people think of when they become actors, I imagine.
But all of that is a prelude to Sean's goal of pulling off a forced perspective shot, which is a tricky enough thing to do in the real world. Will it work? I hope so. Usually I can tell pretty easily if a scene is going to work, if it'll cut together, but here I have no idea. It certainly could work. Hell, it probably will work. But I just have no idea whatsoever.
After that, it's across the street to shoot something in an alley. Only, with a crew this small (even smaller, since 2 of the VFX guys have left), I volunteer to guard the grip cart that has lots of expensive stuff on it. Seems like something we shouldn't leave unattended on the streets of a major city.
Filmmaker Lucas McNelly is spending a year on the road, volunteering on indie film projects around the country, documenting the process and the exploring the idea of a mobile creative professional. You can see more from A Year Without Rent at the webpage. His feature-length debut is now available to rent on VOD. Follow him on Twitter: @lmcnelly.


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|oil on canvas 120 x 80 cm or 47 x 31.5 inches
A house party of artists in Provence - what they saw and did - and what they painted
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
A Seat In The Shade
3 comments:
- Robyn Sinclair said...
Fond memories of walking past that gorgeous house to get our daily bread. Delighted to hear your show went well, Sarah. Not surprised though. ;)
- Tuesday, September 06, 2011
- Katherine Tyrrell said...
Nice to have a change! :)
I'm ever so pleased you decided to use this one. As Robyn said we all loved that house from our walk between car park and boulangerie. It had massive character
Good to hear that your exhibition sold well. I bet those garden paintings went - love those!
I also agree with your comments re photographs. It's impossible to look at photos and use them well unless you have also observed "place" in a generic sense for some time. It's getting used to and trying to match the colours which really makes the difference.
I'm constantly reviewing my photos for my new blog and finding I can remember the ones where I was surprised when I saw them that the colour was wrong!
- Tuesday, September 06, 2011
- vivien said...
I totally agree - using photos can be useful but to use them well, you need that plein air, from life experience :>)
- Wednesday, September 07, 2011


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A reappreciation of a Billy Wilder classic.
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You can be a good witch or a bad witch or even a little of both, but a bland witch?
Then we'll have to talk.
Some of the surprises in "Oz the Great and Powerful," the much-anticipated "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) origins movie, are delightful. Others, however, sink the movie just below the point of recommendation, with the primary drawback falling on the lovely shoulders of Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis, as early versions of Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West, respectively.
Williams is already established as one of the better actresses of the last decade. Kunis is a star on the rise. What a disappointment, then, to see Williams so bland and sugary as Glinda, and Kunis so flat and ineffectual as the heartsick Theodora, who is transformed into the broom-riding, theatrically cackling, very Wicked Witch of the West.
Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch in the original "Oz" was the stuff of nightmares for generations. Mila's Wicked Witch would get her first place for makeup at a Hollywood Halloween party, while her performance is closer to a Razzie than to an Oscar.
Only Rachel Weisz acquits herself well in a witchly role, playing Evanora, the scheming older sister of Theodora. (I believe Evanora's the one who will eventually find herself on the wrong end of a house in "The Wizard of Oz.")
Like "The Phantom Menace" trilogy, "Oz the Great and Powerful" precedes a beloved classic on the fictional timeline but makes full use of modern-day technology, which means everything's grander and more spectacular, and there's not an obvious soundstage scene or a cheesy special effect in sight. Director Sam Raimi and his army of special-effects wizards have created a visually stunning film that makes good use of 3-D, at least in the first hour or so.
But is that really a good thing? The magical cities (for the most part) and the Oz-dwelling creatures, including a talking monkey and a cute-but-also creepy talking China doll, are of course the stuff of CGI. We can picture the actors pretending to cuddle the little doll or banter with the monkey. It might have been more interesting if Raimi had attempted to shoot an "Oz" prequel using only the tools available to Victor Fleming and King Vidor in the late 1930s. (Raimi does pay tribute to the past by framing the earth-bound prologue in the old-timey Academy ratio, switching to CinemaScope scale only after we've landed in Oz.)
James Franco has turned much of his adult life into performance art that feels equal parts sincere and con game, and it would seem he'd be well cast as Oscar Diggs, a small-time illusionist and unabashed serial liar working the dusty back roads of Kansas in 1905. The problem is, Franco's a lot more believable playing slimy than sincere, and the part requires him to do both. It's a steady but less-than-captivating performance.
(There is a brief nod to Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale character when Williams, playing Oscar's former sweetheart, shows up to tell him she's marrying a man named Gale. Is that Dorothy's future father?)
Of course Raimi films the reality-based scenes in black and white, and of course he flicks the switch to brightly popping colors once Oscar lands in Oz, having used a hot air balloon to escape the wrath of a circus strongman.
When Oscar regains consciousness, we're assaulted by an admittedly impressive but sometimes overwhelming visual explosion of LOUD colors and magical creatures that might have cousins on Pandora. Iconic touchstones such as the Yellow Brick Road are almost afterthoughts.
Zach Braff, who plays Frank, Oscar's underappreciated right-hand man in the Kansas scenes, also voices Finley, Oscar's loyal monkey sidekick in Oz. Finley's not Jar-Jar Binks appalling, but he's pretty annoying, mostly because he seems like he fell out of a "Shrek" movie.
Sympathy goes to the screenwriters, who had to steer clear of legal issues so as to not offend the trademarked facets of "The Wizard of Oz," produced by MGM and now owned by Warner Bros. Maybe that's why the Munchkins sing only one, forgettable, abbreviated number, and the henchmen bellow something that sounds like "Oh-Eee-Oh" but isn't quite the same.
Much of "Oz the Great and Powerful" centers on Oscar's transformation from me-first slickster to the Wizard of Oz, aka Man Behind the Curtain. With Oscar relying heavily on the inventions of Thomas Edison, his hero back on Earth, to pull off his biggest trick ever, "Oz the Great and Powerful" finally breaks free of its beautiful but artificial trappings and becomes a story with heart in the final act.
Thing is, we know Oz and its wizard and those witches and the Munchkins are destined for a far greater adventure a little ways down the Yellow Brick Road. The landscape won't be as amazingly gorgeous and the witches won't be able to fly about and hurl fireballs with the ferocity they display here, but it will be a much more magical adventure all the same.
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text: The year may be almost over, but that doesn't mean marketers can't squeak out a few more good campaigns. Search, with its ability to change on a dime, is a good place to focus attention—especially since search "helps build strong brands by bettering brand-health metrics," according to an August eMarketer report ("Search for Branding: Tools for Better Campaigns"). And there's never been a better time to jump into the fray, according to another research firm. Forrester Research's "U.S. Interactive Marketing Forecast, 2011 to 2016" forecast that search's share of the marketing budget will drop from 55% to 44% by 2016. With more budgets going to mobile and social channels, marketers may continue seeing pay per click (PPC) costs drop as they have over the past four quarters. The latest Google results, for the third quarter released Oct. 18, found cost per click (CPC) dropped 15%, following 16% and 12% drops in previous quarters. Cost doesn't matter, however, if marketers aren't executing campaigns correctly. To that end, experts suggested these seven strategies to help the b-to-b segment get the most out of its search efforts. 1) Don't automatically turn off PPC campaigns during the holidays. While it's true that b-to-b buyers are probably spending less at the end of the fourth quarter, there are still deals getting done, said Joseph Kerschbaum, VP at Clix Marketing. Many b-to-b buyers are starting to research purchases that they will make in the first quarter, so it's important to be out there in front of them, he said. One strategy that may help marketers get the most out of their ad dollars: Spread out your spending differently than you normally would. You might have 30 days worth of budget to spend in November but, instead of dividing it by 30, spend 80% to 90% in the three weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, leaving a smaller portion for that week and the following one, Kerschbaum said. In December, spend the bulk of your campaign funds between Dec. 1 and 21, ramping up again Dec. 30 and 31. "A lot of people come back to their offices before the new year to get a jump on their work," he said. 2) Adjust your keyword list. Most people take the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" position when it comes to adjusting keywords. However, experts said marketers should be continually analyzing and reviewing their keywords, retiring underperforming ones and adding new ones based on industry research and natural search analytics. Many marketers avoid using comparison keywords since they tend to resonate with buyers who are very early in the purchase cycle. However, these types of informational searches may fit into a company's fourth-quarter strategy. 3) Add sitelinks. This strategy works well for paid and organic search, said Dana Todd, senior VP-marketing and business development at search company Performics. Sitelinks are part of an ad extension for Google that enables marketers to show links to pages from your website, in addition to the main landing page, beneath the text of your ads. They appear in two columns and usually give searchers quick shortcuts into your site as well as giving you more real estate on the actual search page since it extends your ad further on the page. It also pushes some of the competition and natural search results to the second page. "This is especially important when it comes to mobile since sitelinks fill out half the page on a mobile device," Todd said. A telephone number should be one of those links since, especially on mobile devices, it gives prospects a way to instantly connect. 4) Complement your paid campaign with a display campaign. "Now that Google opened up the DoubleClick exchange and other ad exchanges that are serving Google ads, display is easy to add to a campaign, too," said Loren M. Baker, VP-business development at online marketing provider BlueGlass Interactive. The combination of search and display gives marketers the ability to retarget customers who have gone to a site by clicking on a paid link. "You can target them with a display ad that maybe has the same message and images the searcher saw when they clicked through to the site," Baker said. 5) Bring keywords through to the landing page. This seems like a no-brainer but it's one of the biggest mistakes that marketers make, Kerschbaum said. Whatever keyword or phrase that encouraged someone to click through should be featured prominently on the landing page—and that goes for any special pricing or language as well, he said. Nothing turns a searcher off more than having to dig through navigation or a lot of text to find what he or she was looking for to begin with. 6) Rethink your mobile strategy. According to Adobe Systems' "2012 Global Digital Advertising Update and Emerging Trends" report, CPCs remained lower for mobile traffic than desktop CPCs, but conversion rates were 20% higher, as was ROI. The takeaway: Mobile strategy is imperative. It's all about context in mobile, Performics' Todd said, so ad copy should be localized whenever possible. "If it's an explicit local query such as "Chicago business insurance' make sure [the prospect] knows you're really local by adjusting the ad copy or sitelinks to include a local area code on the call number or a physical address/neighborhood reference such as "Serving the South Loop since 1979,' " she said. 7) Forget the daily budget. Search campaigns do best when they are based on accurate bidding—not a daily spending limit, Goodman said. 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This is the weekend people are usually encouraged to go see the Oscar winners they missed during the lead-up to last Sunday's awards show.
Not me. I say make time for the Biggest Loser: "American Hustle."
Boo, academy.
The film went into the night with 10 nominations and walked out with zero — disappointing for such zany, smart fun. On the surface, director David O. Russell's latest is about a '70s con within a con game.
Yet the plot really spins around the flawed nature of human dynamics. Christian Bale's con guy, Amy Adams as his partner/lover, Jennifer Lawrence as the scorned wife and Bradley Cooper's overly ambitious FBI agent are the primary work force. Within each character, Russell has dropped a specific nugget of vulnerability.
As the cons unfold, those weak spots drive each of them toward that brick wall of big mistakes. All the clever observations about egos are wrapped in a fabulous period look and set to music that carries its own subtle commentary.
The film would be eminently satisfying even if Cooper's angry FBI-er hadn't thrown a phone at his boss, played by Louis C.K. Anyone who's caught the caustic comic's act has probably felt like doing the same thing.
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Review and Outlook Third Points opportunistic approach and robust framework allow us to search globally for attractive event-driven equity and credit opportunities and occasional macro trades. Our broad mandate has made it increasingly essential to study economic trends and attempt to identify key areas to dedicate our resources. Over our eighteen years, this flexibility has given us the ability to avoid (or short) asset classes that become overvalued, such as tech stocks in the bubble of the late 90s or credit leading up to 2007, and to press bets in areas that become oversold. As a result, our portfolio is built not only by reacting to special situations that arise, but also from top down insights.
At our Investor Presentation in February, we outlined four key developments we expected would lead to interesting investment ideas in 2013: a) increasing allocations to equities as a consequence of a more benign macro environment; b) a re-rating of stocks due to improving global economic growth; c) a resurgent Japan; and d) an increase in merger and acquisition activity reflecting rising corporate confidence. More than halfway through the year, all of these developments have played out as expected, and a majority of our profits have come from event-driven investments in American and Japanese equities. Remaining opportunistic and responsive to scenarios that materialize and those that do not has been the key to generating positive performance in 2013. After a profitable first five months, many of our positions reached their price targets and we began to sell them near their highs in May and early June before the market began to correct sharply. We had reduced long (and unfortunately short) exposure meaningfully by the first week of June, and while our portfolio was not immune to the correction, we were insulated enough to be buyers rather than sellers near the lows. We remain optimistic about growth and the markets overall, and expect both gross and net exposure to increase during the third quarter.
Despite our fairly constructive view, Junes taper tantrum in the US and the sell-off in Japan reminded us why we stay liquid and move quickly when circumstances change. Throughout the panic over Chairman Bernankes remarks, we believed that the market misunderstood his data-driven prescription for reducing the Feds extraordinary liquidity measures. Our view is that the Fed is betting the U.S. economy is getting close to escape velocity and soon will be growing at ~3%, but at the same time it remains acutely aware of the perils of derailing the still-fledgling recovery. If we finally see accelerating growth
rates, yields should normalize from the unusually low levels we have seen recently. The playbook for investors in that scenario is to focus on assets that will benefit from US growth while avoiding investments that are hurt when real yields rise, such as gold, emerging markets, and fixed income all areas where we have very little exposure today. Indeed, we sold our long-held gold position early in the second quarter at approximately $1,450. Quarterly Results Set forth below are our results through June 30 and for the year 2013:
2013 Second Quarter Performance 2013 Year-to-Date Performance* Annualized Return Since Inception** Third Point Offshore Fund Ltd. 3.3% 12.6% 17.8%
*Through June 30, 2013. ** Return from inception, December 1996 for TP Offshore Fund Ltd. and S&P 500.
The funds are hard closed to all investors and not accepting any new capital. Select Portfolio Positions
Equity Position: Sony Corporation Third Point acquired a significant stake in Sony Corporation (Sony) earlier this year, and in May, we unveiled a proposal to increase value by partially listing Sonys Entertainment (Entertainment) business in the U.S. Our investment thesis is that Sony composed of Electronics, Finance, and Entertainment is not well understood by investors and is therefore significantly undervalued. Sonys Entertainment division has leading franchises in movie and television production and distribution via Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Television, and is one of the top recorded music and publishing companies in the world. Sony also has coveted global cable network assets, including a strong position in the fast-growing Indian market. Electronics is best known for its struggling televisions and VAIO computers but its true value lies in its strong semiconductor and video game console divisions, and its resurgent smartphone business. At the time we made our initial investment, we believed that at our purchase price we were acquiring Entertainment at an attractive value while receiving Electronics nearly for free, giving us a substantial margin of safety. In addition to its appealing valuation, we believed Sony would benefit from the economic tailwinds created by the First and Second Arrows of Prime Minister Shinzo Abes economic plan, i.e., a weaker currency and fiscal stimulus would immediately benefit Sonys margins and drive earnings per share. But it was not until we became familiar with Abes Third
Finally, the Sony management team installed last April seems to have broken a long string of challenged leadership and has started to make some difficult decisions in the Electronics business by reducing overhead and cutting the number of products offered. Highlyregarded CEO Kazuo Hirai deserves plaudits for the green shoots increasingly visible in Electronics. Sonys Xperia Z smartphone is a hit, and new product momentum has built meaningfully over the last few months while competitors have been losing ground. Sony is introducing an array of new Xperia models, including a large screen phablet device, the Xperia Z Ultra, and new Xperia C and SP devices for China Unicom and China Mobile. The launch of Sonys refreshed Xperia line has been a success in Japan, where Sony has overtaken Apple as #1 in smartphone market share, and in Europe, where Sony has risen to #3 in smartphone share. The upcoming launch of the Honami smartphone and other products in China and the U.S. should offer further opportunities for Sony to gain share in smartphones. Strong momentum in the smartphone business has been accompanied by a perfectly executed introduction of the PlayStation 4 (PS4) platform. The PS4 is set to gain share versus its competitors the Wii and Xbox with better hardware performance, new title breadth, and attractive launch pricing. Sonys consumer-friendly approach also stands to benefit investors with better initial hardware margins than PlayStation 3, increased market share and the growth, revenue and profit contributions of the PlayStation Network.
Arrow that we became confident Sony was an ideal candidate to benefit from the type of structural reform recommended by his administration. Following recent victories in the Upper House, Premier Abe is now well-positioned to begin enacting his much-anticipated reforms to modernize Japan's economy and corporations. Like the rest of the world, we are eagerly awaiting these changes, which should benefit Japanese companies like Sony.
The visible improvement in Sonys new products has caused us to rethink our approach to valuing Electronics. The Game and Mobile Products divisions are now poised to join the Devices business as meaningful profit contributors, while the Television business is becoming only a marginal drag. Putting these encouraging gains into perspective, they are modest in light of the longerterm challenges facing Sony and the Japanese electronics industry. Drastic rather than incremental action is required. Third Points proposal to partially list Entertainment should not only increase overall profitability but also provide capital to accelerate restructuring at Electronics, against a backdrop of increasingly fierce global competition.
Turning to another challenge: unlike Electronics, Entertainment remains poorly managed, with a famously bloated corporate structure, generous perk packages, high salaries for
underperforming senior executives, and marketing budgets that do not seem to be in line with any sense of return on capital invested. We were surprised that after Entertainments highly-touted big budget summer film releases After Earth and White House Down bombed spectacularly at the box office, CEO Hirai, speaking at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference a few weeks ago, brushed off these failures, saying: I dont worry about the Entertainment business, its doing just fine We find it perplexing that Mr. Hirai does not worry about a division that has just released 2013s versions of Waterworld and Ishtar back-to-back, instead giving free passes to Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-CEOs Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal, the executives responsible for these debacles. Unfortunately, Mr. Hirais remark is consistent with accounts we have heard repeatedly from key industry players and others: under Mr. Lynton and Ms. Pascals leadership, Entertainments culture is characterized by a complete lack of accountability and poor financial controls. To us, these latest blunders are prima facie evidence of our thesis that Entertainments U.S.-based business is being ineffectively overseen and needs its own governance structure led by a board whose job it will be to worry about such troubling results. We are also surprised that Sonys CEO does not worry that Entertainment continues to generate profitability levels far below those of its competitors. Based on publicly-available peer data as of March 31, 2013, Entertainment has trailing twelve month EBITDA margins that are 700 basis points below peers in the Pictures division and 380 basis points below peers in the Music division, despite the fact that each is an industry leader in revenue terms. If Entertainment achieved peer margins, EBITDA could increase nearly $800 million to just over $2.0 billion.
Entertainments poor relative performance has been a chronic phenomenon extending back to the famously profligate Guber-Peters regime, suggesting the current configuration of these businesses far from offering synergies to shareholders is in fact undermining Sonys value potential. Keeping Entertainment underexposed, undervalued and underperforming is not a strategy for success. Sonys investors today would be hardpressed to explain the composition of Entertainment or the key value drivers at work. While management goes to great lengths to explain the strategy for Electronics, it treats Entertainment like its red-headed stepchild, addressing it in only three slides in a twentysix slide analyst day presentation made just a week after Third Point announced its proposal. At a moment when Entertainment was of paramount interest to investors, management barely addressed its significance, business strategy or profitability expectations. Given Entertainments perpetual underperformance, perhaps Sonys reluctance to discuss it candidly stems from (understandable) embarrassment.
Meanwhile, our research continues to reveal Entertainments hidden value. We believe the Pictures unit profitability is anchored in higher margin (and higher multiple) international cable networks and television production, with the film business offering negligible profitability. This makes apples-to-apples comparisons with peer film studios (which lack the benefit of cable networks in those segments) even more unflattering. Nevertheless, we believe the film unit possesses considerable library cash flow value, currently masked by poor new production profitability, as well as significant asset value in its Culver City lot. Beyond the hidden value in the film business, we see meaningful value in the Music division, particularly in VEVO and GraceNote.
From a creative point of view, we are concerned about Entertainments 2014 and 2015 slate, which lacks lucrative tent pole franchises. Anecdotally, we understand that its development pipeline is bleak, despite overspending on numerous projects. We are also disappointed to see that Sonys television business lacks new material and instead relies on old Merv Griffin Productions workhorses like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. Entertainment has no hit network television shows, only one major syndicated network show the Dr. Oz Show, and has missed the market for unscripted television.
Absent a major improvement in transparency and accountability, Entertainments fortunes are unlikely to change and Sonys full potential will remain unrealized. We are continuing to study Entertainments businesses, uncovering opportunities for improvement in strategy, culture and operations that bolster our view that it would benefit significantly from our proposal. The suggestion that the status quo of opacity, underperformance and under-management is superior to transparency, management accountability and distinct leadership seems to be based on the misguided notion that the status quo strategy has worked over the last two decades. By contrast, our proposal for a public listing of Entertainment provides investors with a compelling opportunity offering focused leadership, direct exposure to high-value international cable networks, significant margin improvement head-room, structural catalysts, hidden asset values and capital return. The status quo offers Sony and its shareholders only more of the same unfulfilled potential. While CEO Hirai focuses on Electronics, Entertainment is in desperate need of proper supervision. We believe Sonys Board, which we understand continues to consider our suggestions, has plenty of reasons to worry about Entertainment and should enact our partial listing proposal quickly. A resurgent Electronics combined with a well-managed, publicly-listed Entertainment business would make for a stronger Sony and offer tremendous value for shareholders. Equity Position: CF Industries
CF Industries is North Americas largest nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer and one of the lowest-cost producers globally. CF currently trades at an unwarranted discount to fertilizer and commodity chemical peers. We believe its structural cash flow generation strength is misunderstood and that management should deliver a much larger dividend to its shareholders. Such a dividend would highlight the sustainability of its cash flow generation and lead to a substantial re-rating.
CFs access to low-cost North American natural gas the primary input in nitrogen fertilizer production gives the company a structural, sustainable margin capture relative to global peers with higher input costs. These same competitors provide a floor for the nitrogen fertilizer price, because they idle production when the price nears their cost (the cost floor). The spread between CFs production cost and that of the higher cost producers is a sustainable stream of cash flow for CF, with limited volatility. Using an onerous set of assumptions for this spread ($5 Henry Hub/natural gas input cost and $275 per ton nitrogen fertilizer price), we estimate that this cash flow stream would be ~$1.2 billion annually (operating free cash flow less maintenance CapEx, post expansion). On todays equity value, that would mean CF is currently trading at an 11% free cash flow yield using these onerous assumptions. Given the low-risk profile of this portion of CFs cash flow, it should receive a bond-like multiple (e.g. 7 - 8% yield), which alone implies significant upside to the current share price. CF management has the ability to highlight the value of this stable cash flow stream by paying a significant portion of it as a dividend. A high dividend payout would still leave CFs leverage well below the 3x debt to EBITDA criteria that Moodys recently established as adequate to maintain their current debt rating of Baa2.
Additionally, when the nitrogen price rises above the cost floor, which often happens when demand exceeds supply (2012 average price $408/ton), CF generates cash flows incremental to the stable cash flows discussed above. Even using a 4x cash flow multiple for this more volatile earnings stream suggests an additional $15 of value per share for every $25 change in nitrogen price above the cost floor. Finally, we believe that executing the remaining $2.25 billion of CFs share buyback authorization could be ~20% accretive to the estimates detailed above. CF has been underperforming recently despite the emergence of several positive indicators, including reduced Chinese plant operating rates, reports of capacity idling in Eastern Europe, and the shelving of two plant expansions in North America. This underperformance reinforces our view that a dividend strategy based on CFs stable cash flow stream would lead investors to reassess the companys valuation.
(Note: All nitrogen prices are Urea on a fob Black Sea basis in metric tonnes.) 6
Since Third Point initiated its position, over $15 billion of value has been created, growing the companys market cap from $15 billion to $30 billion today, while over $5.2 billion of cash has been returned to shareholders. Since Third Point made The Case for Alibaba in our original investment presentation, our Fourth Quarter 2011 Investor Letter, and on our valueyahoo.com shareholder advocacy website, consensus Wall Street estimates for Alibabas value have increased from $20 billion to over $80 billion. In addition, and consistent with our views on Japan, Yahoo Japans value has also more than doubled during this period. In governance and leadership terms, Yahoos Board is far stronger, with over 90% new members. This Boards hire, Marissa Mayer, has done an outstanding job transforming the company and has surrounded herself with new, high-caliber leaders. Yahoo has increased engagement and seen a surge of talent return to the company. Momentum around new products particularly for mobile has increased dramatically. We are pleased with our contribution to Yahoo since we became involved and believe the company will continue to thrive under Ms. Mayers leadership. Business Updates
Equity Position: Yahoo Last week, we sold approximately two-thirds of our stake in Yahoo. In addition, the three Third Point nominees to the companys Board of Directors Daniel Loeb, Harry Wilson, and Michael Wolf submitted their resignations as required by the settlement agreement ending our proxy contest in 2012. We continue to hold approximately 20 million shares and the investments IRR is just over 50% since inception.
New Addition to the Analyst Team We welcome last summers MBA intern Christopher McCoy back to Third Point, where he will be a generalist analyst. Before completing the MBA program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, he was an associate at The Carlyle Group, focusing on private equity investments. Previously, he was an analyst at Evercore Partners in its Mergers and Acquisitions group. Chris received a BA in International Relations magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Sincerely, Third Point LLC
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55 Toys And Games That Will Make '90s Girls Super Nostalgic
If you were born anytime in the mid-'80s to early '90s, this was the stuff of your childhood…
1. Lil Miss Makeup
2. Polly Pocket
Bonus points if you also had one of those mini Polly Pockets that you could wear around your neck.
3. Disney Electronic Games
4. My Size Barbie
Slightly creepy.
5. Doodle Bears
6. Puppy Surprise
Life was over if there were only three puppies in there.
7. Dream Phone
8. Quints
9. My Pretty Ballerina
She came with her own tape and was already en pointe at the age, of like, 0. So she was awesome.
10. Mall Madness
"There's a sale in the…shoe store!"
11. Tamagotchis
12. My Little Pony
I can literally still smell that My Little Pony plastic deliciousness.
13. The Little Mermaid Ariel Doll
14. Barbie Happy Meal Toys
15. Glitter Magic Wands
Literally, hours of fascination with the world of magic contained within.
16. The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Game
17. Sally Secrets
18. American Girl Dolls
A total status symbol if you were lucky enough to have one.
19. And That Newer Line of American Girl Dolls
Which was cool because you could order one to look like you!
20. Dear Diary
21. Cupcake Dolls
How did they get them to smell so yummy?! One of life's unsolved mysteries.
22. Cherry Merry Muffin
23. Little Tikes Victorian Playhouse
OK, if you had this, you were super lucky.
24. Baby All Gone
25. Fashion Plates
26. Lil Miss Magic Jewels
27. Pretty Pretty Princess
Whatever you do, do NOT end up with the dreaded black ring!
28. Belle from Beauty and the Beast Doll
29. Party Mania
30. Crayola Magic Scent Crayons
Raise your hand if the rose scent was your fave.
31. Ice Capades Barbie
32. Kitty Surprise
33. Lil Miss Magic Hair
She's classy! She's sassy! She's the ultimate in hair play fun!
34. Fashion Faces
35. Little Tikes Plastic Vanity
36. Beanie Babies
Sorry if you were convinced this was your retirement savings strategy.
37. Polly Pocket Light-Up House
38. Girl Talk
"You will give birth to twins five days after your 23rd birthday." This is basically the worst fortune ever.
39. Color Change Barbie
40. Water Babies
41. Little Tikes Dollhouse
42. Furbies
43. Bathtime Fun Barbie
44. Troll Dolls
So weird.
45. Pocket Locker
46. Easy-Bake Oven
Of course, the Easy-Bake Oven has been a staple of American childhood forever, '90s girls included.
47. Mattel P.J. Sparkles Doll
She would light up when you hugged her!
48. Sky Dancers
49. Skip-It
Was this not the most pointless game ever?
50. Baby Born
51. Dream Skater
52. The Dollymaker
This one was a little weird yet totally fascinating — you'd make little plastic doll molds. Mine always came out a mess of colors.
53. Playmobil Dollhouse
54. Magic Nursery Babies
55. And, the ultimate: Power. Wheels. Barbie. Car.
If you had this…life dream status attained.


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Lots of firsts and some other interesting tidbits.
|First institution of higher education in the U.S. in its antecedents, which go back to it proposed at Henrico (1619). Second to Harvard in actual operation.
|First American institution of higher education to receive its charter from the Crown under the Seal of the Privy Council in 1693. Hence it was known as "their majesties" Royal College of William and Mary.
|First and only American institution of higher education to receive a coat of arms from the College of Heralds (1694).
|First institution of higher education in the U.S. to have a full faculty, consisting of a president, six professors, usher and writing master (1729).
|First institution of higher education to confer medallic prizes, gold medals donated by Lord Botetourt (1771).
|First institution of higher education to establish an intercollegiate fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (December 5, 1776).
|First institution of higher education to have the Elective System of study (1779).
|First institution of higher education to have an Honor System (1779).
|First college to become a university (1779).
|First institution of higher education to have a School of Modern Languages (1779).
|First institution of higher education to have a School of Municipal and Constitutional Law (1779). Thomas Jefferson had the idea. His mentor, George Wythe, was hired in 1779 as William & Mary's first "professor of law and police," and the great Chief Justice John Marshall was among the first lawyers Wythe taught.
|First university to teach Political Economy (1784).
|First university to have a School of Modern History (1803).
|Three Presidents of the United States were educated at William & Mary: Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and John Tyler (four if we count George Washington's surveyor's license).
|Although William & Mary retains its traditional title of "College," it's really a small university that offers more than 40 graduate and professional degree programs.
|William & Mary is one of only eight U.S. institutions of higher education designated a "Public Ivy." A public ivy is a state-assisted institution that offers a superior education at a cost far below that of Ivy League schools.
|William & Mary's 12-to-1 student-faculty ratio is the lowest among the top public universities, a factor that helps strengthen W&M's traditional commitment to teaching. Eighty six percent of William & Mary's classes have fewer than 40 students — nearly half have fewer than 20 students.
|Founded in 1842, the William & Mary Alumni Association is the sixth oldest such group in the U.S.
|Named for its presumed architect, the Sir Christopher Wren Building was completed in 1699 and provided classrooms, library, dining hall and a chapel for generations of William & Mary students. It is the oldest college building still standing in the U.S. — classes are still taught within its walls.
|A succession of influential individuals — including President George Washington, President John Tyler, Chief Justice Warren Burger, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor have held the post of Chancellor of William & Mary. In 2012, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates '65, L.H.D. '98 was installed as William & Mary's 24th Chancellor and he was re-invested in 2019.
|With 40 alumni currently serving, William & Mary is a top producer of Peace Corps volunteers for the 11th consecutive year.


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End of session brings surprise to city
The Minnesota Legislative session has ended, a new funding bill has been approved, and the City of Moose Lake is receiving $2 million as reimbursement for infrastructure and sewer work done earlier to provide services for the state prison and the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) according to Gary Carlson, a lobbyist for the League of Minnesota Cities.
"We are surprised that this additional funding reimbursement came at this time," commented Pat Oman, Administrator for the City of Moose Lake. "We have outstanding bonding debt that was incurred because of the infrastructure needed to handle the water and sewer for the added prison and MSOP expansions. This money will cover almost all of the costs of the work the city committed to in good faith in previous years. The good news is that these debts will now not affect other projects we as a city work on to help our area grow."
Oman explained that the city had representatives in front of the Senate Tax Committee earlier in the Legislative session testifying for the authority to set a sales tax in Moose Lake. During that discussion, chair of the Senate Tax Committee Senator Skoe (DFL) from the Bemidji and Beltrami County area asked pointed questions for an extended period on an earlier state decision to not pay the full cost of the infrastructure work. As has been reported earlier, the State of Minnesota, in negotiations with the City of Moose Lake, said they would only pay $1.3 of the costs incurred. Moose Lake reluctantly accepted.
Unknown to Moose Lake officials, Senator Skoe included $2 million in the new funding bill to rectify this injustice. "A DFL majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives made this possible," said Rep. Mike Sundin. "Senator Lourey and I have worked to give the people of our district a voice in decisions in St. Paul. The vision of Governor Dayton is key to all this. This makes things happen for our area."


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* Do not corner wild animals or try to rescue them. Call your local animal control office or wildlife resource office. Wild animals often seek higher ground which, during floods, eventually become submerged (i.e., island) and the animals become stranded. If the island is large enough and provides suitable shelter, you can leave food appropriate to the species (i.e., sunflower seeds for squirrels). Animals have a flight response and will flee from anyone approaching too closely. If the animal threatens to rush into the water, back away from the island or you may frighten the animal into jumping into the water to escape from you.
* Do not approach wild animals that have taken refuge in your home. Wild animals such as snakes, opossums, and raccoons often seek refuge from floodwaters on upper levels of homes and have been known to remain after water recedes. If you encounter animals in this situation, open a window or provide another escape route and the animal will likely leave on its own. Do not attempt to capture or handle the animal. Should the animal stay, call your local animal control office or wildlife resource office.
* Beware of an increased number of snakes and other predators. These animals will try to feed on the carcasses of reptiles, amphibians and small mammals who have been drowned or crushed in their burrows or under rocks.
* Do not attempt to move a dead animal. Animal carcasses can present serious health risks. Outbreaks of anthrax, encephalitis and other diseases may occur. Contact your local emergency management office or health department for help and instructions.
* Do not corner wild animals or try to rescue them. Wild animals will likely feel threatened and may endanger themselves by dashing off into floodwaters, fire, and so forth.
* If bitten by an animal, seek immediate medical attention.
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A winner was selected from 193 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
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Carl and Joann Lehman of Rockwood celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov. 21.
They were married on Nov. 21, 1964, in Rockwood First Christian Church, with the Rev. Vernon Greenhalgh officiating.
He is retired from Jerry Duncan Ford, where he spent 45 years as parts and service coordinator.
She was a cafeteria worker at Ridge View Elementary School, Rockwood, for 30 years before retiring. She then went to work for Junior's Restaurant, Rockwood, where she became famous for her coconut and chocolate pies.
Twins Tenley and Leyton Bolden turned 1 year old on Oct. 29.
They celebrated on Nov. 1 with a Dr. Seuss-themed party with relatives and friends.
They are the children of Tim and Amber Bolden of Harriman.
Grandparents are Steve and Mona Bolden of Harriman, Dave and Leslie Senk of San Ramon, Calif., Scott Parcels of Davidson, Mich., and Lyle Yingling of Knoxville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronny Young of Smithville announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Alyssa Anne Young, to Daniel Lee Leslie.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Leslie of Kingston.
The ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 25 in Elizabeth Chapel Baptist Church, Smithville.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Violet Pack and the late John W. Pack, and James Young and the late Marie Young, all of Smithville.
Madison Kaye Ariks was born at 9:41 a.m. July 12 in Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville.
She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 19 1/2 inches long.
She is the daughter of Chris and Jessica Ariks of Kingston.
Grandparents are Ronnie and Rhonda Nickell of Oakdale, and the late Angelia Ariks of Kingston.
Great-grandparents are the late Nancy Edmonds of Pennington Gap, Va., the late Jimmy Nickell and Reva Nickell of Kingston, and the late Ruby Johnson and Lonnie and Sue Johnson of Kingston.
Rob and April Viar announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Brittanie Nichole Viar, to Benjamin Drew West.
He is the son of David and Sharon West.
The ceremony will be on Oct. 11 at the Shipwash farm. Formal invitations have been sent.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Midway High School and Tennessee Wesleyan College. She teaches third grade at Sweetwater Elementary School.
The prospective groom is a graduate of Tellico Plains High School. He is head foreman at GUBMK Contractors at Watts Bar Dam, Meigs County.
Babies born at Methodist Medical Center, Oak Ridge, to Roane County parents:
Aug. 8 — Jamie and Randall Wells, Rockwood. A girl, Cali Isabella, 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Siblings: Allie and Josie. Grandparents: Raymond and Sonya Golliher; Randy and Ann Wells.
Aug. 19 — Autumn Phillips and Ronny Hamrick, Oliver Springs. A boy, Kason Blake, 8 pounds, 10 ounces. Grandparents: Ronny and Jeannie Hamrick; Leighann Hamrick; Whitney and Dewayne Butler; Nick Phillips.
Babies born at Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, Knoxville, to Roane County parents:
Sept. 17 — Jacqueline White, Harriman. A girl, Avari Ann Skye.
Marriage licenses granted at the Roane County Courthouse from July 9:
• James Matthew Smith to Tara Destiny Clark, both of Harriman.
• James Michael Goss to Misty Leigh Gann Burden, both of Cave Spring, Ga.
• Joshua Allen Walker to Jennifer Lyne Madison, both of Kingston.
• Christopher John Stinnett to Angela Michele Edmonds, both of Rockwood.
• Jesse Dewayne Goad to Brittany Daniell Loy, both of Harriman.
All relatives and friends are invited to the 90th birthday celebration for Neva King Webster Stubbs.
The celebration will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 4 in Caney Ford Baptist Church's life center, Midtown.
Birthday cards will be appreciated.
Donald and Susan Nalls of Oak Ridge announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Jennifer Lauren Nalls, to David Branson Langley.
He is the son of Russell and Paula Langley of Kingston.
The ceremony will be at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 11 at The Lighthouse, Knoxville. A reception will follow at The Lighthouse.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Theresa Nalls and the late Donald Nalls, and Clair and Ann Schwob.
A graduate of Maryville College with a degree in psychology, she is presently pursuing a degree in nursing.
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I'm almost embarrassed to admit this here...on my sewing blog, but last year I bought my daughter's Easter dress at Costco. I can make a lot of excuses as to why I didn't make one but really I was just lazy and the rack at Costco had some cute dresses for way cheap. But this year I decided I would make something and I knew that I wanted a Sis Boom pattern because they are really just the cutest.
I decided to make the Marissa Dress which is a PDF pattern. This dress took only an afternoon to make and if you've made any clothing before, it is pretty easy. The directions were fabulous - I actually did the zipper with no trouble! (Sign of a good pattern to me.) Here is the bodice work in progress - I just love the random pleats and gathers.
I am sure a few of you are wondering what the heck is this fabric. It looks like Flea Market Fancy, right? Well, it is similar. Here is a comparison.
I bought this fabric off eBay last October. It is a vintage, seersucker-y print. The floral bouquet design is an old design, so obviously Denyse Schmidt isn't the only one who was inspired by it.
The dress is a hit. My daughter wanted to sleep in it after I finished it. Each time I make clothing I wonder why I don't do more fashion sewing. It is quick (well, quicker than a quilt) and there is a lot of satisfaction knowing I or someone in my family is wearing something I made. Who knows, maybe I will make myself a dress next!


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Transitioning from film to digital may not be the death of drive-ins. At least, that�s what D. Edward Vogel, United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association administrative secretary, thinks.
Want to help Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In Theatre win a digital projector?
Go to Projectdrivein.com to cast a vote or send a text with �vote17� to 444999. Voting began Aug. 9 and ends Sept. 9.
Transitioning from film to digital may not be the death of drive-ins.
At least, that�s what D. Edward Vogel, United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association administrative secretary, thinks.
Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In owner Rick Stinnett feels differently. He believes moving from 35mm film to downloading flicks from a server to a digital projector will drive mom and pop theaters out of business.
Stinnett, who was born into the business and grew up in a home next to one of the theaters, also owns the Sunset Drive-in located west of Shelby on West Dixon Boulevard.
One thing is certain: the digital conversion is happening now. It�s a matter of time before movie studios stop creating film prints altogether.
Digital opportunities
Just one drive-in shut down because of the cost to switch to digital, but that closure involved a small drive-in with no room to expand, Vogel said.
At least 40 percent of drive-in theaters have converted to digital, Vogel said.
�If you think outside of the box, there are a lot of things you can do with this device,� said Vogel, who also owns the Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Baltimore.
Vogel saw business go up 20 percent after converting to digital this year. Other drive-in owners reported similar profit increases, he said.
Drive-in owners could get creative with what they show to bring in more customers, Vogel said.
�What about showing the Super Bowl, and having the largest Super Bowl Party?� Vogel asked.
Theaters could show live opera, concerts and even hook up a video game console for a larger than life gaming competition.
Digital worries
The projector that Stinnett uses to show movies at Bessemer City Kings Mountain Drive-In Theatre is the same one purchased by his mom and dad when they opened the theater in 1949.
�And everybody back then, even the cinemas back then, were independent. That�s what developed the studios,� Stinnett said. �Now it seems like they�ve turned their back on us, just demanding digital projectors.�
Getting a digital projector comes with a price, and Stinnett worries that going digital without getting help will mean he�ll have to raise his price from $10 a carload.
The price of technology
The cost of buying a digital projector isn�t the only cost to a drive-in.
Stinnett expects it to cost about $100,000 to go digital. A digital projector is about $80,000, and Stinnett anticipates spending $20,000 more for installation and upgrades.
Drive-in owners have to create a space that�s dust free, cool in the summer and warm in the winter if they install a digital projector, Vogel said. Booths will need to be remodeled to protect the digital equipment from the elements.
�It�s going to be one more nail in the coffin of the little mom and pop theaters because the cost is so prohibitive,� said Dave Monahan, film studies department chairman and associate professor at UNC Wilmington.
Drive-ins had from February to April to sign up for a reimbursement program that would pay theaters back 80 percent of the cost of buying a projector if they had them up and working by the end of June.
The short window of time to apply and install projectors put drive-in owners in a pinch.
Vogel was able to get into that program, but he still had to come up with the money to finance that big purchase, something that�s often difficult for mom and pop drive-ins to do.
What�s behind the digital transition?
Movie studios will decide when 35mm film dies.
�Each studio makes its own individual business decisions about when and how they release films,� wrote Kate Bedingfield of the Motion Picture Association of America.
The association doesn�t get involved in those decisions, and didn�t know when the digital transition would take place, Bedingfield wrote.
Monahan said the cost of shipping is one of the main issues with distributing film prints.
�The 35 mm prints are extremely heavy so shipping costs are really heavy,� Monahan said. �35mm film prints wear out. The projection equipment is expensive. They take more maintenance and supervision.�
Just a few film labs to create those 35mm prints are still around, so it makes sense that studios would opt for technology that doesn�t involve expensive prints that eventually wear out.
Digital technology has reached a point where the resolution is as good as film, with digital being able to showcase the depth of blacks, shadows and highlights.
Stinnett doesn�t want to think about what will happen if he doesn�t win a projector with Honda�s Project Drive-In. The five drive-in theaters with the most votes win digital projectors.
He�s focusing his efforts on earning votes, and said he�ll decide what to do next depending on the outcome.
�I regret that the studios are not taking care of the independents who started this industry,� Stinnett said. �All we want to do is just survive, that�s all we want to do.
Halifax Media Group contributed to this report. Reach Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or twitter.com/AmandaMemrick.


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Droog Design cranks up the heat with Radiator Heat Wave, a piece of wall art that actually generates radiant heat. Made of concrete and aluminum, the whole thing is held together with glass fiber and is available now. Droog Design says a water version of the Heat Wave is on its way in 2007. There s something pleasing when function follows form. Nice, job, oh my brothers.
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