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What defines the Don Draper of 2012?
That's the question I took to a panel of folks who know best—today's "Mad" men and women, ad agency chief executives and creative officers—in anticipation of the return of AMC's hit "Mad Men" Sunday night. In their emailed responses, a constant: the Don Draper of 2012 wouldn't recognize his 1960s self.
Here's what they had to say.
Duff Stewart, president and CEO, GSD&M
If by a Don Draper you mean a successful leader in advertising, that person today is defined by curiosity. In an industry that changes every day, there's nothing more important than staying engaged, asking questions and trying new things. It's curiosity and the learning that comes from it that leads to great ideas.
Rei Inamoto, chief creative officer, AKQA
Art & Copy is so last-century. A Don Draper of the 21st century marries Art & Code.
Advertising, for a long time, helped build brands by communicating a message. And that message was often crafted by a team of an art director and a copywriter – an "Art & Copy" team model that was invented by one of the original Mad Men of the 1960s. But that was more than 50 years ago.
In the 21st century, what builds a brand isn't mass communication. We live in a world where some of the most influential brands of the 21st century need little if any advertising to be successful. It's really Connection that builds a brand now.
Today, a team of artists, designers, user-experience people, content creators, and, of course, writers should work together with a team of coders, programmers, developers and even scientists to create tools and experiences for people to use and be part of. Therefore, "Art & Code." And that leads to more meaningful Connection between a brand and consumers.
Susan Credle, chief creative officer, Leo Burnett USA
Don Draper Season One plays a creative maverick. He left a big agency to start a small agency because he was dissatisfied with the business. So who is that today?
A tattoo-expressing, $400-that-first-cost-$12-t-shirt-wearing, friend/artist-designed-sneaker-donning, hiatus-embracing person who isn't too worried because she can always crash on the couch of her dad who happened to be a Mad Man.
David Lubars, chairman and chief creative officer, BBDO North America
The Don Drapers of back then weren't very good. They pursued the hackneyed and glib, whereas real giants like Bill Bernbach pursued the brilliant, the humanist, the reductionist. While today's media has evolved, the Bernbachian approach is relevant as ever.


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As I drove through Norwich yesterday, I saw men hanging holiday wreaths on the quaint wrought iron lamp posts that line the city's main thoroughfare. There is no denying the warm, cozy holiday glow inspired by these evergreen boughs and the decorative banners interspersed among them.
Those feelings seemed warmer than usual yesterday. Probably because it was nearly 70 degrees. The unseasonable warmth snapped me out of my hot-cocoa and peppermint striped reverie, and reminded me that it's only the first week in November.
Every year it seems that we start gearing up for Christmas a little bit earlier than we did before. I remember when stores and the radio started playing Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving. This year it started the day after Halloween.
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Seeing all the Christmas decor this early stresses me out. I start to feel the panic rising when I think about the fact that I haven't started my holiday shopping yet. What? Only 46 more shopping days 'til Christmas. (Dramatic sigh) Whatever will I do!
And aren't we forgetting something here? Like Thanksgiving? Now, I realize that this is a less commercially lucrative holiday for retailers, but it's still important to me. And I don't like feeling rushed. It's detrimental to proper digestion.
Let me eat my turkey in peace and then I'll start pulling out my Christmas decorations and make up a shopping list.


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Breeding Platys for Colour Hello there! As some of you know, I'm working my way towards breeding platys, but I don't understand fish colour genetics. (Horses, yes, fish, not so much. lol. ) Assuming that my parent fish are all bred from a constant color in their pedigree, would this fry colour prediction be correct? Red Wag (orange body, black fins) + All Yellow= All Reds and Yellow Wags? Or would I get a bunch of light orange fry? Do fish pass on definate dominant/recessive colour genes, or do they operate in "shades"? Any help is hugely appreciated! |
you would most likely get a variety some of all of those |
I hope people continue with this thread, im sure me and others aswell coudl benefit from it, cuz i too have always wondered about this... :) |
Experienced fish breeders get in here! :-D I love genetics... If you've crossed different colored fish, please post your results! |
LOL, i love genetics too! :) And we should just make another topic somewhere else, telling people to post here, ;P |
I was doing some research ont his last night, and an example whas a White Calico (WC) Breeding with a Orange Wag (OW). This is what he said would come out of it, if ti were a pure strain: OW OC WW WC Does this make sense to you? I think it does to me. But he said that if it isnt a pure strain, atleast for the first few generations it will be nearly impossible to tell what will come out... |
Cool! Well that makes sense. 25% of the fry would be each color variation. (In the perfect world, of course. ;) ) So lets say Blue Mickey Mouse* X Red Wag= -B -BMM -BW -BWMM -R -RMM -RW -RWMM That would be all the variations, right? *Mickey Mouse is a color marking that looks like the classic Disney emblem. |
25% Blue/Red (Purple!?! :lol:) * 25% Blue Wag 25% Red Mickey Mouse 25% Mickey Mouse Wag* * Those probably translate to Blue Mickey Mouse Wag and Red Mickey Mouse Wag. |
Alright cool. Ill keep looking arouns and stuff, tho :). And once again, this is only if u have pure lines. Which most commercial stores most likely will not have, i think. So the first few generations will be tough. And one thing i dont understand, what makes a wag platy a wag platy? |
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The United Church of Christ has signed on with a coalition of interfaith partners in a counter-campaign responding to a series of anti-Muslim hate speech billboards which went up in the subway tunnels in Washington, D.C.
With Friday's Muslim holiday, Eid Al Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) nearing, Dr. Peter E. Makari, the UCC's executive for the Middle East and Europe, says the denomination is offering its support and prayers to its Islamic brothers and sisters.
"Hate speech has no place in the community we strive to attain. As people of faith, we are instructed to love God and our neighbors. Such a relationship includes getting to know our neighbors, their joys, and their pains and sorrows," Makari said. "As the Muslim community worldwide prepares to commemorate the Feast of the Sacrifice, Abraham's preparedness to sacrifice his son, we can offer Muslim neighbors our good wishes and our prayer for peace, while standing opposed to those who would defame and insult others."
One UCC congregation in Washington D.C., First Congregational United Church of Christ, plans to post signs in its sanctuary saying that it stands with the Muslim community, and it hopes to have a forum on the issue in November.
"We're in conversation with local mosque communities and local Muslim faith-based organizations to host a public forum," said Susie Hayward, a member of First Congregational UCC, who is organizing the response. "This is flowing out of our belief that Jesus taught us to love God and love our neighbors."
Hayward added it is "incumbent on faith communities to respond forcefully to hate speech and religious hate speech."
The controversial ad, sponsored by the conservative group American Freedom Defense Initiative, is on display for a month at four Metro stations in the nation's capital. It reads: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." There are also similar signs posted in San Francisco and New York City, according to the Huffington Post.
The counter-campaign ad, organized by the Shoulder-to-Shoulder coalition and United Methodist Women, reads: "Hate speech is not civilized. Support peace in word and deed," followed by a Twitter hashtag #mysubwayad.
There are 24 faith-based groups from Christian, Jewish and Muslim denominations joining together to speak out against the hate speech campaign. The organizations released a letter last week urging the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), known in D.C. as the Metro, not to profit from the hate speech ads by donating proceeds from the billboards to a Washington-based charity.
The WMATA initially fought to delay posting the controversial billboards, fearing they would promote violence, but a federal judge, citing the First Amendment and the right to free speech, ordered they be posted. To distance itself from the controversy, the WMATA said recently it will post disclaimers which states it does not endorse AFDI's message. "This is a paid advertisement… The advertising space is a designated public forum and does not imply WMATA's endorsement of any views express," the disclaimer reads.


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Volleyball teams in title hunt
Nanaimo high schools have a lot of senior girls' volleyball teams in the title hunt this weekend. Island championships are being decided today (Nov. 16) and tomorrow.
Dover Bay Secondary School's senior AAAA girls are hosting Islands in their gym and are hoping to be in Saturday's Island final, set for 3:30 p.m.
Dover placed second at the North Island tournament last weekend, falling in three sets to G.P. Vanier. It was a good result for a relatively young Dolphins team, said coach Dave Nelson.
"We're not as skilled as some Dover teams in the past, but the girls really get along and have good chemistry. And we have good leadership from our Grade 12s, so that helps," he said. "We have a little bit of experience, we have a little bit of leadership, we have some good chemistry and that gets us through some matches."
Dover has matches Friday at 2:10 p.m., 3:20 p.m. and 7 p.m.
The Nanaimo District Islanders senior AAA girls won the North Island championship last weekend at Campbell River, beating Ballenas 21-25, 25-18, 15-10.
"The kids have got some game, but they work really hard in practice; they take constructive criticism very well," said Gary Maitland, NDSS coach.
ND is the province's No. 2-ranked AAA senior girls' team and will be the favourites going into this weekend's Island championships at Parkland high school in Victoria. There will be some tough competition there, but Maitland said he doesn't worry too much about what the other teams will bring.
"It's more about what we do," he said. "If we can control what we do and play our game and cut down our unforced errors then we'll be very successful."
The Wellington Wildcats are also participating in the AAA Island championships.
The Cedar Spartans, meanwhile, are expected to be strong contenders at the AA Island championships today and tomorrow at Victoria's St. Mike's University School after winning North Islands last week. Cedar bested Brentwood in three games last Saturday at Mill Bay.
"They're a resilient group, that's for sure," said Bill Rounis, coach of the Spartans. "We went to three sets a number of times and won in the third set."
Cedar is the No. 2 seed heading into this weekend's Island championships. The Spartans do a lot of things well, said the coach.
"Our ball control is fantastic. We continue to pressure teams," he said. "And we've been able to show some size, too."
The Barsby Blazers senior AA girls are also competing at Islands. Cedar and Barsby are co-hosting provincials and they get one host berth between them, so if the Spartans or the Blazers reach Saturday's Island final, then they not only qualify themselves for provincials, but their neighbours, too.


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Just for the sake of curiosity, since my ACE is 2011, how different is the 2012 model? Some local guys are already asking...my ACE is the first one ever in our waters.
Quote from: balance_fit on February 18, 2012, 02:20:40 PMJust for the sake of curiosity, since my ACE is 2011, how different is the 2012 model? Some local guys are already asking...my ACE is the first one ever in our waters.From what we can tell comparing 12'6"s the 2012 seems to have a bit more rocker and volume at the front and the pin tail carries more volume at the back by not tapering as aggressively. Supposedly these changes are to increase the stability. We have had one guy go back to the 2011 model because he didn't like the 2012 as much, but he's a smaller guy with really good balance ( paddles a 23 NEW as well)
Quote from: greatdane on February 20, 2012, 04:03:26 PMAma's on the left True dat. The ama only prevents flipping to the left. WTF was I thinking?
Quote from: 1paddle2paddle on February 21, 2012, 11:05:30 AMQuote from: greatdane on February 20, 2012, 04:03:26 PMAma's on the left True dat. The ama only prevents flipping to the left. WTF was I thinking?I knew you didn't mean that (-: I have just flipped an OC1 to the right so many times it's burned in my head!
I've got a 12'6" NEW which is like the 2010 version of the Ace, just with a different name. When trying to find the ideal position to stand on the board, I like to get as much of the board's waterline engaged as possible. I figure this will result in less pushing of the water and better speed. For me, I stand near the front of the footwells on my board when in flat water. If I'm on a runner, I'll take 1 or 2 two-footed hops back to keep the nose from digging in to the wave in front.I'm still working on riding the board in surf stance from the very back of the board and out of the foot wells. I find it very tricky standing on the tail of my board in surf stance. The 14' Ace has a flatter area behind the footwells that make it quite a bit easier to ride the tail in surf stance. I think this board really excels in mild to moderate downwinders. It just seems to slip through the water effortlessly while letting you feel the bumps and paddle accordingly to catch them. I have other boards that as fast or even faster in flat water but nothing is as much fun on a downwinder.
Hey guys, I find that I'm standing back by the handles on both my 14 and 12'6" if I go forward I seem to loose the glide. It interesting as the general wisdom round here is to stand as far forward as possible. I also find that I loose the stability if I stand right up the front when going downwind, so much so that I generally stay back and only go forward to drop down a wave. Then I have to run back really fast cause I accelerates down the wave so fast it's not funny ( and I end up in the water). I am running a bit more weight than balance_ fit about 200 lbs which makes the downwind trim and general balance challenging As far as stability in chop goes we are paddling ACEs in everything. On Tuesday's race we where dealing with 3 to 4' waves and 10+ knots, at an angle across the course. The pure downwind boards where slightly faster on the downwind leg, but with the ACEs speed I could pull them in and pass them upwind. These boards really fly upwind in rough conditions, the tail releases down the back of waves. We've even got a couple of guys who have worked out how to surf them down the line of a swell ( the rest of us are stuck with straight shooting) The 2012 changes seem to help with catching the larger swells, the increased rocker and volume at the front gives a bit more leeway on th drop before having to lift the bow. Argosi, demo a recent 25. Guys stepping up from the NEW are finding the recent ACEs a lot faster....although we do have some 23 NEWs going really fast as well


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FORTUNE -- David Overton makes a point of trying to get to every one of his restaurant openings. In the 35 years since he founded the Cheesecake Factory in Beverly Hills, only a handful have kicked off without his discerning eye. So it surprised no one when Overton decided to travel halfway around the world for the Kuwait City launch of the 160th Cheesecake Factory.
Overton's presence made this event just like every Cheesecake Factory opening. Indeed, it was Overton's directive to his team that this launch and, more important, this restaurant be treated like any other. The tables were set exactly as they are in the U.S., the forks slightly staggered. The usual artist had designed the decorative murals featuring themes of mythology, history, and astronomy. The portions and the waiting times were just as abundant. "It feels like a Cheesecake, and it tastes like a Cheesecake," says Heather Berry, director of beverage and bakery operations, who had traveled over for the launch.
Beneath the surface, though, restaurant No. 160 was dramatically different. Publicly held Cheesecake Factory (cake), known in the industry for its consistency and Overton's attention to detail, owns all its restaurants in the U.S. But the Kuwait City outpost is licensed to M.H. Alshaya Co., a Kuwait-based group operating in 19 countries with more than 70 brands in its portfolio. In January 2011 the two companies signed a deal that allowed Alshaya to open 22 Cheesecake Factories over five years in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar. (Two Dubai locations opened in 2012.)
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You may have never heard of M.H. Alshaya, which is exactly how the intensely private company likes it. Formed some 30 years ago by members of Kuwait's Alshaya family, including current executive chairman Mohammed Alshaya, the retail-franchising operation manages dozens of international brands and thousands of stores. The closely held business declines to disclose any financial information, and executives rarely speak with the media, saying they prefer to let their brands and properties speak for themselves. And oh, what brands: Starbucks (sbux), Pinkberry, IHOP (din), American Eagle Outfitters (aeo), Victoria's Secret (ltd), Pottery Barn, and Williams-Sonoma (wsm) -- all are mainstays in the Middle East thanks to Alshaya.
These retailers and many more are increasingly drawn to the region because of its well-heeled population of expats and globetrotting locals. (Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE rank among the world's top 20 countries in GDP per capita.) There also are few homegrown competitors to fend off; in fact, consumers in the Middle East seek out Western brands because they crave authentic American experiences.
But Kuwait City isn't Kansas, and to bring a taste of the U.S. to places such as the UAE, multinationals need a local guide to help them navigate the cultural, religious, and regulatory protocols of the region. That's where Alshaya comes in. Like many franchisees, Alshaya handles basics such as scouting locations and negotiating leases; it hires and manages employees who come from 110 different countries; and crucially, it helps eateries modify their menus to comply with Islamic dietary laws. As I discovered when I traveled to Kuwait City for a behind-the-scenes look at the Cheesecake Factory's opening in November, bringing a Western restaurant chain to the Middle East is an exercise in patience, creativity, and strong execution. It also involves tasting a lot of food.
All roads lead to the mall in this part of the world. Over the past two decades, shopping culture in the Gulf region has migrated from the outdoor marketplace, the souk, to the destination megamall that sits at the center of social life. You can escape from the oppressive heat, browse brands from Armani to Zara, ski and ice-skate indoors, and visit one of the world's largest aquariums. "When Alshaya told us, 'You're going to go in malls in the Middle East,' we looked at them and said, 'You don't understand. We're a cool New York urban brand. We don't do malls,' " explains Randy Garutti, CEO of Shake Shack, based in New York City. "Then you witness it. The mall there is the piazza. It is the Union Square." Garutti didn't have to worry about whether the concept would translate. When Shake Shack, part of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, announced plans to open in Kuwait, its Miami Beach location became a hotspot for Kuwaitis scoping it out on spring break. The Cheesecake Factory was also coveted by Middle Eastern consumers. For five years the restaurant ranked No. 1 in a quarterly survey asking patrons which American restaurant concept they'd like to see in the Dubai Mall, Overton says. When the restaurant opened there in August, it touted the line "The wait is over."
Retailers who take the plunge into the Gulf are often rewarded with some of the best-performing stores in their systems. Take Scottsdale-based P.F. Chang's: Three of its top-10 restaurants by sales are in the Middle East. With relatively small populations -- Kuwait has just 2.8 million residents -- the region's blowout figures come with not only higher transactions but also a greater frequency of store visits.
Alshaya is the driving force behind much of the brand migration. "We are a willing investor, an aggressive investor," Mohammed Alshaya tells me during my visit to Kuwait City. He had just finished touring the newly opened section of the Avenues mall with the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait; earlier that day he had cut the ribbon at the Cheesecake Factory opening with CEO Overton.
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The Alshaya group of companies' history dates back to 1890 and includes interests in real estate, construction, and hotels in the Middle East. In recent years the 30-year-old retail-franchising operation has started expanding beyond its Gulf region roots. In January 2012, Alshaya acquired 60 stores of lingerie shop La Senza in the U.K., and in 2007, Starbucks opened in Russia with Alshaya as its partner. "We had already established a great partnership with them" in the Middle East, explains Michelle Gass, president of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Starbucks. "The core skills they bring to the table -- they believed they could translate that into Russia."
International restaurant companies tried to woo the Cheesecake Factory for years, but Overton felt that the restaurant's complexities made it hard to license. He wasn't sure that he would ever feel comfortable taking his company global. It wasn't until meeting Alshaya that Overton thought that an international partnership might work. Alshaya paid a visit to Overton in California and offered to show him around personally if he came to the region. In May 2010 Alshaya went with him to Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, showing him malls, where Overton was most struck by how closely stores mimicked their counterparts in the States. "I walked into Pottery Barn, and there's no way you could tell that it wasn't [the U.S.]," Overton tells me.
Alshaya's core competency is cloning, replicating, duplicating -- a sampling of the terms I heard used during my trip. The day the company launches a brand in the Middle East, it starts with the assumption that the retail experience will be identical to what a customer encounters in the U.S. Alshaya has no desire to reinvent; rather, it tries to understand a retailer's core and reproduce it. Still, Alshaya makes appropriate tweaks when necessary. The most common changes stem from compliance with Islamic dietary laws. Serving a cake made with gelatin? It must be extracted according to halal guidelines. Other alterations are made to match regional tastes. At Shake Shack, you won't find its pumpkin-pie frozen custard on the menu -- customers may not be familiar with the flavor. More shower items than bath products line the shelves at Bath & Body Works because there's a preference for bathing in running water. At Pottery Barn Kids, the chairs on display are personalized with Jaber rather than Max.
The process of creating uniformity across a brand is never easy in the restaurant business. Chains can copy aesthetics with little difficulty; it is much harder to get food to taste exactly the same every day in every location. One of the most fanatical guys in the industry when it comes to standardization is Overton. If you order his Over the Top Meatloaf Sandwich, covered in Guinness-marinated Swiss cheese and tomato-bacon jam, it should taste exactly the same in Boca Raton as in Phoenix or in Honolulu. When Overton decided to bring his brand to the Middle East, he insisted that his meat-loaf sandwich and the rest of the menu taste the same in Kuwait City and Dubai as well. The Cheesecake Factory did the initial work to make the recipes comply with Muslim dietary practices, and then reviewed the changes with Alshaya. So now that meat loaf had to taste exactly the same using halal beef, sans Guinness marinade and pork bacon in the topping.
Cheesecake Factory chief culinary officer Donald Moore's initial reaction was alarm -- especially when it came to limitations on pork. "I love bacon," he says. "We put bacon in our salads and on our burgers and sandwiches." He took a reconnaissance trip to the region, eating bacon everywhere. "I ate veal bacon, turkey bacon, beef bacon, you name it," he says. The issue wasn't just about taste. A lot of the bacons were jerky-like and lacked the texture of pork. Once his team found the right consistency, it matched the sweetness and smokiness, ending up with a beef bacon that Moore loves.
When it came to alcohol, some menu items needed only a simple fix. The cheese for the meat loaf, for example, now gets marinated in nonalcoholic beer. Some of the other substitutes were harder to come by. The Cheesecake Factory's No. 1-selling item in the U.S. is Chicken Madeira, which calls for the eponymous wine. Moore's team created gastriques -- caramelized sugar with vinegar -- to duplicate the flavor profile.
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Every item had to pass Overton's muster to make it onto the menu. ("I don't believe in focus groups," he explains. "I'm kind of our one-man focus group.") It took Moore's team a year to find a replacement for miso, which contains alcohol, before Overton gave the miso salmon his okay. Some items, like the tiramisu and Kahlua cheesecake, couldn't be copied to the Cheesecake Factory's standards. "We worked for months replicating the cheesecakes that we have, and doing it without alcohol," says Berry, who runs bakery and beverages.
The afternoon before the Kuwait opening, I went out to the Avenues mall to talk to Scott Thomas, the Cheesecake Factory's area director of operations. "My goal tomorrow is to make sure every guest that comes in here thinks that they're in our brand in the United States, that there's no difference," he says. The biggest challenge for Thomas was the global nature of the staff. Many don't speak English as a first language and were unfamiliar with the restaurant's concept at first. Overton told me that he had talked to an employee from Russia who admitted that she was worried she was going over to Kuwait only to be exploited. She had thought she was literally coming to work at a cheesecake factory.
To help bridge the cultural and language gap, training went back to basics. Instruction ranged from the literal -- making sure the wait staff knew that the Caramel Pecan Turtle Cheesecake didn't actually contain turtle -- to the figurative. One of the restaurant's most popular salads is the Luau Salad, but many of the new hires didn't know what a luau was. "It's not the end of the world, but we wanted them to have a full understanding [of] why this salad looks the way it does," Thomas says. "It's a Hawaiian celebration in a bowl."
For three days before the Kuwait City opening, the Cheesecake Factory held its "mocks" -- a dress rehearsal for opening day, which the restaurant chain does before every launch. About 80 designated trainers had been brought over from the U.S. to work alongside the newly hired Alshaya staff. These test runs offer the chance to work out the kinks. "We've been cooking and eating and eating and eating, and that's all I've done for the last two days," Moore tells me. As a result of the sampling, Moore realized that a wine-free mustard in the herb-crusted salmon had failed to give him the perfect note. He needed to find a replacement mustard, so he bought every Dijon on the shelf at Dean & Deluca, another food retailer Alshaya brought to the region.
It wasn't the only improvising he would do that week. Some ingredients that the Cheesecake Factory imports hadn't made it over in time. Fresh corn had missed a flight. A special dough flour got stuck in another part of Kuwait, so tamale cakes were taken off the menu. "If we can get something local that would be the same or better, we would serve it," Moore says. Berry was waiting for a couple of juices that hadn't made the boat. She had come up with a backup recipe using a local fresh juice in case the shipment didn't arrive, but she was reluctant to hand it out. With all that the staff already had to learn, she didn't want to further complicate their training.
Sourcing will only become more complicated as the restaurant chain's expansion continues. Lebanon, for example, requires that imported products come directly from their country of origin; if the Cheesecake Factory uses shrimp from Mexico, the shellfish must come to Lebanon directly from Mexico.
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The team had a sense of what to expect in Kuwait thanks to its Dubai Mall launch in August. The restaurant opened during Ramadan in order to be ready for Eid, the celebration marking the end of the month of fasting. Like its location in Kuwait, the first Dubai Cheesecake Factory sits on prime real estate, in this case across from an aquarium. At opening, the wait for a table stretched to more than 150 names (large parties had to wait as long as three hours), and mall security eventually made the restaurant set up stanchions for crowd control.
Every customer was ordering cheesecake, with dessert making up 25% of sales. Berry had to write a whole new policy and procedure for handling the cheesecake mania. "It looked like I was writing a line of scrimmage," she says. "I had X's and O's and seven bodies." "Mocktails" and bottled water were so popular that beverages as a percentage of sales matched those in the U.S. -- amazing considering the absence of liquor sales in Dubai. The Cheesecake Factory says every Alshaya-licensed restaurant open for a year represents a penny in earnings per share, which translates into about half a million dollars in profit. Analysts expect the company to report about $1.8 billion in revenue and $105 million in profits in 2012. A third Middle East location, the largest Cheesecake Factory in the world, opened in Dubai on New Year's Eve.
I ate most of my meals on the trip at the Cheesecake Factory with Donald Evans, the company's genial chief marketing officer. He worked his way through ordering a long list of items that he and his colleagues thought I should sample -- primarily dishes that had been tweaked for the market, like Chicken Madeira, Chicken Piccata, and Herb Crusted Filet of Salmon. (Evans judiciously had only a bite or two of each dish, and I eventually caught on.)
There is something a bit odd about spreading this part of American culture around the world -- the desserts, the burgers, the hefty portions. But when I got back to the U.S. and went to my local Cheesecake Factory, I couldn't help being impressed by how flawlessly Alshaya and its partners do it. Everything was nearly identical: the friendly service, the lighting -- even the restaurant's neighbors (Victoria's Secret, Express, Bath & Body Works). But I was most focused on the food. I wanted to compare a sampling of menu items to what we had eaten in Dubai and Kuwait. And so, in the name of research, I tucked into White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake, Shrimp Scampi, and Hawaiian Pizza.
While I can't claim to have a particularly discerning palate, the food tasted exactly the same. The real moment of truth came when my server brought out the Chicken Madeira. One forkful, and I felt like I was transported to Kuwait.
This story is from the February 25, 2013 issue of Fortune.


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Network Working Group E. Hammer-Lahav, Ed. Internet-Draft Yahoo! Intended status: Standards Track B. Cook Expires: March 18, 2012 September 15, 2011 Web Host Metadata draft-hammer-hostmeta-17 Abstract This specification describes a method for locating host metadata as well as information about individual resources controlled by the host. Editorial Note (to be removed by RFC Editor) Please discuss this draft on the email@example.com [1] mailing list. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on March 18, 2012. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1.1. Processing Resource-Specific Information . . . . . . . 5 1.2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. Obtaining host-meta Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. The host-meta Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1. XML Document format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.1. The 'Link' Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4. Processing host-meta Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.1. Host-Wide Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2. Resource-Specific Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.1. The 'host-meta' Well-Known URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.2. The 'host-meta.json' Well-Known URI . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.3. The 'lrdd' Relation Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Appendix A. JRD Document Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Appendix B. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 1. Introduction Web-based protocols often require the discovery of host policy or metadata, where "host" is not a single resource but the entity controlling the collection of resources identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) with a common URI host [RFC3986], which can be served by one or more servers While web protocols have a wide range of metadata needs, they often use metadata that is concise, has simple syntax requirements, and can benefit from storing their metadata in a common location used by other related protocols. Because there is no URI or representation available to describe a host, many of the methods used for associating per-resource metadata (such as HTTP headers) are not available. This often leads to the overloading of the root HTTP resource (e.g. 'http://example.com/') with host metadata that is not specific or relevant to the root resource itself. This document defines a lightweight metadata document format for describing hosts (thus the name "host-meta"), intended for use by web-based protocols. This document also registers the well-known URI suffix "host-meta" in the Well-Known URI Registry established by [RFC5785]. In addition, there are times when a host-wide scope for policy or metadata is too coarse-grained. host-meta provides two mechanisms for providing resource-specific information: o Link Templates - links using a URI template instead of a fixed target URI, providing a way to define generic rules for generating resource-specific links by applying the individual resource URI to the template. o Link-based Resource Descriptor Documents (LRDD, pronounced 'lard') - descriptor documents providing resource-specific information, typically information that cannot be expressed using link templates. LRDD documents are linked to resources or host-meta documents using link templates with the "lrdd" relation type. 1.1. Example The following is a simple host-meta document including both host-wide and resource-specific information for the 'example.com' host: Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'> <!-- Host-wide Information --> <Property type='http://protocol.example.net/version'>1.0</Property> <Link rel='copyright' href='http://example.com/copyright' /> <!-- Resource-specific Information --> <Link rel='hub' template='http://example.com/hub' /> <Link rel='lrdd' type='application/xrd+xml' template='http://example.com/lrdd?uri={uri}' /> <Link rel='author' template='http://example.com/author?q={uri}' /> </XRD> The host-wide information which applies to host in its entirety provided by the document includes: o A "http://protocol.example.net/version" host property with a value of "1.0". o A link to the host's copyright policy ("copyright"). The resource-specific information provided by the document includes: o A link template for receiving real-time updates ("hub") about individual resources. Since the template does not include a template variable, the target URI is identical for all resources. o A LRDD document link template ("lrdd") for obtaining additional resource-specific information contained in a separate document for each individual resource. o A link template for finding information about the author of individual resources ("author"). Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 1.1.1. Processing Resource-Specific Information When looking for information about the an individual resource, for example, the resource identified by 'http://example.com/xy', the resource URI is applied to the templates found, producing the following links: <Link rel='hub' href='http://example.com/hub' /> <Link rel='lrdd' type='application/xrd+xml' href='http://example.com/lrdd?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fxy' /> <Link rel='author' href='http://example.com/author?q=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fxy' /> The LRDD document for 'http://example.com/xy' (obtained via an HTTP "GET" request): <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'> <Subject>http://example.com/xy</Subject> <Property type='http://spec.example.net/color'>red</Property> <Link rel='hub' href='http://example.com/another/hub' /> <Link rel='author' href='http://example.com/john' /> </XRD> Together, the information available about the individual resource (presented as an XRD document for illustration purposes) is: Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 5]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0'> <Subject>http://example.com/xy</Subject> <Property type='http://spec.example.net/color'>red</Property> <Link rel='hub' href='http://example.com/hub' /> <Link rel='hub' href='http://example.com/another/hub' /> <Link rel='author' href='http://example.com/john' /> <Link rel='author' href='http://example.com/author?q=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fxy' /> </XRD> Note that the order of links matters and is based on their original order in the host-meta and LRDD documents. For example, the "hub" link obtained from the host-meta link template has a higher priority than the link found in the LRDD document because the host-meta link appears before the "lrdd" link. On the other hand, the "author" link found in the LRDD document has a higher priority than the link found in the host-meta document because it appears after the "lrdd" link. 1.2. Notational Conventions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. This document uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notation of [RFC5234]. Additionally, the following rules are included from [RFC3986]: reserved, unreserved, and pct-encoded. 2. Obtaining host-meta Documents The client obtains the host-meta document for a given host by sending an HTTP [RFC2616] or an HTTPS [RFC2818] GET request to the host for Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 6]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 the "/.well-known/host-meta" path, using the default ports defined for each protocol (e.g. port 80 for HTTP and port 443 for HTTPS). The scope and meaning of host-meta documents obtained via other protocols or ports is undefined. The server MUST support at least one protocol but MAY support both. If both protocols are supported, they MUST produce the same document. The decision as to which protocol is used to obtain the host-meta document has significant security ramifications as described in Section 5. For example, the following request is used to obtain the host-meta document for the 'example.com' host: GET /.well-known/host-meta HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com If the server response indicates that the host-meta resource is located elsewhere (a 301, 302, or 307 response status code), the client SHOULD try to obtain the resource from the location provided in the response. This means that the host-meta document for one host MAY be retrieved from another host. Likewise, if the resource is not available or does not exist (e.g. a 404 or 410 response status codes), the client should infer that metadata is not available via this mechanism. The host-meta document SHOULD be served with the "application/xrd+xml" media type. 3. The host-meta Document The host-meta document uses the XRD 1.0 document format as defined by [OASIS.XRD-1.0], which provides a simple and extensible XML-based schema for describing resources. This specification defines additional processing rules needed to describe hosts. Documents MAY include any elements included in the XRD 1.0 schema which are not explicitly excluded by this specification. The server MAY offer alternative representations of any XRD document it serves (host-meta, LRDD, or other XRD-based documents). The client MAY request a particular representation using the HTTP "Accept" request header field. If no "Accept" request header field is included with the request, or if the client requests a "application/xrd+xml" representation, the server MUST respond using Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 7]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 <Link rel='author' template='http://example.com/author?article={uri}' /> 22.214.171.124. Template Syntax This specification defines a simple template syntax for URI transformation. A template is a string containing brace-enclosed ("{}") variable names marking the parts of the string that are to be substituted by the corresponding variable values. Before substituting template variables, values MUST be encoded using UTF-8 and any character other than unreserved (as defined by [RFC3986]) MUST be percent-encoded per [RFC3986]. This specification defines a single variable - "uri" - as the entire context resource URI. Protocols MAY define additional relation- specific variables and syntax rules, but SHOULD only do so for protocol-specific relation types, and MUST NOT change the meaning of the "uri" variable. If a client is unable to successfully process a template (e.g. unknown variable names, unknown or incompatible syntax) the parent "Link" element SHOULD be ignored. The template syntax ABNF: URI-Template = *( uri-char / variable ) variable = "{" var-name "}" uri-char = ( reserved / unreserved / pct-encoded ) var-name = %x75.72.69 / ( 1*var-char ) ; "uri" or other names var-char = ALPHA / DIGIT / "." / "_" For example: Input: http://example.com/r?f=1 Template: http://example.org/?q={uri} Output: http://example.org/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fr%3Ff%3D1 4. Processing host-meta Documents Once the host-meta document has been obtained, the client processes its content based on the type of information desired: host-wide or resource-specific. Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 9]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 Clients usually look for a link with a specific relation type or other attributes. In such cases, the client does not need to process the entire host-meta document and all linked LRDD documents, but instead, process the various documents in their prescribed order until the desired information is found. Protocols using host-meta must indicate whether the information they seek is host-wide or resource-specific. For example, "obtain the first host-meta resource-specific link using the 'author' relation type". If both types are used for the same purpose (e.g. first look for resource-specific, then look for host-wide), the protocol must specify the processing order. 4.1. Host-Wide Information When looking for host-wide information, the client MUST ignore any "Link" elements with a "template" attribute, as well as any link using the "lrdd" relation type. All other elements are scoped as host-wide. 4.2. Resource-Specific Information Unlike host-wide information which is contained solely within the host-meta document, resource-specific information is obtained from host-meta link templates, as well as from linked LRDD documents. When looking for resource-specific information, the client constructs a resource descriptor by collecting and processing all the host-meta link templates. For each link template: 1. The client applies the URI of the desired resource to the template, producing a resource-specific link. 2. If the link's relation type is other than "lrdd", the client adds the link to the resource descriptor in order. 3. If the link's relation type is "lrdd": 3.1 The client obtains the LRDD document by following the scheme-specific rules for the LRDD document URI. If the document URI scheme is "http" or "https", the document is obtained via an HTTP "GET" request to the identified URI. If the HTTP response status code is 301, 302, or 307, the client MUST follow the redirection response and repeat the request with the provided location. Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 10]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 3.2 The client adds any links found in the LRDD document to the resource descriptor in order, except for any link using the "lrdd" relation type (processing is limited to a single level of inclusion). When adding links, the client SHOULD retain any extension attributes and child elements if present (e.g. <Property> or <Title> elements). 3.3 The client adds any resource properties found in the LRDD document to the resource descriptor in order (e.g. <Alias> or <Property> child elements of the LRDD document <XRD> root element). 5. Security Considerations The host-meta document is designed to be used by other applications explicitly "opting-in" to use the facility. Therefore, any such application MUST review the specific security implications of using host-meta documents. By itself, this specification does not provide any protections or guarantees that any given host-meta document is under the control of the appropriate entity as required by each application. The metadata returned by the host-meta resource is presumed to be under the control of the appropriate authority and representative of all the resources described by it. If this resource is compromised or otherwise under the control of another party, it may represent a risk to the security of the server and data served by it, depending on the applications using it. Applications utilizing the host-meta document where the authenticity of the information is necessary MUST require the use of the HTTPS protocol and MUST NOT produce a host-meta document using other means. In addition, such applications MUST require that any redirection leading to the retrieval of a host-meta document also utilize the HTTPS protocol. Since the host-meta document is authoritative for the entire host, not just the authority (combination of scheme, host, and port) of the host-meta document server, applications MUST ensure that using a host-meta document for another URI authority does not represent a potential security exploit. Protocols using host-meta templates must evaluate the construction of their templates as well as any protocol-specific variables or syntax to ensure that the templates cannot be abused by an attacker. For example, a client can be tricked into following a malicious link due to a poorly constructed template which produces unexpected results Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 11]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 when its variable values contain unexpected characters. 6. IANA Considerations 6.1. The 'host-meta' Well-Known URI This specification registers the "host-meta" well-known URI in the Well-Known URI Registry as defined by [RFC5785]. URI suffix: host-meta Change controller: IETF Specification document(s): [[ this document ]] Related information: The "host-meta" documents obtained from the same host using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols (using default ports) MUST be identical. 6.2. The 'host-meta.json' Well-Known URI This specification registers the "host-meta.json" well-known URI in the Well-Known URI Registry as defined by [RFC5785]. URI suffix: host-meta.json Change controller: IETF Specification document(s): [[ this document ]] Related information: The "host-meta.json" documents obtained from the same host using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols (using default ports) MUST be identical. 6.3. The 'lrdd' Relation Type This specification registers the "lrdd" relation type in the Link Relation Type Registry defined by [RFC5988]: Relation Name: lrdd Description: Refers to further information about the link's context, expressed as a LRRD ("Link-based Resource Descriptor Document") resource. See [[ this specification ]] for information about processing this relation type in host-meta documents. When used elsewhere, it refers to additional links and other metadata. Multiple instances indicate additional LRRD resources. LRRD Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 12]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 more than one "Property" element is present with the same "type" attribute, only the last instance is included. o "Link" elements are included as a single name/value pair with the name 'links' and value an array with each element included as an object. Each attribute is included as name/value pair with the attribute name as name, and value included as a string. o "Link" child "Property" elements are included using the same method as XRD-level "Property" elements using a name/value pair inside the link object. o "Link" child "Title" elements are included as a single object with the name 'titles', and value an object with each element included as a name/value pair with the value of the "xml:lang" attribute as name, and element value included as a string value. The names of elements without a "xml:lang" attribute are added with the name 'default'. If more than one "Title" element is present with the same (or no) "xml:lang" attribute, only the last instance is included. o The conversion of any other element is left undefined. Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 14]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 For example, the following XRD document: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <XRD xmlns='http://docs.oasis-open.org/ns/xri/xrd-1.0' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> <Subject>http://blog.example.com/article/id/314</Subject> <Expires>2010-01-30T09:30:00Z</Expires> <Alias>http://blog.example.com/cool_new_thing</Alias> <Alias>http://blog.example.com/steve/article/7</Alias> <Property type='http://blgx.example.net/ns/version'>1.2</Property> <Property type='http://blgx.example.net/ns/version'>1.3</Property> <Property type='http://blgx.example.net/ns/ext' xsi:nil='true' /> <Link rel='author' type='text/html' href='http://blog.example.com/author/steve'> <Title>About the Author</Title> <Title xml:lang='en-us'>Author Information</Title> <Property type='http://example.com/role'>editor</Property> </Link> <Link rel='author' href='http://example.com/author/john'> <Title>The other guy</Title> <Title>The other author</Title> </Link> <Link rel='copyright' tempalte='http://example.com/copyright?id={uri}' /> </XRD> Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 15]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 Is represented by the following JRD document: { "subject":"http://blog.example.com/article/id/314", "expires":"2010-01-30T09:30:00Z", "aliases":[ "http://blog.example.com/cool_new_thing", "http://blog.example.com/steve/article/7"], "properties":{ "http://blgx.example.net/ns/version":"1.3", "http://blgx.example.net/ns/ext":null }, "links":[ { "rel":"author", "type":"text/html", "href":"http://blog.example.com/author/steve", "titles":{ "default":"About the Author", "en-us":"Author Information" }, "properties":{ "http://example.com/role":"editor" } }, { "rel":"author", "href":"http://example.com/author/john", "titles":{ "default":"The other author" } }, { "rel":"copyright", "template":"http://example.com/copyright?id={uri}" } ] } Note that the "Subject" and "Alias" elements are NOT RECOMMENDED in the context of host-meta documents, and are included in the example for completeness only. Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 16]
Internet-Draft host-meta September 2011 Authors' Addresses Eran Hammer-Lahav (editor) Yahoo! Email: email@example.com URI: http://hueniverse.com Blaine Cook Email: firstname.lastname@example.com URI: http://romeda.org Hammer-Lahav & Cook Expires March 18, 2012 [Page 18]


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Lobbyists representing Fx Alliance, 2010:
Lobbying Firm Hired | Amount | Subsidiary (Lobbied For) | Lobbyist |
Rich Feuer Group | $160,000 | Fx Alliance |
Feuer, Mitchell L Foscato, Tara Wade Griner, Robert E Rich, Peter D |
*Each quarterly filing is treated as a separate report.
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5:00 am
Survival: Lives in the Balance
"Fit for Life (Bangladesh)"
The episode chronicles two births. One mother has her baby at home in rural Bangladesh with a traditional midwife with no medical training. Another young woman gives birth in a clinic with the aid of medical professionals and has been coached through her pregnancy by a health specialist. Part 4 of 4G
6:00 am
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
"A Drawing Contest/How People Make Crayons"
Mister Rogers encourages drawing a picture of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and he points out that each person's picture would be different. He also shows a video of how people make crayons. In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, King Friday decides to have a "Draw The Neighborhood" contest and Lady Elaine Fairchilde decides she will win. D
6:30 am
Curious George
"Night of the Weiner Dog/Animal Trackers"
Hundley has strict demands when he stays in George's room. George takes pictures of wild animals.G
7:00 am
Wild Kratts
"Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens"
The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
7:30 am
Peep and the Big Wide World/Pocoyo
"Peep's Moon Mission The Many Moons of Quack The Duck"
Peep, Quack and Chirp argue over whether the moon is perfectly round. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Quack insists that there are many moons in the sky. Pocoyo: Talent Show - Pocoyo and friends have a talent show. D
8:00 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!
"Trick Or Treat/King Cecil The Seahorse"
Trick or Treat - It's Halloween! The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Nick trick or treating - his way! Around the world they go, meeting three new friends who teach them each of the tricks they do and share the treats that they like to eat. Back at home Nick and Sally are ready to go trick or treating, with plenty of new tricks to share! King Cecil the Seahorse - Sally is off to fight the "dragon"! But Nick wants to go, he doesn't want to stay and watch the baby princess, he wants to go on an adventure. The Cat explains that babies can be part of the adventure. D
8:30 am
Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps
"Angelina's Trick-Or-Treat Feat/Angelina and the Laughing Poet"
Angelina's Trick-or-Treat Feat - The mouselings' Halloween costumes don't arrive in time for Trick or Treat. What will Angelina and her friends do? How can they Trick or Treat without costumes? When they decide to use creative ways to express their characters through dance, they realize they didn't need costumes after all! Angelina and the Laughing Poet - Ms. Mimi teaches the students about poetry. She wants them to use dance to convey emotions in a poem. D
9:00 am
Bob the Builder
"Bobland Bay Takes Shape"
Bob and the team are building the Bobland Bay promenade. Tumbler wants the design to be unique to Bobland Bay, but finds having an idea is harder than he thinks. Some friendly animals try to help, but end up leaving their tracks in Tumbler's wet cement. D
9:30 am
Barney & Friends
"The Blame Game and What's Your Name"
The Blame Game: Marcos accidentally breaks an art show project that Melanie has made. Afraid that she will be angry, he doesn't say anything, but then feels guilty. Barney helps him see that honesty and taking responsibility for what we do is always best. D
10:00 am
"A Tale of Two Sitters"
This live-action program follows the exploits of Wishbone the dog and his human friends, Joe, David and Samantha through their adventures in their hometown of Oakdale. Wishbone's everyday experiences trigger his imagination and he finds himself in scenes from classic works of literature. In this episode, it is guilt by association when Emily and a friend cut loose and get Wishbone in trouble. D
10:30 am
"A Kooky Spooky Halloween/Sheep's Halloween Costume"
A Kooky Spooky Halloween - The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks he's a ghost! Sheep's Halloween Costume - It's Halloween - Sheep's favorite day of the year. Sheep likes nothing more than to dress up, so she always goes out of her way to make herself a special costume. But what will she do when her WordFriends need pieces of her costume for their own costumes?. D
11:00 am
BBC Newsnight
11:30 am
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
"Martin Whitman Exclusive"
Guest: Martin Whitman, Founder and Chairman, Third Avenue Management. This week's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack features an exclusive TV interview with legendary deep value investor Martin Whitman, Founder and Chairman of Third Avenue Management. In Anchor Consuelo Mack's interview, Whitman takes on Congressional and Wall Street ignorance about debt and credit worthiness. D
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
McLaughlin Group
Topics: OBAMACARE WOES, U.S.-PAKISTAN RELATIONS. Panelists: Pat Buchanan, Author and Columnist; Eleanor Clift, Newsweek; Mort Zuckerman, US News & World Report; Guy Taylor, The Washington Times. D
1:00 pm
Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer
"Tiger Point Marina"
Roger sets up his easel to paint a marsh land and marina scene in Fernandina, Florida with acrylics. Sarah talks with the owner of the marina about the boats, travelers and repairs that take place. D
1:30 pm
Sewing with Nancy
"Hobo Totes - Casual to Classic"
Showcase creative options on a basic tote that's roomy and simple to make. Nancy starts with tote basics and adds variety with fabric, trim, and techniques. She adds belt loops to hold a partial belt or a scarf for interest. D
2:00 pm
Quilting Arts
"Paint A Picture"
We combine artist and quilter with amazing results. Appearing first is Ana Buzzalino. She starts out with simple landscapes created with stitch and paint. D
2:30 pm
"Creekside Home Garage"
Discover the secrets to keeping a new garage well- drained and warm. D
3:00 pm
Woodsmith Shop
"3-In-1 Drill Press Upgrade"
The Woodsmith editors make a drill press more useful with a 3-in-1 upgrade that adds mobility, storage, and accuracy. D
3:30 pm
This Old House
"Jersey Shore Rebuilds 2013: Built for Speed"
Seaside Heights, New Jersey, in a race for survival, is scrambling to bring the pier and boardwalk back; at the Bay Head project, mechanical roughs and new mahogany decking on the porch. In Point Pleasant, a compact Italian concrete crusher makes quick work of an old slab for new fill onsite. Richard learns how the Manasquan house is built in the factory - in less than a week!. D
4:00 pm
Ask This Old House
"Installing a Pre-hung Front Door/Using Big Containers for Screening and Shading"
Tom visits Seattle, where he helps a homeowner install a new, pre-hung front door. Roger shows how to use big containers for screening and shading in a backyard. And the guys ask, "What is it?". D
4:30 pm
Growing a Greener World
"Rooftop Farming (NYC)"
From the rooftop of a New York City building, we visit a farm that is thinking outside the planting box and delivering urban food high atop the city streets. D
5:00 pm
"Morris Dees"
Marcia Franklin talks with human rights activist Morris Dees, the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dees, an attorney, is known for his cases against white supremacist groups. He led the civil lawsuit in 2000 against Richard Butler and the Aryan Nations in Idaho which ultimately bankrupted the group. Franklin asks Dees to reflect back on that case, talks with him about the other human rights issues in which he has been involved since then, and asks him how he views the civil rights landscape at this time in American history.G
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
PBS NewsHour Weekend
On Sunday, Special correspondent Karla Murthy reports on new potential uses of 'crowdfunding' - raising a large pool of money from many small contributions online. Thanks to the bipartisan Jobs Act, signed by President Obama last spring, entrepreneurs will soon be able to use this method to raise investment capital. Supporters think the provision could be a key to spurring more entrepreneurship, economic growth, and job creation. D
6:29 pm
British Antiques Roadshow
"Blair Castle 2"
Fiona Bruce and the team of experts return to Perthshire, Scotland, where their discoveries include a Mickey Mouse toy with a poignant history, a collection of valuable miniatures and a humble wooden spoon with a remarkable story attached.G
7:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho
"Summit Idaho"
Cameras capture four groups of mountain climbers who reach the summits of four Idaho mountain peaks - Vienna Peak in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Gilmore Peak in the Lemhi Mountain Range, He Devil in the Seven Devils Mountains, and Scotchman Peak in Scotchman Peaks of the Panhandle. The steep assents in winter and summer culminate in magnificent views of four different Idaho terrains.G
7:30 pm
Oregon Field Guide
"Wolverines Found, Buzz Bowman, School for the Blind Ski Day"
Buzz Bowman is an 83-year-old legend on Mount Hood. He has been volunteering with the Mt. Hood Ski Patrol for more than 65 years and is among the oldest still-active ski patrollers in the country.G
8:00 pm
Father Brown
"The Flying Stars"
Someone apparently is prepared to murder for a valuable necklace, known as The Flying Stars, belonging to the theatrical Adams family. Father Brown becomes embroiled with the family when he discovers that a supposed tragic drowning was actually murder.G
9:00 pm
Masterpiece Classic
"The Paradise, Part Four"
Moray forges ahead with his plans to buy up the other shops on the street, reluctantly taking on a partner, while Katherine meddles with his efforts in an attempt to get his attention. Some light is shed on Jonas' mysterious past and Denise learns a lesson when her latest idea does not go as planned. Part 4 of 7G
10:00 pm
Masterpiece Classic
"Downton Abbey (S2 E3)"
Isobel and Cora lock horns over control of Downton's medical role. Meanwhile Thomas, now manager of the convalescent men, makes life difficult for Carson. Mrs. Bird starts a soup kitchen to help the war effort. Matthew and William embark on a perilous patrol behind German lines. Part 3 of 6G
11:00 pm
New Tricks
"Love Means Nothing In Tennis"
The UCOS team investigates the case of 16-year-old tennis champion Alice Kemp, who fell to her death from the balcony of a penthouse apartment after losing a crucial match. As the team delves into this competitive world, Standing wonders if he did enough to encourage his own daughter's sporting ambitions.G


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Time to swim over to the other side of the planet to watch inept diplomacy at work in Asia. For this, Xinhuanet is a dry source of breaking news, the Chinese don't even bother with propaganda points, it is all so obvious. North Korea is spitting in our eyes again with impunity and South Korea is saying no to our demand they pay for our military which many Koreans hate at this point. I supply video proof of this.
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday November 29, 2006Wellington- The world's top spy chiefs - including the heads of the CIA and British, Australian and Canadian agencies - have been meeting in secret this week in New Zealand. The elite Anglo-Saxon group is known as Echelon. It intercepts and records telephone calls, e-mails and other forms of electronic communication.
The gathering was held in New Zealand because the country's spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Dear Echelon. Snooping without warrants on our private affairs! How delightful. Perhaps there are many Americans and other 'Anglo Saxons' who think spying is a good thing, England, our foundation stone, is seeped in cameras and spies, they are everywhere even as simple civility collapses. The model we are aping is the Soviet Police State. What a fine thing that is.
&hearts North Korea spies on all its citizens like crazy but it resents us spying on them.
PYONGYANG, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States committed more than 170 cases of aerial espionage against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in November, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, citing a military resource.The DPRK accused the United States of using tactical reconnaissance planes, including EP-3, to conduct night flights over Taebu Islet and the areas of Hoengsong and Yangphyong in a bid to spy on the DPRK.
The IDF flies with impunity over Lebanon and Palestine and sneers at everyone. We do the same thing in the Middle East and Asia. If the North Koreans are pissed about this, you can bet, the Chinese communist leaders are not happy, either. They are still lying low, letting us abuse our welcome, but imagining they will allow this to be the status quo forever is foolish.
Americans rarely get any real news from anywhere. I have watched for years as the Korean people fought our military bases with great energy and heroism. They are literally in a life and death battle, trying to stop our bases which we have decided to move to the southern half of South Korea. The resentment our soldiers are creating is very intense and I am puzzled as to what we, the American people, are getting for all this!
Japan wants to control Korea and they have latched onto our miliary to do this and the Koreans see us as proxies for the hated Japanese and this, combined with the Japanese refusal to pay reparations for WWII or pay the girls who were put into sexual slavery, this means a lot of bad blood which wasn't our fault and yet here we are, standing with the Japanese and not the Chinese or Koreans!
Here is a video of South Koreans attacking an American military base, and I do mean ATTACKING. Furiously. This last June.
&hearts The USA is going bankrupt.
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government said Thursday that it failed to reach an agreement during a two-day negotiation with the United States on how to share the defense cost for the U.S. forces stationed on the country.The government plans to continue consultations with the U.S. side through diplomatic channels to complete the defense cost-sharing negotiations, said a press release by the Foreign Ministry.
It was the sixth time that South Korea and the United States failed to strike a deal on the issue.
Here is an anti-american military demonstration that turned violent last year.
Pyeongtaek, South Korea - The Autonomous Peace Village of Daechuri has been resisting the expansion of U.S. Army base Camp Humphreys for over three years. Within the past month, they have been attacked three times. This attack was the most devastating thus far.The attack lasted from 9 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. They invaded the village from four different directions, targetting distant areas within the vast farmland, spreading the 100 villagers, human rights activists, and supporters dangerously thin. The riot police escorted backhoes, bulldozers, and cement trucks.
Why are we doing this? It makes zero sense. Hearts and minds! If our military is turning people away from us, this becomes increasingly expensive and increasingly useless. What are our goals? To hold the entire planet down under our boots? Are we the Soviet Union?
The Soviets, like us today, didn't produce much of anything exportable except military equipment and rockets. This model has been shown to be a huge failure. So why are we imitating them? Once upon a time, when they had nothing good to export, America was the world's number one exporter of manufactured goods.
Today, the question is, do we make anything aside from rockets and military equipment? No? Haha.
&hearts We decreed, no I-pods for Kim!
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 30 November 2006, 07:29THE US government has decided that world pariah North Korea will not be allowed to bask in the radiance of the Apple iPod.
OK. Who makes I-pods?
China. Enough said.
Narita (Japan) Nov 30: US envoy Christopher Hill said today the ball was now in North Korea's court, admitting there remained "a lot of work to do" to restart talks on ending its nuclear programme.Hill, paying a brief visit to Japan on his way back from crunch talks with North Korea in Beijing, said, however, that he remained optimistic talks would resume sometime in December.
"I want to stress the ball is in their court. They know what they have to do," hill told reporters at Narita international airport near Tokyo, before heading back to the United States.
North Korea knows perfectly well what to do: wait until we are really freaking out in Iraq and then slug this ball back into our mid drift.
Kim is very good at this. Baby dragon will still go 'boom' and smuggling I-pods from China is laughably easy. No sane nation will ever disarm again. None. Our foolish invasion of Iraq right on the heels of the UN's certification of disarmament, taught everyone a sharp lesson: do not trust the USA. Do not cooperate with the USA. Do not make deals with the USA.
Whack. Now the ball is back in our court. I put it there for the North Koreans. What is Condi Rice going to say about that?


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Saturday Night Live vet Tim Meadows has been cast in Fox's comedy pilot The Gabriels, TVLine has learned exclusively.
The single-camera comedy, from Justin Hurwitz (The League) and Andre Gurland, follows an introverted, neurotic Wisconsin family that lives in a community of over-sharers.
Meadows will play Tom, a straight-laced man with a "churchy smile" who is the Principal of the local middle school.
Rob Riggle was previously tapped to play the family's patriarch.
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If Nicholas Sparks has his way, you will spend most of the week crying from now on. We always knew that this guy was savvy because of how he emotionally manipulated us with The Notebook, but this is a whole new level of smarts: He's inked a deal to executive-produce three tearjerker TV shows on three different networks.
First there's one of Sparks' novels: A Bend in the Road, about a widower trying to start over with his young son after his wife is killed in a hit-and-run. He starts to open up to his kid's second-grade teacher, who herself is shielding a shocking secret. You know, I read this book a few years back and now remember the twist, though I won't spoil it here. I will, however, say that I'm not sure how they'll extend this past one season unless they radically change the twist. Regardless, A Bend in the Road will air on TNT.
ABC Family gets The Falls, a modern-day reimagining of Romeo & Juliet. This seems to be an original project since I can't find a novel of the same name. Plus, one of the producers from One Tree Hill will be on-hand to make sure that this latest tale of forbidden love is super-sappy and has plenty of insurmountable obstacles.
Finally, Lifetime goes all period drama with Deliverance Creek. Yes, I'm already rolling my eyes, but let's push on: Set during the Civil War, it's the story of a woman struggling to support her family while also defending them. I assume from soldiers and such? If we find out that it's basically The Client List in the 1860s, I will completely watch.
Although Sparks won't be writing all of these, he'll serve as executive producer on all three. "It's a chance to venture into stories I don't always write about," he told THR. Read: It's a chance to ensure all you women are sitting on your couches sobbing. Mwahaha!
And you won't be able to escape your living room, because soon Safe Haven will be in theaters. Smart man, that Nicholas Sparks.
[via The A.V. Club]
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