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WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans cut back on spending at retail businesses in October, an indication that some remain cautious about the economic outlook. Superstorm Sandy also depressed car sales and slowed business in the Northeast at the end of the month.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that sales dropped 0.3 percent after three months of gains. Auto sales fell 1.5 percent, the most in more than a year.
Excluding autos, gas and building materials, sales fell 0.1 percent. That followed a 0.9 percent gain in September for that category. Online and catalog purchases fell 1.8 percent, the most in a year. Electronics and clothing stores also posted lower sales.
The government said Sandy "had both positive and negative effects" on sales. Some stores and restaurants closed and lost business. Others reported sales increases ahead of the storm as people bought supplies.
"Looking past (Sandy's) impact, U.S. consumers appeared to dial it back a notch," said Robert Kavcic, an economist at BMO Capital Markets. "There was relatively broad-based weakness in this report."
In September, retail sales jumped 1.3 percent. Spending rose in nearly all categories. The buying spree helped lift economic growth in the July-September quarter and reflected growing consumer confidence. Consumer spending drives nearly 70 percent of economic activity.
The October decline in retail sales may be temporary, economists said. Kavic noted that auto sales may pick up in November as Americans replace cars damaged by the hurricane.
Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast on Oct. 29 and disrupted businesses from North Carolina to Maine. The storm also lowered auto sales last month by about 30,000, according to TrueCar.com. Overall, car sales dipped to an annual pace of 14.3 million in October, down from a 14.9 million pace in September.
The storm cut retail spending in the Northeast by about 20 percent last week, according to MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, a retail data service. That figure excludes auto sales.
The Northeast accounts for about 24 percent of retail sales nationwide, the MasterCard Advisors' report said. It typically generates $18.7 billion in sales for the week ended Saturday. But sales that week fell to about $15 billion.
The storm also cut power to roughly 8 million homes and businesses. Some are still without power. That may have had an impact on online sales.
Retail sales are likely to rebound this month, analysts said, because Americans are spending more on repairs and making up for lost shopping trips.
The Commerce Department's retail sales report is closely watched because it is the government's first look at consumer spending each month.
Hiring has picked up in recent months, which has boosted consumer confidence. Employers added 171,000 jobs in October and job gains in August and September were higher than first estimated. The unemployment rose to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent as more of those out of work began searching for jobs.
A survey by the University of Michigan last week found that consumer sentiment improved for the fourth straight month to its highest level in five years.


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When the weather outside was frightful, some Stucki Jewelers found their wallets delightful with the refund of purchases made during the Free If It Snows promotion.
The promotion held that if there were a Doppler reading of at least an inch of snow in Grass Valley Christmas Day, any purchases made the three days after Thanksgiving and Dec. 14 and 15 would be refunded.
"We were hoping it would snow," said Nicole Arbaugh, who co-owns Stucki her husband James. "We wanted to be able to do the refunds, since we pay for the insurance company, and customers and everyone were so excited."
For some customers who received a refund, the promotion was a godsend.
"My wife and I had some jewelry (and) a wedding and anniversary ring stolen in a break-in," said Chris Shacoski, who purchased a new ring from Stucki Jewelers with his wife during the Free If it Snows offer. "We walked into Stucki and saw the promotion and thought it'd be a great story, so we found a ring we liked and bought it that night."
Shacoski said his wife, Julie, ran around the house screaming in delight at the news that the money for the ring would be refunded.
"It's a great memory. It takes something so personal, one of the stolen rings was a family heirloom, and it's great to have something like this replace the memory of the break-in."
Shad Chittock was looking into purchasing an engagement ring for his girlfriend and found himself in Stucki jewelers during the Free If It Snows promotional weekend.
"I didn't even know about the promotion until after I picked out the ring," said Chittock, who also bought a pearl necklace for his girlfriend.
When it snowed on Christmas Day, Chittock said he was hopeful but unsure if there would be the required inch of snow to win the refund.
"I didn't think it was going to happen," Chittock said. "We still weren't sure if it would be enough since it only snowed a little bit, and we thought, 'We'll just see what happens.'"
After the call that Stucki would honor the refund, Chittock said he was so grateful because the money saved can contribute to the wedding.
"I just found out the news (Jan. 7), and it's great," Chittock said. "With the refund of about $3,000, we will be able to pick out a venue for the wedding, which we weren't going to be able to afford."
The idea for Free If It Snows began after it snowed Christmas Day in 2007, giving the Arbaughs the idea that they could do what many jewelry stores do and try the offer as a way to promote sales and also give back to the community.
"We don't normally have sales or doorbusters, and we were trying to find something for people to shop local and stay in town," said James Arbaugh. "We figured we could give back to everybody if it snowed, and it would be better than any kind of sale."
Because of the extended forecast's prediction that there might be a white Christmas, James asked the insurance company if the sale could be extended, which led to the addition of Dec. 14 and 15 to the promotion.
"We started to look at the extended forecast, and the insurance company said we could offer the promotion up to 10 days before the actual weather event day, so we threw another weekend in there," James said.
The Doppler reading from the Nevada County airport marked 1.8 inches of snow for Christmas Day, resulting in a refund total of more than $50,000, James said.
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With Cowboys & Aliens, Iron Man director Jon Favreau attempts to mash up the Western genre with science fiction. How well does it work? We've seen the first two reels, and they conjure a robust John Wayne sensibility.
We also got the chance to talk to Favreau about his Western and scifi influences, and how his movie pays tribute to producer Steven Spielberg's early classics. And why he's aiming to make something more than the average blockbuster.
Back in November, we had the chance to visit the edit bay for Jon Favreau's upcoming movie Cowboys & Aliens, where we had the chance to see a rough cut of the first two reels of the movie. And now we've got the go-ahead to go into a bit more detail. While we still can't go into a ton of specifics, we're allowed to give our general impressions.
Simply put, everything we saw justified our early excitement. The movie is clearly made by people with a deep reverence and understanding for the Western genre — something that became even more clear during our subsequent Q&A with Favreau — and there's nothing jokey or twee about how the two wildly different genres fit together.
The footage we saw suggested a confident, deliberate film that wants to do right by both of its major influences. The Western elements aren't just a backdrop for some alien carnage — Cowboys & Aliens takes the time to realize the tiny town of Absolution as an authentic place, somewhere with history and conflicts that long predate the arrival of extraterrestrials.
Indeed, if the aliens never bothered to show up, the basic situation could easily still be a compelling film as a straight Western — albeit one that, as Favreau pointed out, no studio would ever green-light. We have less to go on when it comes to the aliens, but if the science fiction is handled half as well as the Western elements, we should be in very good hands.
As with previous Favreau efforts like the Iron Man movies, a lot of the film's strength comes from the cast, a point that Favreau himself stressed. James Bond star Daniel Craig makes a successful transition to the Old West, complete with convincing American accent. As Colonel Dolarhyde, Harrison Ford takes a step away from his usual persona for something a little darker and nastier, and Olivia Wilde remains a beguiling presence that defies easy categorization.
We see the amnesiac stranger, played by Craig, staggering into the town of Absolution, with no memory and no clues except for a mysterious shackle on one wrist. He soon discovers that the town lives in absolute fear, under the control of Col. Dolarhyde — and they don't much like strangers there.
With an actor's director like Favreau at the helm, it's not surprising that Cowboys & Aliens is the rare action movie gives its cast room to work. Of course, when your supporting players include the likes of Sam Rockwell, Keith Carradine, There Will Be Blood's Paul Dano, Justified's Walton Goggins, and all-purpose genre badass Clancy Brown, that's exactly what you want to see.
Many of the characters are essentially Western genre archetypes, but Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's script gives each character enough detail for the actors to really run with them. In some ways, this feels like the follow-up to the similarly actor-driven Iron Man in a way that Iron Man 2 never quite did.
After we watched the footage, Jon Favreau sat down with us reporters for an epic hour-long Q&A. He discussed some of his key influences in making the film - on the science fiction side, he primarily looked at Steven Spielberg's early science fiction, particularly Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The movie's structure, he explained, allows it to move at a very methodical pace and yet still transfix modern audiences because Spielberg knows just when to "knock you on your ass" with a big moment or setpiece.
He also pointed to the mysterious nature of the aliens in Close Encounters as a key part of their success, arguing the aliens work best when they're mostly left to our imagination and allowed to tap directly into the audience's subconscious. What also attracted him to these early Spielberg movies like Close Encounters, E.T., and even Jaws is that they use the fantastical situation to work through very real problems for their human characters.
On the Western side, the name we kept hearing was John Ford, the legendary director behind such classics as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, all of which star genre titan John Wayne. He also pointed to 1960s efforts like The Professionals and The Wild Bunch, both of which he suggested were successful unions of the Western and the then-emerging action genres, in much the same way Cowboys & Aliens fuses together the Western and the alien invasion.
Favreau explained that Western movies actually offer a natural, if unexpected thematic overlap with a lot of early alien movies. Movies like Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, he argued, place a spiritual dimension on the gunfighter in a way that lines up with the ideas thrown around in a lot of alien movies:
A lot of alien and western movies are about dealing with coming to terms with moving to the next world. Drifting through this purgatory of a town, setting things right and moving on. In Seven Samurai, a little microcosm of life, what are you going to do in this moment, what do for stand for, what mark are you leaving here, and in Westerns it's a very contained little few days or weeks, but it's the larger question that we don't really face every day.
This deep understanding of Westerns was, according to Favreau, essential to making Cowboys & Aliens a serious film. He looked extensively at how old Western movies were filmed, and tried to bring as much of that as he could to this movie. At the same time, he explained that they didn't want to go too far and undercut the movie's science fiction aspects by making it beholden to the Western material:
We didn't want to go steampunk either, which is the other way to go where you cutesy up the scifi. You want the scifi to stand on its own too. The cowboys were in the old West and they didn't know aliens were coming, and the aliens didn't know they were going to the old West – they're both coming from their place. You find that common ground, that intersection of those two genres... and if you do it right, it honors both, and it becomes interesting and clever and a reinvention of something people understand the conventions of — instead of just a retread or a remake of something you've seen before.
The comparisons to Close Encounters and E.T. aren't simply rooted in their narrative structure, either - Favreau made it clear that part of his goal with this movie is to make the sort of entertainment that can be enjoyed equally by both children and adults. He's hoping the movie will work for genre fans, kids and adults alike who want rousing action entertainment, and also people who are looking for a somewhat smarter breed of blockbuster.
On this last point, he looked at how the movie manages to bridge the gap between the Western and science fiction elements, and how the movie makes it even conceivable that such technologically primitive cowboys could stand a chance against such powerful aliens:
The trick is to do it in a way that's plausible. But you're faced with such insurmountable odds that people are like, "There's no way…" A lot of the key is just having good material and good writing. And on this one, it's not like we're pulling it out of our asses as we go. It was very well laid out, very well planned, and we had a lot of discussion, a lot of actors who called me to task on things that seemed too convenient and we made sure we [considered] each step. So we create the rules and we find ways to solve the puzzle. And that's the fun thing about what we're doing now is really earning our intelligent audience, making sure they're on board, not just people who want see things blow up. But if you do want to see stuff blow up, there's plenty of that. We've got it! More than we've ever had. It gets bigger every step of the way.
Favreau suggested that the movie gains a more epic scope than other alien invasion movies simply from being so firmly rooted in the Western genre, as this is the area where American filmmakers have told some of the biggest, grandest stories in the history of cinema. This, he hopes, is part of what will set Cowboys & Aliens apart from this summer's other big blockbuster genre movies:
Now [we are taking] those [archetypal Western] characters and some of the actors who played them and put them right squarely back into this, and then all the richness that you're allowed to store in a Western, because you're really dealing with big dreams in Western. [Westerns were] the way the American artform could discuss big operatic themes and so it's fun to bring that into the genre, not in a tongue-in-cheek way, and really to make people feel something and make them feel scared, make them feel lost, make them feel hope and make it an emotional ride. You know we're not going for anything lofty here but I'm going for something that has more impact than just popcorn [entertainment].
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Even though Venezuelan authorities have promised to conduct an electronic audit of their April 14 presidential election, the outcome is not seriously in doubt: The National Electoral Council (CNE) has indicated that Nicolás Maduro's paper-thin victory will be allowed to stand, with one CNE official declaring the election results "irreversible." This was drearily predictable: The CNE is controlled by Hugo Chávez loyalists -- as are the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, the military, and the police -- and the 50-year-old Maduro was Chávez's designated successor. Countries across Latin America have recognized his victory, and so has the Organization of American States.
Shamefully, Latin American officials recognized Maduro as president before there was adequate time to investigate the thousands of irregularities documented by Venezuela's Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). According to MUD presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, those irregularities included (1) thousands of damaged voting machines, (2) hundreds of thousands of dead people on the voter rolls, and (3) the expulsion of opposition election observers from 283 different polling stations. Capriles is understandably dubious that the CNE audit will be conducted fairly or honestly. "We will not accept a joke audit," he said on April 24. "It's time to get serious." A day later, Capriles announced that he was taking his fight to the Venezuelan court system.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has been a reliable bastion of chavismo ever since 2004 (when Chávez implemented a court-packing scheme), and its chief justice has already declared that it will not be possible to perform a manual recount. Meanwhile, the government is busy denouncing Capriles as a "fascist murderer" and threatening to imprison him. It is also stepping up its attacks on civil liberties, as evidenced by the recent arrests of a U.S. filmmaker and a former Venezuelan general.
Let's assume, for now, that Maduro will remain president. (He was inaugurated on April 19.) The question we should be asking is: Who really controls Venezuela?
After all, Maduro will have to deal with competing factions of chavistas, one of which is led by his biggest internal rival, National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello. He will have to manage relations between the official Venezuelan armed forces and the so-called Bolivarian militia, a civilian outfit with tens of thousands of heavily armed fighters. For that matter, he will have to appease the radical, slum-based street gangs that supported Chávez fanatically. As the New York Times has reported, there is "festering tension between military leaders and pro-Chávez groups who view some in the armed forces as overstepping their authority, illicitly accumulating fortunes, or simply as incompetent managers."
Some Venezuelan military figures have accumulated fortunes through their involvement in the drug trade. Indeed, jailed cocaine trafficker Walid Makled has alleged that dozens of Venezuelan generals were part of his operation. ("All my business associates are generals," Makled said after being captured.) In addition, Mexican drug lord Sergio Villarreal Barragán -- who was extradited to the United States last year -- has reportedly linked Venezuelan generals to drug flights that brought cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico.
Certain generals -- including Cliver Alcalá (a prominent regional commander), Hugo Carvajal (a deputy interior minister), Henry Rangel Silva (a former defense minister who now governs the Venezuelan state of Trujillo), and Ramón Rodríguez Chacín (a former interior minister who now governs the state of Guárico) -- have been designated as "kingpins" by the U.S. Treasury Department for their connections to Colombian narco-guerrillas. Their illegal activities highlight the endemic corruption of the Chávez regime. Such corruption has turned Venezuela into a nerve center of the global cocaine business: It has been estimated that, in 2010, nearly one-quarter of all outbound South American cocaine traveled through Venezuela.
Just last week, the Venezuelan National Guard interdicted upwards of 2.6 tons of cocaine in Maracaibo, a port city near the Colombian border. As InSight Crime analyst James Bargent noted, cocaine trafficking in this region of Venezuela "is often facilitated" by the National Guard. "Cases like this one, in which the National Guard acted on a tip-off, could suggest that the traffickers failed to cut the right members of the security forces in on the deal."
Drug trafficking has contributed to growing unrest within the Venezuelan armed forces. But the narco-generals are tremendously powerful, and they have a close ally in Diosdado Cabello, the National Assembly leader, who is a former military officer. It is therefore unlikely that Maduro is willing or able to confront them.
Another source of friction within the military is Cuba -- more specifically, the presence of untold numbers of Cuban "advisers," who now play a key role in the management of Venezuela's public institutions, including the armed forces and the secret police. (Back in February 2010, the Economist reported that Cubans were "helping to run Venezuela's ports, telecommunications, police training, the issuing of identity documents, and the business registry.") It was no surprise that Maduro traveled to Cuba last weekend: He has long been a sycophantic admirer of Fidel Castro, and Havana wanted assurances that Venezuela -- a country with runaway inflation and chronic shortages -- will continue to fortify the Cuban economy through massive oil subsidies.
Not only will Maduro have to manage Venezuela's costly economic aid to Cuba, he will also have to manage its curious relationship with China. In recent years, the Asian giant has loaned Venezuela approximately $36 billion, making China "the single biggest foreign source of funding for the country's socialist government," according to Reuters. Venezuela is now repaying those loans with oil shipments totaling hundreds of thousands of barrels per day. The oil-for-loans arrangement helped Chávez boost social spending prior to Venezuela's October 2012 presidential election, but it has damaged the state petroleum company and has given Beijing significant leverage over Venezuelan energy policy, especially regarding the development of the oil-rich Orinoco Belt.
What does China do with all its Venezuelan oil? In 2010, writes Carnegie Endowment scholar Kevin Tu, Venezuela reported sending China 400,000 to 500,000 barrels each day. And yet, "customs data shows that only 150,000 barrels of Venezuelan oil arrived at Chinese ports in 2010. This wide discrepancy suggests Chinese [national oil companies] sell most of their Venezuela-sourced oil in the open market in order to avoid the high logistic costs associated with long-haul shipping to China."
Beijing has a big financial stake in maintaining its oil deals with Caracas. That means China will be yet another important player in post-Chávez Venezuela -- and it means Nicolás Maduro will face yet another major challenge.


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ANAPA, Russia (AP) — Russian energy giant Gazprom is spending billions to expand its already massive footprint in Europe. But it will have to tread carefully at a time when global natural gas supplies are surging and prices are falling, giving European utilities and businesses more leverage in negotiating supply contracts.
At a lavish ceremony in December to mark the start of construction of a new pipeline to Europe, Gazprom put on a show of its industrial might to match the project's 1 billion ($20.92 billion) price tag. On the Black Sea coast, 600 miles south of Moscow, the company built a eight massive steel-framed marquees to house Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Gazprom's executives and various European partners — all for a two-hour ceremony in which two short sections of the new South Stream pipeline were welded together.
In spite of all the public praise heaped on Gazprom at the event, there was recognition behind the scenes that the company is losing some of the clout it holds over Europe. While the region will remain heavily dependent on natural gas piped from Russia for decades to come, its ability to demand better prices is improving. That's because Gazprom is facing competitive pressures around the globe as gas production grows in the U.S., Australia, the Middle East and Africa. In other words, it needs Europe more than ever before.
Born out of the Soviet gas ministry in the rush of Russian privatizations in the late 1980s and '90s, Gazprom is effectively the country's gas industry, accounting for about 80 percent of the country's natural gas output. The company, which posted some $5 billion in net profit in the second quarter of 2012, holds a monopoly on Russia's gas export market and has first choice of which fields to operate. Gazprom exported some 238 billion cubic meters of natural gas around the world last year.
The vast majority of those exports arrive in Europe. The company supplies a quarter of the 27-country European Union's gas needs, some 124 billion cubic meters, according to Eurostat, the EU's official data service. Europe still tethers itself to Gazprom because, at the moment, it is almost impossible to find enough gas from other sources to replace the sheer amount the company exports.
The South Stream pipeline — jointly funded by Gazprom, Italy's Eni, France's EdF and Germany's Wintershall — was conceived in 2007. South Stream is due to start operating in 2015 and will bring up to 63 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year to the Balkans, Austria and Italy.
However, the market for natural gas has changed dramatically since South Stream was first thought of. Natural gas reserves and export facilities are springing up around the world. European energy groups have already started importing gas from Qatar and will have more and more suppliers to choose from as more facilities come online.
Over the past few years, Gazprom has been locked in disputes with its European clients over its pricing policies. The big European energy companies — such as Germany's E.ON, France's GdF Suez or Poland's PGNiG — are unhappy with what they believe are rigid contract terms: High tariffs linked to oil prices and the take-or-pay clause which leaves energy firms locked with the volumes they may not need.
In 2012, Gazprom exported gas to Europe at an average price of $381 per 1,000 cubic meters — or $10.88 per 1,000 cubic feet. That is higher than the two most important European benchmarks for gas prices, the U.K. and Amsterdam, which had average prices for gas of $9.47 per 1,000 cubic feet and $9.42 per 1,000 cubic feet respectively, according to Platts, a global energy information provider.
In the first half of 2012, Gazprom has paid some 133 billion rubles ($4.3 billion) in "retroactive discounts" to settle these contract disputes with its clients, according to its earnings report. And the Europeans are hungry for more.
Paolo Scaroni, chief executive of Italy's Eni which owns 20 percent in South Stream, said his company would not need as much gas from Gazprom this year as it is bound to buy under the take-or-pay obligations because of weak market conditions.
Eni managed to get a lower price from Gazprom last year, and Scaroni told the AP that he does not see "any reasons why they should not be changing the prices in the future and adapt them to market conditions."
"Russian gas should be extremely cheap to produce, so it's going to be competitive with any gas in the world," he said.
One of the biggest long-term threats to Gazprom comes from the U.S., where the country's natural gas industry has grown rapidly thanks to recently perfected drilling techniques known as "fracking" — that have allowed drillers to extract from underground shale deposits.
U.S. natural gas production rose to a record 1.78 billion cubic meters (63 billion cubic feet) per day on average in 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That's up 24 percent since 2007, when drillers were first beginning to tap enormous reserves of gas trapped in shale formations under several U.S. states. The U.S., once thought to be in need of additional natural gas imports, is now expected to become an exporter within a few years.
That's a big turnaround from five years ago when Gazprom was working on supplying liquefied natural gas to the U.S. market. The International Energy Agency expects U.S. gas production to rise to overtake Russia in 2017.
"The shale gas boom in North America and the U.S. in particular has a double-sided impact for Gazprom," said Andrew Neff, a senior energy analyst at IHS Energy. Not only does the company lose a customer, it also has to find somewhere to sell the gas it had set aside the U.S.
On top of this, Neff warns that "North American LNG exports could potentially compete with Russian gas."
Gazprom's South Stream pipeline is being built to secure Russia's gas supply to Europe following a series of clashes with Ukraine, to whom Gazprom currently pays about $2 billion a year in transit fees. In 2006, Russia cut off its supplies to the Ukraine after the two countries clashed over the price of gas and the transit fees. Russia kept shipping gas to the EU through Ukraine. However, to cope with a spell of severe cold weather, Ukrainians siphoned off some of that supply. European customers started reporting a drop-off in supplies as a result.
The dispute escalated in the winter of 2009 when Gazprom again cut off supplies to Ukraine after talks over a new gas contract failed. Again, Europe started experiencing a fall in supplies. In spite of Ukraine denying this time that it had siphoned off Russian gas, tens of millions of Europeans were left without gas for three weeks in the depths of winter.
Going through the Balkans, Austria and Italy, South Stream will avoid Ukraine, which will still get its supplies from the existing pipeline but won't get the extra transit fees.
However, analysts are concerned that Gazprom could be overreaching with its pipelines. On top of the South Stream project, the company in October opened Nord Stream, a new pipeline under the Baltic Sea, directly linking Germany with Siberia's vast natural gas reserves with the capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. The construction of South Stream and expansion of Nord Stream will mean Gazprom's capacity will exceed expected demand by between 50 billion to 100 billion cubic meters, according to analyst estimates.
Alexei Kokin, an oil and gas analyst at Moscow-based UralSib investment bank, is skeptical of the reasoning behind the South Stream, adding that for Gazprom and the other investors, the project "is pretty much a waste" of capital expenditure.
"The timing of South Stream looks bad for Gazprom," said Andrew Neff, a senior energy analyst at IHS Energy.
Gazprom officials, however, defend the Balkans-bound pipeline despite its estimated cost of 16 billion ($20.6 billion).
"If that wasn't profitable for our partners, we would not go ahead with this project," Gazprom's CEO Alexei Miller said in December.
Miller explained that Gazprom would be saving a lot of money by not having to pay the $2 billion in transit fees to Ukraine: "With South Stream, we will be paying these transit fees to ourselves," he said jokingly.
As well as battling to maintain its clout in Europe, Gazprom is also fighting on the political front in the region. European officials have warned Gazprom that it would have to allow third-party gas producers to use South Stream to comply with European laws that ban suppliers from owning transit facilities such as pipelines. Gazprom and its European partners in the project are lobbying for South Stream to be exempted from the law.
The company is also facing an EU probe to determine whether it violated competition rules by linking gas prices with prices for oil.
Putin strongly criticized the EU energy regulations as he sat down for talks with European leaders in Brussels last December. "It creates confusion and undermines confidence in our mutual work," he said.
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In general there is no cost for a pest inspection. Exterminators typically provide a free property or building inspection and then provide you with a written estimate outlining the necessary treatment and cost. The home visit allows the exterminator to assess the problem and let you know what your pest control cost will be if you contract with their services. You may need a termite inspection for real estate purposes. This will be a verified inspection showing that the house in question is termite-free (often done before a sale). The inspection may cost a flat rate, such as $125-$150, depending on house size.
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Whether you need to get rid of bugs or rodents, pest removal professionals can be lifesaving when you have an infestation. Pest control prices will vary based on what type of pest is being removed. The national pest control price range is $80-$130, although prices can be much higher for tasks like wildlife removal (raccoons, bobcats, etc.), which might start at $250 and exceed $500, depending on the animal and the trapping measures required.
The cost of eliminating a termite colony ranges on average from $240 to $400, but these costs can increase greatly if the whole house is infested. The average cost to kill cockroaches is between $80 and $130, while bedbug extermination ranges from $320 to $400 on average. The main factors that will affect your pest control price are the type of pest, the extent of the infestation, the accessibility of the infested areas, and the type of treatment required.
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The persistence, dedication and over 30 years of experience from those who prepare each and every dish contribute to our restaurant's unfailing quality. Born in Honduras my sister and I relocated to Mandeville as teenagers and began work in 1981 at the Old Mexico Inn in Mandeville. We began as bussers and worked our way up to working as wait staff, bartenders and eventually management, learning the restaurant business from the ground up.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Clashes spread to a key northern city and gunmen took over a town elsewhere in Iraq on Thursday, raising the death toll from three days of violence to more than 150 people as a wave of Sunni unrest intensified.
The turmoil is aggravating an already sour political situation between the Shiite-led government and Sunnis, who accuse Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government of neglect and trying to disenfranchise their Muslim sect.
Al-Maliki appeared on national television appealing for calm amid fears the country is facing a return to full-scale sectarian fighting more than a year after U.S. troops withdrew.
The spreading violence came as Iraqi electoral officials announced preliminary results in local elections held Saturday — Iraq's first since U.S. troops left in December 2011.
With 87 percent of the ballots counted, al-Maliki's State of Law bloc was on track to win the most votes in eight of the 12 provinces participating in the vote, including Baghdad and the southern oil hub of Basra.
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc was ahead in the southern Shiite province of Maysan, while a provincial level coalition was leading in the Shiite province of Najaf. Local coalitions also were ahead in the largely Sunni province of Salahuddin and the mixed province of Diyala.
The government last month delayed voting in two predominately Sunni provinces where anti-government protests have raged for months, citing security concerns.
The final results will offer a key measure of support for the country's political blocs and could boost the victors' chances heading into next year's parliamentary elections.
The election announcement was overshadowed, however, by the rising unrest.
Gunmen and police clashed for hours in several districts of the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Mosul before security forces brought the situation under control Thursday afternoon.
Police said 31 militants and 10 police were killed in the fighting in Mosul, which has been one of the hardest areas to tame since bloodshed erupted after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Many residents remained holed up in their homes out of fear, although the city was largely quiet by evening.
Clashes also erupted late Thursday between gunmen and security forces in the former al-Qaida stronghold of Baqouba, prompting authorities to impose a curfew there and in the surrounding province, according to police.
The latest unrest began on Tuesday when fighting broke out in the northern town of Hawija during a security crackdown on a protest encampment. Three members of the Iraqi security force and at least 20 other people were killed. The government said gunmen fired on the security forces as they entered the camp to make arrests related to an earlier incident.
Iraqi Sunnis say they face discrimination, particularly in the application of a tough anti-terrorism law that they believe unfairly targets their sect, which formed the backbone of the insurgency but also was key to the downturn in violence after tribal leaders turned against al-Qaida in Iraq.
The government frequently carries out arrests in Sunni areas on charges of al-Qaida or Baathist ties. Protests escalated in December after the arrest of bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi, a Sunni, in late December.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement that gunmen had taken control of the Suleiman Beg police station and other governmental buildings, and were deployed in the streets of the town, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Baghdad. The ministry did not provide information on casualties.
On Wednesday, police and hospital officials reported fierce clashes in the town that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and 12 others, including some gunmen.
The mayor of the city of Tuz Khormato, to which Suleiman Beg is administratively annexed, said security forces had laid siege to the small town and sporadic clashes were continuing. The official, Shalal Abdool, said there were additional casualties among gunmen on Thursday, but he couldn't provide numbers.
In his first public comments since the Hawija killings, al-Maliki urged Iraqis to unite for the sake of the country and stand up against extremists.
"We all have to shoulder responsibility after what happened in Hawija and what's going on today in Suleiman Beg and other areas," he said. "If (sectarian) conflict erupts, there will be no winner or loser. All will lose, whether in southern or northern or western or eastern Iraq."
Northeast of Baghdad, the Iraqi army has surrounded the town of Qara Tappah, where deadly clashes also were reported on Wednesday. The army and some tribal leaders in the town are in contact to try to ease the tensions, and the situation is calm for now, according to local police. Qara Tappah is about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of the capital.
Gunmen also opened fire on a police checkpoint near Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding two others, according to police.
A Sunni politician who recently announced his resignation from the Cabinet urged al-Maliki, a Shiite, to step down to calm the tensions.
"Iraq is in a dire situation now and I believe that there must be serious solutions," Abdul-Karim al-Samarraie told The Associated Press on Thursday in a phone interview. "One of the solutions is the resignation of the prime minister and for him to leave the government to another who can run it temporarily. Otherwise, the options for Iraq are only dangerous ones."
Al-Samarraie is Iraq's minister of science and technology. He and Minister of Education Mohammed Tamim submitted their resignations this week in the wake of the killings in Hawija. Al-Samarraie said that Industry Minister Ahmed al-Karbouli also submitted his resignation.
Al-Karbouli could not be reached for comment, but an official in his office confirmed the move.
In other violence reported by police and hospital officials Thursday, attackers detonated explosives on a key oil pipeline linking Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan near the town of Shurqat, disrupting crude oil exports.
A roadside bomb also struck two army vehicles patrolling south of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding six others. And a car bomb went off near a bus stop in Najaf, killing four people and wounding 12.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.
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Well, the 1st 20 minutes at least, but let me come back to that.
I was accused during the week of being vain! Can you believe that!
- Sure I like myself, a lot…
- Sure I am a handsome Gnome, very…
- Sure I like to take screenshots, of myself, from all sorts of angles…
- Sure I like to run down my teammates (or kill them, whichever makes the better story), to make myself look better…
But vain?
Ok, maybe a little.
Squishing Spiders
Ok, where was I?
Ohh, Friday night. Got home late, ruined dinner with the family, PC was playing up, addons weren't behaving, I felt out of sorts…
I wasn't going to be a good night!
Once again we started with the spiders. This time we were going to take down those 3 bosses in 20 minutes, or I was going to DE all my gear just to give Zupa competition on the loot rolls when he catches up.
Roles Assigned
The primary roles were assigned. Mr. tree was Master looter, I was Master DE. What other roles do you need?
We took the advice of Priestgiblet, and left the bosses with their loot, so all 10 of us could move on. Slow and steady was the call, no need to rush and wipe.
2 bosses down in 7 minutes, all going smoothly. Mr. Offspec asks if we are going to do Maexxna on hard mode leaving her mates alive for an additional achievement.
No, let's focus and get this achievement under the belt
Sung a chorus of voices over Vent.
Gnomes on the Adds
As usual, Gnomeaggedon was assigned to the adds, to butter them up a bit for easy kills when the time arrived.
Things going perfectly, boss goes nuts, 1st add goes down. Gnome butters up the last 3 until they are 15% from death, then switches to the boss.
Everything going perfectly…
Gnomeaggedon pops his IWIN button and launches into maximum damage mode, ably assisted by his 3 mirror copies… Or not!
1,2,3 the adds go down under a volley of frostbolts and fireblasts!
Whoops, focus fire on the boss little Gnomes… Never mind, time for you to drop down to the ground and dissolve…
Time for the boss to do the same!
Got it!
Smooth Sailing
The rest of the team continued on to clear the trash while our loot recovery team (Mr. Tree and I) ran about and dished out the loot, or produced some shards.
We kicked on perfectly from there. Trash group after trash group. Boss after boss. Nothing was either stopping us or slowing us down…
It was going to be a perfect clear tonight… Even Undying maybe?
There was no doubt we would clear Naxx, and we were already discussing where to go after.
Maybe Kara so Zupa could join us…
Everything was sweet…
Until we hit a wall, or more to the point, some hurdles.
What followed was wipe hurdle after wipe hurdle.
Instructor Razuvious
I don't know what it is with Razuvious, but for some reason we have to fail before we succeed. It's gotten to the point now where I face the stairs rather than the boss on the 1st attempt, just to make it easier to run to the ramp and reset the fight.
This time we put it down to one of the henchmen not being selected for mind control at the pull.
He dropped his leggings again… WTB spare Mage to soak up the DE items.
Gothik the Harvester
I'm always the sacrificial lamb for the Gothik pulls. Not that he attacks me straight off, but I'm waiting for the day he bugs out, or gets tired of waiting for his minions to be sacrificed and joins the battle immediately.
Anyway, I have developed a new pulling method, a new taunt. The /rasp Ice Lance technique.
Works every time!
20 Horsemen
Four Horseman – usually so easy… 5… FIVE! attempts…
Things just broke down.
Dancing in the streets
Just before Heigan the Unclean, Mr. Tree tells us all that a friend's account is getting hacked. So now we are down to 9 semi focus players while trying to assist Mr. Tree and his friend in recovering the account before all is lost.
Attempt 1.
Ready check on Heigan, everyone's ready.
Tankadin rushes in…
Wait, Mr Tree's ready, but not in the room yet!
One healer down, 2 healer's down. Shaman goes heals, 3 healer's down… Wipe.
Attempt 2.
Ready check. Everyone's present and ready…
Let's dance.
Let's wipe.
Attempt 3.
Ready check…
Let's dance…
I felt a little like I was in the movie Strictly Ballroom.
Ugly, uncoordinated Gnome takes on the glitter and the dancing shoes.
I really paid attention during my earlier two deaths. Although I know the tactic, I always seem to find myself caught a long way from the next spot. What I realize is that where I normally dance has some big bad gaps. So I move closer to the "stage" and…
Getting late now, lost one raid member, pulled in another one… A Mage…
3 attempts before Sapphiron hit the ground, strangely the same number of times I was ice blocked.
Real late now, but so close to the end… Let's give KT one shot.
Trash no problems, good in fact, took Mr. Offspec out early… Maybe that isn't so good… Main Tankadin DCs, OT picks up KT, OT down, healers down, DPS down, umm wipe it up
Bloody Windows updates and their automatic restarts! Seriously Microsoft, the PC will get restarted, just shut up and leave the MT alone!
MT says one more go… Healadin gets too close to HealyPriest (Mr. Z!), Mr Z! Moves to avoid the inevitable, moves too close to one vain Gnome. Inevitable happens. Healer and DPS gone… Gone…
Night folks!
A Disenchanting Night
I was a busy Gnome. Mr. Tree kept handing me things to DE. 10 things in the end, one shard per person.
I even grabbed one or two things with the intention of doing some alternative gemming… Got to be better than sharding…
WTB Mage to soak up Tier tokens
If there is one thing we can guarantee about our Naxx runs, it's that the tokens for the Mage Shoulders and the Mage chest will drop.
It's getting somewhat tiresome… Of course by the time Zupa joins us, they will dry up…
Gnomish All Sorts
As I mentioned at the beginning, I was a bit out of sorts, my mind really wasn't 100% on the game, and I made my apologies for this early on.
On top of that, my PC was behaving badly… You know when you start casting and nothing happens until you see your spell hit the mob. It was all guesswork, I really didn't know what was happening for a while there.
A lot of mods weren't function either. Power Auras and Recount amongst them. You would think it was power auras that would trouble me the most, but it was actually recount.
No counting on Recount
It wasn't an epeen thing, it's just that I monitor my performance on every fight, just so I know whether I am pushing it as much as I can.
Between the stuttering PC and lack of recount, I just wasn't getting any feedback and I as troubled by this.
I wasn't even in the mood to change specs for the different fights. Like I say, I was in a funny mood, and I figured that no matter what spec I entered the combat with, it would be 50/50, much of a muchness, whether I performed better or not.
Due to our 20 minute race, I didn't want to reboot either, so I just lived with my issues until after spider wing. Mr Z! Was suffering similar problems with his UI, but he was forced to restart…
What's a rogue without an energy bar?
At the end of the night, I had a quick look at WWS. Mind you, I only captured the action post-spider wing, but sure enough my DPS was low, around 2k average on the boss deaths.
That is when I noticed something else though.
It harks back to my When is your DPS too low post.
Yes my DPS was low, there were plenty higher than me… But, I was still in 3rd place for damage done, with only a single % point difference between each of us. (I have just looked at a full report, and my 1st 3 fights were atrocious.. lucky I rebooted)
- Low DPS, yes.
- Lived to do the damage… Damn right!
XP karma
Zupa is closing on 80. With a bit of luck, he will join us this week for some phat Naxx loot.
So send him some of your spare XP karma to get him over the line. I need at least one week with him undergeared so I can maintain my 3rd meter position!
Speaking of Zupa
Don't say this too loud, but I have been AoE grinding worm meat. I have been doing it FFB specd, so I don't have all the tools at my disposal.
But I have found if I am going to have any chance of getting the worm meat, I need to tag as many as possible before the other farmers pinch them.
So tag 'em up, round 'em up, and take 'em down. Only taking 3-5 at a time, as I am finding they like to run off before too long, and they are pretty spread out. Still, I'm doing it… For better or worse.
3 more days to get your Blogday gifts to me… (but I will give you until Sunday 21st… 5 days in total!)
Gnomer and Out!
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
How Much Gold Do You Have?
I ask because while reading WoWInsider, it was stated that most players have under 1k gold.....huh?
That seems incredibly low.
Making gold in WoW is easy no matter what you decide to do. If you like farming....gold. If you like questing....gold. If you like instances....gold. PvP won't make you anything, but as a PvPer you dont really suffer a lot of durability damage.
You can make over 10k JUST LEVELING.
Granted, people are going to spend it on different things. Professions, enchants, gems. There are plenty things to spend gold on and just as many things to make gold from.
So, I ask again. How much gold do you have at any one time?
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- Wilhelm Arcturus said...
I am not sure what the right answer is.
As a "player" I have probably 30K gold scattered across more than a dozen characters on three servers.
But I have quite a few characters sitting around with under 1K of gold. I have a stack of them in the 40-60 range.
Did they mean "players" or "characters" in their post?
- June 29, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Darraxus said...
I believe they meant players. I can see a character having less as I have a couple who are under 1k gold. People were commenting how they had under 1k on their whole account. Also saw one who had under 300 gold total. Mind boggling to me.
- June 29, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Yow said...
Darraxus wanna Link my blog and I link yours ? =)
Left comment earlier about this dunno if u noticed =)
if possible answer at:
- June 29, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Darraxus said...
@ Yow:
I am already linking yours on my blogroll on the right hand side of my page if you scroll down.
- June 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM
over my 3 main chars I probably have 10k gold.
I do a lot of PvP and hardly ever get the chance to raid.
- June 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Vordan said...
Since level 70 I have had over 1k on just my main. Granted I payed for flying and leveling up Engineer but im stitting at probably 50k through the couple of servers I play on. Im not money mogul like you, so this is the reason I am stuck below 100k. I dont try like you do and I am not so thrifty like you, I tend to spend it.
- June 29, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- River said...
I use to play the auction house, but I took a break, now I'm down to 8k gold cause I spend like a sailor on shore leave. Thinking about getting back in the gold game.
- June 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM
- Ngita said...
200k as a player on my main server, but I tend to have a goal and spend when i am above it. 310 for alts being the latest favorite, Probably make my goal 250k soon as i am sitting on a ton of dreamcloth , truegold and enchanting mats at the moment.
But we haad a discussion about this in guild back in early wotlk. Players fell into 2 distinct groups. Some endlessly accumulated, the longer they played they more they had, some earn-spend-earn-spend. If they don't deliberately try and earn gold their natural state is zero.
- June 29, 2011 at 4:33 PM
- Darth Solo said...
When I quit WoW I have over 500K, perhaps 520 or so. But I do believe that most people have very little gold. Us "millionaires" are the exception.
- June 29, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- McRaffles said...
After hiting the old cap, pre-Cata and pretty much blowing the lot when Cata hit, I am currently sitting at about 150k over 5 toons and quite comfortable with that.
- June 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM
- Mogul said...
Since capping I've become a bit of a spender - sitting at the moment somewhere between 1.1 and 1.2M.
Less than 1000g seems astonishing when dailies give around 10g each and Blizz is so fond of rep grinds.
- June 30, 2011 at 2:03 AM


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Wells - who joined the Falcons last season on an interim basis - will line up alongside director of rugby Dean Richards, head coach Peter Russell and Graham Steadman who is defence coach. The Championship club have also confirmed that Calum MacRae will take charge of the skills aspect while Micky Ward stays as scrum coach.
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Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay Bachelor of Laws/Attorney (J.D. equivalent)
What I Did Before Law School:
I worked as an attorney in the corporate department at a law firm in Uruguay.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
Aside from the fact it is an Ivy League school, among the best in the country, I found very appealing its interdisciplinary approach towards education. It also has a rather small program, where the experience and background of every LLM student counts, and makes it especially easy to create strong bonds with your classmates.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
The summer program, because you get to know your classmates, learn about their background and home countries, and you also have the entire Law School for yourself!
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
Professor William Ewald who taught us the Foundations of American Legal system course during the summer program. He manages to transmit a large number of concepts in a very eloquent way, which made it both simple and interesting to be in his class.
My Favorite Course:
Trusts and Estates. I come from a civil law country where the rules are forced heirship and community property during marriage. So I found John Terrill´s course fascinating because it taught me the differences that the US legal system has, mainly testamentary freedom and separate property states.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
Organizing international dinners with the other LLM students.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
Being able to find equilibrium between the obligations at the Law School and going out and having fun with my friends.
My Extracurricular Activities at Penn Law:
I play soccer every Friday at Penn Park with other students. I also try to travel as much because there are many interesting places to visit around Philly.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The Division II Athletics Directors Association (D2ADA) announced the 2011-12 recipients of the D2ADA Academic Achievement Awards. King College was among 118 institutions across 23 conferences and independents that placed athletes on the list, finishing with 72 student-athletes earning the award. The Academic Achievement Awards is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level.
Of King's 72 student-athletes named to the D2ADA Academic Achievement Award List, Lady Tornado Track & Field and Basketball led with seven people per team named to the list. All of King's 19 NCAA varsity sports were represented on the list. A complete list of all the student-athletes honored is featured below.
The D2ADA Academic Achievements collected add to an extensive list of academic accolades collected by King athletic teams over the 2011-12 school year. Those awards include housing 77 conference All-Academic honorees, five Conference Carolinas Student-Athletes of the Year, and one Capital One Academic All-American. In July, King Women's Basketball was announced to have the second-highest team grade point average in Division II while possessing the third highest team GPA across all collegiate divisions while Women's Volleyball was recently presented an AVCA Team Academic award.
A record number of institutions (118) and student-athletes (4,492) are being recognized for the 2011-12 Academic Achievement Awards. The Pennsylvania State Athletic Association had 557 student-athletes honored, a record-high for the program, followed by the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) with 400 student-athletes being recognized and the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) with 398 student-athletes being acknowledged with this award.
"The D2ADA would like to thank and congratulate the institutions that took part in honoring the record-number of 4,492 student-athletes with 2011-12 Academic Achievement Awards," stated D2ADA President Anita Barker, director of athletics at Chico State University. "Recognizing and honoring deserving Division II student-athletes is a strategic goal of the D2ADA. This award gives us the platform to showcase these individuals and their efforts in the classroom, as well as on the playing field."
In order for a student-athlete to receive an Academic Achievement Award, the athletics director of the Division II institution must be a current dues paying member of the D2ADA and student-athletes must meet the following criteria:
- have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale
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"Mr. Postman Twistin†Away at Lehman Center via the Marvelettes
The Marvelettes open for Dennis Edwards and the Temptations at Lehman Ccenter for the Performing Arts in the Bronx.
Paula Anderson, lead singer for the Marvelettes, took
time out of her busy schedule to talk to this journalist about her upcoming show
at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts as the opening act for Dennis Edwards
and the Temptations Revue on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 p.m.
The Marvelettes have a long history starting back in the
1960s in Detroit when Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins put together 4 singers
in high school. Dobbins had to leave the
group due to family issues early on but others like Wanda Rogers, Georgeanna
Tillman, Wyanette Cowart and Katherine Anderson joined later as did others.
"Being in Detroit and around the home of music, just
about everyone thought they wanted to be part of the music biz back then. I personally started in the group in
2000. I went to an audition. I went in thinking I knew it all. Once I got there, I thought this is Motown
and to be a part of that is something special.
So, I did what I needed to do. I
went to several auditions and I finally got through the door and it's been
wonderful ever since. Motown was very
particular about who carried on the Marvelettes' name. As a Marvelette, the others and myself have
made sure to keep the integrity of the music.
I learned a lot from the lead singer at the time I started with the
group. Thus, when she stepped down, I
was able to step up and take her place.
Motown is loved universally. It
shaped music in a very big way" said Paula who is performing nightly with The Marvelettes
in Las Vegas at the Rio's Crown Theatre where they share the bill with The
Platters and the Coasters in between going out on the road.
Marvelettes made history as the very first girl group selected by Berry Gordy
to sing for Motown. One can say the
Marvelettes set the tone for the girl groups who followed like the Supremes and
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. The public snapped up over a million copies of the
Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" which became a big hit for them. The Marvelettes had an 8 year run on the
Billboard Music charts. They scored 23
Billboard Hot 100 singles. Of these
hits, 3 were top pop singles, 9 were top R&B singles and their debut song
was #1 on both charts. Smokey Robinson
wrote some of the Marvelette's hit songs. "Smokey Robinson wrote "Don't Mess
with Bill," and "The Hunter Captured by the Game." With Motown it was about being a
family. Artists from the label worked
with other artists. Marvin Gaye also worked with us. Many may not know that Marvin played the
drums. He played drums on some of our
songs. Oftentimes various Motown artists
became part of each other's projects" explained the Marvelette's lead singer.
"We have been abroad and it's been
wonderful to have the opportunity to travel.
We went to Austria, Canada and Mexico.
Being part of the Marvelettes has afforded me that opportunity. I am fortunate that my husband is in the
business so he understands. It makes it all
the more wonderful to come home to him after traveling.
The current Marvelettes are Paula Anderson (lead)
originally from Queens who has been with the group 11 years. California's Sarah
Melensum (spelling of names unconfirmed) has been with the Marvelettes for 8 years
and New Yorker Tanja Foster who has also been with the group 8 years as
well. Other singers who may sing with
the Marvelettes at Lehman Center are Deborah Sherman and Annette Bland McCoy. "We have a wonderful rapport together. When you are out on the road you look out for
one another. We get out there and do our
jobs while having fun at the same time" said Paula of her relationship with her
fellow Marvelettes. "I love the music
and the fact we are still out there performing this type of music. There is a big demand for it. We are always happy to see young people at
our concerts that come out to hear our music with their parents and
The Marvelettes will be singing the song Beachwood 4-5789
(1962) for the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts audience. "You know some of the men in the audience have
approached us and said they actually called the Beachwood number. I think some of these gentlemen expected us
to answer. I can't tell you where
Beachwood 4-5789 will connect but it's definitely a phone number," chuckled
Anderson. "We love the grace, romance
and elegance of the 1960s era. When we
are on stage we dress from the era. We
wear the big hair wigs, the jewelry and 60's clothes. It is a lot of fun getting ready for the
show. We even do some of the dances. We
do a skit with the men in the audience when we sing our song "Don't Mess with
Bill." We love our shows. We interact
with the audience and get a lot of feedback from our audiences after the show,
telling us how much fun they had. "
Those interested in tickets for the Marvelettes and
Dennis Edwards and the Temps can call the Lehman Center Box Office at
718-960-8833 for Saturday, April 9th or go online at www.LehmanCenter.org. Those driving to Lehman Center for the
Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park West in the Bronx, can park for
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Remember once upon a time when the Ford Mondeo was Britain's best-selling car, or at least thereabouts? Well, now it doesn't even make it into the top ten. Tellingly, the BMW 3-Series outsells it.
Ford would like to change that and here in Paris it's unveiled a new Mondeo, which it wants to kick up market – trying to win back many of those company car users who've migrated up to a 3-Series or A4.
Does it stand a chance? On first impressions, no. The new Mondeo may have a smart new face, which the mainstream media may have told you features an Aston Martin-like grille. Don't believe this, it's much more Audi than anything else in reality and while striking and purposeful, it gives way to a car that can't quite sign the cheques the face writes. The 5-door hatch might have a little bit of Audi A7 in profile and you may think the Mondeo fundamentally prettier than before – but it ultimately forgoes any sense of real "premium". Mondeo or one of the German triumvirate of C-class, 3-Series or A4? Ninety-nine out of 100 people would still be reaching for a set of German keys, we reckon.
It's a big car though - almost too big for some of Europe's smaller cities and Britain's tight parking spaces. At more than 4.8m long, it's as big as cars from the class above. Blame the fact the Mondeo shares much of its design and pretty much all of its underpinnings with the US Fusion.
In Europe, we're getting 5-door and estate versions only, but other markets get a 4-door too. But if you're liking what you see, don't get too excited yet – as the Mondeo is still 14 (yes, fourteen) months from going on sale. Just as well, because the cars in Paris featured a level of build quality and finish so poor that we can't remember seeing the like of at a major motor show for years. Sunglasses storage bins that had jammed shut, doors that wouldn't shut properly and panel gaps so big you could - on some cars - see what engine they were running without opening the bonnet, doesn't bode well. But part of the reason for the long launch lead is that Ford says it couldn't hit its quality target by the planned launch in the middle of next year, so has pushed it back. Expect major tweaking and improvement before cars you can actually drive hit the ground.
Inside, there's a much simpler design theme, with far fewer buttons. The Mondeo's user interface - like many American Fords - has been built around the Sync/MyFord Touch, touchscreen system, which cleans up all the buttons and controls and groups most functions into one (very large) central touchscreen. The gauge cluster is largely digital too – a central speedo in many versions, flanked by two reconfigurable TFT screens. It looks cleaner and the screen is accurate and fast if these show-stand cars are anything to go by. But the interior's nothing to write home about as a piece of design or a place to sit. It doesn't feel special. An Audi A3 absolutely murders it for perceived quality, material authenticity and user interface logic and layout.
The new Mondeo will be much more efficient, though. Ford's bringing the Ecoboost 1.0L (yes, a 1.0L engine in a Mondeo!) engine, along with a hybrid, to the engine party, this time. Both of which are likely to give the Mondeo class-leading fuel economy and emissions figures. There'll be a range of other petrols and diesels, along with the option of a dual-clutch auto transmission. Expect the Mondeo – when it finally arrives – to cost from a little under 20 grand.