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Dunkin' Brands (DNKN) is the holding company for the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins chains. The founding of these two fast food restaurants dates back to the 1940s. For a time, they were owned by a subsidiary of Allied Domecq. After that company was acquired by Pernod Ricard, Dunkin' Brands was sold to Bain Capital Partners, LLC, The Carlyle Group, and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P., so Pernod Ricard could focus on its core businesses.
In mid-2011, Bain, Carlyle, and Thomas H. Lee brought the company public via in initial public offering (IPO). As is often the case when investment funds bring a company public, the proceeds of the IPO went to the previous owners and not the company. Moreover, Bain, Carlyle, and Thomas H. Lee retained a material ownership stake in the company, creating something of an overhang on the stock because of the concern that the investment funds would sell their holdings once contractual holding periods end.
Dunkin' Brands' two concepts are household names in the United States, but both have material foreign operations. In fact, the company divides its business into four units: Dunkin' Donuts U.S., Dunkin' Donuts International, Baskin-Robbins U.S., and Baskin-Robbins International. As of March 2011, there were approximately 16, 250 Dunkin' Brands locations in 57 countries.
The Dunkin' Donuts concept (accounting for over 90% of revenues in 2010) had over 9,800 restaurants in 31 countries, with about 6,800 of those locations in the United States. Only 36 states and the District of Columbia host Dunkin' Donuts locations, which suggests that there remains ample room for growth as the company expands the footprint of this concept. Historically known for its donuts and coffee, Dunkin' Donuts has been expanding its offerings to include breakfast sandwiches and specialty drinks.
The Baskin-Robbins concept (accounting for less than 10% of revenues in 2010) had nearly 6,500 locations across 47 countries, with about 2,500 of those stores located in the United States. The U.S. locations are spread across forty-five states and the District of Columbia, suggesting that the company's footprint can be expanded, but to a lesser degree than the Dunkin' Donuts brand.
An aggressive franchise model is the backbone of the company's operating structure, whereby almost all of its restaurants are operated by others. Although Dunkin' Brands earns revenues in multiple ways, its primary source is a percentage payment from its franchisees' sales. As of March 2011, Dunkin' had almost 2,000 franchisees in the United States alone. The franchise model allows the parent company to focus its efforts on branding and product innovation, but takes a lot of control out of management's hands, as its franchisees are operating the bulk of the customer facing operation. This arrangement can make it more difficult to maintain quality and service standards, and to see trends in the business.
The negative aspects noted, using such an aggressive franchise model allows for a great deal of leverage, since Dunkin' Brands doesn't have to come up with the capital needed to fund expansion. Expansion of both the Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands is a core growth initiative for the company, though international growth is the main focus for its ice cream operations.
Dunkin' Brands is also looking to keep both concepts fresh and lively, with specific goals for its namesake segment of focusing on beverages and moving beyond its stronghold in the breakfast segment. The end purpose is to increase comparable-store sales (or comps in industry jargon), so that sales increase at units that have been open for at least one year.
In the often-fickle restaurant category, it is important to constantly innovate while not moving too far from one's core. This can be a difficult balancing act and has proven problematic to many companies. With such a large store base, the above noted comps are an important metric to monitor. Weakness here could be a leading indicator of a flawed business model or undesirable product offerings. That said, fast-food restaurants are also subject to the impact of economic swings, so it is equally important to keep the environment in mind when reviewing comparable-store sales.
It is also important to note that, although Dunkin' Brands is not directly affected by ingredient inflation, its franchisees are. As such, the royalty payments that Dunkin' receives can be hurt by a reduction in sales as franchisees raise prices to cover the increase in input costs. Note, too, that supply shortages of coffee, an important product category for Dunkin' Donuts, could have an outsized impact on the parent company.
Dunkin' Brands controls two well-known restaurant nameplates with solid positions in niche food categories. There appears to be room for each concept to expand. Subscribers to The Value Line Investment Survey who are interested in the company and its ongoing performance should consult Value Line's regular quarterly reports and keep an eye out for Supplemental reports for late breaking news.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Would the show go on? Should it? Was it right for America to flaunt its riches before the world while imposing its might on Iraq and sending its soldiers into harm's way?
As you may recall -- this was, after all, 11 months ago, though it somehow feels of another era -- the opinions differed wildly and vigorously. As the New York Daily News' Jack Mathews asked rhetorically, "Do we really want to show off one of the most superficial symbols of Western culture, even a sedate version, while our troops are barreling toward Baghdad?"
That argument didn't prevail. The somewhat muted show aired as scheduled; documentarian Michael Moore drew catcalls for the evening's most political speech; Adrien Brody planted a long wet one on Halle Berry; and another chapter of Oscar history was written.
What a difference almost a year makes.Troops remain in Iraq; the Oscars are back to their old glitzy ways.
Still, this year no one is questioning the appropriateness of Hollywood celebrating itself with another lavish, self-loving televised spectacle while American soldiers dodge suicide bombers in Iraq and the folks at home try to remember which color-coded anxiety level they should be feeling at any given moment.
Last year's show played as if it felt a vague need to apologize for itself, from the cancellation of the stars' red-carpet fashion procession to the glee-challenged acceptance speeches. This year the grandstands for celebrity gawking loom high over Hollywood Boulevard and aren't coming down -- and the show's organizers are promising ultrabright star power and super-duper sets.
"This is who we are," said Aggie Kobrin, an Orange County-based human resources consultant, just after viewing the Oscar statuettes on display in the mall attached to the Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards will be presented Sunday. She was glad the glam factor was returning to the Oscars "because it's America. It's what's expected."
In other words, the world situation may be uncertain -- it may always be uncertain -- but Oscar now knows what he sees when he looks in the mirror. And he likes it. "This year there has been a conscious effort from the beginning -- from the selection of the poster back in November to the theme that producer Joe Roth decided on -- to make it a happier occasion again," said Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. "He wants it to be an awards show that is heavy on comedy, not only from selecting Billy Crystal as host. Throughout the evening he's got comic performances and comic approaches to various aspects of the show that I think will make this one a little different from some of the others we've done."
Bringing in heavy hitters
Producer Roth, who runs Revolution Studios (which made "Daddy Day Care" and his own "America's Sweethearts," among others), also aims to juice the mood while reversing the show's steadily shrinking ratings by filling the presenter ranks with Hollywood's biggest names: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, last year's winners Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and even Oprah Winfrey.
"I think certainly there's going to be a striking contrast to last year in mood and look," Davis said.
The post-show parties, which also canceled their red carpets last year, are returning with a vengeance. Think you won't be able to find the star-studded Vanity Fair bash at Morton's in West Hollywood? Hint: Look for the magazine's name spelled out in a topiary that's 10 feet high and 30 feet long.
Countless TV shows, magazines and other media will be providing breathless coverage of every such aspect of Oscar-related activity, particularly as it relates to celebrities. Widespread interest in the superficial -- as you may have noticed -- didn't actually disappear when the U.S. began waging its wars on terror and Iraq, despite much punditry predicting the contrary. That Janet Jackson's breast passed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as the most-searched Internet topic ever must be considered a brutally revealing milestone.
Davis admitted to mixed feelings over the ever-growing frenzy around the Oscars' periphery. "Obviously our focus is on the art of the motion picture, and once we get everybody in the hall, that's what the evening is all about," the academy executive director said. "We kind of wish the world would focus a little more on that aspect of things, but we know that most of the coverage in the two days following the show will be who wore what and things that have nothing to do with the movies as an art form."
Yet Richard Walter, chairman of UCLA Film School's screenwriting program, argued that what the Oscars are selling is far from trivial. "They are continuing to extol the American ethos, the American dream," Walter said. "That dream is that in a free and democratic society, if you're willing to become educated and work hard, you can succeed. Not one of [the winners] was born into this."
Winning the Oscar -- becoming the most celebrated of celebrities -- may be the highest accolade our culture offers. Who hasn't imagined stepping up to that podium and collecting that golden guy?
The fantasy dangled by the Oscars is disconnected from the real world, which is why things become awkward when the real world crashes the party. You don't dream of taking the stage and trying to place your Oscar win in the context of soldiers getting blown up.
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Given that Moore had just received a standing ovation for winning the documentary Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine," you've got to figure that the boos that interrupted his speech sprung less from ideological differences than the sense that a crucial line of decorum had been broached.
Veteran British film critic David Thomson is vexed by the Oscars' apolitical self-image. "What is most irking in the academy's attitude to its own place in the world is the assertion that there's nothing anyone can do about things political, so enjoy the show and go to see movies," he wrote last week in the national British newspaper Independent. "Of course, after 100 years of film-going, we do have the beginnings of a case that `difficulties' in the world at large can be connected to a culture that steadily believes in bringing dreams to life, worshipping beautiful people and knowing as little as possible about `foreign affairs.'"
Roth has said that despite the ABC-imposed five-second delay on the telecast, no political statements will be edited. Damien Bona, co-author of "Inside Oscar" and author of "Inside Oscar 2," said this year's winners may be particularly likely to get topical.
"The fact that it is a presidential election year will, I think, lead people to make political statements more than in an average year -- especially since the California primary is two days later there, so it's on everybody's mind," Bona said. "I do think it'll be interesting if Tim Robbins wins given that he and Susan Sarandon were disinvited from the Baseball Hall of Fame [after speaking out against the Iraq war]. If anyone had the right to gloat about being right about the war, he does. And Sean Penn with his trips to Iraq, he certainly has laid the groundwork for speaking on the subject this year."
Best song nominee Michael McKean ("A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow," from "A Mighty Wind") said for him the issue is that the movies and politics tend to have little to do with each other.
"I think I compartmentalize pretty easily," McKean said, wearing the Global Vision for Peace pin he had just received at an event promoting "Artists for the U.N." "It's not really about politics. Listen, my wife [Annette O'Toole] and I are nominated for the first time. There's nothing political about what we do in this particular case. We'd be different in a different situation."
To Davis, Oscar's message is straightforward: On with the show.
"I don't mean that all the problems in the world have been solved by any means, but I think it's OK for people to celebrate this art form," Davis said. "And if they have fun doing it, all the better."


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Turnarounds are only sexy when seen in the rear view mirror. In the moment they are chaotic spectacles of decline. Market share, profitability, value and morale all plummeting, often with the organization having lost hope that there is a way to pull out of the tailspin. In the growth-obsessed world of technology, turnarounds are even more difficult, and management teams and employees look with envy at fast-growing upstarts and mature companies seek to boost their growth prospects through disciplined acquisitions.
There is nothing sexy about the mess that Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ, $17) finds itself in now, and I am confident that CEO Meg Whitman would agree. The company could rightly be attacked for a Byzantine structure that is sapping profitability, but that would seem unfair to the Byzantines, who after all retained relevance for 1,000 years after the fall of Rome. At present there is little indication that the company founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 might enjoy the corporate equivalent of such longevity.
Hewlett-Packard's current valuation screams distrust. With a Price/Book of 1.5 and an Enterprise Value / EBITDA multiple of less than 4.0x, the market is clearly showing no signs of optimism for this beleaguered company. How did this technology giant (LTM revenue of $120.4 billion, operating cash flow of $10.6 billion) find itself tagged as such an uncertain prospect by the market?
In the war for enterprise IT spending, Hewlett-Packard is facing strong competitors with a more coherent value proposition. A representative list includes:
- IBM ( IBM, $205): This is almost certainly the white whale Meg Whitman and her lieutenants are chasing, and for the good of shareholders they need to stop. IBM is a diversified powerhouse, strong in enterprise hardware, software and services. The turnaround that former IBM chief Lou Gerstner engineered was a masterpiece, but that was in a different market, and with a different company. It is worth noting that Gerstner got out of businesses he did not see a future in, and found a way to leverage the strong but slow-growing mainframe business to strengthen a push into consulting.
- Oracle ( ORCL, $35): A company with not quite a third of Hewlett-Packard's revenue, but stronger operating cash flow, Oracle is a company with roots in enterprise software (founder Larry Ellison started the company after reading an IBM white paper on relational databases and deciding to build one himself) and a demonstrated ability to make savvy acquisitions. The 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems not only made Oracle a player in the enterprise hardware space, but secured Oracle's flank by giving it control of the open-source MySQL database product, which was beginning to gain traction over Oracle's far more costly database offerings. Sadly, Oracle too represents a path not open to Hewlett-Packard, given the focus the company has displayed.
- Accenture ( ACN, $72): At not quite a fourth the size but nearly a nearly 40% higher market cap, Accenture perhaps represents what Hewlett-Packard might have had in-house if the EDS acquisition had not been botched. This is a company that has built a reputation as being a go-to source for large, complicated IT integration projects. It remains to be seen if the market is under-valuing Hewlett-Packard's offerings in this area, or if Accenture truly deserves to be seen as a cut above. What is not in dispute is that Hewlett-Packard has a far more muddled story that Accenture.
- Dell ( DELL, $13): If Meg Whitman is thankful for anything, it may be that at least she is not running Dell. Both companies are generating sub-par profit margins, but only Dell is small enough to be a viable takeover target.
A company the size of Hewlett-Packard competes globally, and a full listing of its competitors would certainly include more than four companies, but there are some lessons to be learned from the abbreviated list above.
- Tech diversification does not work. It was has worked for one company, IBM. This is the exception that proves the rule, and should not be taken as an invitation to try to be all things to all people.
- The market values a coherent story. IBM can do it all. Oracle does mission-critical enterprise hardware and software. Accenture does the heavy lifting on massive IT implementation projects. Three simple stories, three companies valued at considerably higher multiples than Hewlett-Packard.
- The PC business is a tough place to be. Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq may go down as one of the more ill-conceived tech purchases of the past ten years, if only because thin margins have only gotten more so over time.
Slow Down the M&A Machine
The company has made numerous (and some sizeable) acquisitions in hardware, software and consulting, with little to show for it. It is likely past time for a thorough rationalization of all that has been purchased, and a streamlining of costs. Transformation via acquisition has failed; management will have to roll up their sleeves and turnaround the company the old-fashioned way.
Rich Rewards for Patience
On a sum-of-the-parts basis alone Hewlett-Packard should be worth considerably more than it is currently trading at. If over the coming years Meg Whitman and her leadership team are able to stabilize the company's multiple lines of business, identify a coherent core to build around, then spin-off or sell non-core businesses, shareholders could be well compensated for their patience.
There is little to feel bullish about in the Hewlett-Packard story. If scale offers profit maximizing benefits, those benefits have not been apparent. The approach of using financial strength to buy into profitable niches has failed (the massive Autonomy write-down serving as only the most recent example). Competition is ferocious and generally more focused. The company's share price is down 40% over the last 52 weeks, and there is no turnaround at hand. Shareholders may have no options other than to sell or hold on for a multi-year turnaround.
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One giant leap for mankind. One small step for the GoDaddy Martian Rover?
With NASA's budget unlikely to see a boost anytime soon, legislators and policymakers are left looking for a financial fix. Enter one option: selling private sponsorships to future NASA projects or vehicles.
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Robert Walker, a former Republican chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, floated that idea at a committee hearing on NASA's strategic direction earlier this month.
Far-fetched? Maybe. But with federal appropriations declining each year since 2009, NASA needs to look outside Washington for a cash infusion, Walker says.
"Sponsorship brings in people who have no place in aerospace but see an opportunity to have their name associated with it," he told POLITICO.
And lawmakers have more to grapple with than just the question of NASA resources: Washington can't even agree on what exactly the agency's job should be.
Congress and the White House have butted heads over NASA's direction, with many on the Hill supporting new human exploration missions, such as going back to the moon. The White House, while not writing off that goal, has also promoted technology development and a research mission that would study samples of asteroids that come from deep space.
The two bodies were able to pass a space plan in the partisan political climate of 2010 that included components from both sides, noted David Weaver, the agency's associate administrator for communications. But that deal has been described as a compromise that made no one happy rather than a road map for NASA's future.
That lack of consensus among political leadership was the key finding of a report commissioned by Congress and released earlier this month. The administration, a National Research Council Committee concluded, needs to take the lead in "forging a new consensus on NASA's future" and eliminate "the current mismatch between NASA's budget and its portfolio of programs, facilities and staff."
One way to do that, the report states, is by committing to cost-sharing deals with other government agencies and international partnerships. And, as Walker pointed out at the House hearing, there are private-sector options. That includes sponsorships, but it also encompasses partnerships that could solidify or increase NASA's access to technology or projects developed by innovative space companies like Space X or Virgin Galactic.
That's a key component of the administration's space policy, Weaver said.
"We now are hiring folks to transport our supplies to the space station, and eventually very soon, we'll be hiring companies to take our astronauts to the space station," he said. "That's going to save us money — money that we will then plow into the development of the most powerful rocket ever developed and a space capsule that will take our astronauts further than we've ever gone before."


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Now through Wednesday, Sept. 7, Hope College's Van Wylen Library is hosting a display which tells about the lives of local women during World War II.
Now through Wednesday, Sept. 7, Hope College's Van Wylen Library is hosting a display which tells about the lives of local women during World War II.
Titled, "War Women: The role of women in Holland, Michigan during World War II," the exhibit and accompanying website (http://hollandwomen.weebly.com/) were the work of Hannah Boehme, a senior from Flat Rock majoring in history and religion at Hope.
The public is invited to the exhibition. Admission is free.
Boehme's project centers on the Fafnir Bearing factory and Fanna Dokter - its first female employee - as well as women at Hope College and the role played by Reformed Church in American and Christian Reformed Church congregations during the war years. Based on the collections of the Holland Museum, Herrick Library and Joint Archives of Holland, the project was supported by the department of history's Pagenkopf Research Scholarship, given thanks to the generosity of 1992 Hope graduate Kristin Pagenkopf and her husband Michael of Chicago, Ill.
Boehme is a graduate of Lutheran High School in Racine, Wis., and holds the Presidential Scholarship at Hope. She plans to pursue a career in museum work.
The Van Wylen Library is located at 53 Graves Place (11th Street), between 10th and 12th streets on College Avenue. The library is open on Thursday, Sept. 1, from 8 a.m. to midnight; on Friday, Sept. 2, from 8 a.m. to 6 pm.; on Saturday, Sept. 3, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; on Sunday, Sept. 4, from noon to midnight; and on Monday-Wednesday, Sept. 5-7, from 8 a.m. to midnight.


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YORK, PA-The York College men's swim team dropped a tough 110-90 decision to the University of Mary Washington in a Capital Athletic Conference meet in York, PA on Saturday. The Eagles improve to 3-1 overall and 3-0 in the CAC while the Spartans fall to 3-2 and 2-2 in the league.
The Spartans received four individual firsts, one relay first, a pair of relay seconds, and one individual second.
Senior Steven Fulcher (Columbia, Md./Calvert Hall) posted a pair of wins as he continues his outstanding senior year. Fulcher won the 50 free in a time of 22.05 while he also picked up a victory in the 200 backstroke. Fulcher's backstroke time was 2:01.19. Junior Matt Jennings (Fairfax, Va./Robinson) earned another one of York's first place finishes as he won the 100 free as he touched the wall in a time of 49.65. Freshman Steve Tobin (Estell Manor, N.J./Holy Spirit) recorded York's fourth win as he placed first in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:23.09.
The Spartans 400 free relay team of Mike Murphy (Farmingdale, N.J./Colts Neck), Ben Hilt (Mt. Joy, Pa./Hempfield), Clark Arnold (York, Pa./Northeastern), and Jennings won the event with a time of 3:22.39.
Sophomore Adam Willier (Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville Area) finished second 200 breaststroke, clocking in with a time of 2:34.86.
The Spartans 400 medley relay "A" team and the 400 free relay "B" team each finished second in their respective races.
The green and white return to action on Saturday when they travel to St. Mary's to face the Seahawks and Frostburg State in a tri-meet. The action is set to begin at 1:00 pm.


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It all started with a broken oven.
When the owner of a tiny cottage on Bowdoin Street thought about replacing that oven, she realized that there were a few other things that could use adjusting: A wall cut off the living room from the kitchen, the only back door was through the one bedroom, and you could easily trip stepping down to the backyard.
She turned to Palo Alto architect Jon Stoumen to solve these problems and come up with a plan.
The results of their labors, which were completed two years ago, will be on tour this Sunday, Dec. 11, at the 24th annual Palo Alto Stanford Heritage (PAST) Holiday House Tour. This year the tour focuses on seven homes in College Terrace, including three along Bowdoin Street. The three are part of a five-house cluster, with a sixth lot behind them functioning as a "commons." All five homeowners chip in $50 per month to maintain the grassy area, repair the driveways and fence or trim the majestic oak in the center of the backyard.
Stoumen maximized the 625 square feet of the Mission Revival cottage by pulling down that separating wall, capturing some closet space in the remodeled galley kitchen, and relocating the backdoor behind the kitchen.
The owner can now maintain eye contact with her guests as she's putting the finishing touches on a meal.
"The house had real charm," Stoumen said, pointing to the little-paned windows and what he called "grace notes" -- such as leaded-glass windows.
Stoumen salvaged one casement window from a nearby Old Palo Alto remodel, and added an Italian tilt-turn window in the bedroom.
Gentle arches are repeated over the windows and doors and even over the bathtub, in the largely original bathroom that's decorated with black-and-white hexagonal tiles.
At the rear of the house, space was reconfigured to create a wall of closets in the bedroom, allowing the washer and dryer to reside near the back door, off the kitchen. The new space allowed a larger bed to go sideways, near that tilt-turn window.
The owner opted for an IKEA-inspired kitchen, with a 24-inch-deep LG refrigerator and small Maytag under-counter washer/dryer.
One unwelcome surprise in the remodel was finding extensive termite and dry-rot damage. To solve that problem, the stucco was cut off and a short wall was built around the house. Today French drains draw the moisture away from the house, which is situated on a lot with a distinct incline.
"We 'celebrated' the downspouts," Stoumen said, making them obvious and charming touches.
The house was then re-stucco-ed with pigmented plaster, which will never require painting.
Repairing the roof involved removing all the old tiles, then re-using them, including finishing off the edging to encourage water away from the house.
A final touch was raising the patio. Today one can take one step down to arrive at the herringbone brick patio, with plenty of room for a barbecue, seating area and plants, separated by a fence from the common area.
The owner opted for blown-in insulation, but balked at replacing the windows with double-paned ones, both for cost and aesthetic reasons.
Down the street, and part of the same five-house 1931 "development," is Linda Fahn's Tudor cottage, somewhat larger at 825 square feet. In Fahn's house, the arches have a point, and the motif is repeated throughout.
That arch is even seen in a recessed nook in her bedroom, which houses a large dressing table.
To maximize space in her home, Fahn had one of the original doors made into a pocket door, separating her galley kitchen from her dining room. She retained the 1930s feel with subway tile from Waterworks that covers the window ledge and has rounded edges. Her farmer's sink sits atop a limestone countertop.
The third cottage in the Bowdoin trilogy is slightly larger, with 925 square feet and two bedrooms. Much of the original is intact -- including coved ceilings, oak floors, casement windows, plaster walls and bathroom tile -- and the centerpiece is the handcrafted tile around the fireplace. Only the kitchen, which includes the dining area, has been carefully remodeled, to complement those "grace notes" of the 1930s.
The seven homes on tour range from 625 to 4,000 square feet and include:
· an 1893 Queen Anne Victorian, once owned by a Stanford professor of Latin; the home retains Victorian embellishments, including spindles, brackets, scalloped shingles and a corner tower on a pyramid roof;
· a 1904 Shingle-style with Craftsman details built by a Stanford engineering student;
· a 1931 charming cottage with a white picket fence, updated and enlarged while respecting the architecture of the neighborhood;
· a 1934 "log cabin," just uphill from an ancient oak tree, originally built as a place for a child to practice piano.
The final building on tour is the College Terrace Library, at 2300 Wellesley St., a 1936 California Colonial-style building designed by Charles Sumner and built by WPA workmen. It was seismically retrofitted in 2010 under supervision of Palo Alto Stanford Heritage.
What: Palo Alto Stanford Heritage Holiday House Tour
When: 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11
Where: Seven houses in College Terrace, and the College Terrace Library
Cost: $30 on the day of tour, at the College Terrace Library, 2300 Wellesley St., Palo Alto
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Hearing aids of the future will be required to not only amplify sounds in different frequencies differently, but they will also need to help people gain auditory focus so that they can sit in an environment and feel that they have the ability to look at somebody and listen to this or that person with ease.
"Thank you for calling. Say '1' for this department, say '2' for that." You lean into the phone and try to speak clearly, hoping the machine will understand.
This is an example of voice-to-text technology, an application of speech signal processing that Professor Robert Nickel, electrical engineering, describes as "getting machines involved in transmitting, storing, recognizing and synthesizing human speech." He says the automatic recognition of a few specific words can be done fairly well. However, the process becomes very difficult and subject to large errors when an unrestricted vocabulary is involved.
Researchers began to work on automatic speech recognition about 60 years ago with the expectation of full voice-to-text capabilities within a couple of years. The problem turned out to be much more complex than they thought. Nickel explains, "The problem is insanely difficult. The more you get into it the more you realize that understanding speech and what's behind it is really something that you cannot just work on at the acoustic level alone, because what makes people understand speech are the cognitive processes in the brain that come to our aid to patch up the engineering catastrophe we call speech." Nickel is trying to bridge this gap between acoustics and cognitive processes by working on noise reduction on the front end.
"Whenever you record somebody's speech there are all kinds of ways in which the signal is not always the same," he says. "On some days I speak one way and on other days I speak slightly differently. In addition, there are different environments. Then there is background noise. It is very easy for a human being to separate these things out, but it is very difficult to do that for a computer."
Currently, Nickel is working on hearing aid functionality. It can be exhausting for someone wearing a hearing aid to separate out all the sounds they hear from the sounds they really want to focus on. "Hearing aids of the future will be required to not only amplify sounds in different frequencies differently, but they will also need to help people gain auditory focus so that they can sit in an environment and feel that they have the ability to look at somebody and listen to this or that person with ease," he says. "I'm working to develop algorithms that will allow us to enhance the voice of a targeted speaker while, at the same time, suppressing background noise and dampening other voices.
Nickel's latest work was published this May, but the projects could be years away from implementation: Since the algorithms run on a mainframe computer, the hearing aid would have to be attached to a car battery sized computer to work. "This highlights the difficulty and challenge of the problem," he says.
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Ancient Egypt Gallery Guided Tour
The Ptolemaic period (323-30 BC) comes to life in the Ancient Egypt Gallery. Students learn about the ancient Egyptians' civilization, beliefs, and customs, and how these people interacted with their Greek and Roman neighbors. Enter a recreated tomb which houses an authentic 2,300-year-old mummy, and learn how modern technology revealed some of this mummy's secrets.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (Planetarium Show), Ancient Egypt & Its Art (Class), and Forensic Crime Lab (Class).
Program Type: Guided Tours Subject: Science as Inquiry, History & Social Studies, English & Language Arts
Cost: $1.50 per student & chaperone
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Explore the history of our universe from astronomy to paleontology, and learn what Earth was like when Jason the Triceratops roamed the land. Students will encounter a variety of interactive displays that allow them to virtually travel to the Moon, learn about gravity as they weigh themselves on different planets, and more. An exhibition of minerals and fossils, including a 65-million-year-old authentic Triceratops prosus skull, will teach students about our aging planet.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Dinosaurs Alive! (Planetarium Show) and all astronomy-themed Planetarium shows.
Program Type: Guided Tours Subject: Science as Inquiry, Life Science, History & Social Studies, Earth & Space Science, Science & the Environment
Cost: $1.50 per student & chaperone
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What are the odds of a camera-toting babysitter becoming a famous photographer? Vivian Maier (1926-2009) worked as a nanny for about forty years on Chicago's North Shore, taking candid shots of people while on field trips with her young charges. Children playing tag, ladies admiring shop windows, and men waiting for the bus are among the approximately 100,000 photographs by Maier, which were shot in black and white and later color film. Maier became an instant celebrity posthumously when an anonymous trunk of undeveloped film came up at auction in 2009. The purchaser later posted the images on the Internet, catching the attention of art critics world-wide. Students will discuss the difference between traditional photography and digital imagery, learn what makes a successful composition, and talk about the art tradition of street photography.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Bright Light (Class) and Seeing! (Planetarium Show).
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9-Man spotlights the uniquely Chinese-American sport, an older variant of volleyball popular in the southern Chinese city of Toisan and its surrounding region, as well as in Chinatowns throughout North America. Since the 1930s, young men have played this competitive street ball game in the alleys and parking lots of Chinatown. Some 80 years later, today, 9-man still has a lasting connection to Chinatown for a community of men who knows a different, more integrated America.
The documentary introduces a diverse cast of modern-day characters, from 6'7″ Olympian Kevin Wong to a 91-year-old pioneer. Each team trains vigorously all summer to win the annual Nationals tournament, a Labour Day weekend contest that so far has been dominated by the San Francisco Westcoast, a self-professed ringer team consisted mostly of professional (6-Man) volleyball players who aren't really part of the 9-Man culture or community.
9-Man is an entertaining, funny, and sharp conversation about contemporary Asian America, as players not only battle for a championship but fight to preserve a sport that holds so much history of their Chinese heritage. -KE
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Ursula Liang is a journalist who has told stories in a wide range of media. In addition to being a former staff editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine and writer/reporter at ESPN The Magazine, Liang was a host of the radio program Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI, associate producer for the Emmy-nominated documentary, Wo Ai Ni Mommy, producer for the Emmy-nominated Asian-American TV show Stir, and sports editor for the Asian-American magazine, Hyphen. She recently produced for Fuel's UFC Countdown, FX's UFC Primetime and the independent documentary Fighting Foster.
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If a tree falls in a Maryland forest, does anyone know its value?
State Forester Steve Koehn threw back his head and laughed when asked that question. And then he jumped at the chance to shed some light on what he calls one of Maryland's best-kept secrets.
"Forest products are a $4 billion-a-year industry in Maryland," he said. "For comparison, seafood is a $950 million industry."
Koehn stood on a gentle slope in the middle of a towering stand of poplar trees, their golden leaves electrified by a bright fall sun. Eighteen months ago, loggers harvested that private plot in western Baltimore County, removing about half of the trees.
The landowner made money by selling the timber rights. Loggers got a paycheck. And sawmills turned the harvest into lumber, mulch and fuel.
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While Maryland has 2.5 million acres of forest — 41 percent of the state's landmass — few of the tracts are expansive. The state owns about a half-million acres, about 211,000 of them contained in 10 state forests from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore.
The rest are a patchwork of privately held tracts averaging 35 acres each.
To gain access to the raw material that drives what is the state's fourth-largest industry, Koehn and his staff of foresters go door-to-door, preaching the gospel of a green, renewable economy.
"We're not mining the timber. We're managing it," Koehn likes to say. "We'll run out of loggers and sawmills long before we run out of wood."
That philosophy differs greatly from the one used by 19th-century loggers, who cleared forests that stood in the way of farms and construction. As a result, by the early 1900s, "the forests of Maryland consisted primarily of stumps, seedlings and saplings," according to the official history maintained by the state Forestry Service.
Gradually, however, the state shifted from being a passive custodian of forests to a manager of a rejuvenating resource.
Recently, Maryland has been growing 30 percent more wood than it cuts and producing 100 million board feet a year — or enough wood to build more than 3,300 average-size houses. The top five species milled are oak, poplar, maple, pine and cherry.
Forest products are the biggest industry in Western Maryland and No. 2 on the Eastern Shore behind poultry. Statewide, forestry supports more than 10,000 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
About 75 percent of timber harvested in Maryland is milled here at two dozen licensed sawmills. Much of it goes out of state for additional processing; the rest stays in Maryland, where companies like Edrich Lumber Inc. turn out boards, siding, wood chips and mulch.
"Nothing finds its way into the Dumpster. Everything is used," said Doug Wolinski, president of Edrich Lumber, a Windsor Mill sawmill that has been in business for 50 years.
Edrich is the largest sawmill in Baltimore County. It grew side-by-side with a dairy farm also owned by Edward Stanfield and his two sons, Edward Jr., who ran the farm, and Richard, who managed the lumber business.
The family farm still produces corn for Safeway and Wegman's. The lumberyard's 51 employees turn out 2 million board feet annually, plus mulch and wood chips. It also sells low-grade wood to pallet manufacturers.
"Until recently, it's been a lot of long, hard hours for minimal return," Wolinski said. "Lumber is a commodity-driven item. You have to stay in the market range or you'll have a lot of lumber sitting around. But things are starting to look a little better. In the last six to eight months, there's been a upturn in prices."
The housing market is only now showing signs of recovery, but that won't translate immediately into a return to good times for Edrich, Wolinski said.
"That's a year down the road for us," he said. "But that's good, that's fine. It has to start somewhere."
A robust secondary industry has grown up in Maryland around flooring, windows and house trim as people fix up rather than trade up, and Edrich is taking advantage of that market.
The quality of Maryland wood has long caught the eye of the construction and woodworking industries, Koehn said.
When organizers of the 1964-65 World's Fair needed pilings to anchor exhibits in a New York City tidal marsh, they bought sturdy loblolly pines from the Eastern Shore.
Craftsmen at Steinway & Sons in New York steam and bend yellow poplar from Maryland and Pennsylvania exclusively to form the bodies of concert grand pianos.
In the late 1980s, German woodworkers marketed furniture made with Western Maryland timber as "Savage River Red Oak," a tip of the hat to the state's largest forest.
Over the last decade, state lawmakers have approved a number of bills that spell out forest sustainability and preservation goals.
"The regulations in Maryland set high standards. You can't just whack and stack trees," said Bill Miles, lobbyist for the Association of Forest Industries. "The state has been a fair partner, and the General Assembly appreciates the value of the forest industry."
Maryland elected officials also have placed a high value on the ecological worth of trees, which clean the air, filter runoff and provide wildlife habitat, Miles said.
That's another reason Koehn acts as a go-between with loggers and landowners.
"A landowner not getting revenue and with taxes to pay is more inclined to sell the land for development. Instead of growing more trees, we're growing more houses," Koehn said. "The very best land use to create the very best water for the Chesapeake Bay is quality forestry."
But the forest industry has an image problem in many parts of the country, Koehn and Miles agreed.
"We cut trees. People don't like to see trees cut down, and yet they love their beautiful homes and they love to sit on their beautiful decks and they buy beautiful wooden furniture," Miles said.
He paused. "And they can't live without toilet paper."
To help offset the construction decline and the shift from paper to electronic publishing, Koehn is looking for markets for wood waste as a renewable fuel, such as universities, business complexes and hospitals.
"About 50 percent of sawmills in Maryland closed in the last decade," Koehn said. "In a depressed economy, we're trying to keep enough loggers busy to keep the sawmills from going out of business. When the market goes away, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."


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Marc Anthony bought into the Miami Dolphins this season. He and his wife have made it a home game tradition to roll out some kind of carpet, and Fergie, also a co-owner, showed up yesterday with Josh Duhamel to round out the season…which was a losing one. So many famous faces. No appearance in the playoffs. The fans, we would rather the playoffs than the paparazzi.
Fergie and Josh, well, they were inseparable all holiday –in Vegas, in New York, in Miami… shaking off the cheater scandal from November, presenting a united front as the Peas end 2010 on a triumphant note at the top of the charts. Image is everything, right? But is he unfaithful? Believe it.
Jennifer Lopez meanwhile performed on Dick Clark's NYE with a sequined catsuit that she really really wanted you to talk about. That was 4 days ago. I've forgotten already. And that sums up her recording career. Bitch… please. Enough with the stunt singing.
As for this dress – to me it's like a giant vagina. Like a strategically placed vagina all over the place.
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Burda Classics 2012, #0003 3/4 Circle Skirt with a Heaping Helping of FAIL
I didn't order the Burda Classics magazine from GLP--never got around to it--but while in Porto, Portugal I saw it--in French--in the window of a tiny newsstand on a little side street. Apparently, Burda is not pronounced anything like "Burda" in Portuguese, because it took a bit of gesturing and explaining to indicate which magazine I wanted to buy (the window copy was the only one), but eventually it was mine, all mine!
I was happy to see a simple 3/4 circle skirt in the magazine. I am just too lazy to draft my own pattern, and I had been wanting one as a bike-friendly alternative to an A line. I thought I'd start with a silk chiffon version--it goes with a bunch of tops already in my closet and would work year round.
Well, who knew a freaking two piece skirt could be so much trouble? I cannot even begin to describe how much fail went into this.
Fail #1: Cutting. This is totally, completely my fault. The chiffon was not wide enough when doubled to accommodate the width of the skirt. So rather than waste nearly half the width of the chiffon for each of the four pieces (two layers, front and back), I decided to just shorten the skirt. Which might have been all good and well had I actually, you know, created a pattern that was shortened. Because with a circle skirt you cannot mess around about length. I have a good eye, but there is no way I can eyeball an even reduction in length across a circular hemline. Oh, and have I mentioned I was cutting silk chiffon, which is impossible? But yeah, I just eyeballed it.
The skirt was doomed from the start. Behold the HORROR that is the hemline on those chiffon layers. The HORROR. (Note: I did let the skirt hang before hemming and tried to even it out. This is just bad cutting.)
Fail #2: Fabric. The lining layer of this is a silk/rayon from the Vera Wang collection Fabric.com acquired a couple years ago. It was too stiff. The 3/4 circle skirt of the Butterick 5315 Peter Pan Collar Shirtdress I made over the summer is cut in 4 pieces with a seam at center front and center back, so that the grain is bias at CF/CB rather than straight. I think that is a better cutting layout for my body, as a straight grain at CF with extreme bias at the side seams can stick out at the hips rather than flow over them.
Fail #3: Cutting a Piece Out of an Existing Piece. Judging from the blooper threads on PR, accidentally cutting a piece of a pattern out of a large "scrap"--which turns out, of course, to be another piece--is a common misfortune. However, I generally lay out an entire pattern, then cut it in one fell swoop so I'd never fallen prey to this particular heartbreak. Until now. I decided to do a waistband, and though I had only tiny scraps left of my purple silk/rayon I found a nice selvage piece for cutting it. Except that this turned out to be one of my skirt pieces!!!! Ugh!
I fused a strip of interfacing to the wrong side, carefully butting the cut edges together. Then I zigzagged it from the right side, making sure the "zig" was on one side of the cut and the "zag" was on the other. The resulting fix is not at all invisible. Luckily, the two chiffon layers cover it up so it wasn't a tragedy, but boy was it annoying.
Fail #4: Waist Measurement Fail. I am a fanatical tryer-on-er during the sewing process. Not because I am so fanatical about fit (although I am, a little), but because I'm so impatient to see what the finished product will look like. I can waste a lot of time with this, and so I guess for this project I was like, "OMG, no! Don't try the skirt on and twirl around after putting in the zipper but before putting on the waistband! The waistband will take like 30 minutes, max! Just do it!"
Before I put the zipper in, I sort of draped the skirt around my waist and it seemed kind of big. So I put a line of ease-stitching across the top and gently pulled the ease stitching--nothing at all like gathering, just slightly reducing the waistband.
In which reduced waistline I could not, subsequently, breathe.
I think I would do well in a zombie apocalypse, because I jut don't know when to quit.
So I ripped off the $*(@(& waistband. This time I decided to finish the waist with petersham ribbon, which I had purchased at PA Fabrics Outlet. I used the iron to press it into a curve. I couldn't find any information on using petersham to finish a waist without a waistband, so I had to make it up.
I put in a (non-ease) line of stitching in a contrast color 1/4" from the top of the skirt's waist, then used this as a guide for placing the petersham against the right side of the skirt. Rather than line up the edges, I offset the petersham, so that when folded to the inside I would have only one layer of ribbon.
This actually created a really nice waist finish. Though I am not certain it would not have stretched out. Does petersham stretch out?
Now I finally really did try on the skirt, and OMG!!! So terrible!!!! The unevenness of the chiffon layers is bad enough, but it was way too short. It looked ridiculous on me. The shortness made the side-seam-sticking-out worse and the skirt is about 30 years too young for me. I was so disappointed--what a waste of this beautiful silk chiffon from the Carol Collection!
The frustrating thing about this was the effort I put into doing *some* things right. Like the zipper. I cut the skirt lining with a CB seam, so I could put the zipper in the center back. I have had enough stiff, sticky-outy side zips that I go to the center back whenever possible. I didn't want to cut my chiffon layers with CB seams and interrupt the flow, so I created an opening for the zipper.
First, I pinned my two layers together and marked the center back opening line.
I stitched barely on either side of the line by first clicking the needle to the left and running the center of the foot down the line, then turning around at the bottom of the marked line and doing the same thing on the other side.
I clipped down the marked line, fray checked the cut edges, and zigzagged them when the fray check dried.
Finally, I rolled the edges under in the narrowest possible hem, and pressed well.
The resulting opening is really nice looking.
After thinking about this fail of a skirt for a while, and realizing there was absolutely no way to save it, I was like, "Wait a minute, 30 years too young for me? I think I know someone more than 30 years younger than me..." So I ripped of the petersham waistband (yes, three different waist treatments on this FAIL of a skirt), and turned the skirt down at the waist to create a casing. Inserted a drawstring with chiffon ends and elastic in the middle, and sent it off to my niece.
While her hair is purple she has requested to be called "Violet." Violet does not mind the unevenness of the chiffon hems, and the skirt is plenty long on her. And the twirl factor is much appreciated. So this fail was snatched from the jaws of defeat, but I am still licking my wounds. Seriously, of all the complicated, difficult things I've made, a simple SKIRT is my undoing?
As far as I know, the actual pattern is fine. But I am having a hard time making myself give it another try!
All photos are here and the pattern review is here.
A word of warning to Apple users who use Flickr for their photos:
I usually use the Flickr uploader, but occasionally it acts up. So once in a while I upload directly to flickr through iPhoto. Well, I was cleaning up my iPhoto folders a while back and deleted the Flickr folders; deleting a folder doesn't delete the photos and I don't need them in two places.
It turns out that when you delete a Flickr folder in iPhoto it deletes the live Flickr album!!!! No warning or by your leave, just poof. I figured this out when I went to my Butterick 5315 blog post to get the link and all the photos were missing. So I clicked on the link to the Flickr set and it had disappeared. And the Catch-22 is that because deleting a folder doesn't delete the photos, the Flickr set wasn't available to just restore from trash--the only thing trashed was an overlay of organization. Ugh!
I had to re-upload the set and then extremely tediously replace all the URLs in the post with the new URLs and then do the same thing for the PR review. What a useless way to spend an hour. I can't remember what other sets I had uploaded using iPhoto; if you run across post from me with all the photos missing please let me know.


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We have a 24 folder? Boy, before I got obsessed with Amazing Race, my obsession was on 24, until S6 which really sucked, but the Redemption trailer looks fantastic. http://fangsbites.blogspot.com/2008/09/24-redemption-trailer.html
There are some clips here Rudy, can't wait!!
Today's episodes were set ups for tomorrow. I do believe they'll get better.
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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh


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Bjork performing live always counts as an event—for the high grade of spectacle she favors, of course, but even more so for the way her voice wavers when less than perfectly defined. No studio work of hers lacks for vocal drama, but live recordings do far more to set off Bjork's voice as something fleshy and physical—a fleeting call from a singular singer who's also as human as anyone else.
Gathered from live shows after 2007's Volta, Voltaic features lots of little endearing moments of Bjork breathing, sighing, gasping, and leaning into phrases harder than she does in the studio. The set is split into two parts—a CD of audio tracks recorded live at Olympia Studios and a DVD featuring footage from shows in Paris and Reykjavik—and both come with all the attendant thrills that Bjork shows have come to offer. The recordings on the CD are crisp and clear, and do a lot to highlight both Bjork's expansive singing and the borderline-insane arrangements around it.
"Hunter" sounds a stirring note with purring horns and eerie strings, while another oldie, "Army Of Me," taps into the Volta tour's tendency toward martial techno-angst backdrops. Some of it gets so dense and noisy that Bjork sounds like just another presence in the midst of a serious ray-gun attack. The production level of the DVD is also high, with numerous camera angles giving a sense of both the energy on stage and the in-crowd view. It's nothing more than straight footage of live shows, but it makes for a fitting tribute to a musician who haunts the stage so well. (A related but different 4-disc set features the same plus an extra DVD of music videos and a CD of Volta remixes.)


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Here's a chart from Veronique de Rugy's new article on federal revenues vs. spending in The American. Amazing how the problem becomes obvious when you look at real numbers and don't get trapped into using "baseline" math (as I explain in my latest video).
By the way, find out when John Stossel's program on Fox Business News airs in your area. Veronique is a guest this week talking about these issues.


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Ariel Pink's Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
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What are your thoughts on this creature and his music?
He's great and I'm his friend on facebach
Who sunk my battleship? I sunk my battleship.
is this the best spot? this is the best spot. i like to pretend there was nothing before before today! like it was the true debut! well no that's not quite true but in general i've heard every damn album and all the early ones kinda mesh together in my head (for a very good reason too!) ... though i remember 4 K8 EYE AWAIT! being my fave back in the day saw the guy in 2005 he was pretty bad... saw him in 2010 he was still pretty bad! fool me once... won't be seeing him a third time! which is sad cuz new album has some really great songs the guy's just kind of an ass / jerk full of himself crazy has SERIOUS mental problems but that doesn't mean you can be an ass! a jerk! take it out on people coming to see you live? SCREW YOU buddy!
Yeah he's a doucebag, like his music though. I think John Maus is his cooler counterpart. He's nice in interviews, crazy on stage but is good to his fans, etc.
he just seems so damn pretentious! combined with batshit insane / awkward! he grew up in Austin, MN where my grandparents live / dad grew up SPAMTOWN USA! apparently he lives there now? for like the last 2 years i could go to his damn house and say HELLO! and there's nothing he could do to stop me! THE DEMON!
He'd probably kill you GO; or just slam the door on your face. The Doldrums is awesome though, played to my girlfriend today and she said she didn't mind it B-)
Call me closed-minded but.. Having heard of this guy, I looked him up on Last.fm There he is, in a pink dress. [img]http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/8/5/9ab0f96e-edb9-4fbd-95fa-672509baef87.jpg[/img]
For Kate I Wait seems to be everyone's favorite (including AC). I downloaded the leak and all of the songs on the album were in the same place except for Is This the Best Spot? I felt like the song had read my thoughts.
[quote=Mzrokkks]Call me closed-minded but..Having heard of this guy, I looked him up on Last.fmThere he is, in a pink dress.[/quote] Seriously? A guy being in a pink dress is going to turn you off from his music? I will call you closed minded.
Do you like Atlas Sound, Miz?
Pink dress, meat dress... All these pop stars are the fucking same (:|
I'm sorry. I'm really, wholeheartedly sorry guys. I didn't think through what I was writing, and would never say it out loud. It's my knee-jerk-Maltese-hostility-to-newness thing, as open minded as I thought I was it's still here. Now I am decided (nay, determined!) to listen to something of this dude's stuff. What album to begin with? I truly am sorry guys, I won't be such a ([i]word for someone who is closed minded?[/i]) again. And P.S I'd heard some of Atlas Sound's stuff, didn't really like it much but it was quite long ago so I have to give him a relisten.
Btw, Clawed, do you have a picture of a younger Thom Yorke in a prom dress covered in pig's blood? Because then it would all make sense. @-)
Pahaha, I'm looking it up now! Narnia mentioned Atlas Sound cause Bradford's known for wearing sun dresses in his early days of performance. Ah, I couldn't find the pic of Thom... really dissapointed. Here's Bradford Cox in a dress instead: [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NuRBDdHayRk/TyDlMPxNL0I/AAAAAAAAAzQ/ORdDW17pj-Y/s1600/dress.jpg[/IMG]
i can't find the pic of pink in a pink dress? where is this!
it weirds me out that it would weird someone on here out though? in this day and or rage! and liking AC! i mean what the HELL
I only have a couple of vinyls, but I've always loved his music.
[quote]it weirds me out that it would weird someone on here out though? in this day and or rage! and liking AC! i mean what the HELL[/quote] Ok guys i'm feelin like you're being a bit too harsh on Mzrokkks... There are so many factors to what a person considers weird, it'd be wrong to just stop and blame it on closed mindedness. Cuz this guy is totally not closed minded. Lol
[quote]this guy is totally not closed minded [/quote] maybe he's just... closet blinded! uh!
Maybe you're just... Generic comeback! uh! [img]http://datfreebie.com/images/awyeah.jpg[/img] TO clarify, does closet blinded mean something in the US, or is it just a really awesome G.O [!] thing which gets lost in translation?
I don't even think lost in translation would be the correct term....
One can only imagine what the true translation of G.O [!]'s words would mean. It would be like Salvador Dali's Christmas and Easter rolled into one and then dipped into decaying clocks
[quote] It would be like Salvador Dali's Christmas and Easter rolled into one and then dipped into decaying clocks[/quote] I want this to come to fruition, but I guess reading G.O. posts will have to do for now.
I want this to happen too ^
well jeez i don't!
and sure enough i DID!