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Salt Lake City Interrotta: An Ideas Competition

by Paul Knight. Average Reading Time: about 2 minutes.

May 22, 2013 Update: Click here for the design submissions that were received. Thanks to all the participants!

You have just been selected to participate in an ideas competition which is open exclusively to those who finish reading this sentence. Congratulations and thank you for your forthcoming entry.

The 21st Congress for the New Urbanism will be May 29 to June 1 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the hometown of the Mormon grid. At 660 feet (10 chains) on a side, each block is exactly 10 acres. The size of Salt Lake City’s blocks has proven to be a challenge to its urbanism. Everything from walkability to standard development sizes have struggled with the 660’ dimension: the blocks are just too big and the lots too deep, especially when compared to other American cities. Most of these large blocks are divided with access drives and are internally oriented by dimensional necessity, but there is plenty of room for improvement. This is where you come in.

A few cases in point:

This competition was inspired by Roma Interrotta, an ideas competition that took place in 1978. In that year, twelve architects including the Krier brothers and Michael Graves were tasked with re-imagining Rome. They were each given one section of Nolli’s famous map to reconfigure. Their individual design philosophies were revealed through their drawings. That is the goal for Salt Lake City Interrotta.

You are tasked with designing a single 660′ block. You may explore any aspect of urbanism you wish (e.g., subdivision of the block, big box, park design, mixed-use enclave of medieval form, etc.). While you cannot alter the surrounding 132′ right-of-way, you are free to do as you please within the 660’ block. Feel free to interrupt the block; you just cannot interrupt the grid.

Competition Rules

  1. Design One 660’ x 660’ Block
    You may choose to either reconfigure a particular, existing block or start with a tabula rasa. The surrounding 132’ right-of-way cannot be altered because all competition entries will be appended together into one continuous grid (curb cuts are an obvious exception).
  2. Plan Drawings Only
    Roof plans, floor plans, or parti plans.
  3. Scale: 1”=50’ or 1″=100′
    Feel free to use either a 50′ or 100′ scale, but keep in mind that all submitted drawings will be uniformly scaled to 1″=50’. The block at 1″=50′ is 13.2″ square (an awkward print size) while the block at 1″=100′ is 6.6″ square (perhaps too small to show a lot of detail).
  4. Black and White Only
    Greyscale is OK, too. The point is to have some level of visual consistency across all submissions.
  5. Open Presentation Format
    Pen, pencil, or digital; quick sketch, simple line drawing, or beautiful rendering.
  6. Identifying Information
    Your name, etc., should be added somewhere within your 660′ block. While other labels/texts may also be placed within your block, no separate, explanatory text will be accepted outside the 660′ property line. To the greatest extent possible the drawings should speak for themselves.
  7. Drawing Template
    Please download this JPG template file which shows the limits of your block. Your drawing should include the curb but go no further. You do not have to use this template in your submission, but you may want to use it as a guide for your drawing.
  8. Submit a JPG File <4mb with 300 ppi resolution
    All submissions will fall under the terms of Creative Commons’ Attribution License.
  9. File Naming Format
    Begin your file name with 2013 Interrotta and include your first name, last name, and/or firm/school name after that.
  10. Deadline is Friday, May 17, 2013
    All submissions will be featured in digital format at TheGreatAmericanGrid.com. Thanks to the generosity of Historical Concepts they will also be displayed in poster format at the CNU conference.

  11. Email Submissions To:

While this is being called a competition, there are no judges and there are no prizes. If anything, our future generations will be your judge and digital posterity will be your prize.

As a follow-up to this competition, please join CNU NextGen at the conference for an open studio and design workshop:

Engaging the Plat of Zion: A Jam Session
Wednesday 9-5
Hundreds of New Urbanists. One city block. Endless possibilities.
To grapple with Salt Lake City, we will design prototypical blocks and thoroughfares for the Plat of Zion. Rural to urban, ag-urban to sprawl repair–come tackle a basic urban element, learn from an old tradition, and show your stuff.

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10 comments on ‘Salt Lake City Interrotta: An Ideas Competition’

  1. Steve Mouzon says:

    I’m in! Great idea!

  2. Michael Hathorne says:

    Where will the “jam session” be taking place?

  3. […] Next Gen is hosting the firstever Open Studio on Wednesday. This Charrette Studio will explore the Zion Block. This is a great opportunity to discuss, draw, and experience a charrette. In addition the Next Gen […]

  4. […] lies ahead in the future? Along with CNU 21, The Great American Grid hosted a design competition to redesign a Mormon Block. Urban designers from all over the nation, […]

  5. […] design competition was held in conjunction with CNU 21, the annual meeting of the Congress of the New Urbanism that […]

  6. […] a bit stiff from the long drive from Colorado, actually working as expected. It was the block. Salt Lake City features some of the longest blocks I have ever seen and massively wide roads to […]

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WhistWhist is a classic four-player, partnership, trick-taking card game of English origins, popular due to its simple rules yet great capacity for strategic play.

In The Complete Hoyle's Games Lawrence H. Dawson called Whist "the venerable parent of all games played with the full pack". It is a direct antecedent of Bridge (as well as a great many other games), and at one time it was the "foremost intellectual and social card game of its day, a great game due to the fact that it has extremely simple rules of play, yet can give rise to considerable depth of skill" (David Parlett in Tech Yourself Card Games).

Whist originated in the 17th century, and reached its peak of popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, with a large number of books, magazines, and newsletter devoted to study of the game and improvements in "scientific" play and strategies.

Whist is played with a standard deck of 52 playing cards, and may also be played on your computer with whist software, or on the web with online whist games using your computer browser or smartphone.

If you're just getting started with whist, check out the collection of whist rules, or get one of the many fine whist books that feature written rules and strategy guides.

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  • Bid Whist Web Site
    A web site for players of the card game Bid Whist. Learn about clubs, tournaments, and events in your area. Also includes a fine section on the Rules Of Bid Whist.
  • Grand Prix Card Tournaments
    Grand Prix Tournaments is the host to the World Series of Classic Card Games, including the World Series of Spades, the World Series of Euchre, the World Series of Hearts, the World Series of Pinochle, and the World Series of Bid Whist.
  • National Bid Whist Association
    A group of Professional Bid Whist Players dedicated to ensuring the expansion and marketability of the game we love: Bid Whist. This is accomplished by providing safe, affordable, and fair competitions that allow bid whist players from around the world to test their skills against the best players in the nation.
  • Pagat Whist
    John McLeod's Card Games site has Whist information and rules for a number of Whist variations, including Bid Whist, German Whist, Israeli Whist, Knockout Whist, Manni, Minnesota Whist, Oh Hell, Romanian Whist, Ruff and Honours, Sergeant Major, Solo Whist, and Tribello.
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    Learn about the game of Whist from the free online encyclopedia, with history, rules, and a list of Whist variations.
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Bobby Lee, a native of San Diego, was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps running the family clothing store. But after stints in a local rock band and at the local community college, he was spotted by Frank Burns, the legendary manager of La Jolla’s Comedy Store, and the rest, as they say, is history. Lee rapidly became an in-demand stand-up comic with his unique Korean American perspective and charismatic on-stage personality.

In 1995, comedian Pauly Shore spotted Lee on stage and asked him to open his act in Las Vegas. Lee subsequently met Paulie’s mother, the celebrated owner of the Comedy Store, Mitzi Shore. He became a regular at the club and went on the road with comic Carlos Mencia.

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Day 8: Post Office, Brownies, and Books!

Well, today has been another relaxing day. I am continuing reading the Ender’s Saga. I actually started rereading it a couple of weeks ago, before I went to Italy. I had reread all of the Ender’s Shadow Quadrilogy as well as Ender’s Exile. Then yesterday I reread Ender’s Game and the Speaker for the Dead. Now I am in the middle of Xenocide.

But today has not been all reading and no fun. The sun was shining today, and the sun in Athens is always warm. We walked over to the post office. I actually took some picture of it, but much to my utter chagrin, I just discovered that I had left my 4 GB SD card in my computer yesterday after posting my pictures to my blog and therefore the pictures I took today were stored instead on the internal memory in my camera. I just put the SD card back in, so hopefully such horrors will not happen again. But that means that I don’t actually have any pictures to share with the class. The post office was not what I was expecting. The outside looked much the same as any other building, except for a sign. And the inside reminded me vaguely of the waiting room the DOL. You had to pick a number and then wait in little chairs until your number was called. I guess I am used to German post offices, where there are racks of envelopes and other office supplies that you can browse through as you wait in line to be helped by  professionally dressed employees behind custom designed counters. But the color of the post office in Greece is yellow just like in Germany, so I guess that has to count for something.

The other fun thing I did today was to bake brownies. From scratch. I can’t actually recall the last time I made brownies from scratch. I am not even sure that I have done it. I know I have made brownies from a box, but that doesn’t take a rocket scientist. They were delicious! We put pecans on top.

Well…tomorrow ends the last few days of relaxation that I have had. I am going to go to Placa and will definitely take some photos for all yall to see. I will also be going to the Laiki again.

  1. I love that you like “professionally dressed people behind custom made cabinets!!!” So visually observant! Joy, the more you write, the more I realize you are alot like your mother! (Even if your reading material sounds boring :)) Sorry about that honey! I am so glad you are there with our dear friends. Enjoy those brownies! LUBM

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Roasted, Spiced and Simmered: 12 Winter Recipes with Cauliflower

Roasted, Spiced and Simmered: 12 Winter Recipes with Cauliflower

Anjali Prasertong
Jan 11, 2013

Crisp, hardy cauliflower has a mild sweetness we love whether roasted simply or simmered with spices in a warming curry. During the cold days of winter, it's a bright spot in a sea of winter greens and squashes. If you're looking for a new recipe to change up your usual cauliflower routine, here are 12 great ones, including a comforting (yet surprisingly light) cauliflower and sausage casserole, a cauliflower and potato soup with dill whipped cream, and a Middle Eastern roasted cauliflower dressed with tahini and date syrup.

1 Cauliflower and Chicken Sausage Casserole
2 Cauliflower, Fennel and White Bean Winter Salad
3 Potato and Cauliflower Curry
4 Roasted Cauliflower and Potato Soup with Dill Whipped Cream
5 Edamame and Cauliflower Pasta Salad with Feta

6 Cauliflower Steaks with Harissa at The Year in Food
7 Spicy Cauliflower with Sesame at 101 Cookbooks
8 Cauliflower with Almonds, Raisins and Capers at Smitten Kitchen
9 Caramelized Cauliflower with Pancetta and Spinach at Food & Wine
10 Cauliflower with Rye Crumbs at Epicurious
11 Roasted Cauliflower with Date Syrup at Bon Appetit
12 Whole Baked Cauliflower with Tomato and Olive Sauce at Jamie Oliver

Do you have any favorite recipes for cauliflower?

Related: Show-Stopping Vegetable: Whole Roasted Tandoori Cauliflower

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The local hospital is feeling the pinch of a slow local economy.

Springs Memorial Hospital laid off 43 employees across a number of departments Monday. Sixteen positions are eliminated through attrition, meaning the posts are not being filled after they are vacated.

The reduction in staff won't impact patient care, a news release from the hospital said.

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  • Mulvaney takes office

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – With his right hand raised, and standing next to his three children on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mick Mulvaney took the congressional oath of office Wednesday afternoon.
    After a morning of celebrating with family, friends and constituents, Mulvaney joined 96 other freshman House delegates to become a member of the country’s 112th Congress. The oath was taken only minutes after Mulvaney cast his vote for the newest Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio.

  • Gregory hopes to regain Senate position

    Hugh Mobley and Greg Gregory have switched roles.
    Gregory, who served as the District 16 state senator for 15 years, will once again seek the seat.
    He had been a supporter of Mobley, a Lancaster pharmacist who was the first person to announce his candidacy for the post after Mick Mulvaney was elected to the 5th District congressional seat. But now, Mobley has suspended his campaign and has
    pledged to support Gregory.

  • Kershaw official criticizes landfill plan

    County Council heard Tuesday from a Kershaw Town Council member and another county resident who are upset by council’s handling of an economic development ordinance concerning a proposed landfill.
    The comments were the first public outcry against the ordinance, code-named Project December and approved over several special meetings in December.

  • Howard sworn in as Lancaster’s new police chief

    No empty seats were in sight. Visitors lined the walls inside council chambers, while dozens of others packed the lobby.
    Officials said they had never seen Lancaster City Hall more crowded before.
    Nearly 200 people came out Tuesday night for the swearing-in ceremony for four City Council members and Harlean Howard as the new police chief.
    Many of the people on hand were there to support Howard, who is the first woman to head the Lancaster Police Department.

  • Council looks back on ’10, forward on ’11

    Job announcements, the arrival of new businesses, improvements to fire insurance ratings, the collection of Census data and construction on two county courthouses were all issues that County Council dealt with in 2010.
    Several council members, as well as the county administrator, recently examined the county’s milestones and struggles from the past year, while casting an eye toward 2011.

  • Lady Vols rip Knights

    The Andrew Jackson girls continue to roll as they launched the 2011 portion of their schedule with a solid 47-18 win over North Central in a varsity split at the NCHS gym in Boonetown on Tuesday night.

  • Bruins roll in split with SP Stallions

    The Lancaster High boys rolled to a season’s sweep of South Pointe for a hoops split with the host Stallions on Tuesday night in Rock Hill.

    The Bruins were in control from the start in an 81-46 win over the Stallions.

  • Overcash caps officiating career with bowl game

    Frank Overcash caps a 24-year college football officiating career, working the BBVA Compass Bowl at Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday.

  • Bruins, Jackets fall in home matches

    Northwestern bolted to a 35-6 lead and held off a Lancaster rally to take a 58-24 win over the Bruins in prep wrestling on Tuesday night.

  • One dies, another hurt in fire

    An early-morning blaze Thursday took the life of a Lancaster County woman and left her husband with serious injuries.
    Officials received a call at about 4:40 a.m. about a fire at a mobile home on Dudley Steele Road, which is off Shiloh Unity Road, about 8 miles northeast of the Lancaster city limits.
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2010 Santa Ana Mayor’s Race- GAME ON!

The OC Register is reporting that Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and his allies have fired the opening shot in the 2010 race for Santa Ana Mayor. When Alfredo Amezcua first announced his intentions to challenge the longtime Mayor, most pundits agreed he was the most credible challenger since Mayor Pulido won in 1994. This recent attack is evidence that the Mayor does fear the challenge that Alfredo Amezcua poses.

What Happens After Jose Solorio?

Last Thursday at Angel’s Stadium, I ran into our esteemed Assemblyman Jose Solorio. I noticed he was collecting signatures to run for his third and final term in the Assembly. Has it been that long already that he is at his final term? WOW, time does fly. So I thought to myself, what happens come 2012 when he is termed out of the Assembly.

Time to Let Baby Samantha Rest In Peace!

Why won’t the Galloway camp just let the Baby Samantha rest in peace. Why won’t they use her memory in a more positive light to make her a symbol for a better social services system, a symbol for ending child abuse? Why do they use her memory instead to trash elected officials they don’t like?

See you at the Truman Dinner!

The Liberal OC will be well-represented at tonight’s Truman dinner which features House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Â  Chris Prevatt and I will be there as well as Claudio Gallegos and Bill Spaulding. We’ll have a limited supply of our cool LiberalOC oval stickers on hand.Â  Please drop by our table and ask for one.Â  The LiberalOC…

A Personal Response to a Personal Attack

Sean Mill and I are friends. I know that sentence makes some of my co-bloggers here uneasy at best and angry at worst. I’ve never had a problem with Sean and I don’t think he’s had one with me. And even after we get through this post, I expect we’ll still be on speaking terms. And if we’re not, c’est la vie. But his post on the OJBlog yesterday warrants a response. The post is a “criticism” on Claudio W. Gallegos’ post about Ceci Iglesias’ campaign for Congress in CD-47 where it appears she’s being placed to draw votes from Rep. Loretta Sanchez.


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Marchex (MCHX) is Downgraded by ROTH Capital to Neutral

Marchex (MCHX) was Downgraded by ROTH Capital to ” Neutral”. Earlier the firm had a rating of “Buy ” on the company shares. ROTH Capital advised their investors in a research report released on Aug 10, 2016.

On the company’s financial health, Marchex reported $-0.13 EPS for the quarter, missing the analyst consensus estimate by $ -0.11 based on the information available during the earnings call on Aug 9, 2016. Analyst had a consensus of $-0.02. The company had revenue of $34.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts expectations of $35.05 million. The company’s revenue was down -2.5 % compared to the same quarter last year.During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.02 EPS.

Marchex opened for trading at $3.13 and hit $3.35 on the upside on Monday, eventually ending the session at $3.29, with a gain of 5.45% or 0.17 points. The heightened volatility saw the trading volume jump to 1,11,445 shares. Company has a market cap of $142 M.

In a different news, on Aug 26, 2015, Peter Christothoulou (CEO) purchased 1,350 shares at $3.65 per share price.

Marchex Inc. is a mobile advertising technology company. The Company provides products and services for businesses of all sizes that depend on consumer calls to drive sales. The Company’s business operations include the Call-driven which consists of its performance-based advertising business focused on driving phone calls and the Archeo which provides a performance-based pay-per-click advertising service that connects advertisers with consumers across its owned and operated Web sites as well as third-party Web sites and it also sells domain names. Its technology platform delivers performance-based pay-for-call advertising across various mobile and online publishers to connect millions of consumers with businesses over the phone. Its primary products offerings include Marchex Call Marketplace Marchex Call Analytics and Local Leads. Its portfolio of Websites includes and

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Holiday World announces Mayflower swinging ship ride for 2014 season

September 6, 2013, 8:21 AM · Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana has announced its new addition for 2014: a swinging ship ride for its Thanksgiving section, named, appropriately enough, the Mayflower.

Concept art courtesy Holiday World

After several years of focusing on its Splashin' Safari water park, Holiday World returns its attention to the theme park side of its operation, with its first new ride on that side in several years. And a Mayflower-themed swinging ship ride next to The Voyage roller coaster seems about as obvious match as one can imagine. Here's the park's promotional video, with another nice little announcement at the end.

If you didn't watch, Holiday World's also announced the addition of Friday night fireworks in the park for the 2014 season.

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September 6, 2013 at 9:05 AM · I really want to get back there. I loved the place on my two-day visit in 2007..the only time I've been there. But this addition will assuredly not draw me there like flies to honey.
September 6, 2013 at 9:25 AM · Not exactly a new ride concept, but it makes total sense for the Thanksgiving area of the park. I love Holiday World and live very close. As one of the occasional contributors here on TPI, I hope to send in a report covering Holiday World's Halloween Weekends. It's only their second year hosting a Halloween event, but it looks like a pretty cool, family oriented event. Stay tuned!

September 6, 2013 at 10:45 AM · This announcement is a poster child for "meh". Sure, it makes sense, but swinging ship rides are just common. Even the simulated riders in the video look bored. I guess we just have to resign ourselves to the fact that HW is never going to add an adult steel coaster to the park. *Sigh*.
September 6, 2013 at 1:11 PM · As much as I love a swinging ship... Was this even worthy of a press release on its own? Its a standard flat right found just about everywhere.

Dont get me wrong, its a very pretty example of one, but nothing notable.

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Matthew Baker

Published: November 16, 2007 at 8:23 AM

I just got a SoCal AP last month, and did a bit of research beforehand. My situation is a bit unique: I'll always be going solo, and can often go on a whim if I want to. My rationale: maybe six visits over the next year; I can live without going to DL for eight weeks next summer; I'll usually go on a Friday but probably never on a Saturday; I might want to go on a Sunday (12-2 being one); I *might* go aound Christmas or another blackout day over the next year, so maybe one blackout ticket (I didn't buy parking for this reason); I can park-hop to DCA now (I wanted to before but it was too low a priority for gate admission or wasting money on a one-day park-hopper).
Here's a few addenda:
You can buy blackout-day admission for $40. If you absolutely must visit on a blackout day, you might come out reasonably ahead with a non-premium AP and at most maybe one blackout ticket, assuming of course you'll go often enough to justify the initial cost of the AP.
For the non-premium APs you can get parking as an addon for $59. Initially, the math is fairly simple: if you're going to be driving to and parking at DLR, you come out ahead on the sixth visit [$59 < ($11 x 6)]. But presumably you don't get parking on blackout dates (or maybe it is--I didn't see any mention anywhere.) This would probably work best with Deluxe if you want to visit frequently but not on the relatively few Deluxe blackout days: you'll save the $~60 over premium. But one thing in your favor: if you'll always be going as a couple or family you only need parking on one of your APs: any one person in the car with an AP w/parking will get you in.
Most Premium discounts are 15% for food and 10% for merchandise; non-premiums are 10% for food and no merchandise.
rick stevens

Published: November 16, 2007 at 1:02 PM

Not only the single user, but getting the SoCal pass works well for an older couple. If you are purchasing tickets, you feel you have to stay all day to justify the cost. When you buy a pass you can visit many times for short periods of time. I think that is the best part of the pass. As a local (I live within 20 min of the park) I go multiple times during the year for dinner and a few rides. I know a few pass holders that go for exercise. It is far more interesting walking around Disneyland then a track in a gym or on a treadmill! You do need to decide if parking is something you should opt for as it adds around $60 to the cost.
Larry Zimmerman

Published: November 16, 2007 at 2:17 PM

Ah, to live close to the Original...sigh. If I were within an hour of the home of the Mouse, I'd opt for the premium - quit my day job - and spend each and every day cruising the pathways, taunting the Jungle Cruise skippers, and basically enjoying myself. Thanks to God I'm not that close to EITHER US location!

Maybe I'd retire (again) and go scoop up trash just for the "discounted" admission...

Robert Niles

Published: November 16, 2007 at 2:31 PM

The math on the parking is pretty simple: Go six times or more, and you should buy the parking add-on.

As for the block-out tickets: Those can be handy, but the math works out pretty much the same way. If you are going to buy just one block-out ticket on a day that the SoCal pass would have covered, you might as well buy the SoCal pass instead of the SoCal Select.

From there, add two more block-out tickets are you're even with the Deluxe pass. Add one more beyond that, and that gets you to the Premium, assuming that you'll use the Premium's additional in-park discounts.

It's all about finding that right combination of timing and frequency, as outlined above.

Ryan Traylor

Published: November 17, 2007 at 4:53 PM

My fiancee and I have SoCal passes that are set to expire on Tuesday. We are making our fifth visit to Disneyland on Sunday to experience it one more time before we have to renew. However, we decided that we would not renew. We would just buy a new one on the next trip down there.

The main reason we bought the pass was we had family come into town last year around this time and they wanted to go to DL. We knew that Nemo would be opening in June, so we figured getting the pass would mean we can visit again for Nemo. It was also nice to see the park with different decorations throughout the year. It also allowed to spend leisure days there, knowing we could come back almost anytime. So days we would start with a movie at the AMC in downtown disney for $6 and then hit the parks.

We battled the idea of getting parking. We decided not to for the first year, seeing how many times we went. Good choice for that one.

And we didn't mind being restricted to just Sundays and weekdays. We always stay away during holidays and the summer. Too many people.

Ted Heumann

Published: November 19, 2007 at 11:22 AM

The pass is a MUST have if you are a local AND have small children. When your kids get tired or cranky, you can leave early with the knowledge that you can come back most any time.
We have the SoCal pass w/parking. It's worked out great for us. I normally take my 5 year old Sundays after church and nap time about once a month. We spend between 5 and 6 hours and leave before bedtime. A few times my son wanted to see the fireworks or Fantasmic or the Electrical parade, so we went just for that event on a Friday evening. We didn't have to spend all day at the park, my son took a late nap and everyone left happy (especially dad!).


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Comments on Mystery Mine and River Battle at Dollywood?

Dollywood: Comments and suggestions welcomed

From Zayne McPeek
Posted March 28, 2010 at 6:44 PM
I am the Lead Mechanic for the Mystery Mine and River Battle at Dollywood.I will be monitoring this and other sites. I welcome any comments and/or suggestions

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From Betty Rohrer
Posted March 29, 2010 at 7:05 PM
i love mystery mine. my grandsons loved soaking their daddy on river battle. tell the gals at doggywood gidget sends her love.

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The Worst Case Scenario: Pastoralia by George Saunders

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coverTo read one of George Saunders’ stories is to gain a glimpse into an antic, often frightening, just-slightly-shifted alternative world. To read a George Saunders collection is to discover the human sorrow his stories plumb. Reading Pastoralia was something of a revelation for me because, though I’ve read many of Saunders’ stories before, I had never dug into one of his collections and had not appreciated the full force of reading several of his stories back to back. As an aside, this would be an argument in favor of short story collections, which, well constructed and edited, should bring on a “greater than the sum of its parts” reaction in the reader.

In the case of Pastoralia, Saunders’ characters are, as ever, pathetic, trapped in soul-sucking existences, with demeaning jobs and dysfunctional relationships. What elevates Saunders’ stories from what might be depressing muck is his eye for detail and his dry (almost deranged) wit. In the long title story that opens the collection, we peek in on the world of a caveman impersonator. Imagine if the life size caveman diorama at your local natural history museum were populated by actors, and you get the idea. That sounds bad enough, but Saunders overlays the world of corporate bureaucracy and buzzword double-speak onto this “edutainment” scenario. The “actors” are as much prisoners as they are employees.

But this is not 1984 or The Matrix. Saunders’ characters do not conform to the typical occupants of dystopias – millions of buzzing drones and a handful of “enlightened” struggling against the status quo. He offers characters, who are, well, like us.

In the story “Pastoralia,” we have a guy with a mind-numbing job (fake caveman), not enough money, a sick kid at home, coworkers that range from annoying to malicious, and a company in the throes of an “employee remixing.” This sounds more like someone who spends his days stocking shelves at Wal-Mart or temping at a cubicle farm than the gray and black Big Brother, robot-controlled nightmare of the future that has always been offered as civilization’s worst case scenario.

And this is what is so subversive about Saunders. He essentially is telling us that we are living in that worst case scenario, in the dystopia that we have been taught to fear and fight against. But he does so with such humor and well crafted detail that there is none of the didacticism that one my might expect from such a point of view. Saunders is no raving Luddite, instead he has the ability to highlight the absurd minutia of modern life that we typically ignore or take for granted: the “Daily Partner Performance Evaluation Form,” the “fax makes the sound it makes when a fax is coming in,” “Stars-n-Flags… They put sugar in the sauce and sugar in the meat nuggets,” “Cute Ratings,” “Credit Calcs,” and “Personal Change Centers.”

If our dystopia hasn’t already arrived, then we are perilously close to it. And whether or not you choose to look for these parallels, consumed without prejudice, Saunders’ stories are well crafted and utterly readable. I found myself careening through, hungry for the next off-kilter detail and scenario. I finished the book thinking that Saunders is a worthy chronicler of modern life.

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  1. Josh H.
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    Just finished this collection and your review couldn't have been anymore spot on. I would elaborate but my elaborating would simply be agreeing with everything you said. I think everyone should read this book and realize it's depth and power and criticism of what the majority of us go through on a day-to-day basis.

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Baby and the Book: On Rivka Galchen’s ‘Little Labors’

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“Literature has more dogs than babies,” Rivka Galchen writes in Little Labors, “and also more abortions.”

cover covercoverPut like that, the observation is startling. And though the babies are definitely out there — Galchen finds them in Beloved, The Millstone, A Personal Matter, The Fifth Child, and Dept. of Speculation for starters — the search seems to leave her (playfully) grasping at straws. Perhaps Frankenstein’s monster is her favorite fictional baby, Galchen cheekily suggests. Perhaps Rumpelstiltskin is the metaphoric firstborn of the fairy tale, and his hijinks are merely sad attempts to gain his surrogate mother’s attention.

covercoverFrom my own bookshelf I’ll add to the list Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work, a vicious and spry chronicle of her daughter’s first year. Ernest Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” features a baby of sorts. (Though one centimeter over is “Hills like White Elephants,” in which there will soon be an abortion.) Trials of parenting, once a child has achieved a certain age, give us highs of tenderness and brushstrokes of true cruelty. See Mrs. Ramsey winding her shawl around a fright-giving pig skull in To the Lighthouse; or Jason’s attempts to corral his mutinous niece in The Sound and the Fury.

And yet between courtship and marriage, or between the searchings of early adulthood and the intrigues of family life, literature seems to draw a two-year blank. A survey of 1,000 novels might produce nuanced portraits of extramarital affairs, or descriptions of all-night benders, but scant answer to the questions: Where do people come from? Under what circumstances are we born?

Why the omission?

Galchen isn’t sure. Thankfully not. Her investigations shoot off from her subject like finely-pointed spokes from a hub. The book’s split-up structure fits her purpose well. On the one hand you can occasionally imagine these short chapters as the immediate and authentic jotting-downs of a new mother reporting from the front. (For instance, Galchen on iPhone videos of her daughter, a.k.a. the puma: “footage of the puma has the unfortunate quality of making it seem as if the puma has passed away and the watcher, me, is condemned to replaying the same scene again and again and again.”) On the other hand, the book’s loose form also gives room to Galchen’s commendable analytical mind. Here, as in her novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, she is the type of writer who can show you in an outstretched arm one view of a sphere, then spin her subject in hand, and show you something quite different.

Unifying these chapters is a low-wattage but steadily glowing anxiety: that babies are not a subject of literature because babies are not interesting. To their parents and families in real life, yes, but not in general, not as a surface that will for the writer yield fruitful depths. Before she was a mother herself, Galchen confesses a nose-in-the-air dismissiveness toward a subject so patently and traditionally female. And her aloofness, she admits, didn’t stop at just babies: the authors she liked were all men (including Denis Johnson, whom she mistook for a French woman during an attempt to diversify her reading.) Two people with otherwise equal qualities would differentiate by gender: the man inevitably more magnetic in the pair. As for babies? The way Galchen tells it, you’d think it a prerequisite of youthful intellectualism to fall asleep at the mere mention of the word: God help you if you cared to go into particulars. Or put those particulars into writing.

But Galchen knows that’s not the whole story. Only recently have women begun writing with equal output of men, and with equal education to back them up. Only very recently have writers who are also women and also mothers had any significant spousal or institutional support to continue their work with children at home. Karl Ove Knausgård, for instance, whose influence is apparent in passages, manages to write about children’s birthday parties, his wife’s labor, a child’s real-time soiling of a diaper, in a way that makes those moments tremble with cosmic meaning. (Of course in Knausgård everything trembles with cosmic meaning.) Perhaps, though, the subject matter isn’t really the problem. Perhaps the problem is that while you are taking care of a baby you often don’t have time to write about taking care of a baby. Or as Galchen describes life with a newborn:

The world seemed ludicrously, suspiciously, adverbially sodden with meaning. Which is to say that the puma made me again more like a writer (or at least a certain kind of writer) precisely as she was making me into someone who was, enduringly, not writing.

coverAnd it isn’t just time that’s the problem. Despite the fertile ground that Galchen describes — and which other new parents must certainly feel — it seems remarkably difficult to see past the “dull” label that has been affixed to infant heads. And no wonder, given a literary tradition in which an erection can boast an established history of metaphoric usage, while a menstrual cycle, for instance — with exceptions such as in Elena Ferrante’s Troubling Love — is a detail that writers habitually leave out with trips to the bathroom and the buzzing of morning alarms.

Galchen, though, breathes decided life into her topic. And her writing is so good that her observations double as arguments for her choice of subject. Take, for example, this passage on a baby’s seemingly metaphysical essence:

We know babies are the only ones among us in alliance with time. They are the only incontestable assessors to power, or, at least, they are immeasurably more well-placed than their elder co-unequals. The way a baby, in a stroller, briefly resembles a fat potentate, for a moment unlovable, has something in it of the premonition. Even as to see a baby raise its chubby hand — to bow down before that random emperor can feel very right.

Or consider this, a comment on a baby’s loss of intrigue with the acquisition of language:

It’s as if babies don’t grow larger but instead smaller, at least in our perception. It’s striking that in the canonical Gospels, we meet Jesus as a baby and as an adult, but as a child and teenager, he is unserviceable.

There are a few places in this book where the writing does make a dangerous shift from brightly analytical to willfully cryptic (e.g., an unnecessarily complex description of a movie poster and its surrounding geography.) But that is rare. In Little Labors Galchen is recognizably the writer of the masterful short story, “The Lost Order.” Language like “random emperor” and “unserviceable” are the brilliant norm.

coverIn interviews, Galchen has cited Sei Shōnagon’s 11th-century The Pillow Book as an influence for her work’s fragmented and miscellanea-driven structure. Shōnagon’s text gets room here, in summary form, if not thanks to what it offers on motherhood than as good evidence for the artistic worth of daily domestic life. (If an empresses’s court indeed counts as daily domestic life.) But Little Labors might be too tightly wrought, too self-conscious to really call back the flowing, pure diary feel of that book. Observations here more frequently have the ring of Susan Sontag or William Vollmann than dashed-off notes-to-self. And even the vivid glimpses of quotidian life with a child — the comments provoked by a trendy orange snowsuit, the comical tribulations involved in obtaining a passport photo for an infant, a child’s eerily suspicious fall among playmates — give the cumulative effect of toes cautiously dipped into water. Does this count as literature? the book seems to be asking itself. And this?

The result is that this quietly revolutionary little book is extremely difficult to qualify. I found myself thinking of it as a metanarrative on the genre of parenting novels: a genre, in other words, that does not yet fully exist. That is not Galchen’s fault; nor does it detract from the book. The way she writes, you feel she is onto something, as if she were peering down a long pathway of New Yorker issues to a literature ahead.

Little Labors ends as inconspicuously as it began. The child’s grandmother totes her to a senior dinner at their synagogue, where the child charms the crowd, “carrying her winter pants here and there, offering them to diners, rescinding the offer.” Couldn’t you charge $1,000 a day to bring a baby to a nursing home? the grandmother jokes afterwards. Couldn’t a family charge 20 bucks an hour to babysitters, adds the father, for the privilege of being with the baby? “Everything they said was true,” Galchen concludes, “and yet also, we know, not the case.”

Given what’s come before, it’s nearly impossible not to read this final note as a mordant analogy to the ambivalent place that the baby occupies in literature at large. After all, if novels are investigations into the workings of human existence — shouldn’t a baby, and a baby’s arrival, provide a useful key? Isn’t a baby a good place to start? In life, in literature, to borrow Galchen’s phrase, a baby should be a goldmine. And yet we know it is not the case.

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  1. Anil Nair
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    Nice piece.

    On books not exactly belonging to the “baby boomers” but still related in essential ways, how about Lionel Shriver’s We Need To Talk About Kevin?

    Maybe, it has very little on diapers and trendy orange snowsuits — rather, it has a lot about baby-paraphernalia but it’s the father, for a change, who is obsessed with them — though it certainly takes a close, if very dark look, at “where people come from”.

    Shriver, or Eva Khatchoudrian, her protagonist and narrator, is certainly dealing with the rare — and rarefied — instance when a baby turns out to be a Frankenstein but her story remains “patently … female”.

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Trump’s Words vs Hillary’s Actions

By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

While the collective mainstream media continues to have a mass orgasm over comments pers-1made by Donald Trump more than a decade ago, and while several key Republicans, including Paul Ryan whose wife is a millionaire lobbyist for the liberal/socialist party who has raised a substantial amount of money for the Hillary Clinton campaign continue to run away from their nominee like cowards…

I think a little perspective is in order.

Americans, and for that matter, America herself have but two choices in November as no 3rd party or write-in candidate has ever had a chance of winning…Trump or Clinton and while Trump is obviously a cad, a lewd and foul-mouthed cad…he’s still a better choice than Hillary.

As Conservatives, we can’t be so consumed with looking for the next Jesus Christ to be our candidate of choice or our nominee that we risk ignoring impending doom for our Constitutional Republic in the process.

News flash…

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DT=BS – Hey Trumpers…Feel the Bern

By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots

Over the past several weeks, I have written and published several articles highlighting dtbs 1Donald Trump’s liberal leanings. In those articles, I have included numerous videos of Trump, in his own words, extolling liberal views on many, many issues.

From his vies regarding abortion and partial birth abortion to his take on gun control to his steadfast belief in universal, single payer healthcare and his support for liberals like Hillary Clinton.

Naturally, the Trump drunk supporters of this liberal candidate have been vile, vulgar and accused me of lying about their one and only.

In that way, they are just like Trump himself, and as blind as Obama’s supporters have been for the past eight years.

Now, there is but one last video to show…

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Speaking of Donald Trump…

By Craig Andresen Right Side Patriots

Donald Trump…the unhinged, narcissistic, liberal-leaning, Trumper-tantrum throwing, whining, vulgar, knee-jerk reactionary, afraid of a woman’s questions, Chinese-made campaign hat mogul and moonbat who’s meltdowns are now edging Charlie Sheen out of the #1 position in the realm of EPIC meltdowns, had THIS to say about Ted Cruz just a couple of days ago…

“Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual.”

Trump…the something less than a man who once PRAISED Megyn Kelly before calling her a bimbo and then later, cowardly ditching a debate because SHE was one of the moderators…the guy who once compared Ben Carson to a CHILD MOLESTER before becoming his BFF said THIS about Ted Cruz just a few days ago…

“Cruz has become unhinged and is lying with the hopes that his statements will go unchecked until after the election and he will save his failing campaign.”

Speaking of hoping his statements will go unchecked…

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More Anti-Gun Laws? To Combat TERRORISM???

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots

ft 1Illinois Democrat Rep. Jan Schakowsky was doing a radio interview a few days ago and she tried to make a case that was devoid of logic and any aspect of intelligence.

Before I continue, allow me to point out that Schakowsky is a congresswoman, from ILLINOIS and that IS important to this article.

Schakowsky’s inane point was this…because of the recent terrorist, the recent ISLAMIC terrorist attacks in Paris…we should adopt stricter GUN CONTROL laws in OUR country.

Here’s what she had to say on the matter…

“Obviously it is frightening for every western country, but I do want to remind you that before we killed a jihadist named Awlaki, he did a video that said to Americans, ‘Join the jihad and get guns,’ because it’s so easy in the United States of America to get a weapon. And that ought to be a chilling reminder because, aside from blowing themselves up, which is of course is not about small weapons. These people used the kinds of weapons that are still available in the United States of America. I think it ought cause us to have another consideration of sensible gun safety laws.”

You have got to be kidding me…

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Obama’s Free-Range, Illegal Alien Decree

Just a few days ago, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher, issued a NEW DIRECTIVE called, “Use of safe tactics and techniques.”

Before I get into it…Allow me to bring up something which, on first blush, would seem to be totally unrelated.

Free-Range Chickens.

Those are chicken dinners running amok without any supervision…Free to roam fruited plains from sea to shining sea.

They are not to be confused with SMART chickens which, were they really, wouldn’t be caught dead in the frozen foods section at your local market.

Now then, back to the NEW DIRECTIVE as issued by the U.S. Border Patrol.

It is an engraved invitation for “FREE-RANGE ILLEGAL ALIENS” that permits them to RUN AMOK without fear of being rounded up any time soon.

Here are the lily-livered details…

(1)    In accordance with CBP’s current Use of Force policy, agents shall not discharge their firearms at a moving vehicle unless the agent has a reasonable belief, based on the totality of the circumstances that deadly force is being used against an agent or another person present; such deadly force may include a moving vehicle aimed at agents or others present, but would not include a moving vehicle merely fleeing from agents. Further, agents should not place themselves in the path of a moving vehicle or use their body to block a vehicle’s path.

But wait, there’s more…

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Weekend Edition: Gun Rights vs Gun Control – The TRUTH

The government can’t find 15 million ILLEGAL aliens and to be perfectly honest, they don’t WANT to but, by forcing gun registration…They WILL be able to find every LAW ABIDING gun owner in America. Am I the ONLY one who thinks something is wrong when the government, in an attempt to control people, does nothing about those who BREAK our laws and removes rights from those who ABIDE by the laws???

In the next few days, Joe Biden will submit his report on how to control you to the Emperor. Both he AND the Emperor have made it clear that Imperial Orders may well come into play against you regarding the 2nd Amendment.

Over the last few weeks, socialists, liberals and their pundits have not missed a single opportunity or microphone in their quest to demean and dismiss you, the law abiding gun owners of America.

They want you to believe that what they are about to propose or bypass congress to accomplish with regard to eroding your rights is for your safety and…of course…for the children.

Every time they want to remove some of your rights, it’s for the sake of the children.

It’s time to make a few things crystal clear and I can assure you, liberals and socialists aren’t going to like this at all because…It’s the TRUTH.

How many times have we all heard a socialist, bent on controlling you by removing your rights, tell anyone within earshot that you don’t need an AR-15 to hunt deer?

Socialists are trying to SHAME you into bowing to their ideology and they HOPE you will be seen as the fool.

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Friday Fume

Well my friends…Here we are, staring a brand new year square in the face.

What a year it’s been huh?

52 weeks…52 Fridays…

52 FUMES!!!!!

Since we all made it through the Mayan end of the world, ate far too much between Thanksgiving and Christmas and are now facing the fiscal cliff, higher taxes and more government intrusion into our lives and homes…

We have a couple of choices.

We can either let the pressure build up until we explode or…

We can take a few minutes at the end of the week to let off a little steam and laugh at the socialist idiots.

I choose the latter.

It’s Friday Patriots and…

I’m fuming.

New Year’s Eve just won’t be the same in Brasstown North Carolina this year.

For the past 19 years, the folks there have celebrated by…

LOWERING a ‘POSSUM in a cage from the top of a building and then…SETTING IT FREE IN THE WOODS.

Not any more.

PETA sued them for animal cruelty and put an end to the fun.

So…This year…event organizer, Clay Logan, the owner of Clay’s Corner Store,  says they’re working on a plan.

It could well employ…

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Monday, April 23, 2007

"Do you like my lips?"

It looks like Chanel executives have made an important discovery: People who like soft porn are most likely to purchase luxury lip color.

That's the only way I was able to explain this:

I don't find this offensive. Just very silly.

  1. oh! what a lack of culture, non blonde... this ad refers to "le Mépris" by Godard, where Bardot, naked, in a bed, asks in a very famous scene " tu aimes mes jambes, mes fesses, et mes levres tu les aimes mes levres.... " It was in the sixties, way before the Gucci sofr porn ads.

  2. ChampagneClare: Wow, I think that the "Le Mepris" reference would have flown over all the heads of all but cinephiles, francophiles and the French. Thanks for enlightening us. Tell us, is the commercial meant to be a tribute or a parody?

  3. t's a tribute, they used the original score by georges Delerue, the score is outstanding, and the model resembles Brigitte bardot, a very famous french actress.
    The movie and this scene in particular are very famous.

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Amy Winehouse Cleans Up

I admit I never realized Amy Winehouse was actually pretty. The exaggerated and smeared black eyeliner and questionable personal hygiene used to cover what is apparently really nice features. I'm guessing the crack habit didn't help much, either. Here's Amy Winehouse last night after a performing a concert in London. I don't ever remember her skin ever looking this clear. I really hope she's doing better and found some peace.

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  1. I've always liked her bigger than life voice, and am glad she seems to be cleaning up and hopefully getting help for her addictions. Without all the distractions, she does have beautiful features, especially her cheekbones and jawline. In the right stylists hands, I think she could go retro or contemporary and look amazing either way.

    I do hope she gets her peace and stability in life, she really has talent.

  2. Wow, she does have gorgeous bone structure and flawless skin. I think her voice is fantastic and I, too, wish her only the best :)

  3. Wow this is the best Amy's looked in AGES!!!!

  4. No. Sorry. There is nothing at all attractive about Amy Winehouse. Except perhaps an early retirement.

  5. Hello! A quick note to tell you I really enjoy your posts! And also that I have shared a link to this article on my FB profile, if that's OK with you! I was so happy to see Amy looking so gorgeous that could not resist! Thank you so, so much! Also, a thousand thanks (a bit late this!) for your reviews on Rouge d'Armani. I got lovely 603 thanks to your pics and they even engraved my initial in the lid! Very pretty!
    Have a wonderful weekend!!!

  6. Check out the official video for "In my Bed" on youtube. She wasn't even 20 at the time with that gorgeous Judaeo-Nefertiti profile and a way with the camera! The trajectory from that first album Frank, with her precocious jazz sensibilty to Back to Black to the disastrous tours was precipitous. So sad.

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The card market in Russia remains under-developed, though incentives have been introduced to encourage debit and credit card payments. Central Bank of Russia figures reveal that 83% of card transactions involve cash withdrawals, with just 17% being direct payments for products and services.

Figures from FICO indicate that the fraud level in Russia increased from just EUR 12.8 million in 2006 to over EUR 90 million in 2012. Euromonitor figures show a further hike as fraud reached EUR 104 million in 2013. Hacking and phishing attacks are increasing, with banks, payment systems and airlines under attack.

A number of counter fraud measures are in place – including payment verification via mobile messages - and it is claimed that card fraud in Russia remains low because of this. Visa reports that fraud levels in Russia remain very low, costing the company ten times less than its global average.

There has been a recent change in Russia’s approach to consumer liability for fraud. Traditionally, Russian banks had been allowed forty days to investigate fraud claims prior to reimbursing the consumer. Where the bank had suspicions that the customer was involved in fraud, then the onus was on the customer to prove their innocence in court. If the customer’s PIN had been used, they would not be compensated. A new law which came into effect in January 2013 now obliges banks to return stolen funds to victims within 24 hours.

Search Laboratory has reported that issues of trust have affected the domestic e-commerce market and consumers appear more confident in buying from established foreign brand names. In 2013 the top 25 brands searched for on Yandex, the top Russian search engine with 61% share, were all overseas fashion brands. To date, 6% of Internet users have bought from a foreign e-commerce site.

23% of users now access the Internet via a mobile device and Russia has mobile phone penetration of 161%, making it a fertile market for mobile payment growth. Since mobile fraud rates remain higher than other sales channels, merchants will need to ensure they adopt the tailored fraud strategies necessary to control mobile fraud while enabling genuine customers.

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Didn't Get One Direction Tickets? Here's What You're Missing

One Direction's Zayn and Liam, feeling aubergine in the "More Than This" video.

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The One Direction boys are sounding kind of blue in their music video for "More Than This," even if they're looking rather, well, aubergine. (Gold stars all around for finding that many blazers and bowties in that unusual hue, 1D stylists.)

The video is a concert clip -- a sampling of what fans can expect from the boyband's upcoming DVD, Up All Night: The Live Tour (out May 29).

And really, it's also a likely sampling of what lucky Directioners will see from the group this summer, too. (Their first headlining tour of North America launches May 22, after all, with a May 29 stop in Toronto.) As such, expect singing, precious little dancing -- and maybe a few sets that look like Hogwart’s frat houses.

The video, like the rest of the Up All Night concert DVD, was filmed Jan. 3 at a One Direction show in Bournemouth, England.

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Watertown High School has named its students of the month for January.

Megan Reiffenberger is an Arrow senior. The daughter of Dan and Sarah Reiffenberger, she has been on the newspaper and yearbook staff for two years, now editor-In-chief of both, and has been involved in TUCKS. A longtime member of the Watertown Area Swim Club, she has earned a number of honors, including four high school letters and the Dolphin Award. A National Honor Society member, she has also lettered in academics for four years. She also serves as a lifeguard and swim instructor/coach.

Her future plans are to attend George Mason University and major in communications, minor in creative writing and become a journalist.

Jacob Thomas is also a senior at WHS. The son of Rich and Kay Thomas, he is involved in wire choir, jazz choir and church activities, including the youth group, and has helped with the elementary orchestra. He also works part time.

His future plans are to attend  Black Hills State University for political science and business with a minor in music.

Emmi Lintner is a WHS junior. The daughter of Mark and Nancy Lintner, she is involved in oral interp, Key Club, drama club, newspaper, book club and Meistersingers. An honor roll student, she has lettered in academics, drama and choir. She also works part time and is involved in Town Players productions.

Her future plans are to attend college, majoring in theater and minoring in English or journalism.

Jessica Higgins is an Arrow sophomore. The daughter of Joel and Leslie Higgins, she is involved in Key Club, art club, band and dance as well as ABC club level 3. She is also active in her youth group, CCYM, Boys and Girls club trick-or-treating, caroling, Angel Tree and Relay for Life through Key Club.

Hannah Stein is a WHS freshman. The daughter of Chris and Carol Stein, she is involved in orchestra, swimming and 4-H.

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Micro power FM transmitters legal from Dec.

Ofcom today announced that "micro power" FM transmitters such a the Griffin Technologies iTrip or Belkin TuneCast can legally be used from 8 December.

Ofcom changed the regulations in line with the European Commission Decision (2006/771/EC) establishing a framework for the harmonisation of radio spectrum for use by short-range devices in the community, which means micropower FM transmitters should be legal in every EU member state.

Any transmitter will have to comply with the relevent ETSI standard, but this has been available for a while and any device with a CE mark will be compliant.

However, buyers should beware of buying US or Far East equipment as that may not have gone through the approvals process and is therefore still illegal to use.

Though low power transmitters may not seem very significant, to legalise them has meant a change to the Wireless Telegraphy Act (WTA), the law concerning radio reception and transmission. Though the changes have been authorised and signed, they don't come into force until 8 December.

It's been an odd situation as transmitters have been around for quite a while. Ofcom used to have the power to prosecute people selling such equipment as they could not be used legally in Europe, but since they incorporated the standards into the CE mark approvals, Ofcom has had to allow their sale, just not their use in the UK. Now everything is hunky dory and anyone using this type of transmitter stops being a pirate radio station (though with a very limited audience).

Other changes

CB (citizen's band) users will no longer need to obtain a licence in order to use CB equipment - there are currently around 20,000 licensed users in the UK.

It will no longer be necessary to obtain a license to use:

  • Inmarsat BGAN and High Density Fixed Satellite Service (HDFSS) satellite terminals.
  • Narrow band use of 24GHz for short range radar (including automotive applications).
  • Radar level gauges.
  • Digital PMR 446 ("walkie talkies").

Most of the above has little interest for the general public as the radar applications are really relevent to industrial areas such as car manufacturers who can now incorporate radar into car designs, used for features such as collision avoidance systems.

Walkie talkies have been available for some time, most being analogue systems. Digital walkie talkies using 446MHz have also been around, but they used to include a a piece of paper in the box, which was the relevent license and the manufacturer sorted out the any payments. Now, the license requirement has been scrapped altogether. Again, systems will require a CE mark to ensure they meet the relevent European standards.

The WTA spies are us

The WTA is one of the most draconian pieces of legislation in the statute books. It covers the transmission or reception of radio and in the past has required licenses for the transmission and/or reception of ANY radio signals and the penalities for not complying with the laws are extremely heavy handed.

This is where the TV license stems from - you're paying for a license to decode and receive TV broadcast signals. The £100 a year pales into insignificance if you consider the fees the TV stations have to pay to get a transmission license.

It's also why pirate radio stations can be prosecuted, as they don't have a license to transmit (let alone in the commercial FM space). Ofcom has powers to enter a building and confiscate anything it feels has been involved in an illegal radio transmission (which can mean it can completely clear out a flat, and only when it goes to court will the Judge rule that your sofa was nothing to do with the illegal activity. Meanwhile, you have to sit on the floor for six months). Ofcom doesn't even need a search warrant.

It all stems from wartime activity when spies used to have illegal transmitters to send information out of the UK (or receivers to get instructions etc). It's much easier to prosecute someone for illegal use of a transmitter than being a spy.

There have been some "gotchas" in the past, speed radar detectors used to be illegal as you couldn't get a license to receive the frequencies used by radars (unless you were the Police). Someone took it to court and it was ruled that a radar detector only detected a radar, it didn't decode the signal and it was the reception and decoding that was illegal according to the WTA.

Welcome change

It's been a long time in coming, but Ofcom seems to be making the right moves and making spectrum available to the masses, rather than tightly controlling it as has been policy in the past. Some of this is due to European regulatory change, but Ofcom is being proactive rather than just reactive - as was the bent of its predecessor Oftel.

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Kaminario, which supplies DRAM-based solid state drives, has dropped its entry-level pricing and raised its maximum capacity.

When introduced in June last year its K2 DRAM product cost $200,000 for a 500GB entry-level version with two I/O directors, and scaled up to 1.25TB. The big box supplied 1.5 million IOPS and 16GB/sec bandwidth, with the starter box offering 300,000 IOPS and and 3.2GB/sec.

Now a second generation product has the 500GB starter box pricing dropped to $50,000 and the maximum capacity raised to 12TB. The 500GB product does 150,000 IOPS and 1.6GB/sec, half that of the previous entry-level product, suggesting that an I/O director has been cut to enable the price drop.

The 12TB product screams along at 1.5 million IOPS and 16GB/sec. The market is the same as before: in-memory databases and datasets that need the fastest-possible response and currently suffer from I/O bottlenecks choking their performance. In effect the K2 DRAM product is an in-memory storage area network (SAN) for a single database with N+1 high-availability. ®

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To say that I’ve lightened up with my second child would be an understatement. I’ve learned to go with the flow. That’s not to say that I don’t bug out when I find my cell phone in her mouth (the germs! the bacteria!). But if her binky finds its way to the floor at 3 AM? You better believe I’m gonna give that thing a quick wipe-off and get back to bed! And daily baths? Bwahaha! Make that weekly

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Sapphire Singh’s friends always tell her that the older she gets the younger she looks, but Singh credits her jeans rather than her genes.

“In high school I wore a lot of tailored clothing from my dad (a suit designer). A lot of dress pants,” she laughs.

Singh would daydream about the clothes she wished she could wear. At the same time, she started to question the values of the fashion industry, and found they didn’t align with her own.

By the time she was a student at McMaster University, Singh was making her own clothes with friends and started offering sewing and redesign workshops through MACgreen, an environmental group.

Eventually, they hit on the idea of an eco-fashion show and the Revolution Wear Fashion Show was born.

On March 2, they celebrate their 10th anniversary with the Revolution Wear Fashion Show — a testament to the fact that RevWear has outgrown McMaster and now belongs to all of Hamilton.

As artistic director of this year’s show, Singh says the best thing about it is that everyone exchanges ideas and learns something new. Artists meet activists, and students meet people from all walks of life, etc.

The show features about 15 designers, including McMaster students, as well as kids involved with Sprout Summer Growing Camp. The theme is The People and the five collections include the Teacher, the Bike, the Body, the Grower and the Edible Artisan.

Kelly McKinney, founder of sprout camp, says the kids’ Teacher collection includes a dress with 500 hand-stitched fabric flowers to represent the flowers a bee must visit to make a tablespoon of honey. McKinney says the hope is that the dress raises awareness of the knowledge kids gain from nature.

Singh’s Grower collection is food-focused — she is presentation co-ordinator at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market — to show how fashion can make a political statement. It doesn’t have to be literal. The simple fact that something is handmade is a strong statement.

“Your clothing is a walking billboard,” says Singh, 30. “Everyone is walking around wearing someone else’s message. Take control of that and say what you want to say.”

The common thread in her designs is reuse. Singh works with second-hand goods so you never see the same thing twice.

She might cut an old sweatshirt into a cropped T-shirt, give it a V neckline and add wool panels to the sleeves for contrast.

She might lengthen a cashmere sweater by adding bands of fabric from another sweater to create a cosy, form-fitting dress.

But her true love lies in teaching. “I get the most fulfilment from going into classrooms and working with young people or working with groups of individuals who want to learn and have maybe never picked up a needle or never made anything with their hands.

“You see that magic where they go in without any confidence and they come out saying ‘I created something! I made this.’”

For the first time, the show has teamed up with Threadwork, a McMaster group that focuses on the social and environmental implications of the fashion industry.

Anyone inspired to make something can take a free Threadwork workshop this spring. Call 905-525-9140, ext. 27289 for details.

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MIAMI - Multi-billionaire Bill Gates visited the headquarters of Burger King and talked to the company's CEO about the possibility of him purchasing the global hamburger franchise chain.

Gates mentioned that ever since he was 16½ he has dreamed about one day buying the huge burger company and changing the name to Burger Bill's.

He said that he would keep all of the top executives as well as 93 percent of the current employees.

Gates did say that he would terminate any employee who chews gum on the job.

He added that he will also fire any Burger King worker who has facial piercings, unsightly tattoos, and purple hair.

Burger King Spokesperson Gavin Zhivago has said that the company has listened to Bill Gates lucrative offer and they will now consider it.

SIDENOTE: Mr. Zhivago stated that Gates told him that he has plans to compete with McDonald's Happy Meal by coming up with a BK counterpart to be called Burger King's Ecstatic Meal.

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NASHVILLE - Hank Williams Jr., has hollered out "Are You Ready For Some Football?" on The Monday Night Football Show for the past 20 years, but this past Monday night the old country boy didn't.

ESPN pulled him off the show after Hank Jr., had earlier referred to President Obama as Hitler.

The son of the great Hank Williams tried to do a little crawfishing (backpedaling') by saying that he was really comparing the Speaker of the House John Boehner to Hitler and not President Obama.

Williams told Amos Soursuckle of GOPicky Magazine that anyone can see that Barry Obama looks nothing at all like that Adolf Hitler fella since Obama is black.

Hank Jr., took a sip out of his bottle of Southern Comfort and said that if one takes a damn good close look at Boehner, and you put a little jive ass moustache on the fella, that one can clearly see that he is the spitting image of the furrier.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: I am sure that Junior meant to say fuhrer.]

The country singer's manager Tucker "Chawbacon" Bookerbaum immediately tried to do some damage control by saying that good old boy Hank was taking meds for a uvula infection that had flared up after he had eaten an order of Jalapeno Nachos at a Tacos, Tacos, and Mucho More Tacos in Nashville.

Bookerbaum also remarked that he wanted everyone to know that if anyone got offended by Williams' remarks that it was not really Hank Jr's., fault that they were all a bunch of oversensitive sensitive liberals.

Tucky, as his maternal grandmother Beulah Beth Fryquist, 91, calls him, said that he did suggest to Williams that he look into getting into an Anger Management Program as soon as possible.

Williams took two sips from his bottle of Southern Comfort and yelled out, "Hell no, I won't go!"

Bookerbaum says that in the nine years that he has known Hank Jr., that he knows better than to try to get him to do something that the old crazy ass country boy just does not want to do.

He still recalls that time seven years ago back in Pensacola, Florida, when he tried to get him to put on a white shirt and tie for a GOP political dinner and Hank got so mad that he took a 12 gauge shotgun and shot three of the tires on his concert tour bus.

In other news. Nicaragua has canceled their planned invasion of Belgium due to the unforeseen bullet shortage.

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Sometimes even the life of a princess is not enough for some girls, and a source close to Wills and Kate confirmed that the ex Miss Middleton's 'heart skipped a beat' when she heard that wild child and botherer of pensioners' answerphones, Russel Brand, was single again after his split from Katy Perry.

"Kate loves being a princess - what girl wouldn't?" said a close friend (Ethel Pickleduck, 27) "But well - Russell - that's a different kettle of fish isn't it?

"Kate saw all his shows at the Edinburgh Festival when she was studying in the city, and was even rumoured to have dickied the doo with Brandy Pandy.

"After a while the Royal lifestyle could take it's toll - Charles talking to plants, senile old Phil the Greek insulting all the foreign ladies in waiting and Camilla half-inching all the head of state official gifts - it really is a freaky family.

"Old 'Rusty Cock' and a life in the states could be a fast way out..."

For the Essex boy comedian it could be the Kate/Katy hat-trick following his marriage to Perry and his one night bang with stick insect cocaine user Katey Moss.

Russell wasn't returning calls when the spoof called him (we left a voicemail), but he has allegedly told friends he wants a go on Pippysqeak first.

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I meet Daniel, star of the immensely popular Harry Potter series in a bar of his choice. To be bluntly honest it looks a bit rough and I am uncomfortable, though I can see why the young actor would enjoy visiting here. What with all the girls in low tops and skirts that some would mistake as belts.

Radcliffe arrives late, dressed in a smart suit, somehow looking out of place in this backstreet boozer. He goes to the bar and orders 'his usual' and then begins to pinch the arse of several 'ladies' before I have to rudely interrupt him and remind him that we have an appointment. He apologies, but not before slipping his number into the nearest whores DD bra.

He pulls up a bar stool and our interview begins.

So Daniel you have been in the lime light ever since you were 11, how has that affected your growing up.

Dan: Come on, I am richer than most 18 year olds in the world and I have all the girls I could want (winks at a nearby slut) My life is perfection and so am I.

Right, but you must be under some pressure with filming for the next Harry Potter film?

Dan: No not really I am freaking Harry Potter, If I don't turn up or I have an off day they can't fire me because I am what makes those films.

Well yes but there must be some pressure being such a big role model to so many fans.

Dan: At first I really tried to keep a squeaky clean reputation but then I though fuck it I am who I am and if fans don't like it they can find someone else to idolise. Yes I do drugs, yes I shag ten different girls a night, yes I drink like a fish and smoke like a chimney, but so what?

At this point Daniel lights five cigarettes and puffs away at them all at once and doesn't even stop when I begin to cough and splutter subtly.

So what is it like being adored my millions of girls around the world?

Dan: Oh great. I only have two conditions, no fat ones and no ugly ones.

So the rumours are not true about you and Emma Watson, you are single?

Dan: There are a lot of beautiful girls in this world and a lot of me to go around. The rumours about me and Emma are true, yes I have had her but we are not exclusive and she is not that good anyway.

Are you ever planning on settling down?

Dan: Hell Yeah I want a wife and kids and shit, but not yet I am young and I am bloody Gorgeous so at the moment I am having my fun, but one day I ll do all that stuff.

So who would your perfect wife be then?

Dan: Well obviously she would have to be a looker, I mean I ll have to wake up to her every morning and she would have to be fertile, I want lots and lots of Daniel juniors but apart from that I am open to any offers, in fact you are pretty hot, what do you say?

Ok, changing the subject, what is next for Daniel Radcliffe?

Dan: I want to do lots more films, you know I think that if I work really hard people will except me as more than just Harry, but I don't care about that stuff, all I care about is you sugar plum. so will you be mine?

erm, so what was it like appearing naked on stage?

Dan: yeah it was great, my manly apparatus got lots of compliments, I can show you if you like...

Daniel then starts to unbuckle his belt and I am force to terminate the interview and run as far away from him as possible, one of the whores can have him.

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