ITC Banned Samsung Products Infringed on Apple Patents: Apple Won the Case against Samsung

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit;">International Trade Commission handed down a judgment in </span>favor<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of Apple against Samsung, regarding the design of smartphones and tablet computers. ITC banned Samsung from marketing some devices that are under infringement on the Apple patents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Patent war is a battle between corporations to secure its parent from copying. Patent wars have occurred in a wide range of technologies. There are some ongoing patent wars between the world’s largest corporations like Apple, Samsung, Google, Yahoo, HTC and etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUa3N42M3POx1FKYBqqSdOIxpCWg3ADXI8Z8zPdFC7FEdcPlwqdG37ZGrlKQ4aQ9RyYuPe5zRoiMlrw_VexPhKgzJAGH-YhyYlSOqRk_GUOvFlrCEDf93tQjFvLBM0PThgflC0E-MOw/s1600/Apple+patent+win.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Apple patent win against Samsung" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSGUa3N42M3POx1FKYBqqSdOIxpCWg3ADXI8Z8zPdFC7FEdcPlwqdG37ZGrlKQ4aQ9RyYuPe5zRoiMlrw_VexPhKgzJAGH-YhyYlSOqRk_GUOvFlrCEDf93tQjFvLBM0PThgflC0E-MOw/s1600/Apple+patent+win.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">source: cnn</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the case of Apple against Samsung, ITC said that Samsung products are infringed on two Apple patents i.e. headset plug detection and touchscreen multi-touch. The court now ruled Samsung not to marketing the infringed products on the Apple patents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2011, Apple filed a case against Samsung in patent infringement in which: Samsung’s Galaxy devices are very similar to Apple’s design. Apple and Samsung were suing some ongoing cases across the countries. Earlier, While Samsung won its cases in South Korea, Japan and UK, Apple won the case in US.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apple has filed its claim 2nd time on Aug 2012, stating more of the Samsung products violate Apple patents including Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 10.1. Finally Apple won its battle against Samsung after a waste of time.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beside all this, Samsung may release software updates -for example user will use the technology the same way but Samsung may change “how to use”.</span></div>

Apple samsung ITC Banned Samsung Products Infringed on Apple Patents: Apple Won the Case against Samsung

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Matt Said, Jay Said...7576227382

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd4-qOzjMHRIE5gB9Oq0U5R6ytLbjR2bMYXTjjiP9FOK1y_73cRwH9OLcQ_mXenl3lTQvYGNKblN9_eVNP0HhUHUi8KBI5Qk9rPipKMgdF4WQCpzP1jL8oOp8r3texEWYFaOeQRBnNpE7/s1600/dog+days+of+summer+hot+humid.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitd4-qOzjMHRIE5gB9Oq0U5R6ytLbjR2bMYXTjjiP9FOK1y_73cRwH9OLcQ_mXenl3lTQvYGNKblN9_eVNP0HhUHUi8KBI5Qk9rPipKMgdF4WQCpzP1jL8oOp8r3texEWYFaOeQRBnNpE7/s400/dog+days+of+summer+hot+humid.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>Matt:  Yeah, what do you want?<br />Jay:  Everything.<br />Matt:  Well, you won’t find it here.<br />Jay:  But I am searching for it all.<br />Matt:  Beat it Mister.<br /><br />Jay:  Hey now…How you doin’?<br />Matt:  M’eh…kinda bored.  And you?<br />Jay:  Just bailing out my personal canoe from all of the rain down here.<br />Matt:  I saw that.  What a fucking shame.<br />Jay:  That didn’t sound sincere.<br />Matt:  It was…I’m just…m’eh.<br /><br />Jay:  Yeah, I understand.  There’s just nothing going on right now.<br />Matt:  I know.  Fake football…No big holiday until Labor Day, Congress is in recess.<br />Jay:  Yeah.  And the middle school girls aren’t back in school yet, and the TV re-runs…Oh Dear God!!<br />Matt:  So damn boring.<br /><br />Jay:  This week sucks.  Of course Sunday, the 18th is National Bad Poetry Day.  We can go HAM on that.<br />Matt:  Oh Hell yeah, and the week after that on the 25th will be our End of Season Three Extravaganza.<br />Jay: And September 1st will be our Opening of Season Four Extravaganza!!<br />Matt:  And yet?  We have nothing for this week.<br />Jay:  I know…man, it’s hard sometimes.<br /><br />Matt:  That’s why they call this time of year, the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dog Days of Summer</span></a>.<br />Jay:  That’s It!!<br />Matt:  What!?  What’s it!?<br />Jay:  This week’s show will be called, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Dog Days of Summer!!</span></a><br />Matt:  You are fucking brilliant!!<br />Jay:  I know, right!?<br /><br />Matt:  But as we just said…nothing happens during the <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Dog Days of Summer</span></a>.<br />Jay:  Exactly, and that is what we’ll talk about!!<br />Matt:  We’ll talk about nothing?<br />Jay:  Yes!!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD7S_llTyHQKtY5DATwX4-_m6897TMNEWc-sH4Lr6iC7T3w1JkoHa9W70IlDroYihfytZlroVSJ2npMKEoHyDeN57_cVxEmprJNpdlvU9HQ8l39PYuik8EuvZB2wCRdpXe7i9rp3HaOkF/s1600/megyn+kelly+naked+fox+news+replacing+Sean+Hannity.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiD7S_llTyHQKtY5DATwX4-_m6897TMNEWc-sH4Lr6iC7T3w1JkoHa9W70IlDroYihfytZlroVSJ2npMKEoHyDeN57_cVxEmprJNpdlvU9HQ8l39PYuik8EuvZB2wCRdpXe7i9rp3HaOkF/s400/megyn+kelly+naked+fox+news+replacing+Sean+Hannity.jpg" width="335" /></a>Matt:  Brilliant!!<br />Jay:  I think we’ve just one-upped Seinfeld.<br />Matt:  Damn right…Kramer can suck your dick.<br />Jay:  I’d prefer if Elaine did it.<br />Matt:  Brilliant!!<br /><br />Jay:  Alright then…you, me, Bobby Kraft, Paul Piatt, Bob Barker, and whoever else on our staff wants to chime in, will be there.<br />Matt:  Along with all of the listeners and callers to our Number One Rated Comedy Show.<br />Jay:  Damn right.  Even though there is nothing there, we’ll make it something.<br />Matt:  Word.<br /><br />Jay:  We are going to build the biggest pile of nothing that has ever been built, this Sunday at Noon ET.<br />Matt:  And President Obama better not say that we didn’t build it.<br />Jay:  Damn right.  Talk to you this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET Matt-Man.<br />Matt:  Ditto Jayman!!<br /><br />To catch Jay, Matt, and the Dog Days of Summer IWS Radio Show LIVE this Sunday from Noon-2 PM ET, you can click right <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/11/dog-days-of-summer" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</div>

Matt Said, Jay Said...7576227382

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Blue Jasmine: Superb study in self-delusion

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>Blue Jasmine</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony/bluejasmine/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b>4.5 stars. Rating: PG-13, for dramatic intensity, mature thematic material and brief profanity</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a> • </b></span>Originally published in <i><a href="http://www.davisenterprise.com/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">The Davis Enterprise</a></i>, 8.9.13</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the first scene, we can’t take our eyes off her: an unholy cross between Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara and Gloria Swanson’s Norma Desmond, layered with the bland contempt that comes only from Manhattan socialites.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vV_M8J_SLBlfg_eE-X-CZ19CTViXDBLgrLl9fIat4RVLP_kkdyzuTw69Hdifq2P33ctJG76t90ZxmsfptNVSxcAMUo0fFXBSnBQKRYQ0DD_cJziVnllSsJ86N4tya2AP5UQpu6yXCJ0/s1600/Blue+Jasmine+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vV_M8J_SLBlfg_eE-X-CZ19CTViXDBLgrLl9fIat4RVLP_kkdyzuTw69Hdifq2P33ctJG76t90ZxmsfptNVSxcAMUo0fFXBSnBQKRYQ0DD_cJziVnllSsJ86N4tya2AP5UQpu6yXCJ0/s400/Blue+Jasmine+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">During a visit to New York, working-class Ginger (Sally Hawkins, right) encourages her<br />husband, Augie (Andrew Dice Clay, center right) to seek investment advice from the<br />wealthy and privileged Hal (Alec Baldwin), an aggressive Wall Street shark married to<br />Jasmine (Cate Blanchett). Ginger figures there's no downside; after all, Jasmine is her<br />sister, and nothing is more important than family ... right?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cate Blanchett’s title character in Woody Allen’s <i>Blue Jasmine</i> is a frightening creature: a woman so accustomed to aristocratic excess that she cannot fathom existence among the 99 percent. Yet she’s also a figure to be pitied, and that’s the hypnotic magic of Blanchett’s performance: We simultaneously loathe and feel sorry for her, wondering how somebody who once was an ordinary little girl, could have grown into an adult so cut off from her humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s Marie Antoinette or Eva Braun: a woman who can’t precisely be described as evil, because she really don’t know any better. Morality, integrity, loyalty, simple kindness ... these are qualities suited only for the common herd. Jasmine swans above such flawed behavior; she lives only for her own tightly compartmentalized pleasures, and for the attention lavished upon her by a doting and über-wealthy husband.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen has written <i>really</i> close to the bone this time, with an unflinching dissection of the privileged, often vacuous wives who proudly stand alongside the Bernie Madoffs, as they blithely screw the rest of us. Do these women even perceive, let alone understand, the monsters they take to their beds each night?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen has resurrected his career, phoenix-like, more times than I can count, and he’s once again on a roll: perhaps the best thus far. <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/06/midnight-in-paris-enchanted-dream.html">Midnight in Paris</a></i> was both clever and delightful: an adult fantasy that brought him another well-deserved Academy Award. <i>Blue Jasmine</i>, in turn, will do the same for Blanchett. I don’t care what comes out between now and Dec. 31; nobody will top her bravura performance in this film.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She’s nothing short of amazing, and <i>Blue Jasmine</i> stands among Allen’s finest works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We meet Jasmine during a plane flight from New York to San Francisco, where she has arranged to live with her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins), while attempting to pull her life back together. Jasmine’s personality is revealed during this airborne prologue, for she has trapped a seat mate — an elderly woman too polite to object — into enduring a litany of self-centered justification.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We don’t get many pertinent details, merely enough to understand the sheer torture that the oblivious Jasmine is inflicting on her temporary companion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things get worse, when Jasmine barely is able to navigate a taxi ride to Ginger’s modest apartment. We learn that Jasmine hasn’t had much use for Ginger until this moment, when no other options are available. Ginger is the working-class yin to Jasmine’s elegant, socialite yang: the country mouse worried that her citified relation will look about this small but attractive home, and find fault with everything. Which Jasmine does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jasmine has fled the newspaper headlines and TV sound bites that have hounded her since husband Hal (Alec Baldwin) was arrested by the FBI and indicted for unspecified — but clearly serious — financial shenanigans that hurt many, many people. As we gradually learn, the victims included Ginger and her former husband, Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), who lost a lottery windfall that could have brightened their lives considerably.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fallout also torched Ginger’s marriage, yet she still opens her home to Jasmine, insisting — to all who comment — that Jasmine cannot be blamed for Hal’s misdeeds. Right from the start, Ginger doth protest too much, and her words ring false. Her new boyfriend, Chili (Bobby Cannavale), clearly shares such doubts; he probes with the obvious questions that Jasmine has tried to leave behind. Did she <i>really</i>not know?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wonder, as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although pleading destitution, complaining about how the courts “ruined her life” by stripping her of all assets, forcing her to sell “everything” just to survive, Jasmine nonetheless arrives toting Louis Vuitton luggage. When Ginger, bewildered, tentatively suggests that her sister’s insistence on flying first class might have been financially unwise, Jasmine flies into a rage; she couldn’t <i>possibly</i> have endured the trip in coach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jasmine’s saga subsequently unfolds in the present and the past, the latter granting us revealing glimpses of her life with Hal, pre-crisis, and the depths of her self-absorption. When Ginger and Augie fly to New York for a weeklong visit, during their happier times, Jasmine barely spares them a few hours; she’s always so <i>busy</i>, please understand, with the constant demands on her pampered life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we cringe, wanting to look away, wanting somebody to slap this useless creature upside the face, but knowing that’ll never happen. Yet we’re unable to look away, fascinated by the callous depths to which this woman sinks, every minute of every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blanchett has plenty of experience with imperious roles, ranging from history’s Elizabeth I to fantasy’s Galadriel, not to mention hard-chargers such as Veronica Guerin and her spot-on impersonation of Katharine Hepburn. Here, Blanchett employs her intrinsic charisma to less palatable purposes: When fully erect, in command of her surroundings, Jasmine delivers every speech, every response, as if the listener should cherish each word as a gift from the gods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sad part: Ginger buys into it. Hook, line and belittled, browbeaten sinker.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blanchett has the flashy title role, but Hawkins matches her, scene for scene. She’s a British stalwart likely remembered from her starring role in 2010’s <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/01/made-in-dagenham-sew-fine.html">Made in Dagenham</a></i>, along with choice parts in recent films such as <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2010/10/never-let-me-go-this-one-wont-let-you.html">Never Let Me Go</a></i>, <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/03/jane-eyre-deliciously-swooning.html">Jane Eyre</a></i> and <i>Great Expectations</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hawkins’ Ginger is the ultimate enabler: She responds to the demands of family ties, even when they’re not deserved. She cowers in Jasmine’s shadow, flinching even before the next thinly veiled insult. The irony, of course, is that Ginger possesses all the nobler virtues that Jasmine wouldn’t even perceive, let alone possess; this working-class San Francisco woman has carved out a successful and reasonably happy life, while raising two rambunctious boys (who regard Jasmine akin to a creature from Neptune). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By rights, Ginger should despise Jasmine ... and yet she tries to accommodate this fragile, alien creature’s increasingly manic mood swings. That’s the other issue in this tragic tale: Jasmine is damaged goods even before she lands in San Francisco, and she gets worse, as days turn into weeks. Not since Catherine Deneuve went bonkers when left alone in that spooky apartment, in 1965’s <i>Repulsion</i>, has a woman come unglued so persuasively on screen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this — despite knowing full well that Jasmine is toxic — Ginger responds to her sister’s barbed “compliments,” and, God forbid, tries to mold herself into a similarly “refined” woman. This means accepting Jasmine’s disgust over the “losers” Ginger has hooked up with: the ultimate hypocrisy, since Hal was the biggest loser of all. Correctly perceiving that he stands to lose Ginger in the face of such poisonous hostility, Chili begins to panic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so it goes, getting worse and worse, as details are filled in, and fresh traumas erupt, and we gradually get answers to key questions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allen’s films always are impeccably cast, and this one’s no exception; although Blanchett and Hawkins stand out, they’re in excellent company. Baldwin is spot-on as a smarmy Wall Street predator, and both Cannavale and Clay are persuasively credible as good-hearted lugs with limited means and flash-point tempers, but genuine love for the woman who has touched their hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peter Sarsgaard pops up in the second act as Dwight, a career diplomat on the relationship rebound, who is smitten by Jasmine’s beauty, sophistication and style. (By now, we know these traits are artifice; the vulnerable Dwight, alas, can’t see past her surface.) Comedian Louis C.K. plays Al, an amiable guy who catches Ginger’s attention when Jasmine drags her to an upscale party.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of this film is relentlessly serious, given its nature: a tone Allen has delivered quite well a few times before, recently with 2005’s <i>Match Point</i>. He shouldn’t be typed as a “comedy director,” and <i>Blue Jasmine</i> isn’t a funny film. That said, Allen takes an odd detour into pure burlesque, when Jasmine reluctantly accepts work as a dentist’s receptionist, and then discovers that her boss — Michael Stuhlbarg, as Dr. Flicker — hired her only because he’s hot for her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stuhlbarg can be viewed here as the bumbling, overly talkative Woody Allen surrogate, an exaggerated archetype that simply doesn’t belong here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similarly, the 1920s and ’30s jazz classics with which Allen peppers so many of his soundtracks — the sort of tunes by now firmly associated with Allen’s plain, white-text-on-black-background title credits — feel completely wrong in this, a firmly contemporary storyline. OK, I grant the ironic counterpoint a particular song title supplies to a given scene, and the fact that Rodgers and Hart’s “Blue Moon” evokes happier times for the increasingly fragile Jasmine ... but as a thematic whole, these ancient swing band hits occasionally take us out of the story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These relatively minor issues prevent the film from being perfect, but it’s still an extremely powerful indictment of casual, heartless entitlement, fueled by sensational actors who wring every drop of dramatic juice from Allen’s sharp-edged script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ll not forget this one any time soon. It <i>lingers</i>, haunting our thoughts in the best possible way.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

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DEUTSCHE SPARER....

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvWmSSHfoKCcnn990KPr9jXi6lGW2I_obsjKvO8Rded26lAJ8Pfgajg3OHbwG8MnElKz06W-8BhBX_ohWDcdo5rTMHprpw08Mn8APDxWfZvjlUiyIUtBr6SSFEqaQlkhCwDDyAvQcBkBj/s1600/4818343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAvWmSSHfoKCcnn990KPr9jXi6lGW2I_obsjKvO8Rded26lAJ8Pfgajg3OHbwG8MnElKz06W-8BhBX_ohWDcdo5rTMHprpw08Mn8APDxWfZvjlUiyIUtBr6SSFEqaQlkhCwDDyAvQcBkBj/s400/4818343.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: 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5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Im Fall der Pleite der Hausbank werden auch jene Kunden massive Probleme bekommen, deren Guthaben durch die offizielle Einlagensicherung garantiert sein sollen. Der aktuelle EU-Vorschlag sieht vor, dass Kunden im Fall einer Pleite ihrer Bank täglich nur noch maximal 100 bis 200 Euro abheben können. Dieser Zustand kann bis zu drei Wochen dauern. Wer größere Anschaffungen plant, sollte sich rechtzeitig überlegen, wie er an sein Geld kommen will. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Von der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbemerkt, treibt die EU die konkreten Schritte im Falle einer Banken-Pleite voran. Vor einigen Wochen wurde beschlossen, Banken-Rettungen überfallsartig an einem <b>Wochenende</b> durchzuführen (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.deutsche-mittelstands-nachrichten.de/2013/05/51847/" title="Angst vor dem Haircut: Deutsche horten das Bargeld"><span lang="DE-AT" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT;">hier</span></a></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) und Sparer über 100.000 Euro sowie Aktionäre und Inhaber von Anleihen mit einer <b>Zwangsabgabe</b>an der Banken-Rettung zu beteiligen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nun hat die litauische Ratspräsidentschaft erste Details vorgelegt, wie eine Banken-Rettung konkret aussehen wird.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sie wird auch für jene Sparer äußerst unangenehm, die sich jetzt wegen der Einlagensicherungen in Sicherheit wiegen und glauben, es werde nur „die Reichen“, also jene Anleger, die über mehr als 100.000 Euro verfügen, treffen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Der litauische Vorschlag zeigt: Wenn eine Bank pleitegeht, bekommen auch die kleinen Sparer ihr Geld keineswegs sofort. <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Bis zu vier Wochen – 20 Arbeitstage – werden die Sparer nur mit dem Notwendigsten auskommen müssen: Sie dürfen 100 bis 200 Euro täglich abheben – mehr nicht.</b></span> Der EU-Rat unter der Leitung des von niemandem in Europa gewählten Präsidenten Herman Van Rompuy hatte ursprünglich angeregt, die Sparer vier Wochen auf ihr Geld warten zu lassen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Das EU-Parlament fand diese Frist dann doch etwas lang und verlangte, Einlagen unter 100.000 Euro sollten innerhalb von fünf Tagen ausgezahlt werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weil das jedoch technisch gar nicht möglich ist – keine Bank verfügt über so viel reales Geld – soll der Kompromiss nun so aussehen: 20 Tage warten, dafür bekommt man täglich 100 bis maximal 200 Euro aus dem Geldautomaten.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drei Wochen Bangen</span></b></span><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> soll es, wie die Börsen-Zeitung aus dem Papier zitiert, bis ins Jahr 2020 für dem Fall geben, in dem die nationalen Aufsichtsbehörden zur Auffassung gelangen, dass es nicht schneller geht. Im Fall, dass die Aufsichtsbehörden ein Einsehen mit den Anleger haben oder sich die Anleger zum Großteil aus bewaffneten Russen rekrutieren, dürfte es schneller gehen: Zunächst 15, dann 10 und 2023 schließlich sieben Arbeitstage.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tatsächlich bedeutet diese Entwicklung, dass auch jene Sparer, die sich heute blind auf die Zusage von Angela Merkel und Wolfgang Schäuble verlassen, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>dass Einlagen unter 100.000 Euro sicher sind, um ihre Ersparnisse zittern oder betteln müssen.</b></span>Wenn sie ihr Geld wirklich in Händen halten wollen, es wegen größerer Anschaffungen brauchen oder aber einen Betrieb führen, der naturgemäß höhere Ausgaben hat als 100 Euro täglich – dann sollten diese Sparer sich schon mal überlegen, wie sie im Crash-Fall ihrer Bank an ihr Geld kommen wollen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Der aktuelle Plan zeigt, dass sich im Falle einer Banken-Pleite niemand auf staatliche Zusagen wird verlassen können. Tatsächlich werden stets <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>„außergewöhnliche Umstände“</b></span> dazu führen können, dass die Sparer auch dann mit einer Zwangsabgabe belegt werden können, wenn sie weniger als 100.000 Euro auf der Bank haben.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Den Deutschen wird dieses Thema wohlweislich noch vorenthalten: Der Gouverneur der litauischen Zentralbank, Vitas Vasiliauskas, sagte der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters, er sei sich bewusst, dass die<b> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Bundestags-Wahlen den Prozess etwas verzögern könnten</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;">.</span> Aber die Banken-Union sei „eine Super-Priorität der EU“.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Noch keine Einigung gibt es in der Frage, welchen Beitrag die Banken in die Einlagensicherung einzahlen sollen. Hier streitet die EU vor allem darüber, wer das Risiko berechnet, das die einzelnen Banken darstellen und nach dessen Höhe sich der Beitrag richtet. Hier wurde eine für Beamte bemerkenswerte Verschärfung in das Dokument gebracht: Der Beitrag „soll“ sich nun nach dem Risiko richten, während es früher hieß, der Beitrag „kann“ nach dem Risiko berechnet werden.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dass der Beitrag nicht nach dem Risiko berechnet werden „muss“, wie der gesunde Menschenverstand nahelegen würde, liegt auch daran, dass die nationalen Regierungen künftig von der Berechnung des Risikos ausgeschlossen werden sollen. Die <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Banken wollen die Risiken untereinander regeln</b></span> und daher von der Europäischen Banken Aufsicht EBA festlegen lassen – jener Institution, die die belgische Dexia in einem „Stress“-Test noch wenige Monate vor ihrem spektakulären Crash als ein besonders vertrauenswürdiges Institut ausgezeichnet hatte.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Die Pläne der EU für die ersten europäischen Banken-Pleiten im Zeitalter der Derivate und Turbo-Spekulationen laufen darauf hinaus, dass der Crash vor allem für die kleinen Anleger und Sparer zu einem existentiellen Stress-Test wird.</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Denn tatsächlich sind drei Wochen des Zitterns gerade für ältere Bürger, die ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auf der Bank liegen haben, eine <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Zumutung</b></span>. Die Pleite einer Bank ist ein für die Sparer höchst zermürbender Prozess – dem EU-Vorschlag zufolge werden die Sparer nun wochenlang warten müssen, bis sie die Gewissheit haben, ob sie ihre Geld jemals wiedersehen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die EU will die Banken-Union noch in diesem Jahr in den wichtigsten Details beschließen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Es wird eng für die Sparer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE-AT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Und zwar, wie wir nun wissen, nicht nur für die Reichen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

DEUTSCHE SPARER....

....müssen um Guthaben unter 100.000 Euro bangen Via Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten Im Fall der Pleite der Hausbank werden auch jene Kun...

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My story pitch to Ellen about Belviq

<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">Did I inspire you in any way????</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;">They are looking for people to submit about an inspiring person you may know.  I don't want to submit myself ha.  Please pas this link around and try to get people to write a short submission.  Maybe she'll pick me to get on the Ellen Show and talk about Belviq  I am going to ask those also who I've inspired to lose weight.  here is the direct link</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px;"> <a href="http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/606/" href_cetemp="http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/606/" style="color: #000064; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ellentv.com/be-on-the-show/606/</a></div>

My story pitch to Ellen about Belviq

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New postal stamps honor American workers

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s1600/8-9workerstamps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s320/8-9workerstamps.jpg" title="This is an image of one of the stamp books released by the U.S. Postal Service this week honoring workers." width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is recognizing that American workers are the nation’s backbone with </span><a href="http://blog-stampofapproval.com/2013/08/05/stamps-honoring-americas-industrial-workers-now-available-for-preorder/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a series of stamps that honor the contributions of industrial workers</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The USPS rolled out the forever stamps this week. Among the men and women featured in the early 20^{<span style="font-size: x-small;">th </span>}century images are a railroad track worker, a linotyper in a publishing house and an airplane maker. The sheet includes 12 different stamps and </span><a href="http://blog-stampofapproval.com/2013/02/21/new-set-of-12-stamps-honors-americas-20th-century-workers/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">comes in five different versions</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tom Perez, secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, said the stamps </span><a href="http://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2013/08/made-in-america-forever-stamp/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are a reminder of the important role such workers have played</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in our history:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These iconic images tell a powerful story about American economic strength and prosperity. These men and women and millions like them really did build a nation.<o:p></o:p></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The types of workers featured in this stamp collection helped make this nation great. They built the infrastructure that allowed the U.S. to soar in the post-World War II period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were union members who were paid a fair wage for a hard day’s work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s hope these images can remind policymakers and corporations alike of the important role workers serve.</span><br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></o:p><br /><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stamps are available at your local post office or can be ordered </span><a href="https://store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetailSingleSku.jsp?productId=S_471504" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><br /><br /><img height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix7JsKCd3UwzqwqxiDR8_9dtKqwOPYhTge9AaVrcKbmCXs-43keLZNJggh3xUOcBy_lDxnu3Eheov42-DwPxY9LWWooP9byB6fU-Jv6HM3b-5w9a7v4xKUbGCP9FoERen-YMLkSlyikgyc/s320/8-9workerstamps.jpg" style="left: 519px; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 41px;" width="96" />

New postal stamps honor American workers

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ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have NO TOLERANCE for people making fun of others because of their weight!!!!!<br /><br />So, there's an article about a woman in the local news that is being sought out because she punched a 1 year child in the face.  That's absolutely HORRIBLE.  She should be arrested and punished for that.  But if you bring up the article at <a href="http://www.click2houston.com/news/babysitter-wanted-for-punching-toddler-in-the-face/-/1735978/21402718/-/9xy72k/-/index.html">http://www.click2houston.com/news/babysitter-wanted-for-punching-toddler-in-the-face/-/1735978/21402718/-/9xy72k/-/index.html</a>  you will see a photo of her and she is obviously obese.  Scroll to the very bottom where people are making comments - turning this in all about her weight.  I can not stand idiots.  It's ok to be angry because of what she did, it's not ok to attack because she is obese.  I am HIGHLY offended and this really really upset me because I KNOW I receive a lot of jokes because of my weight. <br /><br />Stop and think about me, ELLIE WENKER, next time you want to make a fat joke please!!

ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have NO TOLERANCE for people making fun of others because of their weight!!!!! So, there's an article about a woman in the local news ...

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It's Smokey Bear's birthday with a party on Twitter

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vBSKR8UIAdAJ8a2md23TBiaiBb9NaCmyaIZMEjMJeLp6CS30bbYNgqeQ_xeLNjGbLDwdG04IzHVhLmtCURkM12KDa931OBrSd9Iz1X522j1-m5GvmesFjYIXS66Z11-bnVj60TdiqZly/s1600/Smokey+Bear+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vBSKR8UIAdAJ8a2md23TBiaiBb9NaCmyaIZMEjMJeLp6CS30bbYNgqeQ_xeLNjGbLDwdG04IzHVhLmtCURkM12KDa931OBrSd9Iz1X522j1-m5GvmesFjYIXS66Z11-bnVj60TdiqZly/s1600/Smokey+Bear+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />It's Smokey Bear's birthday but this Boomer bear is keeping current as he celebrated with a party on Twitter Friday afternoon. From 1-2:00 p.m. @Smokey_Bear, the 69-year-old interacted with fans in an interesting mix of nostalgia and reminders of fire safety tips to prevent wildfires as birthday greetings came in from across the nation.<br /><br />In what was the highlight of my day, my tweet was answered by Smokey and I got a virtual Smokey Bear hug! For just a moment or so I was six years old again.<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Happy Birthday <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear">@smokey_bear</a>! True story of a cub rescued from forest fire ... became icon advocating fire safety for millions.<br />— Lynn R. Mitchell (@swacgirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/swacgirl/statuses/365886598124011523">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/swacgirl">@swacgirl</a> True <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBearHug&src=hash">#SmokeyBearHug</a> <|:') \ / <<br />— Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365887333347762176">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />And, oh yeah, I <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smokeybear/app_517922941613859">signed his birthday card</a>, too.<br /><br />Perhaps the most interesting piece of information gleaned from the exchange was the question, "Have wildfires increased over the last few year or has social media and TV coverage just made us more aware of them?"  Smokey's response: "Since 1950s, gone from 22 million wildland acres burned to less than 7 million today. There are differences in local conditions."<br /><br />Smokey signed off from his birthday party on Twitter:<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This has been the best 69th Birthday a bear could ask for. Thanks for joining in! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBDay&src=hash">#SmokeyBDay</a><br />— Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365896063275646977">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />And he followed up with one last reminder....<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">And, remember, only you can prevent wildfires. On <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SmokeyBDay&src=hash">#SmokeyBDay</a> and on every day of the year.<br />— Smokey Bear (@smokey_bear) <a href="https://twitter.com/smokey_bear/statuses/365896174361772035">August 9, 2013</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Happy Birthday, Smokey! See you next year....

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It's Smokey Bear's birthday but this Boomer bear is keeping current as he celebrated with a party on Twitter Friday afternoon. From ...

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Chicago protest paints unflattering portrait of ALEC

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3M5MT10EJUbuQAlZUCOJ6GNqA_LoBwiiDcLkDB8YS_1EVto7t4StDTuVID_4WCXYSeKmEV6Y2I9iMvv8MqH2Bd7Ah-ru8ceM6lZYADTud2GYGWDDPYKuK0rVdiPN6-8PLM1iXIiWHCR4H/s1600/ALEC+protest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3M5MT10EJUbuQAlZUCOJ6GNqA_LoBwiiDcLkDB8YS_1EVto7t4StDTuVID_4WCXYSeKmEV6Y2I9iMvv8MqH2Bd7Ah-ru8ceM6lZYADTud2GYGWDDPYKuK0rVdiPN6-8PLM1iXIiWHCR4H/s400/ALEC+protest.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Chicago protest against ALEC yesterday. </td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://alecexposed.org/" rel="nofollow">ALEC</a> can't possibly be happy with the news coverage generated by the anti-ALEC protests in Chicago yesterday and on Monday. The organization was depicted as a bunch of corporate lobbyists peddling their influence with state lawmakers to outsource education, freeze the minimum wage and weaken environmental and workers' rights.<br /><br />Chicago police estimate 3,700 people showed up yesterday at the luxurious Palmer House to tell state lawmakers and their corporate owners that Chicago is a union town and they weren't welcome.<br /><br />ALEC, if you're new to this, is the American Legislative Exchange Council, a front group for corporations who wine and dine state lawmakers, take them on posh vacations, contribute to their political campaigns and hand them ready-made anti-worker, billionaire-empowerment legislation. The state lawmakers' visit to Chicago was, ahem, subsidized by ALEC.<br /><br />ALEC came across as a group of corporate lobbyists  cut and outsource education, freeze the minimum wage, weaken environmental and workers' rights<br /><br />ALEC "advocates cuts to education and freezing the minimum wage," reported <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=c98ffa7a-0f87-404b-8891-a2a79961de34" rel="nofollow">CLTV</a>. <br /><br />ALEC may have broken the law in its evolution to a "right-wing ideological wrecking crew," writes <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/175646/alecs-illegal-past#axzz2bTfIgKuQ" rel="nofollow">The Nation</a>.<br /><br />Protesters charge that "policymakers are listening too much to businesses who are footing the bill for the conference," reports <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=7ed84804-89e7-47fb-a983-93205cd6d859" rel="nofollow">WMAQ</a>.<br /><br />"ALEC is an organization of corporate lobbyists (ouch) and mostly Republican lawmakers," reported <a href="http://mms.tveyes.com/PlaybackPortal.aspx?SavedEditID=2686b724-ec6b-4063-a092-128bdd276759" rel="nofollow">WBBM</a>. "Protesters contend it writes legislation at the expense of the environment and workers' rights."<br /><br />A college professor, Julie Mead, was interviewed on<a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10548" rel="nofollow"> The Real News</a> saying, "K12 Inc. is the nation's largest provider of online for-profit schools. And as one of the top sponsors of the ALEC meeting, it's allying itself with the tobacco industry and with the oil industry and with the pharmaceutical industry, all of which are not something you would normally associate with good educational outcomes, not the sort of thing that you would typically expect of a school that is looking out primarily for kids."<br /><br />"Labor vs. Lobbyists," was how <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/08/07/alec_convention_protests_labor_vs_lobbyists/singleton/" rel="nofollow">Salon</a> described it.<br /><br />Funny, that's not how ALEC describes itself...<br /><br /><br />

Chicago protest paints unflattering portrait of ALEC

The Chicago protest against ALEC yesterday.  ALEC can't possibly be happy with the news coverage generated by the anti-ALEC protests in...

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Book Review: The Shape of Things that Work

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1490904557"><b><i>The Shape of Things that Work: The Fourth Architecture</i></b></a> by Curtis B. Wayne<br />CreateSpace, 2013<br />Paperback, 102 pages<br /><br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg41q4l2G8PYXtgvnmqZ_2f0Qij4OPWOLApgwBia9m9LyeSeme0feEiPPlc-kk6lWY8JBxTLkY6JWtCls9OwBb5KeAaiGLCEGxlQZydy5LaPoIT36kOtqRd9FzMIRi4VorrEIwjRIfkPiER/s1600/cbwayne.jpg" /><br /><br />In the title of New York City-based architect and <a href="http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/18-Burning-Down-The-House">radio host Curtis B. Wayne</a>'s slim treatise, two words stand out as important: "shape" and "work." Respectively these bring to mind two books: Lance Hosey's fairly recent <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2012/08/13/the-shape-of-green/"><i>The Shape of Green</i></a> and Witold Rybczynski's forthcoming <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374211744/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374211744&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20"><i>How Architecture Works</i></a>. The former argues that there is a relationship between form and performance in green buildings, while the latter focuses on the formal attributes of architecture. Without addressing these two books directly, Wayne straddles them, arguing that what he calls "the fourth architecture" should have particular shapes (or forms or materials, whatever the case may be) by focusing on the basics of architectural form, much as Rybczynski does in his book.<br /><br />Wayne is railing against form for the sake of form, epitomized most vehemently in the book by Zaha Hadid, but also by Frank Gehry and other big names here and there. The author does not give the fourth architecture a name like the first three architectures—Roman, Gothic, Modern—but he defines it as serving "both beauty <i>and</i> utility." (emphasis in the original) Most architects would surely assert that they do the same, designing buildings that balance these concerns without resembling the flashy and expensive ones of Hadid and her few "starchitect" contemporaries. But the popularity of her shape-making (her firm has 400 employees and a catalog of over 950 projects, <a href="http://highrisefacilities.com/new-renderings-revealed-for-zaha-hadids-miami-high-rise/">according to one source</a>) with both architects and clients means she is a force to be countered, at least in Wayne's book, and a return to basics is the way to do it.<br /><br />After some exposition, definitions, and "scholarly stuff," Wayne devotes the bulk of the book to four architectural elements: wall, roof, window, and door. There is plenty of overlap and interrelationships between these building blocks of architecture, so each chapter has the same; it's no surprise that "The Wall" chapter is longest, coming first and therefore rolling some discussion on the other elements within. It's clear from Wayne's presentation and discussion that he prefers architecture that thoughtfully builds upon its own history, regardless of style. For example, solid walls with windows are preferred over expansive glass curtain walls, except when the latter is layered with louvers that shields the summer sun's direct rays while bouncing them onto the ceiling for illumination. This does not mean windows are a certain size and location, but that architects consider them in terms of what they do—admitting light and air, framing views, etc.<br /><br />There isn't one preferred tactic or style in the book. Rather, Wayne argues for a re-orientation of architecture away from distractions of formal excess and toward sensible architecture that is cognizant of our current situation. This means that most practicing architects will be familiar with what Wayne is saying, though he says things in a way that is intelligent <i>and</i> entertaining. Therefore the book's ideal target audience are the students and young architects in love with the "exciting" buildings of Hadid, Gehry, and the like—these architects have their (small) place, but they should hardly be emulated at a time of economic and social inequality, environmental destruction, and political uncertainty.<br /><br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1490904557/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1490904557&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

Book Review: The Shape of Things that Work

The Shape of Things that Work: The Fourth Architecture by Curtis B. Wayne CreateSpace, 2013 Paperback, 102 pages In the title of New York C...

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Phillip Phillips Drops out of BillBoard Top 50 albums again, but still leads American Idol Winners

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq4s_KOTHVXQ3piKIXtS0u_K5Rz0yaZcy9cw_y77W51mTcJ11Ss5sXDHE0DIT5TbrqZhyGjCvFtvInoAaiSW91-IZM_hFffUeMB1eDP-Krktyjk-M0f6yQBGapCUaRMktqViyBwuSCtHL/s1600/bb200-20130809.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdq4s_KOTHVXQ3piKIXtS0u_K5Rz0yaZcy9cw_y77W51mTcJ11Ss5sXDHE0DIT5TbrqZhyGjCvFtvInoAaiSW91-IZM_hFffUeMB1eDP-Krktyjk-M0f6yQBGapCUaRMktqViyBwuSCtHL/s400/bb200-20130809.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phillip = lt blue, Carrie = black, Kelly - purple, Fantasia = green </td></tr></tbody></table>After a very nice five week stint back in the Top 50 albums in the country, Phillip Phillips sees his debut album, "The World From the Side of the Moon" fall from #33 last week to <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=3" target="_blank">#61 this week</a>. This marks its 37th week in the top 100 with #76 being his worst position to date. For a nine month old release it is showing some very strong legs with his latest single "Gone, Gone, Gone" still garnering strong radio support. (Plus being #61 puts it one the <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=3" target="_blank">top of the page</a> on BillBoard.com!) The other three American Idol winners on the BillBoard chart are the same three ladies for the past few months. Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" remains among the Top 100 for its 66th week, now at <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=4" target="_blank">#86 from #80</a> last week, and again keeping her company nearby is Kelly Clarkson's "Greatest Hits: Chapter One" barely hanging in the <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=4" target="_blank">Top 100 at #98</a> (from #91 last week) on its 37th week as well. Fantasia's "Side Effects of You" lands just outside the Top 100 again, only falling two places from last weeks #104 to land at <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200?page=5" target="_blank">#106</a> in its 15th week. Her total sales are now at 239K as posted here on <a href="http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=95808&start=300">ukmix.org</a>. In fact using the <a href="http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=87406&start=675">end of year numbers for 2012</a>, I can also find the total sales for the other three Idols on the chart:<br /><br />Phillip = 533,194 (2012) + 427,975 (2013) = 961,169<br />Carrie = 1,202,779 (2012) + 301,538 (2013) = 1,504,317<br />Kelly = 195,890 (2012) + 277,913 (2013) = 473,803<br /><br />So Phillip continues to inch towards a million in sales, Carrie just broke through 1.5 million point and Kelly is on the verge of another half million selling album with a greatest hits compilation. Not too bad.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0yf2g6gkRVSQRayPE63W_XEzxW0vUs-UxhOXgfhDGLxfcM-8JsYBEB-uZSjVxtNB9f7ED67io0Co6vbALbMBqNNW9W4BLqtFzmVoq2EkreplcjabrNUSoHXaXVLsQ9AVNDF06RmHq3cw/s1600/leedewyze-albumcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB0yf2g6gkRVSQRayPE63W_XEzxW0vUs-UxhOXgfhDGLxfcM-8JsYBEB-uZSjVxtNB9f7ED67io0Co6vbALbMBqNNW9W4BLqtFzmVoq2EkreplcjabrNUSoHXaXVLsQ9AVNDF06RmHq3cw/s320/leedewyze-albumcover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Another American Idol winner releases a new album in a couple weeks, with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Frames-Deluxe-Lee-Dewyze/dp/B00DUGPDDA">Lee DeWyze's, "Frames"</a> being released on August 20. I do not believe anybody thinks it will be a huge seller, but it is good to see him releasing a second album of his own music. The interesting releases will be in October, when Candice Glover's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Music-Speaks-Candice-Glover/dp/B00CTX6EUG">"Music Speaks"</a> is released on October 8, and then Scotty McCreery's third album (second full country album, if you dismiss his gold selling Christmas album) on <a href="http://www.mjsbigblog.com/scotty-mccreery-to-release-sophomore-album-on-october-15-2013.htm">October 15</a>. Hopefully Interscope will be giving Candice some serious promotion (and a new single soon?) since she will need it to move many albums. On the other hand, UMG Nashville is sure to push their platinum and gold selling young star, since they already know he has a large fan base and is a proven money maker. And if they do not, perhaps Bojangles will, since he helps them sell a lot of chicken!     <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/thzG9NKQcd0" width="560"></iframe>

Phillip Phillips Drops out of BillBoard Top 50 albums again, but still leads American Idol Winners

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New superintendent named for Blue Ridge Parkway

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvVY5xdZm5NFoIGG4uAIBgUZbsLHjNCkuuEQ5vl_soyCK6yhmtMUmH9umWlSBgvBPAlRta8l2a9dzxuPIhgoJ656akq331V1-DaDLznjIHB0ys8i6LxxHlJAJmqbwNCZIaxKDz8YoqdIp/s1600/41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOvVY5xdZm5NFoIGG4uAIBgUZbsLHjNCkuuEQ5vl_soyCK6yhmtMUmH9umWlSBgvBPAlRta8l2a9dzxuPIhgoJ656akq331V1-DaDLznjIHB0ys8i6LxxHlJAJmqbwNCZIaxKDz8YoqdIp/s400/41.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Mark Woods, 53, has been named the new superintendent of the Blue Ridge Parkway, according to Thursday's <a href="http://www.roanoke.com//news/2137308-10/new-leader-named-for-blue-ridge-parkway.html"><i>Roanoke Times</i></a>. A long-time veteran of the National Park Service, the <i>Times</i> noted that his leadership comes at a rocky time in Park history:<br /><blockquote>Woods takes over during a precarious time in the parkway’s 78-year history. The parkway has a $400 million backlog of maintenance projects. The federal budget sequester forced automatic 5 percent cuts, which amounted to a $740,000 reduction. Several sites along the parkway were forced to close this year, including Roanoke Mountain Campground, the Rocky Knob Visitor Center and the Smart View picnic area.</blockquote>Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />Milepost 0 of Blue Ridge Parkway<br />Afton, Virginia

Afton Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge Parkway BRP Mark Woods National Park Service new superintendent North Carolina Virginia New superintendent named for Blue Ridge Parkway

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Bevliq + KickStarter60

Good Friday Morning everyone!!!  I am so glad it is the end of the week FINALLY.  I won't be doing any posts over the weekend as I will be out of town.  So, you get a 2 day break from me!!  YAY!!!! <br /><br />I officially it 30,000 Views on my blog.  That is NUTS but exciting.  I can't wait to hit 50,000 - Celebrate that and 50 pounds lost hopefully!!!<br /><br />Today, my "virtual dietitian" through KickStarter60 did an online blog / short interview about how the program is working for me and my challenges.  As you all know, diet and exercise is EXTREMELY important when taking Belviq.  Belviq is not the simple fix alone.  If you aren't willing to change your diet, once you lose weight, you will gain it all back from the poor eating habits. <br /><br />Many out there talk about Belviq + Phen combination.  I hear a lot about it.  But, I do not here where there is a dietary adjustment or change while on Belviq.  If you are like me, after years of eating bad (almost a lifetime), your brain is programmed for those exact foods.  So, it's important to partner up with either a Nutritionist and/or Dietitian to make sure you are getting the right foods in the right proportions.  Belviq can make your eating almost non-existent but that isn't the healthiest for your body - you still have to eat! <br /><br />So, consider KickStarter60 as a compliment to Belviq.  Belviq + KickStarter60 will keep you on the right path to a healthier lifestyle.  Trust me, KickStarter60 is not expensive at all - VERY affordable.  Meal planning and daily emails to help you think about your eating options.  Plus, Mindy is so incredibly nice.  I think you would just love her! :)<br /><br />Read the interview here:<br /><a href="http://kickstarter60.com/ellie-wenker-kick-starts-weight-loss-interview/#comment-34">http://kickstarter60.com/ellie-wenker-kick-starts-weight-loss-interview/#comment-34</a><br /><br /><br />At the top of my blog, you will see the KickStarter60 banner.  Just click on it and go to her website and check it out!<br /><br />xoxox<br />Ellie

Bevliq + KickStarter60

Good Friday Morning everyone!!!  I am so glad it is the end of the week FINALLY.  I won't be doing any posts over the weekend as I will ...

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The Benefits Of An Active Lifestyle As Outlined By A Personal Trainer Sunnyvale

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patricia Neill</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Sunnyvale is one of the cities at Silicon Valley in the bay area of San Francisco. It's usually sunny with cold winds throughout the year with temperatures not reaching zero degrees at winter season. It's beneficial to have an active lifestyle in this city, particularly since the weather at Sunnyvale is conducive for outdoor or indoor exercises. Since it's within the San Francisco bay area, the abundance of food that's offered in various restaurants is quite tempting. It's so easy to indulge on good food and wine. This is why a personal trainer Sunnyvale is going to encourage you to get active and reap the rewards of getting involved in a strenuous physical activity.<br /> <br /> Healthier heart<br /> <br /> When you increase your heart rate through an intense exercise, you pump more blood into your heart. This means that more oxygen is delivered to it, thereby making it work harder. As you perform an intense exercise, you lower your chances of contracting a fatal heart disease or stroke. Regular exercise lowers your bad cholesterol and increases the good cholesterol.<br /> <br /> Numerous medical studies have scientifically proven that clogged cholesterols in your arteries are the primary cause of a stroke or heart attack. A personal trainer Sunnyvale would also tell you that regular exercise causes your arteries to expand and get flexible, thereby improving your blood circulation and helping you maintain a normal blood pressure.<br /> <br /> Since a personal trainer has the adequate knowledge in terms of the right amount of exercise to be performed, he can guide you along the way to avoid any accidents or detect warning signs of over-exertion from exercise.<br /> <br /> Stronger muscles and bones<br /> <br /> If you exercise regularly, your muscles become stronger and firmer. You will also develop more muscle mass, causing your metabolism to get faster. More muscle mass means having a higher rate of metabolism. If you are trying to lose weight, your goal is to increase your metabolism so your body burns more calories even at rest.<br /> <br /> Moreover, regular exercise makes your bones stronger and reduces the chances of developing osteoarthritis and other bone related diseases. Hire a personal trainer Sunnyvale to assist you in your exercise program.<br /> <br /> Self-confidence<br /> <br /> Regular exercise boosts the levels of endorphin and serotonin in your blood. These two chemicals are responsible for elevating your mood and bringing out a sunnier disposition in you.<br /> <br /> As you become fitter, you also become more confident with the way you look. You have less or no flab at all, your skin becomes radiant, and you become more energetic. In turn, you exude more confidence and with a happier disposition all because of a regular exercise.<br /> <br /> Improved sex life<br /> <br /> A personal trainer Sunnyvale can advise you to get active for an improved sex life. Your stamina is strengthened through workout and it also increases your sex drive due to increased levels of sex hormones.<br /> <br /> Go out and be active. Seek the help of a personal trainer Sunnyvale for a happier and healthier you.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Becoming in great condition by using the help of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-sunnyvale/">Personal Trainer Sunnyvale</a> not just boosts your own entire body but furthermore your health as well. The benefits that one can get from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-camarillo/">Personal Trainer Camarillo</a> are limitless.</div><br /> </div><br />

The Benefits Of An Active Lifestyle As Outlined By A Personal Trainer Sunnyvale

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Kettlebell workouts are the secret to enjopyable weight loss

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Chris Rivers</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Kettlebell workouts are a great way to get fit, tone up, and lose that unwanted fat belly, but one thing that really stands out and makes kettlebells the fastest growing workout routine around today is that this one piece of equipment is so versatile.<br /> <br /> If you have been stuck in the same workout routine for years now and you are no longer feeling the effect of the work out, then it is time for change. If you are looking for something that will challenge every muscle in your body and improve your fitness then you need to purchase some kettlebells. This training can bring back life into your normal kettlebell workout routines.<br /> <br /> This training involves you holding the Kettlebell in both hands and does different swings presses and pulling motions. Some of these exercises are swings, Turkish get ups, figure 8, kettlebell high pull, overhead cross, one Arm Swing, snatch to name a few.<br /> <br /> A great benefit of this type of training and one of its most appealing features is that it's very cheap to get started off training. You're never going to have to break the bank to get in shape again. Kettlebells can be bought from around 15 for an 8kg for women and around 28 for a 16kg for men; and these weights are genuinely considered great starter weights as they are not to heavy or to light.<br /> <br /> Such workouts are also recommended for rehab patients. This is because the workouts are helpful in increasing the range of motion and in lowering the risk of developing or acquiring injuries. These workouts are also beneficial to those with injuries, as it can help speed up their process of recovery. Kettle bell exercises are simpler and it does not require too many equipment. However, you need to put on the right workout clothes to feel more comfortable while working out. Once you get used to working out with light to medium kettlebells, it will now be a lot easier for you to move on with heavier weights.<br /> <br /> You don't have to limit yourself to the same old boring workouts like before if you get a kettlebell, you can at last enjoy getting fit and looking good for minimal outlay but being assured of ultimate results.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>If you want to get fitter, shed weight and gain amazing human strength you really need to be doing <a href="http://www.ultimatekettlebellworkoutroutines.com">kettlebell workouts</a></div><br /> </div><br />

Kettlebell workouts are the secret to enjopyable weight loss

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Programs Like Vive Weight Loss Offer Good Ideas

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Roxy Albright</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Weight control programs like unto Vive weight loss employ various useful solutions to approach weight loss. Different strategies could be learned from programs like Vive weight loss without actually paying to be a member of them. Those striving to achieve the weight loss Salt Lake City citizens frequently need will find that the world is full of a myriad of ideas, strategies, and products for losing weight. They could find so many that it could be difficult for them to know where to begin. Some get the support they need from joining programs like Vive, while others might not gain as much from that advice and support. This short post will cover a few of the great ideas diet programs utilize.<br /> <br /> First, we will talk about how a personal exercise and dieting plan is part of many successful weight loss ventures. Further, we'll look into how analysis of every individual's anatomy may be a key to success in weight loss programs such as Vive weight loss. Finally, we will explore how getting the right support and advice can be extremely helpful.<br /> <br /> As you know, we're all different. Somebody who only needs to lose a couple of pounds and a person who is morbidly obese will likely need to approach this subject very differently. Setting goals is a wise idea to get the specific weight loss Salt Lake City dwellers need. But all of us likely need to create specific individual goals. For this reason, it's important to consider personal needs and desires at the start of the process. A lot of people aspire to just jump right into a program and have it succeed for them just like it did for someone else. Customizing diet and exercise plans for individual needs is ideal.<br /> <br /> Weight loss programs like Vive weight loss or others frequently promote beginning with obtaining measures of the state of the body. Combined with weight, it is also potentially beneficial to know things like body-fat percentage. Indicators such as this can provide a clue to you regarding just how you have to work. Your body mass index (also called BMI) could be another measure of the body composition you might want to know.<br /> <br /> Programs like Vive weight loss and others really can provide a lot of great help. Accountability is critical for many people in getting healthier. If you don't have anyone to keep in touch with about improvement or to ask for help, you might end up quitting your efforts or even harming yourself. As you progress, having somebody coach you and encourage you is generally very beneficial. Choosing a good work out partner or another source for accountability and guidance, like a program coach, is a wise idea.<br /> <br /> Many of the methods programs have clients utilize may be helpful for those seeking the weight loss Salt Lake City residents may want, but programs like Vive weight loss and others might not be for everyone who wants to lose weight.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Learn more about <a href='http://www.elase.com/utah/vive-weight-loss'>vive weight loss</a>. Stop by Lucy Cho's site where you can find out all about this and options like <a href='http://www.elase.com/utah/lip-augmentation'>lip injections Utah</a> and what they can do for you.</div><br /> </div><br />

Programs Like Vive Weight Loss Offer Good Ideas

By Roxy Albright Weight control programs like unto Vive weight loss employ various useful solutions to approach weight loss. Different s...

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