Sunday, November 11, 2012

Competition Reveals ?Prettiest Painted Places in America? ? The ...

If you want to see the prettiest painted communities in America, you?re going to need a lot of time, several tanks of gas, and a state-of-the-art GPS.? The Paint Quality Institute has identified the nation?s 12 most beautifully painted neighborhoods and towns, and many are little known and far from the beaten path.

Naming of the 12 ?Prettiest Painted Places in America? comes after a rigorous four-month search by the Paint Quality Institute that involved thousands of contacts with state tourism departments, convention and visitors? bureaus, chambers of commerce and Main Street groups, all of whom were invited to nominate communities.

The effort produced nearly 200 colorful nominees from 48 states and the District of Columbia that submitted color images of beautifully painted homes, buildings and exterior murals.? A panel of judges with expertise in paint and exterior color schemes reviewed the entries and named two winners from each of six different geographic areas:

In the Northeast Region, the winners were Brookville, Pennsylvania and Downtown Frederick, Maryland.? Brookville is a beautiful historic western Pennsylvania town with hundreds of artfully painted Victorian homes and buildings.? Downtown Frederick?s Main Street area, home to a vibrant arts community, has beautifully painted architecture dating to the 1700s.

The Southeast Region winners were Historic Downtown Smithfield, Virginia and Key West, Florida.? The former is a quaint river town with many historic structures ranging in style from Colonial to Federal to Victorian.? Key West, southernmost of the Florida Keys, has brightly painted ?conch? homes and ?shotgun-style? cottages constructed in the 1800s by shipbuilder-carpenters.

Winners in the North Central Region were Bay View Association, Michigan and Stillwater, Minnesota.? Bay View, an 1800s Methodist camp meeting community of more than 400 small cottages, is now a charming and colorful Victorian resort designated a National Historic Landmark.? Stillwater has colorful Victorian mansions built by lumber barons and a Main Street listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In the South Central Region, the winners were Old Arabi Neighborhood, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana and Lafayette Square, St. Louis, Missouri.? The former, located just five miles from New Orleans? French Quarter, has two historic districts full of beautifully painted structures.? Lafayette Square is an elegant urban neighborhood comprised of stately Victorian-era homes with fine painted detailing.

The Northwest Region winners were The Victorian Village of Ferndale, California and Eureka, California.? Ferndale has a nationally recognized historic business district with beautifully detailed commercial buildings and Victorian homes.? Eureka is a port city 100 miles south of the Oregon border with fantastic Victorian homes built by lumber magnates.

Winners in the Southwest Region were Tubac, Arizona and Manhattan Beach, California. Established in 1752 as a Spanish fort, Tubac is an exquisite, brightly painted town with more than 100 galleries and businesses lining its meandering streets.? Manhattan Beach is a colorful coastal community near Los Angeles where the beautiful landscape is punctuated with artful, individualistic paint color.

In addition to the 12 winners, nine other places were cited as having ?exceptional merit?, meaning they were ?just too pretty to go without recognition,? according to Debbie Zimmer, paint and color expert for the Paint Quality Institute.? They are:? Cape May, New Jersey;? Crested Butte, Colorado;? Old Louisville, Kentucky;? Ottawa and Franklin County, Kansas;? Owego Historic District, New York;? Paducah, Kentucky;? Historic Park City, Utah;? Richmond, Indiana;? and Original Townsite Historic District, Victoria, Texas.

?The truth is, we had so many worthy nominees that we could have presented many more awards,? said Zimmer.? ?The field of entries in this year?s competition was truly exceptional, and selecting just a dozen winners and only nine exceptional merit communities was daunting.?

This is the third time the Paint Quality Institute has conducted a search for the prettiest painted places in America.? It held the first competition in the 1990s, and another in year 2000.

The purpose of the competition is to give recognition to places that use paint to express pride in their communities, and highlight how an attractive exterior paint treatment can enhance the curb appeal of virtually any home, building, or exterior structure.

?We hope that the exquisite exteriors from these ?prettiest painted places? will inspire others to beautify their properties with exterior paint,? said Zimmer.? ?Painting is one of the most effective ? and cost effective ? ways to add color and style to our surroundings.?

For a glimpse of the 12 Prettiest Painted Places in America, visit the Paint Quality Institute website at http://blog.paintquality.com/ppp/

Source: http://www.theresident.com/2012/11/09/competition-reveals-prettiest-painted-places-in-america/

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Video: CIA Dir. Resigns Due to Extra-Marital Affair: NBC

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Marshall Fine: Movie Review: A Royal Affair

Enlightenment, as we learned this week, is a two-way street. Or, as Dorothy Parker once said, you can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Lest you think that we are living in a unique period in history -- with half the country believing in angels but not in man-made climate change -- it was ever thus. That's one of the takeaways from Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair, opening today in limited release, a lush romantic drama set in 18th-century Denmark.

Our guide to this seemingly benighted time is Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), a Welsh noblewoman who is a distant cousin of the Danish king, Christian VII (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard). She is chosen to be his bride and queen, arriving in Copenhagen to discover that he's a fatuous dandy (who may have actual mental problems), uninterested in performing his husbandly duties because he's too busy shagging courtesans. "It's unfashionable to love one's wife," he sniffs.

Still, his advisers -- who mostly come from the church -- suggest strongly that he have it off with Caroline in order to produce an heir. But that's about it. So she's ripe for companionship when a German doctor, Struensee (Mads Mikkelsen), turns up at court, the friend of one of the king's nobles. He befriends both king and queen, flattering the king and reminding him that, in fact, he runs the country, not his determinedly anti-science-and-enlightenment council or his mother, the dowager queen.

The council runs the country, outvoting the king in meetings that leave Christian bored and frustrated with government. But Struensee points out that, well, he's the king -- so he can disband the council and make decisions himself.

He and the king become pals, playmates, co-conspirators in running the country. Struensee is decidedly progressive, aware of and happy to promulgate the ideas of the enlightenment that are sweeping other parts of Germany. Even as he becomes the king's most influential adviser, practically running the country himself, he's also falling for the queen -- and falling into her bed.

It is, briefly, the best of all possible worlds: Struensee and the king are dragging the country out of the Dark Ages, cleaning the sewers, reducing poverty, improving public health. But the disenfranchised members of the council don't take losing power lightly. The hell with the greater good, if the right people aren't in charge: Sound familiar?

Arcel keeps the melodrama to a minimum, without losing the drama. Mikkelsen plays Struensee as a pragmatic man who succumbs to romance, rather than passion. He genuinely falls for Catherine and her intelligence, as well as her beauty. Vikander plays Catherine as a bright woman caught in a world of dolts, who finds the one bright bulb in her circle. Folsgaard's Christian is an adult brat, easily led for good or ill.

A Royal Affair looks sumptuous and contains meaty, provocative ideas. It's a feast of a film, one that will send you scurrying for background on the real people behind this true story.

Find more reviews, interviews and commentary on my website.

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Tatsunoko VS Capcom to disappear from the shelves | Video Game ...

Published: 08 November 2012 2:27 AM UTC

Posted in: News, Nintendo News

Tags: batsu, capcom, casshan, crossover, expired rights, ken the eagle, ryu, tatsunoko, Wii

If you have waited up until now to grab a copy of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars, the Capcom Wii fighting game starring Tatsunoko Productions characters like Ken the Eagle, Cashan, Hurrican Polimar and Capcom?s favorites like Ryu, Megaman and many more, you better?hurry up: Capcom won?t send new shipments to stores.

Tatsunoko VS Capcom can be considered as a spin-off of the Vs series since it was the only game not featuring Marvel characters like the other entries at that time, not counting the Capcom Vs Snk games. The game was released on December 2008 and it marked the resurgence of the VS series which seemed to be dead after Capcom lost the Marvel characters rights: the choice on Tatsunoko Production was made for its popularity in both Japan and in West, even though a release overseas seeemed unlikely at the time of the japanese release due to the rights of the Tatsunoko characters.
Gameplay wise it?s the standard VS gameplay style: players choose 2 characters each that can be freely swapped during the fight, can perform assist attacks when inactive and unleash powerful combination attacks. The Capcom lineup in the game was also very diverse: except for Ryu and Chun-Li, all the other characters never appeared in a crossover fighting game before.

It happened in the past and it?s happening again: the reason why Capcom won?t send new shipments is because the deal with Tatsunoko Production expired so Capcom don?t have the rights of half the playable cast. The game was already quite hard to find new so if you find a copy in a store, grab it as soon as you can!

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Friday, November 9, 2012

A Reminder (talking-points-memo)

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Overselling Capabilities = Bad Business - Blogging4Jobs

A Birthday and a VHS Tape

In 1988, in celebration of my daughter?s first birthday, we had a party at our house. Grandparents were in attendance along with several aunts & uncles and some dear family friends. We all gathered in my small 900 square foot house; I felt so lucky to live by family that could share in this special event. My first pregnancy had been?perfect?and my firstborn had just finished a?perfect fist year.?This celebration was real, for I felt so fortunate.

Jerry, one of the friend?s invited, had a video camera and he offered to film the event so that we might share it with a Grandpa and Grandma who lived far away. I was delighted by his sweet offer for video cameras were few and far between in those days. No such thing as a $100 Flip camera back then; Jerry?s camera had cost several thousand dollars. At twenty-four years old, I was still very naive about the world, but so very caught up in my wonderful little home life and precious little family.

A week or so later, Jerry showed up at my door, video camera in hand. He was filming as I answered the door, my little girl popped her head around from behind my leg and kept a shy distance. He was bringing me the tape from the party with this little extra added on at the end. As he finished up with a final edit and handed over a tape that would be watched over and over again for many years, I searched through the yellow pages to find a local business that could make a second copy of this precious tape ? one we could keep and another we could send from our Indiana home to a California Grandpa. A camera shop close by advertised VHS copying capabilities and I stopped in with my tape that very day.

Bad Business

The shop owner assured me they could copy the tape in no time and that they would call when it was ready. I left my?so-very valuable?tape there and went on with my daily activities. At the end of week one, I called to inquire about the tapes, only to get an answering service. In the middle of week two, I called again, speaking with an employee who said he didn?t know anything about it. At the end of that week, I called once more, finally reaching the owner who claimed that it had been a difficult job and that it was not ready yet. The VHS tape was only 56 minutes long.

In the middle of week three, I showed up at the shop ? the owner failed to remember me. I reminded him of my?so-very valuable?tape and he asked me to return at the end of the week, which I did. My anger and frustration at this point was very real. When I arrived at the end of the week, I was prepared to firmly share my disappointment?after?I received my two tapes. As he handed over the invoice and I recognized the charge to be three times what he had originally quoted, I was shocked. I declared my dismay at the time taking three times as long, and?now?the charge was three times as much. He just looked at me blankly and said, ?This equipment is expensive, do you want the tapes or not??

Of course, I paid, for the ransom had been set. As I left the store, I was so angry that I stated, loudly, that I would make sure that all of my friends and family would know about this ? they would know that customer service and value were not offered at his camera shop. He just told me to please leave and never come back. ?Gladly,? I fumed. Within a year, this shop had closed; it had been a family run business for many, many years. But video was new and in an effort to keep up with what the demands of customers were, this small camera shop had over sold their capabilities and under served their customers. They had taken the low road?

The High Road Must Be That Long and Winding Road

Overselling capabilities is a familiar lie to many of us. ?Truth in advertising seems to be a myth these days. ?We meet it daily in our work and often in our home lives. ?I value what I offer ? whether it is a pot roast for my family or a press release for my boss. ?If we do not place real value in our offering, it must be very easy to oversell it. ?The understanding of ?true value? is lost.
And that is too bad, because?the high road has a much better view and people always come back for more.

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

HBT: D-backs are trying to trade Upton again

Shortly after taking over as Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers made headlines for saying he?d be open to trading Justin Upton for the right package.

Two years later Upton remains in Arizona, but Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports that the Diamondbacks ?are trying to trade? him following a disappointing season in which Upton saw his OPS drop 113 points compared to 2011.

Just last month owner Ken Kendrick said that the Diamondbacks were ?highly unlikely? to trade Upton, but according to Rosenthal ?the team is again engaged in active discussions.?

Rosenthal speculates that the Rangers could be a potential fit, mentioning shortstop Elvis Andrus by name. Last season Upton had the ability to block trades to the Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, and Indians, but a source told Rosenthal that the list has since changed.

Upton is set to earn $9.75 million in 2013, $14.25 million in 2014, and $14.5 million in 2015. He?s still just 25 years old and one season removed from finishing fourth in the MVP balloting, but the Diamondbacks are pretty deep in outfielders thanks in part to the emergence of top prospect Adam Eaton and clearly have doubts about the former No. 1 overall pick?s ability to develop into a superstar.

Or maybe Towers just likes keeping Upton on his toes constantly.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/07/diamondbacks-are-trying-to-trade-justin-upton-again/related/

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Help page provides further evidence for Google Wallet card

Android CentralScreenshots from a leaked Google Wallet app emerged last week, suggesting that Google Wallet may be headed to your real, actual wallet in the form of a physical payment card. This card, it seems, might be linked to your Google Wallet account, and as such, your associated payment cards.

Today further evidence has emerged suggesting the Google Wallet card might soon become a reality. The Google Wallet help page was briefly updated with references to the card and devices which will be compatible with it.

There's still no info as to when this card might be arriving, or which countries it'll be available in (though U.S.-only is a good bet). But the fact that help pages are being prepared suggest the launch might occur sooner rather than later.

Update: Seems all references to the Google Wallet card on the page in question have been pulled.

Source: TechCrunch, Google Wallet Help



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