There's been a veil of mystery surrounding PlayStation Home since it was announced at GDC in 2007. Now, you have a chance to get in on the Sony project that has you create an avatar and use the PlayStation Network in a virtual, social networking space.
To apply for the PlayStation Home closed beta, all you need to do is download the PlayStation Home theme that will go live on the PSN today, according to Home Director Jack Buser on the Official PlayStation Blog.
"By downloading the theme, users are submitting an application to join the PlayStation Home Beta test community," Buser wrote. "We will be using a variety of criteria including activity on the PlayStation Network to determine eligibility for the Beta community. Existing beta testers have automatically qualified to be part of the expanded beta." In Europe, Sony's "directly targeting consumers who have been most active on PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store" via e-mail.
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With the debate of feminism revived by Sarah Palin's recent claim that she's one of them, Phyllis Schlafly is jumping in with a new book that suggests the 1960s "women's revolution" movement is ruining women and the country. Written with her niece Suzanne Venker, The Flipside of Feminism provides readers with a new view of women in America.
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As Schlafly's niece, Venker grew up seeing an alternative view to mainstream feminists views on TV and in the media. Now as a mother in Missouri, she's trying to help her aunt highlight what conservatives feel is wrong with feminism and to build a new understanding between men and women.
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From the book and our recent interview, Whispers has pulled this list:
Five Ways That Feminism Has Ruined America
1. It hurt marriage. Women want to wait so that they can keep their identities longer and men are finding easy sex, taking away a big reason for marriage.
2. Undermines child rearing. More kids are in childcare where discipline is lax resulting in a "epidemic" of bad kids, childhood obesity, and bullies.
3. Two-income trap. With both husband and wife working it's hard to live without life's luxuries.
4. Undermines college sports. Title IX has ended many male-only sports at some colleges.
5. Emasculates men. It's better to be a wuss than speak up or mouth off and face charges of harassment or chauvinism.


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By Peter Knegt | Indiewire January 28, 2011 at 7:54AM
New Video has acquired rights to Sundance doc "The Flaw," directed by British filmmaker David Sington ("In The Shadow of the Moon"). It will be released under New Video's Docurama Films brand later this year.
Full release below:
NEW VIDEO ACQUIRES DAVID SINGTON'S 2011 SUNDANCE ENTRY, "THE FLAW," FOR MULTI-PLATFORM RELEASE
New York, NY - January 27, 2011 - New Video, a leading independent film and TV distributor, announced today that the Company has acquired THE FLAW (www.theflawmovie.com) for release across DVD, Cable VOD and digital distribution platforms, with plans for a limited theatrical run.
THE FLAW (www.theflawmovie.com), a new documentary directed by British filmmaker David Sington (In the Shadow of the Moon) made its U.S. premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and will be released under New Video's Docurama Films brand later this year. The film is produced by Christopher Hird (The End of the Line), Luke Johnson, and Stephen Lambert of the film's presenter, Studio Lambert. The film's title was inspired by former U.S. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's acknowledgment that he'd found a flaw in his model of how the world worked, THE FLAW attempts to explain the underlying causes of the crisis in more depth than any documentary to date. The film tells the story of the credit bubble that caused the financial crash. Through interviews with some of the world's leading economists, as well as Wall Street insiders and victims of the crash, the film presents an original and compelling account of the toxic combination of forces that nearly destroyed the world economy.
"THE FLAW delves into one of society's most pressing concerns with precision and intelligence," said Mark Kashden, Vice President, Acquisitions, New Video. "We wanted to be sure David's film reaches the widest possible audience through our multi-platform strategy." "THE FLAW will inform the American public about what really has been happening," said executive producer, Stephen Lambert. "It explores inequality in America and makes the argument that wealthy folk tend to invest in financial assets and create financial bubbles. If wealth is less concentrated, there is investment in more mass consumption, which can build more fundamentally prosperous economies. We're delighted to be working with New Video as they have an unparalleled reputation for getting important independent documentaries to a wide audience."
Within days of its first screening at Sundance, THE FLAW was being discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP Group, the advertising and marketing conglomerate, said in a big plenary session on Wednesday that he was struck by the film's argument and that he believed "concentration of wealth, particularly in the United States, is a big issue." http://bit.ly/f1pwt1
"...a lively, iconoclastic look at the current crisis in capitalism." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "David Sington's intelligent The Flaw." Variety "... the film is very watchable and challenging." Screen International
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About Studio Lambert: Studio Lambert is a fast-growing independent production company based in Los Angeles and London. Chief executive Stephen Lambert is responsible for creating long-running multi-award-winning television programs in Britain and America such as Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire, Faking It, and most recently, the worldwide hit Undercover Boss which launched on CBS in February 2010 to an audience of nearly 40 million viewers.
Studio Lambert specializes in creating and producing non-scripted television programs and feature documentaries for the UK, US and international markets. It launched in Soho, London, in March 2008 and six months later opened a US office in Culver City, CA. It is produces television shows for CBS, Lifetime, VH1, Tru, Style and Travel Channel in the US and Channel 4, ITV and the BBC in the UK.
Studio Lambert's US team is led by Eli Holzman, the former head and co-founder of Miramax Television. Holzman created the award-winning hit Project Runway and also served as president of Ashton Kutcher's Katalyst Films, where he developed and launched Beauty & the Geek".
"The Flaw" is Studio Lambert's first feature documentary.
Dartmouth Films: Dartmouth Films was established in January 2008 to concentrate on making independent documentaries, pioneering new ways of funding and distributing them and encouraging new and emerging talent in the industry. It is run by former stockbroker and journalist Christopher Hird, who has more than twenty five years experience as a television reporter and producer. The Flaw is Hird's third Sundance film - the previous ones being Black Gold (2006) and The End of the Line (2009). Dartmouth Films currently has more than half a dozen feature documentaries in development or production. In June this year it will be releasing in the USA, journalist John Pilger's documentary - The War You Don't See.
Hird is a former chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, was the founding chair of The Channel Four BRITDOC Foundation and is a truste


Europe has an intense and understandable fear of changing national boundaries. But discussions about a land swap between Kosovo and Serbia, which have been in a simmering conflict for two decades, deserve careful support.
This means upending years of conventional thinking in Western foreign policy circles. But the tension between Serbia and Kosovo is a major headache for the Continent that needs to be tackled. It feeds instability on the European Union’s southeastern flank and presents a major obstacle to integrating the Western Balkans into the bloc.
Serbia doesn’t recognize Kosovo’s 2008 independence declaration and officially regards the territory — whose population is mainly ethnic Albanian — as a rebel province. Five EU member countries don’t recognize Kosovo either. Most of them, like Spain, have separatist fears of their own. Russia and China keep Kosovo out of the U.N. and in international limbo.
While the impasse continues, neither country has a realistic hope of joining the EU. Brussels has made clear to Belgrade that it must settle its dispute with Kosovo before it can become an EU member.
There is no solution to the Kosovo conundrum without an agreement both sides genuinely support, and a land swap is the key to such a deal. Kosovo would trade its Serb-majority northern municipalities for Albanian-majority parts of Serbia’s southwest. Serbia would recognize Kosovo and lift its opposition to U.N. membership; Kosovo would commit to retaining protections for medieval Serbian monasteries and its remaining Serb population.
The main objection is that changing a border anywhere threatens borders everywhere in the region.
Why would Serbia agree to a deal like this? Because it represents an acknowledgement that American and European policy toward them has failed. Kosovo broke away under international supervision and on the assumption Serbia would eventually have to recognize its independence and territorial integrity. A land swap lets Serbia say: “You tried to do this without us and it didn’t work.” Admissions like that are potent, especially when countries grapple with emotionally charged issues like history, identity, and territory.
For its part, Kosovo gets to be a full member of the international community and has a clearer path to EU membership. It could immediately join the Council of Europe, bringing its people the protections of the European Court of Human Rights.
Why, then, is there so much opposition? Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week “there are attempts to perhaps talk about borders and we can’t do that.” Carl Bildt, who has been involved in the region for almost 30 years, called the idea “a recipe for geopolitical instability.” (On the other hand, Wolfgang Petritsch, the EU’s main negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks, backs the idea.)
The main objection is that changing a border anywhere threatens borders everywhere in the region. Macedonia has a large ethnic Albanian minority that dominates a swath of territory extending to the outskirts of the capital, Skopje; a breakaway would mean an awful war. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-dominated region routinely threatens to secede. Surely a land swap would embolden them?
Eight years ago, I went to Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the International Crisis Group to research exactly this threat. I and my Albanian and Serb colleagues concluded the risk was real but manageable. Since then, Macedonia has become far more stable, and has a progressive, multiethnic government; NATO membership is possible as early as next year. The country’s Albanian population is pragmatic, and content to live in a state with good prospects of European integration and prosperity.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb Republic is another matter. Its leadership and many of its people really do want to secede. Yet they know it is impossible.
Glance at a map. Their region comprises two halves: a poor, small east along the Serbian border and a larger, richer west abutting Croatia. Joining them is the small self-governing district of Brčko. The Serbs could declare independence tomorrow, but two-thirds or more of their people would be cut off in the west, with no land route to friendly territory. Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitution already gives their region extremely broad autonomy, which would probably be lost in the aftermath of a failed secession.
Many old Balkan hands instinctively recoil from border changes, arguing that they reflect the logic of the horrific ethnic cleansing of the 1990s. Yet those were aggressive acts, and this would be the opposite. Kosovo and Serbia are talking about a mutually beneficial deal, with considerable support among the people who would be most directly affected. It promises to bring some genuine good will, a quality sorely lacking in the region.
Marko Prelec is professor of practice in the School of Public Policy at the Central European University.


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DaiShon Neal: U-M made mistake in my recruitment
DaiShon Neal, a three-star recruit from Omaha, this morning reaffirmed his verbal commitment to Nebraska.
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"Basically, they tried to call me stupid," Neal said.
Neal's father, Abraham Hoskins Jr., said U-M's visitors were "escorted out" shortly thereafter, and Neal decided to stay with the home-state team.
"Michigan was a powerhouse," Hoskins said. "They came in and they stormed us. They made one bad statement, and it ruined them. They said, without football, DaiShon wouldn't be able to go to Michigan. We couldn't afford to send him there or we couldn't get him (in) academically."
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Neal wasn't buying the pitch quite as much.
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After Michigan left, Neal told his father he wanted to go to Nebraska. He talked to Cornhuskers defensive coordinator Hank Hughes 15 minutes later, reaffirming the commitment.
"He said we're going to get after them when we finally play them," Neal said on the air.
More than an hour after the interview, Neal tweeted: "Now some Michigan fans saying I don't have grades ... come on! 3.4 core gpa I think I'm doing just fine!"
Neal also said that U-M had expressed confidence in landing three-star California tight end Matt Snyder, who also is verbally committed to Nebraska. But Neal said that Snyder downplayed the possibility of an immediate flip to Michigan, and Neal believes that he'll be able to convince Snyder to stay with the Cornhuskers.


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New York is a great place to grow grapes – and of course, from grapes comes wine. New York has five wine regions and produces over 20 grape varietals, which has led to the growth of our state’s wine industry. New York boasts some of the country’s oldest, most historic wineries, and there are new wineries springing up throughout the state’s wine regions.
Fortunately, you don’t have to travel all throughout New York to find great wines from all of the different regions – you can simply shop at Bremer’s Wine & Liquor in New Hartford. At Bremer’s, we’re proud of New York’s rich wine heritage, and that’s why we’re pleased to carry a wide variety of New York wines from 64 different vineyards. As the saying goes, uncork New York – and shop for your New York favorites at Bremer’s today!
Great resources on NYS Wines!
Check out Bud Bremer pictured in this article on NYS Wines from 1987!
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Whether you’re looking for a great Merlot, Pinot Noir, Burgundy, Cabernet or any other red wine from New York, trust Bremer’s Wine & Liquor to offer you an incredible selection at an incredible price.
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Can’t find what you’re looking for? Let us know! We might carry it in our store and not have it listed online. If we don’t carry what you’re looking for, we might be able to special order it for you to be picked up in store or shipped to you.


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Become a yuVeneer.
A professional with a smartphone.
An application for tradesmen and suppliers of services, whereby after registration, customer requests from the surrounding areas are delivered. It is possible to reply to requests by sending a direct offer or ask the customer via chat to provide additional information necessary for sending an offer. After the customer confirms the offer the system reveals mutual contact information. When the order is concluded, the supplier has the possibility to evaluate the customer using stars. These evaluations then serve as a reference for the needs of other suppliers. Each request is active in the system for 20 working days or until it is closed by the customer.
The yuVeneer application is interconnected with the yuVe application where customers can easily place requests and then select the tradesmen's offers that suit them best. yuVe is an innovative service, fully functional via smartphones with internet access. One of its progressive features is the intelligent locator that sends tradesmen only those requests that fit the activities and areas they have entered.
What's New in this version
- a new system of notifications and other small improvements


In December 2013, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers at the NSW Air Cargo facility decided to examine a consignment of two boxes from the United States. They were labelled as nutrition vitamins.
On further investigation, it was found that the boxes contained 735 vitamin bottles with more than 48,500 capsules with a white powdery substance. Chemical analysis of the white powdery substance showed it to be methamphetamine.
On the basis of this, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a 25-year-old Canley Heights man. Charge levelled against him is attempt to possess approximately 29kg of methamphetamine disguised as vitamin capsules.
Methamphetamine – meth for short – is a very addictive stimulant drug. It is a powder that can be made into a pill or a shiny rock (called a crystal). The powder can be eaten or snorted up the nose. It can also be mixed with liquid and injected into your body with a needle.
Crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) usually comes as small chunky clear crystals that look like ice. It can also come as white or brownish crystal-like powder with a strong smell and bitter taste. Crystal meth is smoked in a small glass pipe.
After the substance was identified as a banned drug, Australian Federal Police (AFP) took carriage of the investigation and later on executed a search warrant in Canley Heights, after which the man was arrested. Jennifer Hurst, Manager Crime Operations warned smugglers that this arrest is a strong reminder of the risks associated with attempting to import illicit drugs into Australia. Even though the smugglers are using sophisticated efforts to evade detection, Australian authorities will catch them and make them pay for their crimes.
On the basis of the charges levelled the offender can get a maximum penalty of 25 years imprisonment and or a fine of up to $1,275,000. Charges are one count of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug, contrary to section 307.5 by virtue of section 11.1 of the Criminal Code Act 1995.


This is a recipe I mostly copied from my mother-in-law, and the pics are from the very first time I tried making it.
It’s a plate for cold weather, it’s simple and tasty, and easy to prepare in a completely vegan/vegetarian fashion if you want.
Here it goes:
- Polenta: 80g per person. This is a generous amount, but change according to how hungry people are. Polenta is rarely left-over.
- Onions: I used Borettane onions, but I guess any small and sweet onions will do. Here’s a pic of what I used. I don’t have a weight: I put some 6 small onions in the pot.
- Pork: you can add a small quantity of pork Italian sausage and/or meat to the pot, it just goes great with polenta. Or not, and you get a great vegetarian recipe (vegan too, I guess).
- Tomato sauce. I used the Mutti sauce because it tastes great. I used probably 400ml of it, but again, I didn’t measure it because that’s how I roll.
- Olive oil, salt: as needed.
Put a bit of oil in a pot, then add the pork (if any) and start cooking it. After a minute or so, add the tomato sauce, some salt and a pinch of sugar (it reduces the tomato sourness). Add water to the mix to thin down the tomato and to have enough liquid to cook the onions.
This step will take some 40-45 minutes: you will know that the onions are ready when poking them with a wooden spoon will cause them to break. Furthermore, do break some of the onions: they will mix with the sauce and the flavor of the whole dish will be better. Keep a couple of small onions whole if you want: the inside will be sweet and super-moist.
Keep stirring the mix once in a while, and keep adding water if the sauce gets too thick: you will want a relatively runny sauce for your polenta (note that in my picture the sauce is a bit too thick: I went back and added some more water to the rest of it in the pot, putting it back on the flame for a couple of minutes).
Plan ahead your timing: you want the polenta to be ready when the onions are.
Personally, I used the “instant” Polenta Valsugana because I am a heathen barbarian from the land of the Southern Sealands (aka: Liguria), and the people of the Po plains would probably burn me at the stake for this… but what the hell, it takes too much time to make regular polenta. But hey, if you can get your hands on traditionally mill-ground integral corn flour and have the time and wherewithal… go ahead: your polenta will be heavenly.
When both the polenta and the onions are ready, pour your yellow ambrosia in the plates and the onions and sauce on top of it, and enjoy!
Note: this is a repost from my g+ account.


To Our Students, Clients and Partners,
First, let me start by saying I wish you, your family and your organization the very best during this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As my family welcomed our second grandchild last week, we experienced very real concerns related to our health, communities and impact of exposure across a network of loved ones.
As a nation, we have experienced sickness, pandemic and fear spread through our communities, businesses and homes. We have seen urgent action taken by federal, state and local governments. I want to take a moment to speak to you directly, as an employee, business owner, father and fellow human.
I am fortunate for my health, and the health of my employees and their families. I am fortunate for the landscape of our business and that we have the ability to service our students and clients in a remote delivery non-contact learning environment. I am fortunate for our clients, who have decided to continue to invest in their employees’ professional development while working remotely while their organizations have been shut down.
A year from now, we will look back at this time as a tremendous challenge we have overcome. We will recognize those individuals who worked swiftly and tirelessly to service our students as they transitioned from a traditional learning environment to OnlineLive®. We will look at our partners who collaborated to bring quick solutions, alternatives and content to our students and clients during this paradigm shift. We will appreciate our neighbors as we showed each other respect, comfort, empathy and support during this time. We will look back at you and thank you for your continued commitment to excellence.
Today, we are learning how this will impact us tomorrow and for the foreseeable future. We open our communication avenues and our minds to each other to collaborate, share ideas and resources, and create a community that will thrive. During this time of information overload, media chaos and uncertainty, we are here to serve you. Please let us know how we can help you in any way during this time.
We look forward to the day soon when we can shake your hand and welcome you back to our brick and mortar training locations. Until then, we thank you for the opportunity to utilize technology to teach technology along with leadership and development and empower you to succeed through learning.
Kevin Landry | CEO
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New Horizons, in accordance with CDC, WHO, State, County and City guidance has closed our brick and mortar training locations for two weeks, beginning on Monday, March 23, 2020 through Friday, April 2, 2020. We will be serving our students and clients remotely with OnlineLive® and eLearning training options. Our enrollment, training, operations and support teams are still available to assist you via phone, email or chat.
Additionally, New Horizons has created a series of free webinars, resources and workshops for you and your organization to participate with during this time. The business model is constantly evolving. Training and managing remote workers and teams – a rarity just a few years ago – is now a common occurrence, especially since COVID-19. Working virtually offers unique advantages and challenges as well as adjustments for new remote workers. View All COVID19 Resources Here


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Joe Wright knew instantly that he wanted to cast
Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina – but only if she reined in that famous pout.
‘Bums on seats’ is not the grand vision you expect from a Bafta-winning director of literary dramas such as Pride & Prejudice and Atonement. But Joe Wright is a bloke who respects bums. ‘I grew up above my parents’ puppet theatre in Islington,’ he explains. ‘People would call any hour of the day or night and you’d have to pick up the phone and say “Hello, Little Angel Theatre,” and hopefully cross off a booking on the seating plan. If the book was empty it meant there wasn’t going to be a lot of food on the table. If it was full then it was a happier house – and lamb chops.’
Wright considers populism a ‘slightly dirty’ word but while he would never compromise ‘the integrity of the work’, he’s not ashamed to call his films ‘entertaining’. His latest, Anna Karenina, is also his third starring Keira Knightley, who he famously forbade to pout on camera. Did he tell her not to do that annoying chin thing too? ‘Yeah, a little bit,’ he admits, allowing himself a small grin. ‘But we’ve kind of got past that now. Thing is, her lips naturally pout so the poor girl probably has to pull them in a bit.’ To look like non-goddess lips, you mean? ‘Exactly.’
There’s a showman’s twinkle about Wright but does his strict line with Knightley’s jaw indicate he’s a bit of a puppet master with actors? ‘No!’ he protests. ‘Directors are often a bit scared of actors.’ What interests him is the engagement of the audience’s imagination. ‘When people used to watch my father’s shows, they would think the puppets’ faces would change. Of course they didn’t. They were solid, carved of wood. It was just the audience’s projection.’
Wright was keen to cast Knightley as Anna Karenina, the young wife who scandalises society by ditching dull husband Jude Law to run off with Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s dashing young officer. ‘I love working with Keira,’ he says. ‘She’s incredibly brave. And she’s not vain. A lot of actors want to be loved and play nice people all the time. Keira isn’t afraid of an ambivalent reaction. I really admire that about her.’
Another notably un-vain performance is Law’s as Anna’s speccy, balding husband. Was it a hard sell? ‘Jude loves it,’ Wright insists. ‘It’s often a real burden on male actors to be these hunky, good-looking sex objects. And Jude is a real company player and that’s important to me. It probably comes from my parents’ puppet theatre, which was very much a company of artists working together to create something new. I’m quite nostalgic about that atmosphere.’
Wright still seems to live and breathe that ‘magical kingdom’. He works with the same actors and crew time and again and, two months before shooting Anna Karenina, relocated most of Tom Stoppard’s script to a dilapidated Russian theatre. It was a radical move partly dictated by budget and partly to keep control not only over production but over Tolstoy’s sprawling romantic epic.
Bullied at school for ‘wearing cravats and being uncool’, the dyslexic Wright left Islington Green comprehensive with no GCSEs and made for an unlikely director of Pride & Prejudice, given that he’d never read the novel – though he did plough through Anna Karenina. ‘Tolstoy wrote it to be accessible in terms of emotions,’ he says. ‘It spoke directly to me. Everybody in it is trying to learn how to love.’
He calls himself a ‘hopeless romantic’, though he broke off his engagement to Ros-amund Pike in 2008, reportedly over her sending wedding invites of them both in a hot tub without telling him. He is now married, with a son, to Ravi Shankar’s daughter Anoushka. ‘I’m confused by love,’ he says. ‘I think Tolstoy was the same. If I could just nail the “love” thing, life would be fine.’
In the meantime, he’s happy making films that reach out to people from the comfort of his own little world. ‘Civilian life does freak me out a bit,’ he says. You can take the boy out of the puppet theatre…
Anna Karenina is out today.


Join us at the Vineyard for the 140th Preakness Stakes on Saturday May 16. The race begins at 6:18 pm with doors opening at 11:00 am for guests to enjoy our full menu service both on the patio and inside.
Just some of the delicious food items available include:
- Maryland Crab Dip
- BBQ Beef Sandwiches with homemade Old Bay Potato Chips
- Smith Island Cake
Guests can also enjoy a full selection of Big Cork wines and specialty drinks such as:
- BIG Eyed Susan (the traditional drink of the Preakness Stakes)
- Raspberry Wine Mojito
- Iced Lemonade
Whether you’re sitting outside on the patio or inside the facility, you won’t miss one thrilling second of the televised race! We look forward to seeing you at the event!


Modern age of mobility is defined by the value and convenience enterprises bring through their mobile strategy and initiatives. Users’ expectations from apps are changing, and most of the research brought this fact that adoption and download of mobile apps are decreasing month on month. Enterprises need to shift their mobile strategy and app investment for improving user engagement and getting the ROI.
Most of the companies prefer both Mobile Web and Mobile apps. In fact, this has been one of the crucial concerns for enterprises to decide whether to go for Mobile web or Mobile app. Developing anything is important for companies, however, this depends upon user personas and segments.
Alibaba, Flipkart, BookMyShow, Forbes, and Pinterest, these are not just company names but brands in the world market upgraded their websites to Progressive web apps (PWA). PWA is a new way of connecting and delivering products and services to the mobile user in an efficient way and most importantly: cost effective. Studies claimed that these brands have witnessed promising results in terms of improving visitors traffic and conversion, improvement in page load time, lower bounce rate, increase in ads click-throughs, and higher re-engagement.
App Download is One of the Major Concerns
Consumers have started drawing a line against downloading apps on their devices majorly where mobile device usage is high. This is an alarming fact for companies to re-evaluate mobile development strategy. Progressive Web App technology in this scenario could be the most appropriate move for companies. PWA brings an app like features and functionalities to the website and that does not require a customer to download an app. This allows a user to pin it to mobile home screen and use it even in offline mode.
Think about the hospitality industry, why somebody will download the mobile app of a hotel, even if they go very often to dine out. Most of the time they do explore new places for soothing ambiance, delicious taste and excitements for an enriching experience. For this situation, a hotel owner could deliver mobile app experience to their frequent visitors, loyal customers using progressive web apps. PWA can add app features to hotel’s website with an object to convert target mobile user to loyal mobile app user.
Food for Thought
- Re-evaluate mobile strategy for getting most of the ROI from your mobile app development
- PWA can add app features and functionality to your website in real time rather than waiting for longer approval cycles of respective app stores.
Mobile App for Everything
Being an application leader, is it needed for my company to create a mobile app for everything? In fact, it is not necessary that the application I am creating for a specific user, will download and use it. I should better think of the objective and reasons before creating any mobile app. This analysis will certainly help me to take the right decision and save platform specific maintenance cost that I may incur in the future required for native and hybrid app.
To make mobile app strategy meaningful move, I should take the overall inventory of all my existing applications up and running in the ecosystem. Examining and evaluating which application further be redeveloped and designed using Progressive Web App. This approach may have multiple implications, 1) Should I stop or continue with any specific app, 2) Easy decision for reproducing it in different platform, the overall cost to the company maintaining these apps, user engagement on these apps and many more.
Food for Thought
- “Why I create a mobile app”, I should better question this before taking any further action for mobile strategy
- Review existing apps and compare app maintenance cost vs progressive web app cost
Marketing Spend to Make Your App Stand Out
There are over 6 million mobile applications available on the Apple App store and Google play store. Making your app discoverable and noticed in your target universe require marketing budget. Managing application development cost is not a challenge for companies, however, making them active right from its launch to the promotion and to keep reminding the user to use app needed a progressive marketing budget. This marketing budget is typically two and three times the cost of application development.
A progressive web app can be a real relief to minimize your marketing spending and improve user engagement and footfall as you get on your website. PWA is like a website that works as mobile application only. Accessibility via URL making it visible on search engines. You don’t have to manage a separate budget for marketing of app and website. In fact, whatever your marketing team is doing to improve the online presence of the website, will have the impact on PWA simultaneously.
Food for Thought
- Find out marketing budget that you are spending to promote an app, that can be minimized using website marketing budget.
- PWA inherently comes with SEO benefits so what you do to improve your website digitally automatically reflects on progressive web apps.
Whether mobile web will dominate or mobile app will lead the market, is primarily dependent on the use case and user personas. Bridging the gap between web and native app users has become one of the primary responsibilities of application leaders. Perhaps PWAs could sound fantasy but going forward seeing the facts and user expectation, it can become a new standard. Progressive web app technologies are very quick and futuristic move to fill this gap and therefore application leaders should include PWA as a part of their overall mobile development strategy.


Flipkart Launches it’s Made For India ‘Billion’ Brand. Will Partner with Domestic Manufacturers for Make In India
The Billion brand will face tough competition from AmazonBasics.
Flipkart have recently announced the launch of their Made-for-India brand, Billion. Their new private label brand will specifically work to cater the unique needs of Indian customers.
Flipkart has teamed up with several domestic manufacturers around the country, with whom the e-commerce giant will co-produce products in partnership. The company will primarily focus on customer needs, and rely on the data and customer feedback obtained from their online marketplace to build the products, which would mainly target the Indian needs and sensibilities.
Products Based on Customer Needs (The Indian Touch)
The company said, it will produce products, conceived and tested in the Indian conditions and will be backed by the product reviews, individual customer feedback and also research based customer behaviour insights. This initiative is to fill up the gaps of specific needs of Indian customers while maintaining the standard of quality. The products under the Billion brand will be manufactured in India, for the Indian market and will be available exclusively on Flipkart.
Partnership with Domestic Manufacturers
Till now, the company has claimed to have partnered with around 10 manufacturers around the country, and they are looking to partner with several thousands more.
Billion Brand Products
The Billion products will be specially designed based on the insights into the needs of the Indian customers. A few examples of Billion products shared by Flipkart in their press statement are as follows;
- Mixer Grinders – There are multiple repetitions with the cooking as Indian families are generally large, so the Billion mixer will have 25 per cent larger jars.
- Kitchen Appliances with Longer Cords – Indian kitchens generally don’t have multiple plug points, so there will be longer cords in the Billion brand Kitchen Appliances.
- Cookware – Billion brand Cookware will be specially designed with a thicker non-stick coating, which will help to withstand the Indian Cooking.
- Backpacks – Billion brand backpacks will be designed with more space and extra durability, as Indians generally like to carry more stuff.
- Home Accessories, Electronics and Personal Grooming – The Billion brand will co-brand with Flipkart’s other brand Smart Buy, which sells home accessories, electronics and a range of personal grooming products.
- Irons – The Billion brand Irons will be designed with a far better non stick coating, which will assure smooth gliding on any kind of cloth material used in India.
Other Brands Under Flipkart
The e-Commerce giant has several brands under its umbrella, and has been looking to increase their revenue through private brands.
- Smart Buy – Flipkart’s first private electronics label
- Divastri – Women’s Ethnic Clothing Line Brand
- Metronaut – Men’s Private Label Brand
- DigiFlip – Company’s first consumer electronics products brand (Dissolved Last Year)
AmazonBasics vs Flipkart’s Billion
Flipkart faces direct competition from Amazon. Amazon launched a similar private label brand, AmazonBasics back in September 2015. Now as Flipkart is focusing om expanding the consumer base based on customer needs, AmazonBasics already offers a wide range of high quality products at best pricing.
Flipkart needs to play the Billion Brand smartly to beat both, online as well as offline competition to achieve commercial success.


This is who we are
The reason The Ayurveda Practice exists is to help people find peace within themselves. It is very hard to find peace if our bodies are ailing and our minds are agitated. By treating each person as a whole being and easing away the imbalances which have accumulated, we can help restore the natural state of peace.
Kate Siraj is a fully qualified Ayurvedic Practitioner with a BSc in Ayurveda (Manipal, India, First Class Honours). She completed 500 hours of clinical internship training in India (Kochi, Kerala and Hassan, Karnataka) and thus is a full member of the Ayurvedic Professionals Association. She has 3 young children and is passionate about healthy diet and lifestyle as a way of keeping them fit, strong and disease free. Previous to discovering her love for Ayurveda, Kate completed a Master of Chemistry degree at Oxford University (First Class Honours) and then worked as a Marketing Manager for a blue-chip multinational (and therefore understands the pressures of corporate life). She is also a qualified coach (Lucca Leadership/The Change Leadership Foundation). It was through this voluntary work as a coach for young leaders, that Kate discovered her true intent for life; to serve with love and help people find their natural peace. Thus began a life’s journey into Ayurveda.
This is what we believe in
- All of us are perfect, whole and free
- Each unique individual needs a unique treatment approach
- True, effective treatment addresses the cause not just the symptoms
Let us help you find your natural balance.
Here is Kate talking on the radio
Kate talking about stress and Ayurveda in her most recent radio interview: Ayurveda and Stress (Oct ’13).


Watch: Opening Four Minutes from Jonathan Levine's 'Warm Bodies'
"Why can't I connect with people?" We don't normally post opening scenes like this, but this is more of a promo for a film we're looking forward to anyway, so why the heck not. It's for the zombie romantic-comedy (zom-rom?) titled Warm Bodies, directed by Jonathan Levine (of The Wackness) starring Nicholas Hoult as the zombie R. We've featured a couple of trailers in the past already, as well as numerous posters, so we know what it's about and it actually looks good. While this is a great introduction to the zombie world in Warm Bodies, we don't get to see Teresa Palmer yet, but hopefully this will lock a few of you in. Enjoy!
Watch the opening scene from Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies, originally from Fandango:
Warm Bodies, written and adapted by Jonathan Levine from Isaac Marion's novel, stars Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Analeigh Tipton, Dave Franco and Rob Corddry. This "zombie love story" stars Hoult as R, a zombie who falls in love with Julie after he eats her boyfriend's brains and absorbs his memories. A genre-bending tale of love and transformation, Warm Bodies is a story about a boy who loves a girl… for more than just her body. Shooting was finished Montreal late last year, but Summit then delayed the release of Warm Bodies from early this year to February 1st, 2013 coming up. So how did that look?
Reader Feedback - 11 Comments
ZombieLover on Dec 27, 2012
I saw it about a month ago. I loved it. Sort of like mixing twilight with the zombie genre but still better than twilight.
Tyler Bannock on Dec 27, 2012
This is why i love Jonathan Levine as a director he is always fun and sincere in his execution. And to be honest when i first heard about this story i thought it was going to be lame, but from the looks of it so far i think it's going to be a fun experience.
Zade_92 on Dec 27, 2012
What do they say to each other?
Dan3659 on Dec 27, 2012
hungry... not sure what the other guy said.
Jim Dawkins on Dec 27, 2012
serke on Dec 27, 2012
Warlitz on Dec 29, 2012
I can't wait for this movie, not just cause of the fact that my girlfriend and I are gonna go watch it on Valentine's day, but I mean it actually looks like a pretty good/fun movie.
Fidel Reyes on Dec 27, 2012
Maybe it's just me, but I think this looks stupid as Hell. I LOVE Jonathan Levine, but this just looked forced and too much like a reinvention of what being a zombie is. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised though...
Matt Peloquin on Dec 28, 2012
This looks great. Cant wait to see the whole thing. Love the flash back to non-szombie times. Looks good.
Seb on Dec 29, 2012
Still kicking myself I missed a screener of this recently but I had other obligations. Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun though.
Will on Dec 29, 2012
Sorry, no commenting is allowed at this time.


Sinful Pleasures are purposefully provided and promoted and given with alluring lies and over – enhancing natural desires for a reason. The best case scenario, but still very damaging, is keeping us from being humble and contrite by feeding ego and pride over obedience so serving and worshipping is hindered or at least slowed. The worst case scenario the pleasurable (for the moment) sins lead us to destruction, whether jail time, marriage destruction, suicide or other body destruction, murder, cancers from stress or body abuse, abortion/murder of babies.
Sinful pleasures take our natural God-given desires and magnify them and lie enough to twist it to work at our destruction and tempt us to some form of separation from God our loving Creator. This is the danger. People call it “playing with fire” and that could not be more eternally true. Please beware and live simpler and holier so your eternity can be secure with God through Jesus. Pray humbly and ask Yahweh to help you. And He will.❤
We do not defeat evil.
Jesus Christ already did this. The work is finished.
We help remind evil of their defeat by praising and worshipping God and speaking truth.
This reminds evil of its defeat and it flees.
End of story.
Life is simpler than most people suspect.
The question is whose side are you on?❤
I just saw a very scary new technology demonstration about an implantable microchip that apparently some people already have implanted. This is the mark of the beast. They are selling it on safety and health and convenience. It is lies and a form of control. Do not take this chip. No matter the cost, do not have this implanted. Revelations has very bad things to say about it. Just a warning. The enemy is tricky and lies constantly. Say no to the chip and write our authorities and governmental representatives that we do not want this chip in America. Not my normal post but I was just made aware of it and object profoundly and must share it.
Evil is not good at all. There is no redeeming value in evil. It is not cute, funny, fun, interesting, mystical, magical, or valuable in any way at all. Flirting with evil is evil. Evil is dark, disturbing, ugly, grusome, and people genuinely kill and hurt other people for its master. Evil is horrifying, horrible, hideous. Celebrating any part of it supports it’s force and what it represents. Evil is destruction and violence, in direct opposition against the goodness of God. Not one iota of evil is in any way good or worth celebrating. It should be opposed at every turn. It should mortifying us. Evil should turn our stomachs. I say this truth to prove a point only and not to give evil more attention than it deserves. Our focus, rather, should be on God and His goodness, love, hope, salvation through Jesus Christ. This should be celebrated and praised all the time now and forever!❤
Really super long but a big picture insight on why the rapture and tribulation ate very near. The big picture is that evil is gaining ground and we need to hold to our faith no matter what and our eternity will be secure in Jesus Christ. God is still in untimate control. Hold on tight to Him and pray. God, the amazing One, the Lover of our souls, the Maker of everything we know of, the Great One is our Heavenly Father if we choose Him. We have to choose Him and stay close to Him. The reward is eternity with Him and His joy and peace and hope now. Pretty amazing reward, if you ask me. Worth everything. ❤❤❤


ALTER VOCALIS EGO (aka AVE) should be understood as an integrated concept that fuses various ideas and inspirations from art, science, literature and music within the fiery spirit of an anarchistic way of life:
Crown yourself with ivy, anything goes!
AVE's most important source of inspiration is the mythic figure of the greek god Dionysus (also known as Bacchus in Roman mythology, the god of divine madness, theatre, religious ecstasy and wine — the gift of Dionysus/Bacchus to mankind), just as different modern conceptions of the "Dionysian" which were defined by Friedrich Nietzsche (and also his many successors, e.g. Georges Bataille):
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil ...
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness...
And [...] what then is the meaning of that madness out of which tragic as well as comic art grew, the Dionysian madness? What? Is madness perhaps not necessarily the symptom of degradation, collapse, cultural decadence? ... What if it was clearly lunacy, to use a saying from Plato, which brought the greatest blessings throughout Hellas? ...
Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems . . . that is what I called Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet ... I, the last disciple of the philosopher Dionysus ..." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience [...]. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, than of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical. […] Dogmatic presuppositions have provided experience with undue limits: he who already knows cannot go beyond a known horizon. […] But this experience born of non-knowledge remains there decidedly. […] We are only totally laid bare by proceeding without trickery to the unknown. [...] Inner experience not being able to have principles either in a dogma (a moral attitude), or in science (knowledge can be neither its goal nor its origin), or in a search for enriching states (an experimental, aesthetic attitude), it cannot have any other concern nor other goal than itself. Opening myself to inner experience, I have placed in it all value and authority. Henceforth I can have no other value, no other authority. [...] I call experience a voyage to the end of the possible of man. Anyone may not embark on this voyage, but if he does embark on it, this supposes the negation of the authorities, the existing values which limit the possible. By virtue of the fact that it is negation of other values, other authorities, experience, having a positive existence, becomes itself positively value and authority." (Georges Bataille, Inner Experience, New York 1988, pp. 38-42)
AVE places emphasis on connecting the Dionysian with motives, subjects and "new myths" of weird fiction literature, while especially the masters of this genre Gustav Meyrink, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe have to be mentioned as important influences:
"The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence — whether much that is glorious — whether all that is profound — does not spring from [...] moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."
In what kind of area AVE mainly acts depends on what kind of current circumstances the members are in, just as it depends on their interests and others involved.
AVE was founded in 2004 by its singer and guitarist Frater F., who was working as a studio and live musician for several German gothic, rock and latin acts at that time.
We're always looking for any kind of musicians and artists for different projects, please contact us in case you're interested.


Docking stations have one huge advantage before ordinary supports: they also charge the device, and from time to time and provide additional functions. But the most part of docks lose the utility when in the house lies on two, and even it is more than phones from different producers.
Counting upon such cases SETA-something average between a support and a docking station was created. Something such that is compatible and to iPhone, and c Galaxy, and with Lumia.
SETA became one of number of those Kickstarter projects which collect the necessary sum in a month before final date. To realize ecstasy of future owners simply: it is the integral slice of aluminum bent by the form and similarity of a leg of iMac. Exclusively in the back. On the face-to-face party of vertically standing half the film with small suckers is pasted. Though what phone with the smooth back panel will keep on it without any additional efforts.
It is sensitive below, under a film, the opening for a synchronization cable in which it is possible to stretch both Lightning, and a starenky cable with a konnektor 30-pin is cut out. Well and voobshchy though what cable from though what producer of phones. Complete with orders additional films which can be pasted to a wall or though to what subjects in the house will be delivered. Actually, it is the pumped-over version of flypapers of Velcro – only even more nicely and more conveniently.
milo from Bluelounge
The device costs 25 dollars + 5 dollars for delivery, and campaign will last 28 more days. With all respect for undertaking of startups, in the market already very long time ago there is a similar support of milo from Bluelounge which looks more solidly and better, standing at all this approximately as much. Only the cable under it will not be stretched. [kickstarter]


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UNION COUNTY — The good news is that people taking the Raritan Valley train line into New York in the evening – after peak hours – will not have to change trains in Newark come January. The bad news is that this service is not even on the table yet for morning and evening rush hour commuters.
On Monday night, NJ Transit Transportation Chief of Government Paul Wyckoff told more than 100 people that came out to a Raritan Valley Rail Coalition meeting that although the November start for the evening one-seat ride into the city was called off due to budget constraints, it would hopefully begin in January.
NJ Transit is currently applying for a grant to cover the $600,000 that it will take to pay for the trains that will run directly into New York Penn Station between 8 p.m. and midnight beginning in January.
Since 1998 the nonprofit, bipartisan Raritan Valley Rail Coalition has been working to get the Raritan Valley Line, which draws riders from Union, Middlesex, Somerset and Hunterdon counties, a one-seat ride into the city. Simply put, this means traveling to or from New York City without the need to transfer trains.
This mission has had its ups and downs, but the coalition has worked cooperatively with NJ Transit, meeting quarterly with the public transportation corporation on issues to improve service and benefit riders.
Coalition representative Thomas Jardim said the primary mission from the beginning has been to achieve a one-seat ride directly into Penn Station in New York, specifically during commuting hours. The coalition scored a major win in March when NJ Transit started using dual-powered locomotives for some midday weekday trips, which eliminated any transfer at Newark Penn station.
“Our final goal is direct peak service to Manhattan,” Jardim said, explaining why that has been derailed.
“They say we can’t have that until we get another tunnel and that is not true. We believe we are entitled to one, two, even three direct trains into New York,” he said, but then admitted, “we certainly need more tunnels because of the condition they are in.”
The issue of providing trains that will take riders directly into New York without passengers transferring at Newark is no easy feat. However, it is not impossible, according to Coalition officials.
Riders currently have to get off Raritan Valley trains, go to another platform and board electric trains, which are the only type that can go through the Hudson River tunnels into the city. However, the problem of the Raritan Valley line not having electrified locomotives was actually solved two years ago.
In 2012 NJ Transit purchased 36 dual-powered locomotives for $350 million.
These trains have the capacity to switch from diesel to electric with a flip of a switch, enabling Raritan Valley Line trains to travel through the tunnels into Penn Station under electric power without passengers changing trains in Newark.
The problem, though, is that there are other practical challenges involved with getting one-seat ride service operating around the clock.
Budget shortfalls remain a problem, and also the fact that there is only one tunnel in operation on weekends, so slots are limited at that time.
Also contributing to the problem is the fact that there are just two tracks under the Hudson River and only a limited number of trains can go to Penn Station in New York each hour.
Coalition officials said that currently all slots are taken during peak hours, which makes the situation even more frustrating.
Amtrak also owns and controls the Northeast Corridor, New York Penn Station and the Hudson River tunnels, which require immediate maintenance attention. This, too, could restrict expansion of one-seat rides for weekday off peak service.
According to NJ Transit officials, there is a lack of state and federal government funding, which is preventing new tunnel construction and other service improvements from moving forward.
However, on Monday night, elected officials disagreed.
“There is funding and we need to work every day to get it,” said Republican State Sen.Tom Kean at the coalition meeting, where he was praised by other elected and coalition officials for working side by side with them to see a one-seat ride brought to the Raritan Valley Line.
“Tom Kean was instrumental in getting off-peak hour one-ride service,” said Jardim.
Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr, also credited by coalition officials for organizing more than 30 mayors from towns along the Raritan Valley Line, spoke about the one-seat ride initiative at the meeting.
“I, along with other mayors here, have been fighting hard to get our communities involved and now we have their attention,” she said, adding it was important to understand that delays in getting the capital investment required was a major part of the delays in this commuter service.
Mahr also mentioned that getting actual commuters involved in the one-seat ride initiative has been difficult.
Westfield resident Michael Whitsock agreed.
“What you are doing here tonight is great. But I’m a commuter and you all don’t fill one commuter train. In most people’s minds is that a one-seat ride is catering to the New York theater crowd,” he said, pointing out the coalition “had to reach out to actual commuters.”
Although Mahr stressed the coalition needed help in getting the word out, Plainfield Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Dunn suggested that while the coalition had made strides, they were not getting the word out to the right people.
“Let’s consider the idea of advertising this on trains and in stations,” he said, adding that it was commuters that the coalition were trying to reach “and they are on trains and in stations.”
Democrat Assemblywoman Linda Stender pointed out the reason coalition members and elected officials have not been able to get peak hour one-seat service had much to do with the state of train transit infrastructure.
“There is a miscommunication here that transit is self-supporting,” she said, noting that while ridership numbers may be higher on other lines that have one-seat ride during commuter hours, the fact remained that new tunnels were desperately needed.
A Cranford resident questioned whether NJ Transit considered having other lines, such as one that comes from the shore area, trade off with the Raritan Valley line, “so everyone gets a fair chance at one-seat service into the city during peak hours.”
Wyckoff, though, explained that would not happen.
“Although I think you hit the nail on the head, you just don’t simply take service away from a line,” he explained, but Jardim felt that was unfair.
“Our line is just as important and as large as any other,” he said, adding “if you look at the shore line, they have many one-seat rides and we have none.”
Other issues that came up involved the challenges the Raritan Valley Line faces, including that morning inbound Raritan Valley Line trains connect to the Northeast Corridor just outside Newark Penn Station. This requires four tracks of the corridor to be clear and often results in delays for Raritan Valley Line trains while other trains go first into Newark Penn Station.
Officials said a “flyover” railroad bridge was designed but that will cost $200 million and there is no available funding to build it.
The Portal Bridge, a 104-year-old two-track swing bridge between Secaucus station and the Hudson River needs to be replaced.
“When it is stuck in the open position the entire Northeast Corridor is shut down, stopping all train service heading into or out of Penn Station in New York,” officials noted, explaining that a new high level bridge was designed that will cost $900 million, but again, there is no funding available to construct it.
There are also no authorization plans to construct more tunnels to allow more trains to access Penn Station in New York and increased capacity into the city is not expected for a minimum of 12 years.


Several months back, when World of Warcraft studio Blizzard teased their new game, everyone was thinking big. Way big. New MMORPG, perhaps? Another real-time strategy game? Something even more amazing?
Well, yes and no. It wasn’t big, but it was, in its own way, amazing. Blizzard unveiled Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a, um, digital collectible card game.
I recently snagged a spot in the closed beta for Hearthstone, which still has no firm release date, and I’ve been cautiously pleased with what I’ve seen. Drawing art and sound assets from World of Warcraft, Hearthstone captures the feel of that game quite well, taking nine classes from WoW as deck archetypes. The card play itself is fairly standard—mana grows turn by turn, allowing the play of cards from your hand; creatures usually cannot attack the turn they are played; and the object is to whittle the opposing hero down to zero health. So, essentially, a very streamlined Magic: The Gathering, gussied up with particle effects.
The emphasis is on fast play. Interaction during your opponent’s turn is almost nonexistent. Indeed, you cannot even chat with your opponent beyond a few pre-programmed emotes. And, given my long experience with World of Warcraft, that’s a feature, not a bug. The AFK timer is rather efficient at burning through an absent opponent’s turn, too.
Hearthstone will be free-to-play, with Blizzard making money through the optional sale of booster packs and entry into a drafting format. One can earn enough in-game credit by playing other people to purchase a booster pack probably two to three times a week with regular play. The matchmaking engine thus far has done well pitting me against players of similar (which is to say, limited) skill, enabling me to get a fair number of wins. Play against the computer is possible, but quickly becomes boring. At a certain point, AI play is only good for testing a new deck.
As a collectible card game, there are quite a few cards to accumulate, both class-specific and neutral cards usable by any class, though once you obtain more than the maximum hand limit of two of any card, you can “disenchant” the extras to form a crafting material that can then be used to create cards you want. A slow process, but if there’s a card you really want, you can get it, eventually.
The card collection interface is unwieldy and looks designed more for tablets than computers, but then I have yet to see a really good digital collection interface.
While the limit of nine constructed deck slots makes sense with the nine classes you can play, I do wish there were more slots for creating multiple decks of the same class. One hopes Blizzard will not monetize that particular feature.
On the whole, I think Blizzard has (yet another) winner on its hands with Hearthstone. The gameplay is accessible for people without prior exposure to the collectible card game genre, appealing to World of Warcraft fans, and fast playing enough to make up for the slight lack of tactical depth (at least as compared to Magic: The Gathering). Besides, you can summon chickens to attack your opponent. That’s a win right there.


Did your coach ever tell you to never give up?
Have your parents ever told you to keep trying no matter what?
Has your pastor or other confidante ever encouraged you not to quit in spite of the odds?
If you watched Saturday's Kentucky Derby you saw the epitome of what it means to keep battling when the outlook can be no gloomier. It was like the time your favorite football team was three touchdowns behind in the first quarter. Can you ever remember your baseball team giving up 10 runs in the first inning?
Derby winner Giacomo, ridden by jockey Mike Smith, came out of the gate dead last and quickly fell three lengths behind the next-to-last horse. Giacomo had won only one of his previous seven races. Mike Smith had ridden in the Derby 12 times, never to taste victory.
What must Smith, riding this horse named for an aging rock star's son, at 50-1 odds, have been thinking when he burst out behind 19 thoroughbreds running for the roses? Fortunately, Smith was doing everything but thinking.
If Smith had been thinking he may have tugged on the reins and made a U-turn back to the barn. He might have said to himself, "It was fun while it lasted, but I'm riding yet another loser." He could easily have started planning for his new career, one without the highest of highs and the lowest of lows that comes with competing for a living -- competing on the back of an animal that doesn't know first place from last.
Instead of thinking and feeling sorry for himself, Smith did the only thing he knew to do. Smith rode the heck out of Giacomo. He pushed him through the pack to the front and all the way to the Winner's Circle. In the traditional parlance of our part of the South, he kept playing, playing his fanny off.
What else was there for him to do? He still had a long dusty trail ahead of him, so why not do the only thing he had ever trained to do? Smith had never known how to quit. He only had one option, keep riding. The end result of his inner drive gave him a place in the upper echelon of sports history.
So the next time your favorite team is looking up from the bottom of a very tall scoreboard, remember Mike Smith and Giacomo. They refused to quit. Last to first. Stranger things have happened.
As an old anonymous coach once said, "never, never, never, ever give up." That's good advice to follow if you're playing or just rooting for your team.


The NYC Vegetarian Food Festival is just a couple weeks away. Last year, the event of packed and lines went down the block and around the corner. This year, it’s going to be a two day event and in an even larger venue! Enjoy samples and delicious foods from various vegetarian food producers and restaurants. While you’re not eating, check out the animal-friendly merchandise for sale, explore the health and wellness vendors, and visit the various animal welfare organization tables. Throughout the day, there will also be live entertainment, speakers and demonstrations too. The schedule of events can be found here.
For an idea of what the event is about, here’s a look at last year’s event and the food – the sweets, the savories, and the beverages. Whether you’re a vegetarian or not, you’ll surely enjoy the food festival. Come for a few hours, spend a whole day, or go on both days. Hope you see you there!
The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, New York City
Saturday, Mar. 3rd and Sunday, Mar. 4th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m
General admission tickets can be purchased at the door for $5
Advanced VIP tickets are available here
(Advanced tickets grants you guaranteed admission and are highly recommended.)


Amy's coworker Marcy has chickens and sells beautiful large fresh brown eggs. They are so different from store-bought that the $2.50/dozen is an excellent value. We bought some the other day and thought they'd make a great ingredient for Meatless Monday. But what to do? The answer was found in The Best of America's Test Kitchen: Best Recipes and Reviews 2011, on the page featuring Spanish Tortilla, or Tortilla Española.
At its very basic, this "tortilla" is an omelette with potatoes and onions. However, the potatoes are cooked in just the right amount of oil to be tender and melting in your mouth, and the omelet, made with eight fresh eggs, is velvety yet dense enough to cut into cubes or squares. That is what makes this popular at most tapas bars.
We followed many of the tips from ATK, such as, using Yukon Golds ("starchy enough to become tender but sturdy enough to stir and flip in shallow oil without crumbling"), using less oil than traditional recipes ("typical recipes call for simmering potatoes in 3 or 4 cups of extra-virgin olive oil"), making the tortilla in a 10-inch nonstick skillet, and notes on how to flip the tortilla. But, as always, we put our own spin on the recipe. Here's what we did.
6 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
4 medium Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, quartered lengthwise, and cut into 1/8-inch slices
1 medium onion, halved and thinly sliced
salt and pepper to taste
8 large eggs
Toss 4 tablespoons of the oil, with the potato, onion, salt and pepper in a large bowl until potatoes are well coated. Heat 2 additional tablespoons of the oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat until oil is shimmering. Add the potato mixture to the skillet. Cover and cook, stirring with a rubber spatula every 5 minutes, until potatoes are tender, about 25 minutes. Meanwhile, whisk the eggs with about a teaspoon of salt in a bowl until combined. Fold the potato mixture into the eggs, scraping the skillet clean. Add 1/2 tablespoon of oil to the skillet and return it to the heat. When the oil is shimmering, add the egg-potato mixture and cook, folding the mixture and shaking the pan for 15 seconds. Smooth the top, reduce heat to medium, cover and cook for two minutes, gently shaking the pan every 30 seconds. Using a rubber spatula, loosen the tortilla from the skillet, shaking the pan until it slides around freely. Slide the tortilla onto a large plate. Invert the tortilla onto a second large plate and slide it bak into the skillet, browned side up. Continue to cook for two minutes longer, gently shaking the pan every 30 seconds. Slide onto a cutting board and allow to cool. Serve at room temperature with a side salad for a light and simple dinner, or cut into smaller pieces and serve as tapas.