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ASI is now a Matrox Graphics
Authorized Distributor in Canada.
MONTREAL — Nov. 7, 2013 — Fremont, California-based ASI Computer Technologies, a leading distributor of computer components and peripheral products to over 20,000 VARs throughout North America with branch locations in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, has recently been added as a Matrox Graphics Authorized Distributor in Canada.
ASI has been an authorized distributor in the United States for many years while developing a unique customer base consisting of VARs and System Integrators who have built their businesses by specializing in the support of the SMB market segment and specific verticals such as digital signage, a key focus for Matrox. This competency lead to the expansion of both companies partnerships and the addition of ASI Canada as an authorized distributor.
"We're very excited about the opportunity to further develop our business in Canada. Matrox has excelled at engineering products that target specific vertical markets such as digital signage, medical imaging, high performance graphics design, video entertainment, as well as finance and ASI serves customers that specialize in all these markets," said Kent Tibbils, ASI VP of Marketing. "Our customers benefit tremendously from technology such as that which is available from Matrox, that allows them to add more capability and greater value to their purpose-built hardware solutions."
Because of its technical relevance, graphics has always been a cornerstone of ASI's product offering dating back to the company's early years. "Having an opportunity to work closer with a company as well established as Matrox will be extremely valuable to ASI and our Canadian resellers," noted Renaldo Dwarka, ASI Canada Business Development Manager.
Graphics solutions continue to be one of the focus product segments at ASI and the company has a positive outlook in to the future as various segments that utilize high performance video continue to grow. Graphics technology is a key component in these verticals where ASI has implemented strategic focus.
"From our well-established position in many key Canadian markets, we are expanding our H.264 encoding business, our control room business with products such as KVM extenders and video wall controller boards and our digital signage business, particularly in luxury applications where special effects are applied to the outputs of today's most popular digital signage media players," said Samuel A. Recine, Director of Sales - Americas & Asia Pacific, Matrox Graphics Inc. "We are counting on ASI Canada's expertise to help expand our footprint in these growth markets."
Fremont, California-based ASI has been a leader in the distribution of IT products for over 20 years and also offers custom integration on notebooks, desktops, servers, and NAS systems. Founded in 1987, the company has rapidly grown to become the partner of choice for over 20,000 VARs throughout North America. ASI offers an extensive line of products, components and services, and also provides ISO-9001 compliant system integration and value add contract assembly. Experienced technical support team, knowledgeable sales, dynamic marketing, and innovative management have helped the company achieve an impressive $1.5 billion in sales. http://www.asipartner.com phone contact 1-800-2000-ASI.
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Chamber honors ex-TV anchor as 'Woman Who Matters'
GREENWICH -- Before a boisterous crowd at Barcelona restaurant on Wednesday, Marcia O'Kane broke into a wide smile.
"The sound of this noise means you are networking," said the executive director of the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce. "That's what we want."
In fact, about 70 people -- the vast majority of them female -- had settled in for the year's first of three "Women Who Matter" luncheons. It is the second year of the series, which O'Kane dreamed up about a year ago while poking her head into various shops on a midday stroll down Greenwich Avenue.
"The stores are either owned or run or staffed by women," she said before Wednesday's lunch. "And I know that women love to network."
More than that, she said, the luncheons are designed to "showcase, honor and learn from" women who have positive impacts on both the town's business community and neighborhoods. The leading example on Wednesday was Kendra Farn, a Greenwich native who in a 20-minute speech traced the arc of her working and family lives.
Farn recalled being a student at Vanderbilt University in the '80s, and deciding to go into TV news.
She recalled the excitement of landing her first job, for $12,000 a year, in rural Greenville, Miss. -- and subsequently questioning the decision as friends back home earned far more money in far more exciting cities like New York.
She recalled setting a goal of landing a job in New York by her 30th birthday -- and getting one just 22 days before the self-imposed deadline.
She recalled working 13 exciting years in New York -- including stints at WCBS and CBS Evening News, and then, after a risky career move, at NBC.
She recalled the long hours, and how she'd come home to her two young daughters, one of whom started calling her "Tata" -- after her nanny.
She recalled deciding, then, to leave TV, and launching a video-production company five years ago with her husband, Noah Finz, the sports director and anchor at WTNH-TV in New Haven. The couple runs the company, P Garyn Productions, out of their Old Greenwich home. It's named after their kids.
Today, Farn has time to volunteer at local schools, churches and civic groups, she said. She picks up her kids most weekday afternoons at 3:15 from Old Greenwich Elementary.
"I like to say we get just one vacation pass on this place called earth," she said, rounding out her speech. "We all matter, but maybe it's healthy to ask ourselves once in a while: Why do I matter? Where do I matter? Who do I matter to? And is there any way, in any part of life, I could matter more?"
"Just food for thought," she added.
Between bites of food for eating, the 70 or so people at the "Women Who Matter" luncheon started clapping.
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- 4 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionCordillera F16 - Kensington Green
Listing Date12/03/19
Year Built1999
AreaCordillera - The Divide
Lot Size0.25 Acres (10,890 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Garage
Property Description
This is not your garden-variety Kensington Green - only floorplan of its kind. Wide open plan with a Great Room encompassing the living room, kitchen and dining area. 4 bedrooms with full baths plus 2 half-baths; family room with fireplace on the lower level. Patio, decks and big windows overlook the Short Course and the mountains beyond. Freshened with new wood floors and paint in the living room. Great separation of space with bedrooms on each level. A great home for family gatherings.
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UPS Stores hit by breach of credit card, customer data
Customers at UPS Stores in Orange and 50 other locations across the country may have had their personal information and credit or debit card details swiped by hackers from January to this month, though the shipping company has found no evidence of fraud linked to the intrusion.
"I understand this type of incident can be disruptive and cause frustration," Tim Davis, president of the UPS Store Inc., said in a statement Wednesday. " I apologize for any anxiety this may have caused our customers."
The company said more than 100,000 transactions could have been exposed by a "limited malware intrusion," but it didn't know exactly how many or which customers were affected. The company told customers to check whether they shopped at any of the affected locations, which also included three in Northern California.
"We encourage you to remain vigilant by reviewing your account statements and monitoring your free credit reports," the company said in a letter to consumers. "If you believe your credit or debit card was impacted by this incident, you should immediately contact your payment card issuer or bank."
As is now normal for the constant stream of data breaches affecting companies of all types, UPS will offer free credit monitoring to customers whose information was exposed.
UPS said it hired a cybersecurity firm to inspect its systems after the government's recent warning to retailers that hackers were scanning the Web to find entry points into companies' computer systems. The network access points typically enable workers to perform tasks from outside the office, but hackers have tapped vulnerabilities to then meander within a company and deploy malicious programs.
Analysts at ABI Research said this month that such breaches have a "measurable impact on customers' loyalty and spending habits."
UPS said it has 4,470 franchised locations, so only about 1% were affected. The first California location was breached April 29, and the company said the security hole was closed Aug. 11.
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It can be eaten with rice,idli or dosa,roti's or use it to flavor a variety of dishes and upkari's.Its so delicious that you can have it endlessly just on its own.Here i used to flavor one of my favorite vegetable brinjal.You can use any variety of brinjal but the one i used here are the small,round green ones.They are slightly sweeter and not at all bitter.You can also stuff the brinjal with this powder and cook it with shallots.That is also one of my favorite dish.
urad dal - 1 cup
Chana dal - 1 cup
Coriander seeds - 1/2 cup
Red chillies - 10 nos
Shredded coconut - 3 cups
Curry leaves - 1 cup
Tamarind - 2 tsp
Roast each dal separately and keep aside.Roast coconut,red chillies,curryleaves and coriander seeds also separately and keep aside.Coarsely grind urad dal and chana dal and keep aside.grind coriander seeds smoothly and keep aside.Grind red chillies also to a fine powder and keep aside.Then grind the coconut smoothly and later add the dried curry leaves and grind it together.Then mix everything together in a bowl with tamarind and salt.Store it in a cool place in a dry container until use.
NOTE:-The blender should be totally dry before grinding the ingredients.That will increase the shelf life of the powder.
Brinjal - 6-7 nos ,diced I used the small ,round green ones.You can use variety.
mustard seeds - 1 tsp
turmeric - 1/2 tsp
red chilli pdr - 1 tsp
curry leaves - 1 sprig
thambale pudi - 1/3 cup
Coat the diced brinjal with the powder and keep aside.Heat oil in a pan.Add mustard seeds,when it starts to crackle add curry leaves,turmeric pdr and red chilli pdr.Then add the coated brinjal.Sprinkle some water and add salt.Cover and Cook on a medium low heat for 15-20 mins or until tender.Serve hot with rice and dal.
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Divya - Orange Cake with cream cheese frosting
Sri - LBS#34
Anu - Mushroom Rolls
Laks - Hot Chocolate
Siri - tali hui bhindi
Raaga - Raspberry raisin Ring
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Farmingdale State - 3, Old Westbury - 1 (18-25, 25-19, 25-23, 25-22)
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's volleyball team defeated Skyline Conference opponent Old Westbury, 3-1, on senior night in Farmingdale, N.Y. Senior outside Holly Sahner (Dix Hills, N.Y.) played in her final regular season home game for the Rams.
The Rams (10-7, 4-1) dropped the first set 25-18 and rebounded by winning the next three sets. Sahner recorded the games final kill for Farmingdale State.
Sahner had 11 kills and a team-leading 15 digs, while freshman outside Morgan Valinoti (St. James, N.Y.) recorded 12 kills. Sophomore outside Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) tallied 13 digs, 10 kills and a game-high four service aces. Freshman setter Megan Pisciotta (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) had 37 assists and 10 digs, while freshman libero Francesca Calderon (Wheatley Heights, N.Y.) added 13 digs for Farmingdale State.
Old Westbury (7-20, 2-3) was led by junior setter Kimberly Catania (Islip, N.Y.) who had 24 assists and 19 digs, while freshman libero Allie Giancola (Floral Park, N.Y.) picked up a team-high 25 digs.
Sahner, a three-year starter, is currently the all-time leader in attack percentage, second in kills and aces per set, third in total service aces and fourth in total kills. She has played in 58 matches and compiled 639 kills, 480 digs, 126 service aces and 53 blocks to date.
The Rams next will travel to Old Westbury for a Skyline Playdate on Saturday, October 20th and face Sage at 11:00 a.m. and Mount Saint Mary at 1:00 p.m.


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cake (someone or something) with (something)
To coat someone or something with a substance that dries and hardens, like mud or blood. My daughter and her friend caked each other with mud as they played outside in the rain.
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cake someone or something with something
to cover someone or something with a thicker layer of clumps of a substance such as mud, dirt, blood, etc. The attendant caked her with hot mud at the beginning of the arthritis treatment. All the motocross racers were heavily caked with mud. She caked herself with green mud to remove her wrinkles.
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The Republicans introduced (and passed) a bill that would require the President of the United States to enforce laws as they are written. Republican Trey Gowdy summarized the sentiment behind the bill nicely when he explained that Congress passes laws… Not suggestions. The bill is in response to the President's most recent unilateral changes to Obamacare. But, the fact that it takes a literal "act of Congress" to make the President do his job, is not really the point of this article. I'm afraid it is far more basic than that.
Representative Sheila Jackson, a Democrat from Texas (yes… Texas has a few Democrats), argued in opposition to the bill. And her overall point – that forcing the President to follow the Constitution is somehow unconstitutional – was not the most impressive moment of her deliriously liberal tirade. Instead, what really caught attention, was her assertion that our Constitution was over 400 years old.
This, of course, is news to everybody… Including the people that ratified the Constitution 227 years ago.
Um… First of all: "How well it is, that we've lasted some 400 years operating under the Constitution…" Really? "How well it is"? (Grammar check, please. And what is she wearing? Is that a British Colonial uniform?)
Then again, what's a couple centuries, give or take? Especially for a Political Science major from Yale. (Yeah… She's a graduate of Yale. There's probably an article to be written about the intellectual decline of higher education – but that's not this article.) Not only does Sheila get the age of our founding document embarrassingly wrong – but what exactly is unconstitutional about passing a law requiring the President to faithfully execute his responsibilities as outlined under the Constitution? I agree the law is mildly redundant… But, c'mon: What else is Congress supposed to do when a President changes laws without their consent, and judges refuse to give Congress "standing" to take him to court?
"That's what the opportunity of Democracy is all about" she explains. Of course, we're not a Democracy. And maybe, if she had ever read that "400 year old" document she's referring to, she would have known that. But, I guess we're expecting too much when we ask our elected leaders to understand rudimentary 8th grade history.
Her outrage at the bill itself is almost as ridiculous as her less-than-copious grasp of American History. After all, imagine the Democrat outrage if President Mitt Romney was unilaterally altering the Healthcare law with use of his "pen and phone"… Do you think there might be an angry liberal or two on Capitol Hill?
Of course, as I said, this isn't an article about the codification of what the Constitution already states... It's about Jackson's brilliant aversion to intelligent thought. Her monumental ignorance of our government, founding document, and general lack of common sense, however, is not exclusive. Other "leaders" have shown a similar lack of intellectual-horsepower… For example, Democrat Hank Johnson once expressed concern that the island of Guam was in danger of capsizing. Harry Reid has argued that our compulsory tax system is "voluntary". (Maybe history, Physics, and English classes should be mandatory for US Congressmen?)
Which raises the bigger question: Is this really the best we have to offer? I have to imagine that America is capable of electing leaders who do not display such unfathomable ignorance. Heck, can't we at least elect representatives who have a peripheral relationship to the real world?
By the way, Sheila, the Constitution turns 227 years old, this year. I'll send a copy of the manuscript to your office at 2160 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515. Flip through it. You'd be surprised how much guidance our nation's instruction manual has to offer.


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Tiny Troopers passes 2 million sales
Kukouri's Tiny Troopers has now passed the 2 million sales mark, VG247 has learnt.
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Tiny Troopers free PC and Mac content patch adds both human and fowl of the zombie kind
Tiny Troopers has been given a free content patch for PC and Mac, which adds free zombie DLC to the game. Players will need to kill off "endless" hordes of of undead humans and chickens; make use of air-drops containing special weapons; direct Special Forces "to take down the undead"; and survive. Shots are below.
Tiny Troopers hitting Google Play, Amazon next week
Tiny Troopers, the top down warfare game from Kukouri is heading to Google Play and Amazon in November. Fans of classics like Cannon Fodder and Commando will want to give this a spin.
Tiny Troopers available now for PC and Mac on various digital services
Tiny Troopers is available now on PC and Mac through various digital services, as well as retail in western Europe and Australia.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and make noodle pudding. LET'S GO!
JERSEY SHORE – 10:00PM (MTV) Sammi isolates herself from the rest of the group, and can we please take that as a cue to erase her from the show entirely? She's dumb as a brick. ANTICIPATION: NO SAMMIS!
BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT – 10:00PM (A&E) Ah, the old "take juvenile delinquents to an adult prison and have the prisoners scare them to death so they won't end up going to prison" trick. Works EVERY time, except for 85% of the time. Anyway, join A&E as they start up a new series where young criminals get the field tour of maximum security facilities. Maybe they won't be scared straight, but you the viewer at home certainly will be. I remember watching a version of this show on MTV once and there was a 50-year-old prisoner with one tooth and a glass eye and he was telling the kids, "You don't ever want to come here! This place is Hell on Earth! You don't want to be near people like me!" And boy, did I believe him. Last time I steal yogurt pretzels from the Giant, I tell you that. ANTICIPATION: JAILBAIT!
TARGET: INSIDE THE BULLSEYE – 9:00PM (CNBC) It's an hourlong special taking a look at what makes the retailer so darn successful. Is it the shrewd advertising? Is it their signature blend of good taste and low prices? Are they the store of choice for people who won't shop at Walmart? OOH! LOOK AT THIS COOL STORAGE BIN! ANTICIPATION: BUSINESS TIME!
ACE OF CAKES – 10:00PM (Food Network) Betty White guest stars, and now is the time for the Betty White backlash to begin. It's a new year, America. Time to find a new random celebrity to crush on. There's also a "cake-balancing" contest tonight, which sounds aggressively pointless. ANTICIPATION: OVERKILL!
REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS – 9:00PM (Bravo – an NBC/Universal Network) Camille begins to see ruptures in her marriage to Kelsey. Also, Kyle gets all mad that her nieces Paris and Nicky Hilton don't attend her daughter's college graduation. Why on Earth would you want the Hilton sisters showing up and ruining your daughter's graduation? "Oh please, come and upstage our kid and bring 10,000 Eurotrash photogs with you!" Fool. ANTICIPATION: SHALLOW!
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Middle school students typically understand narration because of their exposure to the structure in their day-to-day lives. Television and movies draw on visual narrative structures; video games rely on background narrative; stories about friends, relatives, or daily experiences are narrated to them; novels and short stories depend on narration. However, students are not as familiar with the expository structures that will dominate the rest of their educational career. This lesson uses narrative structures to introduce students to one form of expository writingnews briefs and articles. By condensing a short story into a newspaper article and expanding an article into a short story, students will explore the ways that exposition differs from narration.
Story Map Interactive: Use this online tool to map out the elements of students' original writing. The tool can also be used to analyze the characters, plot, and setting of a piece of literature.
ReadWriteThink Printing Press: Use this online tool to create a newspaper, brochure, booklet, or flyer. Students choose a layout, add content, and then print out their work.
Interactive Venn Diagram: Students use this online tool to compare and contrast the features of two genres of writing. The tool can also be used to organize ideas for a compare and contrast essay or compare and contrast two pieces of literature.
Students learn best when the curriculum is connected to previous knowledge and experiences. Brainstorming what is already known about a topic through a graphic organizer such as a KWL (Know-Want to Know-Learned) chart is therefore beneficial because students see that they already know something about the subject. The same applies to tying instruction to events within the community. This lesson allows students to demonstrate what they already know about news writing through a graphic organizer, using articles related to local current events as models of the genre.
There is, research demonstrates, a direct link between reading and writing. As students actively read a variety of texts in different genres, their ability to write in these genres improves. This lesson not only asks students read and analyze a variety of news articles, but it also allows students to use a familiar genre (fiction) as a starting point to writing their own articles. Students gain exposure to reading and writing a new genre while connecting to a more familiar one.
Further Reading
National Council of Teachers of English. What We Know about Writing, Grades 6-8. November 2009. Web. http://www.ncte.org/writing/aboutmiddle


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Money Wise Migrants
An introduction to personal finance, tailor-made for migrant domestic workers. In this workshop set realistic financial goals for the future in a supportive environment. Come away with stronger money management skills, a better understanding of debt management, plans for tracking expenses, and a practical budget plan.
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"Thor 2" has now had two directors and two writers.
Robert Rodat, who earned an Oscar nomination for "Saving Private Ryan," has been hired to clean up the "Thor 2" script, reported Deadline. Rodat will be working with a script originally written by Don Payne, who penned the first film, as well.
This shake-up comes on the heels of a game of musical director's chairs. In September, Patty Jenkins ("Monster," the pilot of "The Killing") was hired to helm the sequel, only to be fired two months later over concerns by Marvel that she lacked a cohesive vision for the project.
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Jenkins' departure led to the hiring of Alan Taylor, one of the most talented and prolific TV directors of the past 15 years, whose recent experience on "Game of Thrones" makes him especially qualified for a film like "Thor 2."
Let's hope this is an end to the drama surrounding this film. We were pleasantly surprised by director Kenneth Branagh's first installment, and would love to see where the story can go without the constraints of having to tell the origin story.


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Submitted to: Journal of Chromatography A
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/2/2005
Publication Date: 5/9/2005
Citation: Rimando, A.M., Perkins Veazie, P.M. 2005. Determination of citrulline in watermelon rind. Journal of Chromatography A. 1078:196-200.
Interpretive Summary: Citrulline is an amino acid first isolated from watermelon juice. Citrulline has potential antioxidant and vasodilatation roles. The flesh, rind and peel of 14 varieties of watermelon were analyzed for their citrulline content. Among the flesh samples, the highest level of citrulline was found in the seedless Hazera SW1 and Solid Gold, and the seeded Summer Gold varieties. Seeded varieties had slightly less citrulline than the seedless melons. When compared by flesh color, red fleshed melons had less citrulline in flesh or rind than orange or yellow fleshed fruit. On a dry weight basis, the citrulline content of the rind was higher than that of the flesh. Half of a watermelon fruit is edible while the other half, consisting of about 35% rind and 15% peel, goes to waste. From this study, it is shown that the rind contains citrulline in high quantities and is a rich source of an important amino acid and may yield a useful product from an agricultural waste.
Technical Abstract: Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus Schad.) is a natural and rich source of the non-essential amino acid citrulline. Citrulline is used in the nitric oxide system in humans and has potential antioxidant and vasodilatation roles. A method using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was developed to separate citrulline from glutamic acid, which co-elute when analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. Watermelons were analyzed by GC-MS to determine the citrulline content among varieties, types, flesh colors, and tissues. Citrulline content ranged from 3.9 to 28.5 mg/g dry weight (dwt) and was similar between seeded and seedless types (16.6 and 20.3 mg/g dwt, respectively). Red flesh watermelons had slightly less citrulline than the yellow or orange flesh watermelons (7.4, 28.5 and 14.2 mg/g dwt, respectively). Rind contained more citrulline than flesh on a dry weight basis (24.7 and 16.7 mg/g dwt, respectively) but a little less on a fresh weight (fwt) basis (1.3 and 1.9 mg/g fwt, respectively). These results indicate that watermelon rind, an underutilized agricultural waste, offers a source of natural citrulline.


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When I came back from my NYC trip over the Christmas long weekend, I booked my flight back for the Easter long weekend. This is so that I could watch the Spring Spectacular show. This time my flights were with Porter Airlines for $284.16 CAD.
What I have finally learnt after 12 years of traveling is that I really should check my flight status before heading to the airport. Porter had delayed all of their flights due to the rain. I had checked my flight status last night (about 12 hours before departure) and it said that it was on time however I was in a rush this morning so I didn't check, nor did my phone notify me of Porter's delayed flight email. Granted the email was sent after I was on the TTC. It's much easier to get to Porter than Pearson since you can easily take the TTC. I just went to Union station and took the 509 streetcar, got off at Bathurst St. and walked towards the airport ferry terminal where I waited to board the ferry. The ferry is mainly standing room with some benches along the side. It's a really short ferry ride. After disembarking, you walk for a bit before reaching the check in counters and kiosks. Security is a breeze since you just have to go through the bag scanning and then you go down the escalators to the lounge. The complementary cafe with Starbucks Pike Roast coffee, Tazo teas, bottled water, soft drinks, salted almonds and chocolate cookies is hidden in the corner near the escalators and after the Billy Bishop cafe. There is free internet at the airport so the flight delay wasn't tediously boring. On the flight itself, I got a bag of Terra vegetable chips and a glass of red wine (Porter offers cookies, almonds, Steamwhistle, white wine, juice, bottled water and soft drinks as well). It was nice of Porter to give you the US Customs form to fill out first before providing refreshments. After disembarking, I thought it was a breeze going through US Customs in which the only annoying part was the slow moving line up. Granted it may have been a breeze because my information is already in their system so I don't need to have my fingerprints or retina scanned unlike many travellers before me. It wasn't too hard to find the Sky Train and there was a kiosk located before the escalators to the sky train platform selling NJ Transit tickets and two employees to help you use the kiosk. I bought an adult one way ticket from Newark International Airport to NY Penn station ($12.50 USD). At the sky train platform, you want to take the train heading towards Terminal C in order to get to the NJ train station. After reaching the NJ train station, you have to walk for abit and then scan your ticket in order to go onto the train platform and you should ensure that you're on the right platform and boarding the correct train. On the train, the conductor will come and take your ticket. Do ensure that you get off at your correct stop since the stop announcements can be very faint and at times it may be near impossible to double back. After reaching NY Penn station which is located near Madison Square Garden, I went to the metro station and used the kiosk to buy a 7 day unlimited pass (choose add time option in order to see the unlimited pass options) for $31 USD. I took the metro to Queen's to drop off my bags before taking the metro to Radio City Music Hall.
I had bought a front row first mezzanine ticket ($199.17 CAD) for the Spring Spectacular which allows me to use the VIP entrance which is on 50th Ave off 6th Ave and it's basically the gold doors. I had arrived abit early and so there wasn't any line up at the VIP doors. I got my ticket scanned and bag checked before being given a Chase Interactive bracelet and I was told to wear it during the show. I was again given a pair of 3D glasses and the program before entering the theatre. I had chosen seat A408 and it is basically center stage and in the middle of the width of the entire theatre. The only bad thing about it is that there's a video camera mounted in front of me so there's a tiny bit of stage obstruction. The dress code for the show is casual, similar to the Christmas Spectacular.
The Spring Spectacular is a Rockettes show about NYC and it features Whoopi Goldberg, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, among others. The show opens with the orchestra making an appearance along with the Easter bunny and a minion from Despicable Me! It then cuts to a scene that's very reminiscent of the opening scene of the movie It's a Wonderful Life. The voice of God and the Statue of Liberty is Whoopi Goldberg while Derek Hough is the guardian angel. We're then introduced to the other important main and supporting characters (Bernie the tour guide, Jenna the billionaire and her assistant Marshall). The Chase interactive bracelet comes into play with Derek Hough. He would snap his fingers and the bracelets would light up and change colours. It's abit reminiscent of a music concert. The 3D glasses are used for a semi-guided tour of NYC before the scene cuts to the MET followed by the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park. My favourite number of the entire show is the Singing in the Rain tap dance number. It features the Rockettes in yellow raincoats and high heel rainboots with umbrellas tap dancing with the water sprinklers creating an indoor rain effect above them. Singing in the rain is being sung by Derek Hough which suits it perfectly with the indoor rain and dancing happening on stage and Jared Grimes is an amazing tap dancer. It then cuts into a movie montage of films filmed in NYC including when Harry Met Sally, Home Alone 2, Annie feat Cameron Diaz, Breakfast at Tiffany's, etc. which leads into the Broadway segment followed by the New York fashion show segment which is a close second in terms of my favourite moments in the show. The New York fashion show features the Rockettes strutting their stuff on the runway to the tunes of Beyonce, Jessie J and Demi Lovato to name afew artists. It's followed up with an engaging sports montage to hockey, basketball, football and baseball. We're then whisked to the New York library on 5th Ave for a quiz show before heading to the Empire State Building where a couple dances while being suspended in the air. There is a video montage of Americans and immigrants in a nod to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty before the show wraps up with the Rockettes dancing on stage. The show is 1.5 hours long. For the Christmas spectacular, there were live animals in the show (sheep for the birth of Christ scene) and it is similar for the Spring Spectacular, there were a variety of dogs being walked across the stage or let loose to run across the stage. Overall, I recommend watching the Spring Spectacular when you're in New York and the Radio City Music Hall is performing it.
After the show, I took the metro to have a late dinner at Max Brenner. Afterwards I headed back to Queen's to sleep.
Here's the link to my pictures for my trip
Due to the construction going on on the yellow NQR line I made a stop at Grand Central Station to see the constellations in the main concourse. The Sky Ceiling is worth the hype since it's the depiction of the constellations above NYC in the wintertime and the constellations are lit by fiber optic light emitting cables with 59 stars surrounded by 24 karat gold. The brightness of the stars themselves reflect the star's intensity in reality if you could see the stars in the night sky. The main concourse itself is also quite spectacular in its own way with gold and nickel plated chandeliers, Tennessee marble flooring, high windows allowing the natural sunlight to filter in and the brass clock at the central kiosk in the middle of the concourse. Grand Central Station is in the middle of Park Ave. After I finished admiring the Sky Ceiling I continue onwards on the metro to Wall Street. Once I was at Wall Street, I first went to visit Trinity Church. Trinity Church is built in the neo-Gothic style and is from 1846. The front doors feature biblical scenes. After my tour of Trinity Church, I went in search of the Wall St. bull. I had forgotten to visit the Wall St bull the last time I was here. Contrary to what you may think, the Wall St bull isn't located at Wall St but it's very close to Battery Park and the National Museum of the American Indian. It's crowded with people so you're unlikely to get a shot of the bull without other people in it. I then went to the National Museum of the American Indian. It's free admission and you go through a security check at the entrance. The architecture is in the Beaux Arts style and it used to the US Customs House. The museum is also part of the Smithsonian Institution. There were 2 exhibition halls when I was there and they don't allow photography inside the exhibition halls. The first exhibit was of the jewelry making of the Navajo tribe's Yazzie family. The other is about the artifacts of Native Americans. The rotunda reminds me of being on a ship due to its elliptical shape and it's aptly filled with naval artwork. I then went to have lunch at Shake Shack.
After lunch I went to City Hall Park. The park is surrounded by a variety of famous buildings in a variety of architectural styles. City Hall Park contains city hall which is surrounded by fences and high trees so you can't get a clear shot of the building if you want a picture without tree branches. The City Hall building is in the style of French Renaissance and is from 1812. It took 9 years to build and Abraham Lincoln was laid in state there. Woolworth Building is one of the buildings surrounding the park. It's built for a nickel and dime empire in 1913 and the architectural style is neo-Gothic and is one of the early skyscrapers of NYC. An interesting tidbit is that F.W. Woolworth paid cash for the building. The Municipal Building is just north of the park on the way to Foley Square. The Municipal Building is colossal in size with a variety of architectural influences including Classical and Italian Renaissance and the building is from 1915. What I found most interesting about it is the arches in the building that allow traffic to go through the building. I then went to Foley Square. Foley Square used to be a swamp and back in the 19th century it was a notorious slum known as Five Points. it is now a roundabout with artwork in the middle. The buildings that surround Foley Square include the NY State Supreme Court Building from 1913 and the Thurgood Marshall US Courthouse from 1932. The Supreme Court has a prettier facade of the two. I then went to St Paul's Chapel. The furnishings inside are very simple and reminiscent of the olden times. The colour scheme is white, blue and pink. George Washington used to attend mass at St Paul's Chapel.
I then took the metro to Union Square and explored a part of the Greenmarket. It's the city's largest farmer's market and it sells a variety of things. I then went to President Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace and childhood home at 28 East 20th Street and wandered around the museum and signed up for the tour (the 3pm one was fully booked so I had to go to the 4pm one). I then walked to Madison Square Park to take pictures of the Flatiron building. The Flatiron building is one of the more interesting buildings in NYC. It's triangular in shape like a slice of pie at the intersection of Broadway and 5th Ave. It's from 1902 and built with limestone and terra cotta rather than iron like the name would suggest and the name flatiron is actually the name of a laundry appliance which the building somehow resembles. It's a 21 story building that's one of the early skyscrapers which is only 6 feet across at the building's tip. Other buildings around Madison Square Park that caught my eye include the MetLife Building and the New York Life Building.
I then went back to the Theodore Roosevelt home for the 4pm tour. It's interesting to note that the main entrance to the home and museum is actually the servant entrance and the basement is the servants' domain to do chores and where the kitchen was located. The second floor is where the dining room, reading room and parlour was located, along with the guests and family's entrance. By the front entrance is a mirror stand where a calling card bucket was located to leave mail and messages since they didn't even have telephones back then. The rooms were all period rooms with the original wallpapers, carpeting and furnishings. The reading room was quite dark and sombre. The dining room is the entire width of the house and there is a semi-discreet door at the side that contains the pulley elevator that is used to bring food and dishes up and down between the kitchen and dining room. We were then lead up another flight of stairs to the bedrooms. The bedrooms on the 3rd floor is the governess' room which also features the crib where the babies would have initially slept in and the master bedroom. The wallpaper of the governess' room actually had to be hand-painted every single time before it was printed or stamped onto the paper. The master bedroom features a matching bedroom set that costs $42,000 in present value to buy back in the mid 1800s. The 4th floor would be the children's bedrooms but is now offices. The original house was destroyed and then reconstructed. It was initially destroyed because nobody wanted to buy it. Then Theodore Roosevelt passed away and it was bought back to be converted to a memorial house. Roosevelt's family provided many of the original furnishings in the house.
After the tour, I went back to Union Square and explored the rest of the Greenmarket before taking the metro to have dinner at Takashi. While I waited, I walked around Greenwich Village to admire it's architecture. Greenwich Village is famed for being the home to a variety of writers, painters and entertainers. 48 Commerce St used to be the home of dry goods merchant Alexander Stewart. There is a working gas lamp in front of it. Very close to it is Cherry Lane Theatre. It started out as a box factory back in 1817 before being converted into a playhouse in 1924 by Edna St. Vincent Millay who was a writer and poet. Cherry Lane Theatre is also famous for Lee Strasberg directing F. Scott Fitzgerald's, of Great Gatsby fame, only published play titled The Vegetable in 1929. Across the street is 39-41 Commerce St. which are a pair of 3-story houses that mirror one another and are an example of early 19th century architecture in the neighbourhood from 1832. I then meandered my way to St. Luke in the Fields church. It used to be part of the Trinity Church Parish and the church itself is a reconstruction of the original which got burnt in 1981. An interesting fact to note is that one of the founders of the church was Clement Clarke Moore who is the author of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. I went and explored part of the church's garden and it has an ok view. I then went to Grove Court which used to be a slum since it was built for blue-collared families in 1853 when the area was known as "Mixed Ale Alley". It is a gated mews with a large open courtyard that's set back from the street. The architectural style of the mews is Greek Revival. I then went to Twin Peaks which is a 1830 house in the Tudor style compared to the surrounding 19th century architectural buildings. 107-115 Bedford St. is just down the road from Twin Peaks and they're mid-1800s Greek Revival townhouses. 107 Bedford features very nice crescent moon window shutters. I then went past 17 Grove St which is an 1822 wood-framed house and it's one of the last ones in the neighbourhood. I then strolled along the West Bleecker Street shopping district which has varied boutique shops and it also has a Burberry storefront. I then went back to Takashi for dinner. After dinner, I took the metro to Times Square to wander around the Toys R Us store because I had read that it would be closing down soon and I wanted to see the indoor ferris wheel, Jurassic Park dinosaur, lego minitures of famous NYC landmarks, superheros suspended from the ceiling and the Star Wars characters. It was a pleasant surprise to see a life-sized minion there as well. Afterwards I went to Rockefeller Center but Nintendo World which has a Pokemon section was already closed. Ice skating was still ongoing at the Rockefeller Rink which I found interesting since I had initially expected it to be over. The "entrance way" during Christmas and New Year's to the Rink had changed it's theme to Easter/Spring and it was a very whimsical floral display featuring an Easter bunny that reminded me of a circus seal or performing seal balancing a ball on its nose and mermen statues. I then headed to Queen's to sleep.
I took the metro and walked to St. John the Divine Cathedral for Easter Mass which was presided by the Bishop of New York. The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is the world's largest Gothic style cathedral. Similar to the Sagrada Família Basilica in Barcelona, Spain, it will take a long time to be completed. In 1887 the land was purchased with the cornerstone laid in 1892. Construction stopped when World War II started and continued in 1979. It is currently still unfinished and there is a debate about whether it would be fully completed. The cathedral is home to numerous artistic treasures including the Barberini Tapestries which depict scenes from the life of Christ and the gold triptych by Keith Haring. The rose window is the largest in the US while it's the fifth largest in the world. The rose window is comprised of 10,000 pieces of coloured glass which is above the two bronze doors that are only open twice a year (Easter and Feast of St. Francis). The 3-ton bronze doors depict scenes from the Old Testament on the left and the New Testament on the right. There is a stone statue parapet that features a famous figure representing that particular century due to their historical contributions. The statues include St. Paul, William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Einstein. The cathedral has thematic chapels which are dedicated to poetry, medicine, law, sports and firefighting to name a few. The stain glass windows of the cathedral are both traditional and untraditional. It's traditional in the fact that it depicts Biblical scenes however it's untraditional in the fact that it includes modern imagery. The Peace Fountain outside depicts Michael the archangel embracing one of the nine giraffes after his defeat of Satan as featured by his decapitated head and standing on a crab. The spiral base represents the double helix of DNA. There is also an image of a lion lying on a lamb which is below the depiction of the sun and on the opposite side is the moon. The fountain is surrounded by bronze-casted animal sculptures drawn by children.
After mass and my tour of the cathedral I took the metro to Columbus Square and walked the width of Central Park to the Plaza Hotel for brunch at Lady M. Afterwards I debated between going to Library Way or heading towards the airport and decided that I rather be early than miss my flight so I took the metro to Penn Station before finding the NJ Transit kiosks (after the Amtrak kiosks) to purchase my one way adult NY Penn to Newark International Airport ticket for $12.50 USD. I had just missed the train so I sat in the waiting area. The train is on track 8 which is just down the escalator which is right across the NJ Transit kiosks. I sat on the top floor of the double decker train and the view is quite industrial and dreary and polluted looking. I was lucky to have the foresight to arrive earlier at the airport because the skytrain decided to confuse everybody with it's zigzag way of operating. You'd think that a train would stop sequentially rather than you needing to cross the platform to the other train to continue your journey since your original train will be doubling back to the previous station. When I arrived at Terminal B I asked the Porter check in counters if it was possible to be put on an earlier flight since it's free of charge to do so at Newark and I was told that they were all fully booked and I should have came earlier for the slight off chance that it wasn't fully booked. After going through the security check which now involves scanning your bags, coats and shoes as well as scanning yourself either in socks or barefoot, I went in search of the Porter lounge for the wifi and Tazo teas. On board the flight I got the Canadian Customs form to fill out and I got the Terra vegetable chips again and this time I got a can of Steamwhistle beer. Once I disembarked, I had to go through customs which wasn't too bad aside from the line up for Canadians. Then I took the ferry before taking the shuttle bus which drops you off at the Starbucks near Fairmont Royal York and Union station on Front Street.
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When I came back from my NYC trip over the Christmas long weekend, I booked my flight back for the Easter long weekend. This is so that I could watch the Spring Spectacular show. This time my flights were with Porter Airlines for $284.16 CAD.


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Whether you?re complimenting your best friend?s unflattering hairdo or ?improvising? on the cost of your new designer shoes, we all tell the odd fib from time to time. However, according to research, those little white lies could be more harmful than you think. Lying can generate feelings of stress which are damaging to your health, and a study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame found that when people reduced the amount of lies they told they suffered from less headaches, sore throats and anxiety.
If you?re having a busy day in work, it can be tempting to skip your lunch break and eat at your desk. However, missing out on breaks is not only bad for your stress levels, eating while distracted may also mean you are more likely to overeat. Furthermore, spending your lunch hour at your desk can lengthen the time you are physically inactive and also expose you to harmful bacteria. According to a study by the University of Arizona, your work station contains nearly 400 times more germs than the average toilet seat, making it a less than ideal place for dining.
Need an excuse to put your feet up? Well, good news: research suggests that leaving the housework for another day could give your health a boost! Research results published in the Journal of Family Psychology revealed that doing housework when you get home from work prevents levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) from lowering and reduces recovery from stress. However, stress levels for both men and women were lowered by housework being completed ? just so long as they weren?t the ones doing it. Look after your health by taking turns to do the housework with other members of your household if possible, and take time out to relax afterwards.
Withdrawing money from ATM machines is a common habit for most of us. However, cleanliness tests in Britain have revealed that cash machines are just as dirty as public toilets, and many of us are failing to wash our hands after using them. Experts assessed swabs from the key pads on cash machines and also from nearby public toilets and found that they both contained the same types of bacteria known to cause sickness. To look after your health, use an antibacterial hand gel once you have made your withdrawal and after handling money.
Find yourself frequently cancelling plans and bailing out on social events to have a bit of time to yourself? Then it may be time to pay some attention to your social life. While a bit of ?me time? is essential to good mental and physical health, too much time on your own can actually be bad for you. Research suggests that having strong social bonds promotes brain health, reduces feelings of depression and stress and encourages you to look after your health. In fact, a study found that having few friends affects your longevity as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.?
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We have the pleasure of debuting an exclusive alternative poster for writer/director Jacob Aaron Estes' The Details. A darkly comic movie, The Details stars Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man) as Jeff, a married man who notices a family of raccoons infesting his yard, a discovery which spirals into a chain reaction of tension, infidelity and murder. The film was acquired by The Weinstein Company at Sundance 2011 and was reviewed there by our own Matt Goldberg.
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When hungry raccoons discover worms living under the sod in a young couple's backyard, the pest problem sets off a wild and absurd chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity, organ donation and murder by way of bow and arrow.
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02:50 06 Aug 20
No more PAYING people for reviews at Bluebell you are making a lot of unhappy customers out here in NJ(via all the other reviews that speak for THEMSELVES here on google and your 2* on mymovingratings) and eventually your own greed will be you own demise. You call the office non stop can never get a hold of the OWNER. Have to chase him down just to talk to him its the most unprofessional moving company extorting people for their furniture, charging extra for gas and mileage instead of travel time. Anyway to get MORE money. Check all receipts make sure you read EVERYTHING you sign because if you don't the owner will take advantage of you scam you and you will get the run around from the three in the front office as if it were a game I have first hand knowledge. This is coming from someone who ran A1 American Moving out of Bloomfield for 12 years growing up and understands moving inside OUT. USE ANOTHER COMPANY! YOU have been warned!After the 30th poor review you have to ask yourself is it everybody else or is it the COMPANY?
Edmund Del Torro
21:58 15 Jul 20
Cant get my quote then I logged on again and the site doesnt work for me.
Blanca Moreno
12:10 14 Jul 20
My friend recommended Bluebell Relocation Services for such work. They sent a team which looked over the trash. They quoted me the lowest amount in the entire Brooklyn, all my trash is gone without any trouble. Kudos team.
Brian Gussiaas
00:18 06 Jul 20
Jeff dePesquale
09:06 26 Jun 20
I was feeling tense about how to shift my daughter's luggage to her hostel. These people from Bluebell Relocation Services outsourced that for us. Thank you guys for your superb and pocket-friendly services. It was really a great experience with you all.
Lee Nelson
09:06 26 Jun 20
Brilliant packaging and moving services are rendered by you guys. I highly recommend Bluebell Relocation Services to all.
Ashley Benton
09:14 24 Jun 20
Shifting is really a troublesome task for me. Bluebell Relocation Services really made it easy breezy. They used the advanced packaging material and technique to make sure that no harm comes to my expensive and fragile stuff. Thank you guys for taking all the headache on my behalf. Highly recommended to hire them.
Moe Alsumidaie
18:53 18 Jun 20
A++ service. These guys saved me from Flatrate moving. Excellent customer service and they don't rip off clients like the other moving company.
Emma Hall
12:43 09 Jun 20
Anthony was so helpful in throughout the moving process and it was the best decision I had made to deal with him. There were some large piece of furniture but they had handled at a great ease and so diligently. Everything went well and in a transparent manner. I must say no one will regret by hiring Bluebell relocation services.
Colin Anderson
13:48 02 Jun 20
The services of bluebell relocation were quite hassle-free even in the on-going of global pandemic Covid-19. Anthony was very much careful with our belongings and took care of each and everything. I would highly recommend their services for the next move.
Antonio Moore
13:47 02 Jun 20
Mohammed Wardeh
17:29 08 Apr 20
THEY ARE THIEVES, VANDALISTS AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR A DISASTER.I read the warnings of not to use them but I was deceived by the GOOGLE GUARANTEE emblem. If you have a furniture that you wish to see how it's destroyed, then give those guys a call. I have PICTURES as a proof of their professionalism. 1 - Punctuality: When I first called them, I asked them about April 13th availability and I also asked about April 6th. Then I decided and made sure that I am clear that what I want was the 6th of April. However, their representative wrote the offer based on the 13th, and it was my fault that I trusted his professionalism and didn't read the fine print. Come the 6th and guess what? All of my stuff are packed and no one showed up. I called in and was hit by excuses followed by a series of lies that it was a miscommunication. As a result, they sent me 2 movers instead of 3 movers at the same rate!!!! When I told them it's $175 for 3 movers and not 2 movers, they said well the price for the 6th is different than the price of 13th of April. Therefore my remaining balance after paying the 10% down payment jumped from $650 to $1000! 2 - Value and Professionalism: I had to disassemble the bedroom, the bunk beds and carry whatever I can with them. They broke my kids bunk beds. They put boxes upside down and the glass inside it is shattered. They left the furniture without assembling it and walked away why? Because their time is up. It was 07:30 pm and they need to take a break. Taking a break was a lie because they took a break and one of WENT TO SMOKE A JOINT ON THE JOB DURING THE BREAK!!!An expensive cherry wood office desk is destroyed. Bunk bed is left near the house door without even assembling anything. (You know, they need a break). They left the house like a battlefield has just happened. I regret my decision not listen to the bad reviews, DON'T DO MY MISTAKE.
Fuzzy Wuzzy
21:40 29 Mar 20
I had a horrible experience to say the least. Overpaid significantly more than what was quoted, dealth with a very challenging and unprofessional foreman and somehow my son's massive race car that was perfectly packaged went missing. Stay away from this company. You'll save yourself from a lifetime of stress.
Diane Crowley
17:33 10 Mar 20
There were a few workers at this company that I thought were helpful and professional however the majority were not. Know in advance that the largest truck they use - 53 ft.- will most likely not be able to access even the ENTRANCE driveway if you are moving to an apartment complex. Although there had never been an issue at my new home, with others, Bluebell would not even attempt to pull in which according to the drivers happens almost 95% of the time. So plan well in advance that it is likely you will be charged approximately $650 more for the 'shuttle' which was a $69.00 per day 20 footer, rented. Yes I read and signed so clearly I am responsible and stuck. Also be aware that the list that they provide after an inventory at your home is dubious at best. Example- Those 4 lamps listed could in fact use 7-8 boxes which increases your bill by footage. This of course depends on whom is packing. It's all arbitrary. My total up charges were $1250.00 . I was told by 2 different employees that one was minuscule and the other I should have expected. In the end 2 driver/ movers were helpful and one packer 'Chris' was great and fair. Only reason for 2 stars.
Greg Baird
23:26 28 Feb 20
This company is inexcusably AWFUL! They are scam artists who use rank amateurs to pack and handle your belongings and who incur extremely high breakage, delays, lost items, and constant up-charging once the trucks are being loaded. Check out YELP and Better Business Bureau!!
Martino Romeo
03:16 24 Feb 20
Absolutely awful. To start, the estimate was 60% lower than the actual final amount (by then though they have you over a barrel since everything is already on the truck!). What a frustrating process too! I had menial items HEAVILY wrapped, presumably for protection? A roll of scotch tape literally had 5 sheets of industrial paper wrap. One of my plastic rulers also wrapped heavily in industrial paper wraps. These menial items filled a moving box which, after crunching all the numbers, costed me $422.46 to move. Insanity! I sent pictures and videos to management of me unwrapping these items and they have continued to "review the matter". Over a month and half later there is still no resolution. Nearly $10,000.00 for this move. Also, they subcontract out to other movers (this was cross country). The destination movers also nickel/dimed me. Never again! Hoping to help someone else avoid this tragedy of an experience.
chocolate chinadoll
01:26 16 Jan 20
The day the was supposed to pick up my furniture I never received a call saying they would be late so after calling a number of times I finally get a call back to tell me because it's so late in the day will it be ok to do the next day I said sure just to make sure everything was done correctly, then they tell me I should pack as much as I can even though I paid a extra $1000 for them to pack for me, none the less I been in Florida for about 2 weeks now and they are still tryna find someone to drive the truck with my belongings down here mind you I planned for my stuff to get here 2 days before me ,so im paying for a hotel along with rent and these people are sending me invoices about my furniture they still haven't delivered. THE WORST MOVING COMPANY I HAVE EVER DEALT WITH
Dana D.
23:16 23 Dec 19
Very bad company! Please dont hire if you dont want to be disappointed! Not even talking about their price that was changing by hours. They messed up my bed so badly. When I removed my mattress to see what's wrong, I found support legs and Instruments under. Took pictures of crooked bed and sent it to the company. Also, 140 dollars towards their tip disappeared out my purse that I left on a kitchen counter!!! The worse experience! They even took my hand truck , really?
Scott Y
21:06 23 Dec 19
They bait and switch. They scam on prices. Played games multiple times. I should have listened to their other horrible reviews. They fit. They shouldn't be allowed to do business.
anthony 750
01:57 14 Dec 19
Tech Nickel
11:03 27 Nov 19
These guys did show up on time but were a little clumsy. Damaged some furniture and put a couple of scratches in the hardwood floor of our new place. But they did hustle.
Winnie Agarwal
21:03 05 Oct 19
If I could give them a 0 I would. They flat out lied to me about the rate - they charged me almost double the initial quote, and still didn't fit the initial list of furniture. They wouldn't drop off the furniture to the destination because the truck wouldn't fit (it is a standard house in CO) without upcharging us more.I referenced bad reviews and they convinced me they would do a great job. Do yourself a favor and listen to the negative reviews - and DO NOT HIRE THESE MOVERS
Google User
12:51 04 Oct 19
I highly recommend Bluebell Relocation Services for moving. Anthony was an amazing sales representative. Felipe, Marcos and Daniel did an amazing job, We only booked them for 5 hours and they moved me into a 3 br house in 5 hours.
Kate Goldstein
00:09 12 Sep 19
What a seamless and pleasant moving experience! Felipe and Marcos worked hard to make sure that my things were packaged, transported, and moved exactly to my liking. They were right on time, too. Fairly priced for a move from NJ to NY.
s bl
22:44 04 Sep 19
The movers on time However, You really need to read and reread this contract. In order to get a clear understanding! Otherwise you will regret it!!! No matter how busy you are. Stop and read!!! otherwise you might regret ever contacting these folks!!! so you wont get bamboozle paying lots of money at the end!!!My husband and I realized lots of things are broken , and many things deeply scratched up.
Katherine Mueller
20:31 11 Aug 19
Still opening boxes from a move a year ago (Mom dying, and several surgeries held off unpacking). Just opened brand new lamps and one is totally broken, custom shade is bent and not usable. I've got 7 more boxes to go. I wonder what else they ruined, so far, about $900.00 worth of my things shoved in and out of a warehouse before delivered. Dining room table and chairs are marked up and missing screws. My electrolux is ruined, my unused, unopened string instument broken, and I was charged over $9,000 to move from NJ to Vermont with my furniture finally being delivered up here 11 days after I arrived here. They didn't even need a huge truck to make the move. They give you 7 months to file papers for damage, but, you have to have the reciepts from purchases, good luck with that one!
Teresa Alvarino
02:27 07 Aug 19
I highly recommend Bluebell Relocation Services for long-distance moving. Anthony was an amazing sales representative. Although somewhat pricey, the move from New Jersey to Florida was completely successful, even when the furniture was moved from a shuttle to a warehouse, then to a semi truck, then to a shuttle again, before finally being put in our home. Everything was undamaged upon arrival, apart from some relatively minor scratches in a wooden bunk bed. But as with any move, you must be sure to properly pack your items - as instructed to us by Anthony - in order to ensure they remain undamaged. Anthony took the time to show us how to correctly pack our items, which was immensely helpful. We are also grateful to the staff and moving crew of Bluebell Relocation Services for their professionalism and proper handling of our possessions. Thanks to them, we were able to move into our new home with all of our belongings intact.
enery leyva
11:16 02 Aug 19
I see a lots of ☆☆☆☆☆ stars in the reviews lucky for them cause I wasn't that lucky my furniture arrived damage, missing boxes, bins ladder hand truck and now its my fault because I didn't purchase and Insurance, I packed must of my stuff but the big Items the arrived damage they did the packaging and they said for "free" nope because I paid for movingNow they are not responsible no body is but me when they are the one who did the movingTruly DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE -☆*How come I never have a answer for the owner? A least they could shipped my ladder they were using in the warehouse and my missing items
Maureen Rooney
01:03 27 Jul 19
Philip and his crew of movers helped make moving day less stressfull. Moving is not easy and these people are experienced.
ayat mansour
20:03 23 Jul 19
This company is very bad, I don't recommend it for anyone. First thing, they said we will come 6:30Pm to move your stuff, and they came 7:30Pm. I called them 6:45Pm and they said just 10 min we will be there. They worked to much slowly in moving my stuff inorder to increase the number of hours they work. I just have one sufa, TV table, bed and 10 boxes, they took three hours just to move them to truck and another 1:20 to reach my new apartment which just 40 min far, and they took another 1:40 min to move the stuff back to the new apartment. So they charge me one hour extra, and 20 $ charge for matrix cover, which already they taken it after moving. The worse part is not come yet, they forget a package in there truck and then they asked me to take a leave from my job to come their office and pick the package. I never seen moving company like this. Don't trust them they are laying too much. Just check another company even if you pay little bit more, but you will save your time.
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Sporting a skimpy neon swimsuit and a bubblegum-pink ski mask and toting heavy artillery: Yeah, welcome to the 2013 version of former tween queen Vanessa Hudgens.
The 24-year-old actress who rose to pop culture prominence on the Disney Channel's "High School Musical" phenomenon is the latest mouse-eared ingénue to ditch her squeaky clean bona fides in an attempt to gain more mature-minded cinematic street cred.
In "Spring Breakers," she's one of four string-bikinied beauties (alongside Ashley Benson, Selena Gomez and Rachel Korine) escaping their drab day-to-day reality by any means necessary to hit the annual beachside bacchanalia. They fall under the spell of a hypnotic rapper/drug kingpin called Alien (James Franco) in the latest purposely-button-pushing, boundary-busting effort from writer-director Harmony Korine.
As she makes the jump into not-for-kids fare, Hudgens reveals her lack of fear facing down the edgy material (except, kinda-sorta, the sex scene), spending the majority of the film in nothing but a two-piece, and the surprising selection of movies that rocked her own world.
This film can be polarizing with people either loving or hating it. When it came your way, when the opportunity to play this girl came up, what was your gut on it?
It was good – It was both thumbs up! It was such an easy decision, to be honest. It's rare that a script like this comes along, where it's for young women carrying such a bad-ass film that are gun-toting and in bathing suits and ski masks. It's like such a shocking image, even on paper. And then James [Franco] is such an amazing actor – I've been such a big fan of his that I really wanted to work with him for a while now, so I jumped at that. And then Harmony [Korine], of course, he's a special kind of filmmaker. He's so brutally raw and honest and doesn't sugarcoat anything, and I love that. So I just jumped at the opportunity.
Was there any fear?
No. None.
Did you anticipate the conversation that's going on in the media? "The Disney girls are growing up – what does it all mean?"
Yeah, of course. I think that that's something that people love trying to syndicate, but that's not the case at all. We're grown up, and we want our body of work to grow with us. And this was just an opportunity to grow as an actor, to push ourselves. I mean, people are going to say what they want to say. You can't please everybody, but I think just as long as you're doing what you're passionate about which I am with this, it's all that matters.
Was there any scene that gave you any pause?
The sex scene was terrifying because I've never done a sex scene before. But I was just so thankful that I had Ashley there, because if it was one-on-one, it would be way too intimate. So I had her to protect me, but it was like super-sweet – and Harmony's amazing. He never made us do anything we were uncomfortable with. He always wanted us to feel safe.
Did you get used to a bikini being, essentially, your wardrobe for 90 percent of the film? Did you just adapt to always walking around in a bikini?
I mean, the first day was a little bit unnerving, but you get used to it. It's like your costume. It's part of your transformation into this character, and we loved our character, so it became secondhand.
If you're playing a Jedi in a "Star Wars" movie, you get to choose your lightsaber, so in "Spring Breakers" did you get to have any input into your particular bikini?
Yeah, totally! I mean, every day was so much fun because we kind of got to create our looks. Our wardrobe stylist was so amazing. She brought in so many options. I've never seen so many bathing suits before in my life. So it was fun. We really got to create our characters.
Have you ever gotten into that mindset where you've just felt the need to escape and be in an entirely different world that you're usually in?
I think that once you accept the fact that you can create your own reality, then you've been set free of your mind and the ego. But, of course, everybody has their off days where they just want to be in a bikini on a beach laying under the sun, but that's part of why I live in LA. I love what I do, and I love my life. So, yeah, everyone has their off days.
When you went and saw real spring break partying, what appealed to you about it, and what freaked you out about it?
I honestly am not a fan of it. I'm way more tame and reserved than my character is, and the people on spring break…big crowds are kind of my nightmare. They kind of terrify me. So I wasn't really down with any of it, but my character's infatuated with it. So it was fun to be able to play that kind of a person.
This is a really special kind of movie. I think it's going to have an audience that holds it really close after they see it. What do you hope they get out of it?
Just to have an experience. It's rare that a movie is so submersive like this, and it really shakes you up. It's not a movie that you can just watch and then just brush off. It's going to do something to you internally, and I think as a performer, like that's the coolest thing to be able to shake up inside of people.
What movies have shaken you up inside?
Man, a few. They're definitely not as edgy as this movie, but 'Moulin Rouge,' I remember, changed my life significantly. It's molded me into this hopeless romantic, and 'The Notebook' as well. 'Edward Scissorhands,' as well – finding the fascination with the fantasy. So many films, but that's what good movies do: they change you, and they create you to be the person who you are.
So what do you want to do next?
Everything that I haven't done! I want to do a sci-fi thriller. I want to do a comedy. I want to do a romantic comedy. I want to do literally everything. I want to play a fairy. I want to play all the different characters that I can possibly think of and change myself and be morphed into these characters and be a chameleon of an actor. I think that's the coolest thing, when you can watch a film and are genuinely surprised to see the person look the way that they are so you can forget who they are and they can take you onto that ride – and I think that's just what I aim for.
Where does music fit into your career plans right now?
Kind of far in the distance. I think I'm going to record a song with a friend who is under Skrillex's line. So I'm going to do that, but I don't know. It's hard for me because I'm so infatuated with music, and I love so many different kinds of music and artists that I can't decide what kind of music I would want to make. So until then, I don't want to do anything that's not personal.
Was there a creative thing that you're still to try?
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot. I think art is art in general, whether it's photography or painting or music. It all goes hand in hand. So I love just any form of self expression. I love painting. I love doing photography. I love styling my friends. I love doing their hair and makeup. I love anything that's in the form of self-expression. So I kind of do it all, to be honest.
Do you think you have a sense of how the public is going to respond to "Spring Breakers?"
I think that everyone's going to react differently. I know that they're definitely going to have a reaction though. My mom came with me to the premiere and at all the really intense parts where I was robbing people, she was actually sitting there, clapping and giggling. So my mom loves it. I know she's so, so proud of me for taking this leap and really transforming and being fearless. And I think that's what people hopefully will take from it is they'll see four fearless young women, and hopefully, it will inspire them to do the same.


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'Gluten-free' is the way to go for food companies and retailers
Retailers and food companies are realizing it makes business sense to address the needs of millions of people who cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found in wheat and some other grains. Gluten-free versions of many foods are usually expensive, but sales are soaring.
Two-and-a-half years ago, Pam Hildebrandt of Roseville stopped eating or using anything that contained wheat or other grains with gluten. Or at least she tried to.
"I get very sick when I have the smallest amount," she said.
Hildebrandt is gluten-intolerant, as are her youngest son and father-in-law. That means they cannot enjoy the bread, pizza, pasta, cakes, cereal and many other foods that most people take for granted -- not if the foods contain wheat or other grains.
"Wheat is everywhere," Hildebrandt said. "It's amazing. My lip balm had wheat in it."
So Hildebrandt does a lot of shopping here at Tailor Made Nutrition in Woodbury. The small store stocks about 4,000 packaged and prepared foods free of gluten, far more than most stores carry.
"The main reason we put this together was to really address the growing need for a wide selection of healthy gluten-free foods," said Mark Norman, one of the owners of the store, which opened about four years ago. "We saw an explosion in referrals from practitioners who put their patients on gluten-free diets."
But Hildebrandt says mainstream grocers are also stocking more things she can eat.
"Gluten-free foods have become a lot more available," she said. "Some of the major companies have got into it. You can find things in regular grocery stores, at Target and elsewhere."
Medical experts say many, perhaps most, people giving up gluten at this point have no medical reason for doing so. They're just following a fad diet. By some estimates, that may be as many as 35 million people.
But the diet is medically essential for people who can't tolerate the protein -- at least 7 percent of Americans. More people are learning they cannot eat gluten as physicians become better at detecting when the ingredient is making patients sick. That's giving food businesses confidence that demand won't fade after the fad does.
"We know there's a growing market," said Rebecca Thompson, marketing manager for GlutenFreely.com, which sells gluten-free products produced by General Mills and other companies. "We try to serve mainly the people who have the diagnosed condition, people who have to eat gluten-free lifestyle on a daily basis."
Retailers are responding to the market as well. Target stores with full-service grocery departments carry hundreds of gluten-free foods.
Gluten-free sales are soaring at Cub Foods stores. The grocery chain has a website that helps shoppers create shopping lists of items that don't contain gluten. Spokesman Luke Friedrich says almost every Cub now has a section dedicated to the category.
"We've seen sales increase consistently the last few years between 30 and 50 percent in that product category," he said. "So, a major customer segment for us and certainly something that we want to address."
A recent report by the Frost & Sullivan consulting firm estimates retail sales of packaged foods free of the protein are approaching $2 billion a year in the U.S. Anjaneya Reddy, an analyst with the firm, says sales are growing at a double-digit pace annually, much faster than the growth rate for the lactose-free and diabetic foods market.
"It is market where you see a lot of action happening right," he said. "But every market has its own challenges. Getting the same sensory or taste for the consumer is a lot tougher."
Gluten makes baked goods soft, chewy and moist. The protein is also used as a thickener, binder or flavor enhancer in soups, salad dressings, marinades, ice cream and many other foods. Traditionally brewed beers also contain gluten.
Gluten-free packaged foods are selling fast despite their generally higher cost, both for producers and consumers. Substitute flours and other ingredients can be more expensive, and production costs tend to be higher as well. As a result, a small loaf of bread, for instance, may cost $6 or more.
"The mere fact you see more and more labels 'gluten-free' on products would suggest people who have put their money there have made some pretty careful assessments about the fact that there is a growing market for this kind of product," said University of Minnesota professor Benjamin Senauer, who teaches courses in food marketing and consumer behavior.
He says niche markets can be very profitable, at least early on.
"They may not be that large," he said. "But you are able in these niche markets to typically charge a price premium, like with organic."
But as the market grows, prices will likely fall.
"The more you produce of something, the less it costs in general in an industrial society, if you're talking about processed products," Senauer said. "And there's going to be increased competition."
Some 23 million Americans have no choice right now but to pay up when it comes to gluten-free foods.
Gluten can clearly make them sick. And 3 million to 4 million of them have celiac disease, which causes the immune system to attack the body itself.
Dr. Alessio Fasano, a University of Maryland expert on gluten-related health problems, founded the university's Center for Celiac Research.
He says celiac disease can manifest itself in many ways including severe weight loss, fatigue and abdominal pain. Those symptoms could stem from any of a number of problems. But if a person with celiac disease doesn't get treatment, the disease can slowly kill him or her.
"They [people with the disease] can develop serious consequences all the way to cancer and death," he said. At General Mills, employees and customers with celiac disease helped spur the company to develop baking mixes and versions of Chex cereal without gluten.
Liz Mascolo, the associate marketing director for Chex, said: "The No. 1 reason people were calling us was to ask if our products are gluten-free. We looked at the business opportunity, and we decided to go for it."
Chex sales rose 13 percent in the past year or so, as more gluten-free versions of the cereal debuted. General Mills' brownie, cake, cookie and baking mixes are also among the nation's top 10 selling gluten-free packaged foods.
The company won't disclose sales for its approximately 300 gluten-free products. But the food giant says more are in development, given the appetite consumers have for them.
"We do a lot of surveying of what products are doing well in the marketplace, and we're looking to replicate those," said Helen Kurtz, General Mills' marketing director for baking. "We also really listen to what our consumers are asking for. What is so gratifying for me to see every month -- when I read the consumer comments -- is how grateful consumers are. They can have a birthday cake like everybody else. They can have Sunday morning pancakes like everybody else."