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Overall Rating - Excellent - 313 reviews
Excellent 9.0
We were located right on the beach and had an amazing view. The stairway connects you with beach access and is not difficult to maneuver.
Towel bar fell off, but that was an easy fix. We had no cell phone service until we were a block from the hotel.This hotel offered free breakfast with a good selection of chilled drinks. Very cordial and caring staff was on hand to greet us.
Excellent 9.0
Nice view of the ocean& great continental breakfast.
The stairway down to the lower level rooms.
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Overall Rating - Excellent - 300 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Great staff; they're very accommodating and friendly. We were spoiled! We went for a getaway on my wife's birthday, and they helped make it the perfect weekend!Great location... right on the beach! Across from Mo's (which I'm not recommending, but if you need a quick bite or beer). Rooms are spacious and very clean. The beds were super comfy and clean. Absolutely worth the price!
Excellent 10.0
The whirlpool was wonderful. The beach was very close and it was nice that Mo's was right across the street.
There is no elevator, so if you want a room on an upper floor, need to take that into consideration.We had a wonderful, relaxing time. The view was beautiful. The mattress on the bed was extremely comfortable (in fact, we'd like to buy one). The whirlpool was comfortable and the robes and towels were nice and plush. Overall, we had a wonderful, relaxing time.
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Overall Rating - Excellent - 478 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The room, the breakfast every morning, the friendly, helpful staff, the view and sound of the Pacific. Everything was great!
The internet signal was a little weak.
Excellent 9.0
This hotel provided a spacious room with many extras only found in higher cost hotels, including a Jacuzzi tub, bath robes, extra bath towels & large sitting area. Breakfast was delivered to our room at no extra cost, at the time of morning we requested.
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Looking for convenient condo rates in Lincoln City? Take a look at Sea Gypsy Condominiums! Sea Gypsy Condominiums offers an indoor pool and a sauna. Staff can provide tour/ticket assistance
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Overall Rating - Excellent - 94 reviews
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Located in Lincoln City, Sandcastle Beachfront Motel is minutes from Theatre West and close to Jennifer Sears Glass Art Studio. This beach motel is within close proximity of North Lincoln County Historical Museum and Tanger Outlet Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 32 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and microwaves. Co...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 310 reviews
Mediocre 4.0
It was clean
I booked a room with two queen beds and a balcony i got a room eith two double beds and a full kitchen no balcony this was a special trip with my granddaughters who had never stayed in a motel i will never use u again or stay at the sandcastle motel
Excellent 9.0
I made our reservations months ahead+have to admit was kinda nervous wondering if it was gonna be okay.We drove about 5 hours to get there+we were greeted by a friendly gal at the desk,the room was clean.We got a room on the 2nd floor,excellent view.
It was all good,No complaints from me :The bed was big+comfortable,very relaxing room with a Great view..I Will definitely stay there again.
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With a stay at Surftides Lincoln City in Lincoln City, you'll be on the beach and minutes from Lincoln City Skate Park and Connie Hansen Garden. This beach hotel is within close proximity of Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce and Lincoln City Cultural Center. Make yourself at home in one of the guestrooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Yo...
Overall Rating - Good - 1350 reviews
Good 8.0
The guy at the front desk was really friendly even though he was crazy busy. There were a ton of people the weekend we were there. That said, it was actually really quiet. The rooms have been updated, they are not perfect, but nice. The most important thing to me is that the room is clean and this room was clean. They actually had to move us from our room (not sure why), but because they did, they upgraded our room to an ocean front view room. It was really cool to be out on the balcony and to wake up to the sound of the ocean. I would recommend a stay here. If we go back to Lincoln City, I would stay here again.
Good 8.0
Great Value for Money. Refreshed rooms, Disappointed windows no longer open, so now you have to leave the door open to hear the surf, which is one of the main reason you go to an ocean front hotel. Duvet's are wonderful, jeans bedspreads are yucky!!! Rooms all have new flooring so consequently you can hear your neighbors clomping above your head. Hot water is a serious problem..take your shower early or take it cold. But I would stay again, view is a ten!!! Great new firepits available for guests, awesome.
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You'll be centrally located in Lincoln City with a stay at The Coho Oceanfront Lodge, minutes from Lincoln City Cultural Center and Lincoln City Skate Park. This beach hotel is within close proximity of Connie Hansen Garden and Devil's Lake State Recreation Area. Make yourself at home in one of the 65 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Your p...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 1256 reviews
Good 8.0
The room was very quiet we did not hear anybody even though we had neighbors. The bed was extremely comfortable. The pool and sauna were awesome. My only issue was the bedding they use. It kept falling off the bed at night so it got cold. There are no extra blankets in the room you have to ask for them. But we would stay here again as it is clean the the staff is awesome.
Excellent 10.0
Pamper yourself and stay in one of the Sunset Suites. These rooms are new and are really beautiful. The staff is awesome. We arrived one day early and I stayed in a Sunset Suite. The next day I went to the room I had reserved online. Wish I had booked all three days in a suite. Great place!
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|Excellent - 736 reviews
With a stay at The Ashley Inn & Suites in Lincoln City, you'll be minutes from Connie Hansen Garden and close to Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce. This eco-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Chinook Winds Casino and Lincoln City Skate Park. Make yourself at home in one of the 75 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisio...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 736 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Right next to a starbucks, on the main road easy to find, nice staff, jr suite setup was pretty cool. And they had a pool!
NoMet their star rateing
Good 8.0
The hotel staff was very friendly.
NoThe breakfast was very good,and the breakfast staff were way above average!
|Excellent - 328 reviews
Stay at this charming Lincoln City hotel and enjoy easy access to attractions and events like Devil's Lake, Tanger Outlet Mall and the Kite Festival. Whether you're here to relax on a family vacation or to get some work done with the area's businesses, you'll never have a dull moment during your stay at this Oregon hotel. If lady luck joined you on your st...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 328 reviews
Excellent 10.0
The hotel was located right on US 101, about a block away from the coast. Room was clean, comfortable, and up-to-date. Very happy staying here.
No complaints.
Excellent 10.0
the staff went out of their way to make sure we had a good experience.
|Good - 6 reviews
Welcome to BEST WESTERN PLUS Lincoln Sands Suites! When searching for Lincoln City hotels, rest easy by trusting a brand that's known for competitive rates and high quality rooms. The Tanger Outlet Mall® is only a short drive from this Lincoln City Beach hotel where shoppers can maximize their savings. There's no sales tax in Oregon, which has bargain hunt...
Overall Rating - Good - 6 reviews
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Overall Rating - Excellent - 115 reviews
Good 7.0
The view of the ocean is spectacular. The room, while small, was nicely decorated.
The armchair in the room was very low to the floor, a little challenging for this senior citizen to get up from, but it was comfortable.The staff was friendly and helpful, when we couldn't figure out how to use the television, a maintenance person was there in a few minutes to show us what to do. The bed was comfortable, almost as comfortable as home. The restaurant was good,
|Excellent - 42 reviews
When you stay at Salmonberry Inn & Beach House in Lincoln City, you'll be by the ocean and minutes from Jennifer Sears Glass Art Studio and North Lincoln County Historical Museum. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Theatre West and Tanger Outlet Center. Make yourself at home in one of the 3 guestrooms featuring DVD players. Complimentary wirel...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 42 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Staff was friendly. Food outstanding. It was so quiet and resourceful.
Excellent 10.0
Absolutely amazing place. Liz, the owner, was beyond accommodating. Breakfast was delicious, the room comfortable and cozy, and the gardens a great place to relax.As someone who hasn't had the greatest bed and breakfast experience in the past, this made me a B&B believer! Unable to take our honeymoon for a few months, we spent the night here a few days after our wedding and felt so pampered. It was just what we needed! My husband and I felt so comfortable and relaxed. We can't wait to go back!
|Excellent - 2 reviews
With a stay at Inn at Wecoma, you'll be centrally located in Lincoln City, walking distance from Connie Hansen Garden and close to Lincoln City Skate Park. This eco-friendly inn is within close proximity of Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce and Chinook Winds Casino. Make yourself at home in one of the 63 individually furnished guestrooms, featuring refrigerat...
Overall Rating - Excellent - 2 reviews
Excellent 10.0
Nicer hotel than we expected; incredible hot breakfast--so many choices! Very affordable.
Excellent 9.6
two blocks form beach, balcony rooms ocean view, casino and town shops close by... Breakfast included.


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239 calories, 3g fat, 1,111mg sodium, 27g carbs, 9g fiber, 4g sugars, 29g protein
value 6*
Bacon, eggs & cheese rolled up in a warm tortilla. Yum!
super-duper veggie scramble
PER SERVING entire recipe:
183 calories, 3g fat, 614mg sodium, 17g carbs, 5g fiber, 5g sugars, 22g protein
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An egg-tastic breakfast exploding with veggies.
super-duper smokin' salmon cream cheese roll-up
PER SERVING entire recipe:
239 calories, 5.5g fat, 1,475mg sodium, 28g carbs, 9.5g fiber, 3g sugars, 24g protein
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A yummy tortilla filled with salmon, cream cheese and veggies.
fancy-schmancy oatmeal
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183 calories, 2.5g fat, 187mg sodium, 35g carbs, 5.5g fiber, 2g sugars, 7g protein
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Make your morning cereal all fancy and pumpkin-licious!
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An egg "crust" can turn your boring breakfast into an amazing pizza-rific meal, complete with veggies and cheese!
cinnamonlicious french toast
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Boys' Tennis: B.C. Central, Harper Creek at Niles; Three Rivers at Coldwater, Gull Lake at St. Joe/Lakeshore, Leslie at Marshall
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Boys' Tennis: B.C. Central, Harper Creek at Niles; Three Rivers at Coldwater, Gull Lake at St. Joe/Lakeshore, Leslie at Marshall
High school volleyball teams throughout the state traveled to Battle Creek on Saturday for the Carrie Adams Annual Memorial Tournament in an all-day event that showcased some early successes for local squads.
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Miranda Maddox shot a 90 on Friday afternoon to help the Harper Creek girls' golf team to a fifth-place finish at the Lakeview Invitational at Cedar Creek Golf Club.
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I've tried a number of times to add a comment to my book and haven't been able to. It forces me to login to facebook (yuk) and then when the login is complete and I hit the Comment button, it gives me an error message saying oops, something is wrong, we're working on it.
I had gotten one really nice comment via email from someone who refuses to use facebook and I wanted to add the comment to the book's page. I also wanted to make my own comment about signing books.
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Panic time for cable companies?
For a number of reasons, customers are fleeing pay TV.
That could be one explanation for the increased level of cord-cutting cable TV companies have reported for the second quarter.
DIRECTV (DTV), the leading satellite TV provider in the country, lost some 52,000 homes in the second quarter, which was the first time it had ever experienced quarterly losses.
Time Warner Cable (TWC) also lost 169,000 subscribers, more than analysts had predicted. The company still has 12.3 million customers in all, but that nevertheless marks 10 straight quarters of subscriber losses for Time Warner Cable.
The other two in the cable TV big four, Comcast (CMCSA) and Dish Network (DISH), fared relatively better. Both also lost subscribers in the second quarter, but at rates better than previous quarters. Comcast lost 176,000 subscribers while Dish lost 10,000 subscribers.
In all, approximately 400,000 pay TV customers have canceled their subscriptions so far this year, according to Reuters.
It should be noted that the second quarter is traditionally a weak one for pay TV operators, as college students cancel their plans and head home for the summer before resuming their subscriptions in the fall.
However, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett points out to The Wall Street Journal that the year-to-year growth rate of cable subscribers is lower than the rate of new household formation, indicating that "there are homes that are cutting the cord."
The poor economy, high unemployment rate, and lousy housing market have all contributed to the drop in subscriber numbers. Also not helping are the programming blackouts that come during contract negotiations between content providers and pay TV operators, such as the recently resolved tussle between Viacom (VIA) and DIRECTV, and the still-ongoing battle between AMC (AMCX) and Dish Network.
However, it is also likely that the rise of free or relatively cheaper online video choices in recent years, such as Netflix, YouTube and Amazon's (AMZN) Prime service, has weakened the cable TV market. Some content providers like Viacom and CBS (CBS) also put up their programming online for free streaming, further weakening the impetus to get a cable subscription.
As Dave Thier of Forbes writes:
Among the informal data set of "myself and people I know," virtually none pay for cable. And we watch a ton of TV. We use a combination of Netflix, Hulu, and other services to fulfill our viewing needs. If there's a show I really want to watch that I can't get otherwise -- i.e., "Breaking Bad" or "Mad Men" -- I buy it on Zune, through my Xbox (MSFT).
If someone like me -- a person who by any measure watches a very large amount of TV -- can manage to get by without paying for cable, it's bad news for the people who make money off of the traditional model.
With video revenue declining, pay TV companies are turning elsewhere for growth opportunities, such as their broadband Internet businesses, which have higher margins compared to video, where rising costs for buying programming cut into profits. Time Warner Cable, for example, has seen a 28% year-to-year increase in the number of customer who subscribe only to their broadband services.
"Our real opportunity for residential growth rests with our high-speed data product," Time Warner Cable President Rob Marcus said, according to Reuters. "We have been postulating that that's the case for some time now."
Time Warner Cable is embracing instead of fighting competitors like Netflix by marketing its Internet service as being fast and reliable enough to deliver consistent Netflix streams to customers.
Together with Comcast, Time Warner is optimistic that new projects like Google's plan to launch its one-gigabit communications network, Google Fiber, will hasten broadband adoption in the country and boost its broadband subscriber count.
"We are constantly hoping that new [broadband] applications and needs develop. [It will be a] positive development if we can help that happen and if Google can be part of making that happen," said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in an earnings call last week.
Cable TV is going the way of land line telephones. Cable providers will survive only if they can deliver super high speed internet or produce their own content. Google is in the process of installing their gigabit network in our area, so they are ahead of the curve on this one. They also own YouTube, which is becoming a major creator and distributor of content. It will be interesting to see what Apple does with their TV.
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Mozilla Labs: Give Advertisers Only... Exactly What They Want
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | July 31, 2013 - 05:03 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Privacy, mozilla, DNT
Mozilla Labs is researching a new approach to the problem of privacy and targeted advertising: allow the user to provide the data that honest advertisers intend to acquire via tracking behavior. The hope is that users who manage their own privacy will not have companies try to do it for them.
Internet users are growing concerned about how they are tracked and monitored online. Crowds rally behind initiatives, such as Do Not Track (DNT) and neutering the NSA, because of an assumed promise of privacy even if it is just superficial.
DNT, for instance, is a web developer tool permitting honest sites to be less shy when considering features which make privacy advocates poop themselves and go to competing pages. Users, who were not the intended audience of this feature, threw a fit because it failed to satisfy their privacy concerns. Internet Explorer, which is otherwise becoming a great browser, decided to break the standard by not providing the default, "user has not specified", value.
Of course, all this does is hands honest web developers a broken tool; immoral and arrogantly amoral sites will track anyway.
Mozilla Labs is currently investigating another solution. We could, potentially, at some point, see an addition to Firefox which distills all of the information honest websites would like to know into a summary which users could selectively share. This, much like DNT, will not prevent companies or other organizations from tracking you but rather give most legitimate situations a fittingly legitimate alternative.
All of this data, such as history and geolocation, is already stored by browsers as a result of how they operate. This concept allows users to release some of this information to the sites they visit and, ideally, satisfy both parties. Maybe then, those who actually are malicious, cannot shrug off their actions as a common industry requirement.
EFF Report Outlines Which Companies Stand Up For Users' Data Privacy Rights
Subject: General Tech | May 1, 2013 - 11:01 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Privacy, eff, data privacy, consumer rights
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its annual Who Has Your Back report, which highlights Internet companies that (do or do not) defend user's online privacy rights. The EFF looks at the policies and actions of several major Internet companies, including ISPs, cloud storage, email, and social networks (among others). The companies are graded on various criteria such as whether the companies require a subpoena or warrant before releasing information, lobby congress for stricter data privacy laws, and defend their users' privacy rights in court.
This year, the EFF found some surprising results. Google is no longer the leader of the pack due to no longer providing transparent data requests to users on the same level that it did in the past. Twitter and ISP Sonic.net are actually the top ranked companies. In a less surprising twist, Verizon is actually the worst company of the bunch along with MySpace with failing grades in each category! And that is just the tip of the spear, with companies like Apple and AT&T being worse than I thought and Foursquare and WordPress doing better than I expected.
Data privacy is of supreme importance, and i hope that these EFF reports prod all companies to do better (and note the companies that are doing right by their users). It is definitely worth a read. You can find the full report in PDF form here.
Do you use any of these services, and are you happy with their data privacy efforts?
Firefox 22 Will Block Third Party Cookies By Default
Subject: General Tech | February 26, 2013 - 12:29 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: tracking cookie, Privacy, firefox 22, cookies
Mozilla's Firefox web browser continues to add new features. A recent patch submitted by Jonathan Mayer proposes an interesting change to the way the browser handles third party cookies. The patch is suggested to be rolled into Firefox 22, and should it be approved, the open source browser would adopt Safari-like behavior by blocking third party cookies by default. Specifically, the patch would change the default behavior to block third party cookies by default unless the user has visited the website themselves at some point. Users will also be able to tweak the setting via a UI menu item and choose whether to always block third party cookies, only allow cookies from previously visited sites, or allow all third party cookies (for comparison, Google Chrome goes with this option as its default).
This is a positive move for consumer privacy, but it is also a disruptive strike at online advertisers. So called third party cookies are tidbits of code that sites can utilize to identify and track users on other sites. The uses of cookies can range from a shopping site using cookies for shopping carts or coupons to ad networks that track you across the internet to deliver targeted advertising and gather information about users. Safari has managed to get away with blocking third party cookies by default so far, but Firefox has a great deal more market share. Should Firefox move to a block-by-default model, advertisers are not likely to be pleased considering they think that Do Not Track is bad enough (heh). I think it may need to be relaxed somewhat, but the proposed patch's behavior is closer to a fair balance between privacy and tracking than the current arrangement.
Currently, you can choose to accept all or block all (with accept all being the default). The new patch would add a new option to the GUI menu to only allow cookies from previously visited sites.
Interestingly, this is not the first time that changes to Firefox's cookie handling behavior has been proposed. A few years ago, developers considered a similar patch but found that it caused too many problems with websites. It is worth noting that Jonathan Mayer's patch is not as strict in what it blocks as that previous patch attempt, so it is more likely to be approved--and break fewer sites out of the box. Then again, the more browsers that adopt a block-by-default policy for third party cookies, the more websites will be pressured into finding workarounds such as poxy-ing the third party ad cookies from their own domain (making the cookies first party as far as the browser is concerned). In the end, the battle between consumers and advertisers will rage on with websites/publishers caught in the middle tryng to find an acceptable balance.
It will be interesting to see whether this patch goes through and what the fallout (if any) will be.
What do you think about the proposed change to the default cookie handling setting? Are you already using a third party browser plugin with a white list to block them by default anyway?
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Love the etch-a-sketch!!! I had one of those!!! Love the layout!
Ok here is mine!!! This is one of my fav pics of my parents...the quality of the pic itself isnt that great...as it is over 30 years old...but I love the pic!
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Adorable!! Congratulations on your blog!! YAY!!
My page! It was hard to choose a favorite photo from the 10,000 pics I have in the Elements Organizer but I just scrolled through until one leaped out at me.
The white chihuahua was put to sleep 3 weeks after this pic. She was ill in the picture, but you can't tell.
And it's perfect!!!
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My favorite holiday photo, is this one of me, welcoming my son home from Afghanistan. He arrived the night before thanksgiving so we had a wonderful family celebration. I love the "bliss" on his face in this photo, showing his joy at being home at last.
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Published February 15, 2010 12:00
MEMPHIS, TN, USA - Maria Sharapova made a winning start to her Cellular South Cup campaign - and got on the board for the season - on Monday night, crushing Shenay Perry in front of a full house in 51 minutes, 60 62.
Sharapova, who lost in the first round of the Australian Open, is playing her second tournament of the year here in Memphis. And she really fulfilled her duties as the No.1 seed in her opener, losing just three points on her first serve and breaking Perry six times en route to the lopsided victory.
"It's just the beginning of the season, so right now I'm really trying to build with each match and work on my game," Sharapova said. "I don't think any match is easy. You still have to go out and win the match. Today wasn't easy."
This is Sharapova's second time playing in Memphis - her first appearance came six years ago, just a few months before she broke through at Wimbledon with her first Grand Slam title. In Memphis that year she made the semifinals.
"Not many players knew my game back then," Sharapova said of her 2004 run here. "Now they know my game better, but it's important not to worry about who your opponent is. I try to focus on playing my best each and every match."
There were mixed results for the other seeds in action, with No.3 seed Kaia Kanepi winning but No.6 seed Kristina Barrois falling handily to Anne Keothavong, a semifinalist at this tournament last year, 61 63.
Michelle Larcher de Brito, Michaella Krajicek, qualifiers Sofia Arvidsson and Valérie Tétreault and wildcard Ajla Tomljanovic also advanced.
The first round wraps up Tuesday with No.2 seed Melanie Oudin in action.


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"I'm finally going home". Simple words for a big moment in the life of 59-year-old Steve Mays.
Thursday, he was homeless, living near the beach in Torrance. Friday, he was back in San Diego with the daughter he hadn't seen in eight year. The reunion is the work of Dan Collins and his daughter, Jen, Good Samaritans who only wanted to help Mays get out of the cold and rain, never expecting it to lead to such a life-changing event.
On Thursday, Dan Collins met Mays shivering in the rain near the beach in Torrance. Collins invited Mays to his home, offering him a warm shower, dry clothes, food and conversation. As they sat talking, Mays told Collins that booze and some bad breaks had led to his leaving home and living on the streets. Mays' said he lost touch with his family and wanted desperately to see his daughter, Dena Malone again. Collins' daughter, Jen, using Facebook, found Dena living in San Diego and called her. Dena explained how she had reported her father missing eight years ago. But, she said, she "never gave up hope" she would find him again.
Just one day after Dan took in Mays, Dena, her husband, her 27-year-old son, and her six-month-old grandson drove from San Diego to Torrance to see her dad. There was no hesitation. There were tears of happiness and hugs for everyone, including Dan, the man who put the emotional reunion into motion.
Steve is now back home in San Diego where, in addition to Dena and her husband, he has two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
For Dan, taking in Steve was the right thing to do. He says he likes people and like to hear their stories. It also says a lot about his philosophy of life, easily summed up by the words found on his living room wall: "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world will emerge into light".
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I vigorously read all The Hunger Games books and saw the movie twice. I saw it once with my wife and then a second time with my 15 year old son. I could not help to think how much Suzanne Collins post apocalyptic novel reminded me of income tax planning. Actually, to tell the truth just about everything reminds me of business and tax planning. I could not help to think that we taxpayers are just like Katniss and her family, way out here in district 12, controlled by the evil capital… the IRS.
Just like in the book, every year citizens get picked to compete in the tribute except in our case, if we are making any money at all, everybody is forced to compete by going through the gruesome task of preparing a form 1040. Like Katniss, taxpayers need a mentor like Haymitch Abernathy to teach them. That would be me, except I am not a drunken mentor. You are the definitely the "stylists" like Cinta whose job to make the tributes look their best. My job is to teach you so that you survive the tax game.
As your trainer, here are the lessons I would train you before you enter the arena. Pay close attention! You must know these rules and be able to act before the stroke of midnight on December 31st or you will not survive. Remember… big brother can see your every move.
Good records. As your trainer, I would first want you to understand the importance of good records. Without documentation you will miss legal deductions; and if Game Makers (the IRS) come to check you out, you will lose.
Don't cheat. If you cheat and get caught, the Game Makers can force the end to you. You might think you can get away with cheating, but the Game Makers have ways of finding out. In the world of the IRS you are guilty until you prove yourselves innocent. Miscalculate or make a reasonable error and you get penalized. Cheat and you have committed a felony and could end up in jail.
Post it on time. As you get close to year-end, don't forget to mail your checks for deductible items before the end of 2012 to insure the write off. You can claim the deduction in the year that the check is dropped in the mail. The check does not have to clear the bank in order for it to be deductible.
Understand the game. You can use credit and debit cards to pay bills, but make sure you understand the rules. Credit cards are deductible at the time that you actually charge the item where as a debit card is not deductible until the bill has cleared the bank.


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KKR frenzy in Kolkata
KKR owner Shahrukh Khan being given warm welcome at Dum Dum Airport by the West Bengal government representatives. HT Photo/Subhendu Ghosh
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Darren Lynn Bousman's "Mother's Day" appears to be a remake of Troma's 1980 version in title alone, which may not necessarily be a bad thing. When three brothers botch up a bank robbery, they take off on the run and head for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house due to foreclosure. The new owners of the home are having a party when the brothers show up and take their family and guests hostage.
If you're like me then you're still climaxing from the new "Season of the Witch" poster we talked about yesterday. Well get ready to reload because here's a new trailer for the Nic Cage flick. God I pray you're nothing like me, it's sad sad existence.
Great news for all you sickos who love looking at young Asian girls dressed up in school uniforms. "Battle Royale" looks to be finally making it's way to US theaters and in 3D no less. It's been ten years since the film warmed it's way into the hearts of deviants and it's about time that it was presented to the "hole in the bottom of the popcorn" crowd.
Courtney Ford will be joining the cast of next season's "True Blood". Ford will play a southern bell who owns her own law firm and I assume she'll end up screwing someone and turning into the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Darren Lynn Bousman, the guy who's currently working on the "Mothers Day" remake is also working on a new film called "11-11-11". The film focuses on a bunch of people who have guardian angels and the rest of the plot confuses me and the fact that it's all based on a date on the calender already annoyed me. Oh and it'll be released on December 21st, 2012. I kid!
Alright we all agree that assaulting a cop is bad but just think about how much worse is it to assault a cop with a dildo. What makes it worse? Doing it after walking out on your bill at Joe's Crab Shack. You enjoyed those delicious crabs now you pay for them, asshole!
I'd love to make fun of this guy from Idaho but I really can't. He was arrested shortly after robbing an inn when police found him hiding out at the bar right next to the scene of the crime. People get thirsty, it happens.
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
Big news kids! "The Walking Dead" has been picked up for a second season and I've also completed this big ass puzzle I've been working on for months. The first part of that is probably the news you want to pay attention to. But seriously, that puzzle was a giant f'er, lots of blue and stuff.
A release date for the long awaited remake of Troma's "Mothers Day" has finally been announced. In a bold move the film will be released on April 11th, a full month before the real Mother's Day. Well played big wigs, well played.
The trailer for Uwe Boll's latest film "Bloodrayne: The Third Reich" has finally hit the tubes. It's a vampire hunter flick based on a video game that's set in Nazi Germany. The fact that Boll is German doesn't make that weird at all.
By a show of hands, who wants to see Danny Trejo fight a monster created by a drug lord. Just as I thought! Everyone in America wants to see that, everyone! You're welcome, here's "Project X23". Now, who wants to see the government give me a giant swimming pool filled with beer?
I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I have the world's largest Jesus! Thanks Poland, you've done it again!
I usually just wear my "These Colors Don't Run" t-shirt to get out of jury duty but this guy has topped me. An Ohio man was excused after he reveled he was a childhood friend of Jeffrey Dahmer. Yup, that'll do it.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
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A new report by Amnesty International says thousands of Indonesian women trafficked to Hong Kong as domestic workers face conditions similar to slavery.
Some 90,000 Hong Kong people took to the streets recently to urge the government to withdraw a controversial new Chinese education curriculum.
The Hong Kong Catholic Church has adopted economic justice as its Christmas theme, and other churches are joining the occupy anti-corporate movement.
Hong Kong Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops have called for social justice in their Christmas messages, praising human rights defenders in China as 'shining stars'.
1,000 people in Hong Kong joined a celebration by Christian groups and others for imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, coinciding with the ceremony in Oslo.
Hong Kong Christians have backed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, honoured for a "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
People are turning to spirituality during the credit crunch, say organizers of a recent Hong Kong book fair, where books on religion were among the most popular on sale.
Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun has urged China to change its stance on the crackdown 20 years ago against peaceful protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Today is the 20th anniversary of the crackdown.
Some Catholic leaders in Hong Kong have criticised one of their faithful, the head of the government there, for making what they say is a distorted moral judgment on the 4 June 1989 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square
Following on from China's recently-released Human Rights Action Plan, the new head of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong has called for further initiatives on civil rights across the 1.3 billion nation.


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If an eccentric millionaire were to offer you a large sum of money to you spend a night in a haunted house, you might think to yourself, "How did I wind up in an episode of Scooby Doo? Or perhaps a Simpson's Halloween special? Or any one of the countless other TV shows or movies that have employed this hackneyed plot device?"
But every cliche has its origins somewhere, and House on Haunted Hill may be the very first movie where a random assortment of guests are summoned to a haunted house. In this case, the haunted house just happens to reside in the Haunted Hill district of town, and it's presided over by a ghoulish master of ceremonies played by Vincent Price. Murder, mayhem and a giant skeleton marionette all ensue. Fortunately, three of the guests at this party are Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of RiffTrax.com and Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame, on hand to heckle the House on Haunted Hill!
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Council takes first look at road plan
There were few surprises for Blaine City Council as they gave first reading to the city's new six year transportation plan.
City engineer Steve Banham ran through the program for the benefit of council and members of the public at council's regular meeting Monday night. Banham said the road program is determined on the basis of six criteria: safety, deterioration, below standards, school route, traffic volume and growth patterns.
Based on these, top priority goes to Marine Drive (in two phases), Semiahmoo Parkway overlay, H Street (two separate projects), Harbor Scenic Loop (phase 1), Cherry and Boblett streets (from Peace Portal Drive to Mitchell Street), E Street (from 6th to 10th streets), I-5 interchanges (276 & 274), Bayview Avenue, Bell Road and a pedestrian crossing over the railroad tracks from the planned pedestrian boardwalk on the west side of Peace Portal Drive.
Banham told council "Priorities should follow last year's – a good plan shouldn't flip-flop every year." Council is expected to adopt the plan June 27.


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33 U.S. Code § 1225 - Waterfront safety
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The Secretary may take such action as is necessary to—
(1) prevent damage to, or the destruction of, any bridge or other structure on or in the navigable waters of the United States, or any land structure or shore area immediately adjacent to such waters; and
(2) protect the navigable waters and the resources therein from harm resulting from vessel or structure damage, destruction, or loss. Such action may include, but need not be limited to—
(A) establishing procedures, measures, and standards for the handling, loading, unloading, storage, stowage, and movement on the structure (including the emergency removal, control, and disposition) of explosives or other dangerous articles and substances, including oil or hazardous material as those terms are defined in section 2101 of title 46;
(B) prescribing minimum safety equipment requirements for the structure to assure adequate protection from fire, explosion, natural disaster, and other serious accidents or casualties;
(C) establishing water or waterfront safety zones, or other measures for limited, controlled, or conditional access and activity when necessary for the protection of any vessel, structure, waters, or shore area; and
Source(Pub. L. 92–340, § 6, formerly title I, § 105,July 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 427; renumbered and amended Pub. L. 95–474, § 2,Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1475.)
In subsec. (a)(2)(A), "section 2101 of title 46" substituted for "section 4417a of the Revised Statutes [46 U.S.C. 391a]" on authority of Pub. L. 98–89, § 2(b),Aug. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 598, section 1 of which enacted Title 46, Shipping.
1978—Pub. L. 95–474substituted provisions relating to waterfront safety for provision requiring the Secretary to report to Congress within one year his recommendations for legislation to achieve coordination between functions authorized under Pub. L. 92–340and the functions of any other agencies and to eliminate duplication of these functions.
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Last Halloween Alice Cooper was guest editor of this blog. We've just now gotten the blood out of the carpet. The smell of sulfur still remains. And though he left the place a wreck, afterward we went trick-or-treating with him through the Lower East Side. He murdered the first person unlucky enough ... More >>
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We're all familiar with the model of the traditional organization. The CEO sits atop the pyramid, followed by the vice presidents, managers, supervisors, and then the employees. At the bottom are the customers. It's almost as if the customer is there to serve needs of organization.
But what if we invert this pyramid and put the customer on top? After all, isn't it the customers who make paydays possible? If we invert the pyramid, the customers are on top – followed by the employees, supervisors, managers, vice presidents, and followed by the CEO at the bottom.
In the traditional pyramid, those on the bottom focus on meeting the needs of those on the next rung. Employees try to meet the needs of their supervisors. Supervisors try to meet the needs of their managers, etc., all the way to vice presidents trying to please the CEO. The customers somehow are lost in this process.
If you invert the pyramid and put the CEO at the bottom and the customer on top, you've inverted the relationship. The CEO must focus on meeting the needs of the vice presidents, the needs of the managers, etc. all the way through the employees on meeting the needs of the customers.
If you proposed this idea in your organization, you're likely to hear the question – "Who came up with this crazy idea?"
The answer is Robert Greenleaf and the leadership model is Servant Leadership.
Greenleaf came up with the idea of Servant Leadership after reading Hermann Hesse's book Journey to the East, the story of a mountainous expedition that fell apart when Leo, one of the servants to the group, disappeared. Greenleaf realized that although everyone thought of Leo as a servant, he was actually leading the expedition through his actions.
The core premise of Servant Leadership is that organizations function best when leaders focus not on having their needs met, but focus on meeting the legitimate needs of others. The CEO should not ask "what do I need done today?" But rather, "what can I do today to help others do their jobs" and ultimately serve the customer.
By focusing on the needs of others, a servant leader becomes a servant first. The servant leader does not rely on formal authority; the ability to dictate and command what others are to do. Rather, they lead through informal authority, creating a willingness on the part of others to follow voluntarily.
Leaders gain informal authority not through the organization chart, but through their actions; the willingness to focus on the legitimate needs of others and to do what must be done.
The servant leader then uses this informal authority to get others to work enthusiastically toward the goals of the organization. A servant example, not fiat.
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XC 2012: Finished 10th at the UIC Opener on Sept. 1 with a 4.1-mile time of 21:52.80 ... placed 26th at the NIU XC Open in the 6K race with a time of 20:26.58 ... ran a season-best time of 26:21 in the 8K at the Bradley XC Classic on Oct. 12.
Outdoor 2012: Took 13th place at the Chicagoland Championships in the 1,500 meters with a result of 4:06.61 ... ran a 4:03.68 in the 1,500 meters at the Eagle Invite and place 14th ... placed second in the 5,000 meters at the DePaul Invite with a time of 15:19.64 ... placed second in the 1,500 meters at the Marquette Invite with a result of 4:04.10 ... placed eighth at the Horizon League Championships in the 5,000 meters with a time of 15:19.57.
Indoor 2012: Placed 14th in the one-mile run at the Carthage Tadd Metzger Invite with a time of 4:47.49 ... ran a personal-best of 9:01.34 in the 3,000 meters at the Horizon League Championships.
PREP AND PERSONAL: Four-time letterwinner in track and three-time letterwinner in cross country at Niles North (Ill.) ... three-time All-Conference in cross country (2008-2010) ... two-time All-Conference in track (2010-2011) ... academic All-Conference in 2011 ... All-State in cross country with a time of 14:41 ... five-time individual conference champion ... team was four-time conference champions in track ... 2010 conference champions in cross country ... 2011 sectional champions for track and field ... named team captain and MVP during his senior year ... born April 30, 1993, in Chicago, Ill. ... son of Dimitreos and Hariklia Papazoglou ... has three siblings, Metralis, Alex and Eleri ... currently enrolled as a sociology major.
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raison d'art is a team-building and special event activity, which has groups of people creating a common piece of art.
Dawson Peace Mural
video by Roger Aziz
raison d'art started as an idea to provide creative environments and interactive programs to artists and individuals that otherwise would have difficulty accessing artistic resources, while directly supporting education, community service, and societal change.
raison d'art is a packaged art experience which brings people together to create an art work and a lasting memory.
2nd International Startup Festival Art Wall
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THURSDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- In a study involving a
group of lovelorn Stanford undergrads, researchers discovered that
high-octane romantic love might be a natural analgesic.
Love's painkilling effect isn't just that the person is
distracted by thoughts of the loved one -- although that works,
too. Instead, the researchers found that feeling "head-over-heels"
activates the same dopamine-oriented centers of the brain that tune
in to illicit drugs such as cocaine.
"These pain-relieving systems are linked to reward systems," said Dr. Sean Mackey, senior author of a paper appearing online Oct. 13 in PLoS One. "Love engages these deep brain systems that are involved with reward and craving and similar systems involved in addiction."
"This gives us some insight into potential ways of further probing and ultimately translating that into treatment for pain," added Mackey, who is chief of the pain management division at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The authors recruited 15 Stanford undergrads who were "wildly,
recklessly in love," said Mackey, adding that the recruitment
process took "only days."
"It was the easiest study I've ever recruited for," he said. "Within hours they were all banging on my door, 'Study us! Study us!' When you're in that kind of love, you want the world to know about it."
The besotted 7 men and 8 women, who were still in the newly
smitten phase of their relationships, came to the study with a
picture of their beloved.
Researchers flashed the picture of the beloved while inflicting
pain with a handheld thermal probe. As a control, participants were
asked to name every sport that doesn't involve a ball, a form of
distraction, while also activating the probe.
"To our pleasant surprise, both love and distraction reduce pain to an equal amount and that was good because it more fully allowed us to compare them," Mackey explained.
The pain relief afforded by looking at the picture of the
beloved seemed specific to that act -- when participants were asked
to look at a picture of an equally attractive and familiar
acquaintance, their pain levels did not recede.
Functional MRI imaging of the participants' brain also revealed
that, "the brain systems involved in distraction are entirely
different from those involved in love," Mackey said. "In
distraction, there was a much higher level of the newer corticol
systems involved with classic attention and distraction."
On the other hand, "in love, very primitive, reptilian brain
systems that are classically involved with the reward systems that
motivate our basic drives were involved," he said.
Although the students in this study were at an age when love is
often in the air, Mackey believes the results would easily
translate to older folks.
"This doesn't require you to be an undergraduate at a university to fall head-over-heels in love," he said. "Even older people can do that."
Nor would someone have to be in the initial throes of a love
affair to benefit from love's soothing effect.
"This gave me a greater appreciation that, for a patient in chronic pain, being in a loving relationship may actually provide some analgesic benefit," Mackey said.
Still, love can be an elusive prospect for many. Dr. Joe
Contreras, chair of pain and palliative care at Hackensack
University Medical Center in New Jersey, believes that distraction
might be more a more accessible (but often ignored) pain
Finding ways to distract yourself is "definitely something that
is unfortunately underutilized, I believe, because our [medical]
system does not incentivize it and insurance companies don't pay
for it," he said.
And Anna Ratka, professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences
at Texas A&M Health Science Center's Irma Lerma Rangel College
of Pharmacy in Kingsville, inserted a note of caution.
"This is still very far from [being useful clinically]," she said. "In my opinion, this is just another demonstration of the fact that pain is an extremely complex phenomenon and it's heavily dependent on perception, and that is actually very different across people."
More information
There's more on how the brain works at the
U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga — A 35-year-old man with a violent history was arrested Wednesday afternoon near Lawrenceville when Gwinnett police and a police dog tracked him down and the dog bit him.
Gwinnett County and Lawrenceville police brought in SWAT officers after they learned that the suspect they were pursuing, Robert Michael Benton, has a history of violence, including obstructing police and possession of weapons and drugs, said Cpl. David Schiralli, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department.
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Cole Swindell got his start in the music business selling t-shirts for Luke Bryan , so he's always thinking about coming up with merchandise ideas when writing hit songs like "Chillin' It."
Cole tells ABC News Radio, "That's how I've always written songs, is you see stuff like, 'Would that sell on a t-shirt?' And if it would, I write it."
Cole is also coming up with a personal spin on the G.S. hat he wears. Those letters stand for his alma mater, Georgia Southern University, but a lot of fans think it's C.S. for his initials. That's why he's ordering up C.S. hats for his merch table.
Says Cole, "I can't wait to have my own. You know, we've got merch rolling now, but it's gonna be cool to have the hats that look like this, I think."
Cole is glad to shine a spotlight on Georgia Southern since that's where he started performing. He adds, "Those bars there and that campus, everything about it, I wouldn't be here without Georgia Southern, so it's cool that I get to wear this hat."
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Mozilla Submits Firefox Home App to Apple
Bring Firefox Sync to your Apple device.
The Mozilla Project announced that Firefox Home had been submitted to Apple's App Store and is awaiting approval.
Not a mobile version of the browser, Firefox Home is an extension of Firefox Sync. Using a sync account, users of the open source desktop browser can access their bookmarks, browser history, and tabs within the app itself or in Apple's Safari mobile browser. The app is free.
No word on how long Apple will take to approve the app, though Steve Jobs touted that 95 percent of apps are approved within a week, during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote early this year. We'll keep you posted when Home goes live.
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Using ophthalmological powers earned during prestigious studies at Case Western Reserve Medical Center and fellowships at Cornell and Tulane universities, Luna Vision and Beauty's Dr. Rinku Dutt restores vision with high-tech LASIK procedures and ensures long-term ocular health with eye exams. With more than 7,000 LASIK surgeries under her belt, Dr. Dutt deftly executes bladeless procedures that help clients correct blurred vision or activate the ability to see into the infrared spectrum without glasses or contacts.
In addition to sharpening her patients' eyesight, Dr. Dutt also tends to their facial and bodily imperfections with 15 years of experience in beauty treatments. She beautifies faces with Botox or Juv?derm applications, which safely smooth away nearby fine lines and wrinkles. With lasers calibrated to destroy hair follicles without damaging the skin, she clears away unwanted hair from virtually any area of the body during laser hair-removal sessions. Blepharoplasty treatments use a CO2 laser to remove fat and excess skin from the upper and lower eyelids.
Voted No. 1 from 2209-2013 by the readers of the Akron Beacon Journal, Novus Clinic was born 20 years prior from board-certified ophthalmologist Todd L. Beyer and optometrist Jerry Sude?s vision for a one-stop eye-care facility. To bring this idea to fruition, they first recruited a neuro-ophthalmologist and a second optometrist to their team and eventually constructed a 3,800-square-foot surgery center in 1998. The state-of-the-art center was built in response to the voices they heard asking for laser vision-correction procedures such as LASIK and cosmetic treatments. Dr. Beyer, also a certified oculofacial plastic surgeon, began performing face-lifts along with noninvasive skin treatments after he found himself fielding queries from more and more patients about dermal fillers, peels, and laser hair removal.
With the expanding list of offered services, the clinic shed its original title, System Optics, and was reknighted Novus Clinic in 2003. The word novus, which translates to ?fresh and exciting? in Latin, more accurately encompasses the clinic?s multifaceted approach to ocular and anti-aging treatments. The doctors never forget the primordial soup from which they sprang, though, and still conduct eye exams and keep a venerable inventory of designer frames.


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Floor Care Machines for the Commercial Environment
To this end, CFC went to four equipment manufacturers and asked them to discuss some of the advantages of operating heavy-duty cleaning equipment in a commercial environment, and to provide a look at some of their most popular and innovative machines.
Minuteman International
Dick Girman, director of training and marketing for Minuteman International, says the reason to own a piece of heavy-duty floor cleaning equipment is obvious. "The right piece of equipment or chemical will cut down on the time to do any job, and this will help keep the high costs of expenditures low," he says.
Minuteman International manufactures buffers and burnishers as well as many different sizes of automatic scrubbers and sweepers in both walk-behind and rider styles. The company's line of walk-behind sweepers features a combination wand with a scrubber/squeegee tool.
"This allows the operator to scrub with the brush side, then flip the tool and extract dirty water with the squeegee side," Girman says. "This off-aisle tool will clean where the machine cannot reach – underneath racking, shelves, fixed furniture or corners."
The Minuteman SCV 28/32 rider scrubber is fitted for four interchangeable brush heads and styles, and features the on-board, off-aisle wand and squeegee tool. The scrubber can be fitted with 28- or 32-inch quick-change brush deck sizes, and either disc or cylindrical brushes.
In both systems the operator controls the brush pressure settings from the control panel.
According to Dave Ditty, director of product management for Nilfisk-Advance, the high cost of doing business isn't to be found in equipment expenditures.
"Ninety percent of your cleaning costs is labor," Ditty says. "If these machines can help the cleaning contractor do his job quicker, you can drive down the cost to clean."
Ditty says that rider equipment is useful because a worker will not be fatigued from using it. "By riding, a job that people don't want to do can be made into a job people want to do," he explains.
The company's new Advenger rider-scrubber allows the operator to change scrub decks without tools, as well the option of changing from disc- to cylindrical-type scrubbing, Ditty said.
One innovation recently introduced to the Nilfisk-Advance line is the Total Clean concept, designed to make the products easy to use, clean and maintain. The low battery cutout feature is one example.
"If you discharge your batteries past 80 percent, you can damage the batteries, and batteries are the most expensive and abused item on a piece of cleaning equipment," Ditty said. "The feature shuts down the scrub deck but allows the user ample power to get back to the charging station."
Other Total Clean features include one-touch cleaning, in which a single button will engage the machine to dispense water, scrub the floor, lower the squeegee and turn on the vacuum, Ditty said.
Tennant Co. Communications Specialist Chris Fox says that the reason for owning or renting heavy-duty cleaning equipment is versatility, to be prepared for whatever occurs during the job.
"Scrubbers, floor machines, burnishers, battery-powered equipment and extractors are the higher-expense staples of many large building service contractors," Fox said. "It's a good rule of thumb to have a base of inventory that can be used for most cleaning applications."
Fox says disc scrubbers are designed for use on smooth floors with minimal debris, while cylindrical-style scrubbers are better suited for use on grouted tile and uneven surfaces. But the proper use of the machines boils down to one thing – productivity.
"Everyone is looking for higher productivity in their cleaning process," Fox says. "If you have 20,000 square feet of hard floor space to clean twice a week, you're better off using an automatic scrubber as opposed to the mop and bucket manual method. It's an easy decision when you compare (the choices)."
The company recently launched its environmentally friendly FaST Foam Scrubbing Technology on select Tennant and Nobles brand scrubbers. The system is a highly concentrated pH neutral cleaner mixed with water and air that creates a self-collapsing foam, Fox said. The foam is designed to collapse to a liquid state by the time it is recovered.
"All of our machines are designed to make the job of cleaning easier, faster and better while reducing the overall costs of the cleaning process," says Windsor's Bob Gorsky, business manager, Hard Surface Products. "Sometimes, contractors will spend money on products because they know that product will produce a better end result, be easy to understand and maintain, and because they will get a better return."
A reliable piece of cleaning equipment, when performing the job it is designed for, offers a number of benefits, Gorsky said. A machine that does much of the labor can make the operator "more delighted in the process of cleaning." Well-designed machines also provide an environmental impact.
"With a broom, some dirt will go into the air, some of it will be pushed forward," Gorsky says. "If you're using a sweeper, debris will be swept into a hopper and into a filter, trapping the debris and providing cleaner air. This can produce a higher degree of customer satisfaction for those people who go to the facility."
The company's Saber line of scrubbers incorporates the Aqua-Mizer system, designed to extend scrubbing times between refills. Typically, water will be metered to the brush or pad spinning on the floor. As the head spins, cleaning solution will transition to a squeegee system at the back of the machine, where the solution is vacuumed into a recovery tank. The Aqua-Mizer retains water in the scrubbing section of the machine with a set of squeegees that hold the water and prevent it from immediately going back to the rear squeegee to be vacuumed up.


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Crane Co.
Industrial Valves CT, United States
Crane Co. manufactures engineered industrial products. It provides products and solutions to customers in the aerospace, electronics, hydrocarbon processing, petrochemical, chemical, power generation, automated merchandising, transportation, and other markets. It operates its business through five business segments: Aerospace & Electronics, Fluid Handling, Engineered Materials, Merchandising Systems and Controls. The Aerospace & Electronics segment consists of two groups: the Aerospace and the Electronics Group. The Aerospace products include pressure, fuel flow and position sensors and subsystems; brake control systems; coolant, lube and fuel pumps; and seat actuation. The Electronics products include high-reliability power supplies and custom microelectronics for aerospace, defense, medical, and other applications; and electrical power components, power management products, electronic radio frequency and microwave frequency components and subsystems for the defense, space and military communications markets. The Fluid Handling segment provides highly engineered fluid handling equipment, such as valves, lined pipe and pumps, for critical performance applications that require high reliability. This segment operates through vertically focused end-market businesses consisting of the Crane Valve Group, Crane Pumps and Systems and Crane Supply. The Engineered Materials segment manufactures fiberglass reinforced plastic panels for the transportation industry, in refrigerated, dry-van trailers and truck bodies, recreational vehicles, industrial building applications and the commercial construction industry for food processing, restaurants and supermarket applications. The Merchandising Systems segment consists of two groups: Vending and Payment Solutions. The Vending Solutions engaged in the design and manufacture of vending equipment and related solutions and its products include a full line of vending options, including those for food, snack, coffee and cold beverages. The Payment Solutions business provides high technology products serving four global vertical markets: Retail, Vending, Gaming and Transportation and its systems solutions for these markets include coin accepters and dispensers, coin hoppers, coin recyclers, bill validators and bill recyclers. The Controls segment provides customer solutions for sensing and control applications and has special expertise in control solutions for difficult and hazardous environments and it includes two businesses: Barksdale, which includes valves and pressure, temperature and level sensors and Crane Environmental, which is specialized in water purification solutions. Crane was founded by Richard Teller Crane on July 5, 1855 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.


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Finding new ideas to celebrate Valentine's Day with your loved one can be a challenge. One company that is offering a Detroit style sweet spot is Morley's Candy in Clinton Township. Known as the maker of the school fundraising candy and popcorn company this is also the home of Sanders Candy.
Visitors can take a tour as candies are being made if they are lucky enough to be there during production. If no production is happening a walking tour is available.
The recommendation is to call ahead to ensure a spot on a tour when there is production. You can even schedule a tour when your sweetheart's favorite is being made.
Tours are only available Mondays through Fridays so in years when Valentine's Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday this should be a pre-holiday activity.
Morley Candy Makers is located at 23770 Hall Road (M-59) in Clinton Township, Mich. Call 800.682.2760, ext. 2218 today to schedule your tour experience.
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Model View Controller
One of the most important core concepts for the beginning Cocoa programmer is the Model View Controller design pattern. MVC is central to good Cocoa application design as it is used extensively by Apple in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks.
What is MVC?
It is useful to divide the complex task of computer application design into domains in order to simplify the process. Object oriented approaches are modular in philosophy, so the Model View Controller design pattern is a popular way to make logical divisions among class responsibilities.
Each object oriented programming environment/language has a slightly different definition/convention of MVC.
The main advantage of adopting a design pattern like MVC is that it allows the code in each unit to be decoupled from the others, making it more robust and immune to changes in other code.
Within the scope of Cocoa, MVC is an extremely important pattern. The major enhancements that Apple have made to Cocoa, namely Bindings and Core Data, are manifestly based on the MVC pattern.
A Model object:
- is usually a simple subclass of NSObject (or an instance of NSManagedObject for CoreData)
- has a set of instance variables in which to store its data
- has a series of accessor methods for those ivars
- has one or more init: methods to return new instances to other classes
- has a dealloc method
- may have custom methods to manipulate the model object's internal data
- is frequently reusable
A View object:
- is some subclass of NSView
- contains a drawRect: method which is the basis of all drawing
- is rarely subclassed or modified
- makes extensive use of delegates for customisation
- is generally reusable
A Controller object:
- mediates between model and view
- is usually a subclass of NSObject
- contains the outlets and actions for IB
- contains ivars and collections to own and hold model objects
- has methods for manipulating and composing model objects
- contains the main awakeFromNib method
- is instantiated in the nib file/s
- contains the business logic of the program
- is rarely reusable
Model View Controller was first proposed at Xerox PARC by Trygve Reenskaug of the SmallTalk design group, in order to simplify the design of object oriented gui apps.


text: Brooks & Dunn have invited more than 6,000 people to Thursday's (April 17) dress rehearsal of their upcoming Neon Circus & Wild West Show. Half of the invitations to the Nashville event were extended to the families of Fort Campbell, Ky., soldiers. Thousands of police officers, firefighters and reservists are also expected to attend with their families. "For those families of the people over there [in Iraq], this is one small way to let them know how much we appreciate the sacrifice they're making for all of us in this country," said Ronnie Dunn. "It's the same thing for the police and firefighters. ... Those people put their lives on the line every day to protect the rest of us. Having them come out seems like the least we can do." The tour officially starts in Green Bay, Wis., on April 25. 04/16/03


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Ever wonder what the difference is between a shift dress and a sheath dress? Never really understood the whole "Couture" thing? Use our Style Vocab resource to brush up on some commonly used fashion terms and phrases and improve your fashion IQ – because hey, it takes more than just great clothes to be stylish!
A designer sponsored sale that can include just about anything from previous season merchandise, to overstocked, returned, and current season collections. Designers who commonly have sample sales are Juicy Couture, Theory, and Marc Jacobs
Shantung is a medium-weight fabric with a nubby, surface usually made of silk.
A Sheath Dress is a close fitting, curve conscience dress, that hits at the knee. Commonly confused with a Shift Dress.
A shift dress is a simple straight cut dress, that hits at the knee. Commonly confused with a sheath dress.
The word "Skinny" in fashion refers to jeans or pants that have a slim fit that tapers tightly to the ankles. This style is also commonly referred to as "Cigarette" or "Pencil" jeans / pants. "Skinny" can also be used to describe a particular pair of pants or jeans owned by a woman that are hard to fit into.
Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch. Before elastic, smocking was commonly used in cuffs, bodices, and necklines in garments where buttons were undesirable.
Stiletto are pumps or slingbacks with a high, narrow heel.
Straight cut jeans or pants have a slim fit that is cut straight from the knee down to the ankle. Designer brands such as Seven for All Mankind, Citizens of Humanity, J. Brand, and Joe's Jeans are especially well know for their straight cut denim.
"Sulphur Dyeing" refers to the process used to create black or colored denim. Ex: Grey, Rust, Mustard, Green and Red jeans.
A Sweetheart Neckline is an open neckline that begins about 2 inches inside the shoulder line and is shaped like a heart.


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With 145 stationary and very comfortable seats, the Film Auditorium provides the setting for an intimate dialogue and contact with the audience.
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